November 10, 2025 • 11 mins
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- Upgraded to the worst of the best
- So young and so good
- Meeting Daniel Jones
- A voice that will now be heard
- Bad time of the year
- The Come Runnin' Team
- Tush Pushapalooza
- Get the most juice of the season
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. Ten Takes. You clicked. That's the first step.
Second step is me reminding you we have exactly ten
minutes to deliver ten takes. At the end of that
ten minutes, if I haven't done it, the bomb goes off. Anyway.
(00:26):
I can't stop it, You can't stop it. We're all
in this together. Let's start the clock. I'm upgrading the Bears.
The Chicago Bears have gone from being the best bad
team in the league to the worst good team in
the league. And that's a huge credit to them. I
can't get a handle on what the hell they are.
I know their record is good, they're six and three.
(00:48):
I still don't even know if their team is good.
They're down ten points to a really bad Giants team
who had Russell Wilson out there at quarterback. The Bears
are out there at home doing that, and yet you
snap your fingers and they win. It's so weird. They're
very clutch. They're very clutch at the end of games,
both in coaching and certainly Kablims was awesome in the
fourth quarter yesterday. So it's almost like it's better to
(01:09):
be clutch than good because you make the right plays
at the end of the game, and as long as
you stay close. They are a very watchable team too,
especially at the end, because weird stuff always happens, and
it usually happens in their favor. Take number two, it's
okay to be excited about the Chicago Bears. If you
utter anything online to your friends at work on a text,
(01:30):
it's anything positive about calib or the Bears, their first
response is it's against the Giants, bro, they suck. And
last week it's against the Bengals, Bro, they suck. I
don't disagree with you about either of those things. Those
teams do suck, but it's still getting the job done
for the Bears. They're still doing it. You can still
say you don't have to hedge everything with yeah, but
it's the Bengals and the Giants. Enjoy yourselves a little bit.
(01:52):
Dare to just embrace the happiness of being excited about
a Bears team that six and three, and you know why,
you better because the schedule is about to turn. There's
gonna be a lot of Bears talk over the next month,
and I don't know if it's gonna be good or
just like them because the divisional games are coming. It's
the Lions again, who smashed them in week two. It's
the Vikings, it's the Packers, It's all of that is coming.
(02:13):
There's no more Bengals and Giants on the schedule. So
you either get the joy of saying, oh my god,
this Bear's team is for real, or if you're a
critic or a hater, you get the joy of see,
I told you they sucked. They're getting totally exposed, and
they might. I don't know which one it's gonna be.
I think their coach is really good. I think their
quarterback is good late they need to get a full
game out of him. But they're this most interesting, mysterious
(02:35):
team in the league. And they're six and three. Take
number three. The Patriots are awesome. Oh my god, throw England.
Patriots have won seven games in a row. They have
won at Tampa Bay, they have won at Buffalo. They're
undefeated on the road. They're so young. Drake is so
Young's Trayveon is so young. He had this crazy coming
(02:56):
out party like he was a ferrari in the garage
that they take the cover off of and just leave
a patch in the driveway and go two hundred miles
an hour down the freeway. He just looked great. And
there's something bigger going on with the Patriots. What's going
on now is bigger than them beating Tampa Bay. It's
even bigger than them getting to the playoffs this year
winning in the playoffs. What's going on is they're trying
to launch a takeover of the East. They have already
(03:19):
beaten Buffalo. Like I mentioned, they're younger than Buffalo. They
have some guys who appear to be more talented than Buffalo.
I'm not saying Buffalo's cooked. I'm saying they looked terrible yesterday,
looked like they didn't want to be there in Miami,
or that they just showed up expecting the Dolphins to
run over. And it was one of the worst games
in the last few years for Buffalo. New England's like,
we have the coach, we have the quarterback, we're younger,
we're better, and I think we can take this thing
(03:40):
away from the next Bill's Patriots game. Huge, huge deal
for Buffalo. If you get swept by Drake May, the
writing's on the wall. Take number four. Daniel Jones is
the real deal. Now, I might not meaning it necessarily
as a player. Last week I went to Indianapolis. I
went to the coach facility. In the first time in
my life, I met Daniel Jones. I shook his hand,
(04:01):
I sat down with him, and it's exactly like you'd expect.
He's very polite. He is kind of seft spoken. He
does this little nervous laughter thing. He doesn't elaborate on
a lot of things. And I really tried to get
him to open up about him and I'm putting the
screws to him about so. But Daniel, everyone's talking about you.
Do you have a famous girlfriend, Do you have a podcast,
(04:22):
do you have a personal stylist, you have national commercials?
He's like, nope, nope, nope, nope. All right, what do
you like to do in your free time? Daniel? Uh?
You know, it's just kind of all about football. No, no, no, no.
On your bye week in the off season, it's just you.
It's a free day. There's nothing with football at all.
What do you like to do? Ah, I guess Uh.
(04:47):
I like to play a little golf. Oh my god.
Here's the thing. Here's the reason why I like it.
It's totally authentic, and at my age, the only thing
I think is cool is people not trying to be
cool and just being themselves. He is one hundred percent himself.
He's not trying to be subdued, trying to not give
you anything. He's just him and it was a marvel
(05:08):
to watch and it works. I think it's a horrible
fit for New York. Now I understand why I think
it's a great fit for Indiana. All he wants to
do is just like talk about football, watch film, try
to play well, be a good teammate, and occasionally see
his family when he has free time. That is it.
It's a marvel. Take number five, I have an MVP vote.
What do you think about that? For the first time
(05:29):
in my life, I'm not making this up. I'm talking
not some nonsense Good Morning Football segment. I have an
actual Associated Press Most Valuable Player vote. It's so crazy
for you people in my age, I feel like winning
Garth backstage with their backstage passes, just showing it to everybody.
I feel so special, I feel so privileged, and I
feel a little bit odd because for me, the MVP
(05:49):
voters are people like Peter King, who is just this
different generation, completely aerodyite football mastermind. And yet I'm like,
you know, I've been doing this ten years. I know
the league inside it out. I should have an MVP vote.
It's so strange, though, I feel like they're gonna take
it away from me after one year. I get one
year to vote, and then they're gonna be like, no,
that was not a good choice, because I'll tell you
(06:10):
why take number six. My eyes are wide open with
this thing. I will knock representing the people as an
MVP voter just started casually mail in whoever is the
best quarterback and the best team? No, no, no, no, no,
everything's on the table. If I had if I had
had MVP boats, I can barely speak. I'm so excited.
In prior years, I might have voted for Jamar Chase,
(06:31):
I might have voted for Saquon. This year, I'm looking
squarely at Jonathan Taylor, knowing that the Colts are eight
and two, and without them, I think they'd be four
and six. Without Jonathan Taylor, I think he has been
the most dominant player in the league. Now. Matthew Stafford unbelievable.
Right now, unconscious He's shooting three pointers and then just
jogging back the other side of the court, not even
looking to see if it goes in because he knows
(06:52):
it will. Unconscious Matthew Stafford couldn't possibly care less about
winning the MVP. That doesn't mean I won't vote for him,
but it's like I already can feel how bored Matthew
Stafford is with winning the MVP. Not interested, wants another
Super Bowl. I'm gonna be talking about this for the next
six weeks. I can't believe they gave it to me.
They're gonna take it away after one year. But I
will use that MVP, and I will use it in
(07:13):
my style. Take number seven. Aaron Rodgers had had a
horrible flight back from LA yesterday. Denny, imagine that such
a great idea. You're forty one years old, twenty first season.
I get to be with this venerable franchise. I'm with
the Steelers. They were winning games and I'm looking good.
Oh no, but now it's the middle of the season.
There's no bye week coming. That was like over a
month ago. I have eight games left. I think seven
(07:34):
of them are outside in the elements, in the cold,
including all my home games. He just was in La
at a stadium that is probably a twenty five minute
drive from his ocean side Malibu mansion. He can't even
go to it before he has to go back to
crappy Lax and fly back to freezing Pittsburgh. It's cold,
he's old. There's a lack of chemistry out there. He
(07:55):
doesn't want to be the guy who, like, they didn't
get to the playoffs and Tomlin finished seven and ten
or something. He's got to get it together. No one's
a bigger Rogers fan on the field than me. But
that had to be a long flight of contemplative about
how am I going to turn this around? Because he's
got to do it fast. Take number eight. The Ravens
are the cum running team. My favorite team every December
is the team that's record is bad but they're playing
(08:15):
really well. Their record is only bad because they lost
a lot of games in September. Normally it's the Philip
Rivers Chargers. They had a long run as the come
running team. I think the Joe Burrow Bengals and his
era kind of fit the billing of the team that
started crappy, but then they're so good late that no
one wants them in the playoffs. The other teams because
they'll get in and knock some of them off. Now
it's the Ravens. They've won three in a row. The
(08:36):
defense is magically batter. Lamar is doing fun Lamar things.
I don't know if they can get over this. They
started with such a terrible record. They're going to have
to win a lot of games in a row. But
the idea that Lamar, not some up and coming team
I'm talking about a two time MVP, could get in
the playoffs. Awesome. They're the cum running team. Take number
nine Eagles Packers on Monday Net Football said this many times.
I say it with my chest as the cool expression
(08:57):
to say these days. I hope the Eagles run the
tush push on the first play from scrimmage, from their
own thirty, their own twenty five. Take the three yards,
maybe four yards, maybe two yards, just to send a
message the Packers try to vote against the tush push
that egos know all about it. Nick Sirianni is many things.
One of them is petty. I would like to see
him just come out and run it in Lambeau tush
(09:19):
push first play, just to say screw you to everyone
who wants to take it away from them, which they
will probably do after the season. I would laugh out loud.
I'd also laugh out loud if Syrianne called it like
twenty times tonight. I'm hoping for it. Take number ten.
This is a tough one, but I gotta be honest.
November is now Christmas decoration season. I've made the jump.
I'm sorry. I know everybody rolls their eyes about the
(09:41):
rushing of the Christmas season and why are Christmas decorations
and stores it's August fifth. Here's where I come out.
I put a lot of work in over the weekend.
We put up the Christmas decorations. Stupid early, I know that,
but it's so much work to only get one month
of juice out of the Christmas decorations. I was on
the roof yesterday. I was in a tree yesterday. I'm
(10:02):
dragging disgusting extension cords out of disgusting boxes that were
neglected for the last eleven months. I'm happy to do it.
I like doing it. I need a little more juice
from the squeeze because it's a hard, freezing, annoying, arduous
squeeze on a Sunday. I hate it. So I've made
the jump. Our decorations go up in November. If you
have a problem with it, I get it. It is
(10:24):
kind of annoying. But if I'm gonna put in that
much work, that much expends that much sweat, they're staying
up for longer than a month. I don't apologize for it.
I don't. I may keep those things there till fourth
of July. They just made a year round Christmas house,
like one of those maniacs, you see. I like the
cable channels just keep their Christmas decorations year round. I
don't care. I don't want to take them down and
put all that crap away again. And now they're up,
(10:46):
and I get to wait till like after Christmas to
do it. I'm supposed to be stop talking around. The
bomb already exploded. I'm always supposed to be cremating it.
I'm done, guys. That's it. It's ten takes. It's ten
minutes with a little bonus. Today I broke my own rules.
We'll see you next week. Merry Christmas. Yes it's appropriate.
I'm saying that. In November. Merry Christmas. Drive by my house.
You'll see why. Five ten Takes is a production of
(11:14):
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 clicked. That's the first step.
Second step is me reminding you we have exactly ten
minutes to deliver ten takes. At the end of that
ten minutes, if I haven't done it, the bomb goes off. Anyway.
(00:26):
I can't stop it, You can't stop it. We're all
in this together. Let's start the clock. I'm upgrading the Bears.
The Chicago Bears have gone from being the best bad
team in the league to the worst good team in
the league. And that's a huge credit to them. I
can't get a handle on what the hell they are.
I know their record is good, they're six and three.
(00:48):
I still don't even know if their team is good.
They're down ten points to a really bad Giants team
who had Russell Wilson out there at quarterback. The Bears
are out there at home doing that, and yet you
snap your fingers and they win. It's so weird. They're
very clutch. They're very clutch at the end of games,
both in coaching and certainly Kablims was awesome in the
fourth quarter yesterday. So it's almost like it's better to
(01:09):
be clutch than good because you make the right plays
at the end of the game, and as long as
you stay close. They are a very watchable team too,
especially at the end, because weird stuff always happens, and
it usually happens in their favor. Take number two, it's
okay to be excited about the Chicago Bears. If you
utter anything online to your friends at work on a text,
(01:30):
it's anything positive about calib or the Bears, their first
response is it's against the Giants, bro, they suck. And
last week it's against the Bengals, Bro, they suck. I
don't disagree with you about either of those things. Those
teams do suck, but it's still getting the job done
for the Bears. They're still doing it. You can still
say you don't have to hedge everything with yeah, but
it's the Bengals and the Giants. Enjoy yourselves a little bit.
(01:52):
Dare to just embrace the happiness of being excited about
a Bears team that six and three, and you know why,
you better because the schedule is about to turn. There's
gonna be a lot of Bears talk over the next month,
and I don't know if it's gonna be good or
just like them because the divisional games are coming. It's
the Lions again, who smashed them in week two. It's
the Vikings, it's the Packers, It's all of that is coming.
(02:13):
There's no more Bengals and Giants on the schedule. So
you either get the joy of saying, oh my god,
this Bear's team is for real, or if you're a
critic or a hater, you get the joy of see,
I told you they sucked. They're getting totally exposed, and
they might. I don't know which one it's gonna be.
I think their coach is really good. I think their
quarterback is good late they need to get a full
game out of him. But they're this most interesting, mysterious
(02:35):
team in the league. And they're six and three. Take
number three. The Patriots are awesome. Oh my god, throw England.
Patriots have won seven games in a row. They have
won at Tampa Bay, they have won at Buffalo. They're
undefeated on the road. They're so young. Drake is so
Young's Trayveon is so young. He had this crazy coming
(02:56):
out party like he was a ferrari in the garage
that they take the cover off of and just leave
a patch in the driveway and go two hundred miles
an hour down the freeway. He just looked great. And
there's something bigger going on with the Patriots. What's going
on now is bigger than them beating Tampa Bay. It's
even bigger than them getting to the playoffs this year
winning in the playoffs. What's going on is they're trying
to launch a takeover of the East. They have already
(03:19):
beaten Buffalo. Like I mentioned, they're younger than Buffalo. They
have some guys who appear to be more talented than Buffalo.
I'm not saying Buffalo's cooked. I'm saying they looked terrible yesterday,
looked like they didn't want to be there in Miami,
or that they just showed up expecting the Dolphins to
run over. And it was one of the worst games
in the last few years for Buffalo. New England's like,
we have the coach, we have the quarterback, we're younger,
we're better, and I think we can take this thing
(03:40):
away from the next Bill's Patriots game. Huge, huge deal
for Buffalo. If you get swept by Drake May, the
writing's on the wall. Take number four. Daniel Jones is
the real deal. Now, I might not meaning it necessarily
as a player. Last week I went to Indianapolis. I
went to the coach facility. In the first time in
my life, I met Daniel Jones. I shook his hand,
(04:01):
I sat down with him, and it's exactly like you'd expect.
He's very polite. He is kind of seft spoken. He
does this little nervous laughter thing. He doesn't elaborate on
a lot of things. And I really tried to get
him to open up about him and I'm putting the
screws to him about so. But Daniel, everyone's talking about you.
Do you have a famous girlfriend, Do you have a podcast,
(04:22):
do you have a personal stylist, you have national commercials?
He's like, nope, nope, nope, nope. All right, what do
you like to do in your free time? Daniel? Uh?
You know, it's just kind of all about football. No, no, no, no.
On your bye week in the off season, it's just you.
It's a free day. There's nothing with football at all.
What do you like to do? Ah, I guess Uh.
(04:47):
I like to play a little golf. Oh my god.
Here's the thing. Here's the reason why I like it.
It's totally authentic, and at my age, the only thing
I think is cool is people not trying to be
cool and just being themselves. He is one hundred percent himself.
He's not trying to be subdued, trying to not give
you anything. He's just him and it was a marvel
(05:08):
to watch and it works. I think it's a horrible
fit for New York. Now I understand why I think
it's a great fit for Indiana. All he wants to
do is just like talk about football, watch film, try
to play well, be a good teammate, and occasionally see
his family when he has free time. That is it.
It's a marvel. Take number five, I have an MVP vote.
What do you think about that? For the first time
(05:29):
in my life, I'm not making this up. I'm talking
not some nonsense Good Morning Football segment. I have an
actual Associated Press Most Valuable Player vote. It's so crazy
for you people in my age, I feel like winning
Garth backstage with their backstage passes, just showing it to everybody.
I feel so special, I feel so privileged, and I
feel a little bit odd because for me, the MVP
(05:49):
voters are people like Peter King, who is just this
different generation, completely aerodyite football mastermind. And yet I'm like,
you know, I've been doing this ten years. I know
the league inside it out. I should have an MVP vote.
It's so strange, though, I feel like they're gonna take
it away from me after one year. I get one
year to vote, and then they're gonna be like, no,
that was not a good choice, because I'll tell you
(06:10):
why take number six. My eyes are wide open with
this thing. I will knock representing the people as an
MVP voter just started casually mail in whoever is the
best quarterback and the best team? No, no, no, no, no,
everything's on the table. If I had if I had
had MVP boats, I can barely speak. I'm so excited.
In prior years, I might have voted for Jamar Chase,
(06:31):
I might have voted for Saquon. This year, I'm looking
squarely at Jonathan Taylor, knowing that the Colts are eight
and two, and without them, I think they'd be four
and six. Without Jonathan Taylor, I think he has been
the most dominant player in the league. Now. Matthew Stafford unbelievable.
Right now, unconscious He's shooting three pointers and then just
jogging back the other side of the court, not even
looking to see if it goes in because he knows
(06:52):
it will. Unconscious Matthew Stafford couldn't possibly care less about
winning the MVP. That doesn't mean I won't vote for him,
but it's like I already can feel how bored Matthew
Stafford is with winning the MVP. Not interested, wants another
Super Bowl. I'm gonna be talking about this for the next
six weeks. I can't believe they gave it to me.
They're gonna take it away after one year. But I
will use that MVP, and I will use it in
(07:13):
my style. Take number seven. Aaron Rodgers had had a
horrible flight back from LA yesterday. Denny, imagine that such
a great idea. You're forty one years old, twenty first season.
I get to be with this venerable franchise. I'm with
the Steelers. They were winning games and I'm looking good.
Oh no, but now it's the middle of the season.
There's no bye week coming. That was like over a
month ago. I have eight games left. I think seven
(07:34):
of them are outside in the elements, in the cold,
including all my home games. He just was in La
at a stadium that is probably a twenty five minute
drive from his ocean side Malibu mansion. He can't even
go to it before he has to go back to
crappy Lax and fly back to freezing Pittsburgh. It's cold,
he's old. There's a lack of chemistry out there. He
(07:55):
doesn't want to be the guy who, like, they didn't
get to the playoffs and Tomlin finished seven and ten
or something. He's got to get it together. No one's
a bigger Rogers fan on the field than me. But
that had to be a long flight of contemplative about
how am I going to turn this around? Because he's
got to do it fast. Take number eight. The Ravens
are the cum running team. My favorite team every December
is the team that's record is bad but they're playing
(08:15):
really well. Their record is only bad because they lost
a lot of games in September. Normally it's the Philip
Rivers Chargers. They had a long run as the come
running team. I think the Joe Burrow Bengals and his
era kind of fit the billing of the team that
started crappy, but then they're so good late that no
one wants them in the playoffs. The other teams because
they'll get in and knock some of them off. Now
it's the Ravens. They've won three in a row. The
(08:36):
defense is magically batter. Lamar is doing fun Lamar things.
I don't know if they can get over this. They
started with such a terrible record. They're going to have
to win a lot of games in a row. But
the idea that Lamar, not some up and coming team
I'm talking about a two time MVP, could get in
the playoffs. Awesome. They're the cum running team. Take number
nine Eagles Packers on Monday Net Football said this many times.
I say it with my chest as the cool expression
(08:57):
to say these days. I hope the Eagles run the
tush push on the first play from scrimmage, from their
own thirty, their own twenty five. Take the three yards,
maybe four yards, maybe two yards, just to send a
message the Packers try to vote against the tush push
that egos know all about it. Nick Sirianni is many things.
One of them is petty. I would like to see
him just come out and run it in Lambeau tush
(09:19):
push first play, just to say screw you to everyone
who wants to take it away from them, which they
will probably do after the season. I would laugh out loud.
I'd also laugh out loud if Syrianne called it like
twenty times tonight. I'm hoping for it. Take number ten.
This is a tough one, but I gotta be honest.
November is now Christmas decoration season. I've made the jump.
I'm sorry. I know everybody rolls their eyes about the
(09:41):
rushing of the Christmas season and why are Christmas decorations
and stores it's August fifth. Here's where I come out.
I put a lot of work in over the weekend.
We put up the Christmas decorations. Stupid early, I know that,
but it's so much work to only get one month
of juice out of the Christmas decorations. I was on
the roof yesterday. I was in a tree yesterday. I'm
(10:02):
dragging disgusting extension cords out of disgusting boxes that were
neglected for the last eleven months. I'm happy to do it.
I like doing it. I need a little more juice
from the squeeze because it's a hard, freezing, annoying, arduous
squeeze on a Sunday. I hate it. So I've made
the jump. Our decorations go up in November. If you
have a problem with it, I get it. It is
(10:24):
kind of annoying. But if I'm gonna put in that
much work, that much expends that much sweat, they're staying
up for longer than a month. I don't apologize for it.
I don't. I may keep those things there till fourth
of July. They just made a year round Christmas house,
like one of those maniacs, you see. I like the
cable channels just keep their Christmas decorations year round. I
don't care. I don't want to take them down and
put all that crap away again. And now they're up,
(10:46):
and I get to wait till like after Christmas to
do it. I'm supposed to be stop talking around. The
bomb already exploded. I'm always supposed to be cremating it.
I'm done, guys. That's it. It's ten takes. It's ten
minutes with a little bonus. Today I broke my own rules.
We'll see you next week. Merry Christmas. Yes it's appropriate.
I'm saying that. In November. Merry Christmas. Drive by my house.
You'll see why. Five ten Takes is a production of
(11:14):
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.
Host
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