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Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Ten Takes. What a week? What a week? I could do a show called one hundred Takes on that week and that would be just on the early window on Sunday, but it's called ten Takes. That's what we agree to, that's what I deliver, and we do it in exactly ten minutes. You click, it's time for me to go to work. Take number one. Jane Daniels is special. And I know that seems vanilla and obvious, but let me explain what I mean. There are good players in the NFL, and then there are great players, but that's not it. There is a very exclusive club of special players, and they're different, and there's something different about their body language, the way they handle the game, the way the ball bounces their way, maybe the way they get calls sometimes, the way they can just will things to happen. I could list for you right now five or six great players in the NFL who I don't think qualify as special. Great players. It's odd, maybe even Hall of Fame players, but there's only a few. When you watch them, you're like that guy stands out amongst the great players, even above them. Jadene Daniels is that I was not surprised at all when they completed the Hill Mary at all. I didn't even blink. I was watching that on a plane, which is a fun experience if you're watching NFL Sunday on a plane. I had the whole game going to NFL plus all that, and I could when he completed the Hail Mary. There was like five or six people on the plane who screamed in front of me, behind me, on the other side of the aisle. For me, they just screamed. I didn't scream. I didn't even blink. I thought he was gonna complete that, not because the Bears are cursed or the same old Bears. I just am like, he'll figure it out, He'll figure it out. I was not surprised at all. This is something really, really incredible going on with him. The star is born. He's not just good, He's not just great. He feels special. Take number two, Tyreek Stevenson was worse for the Bears than the Hail Mary. I really mean that. If you don't know what I mean. Tyrek Stevenson is a young defensive back for the Bears who had the number one video of the weekend when he was not just talking to the Commander's fans, but with his back fully turned to the hail Mary, and not just for the snap. The receivers were forty yards downfield before the safety turned around to even look at them and stop engaging in the fans. You know, the Bears had this really cool comeback in the fourth quarter and Caleb rallied them and that was really triumphant, and then they got screwed at the end by just dumb luck and the football guys, and they got a hail Mary completed. I feel like they still could die with their boots on in that game. They made some weird choices, I know, but I feel like they lost with kind of some dignity. And then you see what he did, and it's so embarrassing and it's so bush league and it's so pathetic and so bad. And I just wonder what Tyreek Stevenson was even talking about to the Commander's fans. What was the ammunition that was so good he had to spray it into the crowd as the hail mary was developing. Was he telling them that he got cooked by Terry McLaurin that day. Was he telling them that he got a personal file for sticking his fingers into a lineman's eyes and probably should have been ejected, or was he telling them he was about to make the biggest horses ass play of the twenty first century since Jacoby Brissett threw a lateral for the Patriots two Chandler Jones of the Raiders and single handle. They lost the game, and this was honestly worse. I know, he tweeted, I know he apologize. I actually think that's worse than the Hail Mary. That guy could go on to become a first ballot Hall of Famer Ed Reid, Ronnie La, Troy palam I will combined, and they will still remember that video. That's not just an all time sports video. That is an all time Internet video. People who don't even follow football, like, wow, look at this guy. It doesn't you know the play's going on. Just a terrible, terrible look, young player. You can recover from it and everything, and I'll be done talking about after today. But I had to get the pound of flesh there. Take number three. The Niners are alive, and that's not good for the rest of the NFC. I know they're just hovering there, and they'ren't really intimidating right now. I think you wanted the forty nine ers to lose that game to Dallas. I think you wanted them out done. I want them out of the picture because here's the deal. They've just been treading water, weird injuries season and from hell type stuff. They win, they stay relevant, they're still tied for first place in the division. They go into a bye, and then they get back not a nice player, not a role player, not a locker room leader. They get back the offensive player of the year, who they have played the entire season without. This is a huge deal. I want the forty nine ers out of the equation. I don't want to have to deal with them at the end of the season, at then beginning of the playoffs. If I'm a Lions fan, a Packers fan, Eagles fan, Buccaneers, Falcons, I just get the Niners out of here, because healthy Niners are totally different and they're still alive. I think you wanted them dead. Take number four. We've seen a lot of Cowboys teams that aren't good. I can't remember in the last twenty years seeing a Cowboys roster that's this bad. They just don't have players. It's ridiculous. It's Dak Prescott throwing a CD LAMB and then that's it. The running game is ridiculous. The other receivers are pointless. Dak can't run himself, so you just throw it to CD and then that's it. It's CD with no plan B and he's still two touchdowns. Last night. It reminds me al Pacino's been out there talking. Schreeger tells me that he's got a book. Well, he's got a book because probably he needs money. And he was talking about how he had fifty million dollars one day and then he was completely broke. So we started taking roles like Jack and Jill and just being in stupid movies that are beneath someone of his stature and his legend, and he's just doing it for the money. He just doesn't have anymore, but he's just showing up. It's like that's how you feel watching Ezekiel Elliott. Wo at one point was a top five, if not top three star in the NFL and now just has no business carrying the football that many times or at all for any team at all, let alone one that's supposed to be some sort of playoff contender, and I don't want to pick on Zeke. It's been done. I just cannot believe Jerry is allowed, not the team, but the roster to be so bad and so Inet Take number five. The Lions are absolutely unstoppable. My take on the lines is their offense is so good right now and there's not a lot of great sport and beating the hell out of the Titans. They could have started their two's yesterday across the board and I still think they could have beaten the Titans. Hendon Hooker is the starting quarterback, throwing passes to Alan Robinson, who I believe is still on their bench. I still think they could have beat them. It's so fun to watch them. It's just incredible. Don't miss the Lions game every week. You want to see the Lions and the Commanders. Those are the ones. If you just want pure sports entertainment, watch those two teams. Take number six. The Chiefs are actually more impressive than the Lions. We talked about this this morning. Who's more impressive? The Lions were just unconscious and they are a three point shooter who can't miss, who's begging for the ball. In the corner just draining threes, or the team that really can't hit a shot but still winning. Do you know how hard it is to win in the NFL when your offense is playing poorly and they are playing poorly. Mahomes again is still leading the NFL in interceptions, and he's also leading the NFL and wins. In the way that the league is set up now and the rules are set up and how it's offense offense, you're not supposed to be able to do that. He's playing bad. He's like twenty fourth if you want to look at passer rating. He's behind people who don't even belong in his zip code. And it's not a one week thing. We're two months into this season. Mahomes still can't really get his gamer and they're undefeated. It is really hard to do that. I'm still impressed. He and Jordan Love lead the league in interceptions. They may play in the Super Bowl. It's awesome. Take number seven. The Bills were totally forgotten about. That happens a lot. If you lose a nationally televised game early in the season, you get written off and you're not interested in anymore, and they blew it and don't worry about Josh Allen. And they got hammered by the Ravens. They also lost to Houston and looked really bad. They just absolutely beat the crap out of the Seahawks, the Seahawks, who I think are good sometimes, but they went into Seattle, took over the stadium, flew three thousand miles across the country, and played one of the more non competitive games of the entire week. They're good. They're back. They were forgotten about, but they're back. Take number eight. Kyler Murray, my guy. I love Kyler Murray. You know why I love them because I love people and players who just completely picked apart and picked on over and over and over and still endure. You know this. For years, it was nothing but jokes about how short Kyler Murray is. The these addicted to video games. I probably made some myself, but this was his divorced because the day before, I think a day or two before the game came out, the new Call of Duty came out, which is apparently his vice and his drug, whatever you want to call it. He's addicted to it. He doesn't watch films, he's playing Call of Duty. The game came out it's apparently incredible. I read reviews of it. They say it's back to its roots. It's all thriller, no filler. I was reading reviews of Call of Duty, so you would think if ever Kyler Murray was going to start playing that game for the days leading up to the actual football game, he would. No. He beat it. He beat the Dolphins. He was the best player in Cardinals Dolphins. He was the best quarterback in the game that featured two of returning I am so proud of my I think it is so cool that all the jokes are over all the jokes are stupid. If you're still making Kyler Murray Call of Duty games, you're stupid. That's my take right there. Not sophisticated one, but an accurate one. I absolutely love Kyler Murray and I love my Cardinals. Yes, my Cardinals being in first place in the NFC West at four and four take number nine. The New York Jets are Christopher Malta sanse I did an extended thing about this this morning. You can see it on my Twitter account. Good heart, you kind of root for him, I guess. I think their intentions are in the right place, but the intervention seeing on Sopranos is exactly what Malta Sante needs. Where I don't have anything to say to him. I don't think that their coaches have anything to say to him anymore. I wish, truly that Adriana and carm and Paulie and Cil and Tony could sit down and just have a talk with the New York Jets and explain to them what the hell is wrong with them. If you want to see the full video, I can't do it here. It's a ten minute show. I did it on Good Morning Football. It's hours and hours long. Watch it on my Twitter account. It's incredible. Take number ten. I have a lot of respect for flight attendants. I do. That's a tough racket up there. You got people being maniac se the flight rage all that, people demanding this and demanding that there's one thing flight attendants do that I had over the weekend to try to be crazy. They use the word do in a very annoying, patronizing way. They say things like, we do have a very full flight, we do appreciate your patients, we do ask that you take you see what is the word do doing in those sentences? Just say ladies and gentlemen, we have a very full flight. Ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate your patience. What is it we do appreciate your patience. I don't know what that is. It's this weird customer service training type of talk. But when they say we do ask, I want to ring my call button and ask them to stop saying do about everything. I know this is deep in the weeds of the English language. I bet you understand what I mean. I do ask that you do my time's up. I do appreciate you listening. I do hope you will tell your friends. I do ask that you review and rate and retweet, and I do hope I will see you next week. I do appreciate you, and I do love you. I do say goodbye. Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. 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