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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
THE HERD - Hour 1 - The Bills looked dominant, a major problem for the Dolphins, Caleb Williams needs to improve
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Blazing five in one hour. It's the Herd. Wherever you may be, however you may be listening, we always thank you for making us whatever platform it is part of your day. I you know, J. Mac, sometimes you're watching history and you understand it. I remember being a kid and watching Hank Aaron break Babe Ruth's a home run, Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta. And other times you're watching history and you're not necessarily aware of it because it's not just statistics. You are watching something that really we've maybe never seen. And I felt that watching Josh Allen last night and that that's where I'm going to start the show today. So if you, if you didn't watch last night's game, the easiest way I would describe it is the team with the less talented quarterback that makes more mistakes lost to the team that has the much more talented quarterback that makes no mistakes. The Bills last night scored 31 points and had no turnovers. Second team in league history to start the season with three straight games. 30 plus points, zero turnovers. Josh Allen, through hard work and coaching has eliminated his only flaw, reckless. And what's remarkable is my entire life I said this on the air many times. It's the one thing I didn't think coaches could mostly coach you out of because anybody I ever met in high school that was reckless at 17, if I saw them again 30 years later, they were reckless at 47. I always thought it was a DNA thing. I always thought it was just kind of a personality thing. Reckless guy, early as reckless guy at 55 years old. And it shows you how humble and also how self aware Josh Allen is. Since the start of last season, 48 touchdowns with Josh Allen, eight giveaways. The Bills have not lost the turnover battle in a season and a half. 25 games. I mean, and he doesn't play favorites. Everybody eats. Nine different guys caught passes. I mean, we, I loved Andrew Lucky and we all love Brett Favre. You couldn't get the reckless out of them. I mean, Matt Stafford, the year he won the super bowl with the Rams, did you know he led the NFL in interceptions? Eli Manning twice beat Tom Brady three times. He led the NFL in picks. So I've always loved guys like Elway, who's aggressive, and Peyton Manning, that's aggressive. But you can't, you can't eliminate the interceptions. To have this much talent and horsepower and Josh is the biggest, strongest, best arm. To have all this horsepower and yet be willing to put on restrictor plates is insane. You are watching history. This makes absolutely no sense. I mean, the quarterbacks that we all love, we all, we love the gunslinger part. And then Josh Allen came into the league and he, he was a bit of a gunslinger, but smart enough, humble enough, self aware enough, realizing that's not the sport. Brady and Mahomes didn't throw picks. And so Josh Allen with all that horsepower, with that V12 engine, it's like, no, I'm going to go electric, I'm not going to do that. So he's like similar to a prodigious home run hitter that changed his swing. Doesn't hit the ball quite as far, but now doesn't strike out 20, 25. Josh Allen shouldn't exist. You should not be that gifted, that fast, that talented, jump over linebackers. Yet he never throws interceptions because usually, I mean, you know, if you have a great voice, you're singing in the car, you're singing in the shower, you may be singing professionally, you want to show it off. Usually six, six guys with that engine and that ability, I mean, they are letting it rip. Josh get, you get all the upside and you get none of the downside. I mean, listen to this. His last 12 games, including the playoffs, 30 total touchdowns, one pick. That makes no sense. His ability to control, you know, have the discipline to not just, I'm gonna let it rip and throw it through. That coverage is unbelievable. And last night, it may not be as visually impressive, but he is so mature now. He is so thoughtful, he is so paced, but you still get the big engine. And he talked about like last night, you're like, oh, why? Why isn't Buffalo putting them away? It's a different Buffalo team. The previous iteration of Buffalo was scoring 35 points. They couldn't beat the Chiefs. Like it was winning a lot. It wasn't winning the games that mattered. To win the games that matter, you can't turn it over. Gotta pull back the horsepower a little bit. Here's Josh after, I think there's obviously times throughout games where the situation dictates you to maybe put the pedal down a little bit more. And there's sometimes where it's like, hey, just take it easy, relax. I wouldn't say play the long game, but just understanding where you're at, you know, within the situation of the game and not trying to force anything. And we saw that tonight. Just kind of staying as calm as possible, you know, and just being prepared for any situation that we were going to be in. They look a little bit more like Philadelphia, don't they? They just kind of squeeze you, squeeze you and squeeze you and eventually win the turnover battle and make two or three big plays late. That doesn't mean Josh can't be a superhero. He can't put on the cape, but he is right now. This is a Super bowl team. I don't love their defense, but not every Brady team had a great defense. You remember that Nick Foles Super Bowl. I mean, not every team that gets to that game has a great defense. We all have to give a little once you pay the quarterback a lot of money. But what you're seeing now feels like a Super bowl winning team. So smart horsepower without the mistakes. So I was, I was reading a tweet this morning from Mike Renner. He said the tragic thing going forward for the Dolphins is that Tua's cap number is higher than Josh Allen's the next four years. I, I think you could. There's ways if to lower that. You could, you know, you restructure it, you could cut him, whatever. But it is interesting, watching Tua last night is that NFL general managers got into this weird space for about 10 years where they convinced themselves size doesn't matter for quarterbacks from 2017 or 2012 to 2023. Russell Wilson, Johnny Manziel, Tua Bryce Young, Kyler Murray. Yeah. How are they all doing? Well, what about Jalen Hurts? The Eagles throw the ball less than every team in the league since the buy last year. They throw even less. The organization is telling you. Yeah, we don't want our smaller quarterback having to look over six, seven offensive linemen and throw. We're going to throw about 23 times a game. We're going to roll him out and throw. Even when we throw, it's not downfield. Now it's a slant here, a slant there. So don't give me Jalen hurts. The Eagles have moved off him, becoming a traditional pocket quarterback. You want to know who is winning a lot of games right now? Big tall Justin Herbert and Mahomes and Allen and Jordan Love and Lamar Jackson and Goff and Matt Stafford and Joe Burrow. Yes. Offensive lineman, hour six, seven and a half. Regularly. Size has always mattered. Drew Brees is the exception. He is the outlier. He is the only small quarterback who had sustained greatness for 15 straight years. And Sean Payton was some of that. But mostly he was the most obsessed with accuracy. Quarterback of my life. Drew Brees is the outlier. Size didn't matter that much, but when I watched Tua and Josh Allen, every single time I watch them, I always think the same thing. And when they play each other on the same field, yeah, I'm gonna take the bigger, stronger guy to a smaller. Doesn't have a big arm, don't want him in windy weather. You gotta protect him. So, I mean, I guess again, the thing that size matters in all sports. I mean, you could probably have a six, eleven and a half jockey, but it would look weird and it doesn't feel right on that horse. I think your quarterbacks have to be about 6, 2 and up. I'm sorry, I'll take the bigger, stronger guy. And by the way to his record against winning teams in his career is 10 and 20. Those winning teams overwhelmingly have bigger, stronger quarterbacks with better arms. So there's a reason boxing and UFC have weight categories. So it's nothing against tua. But I think that interception he threw, he's been playing football for too long in Hawaii at Alabama and Miami. I think that interception he threw to that linebacker, honestly, I don't think he saw him. Here's TUA on that game. Ceiling interception by the Bills. I thought I was in rhythm in timing of the play, seeing the flat defender go over the top of Jalen, Jalen's turning around. I think that was a really good play by the defender and, you know, had some color in my face trying to maneuver the throw as well. But at 10 out of 10 times, if we're looking at that same thing, you know, I think I'd still try to work that timing of hitting that spot. And I think the linebacker made a great play on that. I. I don't. I think he threw it right to him because he didn't see him. That was not a great play. It was thrown right to him. There's things I like about Tua, but don't, don't tell me size doesn't matter. Jockeys, quarterbacks, I want one small, one big, just the way it is. J. Mac, I think one of the more interesting games this weekend, blazing five, 50 minutes from now. I like my picks, but I liked them last week. I think one of the more interesting games, and I think it's going to be a shootout, is the Cowboys and The Bears. It's going to be really, really entertaining because neither one of these defenses has their act together. Jalen Johnson, I think, is still out for the Bears, their best corner. And when you let go of Micah, I mean, we've seen what Micah has added to the Packers. You eliminate him from the Cowboys and you don't get as consistent the playmaking off the edge. So I am, I am fascinated by the Cowboys and the Bears and I've got, I've got. The Bears don't have to win. But. But I will have a definitive opinion Sunday night if something doesn't happen. Yeah, I'm sure. Hey, to go back to that TUA interception real quick, I don't know if they can roll the footage, but Colin, something you didn't discuss. If you watch the right guard on that play, he gets destroyed at the line of scrimmage by 96. Tua has zero time at all to analyze anything. He's got under a second. If you watch that swim move. And so he's got to make his first read. And of course the linebacker read it. I actually, if you watch it, I don't think that plays totally on tua. I know it's tough to defend him and you want to go to the height, but his offensive line has been terrible every year he's been in Miami. Awful. Go look at their rankings according to Pro Football Focus. Yeah. And you really can't win without one. Well, he can't win without one. Josh Allen did not have a great offensive line. He had a great left tackle. But Josh Allen's early O lines were not great. And by the way, Patrick Mahomes has gotten to Super Bowls with average offensive lines. Joe Burrows gotten to Super Bowls with bad offensive lines. He can't. He is. He has to have. I don't know that he can. You're. You're saying you would consider dumping to a. Like to the Russell Wilson thing at Denver? Just take the dead cap hit and move on. Well, I, I think if you cut him the, the first of all, I think he'd have a market. Absolutely would have a market. I would, I would put him in a dome team. I think he would have a market. I think, again, I, I don't think two is a bad quarterback, but you have to have certain things for him to be a playoff quarterback. Joe Burrow went on the road with an atrocious offensive line and was a play away from winning a Super Bowl. Joe Burrow, six, three and a half. So there are things with a smaller quarterback. You have to have work. I mean look at Mahomes. Mahomes gets to Super Bowls with bad receiving cores, shaky offensive lines, bad left tackles and no running game. Right? Yeah, he's not Mahomes or Burrow. And then and I think one of the truer elements is that Burrow is different than Mahomes, is different than Allen, that's different than Herbert. They're all big strong men. Yeah, they're all big strong men of size. The only guys I can find who have been under 62 to win Super Bowls Jalen Hurts, Russell Wilson, Drew Brees, now Joe Montana depending where he's listed 6162 but you're right, not a lot of them in the last 40 years. But I mean just it's just it's the I was I I'm not anti smaller quarterback Baker Mayfield's not big. What I'm saying is this idea for a decade that it didn't matter yet does Bryce Young feels small and Kyler Murray from the pocket consistently. You don't get it. And the Eagles are acknowledging with Jalen Hurts prefer we be a run team. They're running 62% of the time. He has more tush push attempts than balls thrown downfield this year and that's by design. Coming up next, what Caleb Williams does have to do against the Cowboys. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS1 and the iHeartRadio app. Hey, it's me, Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker for 22 minutes of piping hot baseball talk featuring the biggest names and newsmakers in the sport. Whether you believe in analytics or the eye test, we've got all the bases covered. 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It is, however, a must perform game. We can't have another great first drive followed by garbage the rest of the game. And right now The Bears are 6 and 24 on third and fourth down after the first drive. That's terrible. So Dallas's defense gave up 450 passing yards to 37 year old Russell Wilson behind a shaky BE Giants O line. Okay, I said this, I've been consistent. I said this all August. I said 9 and 8 is generous. Look at their schedule. Packers are great. Lions, Vikings could be better. 9 and 8 was generous. I said, I don't get caught up on that. Eight and nine could end up being great because he improves. What are the things I wanted to see him improvement in? What did I talk about in August? One thing, it wasn't about wins or passing yards or touchdowns. Reduction of sacks, reduction of hits. Just get rid of the ball more quickly. Yeah. The problem is that hasn't happened because if you look at Caleb this year Take away the opening drives where he's on script, quick release the other 20 drives. This is horrible. 54% completion percentage and a 77 passer rating. Why? Because he's holding on the ball for 3.28 seconds. Longest by a. By a long shot over most of the league. Most of the league. That things out two seven three three is a long. That's a half a beat. So you look at those 20 drives. That's not. I don't want to hear about it. Got better. I mean, I know Romeo Dunze wasn't built in a day, but they were getting better. They were making progress. They were laying bricks every day. I got to see something because all Ben Johnson talked about in the off season. What did he talk about? He wanted to give Caleb more structure, more timing, make it easier and he wanted harder, more intense practices. Three weeks in, he's complaining about both. So I'm going to have a definitive judgment and opinion. Sunday night, 6:30pm Central Time. If the drives after the first drive, if he's not getting rid of the ball sooner. I said this about the Steelers. I don't care that you're beating Joe Flacco. There's five games for the Steelers this year. I care about. You were 10 and three last year. Then down the stretch zero and five against the good quarterbacks. I don't care about the first drive. You can do that. I don't even necessarily care about the W. But I don't want to hear about this. Well, I mean, very good on the first drive. I've seen that. You passed that test. I mean that's starting the car and pulling out your driving test when you're 17 years old. I want to see parallel parking. I want to see in rush hour. I got to see something here. Yeah, you can start the car, back it up and go on your way. Congrats. I need more than that. I mean, almost every quarterback first drive is semi successful. You pick up a couple of first downs. So this Dallas defense is not good. You're at home. Dallas is coming off an overtime game, which is always an advantage statistically to the team playing the team that played the overtime game. Chiefs against the Giants. Edge Chiefs. Bears against the Cowboys. Edge, Bears. Fewer snaps last week. So here's Ben Johnson on his quarterback heading into week three against Dallas. He's got total control of the field. The fact of the matter is we're not going to go week one, week two, week three, all the way through 17 just like that. We're going to have some Hiccups along the way. And we're. I'm aware of that. But his approach to the game right now is what it needs to be. He's. He's coming in, he's doing the work. Eventually these results will start speaking for themselves. Okay, 6:30 Central Sunday night. I got to see something now. Okay. Because through two weeks you're on academic probation. I got to see a little focus. I got to see a little more than tapping the keg with all the boys at seniors. Froggies. Okay, I got. You got to give me some positives here. I need to see a study in a little bit because you take those first two drives out. The thing we talked about all off season was get rid of the ball. 3.28 seconds, worst in the league with a timing rhythm coach with upgrades to the O line with a very solid receiving core. J. Mac with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the Herd line news. Love a good keg tap reference on a Friday, you know, and it's perfect for the first story, Colin, because the Kansas City Chiefs fans, they will turn to drinking if the, if the Chiefs lose to the Giants this weekend in Week 3. The good news is the Giants defense just gave up 40 to Dallas last week. Here's mahomes of what a chief's mentality is entering week three. Just being zero and two. There's a, there's more urgency than even last week. I mean and I felt like we were very urgent last week. So definitely new territory as far as being 02. But knowing that we got the guys for it. You know, we have the mindset of going out there and being even better. And so in my eyes it looks like it's like what an opportunity. What an opportunity to prove who we are as a Kansas City Chiefs is coming back from 02 and trying to build up to win a big football game on Sunday night Football and try to get our season going in the right direction from there. That number to me feels large. That's why I stayed away from it like once in a while, the Bears Dallas game, like, how is that a pick em? That's weird. And this game, Kansas City doesn't blow anybody out. They can't score big points, they have no run game and the Giants have a great defensive front. I don't get the number. So it tells me Vegas sees something because I don't get this. I don't, I don't take Kansas City -6 against anybody, especially on the road. Yeah, yeah. There's just not A good football team right now. And Patrick Mahomes is, you know, last year was the worst season of his career. He's below that to start this season. Colin, 58% completions, 6.5 yards per attempt. They have no downfield action. You know, over the weekend, you know, when the Chiefs were struggling, I posted Patrick Mahomes stats. And I'm sure you remember the movie Black Panther there. Here are the Mahomes stats on the screen. Well, the team stats. But in the movie Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan takes down Black Panther and he's like, is this your king? Is this your king? And I wrote that on social media. Is this your king for Patrick Mahomes? And all these Chiefs fans got angry. Colin, the reality right now, Patrick Mahomes is not playing at a top 10 quarterback level. And if you go back to the Super Bowl, I know it's just three games. He just hasn't been good. I suggested this morning to the staff there was almost a mutiny. I said, if I was going to build a small pyramid of quarterbacks, Josh Allen over the last year to year and a half is the best quarterback in this league. Why would there be a mutiny over there? That's just reality. And I was like, I mean, it wasn't outrage. They didn't. There wasn't a strike. It wasn't. It wasn't a union activity, but it was. It's kind of like Mahomes, like, no, no, no, no. The last year and a half, Josh is the best quarterback in this league. That's not even close. Lamar's been better. I don't think it is close. The difference is, and this knock is Josh has beaten the Chiefs several times. It's just in the regular season. Right. Whereas Lamar, that's been. He can't get past that. And Josh has also been good in the postseason. Don't kid yourself. Josh hasn't been the issue in the postseason. Their defense has. So my takeaway right now is Mahomes is not the best quarterback in the league. He may end up having the best career, but he's not the best quarterback in the league right now. Yeah, there were years where Tom Brady was excellent and good and they wanted to. He wasn't the best quarterback in the league. By far and away the best quarterback in the league. The two primary years with Randy Moss, yes, it wasn't close. Right. The year he won the Atlanta Super Bowl, Edelman, I mean, again, Tom was very, very good. But that's when you started to see the emergence of a lot of young Quarterbacks in the last couple years of his career over like, Tom's the most profound but the best quarterback. I mean, when Mahomes came in, we were like, okay, that's the best quarterback. So if we're so easy to do that with Mahomes and Brady at the end of Tom's career, then in the prime of Mahomes career, why can't we say right now Josh is better. You get more upside, fewer mistakes. Yeah, the numbers. Trust the numbers over your emotions. We know you love Patrick Mahomes and he's a great guy and he's got a. He's a great family man and he's won a lot of Super Bowls, but right now he's not playing good football. Look at this. Most consecutive games with fewer than 30 points. Kansas City Chiefs are in the same category as the Raiders, the Saints, the Jags. Hey, the jets aren't even on that list. They scored 30 in week one. Okay. So, yeah. Anyways, let's move on to the big game Sunday on fox. Rams at Philadelphia. Battle of two zero teams. I know that the playoff game was close last year, but we keep forgetting how Saquon had 352 yards in the regular season meeting. I think he had three carries over 70 yards in that game. Jared Verse talked about how the Rams defense has to flip the script in the first two weeks. We've limited the explosive plays by a huge amount. Obviously, Philly's a different team than any team we faced so far. You know, everybody's just got to do their job. They're one of 11. Every now and then, you know, it might be 10 of 11 and that's when we become dangerous. Saquon's a very good back. If you don't. If everyone's on the same page, he can damage you. Yeah, that guy is about starting this year, is about to go on a run for about a decade to be the best defensive player in the year. Very good. Little hyperbole this week. Jim Harbaugh, the best coach ever. Jared first. Best defender, perfect quarterback. Versus really, really good. Okay, let's. Micah Parsons is still breathing right now, right? Have we checked on him in Green Bay? Come on. Micah Parsons is totally dominant right now. Coward. By the way, still three and a half for this game. I don't get it. I don't get it. Scoring. And the Rams defense is arguably the best in the league. I don't get the number. So, you know, some of these public. Hey, the public is 82% on the Texans. All that stuff I saw one where the public is 80% on the Rams. A public dog is usually one of these. Be careful. They don't know anything. They're getting public. Last year, you know, this last year, the fans, the public beat the wise guys. Right? But that was last year. These first two weeks are getting eviscerated, Colin. They're getting destroyed. I, I, I, I'm on the Rams. I'm pot committed. Go Rams. Final story. We got some breaking news. The Washington commanders just announced Marcus Mariota will be starting this weekend, Sunday, 1pm against the Raiders. Marcus Mariota, former Raider, Raider former Chip Kelly, quarterback at Oregon. So Chip Kelly, obviously the new OC with the Raiders. Jaden Daniels, like we predicted this, what, Tuesday? Yeah, I think this is a, I think this is a very good game. I think obviously you could take a touchdown away. You know, it's Washington's not going to score in the 30s, so they're not going to be as lethal offensively. But I do think for short periods of time, defenses rise when the star quarterback is out. Now, I don't think you can do it for a month, but the Washington defense, knowing they don't have Jaden Daniels, will probably play a very spirited football game. And I still like Washington. Very close. I think for a week Washington will be fine. I don't think you can go a month without Jaden. You can go a Sunday without him. Again, for a team that's trying to find their way offensively, Genti Geno protection I still like Washington. Yeah. And remember, Marcus Mariota has had a bunch of first team reps this week because the injury was last Thursday to Daniel. He's a, he's, by the way, if you take out the injuries, he, he kind of, he was physically reckless. Not necessarily throwing the ball. He was sometimes physically reckless. Marcus can play. I think he got through the playoffs with the Titans. It's not like Marcus couldn't play. It's like Joe Flacco. There's a reason he's still hanging around Carson Wentz. People think he can play. So let me ask, remember how Winston and Mariota went 1, 2 in the draft? Who would you say had the better career out of those two? Well, Winston had a lot of touchdown passes and come on, a lot of mistakes. Pick sixes. He's like the career leader or whatever. It's almost a wash. I would maybe lean Mariota because I think he won a playoff game. Marcus Mariota has a very good reputation. He's a really nice guy. People like him. It's just one of those things. You know, we talk about this. I was talking about Ryan Fitzpatrick this morning on X. Ryan Fitzpatrick wasn't good enough to be a build a franchise around him. Ryan Fitzpatrick's the only quarterback in league history that had three straight games of over 400 passing yards like Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah, could play. He didn't have a huge arm, but he was tough, resilient. He could throw. He could. And, and he do. Fitz magic like Marcus Mariota had a lot of good performances. He was a very talented guy. I'm leaning Washington, but I, I got nothing on this game. I don't know. Raiders are remember, Raiders are coming off Monday Night Football and travel against arrested Washington team. So there's a world where Washington beats them. It beats their brains in. But we'll see J. Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by the Herd lie news. Oh, we got good stuff today. Top of the hour, blazing five. Even J. Mac. Now, J. Mac usually doesn't see my picks before I make them, but let's not get too into the details, but J. Mac inadvertently accidentally saw my picks today, and I don't like to give out my secrets early. I don't want him stealing any of my picks. But he even, even J. Mac said, yeah, I like your picks. This week we're in a lot of agreement. Usually I think we're like 94 when we both agree on our. No, no. We're pretty high. No, but it's pretty good, though. Yeah, we agree. It's pretty good. Yeah. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific. Hey, this is Matt Jones. I'm Drew Franklin and this is NFL Cover Zero. We think NFL coverage should be informative and entertaining. And twice a week that is exactly what you're going to get. 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I ended up having amputation below the knee of my right leg and a traumatic brain injury because I landed on my head. Welcome to Season two of the Good Stuff. Listen to the Good Stuff podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast tomorrow. Another huge day of college football is on Fox, and it all kicks off with big noon Saturday as Texas Tech takes on Utah. Then at 3:30 Eastern, North Carolina takes on UCF, followed by Arizona State versus Baylor. Finally at 11, Michigan State battles USC. It all begins with big noon Saturday on Fox. So Saturday night, J. Mac I 10:00pm Michigan State, USC at the Collie. So I have to take a nap. A huge hour and a half nap in the afternoon so I can stay up till 1:30 in the morning to watch the fourth quarter. Now the game will be over, you know, early third quarter. But the point being is now, hold on, let me reach for my violin here. It feels so bad. You have to take a nap on a Saturday. Jeez. So the the Bears Cowboys game is interesting. I will Nobody wants to be called an elitist, but I am a quarterback elitist. First of all, we're all elitists at some level. I don't care if it's golf. Some guys don't like to golf on public courses. Some guys won't drive certain trucks. Everybody's got something. I don't confuse elitist with standards, but I am a quarterback elitist. I like certain traits. Size, durability, big arms. I am a quarterback elitist. There are traits I like. And Dak? He's had a couple surgeries. He doesn't throw the most aesthetically pleasing ball. His size? Normal. It's fine. It's normal. He's not exceptional in terms of size, athletic ability. But where Dak is great is that the Cowboys, beyond the avalanche of media coverage and scrutiny it takes to be a cowboy Quarterback star in the helmet, dez, Zeke, Jerry, Micah, now George Pickens, lot of higher maintenance people around him. And all Dak does with three different coaches, none of which you loved, any of them. Jason Garrett, Mike McCarthy, Brian Schottenheimer. And Dak comes out every year and he's on pace to do it again to get a passer rating at about 98.99, complete 67% of his throws, give you about 30 touchdowns, 10 picks, and win double digit games. That's what it looks like to me. And I was thinking about this this morning, and Dak is the kid in the family that sort of gets ignored because he's never needy, he's never doing the wrong thing. And parents pay attention to the toxic kid, the always in trouble kid, the kid that's irresponsible. Dak is the kid you make executor of the will. Dak is the responsible kid. And everybody listening to my show on radio, that is that kid in their family, you're the responsible one. There's always a reality when you're the responsible kid. And it's almost never acknowledged by the other kids or even your parents, everybody else. You accept all the burdens of people around you. And Dak accepts all of them. And once again, I watch him through two weeks and I'm like, he'll never get credit for it. He doesn't have the arm. Couple surgeries, not the most athletic guy. Dak has become one of the mentally strongest players in this league. You can throw injuries at him, you can throw the pandemic. Adam, I remember during the BLM stuff in America, there's a lot of controversy. You can throw dez, Adam, Zeke at him, Micah at him. Ugly losses. The Eagle semi dynasty. He pops up every year with a different coach and gives you the same numbers. Passer rating 98, 99 complete, 67%, gonna win 10 plus games, 30 TDs, 10 picks. So I am, I am a quarterback trait elitist. And I admit that. And because of that, I've never been wowed by Dak Prescott. But I'll tell you this, as he's aged, not only do I totally respect him, I'm starting to appreciate him. I mean, I, I came into this season, I'm like, that is not the head coach I would have hired. And Dak looks great again. And he's had to endure and deal with all this toxicity around him. And he's the kid that just gets good grades, mows the lawn, does the stuff the parents want and gets ignored mostly because he's not toxic and he's not high maintenance. I just think he looks unbelievable. Through the first two weeks, I couldn't believe what I'm watching. Troy Aikman this week on Dallas radio, on Dax. I love Dak. There's nothing I'd rather see than see him go on and win a Super bowl and win multiple Super Bowls and, you know, win more than me and Roger and all of us combined, if possible because he's that type of guy and he represents himself and the organization and really our city so well. He really does. I was thinking about this. So the Bills, Josh Allen broke Patrick Mahomes record, is the fastest guy to get 300 career touchdowns. And stay with me on this four or five minute story, but he's becoming a little bit Josh Allen, the Leonardo DiCaprio of 2016. So we all knew DiCaprio was great. He was an all timer and we all know Josh is an all timer. But it wasn't until, you know, like the Revenant, until Hollywood said, okay, you get, you get the Oscar. And that's Josh Allen is he now has a running game. He now has three legitimate tight ends. He no longer jumps over linebackers. And my hunch is, despite all the stats early, Super Bowl 60 this year will be his Revenant. It will be his moment. Leonardo DiCaprio, by the way, he didn't win an Oscar, but he was carrying the Titanic. He was carrying Wolf of Wall Street. He was jumping over linebackers. He catch me if you can. Very Leonardo DiCaprio centric. But it wasn't ironically until he talked less that Hollywood finally said he's the best actor in the world. It wasn't until Revenant and we were all in awe of Leonardo DiCaprio jumping over linebackers. Wolf of Wall Street Titan, we were in awe of him. But at the end, where's the trophy? And we were similarly in awe of Josh Allen. 400 yard games, literally outrunning safeties, running over people, jumping over people. He doesn't do that as much anymore. So my super bowl prediction on February 8th, Josh Allen, J. Mac will officially become Leonardo DiCaprio in Revenant. Here is Josh Allen on improving to three and oh, we're obviously doing our job, going 10 each week. Still a lot to learn from, a lot to grow. A lot of room for growth in this, in this group. A lot of young guys, but guys are stepping up. There's been some guys down with injuries and guys are stepping up and making some big time plays for us. Especially on the defensive side of the ball. Yeah, I mean, it's a close unit that's, you know, jailing together really well right now. And I got to keep finding ways to win football games. You know, I was thinking about this. How lucky is the NFL? And the NFL doesn't get credit for this. Dads get credit for this. Parents get credit for this. And the players do. Think of the best quarterbacks in the league right now, like Lamar Jackson, Mahomes, Josh Allen, Justin Herbert, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow. Just think, think of the top quarterbacks in the league. They're all great guys. Like, they're humble. I mean, these guys are worth 3 in 400 million. They're in their 20s. I mean, guys on bitcoin that are still renting are unlikable on the Internet. Follow X for five minutes after a good bitcoin day. I mean, these guys are worth hundreds of millions. They're stars. Could Josh Allen be more likable? Or Jalen Hurts or Dak Prescott? It's unbelievable. The NFL superstar players are such likable, relatable, cool guys. Congrats to the kids. Congrats to the parents. Mom or dad or both. But when I watch Josh Allen, I'm like, can you imagine being this rich? You seen his wife having this much talent and, like, being coachable, reflective, smart, and as I just said, the Revenant as of February 8th. So I, I watch them and I watch one of the things about Josh Allen, he doesn't jump over linebackers like he used to. But when you play this way and you don't turn the ball over, that was always a little bit of Aaron Rodgers and Mahomes secret sauce. I get all the upside. I don't get any of the downside. I mean, Manning threw picks, Elway's through picks, Montana threw him, Neymar threw him, Brady threw some. Not many, but it was like Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers. It's like, man, you know, you don't. You get 35 touchdowns, you get like six picks. I mean, for Josh Allen to not. I mean, in his. What was that thing the last 12 games? 30 touchdowns, one pick. I mean, I mean, he only. And here's the other thing. They've got nice weapons. Everybody ate. They got nine guys touched the ball. They have three good tight ends. James Cook, I read only one time all night did they attempt a pass over 10 yards. Remember, we. We thought Stefan Diggs was the answer. Oh, we're going to throw downtown. We're going to be a big play. Offense. And with Josh Allen, they were like, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not going to do that. We're not going to throw downtown as much. We're going to have tight ends, a good run game, you know, guys in the slot we can get the ball to. And then Josh has to peel off a great run about three to four times a game. Yeah. Last 12 games, including the playoffs, 3,000 yards, 30 touchdowns and a pick. I just hope everybody gets. What a good guy. What a story. You're watching history sometimes. It's obvious. Like sometimes. Oh, you broke the all time blank record. This is history. Like what you're watching here doesn't happen. You may never see 30 touchdowns, one pick in a 12 day, 12 game stretch ever in what's considered the better conference, the afc. All right. Around the corner, J. 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