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I think it's schemes and coaching and the natural development of Drake May. You know, Colin, we've talked for years. You know how big a believer I am in coaching with quarterbacks. Very, very, very few quarterbacks are transcendent that you can just go out there and it doesn't matter what the system is, what the schem. It all comes down to that, in my opinion, in many, many ways. And I think that's a big difference. And I know for a fact the way Josh McDaniels went about dealing with Drake May and they basically gave him everything because he can handle it mentally and then you can work down as opposed to just giving it incrementally giving it to him that way. So it'll be interesting because, you know, it's funny, I don't know how you feel about this game, but this game to me, believe it or not, has much more of a defensive feel to it than an offensive field.
Yeah, I think it is a. I've said this, I think it's 24, 20. I think field goals and special teams will matter. I think a lot of it's played in between the, the 30s. I think it's a very physical game.
Yeah, I, I mean my sense, look, no one can predict turnovers and short fields, which obviously change games. Can Shahid take one to the house on a pun return or kickoff return? Sure. You know, can Darnold hit Shaheed for a big one? Yeah, those things can happen. But I don't see this game as being a game where you're going to see a meaningful number of 11, 12, 13 play long drives for touchdowns. And I think one of the things in this game, and we rarely talk about this, the defensive tackle rotations in this game for both teams are really high level. And I wonder how that's going to impact the run games because you look at what New England brings to the table with Barmore Williams, even some unknown players like Corey Durden and Tonga. Then you look at Seattle. We know about Leonard Williams and Murphy, Jaron Reed. It's very hard to run the ball inside against these defensive fronts. And I think both teams will definitely feel the need to have the run game to be a meaningful part of their offensive approach.
Why did Sam Darnold and jsn. It felt like it clicked very early and we know this is not the case with all quarterback wide receiver combos. It takes time. These guys click immediately.
Why? You know, I think a lot of that also has to do with schematics because aren't you always amazed at times when you see really great receivers being so open? You Know, you wonder, God, he's a great receiver, he's open. And that gets down to the schematics of the offense. And I think one of the things that Seattle does exceptionally well, we actually saw it last year in Minnesota with Darnold, was under center play action. And I've always believed that under center play action is much more effective than shotgun or pistol play action. Because what are you trying to do? You're trying to influence and put second level defenders in conflict. And when it takes more time for a second level defender to determine whether it's pass or run and the run game and the pass game are married together so well, then they get caught in conflict. And you see a lot of those in breaking routes that the Seahawks were really, really good at against single high safety coverage. And you saw Smith and Jigba being able to run those routes and essentially be open.
So.
And they move him around a lot, too. He predominantly lines up outside 80% of his snaps, but they move him around a lot. And you know, I'm, I'm not sure that the Patriots are going to put Christian McDonald Gonzalez on him because that affects other defenders too. People aren't aware of that. It's not just one guy.
What I remember when Kenneth Walker was at Michigan State, he was very good post, very good post contact. Well, he's very good post contact as a pro. How do they use him in Seattle? Do you like the way they use him?
You know, I think that over the last five, six weeks, he's become a different runner and a better runner because to me, and I this is the way I evaluated him coming out of college. And I thought he was like this for his early years in the league and he hasn't been in the league that long. But I always described him, Colin, as much more of a jazz musician, improvisational guy as opposed to a, you know, classical pianist who, you know, follows all the notes. But over the last five, six weeks, he has run inside much, much better. He's gotten what we call the hard yards. And I think when you play in games like this, a yard, two yards, three yards, those yards matter. Now, I also think that the Patriots, because of Rabel's background with Belichick, will do a much better job than recent opponents of the Seahawks in setting the edge. And you're not going to see Walker get outside the, the way he has against some other opponents in recent weeks.
Is there something that stands out with the Seahawks defense that just jumps off the film for you, or is it just consistent, the ability to play and mesh all their levels of football together. What does the tape say?
Two things stand out. I would say Williams and Murphy on the inside and the versatility of so, of so many of their safeties and corners because don't forget we know about Eminwari and again, I know he got hurt and we'll wait and see on that. But let's assume he plays. He's essentially a Sam linebacker in their system, but he does so many things. He can match up to wide receivers as we're seeing. But also Love was a corner in college. Witherspoon can play outside, can play inside. They have tremendous versatility with their back end players which allows them to do multiple things from a coverage and a pressure standpoint because Emin, Warri and Witherspoon are both very good blitzers. And while the Seahawks are not a high percentage blitz defense, when they do blitz, they're very, very good at it.
Do these two teams look like. I mean again, I see a close, low scoring game. How do they match up on film? Are there, are there glaring holes for. I worry about New England's O line matching up, but I worried about the last three weeks and three games and they won. How do they match up?
Yeah, I would say that the left side of the Patriots O line with the rookies, the two rookies, Wilson and Campbell, are potential issues. Again, the Patriots know this. So it depends on how the game is played because now you get into situational football and if you get into too many long yarded situations, do they feel they need to help Campbell? I mean obviously the pass, the edge pass rushers for Seattle, maybe they're not quite at the level that they played against in the playoffs, but they're still very good. So the question is, do they feel they need to help Campbell? How about Wilson, the rookie left guard? What do they feel about him going up against perhaps Williams or at times they even move Lawrence inside. So I think that it'll be interesting to see how the Patriots handle that knowing that that is a potential concern when you get to pure pass and third down situations.
Yeah, the. Yeah, you kind of talked about strength and weakness there. I want to circle back to Sam Darnold. Yeah. You know, I said just because of his early years, if he has a bad pick in the super bowl, people will just be like see, I told you so and no question, no question. And. And Drake May will be able to get away because Drake May. Our early impressions are boy, he's really young and talented so he'll get away with More. I mean, just Darnold can't throw a bad pick. But here's something else. I think Fred Warner mentioned this yesterday. So Seattle and the Rams play these wildly entertaining games and they both look like absolute dynastic, unbelievable rosters. New England plays in blizzards against good defenses. So the takeaway with New England is their offense stinks. And I'm like, no, they dropped 31 on Buffalo. So you have to be very careful about recency bias in my opinion on New England's offense. I still like it. Greg. I like New England's offense. Now they get a play in California weather. What do you like about the Patriots offense that we probably haven't seen a lot of in the last month?
Yeah, it's a great point because all throughout the season May was terrific and their pass game was really good. I really like the way they attack. They work the intermediate areas of defenses really, really well with their route concepts. Protection will be the key, as we just mentioned. But yeah, again, no one knows what Drake May is going to do. He's a second year player playing in a Super bowl. You never know. But throughout the course of the season their pass game was very dynamic. It was really very schematic, really good. They did a lot of things conceptually that define reads and throws for May. I would expect that be the case. You know, as I said, if he's under duress, that changes things. But the other thing to keep in mind, May's legs are a big deal. He had more scrambles this season than any quarterback in the NFL. Keep that in mind. And I was very surprised that Denver, you know, didn't really do a lot to, to address that in that game. Now Seattle, historically this season has not used a spy. Now with two weeks to prepare, could they do that? Sure. But you know, Mike McDonald is aware of May's leg. So he's going to have some plan that accounts for that in those pure pass and third down situations.
Great stuff. I, I've said before, you know, if I was a better, I would take the points here and the under. I think it's close and low scoring. It's very hard to project how game is played. But it sounds like you expect, you expect a tough, physical, low scoring game. That's what you're kind of projecting, right?
Yeah, and by that I don't mean it'll be 10 7, but I'm with you. I mean I, I, because I get asked all the time and I have to pick scores. I think I picked 23, 20 or 2317. And I think you feel the same way. And I picked Seattle, but you know, when I pick games, it's, you know me, Colin, I could give you 10 reasons on either side. So I never can pick these games with great conviction.
Great stuff. Greg cosell, love your 15 minute breakdown. Thanks, Greg.
Thanks, Colin. Really appreciate it.
For the record, it is now. If you, if you asked me, okay, it's a blowout. Yeah. I would take Seattle. I could see Seattle's defensive front just wearing out. Will Campbell. I could see, you know, one little injury on the O line for the Patriots and a line that's struggling. It's man overboard. In fact, J. Mac just told me there's an alternative bet you can make. I think this is an interesting one.
J. Mac
Yeah, there's alt lines. You could bet Seattle minus ten and a half. Seattle minus fourteen and a half. And if you believe like you said, Patriots offensive line struggles. You know, go look at the Patriots who they played down the stretch. A lot of backup quarterbacks, a lot of coaches that got fired, didn't look great. And you know, I think Seattle could easily win this 277 in kind of a beat down like Drake may chasing against that pressure. I don't know, Colin. I don't see it. I'm starting to lean Seattle blowout here. I did call Eagles blowout over the Chiefs last two was it last year.
Colin Cowherd
And that takes courage. Yeah, I don't have the courage. I'm calling it low scoring and close.
J. Mac
Let's put my money where my mouth is. And my mouth is a lot of talk, a lot of trash. But I do like Seattle.
Colin Cowherd
Considering your bitcoin losses.
J. Mac
I have suffered some bitcoin losses in the last three months. I'm gonna go back to my job at Burger King on weekends.
Colin Cowherd
So. Nothing wrong.
J. Mac
See what happens.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah. All right, let's. Liam Cohen's coming up today. Ryan Fitzpatrick, who's a fascinating guy. Fascinating.
J. Mac
Former jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, Ryan Fitzpatrick. You know, he comes out of Harvard, so everybody's like, oh, smart guy. He was kind of a playmaker. He was a way better athlete that people give him credit.
J. Mac
He moved like Drake bacon.
Colin Cowherd
Like just Ryan Fitzgerald was a playmaker. And, and by the way, there's a little Darnold where he could be a little reckless. He. He loved to take big swings like Ryan Fitzpatrick had. No, he let it rip.
J. Mac
Came close to getting the jets of the playoffs. There's a week 17 game where he had three picks against Buffalo. Might have been four.
Colin Cowherd
He was always. He didn't get a lot of great coaching and he was a risk taker. Yeah. So. And Liam Cohen, who basically course corrected Trevor Lawrence this year.
J. Mac
I like that guy's story.
Colin Cowherd
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Welcome back. Liam Cohen, Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm going to play a game of take your pick. I'm going to go coaching special teams, defensive front O line, rank them up. Yesterday I did top 10 players in the game. I was 6 to 4 Seattle. If I would have gone to 12, it would have been 11. Would have been Leonard Williams, Seattle 12 Christian Gonzalez, New England. So it slight edge Seattle. We'll break down everything. Special teams, running backs, quarterback. Take your pick. Next hour with Ryan Fitzpatrick and J. Mac with the news. No, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the Herd line news.
J. Mac
Colin Drake May breaking some news. So his shoulder injury feeling great. This is the first healed shoulder after a plane ride. He said that as soon as the flight touched down in the Bay Area on Sunday, his shoulder felt better. I don't know what kind of massage he was getting on the plane, but Drake May sounds like he's going to be 100% go for the Super Bowl. He has had a rough postseason. I don't know if it's a shoulder. People want to blame it on the weather or him being a young quarterback. I haven't seen it during this postseason. And I'm honestly worried about him against the Seattle defense.
Colin Cowherd
I'm not the almond worry, the safety for Seattle. I'm a little worried about his versatility. I always think every year in the super bowl. What worries me in the super bowl is a left tackle like Kansas City. Like a left tackle can't play and the other team has a good pass rush. Drake May is, I mean, listen, Sam Darnold has been playing for a month with an oblique injury and doesn't practice. Sam Darnold just played his best game as a pro against an excellent defense and didn't practice. I think Drake May is going to be fine.
J. Mac
So there was a breakdown. Warren Sharp, I think you know him, he's come on my podcast before. He had a good breakdown of the COVID 6 defense that McDermott used in the second meeting against Drake May. And May was flustered. It kind of mixes zone and man on each side of the field. And May really struggled and teams threw it at him and he did not handle it well in the postseason. He's seen a lot of that now. He's got two weeks to kind of tweak some things. But let's be real, that schedule they played down the stretch, it's like, oh, they killed the Dolphins they look great. It was Quinn Ewer starting. Dolphins were garbage. Then it was like, oh, they, they smashed the Jets. The jets were tanking. Starting another bad quarterback. I'm just saying this Patriots team, Colin, not very impressive. The win over the Ravens was nice. Remember the prime time.
Colin Cowherd
Let's be fair. You came on the air. You love the Chargers.
J. Mac
I love the Chargers.
Colin Cowherd
And they dominated them. Crushed absolutely. Two teams this year dominated. The Chargers, Jacksonville and the Patriots.
J. Mac
I like the Texans as well against.
Colin Cowherd
I didn't see Texans was a really tough matchup.
J. Mac
Well, were in that game until the fourth until, you know, May hits the one arm catch by.
Colin Cowherd
Almost like you're forgetting that Patriot dominating win over the Chargers.
J. Mac
No, I'm just remembering the embarrassing effort against the Broncos and a backup quarterback and barely winning 10, 7 and playing the weakest schedule. This century, Colin. This century. Go Seahawks. All right, let's move to. Oh, how about this one? Joe Burrow. Colin, you know, obviously he's a superstar with the Bengals. Well, Jay Glazer was giving an interview yesterday, the Fox NFL Insider, and he said, keep an eye on Joe Burrow this off season. There's an interesting storyline developing.
Liam Cohen
I want to see what happened to Joe Burrow.
Colin Cowherd
You think that's real?
J. Mac
You think Joe. Joe could end up somewhere else?
Colin Cowherd
I just, I want to keep my eye on it. I think people are going to go after it. Doesn't mean they're going to be willing.
Liam Cohen
To do it, but I think people.
Colin Cowherd
Are going to go after it. Yeah, I mean, Joe Burrow, body language alone has been visibly, if not distraught, disappointed with the Bengals, understandably. Yeah, I think Joe Burrow and you know, Cincinnati can say whatever they want, but I mean, I don't necessarily think the way Cincinnati's constructed that I would take the call if I was Cincinnati because they're not going to spend money on the offensive lineman and free agency. They're not. They don't have the big scouting department. All it takes is one more injury to Burrow. And the Bengals have shown no aptitude to protect him. They've shown no ability to protect him. They have not had a top 15o line since he arrived. You know, Burrow would go. If McVay called tomorrow, Joe Burrow would be on the first private jet to la. And if I'm Cincinnati, you can say we're not going to do it. But one more injury and Joe's market is very small.
J. Mac
Let's just spitball here. The Houston Texans call up and say, hey, we'll give you CJ Stroud. In three number ones for Burrow.
Colin Cowherd
If I was Cincinnati I would do it. And not because I think CJ is better than him. But CJ doesn't have an injury history and three number ones for a very cheap organization that doesn't want to go buy elite players. They can get him in the draft.
J. Mac
And in free agency. Seattle, Cincinnati struggling to lure guys because of the notorious cheapness and around the facility like not fixing stuff and they grade very low in some of those.
Colin Cowherd
Arizona and Cincinnati grade very low among players like these. The owner of the Bengals. It's just crazy to me is that like they, they lack self awareness. Like everybody inside the league is like that's not a place you want to. Yeah. Like if you are you going to move your family now they do. They don't run through coaches like they don't want to have any dead coach money. So like they hang on stuff and whether. Whatever you think. But it's like players don't look at Cincinnati as a great landing spot. Players are just like everybody else in society. They talk and gossip.
J. Mac
Yeah.
Colin Cowherd
And they're like you don't want to be here.
J. Mac
So I'm trying to think like could the Vikings do well? They would have. No. Bengals would not want Justin Jefferson and picks right. They have receivers trying to think of someone who needs a quarterback and is close and could give up a star player or two and come through like it's tough to find one moving off burrow that that would be.
Colin Cowherd
They've shown no ability to consistently be able to protect him.
J. Mac
Yeah. You know we have a Bengals fan on the staff. I wonder.
Colin Cowherd
He has been distraught since the super bowl final.
J. Mac
Story is it's official. Bill Belichick will not be a first ballot hall of Famer. This has led to questions about other people's hall of Fame first ballot potential. Rob Gronkowski. I kind of sort of love this one from Gronk. He believes one coach should not be first ballot since Belichick is not ridiculous.
Colin Cowherd
I mean Coach Belichick needs to be in the hall of Fame and it needed to be a first ballot. Now there's no such thing as a first ballot hall of Fame coach, no other coach ever in history should go first ballot. And there's a guy out there, Andy Reid, but he can't go first ballot now because Coach Belichick wasn't first ballot.
J. Mac
I, I like that. Well, wait a minute. What are you saying?
Colin Cowherd
Well, Andy didn't have, you know, a couple of spygates.
J. Mac
Was Belichick suspended for the Spy gate. I forgot.
Colin Cowherd
No. Well, they gave up a first round pick. A third round pick. Leak doesn't like to do that. Fine. 500,000. I think he may have been fined even more the second time. There's a lot of suffixes. There's a lot of gates suffixes.
So what is that?
What do you call it?
J. Mac
So. But honestly, like, nobody in football thinks Andrew Mead's a better coach than Bill Bell.
Colin Cowherd
Nobody. Andy Reid has won with eight different quarterbacks. Belichick, what has he won with?
J. Mac
Eight different.
Colin Cowherd
Donovan McNabbity get to a Super Bowl.
J. Mac
They didn't win it.
Colin Cowherd
You get to a Super check.
J. Mac
Won 11 games or whatever with the Browns in his first tour of duty. 10 or 11, something like that.
Colin Cowherd
And they let him go.
J. Mac
Well, that's the Browns. That's their fault. Listen, I like Reed a lot. He's done some good things, but I. I just. I'm kind of with Gronk here. If Belichick is not first ballot, what coach can be. Nobody's got a better resume than him.
Colin Cowherd
I'm kind of a cheaters never prosper guy.
J. Mac
He's dug in.
Colin Cowherd
All right. No, I'm not. I'm not anti anything. But I said as everybody was freaking out. I'm just as bothered by Robert Kraft, who won pre Bella check and post belichick and has 11 Super bowl appearances. And Jerry Jones is in and Robert Kraftism.
J. Mac
Yeah, let's.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, that to me. Oh, wait, I know. Yeah, you're one of these play I do anything. What's the worst job you ever had?
J. Mac
I'm embarrassed to say.
Colin Cowherd
On air.
J. Mac
I worked at a car wash. I was so angry. My parents wouldn't give me like a real allowance, so I got a job at a car wash. That did not last long. I'll just say.
Colin Cowherd
Oh, and why didn't it last long? Was the boss lousy?
J. Mac
They made me do stuff I didn't want to do, and then I like, rebelled. I mean, like work, just not stuff I want to talk about on air. It was just not fun. I was like, I don't want to do this stuff.
Colin Cowherd
I think you were a lot more high maintenance than you're. You're letting on.
J. Mac
I know. I. I was high maintenance. Now I'm low maintenance. I'm very low, as you know. Well.
Colin Cowherd
Oh, I sure do. I know a lot. Well, J. Mac with the news.
Liam Cohen
Well, that's the news.
Colin Cowherd
And thanks for stopping by the herd line news. It's so interesting to me how people weren't bothered at all by Robert Kraft not getting in. But they're deeply bothered by Belichick. And I would ask every single person, Let me ask you right now, if you are working somewhere and you're not really happy, ask yourself why you're not happy. And I bet in almost every instance, you don't love management. You don't love the vision of the company. You don't love the product you're selling. You don't trust them. It's not coworkers. It's not where you live. It's not where the plant is based. It's usually I don't. I have said this before in my career. I've been so lucky. I've had. I have had overwhelming luck with, you know, quality of bosses and, you know, quality of environments and lived in Vegas and Tampa and LA and Chicago and, you know, great, great places to live. Even northeast in the summers and fall is amazing. So. But people aren't bothered by Robert Kraft. It's like Jerry Jones is in. Robert Kraft isn't. You're totally okay with that. Nothing against Jerry, but, I mean, Jerry calls himself the gm. Robert Kraft has one time in his career reached down and said, we're not going to do this with personnel. The Jimmy Garoppolo, Tom Brady situation. And he was right. Tom still had a lot left in the tank. Okay, we've got Liam Cohen also. Take your pick. I will say the money's overwhelmingly on Seattle. I did my take my pick this morning, man. Seattle is good. There is no getting around that. See, Seattle is really good. We had Fred Warner on yesterday talking about that. Fred Warner, obviously. No, Sam Darnold, former teammate, played against him. I mean, a lot of this is just. Darnold played a perfect game against the Rams. You can't unsee that. You know, 10 days ago, whatever it was. Here's Fred Warner on Darnold. He was a great teammate. He fit right in, you know, that's why I'm so happy for his success and. And the way that he's played throughout these playoffs. Of course, I wish he didn't play as well against the old Niners, but for him as a person, man, and being a former teammate of mine, I am happy for Sam, you know, and he's always had uber ability, like, uber talent. The ability to put the ball wherever he wants to, manipulate arm, arm angles and do those sort of things. He's just done worrying about what everybody else got to say about him. Hey, man, I'm just going to play the game. I'm going to play the position the way it's meant to be played. And I'm going to trust my team, trust my teammates, and ultimately that's why they have a chance of winning the Super Bowl. And he did just that last week. Live in la, it's the Herd. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am.
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Colin Cowherd
That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently that said 20 billion one. 20 billion is an insane number. Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north. Probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome. So how does someone get in contact.
Liam Cohen
With Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident?
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Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law.
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Thanks for coming by the show. Thanks for having me.
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Visit for the people.com for an office near you. This stress check, aka friendly reminder that your hobbies matter, is brought to you by State Farm because you deserve to lose yourself in the stuff that brings you joy. Here's mine. Painting my tabletop battle miniatures. Yeah, seriously. After a long day, I grab a brush, pop in some music and just get into it. And there's no wrong way to do it. It helps me clear my head, slow down and just breathe.
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You don't have to be good at your hobby. You just have to enjoy it. So carve out that time, tune out the noise and do something that's just for you. Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. Well, you get some of these young coaches. Ben Johnson's obvious because he was so high profile with Detroit d' amico Ryan's before he got the job. I had called some people in San Francisco. They're like, that guy's going to hit like fast. Like, he's going to be great. Liam Comb was that when he's with the Bucks, he's with the Rams. People are like, this thing's going to work in Jacksonville. It's going to work fast. And he turned around. I mean, just. It is amazing. Ben Johnson gets a lot of the love for the turnaround, but the jags went 4 and 13 to 13 and 4 and it was. And I love Trevor Lawrence. And I got to the point where I was like selling stock and Liam Cohen takes the Jags over and it is, it is a bright future. And he is joining us live in San Francisco. So let's, let's start with this because I think it's kind of fascinating. I love getting these coaches on the air about this. So I love, like everybody else, I saw him play in high school, I saw Trevor at a high school camp and I was like, bro, that guy is like, wow. I loved him at college and I. But he was a bit turnover prone. Mechanics weren't always clean. And then you. So when you take over him, do you break him down? Because there was a massive jump. He played much cleaner with you. And Ben had to do this with Caleb to some degree. He'd been beaten up, lost some confidence. What did you do in the first three weeks, four weeks with Trevor? Because the ascension was noticeable very quickly. What in the hell did you do now?
Liam Cohen
Colin, thanks for having me on, man. Really appreciate it. A ton of respect for you in this program. Trevor was so cool to work with at an early point because of the humility you talked about, of being able to say, man, I do want to break this thing down. I'd like to change my footwork in the shotgun. He was always a right foot forward guy. Ended up wanting to go left foot forward. That was his idea. That was something that I was comfortable with after working with Matthew and Baker and we started there. Colin, he wasn't able to throw all of for a long time during spring because of a shoulder surgery. So we were able to really start from the ground up, really start with the footwork, start to work with the playbook, the protections, the schemes from the neck up without worrying about the result of a completion.
Colin Cowherd
Right.
Liam Cohen
Like we're just worrying about your footwork and your thought process going through the cycle of the snap without worrying about the throw. And then, okay, get into training camp. Now we're getting closer. Now we're getting closer. And it did. It took some time. We were able to run the football effectively early in the season, which helped us win games. And Trevor managed the game at a high level. And then once, man, the pass game took off, he brought us to a whole nother level.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, it is, you know, it's funny, like Drake May moves, Darnold moves, he moves. I mean, golf and Matt Stafford don't. But what is the line on wanting your guy to move and not get whacked? Because I couple times with Trevor this year I'm like, bro, get down. You are long. You, you're a big target. He got smoked in a game. It may have been one of your playoff games earlier in the year. Just got smoked. What is the line for a coach? You want that third down escapability, but he is the franchise. How do you coach that?
Liam Cohen
Right? That is the finest line that you walk honestly, with a guy like Trevor that, I mean, he's legit high 4, 5, 4, 6, that can really run, athletic, big, strong, has an advantage, right? It's an advantage for us when he can get moving. And while you also want your quarterbacks to go through progression and read it 1 to 2 to 3 and find a check down or be able to keep the ball in play, because if you check it down and we gain 10 yards, well, you just took a negative into a positive and you didn't take a hit. Well, when he has to, when he's able to go scramble, push up in the pocket, slide out, go, run. Now you've made the defense defend every blade of grass and you make it very frustrating on the defense. So that was a lot of conversations. Colin. I actually remember after the Kansas City game, his wife Marissa was like, dude, you gotta slide, you know, you gotta get down. And hey, I'm like, man, as long as you. You feel like you're protecting yourself. And look, he just wanted to compete his tail off this year, prove to a lot of people that he can do it, prove to himself that he can continue to play at a high level. And I think when you do that, Colin, you earn your players trust and you earn their respect. And that's something that Trevor was able to do this year.
Colin Cowherd
You know, I said you played the Seahawks and you hammered some really good teams. The Chargers game, you. You unravel teams. There was one game, though, the Seattle game, where it was like. And I've said this all year about Seattle, turn the sound down and watch Seattle. They just look longer and they are fast, they are young. And with young teams, you get energy, you get more mistakes, but they, when they're humming, they look different. Let's go back to that game against Seattle. You're on the sideline. Did you look at that and think that team may be a Super bowl team?
Liam Cohen
There's no question preparing for, for that team that we were very aware of the physicality, the way that they played, their coverage structures in the back end, you could tell, was extremely tied together. Mike does a phenomenal job. I think his coaching staff does as well. But you can see They've got waves of rushers, right, Colin? Like, they've got groups up front, in their front seven specifically, that can really impact and affect the quarterback. It's not just one, it's not just two. I think the big nickel Humanora kid is unbelievable in terms of the athlete, the freak, the ability to play coverage and rush and defend the run. They are exciting. It's an exciting defense. And then really offensively, a ton of explosive plays, right? They've lived and died by the explosive play. Sam's playing at a high level. I think their run game is really coming to life and thought they did great things over the course of the year. A lot of props to Mike for what they were able to do this year. And you're right, you can turn the tape if you just watch and listen. They play the game the way it's supposed to be played.
Colin Cowherd
You know, Mike Vrabel we were talking about, very few coaches have a brand and it usually takes years to develop. And it was about halfway through his career in Tennessee. I started seeing this video of Mike Vrabel and the players after the game. Long snappers, quarterbacks, rush, edge. And I'm like, if I had two words to describe Vrabel, it would be like tough love. Nobody's going to love you more. Nobody's going to support you more. It's almost like a fatherly figure. And you have a very close relationship with your players. It's hard, Liam. You sometimes you have to give them really bad news, but you also have to have the respect. And you've got to. You've got to be an alpha. You're leading. You're leading successful, driven men in a career, in a career that pays well and is very short. When you see this stuff of Rabel and. And how does it land for you, a coach, watching that coach in that relationship, that's.
Liam Cohen
That's everything to me is the relationships like this. Take football back to Pop Warner, take it to high school, take it to college. It's the brotherhood, it's the relationships, it's the trust, it's the connection in the locker room, the coaches and players having a real, honest, open conversations that, yeah, you're right, can be difficult, can be challenging. But if you approach those conversations and tough ones with as a man and bring it to him as a man without really ego involved from your standpoint or the organization standpoint, those guys can usually take that stuff like men, and they can handle it like men. And that's what they want to be treated like. They're pros, we're working together. You know, I happen to be the head football coach. And so when you can make them not feel like a line on a piece of paper of a playbook, I think those guys are going to play a lot harder for you. I think those guys in the fourth quarter are going to reach and find something maybe they didn't have. So those are the type of relationships that we would like to have with our players, our coaching staff. And you can see Braves coach raves has that without a question.
Colin Cowherd
Well, it's interesting. Jacksonville always had a reputation. Kind of a sleepy town, warm weather. And if you look at the NFL, Liam, I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's never been a warm weather dynasty. And I've always argued, you know, in college football, you play the warm. You play the, you know, a lot of your big games inside, right, or in the south, in the NFL, there is value in playing in New England and Baltimore and Green Bay and Seattle. And what's interesting about Jacksonville is how do you create a tough, physical, almost northeastern kind of, you know, attitude when it's 72 degrees a lot. The beach, you can smell the salt. Like, how do you do that as a staff? Create an. And it's weird to say it, but almost a northern toughness in a southern place.
Liam Cohen
That was exactly what we said when we got here. Colin, like working with Tony Bacilli, James Gladstone about what we really wanted this to look like. I mean, when you're executive vice president of football operations is a left tackle, right, and your general manager is a coach's son, you're gonna fall into synchronicity with what you really want it to look like. And we knew if we wanted to get where we want to go, ultimately it was when a Super bowl is, we're gonna have to go run the football and stop the run in places like Baltimore, New England, Buffalo, Kansas City. And look, that's something that. It's football, man. It's. It's what it was when we were five years old playing this game. And I was fortunate enough to grow up around Division 3 football, watching my dad coach every day. And, you know, you're putting car lights to have night practice and they're getting. My dad's making sandwiches, my mom's making sandwiches for the players to have on the bus. I mean, that's what I grew up in. And I don't think that really changes based on the level you're at. If you want to be a tough brand of Football and play that way. Great. Or you can go play Star wars and play seven on seven, and maybe that stuff works. But I just think that this game's meant to play violent. It's meant to be physical. And I think it shows with the way that we coach and play.
Colin Cowherd
Well, I see. I look at your coaching resume, and I see Maine and UMass and Rhode island and Brown, which is, for the record, a beautiful part of the country, but it is. I like that you got. You got some northeast kid in you, and I love that. And you have crushed and you turn. Man, you turn that puppy around fast. And I'd love to have you on again and just keep crushing. You're good for the league.
Liam Cohen
I appreciate it, Colin. Thank you very much for having me on.
Colin Cowherd
All right. Liam Cohen. Yeah, it's former college assistant. And I see all these Northeast schools. Chip Kelly did a lot of that, too, before he was discovered by Oregon. So it's. It's crazy. I was, I think, like a lot of you, I was a huge Trevor Lawrence fan. And I got to the point where I'm like, yeah, he just makes too many mistakes. And all of a sudden you watch immediately and you're like, okay, got his guy. You know, Baker. For the record, Baker Mayfield had Liam Cohen and. And Dave Canales. And then they leave, and then it doesn't quite work as well. A lot of success for quarterbacks. I mean, Matt Stafford did not win a playoff game pre McVeigh. Okay, look how good he is. I mean, look at Sam Darnold, New York. I mean, last week or a week and a half ago, Stafford, Darnold, go take their first five years in the NFL. Stafford and Darnold. If I would have tried to sell you on. Yeah, right now they're in the nfc. They'll meet in the NFC championship. If I'd have said that after four years of Darnold and four years of Stafford so much. That's why it's. Don't give up in any. Any field on young people. I don't care if you're a young teacher, a young attorney. You know, it doesn't matter. Just. You don't give up. It's. When you're young, especially, you need stronger support than when you're old. I mean, at this point, I got gray hair. I am what I am. I mean, I have to deal with J. Mac. You know, that's difficult. But outside of that, it's easy living. I made my mind up.
J. Mac
Low Maintenance Mac. That's the new nickname going around the building.
Colin Cowherd
Is it going around the building and then bouncing right back to you.
J. Mac
We got a Nick Amanwari update from Mike McDonald. He is saying that he's confident, quote, that his safety will play in the Super Bowl.
Colin Cowherd
Young athletes heal quickly.
J. Mac
It's called a low ankle sprain.
Colin Cowherd
Not the high one that walk into the set.
Yeah, yeah.
J. Mac
You suffer one of those every Low.
Colin Cowherd
Ankle sprains don't mean anything.
J. Mac
And this guy's a machine. He's what, like 23 years old? Young superstar.
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, yeah, you'll be fine. All right, we got good stuff. Ryan Fitzpatrick. If I had Ryan on years ago, he's done a great job for Amazon. He is. I'm telling you, you can go. Give me a three minute reel on Ryan Fitzpatrick. That dude made he was athletic and he's going to join us.
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In this Super Bowl-focused episode of The Herd, Colin Cowherd is joined by NFL Films’ Greg Cosell and Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Liam Cohen. The discussions center around the strategies and personnel heading into Super Bowl 60 (Patriots vs. Seahawks), the importance of experienced coaching, how teams have developed key players, and big-picture NFL topics like Joe Burrow’s future and Hall of Fame legacies. The tone remains deeply analytical yet characteristically conversational, with memorable banter throughout.
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While the detailed “Take Your Pick” breakdown was teed up, it occurs mostly in the NEXT hour with Ryan Fitzpatrick (teased at 23:04). In this segment, Colin indicates he gives Seattle a slight edge in top-end talent (6 of his top 10 Super Bowl players were Seahawks, 4 Patriots).
Colin and his guests provide an in-depth, tactical preview of Super Bowl 60, highlighting the importance of coaching, the unpredictability of one-game matchups, and what to watch for in terms of on-field strategy. The tone is smart, lively, and occasionally self-deprecating, with both granular football insights and big picture media banter.
Ideal Listener Takeaway:
If you want to understand WHY the Super Bowl may play out as a close, defensive struggle (and why coaching, defensive depth, and QB development matter most in these games), this episode is for you—full of wit, sharp analogies, and expert breakdowns.
Episode MVP Quotes:
“Very, very, very few quarterbacks are transcendent ... it all comes down to coaching in many, many ways.” — Greg Cosell (05:30)
“They’ve got waves of rushers … it’s not just one, it’s not just two.” — Liam Cohen on Seattle’s defense (44:28)
“May’s legs are a big deal. He had more scrambles this season than any quarterback in the NFL.” — Greg Cosell (14:05)
“If Belichick is not first ballot, what coach can be?” — J. Mac (30:54)
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