Friday's BEST BETS: Conference Championship Picks + NFL + NBA

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sia Nejad is joined by Chip Patterson, Buckets, Mike Barner, and Danny Brasco as they hand out their BEST BETS for this weekend's games, including NFL Week 14 Picks, College Football Conference Championship Bets, NBA props, and MORE! (0:00) Intro (3:55) Surprise Guest + New Book! (10:51) Buckets' Soccer Picks (13:01) Chip's Conference Championship Picks (20:05) Mikey B's NBA Props (23:10) Free SportsLine Picks (26:17) Danny's UFC 323 Picks (34:50) Sia's NFL Sunday Prop (36:10) Bonus Picks: CFB, NBA, EPL (45:13) Recap 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Get your daily bets here FIRST! The No. 1 sports betting show and podcast—powered by SportsLine & CBS Sports—delivers the day's best bets in a fast-paced, fun environment, first thing in the morning. Starting at 10 a.m. ET every weekday, The Early Edge goes live on YouTube, breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, college football, NBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball, soccer, and more! The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for everyone—from first-time bettors to sharps, and everyone in between. From point spreads to totals, player props to parlays, and so much more, we're here to win. Together. 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️MERCH • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! #SportsBetting #TodaysPicks #footballpicks #BettingOdds #BettingLines #NBA #NBAPicks #CFBPicks #UFCPicks #BestBetsToday #SoccerBets #championsleague #nflfootball #nflbetting To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning, everyone.
0:10.4	Welcome to the Early Edge.
0:12.0	It's Friday.
0:12.9	I hope you're having a great morning.
0:15.0	We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary.
0:18.0	We already have a lot of people in the chat.
0:20.3	And I'm sure it's because you want to see Chip Patterson and all of the Friday people. We've got a surprise for you today as well, but you probably don't want to see the recap screen. Listen, Thursday night football and Monday night football haven't been super good to us. And that's really putting it lightly. We go three and five, which isn't horrible.
0:37.6	It's certainly bad. It isn't horrible, but look at all the losses. I mean, it's all on the Cowboys game, just coming up short pretty much everywhere. Shout out to Meg for hitting that Jameson Williams over, in spite of Amman-Ross, St. Brown being back. We get saved a little bit by the sports line picks. Tom Casale, this one started at midnight, covers out relatively easily. UC Davis plus nine and a half.
0:54.6	And then Jeff Hockman comes in with a plus 112 Calgary money line. Got to do better on these primetime games, though. Either way, it's Friday. It's time to turn the page. We got college football. We got soccer. We've got NFL picks. We've got so much, including, of course, the NBA and UFC as well.
1:12.4	But ladies and gentlemen, you're all waiting for it.
1:13.6	It's BPE Friday.
1:21.6	Here we... What is even going to?
1:23.3	We got Mikey B.
1:25.1	Let's go!
1:25.8	We got buckets.
1:27.0	We got Danny Brasco. We got Chip got chip patterson and oh it's not baseball
1:31.5	season anymore but it's always matt snider season matt i'm going to put you on the back burner for
1:36.2	now because everybody right now is waiting for their chip me up good morning see you come morning
1:41.8	daddy good morning pockets good morning mickey come on morning step for good morning head good morning, daddy, good morning, buckets, good morning, Mikey, come, morning, stepper, come, morning, Ben.
1:45.0	Good morning, hurley, hedge, fam.
1:48.0	And the word today is finished.
1:51.0	Because we are finishing the drill today, all right?
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