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The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

Thursday's BEST BETS: CFB Week 0 Picks + NFL Preseason Pick + WNBA

The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast

CBS Sports

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

3.8744 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sia Nejad is joined by Larry Hartstein, Mike McClure, Calvin Wetzel, and Tom Casale as they dish out their BEST BETS in the College Football Week 0, NFL, MLB, Golf, and MORE for Thursday's games! (0:00) Intro + Calvin's Shirt (5:40) Mike's Golf Pick (11:00) Calvin's WNBA Bets (14:52) HR Model Chart + SportsLine MLB Picks (17:30) Larry's NFL Preseason Bet (20:25) Sia's Golf Bet (22:35) Tom's Week 0 CFB Bet (25:05) Chat Questions (29:45) Recap Screens 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Get your daily bets here FIRST! The No. 1 sports betting show and podcast—powered by SportsLine & CBS Sports—delivers the day's best bets in a fast-paced, fun environment, first thing in the morning. Starting at 10 a.m. ET every weekday, The Early Edge goes live on YouTube, breaking down the day’s action across the NFL, college football, NBA, MLB, NHL, college basketball, soccer, and more! The Early Edge is here to talk sports betting for everyone—from first-time bettors to sharps, and everyone in between. From point spreads to totals, player props to parlays, and so much more, we're here to win. Together. 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3URc49a • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://apple.co/4hLfVhP • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SportsLine • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportsLine • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportsline • TikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@sportsline 📖 READ • More betting news: https://www.sportsline.com/ 🛍️MERCH • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/the-early-edge 💵BETTING Head to https://www.sportsline.com to find best bets, picks and props. Any league. Any game. Any time. Both from the sharpest sports bettors in the business as well as the SportsLine Advanced Model, where we simulate each game 10,000 times and provide projected scores, graded bets, plus player prop projections. If you like it, use promo code EARLY to get your first 30 days FREE! #sportsbetting #bestbets #todayspicks #NFLBets #Week0Bets #Week0Picks #CFBWeek0 #ThursdayBets #DailyBets #HomeRunBets #BaseballPicks #DailyPicks #GolfPicks 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

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge.

0:11.9

We are brought to you by BetMGM, the sports book, born in Vegas.

0:15.9

We have a great show for you today in an unbelievable cast, but we do have to look at the recap screen before we talk about some of our picks and plays here on a Thursday. Not good. It hasn't been a great week. There's going to be some good weeks and there's going to be some bad weeks. We go 043. Not much to say about this one. Listen, we lost all three. We got to get some wins. I see some winners in the chat. I see Ray Garcia, Drew Martin, Bradmorest, Jeff Stenberg, who it may or may not be his birthday. I'm not sure Lydia's in here. Steve Fulker, it's Ryan Koffter. Well, we've got them, but we've also got an incredible cast on the early edge. Take a look at who we brought today. We got Larry Hartstein from

0:55.2

Parts Unknown. You'll have to explain Larry. We've got Mike McClure. We've got Tompissally and Calvin Wetzel who was showing off his shirt. He's got a lot to live up to. Larry, I got to start with you though. How you doing? Where are you? Well, I'm on the road. I'm on a three city tour that's taking me to Memphis right now, but I'm excited because not only are we

0:54.4

Dan Fouts days away. Well, I'm on the road. I'm on a three city tour that's taking me to Memphis right now, but I'm

1:11.9

excited because not only are we Dan Fouts days away from NFL, but also Andy Dalton days away, and I

1:18.5

don't put them up there with the greats, but it is a little bit of a foreshadowing for my pick

1:24.3

today. Sounds like we have a football play today. We've got PGA plays.

1:28.7

We've got WNBA.

1:30.1

We've got college football.

1:31.5

We've got MLB, including a sports line pick for a day MLB game, which I'm very excited about.

1:37.0

Mike McClure, just 14 days away, otherwise known as Stefan Diggs days away from NFL season.

1:41.8

You've got to be excited.

1:43.1

I can't wait.

1:44.2

I mean, it's officially within two weeks, but it really kicks off this weekend with college

1:48.8

football too. So look, it's officially football season, trying to think of all the 14s. It's a fun

1:56.2

number because you start to get wide receivers at 14 now. You get quarterbacks. You get all sorts of fun positions there. I'm excited, though, ready to go. A week from today, me, Mike, and Meg Shop will be starting up again, Fantasy Football Today, DFS at 11 o'clock on the FFT YouTube channel. Make sure you go to your wherever you get your podcast, Spotify or Apple, and subscribe to Fantasy Football Today, DFS. That's where me and Mike and Meg will be breaking

2:21.8

down every single NFL DFS slate. We got to talk WNBA though, Calvin, because that shirt.

2:27.4

If you're listening to us on the podcast, Calvin shows up with a new creative shirt every

2:32.2

single day. How you doing, Calvin i'm great this is this is my way

2:35.5

of getting people over to youtube i think but you know i didn't know this was going to happen but ever

2:40.0

since i wore that first shirt and the chat loved it i feel like i got to give the people what they want

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