Thursday's BEST BETS: Rams-Seahawks Thursday Night Football Picks
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Sia Nejad is joined by Larry Hartstein, Propstarz, and Mike McClure as they hand out their BEST BETS for the Rams vs. Seahawks Thursday Night Football game and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:10) TNF Weather Impact
(7:07) Mike's TNF Pick & CFB Bet
(11:10) Larry's TNF Player Prop
(16:45) Free Sportsline Bets (TNF, NBA)
(21:15) Sia's TNF Pass Prop Lean
(26:55) Propstarz NFL Player Prop
(28:35) Which ML To Bet: Rams or Seahawks?
(32:10) 1st TD Scorer Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.2 | We are brought to you by BedMGM. |
| 0:14.1 | Make it legendary. |
| 0:16.0 | Got a great show for you today. |
| 0:17.5 | A lot of Thursday night football. |
| 0:19.7 | Make sure you get your questions in the chat. And while you're at it, make sure you hit the like button. Let's see if we like the recap screen. How did we do yesterday? Well, four and three, I guess four, three and one. My play was a push. But we'll take, I mean, listen, we'll take four and three. But ultimately, we got to do a little bit better than that. Technically, a very slight |
| 0:39.2 | winning day, I suppose. But let's bring in the stars of the show so that we can make it clear, |
| 0:44.3 | make it decisive that we're going to have a winning day. Danny Brasco in the chat, he had that |
| 0:48.1 | total play, gentlemen. I'm looking at Mike. I'm looking at Larry Propstars. That total play |
| 0:53.1 | it has gone down from 44.5 where Danny got it at Sportsline to 42 and a half. We'll talk about that in a second. |
| 0:59.1 | But Larry, how you doing and how excited are you about this NFC West showdown? |
| 1:03.0 | We have a dream matchup on Thursday night football number one offense against the number one |
| 1:07.4 | defense, number one seat in the NFC at stake. We got some weather that's coming. |
| 1:13.7 | And Kevin Roth, who is the authority on weather related to sports betting, came out with an |
| 1:19.1 | interesting post that I think scared a lot of people and pushed this total down when he talked about |
| 1:24.3 | the wind. We could have some serious wind gusts. But then he cautioned at the end of his post and said, you know what? The way they designed Lumen Field, it may not impact anything. And kickers are the only people that he's worried about in terms of fantasy-wise. So he says the rain is not going to be a big issue. But you do have to watch out about the win, which he said will be worse in the first half than the second half. Read 9923 in the chat says, weather seems to be a bigger impact on the first half rather than the second half. Mike, you're usually our authority on the weather. We're going to do fantasy football today, DFS at 11 o'clock today, over on the fantasy football today, YouTube channel. And we're always talking about weather when we talk about these games. |
| 2:02.9 | Talk to me about what you know or what you think about the weather tonight for Thursday |
| 2:07.4 | night football. |
| 2:08.4 | I am in the camp of minimal to no impact in this game. |
| 2:12.9 | I think most of the weather is pregame. |
| 2:16.7 | And leading up to the game itself could carry over potentially into the first half, |
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