BEST BETS: 2026 John Deere Classic Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, SportsLine
4.5 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 61 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 John Deere Classic.
(2:00) Intro + Scottie Scheffler falters in playoff at Travelers Championship
(8:17) Storylines this Week
(11:43) First Round Leaders
(17:15) Tournament Matchups
(23:47) Finishing Positions
(30:25) Hovland cashes for Josh, adds another ‘X’ to EC’s Do Not Bet List
(32:50) Outrights
(40:50) Longshots, Parlays & Sobel’s penalty kick strategy
(49:16) One & Done
(53:59) Best Bets
(56:43) Early thoughts on The Open Championship
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Early Wedge Best Bet Show. |
| 0:13.3 | I am your host, EC. |
| 0:15.1 | What a week we had last week on this show. |
| 0:18.8 | Check this out. |
| 0:19.7 | So, we know Cia is the master of FRLs, drops in Eric Cole 60 to 1. |
| 0:25.8 | And then if you made it that far to Monday to wake up early on the West Coast or on the East Coast |
| 0:31.1 | to watch this great playoff between Scotty and Victor Hovlin. Josh nailed it 40 to 1 on Vic, |
| 0:38.1 | and another X goes on the no-bet list. |
| 0:40.4 | We'll talk about that later in the show. |
| 0:42.5 | Brut, let's bring in the stars of the show. |
| 0:44.8 | We have Sobel in Florida. |
| 0:46.3 | We have Patrick in somewhere on the East Coast, |
| 0:48.7 | and see ya live from Chicago. |
| 0:53.0 | South Carolina, right? |
| 0:54.5 | There you go. |
| 0:55.4 | Okay. |
| 0:55.7 | Somewhere on the East Coast. See ya. Live from Chicago, how is the turnout of the, that you know of the big event tomorrow? People are piling in right now for the Wrigley Field meetup, which of course is tomorrow for the Cubs Padres game. I don't know how many people are in town yet, |
| 1:10.9 | but I'll find out pretty soon because after this show, I'm headed to Wrigley Field where there's, I guess, some sort of sportsbook restaurant situation connected to it. So we're going to be for whoever's in town. If you're watching this show, I know we've got Farsat in the chat who already hit me up. We're all going to head over there. But yeah, shout out to |
| 1:27.6 | Josh. Shout out to, I mean, Jason and Patrick have been hot with the outrights and the FRLs as well. I hit an FRL. Shout out to Buckets for the early edge. He just continues to smash soccer. This sports line YouTube channel, I hate to use the expression, but it might be paying some bills right now. It is paying some bills. |
| 1:45.0 | Sobel, you know who's not paying some bills? |
| 1:47.8 | Scotty Schaeffler on top when you're betting him like me and Sia, who thought he was going to win. |
| 1:54.0 | So do we have a Scotty problem? |
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