10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: Like CFB, we're leaving top teams out

• Taking tips from College Football
• Top four teams in the NFL
• Who is Big Dom?
• Officiating isn't at its worst
• The Come Running Teams
• Ever been in a video game truck?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
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It sounds great. How long does it take? I'm glad
you asked ten minutes. I will give you ten semi
discernible takes in ten minutes. They're not always pretty, but

(00:28):
there's always ten. It's always in ten minutes. I'm gonna
do a little different today. I got some things to say.
Several of you have tweeted me being like we were
waiting for the thing to blow up when you're on
like take seven, maybe will happen today. There's a bomb
that goes off when the timer reaches zero. If I
don't get the ten takes in, I've failed you. Let's
get after it right now, Take number one. I'm gonna

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do this differently today. College football has a ridiculous system
that was flambayed over the weekend where they only let
four teams into their stupid, ridiculous playoff. I hate it.
It's obnoxious, it's unfair. What if the NFL did it,
What if we had to decide right now? Teams two
and three, and four the only ones allowed in the playoffs.
Independent of AFC and NFC. Here's what you got Team

(01:09):
number one for me, Samsisco forty nine ers. It was
the most build game of the year. It was the
most hype game of the year. It was one of
the most one sided games of the year. The Sampanscisco
forty nine ers win against the team that roster is
so good and so deep and so ridiculous, and all
these Georgia guys and all these new signings and all
these draft picks, and they slacked them. They molly wopped them.

(01:30):
Choose any verb you want. They go up six to
nothing Philadelphia, and you're like, all right, well, they're doing well.
They're controlling the pace. And there was this moment where
it's like, rock perty, are you ready for this. You're
in the same stadium where your arm almost fell off,
it's cold, it's rainy, you don't have any first downs.
The Eagles have a bunch. I'm not sure you're up
to this moment. And then my god, was he up
to it? They scored six touchdowns the next six possessions

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against this unstoppable roster who has an unstoppable play. They
got one of their security guys kicked out. We'll get
to that later. San Francisco's number one. Take number two.
My second team, My number two team in the college
football style top four is the Ravens. The Ravens are
on a buy right now, and I don't care. I
still think they're the second best team as we sit

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right now. I don't know how it's gonna project, don't
know how it's gonna end up. If I'm ranking on
one through four the teams that deserve to be in
a four team playoff, The Ravens are number two. They
still have, in my opinion, a top five, maybe top three,
most impressive win on the year with what they did
to Detroit maybe four or five weeks back. Do you
remember when the Ravens blew the doors off the Lions.
It wasn't even close, A really good Lions team that's

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nine and three. After this weekend, Ravens destroyed him. The
Mark Andrews thing looms large. I feel like they're gonna
need him in the payoff with the Ravens. From my
number two team, take number three. The Eagles are the
three team. The Eagles are the three? Do they deserve
to be the three? After what just happened against San Francisco.
Do they deserve to be the three after they somehow
lost to the Zach Wilson zombie Jets. I still think

(02:56):
they do. I still think they have the roster. I
still think they have the quarterback. Jail Hurts wasn't terrible yesterday,
put up a couple of scores. The line did pretty
well against Bosa at AL. They have the depth. You know.
The deal with the Eagles, you kind of were waiting
for them to take a shillaking. They'd played with fire
too many times and they finally got burned badly. I
still think the number three team. You know, my number

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four team is we'll go to take number four. I
have the Dolphins. I have the Dolphins ahead of the Cowboys.
I have the Dolphins ahead of the Chiefs. I have
a Dolphins ahead of the Lions. I think if you
were to ask defensive coordinators around the league to make
their top four list, I think they would include the Dolphins,
and I think it would be a choice propelled by fear.
I think they're terrified of that team. I think every

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single team knows what they're gonna get from Tyreek and
they can't do anything about it. It's one of the
most inexplicable things on the season. How if you're the Commanders,
if you're any team, do you not just say listen.
Maybe they run all over us. Maybe Waddle has a
huge game. Maybe everybody else in the team has a one
hundred yard game. It's two hundred yard game. We are
not gonna let Tyreek do us like that, and they

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still do it. I want Tyreek to get that record.
I wanted to get it in sixteen games, and he's
about a hundred and twenty one yards a game in
the next four games to get it. They're my number
four team. Take one, two, three, and four. My four
teams forty nine, Ers, Ravens, Eagles, Dolphins, the Chiefs. Just listen.
They're the Chiefs. They have the equity. They got skins
on the wall. They just lost to the Packers. They're
probably six or seven. They might be won by the

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time the season is over. Right now, they're not in
the top four. Take number five. Can we talk about
big Dom for a second, and what was otherwise a
very one sided Eagles Niners game. You had the all
time bizarre dust up on the sideline. Drake Greenlaws slams
Devonte Smith. There's words exchange, there's confrontations, and then a
guy in the sideliner and street cloths, we're in a

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hat with an Italian flag on it, touches Drake green Law,
the Niners linebacker, and then Dray reaches out into something
really weird where he brushes the back of his hand
against Dom's face. And I kept saying on the air
this morning, what is that? What kind of disrespect is that?
Someone said? It's you draw a mushtass on someone and
it clowns them. I don't even know if he mustached them,

(05:02):
if that's a thing. I just need to know that
what the hell happened to lead to a non uniformed
personnel being ejected and Drake Greenlaw understand green Law is
leading the Niners Attackle all the time. It's a very
important player. Shanahan's head was about to explode that they
gave up a king for a pawn. And Dom apparently
has this legendary reputation once the Eagles. He's been there,

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way way way back since the Andy Reid era. And
he's loved and he's quiet, and he hates the spotlight.
And now they're selling Big Dom sweatshirts elsewhere I have
nothing to say about Big Dom. I feel like you
might know people who wouldn't be kind to me. If
a guy's name is Big Dom and he's working the sideline,
and he's put his hands on people, and he's one
of his titles is a advisor to Howie Roseman. Is

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Big Dom advising Howie Roseman on anything other than get
the hell behind me if there's trouble. Crazy Take number six.
Officiating is not the worst it's ever been. It is
the most exposed it's ever been, and it's the most
complicated it's ever been. I hate that one here. Officiated
has never been worse. I think officiating is always kind
of bad. I think if he broke down from some

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random nineteen eighty six Bears versus Packers game, and you
were able to do it in the same clarity and
with the same replays and with the same camera angles
as we are now, you would see it's really really
quote unquote bad. But it was really rough. At the
end of the Chiefs Packers game too, the one on
the sideline to Mahomes enter the complication factor. So Mahomes
takes a big hit in which the hit happened in

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bounds happen at the sticks, and it happened in a
way where the defensive back, Jonathan Owens was trying to
stop his forward momentum. The human being referee is being
told over and over, we got to protect these quarterbacks.
We got these new rules. He sees the face of
the league, probably Mahomes take a massive hit on a
very close to the sideline, and he freaks out and
something in his brain triggers, oh my god, Mahomes took
a hit. I have to flag it. He just does

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it out of human reaction. Now he shouldn't, but that's
how it is. Officiating has always been bad. I don't
think it's worse than it ever is. I think it's brighter.
I think it's clearer, and I think it's way more
complicated than it ever is. And it's frustrating as hell.
Am I only on take number seven. This is gonna
be tough. Take number seven. My favorite of team I
think I talked about this last week in December is
the come running teams. The come running teams were not

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great in September. They weren't even really that great in October,
but sometime after Halloween they figured it out and they're
the teams that are dangerous right now. Their record isn't
that great, but their recent runs are excellent. The number
one come running team right now is the Indianapolis Colts,
and they got this crazy thing where Gardner missus playing
very well and the defense works and the coach works.

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They have won four in a row. The Colts. They're
coming running also, the Rams. Rams have won three in
a row. They're winning games that matter. They mcvay's got
them figured out. The come running teams often don't get
in the playoffs. Ask Denver. They lost a big game
this weekend that might really hurt them to try to
get them in the playoffs, and they broke the league's
longest winning streak. But they don't always get in, but
they knock people off in December. I like the Rams,

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the Colts, and sort of the Broncos for come running teams.
They're not all gonna make it. Take number eight relating
to the Rams. Sean McVay is a top five coach,
top five coach. If you're to rank your top five coaches,
it's tough right now because Belichick is so terrible and
self loathing and miserable, and as the worst team in
the league, and he was number one for a while.
John Harbaugh is the name that always floats there, but

(08:12):
then people also don't like him because he messes up
in the fourth quarter and then he has playoff issues.
I think you got to put Andy Reid in. Kyle
Shanahan is definitely in because he made coach Brock party
to an MVP this year. But the one I can
say for sure is Sean McVay is a top five
coach in the league. This roster is not great. The
old line is put together. They got a rookie named
Puka who they drafted in the fifth round. Who's doing

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Randy Moss things. Cooper Cup's been hurt, Matthew Stafford's been hurt,
and there the Rams are in the mix. This is
going to be his masterpiece if he gets this team,
the one that the quarterback's wife in the preseason was
going on her podcasts saying all kinds of things about
their chemistry or lack thereof. It's his masterpiece if he
gets them in. Take number nine. Peppermint Bark is so good.

(08:55):
I can't resist it. It's everywhere in my house. I
have dreams about it. I wake him middle night it's
under my pillow. I don't even like peppermint. I think
peppermin sucks. It is like one of the worst flavored mints.
I'd rather have spearmint or they're crazy drunk cousin cinnamon.
I hate peppermint. I can't stop beating peppermint. Park Take
number ten. Video game truck is an absolute killer for

(09:18):
a kid's birthday party. Killer in a good way. Let
me explain to you what I do, for the second
year in a row from my son. For his birthday party.
We hire a video game truck, which is a giant
tour bus. You go on it. There's a million video
games set up, PlayStation, this Xbox, this switch, and they
got monitors, and the kids just go out there and
they blast club music. The people who run it and
they play the video games for two straight hours. And

(09:39):
you say that sounds kind of boring. They love it.
They love just sitting there on that bus, listening to
the club music, listening to Sandstorm, playing everything from Fortnite
to Mad Into Everything. And I come up with a
special tradition I do with my kid. Feel free to
steal it. When we break for pizza, I say to
all the kids We had eighteen boys at my house.

(10:00):
I said, Calvin and I are going to face off
in Mortal Kombat. If Calvin wins, you guys get another
half an hour to play video games and you get cake.
If I win, the parties over. I text all your parents.
They pick you up forty five minutes early. No cake,
no more games. That's it. We go on. They got
the two controllers set up. All the other screens are
turned off. It's on the character select screen and my

(10:22):
son and I battle and his friends go crazy and
they're chanting his name. I let him win the first round.
I destroy him in the second round, and then a
third round. It goes down to the last ten seconds
and finally my son wins, finish him and the kids
go crazy and they do a dogpile and they're chanting
his name and they're popping off champagne if they had it.
And that's it. It is so fun, the Mortal Kombat

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showdown on the video game truck. If you have a
young son or daughters into that stuff, use it. That's
ten takes, that's ten minutes. I gave you my top four,
I gave you my come running teams. I talked about officiating,
and I talked about Big Dom. I talked about my
top coaches. I talked about my top birthday party idea.
I talk about my top Christmas season treat. A bleeping
peppermint bark. It just follows me everywhere. I can't get

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away from it, and every time I see it, I
eat it. I don't need it, but I eat it.
That's ten Takes. I'm going overtime right now. I'm not
supposed to do that. Thank you guys for listening. Genuinely
appreciate this. We've done this all season long. It's quick,
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