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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

👊 PFL Preview - Ian Parker's MMA Picks For Friday Night (4/22)

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8744 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Coachman is joined by Ian Parker to break down and handicap Friday's PFL action. Ian delivers the best bets, picks, props and parlays in MMA. Use promo code ‘EDGE’ when signing up for a new account at SportsLine.com to get your first 30 days FREE! — ‘Early ‘Edge is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Enable push notifications so you always know when the latest episode is available! Every episode is also available on YouTube, go to youtube.com/channel/UCZmtXolnY7-z9HLiBESjkyQ EVERY PICK BY LARRY HARTSTEIN: https://www.sportsline.com/experts/13773/larry-hartstein/ EVERY PICK BY MIKE MCCLURE: https://www.sportsline.com/experts/15810/mike-mcclure/ Follow @SportsLine on Twitter and Instagram Check us out on YouTube for video podcasts and exclusive content, visit https://www.youtube.com/SportsLine Follow our crew on Twitter: @TheCoachrules, @LarryHartstein and @jacob_hallex  You can listen to Early Edge on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Early Edge podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Early Edge podcast." For more betting picks and analysis, visit SportsLine.com To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit CBSSports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's good, everybody?

0:06.2

Welcome into the Early Edge MMA style.

0:08.7

We tell you all the time, follow us at you two.

0:11.0

Turn on those notifications.

0:12.3

You just never know when a new show is going to be dropped into your feed.

0:16.5

Last week, Bellator and UFC, seven and one, absolutely killed it.

0:21.7

And there is nobody better at breaking it down, at telling you like it is.

0:25.6

And we're talking PFL.

0:27.6

That's right.

0:28.3

The Professional Fighters League is back Friday, ESPN Plus, ESPN2, and your boys.

0:34.3

Let's bring him in right now.

0:35.5

Ian Parker and myself are the betting gurus for the

0:39.1

PFL. So, Ian, we've got to educate a lot of people before we get to your picks for the PFL. And don't worry,

0:45.0

folks at home, we're going to have a UFC show for you on Friday. Now, how does the PFL differentiate

0:51.5

themselves from a betting perspective than the UFC or from Bellator.

0:57.4

The biggest difference here is within their season, there's points. So each fighter has to

1:01.8

really do the best job, scoring as many points as possible, really meaning getting finishes here

1:05.9

because at the end of that season, there's going to be a whole level of seating playoffs, and you do not want

1:11.4

to be on the outside looking in. From a betting perspective, now as the fights go on, if you have a

1:16.2

guy who knows that he's on the outside bubble, it needs a finish, either bet something like

1:20.0

the under or go with that guy to get the finish or to go with his opponent to win by decision,

1:24.3

because in that situation, his opponent also might just have to win and

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