BEST BETS: Valspar 2026 Picks, Odds, One & Done | The Early Wedge
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 67 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 Valspar Championship. 0:00 Intro, WD saga 11:28 Storylines this week 13:57 First round leaders 19:27 March Madness sidebar 21:40 Tournament matchups 28:30 Finishing positions 36:37 EC’s "Do Not Bet List" may be in trouble 38:08 Valspar outright winners 46:15 Jason Sobel makes it rain 47:34 Long shots & parlays 55:00 Josh talks NCAA Tournament 57:11 One & Done 1:04:27 EC dating life
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Early Wedge Tuesday Best Bet Show. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm your host, Eric Cohen. |
| 0:32.4 | We have a lot to talk about on the show. |
| 0:34.2 | A lot of it's going to be golf. |
| 0:35.1 | Don't get me wrong. |
| 0:35.7 | But if you think there isn't going to be basketball talk with these guys, you're watching the wrong show. What can I say? We have Patrick McDonald. We have C. and Ajad. We have Jason Sobel. These guys need no introduction. Their resumes speak for themselves. Their work on X speaks for itself. And Patrick will speak for himself when we get to his storyline. I can't believe |
| 0:55.6 | he did that. We'll find out. Plus, we talked about it last week on the show. We teased some parlayes |
| 1:01.4 | at the end of the show. And if you don't believe me, go look at Cien Ajad's ex profile and you will |
| 1:07.1 | find out what we mean. But all right, let us start. Patrick, you were not here last week. |
| 1:11.9 | You were out at the players. Let's talk about Ludwig Oberg. Is he worthy of a spot on the no-bet list for what he did on Sunday? Well, if you do that, he'll probably win shortly or put him back in contention. No, I'm not ready to put him there. I think it's just one of those situations where that back nine has always been tough, |
| 1:30.7 | tough to take a lead into. |
| 1:32.1 | You look at the last 15 years, I think before this year, |
| 1:35.6 | the 54-hole leader was like three for 15. |
| 1:39.1 | And then the last six, now the last seven, it's one for seven. |
| 1:42.2 | And the only guy who won is Scotty. |
| 1:44.8 | So it's a perfect golf course to chase. |
| 1:49.4 | It's kind of like TPC Scottsdale, where if you parlay like good holes and good holes, |
| 1:53.7 | you can start running downhill, but the opposite can happen very, very quickly. |
| 1:57.3 | And we saw that with Ludwig, just probably like three really bad swings in a row. |
| 2:03.3 | Sobo, you tweeted this out the other day about the Florida swing. We saw Shane Lowry, obviously, |
| 2:09.2 | at the cognizant. We saw Daniel Berger, not necessarily his fault at the API and then Ludwig, |
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