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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Eric Cohen is joined by Sia Nejad, Jason Sobel and Patrick McDonald to dish out best bets for the 2025 Open Championship. (0:00) Intro + Sia’s oppo-field hit (4:30) Storylines presented by 5-Hour Energy (13:00) First Round Leaders (20:20) Matchups (28:00) Finishing Positions (41:15) Do Not Bet List (44:00) Outrights (51:30) Longshots & the Cuda (59:30) One & Done #SportsBetting #Gambling #Betting #EarlyWedge #PGATour #GolfPicks #OneandDone #OpenChampionship #BritishOpen #Golf #GolfBetting 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider ▶︎ CFB Picks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2OMV9N3pRUJGnxdCKAbhlraxwPCrm0g6 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️SUPPORT • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Looking for a specific game we haven’t covered? Head to https://www.sportsline.com, where you can always find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to The Early Edge! The No. 1 daily sports betting show and podcast powered by SportsLine + CBS Sports. If you’re looking for today’s best bets, in 20 minutes or less, we’re the show for you. Every morning at 10am ET The Early Edge is live breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, College Football, NBA, MLB, NHL, College Basketball, Soccer and more! No hot takes, The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for both the first time bettor or sports book sharp and everyone in between. From spread betting to totals, player props to parlays and so much more, The Early Edge is here to win. Together. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Early Wedge is presented by Five Hour Energy and their new transfusion flavor.
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0:38.3	Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bed Show.
0:53.3	I'm your host Eric Cohen. It's the final major of the year, the Open Championship. We have a lot of picks for you. Also, the Baracuda Championship. Don't worry. We got you. We got picks for you. But let's bring in the stars of the show, because before I read off the accolades, I think we need to celebrate. See ya Najad. Well, first of all, we have Patrick McDonald from CBS Sports.
1:11.8	One of the most entertaining people, in my opinion.
1:14.7	We have the guy who's everywhere who's also super entertaining, the knowledgeable, very knowledgeable, Jason Sobel.
1:20.0	And then we have this week's golf genius, who I think is a golf genius, regardless.
1:24.9	See ya.
1:25.4	Not only did you hit the FRL and got a four-way shake of that,
1:29.8	but then on your Twitter page, you gave out William Mow, Mr. 13 on a par five at the American
1:35.8	Express, the guy who would have been on my no-bet list, and you had him outright last week to win
1:41.4	at 70 to 1. I feel bad that I didn't have it on this show.
1:45.2	It was the extra research I was doing on my way to New York for the early edge event at Yankee Stadium that I was like, oh my gosh, it was one of those moments where I felt like I missed it. And so I had to tweak something out. So some people who just watched the show didn't have that pick because they don't have their notifications on it. but a lot of people did see it like a lot of people so that's really good news really happy to see that i mean
1:44.7	that's why the show didn't have that pick because they don't have their notifications on it. But a lot of people did see it, like a lot of people.
2:01.9	So that's really good news.
2:03.3	Really happy to see that.
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