September 7, 2025 • 10 mins
Fans will celebrate wins and curse losses this week, but Kyle Brandt explains why you should never trust the results from NFL Week 1!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The needles are jumping, They're all over the map, and
why because it's Week one in the NFL season. Week
one is a lot of things. It's fun, it's exciting,
it's fresh, but it is totally dishonest. Week one is
a pathological liar each year, every year.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What do I mean by that?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You're going to see a lot of things this week
and you saw some things last night that are not
going to amount to anything for the rest of the year, good.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Bad or otherwise. Are you a fan of the Rollins
band Henry Rollins.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Jamie listens to him every time before the show, right
before the show starts. That's Henry Rollins screaming because I'm
a liar, and that might as well be what Week
one says. Week one is the Henry Rollins of weeks.
You see very good things often in Week one from
teams that go on to be miserable.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
For the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You see horrible Week ones from teams that not only
have good years, they go on to win the Super Bowl.
So as we go into Week one, I want you
to think about that. I want you to think about
Henry Rollins, and I want you to think about the
evidence we are about to submit to you that Week
one lies through its bleeping teeth. We're going to start
thirty years ago, nineteen ninety five, Green Bay Packers, Brett Farr.
(01:36):
They lose at home to Lambeau. The Packers did not
lose in Lambeau much. FARV throws three interceptions. They lose
to the Rams. It's a seventeen fourteen dud. FARV does nothing.
It's bad far of It's horrible, terrible season.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Right, FARV won the MVP. FRV won the MVP, In fact,
he won his first of three in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And this miserable, ugly and sloppy Packers team goes to
the NFC title Game, in which FARV was again magnificent,
and they only lost because Emmett and Irvin.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Scored five touchdowns combined. Five Packers. Week one liar. Next,
two thousand three Patriots. We have to do this, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The two thousand and three Patriots started their season losing
thirty one nothing to the Buffalo Bills. And there's big
Sam Adams picking off Tom Brady. Tom Brady four interceptions
on this day to the Bills. Now, the backstory is
that they traded Lawyer malloy the safety right before the
season started, and there was an ESPN report that the
Patriots players quote hated Bill Belichick and it was absolute fury,
(02:35):
terrible start to the season. The Patriots won the Super Bowl.
The Patriots won the Super Bowl. Tom Brady makes magic.
They come back, they beat the Panthers in a spirited game.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And it's just you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No one cared that four months ago they lost to
the Bills and lawyer molloy was an After that. They
came back to wax the Bills next time they played them.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Which Super Bowl was that in that early two thousands?
The second one? Second one? This is the second one
Super Bowl? Hangover that game? Yeah, back that was everywhere, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, you could go on AOL FanHouse and read all
about it. The nineteen ninety five Patriots, or rather to
three Patriots. Liar, let's advance way up in time. Do
you remember the twenty twelve Colts. I definitely do.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This is Andrew Luck. Colts, fresh face Andrew Luck.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They go to Soldier Field and they get stopped by
twenty points. The Bears put up forty one on them
Andrew Luck three interceptions on the day they guess what
the season's over. Reggie Wayne can't do anything. The Colts
made the playoffs. They were eleven and five. Andrew Luck
was a pro bowler. He was runner up in a
(03:41):
spirited race for art for Rookie of the Year to
Robert Griffin the third, who was a sensation.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
They won two games the year before and won eleven
games this year.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Who cares that they lost to the Bears week one
and give up forty one points?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He what liar t Y Hilton always balls out now here?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, let me if you mind, if they don't mind,
in the directors with let me as they say on
the team come back on camera.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay, because you think you have the segment figured out.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You think you're like, all right, really crappy debuts and
then they turn into an awesome season. There's a flip
side to that. Oh no, and it's not good. Some
team this weekend in Week one is gonna look great
and you're gonna say we got a team team's gonna
win two games all year.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I know it because that sometimes Week one lies about
the teams that are good, and they aren't good. Do
you want to go back to twenty fourteen, because I
do not. Really, I'm talking, well, we're going was a boneweight.
The twenty fourteen Titans featured Jake Locker once looked at
as a generational prospect.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I know that's a loaded phrase. These days.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They go and they beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead, and
they beat the Alex Smith Chiefs. Twenty six to ten
is a beatdown. It was not a competitive game. The
ap reports is the Titans were implementing a new offensive
system under Ken Wizenhunt, and they looked fantastics and they're
just rolling. And Alex Smith, the spirited guy that you
can't do anything. Well, my friends, I can tell you
(05:03):
that Titans would win one more game all year, one
more game.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's a two win team.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We went to Airhead, we took down here at two
and fourteen. Miserable season, awful season because Week one was what.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I always think about, how embarrassing that is. Then for
the Chiefs who had lost to a two win who.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Looked to the Titans, but then just tell them it's
week one. People, look the week one is full of bs.
Let's go to twenty eighteen. This is getting more modern.
Now this is the debut of that man.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wow, Sam Donald USC hot shot quarterback. Cool. They going
to Detroit.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh baby, they've put forty eight points on the pre
Dan Campbell Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sam Donold's on the New York Post. We got a hero.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He's gonna take us to the super Bowl's Broadway. Sam
Sam throw two touchdowns, one hundred and sixteen passer rating.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Matthew Stafford was picked.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Off four times touch Judson.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Guys. Jets finished four and twelve, and Todd Bowles was fired.
Oh that's week one.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's not nice, but I'm glad that everyone's doing better
since then. Todd Bowles with the Bucks, Sam Donald with
the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's jamis.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
So you're saying that Sam Donald was on the back
of the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
As a hero, as a he might have even been
in the front, might have even been already. But listen,
there was this past that were I remember that being
picked off.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So the Jets is a terrible season.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I went.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I went to the Jets facility at the end of
that season, do like a special vignette.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I was there on the day Todd Bowles was fired.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He walked past me in the hallway to go to
the press conference, and he just looked his ashen, just
looked like a shell of himself.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's a rough, rough season.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Why do you always find yourselvan streets where people are
walking past season?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Last night, Jalen Carter shell itself.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I know, I don't know what it is, all right,
So Jets Week one, big time liar. But then in
a first ballot Hall of Fame entry to the Week
one of the liar club, I gave you the twenty
twenty four Saints, last year's Saints, also known as the
Week one greatest show on turf? Do you remember what
the Saints did? Forty seven points.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
From Derek Carr. You'll never forget the Derek Carr Saints era.
This was a record, a record, a record for.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The largest Week one win by any team that what
went on to lose twelve games? That's what, guys, it was.
Guess what.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
The Saints also beat the Cowboys the next week? Who
was a liar?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And you kept telling us, guys, Bilchi, it's probably Strager
was coming out of his chair about something special. They
beat the Panthers Week one, don't we don't judge until
Week two. But I have to tell you the Saints
season utterly fell apart after Week two.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
They lost seven in a row, and.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
After scoring forty plus the first two weeks, they only
averaged fourteen points the next seven weeks. Oh all right,
So bring me back my Henry Rollins with the anger
and the muscles and the tattoo, because he was screaming
at this back when the pack was carved lost to
the Rams, back then, back then at Lambeau.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Because I'm a liar. That is the physical manifestation of
Week one. Gripped, angry, tat it up. Why is though?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So my takeaway is this, if your team sucks this weekend,
don't panic.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It's gonna be all right. I'm not It's not definitely
gonna be all right, but all is not lost. Week
one is a liar, However, am I? Friends? If your
team is really.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Good this weekend, easy easy, easy, don't start buying things
you can't afford and making all kinds of nonsense on online.
Pump the brakes because a year ago the Saints were
gonna play in the super Bowl and then they didn't
do anything. Trust me, on this week one is a what?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Week what?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
And maybe Week two because to that Saints game, they
scored ninety one points is the second most they ever
scored in franchise history. And I remember in our fantasy
football league, guys are going bizarve cover Alvin Kamara and
then I know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It went on. Yeah, Kyle.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You know when you make references of bands that I
don't know, I immediately like to go on Wikipedia and
make sure you understand a critic one's called the Rollins
Band and describe the singer Henry Rollins as he shouts angry,
biting self examinations and accusations over the grind. So don't
do that about your team in Week one. Okay, don't
don't get angry, don't do biting, self accusations and self
(09:30):
biting examinations, accusations over the grind.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, just just hold hold, We'll get Henry Roninds on
the show. He'll come in the New York studio probably
is probably there, huge.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Respect for him.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I love them, A big time movie actor too, but
also his finding his voice in the NFL in the
form of Week one being live. I hope so pull
out there and I hope here there yet.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So it's up, Janda, do defensive blot of your one episols.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You know what, matt Ty you vetter home, I hope
that's a big line. That's a whopper.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
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.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
The needles are jumping, They're all over the map, and
why because it's Week one in the NFL season. Week
one is a lot of things. It's fun, it's exciting,
it's fresh, but it is totally dishonest. Week one is
a pathological liar each year, every year.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What do I mean by that?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You're going to see a lot of things this week
and you saw some things last night that are not
going to amount to anything for the rest of the year, good.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Bad or otherwise. Are you a fan of the Rollins
band Henry Rollins.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Jamie listens to him every time before the show, right
before the show starts. That's Henry Rollins screaming because I'm
a liar, and that might as well be what Week
one says. Week one is the Henry Rollins of weeks.
You see very good things often in Week one from
teams that go on to be miserable.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
For the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
You see horrible Week ones from teams that not only
have good years, they go on to win the Super Bowl.
So as we go into Week one, I want you
to think about that. I want you to think about
Henry Rollins, and I want you to think about the
evidence we are about to submit to you that Week
one lies through its bleeping teeth. We're going to start
thirty years ago, nineteen ninety five, Green Bay Packers, Brett Farr.
(01:36):
They lose at home to Lambeau. The Packers did not
lose in Lambeau much. FARV throws three interceptions. They lose
to the Rams. It's a seventeen fourteen dud. FARV does nothing.
It's bad far of It's horrible, terrible season.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Right, FARV won the MVP. FRV won the MVP, In fact,
he won his first of three in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And this miserable, ugly and sloppy Packers team goes to
the NFC title Game, in which FARV was again magnificent,
and they only lost because Emmett and Irvin.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Scored five touchdowns combined. Five Packers. Week one liar. Next,
two thousand three Patriots. We have to do this, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The two thousand and three Patriots started their season losing
thirty one nothing to the Buffalo Bills. And there's big
Sam Adams picking off Tom Brady. Tom Brady four interceptions
on this day to the Bills. Now, the backstory is
that they traded Lawyer malloy the safety right before the
season started, and there was an ESPN report that the
Patriots players quote hated Bill Belichick and it was absolute fury,
(02:35):
terrible start to the season. The Patriots won the Super Bowl.
The Patriots won the Super Bowl. Tom Brady makes magic.
They come back, they beat the Panthers in a spirited game.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And it's just you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No one cared that four months ago they lost to
the Bills and lawyer molloy was an After that. They
came back to wax the Bills next time they played them.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Which Super Bowl was that in that early two thousands?
The second one? Second one? This is the second one
Super Bowl? Hangover that game? Yeah, back that was everywhere, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yes, you could go on AOL FanHouse and read all
about it. The nineteen ninety five Patriots, or rather to
three Patriots. Liar, let's advance way up in time. Do
you remember the twenty twelve Colts. I definitely do.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
This is Andrew Luck. Colts, fresh face Andrew Luck.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They go to Soldier Field and they get stopped by
twenty points. The Bears put up forty one on them
Andrew Luck three interceptions on the day they guess what
the season's over. Reggie Wayne can't do anything. The Colts
made the playoffs. They were eleven and five. Andrew Luck
was a pro bowler. He was runner up in a
(03:41):
spirited race for art for Rookie of the Year to
Robert Griffin the third, who was a sensation.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
They won two games the year before and won eleven
games this year.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Who cares that they lost to the Bears week one
and give up forty one points?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He what liar t Y Hilton always balls out now here?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, let me if you mind, if they don't mind,
in the directors with let me as they say on
the team come back on camera.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Okay, because you think you have the segment figured out.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You think you're like, all right, really crappy debuts and
then they turn into an awesome season. There's a flip
side to that. Oh no, and it's not good. Some
team this weekend in Week one is gonna look great
and you're gonna say we got a team team's gonna
win two games all year.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I've seen it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I know it because that sometimes Week one lies about
the teams that are good, and they aren't good. Do
you want to go back to twenty fourteen, because I
do not. Really, I'm talking, well, we're going was a boneweight.
The twenty fourteen Titans featured Jake Locker once looked at
as a generational prospect.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I know that's a loaded phrase. These days.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They go and they beat the Chiefs at Arrowhead, and
they beat the Alex Smith Chiefs. Twenty six to ten
is a beatdown. It was not a competitive game. The
ap reports is the Titans were implementing a new offensive
system under Ken Wizenhunt, and they looked fantastics and they're
just rolling. And Alex Smith, the spirited guy that you
can't do anything. Well, my friends, I can tell you
(05:03):
that Titans would win one more game all year, one
more game.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
That's a two win team.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We went to Airhead, we took down here at two
and fourteen. Miserable season, awful season because Week one was what.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I always think about, how embarrassing that is. Then for
the Chiefs who had lost to a two win who.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Looked to the Titans, but then just tell them it's
week one. People, look the week one is full of bs.
Let's go to twenty eighteen. This is getting more modern.
Now this is the debut of that man.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Wow, Sam Donald USC hot shot quarterback. Cool. They going
to Detroit.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh baby, they've put forty eight points on the pre
Dan Campbell Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Sam Donold's on the New York Post. We got a hero.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
He's gonna take us to the super Bowl's Broadway. Sam
Sam throw two touchdowns, one hundred and sixteen passer rating.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Matthew Stafford was picked.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Off four times touch Judson.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Guys. Jets finished four and twelve, and Todd Bowles was fired.
Oh that's week one.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
It's not nice, but I'm glad that everyone's doing better
since then. Todd Bowles with the Bucks, Sam Donald with
the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
That's jamis.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
So you're saying that Sam Donald was on the back
of the New York Post.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
As a hero, as a he might have even been
in the front, might have even been already. But listen,
there was this past that were I remember that being
picked off.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So the Jets is a terrible season.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I went.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I went to the Jets facility at the end of
that season, do like a special vignette.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I was there on the day Todd Bowles was fired.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
He walked past me in the hallway to go to
the press conference, and he just looked his ashen, just
looked like a shell of himself.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
It's a rough, rough season.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Why do you always find yourselvan streets where people are
walking past season?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Last night, Jalen Carter shell itself.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I know, I don't know what it is, all right,
So Jets Week one, big time liar. But then in
a first ballot Hall of Fame entry to the Week
one of the liar club, I gave you the twenty
twenty four Saints, last year's Saints, also known as the
Week one greatest show on turf? Do you remember what
the Saints did? Forty seven points.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
From Derek Carr. You'll never forget the Derek Carr Saints era.
This was a record, a record, a record for.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The largest Week one win by any team that what
went on to lose twelve games? That's what, guys, it was.
Guess what.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
The Saints also beat the Cowboys the next week? Who
was a liar?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And you kept telling us, guys, Bilchi, it's probably Strager
was coming out of his chair about something special. They
beat the Panthers Week one, don't we don't judge until
Week two. But I have to tell you the Saints
season utterly fell apart after Week two.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
They lost seven in a row, and.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
After scoring forty plus the first two weeks, they only
averaged fourteen points the next seven weeks. Oh all right,
So bring me back my Henry Rollins with the anger
and the muscles and the tattoo, because he was screaming
at this back when the pack was carved lost to
the Rams, back then, back then at Lambeau.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Because I'm a liar. That is the physical manifestation of
Week one. Gripped, angry, tat it up. Why is though?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So my takeaway is this, if your team sucks this weekend,
don't panic.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
It's gonna be all right. I'm not It's not definitely
gonna be all right, but all is not lost. Week
one is a liar, However, am I? Friends? If your
team is really.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Good this weekend, easy easy, easy, don't start buying things
you can't afford and making all kinds of nonsense on online.
Pump the brakes because a year ago the Saints were
gonna play in the super Bowl and then they didn't
do anything. Trust me, on this week one is a what?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Week what?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
And maybe Week two because to that Saints game, they
scored ninety one points is the second most they ever
scored in franchise history. And I remember in our fantasy
football league, guys are going bizarve cover Alvin Kamara and
then I know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
It went on. Yeah, Kyle.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
You know when you make references of bands that I
don't know, I immediately like to go on Wikipedia and
make sure you understand a critic one's called the Rollins
Band and describe the singer Henry Rollins as he shouts angry,
biting self examinations and accusations over the grind. So don't
do that about your team in Week one. Okay, don't
don't get angry, don't do biting, self accusations and self
(09:30):
biting examinations, accusations over the grind.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay, just just hold hold, We'll get Henry Roninds on
the show. He'll come in the New York studio probably
is probably there, huge.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Respect for him.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I love them, A big time movie actor too, but
also his finding his voice in the NFL in the
form of Week one being live. I hope so pull
out there and I hope here there yet.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
So it's up, Janda, do defensive blot of your one episols.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You know what, matt Ty you vetter home, I hope
that's a big line. That's a whopper.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
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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