October 20, 2025 • 11 mins
Stay until the end because you NEVER know what's going to happen!
- A quarter that needs a documentary
- The wins are coming
- Same old magic
- The best team in football
- Couldn't be more fun
- A missed metaphor
- Could take the easy way, but they aren't
- Defying the science
- Eleven little miracles at once
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But within that ten minutes, I will promise and I
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ten minutes. Some of them may be four minutes long,
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(00:46):
let her rip and find out what happens. Are you ready?
You better be. Let's start the clock. Take number one,
the fourth quarter of Giants Broncos needs its own documentary,
and I'm in a long form documentary ten parts, ten
parts for that fourth quarter. You just don't see a
more spectacular, more dramatic quarter of professional football, or college
(01:10):
football or anything. Thirty three points in the fourth quarter
for the Broncos hilarious. The Giants being up eighteen points
with five and changed left and losing spectacular in its
entertainment value, So many little details get lost and all
the things. You know that that Dart picked up a
fourth and nineteen that I think he got, But then
(01:32):
also there was the late hit on Dart, which I
think should have been a late hit, but I'm not
exactly sure. Those are really the headlines and the comeback
and the fact that the Giants went for a season
making win. It was done there up nineteen or nothing.
They were destroying the Broncos on a very special day
for the Broncos season making win to cataclysmic collapse. That's
(01:54):
supposed to be the story. Oh no, they fought back
and saved it. Now that's supposed to be the story.
Oh no, they blew it again. Now that is the story.
And the stock cookie cutter paper dolls conversation is did
the Giants lose it or did the Broncos shut up?
There's many ways to look at this game, and I'm
just appreciating it for the spectacular entertainment value. One piece
(02:18):
of which is, how about the fact that Sean Payton
got a personal follow for being out on the field.
Was bedlam inside the five after the pass interference penalty?
How about there was another penalty on Burns, who couldn't
run back to get on this right side of the
line in time after the long throw from Denver. Just
so so so entertaining. If you're not a Giants fan
(02:38):
or a Broncos fan, you were reveling in it. I
wish every quarter could be like that. I can't believe
the stuff that I saw. I think the right team won,
but I'm not even sure that brings me to take two.
The Giants have something, and I zag on my New
York Giants reaction to that game. The New York Post
headline this morning was worst loss ever. Terrible loss. I'm
(03:00):
not saying it wasn't, but the fact that the Broncos
were loose, losing nineteen to nothing at home in the altitude,
on a day they recognized that one of their late
players who had passed away and emotions were running high,
and the New York Giants were kicking their butts with
their rookie quarterback and their rookie running back and their defense.
(03:20):
That's a pretty cool thing. At the end of that
terrible loss, I felt better about the Giants than I
did when I woke up on Sunday morning. They showed
me something. They showed me they have a quarterback in Dart. Yes,
the interception was terrible, that's not the point. Yes, they
blew a nineteen nothing lead. The fact that they were
up nineteen to nothing is pretty awesome. I know Giants
(03:41):
fans may be like, I don't know. I'm sick of
the positive angles. I want wins. I think the wins
are coming. I really do. And for some reason, despite
that loss, I still was more impressed with the Giants
yester than I was a week ago. And the fact
that we are here. If you want to go to
a Giants fan in the first couple weeks of this season,
you're playing Russell Wilson in just losing and looking terrible,
(04:01):
and say, hey, a month from now, Jackson, Dart's gonna
be running around mile high, making plays and battling the
Sean Payton Broncos. You're not gonna win, but Dart's gonna
look really promising and the team is gonna look like
it's going places. You would sign up four sentences ago.
You would sign up for them to even be competing
in that game. They won some respect for me, even
(04:22):
though it was a terrible loss. Take number three. The
Chiefs are gonna be in the AFC Title game. That
do you have any doubt about that? We're here, they're back.
I don't know if they're going to win the title game,
but you're damn well no, they're gonna be playing in it,
probably hosting it. They look fantastic and they know it,
and they beat the be Jesus out of a stupid,
dumb bad Raiders team. Rice is back in making plays.
(04:44):
They're in their bag of tricks. They're doing this silly
stuff where Mahomes is faking that he's trying to get
them off side. It's like the magic is there, not
just the final score, which is important. They got to
twinkle in their eyes. Mahomes has got that look again.
They look fantastic. And you had a chance they were
owned two to just put them down and you couldn't.
(05:05):
And now tell me there's any doubt in your mind,
not that the Chiefs are going to the playoffs. No, no, no, no, no,
that the Chiefs will be in the title game, probably
the Super Bowl, but definitely the title game. Take number four.
What if this team's in that game with him? The
Indianapolis Colts are the best team right now in football.
I don't do power rankings. I only barely believe in
(05:27):
the power ranking institution. It's candy, it's clickable. I get it.
If I did, i'd have the Colts number one. It
was fun to listen to JJ Watt, who played against
the Colts so many times in his careers at Houston, Texan,
on the call for CBS, just gushing about what they do.
They don't do anything badly. They're good at everything. Their
old line is great, their D line is great. Jonathan
(05:47):
Taylor is spectacular right now. Three touchdowns again yesterday. And
there's this wrong impression that Daniel Jones is some kind
of passenger and it's just a running game and defense. No,
it's not at all. Daniel Jones throws the ball over
the place. Look at his numbers yesterday. He's not checking
in with you know. He threw thirteen nineteen. No. No, no,
he passes. He passes really, really well. And the Colts
(06:09):
play the Chiefs in Week twelve. That's the mid season
super Bowl. That's Super Bowl fifty nine and a half.
I'm excited for Colts Chiefs. I don't know who's gonna
win that game. But the Colts destroyed the Chargers the
Chargers and their minion uniforms and their fancy stadium and
their West Coast trip. For the Colts, that game was
never close. They completely dominated. And if you're still someone
(06:29):
clinging out to the fact that the Colts haven't beatn
anybody good, the Chargers are good and they beat the
hell out of them. Take number five. The Cowboys are
the most fun team to watch in the league. Their
record is weird as three numbers, their offensive spectacular. I've
never seen Dak play better than this. We've seen Dak
play some really good football, He's never played better. If
you want to look at the league leaders and receiving touchdowns,
there's four guys tied with six apiece. Two of them
(06:51):
are DeVante Adams and i'man Ross Saint Brown. The other
two are both Cowboys and neither one is named Ceedee Lamb.
Jake Ferguson and George Pickens are both leading the NFL
in touchdowns. Oh, they're a passing team, right, do you know?
Javonte Williams is second in the league and rushing behind
only Jonathan Taylor and CD is back. Now it's so
fun to watch. Dak has just got this smile in
his face. After every play, he's chucking it all over
(07:13):
the place. Almost every single pass is complete. Most of
them hasn't run after the catch. Their defense is bizarre,
and they turned back the clock with this. Deron Bland
picked six yesterday and they're probably going to be a
pass rusher short of doing anything of significance. But for
the first time in a long time, the Cowboys feel
kind of fresh, and they feel more fun than they
ever have. Take number six. I nailed the metaphor on
Good Morning Football this morning that none of my co
(07:35):
stars understood, and I'm disappointed, but not surprised. They're significantly
younger than me. I said that the Sunday night game
Niners Falcons was like the rock band Bush in Woodstock
ninety nine because Corn came on Woodstock ninety nine and
brought the house down with them Are you ready? And
everybody remembers that. You can watch the YouTube. Its spectacular
(07:55):
Corn and their set was Broncos Giants. So having to
come on after that when all of the one wants
to talk about his Broncos Giants, that was Bush who
had to follow Korn Withoostock ninety nine. That Bush was
Falcons Niners does this make sense? Do you get the reference?
If you do get the reference, am I using it properly?
I think I am. I just need to know from
(08:16):
some people who are not under twenty five years old,
but like, yeah, I'm with you and with you it
makes sense. They just need a little check in with you. Guys.
Let me know. Take number seven and Niners are going
to be a factor in December. I love what Kyle
Shanahan's doing. You know how easy it would be for
the Niners to say, well, not our year, apparently not
our decade. This person started, this person started, this person's hurt,
and we're two and five and it sucks, but we'll
(08:37):
get through this. Now they're five and two. They have
no wide receivers, they have no defensive players most people
in the country have ever heard of, and they're just
handing into McCaffrey with their backup quarterback Mac Jones, who
no one believed in. And they win, and they stuffed
Jon Robinson for most of the game and kept them
contained with no Warner, no Bosa. I just have so
much respect for it. I've seen Kyle Shanahan coach well before.
(08:58):
I respect this effort more than any effort he's ever had,
because he should be screaming into a pillow. Take number eight,
Sean mcvay's coach in the NFL. I've set it for years.
He always dominates in London. He has this thing where
everyone's like, well, the sleep science people say you got
to get in there seventy two blah blah blah blah blah.
Mcvay's like, nah, we'll leave Saturday morning. We'll get into
London whenever we feel like it, and then we'll drop
(09:18):
about forty points on the Jaguars. Next time the Rams
go to London, Mcvay's is gonna take off Sunday morning.
I don't even know if they're gonna make it on time.
They're gonna go directly from the airport to the game
and they'll still win. Take number nine's some Monday night
football doubleheader, which is very polarizing. Know what I don't
like about two games on Monday night. It brings out
the people online who show their setup and tweet rate
(09:40):
my setup. I've got twenty six televisions. I have thirty
two televisions, one for every team. I'm gonna put on
both games and on my little screen, I'm gonna have this.
I'm my big screening. I have this. Let me tell
you something. I will never say rate my setup because
I don't have a cool setup. I have a couch
and a TV. It's all I have. My job is
really to watch football and talk about it. And I
don't have six TVs all over the wall. I don't
(10:02):
want six TV's over the wall, garish, it's overdone. I
want to couch and I want a resentably large television
in viewing distance. That's all I want. I'm never gonna
have you rate my setup. Good for you, guys, you
have fifteen TVs. I'm never gonna do it. Take number ten.
I coached youth football fifth and sixth grader. Is the
most satisfying thing happened by far. Yesterday we drew a
team off sides and we went on two and none
(10:23):
of our kids fall started. It's a miracle. We've tried
it every game this year. All game we go ready, there,
we go down set hut, guys, we call time out. Guys,
we're gonna go on too. It's down set hut, hut.
Don't jump, don't fall start. Every single time, at least
one kid does, and they're like oh eight, and what
are you doing? Yesterday? We had eleven mini miracles and
all eleven kids stood there and did not fall start,
(10:45):
and we got the five yards and we got the
first down, and there's your explosion. I'm proud of those kids.
I'm proud of you. You made it through the ten minutes.
I'm fine. I live through it. Minor burns, small hearing loss,
but it was all worth it. You talk to you
guys for ten minutes with ten takes and those eleven
beautiful miracles on the fifth and sixth. Great team that
did not false start. Love you guys. I of the Tiger.
(11:08):
You don't get that references from the seventies. That's okay, though.
That's ten Takes. I'm supposed to end it right now.
Short form pods. It's the wave of the future. Guys.
Shout out to QUIVI rip see you next week. Ten
Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.
(11:29):
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, ten minutes. You know the rules.
Are you a first timer? Are you a ten Takes
first timer? Well, welcome. The water is warm. In just
(00:24):
a matter of seconds, I'm going to start a timer
that has exactly ten minutes on it. At the end
of that timer, there is a bomb that goes off
and explodes right into my content and ends the show.
But within that ten minutes, I will promise and I
will vow to deliver you ten separate takes in those
ten minutes. Some of them may be four minutes long,
some of them may be four seconds long. We just
(00:46):
let her rip and find out what happens. Are you ready?
You better be. Let's start the clock. Take number one,
the fourth quarter of Giants Broncos needs its own documentary,
and I'm in a long form documentary ten parts, ten
parts for that fourth quarter. You just don't see a
more spectacular, more dramatic quarter of professional football, or college
(01:10):
football or anything. Thirty three points in the fourth quarter
for the Broncos hilarious. The Giants being up eighteen points
with five and changed left and losing spectacular in its
entertainment value, So many little details get lost and all
the things. You know that that Dart picked up a
fourth and nineteen that I think he got, But then
(01:32):
also there was the late hit on Dart, which I
think should have been a late hit, but I'm not
exactly sure. Those are really the headlines and the comeback
and the fact that the Giants went for a season
making win. It was done there up nineteen or nothing.
They were destroying the Broncos on a very special day
for the Broncos season making win to cataclysmic collapse. That's
(01:54):
supposed to be the story. Oh no, they fought back
and saved it. Now that's supposed to be the story.
Oh no, they blew it again. Now that is the story.
And the stock cookie cutter paper dolls conversation is did
the Giants lose it or did the Broncos shut up?
There's many ways to look at this game, and I'm
just appreciating it for the spectacular entertainment value. One piece
(02:18):
of which is, how about the fact that Sean Payton
got a personal follow for being out on the field.
Was bedlam inside the five after the pass interference penalty?
How about there was another penalty on Burns, who couldn't
run back to get on this right side of the
line in time after the long throw from Denver. Just
so so so entertaining. If you're not a Giants fan
(02:38):
or a Broncos fan, you were reveling in it. I
wish every quarter could be like that. I can't believe
the stuff that I saw. I think the right team won,
but I'm not even sure that brings me to take two.
The Giants have something, and I zag on my New
York Giants reaction to that game. The New York Post
headline this morning was worst loss ever. Terrible loss. I'm
(03:00):
not saying it wasn't, but the fact that the Broncos
were loose, losing nineteen to nothing at home in the altitude,
on a day they recognized that one of their late
players who had passed away and emotions were running high,
and the New York Giants were kicking their butts with
their rookie quarterback and their rookie running back and their defense.
(03:20):
That's a pretty cool thing. At the end of that
terrible loss, I felt better about the Giants than I
did when I woke up on Sunday morning. They showed
me something. They showed me they have a quarterback in Dart. Yes,
the interception was terrible, that's not the point. Yes, they
blew a nineteen nothing lead. The fact that they were
up nineteen to nothing is pretty awesome. I know Giants
(03:41):
fans may be like, I don't know. I'm sick of
the positive angles. I want wins. I think the wins
are coming. I really do. And for some reason, despite
that loss, I still was more impressed with the Giants
yester than I was a week ago. And the fact
that we are here. If you want to go to
a Giants fan in the first couple weeks of this season,
you're playing Russell Wilson in just losing and looking terrible,
(04:01):
and say, hey, a month from now, Jackson, Dart's gonna
be running around mile high, making plays and battling the
Sean Payton Broncos. You're not gonna win, but Dart's gonna
look really promising and the team is gonna look like
it's going places. You would sign up four sentences ago.
You would sign up for them to even be competing
in that game. They won some respect for me, even
(04:22):
though it was a terrible loss. Take number three. The
Chiefs are gonna be in the AFC Title game. That
do you have any doubt about that? We're here, they're back.
I don't know if they're going to win the title game,
but you're damn well no, they're gonna be playing in it,
probably hosting it. They look fantastic and they know it,
and they beat the be Jesus out of a stupid,
dumb bad Raiders team. Rice is back in making plays.
(04:44):
They're in their bag of tricks. They're doing this silly
stuff where Mahomes is faking that he's trying to get
them off side. It's like the magic is there, not
just the final score, which is important. They got to
twinkle in their eyes. Mahomes has got that look again.
They look fantastic. And you had a chance they were
owned two to just put them down and you couldn't.
(05:05):
And now tell me there's any doubt in your mind,
not that the Chiefs are going to the playoffs. No, no, no, no, no,
that the Chiefs will be in the title game, probably
the Super Bowl, but definitely the title game. Take number four.
What if this team's in that game with him? The
Indianapolis Colts are the best team right now in football.
I don't do power rankings. I only barely believe in
(05:27):
the power ranking institution. It's candy, it's clickable. I get it.
If I did, i'd have the Colts number one. It
was fun to listen to JJ Watt, who played against
the Colts so many times in his careers at Houston, Texan,
on the call for CBS, just gushing about what they do.
They don't do anything badly. They're good at everything. Their
old line is great, their D line is great. Jonathan
(05:47):
Taylor is spectacular right now. Three touchdowns again yesterday. And
there's this wrong impression that Daniel Jones is some kind
of passenger and it's just a running game and defense. No,
it's not at all. Daniel Jones throws the ball over
the place. Look at his numbers yesterday. He's not checking
in with you know. He threw thirteen nineteen. No. No, no,
he passes. He passes really, really well. And the Colts
(06:09):
play the Chiefs in Week twelve. That's the mid season
super Bowl. That's Super Bowl fifty nine and a half.
I'm excited for Colts Chiefs. I don't know who's gonna
win that game. But the Colts destroyed the Chargers the
Chargers and their minion uniforms and their fancy stadium and
their West Coast trip. For the Colts, that game was
never close. They completely dominated. And if you're still someone
(06:29):
clinging out to the fact that the Colts haven't beatn
anybody good, the Chargers are good and they beat the
hell out of them. Take number five. The Cowboys are
the most fun team to watch in the league. Their
record is weird as three numbers, their offensive spectacular. I've
never seen Dak play better than this. We've seen Dak
play some really good football, He's never played better. If
you want to look at the league leaders and receiving touchdowns,
there's four guys tied with six apiece. Two of them
(06:51):
are DeVante Adams and i'man Ross Saint Brown. The other
two are both Cowboys and neither one is named Ceedee Lamb.
Jake Ferguson and George Pickens are both leading the NFL
in touchdowns. Oh, they're a passing team, right, do you know?
Javonte Williams is second in the league and rushing behind
only Jonathan Taylor and CD is back. Now it's so
fun to watch. Dak has just got this smile in
his face. After every play, he's chucking it all over
(07:13):
the place. Almost every single pass is complete. Most of
them hasn't run after the catch. Their defense is bizarre,
and they turned back the clock with this. Deron Bland
picked six yesterday and they're probably going to be a
pass rusher short of doing anything of significance. But for
the first time in a long time, the Cowboys feel
kind of fresh, and they feel more fun than they
ever have. Take number six. I nailed the metaphor on
Good Morning Football this morning that none of my co
(07:35):
stars understood, and I'm disappointed, but not surprised. They're significantly
younger than me. I said that the Sunday night game
Niners Falcons was like the rock band Bush in Woodstock
ninety nine because Corn came on Woodstock ninety nine and
brought the house down with them Are you ready? And
everybody remembers that. You can watch the YouTube. Its spectacular
(07:55):
Corn and their set was Broncos Giants. So having to
come on after that when all of the one wants
to talk about his Broncos Giants, that was Bush who
had to follow Korn Withoostock ninety nine. That Bush was
Falcons Niners does this make sense? Do you get the reference?
If you do get the reference, am I using it properly?
I think I am. I just need to know from
(08:16):
some people who are not under twenty five years old,
but like, yeah, I'm with you and with you it
makes sense. They just need a little check in with you. Guys.
Let me know. Take number seven and Niners are going
to be a factor in December. I love what Kyle
Shanahan's doing. You know how easy it would be for
the Niners to say, well, not our year, apparently not
our decade. This person started, this person started, this person's hurt,
and we're two and five and it sucks, but we'll
(08:37):
get through this. Now they're five and two. They have
no wide receivers, they have no defensive players most people
in the country have ever heard of, and they're just
handing into McCaffrey with their backup quarterback Mac Jones, who
no one believed in. And they win, and they stuffed
Jon Robinson for most of the game and kept them
contained with no Warner, no Bosa. I just have so
much respect for it. I've seen Kyle Shanahan coach well before.
(08:58):
I respect this effort more than any effort he's ever had,
because he should be screaming into a pillow. Take number eight,
Sean mcvay's coach in the NFL. I've set it for years.
He always dominates in London. He has this thing where
everyone's like, well, the sleep science people say you got
to get in there seventy two blah blah blah blah blah.
Mcvay's like, nah, we'll leave Saturday morning. We'll get into
London whenever we feel like it, and then we'll drop
(09:18):
about forty points on the Jaguars. Next time the Rams
go to London, Mcvay's is gonna take off Sunday morning.
I don't even know if they're gonna make it on time.
They're gonna go directly from the airport to the game
and they'll still win. Take number nine's some Monday night
football doubleheader, which is very polarizing. Know what I don't
like about two games on Monday night. It brings out
the people online who show their setup and tweet rate
(09:40):
my setup. I've got twenty six televisions. I have thirty
two televisions, one for every team. I'm gonna put on
both games and on my little screen, I'm gonna have this.
I'm my big screening. I have this. Let me tell
you something. I will never say rate my setup because
I don't have a cool setup. I have a couch
and a TV. It's all I have. My job is
really to watch football and talk about it. And I
don't have six TVs all over the wall. I don't
(10:02):
want six TV's over the wall, garish, it's overdone. I
want to couch and I want a resentably large television
in viewing distance. That's all I want. I'm never gonna
have you rate my setup. Good for you, guys, you
have fifteen TVs. I'm never gonna do it. Take number ten.
I coached youth football fifth and sixth grader. Is the
most satisfying thing happened by far. Yesterday we drew a
team off sides and we went on two and none
(10:23):
of our kids fall started. It's a miracle. We've tried
it every game this year. All game we go ready, there,
we go down set hut, guys, we call time out. Guys,
we're gonna go on too. It's down set hut, hut.
Don't jump, don't fall start. Every single time, at least
one kid does, and they're like oh eight, and what
are you doing? Yesterday? We had eleven mini miracles and
all eleven kids stood there and did not fall start,
(10:45):
and we got the five yards and we got the
first down, and there's your explosion. I'm proud of those kids.
I'm proud of you. You made it through the ten minutes.
I'm fine. I live through it. Minor burns, small hearing loss,
but it was all worth it. You talk to you
guys for ten minutes with ten takes and those eleven
beautiful miracles on the fifth and sixth. Great team that
did not false start. Love you guys. I of the Tiger.
(11:08):
You don't get that references from the seventies. That's okay, though.
That's ten Takes. I'm supposed to end it right now.
Short form pods. It's the wave of the future. Guys.
Shout out to QUIVI rip see you next week. Ten
Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.
(11:29):
For more iHeartRadio pods, go to the iHeartRadio app, go
to Apple, go anywhere you like. It'll be there.
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