10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: It's Super Bowl Week!

The countdown is on for Super Bowl and for our 10 Takes:

• Something always happens in Las Vegas
• The Confetti Test for Brock Purdy
• I experienced the Taylor Swift Effect
• Terrified for Angry Runs at NFL Honors
• Ever see a real Super Bowl Ring?
• My Super Bowl Pick

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. We made it. We're here the Super Bowl
week episode of Ten Takes. We given to you in
ten minutes. Here we go, Take number one, Start the clock.

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Vegas is the star. Vegas is crazy. I hope nothing
happens in Vegas in terms of stories and off the
field this and that. But aren't you going to be
a little surprised if it doesn't. I'm not saying the
star player is going to go and do something nuts
at some club or something like that, but something will happen, right.
I was in Vegas last year for the Pro Bowl.

(00:50):
I've been to Vegas probably twenty five times because I
used to live in California and it was a forty
five minute flight. It's really astonishing. Have you never been there? God,
it's an adult playground. At no point you can walk
through a casino, walk through a hotel. At no point
are you more than like a few steps from anything
you ever wanted to drink, any kind of bet, you

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ever wanted to make, anything you ever wanted to eat,
world class entertainment. If you get a very very short drive,
very short drive, any kind of golf, you want to
play any kind of gun, you want to shoot anything
that can be done with the human body. Just keep going.
It's everything you could ever want that is devilish, dirty, evil, illegal,

(01:33):
It's all there. There's no work to be done, anything
you want, and we're gonna put the entire NFL thing
there because it's prestigious and exciting and I'm so excited.
I'm going to be in Vegas in like five hours.
The way I just gave myself that pep talk about
anything you want, that kind of fired me up to
get there, even though I'm not gonna indulge in any
of those things, at least not most of those things.
Take Number two. Is there anything more annoying than ticket

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requests season? When every single player who works in media,
who was at a desk or in a box or
on a podcast goes through their ticket request stories, it's
almost a mandate in what we do. During suple week,
you have to have some player who won a Super
Bowl or won four, went to one and lost. Talk
about man, the ticket requests are so stressful. You know

(02:17):
who I blame? Who are these insipid people in these
gentlemen's lives who hit him up for tickets. I mean
your wife, your kids, maybe your immediate family, meeting your
siblings or parents. Fine, but in Jason mccordy's telling me,
there's people come out of the woodwork, the people you
haven't talked to in years. Hey, anyway I can get
a ticket doesn't have to be that good. I don't
need a sweeter or any I just want to be
in the building. You're not gonna be in the building.

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I haven't heard from you since we were in biology
class together. I blame those people, and they're not some
kind of straw man, although I don't really exist. I'm
telling you, I've talked to a lot of these players.
Weird people say listen, and they also be like, hey,
I don't even for free, Like I'll pay for them,
but could you hook me up with them? I'm trying
to worry about tackling Deebo Samuel Dude, you think I'm

(02:58):
worried about where your seat is gonna be? Guy that
I went to college with eight years ago. It's the worst.
Take number three, the confetti test. I'm not sure if
Rock Party passes it. Daniel Jeremiah and the Great NFL
Media Group has a confetti test when it comes to
prospects coming out of college, where once you get through
all the measurables and the height and the weight and
the arm strength and all that stuff, if you're really

(03:20):
stuck on somebody, especially a quarterback, you picture them and
can you really imagine in your head seeing them after
a Super Bowl standing in the confetti holding up the
Lombardi Trophy? Can you do it? My question is can
you do it for brock Party in this game? Can
you right now listening, close your eyes and picture Patrick
Mahomes walking off the field through the confetti, Travis Kelce

(03:42):
walking off forlorn having lost a second Super Bowl, shot
of Taylor all dejected up in the suite, and brock
Party on the stage holding up the Lombardi Trophy having
beaten Patrick Mahomes. It's tricky, but it can be done.
And there's comparable examples where there's that kind of disparity
in fame and prestige and expectations. As good as Party's been,

(04:03):
I mean a lot, but Nick Foles beating Tom Brady
in the Super Bowl, especially the Super Bowl in which
Tom Brady broke pretty much every passing record in the
Super Bowl, and still lost. If that can happen, brock
Perdy can win this game. Take number four. Most interesting
super Bowls in my experience, and the trickiest ones to predict,

(04:24):
and the ones that end up surprising us the most
are the ones we're going into the matchup. Pay attention, guys.
One team has clearly the better quarterback, the other team
has clearly the better defense. It's hard to predict which
way they'll go. I'll give you Peyton Manning as a
little insular example. Peyton Manning shows up and he plays

(04:45):
the Bears in his for Super Bowl. Okay, he's clearly
the better quarterback. The Bears clearly have the better defense.
Peyton wins that day. Peyton shows up against the Seattle Seahawks.
He's clearly the better quarterbacks. Seahawks clearly have the better defense.
Seahawks crushed them that day. I can keep on going
when those factors apply. Best quarterback here, best defense here,

(05:05):
almost impossible to predict the problem with this Super Bowl
is that I think the Chiefs have both. They have
the better quarterback and I think they have the better defense.
I don't know if that's blasphemous or insulting to the
forty nine ers when you look up and it's Warner
and Bosa and all these great players that we love
and that I love. The Chiefs defense has been better
all season. They've certainly been better lately. And this Niners

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defense is not as good as the one that showed
up four years ago against Patrick Mahomes and still couldn't
close the show. They're not, so I think the Chiefs
have the better defense. I think they have a better quarterback.
It makes it kind of an easy pick for me.
Take number five is Mahomes talk with Brady is absolutely fine.
People will start clutching their pearls when you put Tom
Brady in the same sentence with Patrick Mahomes. It's such
a suspect. Patrick Mahomes is young, He's on the version

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of winning his third Super Bowl. Tom Brady won seven.
What we're saying here is, could Patrick Mahomes, if he
gets this one, not get four and ty Brady and
I don't know the next twelve years. Of course he
could remember the weakness in Brady's super Bowl total, if
there is one, is that he went eight years, eight
seasons without winning a Super Bowl. It seems strange, but
he did because he lost the two d eli in

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that time. Can you picture Pastor Mahomes going eight seasons
without winning a Super Bowl? Something crazy would have to happen.
He'd have to sever a terrible injury, or really the
ascension of the of the Burrows and Herbert's and Lamars
and Allen's, like those guys have already ascended, though they've
already had their primes been entered, like they still can't
beat him. I don't think it's blasphemous. I don't regret it.
Take number six. The taylor Is Swift effect is real.

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I'm not dismissive and offensive to people who say I'm
tired of seeing her. I'm tired of seeing her on TV.
I don't like to see it. That's fine. If you
feel that way, go ahead. I don't feel that way,
but I can only tell you that when you hear
stories about young fans, particularly young female fans, who are
turned onto the game of football, and particularly watching NFL games,
they're not made up. They're not fictitious. And I draw
from my very own home, this is not some nonsense,

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made up, schmaltzy story that I've been asked to share.
This is not a left wing conspiracy that I'm in on.
I'm watching Chiefs raven and my seven year old daughter,
who openly despises football, one because it takes her daddy
away from her, and two because it occupies the TV
as she likes to watch when she'd rather be watching
The Descendants or something. I'm watching Chiefs Ravens and normally

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when football's not, she storms out of the room. I
feel someone over my right shoulder when I'm sitting on
the couch and it's my seven year old daughter who
is peeking around the corner looking to the TV. And
I say, hey, what are you doing? Nothing said, you
want to come in and watch the game? No, like,
it's all right if you do. Do you want to
come in and watch it? I know I don't like it.
I'm like all right. She goes, but if the chief score,

(07:40):
can you call me in? And I go, yeah, I'll
call you in. Is there any player that you are
hoping scores? No? Sure enough? I call her in for
the Taylor Swift shot. When the touchdown happens right being Kelsey,
right off the gap, she runs she runs in, not
walks in, runs in so she can see it, and
she freaks out. She really really can see her. My

(08:01):
daughter is not impressed by that much. She's really really
and trans by it. And what it is is the
second grade girls at school the next day say did
you see Taylor Swift? And if you missed it or
didn't see it, like you're not part of the cool
group or you missed out. It's a real thing. So
if Taylor Swift has any contribution at all to having
young people and having specially young females watch the game,
make the game stronger, set up the next generation of

(08:23):
the game, I'm off for it and I think she
has a major effect. Take number seven. I'm doing Angry
Runs on Thursday night in front of the entire auditorium
at the NFL Honors Show, which is like the NFL Oscars.
I did it last year. It's the most nervous for
anything I've ever been in my career. I'm just as
nervous this year. When I do Angry Runs on Good
Morning Football, I'm doing it for an audience of three.

(08:43):
It's Jason, Jamie and Peter. They're the only three people
there at the table, and I just scream and say
whatever I want and I don't care. When I got
up on that stage, and every single person in my
professional industry is there, including people who employ me, including
many people who don't know who I am, don't know
what angry runs is or what the hell I'm screaming about.
It's terrifying. It really makes me sick to my stomach
right now talking about it. Last year I had a

(09:05):
out of body experience just looking up and seeing some
of these faces be like, what the hell is this
really really crazy person screaming about? And I didn't really
have an answer. I'm I'm screaming up by people getting
run over. You like it. I'm so nervous when you
watch me on Thursday night, and I hope you do,
just know I'm terrified. Take number eight. Super Bowl rings
are ridiculous. Jason mccordy wore his Super bowling to the

(09:26):
show that They're so big. It's a garbage can lid.
It's a foot across. You would never wear it. It's
not even a ring. It's like a shield that goes
on your finger. Couldn't we have a normalizing of rings
where you can actually wear it a few weeks out
of the year, a few months out of you. Don't
you want a more wearable super Bowl ring became this
arms race for how big they could be. I guess
it's this fingers race. I just we need to have

(09:47):
a comeback down to earth moment for the Super Bowl rings.
Take number nine. I'm really still sad about Carl Weathers,
and I've eulogized him a couple times on my own
personal Wain and Good Morning Football. I just hold one
cheap or one forty nine? Or does a Carl Weathers
related celebration in the end zone. You could do ding
ding like Apollo Creed. You could do a you son
of a you know with the Predator, or you could
do something I don't know, Happy Gilmore where they do

(10:09):
would be really cool. Take number ten very simple. I
think they have the better quarterback. I think they have
the better defense. Chiefs thirty one, forty nine Ers twenty
seven Vegas. Love you guys, Thank you for listening. I
am on my way too, beautiful, glorious, illustrious Newark, New

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Jersey for my flight to the state of Nevada, Sin City,
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