Friday's BEST BETS: NFL Divisional Picks + College Basketball + Sony Open
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 48 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 Divisional Weekend, the Indiana-Miami National Championship, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(6:00) Buckets Announcement
(8:47) Sia's Sony Open Bets
(12:57) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(15:03) Danny's NFL Bet & Early UFC Pick
(19:37) Free Sportsline Picks (NFL, NBA)
(21:07) Bonus Soccer Bets
(23:00) Chip's College Basketball Bet
(27:35) Will's NFL Divisional Bets
(32:45) BONUS Bets (Soccer, NFL, CFB)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.6 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:14.9 | My name is Cianajan. |
| 0:16.0 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:18.3 | And frankly, we've had great recap screens all week, except for |
| 0:21.9 | yesterday. Today, I guess we could say two and four. I miss my golf play. Zach gets hooked. I think |
| 0:28.5 | he lost by the hook on that Gonzaga play. Aldama loses by the hook on his play, prop back guys play. |
| 0:35.0 | Mike McClure hits his play. Mikey B goes one for two. |
| 0:38.6 | We go two and four overall. |
| 0:40.7 | So we'll rebound today with an unbelievable crew. |
| 0:43.5 | But, ladies and gentlemen, it's not about the crew today. |
| 0:45.6 | It's not about the picks today. |
| 0:47.2 | It's not about Jeff Stewart or Jeff Stenberg or Sox Nation or Patty Boy in the chat. |
| 0:52.4 | It's all about BPE Friday. |
| 1:01.5 | Let's go. |
| 1:03.6 | We've got Will Britson. |
| 1:05.3 | We got Danny Brasco. |
| 1:07.0 | We've got buckets reading the leadoff man, |
| 1:10.2 | author by Matt Snyder. And of course, ladies and gentlemen, we got Lynx Patterson, we got Chip Patterson. I don't know what to call him. All I know is we need our chip me up. Good morning, see you, good morning, buckets, good morning, pressing, good morning, daddy, go, money, bed. Good morning, Hurley, hedge, fam. fan oh we're all twisted up and knots we're |
| 1:29.7 | crisscross in the country we're crisscross in the sports we got sports on sports on sports on sports |
| 1:34.3 | no links for you yet see you but don't worry that your politics are running we'll be doing |
| 1:38.3 | college basketball here on a friday night and then and then might check in on Monday's early edge for a little bit more |
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