Big Ben's return, Baker + Odell, Nuggets/Clippers, Arians + Brady, Cowboys

First Things First

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Basketball, Football, Sports

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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00:00 How did Big Ben look in his first game back since surgery? 10:55 Who needs to be more accountable: Baker or Odell? 25:01 Nuggets/Clippers Game 7 preview. 35:45 What’d you make of Bruce Arians calling out Tom Brady after the Bucs’ Week 1 loss? 45:31 What will it mean for Kawhi and the Clippers if they lose Game 7 tonight? 57:08 Mike McCarthy after Cowboys’ Week 1 loss: “Our honeymoon is over. It’s time to win games.” 1:05:50 What do you make of Kevin Stafanski’s comments on the disconnect between Baker and Odell? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning everyone. Welcome to First things first. I'm Jenna Wolf alongside Nick Wright, Brandon Marshall, Kevin Wilde.
0:08.0	And guys, you know, coming into the season, we kept throwing around names of teams that were going to be fantastic.
0:14.0	We talked about the Ravens, we talked about the Chiefs, maybe the Patriots, and then Brenda Marshall comes and he says, hang on.
0:20.0	Everyone's forgetting about the Steelers, to which we said, you're right. We are. maybe the Patriots and then Brandon Marshall comes and he says hang on everyone's
0:21.2	forgetting about the Steelers to which we said you're right we are last night
0:25.2	just stop perhaps we have forgotten about the Steelers giving you some love
0:29.9	Brandon Marshall let us start there this morning Monday night football are you
0:36.7	blushing you might be that's a football blush right there.
0:39.5	We'll start there. Big return. A big Ben didn't take much. Giants Steelers, here we go. Ben Rolethusberger bag after missing all but two games last year with that elbow injury. You wouldn't have known it last night.
0:52.5	Ben throwing for three touchdowns, two of them to
0:55.3	Juju Smith-Schuster and that defense. Man, that defense looked good last night, held Sequin to six
1:00.7	yards rushing. It would be the way the Giants played. Your Giants Wilds, Joe Judge's Giants, they lose.
1:08.6	That means the Steelers open this season with a win.
1:11.5	Welcome back to the game, Big Ben.
1:14.1	So Brandon, let's start there.
1:15.6	How did the quarterback look, Ben Rothlisberger and his first game back?
1:20.9	I'm definitely blushing.
1:22.7	You know, when I picked my little dark horse teams, I said the Colts, they didn't get the job done for me this
1:30.5	past Sunday. I also talked about distillers. And there was people on the show that laughed at me.
1:37.0	That person was Nick Wright. And then there was also another person on the show who has these
1:41.2	amazing facial expressions. Kevin Wilds, he's always throwing his arms up and he's making these faces. He laughed at me. So I just want to say this is the perfect way for my Pittsburgh Stillers to start this season. Big Ben knocked off the rust in the first quarter. The second quarter is exactly how we wanted to look.
2:01.6	Jujo Smith Schuster looked so good last night. He's probably the most happiest person on the planet.
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