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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
THE HERD - Hour 3 - Head coaching changes in the NFL and College, protecting QBs, the Jets looked lost yesterday, Albert Breer, Bruce Feldman
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Albert Breer
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
Now let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Monday morning. Quarterback Albert Beer. Kind enough to join us live today and well, breaking news, we're setting it up for you. First Tee so the lad just saw this by Matt Harmon tweeted this. The last four quarterbacks taken first overall. All four of their coaches have been fired. Urban Frank Reich, Matt Ebert Flutes Brian Callahan All Four have been fired during the rookie season. So I watched the Raiders Titans. It was a pretty lifeless performance. Did the team kind of quit on him? What are you hearing?
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Albert Breer
Well, first of all, now you see why there are stories like Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold with that fact that you just laid out. Right. Like, a lot of these guys go to bad situations. It's no wonder they don't make it their first shot. Yeah, I mean, I think this was just sort of where the team was going. I don't know that anybody quit on Brian Callahan, you know, but certainly they look lifeless at several different points over the first month and a half of the season. They've got a new general manager in there, and this is starting to feel with that organization column, like the cha. Like the cat chasing the tail. I just tweeted this out. I'll take you through the timeline. In 22, they Dec. 22, they fire John Robinson as their GM. They hire ran Carthon to replace him. A year after that, they fire Mike Vrabel. They promote Chad Brinker from assistant GM over Ran Carthon. They hire Brian Callahan as head coach. A year after that, they fire Ran Carthon, bring in Mike Borgonzi. And now just nine months after that, they're firing Brian Callahan. So clearly, there are some issues at the top here. And, you know, I think number one right now is how. How you're going to create the right environment for your young quarterback so you don't become another one of these cautionary tales. Like, look at what Sam Darnold had to deal with early in his career. Look at what Baker Mayfield had to. Had to deal with early in his career. Obviously, those guys were going to benefit from being in better situations. If you're the Titans right now, job number one is to make sure that you're not the next to those cautionary tales. And obviously they've given themselves some Runway here to figure out who their next head coach is going to be.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay, speaking of that, the jets yesterday look good. Not just Darnold. Justin Fields last year in Pittsburgh, pretty redeemable. They pay him 30 guaranteed. Yesterday. There were times in the second half and I wouldn't do this often. I would have taken him out. He had time. He. He froze. Like, this organization, if they get the number one pick, I think I'd stay in college.
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Podcast Announcer
I don't.
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Colin Cowherd
I mean, what do you do? This has a Freddy Kitchens feel where it's just like, this doesn't work. They're doing nothing. Well, what do you do with the Jets?
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Albert Breer
I'M I'm a little stunned that it looks the way that it does. And they look as list as listless as they have. Like yesterday was the first representative performance they've gotten from the defense. Right. Like, they actually played decent on defense after allowing around 30 points a game over the first five weeks of the season. And that's a defense, by the way, that played well under Robert Saleh. It has representative talent. Quinn and Williams, Jermaine Johnson, Will McDonald, Quincy Williams, Jermaine Sherwood, Sauce Gardner, guys they paid, guys that were drafted in the first round. They're all over the defense, the offensive line they've invested in. They've got good players up front now, even with the injury to Oliveira, Tucker, Garrett, Wilson, Breece Hall. Like there are good players on the roster. And this does not feel like what Aaron Glenn walked into in Detroit when he was Dan Campbell's defensive coordinator four years ago. So it's really tough to explain why they've been so listless through six weeks. And certainly, I think looking back on what happened in Detroit in 2021 gives you the roadmap for getting out of it. Right. They're, they started that year 090-10-1. They wound up going three and three in their last six games. It gave them a lot of hope. But I would say that, like, early on in Detroit, we saw more fight, I think, than what we're seeing from the jets right now. So they got to get it turned around. And again, like, I think that if you're Aaron Glenn, you're hanging your hat on. I'm going to create some excitement in December and January for where this team is going in 2026 because again, I don't think they're devoid of talent. I think if you look at that roster, you see a lot of good players.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay, I gotta tell you, Philadelphia, the faucet broke. It was a drip, drip, drip. The faucet broke. I know they're banged up on the offensive line, but go look at what Mac Jones did and Baker Mayfield are doing over the last three weeks with beat up teams. I mean, Justin Herbert is pulling rabbits out of a hat. They got third string, everything. And I look at Philadelphia, I don't want to hear about it. They have more depth than anybody in the league. Could they make a coordinator change in the middle of a season because it's not working.
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Albert Breer
I'd be surprised, you know, although, you know, Nick Sirianni did, you know, turn over his staff a couple years ago. You remember they lose Shane Steigen and Jonathan Gannon after that super bowl and they made the change from Sean Decide and Matt Patricia in the middle of the 2023 season, I think it was right. And then they fired Brian Johnson, their offensive coordinator, after that year. Went with new coordinators and Fangio and kellen Moore in 24. And we know the rest. So they haven't been shy about doing these things in the past. It would surprise me on offense, although I do think they've got an identity crisis right now on that side of the ball. If they did that to Kevin Petullo after he paid his dues the way that he did to work his way into that role, I think they're going to give him some time to figure it out. Obviously, the run game hasn't been the same as it was last year, and that bar was set really high. And I think what you're seeing now is part of the reality with Jalen Hurts, very good quarterback, but he's not the same guy when the run game isn't working the way that it was in 2024. And so they got to find a way to get that run game going. And then, you know, again, I think after that happens, a lot of other things fall into place, but it does feel like there's a little bit of an identity crisis or when they've struggled with the run game, they've gotten away from it a little bit. And that's where I think they get tangled up and look a little bit dysfunctional on offense.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay, trading deadline is coming up. You know, there's. Let's talk good teams. I think the Rams could use a corner. I think the chart. I'll tell you this, I'll throw this out. If you're the Chargers, knowing Joe Alt's coming back.
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Albert Breer
Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
Go get a swing tackle regardless, because this is not just about winning games. It's about protecting Justin her. I. That's talk Chargers. You if you're Harbaugh, Denver now is winning ugly. Kansas City looks legit. I mean, Harbaugh, I wonder if they don't make a move. Quinton Johnson didn't play. What do the Chargers do when you're worried about. I mean, good God, look at Herbert. He's getting hit 15 times a game. What do you do there?
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Albert Breer
All right, so you're going to get, you know, Omarion Hampton back. You're going to get Joe Alt back. Like you said, you're going to get Quinton Johnston back. Right. I think you have to assess your. Your depth at the tackle position. It's hard to find offensive lineman Col. And you know as well as I do, there aren't enough of them to go around. And if you have good ones, you sign them, you keep them, Right? But I think that the Chargers do have to consider this. Here's the reason why, like, I think anybody in this situation will consider it. Why is it more important for the Chargers? I think this is a little bit like the Giants 15 or 20 years ago, where so much of their identity ran behind that defensive line, right? Like playing without Joe Alt, Marshawn Slater and is almost like if those Giants teams had to play without Strahan, Human and Tuck all at once, right? Like, it's just that was the personality of the team. It was the strength of the team. It's why Jerry Reese kept feeding that part of the team because he knew if I lose one of these guys, I can't. That can't become a weakness. It has to be a strength. And they've invested so much in making that offensive line what it was coming into the year. Then they lose Rashawn Slater. And so I don't think they'll be afraid to overinvest in the offensive line because same way those Giants teams, their identity ran through the defensive line. The identity is Chargers team runs to the offensive line. I just think it's really tough to find guys at those positions in season because if you have good ones, you're not letting them go.
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Colin Cowherd
Hey, I'm going to throw this at you. Chicago Washington tonight. So I think that I said this before the USC Michigan game with Notre Dame on deck. USC had to win. And after getting pushed around by Illinois, they had to win. Physical check. Check.
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Bruce Feldman
They did.
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Colin Cowherd
So Chicago comes out of a buy. Okay. You can't come out of a buy and have operational problems with your offense. Like, I think this is a real test for Caleb and Ben privately. And this is where you come in. Albert Bre joining us for the radio audience Monday morning. Quarterback, you could lose tonight, but you better look the part off a buy. If you're Caleb, what are you hearing in Chicago?
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Albert Breer
I'm excited to see what they look like tonight, actually, because, like, I think for the Bears, having the early buy, most teams hate having to buy that early, right? Because that means. All right, now we got to play 12 or 13 weeks in a row and that's tough, right? Like, as the season goes on, I think in the first year of Ben Johnson's program, the Bears almost looked at it as a little bit of an advantage because of the teaching progression with Caleb and the rest of the offense. Right. And you and I have been over this. We went over it in the summer where Ben was trying to feed Caleb with a fire hose early in the year, which was. Which is why at the beginning of training camp, it didn't look very good. Like, let's see what he can handle. And over the course of time, we'll narrow down what we're giving him, we'll figure out what he's doing well and we'll lean into that. And so, you know, having the early buy gives them the chance to have an early reset where they could look at the first five weeks of the season and say, okay, or the first four weeks of the season and say, okay, here's what we did well, here's what we didn't do well, and here's what we're going to be offensively over the last 13 weeks of the season. So tonight's the first chance we get to see it. I think we are going to see some moving parts there as far as what they look like over the first month versus what they look like now. And I'm with you. Like, I think that this is an opportunity for them to clean up a lot of the things that went wrong over the first four weeks. And you would hope this is going to be the start of the completion of what their identity is going to be for the rest of the season and that they have had that chance to look at what they do well and what they don't do well.
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Colin Cowherd
Okay. So Brian Callahan fired for the record, Mike McDaniel to a called out apparently the staff again after that game. I think McDaniel would get a job in five minutes as a coordinator. I think certain guys that maybe not have that classic alpha, a little bit more beta personality make them great coordinators. Do you think Miami makes a move on their coach in the near future?
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Albert Breer
So, like, I'm not. Like, I would never advocate for an owner going and checking in on his locker room. Right. Like, because I think that undercuts the head coach. You're basically creating an appeals court if you do that. Right, Right. I think Mark Davis did it with Josh McDaniel a couple of years ago and it wound up resulting in the hire of Antonio Pierce. That was based on what really three guys thought it was Josh Jacobs, Devonte Adams and Max Crosby. And lo and behold, less than a year later, two of those three guys were off the roster. They weren't even there anymore. Right. So I don't think you want to do that, but I think if you are upper Management, Miami. It's important that you get a pulse for the locker room and you're creative and finding a way to figure out where the, where the locker room is at. On Mike McDaniel. I love Mike McDaniel as an offensive coach. Here's the thing. That first players only meeting, right? That first players only meeting happened after the opener. That was alarming how early that happened. That got the attention of a lot of other coaches around the league, right? And now for your quarterback to stand up there and offer up that these are almost a regular occurrence, right? Like how casually he said, like our players only meetings, like guys are being late to them, like they're happening all the time now, I think would concern me and the other thing would concern me here, Colin. It's just as far as the makeup of your locker room and your team is like your quarterback is getting up there and saying this stuff and saying like, well, players are late, like, what are we going to do? This is a guy who's wearing a C on his chest, right? Like, isn't it part of your responsibility to make sure that everybody's there, that everybody's locked in? Because that's something that goes beyond just the coaching, you know. And look, the locker room had been an issue last year. They tried to clean it up. And in trading guys like Jalen Ramsey away and emphasizing character in the off season. But to still be here after all that and still be here after this apparent series of players only meeting meetings, I think you got to figure out where your locker room is on its head, coach. And the tricky thing is I don't think you can do that by going directly to the players. I think you got to creatively figure out where they're at and then make your decision from there. Because if it is at a point where like they're just tuning the coaching staff out, then that becomes a bigger problem where you're creating a tough environment for young players to grow in.
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Colin Cowherd
Albert Brear, Monday morning quarterback, Great stuff. Appreciate you stopping by in our hour three today. Thanks, bud.
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Albert Breer
All right, thanks, Colin.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Brian Callahan been fired. I've been very reluctant to talk USC today, not because it was not significant, but I, you know, I don't want to be crazy guy out here just because I wear occasional Trojan gear, but it was not lost on me how they just pushed around one of those tough cold weather Big Ten teams. Anybody else noticed that unfortunately they have a tough cold weather ACC team coming up in Notre Dame, which is, I don't think a very good matchup. But I did take note of the big, tough, cold weather Big Ten teams. Literally just saying, okay, we don't want to compete.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Well, Notre Dame is one of those teams that's dominant in the trenches. Do you think USC has a shot here?
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Colin Cowherd
Well, no, I think they're, they're an eight point dog. It's, it's, that's the number. Yeah, 28, 20, you know, 30, 23, 27. It's, it's, That's a tough ask. You want to make Notre Dame is better than Michigan.
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Matt Hasselbeck
You want to make a road trip to South Bend? I might be able to meet you. I got some friends going to the game.
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Colin Cowherd
I got a lot of friends going to the game. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the iHeartRadio app. Hi, this is Jay. I'm the producer of the Paulie and Tony Fusco show. Usually in these promos they ask you to listen to the show. I'm here to ask you, please don't.
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Albert Breer
Listen to the show.
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Colin Cowherd
The hosts are two absolute morons who have the dumbest takes on sports imaginable. Don't listen to this show so it can get canceled. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Albert Breer
What the hell are you doing in our studio? Get him, Paulie.
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Paulie Fusco
Ignore that fool.
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Albert Breer
Listen to the Paul and Tony Fusco show on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. He's still moving.
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Colin Cowherd
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Colin Cowherd
We've got a lot of stuff happening. Bruce Feldman's going to join us to talk about James Franklin got fired, Oregon went down and USC physically pushing around Michigan. J Mac with the news no, no, no, turn on the news.
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Albert Breer
This is the Herd line news.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Kyle let's start by pouring one out for 49ers fans who were in mourning today with the loss of Fred Warner. Brutal ankle injury. I don't know if anybody was watching live, but as soon as the pile kind of spread apart, Bucs players saw the ankle bent the wrong way and were signaling for the bench to come over is just brutal. They've now lost Bosa and Warner, their two best players on defense. Warner is the best linebacker in football. We would agree on that. I don't know how you bounce back from this, but I will point out Robert Sala, the defensive Coordinator Colin was with the jets last year. The jets are an 06 dumpster fire. If you want to pick some players up and try to make a run, say, hey, can we give the defense something to help out? What could be an offense that's good down the stretch when healthy. I would not be surprised if Salah went and got a couple of his former players from the Jets.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, I mean, front off, it's a very. They got a lot of money tied up in Brock and Trent and Kittle and Warner. I mean, they had to move off Greenlawn, Hufongo. So I mean, they're there. This has been an ongoing force year odyssey of injuries. It's brutal. I don't know what, I don't know what you do. I think you just cross your fingers and hope Iuk, Purdy, Kittle and Pierce all get back and you do the best you can.
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Matt Hasselbeck
I mean, I do think the NFC is wide open. Would you agree with that sentiment?
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Matt Hasselbeck
The Eagles have come back to the pack. I don't think there's a clear cut. That's the team to beat. I know you want to hand the Chiefs the afc, that's fine.
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Colin Cowherd
I think Kansas City, when they get Rashee Rice back, is the only team in this league right now with a chance to be great.
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Bruce Feldman
Okay.
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Matt Hasselbeck
What about the NFC though?
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Colin Cowherd
I think there's a lot of good.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Okay, so if you're the Niners, come on, push your chips in.
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Colin Cowherd
I don't, I don't. It's only. We're not even just a third through the season. I'm not putting my chips anywhere.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Okay, fair enough. All right, let's move on. Colin to your guy. Bo Nix, your favorite quarterback out of Oregon. Look at this play by Bo Nicks, quarterback, keeper. And then he's just. I'm lowering the boom on this hapless jets cornerback runs him over. Obviously, Sean Payton loves his quarterback. Here he is talking about Bo Nix.
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Bruce Feldman
Sean, what's the balance with quarterback on sliding for safety versus making sure you.
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Colin Cowherd
Pick up a player?
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Bruce Feldman
Yeah, that's a great question.
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Colin Cowherd
I think, you know, Bo uses his.
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Albert Breer
Instincts for the most part.
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Colin Cowherd
You saw him slide, but then there was the one play where it was holy cow.
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Bruce Feldman
Yeah, he's got pretty good instincts, though.
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Colin Cowherd
Well, he's been uneven so far. He's struggling on the deep ball. You get good halves, bad halves. I think I will say this. I think Denver's offensive personnel is pretty good. I think he's. He's been kind of alarmingly off on deep Throws, you know, Drake May and Jaden Daniels from his class feel like they're just. I kind of get the same quarterback every game. The last three or four for Drake May. I think Sean Payton privately is a little disappointed. I think they miss on too many opportunities now. Again, they're winning games. And I thought after the Philadelphia win, upset win, I thought, remember I told you this Friday, stay away from this game. You're overseas. You never know what's going to happen overseas. You have no idea. And they'd been away from home and they just came off their biggest win in a year. I'm like, stay away. I think they go back home now, get Jackson dart if I think that's who they're playing. So.
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Bruce Feldman
Oh, yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
But I think you have to be disappointed. They've had open shots down the field and they haven't hit them.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Yeah, I don't want to go in too hard. I think uneven is a great way to put it. Colin Boatnik's not quite a sophomore slump, but if you just look at basic stats, completion percentage down, yards per attempt down, QBR down, quarterback rating down. I mean, everybody got tape on him last year and I think defenses are throwing wrinkles at him that he's not quickly realizing. And as such, he doesn't look as confident as he did at times last year. But again, they're a playoff team and as long as he doesn't screw it up, the defense is going to keep you in games. Final story. Colin is. Come on. You saw this video of Kirby Smart. This guy. I mean, listen, I was on Auburn. I was a tough non cover. They were. They were in total control of this game. Kirby Smart says he was clapping, not calling for a timeout. It's like, dude, what do you think? What do you think? We're elementary school kids. Everybody could see he was signaling timeout. A lot of Auburn fans think, hey, but Georgia has their refs in the pocket because they need the sec. I will say this, Georgia has not been great this season.
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Colin Cowherd
No, they're not a great team. They're going to get. If they play Ohio State, they're going to get rolled.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Oh, wait, hold on. They face Ole Miss this week. Ole Miss is undefeated and ranked higher.
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Colin Cowherd
Where's the game?
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Matt Hasselbeck
The game's in Athens. Georgia is a seven and a half point favorite. Okay, so just for the people out there, rankings mean nothing. Georgia's a huge favorite over Ole Miss. Your thoughts? Any play on this? Seven and a half.
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Colin Cowherd
I don't think they're going to lose twice at home this year. They already lost Obama. I think Ole Miss is okay. I think the SEC is a little softer than people think. I don't think they have a great team. I think they've got several good teams. I think, I think right now the three best teams I've seen are Ohio State, Indiana and Miami. I think A and M is pretty interesting.
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Matt Hasselbeck
I don't know this. I'm just telling you this Alabama team, just forget the FSU losses, start the season what they've done since then. I mean going to Georgia and winning that win at Missouri was pretty damn good. Missouri's not bad. I, I just keep an eye on Simpson in Alabama. I, I, I like that quarterback a lot man. I could see him in jets green next year.
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Colin Cowherd
Colin oh that poor kid. I wouldn't wish that on my enemies. Oh J Mac with the news.
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Albert Breer
Well, that's the news and thanks for.
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Colin Cowherd
Stopping by the Herd lie news. We got some columns. College football stuff, boy. Usc, Notre Dame. Yeah, maybe one of the last times they play. Unless Notre Dame is willing to play early in the season. Everybody freaked out when I said that, but USC is like, well, we don't want to play these cold weather games. We got Big Ten football now. You know, after we house Michigan. We don't want to have to go play in, you know, frigid temperatures. Be sure to catch live editions of the Herd weekdays at noon Eastern, 9am Pacific. Introducing your new Dell PC. Powered by the Intel Core Ultra Ultra processor, it helps you handle a lot even when your holiday to do list gets to be a lot because it's built with all day battery plus powerful AI features that help you do it all with ease. From editing images to drafting emails to summarizing large documents to multitasking. So you can organize your holiday shopping and make custom holiday decor and search for great holiday deals and respond to holiday requests and customer questions and customers requesting custom things. And plan the perfect holiday dinner for vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians and Uncle Mike's carnivore diet. Luckily you can get a PC that helps you do it all faster so you can get it all done. That's the power of Dell PC with Intel inside backed by Dell's price match guarantee. Get yours today@dell.com holiday terms and conditions apply. See dell.com for details.
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Colin Cowherd
Well, we've got three or four major topics in college football to talk about. Nobody better than the athletic and Fox's Bruce Feldman, who is now going to join us live for the last 10 minutes of the show. So I think it's ironic, Bruce, that Feldman Franklin always got banged on and I supported him through the years that he couldn't beat Ohio State Michigan. And I was like, well, you're not Ohio State Michigan. You're the third best program in the conference. And now that Oregon's there, you may be four. So let's be realistic to him. He's a great recruiter. But then the irony is he loses not because he can't beat the big teams. He couldn't beat Northwestern and ucla and that was just too much. So there's reportedly there was a argument with the athletic director in the locker room. Did that get him fired? Did he have a Chance to save his job or give me the big picture here.
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Bruce Feldman
I think the big picture, Colin, is coming off the loss at home to Oregon. You had a, just an, an abysmal performance out here in LA when they played a UCLA team that not only was winless, they hadn't even led a game in their first four games. And Penn State gets down 27 to 7. That was a gut punch. They come back home, the atmosphere in Happy Valley was really subdued and down. And then they play a North, a Northwestern program that's not that good either, and they lose that game. I think at that point it felt like not only are they not winning the big games, now they're struggling and it just felt like the team was playing really tight. It just wasn't working out. I think beyond that, I don't think whether there's any arguments or not with Pat Kraft, the ad, I think it just came back to. It felt like for everybody involved, it was time to make a change.
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Colin Cowherd
Kurt Signetti is on fire winning at Austin. I mean, Ohio State went down there last year. This is a good Oregon team. I don't know if I'd leave Indiana. It's, it's kind of rolling now. What, what do you do? He's going to get a call maybe, right? Do you leave in conference? What do you make of those rumors?
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Bruce Feldman
Yeah, I think there's, there would be legit interest if you're Penn State. I mean, the guy is a Pennsylvania Nader from Pittsburgh. He's done one of the more remarkable jobs in college football, turnaround wise of anybody I've seen since I've been covering the sport. I mean, last year, year one, he takes a three and nine team, that gets him in the playoff the first year and then this year they're playing even better. They went to Austin. That's the most impressive win anybody's had this year. Yeah, they held him to one touchdown. Offensively, I could see them have an interest in him. I would also keep an eye on Matt Rule, the Nebraska head coach. Remember when he was at Temple and had back to back 10 win seasons there, there. Pat Kraft was the AD at Temple. Pat Kraft is now the AD at Penn State. They are still super close. It would not surprise me if they looked really close at Matt Rule. But again, Signetti's done an amazing job. I could see anybody trying to hire him.
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Colin Cowherd
I thought I said this Friday, I said, with Notre Dame on deck, this is a really big win that could ripple through the program at usc, they can certainly beat Notre Dame. I Think Notre Dame the quarterback play the coach, the O lines. Notre Dame's really good. I'm not sure in this cold weather if it's a great SC matchup, but with Jaden Maava has now become a high draft pick. It looks like if you watch mock drafts. I think Lincoln, I think he's had a great year coaching. I don't know what to make of the Illinois game. Maybe I'm over embellishing it here. I just thought that was a huge win for Lincoln Riley in the program. How did it land for you?
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Bruce Feldman
I thought it was a really good win. Like this is what I would be excited about. King Miller, a guy almost nobody had ever heard of, walk on running back from Southern California, ends up having to play because you're one and two running backs get knocked out of the game and he goes in there and rushes for over 150 yards, more yards than any team had rushed for against Michigan in the last nine games. So big credit. It wasn't just King Miller, it was the offensive line I think looked really good. Now they didn't look very good against Illinois and there was a lot of self inflicted issues with that team on the road that I also thought what was good for USC was the defense had been backsliding a little bit by game, by game this year and off the bye week. Credit Dentlin, the defensive coordinator. They seem to have gotten things figured out. But now you, as you said, CJ Carr is a really, really good quarterback. He's probably the best quarterback Notre Dame's had since Brady Quinn. And it's on the road. USC and Lincoln have not been very good on the road. They've been pretty good at home. But on the road is where some of the issues come to light. Right. So now if you look at the schedule, obviously Notre Dame is. They go to Notre Dame, they go to Nebraska, who's playing pretty well, and then later on they go to Austin. You can't, you know, they can afford to maybe lose one of those games and make the playoff. They can't afford to lose two, much less three. If they hope to, if they hope to get into the playoff, they're playing well. I want to see will it travel because this is going to be a good test for them. It's a good team. They're really well coached and the other quarterback is a, is a budding superstar in CJ Car.
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Colin Cowherd
Lot of reports out of Carolina. Let's go to you, Bruce, for the truth. Where are they right now? You know, there's a million different stories. I don't know who to trust. What do you hear with Belichick in the heels?
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Bruce Feldman
Yeah, everything I've heard, we did. We at the Athletic did a really comprehensive story. Talked to two dozen sources. So much of Bill Belichick's problems have come from his right hand man, Mike Lombardi, as the GM. He's the highest paid GM in the country, $1.5 million. He went in there and I don't think he really got how college football works. And I think a lot of that backfired on them. They brought in 70 new transfer, 70 new players. A lot of more transfers they missed in the portal left and right. They didn't know the market, they didn't have a great feel for the talent. And that really set them back. And then, you know, they lose, lost three games, all blowouts, all against unranked teams. They got embarrassed by TCU and the opener. Then they got really, you know, UCF was 4 and 8 last year. UCF whip them 34 to 9. Clemson was up on them 35 to 3 at halftime. It's looked really bad. The roster is not good. So Lombardi has sent out an email to boosters trying to explain, hey, we're going to now go into recruiting high school players and go that route that obviously takes a lot longer time than to flip it through the portal the way like Signetti has and a bunch of other coaches have done. You know, you're talking about Bill Belichick at 73 years old. How patient are they going to be? How patient is Bill Belichick going to be? Right? I mean, I mean, their schedule is not even hard. They may not play one ranked team this season. Maybe Virginia will be in the top 25 when they play them, but that would be it. It's not like they're playing some SEC gauntlet and it's not also like he took over a 1 in 11 program that was in disarray like Dion took over in Boulder. This team wasn't great, but they went to a bowl game last year. Mack Brown won 23 games in the previous three years. To me, the biggest thing was for, again, this is from a lot of sources we talked to was a combination of arrogance and really clueless. I mean, the arrogance of thinking they knew everything and thinking they knew better. And the clueless was not realizing what they didn't know. And it's a really dangerous combination that for the time being has really blown up in Belichick's face.
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Colin Cowherd
Bruce Feldman, the athletic Fox Sports we, we called him this morning. Can you jump on? Great stuff as always, terrific reporting and thanks, bud.
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Bruce Feldman
Always a pleasure, Colin. Thanks for having me.
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Colin Cowherd
Bruce Feldman, totally tied in covering college football since the mid-90s. New York Times bestseller and we certainly appreciate that.
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Podcast Announcer
Wow.
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Colin Cowherd
Brian Callahan fired Albert Brer. This last hour was just nothing but journalism. I didn't do any of it, but it was nothing but journalism. Between Albert Breer and Bruce Feldman, Bears tonight. God, that game's going to be amazing. Dodgers, Brewers, Bears to nothing against Buffalo in Atlanta. Buffalo's going to win. Awful loss. Buffalo's winning that game. Well, what's that look?
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Matt Hasselbeck
Oh, are you sure? Buffalo's a lock here. Line has come down four and a half to three and a half. I'm on the over and I like. I kind of like Atlanta to keep this interesting. Colin, that Buffalo defense, what have you seen from them that's good in the last few weeks?
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Colin Cowherd
It's not a great defense and now.
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Matt Hasselbeck
They got to go on the road.
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Colin Cowherd
I think if you watch Kansas City right now, my takeaway on the Chiefs, Buffalo watch that sitting in their hotel room.
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Podcast Announcer
In Atlanta.
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Colin Cowherd
Games in Atlanta, right? Yeah. Okay. Buffalo's in their hotel rooms. Everybody was watching. They may have watched it as a team. You think Buffalo, that defense can stop that Kansas City offense?
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Matt Hasselbeck
I don't know. You think anybody on Buffalo can tackle Bijon Robinson? I expect, you know, probably 150 yards from scrimmage. I'm just saying keep an eye on Atlanta. You know, they were my sleeper team. I know you're the one who hits all the sleeper teams in the offseason, but I, like the Falcons, would not be shocked by an outright upset tonight.
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Colin Cowherd
For your well being and your health, your mental health, don't bet on the Falcons.
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Matt Hasselbeck
It's too late, my friend.
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Colin Cowherd
Here's Matt Hasselb. I just think Buffalo's sitting there and they're watching Kansas city play. Their GMs watching and their coach is watching. Kansas City's defense is like here. Buffalo's is several notches below. You got. You're not very good at stopping the run. That's what I'm watching tonight. Can Buffalo finally stop the run consistently here? What? Here's Matt Hasselback because I don't. Buffalo's defense and that Kansas City offense I watched the last two weeks, forget it. They're going to score in the 40s. Here's Hasselbeck on what he saw with the Chiefs offense.
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Paulie Fusco
If you're starting quarterbacks, one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game ever and then you've got the best offensive play caller designer in our era and Andy Reid. Like literally how are you going to like that gives me confidence as a player. That gives me confidence as a locker defense. Like you got Mahomes over here running like speed option. Like, like he's Vince Young or something. Like you got to defend it all. You can tell that this is a team. There's no panic. There's no players only meetings there. You know, they're, they're three and three. The sky's not falling. You know, they're like, hey, we're going to, we're going to go one and oh, this week. You know, probably like a game out. We're good.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah. Kansas City is where she Rice comes back. He's a true one.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Hey, don't you mean when Jerry Rice comes back? Colin Jerry Rice returning for, for the Chiefs. That's what we're Remember Xavier Worthy? We were hyping him. He had one rush for 6 yards and two catches for 20 yards last night and we were like wait till Xavier Worthy returns. Come on.
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Colin Cowherd
Worthy of two Juju a three.
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Albert Breer
I don't know.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Juju got knocked out last night by Branch.
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Colin Cowherd
I don't know if he's gonna be.
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Matt Hasselbeck
Ready to go next.
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Colin Cowherd
I think he's gonna be.
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