Colin Cowherd (4:07)
Here we go. Colin right. Colin wrong. On a Monday. Plenty of both where Colin was right. I said when Saquon Barkley. I said it March 11. He's going to be gigantic for Philadelphia because of their wide receiving talent and because of their O line. You won't be able to jam the box. Those safeties will have to play outside and Barkley's going to have record setting years. If you look at the mobility of hurts an offensive coach, their O line, they're wide receiving talent. It's just absolutely unthinkable. The New York Giants roll the dice and let Saquon Barkley. March 11th. I said it. People don't like paying running backs. I would pay running backs. Fletcher Cox left the game. They had some money. I was a huge fan of the move. Not just because, remember at the time everybody was like, whoa. Running backs. Barkley was the perfect fit. The icing on a great cake. Where Colin was raw Friday, I said Kansas City, the jig is up. 28, 27 Buffalo. They're too talented and I thought they were. And if Dalton Kincaid catches that ball, they could still win. But this reductionist, 4th and 1. Josh Allen gets the ball every time. Stuff doesn't work for me at all. And in the end, once again, Mahomes, Reed and Spags elevate, expand, not contract. In the playoffs. Where Colin was right, I like Sean McDermott. I think he's Mike McCarthy on the defensive side of the ball. But good coaches don't win against great quarterbacks and coaches. I said this in big games. Where's his defense against Kansas City? They're scoring 35 points every time these two teams meet in the playoffs. I also think he gets tight. I also think on those fourth and ones it felt like they were just sort of ad libbing it and letting Josh do what Josh needed to be done. I didn't like that at all. Where Colin was wrong, I'm wrong on Nick Ceriani, I don't, I don't like the method. But players love him. Philly loves him, city loves him and the GM and the coach love him. His playoff record now is 5 and 3. He has had multiple coordinators. He may be more coordinator driven than a lot of coaches, but he's an emotional guy that lives on the edge and the team in the locker room respond to him. And that's really what coaching is. The Lions respond to Dan Campbell. The Chargers respond to Jim Harbaugh. So much of this sport is taking alpha male pro athletes and do they buy into the messaging. And in Philadelphia with Nick Ceriani, I was wrong. They do every Sunday. Where Colin was right, I predicted when Brian Schottenheimer News came out, I said, if he gets hired, this is going to be met with utter outrage and dismay. This will not just be a mediocre coaching hire. 14 years as a coordinator, first time he's been even discussed as a head coach. And Jerry Jones did a 10pm Friday news dump for those that were awake. It was met with outrage in the cowboy community and beyond. This is just not a good enough hire. Where Colin was wrong, I thought Xavier worthy of Kansas City, who had a season high in yards, I thought as a first round pick he'd probably end up being a gadget guy, four or five plays a game yesterday over 100 yards, a TD, seven targets. He felt like yesterday he can be either a number one with a Rasheed rice or a 1A. But Kansas City, and this is what they're prone to do, they tend to develop players, especially wide receivers and targets over the course of a long season. And Worthy who I remember, I remember the first game he played. I think he had a touchdown in his first game or a couple big plays and I thought that's just what he's going to be. But he was a volume receiver yesterday where Colin was right. Pete Carroll hired by the Raiders. When his name first came out, it was dismissed. He was too old. And I'm like Pete Carroll, age is not the issue. In fact, even in Seattle his last two years and winning seasons with Geno Smith in a tough division. So he got pushed back early and I didn't understand it. I think Pete's a very good coach now. Do I think sometimes he's too loyal to assistants I don't love? Yes. But that's probably a good human quality. It's not a great coaching quality sometimes. But a lot of people dismissed Pete Carroll. Raiders didn't. Smart teams didn't. Where Colin was wrong? Well, I thought when Mike McCarthy bailed on the Cowboys next to Mike Vrabel, he'd be the number one candidate and there's only one job left and I'm not sure he's going to get the Saints job. He didn't even interview for other jobs. Now is that McCarthy's choice? Is he looking at all the openings and saying New England, Chicago after that, I'm not interested. But I thought he would be a hot coaching candidate and he's not. Where Collin was right. I not only picked Ohio State to be in the national championship when they lost to Oregon at Austin, I said they'd be in the national championship. When they lost to Michigan, I said stop it. I think they're still odds on favorite to play for the national championship. I thought Ryan Day and Chip Kelly did what he was hired to do. I just ran into Skip Friday. Is that kind of. As the NFL and college now feel kind of more seamless now you have a big playoff in college like the pros. Guys are getting paid like the pros. You're going to need the kind of emotional guy in Chip Kelly that can build like pro game plans, keeping some stuff, showing other stuff. There's a different way to coach now. Not just go to the Citrus Bowl. You got game after game after game against the best teams and coaches. And a lot of people bailed on Ohio State and Ryan Day. But I felt even after the losses to Michigan and Oregon, they were as good as anybody in the country. Colin right. Colin wrong. And with that, we bring in Matt Hasselbeck. 18 years, three Pro Bowls, Super Bowls. You know, you never wavered on Philadelphia. The louder they got, the more you liked them. And yeah, I mean, really, it's funny. It's like I. I don't like their methodology at all.
