Way Too Early 2026 NFL Predictions and Super Bowl Picks
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Get all your WAY TOO EARLY picks in for the next NFL season with our SportsLine NFL experts Caludia Bellofatto, Larry Hartstein, R.J. White, and Will Brinson. They give their early Division Winners, Conference Championship Matchups, Super Bowl winners, and longshot MVP candidates!
(0:00) Intro
(3:45) Will the Seahawks Make the Super Bowl Again?
(8:50) Were the Patriots Frauds?
(16:00) Which Playoff Teams Will Not Make the Playoffs Next Season
(19:15) SNF - Which Teams Will Make the Playoffs That Didn't This Season
(23:40) Early Division Winner Bets
(28:10) NFC Championship Predictions
(31:50) AFC Championship Predictions
(34:03) Super Bowl Matchup Predictions
(34:53) Longshot MVP Picks
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome into the early edge. We are not even two weeks past Super Bowl 60, |
| 0:15.7 | which means it's the perfect time to talk about futures for the next season. Larry Hartstein, |
| 0:20.5 | Will Brinton, RJ.J. White, |
| 0:21.8 | Claudi Volffato with you. Yes, it is early people. We are fully aware. But that's why we're |
| 0:26.5 | calling this the way too early NFL future show. We're going to break down why you should |
| 0:32.1 | bet on some teams at this point in the season before the free agency madness. And just talk about |
| 0:36.9 | some value that we see on the |
| 0:38.2 | board and really just get all together. Hopefully you guys had a better Super Bowl than I did as a Patriots fan |
| 0:43.2 | or Super Bowl 60 winner is a Seattle. Seahawks, Will, are you happy? Are you happy to see the |
| 0:47.7 | guys go down? Yeah, Drake May lost. Jake May lost. Matthew Stafford has proven to be the real MVP. |
| 1:10.9 | And then on Tuesday night, NC State beat North Carolina by 24 points in basketball. So, like, yeah, I'm going to show up to, I'm going to show up to the Scouts thing on Friday in a, the San Donald jersey. And tell her, too short. I had under one and a half minutes for Will to reference that game. So I think I passed that. |
| 1:13.9 | That line is way too high. |
| 1:16.3 | That would have been in an alt line minus 700. |
| 1:21.7 | Larry, how are we feeling heading into this way too early NFL future show? |
| 1:29.3 | I'm feeling pretty good, but it was RJ who came from all the way back to defeat me in our playoff betting contest, |
| 1:30.8 | came from way off the board. |
| 1:32.1 | I had that thing locked up. |
| 1:33.7 | I choked in the Super Bowl. |
| 1:37.4 | I had the side in the total, but I missed on a lot of my props. |
| 1:39.2 | So congrats to RJ for doing that. |
| 1:43.8 | Well, it was a tough Super Bowl to sort of narrow down. |
| 2:20.7 | I'm just happy as a Pat's fan that the Pats even made it there, but clearly they were unmistmatched, however you want to call it. They were outmatched on both sides of the ball, and it came to fruition there. So unfortunate for the Pats, they're still up there and the odds. I don't know, Ben, our lovely producer, if we do have a graphic, I probably should I ask you you that before. If we have a graphic, throw it up. If not, you'll know right now that the Seahawks are at 8 to 1 right now, the favorite for Super Bowl 61. I guess my question is, and I want to talk about the Pats too, but on the Seahawks side first, is the makeup of this team enough to make the Super Bowl in back-to-back seasons, Larry? |
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