10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: Staying positive after 100 takes

The 100th Take of the season...still only need 10 minutes of your time:

• Worst take of the Week
• The Browns can be terrifying
• The best NFL rebound relationship ever
• No Mas, Jets
• The coolest person in the NFL
• I'm in a club that you're not

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
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for coming back to ten Takes. We give ten takes
in ten minutes. If I run out of time and
take number seven, take number three, take number one. If

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I just straight up filibuster the thing, the bomb goes off,
it's over. I'm destroyed. We don't get to do any makeup.
We don't go back and do it again. It's over.
We delivered to you. I try to get ten takes
in ten minutes. You want to get cooking, So do
I take number one. The best win of the weekend
was the San Francisco forty nine ers, who completely shalack
the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was a huge loss for me too,

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because on Friday I sat there looking on like San
Francisco's minus three and a half at Jacksonville. Why are
the Niners favored on the road. The Niners have not
won a game in a month. Jacksonville hasn't lost the
game in six weeks. That's crazy. They shouldn't be favored.
What's crazy is they were only favored by three and
a half. It was a huge miss. By Las Vegas,
but only because they didn't give the Niners enough credit.
I spent my entire Sunday afternoon after the Niners and

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Jags that unfolded, looking at constant, constant needling from people
on social media, everything from you got to explain this fam?
Where you at fam? The very original and always really clever,
this aged well to find out what he's smoking. I
got hammered for doubting the Niners. I probably should have

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realized that Debo was back, Trent Williams is back, and
also I don't think it was much negative of the Niners.
I was trying to be a little more pro Jacksonville.
Jacksonville was not ready for that game. They were not
ready for primetime, whatever you want to call it. That
was a back to the shallow one game for Jacksonville.
If you're gonna give Miami crap for not playing well
against the good teams, and I have, I got to
give it to Jacksonville. The defense is not very good.

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At some point we have to have an evaluation of
Trevor Lawrence in big games. That was the biggest one
of the weekend and the worst take of Friday from me.
Take number two when Watson is good. The Browns are terrifying,
terrifying Deshaun and Watson played his best as a Brown.
He had his biggest plays, biggest moments, biggest games as
a Brown. And when the quarterback works and when Watson

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realizes his ability and when he gets out there and
it's like, I'm gonna do my cosplay of Deshaun Watson
from the Texans, like early Texans years, and he does
that on the Browns with that defense, it's like, oh, all,
a sudden shot can make free throws. Now, what are
you gonna do? I don't care how many times you
follow him Ooster tag, He's go knock down the shots.
I don't care how many times you think you can
get around the Browns defense. Watson is gonna make you pay.

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Because Watson's good. Now, it's like Happy Gilmore learning how
to putt. It's dangerous. If Watson gets to that level
that he was at with Houston, Cleveland can be the
best team in all the NFL. That was an amazing,
amazing win in Baltimore by Watson by the Browns. If
he's good, the Browns are terrifying. Take number three, biggest
loser of the weekend. It was not Jacksonville, it was

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not the Jets, it wasn't even the Giants. It was
the S two Cognition test and the mensas that put
that thing together, because if you remember CJ. Stroud coming
out of Ohio State, apparently didn't do well on that
test and it was held against him and he was
called everything from not ready for prime time, not ready
for the league, to straight up probably dumb and can't process.

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How terrible is that thing? Look, I love those ladies
and gentle whoever made that up. I'm sure they are
very intelligent people. This was not a good weekend for
their test. You know, the S two Cognition test is
we it's a cutting edge examination to evaluate an athlete's
ability to process on the field. And Stroud's like, well,
why don't you process this? Why don't you process that?
I have just beat Joe Burrow, who's on a win

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streak in his house in the last minute. That thing
looks terrible this weekend and next draft season when the
S two Cognition test comes up, everyone's going to point
to Stroud and be like, who cares? He failed? And
he looks amazing S two tough beat this weekend, maybe
you start working on the S three or maybe even
the S four, or just go back to the S one.
I don't remember the S one, but it might be

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better than the S two because that thing had a
huge hel this week. And compliments of CJ. Stroud, what
a really fun Texas team. Take number four. The Raiders
are the best interim coach team of this era. They're
really bad when they have their regular coach, but when
they have an interim coach, they're great. Antonio Pierce, rich Pasaca.

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I think he walked so Pierce could run. It's an
amazing thing that they're doing because often, and like most
of the time, teams win with the interim head coach
because finally Wicked Witch is dead. They get out of
that horrible divorce whoever the first coach was that they
fired or excommunicated, and now the players are so happy.
It's fun. We got our favorite position coach and he
lets us put her feet on the table and he

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gives us time off and he's cool and lose and fun.
So the team wins that second week after that interim
coach week, they almost always lose, not the Raiders. They
beat the Jets. They're in the rebound relationship after the
marriage with like the young girlfriend they picked up or
boyfriend or whatever it is, and they went off to
Cabo for just a romp. But normal. When you come
back from the Cabo after the it's like, oh, this
is real life. I don't like this person anymore. No,

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they're staying in Cabo for another week. They're getting the
time share in Cabo. The Raiders are great with interim coaches.
They somehow beat the Jets. They got this rookie Eid
and o'conn. Who cares they won? Raiders. If only you
could have your permanent head coaches be as good as
your interim we might have something there. Until then, best
Interim Team number five. It mentioned the Jets enough, no
Moss tap out stop. I don't want to see Zach

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Wilson anymore. I don't want to see it. I'm done,
I don't want to watch it. The Jets as an
organization are so supportive and fiercely protective of Zach Wilson.
I think the Jets rally around Zach Wilson more than
the Patriots rallied around Brady during the Super Bowl years.
I think the Chiefs are more likely to bench Patrick
Mahomes than the Jets are finally to say, all right,

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you win, no more Zach Wilson, And you say, well,
who are they supposed to go to? I don't care,
Tim Boyle, Fine, I just want to see somebody else.
Trevor Simeon, Fine, want to see somebody else. There was
this rumor that before the Rams signed Carson Wentz. Not
a rumor, a report the Jets We're gonna sign Carson Wentz. Fine,

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I just want to see anybody else. You're like, you're
gonna put Carson? Yes? No more? Is Zach Wilson? No more?
You know who's worse than the Jets? Take number six?
The Patriots. They're broken, irreparably. You can't watch them. They
just scored six points in Germany against the Gardner Minshew Colts.
They bowled Mac. They could have pulled Zappi if he
gave him more chance. They are so bad. And I

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don't understand, Belichick. What is this team? Your contemporaries, The
people you're compared against are the likes of Don Shula,
John Wooden. Don Shula finished his last two years coaching
in the playoffs. John Wooden finished his last year coaching
winning the whole damn thing for UCLA. You are circling
the drain at two and six it feels like two
and sixteen. And it's not just that they don't play well.

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The players are so bad. The roster is obviously terrible,
especially on offense. And you're in charge of the roster,
Bill when is RKK his gonna say enough or I'm
gonna hire a GM And then Bill be like, well,
I'm not playing for a GM. Well, then go it's
so bad and you say, well, they're gonna tank. They're
gonna tank, and they're gonna draft k Lob but they're
gonna draft Drake May. Do you really trust Belichick to

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coach that guy to being good? He already had a
first round quarterback he just drafted Mac Joe's will take
the worst quarterback in the league right now, it's so bad,
take number seven. It's just something positive. For God's sake.
That was just a couple of negative ones in a row.
Is Jared Goff the coolest guy in the NFL? Right now? Now?
Don't laugh. You probably think Jared Goff is a little boring,
and I myself used to compare him to hummus. I

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really like Jared Goff because he was a punchline. He
was a punchline when Sean McVay dumped him, basically fired
him on the tarmac after the Super Bowl loss, I
can't play with this guy anymore. And then not only
did Jared Goff have to be shift off to what
was perceived a Siberia at the time in Detroit, where
I'm sure you're just gonna lose like Lions normally lose,
then you gotta watch Matthew Stafford not only prosper with

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your old coach and your old team and your old
uniform in your old stadium, you gotta see him win
a Super Bowl. And everyone just laughs at how great
the Rams did in that trade, and Jared Goff will
never be heard fromim again. Jared Goff is the leader
of one of the best teams in the NFL, the
leader in one of the coolest stories in the NFL.
He is great, His body language is cool. He's confident,
he's daring. He's bold on fourth down at a huge

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fourth and two conversion to a rookie tight end. I
like Jared Goff. He's cool as hell. He's great in
the community. He's Walter Payton Manner your finalist, and I
think it's gonna be an NFC finalist too when we're
done with it. Take number eight. There is no one
in the league week in week out who runs harder
than Steelers running back Jalen Warren. I love this guy,
that little ball of hate. He's all muscle and sin

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you and Butcher knives number thirty. I love him. I
tweetd that yesterday and everyone's like, hold on, what about
but Checko? But Checko runs like a maniac. I love
but Checko. But Checko does run like a maniac. He
runs just as hard as as as Jalen Warren. But
nobody runs harder than Jalen Warren. Naji's that big fresh
round pick and Naj's great. I love Jalen Warren. And
you know what, Jalen Warren's had a very expensive year.
He keeps getting fine. He has to pay this fine

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and this fine, so much so that after he had
this huge game against the Packers, he's like keeping the
Jersey's my first hundred yard game in the NFL. But
it's a lot of money, a lot of business decision,
you know. I feel you, Jalen, I feel you. I
feel you. I watch you. I love you. Nobody runs
harder than Jalen Warren. He's a classic Steeler. Watch him

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every single week and I love it. Take number nine.
We got two left, they only have a minute. I
love Gin. I'm talking about the intoxicants, the alcohol. I
love Gin, and I love it because you probably hate it.
I was drinking a Gin martini on Friday and being like, God,
this hits different VAKA Martinis, boring as hell, and you're saying, oh,
it tastes like pine noodles. Right. A terrible experience in college,
and I threw up for twelve hours and I can't

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drink Gin anymore. Good. I don't want you in the club.
I was trained classically on how to drink Gin by
my former employer, Jim Rome, who might as well have
been Gin Rome at the time. He was awesome. He
showed me it. I love it. It gives me a
different type of lift, and I liked it. It's not
for everybody, makes it special. Take number ten. I'm going
on the Manning cast tonight Monday Night Football, Me, Peyton

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and Eli just chopping it up talking Bill's broncos I'm
nervous about it. It's a tough assignment because you're on zoom.
Elis somewhere else the country on zoom, Peyton somewhere else
in the country, and zoom, and then the game is
effectively on zoom in Western New York. And you gotta
have fun and chop it up. You can't stomp on
everybody else's words. And meanwhile, the game's going on. And
if you're in the middle of an anecdote, Josh Allen

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hits digs for sixty yards and you have to stop
and then defer to Peyton and Eli. I'm really really excited, guys.
I won't promise it'll be good. I promise it won't
be boring. That's ten minutes, that's ten takes, and that's it.
I'm out here. Thank you guys for listening. It's tight.
We promise it to be tight. We deliver it tight.

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