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Bruce Feldman
Now, let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox SP Radio.
Colin Cowherd
It's the Herd, Fox Sports Radio. Levar Arrington, Jonas Knox in for Colin. You can find us on the iHeartRadio app and you can find us on hundreds of affiliates all across the country. And you can find us filling in for colin here until 3 o' clock Eastern time, noon Pacific. Here as we begin our two of the program. What up sticks?
Bruce Feldman
What up Sticks? That's a dope. That's a dope intro song, you know. And that's the cowherd intro song.
Colin Cowherd
That's right.
Bruce Feldman
For the show.
Colin Cowherd
That's right.
Bruce Feldman
We need to find somebody to. Oh, we do have one. We do have one. Never mind. Our buddy. What is it, Lee.
Colin Cowherd
Oh, Lee and Corvallis, who wrote it.
Bruce Feldman
Made us a couple of them.
Colin Cowherd
Wrote like a 50s diner edition.
Bruce Feldman
I really like it.
Colin Cowherd
Two pros.
Bruce Feldman
You know what movie that's from and you know what they were doing. Okay. That's more commonplace these days. You know what? Movie night. No, it's a good guess. Come on. Come on. I could tell you. It's simple. Super simple, super easy. We know you watch movies from the 80s if you. If you got this. This right. Music. You want track.
Lee
Lee.
Colin Cowherd
Hey, Lee, You're a movie blow hard.
Bruce Feldman
The name of the restaurant was called the Blue Oyster. Did I get that one right? Blue Oyster. There you go. Police Academy Academy. There you go. You remember every time you go in there, that'd be the song that play every single time they fall in there. Oh, you see dudes with chaps on. And that's it. Damn little collars. The dog collar.
Colin Cowherd
Watch that.
Bruce Feldman
Why do I remember this?
Lee
All right.
Bruce Feldman
I might be incriminating myself.
Colin Cowherd
That's all right.
Bruce Feldman
Put myself out there. But I do remember the Blue Oyster from Police Academy movies because of that song in particular, by the way.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, yeah, There you go. Now, do you remember when the Miami Dolphins were good?
Bruce Feldman
Do you remember that? Let's see. Larry Zonka, Mark Duper. Well, Duper was with Reno. Yeah. Which they were good then, too. They Just couldn't win the Super Bowl. Let's see who else was. Who else was there? Don Shuler was the coach. Anyway. Yeah, it's been a while.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah. I mean, listen. And they've had a while. You know, Ricky Williams was there, Dave Wanstadt was there. They've had some runs here in the most recent run you would look at and go, well, they've made a couple of playoff appearances as we've talked about. You know, Tua can't stay healthy. If he can't stay healthy, the splits between him healthy and not healthy are drastically different as far as their wins and what they are as a football team. Asante Samuel Senior, though, he was on the say what Needs to Be Said podcast recently and had this to say about the Miami organization.
Bruce Feldman
Dolphins had no reason to trade Jalen Ramsey other than they're sensitive. There's no leadership in the Dolphins organization. Mike McDaniels is a pushover. Chris Rear, the general manager, he has no backbone. These guys over here at the Miami Dolphins, they are running this team like a little league team. No one can stand up to the players. They're terrified of their own players and they have no control over their players.
Colin Cowherd
So that from Asante Samuel Senior talking about the Dolphins organization, what makes this interesting is that Asante Samuel Jr. Was a potential free agent target for the Dolphins and then this stuff came out.
Lee
So.
Colin Cowherd
I'm not sure how he feels about that. But nice little rip job of everything going on in Miami there.
Bruce Feldman
I mean, you did kind of swap them out and lose a player. I mean, the, the tight end, John, who was in the top five in. In stats, average yards in a game.
Colin Cowherd
It was a Pro bowl last year.
Bruce Feldman
Pro Bowler at his best year.
Colin Cowherd
Yes.
Bruce Feldman
So you get rid of him, then you get rid of Jalen Ramsey for Mika Fitzpatrick. If my, my math is correct. I mean, Lee, you might want to look this one up. How far apart in age is Jalen Ramsey and Minka Fitzpatrick?
Colin Cowherd
I'm gonna guess two years, two to three years, maybe. Maybe. I think.
Bruce Feldman
Is there enough of an age gap between Minka and. It's two years. Two years. Is that enough of an age gap where you'd say we're going to get rid of an aging Jalen Ramsey for a. Is who's older? Jalen by two more years. Okay. For a two years younger Minka Fitzpatrick, that play, they play. One play safety, one plays corner, but one could potentially play safety if he can transition to playing safety. Does that make sense as a trade swap? It would make you question why you did it?
Colin Cowherd
Look, we, we talked with Albert Breer last week, and I just asked him straight up like, hey, man, what are they doing? What's the plan? Because you look at the Dolphins direction, sort of what's going on there, and his. He's like, yeah, they don't want to, they don't want to say it, but they're.
Bruce Feldman
It's a rebuild.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, they're like, they tried to go at it from a standpoint of we've got a quarter, a quarterback and a rookie contract. There's a window, we're going to try to go for it. But to a hasn't been able to stay healthy and it just hasn't worked. And there were some other reports that came out this off season that some of the veterans were growing tight, tired of Mike McDaniel, that it had kind of run its course. And so when you hear this, you know, he's talking about, you know, McDaniel's got, you know, a pushover, no backbone, etc. Etc. I do wonder if there's more of that going on because the Tyree Kill situation, him not wanting to be there and then he does want to be there, and then he's going to all of a sudden. He loves being with the organization and being with the team. John who Smith wanted to stay in Miami, they couldn't get that done. Chris Greer openly talking months in advance about wanting trade Jalen Ramsey, last I checked, if you're trying to deal somebody, don't let everybody else know you're trying to deal them. You want to get the best offer you can. And he's out there just openly talking about like, oh, yeah, we're going to decide, we're going to move on and hopefully we'll get a deal done. We expect to get a deal done. And that's the deal they ended up with. It just feels like the honeymoon's over. And the reality is this team starting to look less and less in comparison to where they were the past couple of years.
Bruce Feldman
I find it interesting the points Asante Samuel made Senior made about the being scared or not having a level of control. There are a lot of hipster head coaches in the league anymore. And. And it was. They were created by the Shanahan coaching tree. Like Kyle Shanahan is like the number one hipster coach. Then you got a Mike McVeigh hipster coach, then you got a. Then you got a Mike McDaniel hipster coach. You got hipster coaches in the league.
Colin Cowherd
It's because they're not Fat.
Bruce Feldman
It's not because they're not fat, it's that they are hipsters. Like they have a hipster look about them. Like if you look up what a hipster looks like, that's what they look like. And so to me, at some point, if, if you don't get the support and if you don't get that respect from those players, how are they handling the relationship between one another? And I think Asante Samuels raises a valid point, a valid question. If you start to see emotions bubble up about you that aren't necessarily positive and there's no real recourse you can take against your players when you have that type of physical stature, what do you do? You got to find the root of the problem and you got to delete it. Because if you let that spread and if you let it continue to grow and then now it's like, wait, hold on. Everybody's been spoiled or has been poisoned. The well has been poisoned by this one person that just doesn't seem to look at me in the way that I need him to look at me. You got to get rid of them. And that might be what took place with Jalen Ramsey is a very, very dominant, a very, very strong masculine type of personality. I don't know him, I've never spoken with him. I've seen a lot of interviews on him and it gives me. He has a intimidating type of personality. Old school maybe. Maybe.
Colin Cowherd
Because I do wonder if that could.
Bruce Feldman
That could be like nail on the head.
Colin Cowherd
Because look, they hired the contrast of what Brian Flores was as a head.
Bruce Feldman
Coach because people can't handle it. Yeah, yeah.
Colin Cowherd
And Brian Flores, they didn't like the way that he handled the two situation, which there's a lot of great. I didn't like it.
Bruce Feldman
That's a strong point.
Colin Cowherd
And I wonder if they over correct. Overcorrected themselves to a point to where.
Bruce Feldman
They went too soft.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, they went somebody here's the spectrum.
Bruce Feldman
Of old school coach. And then now you went opposite spectrum with new school coach because he is.
Colin Cowherd
A new school coach and a guy whose main priority was I need to get our quarterback who was drafted number five overall to feeling good about himself again. And maybe they did and maybe. Yeah, and it did. But maybe that did. Maybe that came at the cost of some other people in the locker room.
Bruce Feldman
Maybe it came at a cost of if you can't get pass a certain point, a certain threshold, some of these grown ass men are going to call it out. I don't know what goes on behind closed Doors, they did do a, a hard knocks with them. You did get an opportunity to see some of the, the proclivities of the head coach and, and others. What really goes on behind closed doors in locker rooms these days. That locker room in particular, I don't really know. I just know the mentality of football players is that of even though the game isn't as brutal as it once was, it is still a warrior sport. You are a warrior. You are a, a trooper. And I know people get offended. Don't compare, don't compare football and sports to soldiers. And I do, I do, I call, I call players that have retired civilians, they have now become civilians. And when you're playing your active duty, in fact, if you foul for it, when you're done playing ball, you get active duty benefits as an NFL vet. So I do, I do liken them to warriors and I do liken them to soldiers. So if that offends you, I don't care. At the end of the day, when you have that mentality that you got to take onto the field where it's you versus me, and there is the mental aspect of it, but there's also the physical aspect of it that has to play out. There is a different mentality from position to position. It gets more intense the closer you get to the ball. They're more touched now outside, they're touched in a very selfish way. Receivers, corners, they're very selfish people. They're wired selfishly. They speak their mind, they say what they want to say because they're on islands, they're by themselves. Whatever that receiver does, his success hinges off of his ability to get open or to catch the ball under any circumstances. If it comes near me, I gotta get it. If I'm a corner, I am by myself and I have to cover this man and I have to make sure that I don't give up. A big explosive play that could impact this game by yourself, running yards, yards, covering yards upon yards, the closer you get. It's just, we right here, Lyman D lineman, we right here. The minute that ball is snapped, there will be blood, there will be contact. I'm going to test my agility, I'm going to test my strength, my technique, my skill, all these different things. I'm testing that right now. Then you have it and it moves a little bit back to the linebackers. It's kind of the same. It's like. But I have two brothers with me or one right, I have one to the left of me, I have one to the right. Of me. And we, we handle this as backing the line, the lineman, but we're also helping the corners and the safeties. So to me, when you look at what you have to deal with in a locker room, the personalities that you're going to best get along with are the quarterbacks because they don't have to really do much, but they do the most. It's weird. Yeah, but they, they don't have, they don't, you don't have all of that, that mental fortitude of we gotta go to war. Like we're going to battle. Like, let's go get this. Quarterbacks are more cerebral. More often than not, they're going to be more light hearted. Some are very serious, some are very, very fact driven or, or whatever is structure driven. That's what they brought Mike McDaniel in for. You said it, you said it perfectly. They brought Mike McDaniel in to be able to crack the code, fix our.
Colin Cowherd
Guy on, on tua, make him, make him whole again.
Bruce Feldman
But you lost. You might have not have taken into account what that type of personality that builds TUA up. Jalen Ramsey doesn't need that soft hand approach. This guy over here, Chop Robinson doesn't need that soft hand approach. You know, you, you had a big, big, big dog last year on the off offensive defensive line. You just, he probably just like Calais Campbell. You don't need that. Tariq Hill doesn't need to be handled with kid gloves. I would assume TUA doesn't. He played for Nick Saban. But that's what you chose to go with. And if that's what you chose to go with, are you sacrificing based off of what I can hear, Samuel Senior, are you sacrificing the whole of the team in terms of being able to accomplish. Because your personality makeup fits perfectly with the quarterback, but maybe not everybody else on the team.
Colin Cowherd
And also like you look at Mike McDaniels, he's five games over.500. He's had a good run there. Like he has. I mean they're, they're competitive again. Win two is healthy. But when you start to look at the moves they've made and the moving on from Jalen Ramsey and the moving on from John who Smith and bringing in Minka Fitzpatrick and all this stuff and Albert Brear lays it out and says, well, you know, maybe this is, you know, more. They don't want to say this, but maybe this is more of a rebuild and you just start to take a look, take a step back. I mean if they're a sub.500 team this year. Mike McDaniels probably going to get the ax. Like, that's probably how this is going to go. And people could say, yeah, but you know, he's got a winning record and you know, it's not, it's not his fault too. It can't stay healthy.
Lee
Right.
Colin Cowherd
But we've seen it before. Chip Kelly was, you know, five games over.500 and got clipped by Philly because they could just feel the tide turning in the organization. Matt Nagy was, had a winning record as Bears head coach. Went to two playoff appearance, two play, had two playoff appearances. Still, they moved on because I think that people on the outside get a good read on what the vibe is inside the locker room and if they can feel it turning, why wait any longer? You got to make a move. And I just wonder if there's people there that are like, hey, man, this thing's starting to turn ugly. Like, it's starting to turn ugly. Those reports coming out, Asante Samuel basically ripping the organization when they're looking at his son trying to sign his son who's a free agent. I. This just feels like it's going sideways, man.
Bruce Feldman
It was cute. While it was cute, it was cute.
Colin Cowherd
Remember? And by the way, you said this in kind of a joking fashion. The tone of Mike McDaniel changed.
Bruce Feldman
It had to change. His look, everything. If you look at what he was early on as a head coach versus what he is now, it had to change. It had to be a more aggressive looking Mike McDaniels, a more tougher looking Mike McDaniels. McDaniel. It had to change. The way he talked changed. When we was making fun of, when I was making fun of him the one year from, from that year to the next year, I was like, oh, he changed the way he talks. And the only reason why I recognize is because I was making fun of the way he was talking the year before.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, it kind of ruined your impression the year prior.
Bruce Feldman
He was like, they'd be like, mike, what did you see out there? He'd be like, well, they had a defense that was ready for our offense and, well, we really weren't able to figure it out during the game. Guess we'll go back and we'll look at the film and we'll see what.
Colin Cowherd
What needs to be done.
Bruce Feldman
Then he comes back the next year, he's like, well, I mean, he's fed everything up. They really beat our ass this day. And I, I mean, we really, I really don't know what, what, what happened today. But I think we're going to go back and we're going to look at the film and we're going to make sure that we make the proper adjustments.
Colin Cowherd
Like it's just did. If you, if you just. He was so much better off when he sounded like a pothead is basically the whole moral.
Bruce Feldman
I mean, I thought he was the kid that got sent to the principal's office and was explaining himself to the principal. But I mean high is, is that mean that might fit as well?
Colin Cowherd
Maybe it might fit. It is the it is the Herd here on fox Sports Radio. LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox in for Colin. All right, so coming up next here, there's an interesting story in the world of football and how it impact impacts your favorite team moving forward. We'll get the answers right here on the Herd on Fox Sports Radio.
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Colin Cowherd
It's the Herd. Fox Sports Radio Levar Arrington, Jonas Knox in for Colin coming up in about 20 minutes from now. Now we are going to have another edition of the Herd Line News for you here on fsr. But right now we turn it over to the man who covers college football as well as anybody on the planet. He is none other than Bruce Feldman of the Athletic, also of fox. You see him during big noon kickoff throughout the course of the season. Bestselling author. You can get him on X at Bruce Feldman, cfb. Bruce, good morning slash afternoon. How we feeling?
Lee
Doing good, actually, at Big 12 media days in Texas, ran into a guy I think you guys know very well, partner Brady Plant.
Colin Cowherd
Oh, he's there. Oh, okay.
Bruce Feldman
Go figure.
Colin Cowherd
Look at that.
Bruce Feldman
Tell him we say hello.
Lee
I'll tell him you miss him.
Bruce Feldman
Yes, please do. There's a lot of people missing him. Let's check social media.
Colin Cowherd
So what can you tell us here? Just in looking at this whole story that's broken in college football when it comes to Texas Tech and their recruitment of Felix Ojoe, what can you tell us about how this all started and where we're at? Because we're seeing different reports of what the actual contract is. Saw the 5.1 and then it was 2 million and change. What do you know of the deal thus far?
Lee
Yeah, so the story broke on July 4th, and I was. I was offline. I was with my family on the holiday. And then the next morning, some of my colleagues at the Athletic, we were trying to confirm that what was reported for $5.1 million for three years and ended up making a bunch of calls and talking to people at Texas Tech who were. Who would know. And myself and my two colleagues, we had talked to. To several people in the process and they said actually the figure is for 775 each year for three years and it's not the 5.1. Now, there was a caveat to that, which was that if things change in the revenue sharing model or if there's a lot of deregulation, then maybe it can get up in the 5 million range. But the deal right now is for what we reported at the athletic, which was three years at 775 per. We had talked to the agent involved and the agent had said, no, it's 5.1. But when we had asked for some confirmation of that, he declined to offer that. And so based on what we know and what we could confirm, that it was significantly less than what was reported on Friday.
Bruce Feldman
I have so many questions. Let's start here with the agent. You got to believe the agent is trying to push that number to the. The figure that he's pushing it to because they have no intentions of staying at Texas Tech. Correct. The, the idea that is, is if we can say we got a guaranteed three year contract that, that totals out to the 5 million range, then if we're coming here, you gotta be in that, you gotta be in that parameter or within that realm of compensation for us to even consider coming to your school. That's what I would assume would be the priority of the agent representing these, these college athletes at this point. I mean, would that be safe to say?
Lee
Well, I think the Lamar, I think on what's going on here is, you know, the agents who you probably, you know, either were, you know, ported by, you know, going into the NFL or worked with, I think those are, you know, a lot of them are, they're certified agents. And it was a different landscape than what we have now. There's a lot of nil agents who aren't certified by anybody and they are trying to get established. And so you'll see a lot of times on social media, whether it's on Twitter or whatnot or Instagram, you'll see people credit and just say so and so told me and they'll reference the agent and maybe they'll even include their, their Twitter handle. And it's a way for them to build that person's brand and help them kind of get established. But also it is a way for that agent to try to set the market or reset the market because most people, you know, I'm here, I'm at the big well and the other schools have no idea how much Texas Tech really probably is on the hook to pay. But they just think maybe what happens is the first dollar figure that's put out there that people see on social media, that's the one everybody ends up running with and especially if it's the biggest one. So now it's like that's the one get passed around. Well, is that the going rate for a five star offensive lineman? 5.1 million for three years or is it what they are actually, you know, on the hook for?
Bruce Feldman
So I think that be the easy answer. The easy answer to that is it can't be the going rate because nobody does it. It you can't project out to the to year three. Nobody does it. And, and let me just ask this before I turn back over you Jones, but in terms of guarantees, like in hearing that, that guarantee figure being a part of the conversation, I mean what type of language? Because I was just saying during the break if my kid, which he got offered more money from other schools in the school he ended up going to, but if my, if they offered a guaranteed contract to my kid, you can't put language in there binding him to a contract where he has to stay there for the entire time. And, and if you did, we wouldn't take that contract. There would be no reason to accept a guaranteed contract for three years. If you're saying you have to be here for three years because we don't know what the circumstances hold for him or your school during the course of that time. But I want the money guaranteed. If I'm a parent or I'm an agent, I want it guaranteed. Has there been any conversation surrounding that? If he were to go into the transfer portal having a guaranteed contract for three years, what happens then? Do they sue him? Do they sue to school? Do they, do they. What recourse is in place if you do a three year, three year deal. Cause no one's ever done a three year guarantee deal.
Lee
Right. And there is, I don't think there is any guarantee, you know, in the true word guarantee, true sense of it. I think that sounded good when he probably told the reporter as such. But right now there's nothing that can be signed anyway because of the way all of this is set up. You can't have a signed contract right now that is specifically would be against any kind of rules. And so there's that. Then there's the other part of it when you can say, who can you sue? You can sue anybody. And you know, in the country, you know, doesn't mean you're going to win, but I'm sure there'll be potential for lawsuits. But think about it this way. If you're, and I've had these conversations with football coaches in this city, like if they're, if somebody's going to leave to go to a different school, let's say, you know, he's at Texas Tech and he wants to go to Texas. Well, if you're a football coach, you want to do that, you got to pay a buyout or, you know, if it's a contract, you have to get out of it. And there's financial penalties that are often with that. And so this thing is so different than I think the contracts you probably add in the NFL or the contracts that we see typically in pro sports, because you got to remember all of the athletes and your son puts in the suit, they're not employees. You know, coaches are employees, but college athletes right now are not, they're not deemed that. Now maybe at some point go get to that designation, but it's not right now. So we're in. I mean, it's still such a messy situation all the way around.
Colin Cowherd
Bruce Feldman joining us here on the Herd here, fox Sports Radio. LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox in for calling. You know, it's not like Ojo's the only one this week, especially for Texas Tech, you've got Ashton Rowden, who's the four star cornerback or a four star running back. You've got the four star cornerback and Donovan Webb. There's also speculation that they're looking at Cooper hackett, who's a five star offensive tackle in the 2027 class. What is the vibe there about Texas tech at Big 12 media days from people you talk to? Are they giving them kind of the side eye or are they looking at it saying, hey, fair play, they figured this thing out and they're going out and they're spending and they're getting some of these top recruits.
Lee
It's mixed. It's funny, we just had these conversations with a couple of coaches here. On one hand, one of them said, hey, good for them if they have it like that. I wish I had that situation. Another coach was, was much more, he was like, I think it's asinine how this is set up and I don't think that it's going to work this way. And wondered. I just didn't see it as a sustainable model. It's not, you know, like, I think it's great in one sense. If you're a fan of this school, you're like, oh my God, we're beating Texas and we're beating Oklahoma and we're beating LSU for records. We never would have beaten them before, you know, and so there's that. But, you know, I get why coaches who are actually in the business in the middle of this and know it and know what it's like to have a locker room and to try to maintain a locker room. It's like it's unsustainable. And so it's a fascinating experiment that's going on in Lubbock for sure right now.
Bruce Feldman
There's so much that is on. It's just not structured. And how can you have it structured when you never been here before and you don't have any comps to be able to do it. And you mentioned the whole employee deal. It's still not pay for play. That like, that is very, very prominent and how the language is used as opposed to, you know, what is taking place at the college level. So if you are not a paid to play person, can you do, can you and I don't want to put you on the spot. If you don't have the information, that's fine. But I'm just curious, in terms of language, the, the house settlement versus the NCAA versus nil. It has to maintain being nil specific or you're turning them into paid employees if it's just the university paying them. So when we talk about the rev share payment of the 20 million that's capped to pay these, these teams and, and where that money comes from, how, how it's given to the athletes and what is the difference now with that house settlement between the money that is given from the revenue sharing and the nil? So say it's like the, the collectives that are paying them X amount of dollars for or they're getting nil deals, you know, with different companies, whatever it may be. Is there a distinct difference between that house settlement revenue and the nil and how these, these athletes are getting paid for nil deals?
Lee
It depends on who you talk to. Certain schools say it's not and other schools say it has to be. And what you've seen is a lot of places and teams and we're just talking about one of them, the most prominent one now they have front loaded the rosters and I think you're seeing a lot of that go on where teams are going to have budgets of 45 and 50 and 52 and as high as $55 million this year. Now you're telling me all of a sudden a year from now they're going to drop down to less than half of that. You know, we all know we worked around sports and long enough that's not the direction it ever goes in. So. And we also know that there's always workarounds when it comes to college sports. Whether it's a bagman, whether it's a bag of McDonald's that's full of cash. There's always ways that people have gamed the system. Why would we think it's not going to happen with a lot of these schools?
Bruce Feldman
You forgot car in the parking lot at the airport.
Colin Cowherd
By the way, Bruce, for somebody that covers college football, I was making the joke and I was half kidding yesterday that it just, it was so much easier when this stuff was illegal because we could just focus on, all right, who's got the top recruiting class? However they got it, they got it. But you had the usual suspects. And now you've got schools like Texas Tech who are all of a sudd like, oh, wait a second, like we could be a part of this dance as well, too. I just. I don't know how it lands with you, but it feels like there's a lot of unanswered questions, and I just don't know when we're going to get to the end where this is what it is. These are the parameters, and let's just focus on college football and college football alone again.
Lee
Yeah. And for me, I mean, that's kind of where I land on. It's like, all right, show me who's going to be on the field and we're going to. Well, like, I, you know, I don't have a dog in the fight, you know, where I just want to see. I still love the games, but, like, you know, right now it's just. I've been around long enough to know that there's always workarounds and there's always people who are working the margins. And it's different than the NFL where, you know, you get punished. Draft picks or fines if you have too physical a practice or whatever. They, you know. But at some point, I think college football will get to, you know, collective bargaining, but they're not there right now. And right now, I think it's still going to be the wild, wild west, even if they try to pretend it's not. This is. This is the reality and this is how they operate.
Bruce Feldman
Isn't there. Isn't there a governing body just real quick that. That they're. They. When they did the settlement, that they get to or like a clearinghouse, that they make sure it's compliant. Right. They can kill a deal and say, you're not supposed to get that. Kids. The value of what you're paying him does not match what it is that the kid is doing. Where does. Where does that fall in? Where is that used?
Lee
I. We're gonna see how that plays out because you also have to get the cooperation from all these NIL agents to put in the paperwork. Are they really going to all do that? What are they. You know, I just think there's a lot of things when it comes to Deloitte, who's going to be the accounting firm that's going to be involved with this, and ML, former MLB executive who's now, you know, kind of the top, top in this. I'll believe it when I see it. Just because we've seen. I'm talking to too many coaches who are just kind of like, rolled up their sleeves and are like, oh, yeah, this is going to be a mess. Because they know that's the, you know, it's not like the people involved. They're not different. There's just more middlemen involved and there's just more, more rules to kind of navigate or circumvent. You want to look at it?
Bruce Feldman
Yeah.
Colin Cowherd
Bruce Feldman, Fox college football reporter, analyst, part one financial guru.
Bruce Feldman
Now we got a lot of meat on.
Colin Cowherd
Also read his stuff on the athletic. Get him on X at. Bruce Feldman, CFB live from Big 12 media days. Bruce, always appreciate it, man. Thanks so much and hope to do it again soon.
Bruce Feldman
Appreciate you, buddy. Yes, sir.
Lee
Take care.
Bruce Feldman
All righty.
Colin Cowherd
There he is. Bruce Feldman with us here.
Bruce Feldman
There's so much to discuss. Man, the rabbit hole is such a deep rabbit hole, man, and it's dark. I'm telling you. It's a dark rabbit hole. This is going to get, I see it getting ugly before it gets better. There's a whole lot to work through with already pulling the trigger on allowing this, this type of funds to go out and, and somebody who brings them funds to the table. It's just, it's so much, so much to it. And I've been, you know, I've been immersed in this for, since it's happened, Jonas. Like, I've, I've been connected to it and, and several different manners and capacities. And it is so confusing. It's so, even having it organized and understood, it's still very confusing. And if it's confusing to people who are really, really in it and learning it and, and using it, then you got to believe that everybody else is, is in the same, in the same situation. You know, it's, it's not very easily to understand because there are a lot of things that are not in place that need to be in place. Structural. There is not an infrastructure in place where the current state of college athletics can thrive and be successful in. Something's going to happen. It's like trying to run a website, a web page that isn't programmed the right way. It's going to crash and you're going to lose all of the data and everything that's connected to it. That's kind of what the NCAA or what college sports is on that, that trajectory right now. It's going to crash.
Colin Cowherd
It is the Herd here on fox Sports Radio. LaVar Arrington, Jonas Knox in for Colin. Up next in the Herdline news, though, we've got a worse to first situation in the NFL. Find out who it is right here on fsr.
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Bruce Feldman
Stretch marks. I was trying to. What was that? Censor myself there.
Colin Cowherd
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Bruce Feldman
More explicits in there, you know, lavar.
Colin Cowherd
Arrington, Jonas Knox in for Colin coming up top of next hour. A little over 10 minutes from now, we are going to talk about somebody who's got a golden opportunity in the National National Football League coming up this season. That'll be yours here a little over 10 minutes from now. Before we get to the second installment of the Herdline News here today, a reminder that you're listening to us now, but did you know you can also see us? Be sure to check out the fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. Search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of video highlights from our shows. Be sure to subscribe so you always have instant access to our Fox Sports radio videos on YouTube.
Lee
No, no, no, no.
Bruce Feldman
Turn on the news.
Colin Cowherd
This is the Herd Line news. Ryan, Music is. Yeah, what's going on, Lavar? Was that.
Bruce Feldman
That was Sound Theory.
Colin Cowherd
That song was Jonas's band, right?
Bruce Feldman
Yeah, that's Goody Mob.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Yeah.
Bruce Feldman
I got, I, I got off the tracks. I got, I got off the tracks. I was, I was shooting it and I got caught off the tracks. And both of you guys clearly seemed like you were more. All three of you guys were mortified by my, you know, jumping on the beat like that. I'm so sorry.
Colin Cowherd
What song is that? Johnson?
Bruce Feldman
Oh, my God. Gosh. He said more stretch marks. My bad. I was just, just quoting. You know, that was my people from Goody Mob.
Colin Cowherd
I didn't see that CD at Hot Topic.
Bruce Feldman
Dang.
Colin Cowherd
What's not a stretch is to say that the Raiders have had their struggles over the years. Bam. Okay.
Bruce Feldman
Landed it.
Colin Cowherd
Only one winning season in the last eight years. But things are different under new head coach Pete Carroll, their star Pass rusher Max Crosby saying those changes are already in place. And this is what Carroll has gotten accomplished in Vegas. Quote. It's not fake energy. And it's not just him. It's the assistant coaches, the whole building. It just feels different. Telling you, man, how can you say it's fake? You try to be when you've been.
Bruce Feldman
In BS for so long, you lose sight of what's real and what's fake. I gotta see it first. I mean, every year I thought it was real in Washington here. Every year it was real. This is the year. New head coach, coaches feel good. New coach staff next year. This feels good. I feel great about it. We're gonna make a run. New coaching staff next year.
Colin Cowherd
Nah, man, I'm just telling you. The Raiders, I said it yesterday, gonna be the most, feel good last place.
Bruce Feldman
Team that pole hops.
Colin Cowherd
I won't.
Bruce Feldman
That poll right there. You see that one right there in front of us now 10 good ones on that. If the. The Raiders don't make the play.
Colin Cowherd
I gotta try hump a pole.
Bruce Feldman
You gotta make it move. You gotta make it sway. No, that one right there. Then. Then don't. Don't say you believe it.
Colin Cowherd
I believe they're the most hopeful last place team in the NFL. You're. They're gonna feel of all the last place teams in the NFL next year, the Raiders are gonna feel the best about themselves.
Bruce Feldman
That's more breaking news news than what was just stated about Max Crosby.
Colin Cowherd
Damn.
Bruce Feldman
That's breaking news.
Colin Cowherd
What's your problem with Max Crosby and pk?
Bruce Feldman
I love Max Crosby. I just don't love this Raider situation. I don't love Max Crosby in the situation that he's in.
Colin Cowherd
Damn.
Bruce Feldman
I'm just saying I gotta wait and see it.
Colin Cowherd
Try my best.
Bruce Feldman
It feels different. All right, let's go to break. That feels good.
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Podcast Title: The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
Episode: Hour 2 – Asante Samuel Sr. rips Hipster Coaches & Bruce Feldman on NIL
Release Date: July 8, 2025
In this episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd, listeners are treated to a deep dive into two pivotal topics shaping the sports landscape: Asante Samuel Sr.'s scathing critique of the Miami Dolphins' coaching strategies and organizational leadership, and Bruce Feldman's comprehensive analysis of the evolving Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) regulations in college football. The conversation encapsulates the tensions within NFL coaching philosophies and the chaotic transformation of college sports recruitment.
The episode kicks off with a robust discussion led by Bruce Feldman, who addresses recent remarks by Asante Samuel Sr. regarding the Miami Dolphins. Samuel Sr. did not hesitate to voice his frustrations with the Dolphins' organizational structure and leadership.
Bruce Feldman (06:06): "The Dolphins had no reason to trade Jalen Ramsey other than they're sensitive. There's no leadership in the Dolphins organization. Mike McDaniel is a pushover. Chris Greer, the general manager, he has no backbone."
Samuel Sr. lambasts the Dolphins for their backhanded approach to team management, highlighting perceived weaknesses in their decision-making processes and authority dynamics. He continues to elaborate on the trade decisions, pointing out inconsistencies and questionable moves made by the team's leadership.
Bruce Feldman (06:36): "These guys over here at the Miami Dolphins are running this team like a little league team. No one can stand up to the players. They're terrified of their own players and they have no control over their players."
This critical perspective sets the stage for a broader conversation about leadership and management within professional sports teams.
Transitioning from Samuel Sr.'s critique, Bruce Feldman shifts the focus to a growing trend in the NFL: the proliferation of "hipster" coaches. He attributes this phenomenon to the influence of the Shanahan coaching tree, naming prominent figures who embody this new coaching archetype.
Bruce Feldman (10:04): "There are a lot of hipster head coaches in the league anymore. They were created by the Shanahan coaching tree. Like Kyle Shanahan is like the number one hipster coach. Then you got a Mike McVeigh hipster coach, then you got a Mike McDaniel hipster coach."
The term "hipster" here refers to coaches who adopt modern, perhaps unconventional methods and aesthetics, which Feldman suggests may clash with traditional team dynamics.
Bruce Feldman (10:38): "It's not because they're not fat, it's that they are hipsters. They have a hipster look about them. Like if you look up what a hipster looks like, that's what they look like."
This segment delves into how these coaching styles impact team morale and player-coach relationships, posing questions about authority and respect within the locker room.
Colin Cowherd and Feldman discuss the tangible effects of having hipster coaches on team performance and player interactions. The conversation touches on specific examples, such as Mike McDaniel's approach with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.
Bruce Feldman (12:53): "You got to find the root of the problem and you got to delete it. Because if you let that spread and if you let it continue to grow and then now it's like, wait, hold on. Everybody's been spoiled or has been poisoned by this one person that just doesn't seem to look at me in the way that I need him to look at me."
Feldman raises concerns about the balance between modern coaching techniques and maintaining discipline and authority, suggesting that an overemphasis on a "soft" approach could undermine team cohesion and performance.
Bruce Feldman (17:14): "But you lost. You might have not have taken into account what that type of personality that builds TUA up. Jalen Ramsey doesn't need that soft hand approach."
The discussion underscores the delicate interplay between fostering player confidence and maintaining strict leadership standards necessary for a competitive sports environment.
Shifting gears, the conversation transitions to college football, where Bruce Feldman provides an in-depth analysis of the current NIL landscape. The focus narrows to Texas Tech's recruitment strategies, particularly concerning the highly-touted prospect Felix Ojoe.
Bruce Feldman (27:00): "There's so much that is on. It's just not structured. And how can you have it structured when you never been here before and you don't have any comps to be able to do it."
Feldman highlights the confusion and lack of clarity surrounding NIL deals, emphasizing the discrepancies in reported contract values and the potential for manipulation within the system.
Bruce Feldman (27:52): "He was at Texas Tech and he wants to go to Texas. Well, if you're a football coach, you want to do that, you got to pay a buyout or, you know, if it's a contract, you have to get out of it."
The segment sheds light on the complexities athletes and their agents face in navigating NIL agreements, questioning the sustainability and fairness of the current model.
Bruce Feldman delves deeper into the structural issues plaguing NIL regulations, painting a picture of a chaotic and unregulated environment that is ripe for exploitation.
Bruce Feldman (34:20): "It's still such a messy situation all the way around."
He discusses the potential for systemic abuse, drawing parallels to illicit side deals and highlighting the absence of a robust governing framework to oversee and regulate NIL transactions effectively.
Bruce Feldman (37:38): "And you know, I just think there's a lot of things when it comes to Deloitte, who's going to be the accounting firm that's going to be involved with this, and ML, former MLB executive who's now, you know, kind of the top, top in this. I'll believe it when I see it."
Feldman expresses skepticism about the longevity and effectiveness of current NIL policies, predicting continued turbulence and the likelihood of major reforms as stakeholders grapple with the evolving landscape.
Bruce Feldman (43:29): "It's the reality and this is how they operate."
This analysis underscores the pressing need for comprehensive regulations to stabilize the NIL framework and ensure equitable practices across college sports programs.
Hour 2 of The Herd with Colin Cowherd offers a compelling exploration of leadership challenges within the NFL and the tumultuous changes sweeping through college football due to evolving NIL policies. Through expert insights and strategic discussions, Colin Cowherd and Bruce Feldman illuminate the intricate dynamics affecting teams and athletes alike, providing listeners with a nuanced understanding of the current sports ecosystem.
Notable Quotes:
Bruce Feldman (06:06): "The Dolphins had no reason to trade Jalen Ramsey other than they're sensitive."
Bruce Feldman (10:04): "There are a lot of hipster head coaches in the league anymore."
Bruce Feldman (12:53): "You got to find the root of the problem and you got to delete it."
Bruce Feldman (27:00): "It's just not structured. And how can you have it structured when you never been here before."
Bruce Feldman (34:20): "It's still such a messy situation all the way around."
Bruce Feldman (43:29): "It's the reality and this is how they operate."
This comprehensive summary encapsulates the key discussions and insights from the podcast episode, providing a clear and engaging overview for those who haven't had the chance to listen.