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First Take

Hour 2: Is Aaron Rodgers Right to Defend his Past and Present Head Coaches?

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

First Take begins with strong words from Aaron Rodgers on Mike Tomlin, Matt LaFleur, and NFL television coverage. Stephen A. speaks on the media not knowing what they're talking about when it comes to coach hirings and firings. (0:00) Then, the Bills opened up as 1.5 point favorites against the Broncos. It's since flipped to Broncos -1.5, but which team deserves to be favored in this mile high matchup? (14:10) Next, Stephen A. lists his top 5 disappointing NFL teams this season! (24:30) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:23.5

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0:30.9

We're going to start this hour with a little bit of a cold take. Stephen A. Look at it.

0:34.6

Last night on Monday night football, running into the tunnel. Let me tell you.

0:37.9

Every commercial break, this guy's like, can I go?

0:40.1

Can I go?

0:40.5

I was watching. I was watching. I ain't going on front. Look, you become weak. You call me whatever you want. How many layers? How many layers? What happened to your head? I knew. You have the microphone

0:52.6

and stuff under you and stuff like that.

0:53.9

So let me tell you all that right now.

0:55.6

I'm not going to even front.

0:56.7

Right here in front of Shay, I'm going to tell you right now, I look like about 220 pounds because I had on two pairs of long John's thermal underwear. You know what I had, I had, I had the thick-ass jeep pants I had on. I had pairs of thermal socks I wear a size I wear size 13 I wore a size 14 shoe

1:17.1

the two thermal socks I had on I had on a shirt I had on a thermal a thermal top and I had two turtlenecks on not not one, two, two turtlenecks on, okay? I had on my coat. I had on you on one of them things that just wraps the neck, just you pull it up, but it just wraps the neck. I had that on. No, no, no, no, no, the scarfs. It was so cold. You forgot the word scarf. I know I had to scoff on top of that. The stuff that just wraps around here and then the scarf and then the cold. Like a neck one. What was the temperature? Bro. They said, listen, they tried to say it was like 30. That's what I was going to say. No, it was, that's a lot. That's a lot. This did this one was like he's in a blizzard. I got proof, y'all. I got proof, y'all. Did you see Swagoo out there? You see that big boy? He is not. Listen, Swagoo cannot be your standard. Swagoo is a, that is a Texas man.

2:18.0

No sir. How can that be? That's dead blood. That's a big boy. That's deep south. That's deep south. I don't know. There's a lot of built-in insulation with Swaggo. Damn right. Swaggoo is. Hell yeah. You're not going to be friends. You from New York. Yo, bro, I ain't built for it.

2:35.2

You know what it is?

2:36.3

All I can say is this.

2:37.1

It must be once you turn 50. Hell yeah. You're going to be crazy. You're from New York. Yo, bro, I ain't built for it.

2:35.1

You know what it is?

2:36.3

All I can say is this.

2:37.1

It must be once you turn 50 or something.

2:38.8

No.

2:39.1

No.

2:40.0

You've been spending two months time and states with a lot of sunbat.

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