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10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: Saquon now lives in my head

Published Nov 4, 2024, 6:15 PM

Halfway through the season and halfway through our takes:

  • Dreaming about one play
  • A team that's glitching in front of our eyes
  • When an incompletion is breaking news
  • Boring is worse than bad
  • Abusing the best offseason acquisition?
  • Homework before Monday Night Football

Back against the wall with just a few seconds to spare, but a job well done!

We're here. You did it. We just passed the halfway mark of the NFL season, and the halfway mark of ten takes with me Kyle Brant. What it doesn't say in the title is the length of time I delivered those ten takes. But if you've listened before, you know that it's ten minutes, ten takes, and ten minutes. And if I don't finish, there's a bomb that goes off and it explodes in the middle of take seven or eight or nine or whatever it is. But I bet I finished. I always do it. I will today start the clock take number one. I can't stop thinking about Saquon, and I don't want to stop thinking about Saquon. I'm sitting there on the couch watching the Eagles game like anybody else. They throw it to Saquon, he does maybe the coolest spin move I've ever seen, and then he elevates backwards and jumps over another professional human being. I didn't scream, I didn't stand up. I just sat there in silence and soaked it in. And ten minutes later I was still thinking about it. And then I went out to dinner with my family and I walked a dog and I read to my kids, and I was still thinking about it. I had a dream about it last night. I woke up thinking about it last night. I woke up about thinking about this morning. I can't stop thinking that Sequan did that. It really did happen, right, I've seen it. I won't stop watching it. Understand. I see a lot of football players do cool things, and not just because I watched the NFL every week like you do. In the Instagram algorithm, it's got a clause, and to me, everything that they show me is football players, high school players, college players, strange leagues I didn't even know existed players. I've seen every cool highlight ever in history. I have never ever seen someone backwards leap over another defender because I don't think it's ever happened. I don't think a high school player in some obscure state that maybe doesn't have a lot of media coverage have done it. I don't think there's any college program at three in the morning on ESPN eight has done it. I don't think it's happened because if it had, that clip would have surfaced already. You can't even do what he did in Madden. They wouldn't do it. It's not realistic. Madd would never put that in there trying to be real. You could never get one of these, you know, these performers you put the little sensors all over their body and act out the moves to do that move. I just still can't believe it. And there are people who could do that physically in the league, jump like that, pull their legs up and jump over defender. It's not that part of it. It's the mental part. It's the fact that something in Saquon's brain in the middle of that run sent a signal to his lower body that said jump right now backwards, and his body was like, no problem, rock and roll, and they did it. And I still am not over it. I don't ever want it back. I can remember that play for the rest of my life. I think it's a thirteen yard gain in kind of a forgettable Eagles Jaguars game, and sa one was tackled right afterwards. I still can't stop thinking about that. It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. Take number two. The Bears are sick, and by sick, I mean like ill, they're glitching. That was a oh man, a listless nothing performance against a Cardinals defense that is not even average. They've been below average, and the Bear scored nine points, got their quarterback banged up in the meanless snap at the end of the game, and it felt like really your worst fears if you're a Bears fan that did that. Jayden Daniels, hail Mary, sicken us, and I mean like infect us. It feels like when you were younger, especially, and you would install lime wire into your parents' home computer, like the gateway they have in their basement, the cowbox that it comes in, or you install a lime wire or some sort of you know, piracy app whatever it may be, napster, and the computer's never the same, never, even if you delete everything and just take it out because your mom's all mad at you because you can't go to Facebook anymore, and you still think. It's just still never the same, It never quite works the same. You have to throw it away and get a new gateway. And I just feel like that, Hail Mary, if you were looking for some sort of emotional recovery from them. No. I saw a radio clip this morning, This is Monday Morning Now, where DJ Moore is asked if Mattyberfluss has lost the team and he said, I won't say no. Well, then you're saying yes. Take number three, Jared Goff. Someone has to at least force this guy to throw a few interceptions. You know what, strike that a few incompletions before I even think the Lions could lose a game. I got to sit with Golf and interview Golf for the NFL last week, and we were talking. Since he's a Bay Area guy, I was like, do you remember when Barry Bonds was chasing the home run record and he was totally juiced out of his mind. But they would do a thing in sports TV where they would do live break ins to programming on ESPN or whatever it was that whatever show you were watching, Barry Bonds was coming up to bat and they would break in and show it live because I didn't want to miss history. That's how it is now with GoF But it's like when he throws an incomplete pass, it's breaking news. Oh my god, a pass from Jerry Goff actually hit the ground. Do you know what he and I'm on Rossy and Brown have done. I'm on Ross and he had set the record for the most attempts to receiver of any kind without any completion. He said, I'm on ros thirty straight times, thirty passes to him, thirty completions, not a drop, not an in completion, not one in the dirt, and out went over his head. It's the all time record. It's never been done like that before. That is the kind of rhythm that golf is in, the kind of heat check mode he is in. They went into Lambeau in the rain and the streak didn't even end. I just I don't know if I've ever seen a quarterback says automatic as this. Right now, there's almost never incomplete passes. Every time he throws this complete take them before. I'm definitely behind schedule. The Cowboys are the only thing worse than being bad under the reign of Jerry Jones. They are boring. They're not interesting. I couldn't even bring myself to talk without them in Good Morning Football today. You know, you roll up your sleeves and do another round. And what's wrong with the Cowboys? The Cowboys are dead, The Cowboys suck. Whatever you want to say. He was so apathetic, it was perfunctory. They lost again. I don't care. They're not interesting. They have a terrible record, but I've seen them with bad records. In my life, I've just never been more bored watching a Cowboys team or talking about a Cowboys team. The Colts lost last night. They're far more interesting to me than the Cowboys. The Bengals are sub five hundred, They've got some juice. They're way more interesting than the Cowboys. The Jets have three wins, way more interesting than the Cowboys. I'll tell you what. The Panthers are more interesting than the Cowboys. Bryce Young is back now playing quarterback, and they're going to Europe. Who the hell knows. I'd rather watch a Panthers game than a Cowboys game. There's not even like the hate watch factor because now dak is it just sucks. Every Cowboys season is exactly the same. It's fast and the furious. It's big explosions and set pieces and the kind of a shallow ending that leaves you feeling kind of gross. If they're fast and the furious, this is their Tokyo drift, like the weird part of the franchise that doesn't even fit in. They had twelve wins last year. They are so boring. I'm not going to talk them to get them in this pod unless I abslutely have to, and I might take number five. I love my sweet sweet darling in Arizona Cardinals. It feels good to take a ride on a team that no one cares about, and when you pick them to make the playoffs, everyone calls you're an idiot and you're smoking this and you should be fired, and they could do your job better. The Cardinals are alone in first place in the West. They've won three in a row. They're playing inspired football. I love the Cardinals. You guys listening didn't like the Cardinals to begin this season. No one you know like the Cardinals begin this season. I did, and Mina Kimes did. I think we're the only two people who were on the bandwagon or not letting anybody else on. Take number six. Here come the Chargers, another team I felt highly of in the offseason when they hired Jim Harby said they'll win eleven games in the first season. Eleven. They don't play a real great brand of football. They run and they play defense kind of, and every once in a while Herbert makes a hero play. It's not this amazing shock and awe show that they put on. But they win, and they faltered a little bit a few weeks ago. But they're back. The Chargers will be in the playoffs. They're going to show up and they're going to probably play some Saturday mid day playoff game against the Texans, probably, and I think they'll be there. I've seen enough. I didn't even need to see it. Everywhere he wins, Jim Harbor, everywhere he goes, Jim Harbo wins, and he wins almost immediately. Moving on, I have a country and take on Derrick Henry. Take number seven. He's leading the league in rushing. It's working. It is the best offseason acquisition. It's even better than Saquans to the Eagles. They got to slow down a little bit. It's not just that he leads the league in rushing. He leads the league in carries. No one is carrying and touching the ball and getting tackled more than Derek Kenry the entire league. He's going to be thirty one when the playoffs start. They didn't get Derrick Henry to do this in week nine or Week eight or week ten. They didn't get him to win a rushing title. They got him to beat the Chiefs. They got him to get to the Super Bowl. It would be very this era of Ravens football for Derrick Henry to rush for eighteen hundred and fifty yards and everybody celebrates them. And then in the divisional round against Kansas City he has sixteen carries for thirty three yards and some more loses. Again, slow it down, start tapering some of those carries off. He should not lead the league in carries. I know he's a genetic anomaly. I know he is one of one. Slow down. I don't like where this is going. Take number eight. Jamis is Jamis guys. I said it last week. Everyone was freaking out. Jameis was amazing. He threw all these touchdowns. He beat the Ravens. We are going to feel the tectonic plates shift with gravity kicking in and moving the earth next week when Jamis performance sure enough, looked really bad through three interceptions this week, I don't like it. I like Jamis, who was a good guest. We've seen a lot of Jamis Winston football. He's not going to suddenly just turn into this all pro. He threw three interceptions they lost. I knew it was coming. Take number nine. He want to really fun YouTube before money at football, watch Mahomes versus Baker Mayfield in College Texas Tech versus Oklahoma. It's one of the greatest games ever played. Sixty six to fifty nine. Baker Mayfield beats Mahomes. Mahomes threw for seven hundred and thirty four yards in a loss. They're playing seta money neet football. They're probably going to play the high lights on ESPN of that game, and they should go to YouTube and watch the game the condensed version. It is so fun to watch. Take number ten. Youth basketball is the most exhausting of all the youth sports to coach. I've done the Little League, I've done flag football. They're both emotionally taxing. Youth basketball. All it is is non stop screaming for four quarters. Go there, go there, pass it, shoot it, stop, grab it, rebound, pass, shoot stop, pat you never stop yelling. Those people are the real heroes. That's it. Ten minutes, ten takes. That's all we do here. I touched on all kinds of things. We talked about Tokyo Drift and Saquon and Jared Goff and youth basketball and YouTube and all kinds of things. And I'm not going to delay you any further. We're big if you're hiding at the office in the bathroom right now listening to a pod, God bless you. If you're not having a smoke break, you should probably stop. But if you're still smoking and you're still listening, fine, do whatever you gotta do. It's going to be a nice, calm week in the United State. It's of America. So everybody just chill out, do whatever the hell you need to do. And I'm glad what you felt you needed to do was listen to ten takes in ten minutes with me. Thank you, see you, Love you until next Monday. Bye bye.

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