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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Eric Cohen is joined by SportsLine experts Patrick McDonald and Jason Sobel to dish out best bets and golf picks for the 2026 American Express.
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(40:00) Longshots & Parlays
(45:30) Future Focus
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Edge Tuesday Best Bet Show. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Eric Cohen. |
| 0:14.2 | Glad to have you with us once again. |
| 0:16.8 | Unfortunately, Sien Najat is not with us. |
| 0:18.5 | He's on a plane, but we still have picks from him. But we do have the great Patrick McDonald, who puts out, by the way, one of my favorite columns each week on CBSSports.com, you write that. It's fantastic. You've got to check that out. And our other guy puts out content all over the internet. You can find him at bedmgm also one of my favorite columns each |
| 0:38.6 | week uh the conservative and risky plays i believe it is uh you can also find him on pga tour radio |
| 0:44.7 | it is jason sobel man i'm honored to be joined by you guys every as i am every week uh let's recap |
| 0:51.1 | how we did last week first of all see ya even though he's not here, can't revel in it. |
| 0:56.2 | He hits the FRL on Pearson Cootty. |
| 0:58.7 | He got a share of it. |
| 1:00.0 | I think it was a three-way share on the Nicholas tournament course. |
| 1:04.0 | Cajadra got Sam Stevens top 20 plus 450 and Nick Taylor cashed over Sobel's guys, Sudarshan. |
| 1:11.0 | Don't make me pronounce his last name. |
| 1:13.4 | So I got that home. |
| 1:15.6 | What's that again? |
| 1:16.7 | Try that again. |
| 1:17.2 | I was just throwing in a yellow mirageu for you. |
| 1:20.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:21.1 | Yellow mirage, all right. |
| 1:21.9 | Either way, he lost Nick Taylor, who cashed for me at plus 245. |
| 1:26.5 | Now, if you didn't watch the early edge this morning, |
| 1:30.1 | I once again came out like last week's show and guaranteed that I will finish in the top 25% |
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