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First Take

Hour 2: More Likely: Chiefs Win SB or Cowboys Reach Playoffs?

First Take

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4.25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

First Take resumes with Kimberly Martin discussing Jerry Jones preseason and trade deadline moves. Did they pay off? WWE icon Paul Heyman joins to preview the Survivor Series: WarGames matches, happening Saturday at 7PM ET on the ESPN app. Mad Dog is MAD about the Colts OT decision, the Thanksgiving football slate???, and Stephen A skipping work. Coming off his first NFL win, Shedeur Sanders is expected to start again against the 49ers. What are your expectations for him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's our ABC Ravelry Week, college football triple header with conference championship and playoff implications, of course, at noon Eastern.

0:08.2

It's the Egg Bowl between sixth rank, Oleness in Mississippi State, and then it's fourth ranked Georgia and number 16 Georgia Tech.

0:14.3

Dead capped off with number three Texas A&M and number 17, Texas.

0:18.2

All three also available on the ESPNF.

0:22.4

One of the more anticipated matchups on Thanksgiving Day is when Patrick Pahomes and the Chiefs head to Dallas and take on the Cowboys.

0:29.0

Both teams counting their blessings because of the path to the playoffs still exists.

0:33.9

With the Chiefs entering Thanksgiving, 8% chance to win the Super Bowl. Still, according to our

0:39.0

analytics, that's fourth highest percentage of any other team. The Cowboys, on the other hand,

0:44.2

have just an 8% chance too, but that is for them to make the playoffs. So exact same,

0:49.7

Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, Cowboys just to simply make the playoffs. Kmart's with us now.

0:54.9

Kimberly Martin is here, and so which is more likely?

0:57.3

The Chiefs winning the Super Bowl or just the Cowboys making it into the dance?

1:01.6

This is tough, but I'm going to say Cowboys making it into the dance because I look at,

1:07.3

I think part of it for me, the calculus is the Cowboys, the Eagles. And I thought

1:12.4

the Eagles would run away with that division. And instead, yes, their record is good, but I, I don't

1:18.8

have the same level of confidence in them. Whereas the Cowboys, you know, when you, when you check

1:23.8

it on Dallas, like I had a coach tell me that that 21 point deficit that they had against Philly.

1:31.4

They came back and Schottenheimer literally was like instilling the confidence in them saying everybody believed we can we can come back one play at a time, 21 points.

1:42.5

The old Cowboys, I feel like that would have been it.

1:44.7

They would have completely imploded.

1:46.5

And instead, their new head coach has them in a position of we can beat anybody.

1:51.5

With the Chiefs, I don't know.

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