10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: No Sympathy

NFL Week 4 had some answers, but what questions does Kyle Brandt STILL have?

• Why are we giving the Jets credit for almost beating the Chiefs?
• What can the Bears do?
• Who is going to start asking Bill Belichick some real questions?
• Plus, where is Andy's Dad?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. You made it, You're here. I appreciate you,
I love you. Ten Takes with Kyle Brants. The bomb
is set, it will explode. I have to jack Bauer

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the hell out of that thing, and I have to
do it really, really quickly. If you're cooking for the
first time, I give you exactly ten takes and I
have only ten minutes to do it. We have not
had an episode yet where I run out of time
in the middle of take seven and it just blows
up into my face. I've been able to get it done.
Will I get it done today? I got a lot
of squeeze in. We had a massive weekend. I was
traveling this weekend. I have thoughts. I have takes a

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lot of football action. We're going to start the clock.
When I say start the clock, take number one. Bills
are incredible, forty eight to twenty in the Game of
the Year. It was the half of the year. Bill's
Dolphins first half was incredible, and in the second half
it was one of the biggest butt whippings of this
It's not the forty eight points that surprises you about

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the Bills. You expected forty eight, You wanted fifty three
to forty eight, some sort of final score like that.
It's the twenty for Miami. The Bills defense came to
play that was without one of their leaders, without their
safety Jordan Poyer. You got the mar Hamlin back there,
which is a great story. Off the field, I was
worried how I was going to go on the field
twenty points from the middle of the third quarter on
the great Miami Dolphins machine did not score. I like

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the Dolphins team, and they'll be back. Remember the Bills
team will be adding Von Miller soon. I'm not a
powernking type of guy. I think it's nonsense. If you were,
I think you probably put the Bills number two behind
San Francisco forty eight to twenty in Western New York.
Bills and Dolphins will dance again. The Bills just absolutely
looked incredible. Take number two the Dolphins. Here's why I

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resent the media talk about the Dolphins, which I did
not fuel, but I did observe. It was told that
they were the next best thing. It was told that
they were the next big thing. I am always really
a reticent when I hear that, and a little bit
of an eye roll, because I've been told a lot
of the next big thing. I was told that we're
all gonna wear Google glass. We're gonna walk around the
city and have this eyepiece that drops down in front

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of us, this tiny computer that scans people's retinas and
has our entire life. And that's not happening. I was
told that ESPN the phone was going to be the
biggest thing. Twenty years ago, ESPN had had his own phone, like,
not Verizon, not T Mobile, ESPN was your carrier disaster.
I've been told the Dippin' Dots or the ice cream
of the future. I've been told that for thirty years.

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They're not the ice cream of the future. There's no
one who's ever eating Dippin' Dots. It doesn't wish they
were eating conventional ice cream. I was told that Kyle
Pitts was going to change the sport. Still waiting on that.
And I was told the Miami Dolphins have revolutionized American
tackle football. They haven't. It's really fun, it's really cool
what Mike McDaniel's doing. He is one hundred percent approval rating,
is a very likable guy. They have very fast players.
They use a lot of motion. They put on a

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show against the Denver Broncos, dropped seventy, and then the
next week they went against their division rival and got
thumped by four touchdowns and only put up twenty. They're
not the next big thing. They may be the Super
Bowl winner, I don't know. They may in the AFC,
but they're not changing the damn sport of American football.
We thought, oh, they're gonna be the highest scoring team
of all time. That is such a Week three. Take
a week four. They put up twenty. They put up

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fewer points on a lot of really bad teams and
including a couple I'm gonna talk about during this show today.
I like, the Dolphins are not going away, but they
were the dippin' dots yesterday. Take number three. Oh my god,
the Bengals are so bad. Who is that out there?
I don't know what team that is. I don't know
what quarterback that is. And afterwards, I think Jamar Chase
is trying to be a leader and he says, I'm open,

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I'm always open. Excuse me up a fairing. I'm sorry, Jamar.
I respect you speaking out and saying we got good
guys around here. We can bounce back from this. I
would probably cut out the whole thing about I'm open,
I'm always bleeping open. That's not really operative to the
point at this stage, you guys just got absolutely house.
You scored a field goal early and then didn't touch
the end zone or split the uprights against a pretty
good Titans defense that's not been special earlier at this

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part of the year. Do you sit Joe Burrow? I
remember before the Week three it was like, well, it's
a risk being out there, Joan. He's like, yeah, but
it's the risk of three now in one more loss.
I mean, if they lose. I think they're playing the
Cardinals next week. If they lose to the Cardinals, then
you're one and four, and it's like, Joe, just sit
the hell down, heal. We got to worry about the
next ten to fifteen years with you, not the next
ten to fifteen weeks. Bengals look really bad. Take number four,

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Eagles four and oh stack wins cruising along. The Eagles
offense still doesn't look like it did last year, and
it's constantly being compared to it. But I do feel
like the Eagles still have that sign up in their offense,
Like when you go in a store that's renovating and
it says, pardon our dust, or if you go to
Disney World, it's this partner Pixi dust because they're probably
so magical at Disney World. They're building this thing on

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the fly. AJ Brown's starting to look really good. I
think the Eagles will hit their prime maybe a month
from now, six weeks from now, when they really master
the offense and Hurts is really comfortable. In the meantime,
for a team that doesn't look totally comfortable and that
is renovating, they're still set in sales records. They're still
four and oh stack those wins and worry about whether
you can win the Super Bowl months from now. Take

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number five. I love Toy Story. I thought the Toy
Story game was awesome, looked really really cool. Doesn't Toy
Story just universally beloved. I love Buzz, I love Woody.
Whether you were a kid who grew up there, do
you have kids you watch it with him? It's great.
I will say it's a little bit weird. I would
have liked Andy to appear in Andy's room if they
really had done it right, and maybe there was way
more money involved. You could have had Hank's voice, Woody,

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you could have had Tim Allen do buzz. And also
I always have some questions for Andy. First of all,
how come they never mentioned Andy's dad He's just gone.
The assumption is that maybe he's passed away or he's out.
Is only his mom? And also Andy, Andy had those
children's toys in his room until he was eighteen. At
the end of Toy Story three, he gives them away
to Bonnie. He was holding on to like a piggy

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bank and a mister Potato had till he was eighteen.
And so those toys just sit there in his room
and watch Whatever's going on in Andy's room. Doesn't he
ever have a girl over or a guy over or whatever.
I know this when I was in high school. There
was a lot of things going on in my high
school room that I wouldn't want my toys to see.
As they sit there with that glassy at expression up
on the shelf. Who knows what the hell those guys
have seen. I mean, Woody wouldn't be so innocent. I bet.

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It's just always struck me as strange that Andy's got
those toys sitting there all the way till he goes
to college and they're just watching everything bizarre. But I
like the toy story game take number six and I'm
behind schedule. The Patriots are terrible. Who in the Boston
media is gonna be like, hey, Bill Belichick, this team sucks.
Your quarterback sucks right now, the coaching sucks, and you
kind of always are bad when you don't have Tom

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Brady's your quarterback before and after. Maybe it was gratuitous before,
maybe you give him a little time to work it out.
But he just had the worst loss in his entire career,
absolutely blown off the field, had nothing to offer this week,
and I think it's fair to question even someone as
great as Belichick, who's hung the banners he has. It's
like a company. You may run some fortune five hundred
company for years and years and years, but when the

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stock returns start to go in the toilet, you go
to the CEO, say what's doing? What's the deal here?
They have no identity, they have no quarterback, they have
no attack, they don't know who they are, and they
just got trounced in the worst fashion the coach has
ever seen. Can someone raise their hand and be like, Bill,
why are you still doing this? When are you gonna
hang him up? It looks like it might be time.
Take number seven the Bears. I don't have much to

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say about it. Congratulations to the Broncos, huge comeback in
the fourth quarter, first win under Sean Payton. The Bears
with a stunning, sickening loss. And yes, I do say stunning.
People are like, well, you were stunned, but the Bears lost.
If you watch that game, Hell, yes, I was stunned.
I was stunned that the thirty second best team in
the league had a three touchdown lead over the thirty
first team in the league. They were at home and
they still blew it. People are saying, fire ebra Flues,

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fire Matt Ebraflus. They're not gonna do that. I'd be
shocked if Matt Ebraflus doesn't make it through the season.
This organization just doesn't do that. But a terribly, terribly
throw up afterwards type Bears lost. Something better than that,
a palate cleanser. Take number eight. I love the Tampa
Bay Bucks. How about the bleeping Buccaneers at three and one,
Just when you think Baker's gonna do the Baker thing

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and come back down to earth and have a three
interception game and it just becomes mortal and he's not
the guy you want him to be. And I'm big
Baker guy. He has a great game in that house
of horrors called the Superdome. That Buccaneers have always had
some terrible games there, even during the Brady era, and
Baker was great. The Bucks look very good. They run,

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they have random guys contributing. They stuffed the Saints offense.
I like the Bucks a lot. Remember, somebody's gotta come
out of that South. Somebody's gonna play a home playoff game.
Through one month, Tampa looks really, really good. Let's get
to take number nine, all right, So I'm not gonna
go deep on the Taylor Swift thing. It's now just
part of our lives. You turn on a game and
she's there. It's been two weeks in a row. It

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was not an anomaly. My take is that when we're
doing these backstage videos and she does the arrival and
all the reporters and Diana Rossini, who I love, has
their phone up and they're filming them, can we see
the crowd a little bit more that she's with the
crew that she's with. I'm watching these videos and they
follow Taylor as she comes through security and they zip

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right past the likes of Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively.
I want to see those people. It's kind of cool
to me that Hugh Jackman is in an NFL game.
How's he looking right now? Is he liftings? He playing
Wolverine anytime soon? What kind of shapes? But no, you
can't even see Hugh Jackman as if he's also ran
coffee fetcher for Taylor Swift. We're keeping it on Taylor who, frankly,

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we've seen a lot of last Toup weeks. I know
what she looks like. I know she's doing there. I
want to see Hugh Jackman. We had an opportunity for
Hugh Jackman was walking through a metal detector backstage in
met Life. There's your Wolverine Adamantium reference. There's even a
joke in the original X Men nineteen ninety nine of
Wolverine going through and out metal detector and he takes
the blades out and destroys it. Can we see the
crew a little more? I like Blake Lively, I saw

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a lot of her. I'd like to see Robin Lively,
you know, that's her sister. Do you know she's the lead,
the female lead in Karatekud three and she friend Zones
LaRusso so hard. I like Robin Lively. We want to
see more of her. Take number ten, Travel as Hell,
Part five billion. This weekend, my wife and my two
kids and I we went to New Orleans for a wedding,
not for a buck Saints, for a family wedding. Since
it was trrentially raining on Friday here, like biblical rain,

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dangerous rain, we had a car service we're going to
I guess take us to the airport, and said my
wife said, no, let's take our suv. Let's drive to
the airport and be safe. We drive to LaGuardia, We
go up to the twentieth floor of the parking garage
and we park it there, fly to New Orleans, do
the wedding. There was a lot of eating, a lot
of irresponsible drinking and behavior. And it's my wife, my
two kids and I. We get to New Orleans Airport
early Sunday morning, wait through a long security line. I'm hungover,

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We're all irritable. I just want to get the hell home,
have pizza and sit on the couch and watch football.
We look up at the screen. We fly back into JFK,
not LaGuardia, meaning my family and I had to fly
back to JFK, get out, get an uber to LaGuardia,
get our car and drive home, travel as hell, and
that is ten minutes. This show is a thrill. It's

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really a thrill to do. I was actively nervous looking
at the clock talking about my family and I ubering
from JFK to LaGuardia. I was nervous. I felt like
the computer I'm looking at right now was actually going
to explode. That's the tension, that's the stakes that we're
looking for. Thank you very much for everybody who's listening.
Thank you for people who've been tweeting about the show.

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