BEST BETS: 2026 American Express Odds, Picks & Live Chat | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Eric Cohen is joined by SportsLine experts Sia Nejad, Patrick McDonald and Jason Sobel to dish out best bets for the 2026 American Express.
0:00 Intro + the Early Wedge One & Done is back!
2:00 Patrick’s wild travel day
5:05 The future of the AmEx & this week’s storylines
15:00 First Round Leaders
21:00 Tournament Matchups
25:15 Finishing Positions
34:30 Tournament Outrights
46:00 Longshots & Parlays
54:40 Future Focus & Dubai
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bed Show. |
| 0:13.0 | I am your host, E.C., otherwise known as Eric Cohen. |
| 0:16.4 | Glad to have you guys here. |
| 0:17.7 | Before I introduce the crew, this is some great news that just came out this past week. Check out Splash Sports Backslash Wedge to join our one and done contest this year. It starts with the waste management open. You have to sign up by early morning on February 5th. We had 980s entries last year. Let's get to a thousand or more this year. And you can check |
| 0:40.0 | out the rules in the description on the splash sports page. I will say this. Last year I |
| 0:44.8 | embarrassed myself because C and Ajad kicked all of our butts. I will guarantee you. I will guarantee |
| 0:50.4 | you that I will finish in the top 25% of the pool this year. I'm guaranteed. |
| 0:56.7 | And I will put my money on the line. Bold. |
| 0:59.5 | Against some people. I'm serious. I mean, I got off to a good start in Rick's pool. I'm just |
| 1:06.5 | saying, all right, let's introduce everybody. Who did you pick? We have the host. Yeah, who'd you |
| 1:09.9 | pick? I had, I had two entries. |
| 1:11.6 | I had Coo Kim and one and Harry Hall and the other. |
| 1:14.1 | So I'm making money as of today. I'll take it both. All right. Let's introduce stars of the show. We have the great Cianajat host of the Early Edge Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern, who is the biggest Jacob Bridgman fan on the planet outside of his relatives. |
| 1:28.5 | We'll talk about that later in the show. |
| 1:30.4 | Go ahead and see you. |
| 1:30.8 | No, I. am Eastern, who is the biggest Jacob Bridgman fan on the planet outside of his relatives. |
| 1:28.5 | We'll talk about that later in the show. Go ahead and see you. No, I actually think when you'll find out |
| 1:33.5 | later why that statement is actually literally true. Literally true. If you haven't watched the |
| 1:39.4 | early edge this week, you missed out. We have Jason Sobel, who you can find him everywhere, but his article at |
| 1:45.1 | BenMGM this week has a lot of players that I, some of them that I've never heard of, including |
| 1:50.1 | one that I'm sure he wants me to pronounce later on the show. Check that out at BetMGM, |
| 1:54.3 | and we'll talk more about that later on the show. And finally, the great Patrick McDonald |
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