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First Take

Hour 2: Lamarvelous

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Stephen A. Smith, Dan Orlovsky, and Kimberley A. Martin debate if Lamar Jackson has to win a Super Bowl to change his playoff narrative. Plus, the crew is joined by Mina Kimes to react to new comments from Mike McCarthy after he was confirmed to be returning to the Cowboys as head coach next season. Dan gives us his list of the scariest QBs remaining in the playoffs and Stephen A. and Mina could barely wait to dunk on it. Stephen A. goes off on Mike McCarthy after he called the Cowboys "a championship program". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay, earlier we had to take a commercial break but we were having a very

0:31.8

interesting conversation

0:33.0

about Lamar Jackson the question was

0:35.0

Stephen A does he need to win a Super Bowl to change the narrative and I had to cut you

0:39.6

short so I want to have you finish your thought well I, I just wanted to point out that, you know,

0:44.0

when Dan brings up, you know, how typically

0:48.1

the prototypical quarterback didn't look nor sound

0:51.3

like a Lamar Jackson, he's absolutely right.

0:54.4

And what happens is throughout history on too many occasions,

0:58.1

you know, things of that nature were used and to this day are still used in various avenues of our lives to pigeonhole

1:08.4

and marginalize folks.

1:10.5

And that's the beauty of sports and I think it's important to bring that out because

1:14.3

sports is the closest thing I believe we have in this country to a meritocracy

1:18.3

Where you can go out there performed in that proverbial glass season is in a glass ceiling isn't hovering over you and holding you down and

1:26.3

holding you back.

1:27.8

Because I assure you, if there was a proverbial glass ceiling, Lamar Jackson would have been held back.

1:33.4

Folks already tried.

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