Colin Cowherd (3:19)
Well, in the draft, yes, but you know, sometimes you get caught up in the moment. You watch a game like I'm watching the Clippers, Nuggets last night. Those teams, it's a coin flip series. I mean, now those, who knows? I'm going to take Clippers in six or seven if the Nuggets won. But when you watch the Knicks and the Pistons, you thought coming into it, well, the Knicks gonna make pretty quick work of them. Detroit's young one young star. You know, they got a couple of rotational old guys. They're not quite ready. The only reason the Knicks are not down to nothing in this series is campaign. That's it. Who had a big fourth quarter in game one? 11 of his, what, 14 points. This was a bad night for Cat and it was a bad night for Tibbs. Cat, no field goal attempts in the fourth quarter. He didn't score in the third or the fourth quarter. And Tibbs, just like a defensive NFL head coach, no feel for offense. Clearly the Knicks, you watch that 21 nothing run in game one. Clearly the Knicks are better with pace and tempo when they're moving up the floor. But often they become very static and very stale offensively. And we all like Jalen Brunson, but between the 18 dribbles and nine pump fakes, the rest of the Knicks are standing around watching him. And it's young Detroit we perceive as less talented. Detroit that's playing with more tempo. It's sharing the ball. I mean, the Knicks gave up six first round picks to get Carl Anthony Towns and Mikhail Bridges, and they combined in the second half for six points. They're standing around watching. So there's no tempo to the Knicks. And we've said this about Mike Tomlin with Pittsburgh. At some point you can keep changing coordinators and quarterbacks and, and, and centers you don't have a feel for it. And the Knicks don't have a feel for offense. And we all like Jalen Brunson a lot. But this happened last year, why they lost to the Pacers. Jalen Brunson led in usage rate and a little guy ball in his hands, constantly dribbling, getting hit to the line, fouled. You just run out of gas. This is very much. And he's not as talented offensively as James Harden, but it's Luca a couple years ago, getting exhausted in the playoffs. It's Harden is always exhausted the later he goes to the playoffs. The late Kobe Bryant used to tell young players, you can't have the ball in your hands all the time. You know, you got, you got to let somebody else run the offense occasionally. Occasionally. So Brunson, this is not going to end well for this team. Hell, it may not end well now against Detroit, but you're not beating the Cavs roster, the Celtics roster, and let's be totally honest, the Pacers roster if Jalen Brunson is the offense and everybody's standing around. So I think this is problematic. The only reason they have been dominated in this game, this series, except for a 21 nothing run and campaign, was on fire in game one late in the game. Otherwise, and I'm telling you, this feels so Pittsburgh Steelers to me, where it's like, I like the roster, I like a lot of the players, but it's like the same thing year after year. They can't figure out the offense and it's so obvious you can't have the number one usage rate guy in the league. That guy is going to get worn out. This roster is already not as good as Cleveland and Boston. It's not as good as Oklahoma City, and I could argue it's not particularly close with all three. And they're probably eventually going to move cat, meaning they'll give up more of their good players and draft capital. So this just can't be a Jalen Brunson team. He's not that good. He's good, very good. He's not that he's not transformational. He's not carrying them the championship. And here's Jalen after. It's very tough when there's. There's definitely one ball. You know, we have a lot of great players on this team and definitely it's, it's on my shoulders and I'm not going to point fingers and say some people need to do that. And this, it's on me to make sure I set the table. So I'll go back and I'll figure out what I need to do. We'll have conversations and we'll come back better for game three. Okay, well, the good news is he's a smart kid. Villanova self awareness, looking in the mirror, not pointing fingers. I mean, that's the good news. And that's why he's so good in New York. Because if you're a finger pointer, the New York media and the talk shows will eat you alive. So, you know, he always owns you feel bad when you criticize him because he's such a smart guy and such a good guy and he totally gets it. But some of this may just be coaching. Like this is kind of Tibbs. Tibbs always hits that sort of ceiling where we're like, listen, I love defense too, but go watch. Go watch the Nuggets and Clippers. Kawhi got buckets. Go watch game one. Jokic got the buckets. That's what the league is, even in the playoffs. So I saw this story this morning. It's a wonky draft. There's a lot of stuff coming out. Giants considering trading up for a quarterback, Jackson Dart, later in the first round. So they would take somebody else, the best player available, like an Abdul Carter. Then later they'd pass on Shador Sanders, and later they would came up and get Jackson Dart. So this is one of the things, you know, the one advantage to age if you're reasonably observant, is you see people make mistakes and you don't even have to make them. You can just avoid other people's mistakes because you've seen so many. And if you look in the NFL in any business, bad businesses tend to overcompensate for previous mistakes and reach. You know, it's like the jets giving Aaron Rodgers too much power because they missed on Zach Wilson. Or the Browns paying DeSean Watson the guaranteed contract, or the Giants, you know, choosing Daniel Jones over Saquon Barkley. It's just bad organizations overcompensating for previous bad decisions. So the idea the Giants now think Jackson Dart is, is the dude for the future in New York. Let me just ask you this. You ever notice that a lot of the quarterbacks that don't make it, you weren't paying a lot of attention to in college and they suddenly got really hot after they stopped playing college football. E.J. manuel, Blake Bortles, Paxton Lynch, Zach Wilson, Daniel Jones, we never talked about him when they were playing in college. Suddenly when they stopped playing and they got a combine or Film films come out. Everybody's like, oh my God, it's Daniel Jones. I watched Daniel Jones play. I watched him play at Duke. Never thought he was a first round quarterback. I didn't watch Paxton lynch play in college. His games weren't on. Now you could say, well, what about Josh Allen? I got a binder from Greg Cosell when Josh Allen was a junior in college at lousy Wyoming. He's like, this guy is a superstar in the making. Patrick Mahomes. People were doing a year before Patrick Mahomes entered his last year of college. Brett Veets went to Andy Reid and said, watch this kid. So the smart teams in this league, you know, they knew who Patrick Mahomes was. Brett Veach was a year ahead of everybody else in his division. They were like, look at this tape. And Andy's like, okay, okay, okay. And he kept bringing tapes to Andy. So he was not somebody that just suddenly got hot. But I say this about Jackson Dart, his last two years with Lane, Kevin as a coach and Ole Miss has big time players. They went and bought big time players the last couple years. Jackson Dart in the sec. I mean, had he beaten Kentucky, they probably get into the playoff. How did he do against Kentucky? 17 points. How did he go against Bama, Georgia and Florida the last two years? And by the way, Florida stunk and Alabama at its worst team since 2007. How did he do against those teams the last two years with Lane Kiffin? More picks than touchdowns, 58% completion percentage. He won one game and in that game he had 13 completions. So it's like, you know, like even Tua, who I don't love, we were talking about Tua the year before he came out. Trevor Lawrence hasn't been as good as we thought. We were talking about Trevor Lawrence when he was a freshman. Matt Stafford, you know, most of the guys that end up being stars in this league, we have an idea who they are as they enter their last year. And there's a lot of talk. I mean, Arch Manning is already being discussed as the number one pick. He didn't start for Texas. So we. Mitch Trubisky was another guy. It's suddenly like, oh, Mitch Trubisky got better when he stopped playing. It's like, wait a minute, I watched him in Carolina. He's a front leg thrower. How are you telling me he's a first round pick? Kenny Pickett's another guy. All of his flaws disappeared once he stopped playing. So I'm not anti any of these guys, but I Never once looked at Zach Wilson at byu. I saw him play Utah twice in the Huskies. I never thought first round quarterback. And then everybody's trying to convince me of it after the fact. So I do think Jackson Dart has talent. I hope he does well. I root for young people, but this feels like, you know, Giants would move up to get him. Boy, oh boy, is this, is this overcompensation now? Daniel Jeremiah, NFL Scout 3 Team now, this is a weak draft. So in a very weak draft, can you argue he's a late first rounder? I wouldn't. Others would. Here's Daniel Jeremiah on the show yesterday.
