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First Take

Hour 2: A Shedeur Thing

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The NFL conversation continues today on First Take as the crew discusses who will lead the Browns at the QB position for the majority of the season. Plus, what is 'Mad Dog' mad about today?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

ESPN fantasy football is more than just a game.

0:03.0

It's thousands of stories in the making.

0:05.0

Like that one league that hasn't missed a draft since the 20th century,

0:08.3

or the one that decides their draft order by competing in a legit athletic combine.

0:12.3

Or the league where if you come in last, you have to sit in a closet and assemble a 300-piece puzzle.

0:17.0

In the dark.

0:18.3

Yeah, that stuff really actually happened.

0:20.5

The football may be fantasy, but the stories are 100% real.

0:24.1

So download the ESPN Fantasy app, sign up, and start your story today.

0:28.1

Insights with IBM Watson X.

0:30.8

The road to the Little League Software World Series in Greenville, North Carolina,

0:34.5

continues to the regionals tomorrow.

0:35.9

There's seven semifinal matchups on ESPN, ESPN Plus.

0:38.8

They're the first four games that begin at 10 a.m. Eastern in the southeast.

0:43.5

Back to the NFL where Micah Parsons standing on business after Jerry Jones took shots at the Dallas Star earlier this week,

0:49.3

amid into contract negotiations Parsons entering the fifth year of his rookie deal and seeking a massive extension

0:54.8

with the Cowboys had this to say in response to Jerry.

0:59.5

When you go around the league and you see these other teams taking care of their best guys,

1:03.5

I see TJ got taken care of, you know, Max got taken care of, Miles got taken care of,

1:08.9

and he got two years left on his deal.

1:11.6

So it's hard to, yeah, you see a lot of people around the league and taking care of. You just, you know, wish you had something like, you know, that same type of energy. If they don't want me here, they don't want me here. I'll go buy my business. I understand the nature of the business. Like I said, as long as I'm here in it under contract, I'm gonna do what I have to do to perform at the highest level. But if this is then, this is then, you know. There's the same way to Jones, Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones and the other Jerry Jones take care of our family, the same way I need to take care of my family. I got my own, three kids of my own, so we all need to take care of my own family at the end of the day.

1:48.4

Micah Parsons led the pass wrestlers having a historic offseason in the NFL. One that makes a case to get paid in the future is Michael Parsons.

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