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First Take

Hour 1: Tale As Old As Tom

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dan Orlovsky, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, and Harry Douglas fill in for Stephen A. as they debate what Dak Prescott needs to do in order for Dallas to beat San Francisco this weekend. Damien Woody joins the show to discuss the futures of two GOATs as Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady both have decisions to make about where they'll end up next season. The crew debates whether they have more confidence in Josh Allen or Joe Burrow heading into this weekend's AFC Divisional Playoff matchup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good day. What's going on everybody welcome to first take on a Thursday a K a Friday

0:07.4

Eve S a has the day off today. But we're crude up Thursday. So you know what that

0:13.3

means? Dan Arlovsky. I always feel what's going on. What's going on? Good to see you.

0:17.7

As always. Hey, you got some new opponents today, Dan. Are you ready? And I brought in

0:21.3

reinforcements. I cannot wait. Okay, here's what I got. I got Harry Douglas. I have

0:27.2

mad dog on a Thursday. I don't know if he can top what went down yesterday though. I'll

0:33.6

be I'm going to wear it, but then no, I've had enough. So we'll we'll have fun with

0:38.1

Danny. Well, you were in rare form. I was in rare form. If people haven't seen it,

0:42.7

you're you know, tell why you're mad. That also yeah, that was that was that got

0:47.0

rapid. Yeah, that was exceptional. Jay Will is going to be here in Damien Woody as well.

0:52.5

What you got for me, Dan before we go. Ma'am, it's good morning. Good morning. Listen,

0:56.5

you we're both from Connecticut, Northeasterner people. I grew up listening to mad dog. So I

1:02.2

cannot wait. But before I kind of get into this two things, I'm not calling him Harry till

1:08.0

he beats me in an argument today. So that's Harold Douglas. Oh, and I'm not calling him

1:12.6

even though I respect him beyond words. I'm not calling him mad dog till he beats me today.

1:18.2

So it's Harold and Chris versus Dan. Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

1:22.9

Christopher. Christopher versus Dan before we before we get this show started, I'm calling

1:28.1

them by their government names. That's cool. But then why are you Dan? So you're Daniel. So

1:32.4

we're going to keep it. Because I'm on the feet of against Daniel Daniel and what? Okay.

1:36.8

Everything. All right, let's go. I've had enough of you. All right. We've got some fun games

1:40.4

this weekend and I cannot wait for some football Kyle Shanahan coaching the San Francisco 49ers

1:45.3

against the Delts Cowboys in a playoff game. It's a throwback to when that rival week was arguably

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