Hour 2: Coach Approach

First Take

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Second hour of First Take: Josh Allen reunites with Joe Brady as the Bills promote their MVP-winning OC to head coach, while the Ravens hire Jesse Minter and look ahead to his partnership with Lamar Jackson. Who is under more pressure to make it to the Super Bowl? In the NBA, the Timberwolves knock off the Thunder behind a strong night from Anthony Edwards, and Teofimo Lopez Jr. defends his WBO title against Shakur Stevenson in a high-stakes showdown at Madison Square Garden. All this and more from Stephen A, RC, Windy, and Monica McNutt! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Back to football now. A couple of former MVP's just got new head coaches for next season.
0:04.5	Josh Allen will work with a familiar face after the bills promoted Joe Brady as their head coach.
0:09.1	Alan who sat in on interviews won his MVP last season with Brady as his offensive coordinator.
0:14.5	Meanwhile, the Ravens went with Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter as their next head coach.
0:20.1	Minter says he's looking forward to connecting with quarterback Lamar Jackson. So, RC, who do you think is under more pressure again with winning the Super Bowl? But that's where we're at with these two teams to win a Super Bowl next season. Is it Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson? I think it's Lamar Jackson. I mean, the truth is that both of them are under a ton of pressure. There's no two quarterbacks in the world that are under more pressure than Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen.
0:43.9	But we all know the rhetoric around both of the players is different.
0:48.5	We know that based on what we've seen different from them in certain playoff situations,
0:54.0	Josh Allen has elevated to this place that without a Super Bowl,
0:58.0	and many times he is uncriticizable, or we hear the excuses that are made for him not winning.
1:05.8	Lamar Jackson doesn't get that.
1:08.0	Lamar Jackson has had times in the playoffs where he's underperformed.
1:11.6	Going back to his first performance against the Los Angeles Chargers as a young player.
1:16.9	And we saw the same thing in the AFC championship against the Kansas City Chiefs
1:20.7	when Zay Flowers fumbles the football going in.
1:23.1	But Lamar Jackson throws a late interception.
1:25.4	And even with Mark Andrews dropping the football in the divisional playoff round two years ago,
1:30.6	it was all about Lamar Jackson, the early fumble and the interception.
1:34.8	Lamar Jackson not only has to win a Super Bowl, I think Lamar Jackson has to play extremely well.
1:40.4	We are and people are tired of talking about how great he is during the regular season the conversation
1:46.9	always goes to what have you done for me lately and what have you done for me in the biggest
1:51.7	moments and that's not going anywhere for lamar jackson just because john halball who had already
1:57.8	won a super bowl is now the head coach of the New York Giants.
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