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Ten takes. Ten takes in 2025. You have clicked. I'm thankful. I'm appreciative.

We're here. We are ready to give you ten takes in exactly 10 minutes. I'm sitting in lower Manhattan right now amidst a beautiful snow flurry as I look out the window. There's an excitement to it. The playoffs are here. We now have 14 teams still alive, which the math tells me 18 are in the off season.

Those players are probably already in Tulum right now.

I'm jealous of them.

Let's start 10 minutes.

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Take number one, Vikings just played their worst game of the year in their biggest game of the year.

That was unbelievable, right?

We were told that it was going to be the greatest regular season game ever. It's going to be first to 40, this amazing shootout. The Vikings looked tight. They look tense. It was everything that you didn't want

them to look in that stage. Sam Donald just kept missing high, missing inaccurate. It was,

I've seen all the jokes this morning. He turned back into Jets Sam Donald or Panthers Sam Donald. I don't think this whole season just going to explode on them, but I'm watching them. And at one point early in the second half, Chris Collins were saying, you know, you get the feeling that the Vikings offense is just about ready to explode. And I'm like, I didn't get that feeling at all. I didn't recognize that team. I cannot believe that that was a 14-win team who had nine points, nine points against the

defense that's beat up and that's been taken advantage of by a whole bunch of other teams.

I just kept saying it tight. Why does he look so tense? Why does he feel like Donald is aiming

every throw and they're all sailing on

him to Jefferson to Hawkinson? They could not score a touchdown and that team is supposed to now

be in a Super Bowl contender. Do you understand what happens to them because they lost that game?

Do you understand the punishment of that? I'm really still coming to grips with it.

Imagine you right now, you're about to get a week off at your job, whatever it is, because you get some sort of accomplishment. A week off, that's huge. Now it's taken away from you. You have to work next week. But not only that. So they fly back from Detroit to Minneapolis, not too bad of a flight. They get in the middle of the night. They go to sleep for a few hours. They come back. And now they have to get ready to fly to California to play the Rams,

a Rams team that they've already lost to this year by double digits in that building.

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