NFL Week 16 PICKS and BEST BETS
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Claudia Bellofatto is joined by SportsLine experts Larry Hartstein, and R.J. White to give their picks and break down every game of Week 16 in the NFL!
(0:00) Intro
(4:05) TNF - Rams vs Seahawks
(9:47) Saturday Games
(16:53) Sunday 1pm Games
(35:09) Sunday 4pm Games
(42:35 SNF) - Patriots vs Ravens
(44:15 MNF) - 49ers vs Colts
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| 0:28.7 | TNCs apply. And here we go, y'all. Week 16 in the NFL, Larry Hartstein, RJ White, |
| 0:38.6 | Claudine Valafato with you here on the early edge to run through the entire slate |
| 0:42.9 | to go over what happened in week 15. |
| 0:45.3 | The show brought to you by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. |
| 0:48.6 | And by things that went on, I mean teams punched tickets to the postseason. |
| 0:53.3 | Some postseason's loss. We saw quarterbacks, major quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes, get injured, done for the foreseeable future. Gardner Minshu in for him. And then other quarterbacks like Tua, not hurt, but benched. So we'll be seeing Quinn Ewer is in for him, some other quarterbacks possibly on the hot seat. RJ, lots going on heading into week 16. Yeah, major ramifications not just for the next few weeks, but 2026. Mahomes, we don't know when he'll be back. You know, we're going to see the 2026 Super Bowl Lodge, or I guess 27 Super Bowl Lodge, with the Chiefs in a very unfamiliar territory, probably down in that 8 to 10 range in terms of teams rather than one of the favorites. And then Miami, you know, the salary cab dictates that they can't really do much with Tua next year. So we'll see how they navigate that and try to plan their quarterback room moving forward. And then we saw Rahe Morris today say everything's on the table at quarterback for Atlanta. So we could even get on Michael Pennix, you know, questions about his future heading into the offseason. So a lot going on at the position right now. |
| 2:02.1 | Yeah, a lot, not just for the near future of the playoffs, Larry, but like RJ said, moving forward into next season. Yeah. And the thing that we always do at this time of year, and I think it's worth repeating, is to not blindly think that the team that needs to win has the edge because that seems to be priced into the market and usually overpriced into the |
| 2:07.3 | market. We think these teams that are bound for Cabo are just going to, you know, not show up and not |
| 2:12.1 | play hard, but they're all professionals. They're all getting, you know, want to get good things on |
| 2:16.6 | tape. And it's just not the case where they just, you know, want to get good things on tape. And it's just not the |
| 2:18.6 | case where they just, you know, maybe aside from the Raiders, it's just not the case where teams, |
| 2:24.5 | you know, just show up and don't play. I was going to make that, say, the Raiders have been |
| 2:31.0 | not showing up for weeks. So since that first Broncos game. So you have to rule them out of that. And you have those teams who are fighting for the number one pick. So they're like, maybe we can try in the first half and then not so much in the second. But the rest of the teams want to play spoiler. We're talking about players, not just quarterbacks, but other position players fighting for their jobs, head coaches fighting for their jobs. |
| 2:51.6 | So certainly motivation all around, even if they're out of the playoffs. |
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