Hour 1: How Much Praise do Rodgers and Tomlin Deserve?

First Take

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4.0 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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First Take begins with a Steel City thriller! We assign praise and blame for the Steelers and Ravens. (0:00) Then, coming off of a massive win against the Niners for the one seed, how should we view Sam Darnold going into the playoffs? (26:45) Next, The Bengals are bringing back Zac Taylor for another season. Is this the right move? (42:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.5	Shop in the app, online, and in stores.
0:31.9	Did you miss me?
0:34.0	I missed y'all,
0:35.2	but I got to admit,
0:36.4	I missed the crew my girl's shape
0:37.2	right next to me. What's going on? What's going on? Happy 2026. That corny suit, I forgive you because I love you and I missed you, okay? R. C in the house, little red riding hood, rocking them. I mean, and only you can rock that. You look good, my brother, and boy, kid, what's the baby? What's the baby? What's the baby?
0:55.0	It's Monday.
0:56.0	The playoffs are here.
0:58.0	The NFL playoffs is been all set.
1:01.0	And your boy is back in town.
1:03.0	You know what I'm going to say.
1:05.0	Hollandeage boy!
1:07.0	Woo!
1:10.0	Showtime! Showtime.
1:11.6	Season on the line.
1:12.6	Winner advances.
1:13.6	Loser is done for the year.
1:15.6	Rogers back,
1:16.6	lofting left.
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