Early Week 18 NFL Picks and Bets
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Our NFL Crew of Sia Nejad, Mike McClure, Larry Hartstein, and Danny Brasco get an EARLY look at NFL Week 18 lines and make their picks for the 49ers, Panthers, Texans, and MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | We're back on the early edge, and it's time to look ahead to week 18. |
| 0:10.1 | Gentlemen, I can't believe. |
| 0:11.4 | I know people always say this. |
| 0:12.7 | Like, I can't believe we're already this many weeks through the season. |
| 0:15.5 | But the fact that we're at the last regular week, regular season week here is kind of staggering. |
| 0:20.8 | Let's talk about look ahead lines, |
| 0:22.7 | week 18 lines. Danny, I'm going to start with you. What's the side you want to bet early in the |
| 0:27.4 | week here? I really wanted to grab that three in the hook with the Carolina Panthers, but Sharps |
| 0:32.4 | gobbled that up right away like you mentioned. So I'll take the field goal. Why are the bucks laying |
| 0:36.7 | points to anyone right now? They haven't covered in over two months. Baker Mayfield, like I mentioned, went from quarterback, excuse me, MVP candidate to one of the worst quarterbacks in the league. They're not doing anything right on any side of the ball. And I just have no confidence in this team. Carolina, yeah, they're coming off an ugly loss against the Seahawks, but don't sleep on this, on this Panthers team. They got a lot of juice in them, and I think they can steal this division. All right, Mike. What's the play you're looking at? I like the 49ers, guys. CAU and I, we've talked about how incredible their path to potentially not traveling again until next season, whenever their first road game is. |
| 1:11.7 | I think it's going to happen, to be honest with you. |
| 1:13.8 | I like this matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. |
| 1:16.4 | I know Seattle is a great team. |
| 1:18.0 | This division fantastic. |
| 1:20.1 | The 49ers defense has not looked great of late, |
| 1:22.8 | but the offensive side for Seattle has struggled a bit on the road this season. |
| 1:27.7 | The stakes of the game are so high. |
| 1:29.5 | I really like this spot for San Francisco offensively. |
| 1:32.2 | We kind of talked about Brock Purdy maybe using his legs a little bit more. |
| 1:35.7 | We saw it again last night. |
| 1:37.3 | He's absolutely incredible when he has the freedom to do that. |
| 1:40.4 | They had been very cautious with him, and he'd obviously missed a bunch of time with injury, |
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