Hour 2: More to Gain From Super Bowl Victory: Stafford or Hurts?

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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First Take resumes with a heated debate over who would gain more from winning a second Super Bowl: Matthew Stafford or Jalen Hurts. The Lions, Texans and Panthers are just a few of the many teams in the playoff hunt right now. Which squad is the scariest? Stephen A. gives us his top 5 teams after week 12. CC counters with his list. Chaos erupts. The Bills and Steelers seemed like playoff locks after getting off to blazing hot starts, but their playoff chances are quickly fading. Which team is having a more disappointing season so far? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	The third annual NBA Cup rolls on a Thanksgiving Eve. Group stage triple header Piston,
0:35.5	Celtics begin the day at 5 Eastern, then T. Wilts
0:38.5	Thunder with the Rockets and Warriors cap in the night at 10 Eastern 7 Pacific. It all starts with
0:42.5	NBA countdown at 4.30. All right, we got a new team at top the NFC this week. The Rams hold
0:49.4	the number one seed at 9 and 2, and they're currently the favorites to win the Super Bowl at
0:53.1	plus 450. The defending Super Bowl champs, the favorites to win the Super Bowl at plus 4.50.
1:11.5	The defending Super Bowl champs, the Eagles, holding the second shortest odds at plus 600. Both quarterbacks have a Lombardi on their resume, but Jeff, who do you think has more to gain at this point from winning a Super Bowl? Is it Matthew Stafford or Jalen Hurts? No, Jalen Hurts. I mean, I don't even think this is close at this point. You're talking about going back to back.
1:13.6	Like that puts you in rare air anyway.
1:16.0	And not only the situation of being able to go back to back, but in the circumstances in which you will go back to back.
1:21.0	I mean, last year you think you had A.J. Brown reading a book on the sideline and they catch
1:26.1	heat and they take it all the way through.
1:28.7	They end up winning, beating Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, really not even a close game
1:33.2	and him getting the MVP and being able to take his team back there after all the scrutiny
1:38.3	that he's faced this season with, you know, A.J. Brown in the tweets and people being upset
1:43.5	and can he do it?
1:44.4	Can he not do it? And I look back at this and I go, man, all this guy does is win.
1:48.7	And so when you think about the situation that his team is in, he has carried this team.
1:54.5	He's done all the things right for this football team.
1:57.1	I think you go back to back as Super Bowl champions.
1:59.9	You're in a class all by
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