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And we are today. We're good to go with 10 takes that we will give to you in 10 minutes, not less, but also not more. The bomb explodes if I hit 10 minutes. This may be the week. I do it in the middle of the fifth take. I just supposed to say, screw it. Have a little chaos around here. I like it. I'm ready to go.

Ten takes in ten minutes. Here we go. Take number one. The chiefs are not that good and they don't care. They're three and oh. Even Mahomes after winning a primetime game with which they were losing. It comes back and wins it at the end dramatically. Mahomes's first comments are like, yeah, I'm just, I'm not really playing very well right now. I'm not that good right now. And he's right. And he knows it. It's sloppy. It's like the chiefs are still in ath leisure mode. They don't really feel like getting dressed. I kind of just want to wear sweatpants. I wore them all weekend, Friday night, Saturday, night, Sunday, all day on the couch, and I kind of feel like going to work Monday on sweatpants. And I'm so good at my job that I won't get in trouble

and I won't get fired. I can wear sweatpants to work. Mahomes hasn't done much. Kelsey is this bizarre

enigma who never shows up. Rishi Rice is incredibly productive, but they just keep winning. And they

won based on the strength of just destroying Bijan every single time he touched the ball for the Falcons. I know he was getting some heat as the number one fantasy pick. And I guess he would be a better pick than McCaffrey at this point. But he ran all over Philadelphia and Kansas City said not today. Bolton was their MVP. The chiefs aren't even that good, but they're three and oh, and they'll get better. Take number two, the Steelers are really good. The Steelers are awesome. I picked them to go to the playoffs, and I'm not doing that to pat myself in the back. I'm mostly doing it to point to finger at people who didn't. Haven't you guys figured out that every year the Steelers matter? They're never incredible, but they're never bad and they're usually not even average.

You're sitting there and all my colleagues and all people who don't even work in the industry

who just do it conversationally. They didn't have the Steelers in the playoffs. They didn't have

a quarterback. Russell's Sox, Field socks. They're three and oh. They're three and oh.

They've given up 10 points, six points, and 10 points over the first three weeks. Maybe you haven't seen them much because they're not on red zone very much because the team that they're playing against is never in the red zone. Scott Hanson does not talk much Steelers. I love how the Steelers are playing. They will be in the playoffs. They're always in the playoffs.

They'll probably lose in the first round of the playoffs, but that's not what this is about. They'll probably be there. And I love the Steelers. Take number three, if I was one of the power ranking folk, and I know some of these people who they make their living doing power rankings, men and women every single week, they turn them out and somebody pays them to do it. the team that would have me the most flummoxed

that have me staying up flummoxed,

that have me staying up late at night is the Minnesota Vikings.

Because if you've watched all the games for three weeks,

unquestionably, they are the number one team.

If you do it based on having nothing to do with before this year,

having nothing to do with reputations or anything outside of the pure games for four quarters every week, the Vikings have been the most complete, the most dominant, the most impressive.

That win, they crush the Texans.

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