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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
THE HERD - Hour 1 - People owe Jerry Jones an apology, the Eagles have been tempting fate all season, Shedeur Sanders first win as a Brown
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Colin Cowherd
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Oh, here we go on a Monday. We told you. It may not look like much on paper, but it was gonna be a really good Sunday. And it was. Overtime already got coordinators getting whacked one hour from now. Where Colin was right, where Colin was wrong. Always plenty of both. Wow. So Cowboys Eagles J. Mac it was. You know, on paper we think Dallas is floundering. But somehow Shotty has got this offense, at least in in moments, playing out of their mind and it ended up being a wildly, incredibly entertaining game. So let's just start with that one. I said it last week and I've been a huge critic of the Cowboys. They're not as far off as you think since they've made these trades. Okay, a lot of us may own apology to gerald Wayne Jones Jr. Because Kenny Clark and Quinn and Williams deals now suddenly you can't run on the Cowboys. The Micah Parsons trade didn't have much of an effect. There's still top three in quarterback rushes. The George Pickens move, I mean that's one of the heists. Poor Steelers can't throw the ball down the field. George Pickens third in the NFL and touchdowns, DeMarvi and overshone. That dude was great at Texas with the Longhorns. He is healthy. He is super athletic. Two first round picks. They're going to get an edge to replace Micah. Probably a corner. I don't know. The offense works, man. Number one in the league in total offense. Number one in passing, number four in scoring. It works. And because of Pickens and CD Lam, you can't cheat on the run game. So the Cowboys are running the ball now better than they have since Zeke in 2019. Now the O line is hot and cold. Better run blocking than pass blocking. But statistically. I know, I know. They're only five five and one. I know, I know. They're playing Kansas City and it may not turn out well, but I would rather be Dallas today and have the offense figured out than be the Steelers for the fifth year in a row paying a fortune for a defense that can't stop anybody. You can say what you want about Dallas. Two first round picks, overshones healthy George Pickens. Heist a real run game for the first time in forever. And say this for Jerry or Gerald Wayne Jones senior. He has always been 100% committed the DAC. He has said he's the best leader I've ever had. And yesterday, that unflappable leadership, trailing 21 nothing throwing. You know he can throw a red zone pick. Doesn't matter. It's Dak. It's just noise. A lot of that win was Dakota, and Jerry said Dak was indispensable. Micah was great, but he was tradable. And guess what? The Cowboys are still getting a pass rush. The Cowboys defense right now is better than it was last year. And with Micah, it is. You can't run on them now with Kenny Clark and Quinn and Williams. Yeah, I have questions about shoddy. I didn't think it was the strongest hire. I thought they should have gone heavy into Mike Brable or the year before into Jim Harbaugh or Sean Payton, and they didn't. And Jerry doesn't necessarily want to want to pay coaches big money. But I'll say this for Shotty. When teams play hard and don't quit, it's something. I mean, I thought they were buried. I mean, that's 21 nothing. I'm like, oh, come on. I wanted a good game. It's the late window. Give me a game. I don't want to have to watch Jacksonville in Arizona. Give me a game. And it was. And it's Dak and it's leadership and it's no quit and it's over. Shown. I don't know. Philly's been tempting fate for weeks and nobody can quite beat him. And then the Cowboys do to score 24 unanswered points against a really, really good defense. Credit to everybody, even Matt Eberfluss. Everybody gets credit for this one. But more than anything, it is Dak. Lot of noise. Unflappable. Jerry's always been committed to him. We all owe him an apology. You know, it's funny, you start looking at these first round deals and you're like, oh, they're losing Micah. They couldn't defend the run when they had Micah. Now you can't run on them. So who made the good deal, who made the bad deal? I said during the Micah deal, good for Green Bay, not terrible for Dallas. Dallas will be fine. They just got to get healthy. They got to get some draft picks. So here was Dak and Jerry after down 21. What did this team draw upon to get this win? Brotherhood. One another. You know, we got that that touchdown before having went halftime and we talked about it. We've only been hurting ourselves. We know, we know what we're capable of doing. Come out, stay focused, stick together and we can win this thing. Nobody blinked. Everybody believed it. We got it done. George has been such an integral part of our story and he has his story to a degree that that's our story. And I'm so proud for him. Everybody on this team is. And he certainly has absolutely been the difference as we played over the last two weeks. And I'll say this, sometimes you have unintended consequences or unintended benefits of a trade. Right. I don't think they thought when George Pickens arrived it would help the run game so much. But you got Pickens on one side, CD on the other. You can't just do single coverage. You got to do some bracketing. You got to play honest. You can't have your safeties to up. So the reality is now the run games working, the O lines getting better. Two elite receivers, Dax on fire. Two first round picks, don't need a quarterback, so could turn two first round picks into five total picks. The great thing about the NFL, it's the league of hope. You can be absolutely awful one year, New England and be a number one seed the following year, potentially New England can't do that in baseball. You can't do that in the NBA. It takes time and acquisitions. That is what is great. If you have a reasonable quarterback. And Dak is more than reasonable. Look at Dallas from hopeless to hopeful this morning. All right, used to be a saying, how about them Cowboys? How about them Bears? First place? Now Chicago was missing six defensive starters, so let's just start with that. Their entire linebacking core was out. So suddenly you go into this game with Pittsburgh thinking, oh, we can't be boring. We've got to actually, we got to move the ball down the field. And Caleb Williams, in my opinion, played his best game as a pro. Yeah, he had a bad strip sack for a touchdown. Yeah, he misses open receivers. Yep. Four straight game under 60% completions. But Ben and Caleb is a marriage and both are helping each other out. Ben has provided creative play design and creative play calling and he's created some structure and focused on the run game. And Caleb is given Ben Johnson the horsepower that Jared Goff in Detroit could have only dreamed of. It is a marriage, not of convenience. It works. It's never going to be perfect. Caleb gives you all this horsepower, but he does miss some throws. It's just, you know, it's just part of his game. And I said this, I'll always take the upside for some struggles in accuracy. And Ben and Caleb are both incredibly gifted. Right now, they're the number one big play offense in the NFL. This is Chicago. That's something Green Bay does or McVeigh does, or Shanahan does, or Buffalo and Josh Allen does. No, it's Chicago. And here's the thing about Caleb. If he's your quarterback, there's two or three guarantees. Big arm, big mobility, playmaker loves the big play. And Ben Johnson is providing the structure and the running game to allow that. Much easier to throw down field on second and four when you don't have negative plays. That's the one thing about Caleb. There's two or three things we all know about him, but I have said this for years about Caleb. He doesn't get hurt and he doesn't throw picks. If you provide him with a decent structure to play within and a foundational running game, then those big plays are easier. It sucks the linebackers in. It gives him more space. He's going to make plays with his feet and he's got a huge arm, but he just needs structure. He needs a run game. And he's obviously coachable because he's completely eliminated the negative plays. 11 games. He's been sacked 11 times now. Just think about that. That's not because pass rushes died. It's not just because they improved the offensive line. If you're sacked 68 times and it's down to 11, you are coachable. And a lot of great athletes in all sports aren't. And Caleb is. So this marriage works. I don't think it's a perfect fit. They're facing a very angry Philadelphia team next. That's not a place I'd want to be. But Ben and Caleb addressed the number one issue. What did Ben say? No negative plays. We can't have these 2nd and 22s, 3rd and 19s. We can't do that where everybody knows what we're doing. So they're doing play action, they're doing under center. It really works. And here's With Caleb, you don't get the picks. It's very rare in the history of the NFL that you get all this upside and you don't get a lot of downside. I mean, Marino through picks, Elway threw picks, Nemeth through picks, Peyton threw picks, luck picks, Cam picks, Josh Allen picks. When you get the massive upside, there's usually a downside. He doesn't throw them. So it's working. They're winning. It's a little uneven. It's not always a perfect fit. But when you're missing your entire linebacking crew and you're going up against the team in Pittsburgh, don't forget hammered the Patriots. The red hot Patriots hammered the Colts who went toe to toe with Mahomes and Andy Reid. So wins or wins. Here's Ben after. Hell yeah, man. I tell you what, I tell you what. It takes a village. It takes a village. And I'm talking about four players. I'm talking about coaches, I'm talking about training staff, I'm talking about everybody in this building. Everybody. And here we are towards the back half the season and our depth is being tested. All right, you, it would have been so easy to walk, man. How are we going to win this game? We got no linebackers going on and on and on and on, man. Credit to you guys. That's number eight. How about that in a day? How about them Cowboys and how about them Bears in one weekend? J. Mac, Caleb, this season through 11 games, through 11 games, has been sacked 75% less than he was last year at this time. We all talked about it before the season. I don't care about wins. You got to eliminate the negative plays in sacks. Ben Johnson and Caleb in unison have. And that's the difference. It's what Brady talked about in Belichick. They asked Belichick, favorite part of Brady in that sit down interview. He goes, no negative plays. We always stayed ahead of the chains. He didn't talk about not throwing interceptions or a big arm or Brady's. You know, Tom got rid of the ball quickly yesterday, I believe. Was it Caleb Williams the fastest he's ever, second fastest release time as a pro. So Caleb, all the games he's played yesterday against the Steelers and we talked about it Friday. Don't, don't, don't, don't tease T.J. watt. He did once and got burned. You got to get rid of the ball yesterday. The second fastest getting rid of the ball in Caleb Williams career. So again, it comes back to working with the coach, being coachable. And for the record, Ben's got to work with Caleb because Jared Goff didn't give you this. Jared Goff didn't have this jet fuel. Really interesting stuff. You know, people say, listen, these games are ugly. Who cares? Coaches, you know, Sean McVeigh said it last week on analytics. Everybody's got all the answers. None of the accountability. You gotta win games, you need W's, otherwise you get fired. We got two guys getting fired today. Giants got rid of their D.C. raiders got rid of their O.C. gotta win games. If the Raiders win, Chip Kelly's still working. Okay. If the Giants win that. That D.C. was not doing a great job. Probably still retains his gig. Got to get W's. Fares are J. Mac. What a Sunday. Wow. Yeah.
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Jason McIntyre
Four overtime games, I think. And I just love the glee that I hear from you. And the Chicago Bears get another awesome victory, beating Mason Rudolph.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, that's right.
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Jason McIntyre
Mason Rudolph. Nice. Nice dub for the Bears. Did you see the line for Bears Eagles this week? You told me to look at the lines.
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Colin Cowherd
Let me guess, let me guess. Let me guess.
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Jason McIntyre
I don't think you can even get within.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay, okay. So Philadelphia's at home off a loss. This is a tough spot for Chicago. Feeling tough one, I would say. Philly minus five and a half.
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Jason McIntyre
Seven. Oh, opened at seven. Now, listen, I was expecting a four and a half, something like that. Bears are playing good. Maybe they'll get one of the linebackers back. I'm stunned at that. And the Eagles, they. I don't know what the problems are. They're not Jalen hurts, but they got some problems somewhere.
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Colin Cowherd
We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the Chiefs. Colin right? Colin wrong. 45 minutes from now. Matt Hasselbeck, too. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the iHeartRadio app.
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Jason McIntyre
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
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Jason McIntyre
Speaking of wild. The Raiders organization is a wild dumpster fire. Chip Kelly got fired last night. Colin. He is the highest paid offensive coordinator in the league and he lasted a whopping 11 games. Oh, my gosh. I did see a crazy stat that Pete Carroll, in all his years in Seattle, never fired a coordinator. He's now fired two in the last three weeks. So things are really going sideways for the Raiders. Geno smith was sacked 10 times. I don't know how closely you watch that. It looked to me. I mean, I had the Browns. It looked to me like the Raiders offensive line just quit. Like they just didn't care.
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Colin Cowherd
I'll say this. Not all bad teams are the same. Not all bad teams have a coach like Kevin Stefanski and a GM like Andrew Barry. And I'll argue this. I'll die on this hill. Cleveland has talent, okay? That running back, baller, couple old linemen that are elite. The best pass rusher, the Denzel Wards. They had Jerry Judy drives me crazy. He's talented.
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Jason McIntyre
Oh, gosh.
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Colin Cowherd
David and Joku. So don't tell me of all the teams in the league right now we lump into bad teams, there is no Stefanski at any of those teams. I think Barry's an elite gm. I think they're. None of them have the best player arguably in the whole league in Miles Garrett. Cleveland may not have the quarterback they ideally want. They tried with Watson. But the Browns have talent. And I'll die on that hill all day.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah, they just did. The quarterback situation is unsettled. Shador was solid. I'm sure we'll talk about him later. But this is more about the Raiders. Colin. You could argue right now that they're the worst team in the league.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Jason McIntyre
And this is. This is bad for Pete Carroll. I talked last week on this show. Hey, is he going to be one and done? I mean, Colin, he hand picked Geno Smith. Geno Smith does not look like an NFL. I don't even know if he's a backup next year anymore. Do you think Pete Carroll survives this season?
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Colin Cowherd
No, I think it's over at the end of the season. That's my guess. Damn.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah, I'm with you. Raiders are. They're worse than the jets and that same a lot.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Jason McIntyre
All right, let's go to Sunday Night Football. It was a snoozer. Rams just bludgeon the Buccaneers. I mean, it was over. Basically. From jump street 34. 7 was the final. This was 21 nothing. But before I sat down with like my, my milk and cookies. Matt Stafford was phenomenal. He is on an absolute heater. He's 37 years old. He's throwing no look passes. 27 consecutive touchdown passes without a pick. Here's Devonte Adams gassing up his quarterback.
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Colin Cowherd
He's playing like the most valuable player.
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In the, in the league. I mean, you can see it in the numbers, the way he's taking command.
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Colin Cowherd
Of the huddle and the offense, you know, the way him and Sean put.
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Things together and work, you know, throughout.
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Colin Cowherd
The week together to put together a good product for us just, just all around.
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I mean, he's a great leader and.
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Colin Cowherd
Obviously knows how to put points on the board and keep this offense moving. Listen, Devonte Adams, the Raider situation wasn't great. Either was the jets, but he got Aaron in his prime and now he's getting this Stafford. How are they going to get him.
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Jason McIntyre
To the hall of Fame, right?
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Colin Cowherd
I mean, well, I mean, here's the thing. They didn't give up anything to get him. He was a free agent. So I mean, it's amazing they were able to get him for a very reasonable price. The Rams, let's be honest, they have two number one receivers. They have two. Even as much as we like T. Higgins, he's not Jamar Chase. The Eagles have two number one receivers. The Rams have two number one receivers, which again, the Cowboys right now look like they have two number one receivers. I always saw Pickens as a really good two. Pickens is playing like a one. So when you have. It's not a coincidence when you have two great receivers like the Rams and the Cowboys. Oh, you can run the football. You can't cheat on the Rams. They throw to their tight ends. They can run play action. They can go deep crossers. They are the cleanest, most efficient team. No penalties, no turnovers. The Rams are one of those teams. I mean, think about Philadelphia, how good they are. Philly goes long stretches where they look inept. I mean, the Rams, Tampa's a legitimately good division winning team. Potentially not even competitive.
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Jason McIntyre
I don't know. The Baker Mayfield stuff doesn't sound good. Sounded like an AC joint sprain. They don't know if he's going to be able to play this week. Just real quick, though. I know you said the Eagles think their offensive coordinator situation is a disaster. Like, can we get Jalen Hurtson with McVeigh? I mean, McVeigh is amazing. McVeigh gets Goff go to the super bowl mid Zay trades somehow gets Stafford wins a Super bowl and now they're the number one seed. By the way, Colin, the Eagles loss is kind of damaging for them getting the number one seed, although they do have the tiebreaker over the Rams. I just don't know if SOFI is a big home field advantage.
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Colin Cowherd
It's a big weather advantage. Yeah. You don't have to go outdoors.
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Jason McIntyre
The Rams could win outdoors.
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Colin Cowherd
Yes, but it's a huge advantage. I mean, the stadium may be 55% Eagle fans. No snow, 72 degrees. That's what they work out in and train. There is no question. I watched a lot of Dan Fouts teams that were magical offensively. You send them to Cincinnati, it's nine degrees. It's different. So it number one in the afc. I don't think matters as much because most of the good teams over there all playing bad weather. But for the Rams or like the Lions, Lions are.
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Jason McIntyre
They're going to be live.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Home field's a big deal and Green.
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Jason McIntyre
Bay should have their track team of receivers healthy. I'm just saying, if Rams host the AFC NFC title game, it really opens things up for the nfc. Makes a lot of teams interesting final story. Colin, we got to talk about his Lane Kiffin stuff. This is just. I'm floored by this. Lane Kiffin is now, you know, deciding between staying at Ole Miss, going to lsu, going to Florida, all kinds of nonsense out there. So the AD at Ole Miss has spoken up and said he's expecting a decision after Friday's Egg Bowl.
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Colin Cowherd
So that's, that's interesting. Before, we were hearing reports that he wanted an answer before the game. Now the AD has lightened up and said smartly, I want an answer after the game. You don't want people. Yeah. But in the end, I think we just have to be totally forthright. I like Lane. I text Lane. I like. I think he's brilliant guy. I think he's a brilliant football coach. I think he should stay or go to the NFL. I don't think he should bounce around in the sec.
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Jason McIntyre
That's a take.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Stay at Ole Miss. Not because you want to be a legend there, because they're going to pay a 12 million bucks. You got it rolling. Your offense is great. Or go to the NFL because, you know, it's college football. NFL's better coaching. You're an elite offensive coach or a former player. But my, my gut feeling is Lane has kind of done Ole Miss. He's not Somebody that's going to, you know, wear the high school letterman jacket and look, Lane is looking for new challenges. LSU has always been viewed as first or second greatest job in the greatest conference. Georgia and lsu, those jobs are NFL factories. So Lane could get the NFL feel without the NFL ownership over breathing down your neck.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah. And the goofy LSU situation, I think knocks it down a peg. Let me just add this, Colin. I looked at. Ole miss is a 7 1/2 point favorite against Mississippi State.
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Colin Cowherd
Right.
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Jason McIntyre
So they should win. But going to stark Vegas, wacky things happen. A rivalry game, Colin, do you know Ole Miss is going to the playoff and they're basically one bad quarter against Georgia away from being undefeated.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Jason McIntyre
And he would walk away from a team going to the playoff there could. They could win the national championship. I don't think they would, but they could. And he would walk away from that opportunity to go coach in Baton Rouge. That's insane. I don't understand that. So that's why I think he's staying.
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Colin Cowherd
I think Nick Saban talked about this. College football's got to solve this. In the NFL, you don't hire somebody that has a job in season.
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Jason McIntyre
Cannot do that.
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Colin Cowherd
But in college you can. So in life, when you can do something aggressive people are going to do something. LSU doesn't give a rip about Ole Miss. The SEC is all about W's. So this is a college football issue, not a Lane Kiffin issue. I mean, the reality is, if you didn't have. If the attack system in America was an honor system, everybody would cheat on their taxes. You can't because of the irs. You have to set up boundaries or aggressive people are just going to do what aggressive people do. So you can blame Lane. He. He's not. He didn't create it. He's a symptom of it. He didn't cause it. Yeah.
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Jason McIntyre
So the other thing is, before the playoff, right, Colin, there were exhibition bowl games. And if a coach leaves before you're playing in the Peach bowl, who cares? But you, the playoff, that to me is totally different. I'll be honest. I'll be surprised if he leaves. I know Florida, lsu. I just. That would be shocking.
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Colin Cowherd
J. Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the herd lie news. So I. I always said this. All the years I've been doing this and relying on executives in the NFL who I text and talk to. I'd never seen a quarterback that I viewed as a mid first, mid second round quarterback going to the fifth round and Then there were stories that came out about Shador Sanders that kind of explained it. A little bougie and it's like, oh, okay, okay, okay. But I didn't know that before the draft. But I always said about him in college, I said like, he moves well. He's super accurate. He's got kind of a casualness to him. Like he's not, you know, his dad's famous, he's been at famous places. He's not intimidated by the moment. His, his confidence doesn't ebb and flow. You know, he's, I think he lacks maturity and self awareness, but there's a looseness and a bring it on attitude that I, you know, he, I didn't think he was going to shrink. I predicted Friday he'd go 13 of 18, one touchdown and one horrific pick anyway. Close to that. But unlike Dylan Gabriel, you do get big plays out of Shador, and that matters. And if Geno Smith is a franchise quarterback, so is Shador Sanders. And I thought Kevin Stefanski, smart game plan, rolled him out at the goal line. They used the Wildcat and there were very few negative plays. Obviously Shador was coachable and listened. So there's, there was a lot of stuff I liked. I didn't, I never really pre draft or during the draft understood why he fell. Antonio Pierce, the former Raider coach, said this weekend we, we, we had him as a first round player, so. And then you hear stuff and you know, the speeding tickets and you're like, he's got to grow up. But I thought he'd go 13 to 18 with a horrible pick and he went 11 for 20 with a horrible pick. But overall you got some big plays. There's no reason to go back to Dylan Gabriel. Let's let this thing play out. And you know, it's like in a weird way, Shador Sanders is the perfect holiday fling. You play around for the next six or seven weeks and then eventually Cleveland moves on to a steady or somebody they're going to have, you know, a 15 year relationship with. But there's nothing wrong with a holiday flame. Hey, connect again on Facebook. Hang out for six or seven weeks. It is a good time. But it's not like it's not a marriage. I don't think he has great traits. He doesn't have a huge arm. He's not hyper athletic, he doesn't have a cannon. He's kind of loose and fun and capable. I thought it was a lot of fun and I, you know, the conspiracy theory crowd, you can't listen to that nonsense. I don't think Shedeur is a 30 year marriage. He's a good time. I thought yesterday was a good time. It was fun. I watched. I would have never watched that game with Dylan Gabriel. So his traits are okay. He's not big, he's not super athletic in his own division. He's not the athlete of Lamar, and he's not nearly as good in the pocket as Burrow. And who knows what Pittsburgh's doing at quarterback. They'll probably figure it out, you know, next. Next Labor Day. Never wouldn't want to get ahead of schedule. But I mean, he went from fifth round to fourth string to a first win. He went from a scout team to a savior. And it was a lot of fun. I mean, maybe like Colorado, they'll retire his jersey, it's Cleveland. But overall he's kind of. He's not affected by it. He's not intimidated by it. I saw a quarterback playing for the Vikings that literally drive to drive. It feels like his confidence goes up and down. Shador's kind of whatever, casual, bring it on here. He was after his win. You got to go out there and perform like there's no choices. No question. Nobody cares. If this was one week of prep, who cares, you know, So a lot of people wanted to see me fail and it ain't gonna happen. Yeah, I don't think a lot of people want to see him fail. I was one of those with Tebow. I never rooted against Tebow, but I said it's not divine intervention. It's a great defense and Matt Prater a kicker. I don't. There's no reason to root against Shador. His dad's been a little bit of a, you know, prima donna, a little diva. And Dion, I think he's a likable kid that needs to grow up a little bit. I wish he played with a little more urgency. Everything kind of feels casual. But it was a good time yesterday. Not all relationships have to be 30 year marriages. Holiday flings are okay. Browns have two first picks, two first round picks. Their only problem with Shador gonna win some of these games down the stretch. And they may not be able to get to the Mendoza pick. And if Dante Moore stays for another year at Oregon, I think there's only one or two first round quarterbacks. Maybe it's a good problem to have in Chicago. It's the Herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific. 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Colin Cowherd
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Day Fox is serving up a classic NFC north rivalry as Jordan Love and the packers take on Jared Goff and the Lions. Coverage begins at 11am Eastern with the pregame show live on location from Detroit. Thanksgiving Day on box.
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Colin Cowherd
It's a great game. My my wife grew up in NFC north territory in Michigan and Chicago, and so very rarely in her life have the Lions and the Bears been good. And I said it's a great game because the Bears are on a heater. Green Bay and Detroit are talented, but I don't feel great about either one of them. I mean, yesterday Green Bay clearly didn't think JJ McCarthy could beat them and had the most conservative game plan of any Green Bay team I've ever seen. So we'll get to that later, but I want to talk about Philadelphia losing to Dallas. So we saw this script two years ago. Eagles got off to an unbelievable 10:1 start, then it got real noisy and then they circled the drain and it went sideways in a hurry. So I'm seeing it again. Don't tell me everything's okay. I've been preaching this for six months. Something's not right. You keep telling me Nick Sariani, they've got two elite wide receivers, a top 3o line, a superstar running back, and they lead the NFL in three and outs. Stop telling me everything's okay. Well, Nick Ceriani is strength, is managing a locker room. What is he, a babysitter? I mean, that's part of it, but you gotta be more than that. Saquon Barkley. Can somebody explain it? He looks like a number two back. I mean, last year we thought he was the second best back after Barry Sanders we'd ever seen. So if you're an offensive coach and unquestionably the defense is the strength of your team, you have a stacked offensive roster and yet our bottom 10 in offense don't tell me everything's okay. And the other thing, you're like, hey, Nick Sariani, he is great at managing the locker room. Then why was it Big Dom, their security guard that had to facilitate the A.J. brown Jeffrey Lurie meeting? Isn't that the coach, not the security guard? I mean, Phil Jackson, for the record, he was great at managing egos too. So was Joe Tory. But you know, Joe Tory could fill out the lineup card and Phil Jackson and Tex Winter were the architects of the triangle offense and Phil was a great in game late game chess player. So I mean, everybody just keeps telling me, well, they're a little uneven. Uneven? I mean they a couple Weeks ago, they led the NFL in punts. How? It's not like they played. I mean, in their division. Dallas was wonky defensively before all the moves. The Giants are bad defensively. So, I mean, we all keep blaming Jalen Hurts, myself included. I'm over that. Jalen hurts. He is what he is. You can't be. Punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, and tell me, well, that's all Jalen hurts. I saw Baker Mayfield win a game with one practice and Josh Dobbs won a game with no practices. Jalen, you can't keep blaming Jalen hurts for all this stuff. I mean, 24 straight points by Dallas. I mean, that's what you do against the Titans. That's what you do against the Raiders. They don't do that against Philadelphia's roster. Here's Jalen after the loss. It's a matter of the execution, the discipline and the focus and what we do. And collectively, we just have to take a step in that. It's been a lot of instances where it's showing up and it's gotten us. But we've been able to figure it out and will ourselves to a win. And tonight we didn't, you know, we, we played a hell of a first half and, and then we didn't play, you know, not even a close enough to our standard in the second half. Who we've been before. We'll figure it out. And they may figure it out, and if they do, let's give Jalen Hurts the credit or Big Dom. So, I mean, it's not the end of the world. They're going to be in a really bad mood. They're a touchdown. J. Mac says on Friday over the Bears. It's a rough spot for the Bears, but it's just. You've been telling me for months it's all okay. And I'm like, I saw this two years ago, and it looks a lot like two years ago. I don't even know what's happened to Saquon Barkley. I have no idea. I mean, is it like arm fatigue in baseball where you go, you know, you go deep in the playoffs, you come back for spring, and there's arm fatigue. I don't know what it is. I just know last year we were talking about one of the great running backs of all time. He looks like a backup. And I, I, I. And again, they have two great receivers. They have good tight ends. So I. Now, let me just say this about the Cowboys now. For years and years, I have been critical of quarterbacks or coaches who On Wednesday at the podium, it's not linebackers, corners, it's leadership positions. Wearing the hat backwards at the Wednesday podium, I don't like it. I've never said anything, though, about a coach in a locker room wearing his hat on backwards. I've never talked about that. And I've got to be honest, I kind of like this. Yesterday from Shotty. Hey, we got a lot of cool to celebrate, but I got a question first. Can you win the game in the first quarter? Can you win the game in the second quarter? Did we spot him 21 points. What about that? When you play only one game a week, those locker room things are so good. I'll be honest. I'm. I've never really coveted the backward hat like most of my audience. That doesn't bother me. The post game backwards hat, that may become a tradition on this show. We may promote it and market it. Wednesday podium. Don't love it. But I will say about Brian Schottenheimer, he's an offensive coach. What is my rule? How's your side of the ball? Brent Venables in Oklahoma, his side of the ball is great. So Schottenheimer's job is offense. Dax reeling. The O line's getting better. The run game is working. Now, 15 years ago, he was thought of as the hot coach, and then there was a lot of people that felt he wasn't current, he wasn't keeping up. Whatever. I was one of those people. So he's been really, really good. Now again, they're 5, 5 and 1. They play the Chiefs. I don't like him in that game, but there is an energy. Listen, Jerry Jones, I think it's pretty well established he doesn't. The parcels and the Jimmy Johnson, they're going to keep. They're going to keep Jarrah at bay. They don't want him in the room. They don't want him talking to the media. And Jerry's like, it's my toy. I'm sorry. It's a lot more fun than selling oil or finding it. I like doing this whole GM thing, and Jerry's probably a little bit better than anybody gives him credit for. And I didn't think Schottenheimer, I didn't think he was empowering him. I thought it was kind of a weak move. But you have to admit, the offense, the passing game right now, it's extraordinary. It's. It's. It's like the Rams. They're just. They're just playing at a different level. So he deserves a lot of credit. Colin right, Colin? Wrong the whole day. I mean, from Shador Sanders. We got coaches getting fired today to the Dallas Cowboys to the Colts. Having it and losing was. It was, it was a really, really wild Sunday. 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Colin Cowherd
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