10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: It comes down to Chiefs and Eagles!

Just 10 minutes to talk about THESE two Championship Games?

• Don't hate great
• Right play, wrong result
• Don't be emotional about the future
• The funniest rule in sports
• The curious legacy of Nick Sirianni
• The most fun player to watch
• Don't count on a comeback

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. Ten takes. What a weekend? What a weekend?
There's a loaded one from me. I went bowling, I
went to a Knicks game, and then I sat around
and watched those title games. It was three for three Friday, Saturday,

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and Sunday. And I will not delay you any longer.
You clicked. You know the promise. Ten takes in exactly
ten minutes. Start the clock. Take number one. I don't
hate the Chiefs. You can, you're right as an American
or wherever you're listening. I hope you have rights to
hate the Chiefs. Exercise them if you want. But when
I see the map of the United States and all

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those funny memes that say who America is rooting for,
and there's this tiny little spot in Kansas and Missouri
that has the Chiefs and everything else is against the Chiefs,
I don't agree with that. Though the other jokes last
week about all of the world is counting on Josh
Allen to save them from the Chiefs. I get the
humor behind it, and I get the joke. I just
don't feel that way. And I like that the Chiefs

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don't give a damn that people want them to lose.
It's so fun to see them say, eh, hate us, Hey,
he we get all the calls, make the memes, make
the jokes. We're going to win anyways. In spite of that,
I have respect for them, I really, really really do.
And I like that they do not care and they
continue to win. Of course, I'm a human being, especially

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a human being that has to buy contract talk about
the NFL for hours and hours and hours a day.
I would have liked something fresh. Yeah, I would have
liked some It would be kind of cool to see
the Bills in the super Bowl for the first time
since I was in seventh grade. Or it would been kind
of cool to see the Commanders with a rookie quarterback
in the super Bowl, just as ads if the Bills
have been winning, a bunch of Superols have been cool

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to see the Chiefs a different flavor in the palate.
But it didn't happen. The Chiefs find a way. And
if it makes you feel better it's a complain about
the officiating, please do it. It probably makes you feel worse.
I'm not doing it. I don't hate the Chiefs. You
can't make me now two weeks from now I'm talking
to them. I might hate them by the time we
get to neurorals, but right now I respect them. Take
number two. Josh Allen didn't have a clean death in

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that game. It's one of my favorite lines from the
original Gladiator where they're about to behead Maximus and he says,
at least give me a clean death of soldier's death.
Josh Allen did not have that. The clean death would
have been on fourth and five in his last play
of the season. Spags jumps him with the blitz, has
got him dead in the water, dead to rights, and
they sack him and he goes down and the Bills

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lose and the Chiefs win. It wasn't like that. Despite
the perfect call, perfect timing, perfect everything from the defense,
Alan bought himself a second, faded back and made a
miracle throw off his back foot to hit his tight
end right in the chest thirty yards downfield, and Dalton
Kinkaid dropped it. Kinkaid catches that at is the play

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of a generation for the Bills. Who knows, but pretty
likely they go on and win the game and they're
going to the super Bowl. But because he didn't. It
is looked at as this final sign of failure in
four years of it. In the playoffs, I would have
liked to see how and get brought down cleanly. You know.
It's kind of like Lamar Jackson when Mark Andrews dropped
it in the end zone. It's like Lamar did it.
He put it right there. Josh did too. Miraculous throw

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under crazy circumstances. Dalton KK just with a massive drop
and a ball he has to catch. It was not
a clean death. The Bills are dead for sure, but
it was not a clean death for Josh. Allen take
number three the fourth and inches looked like he got it.
I'm just not going to go wall to wall officiating.
I just can't do it. I can't go to referee radio.
It looked like he got it. I thought he got it.

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Jim Nance thought he got it. Jean's s terrator thought
he got it. One of the officials on the field
thought he got it, and he didn't get it. I'll
go further. I thought Dawson Knox had it on third down.
I thought they had it. And yet when you say
he doesn't have it and then they review it, when
you look at the slow motion reviews. I can't say
for one hundred percent sure that he got it because
every angle that I see, I can't really see the ball.

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I'm seeing seventeen's back. At first glance, I thought he
got it, and the replay, I'm like, I think he
got it. We can sit here talking about whether he
did or not. I hate that they ran that play.
That's my take. That my countertake it did he get it?
Did he not? The Chiefs had a plan for the
tush push, the quarterback sneak, and it was watching Josh
Allen do it all year and he always goes left
unless just submarine the left guard and attack that spot

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and stand them up. There were six times that the
Bills had third and one or fourth and one and
ran the push, the tush, push, the snowplow whatever. Three
of those times they were held to zero yards. It
wasn't working. They had a plan a just in the
middle of the game. You have a mobile quarterback, you
have a great running back. There's other ways there had
been for decades and decades of BENOFL football to get

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short yardage other than just slamming your quarterback into the
exact spot that they already know he's going. That was
my problem with that take number four is it's just
a devastating loss, absolutely devastating ohn four in the playoffs,
you know the deal. And if you look at the
side by side numbers of those games, those four playoff
losses of the Bills to the Chiefs, and if you
look at the total yards and you look at the

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Allen and Mahomes turnovers, two touchdowns, all of that's it's
dead equal, if not a little in favor of Allen,
who played another turnover free game. And not only did
they split, not only are they one and three, they're
owing four. You look at the numbers ten, How is
it possible they're on to four just because they can't
find a way and the Chiefs can. That's just the

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way it is, and a lot of people make it.
It's this comparison that's near and dear to me about
growing up in Chicago, about you know, the Jordan Bulls.
They had to go through the Pistons, and they kept
losing and losing and losing, and they can never get through,
and finally they broke through. Well, this was the year
the Pistons had come off back to back championships like
the Chiefs had. And by the way, the Jordan Bulls
never lost to the Pistons in the playoffs. Four times.

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They lost three times, and then they figured it out
and the fourth time they swept them. They swept them.
They walked off the court. That Jordan Bulls thing is gone.
You know what the problem is is that the Mahomes
is Jordan and the Pistons combined into one. It's nowhere
like that, and they just can't beat them. Devastating lossumber
five coming for Sean McDermott's head is crazy. I understand

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that you're an emotional place today and you're frustrating at
fire everybody, fire this person crazy. He had them in
the title game against the two time Super Bowl champ
a couple of plays away. Do you even remember what
it was like in Buffalo before Sean mcdermotty. It was
a wasteland, a wasteland of ineffectiveness, of loser, dumb. You
never even get to the playoffs. McDermott shows up. You're

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there every single year, Title game twice. He can't beat
Andy Reid. Get in line. If you're gonna fire McDermot
you're gonna fire everybody. In the AFC, and maybe you
want to do that. I would not. There's a lot
of takes after that game, and a lot of ways
to go with your frustration. If you're coming for Sean
McDermott's head, you need to have your own checked. Crazy
crazy take Take number six. The funniest rule in sports

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is the one no one knew about. So the Commander's
Frankie Lulu is still diving over the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line.
I feel like you did it twenty times. I still
think that they left without him. He's sitting there in
the link just diving over the goal line over and over,
and then it becomes revealed to us after he gets warned,
he gets flagged. Then Sean Hockey, the referee comes out
and says, Washington has been advised that if they keep

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this up, we will award a score to Philadelphia. And
everyone's like, what, you can't award a score? What do
you mean? Just yes, they can. That is a real
rule that goes back a long time. And the deal
is when the ball goes all the way to the
goal line, there's no leverage for the officials. They can't
penalize you anymore because they can't move the ball anymore,
so to keep someone for a say, for example, of

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just committing past interference every single play until they don't
call it, or jumping over the line, they can actually
award someone to score. And the question is, has it
ever happened in the NFL before they said screw it,
it's a touchdown. No, it's never happened. But look on
my social media. I found this clip of the nineteen
fifty four Cotton Bowl was Rice versus Alabama, and they
called it for a palpable dishonest play or something where

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some guy ran off the sideline and tackle the guy
running down the side, a player who wasn't even in,
and they awarded them a touchdown. It's the only time
this rule has ever been used. It's so funny. You
have to see the clip. We were dying laughing on
Good Morning Football Today. Take number seven. Nick Sirianni legacy
talk is so strange and complex, isn't it? Because he's
going to a second Super Bowl. He just went through
Matt Lafleur, Sean McVay, Dan quinn, and now he goes

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against Andy Reid. Is he like a fantastic great coach? No,
not really, right, But the results are there, and you say, well,
he rides on the coattails of coordinators. I guess so,
but I'm not in those meetings. He does get some credit, right,
You're gonna make your list of top five coaches right
now in the NFL? Would you have Nick Sirianni even
though he's going to two Super Bowls? Now? Would you

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even have him in the top five in the NFC?
He's such a goober sometimes on the sideline and the
media that people are so loath to credit him results,
man results, new coordinators, new players back in the Super
How hard did he get back in the Super Bowl?
If you're lose one, it doesn't happen. Syrian is incredible,
but it is complicated. Take number eight. It's so fun
to watch Saquon run. It's just joyous. Can you put

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a finger on why it's so much more fun to
watch him than maybe somebody else. It's something about his gait,
like it's so smooth, it's so fast and effortless. His
aesthetics as a player, from his shoulder pads to his
single eye blacked his cleats to his legs, they're just
so pleasing. They're so strong and so fast running back
is my favorite position. It always has been. I love
that he never gets caught from behind. Everything about it

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is just so fun and so smooth and so natural.
That's a very simple take. It's just a very, very
very enjoyable thing to watch Jake On run the ball,
and I can't wait to watch it in New Orleans.
Take number nine. There's this take. The Commanders will be back.
They got Jaydon Daniels, he's he's a bright future. They'll
get theirs. That is a myth. Don't be so naive
as to think a young quarterback who gets close was

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playing with house money and they'll get back. Joe Burrow
lost to Super Bowl and said, ah, he'll be back.
Are you sure about that? Brock Purty lost it last year. Oh,
he's part of that Shanahan machine. They'll be back. Have
you seen the Niners? Do you know the future for
brock Purty? I remember Aaron Rodgers standing on the Super
Bowl podium within in his Super Bowl. Oh, he's gonna
win three or four. He got back to the game.
Dan Marinos, same thing, lost it, never even got back.

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Jane Daniels is a short of nothing. Neither of the
Commander Take number ten. I need to know why Big
Dom wears a headset on the sideline for the Eagles.
Do you know Big Dom? He's like the director of
security and he has six other different titles. He's this
huge guy who wears Italian flags on the shoulders, a
great character. During the whole game against the Commanders, He's
wearing a headset as if he's Nick Sirianni or Bill
Belichick or something. He's hired muscle who is like halfway

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between security guard and mascot. Why does he need a headset?
And is it with the Fox production truck to hear
where the cameras are going to be sweaking me on?
I just went overtime. I broke my own rule. Big
Dom's gonna come up a lot in the next couple
of weeks. I'm trying to have fun with it. It's
hard for me. It's hard for me, and I should
be a better sport about it. I'll try in the
next couple of weeks, I promise. Until then, you click,

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you listen. Thank you very much. That is your title
game edition of ten takes. We did it in ten minutes.
I should stop talking now, see you next week. Thank you.
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