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Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. Ten Takes. You made it, let's ride. You know the deal. I don't need to set the table. Let's just get the hell into it. Start the clock. Take number one. The Lions are not just talented, they're really tough, ridiculous. When they had on Sunday nights. We know that their rosters great and they've done a great job building it. They got these running backs and the O line and the receivers and D line, and that's fine. The win over the Texans was about emotional toughness. There's the thing that happens when you throw three picks, four picks, certainly five interceptions like golf did, where you just say, it's not our day, it's not our night. Let's just take the loss. It's fine. We're still have good record. We can still go home and figure this thing out. You get on the plane, you go home, you say, oh, well, they don't say that, and most teams do. And you know, you go back to that immortal Dan Campbell opening press conference when he's saying the biting kneecaps and stuff, and everyone makes fun of it, and it's a pretty stale thing to refer to because it's just been around for years. And then you see them last night and you really think about what he was talking about. His whole deal with the bit in the kneecaps was You're gonna have to kill us to beat us. That's my vision for this team, and we're gonna keep fighting no matter what. And then you watch them on Sunday night and it's like, damn, they're bite kneecaps. You have to kill these guys to beat them. It's really really incredible. They have some flaws, it's fine, every team does. But just looking at what the Lions have going on right now, they still had four sacks without Aden Hutchinson. There's still my pick to win the damn Super Bowl. I still think they're gonna do it. You know, Jared Goff, you get rattled, you throw that many picks. No, you know what he's been through in this league. He played one of the worst Super Bowls in the history of the sport, and he's still standing here as one of the coolest guys in the league. He's going a lot worse than throwing a bunch of picks against the Texans. He doesn't give a damn. It's not just that he's good, he's talented, just emotionally tough. I love that lines win last night, Take number two. This is my favorite Chiefs team of the Mahomes era. I drew a lot of iron this morning on social media when I said they're the most likable Chiefs team of the Mahomes era, and everyone was so mad about it. One because they think I'm talking about off the field stuff and I'm not at all. I'm talking about the product on the field. Two because a lot of people hate the Chiefs. Three because they think the officials helped them and all that stuff. I really am fascinated by this Chiefs team, and I'll tell you why. I understood when they had Tyreek and a younger Kelsey and all those crazy weapons, and mahomes isn't really necessarily and everybody's radar the way he is now when they're just lighting up the skies and they're amazing, I understood why they were winning those games. I understood why he was shocking Awe, just fast and furious, seek and destroy. This team is so boring, so ugly, so sloppy, and they still win. That's entertaining to me because I don't know how they're doing it. Do you know how the Chiefs who are nine and oh, do you know who their leading receiver is? It's Travis Kelsey still in this year. He's allegedly not himself. Do you know who their second leading receiver is for a nine to zero team, Rashi Rice, who has been out for weeks. You watch the game and they do this this crappy running game that never works. It's two yards here and three yards here. It's just kind of moved the chains a little bit. Eventually Mahomes will make a play, but there's no of the no look pass, majesty, there's none of the crazy Mahomes magic. Really, they just win every single week. And I really like it because all the entertainment that they make right now, even if it's the NFL, like look at the Lions high flying usually a lot of points. But all the movies, all the music, all the TV shows, they're packaged and presented to have electricity from start to finish. There's all these methods with which they do it by. In a movie, in the first five minutes, you need to have a fight scene or a love scene, or an explosion or something or the young viewers are gonna start looking at their phones. It's all made that way. The Chiefs aren't The Chiefs aren't good for young viewers. They're not good for short attention spans. They're not good for people who are addicted to their screens because they don't give you that stuff. It's slow, ugly, sloppy, and yeah, it's kind of boring, and I really respect it. I think it's cool. I like the way that they play football. They're just kind of clutch at the right moments. The pretty well coached. They don't put up thirty or forty points and they still win. It's really really unbelievable, and I like watching it. If they're villains, well then I like villains. I don't care that you don't like it. I do. Take number three. The Bears are not bad. The Bears are broken. That's a broken team. I could point to bad teams in the league. It's easy. One of them beat the Bears this weekend, the Patriots. There's a difference between being bad and being broken. And when you watch the Bears game, if you do and I don't mean on a red zone. They were barely on red zone at all. If you're actually to watch the start to finish Bears game against the Cardinals against the Patriots, you understand what I mean. It's just the sense of they're not properly managed, coach, produced, or presented. The body language is terrible, the energy is terrible. Everyone is flat. Caleb is a complete mess, and it seems like every time he drops back to pass, there's someone who has a free sprint right at him. And the only times there's not a guy running right at him unblocked is there's two guys. It's really strange to watch. And I'll just give a quick summary of the Bear's emotional journey over the last few weeks. You lose on the hail married to the Commanders, and the emotion was denial. That didn't just happen, or it did, but who cares? Were four and three? That was a fluke. Then you go to the Cardinals loss in which they were hammered. That's anger. That's frustration. That's punching my flat screen TV and putting it online so I can go viral. That's anger. The worst one was against the Patriots yesterday, because that's just sadness. I don't even think the Bears fans are mad. I don't think they are screaming because they were booing for at the end of the first half, they were booing at the beginning of the second half, and then they were just leaving. They just left the game. They didn't stay. It was a mass exodus and there was no reason to stay. I don't come on here or on TV and say, fire this coach, fire this coach. But also I'm rolling my eyes at the apparent pride the Bears have there. They have never fired a coach mid season before. Good for you. No points for that, just like no points for your offense. Take number four. Deebo Samuel embarrass himself yesterday. Did you see this deal? The Niners can't make a field goal. They're playing in a very tight home game against the Bucks, and this kicker, Jake Moody, is just messing it up. So Deebo goes over on the sideline and chirps to him, says something to him, tries to allegedly fire him up. Tabor Pepper, Tabor Pepper is my new favorite forty nine er. He's the forty nine Ers long snapper. He says the debo basically, get the hell out of here. This is not about you, and Deebo shoves them in the throat, you know, the equivalent of like a football punch, call you whatever want to call it. And then Pepper, who by the way six four two fifty, walks after Deebo down the sideline, calling him out, screaming f bombs at him, and Deebo won't turn around and keep checking over his shoulder to see if he's still following him. It was a terrible look for Deebo. And afterwards they go to Tabor Pepper, the Niners long snapper, and he goes, listen, don't worry about the specialists. We got us. We're dealing with it. It's tough to be a specialist. And I've never respected a long snapper more. I love long snappers. I thought it was really cool the way he handled it, really lamb the way Deebo did. And afterwards you're like, Deebo, we know you were talking to the kicker. Had you said anything to the long snapper? He goes, no, I didn't say anything to him. He was trying to come over and be big bra. It's exactly what he was trying to do. And you were the little brother, and you acted like one, and you got shoved away and intimidated like one. Take number five. Baker Mayfield made my second favorite play of the season in that Niners game, my favorite play being the saque backwards jump. What was that play where Baker stiff armed Nick Bosa for what felt like thirty seconds and then threw a completion for a first down. It was so weird. I don't know what Bosa was doing, but Baker was just awesome. Baker, It's so easy to root for him, and the Bucks just don't have it right now. Take number six. The Steelers are the best story of the last month of football. The first month of football the NFL was the Vikings. Now it's the Steelers. The Justin Fields was four and two? What are you doing, Mike, Tom? What are you doing? He's four and two? He's four and two? He said, screw it. I don't care. I have tenure. I'm may guy. If this blows up in my face, I still don't care. They haven't lost since they beat the Commanders. Take number seven. Russell Wilson is evolving into a headline story. It's really really cool to watch the snap at the end of the game. Shot of Tom when just going got him. It was awesome. Take number eight. The Cowboys just became the first team in NFL history to be losing by twenty plus points in five straight home games. And one of the reasons they were losing by that many points is because the damn sun shines through the window of their stadium and the players can't see the ball. Ceedee Lamb dropped an easy touchdown pass because he couldn't see because of this three hundred foot windows that Jerry had to put in that let the sun shine directly in the player's eyes. Are you ever driving and it's that late afternoon or early morning time when the sun is rising or setting and it's in your eye line. It's so infuriating, and you try to put down the stupid sun block and it doesn't block it, or you just you can't drive. You can't see the cars in front of you. You get irate, you get really pissed off. Imagine being Ceede Lamb and I can't see the ball, not to stop light, not the stop sign. I'm playing a football game in my home stadium and I can't see the ball. Can they just spend like three million dollars on some drapes. Just do it by the end of the season because it's embarrassing. Take number nine. This is the toughest time of the year to not eat like crap. I'm having such a hard time with it because not only do we have impending Thanksgiving and Christmas, I still have two forty pound bags of candies for my two children sitting around and I have a good day eating, drink a lot of water, eat relatively healthy, and I'm like, ah, maybe there's a peanut butter left in the bottom of my son's bag, a peanut butter cup. And I go and I find it like I'm deep sea exploring like Jacques Crousteau. And I find it and I eat it, and then I look for sour patch kids. I hate it. Take number ten. I can't find a show to watch with my wife. We don't watch TV together anymore, and I hate it. She wants all these light shows that aren't stressful. I like the shows that are extremely stressful. We used to watch shows together. We'd watch reality shows, we watch dramas, and that's how husbands and wives spend time together. Every time she brings up the show to watch them, like that's boring, When I bring it up, she's like, that's too stressful. That's it. That's ten minutes. I have more to say on this. We tried that Jason Siegel shrinking show. I couldn't do it. I just didn't. I wasn't into it. But I'm breaking my own rules here. The bomb already went off. I'm not allowed to talk longer. It's not called eleven takes, not called ten and a half takes. It's called ten takes. And you just listen. I love you for it. We'll see you next week. That's it. Ten Takes. Tell your friends. Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. 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