Tuesday's BEST BETS: NBA Cup Final + College Basketball & Football + NHL
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It's Talk Back Tuesday! Sia Nejad is joined by Buckets, Tom Casale, Zack Cimini, and Jeff Hochman as they hand out their BEST BETS in the NBA Cup Final, College Basketball, College Football bowls, NHL, Soccer, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:26) Tom's College Football Bowl Bet
(5:42) Buckets' Soccer Pick
(8:37) Zack's NBA Cup Prop + CBB pick
(13:20) Jeff's NHL Bet
(15:05) Bonus Bets for NHL + NBA
(17:43) Ben's NBA Cup Bet
(21:00) Early Bowl Game Bets
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:10.9 | Welcome to the Early Edge, brought to you by BetMGM, make it legendary. |
| 0:15.0 | My name is Cianajat. |
| 0:16.0 | I see Mike McClure is in the chat. |
| 0:17.7 | We got Ray Brown, Steve Fulchertz, Robert Page. So many in there already |
| 0:22.5 | hitting the like button. Let's see if you like the recap screen. Five and two, pretty good day. |
| 0:28.1 | We go four and oh with our NFL picks. We sweep Monday night football. Shout out to Larry. |
| 0:33.2 | Shout out to Mike. Shout out to Propy. And let's see. Mikey B goes one for two and we miss our sports line pick. That one went into overtime. Very close one with the Jets money line at minus 128. But we'll take five and two every single time. And on a Tuesday, we're going to take this crew. Let's bring them in right now because we've got a lot to cover. Some people think Tuesdays are sleepy days. They're not. |
| 0:55.3 | We got buckets. We got Jeff Hockman with the money sign. We got Tom Casale and Zach Simony. |
| 1:00.8 | Buckets. I'm going to start with you. My friend, how you doing today? |
| 1:04.3 | Not great, if I can be honest, see you. But sometimes that's just the kind of days you have. |
| 1:08.7 | I have a herniated disc in my lower back as the doctor likes to say. So sitting's not the most comfortable thing in the world, but we've got the EFL Cup quarter final. So I have to be here to give you a bet for that Chelsea match. All right. We're going to get to your bet almost right away. But Tom, Jeff, Zach, I'm going to skip salutation so we can go right into picks. |
| 1:28.6 | But Tom, I do want to ask you because I know Jeff has a hockey play. |
| 1:32.0 | Zach's got an NBA play. We might even have Ben with an NBA play. I'm not that that hasn't |
| 1:36.0 | been confirmed yet. Ben, I'm not trying to pressure you into anything. We've got some college |
| 1:39.7 | basketball. But Tom, a quick reaction to NFL last night. Any surprises there? And do you have a college |
| 1:47.1 | football pick for today? Sure. Yeah. It's, you know, I don't know, man. Mike Tomlin must be a |
| 1:53.8 | great coach because I don't know how that team wins. I just don't. I watch them and I don't know |
| 1:59.2 | how they have a winning record. They're first in the division. |
| 2:03.4 | But, you know, listen, we know that Tua doesn't like the cold, |
| 2:06.5 | so it wasn't much of a surprise for me. |
| 2:08.7 | But it's just amazing to me that they're ahead of the Ravens when you look at player for player. |
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