Money Moves | August 21, 2026 | Hour 2

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
This is Money Moves on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.

**Stormy Buonantony** (0:09)
All right, we're rocking and rolling, kicking off our two-year Money Moves on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network, alongside Jonathan Von Tobel, Stormy Bond, and Tony. SiriusXM Channel 158, iHeartRadio, YouTube TV, VSiN Watch app, any of our great terrestrial radio stations across the country. Thank you so much for hanging out with us. We got a great hour on deck. Our NFL training camp tour is going to continue. We'll have plenty of fantasy football talk as well, which can also help you. We love talking fantasy because from a betting perspective, it can really help you shape your thought process about some of those season long props and I mean week to week props as well. Depending on certain matchups, we'll have Kendall Valenzuela going to join us from fantasy life, also Brad Evans, betting and fantasy analysts. Lots of that to break down and the best bet for me today in Major League Baseball. Who am I? I don't know.
Plenty of futures draft discussion too. We're going to break down each and every one of our picks that we had from the draft yesterday that wasn't chaotic at all. It was totally normal and chill and calm.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:00)
Outside of the times of Jon Hanson, we have to make a selection.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:03)
Stop.
Here's what we need to do. I just want to put this out there. You taught me a very good computer function that I think everyone at our network should learn.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:13)
Command F?

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:13)
Yes, but I learned that like two years ago from you now. So it's been a minute.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:16)
The most basic concept of technology, Command F?

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:19)
Well, I would not use the shortcut. I would go up and find it.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:23)
You would go to like File, Find on Page, Command F.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:28)
You said, what's wrong with you? Then I learned my lesson. However, that was a key instrument that should have been utilized yesterday from all of our hosts.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:35)
That was not.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:36)
We'll get to that in a little bit.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:37)
But let's start this hour like we have been the last couple of weeks as our training camp tour continues.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:44)
Join Stormy and JVT as they go on the Money Moves NFL training camp tour.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:50)
Where are we at? Where are we at? We're headed to H-Town, the Houston Texans. Quick refresher from last year.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:56)
You're going to drive at any point this trip?

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:58)
You won't let me. You don't trust the woman behind the wheel.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (2:00)
Very true.

**Stormy Buonantony** (2:01)
You told me this before.
2025 was a bit of a roller coaster year, right? Houston starts off the season 0-3. Going into week 10, they were 3-5 at that point. Then they reel off 9 straight wins, close out the regular season, tying a franchise record 12-win season, go over the win total, all the things. They beat the Steelers in the wild card round because that's just what happens to the Steelers every year if they get to the postseason. CJ Stroud wasn't great that game and then he was even worse in the divisional round. There was four first half picks, one that was taken back for a house call against the Patriots, season over. Theme of last year, offensive line play was bad. CJ Stroud, you ask how much of the issues for the offense do you put on his shoulders? Defense was elite though. So I guess looking ahead to this year, can they replicate what we saw from the defense and can they get some of those areas offensively fixed?

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (2:49)
I think to answer that first question, yes, they're going to be able to replicate what's going on with this defense. I think you blindly trust that this defense is going to be exactly what it was a season ago, really no questions about it. And so it makes the analysis for this team somewhat easy because you know where all the questions lie. Now, can they answer those questions appropriately is going to be what hangs over this group as we move forward into the 2026 season. But there is no doubt that CJ Stroud, every single year so far has declined a bit since his rookie year. Now, on the surface, the numbers were almost identical, at least in terms of 21 touchdowns, 13 interceptions, regular season and postseason last year. But turnover with a play rate goes from 2.8% to 3.8%. It's a really, really big jump. Completion percentage dips from 60 to 3.6% last year to 62.5% at minimal, but still a decrease nonetheless. Yards per attempt dip as well. So you're putting the ball in danger more. You're not getting as aggressive, you're not getting the most out of your passing attempts.