BEST BETS: 2026 THE PLAYERS Championship Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Eric Cohen is joined by SportsLine experts Sia Nejad and Jason Sobel to dish out their best bets for THE PLAYERS Championship.
(2:00) Intro, Recapping last week’s outright winner in Puerto Rico
(5:10) Storylines: The winning formula, windy conditions and Rory’s back injury
(13:20) First Round Leaders
(25:00) Tournament Matchups
(36:00) Finishing Positions
(41:37) EC’s Do Not Bet List takes another hit
(44:24) Outrights
(58:00) Longshots & Parlays
(1:08:55) One and Done
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the early Tuesday Best Bed Show. I'm your host, Eric Cohen. You know, |
| 0:15.1 | to you who enjoy the no-bet list, it's hitting at 375. If this was baseball, I'd probably be leading the league and hitting |
| 0:23.4 | eight tournaments or eight weeks of tournaments. Three players on the no bet list have hit. I'm sure |
| 0:29.2 | the guys will give me some grief later in the show. But let's bring them in because these guys are |
| 0:34.1 | on fire. We have the great C and the Jod, host of the Early Edge, one of the great golf handicappers on the planet. And this guy, one of the great golf, I don't know, writers, commentators, and two weeks in a row, Jason Sobel, you have been on fire. We'll get to that in a second. Patrick McDonald is hanging with the big wigs at TPC Sawgrass, so he is not |
| 0:55.3 | going to be with us tonight. But he did send me some insights to read on the show, and we have some |
| 1:00.1 | picks from him. So we will get to that. But let's highlight what happened last week. And Sobel, |
| 1:05.3 | you and see a few weeks ago hit Austin Smotherman and FRL at over 100 to 1. And last week in Puerto Rico, Ricky Castillo at over 20 to 1, 22 and a half to 1. We went 5-1-1 on tournament matchups. I got that gotter up top 10 round 1. It was a split. Didn't include ties. So I got a little bit of that and plus 415. But nonetheless, Sobel, I'm going to start with you. |
| 1:28.4 | You are on a heater. How confident, like everything's going through the bucket right now. |
| 1:33.2 | How confident are you feeling? |
| 1:35.0 | EC, this is why I have always said they should play every single PGA tour event in Puerto Rico. |
| 1:41.6 | I've hit the winner last year at Ricky Castileo two years in a row now. |
| 1:47.2 | I don't know what it is about Puerto Rico, but I don't know, just finding some long shots |
| 1:51.2 | at an alternate field event is pretty fun. And yeah, look at the whole crew out there doing |
| 1:56.0 | some good work. So I guess listeners, viewers, stay tuned because we're on a roll right now. try to keep it going. See, you are really on a role. And one thing that's awesome that you do is you give out picks for those who don't know on your ex profile and in the sports line Discord. And you are absolutely crushing it right now. What did you go with? Something like was it like five and one last week, something like Something like that? I didn't have a loss in the matchup department. It was five, oh and one. |
| 2:20.6 | So I had a tie. Yeah. |
| 2:21.5 | I had a tie thanks to Matt Fitzpatrick. |
| 2:22.5 | So for those of you that just watch this show and for some reason, don't watch the early |
| 2:23.5 | edge. |
| 2:26.4 | Just know that my round matchups are usually on the early edge, sometimes in the sports line |
| 2:27.5 | discord as well. |
| 2:30.1 | So yeah, well, it's probably not reflected as much in terms of the early wedge recap, early |
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