Colin Cowherd Podcast - Dodgers Win The World Series! Yankees The "Inferior Team", Steelers Suprise Colin

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Instant reaction, and then on the back end, some thoughts on where I was really wrong this football season with one team in particular. Congratulations to the Dodgers winning their eighth World Series title. I think I'm very clever headline Walker Bueller's two days Off Ferris Bueller Walker Anyway, I love Dave Robbers, who deals because of the Dodgers' payroll and their commitment to Betts and Freeman and Otani, it's

like an all star team. There's a lot of pressure on Dave Robbers, and you know, here's a guy with the Red Sox. Here's a guy that you know, wins a World Series and then Dodgers as a manager. And I just think he's a classy guy who's taken a lot of shit and he did a great job, a masterful job of not only managing the team, but managing his resources. Now, I felt very strongly tonight that it was going to go back to La and the Dodgers were going to pitch. At least I thought this in

the eighth inning. They were going to pitch Yamamoto and Walker Buehler, their two best pitchers at home, whereas the Yankees just expanded Garrett Cole so he's done for the series and they go on the road. But I really thought as much as the Dodgers won tonight, I thought the Yankees, and I thought they were the inferior team. I thought they gave the game away. And the fifth innings of the craziest thing I've ever seen. Over the course of ten minutes, Aaron Judge, with a five to

zhering lead, drops a routine fly ball. It was the kind of ball that you if you're playing catch with a friend. He drops a routine flyball, then volpay it short, short hops a throw to third, and then Garrett Cole, who had a masterful one hundred and eight pitching performance, doesn't cover firstpace. It would be a you would think that was a bad spring training performance. You'd get chewed out after a spring training game. To be in a World Series game and have three miscues one after the

other is just insane. Then the game is tied, and then I felt like the Dodgers were playing loose and with house money. I mean, at that point, I mean, you get down five nothing, You're like, okay, we're going back to La. We got Yamamoto, Yamamoto, We've got Walker Bueller. This will be it for Garrett Cole. We have a pitching advantage, hitting advantage, home field advantage. They're not gonna win four s red against us. That's what it felt

like to me. And it's so all bets are off, but God and Max Munsey, who was just great in the NLCS, had a rough world series. Otani didn't hit, and Dave Roberts, you know, I mean, there are a lot of people that didn't want Max Munsey coming up, you know, that final time. So you got Munsey's struggling, Otani's struggling. And remember Jack Flaherty, who the Dodgers got.

There's a story last week, I think it was in the La Times where his velocity had come down, so you know, he he didn't look like, you know, he had his best stuff. So after the Bullpen lost yesterday, Flaherty struggling today you're thinking, you know, to me, it was just like, okay, you're going home, Yamamoto Walker Buller's stuff is nasty. You're in great shape. I've been taking

notes for four hours. I got so many notes. And then you know, again the Yankees in the top of the eighth you got back to back singles by Keithy Hernandez and Tommy Edmond and then Will Smith walks. You have no no outs in the bases loaded, and so you get and then there's a catcher's interference against the Yankees. So god, it's like the fifth in the eighth. It was just time after time the Yankees, you know. And you know, as I said before, I don't watch a

ton of baseball in the regular season. I mean, it's on in my house with the Dodgers. When I lived I worked at ESPN back East, I always had the Yankees of the Red Sox on. It was the Yes networker Nessen, I watch my local team, right. I kind of keep track because I used to work for the Padres, so I kind of keep track of the Padres a

little bit. But this was a game in which the Yankees just kept giving the Dodgers every break and the fifth inning and the eighth inning and catchers interference and airs and free passes, and the Dodgers eventually, you know, took advantage of it. So you know, it's interesting. Years and years ago, there's a coach, the late lut Olsen coach at Arizona. He had great teams in the tournament

and he just could not win a championship. And there was a lot of years they went in as a heavy favorite, loss in the first round, and then eventually they got this team with Miles Simon and a bunch of freshmen and a bunch of kids, and they won the National Championship. And it's just so interesting. So many times with Dave Roberts and the Dodgers, you've got into the playoffs and you felt really strongly about them, and they just they kind of unravel and they have a

bad pitching performance this year. I mean, think about it. In this World Series, Otani dried up. Max Munsey, who was brilliant in the NLCS, dried up all of a sudden going into the World Series, fled the velocity dips. You've already used forty pitchers. You're going into a World Series coming out of a National League Divisional Series and a championship series where you had to have bullpen games. You're just managing resources of all the years to win it.

If you'd written down this script and said, yeah, oh Tony, it will just be brutal in a series, Max Munsey will dry up. I mean you'll have basically two starting pitchers. And Walker Bulder was kind of crossing your fingers because he's been hurt for a year and a half, two years, so got that fifth inning. I think all five of those runs the Dodger scored, I think all five were unearned. Has that ever happened in a World Series game? Five

hundred runs? Well, it's just it's just crazy, and you know it's you just never known these championships where they come from. And I thought it was interesting that the World Series came down to Garrett Cole being pulled. Not singularly came down to, but Garrett Cole being pulled in Game one, got a lot of heat, and then Garrett Cole not covering first kept that fifth inning going for

the Dodgers. So Garrett Cole, who was, you know, the the best pitcher in the series for either team, I think ended up being so crucial, probably pulled a little early at eighty eight pitches and the Dodgers, you know, had to go to their bullpen, and good luck against the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium with your bullpen. And then in this fifth inning, you know, he was he was brilliant tonight, one hundred and eight pitches, but he didn't cover first base. I mean that just crazy to me.

A guy that zoned in doesn't cover first base, So I mean, the Dodgers aren't going anywhere. I mean, it's just so many, so many things went wrong physically for the Dodgers. I mean Otani's shoulders, collarbone, I mean, what are the chances of that on a slide to second base. You're looking at any You're thinking there's no collision. All of a sudden he grabs his shoulder and you're like, you gotta be kidding me. The timing's terrible. Ends up. They didn't need him, So it's easy. I find it's

easy to root for the Dodgers. I think it's a really classy organization from research and development. They don't miss on trades. You know, when they call guys up, they deliver. It's just it's just, you know, Kershaw to Otani to Betts, to Freddie Freeman's story, to Dave Roberts to the late Vince Scully and now Joe Davis. You're just it's class

personified as an organization. And you can blame Aaron Boone and you can blame the defense in the fifth inning, But I mean, if you really looked at what was happening, if the Dodgers would have not come back in the fifth inning, you were going to La to face the Dodgers best too pitchers, and at some point Otani was going to get a big hit. I mean, Aaron Judge finally, Aaron Judge tonight roared back, I mean really roared back tonight.

And despite what happened in the World Series, the Dodgers three years ago set their sights on Otani and what a significant upgrade for him personally, because you know, when you get these star players, it always reminds me to a lesser version of like Joe Mauer with the Twins or a Joey Vado with a Cincinnati Reds, where you just can't you pay him and you can't surround him with elite players, and the Angels couldn't really do that.

But with the Dodgers, you can have him cleanup, you can beat him third fourth, You're gonna have Mooky Betts and Freddie Freeman and Max Muncy, you know, and tremendous players all around him. He's gonna usually get better pictures. And it's just I mean, for him to be as as classy as he was. I mean, this season started with that you know, gambling story, which could have derailed the franchise, derailed his career, and he was just poised, under control, beloved in the locker room, fit right in,

and it feels like they're just certain players. I mean, it's like Aaron Judge needs to be a Yankee, right like Otani really needs to be a Dodger. It's nothing against the Angels, but you know, they're just the Dodgers have more resources and the Yankees have more resources, and there's just a handful of teams that can surround these great players with better players so they get better pitches.

And I just I just thought think of how the season started pretty bumpy for Otani and it ended pretty bumpy. But let's not forget what he produced. For a majority ninety five percent of this season. He was the best player by a lot, and that's saying something. On a team with Betson Freeman and Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper and the amazing players in Major League Baseball, Otani by a long shot fifty to fifty club was the best player in baseball. I like how it ends for him

and the Dodgers. So great players eventually have their moment on a stage like this. The congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers in what was one of the weirdest most bazz zorro World Series games I've ever seen, and a pretty quick series where a stack roster despite all the injuries won. Does your favorite NBA player have what it takes to be crowned King of the Court? Find out at DraftKings, sports book and official sports betting partner of

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this football season. Number one, I said, the Washington Commanders cleaning House will immediately become a playoff team. So it looks like I'm right on that. I had pretty good insight with Cliff Kingsbury, who banged the table for Jaden Daniels in the draft, and he really felt he was like a better version of Kyler Murray and he has been fewer mistakes, more of a leader, and so I feel really good about that that I got it right.

I also predict that I thought the San Francisco forty nine ers had peaked and that you'll start to see flaws and limitations with Brock Purdy in the overall organization, which is very Christian McCaffrey reliant. I think I was right on that. I picked the Denver Broncos and Sean Payton to be the one team the safest bet on the over underscale. Vegas had him at five and a

half wins. My take is Sean Payton is going to win you a couple of games, out smarting mediocre coaches, bow Nicks with sixty one college starts by at least Thanksgiving, will be a real NFL quarterback, franchise quarterback. I think he is now, and frankly the AFC's got There's a lot of winnable games on the Bronco schedule, including two in division against the Raiders, and so I think I got that right as well. So Denver Washington San Francisco, I thought I got right. I think the one I

really got wrong was the Pittsburgh Steelers. I had said I thought Justin Fields would win the locker room. Now I think I got that right. But I think one thing that is very clear, and I'm not talking about winning a super Bowl. If you go look in the last three to four years in the NFL, the final four coaches are all offensive. But to win a playoff game or two, you know Sean McDermott can do that

as a defensive coach. And I think I think Mike Tomlin, and we've always studies credible, but I think what Mike Tomlin has shown over the course of this season, and I'm I'm wrong on this, is that I always felt he was a little tone def to offense. But by pivoting off Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, and Justin Fields who had a winning record and settling on Russell Wilson, I think it shows that he is more aware than I gave him credit for, and defensive coaches can struggle with this,

that he understands the urgency at quarterback. This is why I banged on Ron Rivera at Washington, who thought Sam Hall was good enough or Pete Carroll and Seattle. I thought Geno Smith was good enough. No, they're not. And I don't think Russell Wilson's good enough to win a super Bowl. But he is better than Mason Rudolph and

Kenny Pickett and Justin Fields. And I think even though they were winning, it's hard as a coach when you're winning to make changes, right, like you're going to disrupt things. We're four and two. I'm not going to disrupt the locker room. That takes a pair by Mike Tomlin at four and two to go in and say, guys, we should be five and one. We're a better team than this. And I think the thing about Russell Wilson is that's really encouraging if you're a Steeler fan, is that Russell

never made a ton of mistakes. He was always elusive, he was always smart, he took the right risks. But I think Russell is I think he knows now he's got he understands sort of what he's become. And I look at the Steelers and it's sort of Seahawks light power run game. Marshawn Lynch is better than Nausee Harris power run game, defensive coach, defensive culture, a couple playmakers on the outside, good pass rush, good home field environment,

and a really good, tough physical culture. With Seattle and Pittsburgh, Russell's not as good as he was, but he's also capable. He's a better quarterback right now than Aaron Rodgers, and I think he's as good a leader he's I think he's certainly in the class close to a Kirk Cousins, who I predicted would win twelve games this year and be the number one seed potentially with Atlanta. So I think I was really wrong on Pittsburgh. I think Tomlin was more aware of the need for urgency on offense.

I thought it took real guts to get rid of Justin Field's nice kid, liked in the locker room, high ceiling, but a really low floor. And so I may have Washington right so far and right and San Francisco right, but I think I've been wrong on Pittsburgh, that that's a real team. And you start looking at that schedule, Well, Cleveland now stinks, Cincinnati's not very good, Baltimore's better. I think over time, Baltimore's better, but Baltimore is not very good.

On the defensive end. So could Pittsburgh win that division. Absolutely, I'm gonna favorite Baltimore, but they can win that division. You know, the very top of the AFC, Kansas City, Buffalo, Houston, Baltimore, those are very good teams. It gets real squishy in the middle and really bad on the bottom. But in the NFC, the middle of the NFC is pretty good. Arizona can beat anybody with those weapons. Minnesota can play

with anybody with those weapons. The Rams when Puka Nakua, Matt Stafford, Kyron Williams, Cooper Cup are healthy, they can play with anybody. So the top of the AFC is really good. But Pittsburgh could very well be the best

team in the middle, along with the Chargers. And that's my take is that the Chargers and the Steelers they're not Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo, But because the middle is so soft in the AFC, I think what I'm seeing is the Chargers Harbaugh Herbert and the Steelers Tomlin, Russell Wilson look like clearly the best of the next group, and that next group should be winning playoff games the volume. Thanks so much for listening. If you've enjoyed the podcast, take a moment, rate and review