NFL Wild Card Picks and Bets
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Our SportsLine NFL experts Caludia Bellofatto, Larry Hartstein, R.J. White, and Will Brinson give their picks and break down every game of NFL Wild Card playoff game in the NFL, including Saturday Night games, Sunday Night Football, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(1:42) Saturday Games
(11:38) Sunday Games
(23:31) Sunday and Monday Night Football Games
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| 0:00.0 | And here we go, everybody. Wild Card weekend here on the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, make it legendary. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Claudia Belfato here in the studio. Big surprise here. Larry Hartstein joins us, RJ White, per usual. |
| 0:16.0 | How we feel. And finally, we have the playoff picture set. Not a picture. Probably a lot of people painted preseason, Larry. Yeah, but this is an amazing weekend. We've got six great games. I think there's a lot of variance. We could see some unexpected winners. I'm just excited to be here with you guys in person. I'm so happy that you're here as well. The most playoff teams coming off 11 plus losses all time, RJ White. |
| 0:38.1 | Kind of makes for an exciting postseason. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, you always have that conversation of which bottom feeder is going to make the playoffs coming in who's going to win the division. |
| 0:46.6 | Turned out it was most of them. |
| 0:47.8 | Everybody's making the playoffs now. |
| 0:49.7 | So it was a very topsy-turvy season and an interesting postseason. |
| 0:53.8 | Most worst to first division winners all time. |
| 0:56.7 | Just one repeat winner in the division with the Eagle. |
| 1:00.0 | So it's going to be interesting. |
| 1:01.6 | To make it even more interesting, though, we're going to add some gamification into this. |
| 1:06.0 | Instead of just giving you our bets as we do each week, we're going to put a dollar value on it. So we always talk about bankroll. We're actually going to have a bankroll now $1,000 each week. Max bet is $200. Max to win is $500. You have to have at least one bet a game and then one future. And if you forget, we'll remind you, don't worry. Basically, we're going to tell you how |
| 1:27.8 | confident we are in each bet based off the money we're putting down. Yeah, well, this is a nice fresh start because you crushed it during the regular season, but I kind of like that we're clearing the slate for the playoffs. I need some redemption. Okay, let's get it then. Rams Panthers, First game going down on Saturday. |
| 1:43.9 | We have a total of 46.5. |
| 1:45.9 | Biggest spread on the board, Rams laying 10, which speaks volumes because they are on the road. |
| 1:50.8 | It's a rematch of week 13 where we actually saw the Rams lose that one in Carolina, but that was ravaged by mistakes, by fumbles, by Picks by Matthew Stafford, very uncharacteristic of him. |
| 2:01.7 | Sozmakers, RJ, are looking at this game and saying, that's not going to happen again. |
| 2:05.6 | We're going to make them a 10-point favorite. |
| 2:07.0 | Yeah, but it's interesting because we've seen several times where you get these big favorites on |
| 2:10.7 | the road, they do not cover. |
| 2:12.1 | Sometimes they don't win. |
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