Friday's BEST BETS: NFL Conference Championship Picks + UFC 324
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Happy BPE Friday! Sia Nejad is joined by Chip Patterson, Buckets, Danny Brasco, and Will Brinson as they hand out their BEST BETS for NFL Conference Championshp games, UFC and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:35) Snow Storm Talk
(6:55) Sia's Golf R2 Picks
(11:40) Will's NFL Conf. Championship Picks & Props
(22:30) Chip's CBB Pick
(27:45) Danny's UFC 324 Picks
(35:00) Buckets' International Soccer Pick
(38:30) NFL Any Time TD Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.5 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary, pretty legendary day yesterday, |
| 0:17.0 | especially if you follow the early wedge. |
| 0:18.8 | We hit that Pearson Cootie first round leader. |
| 0:26.6 | We also hit our matchup, and we hit pretty much everything else as well. We go five and one. Mike McClure, Mikey B, hit theirs. We do lose the Tom Casale money line parlay. That one |
| 0:33.9 | ends up losing, but the two sports line picks, they hit as well. We go five and one. |
| 0:38.1 | That is a very, very good day. |
| 0:40.0 | We got a lot of people in the chat, Steve Volkerts, Chris Kish, Ryan Fingers, |
| 0:44.0 | Jen is in the chat, big cheesy. |
| 0:46.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up because it's BPE Friday. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's go. We got Will Brinson. |
| 0:59.0 | We got Danny Brasco. |
| 1:01.0 | We got Chip Patterson and we got buckets kind of via satellite, via video with a soccer pick as well. |
| 1:08.0 | Brasco, it's great to see you. |
| 1:10.0 | Brinson, it's great to see you. We got a lot of picks, UFC, NFL, PGA, sports line picks, and a Chip Patterson picks, and a Chip Patterson, Chip me up. Good morning, see you, good morning, Daddy, good morning, Preston, good morning, Hurley, Hedge, fam, here to bring that heat, heat, heat, heat, heat to everybody because it's cold out here in these streets. We want to make sure everybody stays safe. We want to make sure everybody keeps the lights on. We want to make sure that you got the lights on to celebrate those winners. Fired up here on a BPA Friday. Let's go. Let's go. All right. Will Brinson, how you doing today, |
| 1:46.3 | buddy? I'm good. I'm preparing to, you know, do what I do on a Friday, which is, you know, |
| 1:53.1 | evacuate my house to go to my parents' farm and ensure that I have heat and power for the weekend. |
| 2:00.3 | I'm getting out of Raleigh Chip. |
| 2:01.5 | Sorry, buddy. |
| 2:02.2 | Enjoy. |
| 2:02.9 | Enjoy. |
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