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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio ten Takes. You made it, Let's do it
ten takes in ten minutes. We have a bomb, we
have an explosive device, we have a clock, and we
have takes ten of them. That clock I mentioned. Let's
(00:26):
start it, take number one. Laterals are the most exciting
play in the sport. It's always incredible. It's always fun.
The Josh Allen Amari Cooper thing was so cool and
out of nowhere because you don't actually expect it to happen.
I've seen a lot of Josh Allen plays. I've seen
a lot more important Josh Allen plays. We're gonna see
(00:47):
a lot more. They didn't even really need that touchdown,
but it was still one of the plays of the
year because one player threw it backwards to another at
great risk and peril. Travis Kelcey does it sometimes. It's
always awesome. Remember Randy Moss did it once and like
a Hail Mary situation. It's always memorable. I used to
love watching and things like Air Force and the Service
Academy teams would run the triple option. It's always such
(01:09):
a high potential for fumbles. It's such a risky thing
to do. I think the punt block is maybe the
most exciting play in the sport. But then again, laterals
just always always incredible. You screamed, oh my god, he
actually lateraled it, especially in the case of Amari Cooper
and Josh Allen as un Like they've been teammates for
five six years, they've been teammates for seven or eight
(01:29):
weeks or whatever it is, and they still there. It's like, yeah,
we made eye contact, we decided to go for it.
That's two guys who have played a lot of football
and decided it's kind of a fun atmosphere. Or if
we lateral it, sure it may go terribly wrong. In
the Niners scoop and score and ide eight ears in
the other direction, but screw it, let's get wild. Laterals
unbelievably exciting. No matter when they have it. It could
be a preseason game, doesn't matter, somebody laterals you're in.
(01:52):
Take number two. The MVP race took a turn. I
think in the middle of that lateral. I'll tell you why.
First of all, nobody's ever been more interested in the
MVP race. It's all anybody wants to talk about for
some award that you don't really even care about on
the night at NFL Honors. It's every TV segment, every
podcast segment. Are you sick of it? Do you care?
I care this year just because it's fascinating. I feel
like I have a vested interest because I've really wanted
(02:14):
to see a running pack do it. And I love
Josh Allen. Really. The one thing that Saquon had over
him was he had a better entry into the cool
play category, and maybe he still does, but at least
Josh Allen's now in. Up until then, the Josh Allen
MVP case was the amazing run against the Chiefs on
fourth and two, But that was just football. This is
some sort of weird circ to Silay Magic. When Josh
(02:35):
Allen retires and he goes in the Hall of Fame
and they do a sixty second video montage, They're gonna
play that clip of Amari Cooper later on it to him,
And I really do think you could put up stats
in national television. You can put up a big win
on national television. To do something magical just blows everybody's
hair back and it makes him want to vote for
you as an MVP. Voter. I think that play really
(02:55):
will make a difference. Take number three. Saquon has to
run the perfect campaign. I've mentioned this before. It's so difficult.
I think I know what he has to do. I
think he has to break the Dickerson record. It's twenty
one oh five. It's the Eric Dickerson single season rushing record.
I think if he does that, Saquon, I think then
he can at least get a piece. And by a piece,
(03:16):
I mean I'm old enough to remember when they would
do co MVPs. It happened, you could look it up.
I think it was Steve McNair and Peyton Manner or
Steve mcnarren, Barry Sanders, whatever it was, they split the MVP.
If Saquon goes twenty one oh five and he breaks
the all time Eric Dickerson record, which is a really
vaunted number, you gotta give it to at least half
of it. But then again, people are like, well, Dickerson
(03:37):
did it in sixteen games, and it's so true. Now
he's gonna do it in seventeen games. If you really
want to get literal, and I do this sometimes with
the MVP, and then I'll stop talking to the MVP
because it's getting to annoying the topic. You gotta get
it with the value in most valuable player, meaning obviously,
if you took Saquon off the Eagles, they're still winning games,
They're probably still going to the playoffs. If you take
Josh Allen off the Bills, I think they're three and fourteen,
(04:00):
so that is a runaway. But that's not always about that.
Sometimes they just give it to whoever has the best
team or whoever is the best stats. They changed, they
moved the goalpost. I just think Saquan if he just
has a great, great, great season, it's not enough. He
has to have an all time season. He has to
run a perfect campaign. Take number four. That was the
coolest play of the week, the Mark Cooper Josh Allen lateral.
(04:21):
The most important play was Cooper Dejene tackling Derek Henry
and the Eagles Ravens. That play said so much. You
have one hundred and ninety eight pound rookie tackling a
two hundred and forty seven pound wicked king. Did you
see that play? He got down like every high school
football coaches dreamed, and bent his knees and lowered his
hips and exploded through the tackle and made Z's in
(04:42):
his knees and grabbed cloth and through his elbows. It
was such a beautiful tackle and it spoke to so
much that the Eagles team is tough, They're fearless. They
will literally take down Kings with their scrappy little rookie
defensive back. I know that they won the game and
Saquan eventually had a long touchdown and Jalen hurts as
Jalen hurts, the Eagles defense is so tough, so nasty,
and that play was like so Philly, so under dog,
(05:05):
so so true to who they are as a city
and as a team. Philadelphia looks great right now. It's
the Big Four, right you have Detroit and Philadelphia, and
I think you have Buffalo in Kansas City, and then
there's the other teams after that. I'll get into it.
Take number five. You know what's fascinating I mentioned in
Baltimore justin Tucker's situations fascinating to me sometimes I just
like kicker talk this time of year. What do you
(05:26):
do with him? He lost the game for them. The
Ravens had their kicker who is known by every single
metric and anybody who asks is the greatest kicker of
all time. He's gonna be in the Hall of Fame
someday as a kicker, at least I thought he was.
He missed an extra point in two field goals in
that game. They needed him to win the game. The
rest of the team played well enough to beat the Eagles,
and their kicker can't make a kick right now, is
(05:46):
having the worst season of his career. And normally you
follow standard protocol, he'd be cut. All right, You're not
going to just cut Justin Tucker, But do they like,
bring in another kicker, just put him on the practice squad,
turn up the heat. Then that becomes a massive conversation.
What happens next week If Justin Tucker misses two more kicks,
don't they have to cut him? They him They need
a kicker who can make a kick in a field
(06:06):
goal in any situation in a playoff game, you can't
just keep dragging them along. And what if they ended
up losing in the playoffs because Justin Tucker misses a
kick from I don't know, forty eight yards, then it's
like you held on to him because he's so well
liked in such a great raven But It's like that's
despite your own face. You have to get rid of him.
I'm so rived by that. The Ravens have problems. Lamar's
(06:27):
not one of them. Derek Henry's not one of them.
They can't make a kick right now, and it's kick
making season the last time I look. Take number six.
This is the biggest Chargers week of the year. I'm
going to try to be quick on this because people
get bored by the Chargers, and I think I know why,
because they have a really good record and they've pretty
much beaten nobody, you know what I'm saying, Like Jim
Harba did not get the job as the Chargers head
coach so they could beat the Saints, Browns, Titans, and
(06:49):
Bengals and have their quote unquote signature win be Week
five against the Broncos. The Chargers, who I love and
who I picked to make the playoffs, and I think
it win eleven games have lost to everybody who matters.
They've lost to the Steelers, Chiefs, Ravens, They've even lost
to the Cardinals. This week they played the Chiefs. They
already lost to the Chiefs. Ones Jim Harbaugh got this
job so they could beat Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes.
(07:12):
If the Chiefs lose to the Chargers, Chargers actually win
that game, then you show up on Monday more you're like,
all right, boats up, baby, the Chargers actually matter if
they lose to the Chiefs team who can barely beat
anybody by more than a point or two. If they
lose that game, it's a lot of same old Chargers
and I hate same old anything. I just hate repetitive takes.
It would be refreshing if the Chargers won that game.
(07:34):
But believe me, if they don't, I don't really give
a damn that they beat whatever zombie Kirk Cousins and
the worst game he's ever played in his career this
past week, Take number seven the Bears head coach, and
Higer will be weird. I haven't done this podcast as
Matt Ebraflus was fireds. It's all the Thanksgiving stuff. But
if you think that just the Detroit Lions will go
and win the Super Bowl or lose the title game
(07:55):
or whatever it is, and then the Bears will promptly
hire Ben Johnson to be their head coach, That's not
how it works. That's not how the organization works. They
won't just hire Cliff Kingsbury because used to work with Caleb.
They always make weird choices. Quickly. They had love You Smith,
who got them to the super Bowl, who was beloved
in the locker room. He wins ten games. They fire
him so they could hire the head coach of the
(08:16):
Montreal Loettes. That actually happened, Mark Trestman replaced Lovey Smith.
They fired Mark Trestman. It's a disaster. They hired John Fox,
who was just fired by the Broncos a few days earlier.
Felt like a retread. He was on his third team
and he coached like a retreddit. It amounted to nothing.
Then they go to Matt Naggy, who was just coming
off a monumental collapse of the pri Mahomes Chief era
(08:36):
in the playoffs. They hire him. It doesn't work long term.
And then they fire Matt Naggy and they go to
who do we need who could really turn this program around.
We got this young quarterback justin Field. Let's get somebody
in here to really harness his power. Let's get the
Colts defensive coordinator, Matt how the hell do you say
this name? Ever? Flus To don't know how to say
his name. The Bears will make a weird hire. If
(08:57):
you think it's gonna be one of these headline guys,
it's not. They don't do it, and we'll be like, huh,
who I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be. Take
number eight. Snowgame pushback is weird to me. I've seen
like blowback now against snowgames. I'm watching Bill's Niners, Like
that's not really football. The Niners can't defend anything. It's
there's no traction, dude, Are you actually against snow games?
(09:20):
Are you against the United States of America? Are you
against apple pie? We had a whole slate of games
that were non snow games. We have another one on
Monday night. Just enjoy the snow game. Don't push back
against snow games. I'm not here for that. Take number nine.
Thanksgiving pre partying is better than the actual meal. Walking
around drinking shrimp, crackers, dip, whatever the hell you have
(09:40):
at your house is so much more fun than actually
sitting down for turkey and all green beans. By the
time I sit down for a meal, I'm so stuffed,
so fat, so drunk. I just want to go to bed.
Take number ten, it's Christmas music season. It flips quickly.
For me, the worst Christmas song is Santa Baby My Madonna.
That thing is stupid. It's inappropriate. I don't even want
that on in the car while my kids are listening.
(10:02):
Is she giving Santa a lap dance? What is going on?
That's a married man, by the way, You've been married
a long time and Santa's getting a lapper from Madonna.
I don't like it. Weird, weird, weird song, stupid, unlistenable.
It's an instant switch. When that thing comes on, you
go like Alexa Siri, don't ever play this song again.
(10:24):
I hate that song. But I love you guys, and
I love doing ten Takes in ten minutes. I just
did it. I'm an overtime right now. There is no
overtime on ten Takes. It's only let's see you next week.
Click subscribe, review rate, tell your friends, tell your parents,
and I'll see you next week. Ten Takes. Thanks a lot.
(10:46):
Ten Takes 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 ten Takes. You made it, Let's do it
ten takes in ten minutes. We have a bomb, we
have an explosive device, we have a clock, and we
have takes ten of them. That clock I mentioned. Let's
(00:26):
start it, take number one. Laterals are the most exciting
play in the sport. It's always incredible. It's always fun.
The Josh Allen Amari Cooper thing was so cool and
out of nowhere because you don't actually expect it to happen.
I've seen a lot of Josh Allen plays. I've seen
a lot more important Josh Allen plays. We're gonna see
(00:47):
a lot more. They didn't even really need that touchdown,
but it was still one of the plays of the
year because one player threw it backwards to another at
great risk and peril. Travis Kelcey does it sometimes. It's
always awesome. Remember Randy Moss did it once and like
a Hail Mary situation. It's always memorable. I used to
love watching and things like Air Force and the Service
Academy teams would run the triple option. It's always such
(01:09):
a high potential for fumbles. It's such a risky thing
to do. I think the punt block is maybe the
most exciting play in the sport. But then again, laterals
just always always incredible. You screamed, oh my god, he
actually lateraled it, especially in the case of Amari Cooper
and Josh Allen as un Like they've been teammates for
five six years, they've been teammates for seven or eight
(01:29):
weeks or whatever it is, and they still there. It's like, yeah,
we made eye contact, we decided to go for it.
That's two guys who have played a lot of football
and decided it's kind of a fun atmosphere. Or if
we lateral it, sure it may go terribly wrong. In
the Niners scoop and score and ide eight ears in
the other direction, but screw it, let's get wild. Laterals
unbelievably exciting. No matter when they have it. It could
be a preseason game, doesn't matter, somebody laterals you're in.
(01:52):
Take number two. The MVP race took a turn. I
think in the middle of that lateral. I'll tell you why.
First of all, nobody's ever been more interested in the
MVP race. It's all anybody wants to talk about for
some award that you don't really even care about on
the night at NFL Honors. It's every TV segment, every
podcast segment. Are you sick of it? Do you care?
I care this year just because it's fascinating. I feel
like I have a vested interest because I've really wanted
(02:14):
to see a running pack do it. And I love
Josh Allen. Really. The one thing that Saquon had over
him was he had a better entry into the cool
play category, and maybe he still does, but at least
Josh Allen's now in. Up until then, the Josh Allen
MVP case was the amazing run against the Chiefs on
fourth and two, But that was just football. This is
some sort of weird circ to Silay Magic. When Josh
(02:35):
Allen retires and he goes in the Hall of Fame
and they do a sixty second video montage, They're gonna
play that clip of Amari Cooper later on it to him,
And I really do think you could put up stats
in national television. You can put up a big win
on national television. To do something magical just blows everybody's
hair back and it makes him want to vote for
you as an MVP. Voter. I think that play really
(02:55):
will make a difference. Take number three. Saquon has to
run the perfect campaign. I've mentioned this before. It's so difficult.
I think I know what he has to do. I
think he has to break the Dickerson record. It's twenty
one oh five. It's the Eric Dickerson single season rushing record.
I think if he does that, Saquon, I think then
he can at least get a piece. And by a piece,
(03:16):
I mean I'm old enough to remember when they would
do co MVPs. It happened, you could look it up.
I think it was Steve McNair and Peyton Manner or
Steve mcnarren, Barry Sanders, whatever it was, they split the MVP.
If Saquon goes twenty one oh five and he breaks
the all time Eric Dickerson record, which is a really
vaunted number, you gotta give it to at least half
of it. But then again, people are like, well, Dickerson
(03:37):
did it in sixteen games, and it's so true. Now
he's gonna do it in seventeen games. If you really
want to get literal, and I do this sometimes with
the MVP, and then I'll stop talking to the MVP
because it's getting to annoying the topic. You gotta get
it with the value in most valuable player, meaning obviously,
if you took Saquon off the Eagles, they're still winning games,
They're probably still going to the playoffs. If you take
Josh Allen off the Bills, I think they're three and fourteen,
(04:00):
so that is a runaway. But that's not always about that.
Sometimes they just give it to whoever has the best
team or whoever is the best stats. They changed, they
moved the goalpost. I just think Saquan if he just
has a great, great, great season, it's not enough. He
has to have an all time season. He has to
run a perfect campaign. Take number four. That was the
coolest play of the week, the Mark Cooper Josh Allen lateral.
(04:21):
The most important play was Cooper Dejene tackling Derek Henry
and the Eagles Ravens. That play said so much. You
have one hundred and ninety eight pound rookie tackling a
two hundred and forty seven pound wicked king. Did you
see that play? He got down like every high school
football coaches dreamed, and bent his knees and lowered his
hips and exploded through the tackle and made Z's in
(04:42):
his knees and grabbed cloth and through his elbows. It
was such a beautiful tackle and it spoke to so
much that the Eagles team is tough, They're fearless. They
will literally take down Kings with their scrappy little rookie
defensive back. I know that they won the game and
Saquan eventually had a long touchdown and Jalen hurts as
Jalen hurts, the Eagles defense is so tough, so nasty,
and that play was like so Philly, so under dog,
(05:05):
so so true to who they are as a city
and as a team. Philadelphia looks great right now. It's
the Big Four, right you have Detroit and Philadelphia, and
I think you have Buffalo in Kansas City, and then
there's the other teams after that. I'll get into it.
Take number five. You know what's fascinating I mentioned in
Baltimore justin Tucker's situations fascinating to me sometimes I just
like kicker talk this time of year. What do you
(05:26):
do with him? He lost the game for them. The
Ravens had their kicker who is known by every single
metric and anybody who asks is the greatest kicker of
all time. He's gonna be in the Hall of Fame
someday as a kicker, at least I thought he was.
He missed an extra point in two field goals in
that game. They needed him to win the game. The
rest of the team played well enough to beat the Eagles,
and their kicker can't make a kick right now, is
(05:46):
having the worst season of his career. And normally you
follow standard protocol, he'd be cut. All right, You're not
going to just cut Justin Tucker, But do they like,
bring in another kicker, just put him on the practice squad,
turn up the heat. Then that becomes a massive conversation.
What happens next week If Justin Tucker misses two more kicks,
don't they have to cut him? They him They need
a kicker who can make a kick in a field
(06:06):
goal in any situation in a playoff game, you can't
just keep dragging them along. And what if they ended
up losing in the playoffs because Justin Tucker misses a
kick from I don't know, forty eight yards, then it's
like you held on to him because he's so well
liked in such a great raven But It's like that's
despite your own face. You have to get rid of him.
I'm so rived by that. The Ravens have problems. Lamar's
(06:27):
not one of them. Derek Henry's not one of them.
They can't make a kick right now, and it's kick
making season the last time I look. Take number six.
This is the biggest Chargers week of the year. I'm
going to try to be quick on this because people
get bored by the Chargers, and I think I know why,
because they have a really good record and they've pretty
much beaten nobody, you know what I'm saying, Like Jim
Harba did not get the job as the Chargers head
coach so they could beat the Saints, Browns, Titans, and
(06:49):
Bengals and have their quote unquote signature win be Week
five against the Broncos. The Chargers, who I love and
who I picked to make the playoffs, and I think
it win eleven games have lost to everybody who matters.
They've lost to the Steelers, Chiefs, Ravens, They've even lost
to the Cardinals. This week they played the Chiefs. They
already lost to the Chiefs. Ones Jim Harbaugh got this
job so they could beat Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes.
(07:12):
If the Chiefs lose to the Chargers, Chargers actually win
that game, then you show up on Monday more you're like,
all right, boats up, baby, the Chargers actually matter if
they lose to the Chiefs team who can barely beat
anybody by more than a point or two. If they
lose that game, it's a lot of same old Chargers
and I hate same old anything. I just hate repetitive takes.
It would be refreshing if the Chargers won that game.
(07:34):
But believe me, if they don't, I don't really give
a damn that they beat whatever zombie Kirk Cousins and
the worst game he's ever played in his career this
past week, Take number seven the Bears head coach, and
Higer will be weird. I haven't done this podcast as
Matt Ebraflus was fireds. It's all the Thanksgiving stuff. But
if you think that just the Detroit Lions will go
and win the Super Bowl or lose the title game
(07:55):
or whatever it is, and then the Bears will promptly
hire Ben Johnson to be their head coach, That's not
how it works. That's not how the organization works. They
won't just hire Cliff Kingsbury because used to work with Caleb.
They always make weird choices. Quickly. They had love You Smith,
who got them to the super Bowl, who was beloved
in the locker room. He wins ten games. They fire
him so they could hire the head coach of the
(08:16):
Montreal Loettes. That actually happened, Mark Trestman replaced Lovey Smith.
They fired Mark Trestman. It's a disaster. They hired John Fox,
who was just fired by the Broncos a few days earlier.
Felt like a retread. He was on his third team
and he coached like a retreddit. It amounted to nothing.
Then they go to Matt Naggy, who was just coming
off a monumental collapse of the pri Mahomes Chief era
(08:36):
in the playoffs. They hire him. It doesn't work long term.
And then they fire Matt Naggy and they go to
who do we need who could really turn this program around.
We got this young quarterback justin Field. Let's get somebody
in here to really harness his power. Let's get the
Colts defensive coordinator, Matt how the hell do you say
this name? Ever? Flus To don't know how to say
his name. The Bears will make a weird hire. If
(08:57):
you think it's gonna be one of these headline guys,
it's not. They don't do it, and we'll be like, huh,
who I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be. Take
number eight. Snowgame pushback is weird to me. I've seen
like blowback now against snowgames. I'm watching Bill's Niners, Like
that's not really football. The Niners can't defend anything. It's
there's no traction, dude, Are you actually against snow games?
(09:20):
Are you against the United States of America? Are you
against apple pie? We had a whole slate of games
that were non snow games. We have another one on
Monday night. Just enjoy the snow game. Don't push back
against snow games. I'm not here for that. Take number nine.
Thanksgiving pre partying is better than the actual meal. Walking
around drinking shrimp, crackers, dip, whatever the hell you have
(09:40):
at your house is so much more fun than actually
sitting down for turkey and all green beans. By the
time I sit down for a meal, I'm so stuffed,
so fat, so drunk. I just want to go to bed.
Take number ten, it's Christmas music season. It flips quickly.
For me, the worst Christmas song is Santa Baby My Madonna.
That thing is stupid. It's inappropriate. I don't even want
that on in the car while my kids are listening.
(10:02):
Is she giving Santa a lap dance? What is going on?
That's a married man, by the way, You've been married
a long time and Santa's getting a lapper from Madonna.
I don't like it. Weird, weird, weird song, stupid, unlistenable.
It's an instant switch. When that thing comes on, you
go like Alexa Siri, don't ever play this song again.
(10:24):
I hate that song. But I love you guys, and
I love doing ten Takes in ten minutes. I just
did it. I'm an overtime right now. There is no
overtime on ten Takes. It's only let's see you next week.
Click subscribe, review rate, tell your friends, tell your parents,
and I'll see you next week. Ten Takes. Thanks a lot.
(10:46):
Ten Takes 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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