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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

BEST BETS: 2026 Cognizant Classic Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Sports, Football

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Eric Cohen is joined by SportsLine experts Sia Nejad, Patrick McDonald and Jason Sobel to dish out their best bets for the 2026 Cognizant Classic.


(0:00) Intro + a big Early Wedge listener victory!

(5:10) Storylines

(13:30) First Round Leaders

(18:55) Tournament Matchups

(26:30) Finishing Positions

(34:30) Outrights

(42:05) Longshots & Parlays

(50:00) One and Done


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday's Best Bet Show.

0:13.0

I'm your host, Eric Cohen.

0:14.0

Lots to talk about this week, even though it is the cognizant classic, which has probably

0:19.0

the weakest field we've seen in quite a while. But we'll get to that.

0:21.7

We have Patrick McDonnell. We have Jason Solba. We have C and Ajad. See, I'm actually going to start with you.

0:27.0

Because this is a really cool one. On the sports line discord, there was a user Beachbum, and I don't remember what his numbers were after that, that won over 100K in DFS thanks to

0:41.0

picks that you gave out. Well, to be honest with you, it sounded like it was picks that I gave

0:46.0

out, but it truly wasn't. He was just saying, he was acknowledging me because he's just a loyal

0:50.8

early edge, early wedge follower. And he just religiously watches this show, watches the morning show. And I honestly think it was just him taking the knowledge that he's learned, particularly in 2026 and putting a team together. Some of those were my guys for sure, but some of them weren't necessarily my guys from last week. And long story short, he didn't win over 100,000. He won 100,000 flat second place in the big $25 contest. I don't think he maxed it out. I think he put maybe one or two lineups in. And here's the greatest part. It's not just that we had one of our sports line users win. I mean, that's really cool. Somebody that watches the show win. The greatest part is that lineup didn't even have Jacob Bridgman. It was that good. He basically had everybody else in the top five, top six. And I love to see that because he literally, if you were, if you're on a sports line discord, he basically said, you just changed my life. I mean, he was talking to all of us, really. It had $100,000 will change somebody's life. It was really cool. That is that is that's a very cool story patrick i don't know if tonight is going to change your life

1:48.5

but you are not at home where you usually are where are you today anytime you get to go to the

1:54.6

sophy center you see it's a life-changing experience i feel like one of those churchgoers who

2:00.6

only shows up during Lent right now.

2:02.6

But I'm excited.

2:04.3

I'm going to see the world-famous New York Golf Club face off against the equally world-famous Boston Common Golf Club.

2:14.5

So I'm ready to roll.

2:15.4

As I told you guys in the pre-show, it's going to be 11 p.m.

2:18.9

And I'm going to be asking these guys the hardest hitting questions you can imagine. So if you

2:22.6

got anything for Zander, for Ricky, for Adam Scott, let me know. I'm sure they'll love to hear it

2:27.8

at that time. Sobel, go ahead. I do. I have a question for Patrick to pass along to those guys. Okay. Hey, guys, not sure if you were aware, but there's actually a PGA tour event. It's like right over there. Yeah, it's like five minutes down the road. You guys are like invited if you'd like to play. How come you're not going to just like drive over there and go play that? I heard I was at a little shindig before this that one of my colleagues in golf media

2:56.4

ran into Adam Scott at PJ National this morning.

2:59.3

He was getting free breakfast, I guess, at the resort.

3:03.5

There you go.

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