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November 15, 2024 • 10 mins

A collection of Kyle Brandt's Best Cuts from the Week of 11/11/2024:

  • The Bears look broken
  • The Chiefs are for 'old heads'
  • Taybor Pepper is one of my new favorite players
  • Are the Eagles robbing Saquon of an MVP?
  • The Lions are by themselves in the NFC

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. There are bad teams, There's a lot of them.

(00:26):
It's not that the Bears look bad. They look broken.
It's not like, oh, that wasn't their day yesterday, or
tough breaks. It was a total start to finish malfunction.
The energy is flat, the effort is flat. The body
language it's almost offensive. Caleb is a mess, is a mess.
Nobody's open, and if they are, he misses them. It

(00:48):
feels like a defender if not two, has just a
free sprint at him every single time he tries to pass.
You watch games on Sunday and there are teams that
don't play well, and there are teams that lose, and
then you watch the Bears and you say, what the
hell is this. It's not that they lost, it's not
even that they have a four and five record.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It just feels like they have no shot.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
It feels like they're not being properly run, packaged, or produced.
And as always with this fan base, there is a
sickening feeling of familiarity. My man Sylvie was on this.
Jay Cutler was sacked eight times once, Justin Feels was
sacked nine times once and now Caleb the difference maker
joins the club.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
It's not different.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
There's nothing different going on. Here's the emotional scale. I
got tracked the whole thing. After the Commanders and the
Hail Mary. There was denial, like this isn't happening. We're
four and three, We're fine. After the Cardinals loss, that
was anger. That was rage. That was guys punching their
TVs and throwing them out the window.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
After this loss, this is just sadness. This is the
worst one. This is acceptance. They didn't punch their TVs yesterday.
They turned them off.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
My father's eighty years old this year. My father's a
life law young Bears fan. Going back to when George
Hallis was their coach.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I texted him yesterday.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I say, what'd you think? He said, I turned it
off in the first quarter. I can't watch anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
I can't do it.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I don't want to watch the Bears. Fans in Soldier Field,
like these guys did the same thing. When the Bears
started the game with four out of five punts and
start their game, they booed. When they started the second
half with four straight punts, they bued and then they
just left. They left en mass The only thing that
Bears are beating right now is traffic. That is a
massive scene against the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
The Patriots. Now, I'm gonna calm down. I'm gonna fish
by saying this.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I do not come on here on this show, at
this table with these co hosts.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
And scream for firings. It's just not my style. But
I'm also not impressed by.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
The pride that the Bears have and the fact that
they have never done it in the middle of a
season before and their one hundred plus year history.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
No points for that, just like no points for the offense.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
But I will say this, I prefer to be an
optimist if you watch the game, though, I also refuse
to be a liar. And if you are someone from
the get go who said they're gonna blow this, They're
gonna break Caleb.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Watch the Bears. Are you thought they were? The Chiefs
are good for old heads? Hear me out.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Like everything now is packaged and entertainment. To be fast,
flashy quick, you have to have an explosion in the
first two minutes, or a fight scene or a love scene.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
We have to keep the young viewer's attention or they're
just gonna look at their phone.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
The Chiefs don't do any of that craft it's incredible.
It's slow, it's not interesting. You don't get the Tyreek
Hill bomb, you don't get the crazy Kelsey highlight. You're
not getting the Nolak pass. It's kind of boring. It's
kind of clunky, but in the end it still works.
Like you can't make Jaws right now, you can't make

(03:50):
Alien right it's too slow.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm gonna look at my phone and my tablet.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
The Chiefs are this crazy, slow paced like art house movie.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's a phantom thread, you know what I mean. It's
not fast and the furious.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
They've done those this patient and Ray Fines is just
crafting the storyline.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
And I like that that they're not saying score score
score a score a score.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
We play something called defense. We make sneaky plays here
to move the chains. We don't blow up the box score.
We don't win your fantasy league. We don't show up
in all the highlights. We just show up in the
win column. It's like a movie that makes no money
and no one.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Gives a crap about.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
But somehow, when the oscars are there, there's Andy Reid
with the Best Picture Trophy again. I like it. It's
for the old heads. It's not for you kids. They've
done versions that are and it's all candy and sugar
and pop rocks and all that crap.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
This is slow. It's a slow burned Chiefs team and
I love it.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
I have to stand up and show respect for one
of my new favorite forty nine Ers, Tabor Pepper. Tabor
Pepper is the long snapper for the forty nine Ers.
He's been in the league and around the league since
Steve O. Samuel was in college. And in the middle
of a really tough game for the forty nine ers
young kicker, he stepped in and got in front of
the star wide receiver and said, don't talk to the kicker.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
The deal is this. Tabard Pepper is the long snapper.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
He's the guy who, as he was with the kicker
on the sideline, Deebo went over and punched called a punch,
called a throat shove whatever. And Tabar Pepper is also
six four, two fifty.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
And he's the guy walking after Deebo as Deebo's walking
away and walking away and walking away and walking away.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Here's the debrief on these guys. They couldn't make a kick.
He's frustrated. I get he's a talented player. He goes
over and decides he wants to say something.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
To the kicker.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
He says, I wasn't saying anything to Pepper, but he
came over trying to be big bruh, which is exactly
what he was trying to do. Pepper and meanwhile says quote,
he was telling the kicker to lock in.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
We know what our job is. We got us.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's hard being a specialist, and a young developing specialist
like Jake is the best mental exercise you can have.
Is I don't know if it gets better than missing
three straight having a step in it hit almost fifty
yard game winner.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
So I'm proud of Jake. It's an embarrassing look for Deebo.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Samuel, single person on the forty nine ers offense and
defense and coaching staff was frustrated with the kicker. You
go over and you chirp them something about come on,
make it. I like that the long snappers stepped in
and stick the hell out here.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
We got us.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Long Snappers are put upon. Kickers are put upon. The
star wide receivers a star wide receiver. I love that
table and Pepperson, get the hell out of here. Get
we got this. And I know they've been bad, but
the fact that they actually stood up for themselves and
followed him and said, what do it again?

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Do it again? Kind of gets me fired up. I
stand up for that long snapper. I like that guy.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
This Commanders team has had a good run. I think
they'll continue to have a good right. I think they'll
go to the playoffs. They'll probably win ten games. They
don't have the talent that Philadelphia does, and I think
you saw that late in the game.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
I think DQ coached his ass off.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
I thought for that first half they were amazing, and
then Philadelphia just eventually outstrengthen them.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
The Saque thing is unbelievable. We're really getting to a
point now.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
We were all having our minds blown about Derek Henry
in month one, and we should have.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
The saque thing is now taking.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Form, and last night the Eagles fans are chanting, thank
you Giants, thank you Giants. I'm kind of done with that.
I'm good with giant story of it. We addressed that
he beat the Giants. Now I'm onto the story of
like Peter's right that the defense carried him and then
it was like they played Inner sam Man or Hell's
Bells and Saquon came in and closed the You know
what I'm saying, It was Trevor Hoffman, it was Mariano,

(07:19):
It was all these.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Guys, Ricky Botalico. If you want to go phill In Peter,
Rickey Botalico, I like the fine. I don't even know
who that is. If you tell me that's a real person,
I believe it. But he closed this game.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
He closed it with two touchdowns and Manti touched on
this And I'm starting to get pissed off on this
because I'm a running back purist and a running back loyalist.
That's my favorite position in the sport. We are having
an MVP season taking away from Saquon Barkley right now
because of the damn Tush push.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
We saw another one last night.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
That is now eight Tush push touchdowns on the season
for Philadelphia's all should be Saquons.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
If you give him eight touch he's take him six. Guys.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
He's looking for two thousand total yards at the end
of the season and twenty total touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Do you know I saw this stat?

Speaker 1 (08:00):
It's unbelievable that Saquon has had nine touches this year,
receptions or carries that have been stopping on the one
yard line that he's been tackled at the one or
caught from the one.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Ben Solock at that stat So that's nine times.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
I'm telling you, the MVP is a heavily statistically driven award.
I want a running back to an MVP. We haven't
added since Adrian Peterson. And here's the best part, Philadelphia,
They're gonna get a little break, Like Peter said, the
next time you see them again, they're on Sunday Night
Football and then they're at the Ravens and late Windows CBS.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Sa kwon go and run away with this thing. And
I would just say to the Eagles offensive coach, I
know the two push is great, hand it to twenty
six one.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Time at a one yard and give them the damn touchdown.
I want an Eagles MVP and the damn push push
is taking it from him.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Let's stop this for the foam stretch.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
I think the Commanders have shown who they are and
they're a pretty good team.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
They've lost two games in five days. They were seven
and two six days ago. I have I mean, if we're.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Gonna do schedules and all that, I have just in
my own head some tiers in the NFC, in the
lower tier.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
If this seems it matter. I got this scrappy up
and comers.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
So you got Manders, Falcons, Vikings, and Cardinals, they're.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Then you got the old war horses, the old standbys, Packers, Niners, Eagles,
and then I think you have the Lions.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
All by themselves. I really do. And if the question
is are the Eagles the Lions are? Do you trust
Nick Sirianni? Still? Are we going to ignore that?

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Like I know that they have a winning streak, but
when it really comes blow to blow and it's January
football and he's going against take your pick, Shanahan.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Campbell like one of those guys, and he meant more
of a made man than Dan cam Like, let's than
a made man than Dan Campbell. I think, with a
big scoggle did and took Detroit from where they were.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
I mean, Philadelphia has been to great heights before, Sirianni,
They'll be there after, Sirianni. I think what Campbell did,
especially in the title game, you had them winning. Now
he's made some mistakes for sure, it's a good question
for you. I don't think with the bullets flying, But
I also don't think there's the Lions fan base is
just ready to pounce them at a moment's notice.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
They're in this crazy win streak in Philadelphia. Yet you
still feel unrest.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Against the Eagles fans, like it's like a coming back
to burn them. Maybe that's unfair to Syrian. He's like, jeez, guys,
I'm eighting too. What the hell do you want from me?
Are you eighting too? Or is the team eighting too?
And there's a divide there. Still, I still think the
lines are on their own. Ten Takes is a production

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