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First Take

Hour 2: Circling the Wagons

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Stephen A. Smith, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, and Jeff Saturday discuss whether or not they are more confident in the Eagles or Steelers ahead of their upcoming matchup this Sunday. The crew also debates whether the Bills are a Top-5 team in the NFL. They discuss whether the Mets made the right decision in going all-in for Juan Soto during MLB free agency. It's Wednesday, which means Mad Dog is back with a new list of things that have him fired up, joined by Kimberley A. Martin. Lastly, the crew shares their reaction to the clip of the Mark Gastineau-Brett Favre rift from the 2023 30 for 30 documentary *The New York Sack Exchange*, premiering this Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Okay, the Steelers are likely to be without their top wide receiver for the second week in a row.

0:31.2

Mike Tomlin said Tuesday there's an outside chance George Pickens plays against the Eagles.

0:35.7

Meanwhile, after Philly's offense struggled

0:37.5

versus the Panthers in a win, wide receiver, AJ Brown said passing needed to improve,

0:41.7

which seemed to be a shot at Hertz, then Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham erred out more

0:46.0

of the issues between the pass catcher in QV. Here's coach Nick Siriani with more.

0:50.8

I didn't take it that way. You can do anything and spin it anyway, but I took it as we want to get better as a passing

0:58.2

attack.

0:58.7

AJ's part of the passing attack.

1:00.5

And so we all want to be better at it.

1:02.5

Jalen and AJ are both really outstanding people and both really outstanding players.

1:08.0

And so, and I love that our players are wanting to get better and desire to get better.

1:13.2

And that's what we talk about all the time is how we get better and be able to do some things

1:17.0

that are special. Based off what happened the last couple days, hey, oh, man, there's a little

1:21.5

cut in 2020 vibes. I see a lot of 225s. I just see joy.

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