Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. We're here, We're back. Ten takes in exactly ten minutes, just like we promise each and every week. Ten Takes the show that knows to keep its helmet on while on the field at all times. Can't take your helmet off. There's no gray area about it, black and white, exactly what I said. We will give you ten takes, We give you ten minutes. Jack Bauer is our muse. We hate califlower, We think drinking on airplanes is overrated. And there'll be more takes today again. Ten minutes, short form, lean, mean, concise, start the click. Take number one. Forty nine Ers the best team in football? You know why? Who is the forty nine ers best player? Can you even name it? I don't know who it is. I debated it this morning. Sometimes you're like, oh, well, it's Nick Bosa, he's the defensive player. They're sure I get it. But then sometimes it's McCaffrey. Sometimes it's Fred Warner. Sometimes it's Trent Williams. Sometimes you're like, oh wait a second, deebo is pound for pound, the best player on this team. Sometimes it looks like Brett purty is and then George Kittle will show up and have three touchdowns. You do not know who the best player is on the team. That is why they're the best team. Plus, they just absolutely destroyed the Cowboys. We were looking forward to that game for a month. I remember, right after San Francisco just destroyed Pittsburgh in Week one, We're like, we need to get a real opponent for San Francisco. Let's just see how good they are. Oh, look at the schedule. They played Dallas in Week five, Now that that would be good. It was horrible, horrible, a complete ass whipping. Tell me who is the best forty nine er? Tweet me take number two boot Dallas. The Dallas Cowboys are the Dwayne Johnson of football teams. What does that mean? They're really successful in the sense that they make a lot of money, have a very shiny, ubiquitous product. It's well packaged and well presented and seemingly popular and there's just tons of cash flowing out of it. And it's a big brand that I think is likable and that maybe you've watched for years and you have affection for and everything the Cowboys, like Dwayn Johnson but in the end, what does it really amount to. What is your favorite Dwayne Johnson movie. Is it the one where he wears basically the same shirt that he always wears and is kind of sweaty and has one liners and looks really cool and is bald and muscular. Because I think that's the best one, it's also the worst one. It's also everyone. This Dallas Cowboys team disappoints me because this seems like every Dallas Cowboys team I have seen during the Dak era and maybe prior. I'm disappointed. I was fish hooked. I bought in. I thought this team was different. I thought this defense was special. I picked him to win the East, just like a Dwayn Johnson movie was like, Oh, this one black Adam, and this is gonna really separate him from the pack. This is gonna be his terminator, this is gonna be his generational movie years from now we look back on, They're all the same. I don't want Dwayn Johnson to be catches like Mowana as much as the next guy. It just seems like Dallas Cowboys, the Dwayne Johnson and football teams. It's not a bad thing. It's just at the end. It's kind of empty calories. And when you're in the Dwayn Johnson movie, you're kind of looking at your watch being like, well, are they gonna roll the credits on this thing? I get it. Feel the same way about the Cowboys take number three. The Eagles win again. I love that short yardage play Push Push, Brother Lee Shove. I love it. You know the Logan Roy clip I play, Ben love it. It's my favorite playing football. It's my favorite play in sports maybe ever. Never mind the Michael Jordan turnaround jump shot or the Jimmy Snooka off the top rope. I love the Eagles pushing people around. Can you imagine I don't have Jalen Hurts and fantasy not that you care. Can you imagine how excited you be every time they get to the one yard line or two yard line. You're like, you're about to get six points. It's so great. Can you imagine how frustrated you be if you really cared about a team going against the Eagles, knowing it that short yard and they're gonna get it. Every single time. People want to ban it, people want to review it. I know. It's like a pull from the headline type debate. To me, the coor essence of football is we're gonna push as hard as we can in one direction. You're gonna push as hard as you can in the other direction. Let's see who can push harder, who can do it? Nobody pushes harder than the Eagles. I love it. I thought maybe this is the week that it would like be stopped. They got Aaron Donald. That's the immovable object, not even close, right through the rams, including on the goal line. I play Ben love it. Take number four. I don't love what the Buffalo Bills did this weekend. They were bad. They were bad. Jacksonville deserved that win. Jacksonville led from start to finish. And listen, I know people who are working the game, and you're in London, and I know people who are involved in the team, and there's all these thoughts that you know, the Bills were sluggish, they were emotionally underslept. They showed up and they just didn't have it. If that's true, I don't know if that is true. I haven't heard the Bills say that flat. If that is, that is lame, that is bush league, that is amateur. I get it. It sucks. Jacksonville was already there. They already acclimatede. You gotta fly over. That's not an excuse. We're too far ard into this Bill's regime right now with McDermott and Alan to have something like, well, we were just kind of tired for that Jags game. They're three and two now they're back in the pack. They lost that game from start to finish. A bad loss, good win for the jag Take number five. You know who's terrible The Patriots. I think the Patriots are the worst team in football. If I were to do power rankings, I would have them at thirty two. After these last two games. I think the Panthers fought harder than them, even though they're winless. The Bears got to win this week. Denver fought harder than them. Denver got to win last week. New England's nothing. They chased maybe the worst day that Belichick's had as a coach last week with a day that might have even been worse against the Saints. Now, listen, the Patriots have had eggs. Everybody does. Bill Belichick's had terrible days where they just get destroyed. You do it long enough, and I'm talking even during the Brady era. But there's always the next week, the get right game. Remember when it was Hon the Cincinnati Honisincinnati Andisincinnati. The next week they crushed. This was the get right game, and it was pathetic, and they benched the quarterback and they got destroyed at home. And I'm just at the point with Belichick where like Bill, I don't know where this is going. I don't know if you're gonna get on the boat and just sail off for good at the end of the season. I would love just a little bit of personal accountability. That whole gruffness with the media thing works when you're hanging banners and doing whatever you want. When you have the worst team in football and we've been told you're the best coach in all of sports, can you not show up and say I need to be better, I need to coach differently. I I me, me, it would be refreshing. I think it'd be appropriate. Take number six. We're cruising. I got to pick up the pace here. The Bengals. I was asked today, the Cincinnati Bengals back? Are they back? There's nothing we love in sports media then asking if a team is back. No, they're not back, but they're alive. They beat the Cardinals game that they were losing. They're not back to this super Bowl form, but they're alive, and that all that matters. That's all that matters. It's we're Halloween time right now. Everybody in my neighborhood's got crazy, you know, Michael Myers and Jason borhees things in their front yard. It's very macab and very bloody. Those guys can't be killed. They're like the superhero or the horror movie villain. That's the Bengals. They can't be killed. They're alive. Take number seven. I have the Lions as the fourth best team in the league. It's awesome. Can you imagine? I think the Lions have lost three games in the last eleven months. They kick ash Man, they play tough, they play physical. They played an overmatch team this week and they beat them exactly the way you should. They beat the hell out of them. They're doing trick plays, David Montgomery's busting long runs down the sidelines, something I didn't see him do much as a Chicago Bear. I love the Lions. Take number eight. Steelers sitting there at three and two in first place, cruising into the bye with a really big win. Over Baltimore. If you find yourself at the end of the season each and every year saying how do the Steelers do it? How do they never have a crappy six and eleven season? How are they never irrelevant? It's because they gut out these weird week five, bizarre, low scoring games against Baltimore. They're not glamorous, it's not interesting, it's not high profile. They just win. TJ. Watt closed the show full enter Sandman Marionna Rivera style with a couple of plays at the end of the game along with high Smith Steelers three and two, ugly scrappy who gives a damn first place take Number nine Jets Broncos was a weird one. Andrew Catalan at CBS, who was calling the game for CBS, said, well, Canton, Ohio will not be requesting the tape of this game. Really poorly played game, bizarre, ugly turnovers, but still kind of fun to watch. It was just like watching your drunk friends stumble around at the end of the night and you know he's gonna get shot down by the girl he's asking out. You know he's gonna puke in the back of the uber. It's not pleasant. It's not high profile, it's not classy, but damn it's fun to watch. Then Nathaniel Hackett thing. It's fascinating that so many of the Jets came up to hug him and rep him and really stand up for him, like CJ. Zomita to start the game. They don't have a history with that guy. Most of these players didn't even know Nathaniel Hacket until a few months ago. It's not like he's some assistant who's been there for years and years in year and he's their guy. They just met him. They like him that much, and they were that pissed off by Sean Payton. I actually thought it was kind of fun that Sean Payton was going to be the villain to start this season. He's gonna put the black hat on, you know, sling mud talk, crap, all that, and that is fun and we need some of that in the NFL. It's only fun if you have a halfway decent team. Sean. Never mind the bleep talking and talking about Russell Wilson's parking spots in private office. We were told you were one of the best coaches in sports. Sean, what are you doing? The Broncos are terrible. I don't know whose team is more terrible. Yours are belichicks. It only works if the team is good. You know, his team was okay this weekend. Mine take number ten. I coached my son's nine year old flag football team. We were playing a game this weekend against the team that was green and just kind of getting together and overmatched. Let's just say that way. Our team's not that great. Were played against team those overmatched. So we score a couple early, we score another one. And if you don't have little kids, you don't understand how much of the impact the NFL has on these little kids. My kids, a bunch nine year olds. They score a touchdown, a long one, and they do the bowling pins celebration, where like six of them stand there like pins, and the kid who scores rolls the ball and they all fall down, and the parents thought it was funny and they laughed and everything. Well, like two more touchdowns later, we're blowing out this team, which is bad form. The kids sit down and start doing the canoe celebration, where we're I'm like, all right, get up, get up, enough with the celebrations, guys. You can do it when you have fourteen nothing. When you have thirty to nothing, it's bad sportsmanship. Don't ever do that again. But through it next week when we win, that's it. That's ten minutes. I can't go over time. Ten minutes is a promise, and it's a pledge, and it's a law here on ten Takes. Tweet me anything you want, if you have a request, if you have a question for next week's episode. They drop every single Monday. Ten takes in ten minutes. 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Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. We're here, We're back. Ten takes in exactly ten minutes, just like we promise each and every week. Ten Takes the show that knows to keep its helmet on while on the field at all times. Can't take your helmet off. There's no gray area about it, black and white, exactly what I said. We will give you ten takes, We give you ten minutes. Jack Bauer is our muse. We hate califlower, We think drinking on airplanes is overrated. And there'll be more takes today again. Ten minutes, short form, lean, mean, concise, start the click. Take number one. Forty nine Ers the best team in football? You know why? Who is the forty nine ers best player? Can you even name it? I don't know who it is. I debated it this morning. Sometimes you're like, oh, well, it's Nick Bosa, he's the defensive player. They're sure I get it. But then sometimes it's McCaffrey. Sometimes it's Fred Warner. Sometimes it's Trent Williams. Sometimes you're like, oh wait a second, deebo is pound for pound, the best player on this team. Sometimes it looks like Brett purty is and then George Kittle will show up and have three touchdowns. You do not know who the best player is on the team. That is why they're the best team. Plus, they just absolutely destroyed the Cowboys. We were looking forward to that game for a month. I remember, right after San Francisco just destroyed Pittsburgh in Week one, We're like, we need to get a real opponent for San Francisco. Let's just see how good they are. Oh, look at the schedule. They played Dallas in Week five, Now that that would be good. It was horrible, horrible, a complete ass whipping. Tell me who is the best forty nine er? Tweet me take number two boot Dallas. The Dallas Cowboys are the Dwayne Johnson of football teams. What does that mean? They're really successful in the sense that they make a lot of money, have a very shiny, ubiquitous product. It's well packaged and well presented and seemingly popular and there's just tons of cash flowing out of it. And it's a big brand that I think is likable and that maybe you've watched for years and you have affection for and everything the Cowboys, like Dwayn Johnson but in the end, what does it really amount to. What is your favorite Dwayne Johnson movie. Is it the one where he wears basically the same shirt that he always wears and is kind of sweaty and has one liners and looks really cool and is bald and muscular. Because I think that's the best one, it's also the worst one. It's also everyone. This Dallas Cowboys team disappoints me because this seems like every Dallas Cowboys team I have seen during the Dak era and maybe prior. I'm disappointed. I was fish hooked. I bought in. I thought this team was different. I thought this defense was special. I picked him to win the East, just like a Dwayn Johnson movie was like, Oh, this one black Adam, and this is gonna really separate him from the pack. This is gonna be his terminator, this is gonna be his generational movie years from now we look back on, They're all the same. I don't want Dwayn Johnson to be catches like Mowana as much as the next guy. It just seems like Dallas Cowboys, the Dwayne Johnson and football teams. It's not a bad thing. It's just at the end. It's kind of empty calories. And when you're in the Dwayn Johnson movie, you're kind of looking at your watch being like, well, are they gonna roll the credits on this thing? I get it. Feel the same way about the Cowboys take number three. The Eagles win again. I love that short yardage play Push Push, Brother Lee Shove. I love it. You know the Logan Roy clip I play, Ben love it. It's my favorite playing football. It's my favorite play in sports maybe ever. Never mind the Michael Jordan turnaround jump shot or the Jimmy Snooka off the top rope. I love the Eagles pushing people around. Can you imagine I don't have Jalen Hurts and fantasy not that you care. Can you imagine how excited you be every time they get to the one yard line or two yard line. You're like, you're about to get six points. It's so great. Can you imagine how frustrated you be if you really cared about a team going against the Eagles, knowing it that short yard and they're gonna get it. Every single time. People want to ban it, people want to review it. I know. It's like a pull from the headline type debate. To me, the coor essence of football is we're gonna push as hard as we can in one direction. You're gonna push as hard as you can in the other direction. Let's see who can push harder, who can do it? Nobody pushes harder than the Eagles. I love it. I thought maybe this is the week that it would like be stopped. They got Aaron Donald. That's the immovable object, not even close, right through the rams, including on the goal line. I play Ben love it. Take number four. I don't love what the Buffalo Bills did this weekend. They were bad. They were bad. Jacksonville deserved that win. Jacksonville led from start to finish. And listen, I know people who are working the game, and you're in London, and I know people who are involved in the team, and there's all these thoughts that you know, the Bills were sluggish, they were emotionally underslept. They showed up and they just didn't have it. If that's true, I don't know if that is true. I haven't heard the Bills say that flat. If that is, that is lame, that is bush league, that is amateur. I get it. It sucks. Jacksonville was already there. They already acclimatede. You gotta fly over. That's not an excuse. We're too far ard into this Bill's regime right now with McDermott and Alan to have something like, well, we were just kind of tired for that Jags game. They're three and two now they're back in the pack. They lost that game from start to finish. A bad loss, good win for the jag Take number five. You know who's terrible The Patriots. I think the Patriots are the worst team in football. If I were to do power rankings, I would have them at thirty two. After these last two games. I think the Panthers fought harder than them, even though they're winless. The Bears got to win this week. Denver fought harder than them. Denver got to win last week. New England's nothing. They chased maybe the worst day that Belichick's had as a coach last week with a day that might have even been worse against the Saints. Now, listen, the Patriots have had eggs. Everybody does. Bill Belichick's had terrible days where they just get destroyed. You do it long enough, and I'm talking even during the Brady era. But there's always the next week, the get right game. Remember when it was Hon the Cincinnati Honisincinnati Andisincinnati. The next week they crushed. This was the get right game, and it was pathetic, and they benched the quarterback and they got destroyed at home. And I'm just at the point with Belichick where like Bill, I don't know where this is going. I don't know if you're gonna get on the boat and just sail off for good at the end of the season. I would love just a little bit of personal accountability. That whole gruffness with the media thing works when you're hanging banners and doing whatever you want. When you have the worst team in football and we've been told you're the best coach in all of sports, can you not show up and say I need to be better, I need to coach differently. I I me, me, it would be refreshing. I think it'd be appropriate. Take number six. We're cruising. I got to pick up the pace here. The Bengals. I was asked today, the Cincinnati Bengals back? Are they back? There's nothing we love in sports media then asking if a team is back. No, they're not back, but they're alive. They beat the Cardinals game that they were losing. They're not back to this super Bowl form, but they're alive, and that all that matters. That's all that matters. It's we're Halloween time right now. Everybody in my neighborhood's got crazy, you know, Michael Myers and Jason borhees things in their front yard. It's very macab and very bloody. Those guys can't be killed. They're like the superhero or the horror movie villain. That's the Bengals. They can't be killed. They're alive. Take number seven. I have the Lions as the fourth best team in the league. It's awesome. Can you imagine? I think the Lions have lost three games in the last eleven months. They kick ash Man, they play tough, they play physical. They played an overmatch team this week and they beat them exactly the way you should. They beat the hell out of them. They're doing trick plays, David Montgomery's busting long runs down the sidelines, something I didn't see him do much as a Chicago Bear. I love the Lions. Take number eight. Steelers sitting there at three and two in first place, cruising into the bye with a really big win. Over Baltimore. If you find yourself at the end of the season each and every year saying how do the Steelers do it? How do they never have a crappy six and eleven season? How are they never irrelevant? It's because they gut out these weird week five, bizarre, low scoring games against Baltimore. They're not glamorous, it's not interesting, it's not high profile. They just win. TJ. Watt closed the show full enter Sandman Marionna Rivera style with a couple of plays at the end of the game along with high Smith Steelers three and two, ugly scrappy who gives a damn first place take Number nine Jets Broncos was a weird one. Andrew Catalan at CBS, who was calling the game for CBS, said, well, Canton, Ohio will not be requesting the tape of this game. Really poorly played game, bizarre, ugly turnovers, but still kind of fun to watch. It was just like watching your drunk friends stumble around at the end of the night and you know he's gonna get shot down by the girl he's asking out. You know he's gonna puke in the back of the uber. It's not pleasant. It's not high profile, it's not classy, but damn it's fun to watch. Then Nathaniel Hackett thing. It's fascinating that so many of the Jets came up to hug him and rep him and really stand up for him, like CJ. Zomita to start the game. They don't have a history with that guy. Most of these players didn't even know Nathaniel Hacket until a few months ago. It's not like he's some assistant who's been there for years and years in year and he's their guy. They just met him. They like him that much, and they were that pissed off by Sean Payton. I actually thought it was kind of fun that Sean Payton was going to be the villain to start this season. He's gonna put the black hat on, you know, sling mud talk, crap, all that, and that is fun and we need some of that in the NFL. It's only fun if you have a halfway decent team. Sean. Never mind the bleep talking and talking about Russell Wilson's parking spots in private office. We were told you were one of the best coaches in sports. Sean, what are you doing? The Broncos are terrible. I don't know whose team is more terrible. Yours are belichicks. It only works if the team is good. You know, his team was okay this weekend. Mine take number ten. I coached my son's nine year old flag football team. We were playing a game this weekend against the team that was green and just kind of getting together and overmatched. Let's just say that way. Our team's not that great. Were played against team those overmatched. So we score a couple early, we score another one. And if you don't have little kids, you don't understand how much of the impact the NFL has on these little kids. My kids, a bunch nine year olds. They score a touchdown, a long one, and they do the bowling pins celebration, where like six of them stand there like pins, and the kid who scores rolls the ball and they all fall down, and the parents thought it was funny and they laughed and everything. Well, like two more touchdowns later, we're blowing out this team, which is bad form. The kids sit down and start doing the canoe celebration, where we're I'm like, all right, get up, get up, enough with the celebrations, guys. You can do it when you have fourteen nothing. When you have thirty to nothing, it's bad sportsmanship. Don't ever do that again. But through it next week when we win, that's it. That's ten minutes. I can't go over time. Ten minutes is a promise, and it's a pledge, and it's a law here on ten Takes. Tweet me anything you want, if you have a request, if you have a question for next week's episode. They drop every single Monday. Ten takes in ten minutes. I'm not going to go long because I don't want you to look down a little progress bar and this thing you click and say, wait, at ten minutes, he's actually thirteen. It's fifteen minutes. I gotta shut up. I'm out of here. Thank you for listening, Love you, tweet, share reviews, subscribe all that stuff. Do the best, See you next week. Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. For more iHeartRadio pods, go to the iHeartRadio app, go to Apple, go anywhere you like. It'll be there.