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First Take

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Wake UP! The painful truth is out — Drake Maye has a shoulder issue, and we’re breaking down exactly what that means as we race toward Super Sunday. Meanwhile — oh, it’s spicy — Buffalo GM Brandon Beane is clapping back at his critics, and there are plenty of them. You do not want to miss what he had to say. AND while you were sleeping… BOOM — an NBA blockbuster! A superstar on the move with just two days left before the trade deadline. Let’s go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First Take is presented by Draft King's Sportsbook.
0:09.0	Hello everyone, welcome to First Take.
0:11.0	Shay Cornett here with you, Jason McCordy, Jeff Saturday.
0:14.0	And God bless you, Stephen A. How are you? Good morning.
0:17.0	Thank you, thank you.
0:18.0	Good morning. Good morning.
0:19.0	How y'all doing? What's going on?
0:54.9	What's up? What's up? Jay Mack? What's, what's up, Sergeant Friday? What's going on? What's the word? How's that? How's the weather? You made nice? It's good. It's kind of nice. I mean, it's cool. You know what I'm saying? It's nice. You know, in the 70s, all that stuff. son's gonna be shining it's about three's about three hours behind y'all, you know. And then after that, we head to San Francisco. Now, the Bay Area, the weather is not what the weather is in Southern California. But I'll be all right. I just remember it was six degrees when I walked over this morning. So wherever you're at, it's going to be a little better. Some of us can brave Nicole.
0:57.1	I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
0:57.5	Get out of here. My condolences to all y'all, except Shea, because she used to admit Chicago. It's all right with her. That's right. I don't mind it. I'm cold-blooded. It's all good. Let's go to some breaking news. Yesterday was Groundhogsdale, though it does kind of feel like it today, because here we go again.
1:10.6	This morning we learned that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was not selected as a first
1:15.1	year Hall of Fame inductee. Craft did not receive enough votes from the 50-person selection
1:19.8	committee to be included in the class of 2026, which will be presented Thursday night at NFL
1:25.4	honors in San Francisco. And so let's react to this, guys, and what we think, because, again, we just went through this with the whole situation with Bill Belichick. It feels like it was yesterday. It was a few days ago now, and now we're seeing the same thing happen with Robert Kraft. Your reaction. Crazy. I mean, this is just like, what, 11th, this is 11th Super Bowl you know jerry jones is in all all the things
1:48.4	that robert craft has done as a as a patriot owner for the organization this the most
1:53.1	winning organization since i mean in recent and they're a competitor of mine but both
1:57.8	these men deserve to be get all 50 votes to get in.
2:01.7	What they've earned it. And I'm just, I'm shocked that again, he hasn't gotten in.
2:05.8	I thought with the whole process conversation that people were talking about, they may
2:09.6	have split votes between Kraft and Belichick, but turns out neither are getting in, which just
2:14.6	honestly, it just sours the whole process because when it is announced,
2:19.2	the two names that aren't on the ballot are going to be the ones that probably garner
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