VSiN By The Books | August 13, 2026 | Hour 2

**Dave Ross** (0:11)
Top of the hour, it is VSiN By The Books, Dave Ross right here at the Men's Gaming Hall, frankly, Kentucky. There's our closer Jensen Lewis back home in Cleveland, Ohio. We're gonna go out to Las Vegas to catch up with a maestro, Mike Palm, and later on this hour that means Jensen, you have to be on your toes, and we'll find out what is on the mind of the maestro. Lots to get to here, including a big slate, yes, in preseason football, and that's where we begin this hour's highlights and headlines.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:39)
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**Dave Ross** (0:48)
Information is key. We try to be an informative network out there for you people, before you make those wagers on Thursday night football. We got a six game slate tonight here in the preseason. Yes, we've seen some, obviously, with the Panthers and the Cardinals playing last week here, Jensen. For the others, it's going to be finally kickoff. Then we'll get to some games on Friday and Saturday. But besides the individual bets, what are you keeping your eye on here? Because obviously, I think we all gravitate to those starters that might get limited time and then we might not see them again until week one of the regular season.

**Jensen Lewis** (1:21)
I don't know if I take too much out of it because it's the first game where everyone's back out. It's very spring training for me. Like I've been through it. I understand that guys are working on stuff.
I don't take too much out of it, which usually gets me to a lot of unders because it's guys that don't play a lot that are getting out there. They get rambunctious. They're trying to prove a point. Maybe they, they over try.
To that end, there are some spots here and credit Steve Mackinnon for some excellent systems and trends that you can tail. One in particular that I've got some plays on tonight. The conference foes that match up against each other with a total of at least 37 points. The under has been hitting north of about 65, 68 percent. So this is a blind tail of the Steve Mackinnon systems here under 38 and a half minus a dollar to for Colts and Patriots. I believe you told me that's down a point already to 37 and a half. And then I got two plays on the Cardinals and Raiders. A couple of systems coalescing here and has to do with the teams that play in the Hall of Fame game. Cardinals plus one and a half at the Raiders. I'll take that because they are going to play their starters tonight. Did not see that. But we did see Carson Beck play really well. Raiders are going to get a lot of for men Fernando Mendoza tonight. First guy first time in the NFL. First time against NFL defenses. I don't give a damn if they are backups. Let's see what the kid can do. And then I am going to play that under 41 and a half for Cardinals and Raiders tonight. So three big plays, hopefully three winners for us on Thursday night NFL preseason football.

**Dave Ross** (2:53)
Let's go. We know that we will be tuning in as a country. I think it was 7 million people Jensen, watch the Hall of Fame game. We give 7 million people ratings bonanza.
Getting ready to tee it up here. In about 10 minutes, we'll get out there with young Jackson Coyvon. We'll tee off to begin this iteration of the FedEx Cup playoffs. We know we're going to have it again next year. I wonder if there will be any changes to it at all before we get to big changes in a couple of years here in the PGA Tour. But Jensen, I did play the first guy off, and that's going to be Jackson Coyvon. Grabbed him about 33-1 here for first round leader. Also played Ludwig Oberg, the big Swede, on a first round leader bet. So if you want to get those in before they tee off, you can. And that's my biggest plays right there. If you're watching here in Fandel Sports Network YouTube television, it's Ludwig Oberg, top 20 including ties at minus $1.40 and laid $1.10 on Young Jackson Quavin. And again, remember people, there's only 70 players in the field. It is a no-cut event, but yet 20 people will be cut from this week to next week. We will get to Belle Rive in St. Louis for leg two of the FedExCup playoffs. We'll go from 70 to 50 So the players are omnipresent of that Jensen, as they know, I gotta get in the top 50 or else my season comes to an end.