THE HERD - Hour 2 - Top 5 Moves of the NFL Offseason

Summary

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The Herd with Colin Cowherd (Hour 2): Top 5 Moves of the NFL Offseason

Date: March 12, 2026
Podcast: The Herd with Colin Cowherd
Host: Colin Cowherd (iHeartPodcasts and The Volume)

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Episode Overview

This hour of "The Herd" zeroes in on Colin Cowherd’s take on the NFL’s most impactful offseason moves, examining the teams and players who will shape the 2026 season. In addition to football, Cowherd goes deep on the current identity crisis in the NBA, especially around the dominance of three-point shooting, and weighs in on the evolution of college sports amid NIL and transfer portal changes. Throughout, Cowherd’s opinionated and irreverent style keeps the conversation lively, analytical, and quintessentially Cowherd.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Colin’s Top 5 NFL Free Agency Moves

Timestamp: 03:09 – 09:10

• 1. Raiders’ Free-Agent Haul

  • Tyler Linderbaum (Center) and Jalen Naylor (WR, fastest Viking last year) are highlighted as “game-altering.”
  • Naylor is “under the radar,” and combining him with new draft picks (Brock Bowers, Ashton Gentry) signals a strong offseason:

    “The Raiders nailed it.” — Colin Cowherd [03:45]

  • Linderbaum is “the second-best center in the sport.”

• 2. Rams Strengthen Secondary

  • Trent McDuffie and Jalen Watson are instantly transformative for the Rams, making them “Super Bowl favorites in Vegas.”

    “Rams are not paying anybody on that defense for another year or two… Very young, and now get a veteran who can match up…” — [04:38]

• 3. Dolphins Bet on Malik Willis

  • Only six starts, but completed “30 of 35 with five touchdowns, no picks.”
  • Jeff Hafley, new head coach, “watched him for two years,” and the contract makes Willis the 17th-highest paid QB:

    “Very realistic Malik Willis is at least the 17th-best QB next year… I feel very confident saying that.” — [05:14]

• 4. DJ Moore to Buffalo

  • “Very good player, never misses starts, five years.”
  • Will pair well with Josh Allen, providing deep threat that was underutilized in Chicago:

    “He can go over the top. Josh Allen, like Caleb Williams, strong-arm quarterback… Great move by [Buffalo GM] Brandon Beane.” — [05:55]

• 5. Eagles Add Tariq Woolen

  • Only NFL team with “three elite trait corners.”

    “Stacked secondary… joins Cooper DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell.” — [06:24]

• Honorable Mentions:

  • Bradley Chubb to Bills, Trey Hendrickson to Ravens:

    “Solid. Those are good plays as well.” — [07:00]

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2. NBA’s Aesthetic Crisis: Too Many Threes

Timestamp: 09:00 – 18:34

• Cowherd criticizes the NBA, arguing that the league’s issues aren’t tanking or dynasties, but that “the game’s gotten boring and repetitive with too many threes.”

  “I would eliminate the corner three and make it easier to defend the arc.” — [08:40]

• Cites Daryl Morey’s revisionist perspective:

  “Daryl Morey… has now said, you know what, we’ve overcorrected.” — [09:00]

• Statistical Grievance:

  • “Most NBA teams shoot about 35% from threes. If you’re only succeeding at 35% of anything... it would be unwatchable.” — [10:00]
  • “52 clanks a game… you could join a union.” — [11:30]

• The Artistry Argument:

  • Cowherd: “Greatest athletes in the world shooting 35% on the shot they take the most... Michael Jordan's midrange game—that's beautiful.” — [13:20]
  • “The threes are formulaic… Vince Carter and Dr. J highlights—now that’s art.” — [14:30]

• Counterpoints from Co-host:

  • “Art evolves... threes are artistry. I love threes.”— [16:22]
  • Colin retorts that the NBA regular season malaise is unique compared to other booming sports ratings.

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3. NFL Quarterbacks: The Importance of Environment

Timestamp: 23:12 – 25:14

• Only 3 of 29 first-round QBs from 2010–2019 are still with their drafting team: Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen.

  “Quarterbacks, kids, and actors—you’re a product of your environment.” — [23:20]

• Example: Joe Burrow’s excellence despite “second-tier franchise” Cincinnati.
• Kyler Murray to Minnesota could be his chance for a reclamation project, akin to Sam Darnold.

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4. Baltimore Ravens & Max Crosby Rumor Mill

Timestamp: 25:14 – 27:47

• The narrative “Ravens had buyer’s remorse” on Max Crosby is overblown.
  • Ravens GM Eric DeCosta:

    “Nobody is more upset about this than me. Gutted by it, actually… but we will move on as a football team.” — [25:38]

  • Cowherd highlights Ravens’ lost players—Keaton Mitchell, tight end to Giants—and Harbaugh’s exit as signs of trouble.

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5. Chicago Bears’ Status Check

Timestamp: 27:47 – 30:11

• Bears criticized for not making a “giant move,” but Cowherd is bullish:

  "After Adunze, the Chicago Bears are talented enough today to win a Super Bowl… There are 7 or 8 rosters good enough." — [28:18]

  • On roster depth:

    “If their first pick is a corner, suddenly now they’ve only got one real need and that’s an edge rusher.” — [29:56]

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6. Caitlin Clark’s Debut & Basketball Artistry

Timestamp: 30:11 – 32:12

• WNBA/FIBA: Caitlin Clark “is a Curry/Magic Johnson combo as a point guard in women’s basketball.”

  “If Clark’s playing... I'm tuning in.” — [32:01]

• On Clark vs. NBA Threes:

  “I don’t mind her shooting threes because she’s revolutionized women’s basketball. I don’t want Wemby shooting 400.” — [31:00]

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7. College Sports: NIL & Transfer Portal

Timestamp: 32:14 – 36:18

• NIL/Portal make the landscape volatile, but haven’t killed the sport. In fact, ratings are up.
  • “Transfer portal… you can course correct so much more quickly if you get the right coach.” — [34:56]
• Tom Izzo (guest last hour):

  “The great players want to be coached. Everybody’s got to be pushed… if it was easy, everyone would do it.” — [34:04]

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8. Raiders’ Identity & Max Crosby’s Leadership

Timestamp: 42:37 – 44:28

• New Raiders acquisitions Tyler Linderbaum and Quay Walker praise Max Crosby:

  “[Max has] the ability to lead a team… not fun to go against… I can’t wait to play alongside him.” — [42:52]
  “Max Crosby feels like a Raider… that has value.” — Colin [43:05]

• Matt Hasselbeck on Crosby:

  “Max Crosby has respect… not a one-trick pony. The real deal in every way. Identity setter. He’s a dog.” — [44:01]

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9. AFC Playoff Picture & Chiefs-Raiders Debate

Timestamp: 47:30 – 51:34

• Cowherd speculates Raiders’ roster is now “not that far off Kansas City's roster—it may be better.”
• Discusses Chiefs’ aging stars, lack of picks, and cap issues—implies they could regress out of the playoffs.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The Raiders nailed it.” — Colin Cowherd [03:45]
• “The Rams getting two corners, including Trent McDuffie, made them literally, in Vegas, Super Bowl favorites.” — [04:38]
• “Ravens are not paying anybody on that defense for another year or two... They get a veteran that can match up... I love that move.” — [04:50]
• “NBA’s problem isn’t tanking or dynasties... it's too many threes. The game’s gotten boring and repetitive.” — [08:37]
• “If you have any more bricks, you can join a union.” — [11:30]
• “Michael Jordan’s mid-range game—that’s beautiful… The threes are formulaic.” — [13:20, 14:30]
• “Quarterbacks, kids, and actors—you’re a product of your environment. Joe Burrow can only do so much.” — [23:20, 24:28]
• “Caitlin Clark is a Curry/Magic Johnson combo as a point guard… revolutionizing women’s basketball.” — [31:00]
• On Max Crosby: “Not a one-trick pony… he’s the real deal in the run game, pass game… an identity setter.” — [44:01]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• NFL Top 5 Offseason Moves: 03:09 – 09:10
• NBA’s Three-Point Problem: 09:00 – 18:34
• NFL QBs & Environment: 23:12 – 25:14
• Ravens’ Max Crosby Fallout: 25:14 – 27:47
• Bears Roster & Prospects: 27:47 – 30:11
• Caitlin Clark/Artistry in Basketball: 30:11 – 32:12
• College NIL & Transfer Portal: 32:14 – 36:18
• Max Crosby: Raider Identity: 42:37 – 44:28
• Raiders vs Chiefs Roster Debate: 47:30 – 51:34

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Tone and Language

Colin’s style is sharp, measured, and laced with colorful analogies (“if you have any more bricks, you can join a union”; “quarterbacks, kids and actors—you’re a product of your environment”). The exchange with co-hosts and guests is lively, often argumentative, but always rooted in opinion and evidence.

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Summary

This episode remains true to The Herd’s DNA: a fast-paced, provocative, and deeply informed sports talk show. With detailed takes on both the macro (league-wide trends, cultural shifts) and micro (individual player moves) levels, Cowherd keeps listeners engaged and challenged. The episode is a must-listen for NFL fans curious about the 2026 competitive landscape, NBA die-hards pondering the league’s future, and anyone interested in the larger forces shaping modern sports.

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Number one, I think Tyler Linderbaum and Jalen Naylor, the wide receiver from Minnesota. I think the Raiders nailed it. I think Linder Baum is second best center in the sport. This is what the Bears did. Go get your young quarterback an elite center. I also think Jalen Naylor is was the fastest Vikings wide receiver last year under the radar, signing to go along with the Brock Bowers. Ashton Genty. I thought the Raiders nailed it. Number two, the Rams getting two corners, including Trent McDuffie made them literally in Vegas. Super bowl favorites. So Jalen Watson's a good, solid corner, arguably better than anybody but McDuffie now on the Rams. But the Rams are not paying anybody on that defense for another year or two. They've drafted so well, they're very young. So they get a veteran that can match up with the top niner, Arizona and Seattle receivers in division and beyond. I love that move number three, Malik Willis. I know it's only six starts but last season he was 30 of 35 with five touchdowns and no picks. Really accurate. Jeff Halfley, the head coach at Miami was the defensive coordinator in Green Bay. He watched him for two years. 22 million makes him the 17th highest paid quarterback in the NFL. I think it's very realistic that at some point next year you will feel like Malik Willis is at least the 17th best quarterback in the NFL. I feel very confident saying that. The number four team. I think DJ Moore is a good get. I think he's a very good player. Never misses starts five years. Really durable, smart guy. I think sometimes late in the year with the explosion of Luther Burden for the Bears in Colston Loveland, he felt a little lost and overlooked. He will not feel that way in Buffalo. So he's going to get 12 targets a game. He can go over the top. Josh Allen, like Caleb Williams, strong arm quarterback, he can get free deep. Thought it was a great move by Brandon Bean and I like Tariq Woolen to the Eagles on a one year deal. Listen, they've already got two great corners. No other team in the NFL can say they have three elite trait corners except the Philadelphia Eagles. He joins Cooper Dejan and Quinion Mitchell. So this is a stacked secondary for the Eagles. I loved all five of these moves. Those were as good as it gets to me. And I will say this, I do think Bradley Chubb coming in late. Trey Hendricks into the Ravens, solid. Bradley Chub to the Bills, solid. Those are good plays as well. So you know if you're struggling as a business, and I don't know if the NBA is struggling, but it's always hard whether you're a football team or a business. You have to identify your problems. And I think the NFL has been very good at that. I think baseball recently, baseball couple years ago, Rob Manfred said the game's not fast enough and we're losing young viewers who are on their phones. We cannot have three hour and 20 minute games. So they instituted a pitch clock. And baseball also had another issue. Analytics told them, hey, home runs over everything. Well, the problem is strikeouts went up because of a defensive shift. There were fewer base runners and the game was boring. There weren't enough guys on base, stealing bases, second at home, play at the plate. So baseball made moves. So I think the NBA is struggling to figure out what their real problem is. They think it's tanking and I don't they've been tanking forever. They think it's dynasties I don't. The Heels were popular, the Bulls were popular. Kobe and Shaq were popular. I don't think dynasties or tanking are the problem. I think the game's gotten boring and repetitive with too many threes. So I would eliminate the corner three and make it easier to defend the arc threes, the perimeter threes and forcing players to move inside the line, body on body, more physicality, more collisions at the rim. Get rid of the corner 3. Daryl Morey, who was Mr. Analytics who was a proponent of the threes, has now said, you know what? We've overcorrected. Here's Darryl Morey. I could not agree more. Change the three point line. I don't have the exact remedy. I would move the line back. Even that won't fix it. I would get rid of the corner three. I would move the line back. Will help, but I wouldn't get rid of it.

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For example, I believe something needs to be done.

[Colin Cowherd]

I think it's more urgent than tanking. As much as people talk about the different ways people get to threes, I think that's all true.

The reality is 50% more is too

much for that shot. The game is unbalanced for sure. 3 is too much for that shot. So it used to be the three point shot was featured on All Star Weekend. Now it's called Tuesday Night Hawks against Hornets. So last season. Here's something I just want you to think about. So most NBA teams shoot about 35% from threes. 35%. So let me ask you if you're only succeeding at 35% of anything. It could be five foot putts at the Masters. It could. What if Major League Baseball pitchers only threw strikes 35% of the time? It would slow the game down. Your hit rate for anything in sports has to be higher than 35%. If the NFL decided summarily, the league decided no more screens, no more drag routes, no more rollouts, no more underneath stuff. Everything has to be 20 yards plus down the field. Do you know what the completion percentage in the NFL was last year for throws? 20 plus down the field 35%. Do you think the game would be better if quarterbacks were completing 35% of their throws? It would be unwatchable. It would be awful. It's excellent when it's at 65 to 68%. Right? We want offense to succeed. It's great that baseball pitchers, half the time or more, throw strikes, speed the game up, force batters to swing. So listen to these numbers. So last year, 396 games there were at least 83s. Again, at a 35% hit clip, that gives you on average 52 bricks a game. Do you believe watching an NBA basketball game? Oh, I watched 52 Clanks. If you have any more bricks, you can join a union. I mean, at some point, it's not good sports. That's why Roger Goodell cleaned up the catch and Roger Goodell changed the pat. Because the NFL's always understood aesthetics matter. I've said it many times on this show. When you go to a nice restaurant, they want to make sure it looks appealing, not just tastes appealing. Because you eat with your eyes first. That's why there's no blue food. You don't eat with your mouth, you eat with your eyes. So if you go to a Bobby Flay restaurant, if you go to an emerald, you go to any nice restaurant where I live in Chicago, anywhere in the country, it looks appetizing. The problem with the NBA, you watch these games, it's not aesthetically pleasing. You have the greatest athletes in the world shooting 35% on the shot. They shoot the most. You know what's beautiful? Michael Jordan's mid range game. That's beautiful. The sound of the swish, the aesthetics of the swish. It looks cool. So we don't talk about this at all. Baseball had this issue too. Home runs were everything. Well, it was home runs or strikeouts. Launch angle. The problem is there's no base runners. Part of the beauty of baseball is first to third, second to home, stealing bases, athletes on the base pass. You eliminate that. It's not the same game. And Rob Manfred got it. And the catch and moving the kickoffs. NFL got it. Forget the math. May work on the three, but you're asking teams to launch 52 bricks a night. You go to basketball game. You ever once driven home after a basketball game and I gotta tell you that eight out of nine bricks in the third quarter was riveting. It's bad aesthetics. It's boring and bad to watch. So I don't buy for a second that tanking's the end of the world. Teams were tanking during Jordan's era, and magic and birds and I don't think dynasties are a problem. If they happen, they happen. I mean, in college basketball, if I told you Michigan wins the next three national championships in college basketball, it give you somebody to hate, right? Give you somebody to root for and somebody to root against. So I mean, here's another one. Wimby, 7 foot 6. Wimy took 403, 3 point shots last season. Do you really think that's aesthetically pleasing? But if you cut off the corner three. Okay. Now it's easier to defend the wing three. Forcing guys in. And I. And I'm also a believer of that. I think basketball is better. You'll see this in March Madness and you'll see it in the NBA playoffs. I think basketball is better when there's physicality and there's bumping and tempers flare. And I think physical basketball is more fun to watch than just up and down the floor, ymca, pick and roll, jack of three. I don't think it's that compelling. And what's Amazing, Wemby took 403 three point shots and he missed half the year with blood clots. I mean, at some point, guys, it's just the same. Everybody's playing the same game. The other thing I've always thought about basketball, it's our most artistic sport. I mean, Magic didn't play like Bob Koozie didn't play like Allen Iverson didn't play like Steph Curry. Dr. J didn't play like anybody. And Michael and the tongue out and the switching hands and it's artistry. Like, there's a real artistry to basketball. Why would you SAP and reduce the artistry by asking everybody to shoot threes? I want Ant driving to the basket. I want Kobe and mj. I want them being artists. Go look at Mike. Go look at Dr. J's highlights. They're un. I watched Vince Carter and Dr. J highlights last night. Just go look up Vince Carter dunks and Dr. J highlights. Not a three. But it's incredibly. The artistry is insane. And I. I think the threes are formulaic. I do. I just watched the great movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn. It was the opposite of formulaic. I didn't know what I was getting that. When you watched MJ and Dr. J, you didn't know what you were getting. Every time down the floor is like, I got no idea what MJ's do. I know exactly what I'm getting from everybody every possession now. 52 bricks a game. Yeah. So guys like J Mac who like to jack them up, love it.

I mean, you said a lot there, Colin, you seem a little combative on this NBA. First it was tanking everybody's outrage.

I'm not outraged.

Oh, my God.

I'm not out.

And now it's like, well, too many threes. I mean, artists, art changes over time. It evolves.

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Right.

[Colin Cowherd]

What was awesome, Art wise in the 15th century changed by the 17th century. I would argue 1970s NBA.

I would argue that's not true. Picasso today was worth more than Picasso then. Great art endures.

Yeah, but nobody's painting like Picasso did. They're painting in different ways. And now modern art is different, but still beautiful. I would just say that the dunks are still happening and the threes are artistry. I've never seen a 7 foot 7 guy. How tall is what he, 7, 5, 7, 6? Whatever he is, he's a giant. He looks like a praying mantis shooting threes. And it's fluid and clean. And to me, that's art. I don't. I love threes. I'm a little disappointed in Daryl Morey. I guess he's upset that he just was never able to break through with all his strategies and numbers and process.

Or he's seeing the same thing. Everybody else's World Baseball Classic ratings, Olympic ratings, World cup ratings, NFL ratings, college. All these ratings are up, up, up. And there's this, you know, there's a little bit of a malaise with the NBA where people are like, even like die hard NBA people are like, the regular season, let's cut games. Why you got to cut games? Hockey guys aren't cutting games. Baseball aren't cutting games. NFL's that everybody's adding games. Basketball is like, we got to have fewer games. How about work on your products?

Well, the counter is World Baseball Classic is like two weeks. Okay? Baseball season is long and their ratings were not great last year in the regular season. NHL ratings were down last year in the regular season. So let's compare apple to apples. NBA 82 games don't compare to NFL or college.

Major League Baseball, three years in a row, ratings through the roof.

But they're not significantly like above the NBA or anything.

They're.

I mean, their regular season games are fine. World Series, amazing. Those ratings are massive. NBA playoffs are going to be fine. We're going to shelve all this talk as soon as the playoffs hit. You're going to love the artistry of Anthony Edwards. Three pointers. Oh, Colin.

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Austin Reeves, no artistry there again, his. I don't think he's a three shooter. I think he drives to the basket, creates contact. I like watching Austin. He's a contact creator. He's not a three point shooter. I mean, I don't think of. I don't think of Austin Reeves as a three point shooter. I think he's a contact creator. I love Dwayne Wade. Contact creator. I love those games. I I'm guys jacking them from the corner doesn't do a thing for me. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS1 and the iHeartradio app

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so this is interesting. Albert Breer just put this out. With the release of Kyler Murray by the Cardinals, just three. Just three of the 29 first round quarterbacks drafted in the second decade of this millennium 2010-2019, just three remain. Three of 29 remain with the teams that drafted them. Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen. All three joined winning cultures Ravens under Harbaugh. Winning culture Sean McDermott. Bills had made the playoffs the year before Josh Allen got there. And you know, Andy Reid and the Chiefs were making the playoffs with Alex Smith. 3 of 29 in a 10 year period still with their team. Quarterbacks, kids and actors. You're a product of your environment. There's a reason the best actors in Hollywood try to try to work with the same directors and writers over and over and over again or the same companies. You know, you'll sign a deal with Netflix and the same director and I mean, you can only do so. I mean, Joe Burrow can't make the playoffs now. And on any given Sunday is the best quarterback in the league, Cincinnati. So, you know, I've said everybody's looking for the reclamation project in the NFL. The next Sam Darnold, it's Kyler Murray. I don't know if it will happen, but it would be the same team Darnold exploded with in Minnesota with the coach and the receivers and the O line and TJ Hawkins. It's like Kyler Murray, if he's ever going to make it, this Minnesota team, this is going to be the one. And it's a division. Detroit, Chicago, Green Bay defenses are beatable. They're not elite defenses. So you can walk into a division where you're, you're not, you know, you're not facing the best, necessarily the best lineup of defenses. So. But it, it's, you're a product of your environment. There's only so much you can do. Joe Burrow can only do so much to overcome the front office ownership of kind of a second tier franchise. J. Mac with the news. No, no, no.

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This is the Herdline news. All right. This Max Crosby stuff, Colin, it's not going away. The Ravens and their GM Eric DaCosta spoke to the media yesterday and they pushed back against the narrative that they had buyer's remorse over Max Crosby.

I understand it. We live in that age of skepticism

[Dan Morgan]

and people question, especially people that don't

[Colin Cowherd]

really know me or know the Ravens culture and the Ravens organization. So I understand it. It's very, very challenging. Again, I understand how people might, maybe from afar would feel that way. But nobody is more upset about this than me. Gutted by it, actually.

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And so a regret, a big regret

[Colin Cowherd]

for me, but we will move on as a football team. Yeah, well, I mean, they can't close. They've struggled to close out leads in the fourth quarter. So they also lost, by the way. They lost a running back to the Chargers, kind of a, kind of a very speed back and they lost their tight end of the Giants. So, you know, it's been, it's been a little bumpy Ravens off season.

So it's interesting this, this narrative that instantly built. Oh, oh, Ravens are backing out of the deal because buyer's remorse, once that took hold, Colin, it hasn't, it hasn't let go. I think, you know, we're in an era of social media where people are just wedded to their idea, their belief. They're not coming off of it. If they believe something, they believe it. There. No amount of facts or evidence can trust them otherwise. And I just wonder, can the Ravens fix this? Is this, this is just who they are now? Oh, they play dirty.

It's. It's the off season, so everybody's fine. It's not in season, but I mean, Keaton Mitchell was a nice speedback. He's gone. The tight end now to the Giants, he's gone. You thought you had Max Crosby. So I said this, J. Mac. I said this two months ago when John Harbaugh left. You know, sometimes, you know, when you lose your job, everybody's like, oh, I feel bad for John Harbaugh. A little bit of a mess in Baltimore right now with Lamar Jackson and his health and he wants a new contract and he really wants to be the highest paid. And there's a recent history the highest paid quarterback can struggle to make the playoffs. So I think everybody looks at John Harbaugh and, oh, you know, when Jim Harbaugh left the Niners, he did just fine. When Jim Harbaugh, you know, they kind of wanted to show him the door in San Francisco. How did San Francisco look for the next three or four years after that? I think the Ravens have some real challenges ahead.

Some might be putting it mildly. All right, let's move on to your Chicago Bears, Colin. And I guess there's some consternation in Chicago that maybe Bears fans are like, when are we going to do something? We're going to get a big guy. You got cowherd out here talking about Max Crosby. We didn't get him. I know we lost DJ Moore, we lost our center and Chicago. I don't know, Colin. I'm looking at their moves. Khalif Raymond is a fine get, but you look at their wide receiver depth, it's not great.

After Adunze, the Chicago Bears are talented enough today to win a Super bowl. Not saying they should be favored. Remember, you may not play the best teams. They get upset. If you look at their roster, Devin Bush, Gallimore, Jedrick, Willis, they. And they also have a. They have picks they've drafted pretty well. Their, their talent is good enough. Drew Dolman is a loss. But picking up Garrett Bradbury is about as. About as well as you could do considering the situation. They the Bear. There's seven or eight rosters in this league that are good enough to win the Super Bowl. Rams, Seahawks, Lions, Eagles, Bears, Buffalo is close. Chargers, Denver, Denver. There's about, about seven, eight that you need breaks, but I think the Bears fall into that. They've got enough weapons. They've o line quarterback coach. They need an edge rusher. You get that in the draft. So I think they're fine.

So it's interesting they got the 25th pick. Obviously the defense was not great all season. And Colin, how often do you say, hey, you got the quarterback on the rookie deal? Spend, spend, spend.

Well, they did. They went and got, they went and got B players. They didn't take one big swing.

Who, who's. You really think Gallimore is a B player and Devin Bush? I don't know, man. Pro football focus the analytics for those guys is it's not great. Kobe Bryant is probably their best defensive move, but does he shore up what was a weak link in the defense of secondary?

Well, my guess is their first pick is a corner because the end of the first rounds got three or four really good corners. So they go get, they go get him from the Seahawks. Then they get their first picks a corner and suddenly now they've only got one real need and that is an edge rusher.

All right, we'll wrap up with Caitlin Clark. Colin, I feel like remember how big of a deal she was a couple years ago here on the show. She hadn't played in eight months and she made her debut for the US senior national team at the FIBA World cup qualifiers. Obviously the USA rolled by like 60 points, but how about this? Clark, 19 minutes, had 17 points and 12 assists. And you know, I was talking with the producer here about this segment and I'm like, so she shoots like Steph Curry and she's now adding a passing element. 12 assists in 19 minutes. That's magic Johnson ish that somebody put a cut up together or the reel of her assists. She's making some really nice, no look passes, high level stuff. She's. I'm not going overboard. She's a Curry Magic Johnson combo as A point guard in women's basketball. That's kind of nice.

And for the record, I don't mind her shooting threes because she's revolutionized women's basketball, taking threes well beyond where any other WNBA player will take it. And she's a guard. I don't have a problem with Steph Curry shooting threes. I don't have a problem with Kevin Durant shooting threes. I don't want WEMBY shooting. 400. So. And that's my take on what Daryl Morey says is, we got. It's too much repetition. There's the corner three. There's too much. Caitlin Clark is on a short list. I compared her to Tiger Woods. I'd never seen a golfer like Tiger Woods. She. She is. If she's playing and I'm bouncing around the TV and she's on, she's got an incredible sticky quality that I'm not changing the channel. She's very unique in the history of women's basketball. I don't think there's ever been any player like her, ever.

Yeah, people are making some hot takes about it. I totally agree, Colin. I didn't know there was a FIBA women's World cup qualifier until I saw Caitlin Clark was playing. And then you see the highlights and you're like, oh, this is interesting. She just does things that you don't see normally. I'm kind of excited for the WNBA season. I can't name 15 players in the league, but I know if Clark's playing, like you said, I'm tuning in.

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LIE News had Tom Izzo on. We had Rick Pitino on recently. Mark Few came on Tom Izzo today about. You know, there's been a lot of changes in college sports. And, you know, I've heard, you know, a lot of the. Listen, it's broken. It needs to be fixed. Well, I think anytime you introduce something radically different to, like, AI right now, I mean, there's a lot of guessing with AI. I don't think it's the end of society. I don't think unemployment's going to 30%. I don't buy it. I think it's. I think people like relationships and working with groups and people not computers, so. And when you introduce NIL and transfer portal to college, it's jarring. It's like, whoa. But the ratings for college football and college basketball are way up since the NIL and the transfer portal were initiated. So I Think you have to figure some things out. I. There is no. Listen, it used to be that, you know, you choose a school and you're kind of stuck, and then if you did transfer, you had to sit out a year. Well, that wasn't a good system. Coaches could move, players could. Now do I think we have too much movement in college basketball? It feels like it. In college football, I'm still pretty comfortable with the movement, which is eight to nine, 10 players a year for most programs. You got 85 scholarships. Ten guys change teams. It doesn't really bother me. You know, quarterbacks, they're going to get paid. That's the most important position. But I had Tom Izzo on last hour and I asked him, you know, with Nil, you know, players can transfer at any minute, do you coach them as hard? Do you coach them differently? Today I'm at the point in my

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career where I don't need to worry about it. But, you know, I've had the privilege of being, you know, around guys like Magic Johnson or, you know, watching the NBA. I've had some chances to go there. And I think they all think the same thing. You know, the, the great players want to be coached. Everybody's got to be pushed. I mean, everybody pushes people. That's the way it should be. That's the way it needs to be if you're really going to be successful. If it was easy, as they say, everybody would do it.

[Colin Cowherd]

Yeah, I am, I am for just like, I. I think it's going to be revolutionary. It's going to be jet fuel to the economy. I don't believe it's 30% unemployment. New stuff scares people. And I mean, I had friends who love college football tell me three years ago, I'm not watching college football. It's pro football now. They watch as much college football as they ever watched. So I do think, you know, college basketball feels a little top heavy because the rich are getting richer. But can we be totally honest about March Madness? A lot of it's always been mythology. I mean, how many 16s have beaten ones? How many 15s have beaten twos? It was a lot. You know, every other year you'd get a massive upset. And so, you know, it's easy to promote and sell and market the fact. Oh, it just upsets everywhere. No, it's not. That's not true. It always ends up being 1, 2, 3 and 4 seeds in the Elite Eight, especially the Final Four. So to me, the great thing about the transfer portal in Nil, the very best thing is that if it used to be that if you, you know, your program was a mess and it took you like four years, three years to kind of get it right and it feels like you can snap your fingers. Indiana football gets the right coach. Wow, they're good. Wow. They're national champs to me. You can, you can course correct so much more quickly if you get the right coach. And it, you know, it's up to you as a university to get the right coach, which, you know, it's a 50, 50 proposition. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports, RAD, FS1 and the iHeartRadio app.

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Hey, Johnny Manziel's coming on next hour. And for years, you know, I've said with Johnny Manziel, I just don't think and I said it pre draft, I didn't think he kind of had the maturity to be a franchise quarterback. I thought he was a good guy, good time, love to go golfing with him, hang out with him. But in terms of like franchise quarterback, I just didn't think he was the guy. And I thought Cleveland made a big mistake. And so I I bumped into him a couple times before. I once jumped into an Uber SUV years ago in Florida, and he had just taken Johnny Manziel the previous weekend around with a girlfriend. Had great Johnny Manziel stories. And so he's a good time, no question. But last week, I had Matt Hasselbeck on, and I heard a story about Johnny Manziel sort of mentoring one of the quarterbacks in this year's draft, and I'm like, that's a bad idea. And Matt Hasselbeck said, I had Jeff George, who had a very turbulent relationship in the NFL with media and teammates. He mentored me, and he was fantastic because he'd had so many chaotic moments in his career. He had all sorts of things for me, Matt Hasselbeck, to avoid in my NFL career. And so I thought, you know what? That's actually a great way to flip the telescope on that. Let's get Johnny Manziel on the show, and let's talk about that. I mean, Manziel's no dummy. He just. What? There are certain things to be a franchise quarterback that are really important, and one of them is maturity, because you're like, you're the centerpiece of it. And I was very critical of Baker Mayfield, though. I thought Baker was a huge talent. I'm like, I'm not sure if Baker's mature enough. And sure enough, he went to Cleveland, and they kind of wore out his welcome. So Manzel is going to be interesting. He's. His life story is something else. I mean, I saw a documentary a couple years ago on the Cleveland Experience. It was something else. So I've said, today, Max Crosby goes to the Ravens, and then it blows up. It unravels. He doesn't pass a physical. Everybody says the Ravens wanted to back out of this. I don't believe that. That's Internet chatter. The bottom line is, you take him back. People break up all the time. Who cares? I mean, the bottom line. Great player. Here is the reaction from the two newest Raiders. Okay, Tyler Linderbaum and Quay Walker. Here's their reaction on joining Max Crosby in Las Vegas. Listen to this.

[Dan Morgan]

Love, you know, Max to be here and play with him. And I've gone against him. He's not fun to go against. You know how we have to scout him. And his just ability to lead a team is pretty special.

[Colin Cowherd]

There's so much that he can do

[Dan Morgan]

and the intensity that he play with. Honestly, I just love his playstyle, and I can't wait to play alongside him,

[Colin Cowherd]

honestly, just to match his energy day

[Dan Morgan]

in and day out. That's all I gotta say.

[Colin Cowherd]

I think Matt Crosby his name and

[Dan Morgan]

his play speak for itself.

[Colin Cowherd]

Very few guys in this league that feel like the team they play for. Max Crosby feels like a Raider. Like, to me, he feels like a Raider. I always said this for years and years. Aaron Rodgers played for the Packers. He didn't necessarily feel like a Packer. He's this good looking LA guy, lives in Malibu, you know, dating celebrities. I'm like, he plays for the Packers. He doesn't necessarily feel like a Packer. I mean, Tom Brady, in the summers he got out of Boston, he'd go to New York, he'd go to Europe with Giselle. And did he feel like a patriot? You know, people now in New England don't think he's loyal enough to the team he used to play for. Now that he's a broadcaster for Fox, Max Crosby feels like a Raider. And that has value. Here's Tim Matt Hasselbeck earlier yesterday on Max,

Max Crosby has the respect of the NFL players, teammates, opponents, coaches, scouts, everybody. And he's not a 1ch trick pony. A lot of these guys that come up with all these sacks, they're, they're great at rushing the passer. They're not great against the run. This dude's the real deal in every way. I mean, he's always at the top of the list. TFLs, tackles for loss in the run game, he's the real deal in the run game, the pass game, on the field, off the field, an identity setter. You know, he's a dog.

I think it's, it's interesting. There was a stat that I think Jason, one of our producers gave me this week that I thought, no, it was Ryan. It's a fascinating stat that it's hard to wrap your brain around. Four of the last seven Super Bowls, no other sport is like this in the world. Four of the last seven Super Bowls have had a team in it that didn't make the playoffs the previous year. Last year, Seahawks, Patriots, 2 for 2, didn't make the playoffs. So. And I'm not saying the Raiders are going to do that, but if you look at the Raiders today, if, if Clint Kubiak and Fernando Mendoza are as good as I think they're going to be with Tyler Linderbaum and all these young offensive players, Colton Miller back at left tackle. I'm, I'm telling you, the Raiders, I'm, I am. If they stay healthy through camp, see what they do. They have 11 picks in the draft. So again, they've got a, they've got a first, a second, a Third, a bunch of fourths and fifths. I would not be surprised they're such a young team if they took a bunch of those fourth and fifth and sixth round picks and moved up and got more threes and went kind of top heavy on the draft. I and the other thing is you could say to yourself, well, I mean, I mean the Raiders aren't going to leap Kansas City right now, the Raiders roster, if Fernando Mendoza is as good as I think, it's not that far off Kansas City's roster. It may be better. You think I'm crazy. It. It may be better. They don't have a pass rusher close to Max Crosby. Colton Miller is better than any offensive lineman playing tackle right now for the Chiefs. The Raiders have the better younger tight end, the better running back. They're both a little fin at wide receiver and both have issues in the secondary. Both have offensive coaches. One obviously Andy Reid. So listen, I think I've J. Mac and I agree on very little. Kansas City is interesting. So the Chargers have a ton of cap space. They picked up another running back last night. Chargers have a ton of cap space. Denver is stacked. The Raiders have 11 picks and have had a very good off season. I think the number one off season so far has been the Raiders and Kansas City is doubling down on Travis Kelce, who again is productive and is durable. Here's Kelsey on being back next year,

[Dan Morgan]

taking a step back, letting the emotions settle down, the frustrations from the season. Of course I want to come back. Of course I don't want to end my career not making the playoffs. And it still felt like I was hungry enough to get back at it. And obviously there's still a little bit of that grid and that emotion that, you know, I hated the way that ended last year. And I want to do this. I want to, I want to make it right.

[Colin Cowherd]

So the playoff teams last year in the afc, Broncos, Patriots, Jags, Steelers, Texans, Bills and Chargers. AFC teams that miss the playoffs were Colts, Ravens, Bengals. We tend to think they'll all be better. I'm telling you, it's pretty log jammed at the top.

Can I ask two questions? So in this Raiders chief scenario, who are you penciling in at quarterback for the Raiders, Cousins or Mendoza?

Mendoza eventually. Not sure. Day one, Mendoza eventually.

Okay, and then who are you penciling at quarterback for the Colts? Because listen, Daniel Jones, coming off a major injury, I would assume at least the first eight games, he's not going to be there. I mean, maybe I'm being a little conservative. We just Saw Jason Tatum return in 10 months from an Achilles. But like if it's not Daniel Jones starting, are the Colts.

Even if you asked me to pick the seven playoff teams in the afc right. Right now. Broncos, Patriots, Jaguar, Bills, Chargers.

You need someone from that.

Steelers, Texans. I don't have the Chiefs in I.

No, the Chiefs are definitely not in there.

Probably Ravens. Probably Ravens.

Let me push back a little on the Jag. So they lose etn they lose their great linebacker who was the all Pro who had the pick. Six of Mahomes name escapes me right now, but those are two significant losses. They get Travis Hunter back at receiver. There's a lot of chatter. Brian Thomas probably going to get shipped here in the coming week. A lot of change. Do you think Jacksonville continues what was a pretty damn good season.

Yeah. The second year. Liam Combs. I'm just looking over at playoff teams. You know, Patriots schedule is going to be a lot more difficult. Yeah, I mean I think Kansas City's in a weird space. I think it's. I think the moves they made like Kenneth Walker they were kind of forced to make. I don't think they had a choice. It was a bad, it's a bad running back draft. I and they, it's not like the Chiefs had the Raiders 11 picks where they could move use two or three fours and go get Jeremiah Love. They don't. They don't have that many picks left and they're up against the cap and their stars are getting old. Yeah, I mean I think Kansas City. I think Kansas City had to go get Kenneth Walker because I don't think this draft after Love provides a day one plug and play star running back. There's one in the whole draft.

If you think this Chiefs team is a playoff worthy. You believe Steve Spagnolo can put work magic with that defense. Colin again you could go position group by position group.

Who are their four best? Who are their five best players? Mahomes, Creed, Humphrey, top.

I don't think Kelsey's in there. I mean Kenneth Walker probably has to

be Kenneth Walker's right now.

I. Chris Jones is aging again. They just don't have a lot of talent. Like it's not a knock, guys. Look at the secondary. Look at the lineback. Nick Bolton was good a couple years ago. I don't know.

It's. It's. You get. Once you pay the quarterback, you get old very fast. And so you know, because you pay the quarterback and you want to keep people that the quarterback like Travis Kelsey is comfortable with and Travis and Mahomes are great third down red zone. So when you have that veteran quarterback you tend to keep people around the veteran quarterback who are expensive familiar. That's why Seattle moving off Kenneth Walker takes some guts. I mean you have Sam Darnold, you lose your OC now you lose your running back. I mean that that that's big. So no I this is not enough. I think Kansas City is really well run but what makes the NFL so great you can go pathetic to playoffs off season and keep your eye on the Raiders.

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