10 Takes with Kyle Brandt: Love the Shove

Not a minute wasted in Week 5.  We've got 10 Takes in 10 minutes

• Who IS the best player on the 49ers?
• Why the Patriots ARE the worst team in the league
• I LOVE the Brotherly Shove!
• We may owe Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson an apology.

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Episode Transcript

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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,

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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