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First Take

Hour 2 : Bigger Shoes?

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Harry Douglass is joined by Mike Tannenbaum and Louis Riddick. Things are flying high in the big apple, but someone here is knocking on Rodgers chance for a fifth MVP. Plus, Russell Wilson is looking to have a bounce back year but is his last place broncos most likely to finish first this season? Tune into First Take to find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's that time again for quick takes and it is officially official.

0:03.6

The Washington Commanders are under new ownership after NFL owners unanimously

0:08.0

approved the team's sale from the Snyder family to the Josh Harris group.

0:12.0

Dan Snyder had owned the franchise since 1999.

0:15.3

Maddick Johnson is now a partner in the ownership group and so a lot of changes

0:19.5

are happening in Washington. Harry, what do you think?

0:22.0

I think this is a great day in the national football league but also for the DMV area.

0:26.0

And I was in that area a lot this spring, being a field analyst for the XFL.

0:30.1

And that area really want, they want a winner. They really want a winner but I just think

0:35.1

for a guy like Daniel Snyder and the way he's staying that organization,

0:39.2

I think it's a bright day. You look at a guy like Maddick Johnson who's going to be able to be a

0:42.9

cold owner and he touched on this when it came to the black community. This is the reason why

0:47.6

I think it's so imperative and it's big. It's because our young generation has a visual

0:53.3

of things that they probably aspire to be and want to do in life.

0:56.8

Maddick Johnson owning a football team that's huge when you look at all the other business

1:01.2

ventures he's been into and has success with, I think it's major in that capacity but

1:05.7

they have some work to do because they're going to have to be able to get those fans back

1:10.3

and try to, you know, remove some of the thoughts that they may have within the organization

1:15.3

because of Daniel Snyder but I think they're up for the challenge. So a great day in the national football.

1:20.3

No doubt. I look, the planters have been a messy place for the last few years.

1:24.6

Behind the scenes, some on the field, locker rooms, the stadium, the name change, all of it and

1:30.1

so hopefully now they get on a track where there's some consistency and some leadership that

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