Friday's BEST BETS: NFL Week 16 + College Football Playoff + NBA
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It's BPE Friday! Sia Nejad is joined by Chip Patterson, Buckets, Mike Barner, and Danny Brasco as they hand out their BEST BETS for NFL Week 16, College Football Playoff Round 1, the NBA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:20) Chip Me Up
(7:18) Buckets' Soccer Pick
(9:40) Myrtle Beach Bowl Bets
(13:46) Mikey B's NBA Props
(18:03) Free Sportsline Bets (CBB, NHL)
(20:40) Danny's NFL Week 16 Bets
(24:00) Chip's College Football Playoff Bets
(30:48) Bonus Weekend Bets
(41:35) Super Bowl Winner Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, |
| 0:10.4 | Happy Friday, and welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:13.1 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:16.3 | My name is Cia Najad, and ladies and gentlemen, of course, it's Friday. |
| 0:19.7 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:21.3 | We're going to talk NFL. |
| 0:22.4 | We're going to talk college football. |
| 0:24.0 | We've got soccer, NBA. |
| 0:26.2 | You name it. |
| 0:26.8 | We've got it on the early edge. |
| 0:27.9 | But I regret to inform you that our recap screen, not so great. |
| 0:33.0 | On Monday, we swept the football picks. |
| 0:35.4 | On Thursday, we get swept. |
| 0:38.0 | Owen 5 is not where you want to be. |
| 0:40.4 | O and 4 with the football picks, and we lose the singular NBA pick. |
| 0:43.9 | We got to move on and we got to get better on a Friday. |
| 0:46.4 | We did have three winning recap screens in a row, but O&5 is just not acceptable. |
| 0:52.1 | So I'll tell you what. |
| 0:53.5 | How about we make it up to you, Pogo Picks? |
| 0:56.2 | Stephen Cleveland Clown is in here, Philip Tarasas, Brad Morris, |
| 1:00.3 | and everybody else that's in here and has already hit the like button. |
| 1:02.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to BPE Friday. |
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