Money Moves | September 11, 2026 | Hour 2

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All right, we got one hour left, and we got a lot to get coming up in the next 60 minutes. How about this? A text from Stormy Buonantony, who's going to be with us in 45 minutes, allegedly. She says that, Justin, she's so busy. Should I say this on the air? I don't know, she'll get mad if I do this, but she's stepping away from lunch to give us some time a little bit later. Thanks, Stormy, we appreciate it. We know that it's very busy. Now, I think she's also doing this because I will let people in a couple, like last year, I think it was like week two or three, she didn't make it for a hit because she went to lunch and she decided to ditch us. So I think she is doing this to make nice for what she did last year, stepping away from a wonderful lunch. So Stormy is going to be with us 12:45 PM Pacific Time. That is 1, 2, 3, 3:45 PM Eastern for those of you out there on the faraway coast. Austin Ekeler is going to join us here in studio. He'll be with us in 15 minutes. We'll talk a lot from a fantasy perspective, running back perspective. We'll also talk some nerdy football stuff. I don't know if you guys saw this yesterday. Solak is funny. So I was watching the game last night, the game in Melbourne against the Forrestine between the 49ers and the Rams. And I was watching it with Caleb Herring. He is a former UNOV quarterback, UNOV legend and play by play voice or analyst for UNOV football. And we were watching the 49ers with these weird little motions that they were running with Juszczyk at fullback and whatnot. And talking about kind of the trend of these motions. They're called cheat motions and what's happening and how maybe it's going to take over football. So we'll talk some nerdy football with Ekeler too, about that as a former running back and what those things do for you. But let's open up with the news of the day. If you're just jumping in your car, if you haven't seen this, if you missed out for whatever reason, did come out.

Just about an hour ago or so. But news of the weekend so far, for week one of the NFL season, Tuatunga Vailoa is not going to play on Sunday for the Atlanta Falcons. The oblique issue that he suffered yesterday in practice that caused Cooper Rush to take all of the one reps. It is going to cause him to miss this game. So Cooper Rush will start for the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. Atlanta Falcons, a six-point underdog on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers, total sitting at 41 and a half. I would tend to agree for the most part with the logic of, hey, look, if we're going to get all the way up to six, like it's a little tempting to look at the Atlanta Falcons, and what is the benefit of at least having a healthy quarterback for you if you're Atlanta.

In a vacuum when they're both at the peak of their powers is probably a better quarterback than Cooper Rush. You can make the argument. But at this point right now, given the health, given the way he played in the preseason, everything in between, I can understand the logic of some thinking that maybe we're a little too far gone. The problem is, or I guess the pushback against my point would be that it doesn't seem that that many people believe that to be the case. Because if you think that's the case, well then go ahead and grab six with Atlanta since this number has moved to that point we haven't seen it. Maybe we'll start to see the creep back by the time we get to Sunday, which by the way, remember Sunday mornings, Stormy and I are back. We'll start at 9 a.m. Pacific time. We have a lot of great stuff in store for you on the Sunday morning shows, as well as a team up with Dr. David Chow and Steve Fezik as part of our half-time festivities. So that'll be a lot of fun. Stormy and I are back in action 9 a.m. on Sunday morning, starting this weekend. But this is going to be pretty fascinating. And it does lead us to the survivor implications.

Couple this with the news that the Raiders don't have Brock Bowers anymore, or at least for the foreseeable future. The Steelers are going to move up in the pecking order in Survivor. I think some people will jump ship from that Raiders perspective, get on the Steelers. Maybe some will add themselves to the Detroit Lions as seven point favorites against the New Orleans Saints. But from a Survivor dynamic, this becomes pretty interesting, and it's why Stormy and I, we have added another entry, one on the Jacksonville Jags, one on the Pittsburgh Steelers. We'll see. I am not feeling great about this in any way, shape, or form. As somebody who is very anti-Aaron Rodgers, and by the way, Justin, did you see the news? Poor Aaron Rodgers, his engagement to Shailene Woodley and giving us all of the dirty details about that.