VSiN PrimeTime | August 6, 2026 | Hour 2

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Tim Murray** (0:21)
Keep it rolling here on a Thursday night. Matt, what's the stat? 21 straight Thursdays starting tonight, football on our television screens?

**Matt Youmans** (0:30)
Gotta love it, Tim. We're gonna be here every Thursday night, too.

**Tim Murray** (0:33)
We will. Drew Dinsick won't be here every Thursday night, but we are happy that he has joined us in studio. He was a part of BetBash. You were talking tennis betting. You're one of the many great tennis minds that we have on VSiN, but we're gonna talk football with you at least first. Maybe we'll fit it in here, but let's start with the game tonight. We have a preseason game. We have lines to bet on, Drew. Cardinals and Panthers total has come down to around 34
Right now, if you look at the spread, you have Arizona one, one and a half point dog. What do you make of tonight's Hall of Fame game? How are you looking to attack it?

**Drew Dinsick** (1:10)
Yeah, so agree with the total move, particularly like the first half under here. I think there's a very real world where it's zero, zero at half.
This is a pretty clear and obvious misprice on the side though. I think Arizona should be the favorite.
It's a qualitative angle. This is not like I've cracked the code of the quarterback snaps and they're completely missing something obvious here. This is mostly just a matter of the fact that we've gone through a full off season now of the Arizona Cardinals being told they're the worst team in football and that they have no business, even fielding a team this year. They're playing for the first overall pick. But then when you actually look at the talent that's on this roster outside the quarterback position, this is like very average. This is not a team that is like clear and obvious depletion at key levels on the defense or the offense, from what I can tell you. And while I'm not a guy that's really dying to go to war with this quarterback room over the balance of a season, particularly in the very tough NFC West, to me, the Cardinals are more like a minus four, minus three even, I can talk myself into. And the market right now pricing them like a minus seven. They're 10 and a half point dogs week one against the Chargers. That's a really, really tough number to square. Even someone who's bullish on the Chargers, I feel like there's value there on the Cardinals. And then for this game, Cardinals coming in with a little bit of like the disrespect is very clear and obvious in their face. Mostly people clipping the lowlights of their early days of camp and making conclusions that they're going to lose every game this season.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:41)
Those are funny though. They're funny.

**Drew Dinsick** (2:42)
Yeah, no, have I participated?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:45)
Have I said something to my friends?

**Drew Dinsick** (2:47)
Have I been like, man, it's weird that Marvin Harrison's hands are made of concrete blocks, but the reality is, they do have something to prove in this game. And the Panthers, the mission is very, very obviously the other side of the coin. They have lost key players. It feels like every week of camp so far, the offensive line right now, lacking in continuity and missing their two most important pieces.
So as I kind of look at the Panthers and if I'm their coaching staff, if I'm that brain trust, the mission is obvious. Stay healthy. Do not put your players at risk. Try to shorten this game. Like, I don't think that there's a world where you're going to see an aggressive offensive game plan here from Kanellis and company. Panthers, I think, are going to play into the anger of the Cardinals here and struggle to sustain drives. And Cardinals, on the other hand, may not have many successful drives in this contest, but I think they'll have enough to get the win. So, for me, it looks pretty obvious you should be playing Cardinals at this price. And I do think first half under and full game under likely come home. Now it's a beautiful night in Canton.
We don't have a weather factor to help us out.

**Tim Murray** (3:53)
But what was that a couple of years ago when the game got called with like 10 minutes to go and now all the bets got refunded?

**Matt Youmans** (4:00)
I was actually 330 to go in the third quarter.