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December 6, 2024 11 mins

A collection of Kyle Brandt's Best Cuts from the Week of 12/02/2024:

  • Expect the hiring of the Bears next head coach to be weird
  • Is Josh Allen now the MVP favorite?
  • Chargers need a win over the Chiefs on Sunday Night
  • Interested in Jets/Dolphins matchup
  • An Eagles moment better than Saquon’s backwards hurdle?

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
I don't have the sources, but I have the history
and my take on the Bears hire moving forward, I
expect it to be weird, expected.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
To be unusual.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The Bears an't this organization where the Lions go and
win the Super Bowl and then we just hire Ben
Johnson and that's nice and smooth, or hey, Cliff played
with Caleb.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
We hire Cliff. Understand the history of this organization.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
They make unusual and sometimes straight up weird hires.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Bring it up.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
So we're gonna go to the start with me on
the far right of what we have here. Love You Smith,
after winning ten games and being completely beloved by the
locker room, is fired. So going one to the left
so that the Bears can hire the head coach of
the Montreal Alouettes. Understand that they fired Love You, took
him to a super Bowl and hired a CFL coach.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
This is a.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Different type of organization. He doesn't work. It's a total disaster.
And then four days after John Fox is fired as
the Broncos coach, the Bears hired him to be their coach.
Also kind of strange felt like a retread, and it
played out like a retread.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Fox doesn't work at all.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Naggi's with the Chiefs before the Mahomes thing blows up.
It's not the same deal. Matt Naggie's last game is
the Chiefs offensive quarter. They had a twenty one to
three lead in the playoffs and blew it.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Matt Naggy says, that was a failure by me. They
hired Matt Naggy. It did not win the room.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then after Naggie's let go, you're like, we got
this justin fields, this is the future of the franchise.
You know who we should hire the Colts defensive coordinate?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
What who?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Also just had a massive lead down into the playoffs
and they didn't make it and they lost to Jacksonville.
They don't usually win the room, guys, So when they
make this hire, whenever the hell it is, and that
includes promoting the inn in which they may do, don't
expect it to be like, hell, yes, we got it,
Ben Johnson, it's done.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Let's win a super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Be prepared for it to be a name that no
insiders have been talking about, that no one is expecting,
and for you to be like what it might work.
Lovey Smith was not that. Lovey Smith was a superstar
and waiting that you knew was going to be a
head coach. He was a great coordinat and it worked out.
Just get ready for the weird. I do not think
it'll be one of the headline guys, so don't expect me. Well,

(02:23):
somebody's going through Buffalo. I just don't know yet of
Kansas City's going through Buffalo. I don't know if there's
a big difference between the two and the one. It's
not just the buye, it's the title game all that.
It's interesting you say, Peter that they are just blowing
everybody out, because the Chiefs don't blow anybody out. They
don't blow anybody out. But they win every game except
against Buffalo. All right, so let's have some fun. Just

(02:43):
give me the Amari Cooper lateral thing. Well, we're gonna
talk about this a lot. So he does miss them,
he throws it behind them, and so he kind of
runs over like oh damn, and he says eye contact
right here. You gotta understand, those two guys have not
played together for years. They don't really know each other
that well. Mari was a mid season acquisition. But I
think Alan said it perfectly. It's like two old, savvy
vats who played a lot of football, and when you

(03:05):
make that eye contact. I liked that Amari Cooper was
just as crazy as Josh was, because you know, Josh's
nuts and he wants to make those plays.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Amari is the.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Quiet guy, underspoke and he's like, screw it out lateral
to you. I don't think Amar's ever latered it to
Derek Carr or to Dak Prescott. But that rush, yes,
that maniac number seventeen. He's like, oh, you get down
like this, fine, I'll ladder for you.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Why not? I mean that could have been a terrible
game changing play. You know. So it didn't snow, so
it's even harder. It looks even more playing, all right.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So you might hear this and hold off on the
videotape the you know, last night NBC, something like that happens,
and the NBC production truck is scrambling to come up
with stats and history and Trico's saying, this is only
the it's only the fourth time a quarterback has received
the touchdown that he threw. In other words, throws a
pass ends up getting it in his own hands to score.
A lot of people might talk about this morning. This

(03:56):
is a quarterback throwing a pass, ended up catching the
ball into a touch And give me Brad Johnson in
the red zone, Carolina.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't remember Bred Johnson moving like that. He looks great.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
This is before he's with Tampa winning the Super Bowls.
He's gonna get deflected, He's gonna catch it. He shook
Michael Barrow. Look out, Sara, great move. Barrel's a legend
that was like Lamar and Matt Mulano a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
All right, so Brad Johnson's gonna score. This is a
great play.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let's take us to the most famous one of all time.
I remember covering this as a show. Let's go to
Arrowhead Stadium. The Remarcus Mariota is gonna This is when
the Titans didn't care and they're gonna beat the Chiefs.
Chief would always us in the playoffs. Peter who deflexed
this pass. It's Dreul Reeves is a Chief.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
He was on the Chiefs in twenty seventeen. WA's Chief
Angle literally could not win a playoff, couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Alex Smith could not win a playoff good and do it.
Mariota catches it, scores. The Chiefs would always blow it
in the playoffs. It is the exact opposite what they are.
Now there's one more, but we don't even have videotape.
You know why only one of the guy's done it
was in the sixties. We're gonna have the picture we
got give me my Frank Ryan on the La Rams.
This is later his cries with the Browns. He threw it,

(05:02):
caught it in the sixties. Frank Ryan out of Rice,
ended up being in the US House of Representatives, ended
up being the athletic director for Yale.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
He's the only guy who ever done it? Cool? Is
that Ian rapport a locker?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
That is Champ Champ tell us about the follow what
pass And that's the only guys we've ever done it.
You can now add josh Allen to that list.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
But hold on. The MVP race changed a lot last night.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Josh Aw I don't care what the I'd say, might
have said the favorite, but he now has a weapon
that he didn't have.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Before the crazy stupid, freakish highlight like Saquon has josh
Aon had the fourth and.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Two against the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
It was Nancy even called it the best biggest play
of the year in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
But this is totally different.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
This is acrobatics circus sole hysteria that I think isn't
the same physical feat that Saquon did, but it was
crazy to do it in the snow.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
And now we're playing with fire.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I want to talk about a team that is eight
and four and just one again, the LA Chargers.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Where are we at with the Chargers?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Okay, eight and four? Jim Harbaugh, great defense. They just
cleaned up on Kirk Cousins in one in Atlanta. And
I want to do an old good morning football tradition
right here. I want to say good morning to the future.
I want to say good morning to Monday, December ninth,
that is one week from today.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Okay, to the Chargers. Did you win last night? Did
you meet the Chiefs?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I think you can. I don't know if you did, though.
How was the weekend? I know it wasn't that great
of a slate? Bill's rams was kind of interesting. Peter,
how was Paul mezcal in SNL?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
How was this monologu? Pretty good? Pretty good? Yeah? Fine?
Couple Gladiator jokes. Yeah, a lot of save that's fine.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Okay, Well, we were all looking forward to Chargers Chiefs
Sunday night because to the.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Chargers, you need this win, all right.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
I see eight wins on your record going into this
past weekend, and I see Saints, Brown's, Titans, Bengals, bob
blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
You've lost to everybody who matters.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
You've lost to the Steelers, the Chiefs, the Ravens, even
the Cardinals you've lost to. So I'm a supporter of yours.
I think you're gonna win eleven games this season. Did
you win last night, Peter? Did they win last night?

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Jim? Don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I'd be really disappointed if we're rolling this right now
on Monday, December ninth, and you guys lost again to
the Chiefs, because now you're eight and five, and it's like, well,
they don't beat anybody, and they're just gonna be one
and done.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
But if you beat those Chiefs, roll it next week.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's where we're at with the Chargers. Really good record.
They beat this like the worst game of Kirk Cousins career.
But they're in that thing where they have a lot
of wins and they haven't beaten anybody.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
They need something like this.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
If we'd had done this segment, and I'm sure we
did when the schedule came out last year and we
go through, oh, pick one game that you think is
really gonna matter, and I'm sure we'll do it next
year too. Guys, we're picking Jets Dolphins. Let's go right now.
This is the game that I'm interested in. Go on
one pm Cbster. None of the national televised stuff, none
of them streamers.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
This is old fashioned. It's just like a oh my.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
God, what hell half rocked? What hell hath rocked? Look
at these two teams? What became of you?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
The Jets are three and nine in the going down
to Miami, and they're like, well, they'll sit Rogers.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Rogers is like, no, I want to play every single game.
I have a Netflix documentary coming in stream.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Here, Kyle, you know what, You're right. They always find
their way in. It's an unbelievable thing, where like.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, it's Peter, this is this is not the Jets
backup quarterback versus the Dolphins backup court. It's it's Tua Rogers,
it's McDaniel, it's whoever hell's I was still employed by
the Jets. I kind of want to watch this just
of a holy god game. I want to see what
shows someone has to win, right, I don't think it's
going to be the Jets. So the documentary for Rogers

(08:39):
Company's got war paint on and he's chanting and he's
doing all this stuff. It comes out in thirteen days,
so that's two more Jets games from now. So has
there ever been a documentary about a three and eleven team?

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Ever? It's the strangest dynamic. So I want to watch
this just for the creep factor. And I cannot.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Believe, I mean to this game even go on like
it's so irrelevance. It's unbelievable. I can't believe what became
of these two. I'm gonna give you some numbers. These
are the numbers I care about. Two forty seven and
one ninety eight. Those are the respective weights of Derrick
Henry and Cooper dejen and the headline roll this play, this,

(09:16):
this Saquon backwards hurdle might be less important than this play.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
For Philadelphia fans.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Lamar is gonna throw it down to Derek Henry and
Cooper Regin. A rookie is going to make a picture
tackle that should be on a poster in every locker room.
Every single high school coach salivates at this. His shoulders
on the hip, he grabs cloth, he drives his hips,
he plows forward. He's giving up fifty pounds of Derrick
Henry crossing broad. The Eagles website Cooper dejen planting Derrick

(09:41):
Henry in the earth is the Eagles image of the season. Guys,
there was something about that play that symbolizes, that galvanizes,
that is everything. It is a young, undersized rookie against
the King that memes about it are crazy.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
I got Michael B. Jordan and Black Panther. Is this
your King? Is this?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
It's an amazing, amazing moments. That tackle was something bigger
than just the tackle in the open field.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I have spent most of my.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Career hyping Derrick Henry in his power. I feel fine
doing this right now. Wasn't his greatest moment, but it
made me think of like there was another moment of
years back of those who know no when there was
another Eagles tackle in the open field.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Bring it up.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Let's give me the Sheldon Brown and everybody, oh gas,
Reggie Bush in.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
The Super Drew, don't grow it to Reggie, don't talk.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
About Now, that's a different type of hit and a
different type of tackle.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
First quarter two, right out of the gate.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Tone setter Sheldon Brown, you know, it reminds me of
a of Camp Chancellor in the Super Bowl, you know
what I'm saying. And now it's like that Cooper Dejen thing.
There are kids who are growing up Eagles fans who
are gonna want to buy the Cooper Dejen poster like
he killed the King quote unquote amazing, amazing that.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I'm amazing, and I think Reggie's had enough, guys. Listen,
Reggie's like, what did I do this morning?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
She wakes up in his man wait what he's somewhere
like down they think it's Heismotens County kissing the Heisman
and all his money and.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
As Wendy's commercials. Sorry, Reggie, you know we're old friends.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
The Cooper and play was an amazing moment that was
more than just in tackling with symbolic grit underdog all
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
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