March 15, 2025 • 11 mins
A selection of the best Kyle Brandt cuts from the Week of March 10th:
- What is going on with Myles Garrett?
- Vikings QB plans
- Steelers WR Combo
- Eagles losses on Defense
- Rodgers considering Giants and Steelers
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ten Takes is a production of the NFL in partnership
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
What is this? What has happened over the past week.
I want to just make sure we review how we
got here, because there's going to be a lot of
big news and big players in big numbers. This one
is a little bit different, mostly because about a week ago,
Miles Garrett himself penned a first person letter which was
(00:44):
published and passionate, and I'm going to read to you
now in part this is what Miles Garrett was saying.
Here we go. He talks about his childhood as a
kid dreaming of the NFL. All I focused on was
the ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl, and that
goal fuels me today more than ever. He would go
on to say, my desire to win and compete on
(01:08):
the biggest stages won't allow me to be complacent. The
goal was never to go from Cleveland and Canton. It
has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl.
With that in mind, I have requested to be traded
from the Cleveland Browns. Very moving, very passionate, and very
black and white. We go from that to this one
(01:29):
week later, money boom, bam, everything Miles Garrett somehow convinced,
despite saying passionately that all he wants is a super Bowl,
that staying in Cleveland, where he will probably have week one,
the seventeenth starting quarterback of his tenure, there is the
best path to that. You know who I think had
(01:49):
the best tweet about it. Everybody laughed about it. I
think the most eloquent, well spoken tweet was bring it up.
This hit, every single note of this hit exactly and
you're not all right? So you have lolo WTF because
first of all, we all laugh like, what is this, Joe?
How could this possibly be true? That's phase one. The
second one one is realization of yo, wow, this really
(02:11):
is happening, and then wtf. I thought that his whole
thing was he wanted to leave. And McNeil tweeted this,
and it brings up to Michael Scott. I was never
in this for the money, but it turns out that
the money was an absolute necessity for me. Like we
have heard, it's not about the money. For decades in sports,
it has never been more about the money. And that's fine,
go and make as much as you want, but to
(02:33):
be in less than a week of a pennying a
passionate letter to the fan base about winning Super Bowls.
And I'm leaving and b going on a whistle stop
tour through the city of New Orleans to stop at
every radio show and podcast and taken. I've talked with
my family. We're on the same page. We're leaving. Which
is it? Is it that the money was that important?
(02:53):
Was this a ruse? Was this a hidden ball trick?
That is one of the greatest one eighties I have
ever seen? And a player who wants out to a
player who's going to be here for life, and he's
gonna buy himself off kinds of crap with money, So
I hope he's happy. I don't see any way he's
going to get that Super Bowl anytime soon. But you
do have a ton of money. So he doesn't have
a quarterback. But he's really close friends with Benjamin Franklin,
(03:14):
and God bless him OUs great. I have no doubt
that the Giants are interested in Rogers. My question is,
is the other way through as well? Is Rogers interested
in the Giants? I need something better than he already
has a house in New Jersey. I'm so sick if
he cares it's a person with unlimited resources. They can move,
they have a binary life, they've lived their whole deal.
I don't know if I also like Giants fans. That's
(03:35):
a weird sell for Rogers. They spent the last two
years making fun of Jets fans and making Rogers jokes,
and now he's going to be your guy. I don't
see a lot of Giants fans, many of them I
know personal who are like, hell, yes, bring Rogers. I
just don't see it. They'd rather start fresh, they'd rather
take a risk in the draft. They'd rather do something
there that's theirs. Holy, I don't think that's happening. I
look at the Vikings though, as really interesting situation, just
(03:56):
if only because they were so good last year, and
it seems like whoever quarterback they get might be more
significant to the league than who the Giants get or
who the Raid have already got. This is a big
deal here. I don't think it's gonna be Sam Donold,
just based on my gut what I'm watching, because everything
I hear is well, if you could just give him
a sort of a medium deal, that doesn't exist. Guys,
we've talked about this over there is no middle class.
(04:16):
It's not going to be this two year deal for
thirty million dollars. You don't see deals like that after
a season like he just had Rogers thing. I also
am going to put that I don't see it at all.
I don't. I know, it's really fun and tasty to
go the same Farv route, and we can make a
whole jokes that in fifteen years Jordan Love will be
on the Vikings after being with the Jets. I don't
think that's gonna happen. The guy that I would love
to see start for the Vikings next year is jj
(04:37):
That's the one I want to see their guy, the
guy they drafted, a guy who got injured a long
time ago, and a guy who is let's be frank,
if you have Justin Jefferson some of those defensive players,
that guy is on the clock. Tick tick tick tick
tick tick. You want to win a super Bowl, you
got about three or four years at the most to
do it. And then if he turns out he's the
next coming of Drew Brees or Kirk Cousins. I bother way,
I don't know what that look is. I would probably
(04:59):
get in the gym a little bit more and maybe
the super cuts. I don't know if that's the look,
but this was also a couple of months ago. If
I could snap my fingers and if I could speak
for Vikings fans, make them the happiest that he is
starting week one. He's healthy, He's throwing to Jefferson. That
is your guy. I'd start the ride now if your
pair him with Daniel Jones is like that sure veteran sure.
(05:19):
I mean fully tossing the Justin Jefferson keys to Daniel
Jones does not make me feel great. But again, I
can't be a hypocrite. If I would have said last year,
you're tossing them to Sam Donald coming off after being
a backup from the Niners, I'd like, I don't feel great,
and he lit it up. So I do think they
have options. I do not think Donald will be one
of them, and I don't think Rogers will be one
of them. First of all, Demonte Adams are the Rams.
(05:42):
I thought I could not love the Rams more than
I already did, but I already do. I might just
go crazy and just say I'm gonna pick the Rams
Eagles in the title game this year. I just might
do it now. I don't care. I love Devonte there
and love looking Bay, but don't run the DeVante video. No no,
no, no no, because I want to focus on Pickens. Peter
brought it up, and I like this name, Zach Azani.
This is the wide receiver. Coach prayers up, Zach and
(06:03):
coach him up and burn some sage or burn whatever
the hell you have to do to stay calm. Because
we have George Pickens and DK Metcalf in the same
room playing in the same position. Let's roll some of
the videotape of George Pickens, who should we say, is
an emotional player? Here go all right, So there's some
great highlights of him making amazing acrobatic catches, and we've
shown those for years, and other shows could show them.
(06:23):
This player that we're seeing here now, guys, has just
been told that now you are not the number one
wide receiver. You're the I mean, come on the other the.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Wide receiver is getting massive money on the other side
of them. All different clips, folks, not one gar, different clips,
different years, Mike Tomlin, one set of George Pickens. I'd
rather say WHOA than sick them, which means I'd rather
them have the emotion. But he said that about Pickens
in twenty twenty two. So now DK comes in and
it's like, not only that George Pickens, Blaze and Gentlemens
(06:53):
in the last year of his contract, which means he's
going to be playing for big money and needs numbers
and touchdowns and receptions.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I'll add to the quarterback point of this. You're
telling me that you brought in DK was great and Pickens,
who's incredible. The person that is running this offense and
feeding them and keeping them happy is Justin Fields. Guys.
We've seen a lot of Justin Fields. He has a
lot of strengths. I don't think throwing the ball all
over the field to a wide receiver led offense post
(07:19):
Naji Harris is one of those strengths. I don't see
it at all. And if it's Justin Fields is the quarterback,
You're gonna see a lot more clips like that. And
we didn't even show you the DK one. Could it
be that the Steelers are going after Darnold and are
trying to set up a Vikings adjacent thing, like Addison
and Jefferson and like Sam Donalds. You can't mess us up.
Look at these great wide receivers. It is very hard
to imagine that you bring in DK to play with
(07:42):
the Pickens and Friarmuth and say Justin Fields drive this
car that is not him, that is not the Steelers.
I don't see it. This is what happens. So you
have really good players, a really good roster. People leave
people go. I don't think that the Eagles attempt to
go to another Super Bowl will be undone with these transactions.
I think it'll be undone if Jadon Daniel continues the skyrocket,
(08:05):
if the Giants get Rogers or get their act together,
and if the Cowboys new coach gets them going. I
still like them in the East. You could put two
more names up there and I would still like them
the East. Despite what the Commanders did. We knew this
was going to happen. You gotta trust Roseman. I trust
him implicitly. You do too. The fact that they can
let guys go and have super young, great draft picks
like pe Peter just managed. Everything is so much easier
(08:28):
if you just stick your draft picks. It's so hard
if you whiff. When you stick them, free agency as
a bonus, you have your whole foundation. So I see
Saquon there. I see everybody there that I like that
I like on the offense, and most of the guys
still on the defense. I know they're high profile names
and this we talk about it. You think they lose
at edge.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Without Gardner Johnson's an interesting questions are like Eagles like
Partner Johnson.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You know he's the dog, he's got the attitude. I
don't think he's the only guy in that defense he does.
I think Cooper dejen has it. I think there's other
guys who are going to have it. There's a lot
of teams that have gotten their edge from CJ. Gardner Johnson.
He has not been a one team man. He bounces
around and they he leaves and then they figure it out.
So I think nobody's been better than Philly. I'm not
hating the panic button. This feels like history. This is
(09:12):
a guy who's all Anyone talks about, how old he is,
how washed he is, how high he is, whatever you want,
and it's not due respect. It's not the Jaguars and
the Browns being like please, it's the gold standard, and
they're basically begging or praying Aaron Rodgers to come to them.
That's the state of the nation right here, and if
I'm him, I'm like, I think the reason he wants
(09:32):
to play again is a I'm healthy, I got things
to prove. But I want to go out on my shield.
I want to do this right. I do not want
to go out as part of a five and twelve
Jets team, and I want to. I want to. I
want to finish the story. I look at him from
my perspective and I'm like, if I'm Rogers and I
have both these guys buying for me, I'm going to Pittsburgh.
I'm going to Pittsburgh. Why because the Giants to me,
just even aside from the same stadium and jography, the
(09:54):
Giants feel like the Jets. We have a hungry coach
who's likable and hasn't really got it done yet like
we did last year. We got a very young, talented
wide receiver like we did last year. That everybody's talking.
I don't think there's much else there though they haven't
had their act together. I also don't think there's a
genuine embracement in the New York Giants fan base, who
spent the last two years making fun of the Jets
and Rogers at every single turn. I'm going to Pittsburgh
(10:17):
because obviously the weapons are impressive. Also, it's like, immediately,
is TJ. Watt the best defensive player he's played with
since Charles Woodson? Probably? I think Mike tiff Tomlin is
so different than Robert Salah or than Brian Dable and
a guy who's so established, so ben there, he has
a Super Bowl ring, he would have another one if
it were not for Rogers. And I think the Steelers
(10:37):
fans more than anything, crave different. Please break the mold.
Please not in the same season. If Russell Wilson want
to come back, it might be fine. Maybe, but that
still screams to me. Nine to eight, ten and seven,
first round loss. This thing, this Rogers thing. Maybe it
is Vikings era Farv, maybe it is Broncos era Peyton,
And maybe they do catch fire and change this, or
(11:00):
maybe they go five and twelve again, and that might
not be the worst thing going into next year. For once,
you can actually have a decent draft pick. If I'm
Rogers sitting wherever the hell he is smoking, whatever the
hell he is drinking, whatever the hell is studying, wherever
the hell he is. I look at Pittsburgh, I look
at the giants, and to me it's Pittsburgh. Ten out
of ten times.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
What is this? What has happened over the past week.
I want to just make sure we review how we
got here, because there's going to be a lot of
big news and big players in big numbers. This one
is a little bit different, mostly because about a week ago,
Miles Garrett himself penned a first person letter which was
(00:44):
published and passionate, and I'm going to read to you
now in part this is what Miles Garrett was saying.
Here we go. He talks about his childhood as a
kid dreaming of the NFL. All I focused on was
the ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl, and that
goal fuels me today more than ever. He would go
on to say, my desire to win and compete on
(01:08):
the biggest stages won't allow me to be complacent. The
goal was never to go from Cleveland and Canton. It
has always been to compete for and win a Super Bowl.
With that in mind, I have requested to be traded
from the Cleveland Browns. Very moving, very passionate, and very
black and white. We go from that to this one
(01:29):
week later, money boom, bam, everything Miles Garrett somehow convinced,
despite saying passionately that all he wants is a super Bowl,
that staying in Cleveland, where he will probably have week one,
the seventeenth starting quarterback of his tenure, there is the
best path to that. You know who I think had
(01:49):
the best tweet about it. Everybody laughed about it. I
think the most eloquent, well spoken tweet was bring it up.
This hit, every single note of this hit exactly and
you're not all right? So you have lolo WTF because
first of all, we all laugh like, what is this, Joe?
How could this possibly be true? That's phase one. The
second one one is realization of yo, wow, this really
(02:11):
is happening, and then wtf. I thought that his whole
thing was he wanted to leave. And McNeil tweeted this,
and it brings up to Michael Scott. I was never
in this for the money, but it turns out that
the money was an absolute necessity for me. Like we
have heard, it's not about the money. For decades in sports,
it has never been more about the money. And that's fine,
go and make as much as you want, but to
(02:33):
be in less than a week of a pennying a
passionate letter to the fan base about winning Super Bowls.
And I'm leaving and b going on a whistle stop
tour through the city of New Orleans to stop at
every radio show and podcast and taken. I've talked with
my family. We're on the same page. We're leaving. Which
is it? Is it that the money was that important?
(02:53):
Was this a ruse? Was this a hidden ball trick?
That is one of the greatest one eighties I have
ever seen? And a player who wants out to a
player who's going to be here for life, and he's
gonna buy himself off kinds of crap with money, So
I hope he's happy. I don't see any way he's
going to get that Super Bowl anytime soon. But you
do have a ton of money. So he doesn't have
a quarterback. But he's really close friends with Benjamin Franklin,
(03:14):
and God bless him OUs great. I have no doubt
that the Giants are interested in Rogers. My question is,
is the other way through as well? Is Rogers interested
in the Giants? I need something better than he already
has a house in New Jersey. I'm so sick if
he cares it's a person with unlimited resources. They can move,
they have a binary life, they've lived their whole deal.
I don't know if I also like Giants fans. That's
(03:35):
a weird sell for Rogers. They spent the last two
years making fun of Jets fans and making Rogers jokes,
and now he's going to be your guy. I don't
see a lot of Giants fans, many of them I
know personal who are like, hell, yes, bring Rogers. I
just don't see it. They'd rather start fresh, they'd rather
take a risk in the draft. They'd rather do something
there that's theirs. Holy, I don't think that's happening. I
look at the Vikings though, as really interesting situation, just
(03:56):
if only because they were so good last year, and
it seems like whoever quarterback they get might be more
significant to the league than who the Giants get or
who the Raid have already got. This is a big
deal here. I don't think it's gonna be Sam Donold,
just based on my gut what I'm watching, because everything
I hear is well, if you could just give him
a sort of a medium deal, that doesn't exist. Guys,
we've talked about this over there is no middle class.
(04:16):
It's not going to be this two year deal for
thirty million dollars. You don't see deals like that after
a season like he just had Rogers thing. I also
am going to put that I don't see it at all.
I don't. I know, it's really fun and tasty to
go the same Farv route, and we can make a
whole jokes that in fifteen years Jordan Love will be
on the Vikings after being with the Jets. I don't
think that's gonna happen. The guy that I would love
to see start for the Vikings next year is jj
(04:37):
That's the one I want to see their guy, the
guy they drafted, a guy who got injured a long
time ago, and a guy who is let's be frank,
if you have Justin Jefferson some of those defensive players,
that guy is on the clock. Tick tick tick tick
tick tick. You want to win a super Bowl, you
got about three or four years at the most to
do it. And then if he turns out he's the
next coming of Drew Brees or Kirk Cousins. I bother way,
I don't know what that look is. I would probably
(04:59):
get in the gym a little bit more and maybe
the super cuts. I don't know if that's the look,
but this was also a couple of months ago. If
I could snap my fingers and if I could speak
for Vikings fans, make them the happiest that he is
starting week one. He's healthy, He's throwing to Jefferson. That
is your guy. I'd start the ride now if your
pair him with Daniel Jones is like that sure veteran sure.
(05:19):
I mean fully tossing the Justin Jefferson keys to Daniel
Jones does not make me feel great. But again, I
can't be a hypocrite. If I would have said last year,
you're tossing them to Sam Donald coming off after being
a backup from the Niners, I'd like, I don't feel great,
and he lit it up. So I do think they
have options. I do not think Donald will be one
of them, and I don't think Rogers will be one
of them. First of all, Demonte Adams are the Rams.
(05:42):
I thought I could not love the Rams more than
I already did, but I already do. I might just
go crazy and just say I'm gonna pick the Rams
Eagles in the title game this year. I just might
do it now. I don't care. I love Devonte there
and love looking Bay, but don't run the DeVante video. No no,
no, no no, because I want to focus on Pickens. Peter
brought it up, and I like this name, Zach Azani.
This is the wide receiver. Coach prayers up, Zach and
(06:03):
coach him up and burn some sage or burn whatever
the hell you have to do to stay calm. Because
we have George Pickens and DK Metcalf in the same
room playing in the same position. Let's roll some of
the videotape of George Pickens, who should we say, is
an emotional player? Here go all right, So there's some
great highlights of him making amazing acrobatic catches, and we've
shown those for years, and other shows could show them.
(06:23):
This player that we're seeing here now, guys, has just
been told that now you are not the number one
wide receiver. You're the I mean, come on the other the.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Wide receiver is getting massive money on the other side
of them. All different clips, folks, not one gar, different clips,
different years, Mike Tomlin, one set of George Pickens. I'd
rather say WHOA than sick them, which means I'd rather
them have the emotion. But he said that about Pickens
in twenty twenty two. So now DK comes in and
it's like, not only that George Pickens, Blaze and Gentlemens
(06:53):
in the last year of his contract, which means he's
going to be playing for big money and needs numbers
and touchdowns and receptions.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
And I'll add to the quarterback point of this. You're
telling me that you brought in DK was great and Pickens,
who's incredible. The person that is running this offense and
feeding them and keeping them happy is Justin Fields. Guys.
We've seen a lot of Justin Fields. He has a
lot of strengths. I don't think throwing the ball all
over the field to a wide receiver led offense post
(07:19):
Naji Harris is one of those strengths. I don't see
it at all. And if it's Justin Fields is the quarterback,
You're gonna see a lot more clips like that. And
we didn't even show you the DK one. Could it
be that the Steelers are going after Darnold and are
trying to set up a Vikings adjacent thing, like Addison
and Jefferson and like Sam Donalds. You can't mess us up.
Look at these great wide receivers. It is very hard
to imagine that you bring in DK to play with
(07:42):
the Pickens and Friarmuth and say Justin Fields drive this
car that is not him, that is not the Steelers.
I don't see it. This is what happens. So you
have really good players, a really good roster. People leave
people go. I don't think that the Eagles attempt to
go to another Super Bowl will be undone with these transactions.
I think it'll be undone if Jadon Daniel continues the skyrocket,
(08:05):
if the Giants get Rogers or get their act together,
and if the Cowboys new coach gets them going. I
still like them in the East. You could put two
more names up there and I would still like them
the East. Despite what the Commanders did. We knew this
was going to happen. You gotta trust Roseman. I trust
him implicitly. You do too. The fact that they can
let guys go and have super young, great draft picks
like pe Peter just managed. Everything is so much easier
(08:28):
if you just stick your draft picks. It's so hard
if you whiff. When you stick them, free agency as
a bonus, you have your whole foundation. So I see
Saquon there. I see everybody there that I like that
I like on the offense, and most of the guys
still on the defense. I know they're high profile names
and this we talk about it. You think they lose
at edge.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Without Gardner Johnson's an interesting questions are like Eagles like
Partner Johnson.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You know he's the dog, he's got the attitude. I
don't think he's the only guy in that defense he does.
I think Cooper dejen has it. I think there's other
guys who are going to have it. There's a lot
of teams that have gotten their edge from CJ. Gardner Johnson.
He has not been a one team man. He bounces
around and they he leaves and then they figure it out.
So I think nobody's been better than Philly. I'm not
hating the panic button. This feels like history. This is
(09:12):
a guy who's all Anyone talks about, how old he is,
how washed he is, how high he is, whatever you want,
and it's not due respect. It's not the Jaguars and
the Browns being like please, it's the gold standard, and
they're basically begging or praying Aaron Rodgers to come to them.
That's the state of the nation right here, and if
I'm him, I'm like, I think the reason he wants
(09:32):
to play again is a I'm healthy, I got things
to prove. But I want to go out on my shield.
I want to do this right. I do not want
to go out as part of a five and twelve
Jets team, and I want to. I want to. I
want to finish the story. I look at him from
my perspective and I'm like, if I'm Rogers and I
have both these guys buying for me, I'm going to Pittsburgh.
I'm going to Pittsburgh. Why because the Giants to me,
just even aside from the same stadium and jography, the
(09:54):
Giants feel like the Jets. We have a hungry coach
who's likable and hasn't really got it done yet like
we did last year. We got a very young, talented
wide receiver like we did last year. That everybody's talking.
I don't think there's much else there though they haven't
had their act together. I also don't think there's a
genuine embracement in the New York Giants fan base, who
spent the last two years making fun of the Jets
and Rogers at every single turn. I'm going to Pittsburgh
(10:17):
because obviously the weapons are impressive. Also, it's like, immediately,
is TJ. Watt the best defensive player he's played with
since Charles Woodson? Probably? I think Mike tiff Tomlin is
so different than Robert Salah or than Brian Dable and
a guy who's so established, so ben there, he has
a Super Bowl ring, he would have another one if
it were not for Rogers. And I think the Steelers
(10:37):
fans more than anything, crave different. Please break the mold.
Please not in the same season. If Russell Wilson want
to come back, it might be fine. Maybe, but that
still screams to me. Nine to eight, ten and seven,
first round loss. This thing, this Rogers thing. Maybe it
is Vikings era Farv, maybe it is Broncos era Peyton,
And maybe they do catch fire and change this, or
(11:00):
maybe they go five and twelve again, and that might
not be the worst thing going into next year. For once,
you can actually have a decent draft pick. If I'm
Rogers sitting wherever the hell he is smoking, whatever the
hell he is drinking, whatever the hell is studying, wherever
the hell he is. I look at Pittsburgh, I look
at the giants, and to me it's Pittsburgh. Ten out
of ten times.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
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go to Apple, go anywhere you like, it'll be there.
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