Speaker 1: Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: So fun. I'm so glad you're here. I have so
Speaker 1: many takes. I have only a few minutes ten exactly
Speaker 1: to get them to you. Should we start. We're through
Speaker 1: the wildcard round, we are careening into the best week
Speaker 1: of the damn football year. So let's just go ten
Speaker 1: takes in ten minutes. Start the clock. The Eagles are
Speaker 1: the biggest mystery of this upcoming offseason. They're the biggest
Speaker 1: mystery of this past regular season, this current playoff season,
Speaker 1: maybe of the entire twenty twenty four calendar, in any
Speaker 1: walk of life. What the hell happened? This was a
Speaker 1: ten to one team that had just beaten the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills in overtime, and the following day, everyone on my show,
Speaker 1: everyone on any show, and everyone on this show saying
Speaker 1: how great they were, how clutched they were the Eagles.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are gonna be sixteen and one, They're gonna
Speaker 1: get back to the super Bowl, and they just completely
Speaker 1: fell apart. And when something like that happens, you look
Speaker 1: for an answer. You look for someone's Wikipedia page, to deface, someone,
Speaker 1: to harass on social media, if that's your kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You look to this stack of cataclysmic injuries they suffered
Speaker 1: and there's none of that. There's no one to blame.
Speaker 1: It's not like they had some terrible distraction off the field.
Speaker 1: It's not like their franchise quarterback blew out his knee
Speaker 1: and the team just fell apart. It's not like the
Speaker 1: coach had to step away for health reason. No, it
Speaker 1: was all just there and then poof, it was gone.
Speaker 1: What the hell happened? I'm so stupid, Like I think
Speaker 1: they might beat the Bucks. I think they have so
Speaker 1: many veterans and so many guys who have been there
Speaker 1: and have skins on the wall that I know they're
Speaker 1: in this stupor. But when they finally hit the playoff
Speaker 1: primetime lights, they'll snap alive and they'll be the Eagles
Speaker 1: that we know. No, no, no, no, no, they didn't snap alive.
Speaker 1: There was no defibrillator paddle you could put to them
Speaker 1: and yell clear to their stupid, boring, catatonic chest. They're dead.
Speaker 1: A lot of teams lose. The Cowboys embarrassed themselves, but
Speaker 1: we're used to it. We understand it. I don't even
Speaker 1: understand the Eagles. It's like the players didn't want to win.
Speaker 1: What the hell. There's a lot of good veterans on
Speaker 1: that team. Strangest mystery I've seen in years, and will
Speaker 1: continue to talk about it for months. Topic number two,
Speaker 1: Take number two. Bills had themselves a party that was
Speaker 1: really fun to watch, all the whole logging of the
Speaker 1: weather and the updates and the travel concerns. I was
Speaker 1: supposed to go to Buffalo. I was supposed to go
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. Saturday night flight canceled, Sunday morning flight canceled,
Speaker 1: Sunday night flight canceled. I was trying to fly to
Speaker 1: Rochester and then drive to Buffalo. I was trying to
Speaker 1: do everything short of taking a ton ton from Echo Base,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't get to Buffalo. The Steelers got to
Speaker 1: Buffalo and then they found themselves down twenty one to nothing.
Speaker 1: The Bills executed. They didn't fall in their face and
Speaker 1: their first home playoff game like they did last year
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati, inferior opponent without their best player, t J.
Speaker 1: Watt twenty one or nothing. That just held on. They'll
Speaker 1: be ready to go and We're getting the Game of
Speaker 1: AFC Dreams next week. Take number three. Josh Allen did
Speaker 1: his thing. People are Jason mccordy. I'm gonna say peep.
Speaker 1: I'll just name Jason, who gives a damn? He was
Speaker 1: in his feelings a Good Morning Football today on Josh
Speaker 1: Allen's long run was just the second longest run by
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the playoffs ever, second only to Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernan against the Packers about a decade ago. That Josh
Speaker 1: Allen did the fake slide and that everyone was nervous
Speaker 1: about hitting him, so that's the reason the play went
Speaker 1: so long. Let me tell you something, if you've done
Speaker 1: any preparation on Josh Allen, and if you're the Steelers
Speaker 1: defensive backs, you did. If you really think he was
Speaker 1: gonna slide when some corner or some safety was coming
Speaker 1: to him and he's fifteen yards down the field, that
Speaker 1: you don't know the guy, I don't know what tape
Speaker 1: you're watching. He wasn't gonna slide. You could get hooked
Speaker 1: by a lot of fake slides by a lot of people.
Speaker 1: He wasn't gonna slide. If anything, he was gonna hurdle you.
Speaker 1: That run was electric. You saw the fans throw snow
Speaker 1: in the crowd. Is he gonna do that against the Chiefs? Man?
Speaker 1: If they lose to the Chiefs and they're at home,
Speaker 1: there's not going to be any excuses. I know the
Speaker 1: defense is banged up, but you've been waiting for this
Speaker 1: one at home for years. Huge, huge, huge game. Take
Speaker 1: number four. Mike Tomlin lost again in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: then someone asked a pointed question. Actually they didn't even
Speaker 1: ask the question. They just kind of set up the
Speaker 1: question about his own personal contract, and he walked out
Speaker 1: of the room. You're gonna hear the question. It went
Speaker 1: like this, and you won't love the contract. And then
Speaker 1: Mike just didn't say worden just walked out. I thought
Speaker 1: that was rude. I didn't think it was amusing, even
Speaker 1: in the Internet sense of things. I thought it was
Speaker 1: kind of dumb. And I'll say this, I'm kind of past,
Speaker 1: move past. I think we all should the Mike Thomas
Speaker 1: never had a losing record, never had a losing record.
Speaker 1: We know, we know, we've talked about it for years.
Speaker 1: It's admirable, it's impressive, But what has he done after that?
Speaker 1: When's the last time he won a playoff game. It's
Speaker 1: been years and years of losses in the wildcard round,
Speaker 1: and since anythings he's done anything past that, he and
Speaker 1: anzality loses. His teams get destroyed in the wildcard round.
Speaker 1: So we constantly say, well, he's never had a losing record.
Speaker 1: It's like the baseball players saying, I've never struck out.
Speaker 1: I've never struck I never ever go up in and
Speaker 1: strike out. Okay, well do you ever hit a double?
Speaker 1: Do you ever had a home run? It's been years
Speaker 1: since you've hit a home run. Why don't you take
Speaker 1: a few swings. I'm tired of hearing that you don't
Speaker 1: strike out. We're trying to be in the business of
Speaker 1: home runs here, especially for the Steelers, who are the
Speaker 1: bedrock of the National Football League and rings and banners
Speaker 1: and everything. Wildcard games aren't good enough, especially when you
Speaker 1: haven't won anything beyond that for years and years, and
Speaker 1: most of those wildcard games you get hammered in. But
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin has this thing where everyone in the media
Speaker 1: sort of has just worships him. And I tell you what,
Speaker 1: the Steelers fans don't. They're really sick of it, really sick,
Speaker 1: and I think you'd be hired immediately if they ever
Speaker 1: let them go, but they won't. They don't let go coaches.
Speaker 1: Aren't you supposed to let go coaches? They don't get
Speaker 1: Super Bowls if you're the Steelers, he doesn't take number five.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are empty calories and we're a day later
Speaker 1: now in Cowboys reaction. What does that mean? Empty calories?
Speaker 1: You used to know this guy who is really into
Speaker 1: fitness and a diet and all that stuff, and he
Speaker 1: would refer to terrible things you put in your body's
Speaker 1: empty calories. There's no nutritive value. There's no protein, there's
Speaker 1: not even any quality carbohydrates. There's no vegetables, there's no nutrients,
Speaker 1: there's no vitamins. It's things like French fries, doughnuts. They're
Speaker 1: just sugar and salt. It will help you in any way.
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can take from them. The Cowboys season
Speaker 1: this year again was empty calories. Ceedee Lamb had an
Speaker 1: all time statistical year for the Cowboys, and who cares,
Speaker 1: it's tethered to nothing permanent memorable. Michael Irvin had his
Speaker 1: records broken by Ceedee Lamb. Michael Irvin did it in
Speaker 1: Super Bowl seasons. The Cowboys had twelve wins. Who cares
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott fantastic statistical season? Who cares empty calories? There
Speaker 1: has to be something of lasting substance that we can
Speaker 1: remember you by. The only way we remember the Cowboys
Speaker 1: this season. If we look back as the last year
Speaker 1: of Mike McCarthy, which we should take number six, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have bigger questions than the Eagles in the offseason.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have more questions like, what the hell happened?
Speaker 1: What the bleep just happened, What in the world just happened,
Speaker 1: How are we going to change what just happened? How
Speaker 1: are we gonna fix it? What just happened? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: play center for us? I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: And also my question is Howie Roseman sitting in his
Speaker 1: house somewhere up in some office with a cigar saying,
Speaker 1: you guys are idiots. I did my job. I filled
Speaker 1: this roster with players. I brought incredible food to the kitchen,
Speaker 1: and you morons can't cook it. That's your fault or
Speaker 1: was it more like how we I don't know if
Speaker 1: those signings and those draft picks were as good as
Speaker 1: you think they were, And maybe you were a little
Speaker 1: naive about the team chemistry and guys where they are
Speaker 1: in their career. Young guys don't have it yet. Old
Speaker 1: guys don't have it anymore more questions. But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have bigger questions, namely, who the hell is going to
Speaker 1: be their head coach. We're right now, as I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here recording this, it's Tuesday morning. We're forty eight hours
Speaker 1: out almost to the Cowboys lost. They still like Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Go yet, what are they thinking about? What is the
Speaker 1: case for keeping mack McCarthy. He won twelve wins and
Speaker 1: the year before and the year before one of three
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Like the Steelers, you're purportedly about winning
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. Move on, you got some big dogs out
Speaker 1: there looking to be hired. I can't believe Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 1: still the coach. Take number seven, Jason Kelsey retired. I
Speaker 1: like everybody like Kelsey a lot me all my take
Speaker 1: is on him. I think he's the most famous offensive
Speaker 1: lineman in history. I think there was a Reddit thread
Speaker 1: about it too. Someone tweeted me in I think he's
Speaker 1: the most famous offensive lineman to ever live. Some of
Speaker 1: the other suggestions thrown out Michael Orr, who I don't
Speaker 1: think is true Michael or No. I don't think a
Speaker 1: lot of people know his name. They just know, oh,
Speaker 1: the Blindside guy, and he's more famous because of Sandra Bullock.
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, the nineties Cowboys, sure, but they
Speaker 1: were just kind of a I don't think like Nate
Speaker 1: Newton was terribly as famous as Jason Kelcey. I saw
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday, cool name ESPN guy who was a head coach. No,
Speaker 1: Michael Oran is nothing to Jason Kelsey, who's an incredible
Speaker 1: player and an incredible speech. It's six time All Pro.
Speaker 1: I think Super Bowl champion and his damn brother dates
Speaker 1: the most famous woman in the world. Take number eight.
Speaker 1: Here is in order the ranking of the divisional round
Speaker 1: playoff games, in order which I think will be the
Speaker 1: best games and the worst games, the worst games to
Speaker 1: best worst game. Texans versus Ravens. I think the Ravens
Speaker 1: are the best team in the NFL. I love the
Speaker 1: Texans story. That might be some come up ands. Three
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Lions. I think the Lions are really good. I
Speaker 1: know the Bucks just hammered the Eagles, but I think
Speaker 1: the Lions are legit that atmosphere is going to be
Speaker 1: unbelievable in Detroit. Three two Packers Niners. Packers have the
Speaker 1: punching power. I know the Niners are the real machine.
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is the best quarterback playing in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And number one, I think the best game will be
Speaker 1: Chiefs Bills. I will talk about it a lot next
Speaker 1: week after it happens. Chiefs Bills is for real. Take
Speaker 1: number nine, I'm running out of time. I have the
Speaker 1: funniest headline of the day. Bill Belichick interviews for a
Speaker 1: Falcons job. He's interviewing them guys. They're not interviewing him.
Speaker 1: They're not sitting Bill Belichick down and say so, Bill,
Speaker 1: where do you see yourself in five years? Bill tell
Speaker 1: us about a time when you had a challenging situation. Well,
Speaker 1: I was investigating for deflating footballs. I was down twenty
Speaker 1: eight to three in the Super Bowl and one of
Speaker 1: my players was arrested for murder. That was tough. I
Speaker 1: don't think the interview went like that. Take number one,
Speaker 1: My children had a snow day today. Snow days are better,
Speaker 1: more exciting than off days because you don't find out
Speaker 1: till you wake up, and it's pure damn magic. They
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Speaker 1: that was ten minutes exactly. I'm going to go home
Speaker 1: right now. It is ten forty four am. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get home at about eleven forty four and my kids
Speaker 1: are going to be bouncing off the bleeping walls with
Speaker 1: that sweet, sweet dopamine of no school because the white
Speaker 1: stuff fell out of the sky. I'm going to build
Speaker 1: some snow forts. I'm gonna be checking this with snowball.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make some snow men, snow people, snow women's
Speaker 1: noo everything. It's gonna be a hell of the day
Speaker 1: at the Brand Household. Thank you for listening to me
Speaker 1: on this fine morning in January. Ten Takes and ten Minutes.
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week. Enjoy the best week of
Speaker 1: football all year, divisional round hits like no different. Next
Speaker 1: time we talk, we will know who's going to the
Speaker 1: title games, the Final four. Love you, Thank you, Sia Bye.
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