September 22, 2025 • 10 mins
It's Week 3 and teams are finding ways to win. Have to watch the clock this week!
- Body blows and grabbing for wins
- The time has come
- 60 yards is the new 40 yards
- The most exciting play in all of sports
- Their best game in 7 years
- I've never said this sentence
- 3-0 teams can have warts
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. Ten Takes. That's the name of the show.
Ten minutes. That is the amount of time we have
to deliver that show every single Monday. We bring it
to you ten takes, ten minutes. Then Explosion want to
(00:25):
do it, So do I start the clock? Take number one.
Let's start with the Sunday night game. Patrick Mahomes and
the Chiefs. Right now, they're like a boxer, under talented
boxer who is just grabbing. They're just holding on. They're
getting through rounds, they're stealing rounds. It's a lot of
(00:45):
body blows. You get to the end of the round,
you're like they didn't really do anything, but then sure enough,
that's a ten to nine win. That's exactly what it
was over the Giants last night. I love this version
of Mahomes because we've seen him put up fifty points,
throw to Tyreek Hill, throw to Prime Kelsey, and be
the biggest story in the league. And then now we're
seeing them just carrying an undertalented, hurt, wounded team by
(01:08):
running by ad libbing. He made the biggest play of
the game last night for the Chiefs. And it was
a defensive play in which he stripped the ball from
a New York Giant like he was Maurice Claret on
Sean Taylor in the Rose Bowl. I love this version
of Mahomes, Ugly, gritty, getting through rounds, throwing a few elbows.
Maybe if you headbutts, if he has to bite off
(01:28):
somebody's ear, he just does it. Gritty Patrick Mahomes carrying
a Chiefs team without enough talent on offense. I never
thought I'd see the day, but here we are, and
they just have to survive. Just keep on tread water,
keep on winning ten nine rounds. Take number two. I
think it's probably time for the Giants to be down
with Russell Wilson. Great professional, great career. What is the
(01:50):
case for keeping him out there? This is not a
player who has equity with the franchise or history or
we owe it to him to let him work his
way through this. This is not Eli Manning, this is
not even Daniel Jones. Russell Wilson is on a one
year contract. He's a nomadic veteran who has been on
four teams. I think in five years. He had a
(02:13):
chance to win that game last night. The Giants had
a good enough team to beat the Chiefs. I don't
think they had a good enough quarterback. That goal line
sequence at the end, in which he threw a fourth
and goal pass and nobody hit the crossbar. That might
be his last pass in the NFL. It certainly should
be his last pass as a Giant. I don't understand
what Brian David would be doing saying no, we gotta
(02:35):
stick with him. It's no disrespect to us. Fantastic career.
It's just gotten away from him and there's nothing going
on right now in that game, a winnable game that
they didn't win because their quarterback wasn't good enough. Go
to bleeping Jackson Dart for the love of God, take
number three. I hate the juiced ball era of NFL kickers.
That's what we're in right now. I hate that a
(02:55):
sixty yard field goal feels like the new forty yard
field goal. I'm old enough to remember that the only
guy who could be above sixty yards was an old
saint named Dempsey. Had half a foot, and he could
kick at a sixty three yard field goal because this
foot was basically a giant boxing glove. Then Jason Elam
did it for Denver. It's like, well, it's in the
thin mountain air, but that is exactly that's rare air.
(03:17):
You can't get over sixty. Now, these guys come out there,
these Brandon Audrey types, and it's like, yeah, oh, it's
a fifty nine yard field goal, give me my sandwich.
I won't even break my wrist on my backswing. It's
just a little chip for me. I don't like it.
And then you get these people down on the field.
These reporters are like, yeah, I watched him in warm up.
He was good from eighty five. He's good from eighty five.
And then they go and they pipe one of these
(03:38):
fifty eight yarders or whatever it is, and it's always like, oh,
we'll get that. It would have been good from at
least twenty yards more. It's like three quarters the way
up the kicking net. I don't like it. I like
the idea that you really have to work for a
last second field goal. You got to do more than
can maybe complete one pass. That's annoying to me. I
don't know why. I don't like the kickers being that dynamic.
They are these kickers of mass destruction out there. If
(04:00):
there's gonna be crazy game winning plays. I want it
to be from the wide receivers to tie it up
the quarterbacks and the kicker comes on makes the thirty
one yard and everybody claps. I don't like it. Take
number four. I love all those block kicks though. You
better believe it. That is the weapon to fight back
against the kickers of mass destruction. Just block them. Come
around the end and block them, go up the middle
(04:20):
and block them. Jump over the long snapper and block them.
We saw all of them. Yesterday was a block fest.
It was awesome at the end of the early window
and Scott Hansen's head was exploding. You know what My
take on blocked kicks. Blocked kicks are the most exciting
play in all of sports. Yes, block punt, blocked field
goal because they're better than a kick return that you
can kind of see happening, breaks a few tackles, then
(04:41):
a really fast guy is gone. They're better than just
a long touchdown pass, which you see all the time.
Blocked kicks, block punts, it's chaos. You got kickers in
the way trying to make a tackle, some nerd in
a one bar helmet who's totally out of place, you
got often big men scooping up the ball to run
with it, special teamers trying to make tackles, and then
(05:04):
you get the shot of the special teams coach for
the team that blocked the kick, and he's always some
old timers, all red face, going nuts. Then they showed
the special teams coach who got the kick blocked, and
he knows he's getting fired. It's just so chaotic. It's
such bedlam, and I couldn't get enough of it yesterday.
Most exciting play in sports take number five. That was
(05:25):
the most enjoyable Chicago Bears game in seven years. Seven
years twenty eighteen is the last time they won the
NFC North. It was Matt naga era that Bears game.
From start to finish, they just had it. Caleb throws
the early touchdown to a Duneesday and I'm like, ah,
I've seen this before in each of the Bears prior
to games they have scored a touchdown early. In the
first two cases, it was on their first drive of
(05:47):
the game, and everyone's like, they got it, they got it,
and then they just slowly veer into traffic and there's
a fatality collision. The rest of games terrible. So after
the dunes, they touched down on their second drave like,
let's see what else they got. Then they pulled out
the most hilarious leaflicker I've ever seen. They give it
to DeAndre Swift his pitch back to Kaylee. That pitch
had more hang time than some punts that I've seen.
(06:08):
It was this lolly pop thing that hung in the
air forever. Caleb promptly grabs it, finds the laces, and
chucks it sixty two yards in the air, the longest
completed pass of the season for the Chicago Bears. And look,
if you're a Bears hater or you just want to
keep it real, yes, the Cowboys defense is atrocious, but
who cares. First of all, it's the Matti Eberflus Cowboys defense.
(06:30):
So that was really sweet for Bears fans, and they
just needed that. They needed a tomato can that the
Bears Ben Johnson Caleb Offins could absolutely beat the hell
out of. It. Won't be like that next week. It
wasn't like that last week. But they needed it. They
got it. You can't blame them for their opponent, please stop.
That was the most enjoyable Bears game in seven years.
Take number six. Jim Harbaugh might be the best football
(06:50):
coach alive. I usually say Sean mcvay's the best coach
in the NFL. Mcvay's team with not Will coached yesterday,
Jim Harbaud, do you understand they're three and oh the Chargers?
First of all, I was told the Chargers season is
over because one of their offensive lineman got hurt. And
I love Rashaun Slater. Let's stop pretending. And he's like
what Josh Allen is for the Bills. He's alignment. I
love him. They have a coach, they have a quarterback.
They're both playing brilliantly. If you understand, the Chargers have
(07:12):
not been three and oh since two thousand and two.
I had to double check that. All those Phil Rivers
teams all through the two thousand they were never three
and oh, they were never three and oh. All those
lame soundbites here, change the coach. We're gonna change things.
Every single coach says it. Jim Harbaugh is actually doing it.
That game against the Broncos, Chargers teams up the pass
would have lost. I think Justin Herbert of the pass
would have lost the Broncos came storming back. They're winning.
(07:34):
They're in front of their home fans, the Chargers, and
there were home fans there, and Herbert made some hero plays.
Harbor had them well coached. They lost Najie Harris too.
I don't think that's gonna blow their hair back. I
think they're gonna keep winning. They the team to finally
upset the Chiefs and the AFCU West. It sure looks
like they've already beaten all three AFC West opponents, Chargers, Chargers,
Chargers are three and oh. It's incredible. I've never said
(07:54):
that sentence in my life. Take number seven. I don't
care how a winning team looks in September. What do
I mean by that? I don't care about style points.
I don't care that after a win, as I well,
we got a lot to clean up. Yeah, but they
don't look good. They're three and oh, but they have
all these obvious warts and weaknesses. I don't want to
(08:16):
hear about warts on a three and oh team. Just
stack wins and you'll get better. After Thanksgiving, that's the
time to really really start coming down the stretch and
looking like you're ready for a playoff game. Right now,
everybody's in disarray. Just win games. I don't care if
it's by two, by fifty three and oh is three
and oh. I know the Buccaneers have some issues. I
(08:36):
know the Niners have all kinds of issues. I know
their records are great. Don't worry about all the problems.
If you hear yours a problem with your team, that's
three and oh or four and o next week, tell
the person to shut up and comes see you in
a couple of months. I don't care how winning teams
look right now. Take number eight. We can't keep throwbacks
full time guys. Stop saying that. Every time the Buccaneers
or the Patriots come out and they're beautiful jerseys, which
(08:56):
I love, someone's like, you know what, they should be
a full time jersey. No they should not. I say
this every single year. It is like going on vacation,
getting drunk and turn and your wife or husband saying
we should move here. No, you should not. You're high
on the dopamina being a vacation. You're high watching those
jerseys on the dopamina nostalgia. Stop saying we should make
them full time. What makes them specialists? They are not
(09:17):
full time. Cut it out with that. Take number nine.
The Colts are for real. Three and oh is three
and oh. As I just said, the defense is really good.
The offense runs. Daniel Jones does not have a giveaway
this year. Do you know? He doesn't have a lost
fumble or an interception or anything. You gotta just say.
The state of Indiana is having a moment. The Colts
are three and oh. The Pacers were in the finals.
(09:37):
Indiana Football. The Hoosiers just dropped sixty three points on
a division or conference rival. Caitlin Clark, Pat McAfee, wwe
was just there. Indiana hot right now in an offseason
which they lost Jim rs and Normdale. I'm happy for
Indiana take number ten. I have braces right now. I'm
having a hard time with it. I haven't visial line.
(09:58):
I have to take them out every single time I eat.
It's a great product. It's gonna get me straightened up.
But I feel like I'm back in six. It's great
having braces, and I'm not comfortable with it. I would
like to elaborate on braces. I would like to shout
out to Brace's nation. I am not allowed to. I
am bound by the constraints of this podcast format and
I promise you ten minutes. I promise you ten takes.
(10:20):
I I must deliver on both of them. See I
can't speak anymore. I'm out of time. Once I go
over ten minutes, I start flubbing everything. So I will
bid you ado so long. Farewell. I'll VI this. Say
good nights on Trapp children. Love you, See you guys later,
See you next week. Ten Takes five. Ten Takes is
(10:44):
a production of the NFL in partnership with I Heart Radio.
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. Ten Takes. That's the name of the show.
Ten minutes. That is the amount of time we have
to deliver that show every single Monday. We bring it
to you ten takes, ten minutes. Then Explosion want to
(00:25):
do it, So do I start the clock? Take number one.
Let's start with the Sunday night game. Patrick Mahomes and
the Chiefs. Right now, they're like a boxer, under talented
boxer who is just grabbing. They're just holding on. They're
getting through rounds, they're stealing rounds. It's a lot of
(00:45):
body blows. You get to the end of the round,
you're like they didn't really do anything, but then sure enough,
that's a ten to nine win. That's exactly what it
was over the Giants last night. I love this version
of Mahomes because we've seen him put up fifty points,
throw to Tyreek Hill, throw to Prime Kelsey, and be
the biggest story in the league. And then now we're
seeing them just carrying an undertalented, hurt, wounded team by
(01:08):
running by ad libbing. He made the biggest play of
the game last night for the Chiefs. And it was
a defensive play in which he stripped the ball from
a New York Giant like he was Maurice Claret on
Sean Taylor in the Rose Bowl. I love this version
of Mahomes, Ugly, gritty, getting through rounds, throwing a few elbows.
Maybe if you headbutts, if he has to bite off
(01:28):
somebody's ear, he just does it. Gritty Patrick Mahomes carrying
a Chiefs team without enough talent on offense. I never
thought I'd see the day, but here we are, and
they just have to survive. Just keep on tread water,
keep on winning ten nine rounds. Take number two. I
think it's probably time for the Giants to be down
with Russell Wilson. Great professional, great career. What is the
(01:50):
case for keeping him out there? This is not a
player who has equity with the franchise or history or
we owe it to him to let him work his
way through this. This is not Eli Manning, this is
not even Daniel Jones. Russell Wilson is on a one
year contract. He's a nomadic veteran who has been on
four teams. I think in five years. He had a
(02:13):
chance to win that game last night. The Giants had
a good enough team to beat the Chiefs. I don't
think they had a good enough quarterback. That goal line
sequence at the end, in which he threw a fourth
and goal pass and nobody hit the crossbar. That might
be his last pass in the NFL. It certainly should
be his last pass as a Giant. I don't understand
what Brian David would be doing saying no, we gotta
(02:35):
stick with him. It's no disrespect to us. Fantastic career.
It's just gotten away from him and there's nothing going
on right now in that game, a winnable game that
they didn't win because their quarterback wasn't good enough. Go
to bleeping Jackson Dart for the love of God, take
number three. I hate the juiced ball era of NFL kickers.
That's what we're in right now. I hate that a
(02:55):
sixty yard field goal feels like the new forty yard
field goal. I'm old enough to remember that the only
guy who could be above sixty yards was an old
saint named Dempsey. Had half a foot, and he could
kick at a sixty three yard field goal because this
foot was basically a giant boxing glove. Then Jason Elam
did it for Denver. It's like, well, it's in the
thin mountain air, but that is exactly that's rare air.
(03:17):
You can't get over sixty. Now, these guys come out there,
these Brandon Audrey types, and it's like, yeah, oh, it's
a fifty nine yard field goal, give me my sandwich.
I won't even break my wrist on my backswing. It's
just a little chip for me. I don't like it.
And then you get these people down on the field.
These reporters are like, yeah, I watched him in warm up.
He was good from eighty five. He's good from eighty five.
And then they go and they pipe one of these
(03:38):
fifty eight yarders or whatever it is, and it's always like, oh,
we'll get that. It would have been good from at
least twenty yards more. It's like three quarters the way
up the kicking net. I don't like it. I like
the idea that you really have to work for a
last second field goal. You got to do more than
can maybe complete one pass. That's annoying to me. I
don't know why. I don't like the kickers being that dynamic.
They are these kickers of mass destruction out there. If
(04:00):
there's gonna be crazy game winning plays. I want it
to be from the wide receivers to tie it up
the quarterbacks and the kicker comes on makes the thirty
one yard and everybody claps. I don't like it. Take
number four. I love all those block kicks though. You
better believe it. That is the weapon to fight back
against the kickers of mass destruction. Just block them. Come
around the end and block them, go up the middle
(04:20):
and block them. Jump over the long snapper and block them.
We saw all of them. Yesterday was a block fest.
It was awesome at the end of the early window
and Scott Hansen's head was exploding. You know what My
take on blocked kicks. Blocked kicks are the most exciting
play in all of sports. Yes, block punt, blocked field
goal because they're better than a kick return that you
can kind of see happening, breaks a few tackles, then
(04:41):
a really fast guy is gone. They're better than just
a long touchdown pass, which you see all the time.
Blocked kicks, block punts, it's chaos. You got kickers in
the way trying to make a tackle, some nerd in
a one bar helmet who's totally out of place, you
got often big men scooping up the ball to run
with it, special teamers trying to make tackles, and then
(05:04):
you get the shot of the special teams coach for
the team that blocked the kick, and he's always some
old timers, all red face, going nuts. Then they showed
the special teams coach who got the kick blocked, and
he knows he's getting fired. It's just so chaotic. It's
such bedlam, and I couldn't get enough of it yesterday.
Most exciting play in sports take number five. That was
(05:25):
the most enjoyable Chicago Bears game in seven years. Seven
years twenty eighteen is the last time they won the
NFC North. It was Matt naga era that Bears game.
From start to finish, they just had it. Caleb throws
the early touchdown to a Duneesday and I'm like, ah,
I've seen this before in each of the Bears prior
to games they have scored a touchdown early. In the
first two cases, it was on their first drive of
(05:47):
the game, and everyone's like, they got it, they got it,
and then they just slowly veer into traffic and there's
a fatality collision. The rest of games terrible. So after
the dunes, they touched down on their second drave like,
let's see what else they got. Then they pulled out
the most hilarious leaflicker I've ever seen. They give it
to DeAndre Swift his pitch back to Kaylee. That pitch
had more hang time than some punts that I've seen.
(06:08):
It was this lolly pop thing that hung in the
air forever. Caleb promptly grabs it, finds the laces, and
chucks it sixty two yards in the air, the longest
completed pass of the season for the Chicago Bears. And look,
if you're a Bears hater or you just want to
keep it real, yes, the Cowboys defense is atrocious, but
who cares. First of all, it's the Matti Eberflus Cowboys defense.
(06:30):
So that was really sweet for Bears fans, and they
just needed that. They needed a tomato can that the
Bears Ben Johnson Caleb Offins could absolutely beat the hell
out of. It. Won't be like that next week. It
wasn't like that last week. But they needed it. They
got it. You can't blame them for their opponent, please stop.
That was the most enjoyable Bears game in seven years.
Take number six. Jim Harbaugh might be the best football
(06:50):
coach alive. I usually say Sean mcvay's the best coach
in the NFL. Mcvay's team with not Will coached yesterday,
Jim Harbaud, do you understand they're three and oh the Chargers?
First of all, I was told the Chargers season is
over because one of their offensive lineman got hurt. And
I love Rashaun Slater. Let's stop pretending. And he's like
what Josh Allen is for the Bills. He's alignment. I
love him. They have a coach, they have a quarterback.
They're both playing brilliantly. If you understand, the Chargers have
(07:12):
not been three and oh since two thousand and two.
I had to double check that. All those Phil Rivers
teams all through the two thousand they were never three
and oh, they were never three and oh. All those
lame soundbites here, change the coach. We're gonna change things.
Every single coach says it. Jim Harbaugh is actually doing it.
That game against the Broncos, Chargers teams up the pass
would have lost. I think Justin Herbert of the pass
would have lost the Broncos came storming back. They're winning.
(07:34):
They're in front of their home fans, the Chargers, and
there were home fans there, and Herbert made some hero plays.
Harbor had them well coached. They lost Najie Harris too.
I don't think that's gonna blow their hair back. I
think they're gonna keep winning. They the team to finally
upset the Chiefs and the AFCU West. It sure looks
like they've already beaten all three AFC West opponents, Chargers, Chargers,
Chargers are three and oh. It's incredible. I've never said
(07:54):
that sentence in my life. Take number seven. I don't
care how a winning team looks in September. What do
I mean by that? I don't care about style points.
I don't care that after a win, as I well,
we got a lot to clean up. Yeah, but they
don't look good. They're three and oh, but they have
all these obvious warts and weaknesses. I don't want to
(08:16):
hear about warts on a three and oh team. Just
stack wins and you'll get better. After Thanksgiving, that's the
time to really really start coming down the stretch and
looking like you're ready for a playoff game. Right now,
everybody's in disarray. Just win games. I don't care if
it's by two, by fifty three and oh is three
and oh. I know the Buccaneers have some issues. I
(08:36):
know the Niners have all kinds of issues. I know
their records are great. Don't worry about all the problems.
If you hear yours a problem with your team, that's
three and oh or four and o next week, tell
the person to shut up and comes see you in
a couple of months. I don't care how winning teams
look right now. Take number eight. We can't keep throwbacks
full time guys. Stop saying that. Every time the Buccaneers
or the Patriots come out and they're beautiful jerseys, which
(08:56):
I love, someone's like, you know what, they should be
a full time jersey. No they should not. I say
this every single year. It is like going on vacation,
getting drunk and turn and your wife or husband saying
we should move here. No, you should not. You're high
on the dopamina being a vacation. You're high watching those
jerseys on the dopamina nostalgia. Stop saying we should make
them full time. What makes them specialists? They are not
(09:17):
full time. Cut it out with that. Take number nine.
The Colts are for real. Three and oh is three
and oh. As I just said, the defense is really good.
The offense runs. Daniel Jones does not have a giveaway
this year. Do you know? He doesn't have a lost
fumble or an interception or anything. You gotta just say.
The state of Indiana is having a moment. The Colts
are three and oh. The Pacers were in the finals.
(09:37):
Indiana Football. The Hoosiers just dropped sixty three points on
a division or conference rival. Caitlin Clark, Pat McAfee, wwe
was just there. Indiana hot right now in an offseason
which they lost Jim rs and Normdale. I'm happy for
Indiana take number ten. I have braces right now. I'm
having a hard time with it. I haven't visial line.
(09:58):
I have to take them out every single time I eat.
It's a great product. It's gonna get me straightened up.
But I feel like I'm back in six. It's great
having braces, and I'm not comfortable with it. I would
like to elaborate on braces. I would like to shout
out to Brace's nation. I am not allowed to. I
am bound by the constraints of this podcast format and
I promise you ten minutes. I promise you ten takes.
(10:20):
I I must deliver on both of them. See I
can't speak anymore. I'm out of time. Once I go
over ten minutes, I start flubbing everything. So I will
bid you ado so long. Farewell. I'll VI this. Say
good nights on Trapp children. Love you, See you guys later,
See you next week. Ten Takes five. Ten Takes is
(10:44):
a production of the NFL in partnership with I Heart Radio.
For more iHeartRadio pods, go to the iHeartRadio app, go
to Apple, go anywhere you like, it'll be there.
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