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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

NFL Week 3 BEST BETS and PICKS!

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks

Sports, Football

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Our NFL crew of experts, Claudia Bellofatto, Will Brinson, R.J. White, and Larry Hartstein give bets for EVERY SINGLE NFL Week 3 game! They break down spreads, totals, props, and MORE for bets that need to make this weekend.


(0:00) Intro + TNF Picks

(6:45) Packers vs. Browns

(11:15) Colts vs. Titans

(15:30) Bengals vs. Vikings

(19:45) Steelers vs. Patriots 

(23:05) Rams vs. Eagles

(26:45) Jets vs. Bucs

(30:43) Raiders vs. Commanders

(34:20) Falcons vs. Panthers

(37:40) Texans vs. Jags

(40:25) Broncos vs. Chargers

(43:40) Saints vs. Seahawks

(47:15) Cowboys vs. Bears

(50:30) Cardinals vs. 49ers 

(53:30) Chiefs vs. Giants

(57:00) Lions vs. Ravens

(1:01:15) Best Bets


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, friends.

0:11.8

Welcome into the Early Edge NFL PICs show, Week 3 edition, brought to you by BetMGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas.

0:18.3

I've got RJ White with me here in studio.

0:20.5

We have Will Brinton, Larry Hartstein. Guys, we're going to run through the whole week three slate. But before we do that, I want to give you guys a little time to either brag about yourself, maybe brag about each other in week two. RJ, a little birdie told me it had a pretty solid week two. Yeah, it went four and one in the circa million, some eight and two there now. But of course, as with every better, it's about the bad beats. So, you know, you missed the field goal on the 60-yarder that was a penalty flag. Turns into an easy 45-yarder and take a loss there. So that gets frustrating, but otherwise it was a pretty good week. Okay. Well, how'd you do? Lions best bet, minus five and a half. Revenge game, RJ, you hear that. Revenge game against Ben Johnson. Wasn't close. Easy as cash the week. Three and two in the Cirque Millions on this end, the Jaguars and Liam. Like, I kind of come around to Liam Cohen going forward on fourth and five to try to win the game.

1:11.7

But dude, let's get the cover.

1:14.1

Larry?

1:15.5

A solid overall week.

1:16.9

I just hate that the best bet I gave out, Austin Echler over two and a half catches.

1:20.5

He catches two passes in the first quarter.

1:23.1

They're in obvious passing situation.

1:25.4

He's on the field and then he suffers the season ending injury.

1:29.3

So I got to get back on track with my best bets here. That's how best bets work though, right?

1:34.5

Guys, because I've been doing pretty solid across the board, but the best bets never hit.

1:38.6

I'm one in one in this show. I gave out Justin Fields on another show. He decided to complete

1:42.9

three passes. So that was really fun. Larry, you mentioned a lot of the injuries, which I just want to rip through a quick, a few quick off the top here, Joe Burrow, the big one out. It sounds like for the season. He's out three months with the turf toe. Jason McCarthy out multiple weeks with the ankle, Jada Daniels, to be determined with the knee. then you have Justin Fields with a concussion, Brock Purdy, unlikely to play week three.

2:04.6

So already, we're two weeks in, but injuries plastered across the board,

2:08.8

which will obviously affect these lines and we'll get into all that.

2:11.9

No major injuries, though, in Miami and Buffalo, that's where we will start.

2:16.3

Thursday night, Buffalo laying 12 and a half,

2:19.5

obviously in AFC's battle here. Top of the division against the bottom of the division. Larry,

2:25.1

let's go to you first. Where's your lean or your play on this game? Well, the bill said 30 points last

2:29.6

week and then they didn't need to do anything in the fourth quarter. This is a juggernaut offense against the defense that's given up 33 in each of the first two games.

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