Colin Cowherd (3:57)
Well, let's start with that. The Eagles are officially the strangest great sports franchise. Not just in the NFL, maybe all of sports. Last 25 years, they've had four coaches. They've had Andy Reid, Chip Kelly, Doug Peterson, Nick Sariani. All but one have gotten to a Super bowl and they fired three of them. And if Nick Ceriani lost his first playoff game this year, despite his record, which is one of the top five winning percentage records of all time, they'd fire him, too. They got star receivers complaining, players going on local radio banging on the culture. You've got Sirianni on the sidelines getting into another beef. They run coordinators in and out of the building. It's 247 drama. They have all the qualities of a bad or poorly run franchise, yet all the Eagles do is win. I thought Pittsburgh's defense was great. Then I watched Jalen hurts yesterday. 19 completions to his top two receivers. I mean, again, Pittsburgh is well coached, great defense. They did whatever they wanted to and they were even good in the first quarter. The Eagles are never good in the first quarter. And that's another part about the Eagles that virtually makes no sense. But I'm going to pick them to win the Super Bowl. I, I, I just, I don't even know what to make of them. They have the deepest roster in the league. They have young stars, stars in their prime, old stars. Only team in the league that has like three levels of greatness. They have the most aggressive general manager Howie Roseman. They have the most physically aggressive head coach, their owner occasionally Jeffrey Lurie, a brilliant man, sometimes medals, owner, gm, head coach, quarterback. It is a lot of alpha, it is a lot of puffing your chest out. But I love their aggressiveness. They don't apologize who what they are, who they are. They don't apologize. And Buffalo love them, but I don't trust them. Kansas City's barely beating anybody. They can't protect Mahomes. Baltimore playoffs are there kryptonite. Detroit. I mean, they're running out of players. I'm going to take Philadelphia. They got five different ways to beat you. The layering of talent's incredible. Sirianni's opening press conference was regrettable. He laughed at it. I think he's one of those coaches and one of those people in America. This is not a bad thing. He wasn't quite ready for the job. He was bailing water and he had to go through coordinators. But I think he's kind of found his way between the talk radio in that city and the relentlessly aggressive fans. The city matches the team. The team matches the city. They. And because their offense is so dramatic, you overlook their defense, which is number one and number two on third down. And so they, they held the Steelers to 10 first downs. I mean, honestly, I was thinking about this this morning. What the Eagles are is basically that couple that constantly argues and nobody thinks the marriage will ever stay intact. And they just had their 45th wedding anniversary. It shouldn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. They got rookies in the secondary, drama on the sidelines, wide receivers don't privately love the quarterback. Young old offensive line, D line, crazy head coach. And it just works. And once again, there's this scrutiny and I'm as guilty as anybody. There's this scrutiny around the organization because all the. Their qualities are what teams like Tennessee have and Carolina have. And Philadelphia is running through coaches. Who fires Andy Reid? Doug Peterson wins a Super bowl, goes toe to toe with Brady and Belichick, and they're always left standing and they're always winning. And the scrutiny just piles up. And Jalen hurts, aggressed that scrutiny yesterday. So that's what y'all want to see, huh? The scrutiny is never, never ending. It's nothing new. And so that's something that I, and I appreciate being told I Can't. And that we can't. And I know that I lead this team and it takes a lot out of it. It demands a lot out of you. Listen, don't trust my picks, but I think Philadelphia is going to win the super bowl. And they're crazy and they're arguing all the time and they can't even go to a holiday party and somebody's throwing salsa at somebody else. It just works. And they're so talented. And Jalen Hurts has got this sort of stoicism. He's sort of this calm. You know, big college programs, you know, Bama says, no thanks. Oklahoma's like, we'll take you. And his personality, he always feels like he's the cooler. Like in Vegas, they did the old story when somebody would get hot at the poker table, they'd send over the cooler. Somebody with bad luck, like Jalen Hurts is the good luck, but he just brings the temperature down in the room. He's the perfect fit. It may be the most dysfunctional perfect team ever. Good for them. So Buffalo beat Detroit. And there's a lot to say about this game, but let me just start by saying this. I started watching football in 1972. I was a little kid and I watched the first on a black and white tv. I watched the Washington Redskins beat, lose to the Miami Dolphins in a Super Bowl. That's the first game I remember watching. I love the NBA, the Portland Trail Blazers in the early 70s. And I. That was the first NFL game I remember watching. And then I became like a Washington Husky fan. And I remember for Robin Earl and Warren Moon and blah, blah, blah, you don't care. But Josh Allen's the most talented quarterback I've ever seen. I'll die on that hill. Don't confuse trophies with talent. Brady's got more trophies than Mahomes. Patrick's more talented. I always thought John Elway was like the greatest athlete. Remember, he was going to play either for the Yankees or the NFL. Greatest athlete to play quarterback. Compared to Josh Allen, John Elway looks small and lumbering. The kid's unbelievable. I've never seen a quarterback this good. I mean, size, arm, mobility, a plus plus plus plus it's a little LeBron in his prime. It's a little Ohtani, it's a little Tiger where you can put the best athletes in the world out there. And he's a notch above that. And I mean, once Buffalo finally got a legit running back so he could take the Superman cape off occasionally. He doesn't have any Kryptonite I mean, since entering the NFL, he has the second most rushing touchdowns. He's a quarterback. He has the second most rushing touchdowns. You know who number one is? A running back. Derrick Henry. I mean, Buffalo is allowed 86 points in the last two weeks. And my take is yeah, yeah, so what? They'll get to the super bowl because Josh Allen in that time has 10 touchdowns. I worry about their defense. They are getting some starters back. But I'm watching Mahomes, who's obviously so gifted, limping around, they can't protect him. And I'm saying, God, there he is, so vulnerable. This team. Josh Allen has not taken a sack in a month. Good luck getting a hold of him. It's week 15. He looks as fresh as newly cut flowers. Big strong arm moving. You can't get to him now, you should be able to. There's enough to grab onto, but you can't sack him. So I feel like I've always said there's one athlete in my life that I didn't get a seat. Perform Sandy Koufax, like one athlete. I feel like I kind of got jipped off. I was born too late. We're all lucky we were born in a time you can watch Josh Allen because I've never seen anything like it. Again, they're missing three defensive starters. It's not. It's not purdy on the defensive end, but remember that saying, Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. You remember that? Were they talking about Superman or Josh Allen? Because as good as Mahomes is, he's not this. And I love him. And as good as Brady was, he's not Mahomes. That's the best I've ever seen. For years I thought it was elway. Even Sean McDermott, you just run. Sean McDermott gets to see him at practice every day and he's at a loss for words. I mean, just incredible, Incredible performance week after week. And what more can you say? I mean, it's. It's.
