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Colin Cowherd
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J. Mac
Now let's get this party started.
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Colin Cowherd
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Welcome in to hour number two. Great to have you here live in Los Angeles. It's the Herd, wherever you may be and however, you may be listening, thanks for making us part of your day. Nick Wright's gonna be joining us. He's a trooper. He's gonna be joining us here in a couple of minutes and I thought I would start J. Mac, you'll, you'll get a kick out of this. Connor Orr, Sports Illustrated Excellent. Young A journalist only deals in facts IGN acknowledges he believes that the Chiefs in 2025 will miss the Super bowl each of the next two seasons. And he talks about how the Patriots had several gaps in Super Bowls. He said it's not anti Andy Reid or Patrick Mahomes. Great players get old fast and role players are hard to keep around. And the draft, even by the best GMs is like a 60, 40, 50, 50 proposition. After the first couple of rounds, you're rolling the dice on draft picks. And so again, this is an excellent journalist that only deals in facts. Conor or saying that. So I there are things that I think you have to be honest about the let's not do like recency bias. But Mahomes number one weapon the last three years have been Travis Kelsey kind of looks cooked. He's 36 years old in the last couple of games. Not, not really yet. So you know, the classic sports muscle car can't be your primary car like it's time. Number two is in a very mediocre draft. They're going to get they need a tackle and they'll probably get the fifth to sixth best tackle because that position's so valuable and unless they compromise and sacrifice draft picks, they're not getting one of the better left tackles. They also need a tight end and the two best ones will be taken. The other thing is the division, we got to be honest now, Pete Carroll, Jim Harbaugh, we saw what Harbaugh did in one year. We saw Bo Nix as a rookie. Sean Payton. I'm sorry it matters. That's. That's the best coaching division in football. That's not even arguable. That is the best coaching division in football. The other thing is we saw Jim Harbaugh do this at San Francisco, at Michigan and with the Chargers. In one year he turned them around. This year they have 65 million in cap space. The Chargers got to the playoffs with a rookie slot receiver as a really elite weapon. That was it. So they got a lot of cap space and what the Chargers need is a defensive tackle and running backs. And the two positions in the draft that are absolutely stacked are defensive tackle and running back. And because of their draft position, they'll get the first or second best tight end in the draft, which they need. And here's the other thing, and we got to be honest about this. Mahomes next year is going to be a 24% cap hit. 24% of Kansas City's cap is going to be Mahomes. He's going to be making 66 large. Tom Brady was never over 14. It matters. It matters. I know the cap's going up, but it matters. Tom Brady on average was a 10 to 12% cap hit. That's why those Patriot teams never had units that were bad. They were never terrible anywhere. In the two blowout losses to Kansas City in the super bowl, they're bad at left tackle. They're just bad. The Patriots were never awful anywhere. Didn't matter. Kicker, punter, quarterback, left tack, all the key positions, they were at least B plus, and a lot of that was Brady sacrifice. Tom talked about this last week. It is damn hard to win these Super Bowls. What I realized early in my career.
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Nick Wright
About Super Bowls was, man, we won my first year.
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Colin Cowherd
Like, what's the big deal? It's like, I went to college, we.
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Nick Wright
Played Nords Bowl, I won.
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Colin Cowherd
We went to the Citrus bowl, we won. Okay?
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Nick Wright
Now I'm in the Super Bowl.
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Colin Cowherd
We won. All right, what's the big.
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Nick Wright
We didn't have a great seed in 2002. We won in 2003.
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Colin Cowherd
What's the big deal? We won in 2004.
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Nick Wright
What's the big deal?
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Colin Cowherd
Right? Then you go to 2007 and you lose, and then you go to 2011 and you get to the super bowl.
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Nick Wright
After having a great team in 2010 and we lose. And it was just like, wow, this is way harder.
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Colin Cowherd
We went 10 years between winning. Yeah, it's really hard. Very, very difficult. They were in good health. And then the ticker went. Not to mention, how long is Andy Reid gonna coach? I know this is somber, solemn. Nick Wright is now joining.
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Nick Wright
That's probably your best comedy bit in years. And you know, you know what is a staple of the best of the best comedians?
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Colin Cowherd
What?
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Nick Wright
They. They incorporate some of their old classics into their new material. So you had a lot of new stuff there, but then you went back to one of the classic cowardisms, which is next year is the year Justin Herbert breaks through. I mean, that. I mean, set your watch to it. And by the way, I do think you had the Chiefs because they're drafting 32 or 31, pardon me, unable to draft anyone of need. And I think you had the Chargers because they're drafting 21, getting the best running back, D tackle and tight end in the draft. It's unbelievable. The Chargers, to their credit, who, you know, did have to go through the season with a rookie wide receiver as their number one option. Can you imagine making the super bowl in back to back years with a rookie wide receiver being your number one option?
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Colin Cowherd
I can't.
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Nick Wright
It'd probably never be done. No, I mean, listen, listen, it is. The Chiefs and me deserve a lot of criticism for the performance on Sunday. Spinning that forward into this team being cooked is, I think, a bridge too far even for you. Like, I don't. Maybe you've been hanging out with J. Mac too often off the air, and he's been spitting that poison in your ear. But they still go into next season the overwhelming favorites in the AFC west, and they go into next season better positioned than any other team in the afc. Now, it's hard to get to a Super bowl every single year. I get that. But I think you're writing the obituary a tad too soon, my friend.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay. The one thing I did, I did say is that. And I mean, you've never denied that Brady's great. That's. That's one of the great things you've always said. The guy's ridiculous. I mean, it's literally the second part of his career. He was arguably better than Elway his entire career. Right. But the one thing I'll say about Tom and having lived in Connecticut during his reign is that we used to always talk about this. If he had the second best poker hand, he could still win the hand. He didn't have to have pocket aces. And now, now, in fairness, last year I didn't. I think the last couple years the Chiefs didn't have a loaded roster, but I would say that in the super bowl losses. Let's just talk about this one. I didn't feel. I felt like I was watching the same play over and over, and I didn't feel Mahomes adjusted a lot. Maybe that's Andy Reid. But it did. I watched it and I thought, God, Tom would have just moved the chains short. He kept sitting in the pocket. The same play. I thought Patrick really played terribly.
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Nick Wright
Oh, I listen, I think it was one of the worst games of Patrick's career. But we're not. This, again, is where I just have to be the arbiter of fairness.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay?
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Nick Wright
If one wants to argue that. And again, Brady is the most accomplished player ever, the goat, at this position and of the sport. And because of this loss, it's going to Take Patrick an immense amount of time to have a chance to catch him because this was the opportunity to do something Tom never did. That is all true. Here is what is also true. We are now revisionist historying how Tom Brady's playoff defeat when going for a three peat went. It was not in the super bowl with the decisive play being a pick six. It was in the divisional round to Jake Plummer with the decisive play being a pick six. And I know that the Michael Jordan propaganda machine has convinced people that losing in round one one or round two is actually better than winning those rounds and then losing in the championship round. But that of course is ludicrous. And so you're right that Tom never had this poor of a performance in a Super bowl that is unquestioned. But Tom had, as every quarterback ever had, brutal performances that prevented his team from getting two Super Bowls. Patrick's never had that. And so we can go tit for tat on these things. And I had to listen Yesterday to Joe Montana, 4, 0 in Super Bowls. And that is true. It is also true that in the dead middle of his prime. 85, 86, 87 those three years, Joe Montana in three consecutive playoff games, had three consecutive round one or first game defeats and had zero touchdowns over a three year span. Cumulatively in the playoffs. Three straight blowouts, including a 49 3. But because they happened in round one, they don't count. I don't buy into that. I never have. Patrick played very poorly yesterday. He now joins the list of every single quarterback in NFL history of which he wasn't previously on where he played his worst game of the year in the biggest spot of the year. But I think we are writing the obituary as you literally are a tad too soon.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, well, I think they're. I do have Kansas City being a wild card team next year, so I think they're still.
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Nick Wright
You had them this year. I think that's what you had them last year. This year you have them in the wild card every year. Every year is going to be the Chargers year. And did you say Pete Carroll? I like Pete Carroll too. Does that team have a quarterback yet? I'm just like literally on the roster. Do they have a quarterback? Is it Aiden O'Connell? I don't think that. I don't think Pete Carroll is going to move the chains with Aiden O'Connell. That's just me.
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Colin Cowherd
It is. I said this yesterday about the Eagles though. If Saquon Barkley got hurt next year, cross your fingers and they lose two free agents and it's more of a Jalen hurts offense. They wouldn't look the same. I mean, listen, this, this is a sport with regulated level of violence. I think the Chiefs will rebuild. They'll be fine. They need the left tackle, they need a running back. You know, they just, they have to hit some draft picks. They're prone to do that. I do think the Andy Reid thing is real, is that I could see Andy with two more great runs and just say, listen, man, I got four or five of these things, I'm out. And then, as you know, even the great organizations miss on head coaches 50% of the time. Is there part of you that wonders the Andy thing is what worries you more than players?
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Nick Wright
Oh, listen, I mean, and I 1000%. And Patrick, leading up to the game, when he was asked, you know, basically, how long can this keep up? His answer was, as long as Andy's still here, the whole team, you know what I mean, gives him the respect and credit he deserves. Here is my, the reason I am not incredibly concerned about that. First of all, in the short term, we know he's coming back at least next year. And I would imagine, as you're saying, he's coming back for two or three more years. Yeah, he is just about to start a five year, hundred million dollar contract. So even if he doesn't finish that, you have this time. The other reason that I am less concerned is if he were to signal that he was going into what would be the last year of his career, this immediately becomes the most coveted coaching job in modern NFL history. Like, would it be the most coveted job since the Bucks? I'm sorry, the Colts fired Jim Mora. The answer to that is probably right. But even in that moment, Peyton obviously had not accomplished 10% of what Patrick already has. And so I do think they will be fine. I also would not act as if losing the guy who I believe to be one of the three greatest coaches in the history of the sport and the greatest offensive mind in the history of the sport, you know, wouldn't be a significant, significant loss. But that is much further down the road than, you know, this or next season, at least I believe lost a.
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Colin Cowherd
Little bit lost in Luca going to the Lakers is how insane LeBron has played this year. It looks like year 13. It's unbelievable, it's incredible. And it very much is Brady in Tampa, where you're like, is he still a top four quarterback when he was 44? Like, I mean, he left and the next year you're like, I think he's still top four or five. What do you make? We know. I'll get to Luke in a second. How do you explain LeBron? He's better than last year. What is it?
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Nick Wright
So, I mean, listen, I think there is a natural benefit to truly. And I think this is being proven out in real time, literally being the greatest athlete. And I just mean raw athleticism maybe in world history, like you can say, oh, you found a way to be hyperbolic. Like, I don't know who he's competing with on that.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Nick Wright
As far as height, weight, speed, longevity, durability, all of it. Over a 25 year stretch. Like, I honestly don't know. Who was the corner? Gosh darn it, I shouldn't ask it. There was a corner that he played for Washington. He played for like Darryl Green, like Darrell Green. I was like, I don't know. Like, is he on that same list? I don't know. But regardless. So the reason I bring that up is LeBron is right now 75% of the athlete he was 10 years ago.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Nick Wright
But 75% of prime LeBron is still more athletic than 95% of the rest of the league.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Nick Wright
So because of that, he's been able to stave off the aging curve a bit. You then add to it. He's a better shooter.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Nick Wright
These last two years than any point of his career.
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Colin Cowherd
Yep.
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Nick Wright
The IQ is still, you know, obviously not going anywhere. And what I think we've seen the last couple weeks is the power of hope and the power of belief.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Nick Wright
You saw in the Olympics, Colin lebron was like, all right, these might be the last really consequential games of my basketball life. And you saw him on the global stage, be the best player in the entire tournament, night in, night out.
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Colin Cowherd
Good point.
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Nick Wright
And then you saw this year when it's like, wait a minute, we're actually a little bit better than I expected. JJ's doing a great job. If I'm able to carry us when Anthony Davis is out, maybe that gets the team to make one of these around the fringes deadline moves we want them to make. And maybe we can steal a finals appearance. And then instead of that, they trade for a top three player in the world. And now I think LeBron is like, oh, my God, I can win a championship like me. And if Luka can take Kyrie and role players to the championship, can take their championship round, can take a young Jalen Brunson and role players to the conference finals, what if I all of a sudden can actually hand the offense off to someone else. Actually not see the team go to die when I go to the bench, actually be rested going into the playoffs. And the Lakers are going to have problems defensively and the lack of, you know, they traded for Mark Williams for a reason. It got rescinded. But you have the highest IQ duo in league history now on the, on a team. We've never had two players with this passing ability plus IQ playing together. So offensively it's going to be a top three team. And I think LeBron knows what that means for him.
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Colin Cowherd
For the record, does Jimmy Butler do anything for the Warriors? I mean I think it makes them much more interesting.
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Nick Wright
I thought the NBA missed the plan.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, I think the NBA had a great week. The Luka thing, the Butler thing, dear and Fox to Wemby. I thought the league had a great week. Does Butler do anything for that team still playing team to you?
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Nick Wright
I mean so. Well, I mean I. I think that without him they were going to risk. At risk of missing the play in.
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Colin Cowherd
Right.
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Nick Wright
And the warriors have been in the play in and lost previously. I think without him they were going to be certainly not only at risk, but probably a favorite to miss the actual 18 postseason. Yeah, now I fully expect them to be in the playoffs. I don't know that I think, I think their ceiling is round is around one victory. I do think that I just, I think that staff is still really good. But night to night. Now Steph also by the way has been playing his best basketball as of late. Maybe invigorated by the trade as well. The only chance they have of making any real noise is if the way Steph has played the last couple weeks, if he can keep that up. I also think that Jimmy, you know, Jimmy is not night to night that reliable when it comes to an injury risk. So they are very old injury concerned team. But I am a fervent believer that if you happen to have one of the 10 to 12 greatest players in the history of the league still playing at a high level, you have an obligation to go all in every year. It is irresponsible to worry about the future. Your only obligation is to right now. So I think the warriors did right by Steph here. Even if it's not a real needle mover when it comes to winning a championship.
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Colin Cowherd
So maybe we were a little premature on the headstone. I will say however is if they don't hit on some of these draft picks. Drafting 31st, it's a little scary.
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Nick Wright
Drafting 31st, that's the best position we've been in in three years, usually stuck in the 32 hole. Think about. And by the way, keep in mind, they all, the Chiefs also have, they have the 31st pick, the 63rd pick, and then like the 66th pick because they got that from Tennessee and Tennessee finished with one of the worst records in football. So we're loaded to bear headed into the draft. Tell you that right now. Maybe we trade for Micah Parsons. Who knows? Colin, I'll leave you on this. The Chiefs, we all know, since Patrick's been there seven years, they have a two game one or two game season. It starts in the conference championship round. Two years they've gone 01. Both years they made massive changes. One year after going 01, they fired the D coordinator, brought in Spags. One year after going 01, they traded Tyreek Hill. Three years, they've gone two. And oh, we know what you do after that. You hold a parade. They've now twice gone one one. The first time they did it, they remade the offensive line. I'm very curious what they do the second time because 1 and 1 doesn't cut it in Kansas City. It's at.500 season. It's really embarrassing. So, like, I don't mean, I don't blame you for poking fun, but they will make a major adjustment. I don't know what it'll be, but it's not going to be quiet this offseason in Kansas City. I promise you that.
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Colin Cowherd
All right, Nick Wright, first things first. He's bruised and a bit battered, but still shows up.
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Nick Wright
You know what if the sports gods. I must have been a great person in a previous life because the fact that the day after my lowest moment of my adult life as a football fan, I get to watch my large adult Slovenian son, Luka Doncic team up with LeBron James.
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Colin Cowherd
I know.
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Nick Wright
And it's not in a fever dream. I mean, I'm right back, baby. I am so back.
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Colin Cowherd
And it was fun to watch last night at the Staples. Good seeing you, Nick Wright. Rachel Nichols will stop by on the Lakers style. It was fun. Crypto Arena. My bad. Crypto. I'm sorry. I'm not, I'm not a, I'm not a bitcoin bro. I don't, I don't keep up.
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Danny Parkins
Yeah, he seems to be doing well. A little delusion still there about how quickly they can remake the offensive line. Sounds like they're going to lose a guard and they need to replace two other positions on the line. I don't think that's a one off Season job.
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Colin Cowherd
I am closer to Connor or I think. And again, I think Buffalo gave him a hell of a fight in Arrowhead.
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Danny Parkins
If you're Buffalo, don't you go all in Miles Garrett?
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Colin Cowherd
No, whoever we can get, just go all in.
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Danny Parkins
You're close.
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Colin Cowherd
There's two teams in the league that have to go all in on Miles Garrett. Buffalo and Green Bay. Buffalo can't stop Kansas City. I've watched four times they met in the playoffs. Kansas city gives you 35 plus. That's with Sean McDermott. Go get Miles Garrett. It's not players generally. You got to overpay a little bit to go to Buffalo. Green Bay, right. Not hot free agent markets. Go by Myles Garrett.
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Danny Parkins
We've now seen the blueprint to take down the Chiefs. Just get your pass rush to get after Mahomes and wear him down and rattle him and cover. Also it's this on the back.
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Colin Cowherd
There's a lot of good offensive tackles in this class. There's no great ones. Joe Alt, the Chargers is a higher graded tackle than anybody in this class and Alt struggled at times this year. Later in the year he could he struggled in protection against Houston. Remember that game against Houston?
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Danny Parkins
Well, it's a good defensive lineman draft as well. So there's a world where Ravens, Bills just take a couple bites at the apple and go after Miles Garrett. Anything's in play.
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Colin Cowherd
If I'm Buffalo, I sign Miles Garrett and I draft their offense is fine. Go get, fix the defense, trade for Miles Garrett and then draft more defense. It's a great running back and defensive tackle draft. And I mean Matt Miller's a guy that covers the draft. He's excellent. Daniel Jeremiah does the same. Those, those guys. I mean people are saying there's like 20 some draftable defensive tackles. Like, like I forget the number but it's like it's something. So there's. There's a way. Winter Boy, have you seen my. Have you seen some of the winter.
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Danny Parkins
I heard it's going to rain here in LA this week.
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Colin Cowherd
No, Wednesday and Thursday stinks it and now it's going to be done by Friday early in the morning. But Wednesday and Thursday it is a. It is a monsoon vortex, whatever it's called. Pineapple Express or I don't know, whatever.
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Danny Parkins
That's a decent movie.
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Colin Cowherd
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Nick Wright
Time to remind them.
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Colin Cowherd
So many things going on. You know, it's. J. Mac and I were talking over the weekend when we were in New Orleans. J. Mac and I, the guy got sick, rallied. Excellent work by you. Danny Parkins got all sick, too, so cross our fingers. And everybody. Everybody's kind of getting healthy. Maybe it was bad oysters. I don't know what it was, but it was. A lot of people on the staff were sick. But we were talking about Luka to LeBron and Jimmy Butler to the Warriors. It was a really good week. I mean, listen, when Shohei Ohtani went to the Dodgers, it's like, oh, that's a good. That's a good week for Major League Baseball. And by the way, you know, the Mets signed a couple of players. It's like, oh, that's a good week for baseball. I thought the NBA had a really nice week. And now J. Mac with the news.
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Nick Wright
No, no, no.
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J. Mac
Turn on the news.
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Colin Cowherd
This is the Herd line news.
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Danny Parkins
All right, let's start with some weirdness, Colin. So that Lakers trade for Mark Williams, that was, you know, called off basically due to a failed physical. Well, the Hornets are talking to the NBA and exploring options disputing the Lakers failed physical. They're essentially saying, listen, Mark Williams should have passed his physical. Why didn't he? What are the Lakers pulling out of this?
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Colin Cowherd
Now?
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Danny Parkins
Remember there was that topic yesterday that you talked about LeBron's camp unhappy that the Lakers acquiesced instantly and said, luca, what do you want? I want this guy. Okay. And is this the Lakers saying, ah, second thought, we don't want him? What's going on here, Khan?
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Nick Wright
Very weird.
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Colin Cowherd
It's. I asked the team this morning, is there a history of a trade being made, then being canceled and then being okayed? Is this the Lakers playing games like Dalton Connect? It was so funny last night. It's like, poor Dalton connects like you shipped me out. Now I come back, I think the Lakers are a very good offensive team. And we've talked about this as if Austin Reaves is your number three scorer. Okay? That's a different ball game. That is a different ballgame. In fact, they'll be Knights. You know, I mean, I think the Lakers can't. If I was the Lakers, I don't care if it upsets LeBron. I need a big. They have nobody that can defend the rim.
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Danny Parkins
Jackson Hayes had a couple moments last night, but it's.
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Colin Cowherd
He's more of an alley oop. Offensive Run the floor.
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Danny Parkins
Well, I just got to ask, like, Anthony Davis could not stop Jokic. Last year in the series, Rudy Gobert could not stop Jokic. His numbers were crazy. Nobody stopping Jokic. So does it really matter that he yic is going to go?
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Colin Cowherd
It's interesting because the Lakers, it's not small ball. LeBron's big. Luke is a big guard.
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Danny Parkins
Jackson Hayes's size is 6, 7, like their smallest starter.
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Colin Cowherd
No. Rui Hachimora's long. They're not a tiny team, but they're not, I mean, I watched last night. They're not a good rebounding team. And generally speaking, if, if the Lakers play an opponent seven times in two weeks, you're, it's different. You come into L. A. They're playing well, they've got good energy. It's a whole different ballgame of I can dissect you and just pound the ball down low. And so I think, you know, there are teams and one of these teams, we always know there are teams built for the regular season.
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Danny Parkins
Oklahoma City.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Like, I'm not sure they're a postseason team yet. I think the Lakers, if they don't get a big, people are going to attack that and they're just like, what is, what is Jokic going to do against the Lakers if they don't get a rim protector? Score 45 probably.
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Danny Parkins
Can they contain Java Murray? Because remember, they lost last year. Wasn't it two, two late Jamal Murray shots like at the buzzer in that series? Like they were close. It was a close series. I know they lost four one, but I, I, I know it sounds crazy. I think the Lakers are NBA Finals material. I don't think they can beat the Celtics as currently constructed, but I do think they can get to the Finals. Sorry to the seven Oklahoma City fans.
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Colin Cowherd
I just don't know if they can defend Oklahoma City. Those are high scoring games.
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Danny Parkins
I mean, whoever gets them last year.
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Colin Cowherd
Who, who gets the whistle?
- [33:28]
Danny Parkins
Free throw Merchant. SGA well, free throw merchant.
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Colin Cowherd
Luca. Yeah. Okay.
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Danny Parkins
All right, next up, our own Jake Glazer here at Fox Sports reported that new jets coach Aaron Glenn is going to move on from Aaron Rodgers. New York would absorb a $49 million dead cap hit by moving on from Rogers. Linebacker C.J. mosley said Rogers has nothing to be ashamed of.
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J. Mac
We tried to do something special. No injuries. Took part in that. Took away a lot of time. But, you know, he did do some, some great things this year, getting his 500 touchdown. He was a leader no matter what. When he came into the locker Room where he was with us or you know, when he was with us this year, you know, nothing but respect for him. You know, to come back from Achilles, 40 plus years old. I know the wins and losses can get in the way, a lot of things that you can accomplish. But there's no reason for him to no leave New York with his head down because I know he gave us his all.
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Colin Cowherd
Well, it's not all his fault, certainly. I thought Aaron played very well last year. At the end of the year I thought they were going to bring him back, but I do think we've had.
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Danny Parkins
He started playing well when they were like three and eight.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, I mean I, I just, I don't want to dump him. I thought Aaron played much better in the second half of the season. But I do think what is true, and this is undeniable, is both the packers and the jets dumped him. Now there's a story out that there were some provisions the jets put out there.
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Danny Parkins
So Diana Rossini literally just talked about this five minutes ago. So when Aaron Glenn and Aaron Rodgers met, Aaron Glenn like laid down the law. You must be at training camp. None of this, I'm going to Egypt. And you're not allowed to go on a weekly show where Aaron Rodgers was paid like a million dollars to talk to a former NFL punter and stir up nonsense every week talking about epidemiology and Fauci and just nonsense every week. And Aaron Glenn said no more of that.
- [35:17]
Colin Cowherd
And now, now do we have, do we know if Aaron pushed back or. Aaron was okay.
- [35:21]
Danny Parkins
He just basically said Aaron Rodgers was like okay and it's not gonna work out. So I guess Rogers walked away like, I don't want these. I don't want to be held down by anybody.
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Colin Cowherd
You know, I'll tell you what I was told by a source Sunday and this is not Diana Rossini's source, but I was told Aaron Glenn had made a decision. He didn't want the player or the person Aaron in there is that there was just too much noise and drama. Now I'm not in that facility and I don't know that to be true. I don't think going on a weekly radio show matters or TV show. I don't think that matters in the end. I don't think he's.
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Danny Parkins
We don't know, we don't know what the locker room was like. Colin, like, again, he's saying nonsense every week. Well, he's like taking shots at people and acting like an all knowing oracle and it's all over. Social media so like you can't help but it get in the locker room. Imagine if you were doing radio hits and saying all this wacky stuff and I got to come and talk to you. It's like dude, what are you doing?
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Colin Cowherd
Well, I think the bigger issue is I think and I've been told this before by people I trust that wouldn't lie to me that have been teammates of Aaron. He's moody and you don't know quite what you're getting with Aaron and I think that was fine when he was arguably the best talent in the sport. But this is the way it works in everything. As your talent decreases, people will deal with less of your crap. And Green Bay got to the point where they were like Green Bay looked at that year. I mean Green Bay went and looked at the year they got rid of him. Aaron didn't want a great quarterback. Go go back to that last year in Green Bay if Aaron would have been MVP Aaron, they'd have put up with his crap outside of that darkness retreat that had brought him back. But Aaron wasn't anymore. So again, if he was as good as Jalen Hurts Sunday, if you were getting somebody that was was in the prime of your career, Joe Burrow, then you just deal with it. And that's not. That could be a law office, it could be a football team, it could be a band. The greater your talent, the more you'll allow to be dramatic and you know, sometimes irritated you see the odds on.
- [37:14]
Danny Parkins
The screen for the next Rodgers. Destination Pittsburgh is not. Give me a break. I had Raiders two weeks ago on headlines. I'll stick with that for now. But it's weird. All of a sudden you know, Rodgers is out there. Russell Wilson's going to be out there. Kirk Cousins, Sam Darnold, like there's a Justin Fields, there's a bunch of guys out there. A, I don't know where the jets go. I don't know what the jets do A quarterback I have no idea. And B, I don't. Is anybody going to want to put up with Roger? Is there a world where the entire NFL like they shun Belichick?
- [37:47]
Colin Cowherd
Do they say the one advantage New York has? First of all they've been bad for years. The fans are used to it is just not having a quarterback and getting a touc top three pick next year.
- [37:57]
Danny Parkins
Just who are we looking at? Arch Manning next year?
- [37:59]
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, I mean, I mean I, I don't think it's a terrible idea of just saying listen first year. Well not necessarily Tank but Like, we'll go get. We'll go get Kirk Cousins for a year or something. We're not going to get capped out on anything. We're going to be. We're going to build the roster this year. We're going to build the rock. And I'll say this again, be very aware of Riley Leonard in the third round or Kyle McCord in the third round. I would not be shocked if a quarterback in the second or third round that landed with a better roster ends up being the best quarterback in this draft. I. Listen, Jalen Hurts fell to the second round. Kind of beneficial, isn't it? You got Howie Roseman as a gm.
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Danny Parkins
I mean, Jalen Hurts was a superstar in college, you know, like Riley Leonard. I mean, what's he throwing for 110 yards a game?
- [38:46]
Colin Cowherd
Boy, you are just. I mean, you know, by the way, when he goes to the NFL and crushes.
- [38:53]
Danny Parkins
He might.
- [38:54]
Colin Cowherd
I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna put that in Colin Wright. A month and a half in a row. I've been on Riley Leonard for two years now.
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Danny Parkins
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you love him. Final story is last week on Breakfast ball here on FS1, Joe Burrow said he'd be happy to restructure his contract if it meant he'd be able to keep all his weapons. Well, over the weekend, T. Higgins, one of those weapons, spoke out. He's gonna become a free agent, and he doesn't know if Cincinnati is gonna offer him a real contract, Said Higgins. We want to build something in Cincy, but it's not in my hands. If I go to another team, then that's what happens. Sounds a little like he's resigned to not returning to Cincinnati.
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Colin Cowherd
It's embarrassing. Go look at Philadelphia's roster and look at the fact they can't pay a second receiver. Who else are you paying?
- [39:41]
Danny Parkins
Well, Burrows making more than. Way more than hurts, right?
- [39:44]
Colin Cowherd
Every year.
- [39:45]
Danny Parkins
And the draft pick. Cincinnati's hit. They just haven't been good. They're not nailing their young kids the way that The Eagles. Cooper DeJean, Superstar. I mean, pick six of the Super.
- [39:55]
Colin Cowherd
Mitchell.
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Danny Parkins
Mitchell, outstanding. Zach Vaughn was a free agent like Saquon Barkley.
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Colin Cowherd
Free agent Cincinnati. If I'm T. Higgins, as much as I love Joe Burrow, if I'm T. Higgins and I can go to Harbaugh, Herbert Harbaugh, you know, Patriots.
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Danny Parkins
Would you chase money with the Patriots over go to stay with the Patriots.
- [40:15]
Colin Cowherd
I think Drake May's really good. Yeah, I think I would have no problem going.
- [40:19]
Danny Parkins
You're not going to the playoffs.
- [40:20]
Colin Cowherd
I would have no problem going to New England. If I was New England, I would go after T. Higgins. You got three years. You're not paying Drake May for another three. Four years.
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Danny Parkins
You want to live in Boston?
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Colin Cowherd
Who? Boston's beautiful.
- [40:29]
Danny Parkins
Or LA with the Chargers?
- [40:31]
Colin Cowherd
Not everybody wants to live in Los Angeles, believe it or not.
- [40:34]
Danny Parkins
Are you sure?
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. A lot of people like living in Boston.
- [40:36]
Danny Parkins
You like it out here?
- [40:38]
Colin Cowherd
It's okay. I like Boston, too. You do? Your little world. If you don't have a beach, you can't live there.
- [40:43]
Danny Parkins
Well, once you taste it, it's like, oh. Oh, this is nice.
- [40:48]
Colin Cowherd
Look at the Patriots. 120 million in cap space.
- [40:51]
Danny Parkins
Yeah, they're gonna go after them. What about Raiders? No, they don't have a quarterback. Commanders is spicy.
- [40:56]
Colin Cowherd
No, they've already got a star receiver.
- [40:59]
Danny Parkins
Let me get. I'll take two. I don't want to back on the rookie deal.
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Colin Cowherd
I think New England's a great place for him. Chicago doesn't need it. I mean, to me, it's obvious. New England's the place. Or the Chargers.
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Danny Parkins
I think Chargers. Yeah. Chargers is a good one.
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Colin Cowherd
J. Mac with the noose. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the Herd. Lie news. Taking shots at Chicago. Taking shots at Boston. Great town. A lot of good beers in Boston. A lot of good sports in Boston.
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Danny Parkins
Well, as a. I was born in New York, so I'm just conditioned to hate all Boston. Yeah, but I love Jason Tatum. That's my guy. I. I do love him. He's gonna be a Laker one day.
- [41:39]
Colin Cowherd
We know that.
- [41:40]
Danny Parkins
Obviously, he's got a Kobe tattoo.
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Colin Cowherd
Come on, dude. I think he's going to be a Celtic for the rest of his life. As they win their second straight NBA championship in June. All right, live in Los Angeles, it's the Herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's Steve Covino. And I'm Rich Davis. And together we're Covino and Rich on Fox Sports Radio. You can catch us weekdays from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. And of course, the iHeartRadio app. Why should you listen to Covino and Rich? We talk about everything. Life, sports, relationships, what's going on in the world. We have a lot of fun talking about the stories behind the stories in the world of sports and pop culture. Stories that. Well, other shows don't seem to have the time to discuss and the fact that we've been friends for the last 20 years and still work together. I mean that says something, right? So check us out. We like to get you involved too. Take your phone calls, chop it up as they say. I'd say the most interactive show on Fox Sports Radio maybe the most interactive show on planet Earth. Be sure to check out Covino and Rich live on Fox Sports radio and the iHeartradio app from 5 to 7pm Eastern, 2 to 4 Pacific. And if you miss any of the live show, just search Ko Vino Enrich wherever you get your podcast. And of course on social media, that's Covino and Rich.
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Nick Wright
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Colin Cowherd
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J. Mac
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Danny Parkins
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Colin Cowherd
Welcome back. I was looking over this morning because the NFL draft is drafting people who have been in college three, four, sometimes five years if they redshirted. Is that it's a very fun draft to watch because most of you watch them. Yeah, there's a Buckeye, there's a Georgia Bulldog, there's a Oklahoma Sooner. You know, you've watched the players where in the WNBA draft. The women's draft is a lot like that, too, that you see stars from South Carolina or Stanford. The NBA draft, I mean, it's, you're just projecting. It's really hard to be a GM in the NBA. You're guessing you're drafting 18 year olds. Some go to the G League, some are just out of high school. I mean, you have no tape. And so but one of the things I love about the NFL draft is that you don't it market size is irrelevant. If you draft well, you can be Buffalo or Green Bay or New Orleans. It doesn't matter. Of all the leagues, football is the fairest of the leagues. Let's be honest about baseball. If you got New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, money, I mean, go just combine. You could combine the Dodgers, Phillies, Mets, just, just in the National League, combine those rosters. I mean, you got, I mean, maybe San Diego's got a couple of good players, but it's like maybe Atlanta has Acuna, but in the end it's a money sport, right? And then in the NBA, I mean, guys like to play in Los Angeles, guys like to play in certain markets. Miami has always been attractive. You know, guys like to play with Steph Curry. The NFL is very fair. Market size is completely irrelevant if your scouting department is good. I mean, the two New York teams right now stink. Until this year. DC Stunk forever. Huge market. We a lot of big markets Chicago, Atlanta, New York, doesn't matter. Baltimore's great, Green Bay's great. You know, Cincinnati's got great offensive player. Market size is absolutely irrelevant. And I was looking at all the players that Philadelphia had taken and this is one of the things that I think is so attractive about the NFL is in for our radio audience, this is a lot of numbers. But for the TV audience, they just don't miss on their top picks. And I said this a couple years ago, everybody said, oh, the Rams were in the rebuild and they had back to back defensive drafts. They did not miss on any pick. Their safeties, their corners, their rush ends, their D tackle, everything worked. And that's what I love about the NFL, is it's not about money, it's not about prestige. I can argue the two worst run teams in the league, three could be a Chicago team and two New York teams. The best team in New York is the one up in small market Buffalo. Right. The best midwestern team is not Chicago, it's little old Green Bay. And that is, I think, really endearing and connectable and relatable to NFL fans. But so you know, when you, when you talk about Philadelphia, we. I don't know if Nick Sirianni is a great coach. I know the last three years he's had a ridiculous roster. Just absolutely ridiculous roster. So if you go look at the foreseeable future because they hit on so many draft picks, one of the easiest predictions in the NFL next year is Philadelphia is going to be a playoff team. Even more than Kansas City. I think Buffalo is a lock then this year. I think I got six of the eight divisions. Right. I think pretty safe bet Buffalo's going to win that division. Kansas City and the Chargers will both be playoff teams. Baltimore will be a playoff team. Philadelphia and the Lions are absolutely playoff teams.
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Danny Parkins
You had the Patriots going to the playoffs. Who's coming out? Is it your beloved Denver Broncos?
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Colin Cowherd
No, Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Danny Parkins
Oh, Pittsburgh Steelers. Okay, good, good. But you remember you need like four new playoff teams every year.
- [49:58]
Colin Cowherd
I can tell you right now. Okay, I'll tell you right now is.
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Danny Parkins
But why don't we do a tease because we're running out of time and then do it next hour.
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Colin Cowherd
All right.
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Danny Parkins
Can I produce a show as well as be part of it? Sorry, Sorry, guys.
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Colin Cowherd
I. I mean, if you're not.
- [50:12]
Danny Parkins
I just see the clock.
- [50:13]
Colin Cowherd
If you're not telling me about your three pointers at, @ home on your rec team, you're producing and directing the show.
- [50:20]
Danny Parkins
Didn't have a great night last night. Was double teamed a lot.
- [50:26]
Colin Cowherd
The Coke machine was doubled or you were doubled. I don't know.
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J. Mac
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Colin Cowherd
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J. Mac
Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast, here's.
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Colin Cowherd
The thing, I spoke with more actors.
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J. Mac
Musicians, policy makers and so many other fascinating people like writer and actor Dan Aykroyd.
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Colin Cowherd
I love writing more than anything. You're left alone. You know, you do three hours in the morning, you write three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school and write at night. And after nine hours you come out with seven pages and then you're, you're moving on.
- [52:00]
J. Mac
And actor and comedian Jack McBrayer.
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Colin Cowherd
The most important aspect is the collaboration with people that I like, I trust are talented. That has been the most amazing gift to me about this crazy business that we've chosen. Meeting these people who have such diverse talents and you're able to create something together. Listen to here's the thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Calling all Yellowstone fans, let's go to work. Join Bobby Bones on the official Yellowstone Podcast for exclusive cast interviews, behind the scenes insights and a deep dive into the themes that have made Yellowstone a cultural phenomenon. Our family legacy is this ranch and I protector of my life. Listen to the official Yellowstone Podcast now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.