Tuesday's BEST BETS: NBA Props + College Football Bowls + NHL
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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It's Talk Back Tuesday! Sia Nejad is joined by Buckets, Tom Casale, Mike Barner, and Jeff Hochman as they hand out their BEST BETS in the NBA,, College Football Bowls, NHL, Soccer, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(4:20) Who Deserves NFL Coach of the Year
(5:58) Buckets' Soccer Picks
(8:48) Mikey B's NBA Props
(12:16) Free Sportsline CFB Bowl Picks
(18:35) Jeff's NHL Picks
(20:55) Tom's CFB Player Prop
(22:33) Bonus Bets
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, happy Tuesday, and welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:13.3 | We are brought to you by BetMGM, make it legendary. |
| 0:16.3 | My name, of course, is Sienajad, otherwise known as the counselor of cash. |
| 0:19.8 | And it's Talk Back Tuesday. |
| 0:21.2 | We're going to have a lot of questions in the chat |
| 0:22.5 | because on Tuesdays we always do, we've got the crew to answer your questions, a big NBA slate, a big NHL slate. We've got college football. We've got experts to answer questions on all of that. That, of course, includes soccer with buckets. Let's see how we did yesterday on the recap screen. |
| 0:38.9 | It's a winning day. |
| 0:39.6 | We go four and three. |
| 0:40.7 | I hit my 49ers play. Mikey B goes two for two. The sports line pick comes in. I got to tell you, prop stars was just a few yards away. He really should have hit that Tyler Warren prop. A lot of targets, a lot of missed targets coming from Philip Rivers to him specifically. And Larry Hartstein, the six and a half tackles and an assist. Nick Cross was on that six. He was on the number six for about a quarter and a half and couldn't get that extra tackle or assist. So very close to a great day, but it's still a good day at four and three. Let's bring in the stars of the show and turn good to great. with what a cast we have on Talkback Tuesday. Hit the like button for Mikey B. We got buckets. We got Tom Casale and Jeff Hockman. I'm not even sure where to start. Mikey B, I'm going to start with you. We've got a huge NBA slate. Talk to me because you usually come with two picks. You're not required to. You can come with one. But today, you have three picks. It must be a big NBA slate. |
| 1:31.1 | 14 NBA games tonight, Cia. 14. They're getting ready to take Christmas Eve off |
| 1:36.6 | in anticipation of the big Christmas day slate. So we got lots of hoops tonight. |
| 1:41.6 | Jeff, I got to get your reaction real quick to last night's game, specifically, I'm |
| 1:45.5 | talking Niners Colts, specifically to Philip Rivers just airing it out against the Robert |
| 1:50.3 | Salah lead defense. |
| 1:51.7 | Just your thoughts real quick on Philip Rivers doing what he did last night. |
| 1:55.7 | Yeah, I think, you know, he's amazing, but there's one limitation with him. |
| 2:00.4 | He can't throw the ball longer than |
| 2:02.1 | maybe 45 yards, 50 yards, but I was thinking during the game that the NFL coach of the year |
| 2:09.2 | is heating up. You have two coaches that could possibly go worse to first in Kyle Shanahan with the 49ers |
| 2:16.6 | and Mike Brable with the New England Patriots. |
| 2:20.9 | And then you have Liam Cohen, who is my choice. |
| 2:24.3 | Rookie head coach, possibly winning 12, 13 games. |
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