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Colin Cowherd (0:00)
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Colin Cowherd (1:51)
Thanks for listening to the Best of the Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports radio at noon to 3 Eastern, 9am to noon Pacific. Find your local station for the herd@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. This is the Best of the Herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. All right, here we go. We have breaking news. It is a Friday in Los Angeles. It's the Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening. J. Mac the Silver and Black got a little more silver. Pete Carroll is the new coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Ageism had a rough day today and and by the way that division now is incredible. Harbaugh, Peyton, Annie Reed, and Pete Carroll. Yeah, they're calling it the AARP division because every coach is old as hell. I like it. Gonna be strong, by the way. Liam Cohen in Jacksonville, Pete Carroll. They're gonna gobble up assistants and coordinators. I'll get to the Cowboys in a second. Every day you wait to hire a coach, you're losing out on the best assistants. So just think about that. There's a finite number of elite NFL assistants. Make decisions, make them quickly. And the Raiders have chosen Pete Carroll. He's an adult, and the organization needs one. I like the choice. I said this. I had no problem if he went to Chicago. I thought he was a good fit there. I think he would have been a good fit in Dallas. I think he's an excellent fit with the Raiders. They need stability, they need culture, and Pete provides that. And in a division where you have to face Andy Reid twice, Jim Harbaugh twice, Sean Payton twice, pretty good bet that a coordinator who's never been a head coach just won't do. And Pete's history is he is good with young quarterbacks. He was good with young Russell Wilson. He was good with younger Drew Bledsoe. He was tremendous with a young Mark Sanchez or a young Carson Palmer. So this is a coach. The Raiders are a total rebuild. They don't have a staff. They don't have a front office. They don't have a quarterback. They have Max Crosby and a couple of weapons. So this. This is laying concrete. Forget about the master bathroom and a great kitchen. This is laying concrete. This is foundation up. I think Pete Carroll has proven. I've talked to players throughout the years and coaches that know Pete, one of the most organized coaches in the league. When the Patriots faced the Seahawks in that super bowl, it was a chess match. And Belichick later said that he likes facing older, experienced coaches. It was a chess match. Belichick won that chess match when it went down to actually that interception in the final couple plays. And I think Pete is. I mean, here's the thing with Pete. There are things like retaining kind of average coaches too long that I'd criticize him for, or maybe not. In Seattle, sensing the urgency at quarterback, when you're in A division with McVay and Kyle Shanahan and, you know, we can nitpick all these coaches, but, you know, this is somebody that took a Seattle franchise that was just swimming in mediocrity, took a USC program swimming in mediocrity, even a job that didn't work for him. New England, it's not like they fell off a cliff. I mean, they replaced Bill Parcells. They got, you know, one win last, one win last, one win less. So I like Pete for the job. I don't think, I don't think age is a factor with him. I think he's the best available coach on the market. This is an organization that needed a grown up, needs stability and needs culture. And as we look for our TV audience, these jobs are getting Phil Bears, Ben Johnson, he's working on filling a staff. The Jaguars, Liam Cohen, the Jets, Aaron Glenn, Mike Vrabel, Pete Carroll. Only the Cowboys and the Saints don't have a coach. And that's why I want to segue to what's happening in Dallas. This is amazing. Apparently Jerry Jones, the Brian Schottenheimer move, according to a report this morning. Yeah, that's a. That wasn't Jerry's idea. That was floated by his sons. His sons really like the idea. And Jerry's not down with it. He's more down with Deion Sanders. That's probably not going to happen too. There are some things in your life you can take time with, like let's say buying solar panels for your house. You went 31 years without it. You can put it off until next week. Or maybe marriage. If you're a young lad, you're 31, 32. It's a big decision. A lot of fish in the sea. Take your time on that one. And then there are a couple of other things you have to act urgently. Like let's say you cut off your arm with a table saw. You might want to get to the ER quickly or hiring a head coach. Remember, in every industry in America there is a finite number of elite. And it's. I don't care if it's realtors, politicians or football coaches. It is about 10% right now we got about six great coaches and six great quarterbacks and six great coordinators and six great owners. Even the billionaires, about five or six in the league that are really truly non meddling and elite. So here are the Cowboys, Pete Carroll working on a staff. Vrabel's got his filled out. Aaron Glenn, Liam Cohen, these guys are filling out their staffs. So Dallas is now going to get the third and fourth choice on O line coaches and there are not many O line coaches in the league that you even know the name to because at one point Jimmy Johnson told me, at any one time, the NFL's got four great offensive line coaches. There's a reason. You know the names of the best offensive line coaches in college, because there's so few of them. And they're all getting. They're either now all employed or going to get employed by Aaron Glenn, Pete Carroll, Liam Cohen in the next week. So this needs urgency. And the Cowboys have only interviewed three people in person. And remember, Robert Kraft, owner of the Patriots, has six rings recently. How did they fire Gerard Mayo? The season was over, and before Mayo got to the locker room, ban a press release. We're moving on. By the next day, they'd contacted Mike Vrabel. They put their name in the running for Mike Vrabel. Think of the Cowboys. I looked this up this morning. So January 5th, the Cowboys played their last game on January 5th. The next day was my birthday. Should be a national holiday. But January 5th, they played their last game. It took them eight days to figure out McCarthy's not staying. It has been 11 days since then. And they're like, hey, what do you guys think of Pete Carroll? I just got hired in Las Vegas. All right, let's. Let's cross him off the list. Oh, boy. In my entire life, every year there are seven or eight coaches that get fired, and there's always one great candidate. Last year it was Harbaugh. This year it was Vrabel. And then there's always, like, two or three really good candidates. Pete Carroll, Ben Johnson, and those guys like Ben Johnson. There's always one or two hotshot coordinators. One will flourish, one won't work. So one of the things about, like, Mike McCarthy and if I'm the Saints now, I go hire Mike McCarthy because, you know, he'll be somewhat successful. And Mike Vrabel may not win a trophy, but he'll be somewhat successful. And, you know, Pete Carroll will be somewhat successful with a hotshot whiz. Kids, the coordinators. And Ben Johnson's a very good coach in Chicago. Would you be shocked in five years if we're moving on to another Johnson? I mean, that's just the way it works in Chicago. But Jerry Jones is going to do what he did with Dak Prescott. He's gonna make you think he's playing poker. He's not showing his hand, and then you end up paying about 40% more than you should. And, I mean, this morning, you know who should be excited this morning? Robert Sala. Robert Sala is just sitting back there. All the good candidates are getting hired. Robert Sala has unbelievable leverage this morning. Unbelievable leverage. You gave Dak unbelievable leverage. I mean, solid sitting there like now Sal is the number one candidate with Mike McCarthy, so. Oh, oh. Just. Just an added note. The Eagles this weekend will play in their eighth conference championship in 25 years. Cowboys have been in none. By the way, this is Michael Irvin yesterday on Speak for Yourself reacting to Brian Schottenheimer potentially being the Cowboys coach.