Thursday's BEST BETS: Early NFL Pick + NBA Bets + College Basketball
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Thurday's BEST BETS with Sia Nejad, Mike McClure, Mike Barner, Tom Casale, and Meg Shoup, as they hand out their plays for the NBA, NFL, College Basketball, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:12) Mike's Aussie Open Bet
(7:23) Mikey B's NBA Props
(10:11) Free Sportsline Picks
(13:00) Meg's Early NFL Props
(19:25) Tom's Early NFL Bet and Parlay
(24:20) Sia's Golf Pick
(26:30) Mikey B's NBA Snow Parlay
(29:50) Bonus NFL Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Early Edge. My name is Cianajad, otherwise known as the |
| 0:14.2 | counselor of Cash, and this show is brought to by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. We've got already |
| 0:19.6 | people hitting parlay on the Australian Open Pogo picks hit a 16-1 par legendary. We've got already people hitting parles on the Australian open. Pogo Picks |
| 0:22.5 | hit a 16 to one parley. We had nothing to do with that, but Pogo Picks, good job there. I see you, |
| 0:28.2 | big, roadie, big cheesy in the chat, Farzod, Cleveland Clown. Thanks for being in here. |
| 0:32.4 | Let's see how we did on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. One and three, |
| 0:37.4 | buckets misses his prop stars |
| 0:38.9 | goes one for two hits that janis under but misses on the demar de rose and over let's see if we |
| 0:45.6 | can pick things up today we ride alongside danny brasco who was in the chat but we've also got meg shop |
| 0:52.3 | on the show mike mcleore tom, Tom Casale and Mikey B. |
| 0:55.7 | This is such a cool crew because it tells us one thing, if nothing else. |
| 1:00.6 | We have a lot to cover. |
| 1:01.7 | We can cover NFL with this team. |
| 1:03.4 | We can cover college basketball, NBA, PGA, and tennis. |
| 1:08.2 | So you know what? |
| 1:09.4 | I'm going to skip hellos right now. |
| 1:11.8 | Mike, we had somebody hit a big tennis parlay in the chat. |
| 1:15.2 | Why don't we kick this show off right here right now with a tennis pick? |
| 1:19.0 | All right. |
| 1:19.7 | We've got a tennis pick in the Aussie Open. |
| 1:22.0 | You know, when we get to major championship season, I love looking at totals. |
| 1:26.8 | I'm going over. I know we all love a good over. |
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