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THE HERD - Hour 1 - JJ McCarthy getting praise, Ben Johnson admitting his mistakes, defending the Ravens
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
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Joel Klatt
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See Amazon.comamazonprime for details. Thanks for listening to the Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio and noon to 3 Eastern, 9am to noon Pacific. Find your local station for the herd@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. Now, let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. We are live. We are in Chicago, and it is the Herd. Wherever you may be, however you may be watching or listening, thanks for making us part of your day. It's Wednesday, meaning Joel Clout one hour from now as we head into a college football weekend. You know, J. Mack, I listen to Chicago radio this morning. They're all worked up, everybody. Three different people. Well, what do you make of, what do you make of Caleb Williams? It's a long season. I'm not sure, but I was thinking about this this morning. We're both parents and, you know, parents want their kids to be number one. Number one in the class. Valedictorian, Got a start on the basketball team. Number one. It's all nonsense. It's all nonsense. Where you go to college, where do you fit best is where you should go to college if you're going to be a success. Phil Knight started at Oregon. He eventually went to Stanford, but he started, you know, at Oregon. And that's kind of the reality of, of life. It's about fit. Here's where. Finishing number one doesn't necessarily help you getting drafted as a quarterback. J.J. mcCarthy was the fifth quarterback taken and Bo Nix was the sixth. Yet they got Kevin O' Connell and they got Sean Payton. Lamar Jackson, last quarterback, first round. Last player actually went to the Ravens. Patrick Mahomes, the 10th pick, went to the stable Chiefs. Josh Allen, third quarterback taken, Aaron Rodgers. Dan Marino fell in the first round. One got Don Shula, Super bowl, second year. The other one got, you know, the Packers. I don't know how good J.J. mcCarthy is. I don't know how good Bo Nix is, but I suspect they're both going to win their division a lot. And over the course of 15 years, they're going to win a bunch of games because I think Kevin o' Connell is the best young offensive coach in football. I know Sean McVeigh. Yeah. But I mean, I, I don't even consider Sean McVay Young anymore. Right. Like he's a veteran head coach. And that's a lot of it. There are a lot of bad coaching staffs in this league. And even when you get a coach that's not bad. Pretty good. Mike Tomlin. It doesn't mean he has any understanding or any sensibility on how to help a young quarterback. If you go look at Jared Goff's entire career, it is tied to how good his coach is and the Minnesota Vikings. My wife used to live and work in Minnesota. Not a big sports fan. And we were talking about Minnesota beating the Bears because we now live in Chicago. And she said, well, the Vikings are always good, right? And I'm like, yeah, that's right. The Vikings are always good. They always have good owners. They always have a good front office, a good general manager, a solid coach. I mean, Sam Darnold and Kirk Cousins Both finished top 10 in offense. I mean, Sam Darnold's career was over, and all of a sudden he's MVP talk. I don't think that would have happened. Didn't happen in Carolina. Didn't happen to the Jets. So this idea, this, our society, is, you've got to finish number one. Where do you fit best? I don't care if it's a high school choice, which a lot of times you don't have options. But when it's a college choice, the Ivy League isn't for everybody. Big state schools, you know, Texas, you know, they're not for everybody. Some kids need more tutoring, smaller schools. Some kids may need vocational schools, a junior college, whatever it takes. But I look at Bo Nicks, you know, Bo Nicks in September. I looked at us up this morning in September. In his career, two touchdowns, six picks, yet Bo Nicks has a winning record in September. That's called organizational support and coaching support. He's been bad in September, and he has a winning record in the AFC in a division with Justin Herbert and Patrick Mahomes. You're not doing that with bad coaching. So, J.J. mcCarthy, Jim Harbaugh to Kevin O'. Connell. I'm sorry. A part of his success is that it's not fair. Baker Mayfield got Cleveland and Hugh Jackson. Mahomes got Andy Reid and the Hunt family. Now, I think Mahomes is better than Baker. And it took Baker a while to prove he could be a franchise guy you could trust. And I do think talent eventually finds its way. But in the NFL, injuries regulated levels of violence. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you get banged up. Drew Brees wanted to be a Miami Dolphin, and they wouldn't let him. And thank God Sean Payton was there, right? Like. Like banged up in San Diego. Dolphins are not interested. Team doctor says no. What if Sean Payton doesn't exist? One of the all time greats gets another situation where it's just not perfect for him. So listen, man, we all know this. The longer you live, parenting is not fair. Some people get bad parents and bad boss bosses and bad coaches. And, you know, I just. All I know is I look at J.J. mcCarthy and Bo Nix. One is the fifth quarterback taken, one is the sixth quarterback taken. I mean, through three quarters, J.J. mcCarthy was about as bad as you can be in the NFL at quarterback. That pick six was Will Leva stuff. But his coach stayed with him, hung with him, supported him. Here's Kevin O' Connell on JJ's budding bond with his teammates. All the credit in the world should go to JJ and his teammates. I mean, that relationship that's been built and, you know, many times around the league, those, you know, the requirements sometimes are, you got to do those things first. We got to see it for our team to still trust in that moment. And then kind of that explosion, explosion of energy and emotion when he was, you know, making some of those plays in the second half that, you know, that can be infectious for a while, I hope, because now we do have confirmation. We are obsessed with finishing number one when it comes to quarterbacks. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's, there's the occasional John Elway, but look at what Caleb Williams inherited ownership down, and look what Bo Nicks got. Maybe the richest owners in sports. I think I read yesterday they've got a new stadium. It's Sean Payton. They led the NFL in sacks. Bo Nix doesn't have to get in shootouts. By year two, his defense was keeping him in games. J.J. mcCarthy has Brian Flores. I was talking to a Bears fan this morning that was all dejected. I said, listen, the bottom line is Brian Flores in your opener is a rough, is a rough game. Caleb Williams probably faced his best defensive coordinator in the first game of the rebuild with Ben Johnson. All right, speaking of Ben Johnson, I can't speak for everybody else, but I think this is true. The best bosses I've ever had in my life have held me accountable, but I've also held my co workers accountable and themselves accountable. And Ben Johnson was talking about his debut as an NFL head coach. I didn't think I called a particularly great game. I could have adjusted a little bit better to the lack of pressure that flow was giving us. And so I can do a better job there. And then at the end of the game, felt like we could kick it out of the back. We weren't able to get that done in hindsight I should have kicked it out of bounds. Training camp, OTAs preseason, week one. He's holding himself and Caleb Williams accountable. Best bosses I've ever had. Do the same thing I always tell my boss. Bark at me, just upset. Tell me, I'll figure it out. Remember Matt Eberfloos? They lost the Hail Mary game. Gave up all those free yards before the Hail Mary. He was questioned. Nothing to see here. And it's just no big deal. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. A lot of things were a big deal. And it was always Mike McDaniel. Ice cream for breakfast. Mike McDaniel. Miami players stroll in late. Tyreek Hill criticizes his quarterback publicly in camp. Remember this year in camp when teams practiced against those joint practices, practice against the Dolphins, and I forget the team, but one of the players in the team said, yeah, they don't practice like us. Miami doesn't practice nearly as hard as us. Standards. Excuses, not holding people accountable. Sean McVay admits now with the Rams, he had to lighten up. He was so harsh and intense. Tom Coughlin lightened up and then beat Brady and Belichick twice in Super Bowls. If you look at Coughlin and Sean McVay, their resumes are filled with accountability to themselves and others. It's one of my knocks on Mike Tomlin. He's too player friendly. It just. Just. I mean. And again, I don't expect my coaches to be perfect, right? We're all on our couch watching. You know when you're in a game and it's fluid and it's going fast. I was joking with the staff this morning. It's like going on a date with a beautiful, smart woman. You want to be funny, but not silly. Confident but not arrogant. Smart, but not preach. Like, you know, like it's, oh, the state's happening and she's judging me and I don't have time. And they make their mind up in eight minutes. And it's much easier to sit and watch the date and go, boy, he's not handling it well. He's not asking her about her. He's doing too much talking. That's the way we judge in the media, coaching. Well, how come he didn't do this and how come he didn't do that? You got a million things going on in your head. You're dealing with coordinators, you're on the headset. You're dealing with players. You're dealing with a clock. So I don't. I don't. I don't think Coaches are perfect, but when they make mistakes, just own it. You just got to own it. And Ben Johnson was in Detroit with Matt Patricia and in Detroit with, with Dan Campbell. So he's seen good culture and bad culture. And that's the one thing about Dan Campbell. I don't think he's a schematic genius, but he's an authentic guy who, when he screws up, Dan Campbell owns it. And that is a great quality to have as a quarterback or as a coach or as a boss or as an employee. That was a Dolphins Lions joint practice. Yeah. It was a Lions player who said, yeah, Miami, they don't practice like us. They're not nearly as intense. There you go. Got to own it. Joel, class going to show up 45 minutes from now, Mark Sanchez, who, by the way, I think I read this morning that he's got a new show at night on Fox, on Tuesday nights, Wednesday nights, something like that. We'll ask Mark Sanchez about that. You know, there's still a little reverb J. Mac on the Ravens lost to the Bills, which if Derrick Henry doesn't fumble, it probably doesn't exist. I am going to pivot on this. I'm going to defend the Ravens again today on this because I think, I think the media is overlooking something about the Baltimore Ravens. And I discussed it kind of yesterday where I said, you know, I mean, Lamar Jackson's one of those quarterbacks. You may not figure them out until like the seventh, eighth or ninth series, so later in games because he's such a unique style. But I thought of something else this morning and I'll discuss that coming up. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the iHeartRadio Apple. Hey, what's up everybody? It's me, three time Pro Bowler Lavar Arrington and I couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called up on Game. What is up on Game? You ask? Along with my fellow Pro Bowler TJ Hushman, Zada and Super bowl champion. Yep, that's right. 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I don't know if you've heard of him, but it was interesting. I went back and I looked, I said, you know, something doesn't smell right. And I went back and The Ravens are one of seven teams to lead at least 20 games by nine to 16 points in the fourth quarter over the past four seasons. And here's what's funny about the teams that lead big. They're all good. Ravens, Bills, Niners, Lions, Eagles, Chiefs and the Bengals are good with Joe Burrow. And not a lot of crappy teams lead big. The other thing I noticed is not only have the Ravens led more in big games, they've led by more a lot more often. Yes, they've had 10 more huge leads in the fourth quarter than Buffalo, 10 more in just four seasons, and seven more than the Chiefs in just four seasons and 10 more than the Bengals. And I'm not saying they don't play with their food a little and they don't need to get better. But when you look closely at it, wouldn't the Jets, Giants and Panthers Jags love to have the luxury of actually leading by 9 to 16 points in the fourth quarter? I think the Giants would love the opportunity for that to happen. All the teams that are listed blowing leads, they're all the good teams. And then I went and looked at the teams they've blown leads against and here's what's interesting. It's often horrible teams. Dolphins, Giants, Jags, Browns, Raiders. They get complacent, they lead big, they close up shop offensively and they get burned on the back end. Again, I'm not saying they don't have to get better then. And I don't think Derrick Henry is going to fumble away a lot of wins going forward. Okay, so some of it's just circumstantial. It's a, it's a bad break. Then I went and looked at the head coaches in the history of the league with the most blown fourth quarter leads, double digit leads yet. Tom Landry, Don Shuler, Bill Belichick, Mike Shanahan and John Harbaugh. Uc blown leads. You know what I see? Lombardi trophies. Great companies with high expectations sometimes underachieve slightly and the stock goes down because there's these huge expectations of their quarterly earnings, right? Like it's, oh, Nvidia, it was off half of 1%. Well, that's because Nvidia has been on a seven year run. So the Ravens have two touchdown leads, significantly more than every other team, including the Chiefs and the Bills over the last just four seasons. And that's Lamar in his prime. They get off to huge leads. It's often against bad teams. I mean, you've heard the backdoor cover, that's a term used by gamblers where you know, you have the better team, you bet the better team, but you're concerned that the other team can actually throw the ball. They may backdoor cover. You know, you take seven and a half points and they've been getting beat by 13, 14 all day and then they backdoor cover. Sometimes backdoor covers become backdoor losses, but the truth is they just lead more than everybody else, as did Belichick and Shanahan and Shula and John Harbaugh and Tom Landry. So I listen, they have an issue. They can't beat Kansas City in the playoffs, and that's a clear issue. But I, I I got one of the worst problems. It's like a, it's almost a good problem to have. I mean, no problems, good to have. But yeah, we get into these huge leads. By the way, we win most of them. Yeah, we win most of the games. We lead big late. That's also not talked about. Yeah, we win 75, 85% of those games. Yeah. But we blow it off into bad teams. Okay. Half this league would just like the opportunity to lead between nine and 16 points over the last four years. And again they play with their food a little. They, they shut down the offense. Probably a drive too soon. John Harbaugh talks about it. Maybe part of it's the fact that we've been ahead a lot. You know, we've won a lot of games, so we've had a lot of, and we've had a lot of two score leads. So we've, we've kept a lot of those, but we've, I think we've lost six of them, if I'm not mistaken. That's too many. We need to be really thoughtful of, you know, how we decide that we're going to approach those situations going forward. You know, let's give it some thought. And for the record, in college football, and I don't think I'm wrong saying this, you can usually tell by the third series of a game who's going to win the game. Very rarely does a team trail by two touchdowns all game and comes back and wins. It just doesn't happen in college football. Very often. You can trail, but generally if a team goes into a fourth quarter leading by 10, they've got the better players and the better staff and the better geography and the better recruiting base. But in the NFL, look at what we've seen with JJ McCarthy. Unplayable for three quarters and then the best quarterback in the world for about 15 minutes. That doesn't happen a lot in college football where some, some quarterback can't complete passes, pick sixes and then in the fourth quarter, yeah, he's like 9 for 10 and perfect Buffalo scoring all those points to win 4,140 after being outplayed. There are no Josh Allen's quarterbacking in college football. It's just part of being pro football. It's like basketball. It's the reality of basketball with a three point shot. You know, good teams blow big leads because good teams lead big late more than bad teams, I would imagine. I haven't looked it up, but the Washington Wizards haven't blown a lot of 15point fourth quarter leads in the last decade. I'm going to go with it. Probably hasn't happened much. J. Mac with the news. No, no, no. Turn on the news.
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Colin Cowherd
This is the herd line news. All right, Colin, let's bust right into it. The Chargers had a huge win over the Chiefs in Brazil and Jim Harbaugh just gushed about his quarterback, Justin Herbert. Listen, he loves gushing about Herbert. It's a great sound bite.
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Joel Klatt
Here we go. Huge hit on Justin. The kind of hit that would have killed a lesser man. That's how big that hit was. Most quarterbacks, most human beings, I mean, you take that kind of, that kind of big hit to come back the next play and just stand in there and you know, look down the barrel of the gun and hit another one. You know, it's, it's pretty impressive just offensively.
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Colin Cowherd
You guys obviously added a lot on that side.
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Joel Klatt
Obado, Justin Patrick Herbert. Yeah, he loves him some Justin Herbert. And. And for the record, we all do. Come on. Yeah, I mean I think 99% of fans get that he finally has the right coach.
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Colin Cowherd
I mean Herbert 25 of 34, 318 yards, three touchdowns against Spags and the Chiefs. Joe Alt was a member. The left tackle gone. Joe Alt sliding over was dominant. I mean, Colin, there's a lot of reasons to be excited. You could tell Harbaugh little pep in his step heading into this Raiders game.
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Joel Klatt
Don't you worry about though, coming back from Brazil, going and having to give up three and a half to a Raiders team that is feeling themselves now with a very good coaching staff. That's a. Those that whenever I see three and a half in a division rivalry game. So you, you're a three and a half point favorite on the road with a capable division, rideable. And Gino is more than capable of making big throws a lot of its quarterbacks. Like that is a game that I. It just tells me the Raiders are going to keep that thing close. That's going to be one of the better games of the weekend that nobody's talking about. Raiders, Chargers close.
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Colin Cowherd
See again, we don't want to overreact, Colin, but I watch the Chargers face the Chiefs. You would have the Chiefs top six in the league. I just saw the Raiders play the Patriots. I mean those are two bad teams. So I can't take them a lot from Geno carving up a new secondary rebuilt. Like if Geno Smith did that.
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Joel Klatt
What's Herbert going to do?
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Colin Cowherd
Because he has better receivers. I think he has better weapons on the outside.
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Joel Klatt
Doesn't he I don't know. Raiders is one of my favorite plays of the week. Favorite? Well, I'm not saying they're going to win. It's going to be a Chargers field goal win. But I, maybe I was too impressed with The Raiders going 3,000 miles with a brand new everything. Staffs, coordinators, quarterback, GM like everything was new. It was kind of impressive to me.
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Colin Cowherd
Or perhaps you're just too chummy with the Raiders staff. I don't know. I have no idea. Let's go on to the next story. Colin, that's the Pittsburgh Steelers. They got a unfortunate win. I'll, we'll call it lucky. A 60 yard field goal with a minute left. That's luck to go 10 beating my jets. There's another revenge game this week for the Pittsburgh Steelers and that is DK Metcalf facing off against his former team, the Seahawks, ahead of the matchup. Mike Tomlin says, although he hasn't spoken to DK about the game, common sense, Colin would tell you the game will mean a lot to him. DK had a good game against the Jets. Sauce Gardner did shut him down. The only time he got loose was when Sauce was not guarding him. I like the Seahawks in this spot. I know they're getting, getting a field goal. I just, I was not impressed at all with the Steelers defense.
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Joel Klatt
Well, I think the analytics tell you Seattle got a lot of pressures on Brock Purdy. See Sam Darnold actually pff played very well. Seattle's trying to establish who their number one receiver is. But again I, when I watch the Steelers and the jets, the old overwhelming story to me was how good Justin Fields was. That, that was, I mean Aaron's always had games like this. I was blown away by their offense, the left side of their O line, Breeze Hall. My whole takeaway was, I mean I thought it was going to be a low scoring game. So it was a wildly entertaining early window game. But Justin Fields to me was the story. It wasn't that Aaron, you know, with a brand new staff in New York was able to hit some. I mean, listen, DK Metcalf is a problem and they didn't run the ball in Pittsburgh. They didn't necessarily. Aaron got sacked four times. So I thought it was one of those wins. Not that it was a bad win, but it wasn't as impressive as I thought the jets effort was on the other side with a whole new staff.
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Colin Cowherd
Totally agree. And when you look at Rodgers, everybody, now Rodgers is back. See he can play in week one. I'm Just going to caution you, a lot of that was against the jets and their new defensive scheme and everything. This Seahawks defense is awesome. They. I think Brock Purdy is better than Rogers at the stage. Would you agree?
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Joel Klatt
Yes, at this stage. Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
And he struggled against this Seattle secondary.
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Joel Klatt
It's elite, man.
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Colin Cowherd
Listen, I was on the Niners. I felt like we got lucky with that win. One of my Niners friends texted me, we stole that game like ski masks and everything. I think Seattle's a side against Pittsburgh. Final story.
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Joel Klatt
Colin.
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Colin Cowherd
Let's go to the Buffalo Bills. That huge comeback. Everybody's still buzzing for the 41:40 victory over the Ravens. However, the defense was quite abhorrent and DC Bobby Babich knows how they got to correct things.
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Joel Klatt
No one in the defensive room thinks anything of that nature was acceptable. Right. You look at, I think third and six plus we were six for eight, which is a good thing. We were, they were one to three in the red zone. That's a good thing. But all the stuff in between that you're talking about is unacceptable and our players know that. Yeah, that's a, that's a really interesting game. I, I think a lot of Buffalo's problem is just personnel. I don't think it's scheme necessarily. First of all, Lamar's a handful, but I think a lot of it is. They've had to. The last two years. They've had to move off defensive players who were like, like guys that were like important lot of snaps, you know, like veteran guys. So I think it's the reality. The Ravens defense, Kansas City's O line and run game, you pay the quarterback big money, you're not, you're going to be a flawed team. And I think they're just flawed in the back end. And I don't think it's coaching.
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Colin Cowherd
Obviously you see the line on the screen. Bills favor by seven at the Jets. Let me ask you, having faced Lamar, a running quarterback last week, is that a big edge for Buffalo now facing not a poor man's Lamar, but Justin Fields wants to run.
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Joel Klatt
The worst thing for the jets is that, I mean, I mean Buffalo won the game. Like, by the way, the Ravens are a 12 point favorite. I'm thinking of taking the Ravens because they're so ticked off, they tend to bounce back. I mean, I think the best thing, Sean Payton always says this, winning imperfectly, you can coach harder. So the Bills come out of that game and they were getting, they were getting housed for most of it and won. So the best thing in the NFL, you Win. You want the W in the win column, but you don't play particularly well. So those teams like that Buffalo. To me, Buffalo's probably the side. If it goes to seven and a half, I'd stay away, but it's seven points. Buffalo played mostly a very poor football game. Yet one those teams tend to the following week be really focused in practice.
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Colin Cowherd
I'll just say the divisional underdogs were barking last week. And early in the season, with most teams healthy, you lean toward the dogs. You like the Raiders divisional dog. I'm surprised you're not going jets here. I probably have to pass on this one. Hitting the jets last week. You don't want to go back to the well with your team just in case they lay an egg.
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Joel Klatt
Yeah. J Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the Herd lie news. We've got a lot of stuff going on. Joel Klatt is going to be joining us at the top of the hour. I saw, and I don't want to, you know, belabor this point because I've talked about it recently, but people don't like change. People actually feared the invention or discovery of electricity at the time. People were all terrified by electricity. I lived through Y2K and now AI and 5G. New stuff freaks people out and a lot of people just do not handle it. So here's a number that Fox. Michael Mulvihill, our analytic maven at Fox, total viewing of college football is up 25% across all networks through week two. Even this early in the season. Fair to say it's pretty likely third straight year of record breaking total viewing of college football. That's with the nil, the transfer portal and the expanded playoff. And I would say 75% of my audience thought it would ruin the sport, not hurt it. Ruin the sport. It has been unbelievable so far. Great games and more big games. Now a lot of people are saying, well, Colin, there's a new metric where they're counting people who are watching that are away from home. Like in bars. Yeah, but that's the right metric for the previous 50 years of my life. The Nielsen couldn't get it right. They didn't count eyes, they just counted TV sets. Have you ever gone to a bar to watch a game? Oh, yeah, we all have about six times a year. The TV metrics were always wrong. It was always like a running joke that we always knew in sports we had much greater audiences, much greater bandwidth, much larger volume of people watching that you got credit for. I mostly If I'm going to go watch a game, because of my profession, I don't watch with other people. But every time I drive by or walk by on a Saturday or Sunday, a place could be a World Series. I mean, I. During the summer, the US Open, I'm walking by a restaurant. It's got three TVs on. They're all in the US Open. Everybody at the bar is watching. So the new metrics are the truth. The old metrics were deceptive. And next year, by the way, I always. My truth serum was always this. Content always wins. Content always wins any platform. And the platform of college football had a scarcity of big out of conference games. For the record, the SEC next year is getting rid of like Panera Bread Tech and they're going to add a ninth conference game. So in this weekend, next week, we get Auburn, Oklahoma. We wouldn't have had that a couple years ago. Two weeks. We get Oregon, Penn State, Ohio State, in Seattle, at Washington. Wouldn't have had that a couple years ago when the Pac 12 disbanded. It's going to ruin college football out west. I don't know. I watched the games at Austin. They're sold out. People seem to be into it. Husky Stadium seems very alive to me. I mean, you told me it was all going to shrivel up. Nope, it's not only up. It's up significantly. And the new data and metrics for college football and sports in general are the right metrics. It's how it should have always been measured because we all watch half the games or more at a bar or lounge. So it just, it just goes to show people, and I get it, 40% of Americans end up living in the area code in which they were born in. Like, I get it. I move more than most. I get it. But college football isn't better now. It's significantly better. Like, not even close. That doesn't mean the transfer portal is not a little overly aggressive. And I think people, by the way, like every other change in life, people went hog wild in the transfer portal. And then you watch Belichick with 70 new players and Lincoln Riley and Brian Kelly, and everybody's come to terms with the transfer portal. After about three to four years, you probably shouldn't bring in more than like eight to 10 players. Like every other change you experiment, there's not real boundaries and borders. It's like bitcoin. 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Colin Cowherd
Start your Saturday strong with Big Noon. It's a new era. Quarterback Dante Moore leads Oregon's explosive attack into their first Big Ten matchup taking on Northwestern. It all starts at 10 Eastern, live from Evanston with the Big Noon Kickoff crew. Then it's Oregon, Northwestern, only on Fox.
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Joel Klatt
By the way, that stadium is right on the water, Lake Michigan. So it's going to be an unbelievable view. We may have a few people on boats in that game. By the way, we were just laughing as a staff. The people that push back and go, well, yeah, everybody's ratings are up because of the new metric. Basically what you want is an outdated metric that was inaccurate. And I know in this day and age accurate data gets a pushback a little bit. But the reality is the old system was ridiculous because very few people watch a game by themselves. They've got a buddy or friends and, you know, they're sitting around and watching it with a group or they're at a game or a tailgate. The new college football ratings are accurate data, which is most of us watch it with somebody not sitting by ourselves in a dark room. That's what I do because I got a notebook and I have to do it for that. But most people don't watch games like that. And bars should count. Let me, let me shift to the Chiefs. So they play the Eagles this week. I like Philadelphia because I think Philadelphia has got a significantly better roster. But teams that start the season 0 and 2 and the Chiefs are now currently 0 and 1 and they're going to be 02 because they're going to lose probably to Philadelphia. They have an 88% chance of missing the playoffs over the last 35 years, since 1990, 35, the 288 teams that start oh two, they made the playoffs 12% of the time and that's it. And so, and I think there's a lot of factors here. I thought you could see this coming. We talked about this. I have them as a wild card. It's a head coach, quarterback league. Mahomes, Andy Reid, they'll be fine. But at some point in this league, roster depth and roster composition and just overall good players matter and their running back room is weak. Mahomes led them in rushing against the Chargers, hit 57 yards. And Mahomes is now behind a rebuilt offensive line and an offensive line in transition with a way below average run game. That means he's going to throw the ball 40 to 45 times a game. So. And also, Kansas City no longer benefits from the dysfunction of their division. Denver played poorly and won. The Raiders did not play great, traveled 3,000 miles across the country and won. So Kansas City has not had a thousand yard rusher since 2017. And I think you can get away with that in a dysfunctional division or Travis Kelsey's in his prime. But now Xavier Worthy may not play. Rasheed Rice is out for another what, four to five weeks. And the other thing that I think has to be mentioned is that the fatigue factor. So I looked it up this morning. In the Mahomes era, Kansas City in a sport with regulated violence, it's had seven long playoff runs in a row. Kansas City has played 1500 more snaps than any other NFL team in the Mahomes era and now the league is 17 games. So when you watched the Chargers and the Chiefs in Brazil, I could not be the only person that thought in the first quarter Kansas City had no juice like none. And the Chargers had a ton of urgency and a ton of energy. And so PFF grades gives you an overall team grade. They judge every offensive and defensive and special team snap. The lowest in the league. Week one was Miami. Second lowest was the Giants, third lowest was the Chiefs. And here comes Philadelphia with Jalen Carter returning. And again the Chiefs already perilous and thin receiving core could be without Xavier Worthy and just go back a year. So I had said one of the easier bets was Kansas City's was gonna, you know, not that it was a bet offered but they won 15 games. Even Vegas had their over under an 11 and a half. So they were gonna pull back. They weren't gonna go undefeated in one score games but go back to last season. In week one the Ravens were a toe from a game tying touchdown. They got a break. Week 2 the Bengals beat them on a controversial PI call. In week 10 they beat the Broncos on a block field goal. Two weeks later, a game winning field goal as time expired against Carolina. Week 13 they beat the Raiders on a bot snap. And week 14 was a walk off field goal against the Chargers. That boinked in or doinked whatever you want to say. So 15 and 2 was really close to being 10 and 7 and that's hey, they want them, they get. I do think there is some magic for really good coaches and quarterbacks in close games. But you know, pretty easy. Even Vegas is like, well yeah, we're going to take four wins away in the over under. So I think you're seeing it when I said this, I think I said this on Monday. You pay Josh Allen, you pay Lamar, you pay Herbert, you pay Burrow, you pay Mahomes, there's going to be a part of your team that's not good back end of the Bills. Not great. Chiefs running back room and O line work in progress. Chargers perimeter weapons sketchy. They need Quentin Johnson to hit. They need Quentin Johnson in Week one for the rest of the season. So I don't think it's a wild take. J. Mac, I like Philadelphia in this game. Jalen's back. They're a much better roster. I think there are things you can see in Week one that are clear. And I think Kansas City offensively, if Worthy doesn't play, I mean, J. Mac, they're going to struggle to move the ball.
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Colin Cowherd
You know, Colin, one thing we talk about a lot with that Patriots dynasty, it's tough to stay on top for two decades. Okay. Chiefs haven't even been on top for a decade is you were constantly reinventing yourself. Belichick was changing how the team looked. Remember they went heavy with the slot receivers. Edelman, Amendola, they went with that. Then they had the Moss era. They went with their heavy running backs, Corey Dillon, like they constantly. They were winning with defense. I look at this Chiefs team, Colin, what have they changed from last year? Are they better anywhere than they were last year when. No, I think you just articulated. It was a lot of smoke and mirrors to get to 15 and 2 and 11 and oh and one score games. And I don't see what's their counterpunch if the Eagles knock them down early, what's your counterpunch? By the way, there's some numbers on Patrick Mahomes right now. He's been one of the worst deep ball throwers in the league over the last year. And including week one.
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Joel Klatt
Well, and, and some of that is Rasheed Rice not available and worthy dinged up and now once again, maybe not available. So some of that's just personnel. But. And they have a great gm. But this, this league engineers great to be very good. Okay. This is not. Despite the way this is what Adam Silver is doing. Adam Silver has said he wants the NBA to be more like the NFL. Like you don't know who's going to win and so you can't get that third star because of the second apron. With a new cba. So what what commissioners have the power to do if they win. The collective bargaining is you engineer. The great teams have to move off players quickly. Like the Celtics had it kind of grandfathered in. Then Jason Tatum got hurt and suddenly you look at the Celtics and you're like, what would they be in the west? The fourth best team two years ago we thought they were going to win for the next five champions. Denver's a prime example. The Nuggets, they had to move off these really important like fifth starters, rotational guys and now it's very Jokic centric. So Adam Silver wants what the NFL has which is the minute you pay that star quarterback. I mean again Phillies the outlier with a hyper aggressive gm but it's the minute you pay the quarterback you're going to have holes. And great coaches can't fix holes, but they're great at finding them and taking advantage of yours. And Jim Harbaugh looked at that team and he did not respect their receiving core much.
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Colin Cowherd
And oh by the way Belichick and I know we bash him with those Patriots. Edelman late round pick Chris Hogan. Remember converted lacrosse player had a moment Amendola. I don't know where they found this guy but he was not like a Worthy or Rice. He didn't have that pedigree. James White was a Super bowl hero. I'm pretty sure he was a late.
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Joel Klatt
Round pick nonentity out of out of Wisconsin. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
It's like are, are the, are the Chiefs finding these guys? Pacheco, he had a moment right as a seventh round pick. Okay, what's next? And it's like they don't really have a run game. Colin Travis Kelsey. Okay, he's pretty much done. Where's the backup? Like they're not. I know you said the GM's doing a great job. I don't see a great roster. If you stacked Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers, Broncos. Who's got the weakest roster in that division and it's not a hot Denver.
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Joel Klatt
Now as the best. I think Denver's got the best roster in the division.
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Colin Cowherd
I think the Chargers have a better roster than the Chiefs do. And I would we could go toe to toe if every position if Rashawn.
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Joel Klatt
Slater was healthy and Alt was the right tackle I would agree with that. I do think that injury that's a Pro bowl level player at a key position but and it's not a knock on anybody. It's just they've had some immature wide receivers. They've got guys that got hurt. They moved off Tyreek Hill.
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Colin Cowherd
So you mentioned Tyree Kill. Colin, is there a world where they say do we try to bring back Tyreek Hill?
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Joel Klatt
Do.
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Colin Cowherd
Do you consider it if things are going sideways in Miami which it appears.
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Joel Klatt
They are if you could do it on the cheap for the remainder of just this season. I mean they brought back Juju Smith Schuster. Like can we bring you back for 14 games or 13 games? Because Tyreek would probably be on his best behavior. I think there's a world where you have to consider it. Keep your eye on A.J. brown. There's going to be a team that I'm telling you, Philadelphia, they are deal makers. Hour 2 Joel Klett coming up, the Toyota Certified Used Vehicle Sales event is here. It is packed with great surprises. Choose from a wide selection of low mileage vehicles all backed by Toyota, with warranties that begin on the date of purchase. Because when it comes to quality, the best new cars make the best used cars. So don't miss your chance. Find your certified Toyota today, but hurry. These Great offers end November 3rd. Toyota Certified used Vehicle Sales Event where every surprise is a great one. Inventory may vary by dealer, participating dealers only. Comprehensive and powertrain are limited warranties. See TCUV Warranty supplement Toyota certified.com or your Toyota dealer for details. There's nothing like sinking into luxury.
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