Friday's BEST BETS: NFL Week 18 + NBA Props
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
It's BPE Friday! Sia Nejad is joined by Buckets, Danny Brasco, and Mike Barner as they hand out their BEST BETS for NFL Week 18, the NBA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:55) Buckets' Soccer Bets
(7:56) Sia's QB Parlay
(12:35) Mikey B's NBA Props
(14:43) Free Sportsline Bets
(19:09) Danny's NFL Week 18 Props
(23:00) Bonus Bets
(24:40) College Football Semis Early Look
(30:25) Mikey B's Pampers Parlay
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:11.7 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:15.2 | I'll tell you what. |
| 0:16.0 | We've got a legendary show like we always do, but the recap screen, not so legendary. |
| 0:21.5 | Let's take a look. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, Mike's in the chat. He told you it was his biggest position of the year, Oregon Money Line. |
| 0:30.2 | Emery followed up on that. Those are our two wins, folks. We have a push in there, eight losses. |
| 0:36.7 | That's not going to get it done. Obviously, we've had some decent recap screens over the last few days, but this one is quite bad. |
| 0:38.3 | And really, there's nothing we can say about it other than hopefully we don't have this type of recap screen anytime |
| 0:43.5 | within the next one or two weeks. Let's try to get it done. Let's try to turn it around, |
| 0:48.5 | ladies and gentlemen, on BPE Friday. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, wait a minute. |
| 0:59.6 | Wait a minute. |
| 1:01.4 | There's no Chip Patterson. |
| 1:02.8 | We don't have Chip Patterson. |
| 1:06.1 | We got to make noise. |
| 1:07.3 | We do have voice. |
| 1:10.1 | We do have B. |
| 1:28.3 | I'll say what. Chip is on assignment. He's with McKenzie. They're doing some college football stuff. But I guess we, buckets, we, we don't have anybody to step in for Chip for a Chit Me Up. So like just let just give us a give us a hello. How you doing today, buddy? Hey, good morning, everyone. Welcome to Big Pick Energy Friday. I will be joined alongside Danny Brasco, Mike Barton, C. Najat, and we're happy to bring you that classic |
| 1:32.8 | Big Pick Energy Energy. That actually sounded quite perfect. Mikey B, how you doing today, buddy? |
| 1:39.7 | Buckets almost put me to sleep. It's like some smooth jazz channel on the FM dial. |
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