November 22, 2025 • 12 mins
A selection of the best Kyle Brandt cuts from the Week of November 17th:
- A team with problems
- NFC Playoff picture
- Lost the magic?
- Enjoying the Bears
- Small margin for error
- A time for trust
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio. It's not all great with the Lions right now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We can't possibly say that they've lost three of their
last five games.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
They're a six and four team.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They got problems to deal with, not that they won't
deal with them, but let's just start addressed in some
of those. So, they want to win the division they got,
they want that home playoff game, they want the NFC
Nord title.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They've already lost to the Packers. It was Week one.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was a very strange game which they looked really bad.
They've already lost to the Packers. That's not great. They
will see the Packers again. Then there's the Bears problem.
Is it a problem? The Bears are in first place
in a vision, there's seven and three, They've won a
bunch of games in a row.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Lest we forget, the.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Detroit Lions put fifty two points on the Ben Johnson
Bears in a game that felt very important, very personal.
So I don't think the Lions fans, players are staff
are terribly worried about the Bears, who were a threat.
The other thing is the Eagles absolutely backhanded them right
off the field.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That was an.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Absolutely humbling destruction of a game. I know their tight
end wasn't out there. I know that Jared Goff would
not have suddenly morphed into some sort of superstar if
he was. The problem with the Lions, as always, and
this is what they call a Champagne problem now, is
that if they don't win the Super Bowl this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Year, it's a disappointment.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There's about eight teams in the league that can say
that they're one of them.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Congratulations. So guys, they got.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
To beat Philly most likely, and the way things are going,
they're gonna have to go back to that same field,
so they're going to have to have a massive one
to eighty. And how they performed on that field against
that d line they scored nine points. Jared goff last
twenty passes, he completed two of them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It was barely even football.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So if you believe that they can go there in six, seven,
eight weeks, whatever it is and have that big of
a turnaround, I am not necessarily with you. So NFC
North problems don't really scare me that much. Packers aren't
playing well. The Bears they hammered last time. But if
you are a Lions fan who's like, I want.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A parade this year.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then you got to watch this game tape and be like,
what the hell are we going to do about that
Eagles front?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Because they seem to be only getting better.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's not all great in Detroit right now because their
expectations are great, and right now I'm not projecting them
to meet them. Let's look right now at the NFC
playoff picture. What jumps out? I'll tell you a few things.
Let's jump out to who's at the top, all right?
The Eagles playoffs start right now, which they don't. They
get a buy and they have home field to vantage
throughout the Rams same record as the Eagles, sitting there
(02:36):
at eight and two.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The damn Chicago.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Bears are all alone in first place in the NFC North,
the team that the Lion's thumped, but it feels like
months ago. And then, for the sake of this conversation,
Detroit is now lurky. That means they're not in the playoffs.
There's six and four. If you believe Detroit will be
in the playoffs, which I still do, we're looking at
a scenario where it's very likely, guys, that they're going
to go to Philadelphia, very likely in the playoffs that
(03:00):
they get there, Who the hell knows they need may
even go to Chicago. We don't know how this this
is to thing. We know the Eagles are going to
be there. I still believe the Lions are.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Going to be there.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Let's talk about this because this is a conversation people
are having this morning, aside from the passing, their appearance
at the end of the game, which I don't care
about because the Lions offense was so terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't think they would have scored.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
When you see Jared Goff and you see all the
incompletions in the total domination from the D line, how
does it make you feel?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Forget Philadelphia? Second, how does it make.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You feel about Detroit in these NFC playoffs they are
going to be about I don't know, seven, eight weeks
from now. It's just so surreal because we keep waiting
for them to.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Put the cape on and say, all right, here they come.
They come running.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Last year, all they would do is win close games
that every single wee week was a close game they'd win.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
This year, this year, they don't win any close games.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Just historically in the Mahomes era, five and five right now.
He was six and four and twenty nineteen won the
Super Bowl. In twenty twenty when it was three and
four to the title game. In twenty twenty three, he
was eight and five won the Super Bowl. But we
have not seen five and five. And bring up the
standings again, guys, if you will see playoff picture, it's
even worse than five and five. And I'll tell you why,
(04:09):
because Kansas City has lost to all three current wild
Card teams, that being Buffalo, the Chargers, and the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
To see those in the middle column.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
The Chiefs have lost to all of them, meaning each
of those three hold the head to head tiebreaker over
the Chiefs. So it's like they can't even catch those teams.
They have to get past these teams. And you're saying,
a hold on a second, I see Mahomes, I see read,
(04:40):
I see all the guys. What this is the same
band as always. Mahomes looks shaky as hell. He does
not look magical. He's twenty first in completion percentage, he's
fifteenth and passer rating. It's just not Mahomes. And we
were told, well, you gets Rashi Rice back. She Rice
is out there. They don't involve him very much. But
(05:03):
he's out there. Sark is still running the defense. He's
on the sideline. The band is back together. The band's
not hitting the notes. And here's the deal. They have
lost two in a row. Right next week at home
versus Nadianapolis Colts, Patrick Mahomes never in his NFL career
has lost three games in a row. It has never happened,
(05:24):
Never three in a row. The Colts come in off
the buy. They're going to run the wheels off Jonathan
Taylor with fresh legs after two weeks break, and the
Kansas City Chiefs is a playoff game next week. If
they lose next week, by the way, in front of
their home fans and Chiefs Kingdom and all the Chiefs
celebrity fans, and it's over. It is not over now,
(05:46):
It is not. It's damn close to over, but it
is not over. And Manti, my last thing is a
personal thing. I don't want it to be over. I
want the Chiefs in the playoffs. I'm totally biased.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't care if they win once they get there.
But you better believe if something crazy happens where Buffalo
catches fire and gets to the super Bowl, I want
them to go through Kansas City or the story is
in complete. I want Baltimore to go through Kansas City.
I want Kansas City to be there. It's just Patrick
Ewing once screamed at Michael Jordan, who retired to.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Go play baseball. No no, no, no no, I need to beat you.
Come back. You can't retire.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I need the Chiefs in the playoffs because whoever wins
those NFC playoffs should go through the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And right now the Chiefs ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm starting to really enjoy this Bears team, I really am,
because they have a lot of flaws, a lot, but
they also have something that every team wants, and even
some really good teams don't have. This Bears team has
an identity. They have it, they have found it, they
have molded it. The identity is keep it close, have
a lot of takeaways on defense, be in a close
(06:50):
game at the fourth quarter, and they will win.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's what they do. You know what.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I knew they were gonna win this game. I knew
it is the second. Ironically, JJ McCarthy threw a touchdown
pass to Jordanatis and I said the game's over because
there was fifty seconds left and you know what, the
second they scored that. I've said this five times this year. Oh,
they scored too fast. They left too much time on
the clock. The Bears are the too much time team.
You cannot leave too much time for the Bears because
(07:15):
they will beat you at the end. I've learned this.
All of us here in the show. We're learning this.
I'm hoping the audience is learning this. But I'll tell
you what a lot of Bears fans not learning this.
And in a tradition that is now continuing, on a
Monday morning, we do a Bears fan tweet roundup and
cleanup of Bears tweets.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Here we go, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mays, Chicago Bears up sixteen to three with eleven minutes
left in the game, and they are going to lose again.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Guess what, Aaron, They won again, seven and three. Next,
you're out of here.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Next tweet, please, Bernie, Bears really about to lose to
the Vikings twice? Hellol well, Bernie, they're seven and three,
they won the game.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Next, get them out of here. King Rat, I'll say Bear's.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Gonna double dooint to lose it, calling it now, King Ratt,
get out of here. Cairo Santos split the upright. There
wasn't even a single doing. Get him out of here,
Bears seven and three, King Rat, How dare you? Matthew
Long Junior. He's got a suit and tie on.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
In his picture. He looks like a businessman.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Ben Johnson called conservative plays not to lose.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Santo's sucks.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The receivers have no hands, the defense collapse. Hashtag Bears,
hashtag seven and three. Matthew Long Junior, Matthew Long's senior
will be disappointed in you if you're lack of foresight,
lack of trust in the Chicago Bears. The Bears keep
on winning, and hopefully their fans keep on learning.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because here's the most important thing, my friends.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
As the Bears fans are still surprised that they win
at the end or still don't see that coming, I'm
gonna take you not yet.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm going to take you to the game winning kick
in which.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The face of the franchise is sitting on the bench
watching Cairo Santos, who had missed his last kick in
the dome amidst the skull collapse. And I want you
to see how surprised Caleb Williams looks that Cairo.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Santos makes this kick go ahead and roll it is.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Caleb Williams face looks surprised as this ball goes through,
not for a damn second. That dude doesn't flinch. His
eyebrows don't move a millimeter. There's no smirk, there's no relief,
there's no shock, there's no awe. That's a businessman doing business,
and his business is winning every single week, and then
(09:28):
having to hear afterwards that well the Vikings soccer and
you needed a last day.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And field go. Yeah. I kept peering that every single week.
I keep peering that every.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Team they play is terrible and they're gonna eventually get
caught up with the Bears. And if they beat the
Steelers next year, it's next week, it's gonna be like.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, Rogers wasn't right, all right? All right?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Their first place in the Norse. That says seven to three.
And I just hope, I hope. If you're not listening
to me, Bears fans, listen from Caleb Williams and watch
open your eyes because.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He sits there. Oh long kicked it in the game. Yep,
you made it. Let's go let's get on the bus.
That's what this Bears team is all about. Start paying attention.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's a tasty thing that the Ravens will come tearing
down the stretch, and like Isaac saying, you do the
game where you look at the schedule, the Bengals Jets like,
maybe it could happen five and five, right, they to
give themselves a shot. I think they got to be
ten and seven, so they gotta go five and two
down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Five and two. We can't even talk about it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If Lamar's not gonna play out of his mind like yesterday,
by Lamar's amazing standards, was a poor game. You don't
really see Lamar play any worse than that. Two picks
just wasn't really doing much like that. We can't have that.
If Lamar is gonna play even average, it's it's not
gonna happen. Lamar's got to do like I mean, he's
not gonna have six touchdowns a game, but he's got
to basically do a Josh Allen thing like he did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
He has to say I'm going superhero mode.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I want this team in the playoffs this year because
they're pretty good, like they have great players, and they're
playing much better. But they just when you're so bad
with the win losses the beginning of the season, you
make it almost impossible. That's why constantly in September, I'm like,
just stack wins.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Who cares what the score is?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They didn't stack squad well, they stacked it, but I
can't say what they stacked on the air. Lamar's got
to find a way and just say I'm gonna find
my gear where I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go nuts here,
I'm gonna have four touchdowns a game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'm gonna play MVP, and then we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I'm left this game saying, oh, that come running thing
from the Ravens probably isn't gonna happen just.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Because they just didn't look good. I'll call it what
it is. They didn't well too. It's a very intriguing storyline.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So watch Lamar next week and to see if he
can absolutely go nuclear, because if you can't, like it's
just too tall of attack. This reps my engine. Guys,
is the best time of the year. This is is cold.
Now we're turning the corner. Now the games really matter,
and I love this time of year because there are
good quarterbacks, maybe even great quarterbacks, But are there quarterbacks
(11:36):
you can trust? It's very different from being a good
player and putting up stats and fantasy and Player of
the Week and all that versus the guys you know
you can depend on when it gets cold and it
gets heated. Can you trust Sam Darnold? Can you trust
Jared Goff? Can you trust Baker Mayfield? We love those guys, really,
Can you trust them? Can you trust Lamar Jackson? Did
you watch Lamar yesterday? That was pretty weird. There's guys
(11:58):
that are great, and then there's guys that you can
absolutely depend on, and sometimes the first category gets exposed
and they're not the second category. Wait till we see
Daniel Jones and Arrowhead next week. Wait till we see
Patrick Mahomes. He's not playing very well right now. It's
a crazy, crazy time.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
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with iHeartRadio. It's not all great with the Lions right now.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We can't possibly say that they've lost three of their
last five games.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
They're a six and four team.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
They got problems to deal with, not that they won't
deal with them, but let's just start addressed in some
of those. So, they want to win the division they got,
they want that home playoff game, they want the NFC
Nord title.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
They've already lost to the Packers. It was Week one.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It was a very strange game which they looked really bad.
They've already lost to the Packers. That's not great. They
will see the Packers again. Then there's the Bears problem.
Is it a problem? The Bears are in first place
in a vision, there's seven and three, They've won a
bunch of games in a row.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Lest we forget, the.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Detroit Lions put fifty two points on the Ben Johnson
Bears in a game that felt very important, very personal.
So I don't think the Lions fans, players are staff
are terribly worried about the Bears, who were a threat.
The other thing is the Eagles absolutely backhanded them right
off the field.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
That was an.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Absolutely humbling destruction of a game. I know their tight
end wasn't out there. I know that Jared Goff would
not have suddenly morphed into some sort of superstar if
he was. The problem with the Lions, as always, and
this is what they call a Champagne problem now, is
that if they don't win the Super Bowl this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Year, it's a disappointment.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
There's about eight teams in the league that can say
that they're one of them.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Congratulations. So guys, they got.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
To beat Philly most likely, and the way things are going,
they're gonna have to go back to that same field,
so they're going to have to have a massive one
to eighty. And how they performed on that field against
that d line they scored nine points. Jared goff last
twenty passes, he completed two of them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
It was barely even football.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
So if you believe that they can go there in six, seven,
eight weeks, whatever it is and have that big of
a turnaround, I am not necessarily with you. So NFC
North problems don't really scare me that much. Packers aren't
playing well. The Bears they hammered last time. But if
you are a Lions fan who's like, I want.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
A parade this year.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Then you got to watch this game tape and be like,
what the hell are we going to do about that
Eagles front?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Because they seem to be only getting better.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's not all great in Detroit right now because their
expectations are great, and right now I'm not projecting them
to meet them. Let's look right now at the NFC
playoff picture. What jumps out? I'll tell you a few things.
Let's jump out to who's at the top, all right?
The Eagles playoffs start right now, which they don't. They
get a buy and they have home field to vantage
throughout the Rams same record as the Eagles, sitting there
(02:36):
at eight and two.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The damn Chicago.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Bears are all alone in first place in the NFC North,
the team that the Lion's thumped, but it feels like
months ago. And then, for the sake of this conversation,
Detroit is now lurky. That means they're not in the playoffs.
There's six and four. If you believe Detroit will be
in the playoffs, which I still do, we're looking at
a scenario where it's very likely, guys, that they're going
to go to Philadelphia, very likely in the playoffs that
(03:00):
they get there, Who the hell knows they need may
even go to Chicago. We don't know how this this
is to thing. We know the Eagles are going to
be there. I still believe the Lions are.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Going to be there.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Let's talk about this because this is a conversation people
are having this morning, aside from the passing, their appearance
at the end of the game, which I don't care
about because the Lions offense was so terrible.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't think they would have scored.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
When you see Jared Goff and you see all the
incompletions in the total domination from the D line, how
does it make you feel?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Forget Philadelphia? Second, how does it make.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You feel about Detroit in these NFC playoffs they are
going to be about I don't know, seven, eight weeks
from now. It's just so surreal because we keep waiting
for them to.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Put the cape on and say, all right, here they come.
They come running.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Last year, all they would do is win close games
that every single wee week was a close game they'd win.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
This year, this year, they don't win any close games.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Just historically in the Mahomes era, five and five right now.
He was six and four and twenty nineteen won the
Super Bowl. In twenty twenty when it was three and
four to the title game. In twenty twenty three, he
was eight and five won the Super Bowl. But we
have not seen five and five. And bring up the
standings again, guys, if you will see playoff picture, it's
even worse than five and five. And I'll tell you why,
(04:09):
because Kansas City has lost to all three current wild
Card teams, that being Buffalo, the Chargers, and the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
To see those in the middle column.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
The Chiefs have lost to all of them, meaning each
of those three hold the head to head tiebreaker over
the Chiefs. So it's like they can't even catch those teams.
They have to get past these teams. And you're saying,
a hold on a second, I see Mahomes, I see read,
(04:40):
I see all the guys. What this is the same
band as always. Mahomes looks shaky as hell. He does
not look magical. He's twenty first in completion percentage, he's
fifteenth and passer rating. It's just not Mahomes. And we
were told, well, you gets Rashi Rice back. She Rice
is out there. They don't involve him very much. But
(05:03):
he's out there. Sark is still running the defense. He's
on the sideline. The band is back together. The band's
not hitting the notes. And here's the deal. They have
lost two in a row. Right next week at home
versus Nadianapolis Colts, Patrick Mahomes never in his NFL career
has lost three games in a row. It has never happened,
(05:24):
Never three in a row. The Colts come in off
the buy. They're going to run the wheels off Jonathan
Taylor with fresh legs after two weeks break, and the
Kansas City Chiefs is a playoff game next week. If
they lose next week, by the way, in front of
their home fans and Chiefs Kingdom and all the Chiefs
celebrity fans, and it's over. It is not over now,
(05:46):
It is not. It's damn close to over, but it
is not over. And Manti, my last thing is a
personal thing. I don't want it to be over. I
want the Chiefs in the playoffs. I'm totally biased.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't care if they win once they get there.
But you better believe if something crazy happens where Buffalo
catches fire and gets to the super Bowl, I want
them to go through Kansas City or the story is
in complete. I want Baltimore to go through Kansas City.
I want Kansas City to be there. It's just Patrick
Ewing once screamed at Michael Jordan, who retired to.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Go play baseball. No no, no, no no, I need to beat you.
Come back. You can't retire.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I need the Chiefs in the playoffs because whoever wins
those NFC playoffs should go through the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
And right now the Chiefs ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I'm starting to really enjoy this Bears team, I really am,
because they have a lot of flaws, a lot, but
they also have something that every team wants, and even
some really good teams don't have. This Bears team has
an identity. They have it, they have found it, they
have molded it. The identity is keep it close, have
a lot of takeaways on defense, be in a close
(06:50):
game at the fourth quarter, and they will win.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
It's what they do. You know what.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I knew they were gonna win this game. I knew
it is the second. Ironically, JJ McCarthy threw a touchdown
pass to Jordanatis and I said the game's over because
there was fifty seconds left and you know what, the
second they scored that. I've said this five times this year. Oh,
they scored too fast. They left too much time on
the clock. The Bears are the too much time team.
You cannot leave too much time for the Bears because
(07:15):
they will beat you at the end. I've learned this.
All of us here in the show. We're learning this.
I'm hoping the audience is learning this. But I'll tell
you what a lot of Bears fans not learning this.
And in a tradition that is now continuing, on a
Monday morning, we do a Bears fan tweet roundup and
cleanup of Bears tweets.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Here we go, Aaron.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mays, Chicago Bears up sixteen to three with eleven minutes
left in the game, and they are going to lose again.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Guess what, Aaron, They won again, seven and three. Next,
you're out of here.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Next tweet, please, Bernie, Bears really about to lose to
the Vikings twice? Hellol well, Bernie, they're seven and three,
they won the game.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Next, get them out of here. King Rat, I'll say Bear's.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Gonna double dooint to lose it, calling it now, King Ratt,
get out of here. Cairo Santos split the upright. There
wasn't even a single doing. Get him out of here,
Bears seven and three, King Rat, How dare you? Matthew
Long Junior. He's got a suit and tie on.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
In his picture. He looks like a businessman.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Ben Johnson called conservative plays not to lose.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Santo's sucks.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
The receivers have no hands, the defense collapse. Hashtag Bears,
hashtag seven and three. Matthew Long Junior, Matthew Long's senior
will be disappointed in you if you're lack of foresight,
lack of trust in the Chicago Bears. The Bears keep
on winning, and hopefully their fans keep on learning.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Because here's the most important thing, my friends.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
As the Bears fans are still surprised that they win
at the end or still don't see that coming, I'm
gonna take you not yet.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm going to take you to the game winning kick
in which.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The face of the franchise is sitting on the bench
watching Cairo Santos, who had missed his last kick in
the dome amidst the skull collapse. And I want you
to see how surprised Caleb Williams looks that Cairo.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Santos makes this kick go ahead and roll it is.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Caleb Williams face looks surprised as this ball goes through,
not for a damn second. That dude doesn't flinch. His
eyebrows don't move a millimeter. There's no smirk, there's no relief,
there's no shock, there's no awe. That's a businessman doing business,
and his business is winning every single week, and then
(09:28):
having to hear afterwards that well the Vikings soccer and
you needed a last day.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
And field go. Yeah. I kept peering that every single week.
I keep peering that every.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Team they play is terrible and they're gonna eventually get
caught up with the Bears. And if they beat the
Steelers next year, it's next week, it's gonna be like.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Well, Rogers wasn't right, all right? All right?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Their first place in the Norse. That says seven to three.
And I just hope, I hope. If you're not listening
to me, Bears fans, listen from Caleb Williams and watch
open your eyes because.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
He sits there. Oh long kicked it in the game. Yep,
you made it. Let's go let's get on the bus.
That's what this Bears team is all about. Start paying attention.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It's a tasty thing that the Ravens will come tearing
down the stretch, and like Isaac saying, you do the
game where you look at the schedule, the Bengals Jets like,
maybe it could happen five and five, right, they to
give themselves a shot. I think they got to be
ten and seven, so they gotta go five and two
down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Five and two. We can't even talk about it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If Lamar's not gonna play out of his mind like yesterday,
by Lamar's amazing standards, was a poor game. You don't
really see Lamar play any worse than that. Two picks
just wasn't really doing much like that. We can't have that.
If Lamar is gonna play even average, it's it's not
gonna happen. Lamar's got to do like I mean, he's
not gonna have six touchdowns a game, but he's got
to basically do a Josh Allen thing like he did yesterday.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
He has to say I'm going superhero mode.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
I want this team in the playoffs this year because
they're pretty good, like they have great players, and they're
playing much better. But they just when you're so bad
with the win losses the beginning of the season, you
make it almost impossible. That's why constantly in September, I'm like,
just stack wins.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Who cares what the score is?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They didn't stack squad well, they stacked it, but I
can't say what they stacked on the air. Lamar's got
to find a way and just say I'm gonna find
my gear where I'm gonna say, I'm gonna go nuts here,
I'm gonna have four touchdowns a game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'm gonna play MVP, and then we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I'm left this game saying, oh, that come running thing
from the Ravens probably isn't gonna happen just.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Because they just didn't look good. I'll call it what
it is. They didn't well too. It's a very intriguing storyline.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
So watch Lamar next week and to see if he
can absolutely go nuclear, because if you can't, like it's
just too tall of attack. This reps my engine. Guys,
is the best time of the year. This is is cold.
Now we're turning the corner. Now the games really matter,
and I love this time of year because there are
good quarterbacks, maybe even great quarterbacks, But are there quarterbacks
(11:36):
you can trust? It's very different from being a good
player and putting up stats and fantasy and Player of
the Week and all that versus the guys you know
you can depend on when it gets cold and it
gets heated. Can you trust Sam Darnold? Can you trust
Jared Goff? Can you trust Baker Mayfield? We love those guys, really,
Can you trust them? Can you trust Lamar Jackson? Did
you watch Lamar yesterday? That was pretty weird. There's guys
(11:58):
that are great, and then there's guys that you can
absolutely depend on, and sometimes the first category gets exposed
and they're not the second category. Wait till we see
Daniel Jones and Arrowhead next week. Wait till we see
Patrick Mahomes. He's not playing very well right now. It's
a crazy, crazy time.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
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