Colin Cowherd Podcast - Cowboys Worst Team In The League? 49ers “Leaking Oil”, Rodgers Has Become “Wizards MJ”, Bears Are A Trainwreck

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hard they're grabbing his face. I mean, he the kid was just and the Niners special teams are so bad. I think it cost him total sixteen points today I could be missing and Brock Purtty had a wonderful last drive. But this game wasn't close. I was just looking at total yards. San Francisco had double average, the almost double per yards per play. Brock Purty was twenty five to thirty six, three hundred and fifty three yards two touchdowns. The fact it was close to me is an indictment

on Shanahan. These special teams now are in the running for the worst in the league. And you're a you know the Niners as well as anybody. What did you make of that mess?

not care about special teams, which most people don't. Right, if you're gonna go to the driving range, usually don't spend any time putting, but you probably should, but no one ever does. Just like every head think about McVeigh, Lafleur and Kyle, the three top young offensive guys, all their special teams usually are pretty bad. Yeah, why because they do not care? Who are the two old guys

Andy and Belichick. What did they always take really seriously special teams because in this this is not college where if your team is so good, it doesn't really matter. All these games, the majority of them unless you're the Jets, are close and today to miss the field goals. If the guy's not healthy, he rolls his ankle, he can't be out there kicking field goals. Colin, Now, I understand you draft him in the third round. You're not gonna cut him, but like, that's a pretty big injury for

a kicker. Yeah, high ankle sprain. I clearly he was not ready. It wasn't even close. They got very lucky that he made that game winning field goal. I also think there's a coach, Liam Cohen, the offensive coordinator for the I hear all these names. That guy should be on everyone's interview list because for that I thought them and the Chiefs were both the Broncos and the Niners a day coming off that Monday night game. Both teams exhausted Tampa through you know, all their chips in the

middle of the table in that game. The Chiefs are just exhausted. Whatever home game against the Broncos.

be close, it was really pretty embarrassing, you know. And this is a game that I would say the last three years, coming off of bye, the forty nine ers getting healthy. I think they win by twenty plus points. I mean I expected this to be like thirty five to fifteen, say something like that, I thought. And the kicker situation, I think it was very reflective the kicker and then the long snapper getting in with Debos like, hey, guys,

Debos made huge plays in this game. Let's just keep our mouth shutt and try to make a field goal like you're not in the position, be over there yapping around like you are losing this team games right now, or putting them in position. Because if they would have lost today with Arizona, I mean just absolutely mauling, they would have been in major trouble. Right, they would have

been four and five. You have the Cardinals now at six and four, who look like, I don't know, playing as well as top five team in the NFL in terms of the way they're playing today.

What the hell's going on?

And I went back and I took Russell Wilson with Pete Carolyn, Seattle, Russell Wilson the one year with Sean Payton, and Russell Wilson with Mike Tomlin, the three times he's had competent coaches, and you know what he gives you. He moves sixty four percent completion percentage a passer rating over one hundred. He doesn't miss any starts. He's not great from the pocket, but he throws a really nice deep ball. And when I watch what he's done to Pittsburgh he has brought it's a little big Ben. He's

a totally different player. He's brought the deep ball back to the Steelers. So now you have veteran just say it out loud, veteran coach. Great defense, tough at home, solid run game, good deep ball offense. That's pretty good football team. That's pretty good team.

game winning touchdown on the deep ball throw to Mike Williams? Yeah, what do what are their three best wide receivers now adding Mike Williams with pickens and their tight end big guys, throw them up, give them fifty to fifty balls, because they're not fifty to fifty balls with those guys right there, seventy five to twenty five balls with those guys. So I thought at times a day like this where you gotta be careful about writing your takes down at halftime,

Like the gap Jayden looked way better. Their offense was rolling. But Russell there is something to be said. I think he can be kind of corny and kind of just stupid the way that he comes off like a politician at times. But he is very steady Eddy. You know, he doesn't go into the tank when it looks just looked off early. And the Fields he also can make the throw that that lob touch throw that won them the game that a handful of bet the average to

blow average quarterbacks can't make. It was a problem with Trubisky forever. You know, Fields is a more talented Trubisky, but cannot make that layered kind of lollipop throw. And at this point in time, that is Russell's go to throw. And even back when he was better, Win did his game like when he got DK metcalf. So you give him these big targets. Sutton like they had some plays at Denver, right, throw it up, let them go make a play. That was a big win for Pittsburgh. Collin

because I thought I was thoroughly impressed with Washington. I'm like, this is gonna be a great win, and then Russell drives him right down the field. Even calmness, there is something to be said on that game winning drive that he led them on. When those guys look at him in the huddle like this ain't his first rodeo. That's right, Say what you want about him. He's not near the

same guy. But like you look at him in the huddle, you go, this guy has been in this moment, you know, fifty plus times in his career on Sunday night football and Monday night football in the playoffs. So it's he did. There's a calmness to him that you can't really dispute. I'm not the biggest fan, but there's the numbers speak for themselves. Yeah.

play drive, nine play drive, ten play drive. Those guys don't have the same pass rush, And all of a sudden in the second half, that pass rush that had really stemied Pittsburgh in the first half, Now you're not getting the same juice, you're not getting the same energy. And in the end, I thought, I mean, it wasn't that Jaden was bad, but I mean it was you have one hundred and five.

I saw it the forty nine Ers forever. They didn't believe in Trey Lance, Deebo Samuel though. Those guys didn't like they didn't think he was good enough, right so, and I think you're seeing it in Chicago. Some of these guys, starting with DJ mor A, kind of turned on him and it's very reflective. Like clearly the Steelers, I don't know if this is true. You'd have to see their heart. Monitor feel like they're playing a little harder on offense for Russell Wilson in Washington, it's an

incredible story. I know they lost today, but how and they're playing the Eagles. They easily could lose again on Thursday, but man, what impressive year by dan Quinn and that that operation isn't.

I mean, let's be honest about Pittsburgh too. They had that fake punt, didn't work and they fumbled at the one. Pittsburgh really did themselves no favors in this football game. So whereas Washington got, you know, it took advantage of Pittsburgh's special teams blunder. And that's not to say it was a lucky win by Pittsburgh or to you know, marginalize what Washington is. But I do feel like once you look at Washington against Baltimore, Pittsburgh and the healthy Bucks,

they're a great story. They're a good football team. They're a good football team. I think Pittsburgh going on the road today. My takeaway is if you just take out that fumble on the one yard line, it kind of felt like they controlled the clock, I mean, the dominating time of possession.

a pretty big game. But I think, like what you're saying, I think most people, if we take a deep breath, go the Eagles should win that game. Yeah, you know, the Eagles are gonna be favoring that game and they probably will win that game. And that's if Washington ends up ten and seven or eleven and six. But with a lot of losses to these playoff teams, it's an incredible story. Yeah.

for us. So Arizona beat the Jets thirty one to six, and I'm looking at my I'm looking at Aaron Rodgers now, and when you put him on the same field as Kyler Murray, And we've been saying this now for several weeks. Arizona's got dudes offensively. How about McBride today that move running over Jets players. At one point, Kyler Murray had seventeen straight completions. So I have two takes. Number one is Aaron's become a little like the Washington Wizards. MJ

called out a teammate, Kwame Brown. Mike Williams had a buddy as a coach, Hacket, Doug Collins had a buddy as a player, Lazard, Charles Oakley, under five hundred, and there were moments for MJ and Aaron, but he looks like an old man, and that Jets offense is an old man offense. So that's my first take. My second take is they blamed Robert Sala. This defense has gotten progressively worse. Sala was the best coach on the staff.

They could have gone and they weren't going to beat Buffalo, but this organization, it's almost like in politics, if you lose an election, you have to identify what went wrong. You can't point fingers. You got to go quick, here's what we did wrong. Democrats will figure this out eventually, but that's the job. When you're losing. You have to identify why we're losing. The JETSA said, it's Sala, No bro. The defense now stinks and it's got good personnel. So I mean to me thirty one to six, I look

at this. Kyler was Aaron Rodgers in the first half too, for forty yards. Now he got junk in the second half. But you know what it feels like a little bit. I do hold quarterbacks responsible for energy and body language, and because you know, it's like in the NBA, you follow the lead, the work ethic of the best player. Some of this is just on Aaron. I see no energy, I don't love the body language. I see no juice. And I'm watching that Arizona team. Those guys they like

playing with Kyler. Whatever you say about the video game stuff, they like playing with them.

team to me. And the Jets look like what I thought all along, a team full of mercenaries, a team with zero connection to each other. Hassan Reddicks since the moment he came back only because the owner ripped up his contract and did is I think Schefter said, no one has ever got a rework contract who held out as long as him and basically got the fines thrown away, that did not get a contract extension. It's unprecedented. What happened,

and that reflects everything that's going on. They show Woody Johnson that the organization's a mess, starting from the owner the quarterback, like he is always what he's been, and anyone in the league will tell you listen for a long time. People with the Packers kind of rolled their eyes. But he was arguably, beside Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, the most important player one of them in the league. And he was more physically gifted than those guys, and

his fundamentals weren't like those guys. So as he's aged what happens today. There was a play I forget the D lineman, he is a rotational D lineman. For him. I looked him up. He weighs almost three hundred pounds. He ran Aaron Rodgers down. Rogers ended up getting rid of the ball, but ran him down. With these that this is not a two hundred and forty pound linebacker running him down. This is a guy that weighs three

hundred pounds and got within a couple steps. And Rogers used to be able to kind of do his version of like what Lamar does so well, kind of backwards scramble runaway. Can't even dream of doing that anymore. And that team, you know, the Cardinals defensive coordinator is thirty two years old. He was born in nineteen ninety three. What we witnessed today was a clinic put on by a guy born in nineteen ninety three against this forty

year old future Hall of Famer Adam DeVante. Adams Garrett, I've been hearing about Breyce Hall's the greatest thing since Barry Sanders or Walter Payton. Give me a break. The hype on this team far exceeded the realities even if things went well. What happened today. Tyron Smith, who's had a bad year, legendary player, over the hill player, got hurt today. He gets hurt a lot. So it's like they were so dependent on all these guys they signed

Mike Williams. Remember, everyone was so excited they signed by Willy's right, it's not even Thanksgiving. He's on another teams. So I just think this Jets situation was I think you saw an organization that just has a direction, has a coaching staff that's real, against a team that has an NBA mercenary feel to it. No one cares about. And like you said, the players aren't near what they once were. I mean DeVante Adams, who, let's face it is not near what he once was in the peak

of his powers. Rogers a shell of himself. The Reddicks, I mean, they're How about Sauce Gardener. You know you've talked about Trey McBride. He looks like Kittle two point zero. He threw sauce Gardner off him like he was me or you. You know, he didn't even have to put his hand to go to the ground. He just kind of shoved him off. This is supposed to be one hundred

million dollar corner. He's had a horrendous season. Well, what usually happens with younger players, Like younger people, most young people are followers, and when you have a lot of disconnect, coaches getting fired, a bunch of weird stuff, it's easy to kind of stray and breist hall sauce Gardener like, it just feels like they're all over the map. I don't even put it on them, I put it on the organization. You think sauce Gardner would look like that

if he was playing for Andy Reid, No chance. But that's what happens when you put talented players in dysfunctional places. They usually fall apart.

less energy. What you want to do is be able to kind of galvanize the group, rally people around you because you can't put in eighty hours a week. You can put in sixty five, but you have to rely on people. I've always said, Aaron's not a galvanizer. He's not a foxhole guy. He's a bit more of a bayler than a baller. He's a guy that if that's why I has so few career come from behind wins. If you go back to twenty twenty two, Kirk Cousins has I think fifteen, Aaron has six, you know, and

they're both old guys coming off of surgery. Both have had two teams. Cousins isn't cool, so you don't think he's a great come from behind quarterback. He's outstanding.

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had one, it would have been a game. Kansas City is not terrible at anything. They're beat up. They're trying to figure out their receiving corps. But because Mahomes is so good and Andy Reid is so clever, it's functional. It makes plays when you have to. I thought this was the game. This was the game I did not pick in Blazing five. It was my last pick. I

thought Denver had a chance to win today. Same but the takeaway I had beyond Kansas City doing that Bonnicks That final drive thirteen plays a little bit like brock Purty. You're like, I mean he had eight different receivers today, twenty two to thirty, two hundred and forty five yards, a couple of touchdowns, great final drive. I think all those college starts, like, I think he may have a

lower ceiling. But I think Denver is eight five drafted players away and maybe a free agent signing from being a pain in the ass to people. I think I think Denver's pretty interesting.

like Kareem Hunt's been an awesome story. There's a big drop off between the Taco and him, huge, So I mean, you get him back hopefully in December. It's a broken leg, so you know that that'll be a big boost for them because they're gonna win like this right twenty one to seventeen twenty. But to me, Denver went in there as they should have short week, Kansas City, a little, gas, a little and they came in ready to win and bo Nicks hit sudden on the on the beautiful touchdown pass.

You're like, there's gonna be the game. I thought, like, you know, it's finally the Chiefs just lose twenty eight to fifteen or something, and they just find a way because defensively they're good. Obviously the home crowd is pretty special. But I think Denver this was probably one of their more impressive weeks of the year, even counting their wins, just because like, well, off to see how it breaks

out like that. That's seven seed. When you look like, obviously the Jets are done, Cults are in major trouble. You know, when you look at the AFC playoff, the Bengals are screwed. You basically have the Steelers and Ravens. You know, one team's gonna win division. One team's gonna be in. Steelers charge the Chiefs and the Chargers are in.

two games, no picks, first seven games, nine picks. So what Kansas City has basically done, They've gotten those ugly Remember the start of the year were like Jesus, Mahomes has like one or two just horrible pick. They've gotten out of that space. The win for Kansas City is harder than you think because of the short week. But I think to your point, I think you looked at Sean Payton and bow Nicks and I think we could both say he found his Drew Brees. He found his guy.

I don't know if he's as good as him, but he found his guy.

it couldn't have gotten much better. It's one of the great Like, I mean, we saw one of the greatest rookie seasons of all time last year with CJ. Stroud. I would put Jayden Daniels right there, toe to toe of like, geez, it can't be this good, can it. And then you have like Drake May who's on a team that's so shitty. We don't but you're watching me go there's something there. Oh yeah, I would take that guy. And then you watch bo who doesn't have Drake's physical characteristics,

who's not as talented. Why one guy goes three the other guy most people thought was overdrafted. But you go with this coach with this infrastructure, their defense. I mean that's the one thing. Like if Sean Payton's has a defense as he did in New Orleans with Drew Brees, they were elite, right, So if you just give it defense, like he'll figure out the offense. Most teams are not Kansas City to me, I think they get to nine wins and they would be the seventh seed. Now the

difference though, is, you know, depending on who they play. Right, if you're the seven seed, you're playing the two seeds, So you're playing Baltimore or Buffalo, Like, no one's betting on Denver. I would say, no one's gonna want to see the Chargers as the sixth seeds. Like if you're Baltimore Pittsburgh, that will be a team that like, wait, they're a five point underdog, like who I think Harball would be a team that people would believe in. Or Denver,

there's nothing wrong with it. One and done team in the playoffs probably like the Commanders, and you tip your hat to you.

last week eighteen, Kansas City could be resting guys. At that point, they could be just.

in his prime, cannot win games. So you know, you don't feel very and just because of the division they're in, it's just a lot harder when you got to play Pittsburgh in Baltimore right then, they don't get the Raiders even Cleveland now throwing in Jamis as a real team with real players. I would much rather play the Raiders in the Browns. So I like that. That was a pretty devastating loss for the Bengals the other night. And that could be the difference why Denver gets the seventh

seed and the Bengals end up eight to nine. I mean, it could just be the different one teams nine and eight, the other team's eight, and it's that big of a difference.

They didn't ask him to do much. You know, they averaged five and a half yards of play with with without you know, much to work with. But I think the story here is, and I've said this, poorly coached teams. Brandon Staley last year start the year. Remember that, Brandon, I think it was last year. They start, They almost beat Miami to start to wild crazy game, and then about week six you're like, man, they're not well coached. And then by like week twelve, the players have quit.

A poorly run business can fool people three or four five weeks. I mean that Tennessee win. I mean they were out played by the Titans at home in week one. It was a Will Levis mistake or that's an l I think what you look at this team now is you look at a poorly coach team. There's a lack of belief. There's absolutely no identity. Offensively, they average two point four yards of play. Ryan Poles said last week, we're not making coaching changes. This is not Jacksonville. Chicago

is a loud media. Do you fire Matt Eberflus during the season.

They're in shambles. They're coaching staff's in embarrassment right now, and it's going to get absolutely destroyed by every fan, and rightfully so. But I also think that, like Ryan Poles, bears responsibility. He drafted Roma Dunza, who we all like. Their offensive line is pitiful and there were countless offensive linemen on the board at pick nine that would have Who's Jim Harbaugh take? He takes an offensive lineman where it's like take a receiver. He's like, no, who would

Andy Reid have taken in that spot? He would have taken a guard or a tackle because you have to protect that guy. And they took a wide receiver when they already got multiple wide receivers. And let's face it, they got a problem on their hands because Dj Moore, who for like a five straight year stretch, Everyone in the NFL is like, listen, I don't know this guy. Doesn't matter what quarterback he's playing with. This guy's a stud.

People liked him, who's high character. He does not like Caleb like they have an issue, that they have an issue, and they just extended him. Now obviously it's not like if you have to pick one or the other. They have no choice. They're all in on Caleb Williams. But that is a problem for them. And I saw this with the forty nine ers. And I'm not comparing Caleb to Trey Lance. He's obviously much better player. But they never believed in Trey Lance, not the coaching staff, not

the front office, the players. Why they wanted Jimmy, Why they had no problem going to Purdy because they see every day in practice. I think we were talking before you jumped on about like I think Nick Wright had a take about like just go with Trey Lance right now, because maybe you get something and best case he just sucks and you lose. You know why you can't do that because Micah Parsons and Ceedee Lamb would be like,

what the fuck are we doing? Right? Because they see practice and I think you have this Caleb William situation. Everyone's going to point to Shane Waldron, who actually I always kind of liked, but clearly this is not going well for him, and eber flus Over said is gonna get fired. But there are plays to be made for Caleb and he doesn't look remotely close. Like even if you are a Caleb supporter, which I with you, like most people, I would have drafted them number one overall.

But like the draft happened. Now we're ten games in. There are plays. It's not all his fault, but I think we also have to acknowledge like Drake May plays in an organization that's in Tron. His the former head coach who's one of the most legendary sports figures of all times, ripping drowed mail. Like three weeks ago, everyone's ripping the owner the coaching staff's more than questionable. There's

not that much talent. You watch Drake mayor're like, God, he was the best quarterback by a wide margin on the field, no question. And the other thing Colin is like, let's use Jared Goff as an example. Remember that rookie season. It felt like is this guy, this guy even an NFL player? But the one thing you knew Jared Goff could do in college was like he was a pocket quarterback. So he's never gonna have to run. He's a pocket. If you could protect him, he could play in the pocket.

There is just a question with Caleb like can he play within the pocket? That was a question coming out, like it's not something he's comfortable doing. You don't just get to freelance all the time in the NFL, so it's like one, two three, get rid of the ball now. Our receivers not getting open all the time. Obviously some plays, But I do think there's a legit question of like what offense to make this guy successful? Like I watched Drake may It's like, I think that guy could fit

in a lot of offenses. Yeah, you know, I thought Jayden was like I think he's gonna have to play in like mor of a Lamar style. I'm watching like, well, what Lamar is now? What Lamar was when he was really young? Yeah, the version now? And you watch Jayden right now, it's like this guy's awesome in the pocket. So I just think the question marks on Caleb that you look at this job like this sab like Mike Vrabel, like, I'm not looking for Caleb to throw forty touchdowns anymore.

Maybe that's not his game. Let's just kind of go what Pete Carroll did in thirteen and fourteen, like, Hey, we're gonna run the ball, We're gonna have a tough defense. You're gonna play within my system. That's what We're taking the cooking utensils away from your hands.

jumping into the crowd with mom. Really emotional. Doesn't mean he's a bad kid, but he's really emotional and really emotional players tend to be high and low, especially when they're young. So you're gonna have to deal with a very emotional kid with some accuracy issues. And it kind of goes back to my say it out loud, those aren't great highly emotional player accuracy issues. You know, bo Nix is very stoic. Accuracy is not an issue. It just sounds better.

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the Eagles had one hundred and sixteen yards. The Cowboys had three, and again they didn't ask Jalen Hurst to do much. I'm looking at it right here. Fourteen for twenty two hundred two yards. A couple of touchdowns Trey Lance came in third quarter. This was a really predictable blowout. I watched Caroline and the Giants to start the day. I believe what I'm going to say is true that Dallas is the worst team in the NFL right now.

I really believe that. I think they're the worst team in the NFL because at least the Giants have Daniel Jones and Brian Dable. They could engineer a good drive. I think the Cowboys have two excellent players, Micah Parsons and Ceedee Lamb. And I think Zach Martin was great. Now he's you know, he's a good player. I'll go back to something I said before the season. If I can identify this, how could the Cowboys not. It is the worst running back room in the league. It is

maybe the thinnest wide receiver room in the league. The offensive line is in a rebuild, dak is hurt again, and their defensive players a couple of my like tend to be. It feels to me a little overhyped and a tad injury prone. I could spend a lot of time on Dallas. But on the other side, I looked at Philadelphia and I thought, I'm not a Sirianni fan, but they are playing formula football with that offense, and that formula with those players feels like it's working to me.

There was a scheme. I don't want to say disagreement, but it was just different from the players. They had to what VIC usually likes. So there is gonna be some time that it takes to get things figured out. Well, what's happening over the last month. Jalen Carter, the premium player in which they draft, has played a lot better. I'm watching today, na Kobe Dean making plays all over the place. Nolan Smith has come on. They have just some of these young players have just slowly made more

plays the season goes on. Why Vick fanjo knows what he's doing now. He's an intense a lot different than what they had last year with the Patricia Deci situation. But they and listen, obviously they're playing the Cowboys today. But I would just say over the last month they have looked like a much more capable defense. Yeah, early on in the season, it was like, this is not possible. That's my question mark with Baltimore. You can't play that

bad a defense and wins Bowl. It's not possible. I can't do it, especially in the conference in there in playing Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes and probably justin Herbert as well. But you watch the Eagles. If their defense is just solid when healthy AJ Brown, Devonte Smith, Dallas Goddard, Saquon Barkley, with Jalen passing and running ability, it just doesn't get any better in the NFL.

Nipick them all we want. I do think when you watch Dallas, you know NBA coaches talk about this a lot, like when you play a team and their star player goes down, like the day before you play him, your team just like, oh, Giannis is out, you don't take him serious. All of a sudden you lose. Like I thought that first half was the Eagles, Like how could

they take the Cowboys too seriously? Once Dak rips his hamstring off the bone and they felt like they were sleepwalking through the game for about the first twenty five minutes and then they realize, okay, this is JV versus farsity. They flipped a switch and basically fifteen minutes they scored would felt like thirty points and it was over in a heartbeat. I also think Dallas, we talked about this

last week was Zeke. They had to leave him at home because he was being late, and you know, for an older player who's supposed to be like a high level leader, and then today he's playing and he fumbles on the zone, like in what world? And this is you know, obviously Jerry doesn't want to cut him. You can't tell me, Mike McCarthy if he's willing to leave a veteran player who's clearly not on board, then would play him the next week. Why did you just cut

a player like that? Like what's the point? And then look today he fumbles, it leads to a score. I just think the Cowboys are all out of whack from the hierarchy. And we talk about this all the time, the parallels with the you know that late Postgruden al Davis, where you have this owner who's also in charge of the personnel, who's just in charge of the money. And it just like the Eagles. You know, if a guy's on the field, you know who's in chart Howie the

GM who works hand in hand with the coach. Right with the Niners, it's Kyle and John was like, yeah, why Zeke playing out? Jerry likes him? You know, I'm good right, Like what are we doing? Jerry's eighty two years old. Just this season clearly was gonna get away from him. But it's and now they're better off column because they're gonna have a new coach. You know, the Chargers won five games last year, which led to McConkey

an alt So aren't you better off here? The Cowboys just losing all these games he's wrong to end up with the fourth pick, and then you could just revamp your roster.

John somebody's going to move up for cam Ward. Somebody's moving up for him, and I think Dallas could get a couple seconds, a couple thirds, that's how you read.

year old GM owner. Probably not, even though their relationship and their roster has a lot of questions, Like, honestly, the only thing they're gonna have going for him because they always they never have cap space, is going to be their high draft picks in every round. But in terms of coaches lined up, like is this something Belichick and vrabel are interested in doing? Now? You have to

look around, like Jacksonville's kind of a weird place. The Bears aren't as desirable if you question Caleb's ability, So I listen. You could just it's the NFL as the Cowboys. But I wonder if a lot of people are gonna be a little reluctant, and it's like, is Jerry just gonna give rabel or Belichick fifteen eighteen million dollars? Like give Spannos credit. He finally said, okay, Jim Harball, okay, and it worked.

was Vikings twelve, Jag seven, Sam Darnold. They were zero for five in the red zone. That game could have been thirty to seven. Matt Jones can't play two picks one hundred yards. He can't play. So I mean that Jacksonville has quit. There's just nothing there. Their defense is pretty interesting, but they got nothing offensively. Jj MC.

are arrogant, like I can fix this now. It's like, well, he's crappy and he's missing a ton of time with major injuries, and they just paid him Dak Prescott money. I'm out, Yeah, I can't because you can't get rid of the guy.

his you know, the next ten years. Right, he has that ability. You don't turn down a job like that. And it's like Dan Snyder's no longer there, so you get an owner. Those basketball team's weird, but that's because

of morgs into that stuff. It's like he's just a high level owner, pays money, will pay for people like clearly like that's a really really good job and that was only because the guy sold his team and gave the you know Adam Peters and Dan Quinn, like I think dan Quinn got pretty lucky looking back that Ben Johnson hung up on those guys when they were flying to him, because that's a game changer.

if everybody's new, it's okay. If everybody they replaced was awful, and they were, and you know, for Washington to turn it around quickly, and for Houston last year to turn it around quickly, I think it highlights john something about the NFL that I think fans don't think about like we do because we do this for a living. But we look at the NFL we think, okay, there's like five great quarterbacks and five pretty good ones. That's the same with owners, gms, and coaches, everything in the league

across the board. Washington right now has a top three offensive coordinator. They may have one of the top gms, they have one of the better owners Dan Quinn's. I mean, look at Dallas's defensive numbers. Without it, Dan's one of the five best defensive coaches. Jayden Daniels. We could be looking at the best rookie quarterback in a decade. The reason Washington feels even different than Houston is because I think the owner in Washington's better than the owner of

the McNair's in Houston. Is if you're if you know what you're doing in the NFL and you can align, you know, I've always had this rule. If you're an a even a minus at four things, owner GM, coach, quarterback, your super Bowl. Baltimore will be in the Super Bowl conversation every year. Harbaugh, Lamar, Steve Bushetti and their front office. It's just they're all really good, Kansas City great. The truth is Washington right now, they just hit. They hit

on everything. Coach coordinator GM. It's it's not a fluke, they're not ready yet, but it's it. And it also highlights, God John, half of this league doesn't know what they're doing.

coach underachieves. But like the Ravens, the Steelers, the Eagles, Andy and the Chiefs, like the same teams, Kyle's this is the worst season of all time for Kyle Shanahan. He's gonna end up at minimum ten and seven. You know. Well, so it's like McVeigh. Shit hits the fans like, oh, he's gonna be in the playoffs again.

They have no I mean Jets have one right now, Chargers had one last year, they're just not head coaches.

And then they went to the Raiders, they went to the Jets, and then DeVante for some reason, demands he goes to the Jets, like, do you guys know how good you had it? Do you guys know how good

you had it in Green Bay? No matter who you are, And I've said this forever, like about what I do for a living, because people always ask, like you have the dream, eventually a job becomes work, right, Like, no matter what you do, whether you're a football player, whether you talk about football, whether you're an architect, But like when you like it, you do have to, like sometimes be able to take a step back and realize, Like some spots and some relationships, some partnerships like I don't want

to screw this up. I have it pretty well, and even Belichick and Brady for a long time, but it heads. But I think for the most it took till Tom was they do to draw a line in the sand, which again, twenty plus years, those guys both started making a stink through like what what are we talking about? Guys, if they would have stayed, it wouldn't have been as good, but it would not. Their careers wouldn't have gone what they've experienced. And now Rogers' careers is gonna end with

him playing for the Jets, like that's forever. The Packers make fun of the Bears, and they currently do. Why because we're well run. They're not. They have more money, they're in a way bigger market. Yet we're one of the premier organizations for thirty years when it comes to television ratings and making all this league a bunch of money.

It's us, not them, because well we are have cohesion with our GM and our head coach and you know Baltimore, the Chiefs, all the I think you know, listen, we can nitpick Sean McDermott some of his late game decisions over the But it's he's pretty well established. He's a good coach, yeah right, and him and the GM working cohesion with their quarterback. They are a high level operation in Buffalo now, been for four or five years. And think that they're running circles around their division.

It's a rookie quarterback. There is a freaking gap the Grand Canyon wide in coaching Cord and it just happens. So happens. The Jets have a D owner, probably a D head coach right now, a C play caller, and a quarterback. Frankly, who's a seed that nobody wants to acknowledge?

the Bears too cheap, they won't do that. And I was always really critical of the spanos is because it's like, guys, the paying a coach four or five million dollars in this modern day when you clearly have the money. This isn't twenty five years ago when some teams had a lot more. Every team's getting three four hundred million dollars. You have when you get the opportunity and this guy's you have to cut the check, and they finally did and they're paying Mentor is probably one of the highest

paid defensive coordinators. Obviously, Jim makes fifteen plus million. That cool success like one of the reasons for twenty years basically since Marty. It's like, ah, they always left a little something to It was never their roster. I mean the Chargers went from Drew Brees to Philip Rivers to uh to Justin Herbert. That's not exactly far to Roger to Love, but it's not far off. And it's like, ah, they just no success really beside a couple of playoff wins.

And now it feels like this team's gonna be a super Bowl contender for the next four or five years. Right, as long as they can keep that quarterback healthy, they'll improve their roster. Maybe they get a playoff victory this year, like some big upset in the first round. Watch out for the Chargers because they're coming in some of these teams, Like do you have any faith that the Bears will get the coaching higher, right, don't. No, they never.

The Glazer family is pretty classy. I know them. Jason Light's an excellent general manager, one of the best.

I listen most of these. I would say the one gig that if you do believe in Caleb that he can just be the Pete Carroll early version of Russell. They have a defense, they have pieces on offense, and because their record's going to be crappy, they're going to have high draft picks, and like, I think that's a pretty intriguing job. The thing is they left they don't want to pay anybody. I mean, these coaches Kirby Smart and Lane Kiffin are playing each other. They may combine

like twenty five million. It's the SEC you're the Chicago Bears, So why wouldn't you call Belichick? Hey, we'll give you three years, sixty million dollars. These are line items to people, I mean, honestly, to what these teams are making now that means nothing. Mark Davis, who historically the Raiders were the poorest NFL team, right, they just didn't have the cash flow. They have no problem paying guys to go away.

Now why he has unlimited money, which is scary for some of these owners who know what they're doing because they can just fire people non stop. But the cash, whatever you want to offer Bill Belichick for all these teams you can offer. You can just give him two years fifty million dollars. Just heay, just come in and get us going in the right direction. But he's like, oh, could we find this coordinator maybe for six million dollars, Like what do you don't complain when you lose? Don't

complain when you lose. So I feel bad for Bears fans because I would have. This season has been a train wreck. It really has given the expectations and now feels talk about a team that we talk about the Cowboys not winning any more games. Look at the Bear schedule. I mean they might only have one win, especially if their players are quitting.

Amazon Prime for details. I want to end it with the college football topic. So during the season, nobody's gonna cry for me. But during the season, you and I don't get days off necessarily. I don't I have a Monday through Friday show, you just work on Sunday, we work, So I gave myself Saturday off. I looked on the schedule. I wanted to watch LSU Bama. I watched the first half and it was over. I got a feeling pretty quickly that Brian Kelly's team just wasn't up for it.

That's that's not how you should play at home in your third year against Alabama, your primary rival. But I was thinking about this, is that the concern for college football creating even a twelve team playoff, that it would newter the regular season. And it's interesting. If I said to you, what has been the best college football game this season, I think most of us would go Ohio State Oregon was like unbelievable. But I can count on one hand the games I've said, like, I thought Texas

Georgia would be great, it wasn't. I thought LSU Bama could be great, it wasn't. I thought Penn State Ohio State was fine, but I didn't think either team played particularly well. You know, they had opportunities. And I will say this, I love college for USC.

every weekend out of fourteen. I do think it has changed. My mindset is that the games don't feel as definitive or punitive, and so right now my take is everybody's going to have a loss. I'm not going a mile deep on a strong opinion on a loss. I think Texas is good. They had a really bad Saturday, got into their fields. Georgia was pissed off. Georgia lost Ole Miss. They're a limited team offensively. But I will say that the college football Playoff, it's done this to college basketball,

where the college basketball now is a bracket. It's got three great weeks and a lot of stuff that nobody watches. I see the numbers, I do think the playoff was necessary for the growth of the sport. But I feel like Saturday, I said, Hey, I'm gonna take the afternoon off, spend it with my wife and just take a deep breath, exercise, just get out in Chicago. Let's go have a wild, fun day. And I do feel I didn't feel I missed anything.

Lincoln's like, eeah, he's just a new opportunity. This guy has been with these players now for years with the team. I do think something's really out of whack that that was like a symbolic moment that this guy finally gets benched. He struggled, and it's like I just quit. I'm just leaving the team. Like and then you watch some of these games, like George is not nearly as good as they once were because people just the moment it chick

gets toughs like I just quit. I think Brady talked about it in the offseason, was like when I went to Michigan, like for five years, it wasn't easy. Shit gets hard, but he represented every kid for the history of college football, like I want to kill my coach, I want to strangle my offensive coordinator. I just want to quit football, and you just couldn't. And I do think he watched the just what's going on in college football? I don't know how to fix it, but like that

that just something's off, Like people get benched. It's football. You know, you were playing, like shit, we're four and five, we can't win a game. It's like I just quit. So it's like there's no one means anything. Clearly, you're getting some money, Like it's just out of whack. It

really is. And that's why I think it represents all these guys moving NonStop, which has its positives but also has like that for me was a story like I don't know if something just feels icky, like there has to be And I think whenever these college coaches say something, most of the media.

on him. He represents a lot of guys. Happens all over, happens with guys we probably don't know because he might be a guard or a safety. Happens at every program you get benched to middle the seasons like I quit, I'm just out. And then I saw the South Carolina has a defensive end right now, who's got a chance to be like Miles Garrett. He's an elite freshman. And I saw, you know this week maybe on like Thursday or Friday, that like his value in nil because of how good he is is going to go to like

two to five million dollars this next season. Well how does he know that? Because if you think about it, like Oregon, just look at the teams all the nil they're already contacting him, which I don't blame, like there are no rules. It's a lawless land right now. But something's off. And I do think that some of these coaches, like listen, we got no problem people getting paid, but there has to be I can't just tomorrow be like calling I'm out, Like I don't know. We have contracts.

Isn't that the way the business works? And I feel like the media roots for all these guys get money rightfully, so but like that that's not how any business works ever, Like there are contracts people at the fall rule there just are no rules. Yeah, even the coaches like why Billy Napier not get fired well, because he's good. They have to pay him twenty five million dollars. They can, he's under contract. It's just it is what it is, where players just like the moment shit, and I get it.

Like if you're at and listen, I came from Fresno State, we would have lost all of our good players back in twenty ten. Boysey. I don't they got very lucky to keep genty He was offered a million dollars and turned it down, but he was an outliner. I just think the situation of like I do think it turns. It's just it's just out of whack. That's all I can say. I still enjoy the games, like I love Colorado is like one of the best stories, what Dion's done,

Warren sapp that defensive line. I watched three games yesterday Colorado Ole miss in Georgia, and I had a lot of money on LSU and I turned it off basically in the third quarter. But those games, like, I still enjoy the pageantry between it all. But sometimes you're just like, I what going on here?

is having to deal with some of this. So I think college sports the NIL.

talked to coaches about this that they can't announce. They have to wait until a certain date in August to announce a starting left tackle or a starting running back because they're afraid the player will transfer. So what happens is now college coaches are much less honest with the players. They won't give them bad news early the depth chart,

they don't want it published. They so you're getting a really inauthentic, dishonest relationship between college coach and college player because college player will bold and not even the great ones, the good ones will bold. Well.

and bad whatever. Well, how do I develop a real relationship if I'm terrified if I say the wrong thing, especially you're you're there's a difference of dealing with a twenty eight year old and an eighteen or nineteen year old. Let's face it, we're just as men. We're not as mature at that age, much more emotional, and even something that is correct, I'm not gonna listen to. So it's

a much more difficult situation. And before all those guys, most of the older players in the NFL, they all attribute like the best thing going through some adversity, not getting a starting spot as a five star. I had to earn my way. It made me a better player. Now saying I'm out see you, and that just can't be healthy for the development. I think it's something to keep an eye on for the draft. Is like these teams think the draft now are not as deep because

you got guys bouncing all around. The development is not as streamlined. Ye know, it's just out of whack. And I'm not some anti paying the guys or anything, but we have to. And I love football. I mean I could watch football all day long as I do, lucky enough to get paid to do it. But when I saw that Miller Moss thing, I'm like, I don't know, something is just this is not Caleb his coach followed them.

I think you see a lot of times like Bo Nicks was told we're going with or no, Dylan Gabriel like, hey, we're going with Jack normal. Some things is like totally understandable. And then there's like Miller Moss acting like you think you're Matt Lioner or something. Your team's four and five and you have been shitty in some of these big moments, and you have an offense and you're just where are you gonna go? Like San Diego State, Who's who's lining

up for you? Yeah? But I just thought the headline, Yeah, I don't know. Something just feels a little weird.