10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: The Holiday Hangover

10 Takes in 10 minutes isn't just the name, it's a promise: 

• The angriest fans in the NFL
• Get ready for the show
• A place you don't want to play
• The AFC South is finally cool
• Another similar season
• A loss we liked to see
• Why not dream big?
• Holiday suggestion

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. Hell, yes, you know what. Ten takes in
ten minutes. That's the name, plus the promise that we
deliver each in every week. I love that you're here,
I love that you're listening, and I love it so

(00:24):
much I'm going to get right to it. Ten Takes
in ten minutes, Start the clock. Take. Number one angriest
fan base in the league right now are Steelers fans.
There's some span bases that are struggling. The Chiefs whatever,
they're billionaires in the fans sense. The Eagles are billionaires,
even they don't want to be. It's miserable right now.

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For Philadelphia, coming off a Super Bowl championship and a
winning record, they're still pissed, but not even close to
Pittsburgh fans. How do I know? Not only were they
booing the Steelers at home, not only were they chanting
fire Tomlin, they were booing Renegade, Renegade, the stick song
which has become their de facto anthem that fires them
up and supposed to unite them. They started playing it

(01:06):
last night's Oh Mama and fifth on a boo They
booed sticks. It really makes me laugh. I was listening
to people online who were saying, you know, I've covered
the Steelers for seventy nine years or whatever the hell
it is. I have never heard this treatment of renegade
screw sticks. They don't give a damn about what has

(01:28):
Stick's done for them lately. They need to move the sticks,
is what they need to do, and they can't. They
got to be so pissed right now because that was
a terrible product. My son is a Steelers fan, even
though he has no connection to Pittsburgh. He just decided
that's his team. And I was always very happy about
that because that's a great life son. You know, you
can you can really prosper as a Steelers fan. You'll

(01:49):
have a high quality of life. You'll never be directionless,
you'll always matter. And right now, just that loss, that flat,
that bad against Buffalo and they're six and six, and
my second take is about them to take number two
Aaron Rodgers over the next several weeks is going to
be a show. I'm so excited, arms and legs inside

(02:09):
the vehicle at all times because last night, after he loses,
he's bleeding, he's miserable, he's gray. He started to look
like like beat up, serious black, like I don't even know,
like he's one of the death theaters there at least
looks like one. And then afterwards just saying like, yeah,
and maybe the guys should come to film sessions. Maybe
when I checked to this route, they should run that route.

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That's just the tip of the iceberg. There's been a
burden that Rogers carries for years. This goes back over
a decade where no one is at his level, and
it's very difficult to be at his level of football knowledge,
expertise and just general like Q. So you're like, why
does he say that stuff? Because there's ninety nine times
he doesn't say that stuff, and then eventually the hundred
time he will. He knows more about football than the

(02:51):
guy's out there with him. He knows more about offense.
And he's far from perfect and he's flawed right now too.
But if you think him saying this, guys aren't coming
to film sessions or running the route he checks too,
is like some big shock and awe, that's nothing. That's
nothing compared to where we're going to go. Because the
cutaways from Rogers at the end of these plays where
they have to punt again, and that the network camera
goes Tom are so funny. He's not even pretending in

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any way not to scream at the receiver. He's mouthing things,
he's he's gesturing things. He just doesn't care. And when
you get into your forties, and in his case, you're
old and you're cold, you just don't care about stuff
that you used to care about when you're your thirties.
None of us do. I don't, you don't. And he
does it on the football field. I'm going to be
so entertained by whatever happens with Pittsburgh moving out, just

(03:34):
watching Rodgers take number three. I would hate to play
in Denver. First of all, the Broncos never lose. They
haven't lost in like three months. But they have all
those recipes that if you look at some of the
teams in AFC where maybe you'll have to go for
a playoff game, it's like, I'm happy to go to Jacksonville.
I'd be thrilled to go to the Chargers Baltimore. Fine,
they get in, sign me up. Don't care with them

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in the playoffs. They've shown that they lose there. New
England wouldn't be great. But the number one I do
not want to go to is Denver. I don't want
to play in the cold. I don't want to play
in the elevation. I don't want to play that defense
and that pass rush in that noise. I don't want
to do any of that stuff. It seems like that's
the trip where you go to your trip planner online
and you fly to Denver and then you fly to
Cobo because your season's over. Denver's very good, but their

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home field advantage and everything they have going for them
just makes like when you see you have to go
to Denver, you're not like, oh, hell yeah, that's a
good opportunity. You're like a christ that's gonna suck. Denver
is a lot of things going for them. That's the
one I'm take. Number four. I'm furious about the Chiefs.
I'm so disappointed. Not that they're losing, not that they're
five hundred, it's that they're probably not going to make
the playoffs. And as I've said before, I don't want
the AFC playoffs without the Chiefs in them. I want

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them there. And if they're going to lose and they're
gonna go down in flames like they are now. I
want them to lose a playoff game. I want them
to lose a playoff game, maybe thirty one to ten
or something. Anyway, I just want them to lose because
if you were going to win the AFC this year,
especially if you are Buffalo and you go to a
Super Bowl and you don't go through the Chiefs and
they weren't even in it, it just feels shallow and

(05:00):
it gives so many people opportunities to say, yeah, but
you never got overrun. I don't know. It's like winning
the Best Actress oscar in a non merrill year. It's like, ah,
is it really the same. I've made the comparison one
hundred times, Like the Houston Rockets winning those finals in
the nineties. Nobody cares about them. Their Fugzie Jordan wasn't there.
I hate that the Chiefs probably aren't going to be
in the playoffs. Take number five. AFC South sexy as

(05:22):
hell right now? When if we ever said that, I
don't think I've said that since Tom Coffin was the
Jaguars coach. AFC South is usually at the business You're like, oh,
we have to talk about that. It's cool now. The
Colts we don't know what the hell they are, and
we're starting to be suspicious that they are what we
always worried they would be, which is a little bit fake.
Jaguars won't go away. I think that's a good thing.

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And the Texans are fun to watch because their defense
is amazing. Now they have Stroud back, it's awesome. Those
three teams, I have no idea which one I'm most
confident in, which one I believe in. I think it's
I guess it's Houston because maybe Stroud catches fire again
and their defensive pass rush is so good. But I
never give the AFC South any credit. I'm trying to
do it here. Take number six. I don't see much
different about the Bills this year. I'm sorry. In these

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teams that have the same season every year, or seem
to teams like the Cowboys or the Packers or the Bills,
I always just ask the question when the year starts anew,
what is different this year about the team? And for
the Bills, there's not much. I also feel like over
the last four years, maybe if you took all the
Josh Allen Bill's teams over the last four years, this

(06:27):
is maybe the weakest on Saturday night. I made a
curious decision and it turned out to be a good
when my wife and I turned on the Hallmark Channel
and we watched in its entirety, a holiday touchdown, a
Bill's Christmas movie. If I'm getting that title right. It
was a wild watch. Steve Sharippa is in it, Joey
Pants is in it. Two Sopranos cast members just sharing scenes.

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And I would say this about the movie. It's a
lot like the Bills. It's charming, it's likable, and you
know exactly how it's going to end. I wish I
felt differently about both entities. But are you really telling
me that you do? I would ask Bills fans right
now you think this is a super Bowl team, like
this is the one that breaks through. I hope it

(07:10):
changes the next four or five weeks, but they just
look like a lot of teams that I've seen already.
Take number seven. I love that the Rams lost, because,
in this year of disarray, especially in the NFC, the
only foothold we really had of who's great? Who's great? Oh,
the Rams are great. They're amazing. Power rankings, Power ranks,
They're number one, they're number one. Well, they just lost
to Bryce Young and Stafford through a pick six and

(07:32):
they through another pick I like that coming down to
our level. The football gods don't like these omnipotent teams
sometimes and certainly not this year. And we're in a
world right now where the number one seeds are Bo
Nicks and Caleb Williams, and the guys like Lamar Jackson
and Patrick Mahomes and Dak Prescott like they don't have
a place at the table. It's fun. And I liked

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that the Rams came back down to our level because
now we know nothing about who's going to be in
the super Bowl, because the Rams are fallible. Take number eight.
The Bears can win the NFC this year. The Bears
can be in the super Bowl. Why would I not
say that if you're in the month of December and
you are currently in the number one seed, whether you
keep it or not, the goal is super Bowl. The
goal is not, well, we're nine and three, we're on
top of the conference. Wouldn't it be great to win

(08:14):
a wildcard game get some real good momentum for year
two hundred, Ben Johnson, screw that. I would say the
same thing for the Patriots, the same thing for the Broncos.
The goal is not only getting to but winning the
Super Bowl. This year, the Bears have the run game,
they have the secondary. It looks like they have the coach.
I think they have the quarterback. Over the next five
games too, you know this running game that they have. Now,
all five games are outdoors, most of them are on

(08:36):
cold weather. They're built for it, they're ready for it.
If you're a Bears fan who's not even thinking about
the super Bowl, one you're a liar, and two you
should be one seeds in December, think about the super Bowl.
Take number nine. Christmas music is on all the time now,
every time we get in the car, every time we
turn on the Alexa. Here's a good Christmas song other
than the classics, the ones you get sick of. You

(08:57):
make it feel like Christmas. Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, catchy
as hell, up tempo. He sings, she sings. Your wife
or husband will like it. You could sing each part.
I've met Blake Shelton before. He's every bit as cool
as he you think he would. He is. I've never
seen the voice in my life, but I like him
and I like hearing his voice. And you make it
feel like Christmas. They talk about gingerbread, they talk about

(09:20):
getting in the spirit, and it's Blake and Gwen just
going at it together. Do at up tempo cheery. Listen
to that song Blake Shelton, Gwen's Fannie make feel like Christmas.
Take number ten. Thank God for indoor pools this time
years what I'm hav this is what I'm saying. My
family and I went to Philadelphia. We took the train
from New York City or outside New York where we live,

(09:40):
down to Philadelphia. A great train ride, and we have
found this hotel. It's a nice hotel, but it's not
a crazy fancy hotel or anything like that that has
an indoor pool. If you have kids of a certain age,
indoor pool is a gold mine, especially in the winter
if you live in cold climate. It's why people go
to indoor water parks. This is just a simple, I
don't know, maybe fifteen foot by thirty foot pool. And
my kids are like in the chocolate factory. We are

(10:03):
at the game and Lincoln Financial watching Bears egos and
night can we go home and go in the pool?
They love the pool. Kids love the pool. Just throw
them in there. Three hours later, they're still in there.
There were fifty kids in this pool. My kids could
barely fit. They didn't care. I'm so grateful for indoor pools,
especially as we'd go into three months of nuclear winner
when you're never outside, let alone have a bathing suit on.
The kids love an indoor pool, and thank you for

(10:24):
them existing. Guys. That's it. We started with Pittsburgh Steelers
fans and sticks getting pissed off. We ended with my
kids spending over three hours in an indoor pool and
me having to demand that they get out of the
pool because we had to do week dinner. That's how
we do it. It's ten takes, ten minutes and no more.

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There's an explosion at the end. I hope it was
good for you. We will see you next week. Love
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