Mina Kimes dumbfounded by Chris Canty imploring the Dallas Cowboys to ‘tank’

Chris Canty’s Dallas Cowboys hot take was too hot for First Take, baffling Mina Kimes, Dan Orlovsky and Stephen A. Smith Thursday morning.

One week after Canty was roasted for blaming the Cincinnati Bengals 38-33 Monday Night Football loss to the Washington Commanders on quarterback Joe Burrow, he concocted an even hotter take for the Dallas Cowboys. According to Canty, it’s time for the 2-2 Cowboys and their $240 million quarterback in Dak Prescott to spend the rest of their NFL season tanking.

“This is a two team race in the NFC East and it ain’t the Giants and it damn sure ain’t the Cowboys. So if that’s the case, then why wouldn’t you lean into the tank?” Canty asked on ESPN Radio’s morning show UnSportsmanLike.

Mina Kimes’ reaction to Chris Canty saying the Dallas Cowboys should tank… 👀 🤣 pic.twitter.com/VQtbk0bfrQ

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While Canty acted like tanking should be an obvious strategy for the 2-2 Cowboys, First Take was less than on board. Kimes, Orlovsky and Smith agreed the take was ridiculous. But the look Kimes gave Canty’s latest hot take deserves a place in the sports broadcasting Hall of Fame. Everyone has seen or used that look before, it’s the same side eye I give my one-year-old every time he walks by with wet hands and I notice the bathroom door is open.

“I know Chris didn’t say a 2-2 team in a winnable division should start tanking Week 4. We must have misheard him.” – Mina Kimes pic.twitter.com/DVsGEkBe9n

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“I know Chris didn’t say a 2-2 team in a winnable division should start tanking Week 4. We must have misheard him, that must have been taken out of context. Right?” Kimes asked as she attempted to make sense of the opinion. “I like Chris, that can’t be his real opinion…It’s October 3rd!”

NFL fans already complain about the product being oversaturated, compounded by a dearth of franchise quarterbacks. Imagine what this league would look like if by Week 4, every NFL team with a record worse than 3-1 began their quest to tank the rest of the season.

“What the Dallas Cowboys need to do is build a time machine and go back and address the spine of their defense,” Kimes said. “That is why they’re losing games. That is why they won’t be in the Super Bowl.”

Canty might not want a time machine to take back his hot take about the 2-2 Cowboys, but audiences, particularly Dallas fans, who had to hear it should at least be offered one.

[First Take]