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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
THE HERD - Hour 1 - The start of the NFL season, the Cowboys played well despite losing, the Eagles have some problems
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
Can I ask you if which game? The one before the lightning delay or after? Because they were totally different games.
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Jason McIntyre
They were. So let's just start with this. Listen, if CD Lamb catches that deep ball and it was a perfect throw, another one by Dak, I think Dallas wins the game. They had more first downs, they were slightly better on third down. They had fewer penalties, they had more total offense and I thought their clock management, always an issue in Dallas with McCarthy was very strong at the end of the first half. Yes, Jalen Carter's absence due to spitting is a big break. He he is just a complete absolute difference maker. And for the first half, the Eagles defense was trying to sort things out and figure out how to play without Jalen Carter. But Dak played well. Don't blame it on Dak. He had people in his face in the second half and made great throws. And here's the thing about Dak. He's 32, he's off his second surgery, they had to screws were needed to reattach his hamstring. Yet he moved well. He threw with confidence, he didn't get sacked. And again in the second half, Vic Fangio dialed It up. He was under duress also for Dallas. I thought the offensive line again, no Jalen Carter. Yeah, we know it helped, but I thought the offensive line held up well. I thought they found running lanes. I thought CD Lamb and George Pickens against an excellent secondary that is an excellent young, talented secondary and linebacking core. Both George Pickens and CD Lamb created space, beat their coverage and also, oh, what are we going to look like without Micah Parsons? Micah Parsons is a great player. He's not the soul of his team. Last year with Micah Parsons, The Eagles averaged 37 1/2 points against Dallas. Last night was 24 and would have been a win if CD Lam didn't become CD lame and dropped three passes. The O line looked good. Keep your eye on James Houston, who was great as a rookie. He's been beat up, he struggles to stay healthy, but I thought he looked really good. And listen, I have been highly critical of Brian Schottenheimer, but you could not watch the Cowboys last night on the road rain delay and not think they're buttoned up. They're good on third down, they're emotionally in check, very few penalties. So I listen. You could have bad wins in this league if you lose a star quarterback, but when you could have good losses, this is a it. Certain places, a young Dallas team, I think they're going to score some points. I was really encouraged by the offensive line it again at halftime adjustments. But Dak wasn't getting sacked. He was moving around. I think you have to be happy as a Cowboy fan, I throughout the game, I'm thinking, Dallas, don't screw it up. Get a top 10 lottery pick. But they still got what, three years to pay Dakota maybe after this year. So they're. They're invested in Dak. But overall, here's Brian. I thought it was pretty impressive. We got the right type of guys. We got good players. Again, like I said, you know, you saw what we're capable of in the first half. Offensively, you saw what we're capable of in the second half. Defensively, we just got to put the game together in a more complementary fashion. We had chances out there and there's no moral victories for us. We had a chance to win that game and weren't able to do it. And it'll sting. I mean, that, that I thought Dallas, honestly, I thought it was a B plus plus performance. Obviously the rain delay didn't help them, but you're on the road. Philadelphia's got the better team. It really came down to CD Lamb making One big catch, but very impressive by Dallas. Shockingly so for me. Okay, let's talk Eagles. What did I spend 10 minutes on yesterday with the Eagles? I said they do a lot of things lousy franchises do. And they did it again last night. Jalen Carter couldn't get a snap in before he got tossed. They had more penalty yards in the first half than any team in the NFL last season had in the first half. The Eagles last night, I mean, they went the entire game and barely even glanced at A.J. brown. They had multiple personal fouls. They were emotionally out of control. They had a dumb, dumb taunting penalty. When you know the league's been warning all the teams, taunting, we're not standing for it. I mean, I saw Big Dom more than I saw A.J. brown. And Philly's got a lot of new faces on defense, so they needed Jalen Carter. That was a big loss. But once again, and we talked about this yesterday, you know what? I've always loved Jalen Hurts. Not as much as anybody else, but, boy, did you see it last night. Stoic, intelligent leadership. Do you realize in his last 15 starts that he's played the entire game? He's 15 and 0. And last night was classic Philly drama everywhere. Taunting, penalties, personal fouls. Jalen Carter. And here's stoic Jalen Hurts grown up. I mean, now Vic Fangio deserves credit. He couldn't figure out in the first half what to do without Jalen Carter. They go in at halftime. Fangio is like, all right, we're going to switch some things up. He did. Vic's great. So it took them a half to figure out what to do defensively. But I thought Jalen Hurts faced more pressure overall consistently than Dak did. I thought Dallas's front got pressure, but he is so mentally dialed in. This guy is such an impressive human being. I almost think Jalen Hurts is an impressive human being. The quarterback is second. But this was a classic game for Philadelphia where they kind of melted down in the first half. Carter taunting, penalties, personal fouls. They were kind of a wreck. But what pulled it through. Jalen Hurts picking up first downs. He just, you know, it's like Philadelphia is a big, noisy family. And I. I learned this when my dad, you know, passed away. Like, who's the executor of the will? And they gave it to my sister, right? Like, like, all right, Collins distracted. Give it to my sister. And I feel like this is a big, loud family. If you ever had to give the executor of the will to anybody for The Philadelphia Eagles. I wouldn't give it to Nick Ceriani. I. The executor, it would be Jalen Hurts, because there's so. Last night's first half, there was nothing but drama in Philadelphia. And there's a big story. Something's going on with A.J. brown. We'll get to that in a second. But here's Nick Ceriani on the Jalen Carter incident. We want to have great, like I said, energy, tenacity, all those different things, but we got to do it within the rules of the game. And, you know, we'll. We'll. We'll address that. We'll go through that, but we got to get better in that. In that scenario, because we need. We need that guy on the field. He's a really good player. The other thing to think about, and I'm going to get into this after the break, but there is one thing, because Philadelphia, Jalen Hurts is playing the entire game. Philadelphia wins. Okay, There is one thing. Jason. And Jason was on this couple years ago. I got to give him credit. That blows up a dynasty or a great team wide receiver drama. And the AJ Brown situation last year, you start looking at the data, he is not the guy you think he is. I always said this. Warriors won pre KD and post kd. The soul of the team was Draymond and Steph. It was not kd. Katie was the most talented, and I could argue AJ Brown's as talented as everybody on Philadelphia. But I'm going to give you some numbers after the break to show you, you know, what it felt like last night to me. We didn't work together at this time. Randy Moss goes to the Patriots, and he's unbelievable. And you're kind of waiting for the next shoe to drop. And then I forget what year it was, but there's a Monday Night Football game. New England goes to Miami. I think it was in Miami, but it was the Patriots, Dolphins, and they target Randy Moss once. And I remember I worked at espn. I went on the air that Tuesday morning and I said, he's out of here. And everybody back then, I would take emails or calls to the show. Everybody's like, no, you're overreacting. I'm like the most talented receiver in the game on a team that doesn't draft receivers. You target against a rival team, Miami, you target him one time. It's not like he targeted him eight times and the coverage was good. A.J. brown was targeted, what, Once last night. Okay, so that tells you Jalen Hurst and A.J. brown, because Dallas Goddard was eaten last night. Saquon was eaten. Dotson got looks. Devonte Smith got looks. AJ's more talented arguably than all of them except Saquon Barkley, and got one look. That is not coincidental.
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Colin Cowherd
Not great at all. And it was not just one target. It was one target with like five minutes left in the game. Colin, that offense did not look good at all. You can't rely on Jalen Hurts to bail you out of every third down. They had one pass completion over 10 yards, one. The bomb to Dotson. That's it. Everything else was short. I know it's a new offensive coordinator for Hertz, but which is the case almost every year. But Colin, my. I'm with you. The takeaway is Dallas looked better than advertised and Philly did not look particularly sharp.
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Jason McIntyre
No, but. But I will say the rain delay helped Philly. You know, it's hard enough to go on the road. Like, it's hard to go on the road. The crowd's against you and then you prepare and Dallas had a very good game plan. And then all of a sudden you got a rain delay after halftime and you're like, okay, it's hard. And I felt for Dallas, I'm like, oh, this is like Philadelphia, the football gods. Remember the super bowl where the lights went out. It's like sometimes a team, when the lights go out, you come back on or there's a delay. Some players don't react as well. It's always felt like it's an advantage being the home team if there's some malfunction or delay. And I just felt like after that, I thought Philly was a little more dialed in. But you cannot come out of that game and not say to yourself with Dallas, because my thing with Schottenheimer, he hadn't been offered or interviewed for a head coaching job before Dallas, like for 14 years. And offensive coaches all get interviewed. So, like, he was not the party of the, you know, the bell of the ball by owners or GMs as an offensive coach. But maybe he's a walk around guy and his stoicism and chill approach works with Jerry.
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Colin Cowherd
It could be. Let me just push back and I'll offer this. If Jalen Carter's not tossed, you could just take away all those a gap runs where Javante Adams is running. By the way, Javante Adams total for rushing yards was like 37 and a half. Yeah, he had like 58 yards rushing. Okay, so that's totally fair. And then all of a sudden Dak gets pressure up the Middle Javante Williams. Sorry, I just. I don't really know what to make of either team.
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Jason McIntyre
But here's my. Here's my take though. You're right. But the truth about availability, it's on you. So that. That's. I am not going to say. Well, Dallas with Jalen Carter, I don't know. Yeah, but you know what? You're not mature. You had red flags coming out of Georgia. This won't be the last time you get in trouble. So you know what? Dak could have easily spit back and didn't. But the mature Dax like now, brah. Jalen. So I. Philadelphia's drama is self inflicted. Okay, I don't. You know, so you're right. I do think Dallas found some running lanes that they wouldn't have found. But I will say the pass protection was pretty good.
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Colin Cowherd
Nolan Smith was the only guy getting to him. I am curious if Micah Parsons is there for Dallas on that. Is he setting the edge? Containing Jalen hurts. It felt like they missed Micah Parsons. I didn't hear a lot of that discussion on the broadcast.
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Jason McIntyre
Well, I thought Houston was really good.
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Colin Cowherd
He was solid. But imagine if he was opposite Michael Parsons. Then it's like, well, Jalen's not running wild. I mean, Jalen was just clowning.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah, right. Carter's gone one for Philly. Mike has gone for Dallas. And so you could say, well, it's kind of a wash. It just looked like if you didn't know anything about Philly or Dallas and you were dropped spaceship in front of a TV and you watch the game, your takeaway would be. Yeah, I mean they're pretty close even. Yeah, I watched them play twice last year. Lopsided. It was bam. In the Dynasty against Kentucky, it was like, oh, these teams shouldn't be on the same field. Both games last year, last night I was like, no, they match up. The lines match up. 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 Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller with mean a lot to have you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name is the fifth hour? I'll tell you, it's a spin off of the Ben Ma Show, a cult hit overnights on fsr. Why should you listen? Picture, if you will, a world where we chat with captains of industry in media, sports and more every week. Explore some amazing facts about human nature and more. Listen to the fifth hour with Ben Mather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. You probably think of Michelin as a tire company. And I mean it is, but it's really an innovation company and that's why their tires are as good as they are. It started in the 1800s making brake pads for horse drawn carriages Seriously. Later, Michelin basically invented the modern tire with the first steel belted design. That innovation has never slowed. In fact, it's only accelerated. These days though, it's Michelin in Motion vision. The company is expanding into healthcare, energy and even aerospace. Seriously. For instance, they're developing an airless wheel for lunar exploration. It's gotta deal with vast temperature swings, radiation and rough terrain on the moon and maybe one day on Mars. I mean, this is more than just some sort of vanity project. It showcases Michelin's broader shift from tire manufacturing to high tech durable mobility solutions. It's about the exact same thing that led to those horse drawn carriage brake pads well over a hundred years ago. It's about innovation. Learn more@michelinman.com y michelinnovation Michelin Motion for Life the Toyota Certified Used Vehicle Sales Event is here. It is packed with great surprises. Choose from a wide selection of low mileage vehicles all backed by Toyota with warranties that begin on the date of purchase. Because when it comes to quality, the best new cars make the best used cars. Every certified Toyota undergoes a thorough quality assurance inspection before it even reaches the lot so you can drive away with confidence. With over 7 million sold, there's a certified Toyota for every lifestyle from efficient commuters to family friendly SUVs. Each vehicle comes with added benefits like roadside assistance and features you expect, including Bluetooth connectivity. But hurry. These Great offers end November 3rd. Toyota Certified used Vehicle Sales Event where every surprise is a great one, so don't miss your chance. Find your certified Toyota today. Inventory may vary by dealer, participating dealers only. Comprehensive and powertrain are limited Warranties. See TCUV warranty supplement, ToyotaCertified.com or your Toyota dealer for details. From date of Toyota Certified Used Vehicle Purchase Program available in continental US and Canada. See TCUV Warranty Supplement for details. A compatible Bluetooth enabled phone must be paired. Phone performances depend on software coverage and carrier. The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks of Bluetooth Sig Inc. Use of such smart by Toyota is Under license. See toyota.com for details.
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Jason McIntyre
Almost anything you need delivered with UberEats. What do you mean by almost? Well, you can't get a well groomed lawn delivered, but you can get chicken parm delivered. A day at the lake? That's a no. A Philly cheesesteak? Very much a yes. An afternoon stroll? Sorry, no. A burrito bowl? Happily, yes. All right, delivery is on its way. I use it regularly. How about the clear skies? Can't deliver that. But French fries? Yeah. A little escape? No. Delicious bowl of grapes? Yeah. How about a freshly cut lawn? Can't help you there. But barbecued prawns? Order it now. Get almost almost anything delivered with Uber Eats. Order now. Alcohol in select markets. Product availability may vary by region. See app for details. As I've talked about with receivers, they're the convertible sports car. Great until the weather gets bad. Really, really cool in the garage. Everybody talks about him. What gets you to work in January? You're not driving the convertible sports car, especially on this team that led the NFL in rush attempts last year. So this is if clearly quarterbacks from Mahomes to Brady to Manning to Jalen hurts. They throw to targets they trust. He trusts Dallas Goddard. He had seven catches on seven targets. He trust Devontae Smith. He trusted Dotson. He didn't trust A.J. brown. It was the first time in six years. A.J. brown no targets first half also last couple of years. I saw this this morning when AJ Brown is held under 50 yards last two years, Philadelphia is 70 again. Don't confuse luxury with necessity when you're doing your budget at home. The second pair of golf clubs is A luxury. It is not a necessity. So, you know, listen, he can take his book club to another city. Books, travel. Well, that's how Amazon started. You could always take the book club to another city. I wouldn't pause for a second. Listen, it is a position for the reasons we've discussed many times. You get highly emotional athletes. They want the ball. They're first out of the huddle. They're on an island. They're often the best athlete on the team. I get it. But A.J. brown, this is not the Tennessee Titans, when he left, when he. They were just. They didn't have an elite quarterback. They didn't have this offensive line. Philadelphia has an embarrassment of riches. They have nailed the last four or five drafts. Top players, it looks like. You know, it's. They hit on all those Georgia SEC guys. They got plenty of talent and plenty of talent. Running back, wide receiver. I would move off him in one second. And he's got a market. And I. I've said this before with emotional receivers. Not all of them are. Larry Fitzgerald wasn't. You know, is Pukinaku. I don't know. But here's my thing. Some employees are good for about three years. I mean, we've all worked with that person. You know, some people you date, some you marry. Some people you build a franchise around in all sports. Some are. They come in, they deliver, they're emotional. You don't want to build a franchise around. We've all had relationships like that. Some you marry, some you date. Doesn't mean who you're dating is less fun. But there's a stability issue. Maybe you don't trust them as much. They've got habits you don't love. So my take is this is not A.J. brown. Stefan Diggs. I've said I like him. Ain't Randy Moss. I love Randy Moss. But Calvin Johnson or Larry Fitzgerald had a different temperament. You could build around Calvin or Larry. And I think AJ Is just a really talented guy. But one target with his talent, something's up. Here's J. Mac with the news. No, no, no. Turn on the news.
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Colin Cowherd
This is the Herd line news. All right, Colin, let's get started with Micah Parsons. I cannot believe this. They told me about this, and I'm like, no way. Micah Parsons is already talking trash. He's been in Green Bay for five minutes, hasn't unpacked his suitcase and has unloaded on the Lions. Take a listen.
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Jason McIntyre
I never liked Detroit and never liked him even when I was in Dallas. It's just always. It was just Always a heavyweight fight every time they came in or, you know, and they kind of got our guys when I was injured last year. Trick plays are for people who can't beat you straight up. It's like a guy running around the ring all day trying to jab, but meet me in the middle. You know what I mean? Let's line it up. And I think that's what guys who try to do trick plays do. They can't beat you. Head up.
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Colin Cowherd
What is he doing?
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Jason McIntyre
I love the swagger.
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Colin Cowherd
Colin. Do you think they're going to pull him aside and be like, hey, hey, hey, bro, that can fly in Dallas with your guy, Jerry, we don't operate like that here. We are professionals. Like, he has not had a play with this team. And he's lobbing grenades at the Lions, who I believe swept Green Bay last.
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Jason McIntyre
Well, he also had a spicy podcast. You know, Micah, he's trying to gin.
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Colin Cowherd
Up the numbers a lot.
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Jason McIntyre
Micah sometimes is about Micah. I think that's fair to say. He's a little bit about Micah. I love him as a player. Thinks he think he shrinks sometimes against playoff games, against the very best left tackles. But I, you know, listen, it's football. People get all gassed up and fired up. So I, I, I listen. A.J. brown worries me more because when the quarterback doesn't target you, it's saying volumes. A pass rusher before his first game in a historic franchise against a rival at home. He's fired up.
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Colin Cowherd
You, you want to give Dan Campbell your boy bulletin board material? You sure he's going to show that clip to his team, whoever the new offensive coordinator is, Joe, Bob, whatever his name is. Hey, guys, you, let's dial up the trick place. Let's get him. I don't love that Micah for Green Bay. I do like the packers this weekend. Let's move on to Jaden Daniels. Big game on Fox Sunday against the Commanders. Colin, a lot of the pro gamblers I know, they love the Giants here getting points. Dan Quinn, he's fired up about his quarterback going into year two. Jaden has a rare focus about him. He doesn't get that too far over his skis. The best of the best have that. Hey, he's gonna be facing one of the best defensive fronts in the league.
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Jason McIntyre
So fired up to watch Abdul Carter, who a lot of people felt in the draft he was the best player. He would have been a top six pick in any draft. He was a there. There are people from Penn State, there are people that think he could be Micah Level like that good. He's a. He is a force dominant. They didn't play him a ton in the preseason. I think they saw after about five snaps they're like yep, he's good.
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Colin Cowherd
This is an interesting game. I am also curious, you know, very familiar.
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Jason McIntyre
Yes. Brian Dable, Giants were in a lot of one score games last year.
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Colin Cowherd
Bad, bad, bad quarterback play.
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Jason McIntyre
That's right. So my take is this is a blazing 5 in 35 minutes. This game may be in it.
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Colin Cowherd
So you are going to do blazing five today. I thought you were talking about chicken a gout last year.
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Jason McIntyre
Remember after the over a year ago I didn't have the confidence I have today as a broadcaster. I have grown a lot in the last 30th year of broadcasting.
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Colin Cowherd
Yes, I'm happy for you. Final story is let's go to into a less sexy matchup and that is Aaron Rodgers against the New York Jets. His old team obviously Justin Fields was with Pittsburgh last year. Interesting tidbit that came out yesterday. Garrett Wilson, a top 10 receiver in the league. Remember he was boys with Aaron Rodgers last year. Well, take a listen to this.
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Jason McIntyre
I ain't talked to Aaron since he left. So wish him the best this season. Yeah, but you know, we ain't chopped it up since he left. Yeah. You ever noticed that Devonte Adams left him? I always hear what, what a great teammate he is. It's funny. Garrett Wilson is number one receiver. Devonte Adams left Green Bay for the Raiders. They're tight. He and Greg Jennings had a falling out.
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Colin Cowherd
Everybody likes Greg Jennings. He's the nicest guy. Let me. I was looking at the jets depth chart. I mean listen, this goes both ways. They know Aaron Rodgers tendencies. The defense does. Yeah, okay, but Aaron Rodgers knows the skill set of the defense. He knows, he saw Skardner. You know it's a really. To me, it's an interesting matchup. I know this is.
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Jason McIntyre
I think it's going to be ugly, but I think the Texans Rams is going to be ugly.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, but that's a. That's a better kind of ugly. This is just bad. These are not good teams. Unless you think the Steelers are okay this year.
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Jason McIntyre
I don't. I think they're. I've said I think they're 8, 9 or 9 and 8.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah.
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Jason McIntyre
It's also. Aaron Rodgers has been. It's almost peculiar. He's been really bad in week one. When you hang out in Egypt in the off season, maybe skip a session of OTAs. Aaron has not been a fast starter. Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
There were reports he was a burning man.
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Jason McIntyre
Two weeks.
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Colin Cowherd
No, I'm just kidding.
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Jason McIntyre
It's a good, good look for him. J. Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.
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Colin Cowherd
And thanks for stopping by the Herd lie news.
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Jason McIntyre
So Matt Hasselbeck, also today. So I was watching that game last night, and Micah Parsons is really talented, and CD Lamb is crazy talented, but we all get the value of Dakota. And if you look at Dax impact on the Cowboys career, when Dak plays and Dax starts and Dax healthy, they're 76 and 46, and they average 27 points a game. A lot of wins in the NFL. When Dak doesn't play, they average a touchdown less. And he does not throw the prettiest ball. But he's on his third coaching staff. There's always constant drama around him. He's had multiple, I think three CD lam drops. But yet, once again, when Dak is healthy, they're either winning or they're in games. And Dak Prescott could have had a spicy podcast. Now, that was Micah Dak Prescott could have his own radio show. No, that's the owner. Jerry Dak could have both of those. His focus, once again, is on the game and is usually on Sunday. So I've used a term for years and years. I call it quarterback heel. Like presidential quarterback heel. And I think last night was a great example of quarterback heel. This is why I've been tough on Baker Mayfield or Johnny Manziel or silly quarterbacks or Drew Locke dancing on the sideline. Stop it. Grow up. There is drama everywhere with Dallas every second. And last night before the game, you got a guy spitting at him. Jalen Carr. Dak doesn't react. Dak doesn't react. Well, Dax bit first. Dax bit on the ground, and then Jalen Carter comes up and spits on him. Like Dak spit is. He's got cowboys in front. If he was trying to spit at somebody, he would be spitting on cowboy teammates. This is quarterback heel. The grown up in the room. Here's Dak on the spitting incident. I just spit ahead. But I would say he was back there where Jory was in that sense. And he asked. Or he goes, you trying to spit on me? And at that point, I mean, I felt like. Like he was insulting me. Like, I don't. I wouldn't spin on somebody. I'm damn sure not trying to spin on you. Like, we're about to play a game. I'm wondering why you're trying to mess with the rookie. And so when I step through, I actually say the words like, what the hell would I. Excuse me, but I'm probably even more colorful. What would I need to spit on you for? And he just spit on me in that moment. And it was more of a surprise than anything. Okay, I 1000% trust Dak on that. Dak's history and resume tells you he wouldn't spit on somebody. Jaylen Carter, as great as he is, half the teams in the league took him off the draft board. He's been immature. He's had some emotional stuff. I 1000% trust Dak Prescott. I will look at your life resume if you get into chaos or an incident. Your resume will tell me if you're being honest. Dak is being honest. Dak would not spit on Jalen Carter, knowing he is the face of a $10 billion franchise on Thursday Night Football, a game that's got 30 million people or 40 million people watching. Dak has self awareness. Jalen Carter, apparently none. By the way, here was another moment where I love Dak last night. So CD Lamb drops. Who's the quarterback? I always talk about body language. Pouts, grabs it, stands by himself on the sideline. CD Lamb, drop, drop, drop. Did you see a confrontation? Was Dax screaming? Did he have bad body language? No. Again, life is not about just action. It's reaction. And two moments last night, the Jalen Carter spit and the CD Lamb drops. And again, stoicism, EQ iq, self awareness. This is really the value of Dak Prescott. He is the dependable local meteorologist standing in the middle of a storm. The wind is whipping sleet and hail. Sideways with the Cowboys. And here's the grown up in the room. So I thought last night, watching him, I hope everybody appreciated all those drops would drive half the quarterbacks in this league nuts. Dak is like, well, we may get the ball again. I can't get into it. We got time. I mean, that ball. That ball's caught. Dallas wins the game. So just listen. Dak does not throw the prettiest ball. Dax had a second surgery. I've said before, I think he's a great B plus. I have always compared him to Kirk Cousins. He's just got a star in his helmet, so we talk about him more. And Kirk Cousins will get hall of Fame votes. Dakota gets some. But last night, his maturity, his EQ were totally on display. All right, top of the hour. Are blazing. Five. Oh, no. So Bills and the Ravens this weekend is going to be the best. Probably are going to be the best game in the board. Thoughts on that? And Kansas City and the chargers are overseas. If I was Kansas City, I'd be a little worried. That's next. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific. You probably think of Michelin as a tire company, and I mean it is, but it's really an innovation company and that's why their tires are as good as they are. It started in the 1800s making brake pads for horse drawn carriages. Seriously. 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Jason McIntyre
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Colin Cowherd
Series takes center stage. It all starts at 10am Eastern with the best pregame show in college football. Live from the campus of Iowa State. Then, Rocco Becht leads the Cyclones in a showdown against arch rival Iowa on Big Noon Saturday only on Fox.
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Jason McIntyre
Iowa State and Oklahoma, the big ones this week. I'll be at the USC game. I wrote down some plays last night. I want to hand it to Lincoln Riley before the big game with Georgia Southern.
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Colin Cowherd
So Georgia what? Who they play? Georgia Bulldogs.
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Jason McIntyre
They're somewhere in the southern part of the state.
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Colin Cowherd
Oh, Georgia South Southern. Gotcha.
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Jason McIntyre
Not Athens. It's a school right next to Athens. Look a little like Athens, but. So tonight, Chargers, Chiefs. That's a stay away game for me. The Brazil stuff? I have no idea. That's just. I don't like that travel. I think we should play in Europe. I think Mexico City is awesome. I think playing in Brazil is taxing on teams. I'm not a fan, so I, I don't know who's going to win, but I will say I felt this last year, but I feel it more this year. This is the year to knock off the Chiefs in the afc. They're rebuilding. Left tackle Joe Tooney's gone three straight trips to the Super Bowl. Guys get more banged up. There's fatigue, receiving core. Rasheed Rice not back until week six. Will he be ready to play in week seven or will it take several weeks to ramp up? This is the year to beat him. And teams that lose the Super Bowl. Four out of the last six teams that lose the super bowl missed the playoffs. So Kansas City's vulnerable. But I said this two years ago when JuJu Smith Schuster was their number one receiver and they won the Super Bowl. So I find that these dynasties are like great entrepreneurs. They find profits where nobody else can see them and they just figure out ways to win. I do think the obstacle here, and it's a real one for Kansas City, is that dynasties usually have the advantage of dominating their division and getting home playoff games. Big Ben dominated the Bengals before Burrow and dominated the Browns. You could just pencil in three or four wins every year. Tom Brady played 41 playoff games. Only eight, only eight were on the road. He mostly dominated at the time. The dysfunctional Bills, the mediocre Dolphins and the hit and miss Jets. So and that's where I when I look at this, my takeaway is last year Kansas City was dominant in one score games. But now Harbaugh and Herbert in year two because Harbaugh historically is good in one score games and especially in season openers. And Sean Payton Bo Nicks year two. Well, Sean Payton historically is good in one score games. So I'm not saying Kansas City that's won nine straight AFC west titles. I am not saying that they won't be a playoff team. But one of the biggest breaks that Tom Brady ever got was his second year starting. The Colts got moved out of his division and he got more dysfunction. That was a huge, huge break for Brady. If Peyton Manning would have been in that division for 15 years. He's going on the road for playoff games and he's not getting buys and he's not in Foxborough and he's, he's probably playing sometimes a third time. He's meeting Peyton in this time in a dome. So I don't Think they're going to have the home field luxury. They have won. I looked it up this morning. 17 straight one score games. That's not going to happen with Chip Kelly, Pete Carroll, Sean Payton and Harbaugh. Forget the quarterbacks. That's just not going to happen. So playoffs. Absolutely. Home field buys. Oh, is it Arrowhead weather advantage. I, I think that's drying up pretty soon and I think they're very vulnerable. So the game of the weekend, many would say. And don't forget Blazing five. Top of next hour is the Ravens at the Bills. So I thought long and hard about that. It's just very hard to bet against Lamar Jackson in the regular season and it's very hard to bet against Josh Allen ever. So here's Josh Allen on facing Lamar Jackson in week one. You got Lamar Jackson, who's one of the greatest quarterbacks. Really. We can already say it of all time like he is an absolute stud. Like he's freakishly talented, he throws the ball just as good as anybody in the league. And you know, he's, he's a fun player to watch and I got a lot of respect for him. He should. I looked up Lamar Jackson's career and his all time ranking. He's still a young player. His winning percentage is sixth. Touchdown to interception ratio, second. Rushing yards, first. Passing rating fourth. You all want to be hard on him because of his postseason. Could I remind you that Dan Marino in the postseason with Don Shula, 8 and 10. Aaron Rodgers in one of the best run organizations in the league, Green Bay, one game above.500. John Elway got blown out in how many? Two or three Super Bowls before he got Terrell Davis and a run game. So. And I've never been. I'm not a huge fan of holidays and I'll tell you why. I do love fourth of July, because there's a cocktail and you get to blow up stuff. But by and large, I'm not a big Christmas guy. I like giving out gifts. But my takeaway is this, is that if dad is great for 300 days a year, 350 days a year, he may not be a great gift giver. Get over it. It's a day. Yes, Lamar has had some bad days. But let me tell you something. Running the franchise, you know, 360 days a year, Lamar is unbelievable. And think about this. He is the best running quarterback of all time. That is indisputable. He is the best ever. Last year he had 41 touchdown passes and only four picks as the best running quarterback of all Time and again, dedication, obsession, decency, beloved by teammates. I think I said this last year, there's an argument, and this is with a great owner and a great coach and great teammates, there may not be another player in the league that feels more like the soul of their team at quarterback than Lamar Jackson. So. So again, you can give great presence as a parent, but if you do a crappy job the rest of the year, you're a bad parent and you can have bad playoff games. Elway had them, Marino had him. Aaron's had a lot of them. Aaron's also a first ballot hall of Famer. Marino was also. I mean, Miami still never found the next Dan Marino. And Denver with Elway was getting blown out in Super Bowls. They had to go basically trade for Peyton Manning for neck surgeries to ever find anything that kind of resembled John Elway. So I, my gut is I think Baltimore wins. I. In the regular season, I can't bet against Baltimore. And I also think outside of Philadelphia and maybe including Philadelphia, I think Baltimore has the best roster in the league. I would. I don't know where you land on this, but I, I know it's at Buffalo, but, you know, I think they odds makers now think home field is mostly a point. It used to be three to three and a half. New Orleans with Breeze and Peyton was like 4. I think home fields may be a point. The bottom line, this is a great rush team. You start running the ball, keeping Josh off the field. You pointed this out earlier this week. When you pay the quarterback, you have to make exceptions. Buffalo's a little beat up defensively and they've had to get rid of really good corners, really good linebackers, really good safeties. Like leaders, veterans. They've had to move off a lot of these guys. So I don't love Buffalo's roster. I think now their best talent is actually an offense. Left tackle, quarterback, running back, tight end. I thought the first four or five years with Josh, it was Josh and really good defensive personnel. I don't love Buffalo's defensive personnel right now. I think they're thin in spots. Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
If you think back to that matchup last year in the playoffs, essentially Baltimore beat themselves with the early turnovers, right, Lamar? Just not great. And then they still had a chance at the end. And Mark Andrews with the Cats had.
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Jason McIntyre
His worst game as a pro.
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Colin Cowherd
By the way, if you want a fun prop rat this week, do you think the Ravens are going to force feed Mark Andrews in the red zone?
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Jason McIntyre
I thought about him.
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Colin Cowherd
A touchdown.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
You know they're going to go. He was so devastated after that drop. He didn't talk to the media for a while. And then when he did speak, you could just feel it like he was Mark down on the dump. That was, it was crushing.
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Jason McIntyre
Well, Mark's going to get hall of Fame votes.
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Colin Cowherd
Oh, certainly.
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Jason McIntyre
He's a great, great.
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Colin Cowherd
I think he's going to get red zone looks this weekend for sure.
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Jason McIntyre
You know, it's Baltimore, Buffalo. You know, I thought yesterday as I was driving home after the show, I said I wish they would have put Ravens bills on Thursday Night Football. I said, it's going to be 48 to 8. And literally after the first two series by the Cowboys, I'm like, I don't know what's going on. But that Jalen Carter absence, we could talk about that again. There are certain players in the league. I'll give you an example. Aaron Donald, you had to double team Aaron Donald. I mean, I've talked to offensive lineman. They laugh about it. They're like, there were times Aaron Donald's last year he was triple team. Yeah. And I think Aaron Donald would have been a Pro Bowler if he came back. I think Aaron was tired. Aaron would love this Rams defense because you couldn't double them. There's just too many good players. But I think Aaron Donald was just, he was exhausted from being triple teamed. There is video on the Internet of Aaron being triple teamed in his last year as a pro. There are a lot of good guys rushing the passer from the side, the edge. I mean, when I say all time great interior lineman, you think of four like Reggie White, Aaron Donald, Randall, remember the guy for the Vikings, there's not a lot of great there. Jalen Carter, there's not that body type, that big, that quick, that twitchy. So when you take him out of that defense, as good as Vic Fangio is, I think Vic Fangio in the first half was trying to figure out what do you do? I just think Jalen's so unique. Mike is great, Miles Garrett's great. But there are 10 excellent edge rushers in the league. There's one, Jalen Carter, Chris Jones is the only other one. And Chris, you can move around Quinn.
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Colin Cowherd
And Williams, I got to pump him up. Just very good, very good. He's close to that elite. The interesting thing about Jalen Carter, all these guys doing a victory lap.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
Teams took him off their board. He's dangerous, radioactive. The guy was just instrumental to winning a Super Bowl. Okay. You'll take that for his screw ups. And then you don't give him a second contract, fine. We got a Super Bowl.
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Jason McIntyre
Go back to the Rams Eagles game. When the Rams are driving. Stafford hits Puka Nakua right sideline in Philly and you're like, the Rams are going to win this game. Next two pass attempts. Jalen Carter blew up, by the way, when the Rams beat Joe Burrow in the Bengals. Remember the game winning play, Aaron Donald, Sean McVeigh got taped and he's like, you know, Aaron's going to do something. Aaron blew up the play. Or Joe Burrow and the Bengals were moving down the field.
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Colin Cowherd
The other Jalen Carter thing is, Dak did not run last night. He had one for three yards. And I just wonder, like, if Jalen Carter's disrupting up the middle, he would be forced to. Dak would have been forced to. It would have just changed the game so much. I had a hot take for your boy music here during the last commercial break. The Dallas Cowboys, based on what I saw last night, are going to be the Bengals of the nfc. They are going to be all offense. They're going to scare the hell out of some people. And I don't know about that defense. They're going to hemorrhage a lot of points and be in a bunch of shootouts. Do you agree?
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah. Also, also remember, defenses get hurt, right, because defensive players statistically get hurt more often. So last night, the Cowboys defense doesn't have Micah, but it's all healthy.
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Colin Cowherd
Trevon Diggs played, by the way he.
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Jason McIntyre
Did over the course of the season. That Dallas defense is going to be on the field a lot. Okay. They're going to. They're not going to be. They're not going to produce a lot of three and outs. So that Dallas defense and also the Dallas offense with Pickens and CD will have some quick touchdowns. Those guys both can go over the top. So that Dallas defense, by about week eight, nine, ten, they're going to be on the field a lot. What's that mean? They're going to get dinged up. I don't think it's a deep defense. They. I mean, Mozzie Smith now was an inactive last night. Yeah. That means he's done. So he's done. So Micah done. He's a bust. So I think Dallas is right.
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Colin Cowherd
Kenny Clark played pretty well in the middle.
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Jason McIntyre
Yeah. No, no, no, he had. Kenny Clark had one of their bigger defensive plays of the game. Blazing five coming up next. Hey, this is Matt Jones and I'm Drew Franklin and this is NFL Cover Zero. We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit bit different. Did you see the Colts pretzel? That was my other big takeaway from that game. What was that?
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Colin Cowherd
Oh my.
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Jason McIntyre
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