Thursday's BEST BETS: Commanders-Packers Picks & Props + MLB
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Sia Nejad is joined by Larry Hartstein, Mike McClure, PropStarz, and Matt Snyder as they dish out their BEST BETS for Thursday's NFL Commanders-Packers Thursday Night Football game, College Football Week 3 slate, MLB, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(5:20) PropStarz Commanders-Packers Props
(9:15) Sia's Golf Pick
(10:30) Snyder's MLB Pick
(13:35) HR Model Picks
(16:20) Mike's CFB Friday Pick
(19:15) Larry's NFL Week 2 Bets
(21:20) PropStarz NFL Week 2 Props
(24:45) Sia's Commanders-Packers Prop
(26:50) Commanders-Packers Predictions
(29:20) Chat Questions Pt. 1
(34:40) SportsLine NFL/CFB Picks
(35:15) TNF First TD Scorer Picks
(39:50) Chat Questions Pt. 2
(45:40) Recap
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.8 | It is a big day at the brand, and we've got an unbelievable cast today. |
| 0:17.7 | But before we get to them, let's take a look at the recap screen and see how we did. |
| 0:21.8 | We were coming off a three-in-one day, and we matched that with a five-in-oh day eight of our last nine. |
| 0:28.1 | Really good stuff. As usual, Buckets has been on fire. Amags two for two. And don't forget, he gave |
| 0:33.8 | you that strikeout round robin. We saw in the Discord. A lot of people hitting plus two thousand's twenty five to ones on those round robins and those strikeout props so really |
| 0:42.5 | good to see that and the sports line picks dominate as well we've got such an incredible show we've |
| 0:47.0 | got so many picks for tonight for today for this weekend so we got to get right to it let's go |
| 0:53.7 | ahead and bring in the stars of the show which of course includes you in the chat, Darren Mercurio, Brad Moore, Zoom is in here. Rick Funcannon, Matt is in here. Matt Sniper is in here. Mike McClure, prop stars, Larry Hartstein. I don't know where to start here. Mike, you and I have a show later on today, Fantasy Football Today, DFS, make sure |
| 1:11.1 | everyone you watch that. Larry, I'm going to start with you. There's so much, now that it's football |
| 1:16.2 | season, especially later in the week and it's Thursday night football, my team is playing. |
| 1:20.6 | There's a lot going on here. There's a lot going on. We have a great matchup tonight with the |
| 1:24.8 | Packers and the commanders. And I know a lot of people are leaning towards the commanders, getting three and a half |
| 1:31.3 | seems so tempting. |
| 1:33.1 | The Packers could be without two starting offensive linemen. |
| 1:36.6 | But a little bit later on in the show, I'm going to inject a note of caution into that play. |
| 1:41.3 | Very interesting. |
| 1:42.3 | I do think the three and a half, Mike, you know, |
| 1:44.9 | when that line opened it three and a half, I was like, oh, that's a little disrespectful. Are we like too much in on the Packers? Now, I don't have an official play on this side here, but I want to ask you, did the three and a half surprise you? Because it's now three, but three and a half in some places still. It surprised me the other way, actually. I was expecting four and a half for Green Bay in this particular spot. |
| 2:05.8 | So it is a short week. |
| 2:06.7 | I'm very concerned with Green Bay's injury situation overall. |
| 2:11.5 | But yeah, I want no part of betting this game personally. |
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