It's a tried-and-true NFL tradition, taking the results of just one game – often featuring star players who sat out the preseason and have some rust to shake off – and overhyping the winners while underrating the losers. Overreacting to Week 1 is an inevitable part of the annual football fan/pundit experience.
And just as it was ill-advised to write off the 49ers when they lost in rainy Chicago to open the 2022 season or to pencil in the Bucs for another Super Bowl run after they trounced the Cowboys that night, it's probably unfair to judge a new sports betting-focused TV show based on its premiere episode.
But we won't let that stop us.
FanDuel TV debuted not one but two shows this weekend featuring Sal Iacono, a.k.a. “Cousin Sal” (Jimmy Kimmel's cousin and a longtime writer on his late-night show). Iacono began hosting a sports betting podcast for The Ringer in 2017 and took his show to his own newly launched podcast network in 2020. But as FanDuel announced heading into this football season, he's now back in the fold at The Ringer, which has long had an advertising partnership with FanDuel.