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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

NFL Conference Championship Picks and Bets

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Football, Sports

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Our SportsLine NFL experts Caludia Bellofatto, Larry Hartstein, R.J. White, and Will Brinson give their picks and break down EACH NFL Conference Championship game between the Patriots-Broncos and Rams-Seahawks, plus Super Bowl Futures picks!


(0:00) Intro

(4:00) Patriots vs. Broncos 

(19:42) Rams vs. Seahawks 

(32:40) Early Super Bowl Predictions


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Happy Conference Championship Weekend, everybody.

0:13.0

Claudia Vela Fata, Will Brinson, R.J. White, Larry Hartstein, hanging out to break down the whole slate, both games here on the early edge, brought to you by BetMGM,

0:22.1

make it legendary. How I'm feeling, guys, I'm sad. The season's coming to an end. We've had some

0:28.2

exciting games. Larry decided to come hang out with us in the Florida studios. Larry, a little bittersweet.

0:33.8

A little bittersweet because I seem to be getting hot just as the season is ending. I'm sure we'll get to that in a minute. But yeah, we've had great drama, great playoffs, and just hope we get more of it on Sunday. Yeah, let's bring that up, actually, if we can, producer Ben, because Larry is getting hot at the right time. Talk to me, Larry. You know, profitable and then profitable. I just want to try to put four

0:55.0

straight profitable weeks together. It was very tough, though, to see the Rams not come through

1:00.5

late. It could have been a monster week. But the cold, I was wrong about the cold. The cold

1:04.3

did affect the Rams. Will? Look, Rams went at all. I can live with that.

1:45.3

Okay. Okay. Hey hey producer bin got his indiana championship i get my rams super bowl you know you got to go we've got to go busting the contest on the way there to be it yeah it's been all right i mean it's been a lot of drama obviously disappointed, disappointed. The bills didn't win, but in that they didn't advance. But, you know, we're doing what we can. Got some future stuff open, too. So I think it's been pretty solid. Sweet. I've been pretty smart with my money. Full transparency. A little too much Pat's exposure this week, which we'll get into. A reminder for those who haven't been following along, we have the betting rules.

1:46.7

Everybody gets a thousand.

1:54.8

Each week, max bet is to make is 500, have to make at least one bet in every game and use all of the $1,000.

1:58.1

So we're all starting with $1,000 for both of these games.

2:00.0

We'll start with the Pats of the Broncos.

2:06.4

Pat's laying five here on the road, total at 42, kickoff set for 3 p.m.

2:12.2

The Broncos are the first home underdog of five or more points in conference championship history.

2:13.4

It's not Bo NIC Center Center.

2:15.1

It's Jared Stidham.

2:16.4

Yet, I'm seeing all Broncos money outside of my own pick.

2:20.4

So RJ White, you have the floor first.

2:22.6

Yeah, I've brought it up several times.

2:24.4

Home Dogs of 4 plus in the playoffs are now 11 and O against the spread in the last 50 years after the Rams failed to cover the last two weeks.

2:32.0

I think this line is too inflated after the Bo Nix injury. I think Denver deserves to be rated slightly above average with their elite defense and with a quarterback that has done some things in the league when he's been forced to start before. Now I'm not going to call him an MVP candidate or even as good as Bo Nix, but I would not make the same adjustment with him on the line as I would have going from like a Mahomes

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