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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
THE HERD - Hour 3 - Eagles are still trying to make the right adjustments, Dan Campbell should get more credit, Geoff Schwartz
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Mandy Money
This is an I Heart podcast.
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Colin Cowherd
What do you do when things get tough? You don't give up.
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Joel Klatt
You stand your ground. If you've been diagnosed with metastatic prostate.
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Colin Cowherd
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Joel Klatt
It's now FDA approved after one hormone.
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Colin Cowherd
Therapy or before chemotherapy.
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Joel Klatt
Bluvicto is a prescription treatment used to.
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Colin Cowherd
Treat adults with prostate specific membrane antigen positive metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer or PSMA positive MCRPC who have already been treated with hormone therapy or hormone therapy and chemotherapy. Pluvicto involves contact with radioactivity which may.
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Joel Klatt
Increase the risk for cancer and cause fetal harm. Drink plenty of fluids, urinate often, use.
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Colin Cowherd
Contraception and talk to your doctor about.
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Joel Klatt
Ways to reduce the risk of exposing others to radiation.
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Colin Cowherd
During and after treatment, Pluvicto can cause low levels of blood cell counts, kidney problems and infertility.
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Joel Klatt
Tell your doctor if you have weakness, pale skin, shortness of breath, bleeding or.
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Colin Cowherd
Bruising more easily an infection or changes in urination. Side effects include decreased blood cell counts, tiredness, dry mouth, nausea, appetite loss, joint or back pain and constipation. Ask your doctor about Pluvicto because every.
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Joel Klatt
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Colin Cowherd
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Joel Klatt
What's up everybody? It's snacks from the Trap Nerds. All October long, we're bringing you the Horror.
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Colin Cowherd
Boogity boogity boogity. We kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified.
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Joel Klatt
Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first.
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Colin Cowherd
And it's the return of Tony's horror show Side Quest, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode.
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Joel Klatt
Reading with commentary and we'll cap it off with a horror movie battle Royale. Open your free AHA Radio app and search Trap Nerds Podcast and listen now.
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Colin Cowherd
Thanks for listening to the Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio and noon to 3 Eastern, 9am to noon Pacific. Find your local station for the herd@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. Now let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. He's host of the Bear Bets podcast with Chris Felica. The guy knows his gambling big time. Jeff Schwarz, eight years in the NFL. Fox Sports analyst, former NFL offensive lineman by the way, let me throw this at you. Usc, Michigan. Who do you like?
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Joel Klatt
I like Michigan. Colin, you gotta point me in the direction of when USC is beating the team under Lincoln Rye. That could push around the trenches. The answer, I think is never Notre Dame. Four years ago maybe, but Notre Dame wasn't what they are. I just got to see it, man. I have to see it from usc. We know what Michigan is, right? They're going to run the football. They're going to have two, three, four yard carries and hit a 75 yard touchdown. We know offensively Underwood is really, really good. But he's young, he's going to make some mistakes. He's also going to make some explosive plays on the flip side, right? USC's offensive lines a little beat up. I think Page is back though. Page is really good. It's a big addition back for them. But Michigan can punch them in the mouth. How do they play against a def defense like that? So USC is certainly talent enough to win this game, Colin. But they haven't won this game in years. And so I will take Michigan until proven otherwise.
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Colin Cowherd
I said this is a referendum game on Lincoln Riley because they Go to Notre Dame next. They go to Oregon in a few weeks, are not winning those games. This is going to be a signature game. We're going to look at this game and if USC can't win at home and they're healthy now up front, we're going to look at this and go, we have to come to terms with Lincoln Riley. He's not the culture builder. He's a recruiter. He's a coach. I think if they lose this game, it's like James Franklin. You just come to the realization he's not good situationally in big games. I think if Lincoln loses with Notre Dame and Oregon coming up, you have to kind of acknowledge what Lincoln is. Am I wrong?
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Joel Klatt
I don't. I don't think you're wrong. I know USC fans will point to a rebuild into year four, which is what it is, but we know they're rebuilding that defense. Sort of on the fly here, but you have everything sort of in, in your way, right? You're off a buy, okay. So you have time to repair. You ment. They're healthier along the front than they were against Illinois. But also, USC has played better at home than on the road. Right. The road has been the issue for them. So if you can't win this game with Michigan, we've seen a lot of teams that come out west make these big, you know, these big trips, have struggled a little bit. And again, you are facing a true freshman quarterback. Now, the Coliseum is not Oklahoma. Right. You're going to have a ton of Michigan fans there, but still a big atmosphere, a hundred thousand fans. It's a giant stadium. It's the history of usc. So there is that on your side. And you think you have to, because you mentioned if you don't win this game, you're probably not being Notre Dame, you're not being Oregon. Now you're looking at eight wins again, maybe you upset somewhere else, looking at seven. And that's not where USC wants to be.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. One more college question. Oregon replaced all 11 offensive starters. Dan Lanning is a defensive guy and they're great. You know, when people talk about this, like, what's. It's really fascinating to look at Oregon. Whether people want to admit it or not. Ohio State and Oregon are the two best teams in the country. I've seen. And I'm, I'm, I'm neutral field. I think that, like Oregon last year was good, but they weren't as physical. You know, they. When they played, you know, neutral field, Ohio State, you could see the Gap. I don't think there's a huge gap. I think they're as good as anybody. What is Dan Lanning secret sauce Southern guy comes to Oregon even better than Crystal Ball who's crushing it in Miami. Why is Lanning worked as a southern guy so well out south or out west?
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Joel Klatt
Well, I think you mentioned that the all new starters, right? And what they do really well. And I know people say, well, they just bother players. Well, other teams buy players too, right? But Oregon buys the right players. Colin, Right. Look at their hit rate in the portal. They hit home runs. They don't have a lot of guys who sit on the bench who are portal guys. And they have won this year, essentially the running back. We just didn't know that the true freshmen are that good, quite honestly. And so he finds the right players that fit what they want to do and then he buys him, you know, gets him to buy into the culture and you know, look, it is. It's toughness, right? It's accountability. You mentioned offensively, Will Stein is an incredible offense coordinator. I hope he stays there as long as he can. But you know, he lets Will Stein do his thing on offense and he does the defense with Tosh and they make it work together. But I think for, for him and really the staff, it's a talent acquisition. They find the right guys for what they want to be. He was at Georgia for those years. Their defensive line is not what Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis, but it's 330, it's 335, it's 350. Like he gets the right guys to run what he wants to do and then there's just a confidence. I think one thing too, that he lets his guys be themselves, right? He lets their personality shine. He lets them play, you know, he play how they want free. And then he also buys in. You see this in the videos, right? They buy into whatever the stadium is a whiteout. Let's buy into the whiteout. Let's buy into the tradition that Wisconsin is doing. So I think that all those things matter for. For landing in the cess at Oregon.
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Colin Cowherd
So let's go to the NFL. Eagles have great personnel. Lions have great personnel in their offensive lines. Both change coordinators. Detroit's may be better. Philadelphia is a mess. I think Philadelphia didn't have a personnel issue. I think they have a coordinator issue. And we've seen this before with the Eagles. They're very coordinator dependent. They are because Sirianni is more the CEO and the alpha. He's not Shanahan scheme wise. So how can a coordinator come in? And this appears to be the case in Philadelphia. And the O line regresses. Like how? Explain that to me.
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Joel Klatt
Well, the O line is. Is a little more beat up than they have in previous years. Right. They obviously have a new right guard. Lane's been beat up at right tackle. I mean, regression does happen at that position over time. Right. I mean, that's. Again, the injuries do play a big role in this, but look, it generally takes half a season for new offensive coordinator to feel comfortable with figuring out what a team is good and not good at. You know, you come in that position, you're hired from within, you want to sort of run the same things, and you realize maybe the same things don't work anymore. How do we adjust and make it happen? And teams are taking away the run. They're forcing Hertz to be the guy keeping in the pocket where he's not always the best passer from just the pocket. He has that internal clock that he sort of holds the ball sometimes a little bit too long. And they're making them be uncomfortable offensively. But it's still through week five. And you mentioned last year, right through week four, everyone want to fire Sirani. They're. They're two and two and they lost one more game for, you know, the next 21 or whatever it was. So I didn't know. Figure it out. But it does take time. We're just used to it happening faster in Philly. And the offense line has been so dominant. Just isn't that case right now. You mentioned alliance, Colin. I think. I think Dan Campbell's not getting enough credit here. Like Dan Campbell's offensive coach, who I think has far more say in the offense than we give him credit for, because you look at what they're doing now, it looks very similar to what they did with Ben Johnson. And so the correlation between that is Dan Campbell, who's still there, and a big part of the offense, I'm not sure gets enough credit for how good this offense is with the coordinator change.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Are you. Are you surprised how good Baker Mayfield is? I mean, he's an MVP candidate when you watch him, because he's not a perfect size. He's not quite as athletic as I think he thinks he is. Sometimes he runs. I'm like, slow down, bro. And he right now would be the MVP of the league. Doesn't have Evans, doesn't have Bucky Irving. And he is tearing it up. And he is great. Late game quarterback. Are you surprised?
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Joel Klatt
I'LL tell you what, he's. He's the most fun to bet on because every game you know he's going to scrap and claw. He might not cover like they didn't cover in Philly, but last week, right, just like scrap and fight and claw and try to get every yard possible. He's always had the arm, right? And he was drafted very high for. For a reason. It was a matter of maturity, which he's admitted. He's matured in Tampa Bay. But also, look, they have a lot of good personnel around him. The offensive line is a little healthier now, right? But when they're whole, they're one of the best in the NFL. You mentioned Evans is not there. But then Booker comes in and he's immediately good and you have Ted Johnson, who's playing well. So they add the personnel around him and they. I think they found a rhythm of what the offense can be around Baker. It's the importance of just understanding what your quarterback can and can't do. And they had a lot of quarter changes too, and it made it work, right? So it comes down to me, I think Baker just telling and understanding, like, this is what I'm good at. Let's do it then, dude. He just fights, man. Like he's so much fun to watch because they're never out of a game. He's giving 100%, he's laying on the line and he's the quarterback thing. A lot of us want to guide our teams, right? Just guy that we want to for and we see the battle from him each and every week.
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Colin Cowherd
So this year is crazy. Fifteen quarterbacks have a passer rating over 100. Last year it was 11. The year before six. And I. There's a lot of reasons why I think there's a lot of good offensive coaches now. There wasn't 20 years ago or 10 years ago. The McVay tree. There's just all these smart guys. I do think some of it is this and tell me if I'm wrong, Jeff, because I could be that outside of Goff and Stafford, almost all quarterbacks move. You can't play man to man. You have to play his own. You can't turn your back on quarterbacks. And so, I mean, these kids have personal coaching, 10,000 snaps by the time they're 14. It's throwing the spots. And with better coaching and kids with more reps when they enter the league, they're good at throwing to spots. I mean, Puka Nakua does not separate. He's always open. It's throwing to spots and I think, you know, people just complete now 68%. It used to be Breeze did that Darnold could do that is why do you think there's this explosion of passer ratings? Half the leagues at 100.
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Joel Klatt
Well, you mentioned important here, right? Like defenses are playing a lot more zone now because, you know, the idea is just keep everything in front of you, right? You know, explosive plays are kind of the death for any team, right. If you give up a lot of them, you know you're going to get beat quite often. So we're going to play too high and we're going to make everything keep in front of us. And these quarterbacks are realizing, I think rightfully so. These receivers, dude, are, they're incredible these wide receivers now, I mean you come in the NFL and you're good almost immediately at this position for a lot of these guys and just get the ball in their hands and let them run. And quarterbacks are understanding like let's just take what's there and get, you know, five yard throw, you know, six, seven yard run. Like we're fine with that. And then eventually it opens up a little bit and you take some shot. I think quarterbacks are just far more okay now with we're not taking home runs, we're just going to take what's in front of us. Coordinators are doing a great job of scheming up just individual plays that are easy on quarterbacks at times and make it easier to find easy completions. And then again the zone cover thing, all that plays a role. And I've said this from the beginning, I think that's why the preseason we saw a ton of scoring. The preseason is quarterback play is better than ever. Like we have better quarterbacks, backup quarterbacks now that are better than ever before. So I think all of it is just in totality, the quarterback play is better than ever in NFL history.
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Colin Cowherd
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Joel Klatt
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Colin Cowherd
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Joel Klatt
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
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Joel Klatt
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Colin Cowherd
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Mandy Money
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Colin Cowherd
So finally I, I said this. If I had to vote coach of the year, Baker's my MVP because he's doing that without Evans and Bucky Irving Dak would be second. My coach of the year is Kyle Shanahan. Mac Jones, who I think has more natural talent than Daniel Jones in terms of throwing the football, not the athlete. The fact that they're leading the division and 50% of their best players are not available. People that we've given up on are now starring. I mean, were you, did you ever plan a team that you went into a game missing six starters and you actually played inspired football and won? I think what he is doing in San Francisco, they may not win a division, but you can have a great year coaching and not end up winning playoff games because of what you do with what you have. How do you explain the Niners success with backups everywhere?
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Joel Klatt
Well, it obviously is belief in the system and what they do right? And that you can plug and play guys. And look, can you do it a whole season? Probably not. But you can have a Mac Jones come in and he knows the offense, he knows who to throw the ball to. He's talked about that, the importance getting the ball in the playmaker's hands and then defensively they still have enough guys. Now Bosa's out, obviously, and that's a big loss but you know, Warner is there and you know, the very end of that game, they forced a fumble. They stopped the Rams on fourth down. Like they're winning. These moments that are important when you, you know, you. When you want to have a 4 and 1 record. And I'm telling you, look, that game was. They were underdog by over touchdown. And throughout the entire game they were with the Rams. They obviously won at the very end. I think the Rams are better, but clearly in that night and maybe moving forward they're not. And I played on one team that was really beat up like this call and we sucked. I mean, we were terrible after we. Everyone got hurt. I mean, look at the Ravens, right? The Ravens have lost more guys. I get it. But they're nowhere competitive each and every week. And I just went to a division rival who's had their number recently and thoroughly beat them. They were up the entire game and ended up with a three point win. So I give them a lot of credit. When Purdy comes back and some of the wide receivers come back, they should be able to do. We talked about the Niners big this year. Look, their schedule is pretty easy. This is a team that should win 12 or 13 games and they're staying on track with a bunch of backups right now.
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Colin Cowherd
You played for the Chiefs. Your brother started for years at the Chiefs. I'm not worried at all. I think next week when they get Rasheed Rice, I look offense, the last two weeks has been the best that it's been in three or four years. I think they're going to make the playoffs. I'm not worried. Are you?
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Joel Klatt
Oh, they'll make the playoffs. The password is a problem. It's been a problem for a while now. It was the most underlooked part of the super bowl loss. They didn't touch Jalen Hurst the entire game. They can't get home with four calling. We know their pressure packages are great and they can get, you know, but if you block the pressure package up. We saw Herbert beat him in week one doing that, you know, week one doing that. They lost in week two on a pressure play as well. Like you have to be able to get home with four. So I am curious that the Chiefs decide to go get someone, a pass rusher on a losing team and bring them in for the rest of the season at some point this year just to say, hey, like that's, that's our missing piece. They're defined defensively. They're going to stop the run really well. They're good in the back end, offensively, they're going to be fine. We just talked about just get, get guys healthy and one, one addition, too, that's been really impactful. Like Josh Simmons, that draft pick is a home run so far. He's been great at left tackle the other night, Mahomes, really, the last six quarters, Mahomes has never looked more comfortable in years in the pocket. Like, he's standing back there, he's finding his open guys. And so my question is, pass rushes, are they going to, you know, bring in an addition, a pass rusher? There's a couple of guys on losing teams right now you could look toward and say, hey, maybe week eight, week nine, we want to be aggressive and bring that guy to our team.
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Colin Cowherd
Jeff Schwartz, he's taken Michigan over usc. You're the second person Joel Klatt likes Michigan against usc. Until you show me you're tough, I don't think you're tough. That's right.
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Joel Klatt
Very easy.
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Colin Cowherd
Good seeing you, buddy.
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Joel Klatt
Take care.
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Colin Cowherd
Boy, that. Let me tell you something. If you lose to Michigan at home, we don't even know if Michigan's got the right coach. They have a freshman, a true freshman quarterback.
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J. Mac
So you saw USC's favorite in this, right? It was one and a half, now two and a half.
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Colin Cowherd
I.
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J. Mac
Are these guys just being haters?
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Colin Cowherd
No, I think they get Lane back at wide receiver. They get Paige back at left tackle. I think USC, I'm going to go 27, 24. USC.
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J. Mac
Oh, that's the total for this one's 57.
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Colin Cowherd
So you'd be under. Slightly under. I think USC wins covers and it's the under.
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J. Mac
I'll break it down for you after hours today and come back with a pick tomorrow.
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Colin Cowherd
All right, J. Mac with the news.
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Joel Klatt
No, no, no, no. Turn on the news.
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Colin Cowherd
This is the Herd line news.
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J. Mac
We haven't done any NBA lately. South Bay's newest resident, Luka Doncic, looking very skinny. He lost a lot of weight. And LeBron has finally addressed the weight loss, the dramatic weight loss of Luka Doncic.
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Joel Klatt
He just looks, you know, obviously a little bit quicker, you know, a little bit more functional. But I think, more importantly, I think what a lot of people will not see is the recovery. Now, I think for him personally, I think what's going to change for him, he's going to see how he wakes up the next day after three or four nights. I'm super duper proud of him.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, I, I think he's going to have the ball in his hands more so. And, and, and LeBron's gonna have Tennessee in his hands more.
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J. Mac
Will he dunk the ball more? Remember, you had that stat last year? Luca had one dunk last season.
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Colin Cowherd
He had 25 as a rookie, one last year. So he doesn't. He doesn't beat people off the dribble. It's a lot more fallaways and a lot more body contact besides the girths.
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J. Mac
He did have the calf issue, and you know that. That could become a pro. What, are you rolling your eyes? Jason Tatum, Tyrese, Alabama. Calf injuries lead to. You know what? I don't say that word. The A word.
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Colin Cowherd
I would just say is he wasn't as explosive. And so that will get him more easy baskets, more open looks, more dunks. He'll play downhill more, and he'll take the ball. In his first two years, when he was in better shape, it was hard to get the ball, wrestle the ball out of his hands. So LeBron's going to have to come to terms with playing off the ball a lot more, because when Luke is in shape his first two years, he doesn't give it up. I mean, they moved Jalen Brunson out of town, and Jalen was great. He wants the ball in his hands, and he's. He'll lead the league in scoring this year.
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J. Mac
Not. Not going to be popular, but I think the idea that Reddick could stagger their minutes, obviously they're both going to start and they'll finish, but when Luka's off, I think you need LeBron on, because then they'll have the ball in his hands and kind of pacify LeBron a little bit, right? Because he's still that guy. He was an all NBA player last year. I'm excited for the Lakers season. Next up, let's go to. Oh, yeah, obviously, Lincoln Riley. Big matchup this weekend against Michigan and USC. Sold out three games last year for the first time since 2012. Penn State, Nebraska, Notre Dame. This weekend, also a sellout. Except that Michigan head coach Sharon Moore. He's got a reason why.
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Joel Klatt
Sold out because Michigan's coming. So we're not. We're excited about the opportunity for guys to get to go back home and see family and family, you know, be closer and friends. But not making too much of a deal there.
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Colin Cowherd
I don't really care what he says. We're looking forward to playing.
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J. Mac
Are you gonna go to the game?
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Colin Cowherd
I'll be watching the game.
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J. Mac
I have an undisclosed location.
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Colin Cowherd
I have a. I have a busy Saturday, but I'll be glued to this one.
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J. Mac
Interesting.
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Colin Cowherd
I'm not gonna give up too much the plans.
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J. Mac
So. Sharon Moore. I don't. I don't love that trash talk. You do know the USC players are going to see this video. Lincoln Riley play this in the locker room.
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Colin Cowherd
Oh, really?
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J. Mac
Michigan. I do know some Michigan fans. Some guys I hoop with are very excited for this game. I hope I don't. We know Chargers games. They struggle. Washington Chargers at sofi was probably 55, 45 charges.
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Colin Cowherd
Here's the thing. You can load the box against Michigan because I don't. I don't fear their receivers. What USC is weak at corner. Michigan's not strong at. They won't expose that. Now, Michigan may win through physicality, but the truth is it really like. Like USC will move the ball and USC will get that ball outside usc, skilled players. And when their O line's healthy, it is now it wasn't in Illinois. They'll have their elite left tackle. They'll have their tackles back playing that position. So it was kind of a makeshift O line. They were moving guys around. So I think it's 27, 24. USC. Very, very good game. And I think a lot of it will be played between the 30s. I think USC will play fairly inspired. Michigan will win time of possession, but USC will have a few more dynamic plays over the top.
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J. Mac
I know a lot of Michigan fans.
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Colin Cowherd
Are going to want to leave cold.
- [27:23]
J. Mac
Ann Arbor to come to sunny LA in October. Do you think Jordan may have. Is going to have to do a little maybe silent snap count at the line of scrimmage? Is it going to be that many Michigan fans?
- [27:32]
Colin Cowherd
Listen, you realize when it comes to the Chargers, usc, UCLA and the Rams, a lot of people in America, most people in America live in lousy weather during the football season starting in about October. And so they like to come to Los Angeles, go to Disneyland, hang out. So the reality in Los Angeles is not very many people are going. You know, I'm gonna pick one road trip this year. I'm gonna go to Denver, and Denver's nice, but that wouldn't be the road trip you'd pick. You would pick like Las Vegas to go watch the Raiders or you'd pick Los Angeles. It used to be San Diego. I knew a lot of people that were NFL fans. If Baltimore played San Diego and you lived in Baltimore, it's like, dude, November 5th, let's go take our kids. San Diego Zoo, the beach, that was the place. Now it's Los Angeles. So it's just the reality of, you know, it's one game A week. It's a great vacation spot. For the record, Miami Dolphins for years. A lot of people. Miami's got a lot of Dolphin games. Have a lot of visitors because it's Miami in the winter.
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Joel Klatt
Yeah.
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J. Mac
For certainly. Final story. Colin is. We touched on that Eagles player only meeting. Well, it seems like Brian Dabel caught wind of it because. Listen, take a listen to this sound. I don't know if this is gamesmanship or what, but very interesting jabs here by Brian Dabel.
- [28:49]
Colin Cowherd
Watch the tape. AJ's open a lot, so. But get to Saquon.
- [28:56]
Joel Klatt
He's got productive yards.
- [28:57]
Colin Cowherd
You run his own read or throw it to Smitty. There's another thing. There's a lot of weapons, I would say, on that offense, and whatever they choose to do is what they do. AJ Brown is open a lot.
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J. Mac
Little smirk there.
- [29:12]
Colin Cowherd
What he's doing. He wants A.J. brown to read that and get a little testy. That's what he want. He's playing gamesmanship.
- [29:18]
J. Mac
You're going to go with the.
- [29:19]
Colin Cowherd
This is like Phil Jackson, the former Laker coach, who would complain about the officials. Well, you know, if they, if they're going to allow that kind of holding, we're going to have to, you know, engineer kind of a different offense. I mean, if they're going to allow that with Rasheed Wallace and him pushing off to get open on the baseline. Well, I mean that, you know, it's, it's. The officials have made a decision, so I'm going to have to coach. You know, he would say just enough to have the commissioner's office call him maybe, but maybe not get a fine. Phil was great at just. Just planting seeds. And I think that is a. That's, that's Brian Dabel saying. Well, he's, he's wide open. He's open all the time.
- [29:54]
J. Mac
Difference is Phil Jackson was in the finals. Brian Dable is fighting for his job. By the way, Jalen Carter just broke in here. Breaking news here. He popped up on the injury report with a heel injury questionable for tomorrow night. Jalen Carter. Hey, when they're out, when he's out of the middle, Cam Scatterboo could go wild tomorrow.
- [30:11]
Colin Cowherd
Wild, maybe wild. Okay, possible J. Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. I do like scattered news. I do like him. He's. He's. There's something there. Jackson dart. Scatter Boo. He's fun.
- [30:28]
J. Mac
Scatter Boo reminds me of myself, just tough, physical, not backing down from anybody.
- [30:31]
Colin Cowherd
Nobody else says that. All right, we Wrap it up next, we're on the Fox Sports app today. Fox app is crushing right now. I've been told. Go buy it. It's worth it. Third, be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio FS1 and the iHeartRadio app. Today's episode brought to you by a scent that's made a legendary comeback degree Original Cool Rush the OG is back in better than ever. Cool Rush isn't just a scent. It's a movement, a fan favorite kind of fragrance guys remember, ask for by name and rave about online. It's bold. It's fresh all day, sweat protection, cool crisp vibe that made it legendary. So whether you're heading to the gym, the office or just trying to stay fresh all day long, Cool Rush has your back. It's the go to for millions and for good reason. So if you haven't tried it yet or you've been waiting for a sign, this is it. Head to your local Walmart target grab degree Cool Rush, the fan favorite scent from the world's number one antiperspirant brand.
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Joel Klatt
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Mandy Money
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Joel Klatt
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Joel Klatt
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Mandy Money
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Joel Klatt
What's up everybody? This is Snax from the Trappers podcast and we're bringing you the Horror every week all October long.
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Colin Cowherd
Kicking off this month I'm be bringing you all my greatest fear inducing horror games from Resident Evil to Silent Hill. Me and Tony bringing back Fireteam on Left 4 Dead 2 and we just.
- [33:38]
Joel Klatt
Gonna be going over some of the greats. Also in October we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figure out why black people always gotta die first.
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Colin Cowherd
The Umbral Reliquary invites any and all fool brave enough to peruse its minutes curiosities. But take it all sales are final. Weekly horror side quests written and narrated by yours truly with a full episode read and a commentary special.
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Joel Klatt
And we will cap it off with Horror Movie Battle Royale. Jason versus Freddy, Michael Myers versus the Alien Thing with the Little Tongue Monster. October, we're doing it Halloween style. Listen to the Traverse Podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the AHA Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
- [34:26]
Colin Cowherd
Welcome back. What? What? I didn't ask you. What did you make of the Athletic article calling Arch Manning a flop and a bust? Felt a little harsh.
- [34:36]
J. Mac
I mean it's largely accurate, but he's not the first bust ever. Like you said, there's been plenty of other guys. The problem is his last name is Manning, right? The best line. Somebody came on my podcast and said Arch Manning has a five star last name but he's a three star recruit. Like he was a good player, elevated because of his last name. Then he gets on the big stage and like he didn't look good against Ohio State, Sam Houston State, whoever they played last Florida body bagged him. Like it just I didn't see well.
- [35:04]
Colin Cowherd
It doesn't look great. The optics on it. He holds the ball. His mechanics are completion percentage like these are.
- [35:10]
J. Mac
He's missing layups. Can he turn around? Of course many guys, Joe Burrow, as many people have said, his first year right in college when he was a starter.
- [35:18]
Colin Cowherd
It was lsu.
- [35:19]
J. Mac
It was like, go look at Arch.
- [35:21]
Colin Cowherd
Manning's class in high school. The top four quarterbacks, one of them is crushing Dante Moore. Three have underwhelmed. And that's really. When I read the article, I'm like, it is hard to figure out what 18 year old is going to crush it in college. I mean, your first year in college, I was on academic probation. I stopped. I forgot how to study. Like, it's hard. You, you're. He's a Manning, he's got some money, he's weren't playing football.
- [35:48]
J. Mac
Can you imagine?
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. So I think college is the first time a lot of kids are on their own. You got a little spending money now in il. I think it's harder. I think there's more busts with quarterbacks not in the NFL, but in, in college.
- [35:59]
J. Mac
I think you were a star in high school. You go to college, expect to be a star. And they're like, yeah, you're third on the depth chart. You're like, why am I staying here?
- [36:06]
Colin Cowherd
There is something to be said about having it like Arch doesn't quite feel like me. He's big enough. He's got, he's got arm strength, he moves well. You know, some of it is just sometimes it's just there is a thing about quarterback play that it's hard to quantify. It's like some guys just like when I first watched Mahomes, I'm like, he's. They said this about Wayne Gretzky. He sees the play before it's fully developed. Gretzky passed the puck before the play was fully developed. Mahomes has that Aaron Rodgers in his prime was that Aaron could see something just, just a half beat before it was open. Here's Joel Clatt earlier on the. On the athletic story about Arch being the biggest bust ever. Arch has not played well at all and Texas has not played well. And that's the other part, is that they're not doing really anything well. The offensive line, which was rebuilt this year after a veteran group a year ago, they have not protected him at all. When they do protect him, he doesn't throw the ball well. They can't run it very well. If you look at what they've done against FBS competition, it's like nothing, nothing. So there's no evidence that would lead you to believe that this is going to turn around all of a sudden. It's not like they've had some performance against a good team that would lead you to believe that all Of a sudden, it's going to get better. Yeah. No, I think that's fair. The other story is it's, you know, it's so different. Baseball in New York is so different. Okay, first of all, you have a lot of revenue and a lot of money. And so the fans read that and hear about it, and the expectations are high. You know, Milwaukee struggles. Everybody knows middle of the pack or at best, salaries. So you come into every season with massive expectations. The Yankees are interesting. Garrett Cole gets hurt before the season. Well, you're, You're. You're not winning the World Series. I mean, to me, expectations for the Yankees have been unrealistic. I mean, Volpe is a good player, but he commits a lot of errors. Aaron Judge, a good player. Until last night. He had good moments. He'd be great player. Obviously. John Carlos Stanton's hurt a lot. They're not a great baserunning team. They're not a great defensive team. They're an uneven roster. They have more good players than a Boston. They're not close to the Dodgers. I don't think they're as complete as the Brewers. And so a lot of it's just expectations. I mean, Aaron Judge, I said it before. They're an action movie. He's the lead, and he has to be on camera or the movie's not as good. You know, it's a rock movie. It's. It's an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. They got to be on camera. It's not a great cast. It's not a great plot. It's not a great script. The Dodgers are a great script, a great plot, an ensemble cast. That's not what the Yankees are. And so I think once Garrett Cole got hurt. Go back to last year's World Series, the two games they looked like they could compete with the Dodgers. He started. Go to the other games, dude. It looked like the Dodgers and an American League Central team with a 18th biggest payroll. They weren't good defensively. They didn't run the base as well. They don't play small ball. This team strikes out all the time.
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J. Mac
They were the second best team in Major League Baseball last year. Like, they weren't the Dodgers this year. I don't think they're the second best, but I would not be shocked if they got back to the World Series. Would you?
- [39:13]
Colin Cowherd
Yes. Wow.
- [39:15]
J. Mac
You're that high on the Blue Jays, huh?
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Colin Cowherd
Well, the Blue Jays are a bad matchup. The Blue Jays led baseball in hits, and the Yankees starting pitching without Cole is okay. I mean, last night Rodon's, their guy got raked. It's not even, I mean he was out in two and a third innings.
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J. Mac
Tonight is Mr. Schlitler the man, the legend.
- [39:36]
Colin Cowherd
You didn't know who he was seven days ago.
- [39:40]
J. Mac
Factually correct. He's Pedro Martinez in his prime.
- [39:44]
Colin Cowherd
Right now here's Derek Jeter on Aaron Judge's home run last night. He has had a tremendous postseason this year. Now he hadn't hit the big home run until this time, but he was taking what they were giving him and he was getting his hits. He was getting on base. You could tell by his body language. The confidence is there. I don't know how he hit the pitch. It was 100 at his neck inside. But you know, there's, there's, yeah, man, there's, there's one person on planet that can do it and it's Aaron Judge. Yeah, it's just, it's just different with him. I, I think Judge is great and everybody knows it, but I think Yankee fans, you know, the Steinbrenners don't look at it like the Dodgers are Cohen. They're just going to spend more. That's not what the Yankees are now. So they have holes on their team. And I think New York teams, I mean both NFL teams are bad. The Knicks have been bad mostly for 30 years. The Mets always underachieve. So people just think the Yankees are like the like pops Yankees. And that's not what they are. They'll, they'll. I, I never got. The John Carlo Stanton movie was heard in Miami and they already had Aaron Judge. It was doubling down on what you had. What, what they're not over the last several years, they're, they're not well rounded. Milwaukee with half the payroll, I mean I did less than half, is incredibly well rounded. Seattle's got the 15th payroll. Elite closer, consistent staff, power hitting, hit for singles. I think the Yankees are just an une. Again, they're an action movie. The stars got to be on screen because the plot is what it is.
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J. Mac
Let me ask you, historically, pitchers have been able to put a team on their back and carry them. Do you think Judge can do that? He's hitting off the charts in the postseason.
- [41:21]
Colin Cowherd
No.
- [41:21]
J. Mac
So there's no chance Judge could continue to do this?
- [41:24]
Colin Cowherd
No. Toronto leads baseball in hits like the Yankees. Will the Yankees get enough guys on base to beat Toronto? It's like there's only been two great scripts in the history of action movies. Predator and, and Die Hard.
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J. Mac
What about Mission Impossible?
- [41:40]
Colin Cowherd
Well, those are, those are all time epic classics. That's the power of Tom Cruise. There's only been two action movies in my life. I watched and I thought, what a great script. Die Hard and Predator. Everything else, you're kind of buying into the lead, you know, you're kind of buying into. You know, it's not the. You're not watching for the script. Something's exploding. There's funny lines. You're rooting for the good guy to beat the bad guy.
- [42:06]
J. Mac
I still remember Die Hard, my parent.
- [42:08]
Colin Cowherd
We.
- [42:08]
J. Mac
Me and my brother convinced my parents to take us to see that, you know, and we were young guys, and as soon as the F bomb started, we were like, this is the greatest movie ever. Bruce Willis, I mean, that. That made his career, like Bruce Willis and Die Hard was.
- [42:21]
Colin Cowherd
It's a great.
- [42:22]
J. Mac
Off the charts. Yeah.
- [42:23]
Colin Cowherd
So there's. Yeah, it's that. That's the Yankees. You got to have certain people at the plate for them to be great. Ohtani can go over four with three strikeouts. Freddie Freeman last year carried them in a series. Mookie Betts struggled in September. On fire. Edmund, Tommy, the kid. That was Tommy Edmond when he, like, the NLDS MVP or something last year. NLCS mvp. Give me a break. He wasn't even going to start until there was an injury.
- [42:52]
J. Mac
Just keep the ringer on tonight for when the Yanks are hot and they are up 51 in the 8th inning. I will let you know about it. We're going five, baby.
- [43:00]
Colin Cowherd
What happens if old Cam Slur goes out there and gives you about four and a third?
- [43:09]
J. Mac
He's a young guy. You know what happens. We're on to 20, 26. That's what happens.
- [43:13]
Colin Cowherd
Yeah, just lower the expectations. As a Yankee fan, Toronto better. Milwaukee's.
- [43:18]
J. Mac
This is what the great teams do. It's World Series or bust.
- [43:21]
Colin Cowherd
That's right. They're not a great team. Maybe the great franchises think that way, but I think expectations are just off. All right, we're done for today. My day's just. I got a dentist appointment. Oh, yeah. Gotta look sharp on this show. Gotta bring it every day. Glossy. Today's episode brought to you by a scent that's made a legendary comeback degree. Original. Cool Rush. The OG is back and better than ever. Cool Rush isn't just a scent. It's a movement kind of fragrance guys remember, ask for by name and rave about online. It's bold. It's fresh all day. Sweat protection, cool, crisp vibe that made it legendary. So whether you're heading to the gym, the office, or just trying to stay fresh all day long. Cool Rush has your back, so if you haven't tried it yet, head to your local Walmart Grab degree Cool Rush, the fan favorite scent from the world's number one antiperspirant brand Ford, was built on the belief that the world doesn't get to decide what you're capable of. You do. So ask yourself, can you or can't you? Can you load up a Ford F150 and build your dream with sweat and steel? Can you chase thrills and conquer curses curves in a Mustang? Can you take a Bronco to where the map ends and adventure begins? Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right. Ready, set, Forward. When you own your own business, you own every decision. Catch the red eye or take the.
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