VSiN Primetime | August 21, 2026 | Hour 3

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This is VSiN Primetime. Live from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Doug Kezirian** (0:14)
One more hour to go here on VSiN Primetime. I am Doug Kezirian, alongside Matt Youmans, and we are downtown Las Vegas, live at the Circus Resort and Casino Sportsbook. Pretty busy, all things considered. A lot of fantasy footballers here in the hotel and outside at Circus Swim this weekend and next. Next weekend's officially contest weekend, although there's a lot of fantasy footballers drafting this weekend. It's that time of year with the NFL regular season right around the corner as we approach Labor Day.

**Matt Youmans** (0:43)
How about fantasy football drafts? Doug, do you get involved in those and how many?

**Doug Kezirian** (0:47)
So if I ever do it, it's one.
And I took a couple years off, got to be honest, but I got back and just because I do like the camaraderie slash trash talking with friends, I don't do like random high price leagues like, you know, Circus Survivor. Like when I know, like I do it in a league that's competitive people I know, but it all helps, it does help me stay plugged in. So I'll do one league. I mean, I, to be honest, I did fantasy baseball when I was like in third and fourth and fifth grade, so in the eighties, I was always a fantasy sports guy, but not like my bread and butter, like the betting.

**Matt Youmans** (1:18)
All right. We got a big game about to kick off in Denver.

**Doug Kezirian** (1:21)
Yeah, we do. So we've talked about two preseason games going on. We got a bunch of baseball games in action. We're going to continue to monitor those, but we are targeting one game that has yet to kick off.

**Sam Cooney** (1:31)
The lights are on and the stakes are high. It's the Primetime game of the night.

**Doug Kezirian** (1:39)
Obviously news throughout the week dictates line moves in NFL preseason and Bo Nicks getting the starting nod. The starters are going to play in Denver as they host the Packers. This line touched seven, seven and a half, then went to six and it's now settling at six and a half or six, depending on your book and you had Chuck Edel, professional better in the studio or sorry, on the horn last night on Primetime. And he thought it was too many points. And I agree. Yes, the starters are going to play, but they're not playing the whole game. And sometimes these starters punt. They don't just automatically march down the field and score a touchdown. Exactly. So I think six and a half or six is still too high of a number. There's no way I'd lay it.

**Matt Youmans** (2:20)
Oh, last night, we talked about Justin and Herbert and the Chargers starters were going to play. They were out there for three plays and it was a three and out and a quick punt and had no impact on the game whatsoever. Now, tonight, Bo Nix is going to make his preseason debut for the Broncos. But again, Sean Paton said he's going to take 14 or 15 snaps. So it's not going to be a lot of action for Bo next year. It's still in the backup.
But you will see Bo Nix for a little while out there tonight. And I think the Packers probably want to put some emphasis on this game because they played so poorly a week ago in Pittsburgh.

**Doug Kezirian** (2:53)
Well, and even if it's seven nothing, let's say you get a touchdown drive out of the Broncos and you know that he's not going to play the whole first half and stuff. What's the live line?

**Matt Youmans** (3:04)
That's a good question.

**Doug Kezirian** (3:05)
Yeah, it's like what? It's going to be seven and a half just because it's not, you know, they get the opening kickoff. So you know that the Packers are going to get the second half kickoff. You know that Nix is going to remove himself from the game, right? So it's just it's just kind of bizarre that it's such a large number where you rarely see this high of a point spread in the preseason, unless they're playing the entire first half, which maybe 15 snaps is depending on how quickly they score.

**Matt Youmans** (3:29)
Yeah, one thing about it, too, is the Broncos took money last week against the Falcons. That was actually a two way action game. It went back and forth there, but the Broncos were taking sharp money for a while and they blasted the Falcons. How inept did Tua and the Falcons look in that game?