10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: The Best and The Worst

10 takes and just 10 minutes to work...

• I like not knowing
• Keep them out!
• The new Brett Favre
• Should've taken the leap
• The best press conference
• The worst press conference
• It's all working
• Boutte Call
• Eating mistakes all weekend

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
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for it. Ten takes in ten minutes. We have an
actual timer. We have an actual incendiary device that blows
up if I go over that timer. I have ten

(00:26):
minutes to work ten takes to deliver start the Clock
take number one. We are six weeks into the NFL season.
I have no idea who the best team in the
league is, no idea. I thought it was Detroit. I
thought we had a good hand on that we've experienced
with Detroit. They have veteran players, they have a coach,

(00:47):
and then they lost by thirteen points to Kansas City
and we're trailing badly in the fourth quarter. Didn't show
up like the best team in the league. Buffalo they
got problems in their own division. Tampa they're great, they're
fun to watch, like everybody is injured Indy. Could it
be the Colts? They play great every single week pretty much,
and yet there's just still this pathetic, lingering trust factor there.

(01:10):
I don't know who it is. I know it's not Philadelphia.
I like not knowing who it is. We live in
a power ranking society. We live in a society where
Pete Prisco from CBS Sports, we'll give his power rankings
and you will click. I don't do power rankings because
if I did, I'd have no idea who I put
a number one. I think it's Indy or maybe it's Tampa.

(01:30):
But just by sheer force of Baker, I'll get to
him in a little bit. Taking number two. If you
let the Chiefs into the club, you have no one
to blame but yourself. The Kansas City Chiefs are now
three and three after a really impressive win by the
Detroit Lions. If we're talking a few months from now
about them getting into the playoffs, it is all your fault,
and by your fault. I'm talking to the AFC teams

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on their schedule who will also likely be in the playoffs.
Band together, keep them out. If you're tired of the
Chiefs winning the AFC and hosting the AFC title game,
then do something about it. You have power. Who am
I talking to? They played Denver twice, Still they play
the Chargers again. They play Houston, they played Buffalo, they

(02:12):
play Indianapolis. All of those teams will likely be in
the playoffs, So win your game against the Chiefs and
keep them out. The Chiefs are five hundred, they're three
and three with the left in the play which means
to guarantee more or less the spot in the playoffs,
they gotta go seven and four the rest of the way.
That's tough for a three and three team. Beat them,
keep them out, because what I don't want to hear

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I don't want to hear you crying. Let's say, for example, Indianapolis,
who has this dream season and their house in a
home playoff game, you don't want that home playoff game
to be hosting the ten and seven Kansas City Chiefs
because they're going to beat you. Buffalo, you know what's
gonna happen, Houston, you know what's gonna happen. They're gonna
beat all of you, and you know it. So if
you let them into the club and they take your table,

(02:56):
they take your bottle, they take your girl, they take
her home, and they will, it's all your fault for
letting them in. Remember that take number three. Baker has
fully entered Brett Farb territory. Long time ago. Kids, I'm
old enough to remember when Brett Farb's reputation was the
most fun, most watchable player in the league. Now he's
taken some hits off the field self imposed, I get it.

(03:16):
But Brett Farb was so fun to watch that fans
of the team he was playing against would be excited
to watch him succeed in spite of themselves because he
was that joyous. You can't tell me Niners fans that
during that fourteen yard run by Baker I'm third and fourteen,
that you weren't excited to be watching football, even though
it was at the expense of your team, even though

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you had lost Bred Warner. That's how fun he is.
And Baker is something going on with him that the
other NFL stars don't have. He has a distinct relatability.
Some of it has to do with his size and
lack of speed and lack of the raw physical tools.
A lot of people watch Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen,
they're like those people are aliens. But you watch Baker
and you're like, I don't know, he kind of looks

(03:58):
like my high school quarterback. I know, he's a Heisman
Trophy one number one overall pick. He's smaller, he's slower,
and he's just scrappier it's such a buzzword, I know,
but he feels different and he feels likable. You know
the other thing Baker does that's very likable. There was
the moment yesterday we took a huge hit from a
defensive back on the throw to the touchdown. Most quarterbacks

(04:19):
in the league, when they take that hit, they turn
immediately to the official to complain. Baker, when he takes that,
turns immediately to the player who did it to talk
bleep to him. That is awesome. That is likable, and
that is why Baker is in far of territory. He's
the number one most fun player to watch in the
league right now in Tampa. Never loses. Take number four.

(04:40):
I'm mad I didn't pick the Panthers to make the
playoffs when it's a playoff team, picking time or nearly September.
I had a big crush on the Panthers because they
ended the season really well last year and I felt
like Dave Canal's had them going in the right direction.
And then I got cold feet and at the beginning
of the season it looked like they were terrible. Panthers
have won three or four. They have this Rico who

(05:01):
I call Riekwon Barkley, who like goes two hundred yards
every single game. It's an amazing, amazing thing to watch.
And I know they played Dallas and Dallas defense is terrible.
But there's gonna be some weird things in the playoffs
this year. There's gonna be weird teams. You know that
famous picture that an illustration somebody did when the final
four in the playoffs was Tom Brady, case Keenum, Blake Bortles,

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and Nick Foles, and I was like, Wow, what a
pairy in that is. I think it's gonna be like
that this year. So if Bryce Young is in the
playoffs on the strength of sneaking in at ninety eight
or something, I wish I would have been write about it.
I just didn't have the stones take number five. You
know who's really fun to have in fantasy Tyler Warren
of the Colts. God, he's so good. It feels it's
one of those things when you're watching the Colts game,

(05:45):
it's like every pass seemed to go to him, even
when they don't, you know, the next one will. It
feels like when you're watching red Zone every time that
Scott Hansen goes to the Indianapolis game. Is Tyler Warren
doing something. He's so good. I still am waiting for
an explanation about why Ben Johnson of the Bears didn't
draft him instead of taking Colston Loveland from Michigan. And
maybe Loveland will turn out to be a player he's
been hurt. But Tyler Warren was like he was the

(06:07):
player in the draft. He was like every single knowledgeable
person was like, well, he's going to be an excellent pro.
He's a can't miss he enters the league. I think
he's already the league's best tight end. At least he
looks like it. It's unbelievable, so fun to have take
number six. Dan Campbell had the best press conference of
the weekend. If any critics are still clinging onto this
idea that Dan Campbell is some lobottomized meathead neanderthal who

(06:30):
just blasts Metallica and bangs his head against the locker,
it is so far from the truth. His response to
his own player punching another Chiefs player and starting a
brew haha after the game was eloquent, insightful, smart. He
just was like, that's not who we are, that's not
what we do. I apologize to Andy Reid. I apologize

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to the Chiefs. I apologize to Juju. I love Brian Branch,
but that's not what we're about. It would have been
easy for him if he was the meathead I just
laid out to say, yeah, man, I liked it. They
still had some fight in him. You don't mess with
the Lions to have an idiotic, perfect press conference, perfect soundbites.
Take number seven. The worst press conference weekend went to
Tuatanga bay Loa. Tua made several bad reads on the

(07:14):
field over the weekend, and then he made another one
at the press conference. To come out and say everything
about they and them and very little about me and
I is a bad, bad, bad move after another bad
loss in which you say that players don't even show
up to players only meetings and if they do, they're late.
That is an incrimination of yourself, of your head coach.

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And to come out and say that in a game
in which you personally threw three interceptions and then come
to the lectern and say, yeah, I mean because guys
don't show up to players only meetings, well, so they
don't respect you then, and you just outed yourself. It's
your fault. Off the field as a leader, it's your
fault on the field. As a guy who just threw

(07:55):
a hat trick, I like to as a person. That
was a bad moment. I don't think he has a
really good sense for the media, because if he did,
he wouldn't do that. Take number eight. Rogers to the
Steelers is working. If you love Rodgers or hate him,
doesn't matter. It's working. He was doing some stuff to
DK yesterday that looked like he was throwing to Devonte
five years ago. Chemistry stuff. Stuff where he's throwing the
ball before DK's even looking. Plays where DK's perfectly covered

(08:18):
and Roger puts it on him. Anyway, it looks really good.
And I'll tell you this, the Steelers are four and one.
Are they gonna wrap this thing up? By Halloween? Four
and one in the AFC North is eight and one.
The Ravens are broken, the Bengals are broken. The Browns
are the Browns a four and one record. It's like,
I think we're hosting a playoff game. I think we
got this thing. Just keep the ship going the way
it is. Four and one is eight and one. You

(08:40):
got this thing. The Steelers I think are going to
be maybe a twelve and five team, maybe eleven and six.
They'll be playing a home game at home. It'll be
a wild card game. Will they lose as they usually do,
I don't know, but like they're in great position right now.
DK to the Steelers, even Pickings who they got rid
of to the Cowboys is working. It's all working for them.
Take number nine, really impressive showing by Drake May and

(09:01):
the Supernome against the Saints. You know who I love?
I love Kaishan Boody and payttention how I'm saying his name,
Kashon Booty, Natalie. Is he a good wide receiver that
they needed to add weapons for Drake May. He's really
raising his game and I like that he puts announcers
brains in a pretzel because they either don't really know
how to say his name or they're uncomfortable saying it.
I've heard Kashan butte or BOOTI guys, it's just straight

(09:25):
up booty, like a booty call, like shake your booty.
I have heard Kaishan Booty say his name and he
says kashn Booty. Boot Y might as well be spelled
and I like that name. I think it's cool. I
think it's funny. I've been referring to him as the call.
It's a good nickname, so announcers just go with it.
It's fun to talk about Kayshawn Booty like Booty Call.

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Get comfortable with it. There's nothing wrong with it. Take
number ten. I'm embarrassed by my eating performance over the weekend.
Absolutely pathetic. This is my post weekend press conference, just
all kinds of mistakes. Didn't execute. The Halloween candy has
shown up in pillowcase side bags everywhere. We have the
chocolate based bags, we have these sour based bags, we
have the fruity, non sour based bags. The corner of

(10:12):
the bag gets ripped open, sometimes by my children, sometimes
by me. Even the halloweens a couple weeks away. I'm
standing there on Saturday night eating just idiotic, child moronic foods.
I'm eating laughy taffy. I'm doing shots of nerds like
it's bourbon. Bourbon would be respectable. I'm a man in
my forties. I'm shooting nerds and then moving on to
the sour patch kids. Absolutely pathetic. I just gotta be better.

(10:37):
I gotta go out there and take it one candy
at a time you reach a certain age, like you
want to have an occasional treat. You shouldn't be binging
nerds if you were born in the late seventies. But
that was my weekend, and that was ten Takes with
me Kyle Brandt. Guys, thank you, I love you. We'll
be back next week. You know where to find us
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