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Seth and Sean see if any of the worst takes of the week can dethrone champ Emmanuel Acho in a Take-a-Mania 1st in which we see 3 title shots by 1 bad hot taker.
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00:00It's time for this week's edition of Take-A-Mania.
00:03That is our Bad Take of the Week segment that we do on Payne and Pendergast.
00:06We have a champion that carries over from the week before,
00:09and challengers will try to take him down.
00:12Here is Emmanuel Acho of the Speakeasy, which is his own streaming channel.
00:17He's no longer on Fox.
00:19Yeah.
00:20This is him name-dropping like crazy about a party he was at
00:24where he makes a judgment of Jalen Hurts' behavior at that party.
00:29I saw Smitty at the Super Bowl.
00:31Dapped it up, chopped it up with him.
00:32I don't think – oh, and I saw Jalen Hurts.
00:35Saw Jalen at the Super Bowl.
00:36Sitting in a corner by himself with sunglasses on, on his phone.
00:40He gave you one word answer, didn't he?
00:41I didn't even talk to him.
00:42I just seen him.
00:43I was wondering, like, I go into this back room because I'm meeting everybody in the room.
00:47Hey, Acho, you know so-and-so, you know so-and-so, you know so-and-so.
00:50I don't really know all these young bulls.
00:51We on TV, so they know us.
00:53I see Terry and Arnold plays for the Lions.
00:55I see Milton Williams' parents.
00:56Thanks for speaking so kindly of my son, Milton Williams, starting to tackle for the Patriots.
01:00I see Will Anderson.
01:03Hey, bros, love is love.
01:04Go to the back room, see Nicole Lynn.
01:06Nicole Lynn is the agent of Jalen Hurts and all these individuals I just named.
01:09I'm like, why ain't nobody in here?
01:11I'm turning around.
01:12I leave.
01:12I just see Jalen sitting down by himself, sunglasses on, da-da-da.
01:16Read nothing into that or read everything into that.
01:20Like, you were at a party with your peers.
01:24Why you dolo?
01:26Dude, so this is a reaction.
01:29Sorry, Seth.
01:30This is a reaction I saw from a lot of people about this after we had played it.
01:34You're talking about how you walked up and talked to everybody at this party.
01:37Right.
01:37You were yapping with everybody because they all knew who you were from TV.
01:41Ooh.
01:41Yeah.
01:42I don't know who they are.
01:43They know who I am.
01:44I'm on television.
01:45The one guy you're making this value judgment on is the one guy you don't walk up and talk to
01:49there?
01:50Right.
01:50Yeah, and he's on the phone.
01:53It wasn't like he was.
01:55Two things.
01:56One, if Jalen Hurts had been sitting by himself in the corner, sunglasses on, and not on his phone,
02:00I still feel like it's not worth mentioning because who knows what the hell is going on in anybody's life
02:05at any given time.
02:06Yeah.
02:06But two, especially because he's on the phone.
02:08Yeah.
02:08I don't, like, what are you supposed to do if you're at a party and you need to take a
02:12phone call?
02:13You go to a quiet part of the room.
02:16And yet, like, the fact that he mentions, by the way, I'm sure Nicole Lynn is just thrilled that Ocho
02:24went to her party,
02:26that she invited Ocho to the party so he could talk, so he could make weird accusations about his client
02:35being antisocial or something like that.
02:37Right, right.
02:38Oh, I don't know.
02:39See, this is the thing, though.
02:40It's not necessarily a bad take.
02:42It's just a window into why Ocho is so annoying.
02:45It's just incredibly annoying.
02:47You and I just got done, and we've got to get to the challengers here, but real quick, you and
02:51I just got done playing some Ocho Cinco audio in the previous segment.
02:55And I told you during the break, I could listen to Ocho Cinco read out of the phone book.
02:59I think he's hilarious.
03:00Just his energy is awesome.
03:01He's one of those guys, everything he says is funny, even when he's not trying to be funny.
03:04The way he says it, yeah.
03:06Ocho's the opposite of that.
03:07He's the opposite.
03:08Everything he says is cringey, even if it's not, even if the transcript isn't cringey, it's still cringey.
03:13Yes.
03:13All right, so let's get to the challengers.
03:15This is Craig Carton, a colleague of ours.
03:18He works at WFAN.
03:20And, yeah, this is important to note.
03:23It's that he's doing his show from Manhattan.
03:26Yeah.
03:26He is a New York sports fan.
03:29Yes.
03:29I believe his teams are New York teams.
03:31Works at WFAN, yeah.
03:32And that the city of New York has not had a football team in its city limits since 1973.
03:39Right.
03:40When the Jets left the Shea Stadium.
03:43Important preface, important preface because Carton is giving his opinion on the news yesterday that it looks like it's a
03:51highly, highly likely chance that the Chicago Bears are moving to northwest Indiana.
03:59The city of Chicago is dead.
04:03It died a terrible death today because no real city in America in 2026 can call itself a top-notch
04:12major sports town and lose out on football.
04:17The Chicago Bears are moving to Hammond, Indiana.
04:22The Chicago Bears have now made Indiana a legitimate NFL state.
04:28So, congratulations to the fine people of Indiana.
04:32You're now a minor league sports town.
04:34And I'm not saying that to start a fight with the fine people of Chicago.
04:37You sure?
04:38I love Chicago.
04:39Do you?
04:39Chicago is one of my favorite cities to visit.
04:41I love Chicago.
04:41Very good food.
04:42I go to Chicago every summer.
04:44I think we got enough there.
04:45I don't know.
04:46The one thing that holds me back is I don't know if he was kind of doing that with a
04:49wink or not and kind of making fun of himself because, obviously, everybody, New York doesn't have a football team.
04:55New Jersey has the Giants.
04:56And, yeah, that was my whole point.
04:58No, no, I know that.
04:59No, no, I know.
05:00The O was about is he being funny about it or is he not realizing how dumb what he's saying
05:06is literally.
05:07I feel like got to be self-aware of it.
05:09And he knows that he's just taking shots at Chicago even though he knows that.
05:13So, I feel like I got to think he's just trolling there.
05:16I would think so, right?
05:17He's well aware that neither of the New York sports teams are actually in New York City or even in
05:23the state of New York, the ones that are named in New York at least.
05:27So, this sounds like a no to you, right?
05:29Yeah, it's not quite the chance.
05:30It's not takedown option.
05:32Okay.
05:33I'm with you on that.
05:34By the way, what a disaster this is in Chicago right now.
05:37Think about that.
05:38The Bears are a blue-blood, long-time NFL team.
05:42I lived in Chicago, man.
05:44I know how people – Chicago, the city of Chicago has three pregame and postgame shows for the Bears that
05:50all rate, that all do well.
05:52That's how crazy Sundays are.
05:54And people are going to have to be driving an extra 35 miles to Hammond, Indiana.
05:57One of our listeners who grew up in Indiana, I know, but then went to law school at the University
06:05of Chicago and then lived in Chicago, he sent me a couple of really good e-mails yesterday about just
06:10this whole change and how – like, he just – he's fed up with Chicago itself.
06:14He lives in Houston now.
06:15He's lived in Houston for a long time.
06:16But it was actually one of the most eloquent – like, one of the most well-written e-mails I've
06:21ever received.
06:22It was downright literary.
06:23He kind of talked about the changing landscape of Indiana while still acknowledging the inbrededness of a lot of it.
06:30And I might have to read an excerpt later next week.
06:32Somebody did a – real quick – somebody did a kind of a phony graphic of what it would look
06:38like on a broadcast on Fox when the blimp is overhead and you've got, you know, Kevin Burkhart going, you're
06:44looking live.
06:45This stadium is going into a part of Indiana that is – it would be like putting a stadium in
06:49Deer Park or Baytown with the overhead with all the chemical plants and everything.
06:54There's nothing pretty at all about northwest Indiana.
06:58It was really, really funny.
06:59Compared to a stadium that's on one of the Great Lakes.
07:01Yeah, in a – you know, with a beautiful skyline of buildings and whatnot.
07:05Yeah.
07:05But you know what they don't have?
07:06A boatload of debt that they can't pay.
07:09That's true.
07:09That's what Indiana has compared to Chicago.
07:11No, you're right.
07:12They can do the bonds and everything else.
07:14This was Gilbert Arenas.
07:17Obviously, Kevin Durant's burner has been a big topic all week, alleged burner.
07:22We have said that we think it's more likely than not that that is Kevin Durant.
07:25Gilbert Arenas says no way that's Kevin Durant and gives his reasoning as to why.
07:32The evidence is piling up off of that.
07:35The evidence that someone is talking in not even third person, in real person, first person on a burner,
07:44account, talking about he won't pass me the ball.
07:46Won't he just get on his regular account and say the d*** won't pass me the ball?
07:50Why is he going to get on a burner account and say he won't pass me the ball?
07:55Obviously, that is not him.
07:57Somebody's trying to pretend it's him to talk in first person.
08:01Wouldn't the real Kevin Durant say he won't pass Kevin Durant the ball?
08:08Why would he say he wouldn't pass me the ball?
08:12This is your franchise guy.
08:13I'm going to just turn the ball over.
08:15So that means, obviously, he must have turned the ball over.
08:19So the person who's writing say, I ain't going to pass me the ball.
08:23I'm going to just turn that d*** over.
08:25Okay.
08:25This is what media has came to, huh?
08:28No, no.
08:29This is the thing, though, because I can understand where his confusion would come from.
08:32Because there's so much stuff going on with all of it.
08:35So I think what Gilbert thinks is that those posts that Kevin had made were public posts on the burner
08:42account.
08:42Right.
08:42Instead of DMs.
08:44So the layer to it is that, okay, he was on a burner account, but there were people that knew
08:50that that was Kevin Durant's burner account.
08:52So he doesn't know the privacy aspect of it.
08:54Yeah, he doesn't realize that part of it.
08:56Okay.
08:57So I understand his objection to it.
08:59He was just misinformed.
09:00Yeah.
09:01But I could totally 100% see myself succumbing to that and not quite getting it because it's one of
09:07these damned annoying social media type situations.
09:10Okay.
09:10No, he was misinformed there.
09:12His logic was rock solid.
09:15He just didn't have the facts right.
09:17Okay.
09:17But the logic was rock solid if the facts had been a little bit different.
09:21Gotcha.
09:21Gotcha.
09:21All right.
09:21So that's a no.
09:23Does not take down Acho and is name dropping in Jalen Hurts' judgment.
09:28All right.
09:29Here we go.
09:29This is the first time.
09:31This is history being made.
09:32This is the first time that I can ever remember one person getting three cracks at the plate of take
09:40-a-mania.
09:42Jason McIntyre.
09:43This is what happens when Jason McIntyre fills in as the full-time host for Colin Coward.
09:48When he's getting this for a week.
09:49You know how sometimes, and I'm not even saying I like Jason McIntyre when he's normally just the sidekick.
09:55Yeah.
09:55Because you know how sometimes you have those running backs.
09:57You're like, boy, when he gets like six carries, he's not too bad.
09:59Yeah.
10:00And then all of a sudden, Jonathan Grimes has to carry the ball 22 times in a game.
10:03And you're like, wow, he's averaging 2.6 yards.
10:07They seem to have figured him out.
10:08That might be Jason McIntyre.
10:10This was Jason McIntyre.
10:11Now, this was a take, actually, that he had with Colin last week.
10:14Oh, that's right.
10:15The next couple are from his host fill-ins the last couple days.
10:19But they're talking about Mike Evans and the Bills maybe needing to go sign.
10:25Like, what's Mike Evans' future in free agency look like?
10:28Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Colin.
10:30Mike Evans, unbelievable career in Tampa.
10:33One of the best receivers in the league.
10:35Great red zone threat.
10:36There's talk he could retire.
10:38But now, according to his agent, he is going to return for a 13th season.
10:42However, it's unclear if he's staying in Tampa or going somewhere else.
10:46Now, listen, this guy's had 11 straight seasons with 1,000 yards.
10:50He's still very good.
10:52He's not, like, still a top five.
10:53I don't know about a top ten anymore.
10:54But he's still very good.
10:56I think he could help a contender.
10:58I mean, if you're Buffalo, you're just getting Josh Allen on the horn.
11:02Please, recruit this guy to Buffalo.
11:04Because if he doesn't stay in Tampa, and they have some good receivers, somebody's going to get a good one
11:09in Mike Evans.
11:10Obviously, last season, you know, I had some injuries.
11:13Only played eight games.
11:14So, some people are going to be like, well, I don't know if I want Mike Evans.
11:17Listen, he's going to be motivated to chase a Super Bowl.
11:20Hasn't sniffed one in Tampa.
11:22Okay.
11:23That's the money there.
11:24I probably gave you a little too much McIntyre in that one.
11:27Right.
11:27It's the end that was the Super Bowl.
11:30Yeah, I know.
11:30A lot of people might have been listening and be like, I don't know.
11:32Is anything he's saying all that bad?
11:34Yeah, no.
11:35He hasn't even sniffed the Super Bowl.
11:36What the hell are you?
11:38How?
11:39Look, I make stupid mistakes all the time.
11:41Yeah, you've never made one like that.
11:43I just, I feel like, especially when you're specifically talking about Mike Evans, somewhere in your mind, maybe in your
11:49show prep or something,
11:51you would have, I mean, like show prep.
11:54You don't need show prep to know that the Bucs won a damn Super Bowl.
11:58Yeah.
11:58What the hell is he talking about?
11:59Yep, yep, yep, yep.
12:00All right.
12:01But I tend to give, for brain farts, I try to give the benefit of the doubt.
12:05Okay.
12:05I'm going to give him a brain fart benefit of the doubt.
12:07I mean, and you know he's coming up to the plate two more times.
12:10Yeah.
12:11You know that at least one of the next two is worse than that one right there.
12:16Yeah.
12:16So, there's that.
12:17All right, so this was Jason McIntyre of the Colin Cowherd Show yesterday, I believe.
12:23He had Willie Colon on, former offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they were talking about Mike Tomlin exiting
12:30Pittsburgh
12:31and how criticism that he took from former players, including Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison.
12:41Yeah.
12:41That's who I was trying to remember.
12:42Ben Roethlisberger and James Harrison.
12:44Listen, this was the question that Jason McIntyre asked Willie Colon of Roethlisberger's criticism specifically.
12:50I don't know if Big Ben started it, but I'll ask, Willie, do you think there's a racial element to
12:55this, Big Ben, Tomlin, Porter?
12:57No, no, that's nonsense.
12:59I don't even know what that component would be.
13:02Like, you would have to help me.
13:03I don't even know how to connect those dots.
13:05Big Ben seems to be taking a lot of shots at Tomlin on his way out the door, and I'm
13:10just like, why?
13:11Tomlin was beloved.
13:12And then Big Ben, I don't want to say he started it, you know, whatever, but he seemed to go
13:17after Tomlin a little bit down the stretch.
13:19We need new voice in the locker room and unable to win postseason games.
13:24It just felt weird.
13:26Tomlin, again, nobody goes after Tomlin.
13:29I mean, the reason I'm confused about the racial component is because there's another person who's an African-American who's
13:34been very vocal about Mike Tomlin, and that's James Harrison.
13:38Yeah.
13:39Good job, Willie Colon.
13:41He, Jason McIntyre.
13:44Nowhere.
13:44Jason McIntyre may as well have said, do you think Ben Roethlisberger is racist?
13:50That was the question.
13:52I feel like Jason McIntyre was, like, getting ready for that segment.
13:56He was like, I'm going to show that I get things, and that I'm going to.
14:00This should be the Big Mac show, not the herd.
14:03I like Willie Colon's just complete confusion about this.
14:07Yes.
14:07It is.
14:08Yes.
14:10Oh, my God.
14:11All right.
14:11So, so, because we've got to get this other McIntyre in, too.
14:16I don't know.
14:17I don't want to.
14:18Look, there's no.
14:19It's not really a take.
14:20It's just.
14:21Yeah, it has questions.
14:22And maybe in his heart, I think he felt like, okay, I'm going to give Willie Colon.
14:26If there is some element to this, maybe I'll give Willie Colon a chance to talk about it.
14:30Yeah.
14:31Even though, as Willie Colon pointed out, I don't think that James Harrison had a racial.
14:38Sounds like a no.
14:39Yeah.
14:39So, no, he's not.
14:41Let's get this last one in.
14:43This was Jason McIntyre yesterday doing a segment about the various teams that are going to be looking for quarterbacks
14:51this offseason.
14:52Folks, you look down the list.
14:54We've got a lot of teams with no quarterback next year.
14:57That's just the tip of the iceberg.
14:59I mean, I could toss the Atlanta Falcons in there.
15:01Is it Michael Penix?
15:02Is it Kirk Cousins?
15:03Folks, we're in a weird place in the NFL.
15:06There are 32 teams, and we don't have enough good quarterbacks.
15:10Yeah, that's it.
15:11That's the winner?
15:14Okay, wait a second.
15:15I've got to hear your side of this, because I think when I texted you this yesterday, you thought that
15:19you might agree with him.
15:20For me, it was a sticking point.
15:22Oh, it was a different one?
15:23That was Carton.
15:24Oh, that was Craig Carton.
15:25That was Carton.
15:26Yeah.
15:26No, no, no.
15:26There's nothing about this.
15:27You know my feelings.
15:29Okay, this is – I mean, those were all three.
15:31I don't even – this is the dumbest of his takes, because it's flat out – yeah, there's 32 teams,
15:37and there's not enough good quarterbacks.
15:39Yes, that's the way – that's the way distribution works.
15:44Like, that's the way when you have 32 – that's like saying, we have 32 teams, and not all of
15:50those teams are good.
15:52How is every team – I'm looking at the rosters.
15:54How are these teams all not 11-6?
15:57How are – we've got 32 teams, and I'm not sure all of them are going to be Super Bowl
16:02contenders.
16:03Jason McIntyre is the one guy who bets over on all 32 NFL teams.
16:07And it was him saying it's a weird place.
16:09We're in this weird spot, unlike all those other times and eras in the NFL when you would look and
16:15say, my God, they've got 32 good quarterbacks out there right now.
16:20It's a bad take.
16:20Yeah, he's the champ.
16:22He's the new champ.
16:23Yeah.
16:25More of a week-time achievement award.
16:29Yeah.
16:29It was just a really prolific week of bad takes.
16:32It was – yeah.
16:33He had to win one of these, man.
16:34Three bites at the apple.
16:36All right.
16:37Pain and Pendergast.
16:38There you go.
16:38Jason McIntyre, new champ.
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