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Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports radio and 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. Here we go on a Monday ready to roll. Live in Los Angeles, it's the Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be watching or listening, thanks for making us part of your day. One hour from Colin was right where Colin was wrong. Kelvin Sampson Coach of Houston in the Final Four will be joining us. So it's actually a great, great weekend of sports. Baseball was amazing. A little controversy in the Bronx. Great. College basketball had to fight in the NBA and a little bit of, a little bit of NFL news. But J. Mack, we've got our Final Four and it's all number one seats. Great teams. Yeah, the four best teams. I don't think there's any question about that. So it's Florida, Duke, Houston and Auburn. And yet somebody out there, a lot of people out there are saying this is one of the most boring marches ever. Oh, boy, oh boy. This is what guys do. I don't think women do this as much. Although I can't speak from experience. There's something about guys, they want you to know that they heard the garage band first or they, they really like mid major basketball and they're going to brag about it in the Internet. They're called nerds. You don't want to watch Duke in Houston. You don't want to watch Cooper flag in the most talented team in a long time in college basketball offensively against the best defensive team maybe ever in Houston. You don't want to watch that Kelvin Sampson. They played, they hammered Tennessee. A good Tennessee team humiliated Tennessee. They got past Purdue, they got past Gonzaga. Two of the top six programs in the country. Mark Few said the one team he didn't want to face Houston, and now they face Duke. You don't want to watch that. You don't want to watch Florida and Auburn. Y'all lectured me that Florida was going to win the tournament. Now you don't like them. You were smarter than everybody else, guys. That and the garage band. You told me you watch it. You knew it. Auburn, Florida are the two best teams and easily the best college basketball conference. I mean, outside of Duke, nobody in the ACC won a game. So you don't want to watch these teams. And by the way, Duke has won 16 to 17 and Florida's 116, 18. Like they're the hottest teams. We had a college football playoff Cinderella fan. Smu, Boise State, Indiana. How'd that work out? You thought that was good sports. I didn't. In fact, in the College football playoff era, the lowest rated national championship game had one of those Cinderellas. Georgia 65, TCU 7. I bet you like that too. Now those of us with a social life did not. We. We stopped watching mid second quarter. So these are red hot teams. They're the best teams. They've been challenged outside of Duke. And it's like these people in the movie industry who want to convince you Shape of Water was the best movie. A woman falling in love with a fish. They're really these weirdos. Yeah, I'm going to go with Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Spielberg, Mission Impossible, Oppenheimer. Yeah, I'm gonna go with those, you know, which made seven times the money of a woman falling in love with a fish. But, you know, it's very. I'm very artsy. I see things you don't. I watch mid major basketball. Congratulations. I went out with my wife. It was a good time a couple of times during the tournament. Fun time, cocktails, good dinner, friends. I'm not watching Missouri Valley Conference basketball and I'm not going to pretend I care if SMU football rocks. They can't compete with the big dogs. So this whole thing about you, you keep telling me the ratings are up. So obviously I'm among the group of people who like Duke, who like the sec, which has really started paying attention to basketball. I said this in January. I'm like, folks, I don't know what you're watching, but SEC basketball is noticeably better than Big Ten and ACC basketball. Like, it's not close. They got more shooters, they got more athletes. The coaches are all well known. So Bruce Pearl on four number one seeds. Sorry. Drexel. Sorry. Lipscomb. Sorry. Community colleges. Sorry. We got four number ones, and here's Bruce Pearl. I told our guys right now we haven't beaten a team yet that I thought was better than us, and that's why we're the overall number one seed. And now we're going to the final four with our four one seeds. And I think the four teams that are advanced, I think there are four best teams in the country. That doesn't obviously always happen. Okay, so we have ourselves a really interesting situation in baseball, and everybody's freaking out. And I think they're really freaking out because it's the Yankees. If this was the Rays, you know, or the Diamondbacks, it wouldn't be nearly the story. So the Yankees used an MIT analyst, Aaron Lernhardt. He's a former Yankee analyst. A lot of fans of the Yankees in New York and around the globe, frankly, and they had a couple guys on the roster. Volpe was struggling to hit, and so they did something totally legal. And it has been a massive home run. So they moved, shifted some of the weight in the bat from the barrel closer to the label. So in baseball, there's a length restriction and a diameter restriction. And the Yankees didn't break either rule. Baseball tells you bats got to be this long and this big in diameter. It doesn't tell you where you have to put the meat of the bat. You could put it all in the handle and it would look weird, but you can do that. So the Yankees, because of this, are on a frenzy. Everybody's hitting home runs. They're first in runs, home runs, RBIs, OPS. They're number one in everything. And you know what this is? It's peak. Bill Belichick, he knows the rule book better than you did. He knows it better than the Ravens did or the Colts did. The Colts, by the way, were piping in sound, which is illegal in the NFL. But Belichick knew the rulebook better. So all the Yankees did. And MIT analysts, smart people go there, shifted weight from the barrel. They didn't make the diameter illegal. They didn't change the length of it. They just, by mean, slightly shifted it. Now, for the record, not every battery needs it. A couple teams tried it last year. Aaron Judge is like, yeah, I'm doing fine without it. Maybe you've noticed. Oshohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, not everybody's using it, but we've seen this in golf and tennis. We've seen innovations. And my take on sports has always been push the envelope. Let the governance, the governing body, the fcc, the SEC or Major League Baseball, let them reel you back in. Like the tush push. I got no problem with the creation of it. I don't think it's terribly healthy. I don't think you should be pushing quarterbacks into the line. Lets everybody vote on it. But give the Eagles credit for creating it. They created it because they have a quarterback that can, you know, I mean, 660 pound leg presses, and they had the best center in the last 20 years in the NFL. So they're like, yeah, let's do it. Let's just automatically get two yards. It works. So, and I'll tell you, the answer on this Yankee stuff is never to complain and be rigid and be a traditionalist. It's like one and done in college basketball. John Calipari is like, yeah, it's legal. I'm going for it. Mike Krzyzewski got stubborn, and then Krzyzewski admitted, yeah, I'm getting beat by all these guys I'm passing on. Rigid, didn't win. It's like three pointers in the NBA. Lakers were rigid, warriors weren't. How'd that work out? It's like the portal, the transfer portal. In college football, Ohio State's like, all in Georgia, all in Clemson's like, nah, nah, it's a little sketchy. How's that working for Clemson? They don't look anything close to Ohio State, and they did four years ago. So rigid's not the answer. I think in life and in sports, sometimes you got to take a swing, literally. In baseball and. And again, if you go to OBJ's Magical Catch in New York, it's those gloves, man. He didn't do it with three fingers. He did it with those receiver gloves, which were legal and developed over time. So again, there's a famous Nike saying. When Phil Knight created Nike, he had this manifesto, and one of the things he said, it was like, number three or four is always on offense. Apologize later. I don't care if it's golfers. This is not kicking a golf ball. It's taking a baseball bat. They didn't cheat on diameter. They did not cheat on length. They did none of that. They simply shifted weight for a couple of batters who were hitting the ball off the handle, no problem. The Dodgers, with deferred payments, go ahead, complain about it or adapt. The warriors their luxury tax payments, go ahead and complain about it. The NBA eventually changed it. The Eagles with a tush push. The Yankees with what they call now the torpedo bat. I have no problem with it. Again, this is not the Houston Astros, you know, banging on a can. That's not what this is. People get upset with the Dodgers. Dodgers are smarter than you. The Yankees here, they were smarter than everybody else. Here's Aaron Boone, you know, trying to be the best we can be. I mean, that's. It's one of the things that's, you know, gotten pointed out. But, you know, I say to you.
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Jason McIntyre
Guys all the time, we're trying to win on the margins.
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Colin Cowherd
We have a big organization that are invested in a lot of different things where we're trying to be better in every possible way. The reality is it's all within Major League standards. Yeah, I mean, think about this. At one point, the Tampa Bay Rays put a second baseman in right field. Then everybody eventually, over time, copied it. Now, the governance, Major League Baseball said, it's not good. It's keeping people off the bases. We want more base runners and stolen bases. So Rob Manfred said, okay, we're going to take the defensive shift away. But it was like, Joe, Joe, Joe Madden was down in Tampa and eventually won a World Series in Chicago. He's like, yeah, we're just going to put a second baseman in right field, and we're going to move a shortstop over to behind the bag. And everybody was like, oh, okay, what's the difference here? It's innovation. We've seen it in golf, we've seen it in tennis. We've seen it in baseball, NBA. And it's up to the league to figure out, like, the Tush push. That's up to the league to figure out. But every NFL team and baseball team and basketball team and college basketball program, as long as you are doing something that is legal. I looked it up this morning. Didn't cheat on length, didn't cheat on diameter. Pat Murphy's the manager of the brewers, and he came out and he just said, hey, more offense. Good for the game. I want my guys to be seeking any edge they can. Doesn't bother me at all. So I thought it was actually. I thought it was like beer league softball in the Bronx. I thought it was actually funny. I'm like, you know what, man? Say what you want. It. It. It's. It's work and it will be duplicated. Like, Clemson football is the great example. Like Clemson football. And I like Dabbo Sweeney, but he's like, I don't want to do this whole transfer portal. Well, watch Ohio State play. It doesn't mean you're sacrificing all the integrity of your program. It means, you know what? We could use that really good corner from Alabama and that left tackle from, you know, Missouri. Go get them. I'm curious what the turnaround time will be for all these teams to copycat what the Yankees are doing. I don't think it's going to be instantaneous. Right. I don't think in three months we're going to see bowling pin bats throughout the league. And also, no. Because it's not for every batter. They did this because of a batter or two in the Yankees lineup that were hitting too many things, apparently off the handle Volpe, who had kind of struggled, and they're like, okay. Like, Aaron Judge is like, I don't need it. I don't want it into my. Again. Baseball is one of those sports, like golf, you have a lot of downtime. The last thing you want to do is screw with Otani or Aaron Judge or. Or Freddie Freeman. They don't want to. They don't want to screw with anything. It's like golfers changing their clubs. Like Tiger woods did that, which was very courageous. But generally, there's some superstition in baseball and golf and a lot of downtime. So I don't think if you're Aaron Judge, you should, you should worry about it. Right. I love that the architect of this, it went to mit, was a physics professor for like what, seven years in Michigan. It's just like the Billy Bean story. He hires Deep Desta who was like an econ major in the Ivy League. And it's like, this guy's going to change baseball. Remember when he went into the room with the old school dudes? Get this guy out of here. What's he talking about? Kind of genius level stuff. Yeah, the Jonah Hill. Yes. Jonah Hill's character. Yeah. So I this stuff, this is why sports is great. Is it? By the way, the NFL had a concussion issue and kind of turned a blind eye to it and then kind of woke up one day and said, you know what? It doesn't make sense to have our best players having shorter careers. Let's make the game safer. I remember when I worked at the other place and there was a kind of a noteworthy show that, that had a football player that was one of these stop wearing dresses. And my takeaway is I want my football players to play longer. I want Steph and LeBron. They still get the best ratings in the NBA. I protect these amazing athletes, you know, so to me it's like if you can make sports faster, more like baseball with the pitch clock. Now baseball has an advantage. They have a minor league system where they can always test stuff. You know, other sports can't do this. The NBA didn't have that relationship with college basketball, but baseball tests stuff all the time in the minors and it's like, yeah, it works. Let's bring it upstairs. It's like, I'm sure you've heard chat GPT. Oh, it's going to take everybody's job. AI no, the people who understand chat GPT, they're going to end up taking your job because they're working smarter and know how to work around the margins. Yeah, yeah. 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Just really, really athletic and long and twitchy and that's great too. But international basketball is taking over our league. Wemby, Jokic, Luka. Why? They come in more mature, more focused and more skilled. They played against older players. It's not about the brand and the individual, it's about teamwork. And it sounds like a cliche, but Cooper Flag, our domestic product, does not give us this. He is a better version of Jason Tatum at this age. He's a better defender than Jason Tatum was. I think he's probably a better shooter at this point. Maybe not, but he's like an international player. That's what he reminds me of. He's an international player with a Duke brand and a little nastiness to him. He can shoot, he can pass, he's well rounded. He thinks the game. You just don't get that with 18 year olds from America playing basketball that are this good, this skilled, this aggressive and kind of an international feel. So he like Jayson Tatum, he does everything well and some things very well. I'm not sure what he does great, but that will develop again. He should be in high school right now and you know, a classic domestic product is Jonathan Kaminga, the Warriors, who came over here to go to our college system and learn how to play basketball. Four years in with the Warriors, I'm not sure they trust him and I'm not sure what he does well. He's just really athletic and so when you watch Cooper Flag, man, it's just different. I would love to see him land in Miami, Utah, San Antonio. Good GMs, good infrastructure, excellent coaches. He won't be wasted. I. This kid deserves to let we say this about quarterbacks all the time. We. We worried about Kayla Williams going to the Bears. They can't get quarterbacks. Right. He goes to Danny Ang in Utah or Pat Riley and Eric Spoelstra or Popovich. He's gonna be fine. And he'll be good anywhere, but he'll be great. I'll be honest with you. Wemby and Cooper flag. That's pretty good. That's pretty good sauce. Mark Few watched Cooper flag when Cooper was 17 years old and participated against Team USA before the Olympics. He scrimmaged against us and he was ready to go from the jump and went right at us. He really understands defense and he impacts the game in a big way on the defensive end. So, yeah, he's gonna. He's gonna have a huge impact from day one, but it's gonna be one of those impacts. Like he does everything well. Yeah. And again, generally, when the. When the media falls for somebody like Tiger woods or Bryce Harper, you know, Mbappe in. In soccer, generally, we don't go this crazy over everybody. It's just a very, very unique player. And I'm hearing comparisons to certain people. His comp is pretty obvious to me. He's Jason Tatum of the Celtics, where there's just no real hole in his game. Doesn't mean he's going to be, you know, out of the chute that good. But there, I don't see. I don't see the weakness. 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I cannot wait, wait for you to give us a bracket update. Now that's what I'm very excited about. Anything over there? No, no, nothing.
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Jason McIntyre
Because I got a little chalky with.
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Colin Cowherd
It, as the kids like to say. And you know, what do we. We got four number one seeds, but they're the best teams by so far. It's not even close. Feels like it. Here we go. Colin right. Colin wrong. On a Monday where Colin was right. Two SEC teams in the final four, four in the final eight. It's not close. Outside of Duke, nobody in the ACC really did much. The acc, I mean the sec, the athletes, the length. I picked Auburn as my number one. Florida may be the best team. It's just a deeper, better conference. We've been saying this since early January on this show. Are you watching SEC basketball? Because it looks like the ACC about six years ago. And here's Bruce Pearl, Auburn coach on the conference. Everybody in the SEC is invested. It just means more. And I said this at the beginning of the season. The teams at the bottom of our league are investing very similarly to the teams in the middle and the top of the league. There's just not that much difference. There isn't. Where Colin was wrong, I started thinking too much. I did not have Duke in the final four because three freshmen play over 20 minutes and I thought they were too young. Well, they're also great. They're favored by four and a half over a great Houston team. Their average winning margin. This is much like UConn last year. They're winning by 23 points a game. So they've got athleticism, coaching, length, depth and the best player easily in Cooper Flag where Colin was right Well, I said the Dodgers and this is without Freeman, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts being 100% and without Ohtani pitching yet. I think this is the best roster I've ever seen. And according to baseball stats, the Dodgers are the first team in baseball history to go 50 with 30 plus runs scored, 20 plus walks drawn, 10 plus home runs, 55 strikeouts and 0 errors committed. They do not have a hole. It is a virtual All Star team and again, depth of talent, pitching, bullpen. It's like nothing I've ever seen. Where Colin was wrong you know, I thought the Yankees would pull back a little without Garrett Cole. Who knew they would revolutionize the torpedo bat. They have 15 home runs in three games. It's Babe Ruth on HGH. Babe Ruth multiplied. For the record, Aaron Judge isn't using them, but they have legally. The dimensions of the bat haven't changed, the length hasn't changed, the weight hasn't changed. They've just redistributed the bulk of the bat toward the label for a couple of batters and it is working wonders where Collin was right. I've said this Cowboy team is top heavy and in trouble. And Steven Jones admitted this weekend that yeah, free agency got a little more expensive than we could afford. And again in February I was quoted saying this is the big brand in the country that is reeling and reeling fast and they went cheap on a head coach. They've slowly been dying for a couple of years. I know the 12 win thing, but if they pay Micah, that'll be Micah. Dak and CD Lamb have produced one playoff win and that was over that sub 500 Tampa team where Colin was wrong. Minute I started supporting John Calipari, he blew a 16 point lead and lost in the tournament the minute I put my arms around him. It is hard to blow a big lead late in college basketball simply because there are not a lot of potent offenses in the sport and Arkansas got outscored 27:11 down the stretch. They probably should have called a timeout to slow it down. They didn't and the rest is history. Where Colin was right, I said Aaron Rodgers has all the leverage with the Steelers. He should take his dear sweet time and he is Aaron Rodgers And DK Metcalf had a throwing session at ucla and Aaron's telling you, maybe I'll take it, maybe I won't. I'm leaning toward. He's going to take it now. But this is what I said. If you don't have urgency with the quarterback position. This is what happened to Washington with Sam Howell, and it's what's happened with Mike Tomlin and the Steelers. They just don't take quarterback and offense seriously enough. Where Colin was raw. I hated this story. That receiver, who I loved at Arizona tmac, was quoted as saying this weekend, I'm not a big fan of watching film. I'm not. I don't watch football. That's not what you want to say. That, that, that's. That that's got Johnny Manziel vibes all over it, bro. The great ones, the Larry Fitzgeralds, the Jerry Rice. It's. You gotta care. It's prep. It's not just hanging out with your receiver group if you want to separate in any position. This is a sport where cognitive function and commitment is really big. I. I love this kid out of college, but this, this is a. I mean, this is a. If I need a receiver, I may wait till the next round kind of comment where Colin was right. I've said wide receivers, the convertible sports car of football. It's fun, it's flashy, doesn't produce a lot of playoff wins. Tyreek Hill this weekend wants out of Miami. Hinted at multiple trades and multiple posts on X. Kansas City's been to three Super Bowls since he's left Miami, has produced zero playoff wins since he arrived. I like him. I think he's a good player. I'd love to have him on my team. But there is something about this position that, that just creates personality. Plus, and it just might have said, watch out with DK Metcalf in Pittsburgh. I don't know what it is with the position, but it, it. This is something that is way too common and a bit of a nuisance for Miami. Make you answer questions you don't have to deal with. Colin right? Colin wrong. And with that, Matt Hasselback, 18 years in the NFL. First of all, the Aaron D.K. metcalf workout at UCLA. I don't know, that feels like something to me. I don't want to be like media guy making it out to be a big deal, but it kind of feels like something, right?
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah. Well, listen, that's the spot. Ucla, I mean, even back when I was playing, guys would meet up in la. Either the home Depot center over at ucla. They're very friendly with celebrities coming there and working out. I mean, I think I've seen Justin Bieber working out there on the track over there running the stairs. So that's not a big deal. What it does tell me though is that Aaron Rodgers isn't really thinking about retiring. Like, you don't go out at his age and throw footballs with DK Metcalf in March if you're probably going to retire. So I don't know that we have a lot of answers, but I think that that answer is pretty clear. This is a guy that's training and getting ready to play this year.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. And Aaron has said multiple times he loves the game, it brings him a lot of joy. And if you've been good at this sport, as you well know, guys want to play it, it pays well, it's fun. And Pittsburgh's got some dudes. Okay, so I've heard a lot about this Shador Sanders and I keep saying I. Here's all I know about Shador Sanders, okay. I'm not a scout. Battle line, running for his life. No run game, 74% completion percentage. That is something that's, that's like not just a 68. 74 is a lot. I don't think he's a Lamar. I don't think he's Mahomes. I don't know. I, I know he didn't win a lot of games. That's not the end of it. Matt. Did Matt Ryan win a lot of games in college?
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Jason McIntyre
I take offense to that because he went to Boston College, but my dad went to Colorado, so I'll defend Shador. Listen, the, the 74% completion or whatever, it was a really high completion percentage. That doesn't mean all that much to me because he's not a guy that threw a lot of balls away. And as a play caller, when you don't trust your offensive line, you're getting the ball out of your hands quick also with some screen game. So that, that's not really what I'm looking at. I think he's got all the tools. I scouts are saying, hey, he's only six one and a half. He's like 212 pounds. Like that's not giving me Justin Herbert, you know, Tom Brady, the Manning 6 foot 5 type guy vibes. So you're a little bit of an outlier to get drafted in the top five of the draft with his measurables. But he does have other intangibles that he brings to the Table. I do love his competitiveness. I think that there's a, there's a DNA or a sense in some teams though where they don't really love some of the other stuff. We've seen some of the taunting, not shaking hands, all the penalties, pushing a referee, like some of that kind of stuff I think might give some people pause. But no, I think he's going to have a successful career. At the same time, I think he could drop a little bit on day one.
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Colin Cowherd
So you know Pete Carroll. Well, I would argue Pete is old school football. He likes a run game. When he had Marshawn lynch and Reggie Bush and a pass rush, he's done well. I think Ashton Genty and I know everybody hates drafting running backs. If you go the last six, seven years, if you draft the running back top 12, they're all good. There's no misses late first round where everything misses, that's different. I could see Pete Carroll, you know him, you know Chip Kelly, I could see him saying, guys, that's going to make us. We got to have ball control to beat Mahomes and Herbert. We're not doing it with Geno throwing 40 times. Raiders and Genti, it works for me. What say you?
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah, it works for me too. And no doubt that Pete Carroll and Chip Kelly, they want to run the ball. And so it's very easy to get your, get your mind around like a Marshawn lynch type running game there in Las Vegas. At the same time. At the same time, like we got to figure out what the league feels about the Saquon effect. Like you said, a lot of people are saying do we really need to draft a running back that high? And the answer was no. But then the Saquon effect happened and now people are looking at guys like Genti and they're saying, hey, that could be our sake one. So that's a factor. However much in the way that I said not every team loves the vibe of a Shador Sanders. If he were to fall down to the Raiders around six, would they go ahead and take him? Because I think Pete Carroll loves that vibe. Living on the edge of competitiveness, having a flip, a flair about you. I think he loves that. And having him behind a Geno Smith early in his career, I mean I could see them taking the long view of it that way. That would not shock me either.
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Colin Cowherd
You know. Well, I've talked about this before is you can win when you're top heavy. The Rams did with Ramsey, Darnold, Stafford, Whitworth, where they had like Four or five guys making a ton of money. Then they have to rebuild and it's really bad now. The Rams drafted so well back to back drafts and they have Stafford that they've kind of like not had much of a rebuild. So you can go top heavy. I think the Niners did and then last year was like, okay, we're really old, expensive and brittle. I honestly think the play for Dallas because you're already invested on the right side of the. To me offense. CD Lambda I think draft weekend gets emotional. I would move Micah Parsons in a week draft. I don't want to pay three players 570 million. I just, I can't do that. Look at Phillies roster, Detroit's roster, the Rams roster, the Ravens roster. Cowboys need seven players. They don't need a really great pass rusher. Am I nuts?
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Jason McIntyre
I mean, they got to do something. I mean, I don't know what the solution is there. They've spent too much money on one side of the ball to have the results that they've had so far. I don't know if I'm building a team, though. I need my guy on the offensive side of the ball and I need my guy on the defensive side of the ball. Mike Holmgren would talk about this all the time back when they were in San Fran with Bill Walsh. They. They had Joe Montana and they had Ronnie Lott, like in Green Bay, they had Brett Favre and they had Reggie White. To me, Micah Parsons is as good as it gets at the position. I can't see a scenario where I'm getting rid of him. I really can't. However, you make some good points. They have a lot of issues in their division, has gotten a lot better than they are, you know, in terms of what Philly is and what Washington's about to come about to become. So Dallas, they kind of need a miracle.
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Colin Cowherd
I want to. I want to wrap with this. I had a GM once tell me, he said, I don't want 13 draft picks. He goes, because if eight of them hit, we're going to be super young. And most players outside of a corner or a running back take like a year to figure it out. Tight ends take a year to figure out blocking. A lot of receivers are raw. And he said, I'd rather have like a player and seven picks than 12 picks. And I look at New England, all new free agents, they're going to have all new draft picks. 40% of this roster could be new. And Drake May's a kid in your NFL experience. Can you be too New can you have too many Young Niners have 12 draft picks. What if nine hit? How do you fall on that?
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Jason McIntyre
Listen, look at the contract of the head coach when you want the answer to that question. If a guy's in the first year of his deal, he can do that. He can say, hey, I'm taking a long view of this thing, not a problem. Then the flip side, look at a guy like John Harbaugh in Baltimore, just did a deal. It's win. Now I don't even know if they need a draft pick. Like, they've got a great team as is. So, yeah. Vrabel, are they trying to win? Yes. They're trying to build something special. They're trying to build a house. But this is a foundational year for them. That's, you know, they got to get everything around Drake May.
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Colin Cowherd
Right.
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Jason McIntyre
So that he can be what they. What they hope he can be. And we all know what that is. In Foxborough, they're trying to hoist Lombardi's and nothing short of that, by the.
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Colin Cowherd
Way, can you convince J. Mac? So I keep telling J. Mac what a fun time I have in Chicago. I was there this weekend. Why don't you tell him if you had a nice weekend in Chicago.
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Jason McIntyre
Hey, hey. Loose lips sink ships, Colin. I. I had too good of a time in. In Chicago. That's a. That's a great city. In fact, I think they're still celebrating St. Patrick's Day. I don't know how that's true because they were celebrating that like two weeks before, and now here we are, like, almost April and they're still celebrating.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Matt Hasselbay, great seeing you, Matty.
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Jason McIntyre
Always see you guys.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, he. He had a family get together in Chicago and they could have picked a lot of places and they went to Chicago. It was a good time. I had a good. I was in the burbs and had a good time. It's quite a city. Ryan was there this week. Was there no snow, right? No, it was like 48 degrees. 53. A balmy 48. Yeah. Yes. I think it's 60 today. Is it today or tomorrow? It's 60. That's awesome. Love to hear that. I. I've got to go to a cold weather locale very soon. I'm not thrilled. Where, Where, Where? I can't talk about it on air. Why? It's confidential information, my friend. What, you're going to Philly? That's confidential or something? Why would I go to Philly? This is Nikki Glaser from the Nikki Glaser Podcast have you guys seen this new commercial from Stand up to All Hate? It's basically Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady going back and forth with reasons that they hate each other. But then when you really listen to them, the reasons for the hate are just so stupid. I don't know. This. This commercial really got me. It's a strong reminder that hate in our country continues to be out of control. So join us at iHeart in standing up to it. If you see hate, speak up. Call it out. Your voice is a powerful tool in this fight. You can learn more by following OTs upwithhate. Hey, all you women's hoops fans and folks who just don't know yet that they're women's hoops fans, we've got a big week over at Good Game With Sarah Spain as we near the end of one of the most exciting women's college basketball seasons ever. The most parody we've seen in years, with games coming down to the wire and everyone wondering which team will be crowned national champions this weekend in Tampa. Listen to Good Game with Sarah Spain on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. We live in a divided country, and our media couldn't be more polarizing. That's why we started the Middle with Jeremy Hobson. It's about bringing voices not from the extremes, but from the vast middle into the national conversation. Each week we hear from ordinary Americans from all over the country. And when you subscribe, subscribe to the Middle. You also get an episode each week called One Thing Trump did that focuses on just one item from the avalanche of news. Listen to the Middle with Jeremy Hobson on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here and Eating While Broke is back for Season four every Thursday on the Black Effect Podcast Network. This season, we've got a legendary lineup serving up broke dishes and even better stories on the menu. We have Tony Baker, Nick Cannon, Melissa Ford, October London and Carrie Harper Howe turning Big Macs into big moves. Catch Eating While Broke every Thursday on the Black Effect podcast network. IHeartRadio app Apple podcast Wherever you get your favorite shows, come Hungry for season four.