Monday's BEST BETS: Texans-Steelers Monday Night Football Picks
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sia Nejad is joined by SportsLine experts PropStarz, Larry Hartstein, Mike McClure, and Mike Barner as they give out their BEST BETS for NFL Monday Night Wild Card Football, NBA, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:10) Is Trevor Lawrence Bad Now?
(8:17) Mike's MNF Parlay
(10:50) Propstarz MNF Prop + Divisional Round Prop
(13:20) Early Divisional Round Picks
(17:30) Mikey B's NBA Props
(20:05) Sia's MNF Prop
(22:18) Larry's MNF Bet + NBA Prop
(28:53) Group SGP Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.3 | My name is Cianajad, otherwise known as the counselor of Cash. |
| 0:16.0 | And this show is brought to you by BetMGM. |
| 0:18.2 | Of course, this is the Early Edge. |
| 0:20.2 | And we've got a lot of you in the chat. |
| 0:22.0 | Cleveland Clown is in here. |
| 0:23.0 | Big cheesy. Kylie Reynolds, M. Baller, Farsat is in here. Scott Edwards. Thanks for being in here. Hit the like button, if you could. A great Monday show coming up. Let's see how we did on Friday and last week, because we got a busy recap screen. We go nine in eight overall. |
| 0:37.4 | E.C. hits his parlay. |
| 0:38.8 | That parlay that carried over to the weekend. |
| 0:40.5 | That one hits Buck, hits his play. Sportsline picks don't do quite as well. I go to for two in my props doing really well on that NFL prop show that, of course, I'm on with Propy, Claudia, and Dave Richardson. Make sure you always tune into that every Friday at 3 o'clock. |
| 1:15.7 | But, ladies and gentlemen, it's 10 o'clock, which means we got to bring in the stars of the show. Let's go ahead and do it. Monday, we always got a dream team. It's Mike McClure, it's Mikey B, it's prop stars, and it's Larry Hardstein. And gentlemen, as much as I want to get to picks right away, I don't think I'd be doing my job if we didn't react to NFL wildcard weekend in whatever way you all wanted to react to it. |
| 1:17.9 | So, Larry, I'm going to go around the horn really quick. |
| 1:21.9 | Your reaction, start us off to a wild weekend. |
| 1:24.5 | You'll see, you've had a lot of big days in your life. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm assuming, you know, getting married, having kids, passing the bar, |
| 1:35.0 | cashing in the World Series of poker. But having a day where you can cash a bet on Trevor Lawrence and then dunk on him as the reason why they lost and their season is over has to be at the top |
| 1:40.4 | of the list. Yeah, I mean, listen, I didn't, I don't know that I thought that was Trevor's fault necessarily. I wasn't necessarily tweeting out stuff like that, but I loved the line. He ended up throwing for three touchdowns. It was a really good bet at the end of the day, but anybody could have won that game, Larry. Anybody could go ahead and follow up. Yeah, but I just think, you know, his inaccuracy, forcing the ball there |
| 2:01.4 | into coverage when you just need a couple of first downs. We have a great kicker, you know, |
| 2:06.2 | just showed that he wasn't quite ready for the moment. Another guy who wasn't quite ready for the |
| 2:11.0 | moment, I believe he's keeping his job is Matt LaFleur, punting on fourth and two from the 45-yard line up 21 to 6, very cowardly move there. |
| 2:21.0 | And I think we saw why Caleb Williams was the number one overall pick. |
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