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Colin Cowherd
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It is a Tuesday. We're ditch the Herd. J. Mack Interesting story. The Athletic kind of broken. Interesting story. John Hollinger, where there were whispers in league circles that LeBron James, and we talked about it on this show, was looking at Dallas as a landing spot. We've talked about this great front line. Here comes Cooper Flag, better coach. And you know, let's be honest, if he went to Dallas, he would be the centerpiece even though he's older. LeBron in Dallas, every time he goes to a new team for two years it's like, wow. Whereas in la it's like Lucas team and everybody knows it. New owners. It kind of feels like nothing against LeBron, but he's not the future. But this is interesting. This is really interesting. So the Athletic does report we've been saying this now. I have been saying this for three to four weeks. Dallas is a better place to go. I mean I get Cooper Flag or Austin reeves, I get AD or Deandre Ayton, but LeBron wasn't willing and this is what killed it. According to John Hollinger, he wasn't willing to leave 52 million on the table for a mid level exemption. So don't think about that. LeBron's a billionaire. He's a billionaire. And my take is with LeBron. Rich Paul told us it was all about winning. It's not anymore. I think Michael Jordan's still in his head. He knows in the basketball community, with basketball fans, he's never going to catch MJ. MJ is six for six. MJ is more memorable. MJ's got the logo, the brand and sells more shoes. He's more romanticized Michael Jordan. There are a dozen plays to this day that you close your eyes and think about and you can see Michael Jordan do it. Unless you're driving with LeBron. There's one, that chase down block against the warriors. That's it. And so I think it LeBron, at this point, he's never going to catch him. He's never going to catch him. In net worth, MJ's net worth is $3.5 billion. LeBron, even with the massive money he's paid, is 1 billion. That's why he wants to own a basketball team. He, I think he's chasing Michael. And here's the difference. Michael Jordan makes you feel something and LeBron doesn't. MJ, and I mean high level salespeople will tell you you want to trigger emotion in advertisers and consumers. You want to make people feel something about a product. Michael has that. You wear his shoes, you feel cool. You like being on that side of the argument. So Michael's richer, more memorable, bigger brand, and he makes you feel something and LeBron doesn't. LeBron has kind of bounced around to the best basketball opportunity every chance he gets. He's been the great basketball opportunist and I've never criticized him for that. I understand it. His first stop, he got drafted to Cleveland. Seven years in, they couldn't get him another All Star. I was on the bandwagon, get to Miami. But my take is you probably should have stayed in Miami. In fact, I'd argue the only time LeBron has ever made us feel something was when he bent back to his hometown, when he went back to Akron and he won in Cleveland. Remember that letter? I'm going back home. Made you feel something. Then he won in Cleveland, made you feel something. But he's sort of been the great basketball opportunist and he's got more points and more assists and he's been to more finals, but he's never made us feel anything. I said this the other day. Tiger woods made you feel something. Scotty Scheffler's just great. That's the difference. Arnold Palmer was more beloved than Jack Nicklaus. People loved Arnie. Why made you feel a certain way? Works in politics, works in sports. Michael Jordan still sells more shoes than LeBron. Just to give you the influence of Michael Jordan, he got Derek Jeter in his prime to wear his logo. Football jerseys all over this country. The Jordan logo. And I Look at this, LeBron not taking for one time in his career giving up money. Mid level exception to play with Cooper flag. Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving, Derek Lively. Better coach now. I'm not going to do it. In 2016. LeBron said it quote, my motivation is the ghost I'm chasing. He played in Chicago. Even with this, I think Michael's still in his head. So NFL camps are underway, including the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard. They've had a pretty rough 29 years, haven't been to a single NFC championship. So yesterday or the day before, Jerry Jones was asked, I think a very reasonable and appropriate question about remaining as general manager, stepping away as general manager. Ever been even a momentary consideration for you Gritty eggs? Yes. Momentary. How long a moment? Now we're getting down to it. Small fractions of seconds.
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Jason McIntyre
I promise you that.
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Colin Cowherd
As you know, you see it, I'm in senior bowls, combines. All of that, all of that melds into a real good feeling about where we are so that I'm not sitting up there throwing darts about a player. The downside to wealth is that it starts to make you feel you're great at everything. The Cowboys had a great draft in 2020. That's their last great one. The Eagles last great draft was the last four, their first two picks last year. Home run, home run, position of need, corner. They nailed both. I think the minute you start thinking you can do two to three things exceptionally well, you get into trouble. Bill Belichick six years ago was the greatest coach in the world. But then he started taking over the draft and personnel and New England became the slowest team in the league offensively. He was tone deaf to offense as the league pivoted and he got rushed out of town and couldn't get another job. Bill o', Brien, I think a good coach. Houston Texans made him GM and coach. Bad drafts, trades were worse. Remember they gave D Hop away for like, you know, a bag of Doritos. Like it was brutal. And I think, I think the way to do it is the way Brad Stevens did with the Celtics. Very, very good coach. But he's like, you know, this coaching thing is hard and a lot of travel and I love basketball. I'm just going to move upstairs, be a gm, eventually a great one, and give it to the new guy. That's the way to do it. You're seeing it in college football. The smart coaches, they don't want to be gm. They make their school hire one. Elon Musk. Brilliant, dabbled in politics. Tesla stock still down 15%. It's hard to just do a bunch of stuff really well unless you're Shohei Ohtani. The Cowboys don't draft well. The Cowboys overpay for good players and they're non existent last couple of years in free agency. I said this a couple years ago. How in the hell could they not pay $8 million for Derrick Henry and the Eagles with A stacked, often veteran, expensive roster pay for Saquon Barkley. How is that possible? Philadelphia is paying their quarterback, a receiver, tight ends, three offensive linemen, everybody but Jalen Carter, linebackers, safeties, and they still have room. Dallas is like, I don't know if we can afford, I'm not sure if we can afford 8 million to improve the worst running back room in the league. And they couldn't and Baltimore could. Another well run team. So. But you know, sometimes with Dallas, it feel. It feels like nobody's clapped in Dallas since Jason Garrett. I was looking this morning. NFC Championship games, most recent appearances. The Bears, Giants, Panthers, Cardinals, Falcons, Saints, Bucks have all been to a conference championship game and the Cowboys haven't since 1995. And Jerry will never give up control. If you don't believe me, believe him. Listen, I gave every friggin thing in my life and then exposed probably two or three times that to get to set up here. And I danced with that devil and I've danced with it a few other times along the way. So if you think a little bit of what you write is going to deter me from sitting up here doing what I want to do, you're wrong. It's just not going to do it because I've danced with the devil, the financial devil, and lived to tell about it. That's the downside to wealth. You convince yourself you're great at everything. And I mean, think about this just in coaching, forget personnel. They let Dan Quinn walk to retain Mike McCarthy. A year later, McCarthy walks off out of Dallas and Quinn becomes the coach of the rival and the next superstar quarterback in the nfc. Coaching, free agency, drafting, developing the cap. He's convinced he knows how to do all of it. J. Mac, I am so fired up. I saw a quote today. Somebody recently got an extension, a contract extension in the NFL. I don't know, I, you know, you and I, I think, are both really fascinated to watch JJ McCarthy. We just don't know. It feels a little like Jordan Love in Green Bay, where for two or three years we're like, we're just not getting video. Everybody said it's great and then we saw him and it wasn't great. And then it was briefly great and then at the end of the last year it wasn't great again. And you're like, I don't know what Jordan Love is. Well, I feel like in the same division, J.J. mcCarthy, we saw him in college and then he got hurt and then we hear stuff and everybody said it's great. But then there's other reports that are like, yeah, this thing may not work out. James A. McCarthy almost ended up on another team in his division. Yeah. That's coming up next. 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, we're Covino and Rich, Fox Sports radio every day, 5 to 7pm Eastern. But here's the thing. We never have enough time to get to everything we want to get to. And that's why we have a brand new podcast called Over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun in our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly, because this guy is over promising things we never have time for. Yeah, you blubberlips. Blaming me. Well, you know what it's called Over Promise. You should be good at it because you've been over promising women for years. Well, it's a Covino and Rich after show and we want you to be a part of it. We're going to be talking sports, of course, but we're also going to talk life and relationships and, and if Rich and I are arguing about something or we didn't have enough time, it will continue on our after show called Over Promised. Well, if you don't get enough Covino and Rich, make sure you check out Over Promised and also uncensored, by the way. So maybe we'll go at it even a little harder. It's going to be the best after show podcast of all time. There you go. Over Promising. And remember, you could see it on YouTube, but definitely. Join us. Listen to Over Promised with Covino and rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, so we all make mistakes, but owning up to them is the right thing to do. So you know Degree Cool Rush deodorant, right? Well, last year they changed the formula and it did not go over well with their fans. So Degree's whole thing is it turns up the sweat and odor protection when you turn up the effort. And good thing it does because Cool Rush fans really turned up the effort to bring the original formula back. One guy even started an online petition and Degree listened. They admitted they effed up. They're bringing back the original Cool Rush scent. They're bringing it back and it's exactly how you remember it. Cool, crisp and fresh. It's back in Walmart, Target and other stores now for under $4. There's a reason it's been the number one men's antiperspirant for the last decade. It's the same reason why people were not happy when it changed. So if you've never tried it, it might be a good time to see what the fuss is about. Head to your local Walmart target and try the OG degree cool rush for yourself. Introducing the new Dell AI PC powered by the Intel Core Ultra processor. It's not just an AI computer, it's a computer built for AI. That means it's built to help do your busy work for you so you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code, running lots of apps without lag, summarizing meeting notes, extending battery life, finding that file you were looking for, managing your schedule, meeting your deadlines, responding to Jim's long emails, leaving all the time in the world for more you time and for the things you actually want to do. No offense Jim. Get a new Dell AI PC starting at 749.99@dell.com aipc how those ahead? 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Call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org Please play responsibly on behalf of Boot Hill Casino and Resort in Kansas. 21 plus. Age and eligibility varies by jurisdiction. Void. In Ontario, bonus bets expire seven days after issuance. For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see DKNG co Audio. So one of the things if you're a sportscaster and live in Chicago, people talk Cubs and Bears. And I get this all the time. Like, hey, what do you think The Bears are going to do. And I keep saying the same thing. I like the roster, mostly love the coach, really think the quarterback is talented. I think the family makes it hard sometimes to operate. It's one of the poorer families, the oldest family that owns an NFL team. And I've said I don't really know if Ryan Poles, who just got an extension, is a great GM. And I think GMs increasingly and the NBA and the NFL really matter. There's been just too many misses for my taste. But this bothered me this morning. So according to the Athletic, which we lean on a lot, Ryan Poles apparently told people that he was very close to drafting J.J. mcCarthy over Caleb Williams. No mention of Jaden Daniels. Okay, so the two quarterbacks everybody's unsure of from that class, Caleb Williams and J.J. mcCarthy, he loved both. And it's weird because I said, I mean we could go find it in our archive. It's somewhere out there. I said before the draft I was not a fan of J.J. mcCarthy. He never played from behind. I saw him late in close games. I didn't think he was great. Can you play from behind? Can you play without a lead? Can you play without great protection? Can you play with the second best coach in a game? Jaden Daniels did his entire career at Arizona State and LSU. J.J. mcCarthy never proved that at Michigan. He had hardball that that Michigan team that won the national title is one of the best college football teams, top to bottom, talent wise in the last 10 years. So Jaden Daniels was more productive in college. He's a much better athlete. He threw two times as many touchdown passes in the same number of picks. In fact, J.J. mcCarthy is the first first round quarterback taken since Christian Ponder that never had a 3,000 yard passing season in college and no 500 yard rushing seasons. But I also said that, and I said this before the draft. I said Jaden Daniels is going to go to Washington number two. I was told that we beat everybody on that by about two weeks. And I said he's going to be, he's going to look like Lamar Jackson. He'll be better in the pocket as a rookie than Lamar Jackson, but he won't be quite as electric as a runner. Check, check. I didn't think it was a hard comp, I thought it was an easy one. But all you had to do was minimal homework to figure out he was much more NFL ready than JJ McCarthy. And here's two stats in fourth quarter in their college career. Jaden Daniels was unbelievable, arguably in a better conference, 65% completion percentage to 56 for J.J. mcCarthy. Three times as many yards, three times as many total touchdowns in the fourth quarter in his college career. Oh, by the way, that's what Jaden was as a rookie in the NFL. A great, bizarrely accomplished fourth quarter quarterback. Okay, how about trailing in the fourth row over time? That's the NFL. No blowout wins. That's the NFL. Jaden Daniels was a significantly better quarterback. Trailing in College. Total touchdowns 19 to 3. Doubles him in everything. Just minimal homework. You know he was a better athlete by watching. You didn't have to go scout him at the games. You knew he was better in terms of production. But if you just looked at the stuff that matters for a college quarterback, how are you when you trail? Because like, that's the NFL. John Elwan Brady trailed a lot of Dan Marino, trailed a lot. Peyton Manning and Mahomes. Many of his great early wins. He trailed a lot. Are you good trailing and are you good late in games? Jaden Daniels was a plus plus in both. JJ McCarthy was C to C minus in both. So it when I read that ryan Pulse, love JJ McCarthy and love Caleb, and there's no mention of Jaden Daniels. I didn't have a single source of the at least five GMs that I talked to that thought JJ McCarthy was as good a prospect as Jaden Daniels. Not one. It was five for five. Jaden Daniels and his comp was an easy comp. He's not quite as twitchy as Lamar Jackson, the fastest quarterback in league history, but he's got about 75, 85% of that. But he'll be better than Lamar. First couple of years from the pocket. It was an easy one. I knew it. Every GM I talk to know it in Chicago, like the two quarterbacks, we're still not sure they're any good. It worries me. It does. Jay McLenouse. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the Herd line news.
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Jason McIntyre
All right, Colin, let's start with Tom Brady. Yes, our colleague here at Fox. He published his newsletter yesterday and in it Brady said, I maybe didn't fully know it at the time, but I needed someone to look it up, who inspired me to be better and who gave me a target to aim for. And Brady referred to Peyton Manning as his enemy, adding, now whenever I see him, all I can say is thank you. Pretty cool little newsletter there from Tom Brady, our colleague. You know, in the moment you don't realize this stuff. Like right now, you open the show talking about, you know, I felt something for Michael Jordan. That's nostalgia, you know, from 30, 40 years ago. We're not feeling LeBron because none of us are present right now. Brady, in the moment, didn't realize what Manning was doing for him. And I think we're kind of missing in the moment just how amazing LeBron is right now for. For us here.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. I mean, I think most great athletes, because they need inspiration, right? Because success, you know, success for really gifted people, that could be messy. It could be, Brady. Success gets kind of repetitive. You need motivators. So I think. I think Peyton Manning was more ballyhooed out of college. He's from American football royalty. Eli Payton, and then Eli had beaten Tom Brady. So it's like. I think the Manning family as a whole was like a nemesis. You know, Eli beat him twice. Peyton beat him late in his career in New England. So I get it.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah. I'll never forget my. My parents would tell me, you know, I would read the sports page every morning before going to school. My parents would be like, you got to read other stuff. You've got to read the business and the news. I'm like, I don't care about that stuff. I only care about sports, you know, at the time, I'm like, guys, you don't know what you're talking about. I wish I had done a little more of that, Colin. Although it has kind of sort of served me well. Anyways, let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals and their owner. He has met with the media about this Trey Hendrickson contract situation, and the owner of the Bengals said, it's been a long negotiation. Trey Hendrickson is a fine player. He's a good guy. We want him here. Dealing with him is sometimes not so easy, and that's all right. He's got the right to argue his case. We know Hendrickson isn't at camp after he posted on his IG story down in Florida. Colin, you've been banging on the Bengals here for a little while now, and this is just more fuel to the fire.
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Colin Cowherd
Well, I. I will say this, and you know this to be true, is that Joe Burrow last year and I, we credit Joe Burrow for this. Joe Burrow last year was consistently unhappy with the franchise, confronting his coach in the locker room at press conferences. And I've said before is, I do feel like of all the great quarterbacks in the league, he's a little trapped. Is that he's got a very frugal ownership. They got one of the smaller scouting departments. They're also in a division with arguably the best run football operation in the league, the Baltimore Ravens. Many, many people in this league may not say it publicly, they don't want pushback, but think the Ravens are the best run operation in the league. Top to bottom, owner down. And so it kind of exacerbates or illuminates the Bengals cheapness. If the Bengals were in the AFC south with the dysfunctional Jags, you know what I mean, or the Colts that can't find the right quarterback or the mostly dysfunct Texans the last 20 years, I think we would think differently. But you put them in a division with the Ravens and the mostly well run Steelers and you look up and it highlights that you can't get Joe Burrow the right stuff around. I mean, just like when's the last contract that wasn't a battle publicly? Do they have any easy ones?
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Jason McIntyre
Well, they. Their first round pick is not signed. They drafted him with the thought that he will replace Hendrickson should he not return. And the guy's not signed. Like, it's just, it's embarrassing at this point point. I know Bengals fans are really dug in and they're defending their owner, but we had TJ Husbands on here who was just. He played for the Bengals and talked about the cheapness of the owner. And, and, and here it is still an issue so many years later. Colin. I feel bad for Bengals fans. We can wrap up with Shohei Ohtani in Major League Baseball. Took to the mound yesterday, gave up his first home run of the year, which put the Twins up one nothing. Then Ohtani steps to the plate and he hits his 35th home run of the season to give his team the lead back. Ohtani. How about this, Colin? First player since 1979 to give up a home run and hit a home run in the same inning. 46 years. The guy just keeps doing really cool, unique things. And Dodgers get the dub against Minnesota.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, they had lost 10 of their last 12. They have pitching injuries. Mookie Betts is going through a slump like he never has in his entire career. J. Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the herd lie news. I saw something this morning. The Athletic ranked the top 25. This is really interesting. Most valuable college football programs. And the top 10 was Texas by a mile in terms of average football revenue per year and projected price of the program. So the Texas Longhorns program would be worth about $2.4 billion and it drives $183 million. So for our radio audience, I'M not going to read all of these, but Georgia drives annually 147 million. You know, Notre Dame, 143 million. Michigan, 140 million. Of the top 10 programs, they put USC eighth. Look at the average revenue in LA County. Half of Georgia, 71 million. Utah, Utah, Minnesota and Iowa football drive more revenue than USC football in Los Angeles. And to give you some sense, the California economy is the fifth biggest in the world. If LA county, where USC is located at. If LA county was a country, just LA county, not Orange county, not Ventura County, Louisiana. County was a country, 19th biggest economy in the world. And they drive less football revenue than Utah. And this goes to something that for years and years, people always worry about market size. In sports, passion trumps market size. USC's an incredibly distracted market, even in the NFL. Packers, great franchise. The Chicago's, the Atlantas, the two New York franchises, mostly. Last 20 years, been a mess. Go to Nashville on a Saturday morning. I've been there. I mean, go to, go to the Gainesville on Wednesday. People are already parking and tailgating. So. And what it's also, you know, there's an old saying in politics. It's an interesting saying. Democrats fall in love. Conservatives fall in line. They don't get distracted. They find their candidate and they defend them. They get in line. Democrats, guy has a great speech, they fall in love. They don't agree with everything. They fall out of love. Very emotional. And I've said this with college football. Got to be more like a Republican fall in line. Don't worry about the rowing team. Don't worry about who else is doing well. If you want to be a college football power, it's all football. You got to lean in. And USC is highly political and highly distracted and is very concerned about all the programs getting theirs. That, that doesn't drive revenue. Utah, Iowa and Minnesota drive more football revenue than USC. And here's. And people are talking about their 2026 recruiting class. Those guys aren't even on campus yet. You can buy high school players and tweak your ratings right now. The preseason, all Big Ten teams came out this morning. The first team, all Big Ten offense, Indiana guy, two Iowa guys, a Northwestern guy. No Trojans. The defense, another Indiana guy and another Indiana guy and another Indiana guy and two Iowa guys and a Minnesota guy and an Illinois player. No USC Trojans, California economy, fourth biggest in the world. New facility. When you're, when your donors and your boosters have a lot of agendas and a lot of egos and they're very Distracted. That is the great thing about college football. New York, Chicago and right now, LA don't have a power. Utah drives more revenue. Madison, Wisconsin drives more revenue for their football program. So. And it's just really interesting is that we keep waiting for this program to rebound and Lincoln Riley's been there. What now this will be year four. They don't have a single player. And I think Kamari Ramsey, the safety is a really good player. Elijah Page, left tackle, really good player. Maybe they can vie for Big Ten honors. Year four, not a single player, offense or defense. All Big Ten. Indiana, Scott four. Iowa's got four, no Trojans. So again, it's this, this always this fear about big market. Passion trumps Passion trump's market size. Passion trumps money. By the way, Texas, they don't have a lot. They don't have a lot of national championships. Take out Vince Young, they don't have a lot of natties. By the way, Texas, Austin, Texas, music scene, food scene, football, a little bit distracted. A lot of. A lot of billionaire big donors pulling, pushing, grabbing agendas. Yeah, Clemson didn't have a lot of those. Alabama doesn't have a lot of those. Georgia didn't have a lot of those. But that is really interesting. The 10 most valuable programs. Look at how little the average revenue at USC is. Isn't that crazy? By the way, they could have 300 million average revenue. But it's a very distracted environment and a very political environment. Rocket Mortgage. Yeah, the home you've worked so hard to acquire, you get that loan from Rocket Mortgage. Learn how you can turn your home's equity into cash. Maybe you have a college education to pay for some upgrades. You want to buy a rental Property? Rocket Mortgage, LLC. Go to RocketMortgage.com today. Licensed in all 50 states. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9:00am Pacific. Hey, so we all make mistakes, but owning up to them is the right thing to do. So you know Degree, Cool Rush deodorant, right? Well, last year they changed the formula and it did not go over well with their fans. So Degree's whole thing is it turns up the sweat and odor protection when you turn up the effort. And good thing it does, because Cool Rush fans really turned up the effort to bring the original formula back. One guy even started an online petition and Degree listened. They admitted they effed up. They're bringing back the original Cool Rush scent. They're bringing it back and it's exactly how you remember it. Cool, crisp and fresh. It's back in Walmart, Target and other stores now for under $4. There's a reason it's been the number one men's antiperspirant for the last decade. It's the same reason why people were not happy when it changed. So if you've never tried it, it might be a good time to see what the fuss is about. Head to your local Walmart Target and try the OG degree cool rush for yourself. Introducing the new Dell AI PC powered by the Intel Core Ultra processor. It's not just an AI computer, it's a computer built for AI. That means it's built to help do your busy work for you. So you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code, running lots of apps without lag, summarizing meeting notes, extending battery life, finding that file you were looking for, managing your schedule, meeting your deadlines, responding to Jim's long emails, leaving all the time in the world for more you time and for the things you actually want to do. No offense Jim. Get a new Dell AI PC starting at 749.99@dell.com aipc how those ahead?
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Jason McIntyre
Stay ahead Saturday it's baseball night in America and it's showtime as Shohei Ohtani leads the Dodgers against the Red Sox, where the Guardians take on the Royals. Check local listings for the game in your area Saturday 7 Eastern on Fox.
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Colin Cowherd
So I think one of the really of all the positions in football, the hardest position to draft in the first round is wide receiver. Statistically over the last 20 years, there's more busts. I have a theory on that, that wide receiver is a it's an ego position. And it's hard to judge ego before somebody's in the building, even if you have sources. And so there are more first round wide receiver busts over the last 20 years than any position. And I've told GM friends this, I would almost never draft a wide receiver in the first round. Very few exceptions. Calvin Johnson was just Randy Moss just looked different because it's an ego position and I'd rather they have to fight their way to impress people. Amaran Saint Brown, 4th round Puka Nakua, 5th round Cooper Cup, 3rd round there's so many great receivers. 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th round. I mean Jennings, Juwan Jennings for the 49ers is their only receiver that's overachieved. Wasn't he a 6 or a 7th round pick? So it's an ego position. There are certain positions I would always draft in the first round. Offensive tackle, almost all probably 28 of 35 of the great tackles of all time have been drafted in the first round. The latest is Tristan Worfs, who will go down as an all timer. Lane Johnson. It's just that, just generally where you get. There's only so many people are 6, 7, 3, 30 with great feet. But I always think it's interesting with quarterbacks, more and more quarterbacks, it's always been about a 50% hit rate in the first round. I think it's getting to be a little bit higher than that. But when do you bail on a guy because quarterback is so valuable? I can see giving a running back another year or a pass rusher or a, or a tight end. But if you're wrong at quarterback, shouldn't you just bail? Anthony Richardson's a great example. Now he's only 23 years old and he only started one year at Florida, so he's very inexperienced, but it doesn't work at all. He has had a top 10 run game, a better than average O line, excellent offensive coach. He's getting worse. Like it's, it's again, Josh Allen started slow, got really interesting, popped. You can't go backwards, so it's interesting. Arizona moved off Josh Rosen after one year. They were right. Pittsburgh moved off Kenny Pickett after two. They were right. Niners moved off Trey Lance very early. They were right. Cleveland moved off Johnny Manziel eight starts. They were right. Eagles signed Carson Wentz, then moved off him quickly. They were right. When you try to validate your draft pick like the Jags with Blake Bortles or the Giants with Daniel Jones, that is when you get into trouble. You're lying to yourself, right? You're like trying to validate your pick. And I look at Anthony Richardson and he went from 59% completion percentage. Then the NFL defensive coordinators got video on him. He's down to 47%. That's the lowest of any quarterback in 25 years with 15 starts, right? So call the lawyers, get the paperwork ready. It's divorce time. Like, I just don't think it works. I know he's young, but I just don't think it works. There was a game last year against Houston. He had one. He had his best throw as a pro. It was 70 yards over the top. He stumbled. He was. And the kids got up. By all accounts, he's a nice guy. He kind of. He got into pressure. You see it here. He stumbled out. He let her let it go right on the money. But it's not that he misses on throws, same game against Houston, he misses short, throws badly, like he's not remotely close. So it's, it's one of those things where, you know, a movie can't just be about one great scene. You know, you gotta have. Even in the middle, you can be slow for about 10 minutes, but you gotta make the story arcs connect. When you see that 70 yard throw, you could argue that Drew Brees couldn't make that throw. And Peyton Manning and Tom Brady aren't making that throw, but they're consistent. And I think with Anthony Richardson, every other position in football I am more than willing to give outside of maybe left tackle, a guy can play or he can't, I'll give you another year. But at quarterback, you're. Everybody's kind of tied to it. And I think you get into a situation right now in Indianapolis with Jonathan Taylor, Shane Steichen, good old line, weak division, it's getting worse. I'm not even mentioning the incident last year when he took himself out of a game, which I've never seen anything like that in the history of the NFL for a quarterback. I don't even, I didn't even have a strong opinion. I'm like, yeah, that doesn't work. That, that's, that's not going to engender yourself to your teammates. So I, I mean, the Colts ended the season last year. The offensive line was 12th. They were giving him protection. You've got a good run game. You got a brilliant offensive guy who made Jalen Hurts an MVP level quarterback who had Justin Herbert as a rookie and he broke every rookie quarterback mark and his kids going backwards. So I think at some point you got to ask yourself that question. I want to go back to the story that we started the show where LeBron James was not willing to take a mid level exception. But John Hollinger said there were whispers around the league that he should strongly consider and he did, going to Dallas. Now, I've said before, I think Dallas is a much better situation going forward than the Lakers. Who's your best young player? For the Lakers it's Austin Reeves. For the Mavericks it's Cooper. Flag, not close. Who's your best big Deandre Ayton or Anthony Davis? Better coach Dallas, Better bench Dallas, More size Dallas, not to mention LeBron, has played with Kyrie Irving and Adam. And I said this, you could make a move to get LeBron in Dallas. You could give up three first round picks which the Lakers would take. They may not be great first round picks. They want draft capital. You could give them two different bigs. Gaffer P.J. washington, throw in Clay Thompson, maybe a Max Christie. You got a real team. So. And I think it comes back. And it's funny with LeBron, Rich Paul keeps saying it's about winning, but to me, there's a reason Brady took pay cuts and Tim Duncan took pay cuts. They just wanted to win more. They told you by what they were taking, they were willing. They wanted to win more. I think it's fascinating that LeBron's made almost as much as anybody in league history in. I don't begrudge him one second, but it's 20, 25. I mean, you could argue from business standpoint, it doesn't matter. LeBron was going to come to California, he was going to do all the Hollywood stuff. It hasn't meant anything. I mean, Hollywood, Chevron's left, in and out, burgers left, Tesla's left, Hollywood's left, Oracle's left. Business in Texas right now is humming. It's just fine. Because I. Because part of the reason he came to la, remember when he came to la, it was not a good roster, it was not a good organization. I mean, Jeannie Bus was one of the, you know, least wealthy owners. Kobe's last five years, it was the worst record in the NBA. Worse than Carolina, worse than Washington. So there was a lot of talk. He's going there for business. Well, what business? How many movies he in? And I mean, they got businesses all over California leaving. So I just think it's really interesting. There's an executive that came out in Hoops Wire is reporting. One NBA exec said, why didn't he join Cleveland? He made, quote, he made a mistake. I'm not going to sit here and tell somebody not to, you know, take 50 million. But LeBron's a billionaire man, said the NBA exec. I'll argue Cleveland and Dallas are championship teams with LeBron. And here's the other thing. Yes. You get Luca in Los Angeles. He's a great offensive player. Let me repeat that. He's a great offensive player. There is a caveat with Luca. He'll never be committed to defense. He'll never be an elite defensive player or even very good. And he is much more ball centric than anybody on Dallas, including Kyrie Irving. Luka needs the ball. He's not nearly as an effective player off ball. He needs the ball and should have it at this point in LeBron's career. So I think it's really, it's just an interesting story that John Hollinger who's somebody that, that is tied into the league, said there were whispers around the league about LeBron. He was looking at Dallas and he decided against it. And the reasoning here is he would not take a mid level exception. It's like, I mean Michael Jordan was underpaid the first nine years of his career. He's making like a really bad contract early. So not to mention Texas, no state tax, California's 133 if you care about that stuff. I mean, you know, LeBron I'm sure cares somewhat about it, but Most billionaires do. LeBron has made 528 million in just NBA contracts. That's got to be tops, right? Is that tops? All time has to be tops. I mean if you add this year's contract, that has to be tops in NBA history. So that the, the Dallas thing, it is tops. Yeah. For a while it was Kevin Garnett, then it was, then it was Kobe Bryant, now it's LeBron. So I don't know, I've. Don't you J. Mac think that is like, like the idea. And again, I'm not here to mess with the guy's money, but when you're the highest paid guy in the history of a sport and you can move to your hometown or an incredibly business friendly state where you could play with Kyrie ad a better coach and the great domestic star. And here's the thing with LeBron. Whenever LeBron goes somewhere, even though Cooper flag is we're all very excited when LeBron moves to a team. For the first two years, it doesn't matter if he's the best player or not. He's the most interesting part of the team. Dwyane Wade may have the keys to the city. It was LeBron's team.
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Jason McIntyre
I got it. Listen, I don't want to be conspiracy theory guy, so I did read the article this morning. I saw it. So then I just went back to it about three minutes ago and the article's been wiped off the Internet. Now that could just be my phone and my computer. But I wonder, I mean, Colin, the idea of LeBron going from 52 to a mid level exception, kind of sort of lunacy. There's zero chance he was doing that, right. Why on earth would he take that much money?
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Colin Cowherd
Less.
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Jason McIntyre
I mean, Michael Jordan, remember at the end demanded to be the highest paid.
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Colin Cowherd
Player in the league.
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Jason McIntyre
I'm sure you remember those days. He was like making like 30 something. Yeah, LeBron was a lot.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Michael made 93 million playing.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah. LeBron's made almost 693 million in 1990 was, you know, a metric ton of money. But I, I, Colin, you're not as competitive as me. You know, I do sports and I, like, try to stack my teams and win all these championships.
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Colin Cowherd
That's not me right now.
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Jason McIntyre
Why would LeBron not want to play with a friends and be on a sack team? Why. Why would you want to be on a bad team? Like the idea that, yeah, you got Cooper flag and my guy Kyrie and my guy AD man. Can we link up? How can I get over there? I'm sure that crossed his mind, but the reality is there was no chance that was ever happening, right?
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Colin Cowherd
None. I don't know. I just, I. These new owners were the Lakers. They got their eye on resigning. Luka, it's very odd. I mean, LeBron's made a lot of business decisions. I, he is the ultimate NBA opportunist, and I will defend that to the ends of the earth. I have no problem with mobility. Cleveland couldn't get him good players. Miami got old. Really F passed. He, he went to the Lakers. They were, they. That was a business move because they weren't the best. They didn't have the best roster. There were horrible. They were horrible. But I don't think LA's paid him off. I mean, think about it. Where all the movies.
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Jason McIntyre
Handpick the coach and his sons on the team.
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Colin Cowherd
How's that worked?
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Jason McIntyre
I don't know. They, they had, they were third seed in the West. I mean, Bronnie's in the NBA. That's exciting.
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Colin Cowherd
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