Weekend BEST BETS: NFL Week 5 Picks + CFB Week 6 Picks
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It's another Big Pick Energy Friday! Sia Nejad is joined by Chip Patterson, Mackenzie Brooks, Danny Brasco, and Calvin Wetzel as they give out their BEST BETS in the NFL, CFB, Soccer, and MORE for this weekend's games!
(0:00) Intro
(2:40) Chip Me Up
(7:20) Chip's CFB Bets
(11:40) Calvin's WNBA Finals Bets
(15:25) Mackenzie's CFB Bet
(20:00) Free SportsLine Bets
(20:35) Danny's NFL and UFC Picks
(25:35) Sia's NFL Prop
(27:50) Ben's Producer Picks
(31:50) Group Ride Bet of the Week
(32:45) Chat Questions
(36:53) Recap
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Early Edge. |
| 0:12.5 | We are brought to by Bed-MGM, the sportsbook born in Vegas. |
| 0:15.4 | My name is Cia Najat, otherwise known as the counselor of cash, and you see I'm in studio. |
| 0:20.0 | I'll be in studio for the prop show later today and hosting CBS Sports HQ. That's primetime pregame. But we got to talk about the here and now. Or actually, let's talk about yesterday. Let's see how we did on the recap stream. So many winning days in a row. This one is not a winning day, though. Kind of, we almost got there. Three and four. I hit my pick. |
| 0:38.7 | Sniper hits his Cubs pick. Prop stars misses his, and it's because of overtime, folks. That |
| 0:44.6 | Christian McCaffrey play was incredibly sharp, but he gets two receptions in overtime to kill that |
| 0:49.6 | under. Bob, aka. Berg Betts, comes through with his Padres Cubs under. |
| 0:54.9 | All right, well, let's turn the page. |
| 0:56.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, we go three and four. |
| 0:57.5 | But this whole week, we've had winning recap screens if memory serves. |
| 1:01.3 | But what's important right now, ladies and gentlemen, is BPE Friday. |
| 1:06.5 | Last week. Let's go. |
| 1:15.3 | We've got Danny Braffco. |
| 1:19.2 | We got McKenzie Brooks, her and I hit this big SGP on HQ yesterday. |
| 1:23.7 | But most importantly, right now, everybody needs from the hotel room a chip me up. |
| 1:31.9 | Good morning, see you. Good morning. Good morning. Kevin. Good morning. Danny. Good morning. |
| 1:36.2 | Good morning. Room 813 and room 819. Good morning. Burley Hedge fam. Coming to you live from Tallahassee where the cover three |
| 1:45.4 | podcast is going to be given you a live show. 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Madison's social, downtown |
| 1:52.4 | Tallahassee in college town. But hey, if you can't make it, you are invited, YouTube.com |
| 1:57.7 | slash cover three for the live stream. We got the whole production team in town, |
| 2:02.2 | making it look fancy, fired up to be with the guys live and in person. And guys, don't tell |
| 2:08.2 | anybody, but I think it's Tom Fernelli's birthday. Tweet, happy birthday at Tom. It'll catch him |
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