Colin Cowherd Podcast - Chiefs Have No Identity, Hurts Has Perfect Personality For QB, NFL Playoff Picture Taking Shape

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Age varies by jurisdiction Voyden, Ontario. Bonus bets expire one hundred and sixty eight hours after issuance. S Sportsbook dot DraftKings dot com, slash Basketball terms for eligibility and deposit restrictions, terms and responsible gaming resources. All right, well, it is rare in a big game when you kind of predict how it's going to turn out and it actually looks like you predicted it would come out. I set on FS one today, Kansas City ellait at halftime on script

Andy Reid off a bi. I get them a lead, and then they will struggle because they know they have no real identity. They have a good young defense and Mahomes and Andy Reider great, but what are they offensively? Mahomes being great and Andy Reid's scripting a dozen plays is not an identity. It is a series of plays that will give you a lead. But in this league, games are won after halftime when you play really good teams.

And I said Philadelphia will be down. They'll find their footing somewhere late in the third quarter, mid late third quarter, and they have a greater understanding of what they are. Philadelphia is a flawed team. I swear to god. They were outplayed by Dallas. They were out played tonight. They were out played by Washington Chiefs. Fans are saying we outplayed them. Let me tell you, all Eagle games look the exact same sort of the Jets. They just think

Eagles don't all their games look the same? Is they? It takes them a while to find their footing. Remember last year Philadelphia got off to these incredible leads, played reserves, bad quarterbacks. This year it's the opposite. They can't find their footing early, they experiment they can get too cute, and then they come out third quarter at some point and they start getting into third and short utherly shoved.

They get first downs, they eat the clock, they know who to get the ball to, They get less cute, make a one big defensive play, and they win the game. I thought, Philadelphia, this is what I said today NFS one. They have a greater understanding of what they are. They're not a perfect team. They're not very good at corner. They struggle in the secondary. They're not a great team, but the some of all these parts kind of conjoined. They make for a team that they kind of know

what they are. They kind of know what they're not. They experiment early, but they're like a baseball team that's good from about the seventh inning on. They got a good bullpen, they got some good situational hitters. They're well managed. They kind of know what they are. Whereas Kansas City has a great coach and a great quarterback and a legendary tight end. But I'm not sure what they are other than a bunch of number three and four receivers,

you know, Juju Smith Schuster. You know, we all sort of rolled our eyes at that one year of pretty good production. They miss him. Now he's a two. I don't think they have a two. I don't think they have a number. I mean, Watson, that's your guy. He's getting all the targets. He doesn't really separate from people. So I still think Kansas City is good enough to get to the AFC Championship, and with Joe Burrow out, I think they're good enough to get to the super Bowl.

But what you're seeing with the Chiefs is pretty repetitive. You have an excellent young defense that you know right now is more consistent than the offense, and that's never been the case in the Patrick Mahomes dynasty. Chiefs defense. I know what I get. I know what I get every week. Fast, good tacklers. They can put real intense pressure without bringing extra people. I mean, they give the Eagles fits in the first half up front. But this

is listen, all dynasties. You know Brady early in New England, it was all about defense, special teams, and then in that ten years in the middle they didn't win a

Super Bowl. And then at the end there was it was the offense being more productive than the defense for a few years Gronk, Aaron hernandez Wes Welker, and then in the end Brady left because he couldn't get wide receivers and the defense was good with Belichick, but they didn't have any separators on the perimeter offensively, So you know, all these dynasties they ebb and flow, and so this started with you know Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelcey in

his prime and Mahomes ascending it and they looked unbeatable they could play from behind. This is not This is not a Kansas City team that can play from way down. They can't. They just don't have the personnel. So we had said at the trade deadline, they go they have to go out and get somebody. They have to go out and get a legitimate number two, and they really didn't. They went and got a Jets receiver who was familiar with the system, but it's not a two, so they

don't have a one or two. And Travis Kelcey showing his age, he's I couldn't take the last Chiefs game. I watched that he wasn't hobbling at some point. In terms of Philadelphia, I just love Jalen Hurts. God, I love Jalen Hurts. I love the tangibles. I love the intangibles. I mean, if you told me the perfect personality for a quarterback, it's not Brady, it's not Montana, it's Jalen Hurts.

He is so focused. There was an early in the first half there was a lot of play at the line of scrimmage where he had called something and Jason Kelsey, the center, waved him off and said, no, no guy, but you're going to follow me on this and for him to cognitively sort of want to go one way, watch his center, listen to his legendary first ballot Hall of Fame center, and follow him on the draw. I mean to be able to do that, you got to have an incredibly high IQ and EQ. I think Jalen

Hurts is. I just love his personality. I love his game. How about that deep throw down the sideline. He is so good in the moment. And I think so much of what makes Jalen Hurt special is a pain tolerance. He can play Hurt no game's too big, doesn't get too high, too low, not overly emotional. I feel like I get the same quarterback. Also, over the course of a game, Jalen Hurts feels the game out. He sees what's working, he sees what's not. He's thinking the game,

not playing the game. I just there's so much I love about him. He's he's got that Brady chip on his shoulder, but it doesn't get in the way of performance. He's not trying to prove anything on the field. He's thinking his way through a football game. And I think Nick Siriani did just enough in the second half, just enough adjustments they put a spy on Mahomes. I thought they got a little less cute in the second half,

kind of went back to their identity. They're a power football team with the ability to go over the top. A lot of people think they're a passing team in terms of attempts. It feels like that, but I still think at their core they're a physical football team that at the point of attack you lean into Jalen Hurt's decision making his power the screen game with the ability to go over the top. Kansas City, I don't think they know what they are. They just have some talented people,

so listen. It wouldn't shock me if these two teams meet again right now. If I had to guess, I would put the Baltimore Ravens in the Super Bowl, Kansas City, Baltimore in the AFC Championship. Philadelphia. I think eventually they'll figure out a way to beat San Francisco, Detroit or Dallas. I think Dallas will be a live underdog in the playoffs. I mean, their secondary without Trayvon Diggs is making plays. I think they're gonna win a playoff game. I don't

think they're gonna win multiple playoff games. But this Philadelphia team is so good Situationally, you know, you get into the NFL playoffs, man, the margins just shrink, and I think, I know it's just going into Thanksgiving, But doesn't it kind of like we know who's really good? Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, that's your four in the NFC, Kansas City, Jacksonville, Baltimore. I think that's it. I don't trust Miami, I don't trust Buffalo. Burrow's gone. I think that's it. I feel

that's a seven team super Bowl bubble. Philly, Dallas, Detroit, San Francisco, Kansas City, Baltimore, Jacksonville. That's it. Well, if Kansas City won, I was gonna have to go on First Things First with Nick Wright instead. Cheers my friends, he'll be coming on the herd. A strong Fresca moments after an Eagles win is always refreshing. This has been your instant reaction the Vine,