September 9, 2024 • 11 mins
We're back for Season Two and we still only have 10 minutes for 10 Takes:
- A Week One Reminder
- Dak's New Deal
- That's NOT the Bengals
- A throwback win for the Bears
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. All Right, you made it, you clicked, I
love you, thank you. I'm going to get you out
here quick, because this is what we do here. Ten
takes in ten minutes. We're not doing one of these
(00:25):
two hour podcasts, these deep dive one hundred and eighty
minute examinations of the Ravens. Secondary. We get you in
and out in ten minutes. We're big on smoke breaks,
We're big on toilets. That's where you take in the show.
You sneak away, You get a quick pod in, and
you get ten takes in those ten minutes. If the
timer goes off from them in the middle of take six,
it's over. You only got six takes, and I didn't
(00:47):
live up to my promise to you. It's never happened.
We're into season two now. If you're joining us from
season one, thank you, love you, respect you. But I
staid I'm not going to waste your time. We're coming
off week one in the NFL season. So the three
words we say on this pod start the clock. Take
(01:08):
number one week one is a liar. I've said it
for years, and I want you to remember this. If
your team crushed yesterday, do not pop the cork on
the champagne. If your team was terrible yesterday, don't panic.
Year after year, you see this that there are very
bizarre results in week one. You know how many playoff
Super Bowl winning teams even have gotten crushed in Week one?
(01:30):
How many Super Bowl winning quarterbacks have had terrible week ones?
A lot of them. I'm talking about Aikman, Montana, Brady
three times, Eli twice, Mahomes, Rogers. They've had crazy terrible
week ones, and then they turn out to have incredible seasons,
sometimes ending in the super Bowl. It works both ways too.
(01:51):
Sometimes teams think they won the Super Bowl in Week
one and they come back and have a disastrous season.
Sam Donald played well yesterday. Do you remember when he
started for the Jets week one and blew the roof
off the place in Detroit and looked so incredible, And
the New York Post headline was, He's darn good because
he's Sam Darnold. They went two and fourteen, got Todd
Bowles fired. It was over. I have a whole bunch
(02:13):
of examples of that. It happens over Chip Kelly forty
nine ers, we did ninety seven Cowboys Barry Switzer. They
started incredibly, They blew out the Steelers week one. He
resigned at the end of it. Listen to me, Listen
to what I'm saying. If your team is terrible yesterday,
it's gonna be okay. If team was great yesterday, it
might not be okay. Week one is not a path
(02:35):
to the playoffs. It is a pathological liar. Take number two. Man,
the Browns were bad yesterday, they might be screwed for
the season. No, they're not. It's only Week one. But
I will say Brady, if he had just gotten out
of the booth and said I'm taking over to Shaun
and they signed him at halftime, I think would have
been a significant upgrade for the Browns a quarterback, like
a huge upgrade, because we didn't know we were gonna
(02:58):
get from Deshaun going he said that game. I thought
he's the most mysterious player in the league. We haven't
seen him have a good, solid, healthy season in four years.
The COVID season when no one was in the stands
and last time we saw the Browns there were real
conversations being had about, Wow, you know they actually respond
better to Joe Flacco. I think Flacco might be better
than Watson. Watson who's owed two hundred and thirty million dollars.
(03:18):
He was really mysterious. Didn't play in the preseason because
of quote arm soreness. Might have had him out there
a little bit to get him a little warmed up,
because man, he looked awfully yesterday. Just completely lost. The
Browns fans have no attachment to him, no loyalty to him,
no history with him. And if he doesn't have a
big game in week two, the booz are gonna rain down.
We're gonna start having Jameis Winston conversations. It's really bad.
(03:41):
I know week one as a liar, and I hope
it is for the Browns take number three Lions Rams
is gonna be the title game. I said it before
the season. I will say it again after what I
saw last night on Sunday Night Football. I love both
those teams. You saw him neck and neck. It goes
to overtime. But the Lions aren't a perfect team. They're
almost close. They're almost close. They're like a fighting video
(04:02):
game that has all the different weapons high punch, low punch,
spin kick, low kick, jump, dodge, it's im Mortal Kombat thing.
They have powerful running backs, fast running backs, possession receivers,
fast receivers, pass rushers, pass blockers. They just have everything.
You know how every insufferable fitness influencer is telling you
it's all about the core. It's core. It's core. Don't
work on your biceps, it's core. Just sick of hearing
(04:25):
about the core. The Lions have a great core. Their
O line's great, their D line is great. If you
didn't watch the game last night, Sunday Night, Lions Rams.
They go to overtime, do the coin toss. Stafford gets
the call because he's visiting. He says, heads, it was tails,
and that was the game because the Lions got the
ball and they just started jump kicking everybody in their Rams. Run, Run, run, run.
It was one pass they did and that entire game
(04:47):
winning drive. The last play, McVeigh tried to call a
time out just to give his defense rest and then
dive Montcoffrey promptly run it right up the middle for
the game winning score. Lions Rams is your NFC title game.
The Lions have a great core. Take number four. Cowboys
are all right. They're gonna be fine. There was a
hashtag bad vibes about the Cowboys in preseason, as if
that's news. There's always bad vibes about the Cowboys in preseason.
(05:09):
There's always some contract thing or some hold out thing,
and they show up, they get right back on track
and they win ten eleven twelve games in the regular season,
just like they will this year. They looked fine, they
looked great. I had no problem with the Cowboys. I
was one of the only people in Good Morning Football
who picked the Cowboys to go to the playoffs this year.
I think everyone kind of felt like this is the
year it all collapses. That's not the way the Cowboys work. Guys.
(05:32):
They always win just enough to not change anything. If
they ever had this terrible three and fourteen season or
six and eleven season recently, that would cause firings and
breakdowns and not get any new contracts. They don't do that.
They are the girlfriend or boyfriend who every time you
think it might be time to break up, they do
something really nice for you. The Cowboys is something really
(05:54):
nice yesterday and they won. They'll do a lot of
that this year. Take number five part of the Cowboys.
We're gonna double down on the Cowboys, Dak signs the
biggest contract in the history of the universe or whatever
it is, about an hour before the game. I hope
in fifteen or twenty years, I hope the conversation about
Dak Prescott is not getting started by how much money
he made, because there's a danger in that. There's these
(06:15):
guys who all you ever hear about is how much
money they make. The Kirk Cousins thing is huge on it. Money, money, money, money,
even someone lesser has a quarterback like Sam brad If
you ever bring up Sam Bradford form number one overall,
pick EFFI and says, man, remember how much money he made.
Dak Prescott is too good of a player, means too
much to the league as a Walter Payton Man of
the Year to have the conversation start years from now
about he really crushed it contractually. That should be the
(06:37):
third or fourth nugget. It should start with how good
he was in the playoffs that time he finally willed
the Cowboys to the Super Bowl or at least to
the title game. And right now, if he retires his man.
He was played for a long time, and he was fun,
and he made a lot of money. I hope he
wins some playoff games for his sake, for the Cowboys sake,
for the league's sake, for our sake, just for some
novelty and some enjoyment. I know he has more money
(06:58):
than God. He doesn't have many playoff wins. Take number six, TJ.
Watt is the destroyer of worlds. I don't know if
that's an original take. I don't ever promise that all
ten will be original. I just promise he'll be ten.
I'm watching red Zone yesterday at Steelers versus Falcons, and
it was supposed to signal this new start of Falcons football,
as if that's some factory down there. But they got
a new head coach, they got a new quarterback, they
(07:19):
got new pass rusher, they got a cool running back
who's supposed to break out. TJ. Watt just broke that
team over his knee. Do you ever play the old
video game Rampage where you get to be like a
giant Lizard or giant King Kong. You just beat the
crap out of Cities. That was TJ. Watt to Atlanta,
and so the Atlanta Falcons secondary. I think he was
in the Falcons backfield more than Bjon Robinson was in
(07:41):
the Falcons backfield. I said it on Twitter. I'm like,
he's the best player. I know there's a lot of
great players out there. I think that was the most
dominant game that TJ. Watt has ever played, and it
should have been way more dominant. He made big plays
that were taken away by penalties. Can we give them
the defensive Player of the Year now so they don't
screw it up at the end of the year. Just
do it? Take number seven, I got three minutes left.
I'm trying to identify that that's not them team. What
(08:03):
does that mean? I said Week one is a liar.
It's very weird in the history of teams looking terrible
and then turning your season around. Who is the team
that we look at right now that looked awful Week
one and we're like, that's not them. That's not the
season they're gonna have. They'll win, They'll figure it out.
I have to believe it's Cincinnati. They can't be that bad.
I know they got everybody knocked out of their survival
pools because they lost at home to New England. If
(08:25):
I look at one team and I'm like, I really
do think they're better than that. It has to be
Cincinnati because they have the quarterback, they have the coach.
I saw this thing as Zach Taylor is I think
one in five in Week one games, and that's a
coach who's been to the super Bowl. That is a
terrible stat for him. But it's actually really encourage you
for Cincinnati because they're like, whatever, we always lose week one,
We'll figure it out. I think they're that that's not
(08:47):
them team. But if they get crushed next week, that's
not them because remember, guys, week one is a liar.
Week two tells the truth. The needles do not bounce
on week two. Take number eight. You know who would
have just thrown up watching chiefs Ravens in the NFL opener,
just vomited everywhere Son sue because there's nothing in the
(09:07):
art of war that says your enemy's enemy is your friend.
Don't enter a battle you can't win, and always let
the best team get the fastest player in history. I
cannot still believe watching Xavier Worthy score on his first
touch as a Chief. Of course I can believe it.
And you know why that happened, because everybody else let
it happen. At some point one of these teams is
(09:28):
gonna be like, look, we don't have this guy in
our draft board. We don't really like it. In fact,
we dislike them, but we're gonna take them just to
keep the Chiefs from take you know, Sun Sue. Art
of War is just throwing up everywhere letting them do it.
Are you telling me the Xavier Worthy is not going
to make a huge play in the AFC title game?
You know he is. I know he is, And all
the teams that let the Chiefs get him know he is.
Take number nine. The Bears won somehow. I can't believe it.
(09:51):
They're down seventeen to nothing, their rookie quarterback did nothing really,
and they still somehow won. Bears loyalists will know if
you know, you know that was some lovey Smith's stuff
where the special team scores, the defense scores. Oh my god,
Rex Grossman, don't mess it up. I'll say this for Klem.
He didn't turn the ball over and he was one
fifty eight point three quarterback rating. In his postgame comments
(10:13):
in which he is like, I know I have to
be better. I will be better, But man, how good
is our defense and special teams? You better be better, Cayleb,
because you're getting compared to CJ. Stroud this week. And
guess who you're playing this week? See Jay Stroud on
Prime Time. Caleb, you gotta at least get one hundred
yards passing. But I love you, I'm rooting for you.
We gotta crack triple digits in the passing. Take number ten.
(10:33):
Can we just get a completed pass from Rogers to
anyone on the Jets tonight? It's Jets versus Niners. Just
drop back, look at someone, throw it to them. I
don't care who it is. I just want at least
five plays lest the whole game will be even better.
Guess what, guys, we're out of time. I had a
lot more things to say, a lot more, but I
have rules here. I have rules I must adhere to,
(10:55):
and I'm even breaking them right now. I said ten minutes,
ten takes. I can promise you we'll deliver that every
single week, and I can promise you we'll be back
next week to talk about Week two. In the NFL season,
it goes fast. The playoffs are almost here. It feels like, guys,
remember week one. As a liar, I am not. I
will give you ten takes ten minutes every single time.
Love you, miss you, Thanks for joining. Goodbye. Ten Takes
(11:23):
is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.
For more iHeartRadio pods, go to the iHeartRadio app, go
to Apple, go anywhere you like, it'll be there.
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. All Right, you made it, you clicked, I
love you, thank you. I'm going to get you out
here quick, because this is what we do here. Ten
takes in ten minutes. We're not doing one of these
(00:25):
two hour podcasts, these deep dive one hundred and eighty
minute examinations of the Ravens. Secondary. We get you in
and out in ten minutes. We're big on smoke breaks,
We're big on toilets. That's where you take in the show.
You sneak away, You get a quick pod in, and
you get ten takes in those ten minutes. If the
timer goes off from them in the middle of take six,
it's over. You only got six takes, and I didn't
(00:47):
live up to my promise to you. It's never happened.
We're into season two now. If you're joining us from
season one, thank you, love you, respect you. But I
staid I'm not going to waste your time. We're coming
off week one in the NFL season. So the three
words we say on this pod start the clock. Take
(01:08):
number one week one is a liar. I've said it
for years, and I want you to remember this. If
your team crushed yesterday, do not pop the cork on
the champagne. If your team was terrible yesterday, don't panic.
Year after year, you see this that there are very
bizarre results in week one. You know how many playoff
Super Bowl winning teams even have gotten crushed in Week one?
(01:30):
How many Super Bowl winning quarterbacks have had terrible week ones?
A lot of them. I'm talking about Aikman, Montana, Brady
three times, Eli twice, Mahomes, Rogers. They've had crazy terrible
week ones, and then they turn out to have incredible seasons,
sometimes ending in the super Bowl. It works both ways too.
(01:51):
Sometimes teams think they won the Super Bowl in Week
one and they come back and have a disastrous season.
Sam Donald played well yesterday. Do you remember when he
started for the Jets week one and blew the roof
off the place in Detroit and looked so incredible, And
the New York Post headline was, He's darn good because
he's Sam Darnold. They went two and fourteen, got Todd
Bowles fired. It was over. I have a whole bunch
(02:13):
of examples of that. It happens over Chip Kelly forty
nine ers, we did ninety seven Cowboys Barry Switzer. They
started incredibly, They blew out the Steelers week one. He
resigned at the end of it. Listen to me, Listen
to what I'm saying. If your team is terrible yesterday,
it's gonna be okay. If team was great yesterday, it
might not be okay. Week one is not a path
(02:35):
to the playoffs. It is a pathological liar. Take number two. Man,
the Browns were bad yesterday, they might be screwed for
the season. No, they're not. It's only Week one. But
I will say Brady, if he had just gotten out
of the booth and said I'm taking over to Shaun
and they signed him at halftime, I think would have
been a significant upgrade for the Browns a quarterback, like
a huge upgrade, because we didn't know we were gonna
(02:58):
get from Deshaun going he said that game. I thought
he's the most mysterious player in the league. We haven't
seen him have a good, solid, healthy season in four years.
The COVID season when no one was in the stands
and last time we saw the Browns there were real
conversations being had about, Wow, you know they actually respond
better to Joe Flacco. I think Flacco might be better
than Watson. Watson who's owed two hundred and thirty million dollars.
(03:18):
He was really mysterious. Didn't play in the preseason because
of quote arm soreness. Might have had him out there
a little bit to get him a little warmed up,
because man, he looked awfully yesterday. Just completely lost. The
Browns fans have no attachment to him, no loyalty to him,
no history with him. And if he doesn't have a
big game in week two, the booz are gonna rain down.
We're gonna start having Jameis Winston conversations. It's really bad.
(03:41):
I know week one as a liar, and I hope
it is for the Browns take number three Lions Rams
is gonna be the title game. I said it before
the season. I will say it again after what I
saw last night on Sunday Night Football. I love both
those teams. You saw him neck and neck. It goes
to overtime. But the Lions aren't a perfect team. They're
almost close. They're almost close. They're like a fighting video
(04:02):
game that has all the different weapons high punch, low punch,
spin kick, low kick, jump, dodge, it's im Mortal Kombat thing.
They have powerful running backs, fast running backs, possession receivers,
fast receivers, pass rushers, pass blockers. They just have everything.
You know how every insufferable fitness influencer is telling you
it's all about the core. It's core. It's core. Don't
work on your biceps, it's core. Just sick of hearing
(04:25):
about the core. The Lions have a great core. Their
O line's great, their D line is great. If you
didn't watch the game last night, Sunday Night, Lions Rams.
They go to overtime, do the coin toss. Stafford gets
the call because he's visiting. He says, heads, it was tails,
and that was the game because the Lions got the
ball and they just started jump kicking everybody in their Rams. Run, Run, run, run.
It was one pass they did and that entire game
(04:47):
winning drive. The last play, McVeigh tried to call a
time out just to give his defense rest and then
dive Montcoffrey promptly run it right up the middle for
the game winning score. Lions Rams is your NFC title game.
The Lions have a great core. Take number four. Cowboys
are all right. They're gonna be fine. There was a
hashtag bad vibes about the Cowboys in preseason, as if
that's news. There's always bad vibes about the Cowboys in preseason.
(05:09):
There's always some contract thing or some hold out thing,
and they show up, they get right back on track
and they win ten eleven twelve games in the regular season,
just like they will this year. They looked fine, they
looked great. I had no problem with the Cowboys. I
was one of the only people in Good Morning Football
who picked the Cowboys to go to the playoffs this year.
I think everyone kind of felt like this is the
year it all collapses. That's not the way the Cowboys work. Guys.
(05:32):
They always win just enough to not change anything. If
they ever had this terrible three and fourteen season or
six and eleven season recently, that would cause firings and
breakdowns and not get any new contracts. They don't do that.
They are the girlfriend or boyfriend who every time you
think it might be time to break up, they do
something really nice for you. The Cowboys is something really
(05:54):
nice yesterday and they won. They'll do a lot of
that this year. Take number five part of the Cowboys.
We're gonna double down on the Cowboys, Dak signs the
biggest contract in the history of the universe or whatever
it is, about an hour before the game. I hope
in fifteen or twenty years, I hope the conversation about
Dak Prescott is not getting started by how much money
he made, because there's a danger in that. There's these
(06:15):
guys who all you ever hear about is how much
money they make. The Kirk Cousins thing is huge on it. Money, money, money, money,
even someone lesser has a quarterback like Sam brad If
you ever bring up Sam Bradford form number one overall,
pick EFFI and says, man, remember how much money he made.
Dak Prescott is too good of a player, means too
much to the league as a Walter Payton Man of
the Year to have the conversation start years from now
about he really crushed it contractually. That should be the
(06:37):
third or fourth nugget. It should start with how good
he was in the playoffs that time he finally willed
the Cowboys to the Super Bowl or at least to
the title game. And right now, if he retires his man.
He was played for a long time, and he was fun,
and he made a lot of money. I hope he
wins some playoff games for his sake, for the Cowboys sake,
for the league's sake, for our sake, just for some
novelty and some enjoyment. I know he has more money
(06:58):
than God. He doesn't have many playoff wins. Take number six, TJ.
Watt is the destroyer of worlds. I don't know if
that's an original take. I don't ever promise that all
ten will be original. I just promise he'll be ten.
I'm watching red Zone yesterday at Steelers versus Falcons, and
it was supposed to signal this new start of Falcons football,
as if that's some factory down there. But they got
a new head coach, they got a new quarterback, they
(07:19):
got new pass rusher, they got a cool running back
who's supposed to break out. TJ. Watt just broke that
team over his knee. Do you ever play the old
video game Rampage where you get to be like a
giant Lizard or giant King Kong. You just beat the
crap out of Cities. That was TJ. Watt to Atlanta,
and so the Atlanta Falcons secondary. I think he was
in the Falcons backfield more than Bjon Robinson was in
(07:41):
the Falcons backfield. I said it on Twitter. I'm like,
he's the best player. I know there's a lot of
great players out there. I think that was the most
dominant game that TJ. Watt has ever played, and it
should have been way more dominant. He made big plays
that were taken away by penalties. Can we give them
the defensive Player of the Year now so they don't
screw it up at the end of the year. Just
do it? Take number seven, I got three minutes left.
I'm trying to identify that that's not them team. What
(08:03):
does that mean? I said Week one is a liar.
It's very weird in the history of teams looking terrible
and then turning your season around. Who is the team
that we look at right now that looked awful Week
one and we're like, that's not them. That's not the
season they're gonna have. They'll win, They'll figure it out.
I have to believe it's Cincinnati. They can't be that bad.
I know they got everybody knocked out of their survival
pools because they lost at home to New England. If
(08:25):
I look at one team and I'm like, I really
do think they're better than that. It has to be
Cincinnati because they have the quarterback, they have the coach.
I saw this thing as Zach Taylor is I think
one in five in Week one games, and that's a
coach who's been to the super Bowl. That is a
terrible stat for him. But it's actually really encourage you
for Cincinnati because they're like, whatever, we always lose week one,
We'll figure it out. I think they're that that's not
(08:47):
them team. But if they get crushed next week, that's
not them because remember, guys, week one is a liar.
Week two tells the truth. The needles do not bounce
on week two. Take number eight. You know who would
have just thrown up watching chiefs Ravens in the NFL opener,
just vomited everywhere Son sue because there's nothing in the
(09:07):
art of war that says your enemy's enemy is your friend.
Don't enter a battle you can't win, and always let
the best team get the fastest player in history. I
cannot still believe watching Xavier Worthy score on his first
touch as a Chief. Of course I can believe it.
And you know why that happened, because everybody else let
it happen. At some point one of these teams is
(09:28):
gonna be like, look, we don't have this guy in
our draft board. We don't really like it. In fact,
we dislike them, but we're gonna take them just to
keep the Chiefs from take you know, Sun Sue. Art
of War is just throwing up everywhere letting them do it.
Are you telling me the Xavier Worthy is not going
to make a huge play in the AFC title game?
You know he is. I know he is, And all
the teams that let the Chiefs get him know he is.
Take number nine. The Bears won somehow. I can't believe it.
(09:51):
They're down seventeen to nothing, their rookie quarterback did nothing really,
and they still somehow won. Bears loyalists will know if
you know, you know that was some lovey Smith's stuff
where the special team scores, the defense scores. Oh my god,
Rex Grossman, don't mess it up. I'll say this for Klem.
He didn't turn the ball over and he was one
fifty eight point three quarterback rating. In his postgame comments
(10:13):
in which he is like, I know I have to
be better. I will be better, But man, how good
is our defense and special teams? You better be better, Cayleb,
because you're getting compared to CJ. Stroud this week. And
guess who you're playing this week? See Jay Stroud on
Prime Time. Caleb, you gotta at least get one hundred
yards passing. But I love you, I'm rooting for you.
We gotta crack triple digits in the passing. Take number ten.
(10:33):
Can we just get a completed pass from Rogers to
anyone on the Jets tonight? It's Jets versus Niners. Just
drop back, look at someone, throw it to them. I
don't care who it is. I just want at least
five plays lest the whole game will be even better.
Guess what, guys, we're out of time. I had a
lot more things to say, a lot more, but I
have rules here. I have rules I must adhere to,
(10:55):
and I'm even breaking them right now. I said ten minutes,
ten takes. I can promise you we'll deliver that every
single week, and I can promise you we'll be back
next week to talk about Week two. In the NFL season,
it goes fast. The playoffs are almost here. It feels like, guys,
remember week one. As a liar, I am not. I
will give you ten takes ten minutes every single time.
Love you, miss you, Thanks for joining. Goodbye. Ten Takes
(11:23):
is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.
For more iHeartRadio pods, go to the iHeartRadio app, go
to Apple, go anywhere you like, it'll be there.
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