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First Take

Hour 2: Welcome To The Show

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.05.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Stephen A. Smith, Kimberly A. Martin, and Harry Douglas discuss the impact of the holdouts of prominent defensive players Nick Bosa and Chris Jones. We debate which team is more likely to reach the Super Bowl: the Cowboys or the Jets? Movie director Antoine Fuqua sits down with Stephen A. to talk about the final installment of "The Equalizer" in theaters now. The crew reacts to breaking news as T.J. Hockenson and the Vikings finalize a new deal. Plus, will Sean Payton be able to fix Russell Wilson this season? The legendary Joe Montana joins the show to give his takes on the recent QB moves in the NFL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good day. Well, thanks for stay company live and see for brought to you by the strong perfection

0:06.2

starts with strong

0:08.2

Quick say how about it 49ers superstar defensive and Nick Vosa's holds out has now reached thirty eight days

0:16.2

Vosa is of course the reigning defensive player of the year. What's the latest you have on this Kimberly?

0:21.2

Yeah, listen GM John Lynch. He said yeah, we're you know, I feel like we're gonna get somewhere

0:28.9

My hope is that he's there for week one

0:31.2

But he didn't give any details beyond that and that has been nervous. I do think this will get worked out

0:36.4

Because like you said Molly here's the reigning defensive player of the year

0:39.4

And the 49ers whiffed on tail lands. They can't afford to whiff on not being a Vosa

0:47.5

34 34 sacks 40 tackles for a loss and

0:52.0

80 quarterback hits over the last two damn seasons with a San Francisco 49ers

0:58.1

Defense ranked second in the league

1:01.3

You're just here for this before and now you better get this brother some

1:04.4

This brother is that elite get him signed

1:07.3

You know at some point in time the NFL got to recognize this you know when when cats produce

1:13.9

You got to take care of them because you certainly don't take you certainly don't hesitate to cut on when they don't

1:20.2

You got to think about that you got to take care of this man

1:23.3

Absolutely, how about this man steven a another stalemate with a defensive star this one in kc

1:30.2

Chief star defensive tackle Chris Jones and the team have not been able to work out a contract dispute as Jones continues to hold out

1:38.0

How big of a deal is this Harry? It's a huge deal. You talking about a guy in Chris Jones 15 and a half sacks

1:43.3

He was in competition, but a guy would just talked about Nick Bolson for defensive player the year a guy

1:48.4

That's been the dominant force for that chief defense now. They don't always rank in the top categories when it come

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