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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
THE HERD - Hour 1 - Miami is headed to the National Championship, The U is back!
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Catch new episodes every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts brought to you by Liberty Mutual Insurance. Only pay for what you need. Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. 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 FS. Now let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Oh, here we go on a Friday. Was that a heater last night or what? How great is college football? The Miami Hurricanes will play. They are back for a national championship 10 days from now. It's the herd. We're in LA. Wherever you may be, however you may be listening or watching, thanks for making us part of your day. Yes, I will have a blazing five. I will. I found a fifth game to bet. We had a great season. 60%. I feel pretty good about it. It's our postseason blazing five. I'm not letting you erode our regular season winning percentage. We go to our postseason blazing 5. J Mac and I sat and watched that game together last night. Maybe over a cold brew. Wow. Wow. So let's start with this Miami. The Miami Hurricanes, regardless of who they play, will be the most talented team in the national championship. They've got more talent than Indiana and they got more talent than Oregon and they physically dominated Ole Miss. But Ole Miss took two fourth quarter leads. That's why I'm not sure if Miami can beat an Indiana between the Hurricanes. Drop passes, drop picks, late hits, penalties and weird play calling. You let your opponent back in games all year. Miami needed a touchdown with 18 seconds left, yet they had a 41 minute to 18 minute time of possession advantage. They pushed Ole Miss all over the field. You can't beat Indiana and be that inefficient. I don't care how much more talent you have, you may may be able to beat Oregon. I mean why did Carson Beck thr 37 times? Why he could have thrown seven times. They were running all over Ole Miss and they started doing flea flickers and difficult passes and risky Sideline throws. I don't know if Miami plays complimentary football, but it is just a flood of speed and size and strength and power and aggressiveness and let's just see what happens. So if you, if you want to watch talent, turn on the Miami Hurricanes, a team that's massively improved from the middle of the season. This team lost to Louisville and Louisville is not a bad program. But I mean this team has really improved and that speaks to the coaching staff. If you want to watch some talent with efficiency, I think you're better off to watch Oregon and Indiana. So I watching Miami's aggressiveness last night, they're like a 14 year old after a big bag of skittles. They're all over the place, but you got to appreciate the talent. I'm glad they won. College football is better when Miami's great. I'll argue in about 10 minutes about the pass interference non call, which I thought was the right call. College football is better. Talent absolutely wins in every level of football. But the Patriots rarely had the most talented team. In fact, I'd argue the Randy Moss teams were the most talented. They didn't win Super Bowls, you know, Chiefs won when Tyree Kill left the building. What a couple of Super Bowls. I don't know if Just Town Alone wins at Miami. The play calling drove me nuts. They got too cute, they threw too much, the late hit, the drop passes, the drop picks. But you know what? What they are is a symbol of what nil and transfer portal football is. We watch them grow and mature. You're allowed to do that now in college football. You don't have to be at your best. October 8th and as the sports become a little bit college football, a little bit NFL. I love the fact that Ole Miss and Miami were just playing. The right team won, the better team won. And here's Mario Cristobal after reflection of how awesome this sport is, how teams have the opportunity to get better as the year goes on, how young players get to develop, veteran players have a chance to become leaders and all of a sudden you have a different dynamic in the middle of the season and then down the stretch and it carries you into the playoffs. You get to get hot at the right time and, and things could be pretty interesting in a hurry. So I mean football is about settling on the field, right? And when the more we can give teams an opportunity to do that, I think it, it makes the sport better. For the record, that game does not exist last night without the transfer portal, without the nil, without the college Football playoff which a majority of fans complained about. They want their old regional rivalries. I don't. You can have a few of those. I want last night. I want Miami being great. I want Michigan winning one year, Ohio State the next year and Miami, Oregon and Indiana possibly winning the next year. Tonight's game could be potentially even better. But this game doesn't happen without nil in the transfer portal and without a playoff that now allows, allows teams to stumble. Come on, they're 19, 20 year old kids. Even professional teams stumble. The Rams go to Carolina. Matt Stafford can't stop throwing the ball to the other team. He's a 37 year old pro. So we think an October law should wreck it for a 19, 20 year old kid. Miami is a symbol of what college football now is. And I want us specifically. There was a moment, don't go to it yet. There was a moment last night that really crystallized to me the demise, and it's not arguable of the sec. There was a singular play middle of the game. Run play for Miami against SEC team, Ole Miss. Watch the play. It is a run play. And I, and I. It would have gone like for five or six yards. Watch the ACC team push the SEC team back 12 yards. That didn't happen five years ago. Nobody pushed Georgia around, LSU around, Bama around. Bama just got housed by Indiana. That play. Miami is bigger than the SCT team. They're stronger than the SEC team. They're more physical than the SEC team. Well, it's Ole Miss. Ole Miss this year is really good. They're the best SEC team this year. They beat Georgia. Georgia couldn't stop them. Bama couldn't stop anybody. Ole Miss couldn't stop Miami last night when it mattered. But that play symbolized it. You can't have a car dealer and a whiskey distributor and a personal injury attorney be your number one nil booster. You need a car maker. You need a billionaire. That's what the Notre Dame's and the Michigan's, the big endowments at some of these universities. Big city Miami. Like when you watched how much time Carson Beck had or the physical domination. I mean the running back for Miami is bigger than the linebackers and defensive ends for Ole Miss. And that played to me. I mean listen, the SEC had five teams in the college Football Playoff. The only team that SEC teams that wasn't an SEC team was Tulane. In fact, SEC teams versus non conference power opponents this playoffs and this postseason. Do you know what they are? 1 in 8 minus 64 point differential. I got nothing against bourbon distributors, personal injury attorneys, and car dealers, but if they're your number one nil money bag guy, you're not going to beat Ohio State. And going forward, Michigan, USC is just writing checks left and right. Oregon writing checks. Notre Dame writing checks. This is easy. This has been the last three weeks. Bama getting pushed around by Indiana's offensive line. I mean, I'm watching that game last. I'm like, why is Miami throwing? Just run the ball 40 straight times. You used to not be able to run it twice in a row. There were times the SEC would dominate a national championship game against the Notre Dame. The game was over the second series. So not only are SEC teams getting poached, but like National Letter of Intent Day this year. Forget the portal. The National High School Letter of Intent Day. Usc, Oregon, Notre Dame. Whoa. What? There was no George in there. So. Man, it's a new world of college football. J. Mac, people are freaking out about the Hail Mary or the. The pass interference. I'll get to that. Around the corner. Bears, Packers. By the way, this game would not have been close if Miami didn't drop like five interceptions. I mean, I've never seen anything like that. Well, we were. We were. That was insane. Yeah, well, it was just. Listen, it. They're a flood of raw talent, speed, athleticism. Their O line play is dominant. And, you know, teams become the personality of their coach. Right? So Mario Cristobal loves ufc, Big guy, Warrior offensive line guy. What's the strength of their team? Raw power offensive line. Right. When Chip Kelly was at Oregon, it was the no huddle. Chip's kind of a creative, a clever guy. Like, they literally got rid of huddles. In college football. You become in college football, your personality, your head coach. That's what the team becomes. And Miami's going to be a bully. Miami's going to get in your grill. They're not going to be artistic, they're not going to be pretty. They're not always going to be efficient. I mean, they dropped so many balls and so many picks, so many penalties, but, man, that. That. That is. They're back. Well, let's reserve judgment until they play Indiana. Well, if you get to the Natty, you're back. Yeah, yeah. Fair. That's fair. But Indiana and Oregon, I think both would be favored against Miami. Indiana would be Oregon. Okay, Oregon. Oregon's rolling over to Oregon's like every other team. Not name Indiana. Oregon makes mistakes, too. Not as many as Miami, but they don't have Miami's talent. Yeah, so everybody's arguing about it's got to be pass interference. I want to add some perspective to this. Next, 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 hey, It's Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington from the Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio. And in addition to hearing us live weeknights from 7 to 10pm Eastern on Fox Sports Radio, we are excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show. That's right, you can now watch the Odd couple live on YouTube every day. All you got to do search Odd Couple FSR on YouTube again. YouTube just search Odd Couple FSR. Check us out on YouTube and subscribe the new year brings new health goals and wealth goals. Protecting your identity is an important step. Your info is in endless places that could expose you to identity theft leading to lost funds. 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It's an all in one fully integrated platform that handles everything CRM, accounting, inventory, E commerce, HR and more. No more app overload, no more juggling logins, just one seamless system that makes work easier. And the best part? Odoo replaces multiple expensive platforms for a fraction of the cost. It's built to grow with your business whether you are just starting out or already scaling up. Plus, it's easy to use, customizable and designed to streamline every process so you can focus on what really matters running your business. Thousands of businesses have made the switch, so why not you try Odoo for free@odoo.com that's o d o o.com what's up? It's Cam Jordan. I'm back with season three of your favorite podcast, the off the Edge with Cam Jordan Podcast. Tap in every Wednesday to hear conversations with my friends and stars for the NFL, the sports world in general, and entertainment about anything from teams and players making waves to pop culture. And I'll take you inside my journey through my 15th season in the NFL. Looking forward to you joining me this season. The season of More on the off the Edge with Cam Jordan Podcast. Catch new episodes every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts brought to you by Liberty Mutual Insurance Only pay for what you need. Liberty, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. Nobody wants to hear this about our justice system, but sometimes a judge will make an arbitrary ruling. There's a very serious case, the person has done something very bad and yet comes into the courtroom with an attitude and is snarky. And the judge says, I don't like your attitude. Meaning judges in our justice system can be arbitrary. When you get in your car and drive on the freeway, it's called a speed limit. I think you deserve a ticket. You went one mile per hour over the speed limit. The truth is, on LA freeways, the 405, everybody's going 8 to 12 miles an hour faster than the limit. You got to go about 25 miles an hour faster to stand out and get a ticket. Yet it's called the speed limit, folks. There is nuance in every part of our lives. Law, law enforcement, our judicial system. And it's the same with officiating. You're not calling pass interference to end the game. You're not calling it. You could call that play at the end of the game, you could call pass interference on every Hail Mary in the history of the NFL. Every single one. It's jockeying for position and they almost never do. Yes, if there was an egregious face mask or two to pull him down, you'd call it. There wasn't. You go to the last 30 seconds of the NBA Finals. We don't want the game ending at the free throw line. Michael Jordan, the push off against Utah, that's a foul in the second quarter. Absolutely a foul in the second quarter. Sending a message to mj, don't do that. But on the final possession, you're not calling that. You're not calling that. That's too iconic. It's history. Time and place matters for everything. Marriage, speed limits, our justice system, even officiating. The NFL changed the catch rule in a Super Bowl. Philadelphia, New England, they change the catch rule in the Super Bowl. The NFL often will do it in preseason and in September there'll be a point of emphasis and a rule change and the NFL will over call, get hyper aggressive calling certain things to emphasize to the players and coaches. We want this habit to end. Listen, Miami had a 15 play, 75 yard drive to win. If Ole Miss makes one play on that drive, they don't have to cross their fingers and hope they get one call to save their butt because they got outplayed and out hit. But there's, there's nuance in everything, everything. Speed limits, law enforcement, judges in courtrooms. You're not calling that. And whenever fans do this, you want one call but your team couldn't make one play on a 15 play 75 yard drive. Thank God the adult Pete Golding, the coach for Ole Miss, understands how the world works. Those situations are tough to call them, I mean those situations. But I mean, yeah, there was contact, but I mean it happens a lot. You know, that's, that's not why we lost the game. But you know, we just had a lot of opportunities late. But I mean I think it shows you the resiliency of the team. You know, I mean, I didn't care. Was it 1815? They're going to go out there and give it all they got and you know, looks like you ran out of time. But we didn't execute well enough, didn't unprepared well enough and we didn't coach good enough. Yeah, fan is short for fanatic. He's absolutely right. I going into this game, I don't know if you liked. I liked Miami to Win. But I kept saying if Ole Miss with Trinidad Chambliss came back and backdoored it, you wouldn't be shocked because they're. Ole Miss doesn't play normal football games. Every Ole Miss game is crazy. Every game they play in is crazy. And that's why they're so endearing. And that's why I hope Trinidad Chambliss gets another year. Man, just fun to watch. Great heart. The whole Kiffin thing, it's a fascinating story, but you know it and I know it. If you were, if you were an Ole Miss fan and, and you had dominated Miami and you had had a 70 play, five yard drive, 15 plays, they couldn't make a single play, would you want the pass interference call? No, you just don't call that in that spot. It would have to be so overtly, ridiculously egregious. And it wasn't. And the coach gets it. J. Mack with the news. No, no, no, turn on the news. This is the Herd line news. All right, Khaled. NFL playoffs is weekend Monday night. The Steelers and Texans are an interesting matchup. Aaron Rodgers back in the playoffs. And what did you know it, Colin? Yesterday, while talking about Mike Tomlin, he decided to take a shot at his former team, my Jets. I think the way that he creates the culture and allows guys to be themselves is an important part of team chemistry. In a locker room, being a healthy locker room. One thing I really love, and it's kind of the antithesis of where I was, is there's not really any leaks in the boat. Every year you have difficulties and adversity both on the field and off the field. And to go through a season like this and to, to be able to focus on football and not have a lot of other out there has been really nice. He's not wrong. Definitely not wrong. He's not wrong. Yeah, I mean, listen, he got Green Bay sometimes. Aaron created the nonsense. I mean, he knows it, everybody knows it, but by and large it's a great organization. And Pittsburgh, for all their flaws, like Green Bay, it's about football. And the jets are a circus. Well, it's a lot easier when you're winning. You know, you don't have to worry about all these leaks and nonsense and BS when you're losing. And Rogers was a big part of that with the Jets. Yeah, stuff's going to start to leak out because people are unhappy. I mean, he's definitely not wrong. By the way, this line now down to a flat three. No more three and a half. I will tell you, I will tell you. That was. I talked about this all week, that I like the Pittsburgh side and the staff knows in my blazing five, this was my last one I pulled out. This was my second favorite bet. Three and a half. I thought it was great, but numbers matter in betting. At three, it's an average bet. Yeah. But at three and a half, you'd have to take Pittsburgh at home as a dog. It's just against the Houston team that struggles in the red zone to put sevens on the board, not threes. Yeah. All right, we'll talk more about this on Monday. All right, let's go to the next story, and that's John Harbaugh and his situation after getting fired by the Ravens. He apparently has been linked to the Dolphins a lot, but according to the athletic, Miami is a serious threat. And Harbaugh is also very interested in the Giants. Well, and they've been a big admirer, obviously, John Mara. Okay. If you were the agent for John Harbaugh, you'd want to make sure the Miami Dolphins know, hey, you think you have me? I'm very interested in the Giants telling you Harbaugh's probably going to Miami, but the deal is not done yet. They haven't agreed to terms. They haven't agreed to money yet. So he's going to play because his argument is, I could argue for some reasons Miami's a better job because you're going to get control of the front office. Well, wait a minute. They apparently are in the process or just announced a GM hiring this morning. Meanwhile, Joe Shane is still in place, a guy that Harbaugh has not been connected to. I don't have his name off the top of my head, but it's very interesting that they would hire a GM knowing that Harbaugh might want to say something wacky is going on here or Harbaugh just wants a bidding war or the minute John was let go within the hour, Miami called and said, do you have, here's a list of GMs we've talked to. Which one do you feel most comfortable with? And John Harbaugh said that one. This is how the game works. And within 48 hours they hire the GM. John Harbaugh is most comfortable with taking. I don't want to bash to it. This is. I don't even know if he's a starter next year. But taking a team with TUA and that contract versus Jackson Dart on a rookie, one year, it's a one year contract. You're out. That's all. That's left you're done with the two of in fact Tyreek Hill constant Denver still paying for Russell Wilson he's been out the door for years that dead cap that was smart you can you can if you draft well and hit on five picks that that doesn't I mean the Denver Broncos hit on several picks suddenly the dead cap I mean Bo Nicks basically saved the dead cap Dolphins that's not great for the jets so we got Vrabel we would have Harbaugh. We'll see what happens with the Bills and the jets have Aaron Glenn not not good final story Kyle Niners Eagles that's a big one and not great news for the Niners yesterday Ricky Pierce all did not practice the good news is Trent Williams did return to practice in a limited fashion lines at five and a half and we got some numbers on the team with and without Trent Williams Colin it is staggering how bad they are. Remember how Lane Johnson when he misses for the Eagles they're a different team. Look at the numbers without Trent Williams he's unable to go 4 and 13 and the points per game is down the rushing yards way down. I, you I you and I have talked about this. I don't think we disagree Once you get the right coach the most important player is the quarterback. I've argued forever. Left tackle is second not edge rusher wide receiver third is a great defensive frontline player either Crosby or Garrett on the edge you know Chris Jones in his prime Jalen Carter Aaron Donald but this, this number left tackle says it all like did this is what when you get one of these I always said the key to Brady his career everybody says Belichick it's Dante Scarnecchia. Brady never had a bad offensive line. Aaron and Brett Favre never had bad offensive lines. So you take Trent Williams out it's a different team and that pass rush that the Eagles have it's going to be hell for Brock Purdy. I'm. I mean I think they if they could get an early lead and Robert Sala can cook up some stuff maybe there's a chance here but I I'm with you I think the Eagles the side blazing 5 top of 30 minutes yeah JMac with the news well that's the news and thanks for stopping by the Herd lie news so Bears packers is interesting Chicago it's a long time Chicago has not won a playoff game in 15 years now now you say to yourself well at least they're not the Jaguars. In that 15 year span the Jaguars have won three playoff games and been to an AFC championship. Yeah, that, that in that 15 year span, the Browns have won a playoff game, the Arizona Cardinals have won a playoff game, the Titans have won playoff games, the Bengals have been to a Super Bowl. The Bears have not won a playoff game. And it's not just that. The Bears are good. And they are good. They're number two seed. They went 11 and six. They have a top three rushing offense. They're a good team, very good team. It's just what Ben Johnson did in six months. I mean, this is a team that last year lost a Hail Mary game because their cornerback was on the field during the play jawing with fans in D.C. they were the most sacked team. They were 31st on third down. They, they found ways to lose. Now they're arguably the best comeback fourth quarter offense in the league. They don't turn the ball over and they've surrendered the third fewest sacks. And the O line is sensational now. So. And I sometimes. And this is why you cannot go cheap like the Bengals and the Dallas Cowboys on coaches. Ben Johnson had to fix the quarterback. He had to fix the O line, he had to fix the culture. He had to fix three to four different things. They were the most sacked team. Now they're one of the team sacked fewest. So when I watch these coaching opportunities, when I watch all these coaching openings, everybody's like, oh, let's go get this coordinator. What are you doing? Go find your Vrabel. Go find your John Harbaugh, your Jim Harbaugh. You hire John Harbaugh, Giants, Miami, or you hire Kevin Stefanski who won playoff games in Cleveland. Like that's who you hire. Don't out think the room. These owners get. So. And the Bears owners can be a little cheap. The Bears owners are poorest or second poorest in the league. They had to spend some real money on Ben Johnson. So you're what they've done to change the culture, the O line, the quarterback, it is so dramatic to me. And now they face their arch rival at home. I just feel they've got momentum. I think they're Roma dunzees back. I think they're healthy. Here's Ben Johnson on facing the packers again. I'm rooted. I've been saying it all week. I'm rooted in the fundamentals, particularly on games like this. It's about blocking, it's about tackling, tackling. It's about catching the ball, it's about ball security. Things of that nature come come out to the forefront. And so I'M more concerned with playing sound football, making sure that we're putting our guys in a good spot. I mean we get, we got a lot of talented players and you just want them to play fast, play confident and put them in good, good spot. You know, watching that college game last night, J. Mac and I are watching this and we both remarked how bad the tackling was. So that, that's why I don't like Denver and Seattle getting a week off. You don't do a lot of tackling in that week off. When you watch these college football games, Indiana, you can see the Indiana coaching. They tackle well. Bama didn't like the tackling last night was bad for both teams. And so you know that that's my takeaway is in college, you know, you give 18 year olds and 19 year olds 10 days of not practicing that they got a lot of things to do. In the pros, time off usually doesn't affect tackling. And the one thing, Tom Brady came on the show yesterday and he said it this week off for those teams like Seattle and Denver, that's a week of prep, that's not a week of rest. I think Chicago, because of their youth, even though they're on a two game losing streak, I think Chicago wants to play right now. I think they're better as a 2 seed in Chicago than a 1 seed. I think Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson need reps. Need. This is an offense that plays with a lot. You see it in games. The Bears can be awful for half, great for half. Same with Philadelphia. Philadelphia can be awful for a half, great for a half. Like Philadelphia gave guys off last week. They were banged up and they are older like a Chicago team. To me it's better as a two seed than a one seed. They're young, they're growing, they're developing. I think when you watch college football, the younger the team, the more time they waste with extra time, the older the team uses that extra time for. By the way, what team tackled well in college football with time off? Indiana. Go look at Indiana's roster. It's an older, more mature roster. They have 23, 24. So you watch those teams last night, a lot of young players. Yeah. The other question, so with the talent so spread out now in college football, Right. So it's not concentrated. Georgia doesn't have like seven starting NFL players. So every, it's spread out. And I just, I wondered like last night's game was fun but it didn't feel like a heavyweight championship. Did it with a bunch of Superstars, I think. No, I think Miami against Indiana could feel that. Oh, I think you'll have the most talented team and the best coach team. That's not that Mario Cristobal isn't a good coach. I mean he obviously is, but his style of coaching is raw and aggressive and punitive. Whereas I look at Indiana, it's almost mathematics. It's, it's efficient. They haven't had an errant snap all season. Not one. They haven't had a fumble at Indiana since the 18th play of the season. They had the fewest drop passes. So it's a real. You juxtapose those two teams and I'm not saying Indiana is going to blow out Oregon. I think they'll beat them. Oregon is your typical really good college team. They make mistakes. Miami makes a ton of mistakes. Indiana makes no mistakes. So you're going to get a clash of styles potentially. By the way, now you said it right. So 10 days until the national championship. They're stringing this out too far. This is too much, too much time off. Can we just do a week? It's like the super bowl sometimes. You hate waiting two weeks for it, right? It's just 10 more days before the Natty. All I know is you and I sat there knocking down Diet Cokes and watched a fantastic three, four hours of American sports. Football's not bad. It's not a bad sport. That that game does not exist without the transfer portal. Nil College playoff that, that Ole Miss Miami. Didn't we watch Notre Dame, Penn State last year? That was kind of a thriller too, right? I'm pretty sure they were. They met in the semi final and Aller had that brutal pick late. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd Weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific Sunday It's a top 25 showdown in the Big Ten as 16th ranked Illinois takes on number 19 Iowa at noon Eastern. Only on Fox. So of all the playoff games week this weekend, I have a feeling, you know, if Trent Williams plays and Ricky Pearsall does, I think San Francisco Philly could be really interesting because just all Eagle games are kind of interesting. They're really good at home in the playoffs. The Buffalo Bills Jacksonville game is really to me the most consequential. There are 14 teams in the playoffs. Only one team has one way to win and reach the Super Bowl. The team is Buffalo and the way is Josh Allen puts on a cape and is Superman for multiple weeks now San Francisco can be very reliant on Christian McCaffrey, but Buffalo doesn't have Kyle Shanahan schemes and play design to elevate other players. This team not good on the perimeter, can't stop the run. Don't trust them sometimes with special teams. Most teams like Justin Herbert means a lot to the Chargers, but they have a great defense, an amazing head coach and a stupendous kicker. C.J. stroud. Jalen Hurts Herbert. Don't have to have their A game to win. C.J. stroud's won three games this year. 20 points or fewer anytime Josh Allen and the Bills offense has 20 points or fewer anytime all, all of them, they lost. So there's one way and that's why I don't like them. This team also constantly I feel like Josh Allen is carrying units that have let him down. Your wide receiver group can't be this week. You know, the running game is really basically Josh and one player, James Cook. There's not a lot of depth there to me. So special teams I don't always trust. I mean Josh Allen's, if you look at his 12 wins, he had 111. 111 passer rating and his losses, it was 87. He plays poorly, he's off his game. He doesn't have his fastball. He didn't spot the off speed stuff. They lose. And that's not the case with Herbert or C.J. stroud or Jalen hurts. Even Brock Purdy. So pro athletes want to be the man. They don't want to be the only man. And Tom Brady talked about that. Carrying the load as the quarterback, knowing you are the way in which your team can excel. I think it's very psychological, very emotional. When they've been in these situations. They haven't played the type of winning football needed in order for them to advance. Can Buffalo find it within themselves to play their best football in the biggest moments? And look, some weeks they've looked great. The passing game looks great. Obviously their runners, one of the top backs in the NFL. And the way Josh plays when he's playing his rhythm, you know, he's virtually impossible. MVP caliber season last year and I thought he played very well this season. So I want to go back to the Miami Hurricanes. So I remember when I worked at the other place and I had said, yeah, I know Tim Tebow's 48 and 7 at Florida, but he's not an NFL starting quarterback. Colt McCoy, 45 and 8 at Texas. You're not building a pro team around Tim tebow or Colt McCoy. Maybe they could be a backup. But don't confuse really great college quarterback due to what's around him. And really great college quarterback who is a great Sunday quarterback, too. Carson Beck's a great example. He is a classic great college quarterback. Good for him. He could win his third Natty next Monday. But this team is great because they dominate the line of scrimmage and have tons of perimeter talent, edge rushers. I mean, did you notice how many times he threw behind the line of scrimmage? Just getting the ball to these supreme athletes. At Miami, that's the game. At Georgia, it was a dominating defense, suffocating pass rush and good run games and an occasional really nice weapon. That is not a knock on him. It's different. Fernando Mendoza leads the nation in yards per attempt per throw. Carson Beck is 29th, yet Mendoza's got fewer picks. So Indiana has less talent and they ask him to throw the ball down the field more. And yet he's giving you an insane completion percentage and he's not throwing picks. That's a Sunday quarterback. That's a build around quarterback. Now, Fernando Mendoza, you build a franchise around you. Draft players that fit him. Carson Beck maybe backs up in the league, seems like a great kid, great story. Arms okay, athletic abilities okay. He needs great playmakers. If you watch Miami's game plan, when you watch Indiana play, they are going down field, they are throwing the ball up the sideline, down the field. Hard seam throws, hard flag throws. That's how they win. They're telling you. We, we have this supreme Sunday quarterback who can make difficult throws not everybody can make. If you watch Miami play, they're telling you, yeah, Tony's unbelievable. Our speed is great. We just got to get the ball quickly to those guys and get it out of Carson Beck's hand. So the game plans tell you where your quarterback's going to play Saturdays or Sundays. Miami's game plan tells you, you know, it's not that he can't make throws over the middle. They wanted to get the ball out quickly. Two playmakers. That's not how Indiana plays. I mean, I was looking at this. Fernando Mendoza at Indiana and Cal, not exactly juggernauts until this year. 69% completion percentage and first in yards per attempt. That's crazy to complete almost 70% of your throws at Indiana and Cal. Throwing the ball deep downfield often. Carson Beckman, awesome college career, could win his third Natty. He talks about Mario Crystal Ball and the program. I remember me and Coach Crystal Ball talking on the phone for the first time. I was sitting in Jacksonville, in my house, in my room. And I just had a big smile on my face. And he had a big smile on his face. And he said, like, he said, let's get to work. And, you know, I believed in his vision. I believed in, you know, what he's been able to build here and add on to the culture of what Miami is. And, and I mean, what an unbelievable year. And it was never easy, you know, it was never perfect. There was a lot of ups and downs. There's a lot of adversity that not only I faced individually, but that we faced as a team. I mean, it's just a great story. Did you notice he also said this? This is what Vrabel did. This is what Jim Harbaugh did. This is what Sean Payton did. You hear what he said? What a great culture Mario Cristobal has built. That's what Barry Alvarez did at Wisconsin. He took over Wisconsin and it was like, God, they were bad. And he went to three Rose Bowls, won all of them. And Barry Alvarez said, why do we rebuild the stadium? Our stadium is great. We're going to add some paint here and there, but we gotta. There's gotta be self belief. Barry Switzer is one of the great college football coaches of all time. If you know what Wisconsin was pre Barry Switzer, it was unwatchable, it was bad, and it's not great now. They were winning Rose Bowls when he was there. Three different ones, I believe. So it is about building the culture now. You're seeing a lot of that right now at Indiana. And by the way, Indiana was good last year. They got into the playoff and Indiana now is really good. This is not a knock on Kurt Signetti, who's excellent, or their players. They have like seven, eight NFL guys. But I'm going to still argue Fernando Mendoza is the difference here. If you put Fernando Mendoza on Miami and Carson Beck on Indiana, Miami blows Indiana out. I think Fernando Mendoza is that unique. His personality, his gratitude, his arm, his size. Not everybody thinks that. A lot of people think he's a B prospect. I think he's an A prospect. Here he is on getting ready for Oregon tonight. Actually a system that I follow, that I go and I really intricately do and make my system with my coach. When I'm able to do that system, that means, hey, I've done everything possible to prepare for this game. And so when I go step on that field, I am confident as I know that my preparation is unmatched. And I know that's the most that I could do possibly. And so when I go on the field, I'm confident that my process has taken me here and that I can compete at the highest level. I mean, I, I, that's exactly what you there one of the things I like and people think I get too worked up over this. What you say at the podium matters. Jalen hurts, doesn't have the biggest arm, great at the podium. I mean Dak Prescott is as good as anybody I've ever seen at the podium. Then there are guys, I don't need to mention them that started fires at the podium. I mean Fernando Mendoza is on the podium. NFL all star team. He's not in the league yet. Brady never going to get in trouble at the podium. You don't want to start fires, you want to put them out. If you have to be a little cringy, a little cliched, I can live with it. Try to be authentic. But I think this is who the Fernando Mendoza is. I don't think this game will be as good as last night's game because I think there is a gap between Indiana and Oregon. I think what last night provided Miami was the physical, raw talent squad. Ole Miss was the underdog with a ton of offensive firepower. So it just, you knew in that game you're what I mean even in the first half you and I are like, this should be 30 to 3. And you're like, Ole Miss is just this wild come from behind. What a wonderful story. Trinidad Chambliss is. Well, Miami also self inflicted wounds with the penalty. That's some dumb penalties too. Undisciplined stuff from college kids. The pick near the red zone from back on the tip. Like you said, they should have just been running the football. They could have run for 250 last night easily. Yeah, I don't like to criticize play calling usually. And the offensive coordinator, one of the reasons Mario Cristobal like him, likes him, he's considered kind of conservative. He's kind of a run guy. Dawson kind of. He likes to run. Last night I thought he got way too cute. They were trying to flee flicker. It's like, bro, this is not the time for a flea flicker. This is the last time let Ole Miss try to pull those off. Now they get to play in basically a home game in the national championship. That's kind of cool. Wow, that actually helps Miami. I think Miami needs every little edge to potentially beat Oregon or Indiana. And that, that, that's for college kids. Home fields a touchdown. I think for college kids it's a big deal. NFL, it doesn't mean much. All right. Blazing Five. What a regular season we had 60%. We begin our postseason blazing five. Neck. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.