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First Take

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First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, Dan Orlovsky, and Damien Woody preview the NFC Divisional Playoff matchup between the Cowboys and the 49ers and debate who is the most important player in Dallas not named Dak Prescott. Jay Williams joins us to react to breaking news out of Tampa Bay as the Buccaneers have fired Offensive Coordinator Byron Leftwich. The crew decides what this news means for Tom Brady's next move. We have a hot debate on our hands as Jay and Mad Dog disagree on who has been the NBA MVP over the last decade. Joe Fortenbaugh is here as always to give us his best bets for this weekend's Divisional Round action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I've got quick day and it's for you.

0:01.9

The Jads want to keep the magic alive this weekend and arrowhead,

0:05.0

though they're heavy underdogs against Patrick Mahomes and the crew.

0:08.2

Dan, what do the Jads need to do to upset the chiefs?

0:11.6

Yeah, not fall behind like they have.

0:13.2

They've gotten off the awful start in some games recently.

0:16.8

So try to get the game to the second half and somewhat

0:19.8

of a striking distance.

0:20.9

They can't fall behind with mistakes.

0:23.1

I think defensively they've got a middle field open pressure,

0:26.1

Patrick, kind of play a little bit of coverage,

0:28.4

but also blitz them to create a little bit of chaos.

0:30.6

They're actually pretty good at it.

0:31.6

We're going to do that on NFL live today.

0:33.6

And they're all offensively.

0:35.0

No trevers got to find one on one matchups

0:37.1

if they're going to see some man coverage.

0:38.6

And then they've got a block of front that's way better.

0:41.2

Way better now than they were in the beginning of the year.

0:43.3

Chris Jones gets a lot of credit.

0:44.8

Absolutely, but Carlos Dunlap and Carl Laptis and Mike Dan are playing

0:48.8

well.

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