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BEST OF THE HERD – Is Lamar Jackson Still Elite?, Caleb Williams Is A Top 3 QB, Nick Wright: LeBron + Draymond Teaming Up
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
Make a plan and ask your doctor about Botox. Visit botoxchronicmigraine.com or call 1-844botox 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. Here we go. It is a Tuesday. We are live and it is the Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be watching or listening, whatever the platform. Thanks for making us part of your day. So this is considered the slowest week of sports maybe in the calendar year, right? Like I don't think so now because of World cup matches. But this is one of those weeks. All Star Game tonight. Look forward to that. Don't watch the Home Run Derby. Have no opinion. But don't watch the Pro Bowl. Never have an opinion. But this is a week where you know from time to time you'll get an interesting list. And it and it does. Usually in June I talk some NFL. I did not this June. Right. And I'm kind of thankful for it because you're kind of stretching it and trying to find stuff. But they do have there's an NFL Network list of the top 100 players and I always kind of roll my eyes. We know the good ones. We know the guys, you know that are pretty good. But there's always a player or two in the list that either explodes or drops. And I think this year it's really fascinating. It's Lamar Jackson. He drops 67 spots. Now, remember, this is voted on by players. Those were his peers. That's always been his number one support group. Anytime there was criticism about him, and I defended him forever, it was always his peers, his teammates. Oh, he's a guy, his peers. He's fallen off a cliff. He's in the Bryce Young quarterback territory. Look it up. So we were joking this morning about, as a staff, like, franchise quarterbacks are a little bit like airlines. Like, you're introduced to them and you become a fan. And then over the course of time, there's multiple options. Right. You don't have to stick with the airline, and you may be a fan, but they keep losing your luggage. And then after a while, you're like, I'm over it. Like, I'm done. I've had too many canceled flights, too many deboardings, too many lost luggages. That's sort of where the NFL players are, I think. And that's where I am with Lamar Jackson. There's other franchise quarterbacks I like Drake May now and Caleb Williams and Bo Nix. And it's just more good young quarterbacks coming into the league. I mean, about the only quarterback who I think is, like, declining, and it's hard to say Matt Stafford is declining, but he's old. That's about it. There's just too many good young quarterbacks. So, I mean, Lamar Jackson is a starter. Used average 10 rushes a game. Last year it was 5. He used to give you 65 yards rushing a game. Last year it was 26. His sack percentage has gone through the roof. Only one quarterback in the league had a higher sack percentage, Geno Smith. Then it was Lamar. Then it was J.J. mcCarthy. He is a declining player, and his rush attempts have gone down since 2021. The old saying, I trust somebody until I don't trust somebody. I no longer trust Lamar Jackson in a big spot. I'm selling my stock. That doesn't mean he's a bad quarterback or even average. He's better than average. Way better than average. But I probably held my stock for a year too long. For years and years, you guys kept telling me, you got to get out of the Lamar business. And I'm like, I know, I know he's not good in the playoffs. 84 Passer rating in the playoffs, lower than Ryan Tannehill. There's nothing I can say about it. I think he gets nervous. I don't always love his offensive coordinators in the playoffs, but you got to remember this too. He has missed at least four games in three of the last five years. So now I got the playoffs, I got. He's missing games, he's very expensive, whole new coaching staff, a declining player who's taking far more sacks. I'm selling my stock and I always think, listen, you can criticize me or not like me, that's fine, I totally understand that. I always think the silliest criticism of me is, well, you flip flop, bro. You cling to old opinions. I'm always seeking new information. And watch last year, not the same quarterback. I mean, he'd been slightly declining, fell off a cliff. Maybe he gets better. But Caleb Williams to me now is a much better quarterback. Caleb Williams last year had seven. Seven winning drives or fourth quarter comebacks. Seven. Lamar Jackson had one. And you can argue, well, he was hurt last year. Yeah, he's hurt a lot now. And secondly, he's only had five of those kind of games in the last four seasons. He, he's not a great come from behind quarterback. Caleb Williams, when everybody in the arena knows he has to throw, is great. Lamar Jackson, when everybody in the stadium knows he's got to throw, does not deliver. That's who he is. I'm selling my stock. I take Bo Nix today in a fourth quarter come from behind situation. Bo Nix over Lamar Jackson. Why? Because the analytics and data tell you he's better. I watched Bo Nix go toe to toe with Josh Allen in a division round playoff game with a broken ankle, a kid against the best player in the league. So I, I'm probably selling my stock a year late. I should have taken the advisement. I should have listened to the fans. But when his peers, that was always his strongest support group, drop him 67 spots and put him in the Bryce Young league. It's like, I mean, if I asked you, you were a general manager, Lamar Drake May today, who would you take? Well, Drake Mays ascending. Drake May's just going into his prime. Jake Mays. Drake May is inexpensive. I can surround Drake May with more. Drake May looks like he's a better quarterback late in games. I mean, you tell me you cling to old opinions. I'm going to seek new information and new data. And yeah, I think he's still good, but I held him top five or six in the league when everybody was telling me he was overrated. I think you were right on that one. Here's Lamar Jackson talking about the year he had and a little bit about the injuries from the past season. Heal up. No, heal up because it starts there. You know, like you said, I was banged up a lot last year. He'll up and just lock in, you know, go back to work. I don't look at it as if I did something wrong with my off season program last year. You know, I've been doing the same thing each and every year and I felt like I've gotten better in some aspect, certain things. So I'm keep doing the same thing. Okay. According to front office Sports, Alex Schiffer, LeBron will make a decision very soon. And it's down to two teams, Golden State and Cleveland. And both offer a level of comfort. For Golden State, it's his friendship with Draymond Green. With Cleveland, it's home. And so you ever had one of those decisions in life, a big decision's coming and you have a duh moment like, oh, I should have figured that out. When you get older and remember what Rich Paul said was the number one priority for LeBron James. It was not winning championships, it was not money. He said it was fun and happiness. Is this going to be a decision to the warriors and we go, oh, duh. Number one, flying a Gulf Stream from San Francisco to LA. And LeBron adores his family, loves his family, doesn't want to live far from his family. Is a 50 minute flight and there's an airport in Van nuys right by LeBron's house. 50 minutes. Secondly, warriors to LA. Lakers, Clippers, they go to Phoenix, they play in the region. Hour, hour and a half flight all the time. Can see his family and, you know, golf with Draymond. They can now matching medical bracelets. It all works out. But if you really look at this decision, when Tom Brady chose Tampa, the other place he considered was the Chargers. The other place he considered was Miami. What do they have in common? Warm weather. Brady later came out after his first year in Tampa and said, you know, I always thought I was a cold weather quarterback. You can look up the quote, I always thought I was a cold weather quarterback. No, that's a bunch of bs. I'm never going to play in cold weather again. It was real simple. Tom was seeking comfort of the weather variety. He wanted an offensive coach, no state taxes, maybe and warm weather. And that's what he chose. It was like, of course. And a team with good wide receivers. Yeah, of course. If you look at choosing Tampa, it's like, oh, Bruce Arians, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Miami weather. He's tired of New England winners. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, that makes a ton of sense. So I just looked at this decision, and he's close with Draymond. He vacations with Draymond. It's an old smart team. He's never liked playing with young guys. It's a 50 minute golf stream. I still think Philadelphia, by far and away is the best roster. I don't think Golden State's a championship roster, but proximity, friendships, golf by his kids, by his family. Is this going to be a duh? Of course he chose. Of course he chose it. Fun and happiness is Draymond, when you think of LeBron with James Harden, is that fun and happiness? Because that's what Rich Paul told us was the most important thing, fun and happiness. You ever seen him around Draymond? He's laughing every time they're golfing, he's laughing. They're dancing, they're partying. They're obviously tight. And as you age, you know, I've talked about this on the show. When you're young, you want to join groups. You know, you're a little kid, you're in the Boy Scouts, you're on teams, then you're in frats in college, boys, trip to Vegas. When you get old, you prune your tree. You're trying to get rid of people. You know, you don't care about being popular. You hang out with your wife, maybe you have two couples you vacation with, maybe three really good friends. You prune the tree. LeBron's pruning that tree. I don't think he wants James Harden in the social circle. I think he wants Draymond Green, Steph Curry, Steve Kerr, funny guys, older guys. I think he likes those guys in the social circle. Here's Draymond Green on his pitch recently when the two were together.
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Nick Wright
I'd be remiss if I don't take the opportunity to throw my pitch in there. You know, I'd be crazy. If we're together for X amount of days and at no point am I
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Colin Cowherd
like, yo, we need to chop it up.
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Nick Wright
Like, what the hell going on?
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Colin Cowherd
What's. What we doing? The things that I shared in it,
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Nick Wright
I. I believe it definitely is going to make. To make the brain work a little bit.
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Colin Cowherd
It's like semi retirement. Like Jupiter, Florida is one of the best places to retire. They don't have an NBA franchise. Golden State, the Golden Year Warriors. Golden State's the best semi retirement community. Play a little golf, hang out with friends. Don't have to play every day close to home. Is it going to be a. Of course he chose the Warriors. I'm getting a vibe. FOS Sports says it's down to the warriors and the Cavs. We expect a decision made this week. I mean, it's even funny. Steve Kerr, he was going to retire, right? And Steve Kerr said, remember that? It was like two months ago or a month ago. Steve Kerr said, I'm gonna come back for two more years. Steve Kerr doesn't think he's gonna win a championship, but he's like, it's just too much fun. It's just too much fun. As you age, you prune your tree. You wanna hang out with the same people over and over and who you vacation with. Draymond. That's who you really wanna ha. That's who you really want to hang out with in life, who you vacation with. Okay, all sorts of stuff today. All Star Game tonight I'm going to give you my top 10 quarterbacks going into the season. And I there's so many good young quarterbacks. I think it's harder and harder to make that list. I can tell you who's at the top. It gets real hard about 5 to 10. It gets really tough. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the iHeartRadio app hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. Would mean a lot to have you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name is the Fifth Hour? I'll tell you. It's a spin off of the Ben Mather Show, a cult hit overnights on fsr. Why should you listen? Picture, if you will, a world where we chat with captains of industry in media, sports and more every week. Explore some amazing facts about human nature and more. Listen to the fifth hour with Ben Mather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast plans can be a maybe for people with chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more.
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But Peyton's a better quarterback, I think overall by a distance over Eli Manning. And they're, they're both great, they're both deserving of hall of Fame accolades. But I do think, you know, regular seasons matter, but I kind of look at quarterbacks. Are you good? There's three to five minutes left. You got two drives left. Can you score on both of them? I may need a field goal and a touchdown, or a touchdown and a touchdown. Do I trust you? Late. That's a big deal for me. So all things considered, going into this season with all the new coordinators in place, Jared Goff's got a great one, Justin Herbert's got a great one, all things considered. Who's your offensive coordinator? How is your health? Are you ascending? I don't have a lot of old guys on this list. These are the 10 guys I think. And it's close. When you get to 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, it's close. Yards, you know, not miles, inches, not feet. Here we go, top 10. Number one. I think Josh Allen has his health. He's a force of nature. Six straight years with at least one playoff win. He's in his prime and he's done remarkable things with a coach from the defensive side that got fired. I think his organization, in my opinion, has let him down. I don't think he's had Patrick Mahomes infrastructure. That is not saying he'd have as many trophies as Mahomes, but I think his size, his arm, he's healthy, he's in his prime. Josh Allen's the best quarterback in this sport. Number two, coming off an injury, Mahomes is two. He now has a run game and upgraded O line. I think he will be Patrick Mahomes Again, but I'm gonna wait to see it. I think the most remarkable stat about Patrick Mahomes actually is this. He has won half the games in his career, 20 and 20 where he's trailed by at least 10 plus points. He is the great Elway. He is the great come from behind quarterback of my life. Brady didn't trail that much. It feels like Elway trailed a lot in big games. Mahomes is the the greatest come from behind quarterback of my life. Some think he in a short list of greatest quarterback he would be my number two. Number three. I don't know why people will push back on this. I would have Caleb Williams, folks. He made two plays in the playoffs last year. One against Green Bay and one against the Graham Rams. That broke football physics. It was early Mahomes. They just didn't make any sense. They didn't make any sense to throw up the left sideline against Green Bay. This makes no damn sense. I'd never seen that before. The throw in the back of the end zone against the Rams. What in God's name is happening? That's early Mahomes, by the way. Lowest interception percentage of any quarterback in league history with 1100 attempts. He never gets hurt. He had seven fourth quarter comebacks. I am buying the stock here. I'm not saying he's going to be Mahomes. I'm not saying he's Mahomes yet. But for all the people in year two and three that kept pushing back on Patrick, it was a football physics thing throwing left handed. Why is he so good? Trailing 24 7, Caleb. Caleb is my three number four, my one old guy, Matt Stafford, highest graded passer in the league. Is his back gonna hold up? Is he going to have a left tackle? I don't know. I just know when he lets go of the football, it is a thing of beauty. I mean pre snap, post snap, I don't get a lot of movement. You know if it's just pure throwing the football and reading the defense, he is near the top. So I don't get a lot of plays with the feet, but I would put Matt Stafford at four, number five. Okay. Justin Herbert has a new coordinator. He finally has a head coach and a big time OC, Mike McDaniel. By the way, the remarkable thing about Herbert, he made the playoffs with the 30th ranked offensive line. I've seen Mahomes get buried in a Super bowl when he had a bad O line. This kid made the playoffs and he was getting hammered for 17 regular season weeks. I have Justin Herbert. Tackles are back coordinator, head coach at number five. Number six I love Joe Burrow but in two of the last three seasons he gets banged up. Only played eight games last year. I also think he doesn't have the support system of a Herbert or a Patrick Mahomes or now with Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams. I love Burrow. All time leader in completion percentage. I think he's one of the great third down quarterbacks, fourth down quarterbacks. I think he's in Brady's category and Mahomes category. I think he's unbelievable. But I have to consider everything and durability and offensive line which is yet to even be mediocre have to be considered. I have him at six, number seven. I don't know what there is to argue. Last four seasons four different teams. He's 28 and six. He's now going to trophy Sam Darnold. He's one of two quarterbacks in the whole league with 4,000 plus passing yards in back to back seasons. He led the Seahawks with a defensive coach having lost DK Metcalf in a running back room that couldn't stay healthy to the number one offense in probably the second best division in football. In his prime arm athletic ability. I said when he came out I see a lot of Andrew Luck. The difference is Darnold has taken a beating. He is one of the younger great quarterbacks in the league. He's now just really if you look at his age, he's got six years of prime left slinging. Sammy D at seven, number eight he's more mobile than Goff so he gets that advantage. I think Goff is better from the pocket. He's led. Golf is actually one of these guys where he got a new coordinator. Again we're considering everything. He doesn't miss starts. He's unbelievable from the pocket. He does need O line protection to flourish. But he's got Drew Petzig. Last year OC situation not ideal. Wasn't quite the same. But he leads the NFL in passing yards, passing touchdowns and wins over the last three seasons. That accounts for a lot to me. Number nine most underrated player in the league is Jordan Love. I'm pretty sure Jordan Love is underrated now. He gets off the bad Septembers inexplicable. Cannot explain September. He's bad. He completes 60% of his throws since he's been a pro quarterback. In September he's 4, 5 and 1. I think it's LeFleur's offense. I think Matt experiments early. Maybe they don't have their running game up to snuff. He has struggled, but in terms of arm, whip size, smarts, toughness, he'll get banged up but he doesn't miss a lot of starts. I think he's a huge talent and I was a real doubter for years. I think he's huge. I think he's a great talent. Christian Watson can't stay healthy. Healthy. They've had some immaturity at wide receiver. I like him. I like him a lot. He's my number nine. Number 10 Drake May edges out Lamar Jackson listen, first quarterback in league history ever league history, 70% completion percentage, 4,000 passing yards before turning 25. He feels like he's in his prime and he's a kid and he did it last year with a battle line and an average running game so nobody thought they would get to the Super Bowl. He is the most accurate quarterback in the NFL last season for a kid. Big, strong. He reminds me a little bit of Herbert with a little better accuracy now. Herbert finally getting a head coach, finally getting everything right. Vrabel and Josh McDaniels is a pretty good place to be in year two. Lamar Jackson is 11, Dak is 12. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific. Plans can be a maybe for people with chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more.
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
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Nick Wright
Well listen, I. I actually don't have a Patrick Torres acl. It didn't have a good year. If he needs to drop, it's fine. I do. Josh Allen being the number moving up after a year where for the first Time in a half decade he didn't win the division. He had four turnovers to lose a playoff game. He, you know, 25 touchdowns, 10 picks, 3,600 yards in the regular season. That feels a little odd. But I also understand feeling like Patrick coming off the ACL has to drop. It just it, it seems to me like we are in the one of the golden age is of quarterback play and having the guy atop the league be a guy who's never sniffed a Super bowl feels weird to me but I get it. And we also, we judge Josh Allen differently than we judge other quarterbacks. Josh Allen's judged like a slugger in baseball. Like don't care if he hits 230, hit 40 bombs. That's not typically how we've done quarterbacks in the past. But with Josh it's fine. The Herbert thing, I mean I, they. He just got Harbaugh this year.
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Colin Cowherd
No, he.
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Nick Wright
He finally has a head coach. You said this is third year with him, right? His third year. He's going into year seven Colin but
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Colin Cowherd
he's still, he's still in his athletic prime. Something's always been missing. O line coach coordinator. This is the year we can start
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Nick Wright
playing your worst game of your season in the playoffs. That hasn't been missing. That's been good. No, it's.
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Botox Medical Announcer
It's.
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Nick Wright
It's three. It's three for three that he was God awful in the playoff game. But it's fine. It's fifth best quarterback in the league. I Lamar out of Listen, I'm not as high on Lamar as some people. Lamar out of the top 10 feels a little harsh. I don't like that. Unless. Are you very con. My concern about Lamar is was last year and again I wouldn't bet this but it's a concern the beginning of a fall for him athletically and injury wise. Like is that why he's out of the top ten?
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Colin Cowherd
Okay, I considered everything. Number one, he's missed four games minimum three of the last five years rushing attempts have declined every year since 2021. His sack percentage. Only two other quarterbacks were close. J.J. mcCarthy and Geno Smith. He's not as explosive. He's taken too many hits and I've always given him a pass for having a lower passer rating than Ryan Tannehill in the playoffs. I've always supported him. But I said earlier it's like airlines. You love them, you use them, they lose your luggage so many times and you finally bail on him. I feel like at some point dude, eight years of this. You just. I watch Caleb come from behind and Bo Nicks come from behind and Drake may come from behind. I'm like, I can't. I can't. I got to sell the stock.
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Nick Wright
No, that's. Listen, I think all that's fair. I mean, to continue the airline analogy, I think Justin Herbert might be TWA in the playoffs, bro. Like, it's gone defunct, doesn't exist anymore. And Caleb at 3 and I does. And I really.
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Colin Cowherd
You.
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Nick Wright
I really like Caleb. Feels like FS1. Between you, me and Danny, it's just a competition to see who could be the most outlandish on Caleb Williams. Caleb at 3 feels a little rich for my blood. You know, I. I gotta say, I'm gonna make a pitch to you, okay? Because I don't. And then I know we have other things we have to get to. I don't know that you know this, but there is a real bubbling friction on First Things first because of you. Because I have been on this show every Tuesday for basically nine years. Brew comes on with somewhat regularity. Old KW is over life on appearances on this show, and I think it's hurt him. I think if there was ever a time for you to finally have national treasure Kevin Wilds on the show, it would be just to show him Drake May 10, Caleb Williams, 3 and see how that lands at his desk. Again, I'm not your guest booker. I'm just throwing it out there.
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Colin Cowherd
Well, yeah, I mean, listen, this is inexact. Like, I'll give you an example. I think if there's a quarterback in the league right now and Mahomes is off an injury that I Trust on 4th and 7, it's probably Joe Burrow. But he doesn't have a great online this year. We don't love his coach necessarily. He keeps getting hurt. I've got to contextualize everything. Joe Burrow is one injury away from. We got to draft a new quarterback. I. That has to be considered. And I love Burrow so that.
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Nick Wright
Listen, I. Burrow is tough because of all the guys on the list, he's the biggest injury concern. Like Lamar is an injury concern, but he's not on your list. And I think that part is fair. I also. I'm going to say one other thing about Josh Allen. Number one, I think it's worth just taking a gander at. You don't even have to put it on the shows. Have your producers print it out, put it on a sheet. Josh Allen's playoff numbers in the wild card round and then every other game. Other than that, he's now including last year where he had the four turnover divisional round game, he's two in the wild card round is the greatest quarterback of all time. Greatest wild card around quarterback of all time. But as you know, Brady Manning, those guys, the buy system was different. They didn't play many wild card round games. He's two and six post wild card round. The two wins he combined in those two games for 330 yards passing and one passing touchdown. And his greatest moment of his career after the wild card round was a game he lost to Mahomes and the Chiefs. So I just, I. It doesn't feel. Doesn't sit right with me that Josh is the best quarterback in the league right now. But I think most people feel that way and I guess it's because their cable went out. When he had the single worst turnover of the season last year before halftime
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Colin Cowherd
of that Broncos playoff game, it was a stinker. I acknowledge that. So, you know, I was saying earlier that when Tiger woods entered golf, it spiked. But the truth is not that many people golf in America because although it's great fun, it's really hard. Even when you're good, you can get bad very quickly. And when Tiger, during his kind of this renaissance of golf didn't play or aged out, like there was a space like you didn't get the same rating. So was golf popular or was Tiger popular? We see this in the WNBA with Caitlin Clark. She plays a million watch. She doesn't 350 watch the United States loses in the World Cup. The numbers are still outrageous. And so my take is people keep talking about soccer growth. The growth of soccer is we're out and the ratings today will be huge in England, Norway was huge. And that the growth isn't necessarily viewed from our prism, but where you can see the unbelievable growth is like the NFL. The World cup is. Yeah, you give us some big brands, it doesn't really matter who the quarterback is. I think this World cup does change going ahead. I think 10,000 young people minimum will play soccer that wouldn't have. And I think out of that, 500 will be really, really good. Two or three will be great. Can we find an Erling Holland? I think the growth is yet to be seen outside of ratings. But I look at the numbers post USA exit, it tells me soccer is officially bigger than hockey in this country. Bigger than WNBA is, bigger than golf.
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Nick Wright
It is. Oh, I. Bigger than men's college basketball. I think you can certainly make that case. And so I think it's two separate conversations. The popularity of soccer in the US and how sticky that will be post World cup. And does that translate to our team actually becoming awesome one day? So I first conversation. I think this World cup is a reminder that even in as you know people's the attention economy gets more crowded and ratings are down for a lot of things across the board. Americans love huge events and where I will give this company huge credit, they have treated this World cup like there's like what it is the biggest event in the sports world. The teams and the stars have more than held up their bargain. Where it's your idealized version of the NCAA tournament. No. Cinderella's the four best teams there at the end with the superstars all scoring goals, all looking great to the point to where I do think people have now watched enough of these games for the full 90 and recognized oh two to one can be a wildly exciting game. One nothing can be edge of my seat. So I do think there will be more people in America that either start, you know, caring about their local MLS team or maybe more likely being in being like, hey, I'm following Jude Bellingham. I Erling Holland and Man City I like I'm gonna root for them and watch those games. So there's that American soccer growth. I think you hit the nail on the head as far as what the path is. Our path I do not think is ever going to be. We have 20 awesome players the way Spain or France or Argentina do. Our path has to be can we have our version of Erling Holland and Norway goes on this run. Morocco is not a huge country. Hakimi has carried them to a semifinal and a quarterfinal. Croatia with Luka Modric taking them to back to back semifinals, including an actual final. I think that would be the hope. And it's not Christian Pulisic flatly. And it's as much as I like Flo Baligan or Malik Tillman, it's probably not them either. It's got to be somebody who can be one of the 15 best players in the world that's going to wear our jersey.
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Botox Medical Announcer
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Colin Cowherd
Hey, I want to ask you about the warriors thing. I said so there's a story Front office Sports Today said it's down to Cleveland, down to Golden State and you've moved around the country. You've had different jobs. I have had different jobs. And a lot of times as you age it really comes down to I want to work with my friends. It's quality of life. Where do I live for you? You live in a Great place. You've got great quality of life as you age. When you're a young person, you join clubs, frats, Boy Scouts teams. When you're old, you prune your tree. Like, you hang out with fewer people, but it's a more deeply embedded relationship. I'm sure you have two or three. We do. Ann and I have people we just travel with. We're very, very close to over and over and over again. We don't have a wide net of friends. The ones we're with, we're with. And I look at. I look at LeBron and I'm like, he vacations with Draymond. He loves Curry. It's a 50 minute Gulf Stream to his home in Los Angeles. The warriors play the Clippers and the Lakers in la. Is this going to be one of those. Yeah, of course. He chose the Warriors. Rich Paul said two weeks ago, it's not about titles or money. He wants to have fun. Every time I see him with Draymond, he's laughing, drinking, dancing, golfing. Is this going to be like. Yeah, of course he chose the Warriors.
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Nick Wright
I don't know if it'll be. Of course. I certainly think it's on the board. It felt like they were the favorite. Then it felt like they fell out of contention. Now it feels like they're, like, right in the mix again. I'm just gonna add one little anecdote for. To. To rustle around in people's brain. You're talking about LeBron playing with Draymond. I am not certain. The only place he can do that is Golden State. I'm not certain of that. Draymond's a free agent. The Warriors, Draymond. I think it's fair to say Draymond and Steve Kerr have always had a. Yeah. Love, respect, adoration, but tough relationship. I think the warriors just moved on from one of the assistant coaches that Draymond was closest with. That raised my eyebrows a bit.
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Colin Cowherd
And Frank. Warriors. And LeBron like Frank, doesn't he.
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Nick Wright
And say it again.
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Colin Cowherd
No. Frank Vogel just signed with the warriors, and I think LeBron was like, Frank,
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Nick Wright
Well, I mean, they want a title together, so. So I. I guess the point. I. I think it is certainly on the board. LeBron joins the Warriors. I think it would be done if they had found a way or could find a way to trade for Anthony Davis. But I also. I think it is a non. Not a big chance, but a non, zero chance that LeBron joins a different team and Draymond's his teammate anyway. I think a Non zero chance. I'm just putting that, I'm putting a little small take chip on that piece of the roulette wheel like small chance. And until Draymond, you know, agrees to an extension, I think we have to recognize it's certainly a possibility.
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Colin Cowherd
Do you like Spain or France today?
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Nick Wright
You know, I, I think the game is as close as the odds makers suggest. I think France is a slight favorite. I picked a France Argentina final. I picked, I think France. I think it's 2, 2 after 90. France wins an extra time. With that said, I am not betting it because I want to be able to root for Spain because to mention him for the second time. My co host Kevin Wilds has been so obnoxious with his French fandom all of a sudden saying we, we talking about how he's always been an Mbappe guy. I just want him in pain. So I will be rude. I am picking France. I will be rooting for Spain. But either way I think Argent. All right, Argent. I will be betting tomorrow's game. I think Argentina being an underdog to England is absurd. I think they have been the best off. They've scored the most goals in this tournament. They, they haven't lost a knockout round game of a major tournament this decade, won two Copas, won the World Cup. They're obviously still in this one and they have the greatest player of all time. So I think Argentina's in the final and I think they're going to win the whole thing. But that's also. I thought Brazil was going to win the whole thing. They lost. So I just had to stick with South America. I'm a South American loyalist, Colin. That's what they always say about me.
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Colin Cowherd
That's what they always say about you.
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Nick Wright
That's what I'm a what? You know what, it's not even South America. I'm big into hemispheric loyalty.
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Colin Cowherd
You are.
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Nick Wright
I'm a western hemisphere guy. Yeah, like people like Europe and I'm a western hemisphere guy. I've always been that. Everyone knows that about.
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Colin Cowherd
Absolutely.
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Botox Medical Announcer
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Nick Wright
West, big Western hemisphere.
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Colin Cowherd
First things first. Good seeing you buddy.
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Nick Wright
See ya.
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Colin Cowherd
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Just eyeball it, okay?
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