VSiN By The Books | September 7, 2026 | Hour 3

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Dave Ross (0:20)

Top of the hour, it is VSiN By The Books. Happy Labor Day, everybody out there. I am right here at the Men Gaming Hall in Franklin, Kentucky, and we have businesses open right now, and people are packed in here early on a Monday morning. Jensen Lewis, our closer back home in Cleveland, Ohio. Said they're gonna have a great conversation. Look forward to it with Zachary Cohen coming up a little bit later on in this very hour. Get to our best bets, of course, Daily Gridiron as well. But we have a lot to get to here in the NFL, with football beginning on Wednesday, just about 48 hours, at least from a Monday here. And we do have some significant news. It does feel like this morning here. Remember, Seattle's three 9-point favorites in this one. 44, 44 and a half out there in the total. But how about this from Adam Schefter?

That Trevion Henderson officially did not practice again, due to this ankle injury, and he hasn't practiced in two weeks.

Now, I'm not a doctor, and we don't play one here on the show, but this would seem to be concerning if Trevion Henderson still can't practice and you haven't done so in a couple of weeks.

Jensen Lewis (1:20)

Okay, so let's look at this from a couple of angles. First and foremost, as I told you, I haven't really seen a lot of movement in this game, but you did say that you have started to see that the juice is climbing on Patriots plus three and a half. Now, that's kind of counterintuitive when you think, okay, well, Trevion Henderson, you would think, is a massive part of their success, and well, if he's not practicing, and we got a game here in a couple of days, wouldn't this thing kind of shift a little bit? Well, that tells you that that really doesn't mean much to the actual number moving, but it does as far as the juice goes. Now, I've been on record. I've told you that I feel we're going to get a very motivated, very focused Patriots group, a lot of pop and circumstance around in the defending champs and well worth it there for Seattle. If Trevion Henderson unavailable for you on Wednesday, will that deter you from any Patriots investments whatsoever?

Dave Ross (2:18)

It's concerning. To the point about the juice, since we started the show today, remember, it was $1.15 earlier in the program here to the way the Patriots, right? $1.05 in Seattle, still at $3.50. That's even up 3 cents. That's up to $1.18 here in the span of this show towards New England. So if you can find $1.10 out there at $3.50, that's a better number to go find there if you can get that with New England. Just on the juice side, because it's already up to $1.18 at DraftKings as we speak, down to $1.02 on the Seattle side. So interesting that that's where the money, at least it's starting to squeeze a little bit towards the Patriots. Yes, that would concern me a little bit here, Jensen, if I'm looking at Trevion Henderson, because I always felt like he was kind of their explosive guy. He was going to be the guy that if you're going to try to account for somebody in that backfield, obviously Stevenson is more of that workhorse. But if you don't have Henderson at all, that would concern me. AJ Brown is going to be the big change. We talked about it in the last hour with Marty Herney, that sometimes that familiarity with what you just saw on the Super Bowl, you don't want to see those guys again. That's the one big weapon they didn't have in the Super Bowl, obviously last year was AJ Brown. So we'll figure out if this means more in the passing game here for New England, if Henderson is not able to go. So again, just take that for what it's worth, has not practiced in two weeks, still has not practiced, and you got a game coming up here in 48 hours there in the Pacific Northwest. After that, we're going to get to Melbourne and we're going to figure out what this cricket NFL stadium makeshift is going to do out there in Australia. A lot of talk has been made about the travel and the travel habits of these two teams and how they're doing it very, very differently, right? San Francisco is there, Cal Shanahan is already doing press conferences out.