Colin Cowherd Podcast - INSTANT REACTION: Purdy’s Picks Sink 49ers, NFC Playoff Picture Is WIDE OPEN, The NBA Has Been CODDLED By Sports Media

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Bonus bets expire one hundred and sixty eight hours after issue. In four additional terms and responsible gaming resources see DKNG dot co. Slash bball all right, instant reaction forty to thirty four. The Lions roar back in the second half thanks to two brock Purty interceptions, And you know, I just it really cracks me up. If you're listening to this, you have a team, and you're a fan, many of your Niner fans, some of your Lion fans. You have

to be an adult. If you're a general manager. You're watching John Lynch on TV tonight, how did he react with those brock Purty picks? Baker Mayfield's making thirty three million this year. Rock Purty is not nearly as talented as Baker may Fee. One's a first round pick, you know, one's number one pick. One's the last guy picked. Baker's got a better arm. I think Baker's a better athlete. Baker leads the NFL in touchdown passes the entire NFL,

including Josh Allen and Joe Burrow since he started in Tampa. Well, he's got Mike Evans. Everybody's got a receiver. Everybody's got at least one decent receiver. So here's a prime example. So defensive players in the NFL get hurt more than offensive players statistically, and Detroit's down like seven or eight starters. So this was a moment to.

the Lions, that's all they can play now. They have so many players down and listen, it doesn't help that Jake Moody missed a fifty one yard fifty eight yarder and a pat But folks, there's a reason they were settling for fifty one yarders and fifty eight yarders because there was, for instance, a key third down pass by Brock Purty in the second half the Juwan Jennings that was behind it. I just don't understand how you can

watch brock Purty. In fact, I'd argue, when he got hurt, he'll be fine, But when he got dinged up, they put in Josh Dobbs who ran for a touchdown that athletically, brock Purty would not have raced to the corner and got into the end zone. He could have scrambled, but he's not as fast as athletic as Josh Dobbs, who's a pretty remarkable player who just bounces around the league and he's always pretty effective. But people get so caught up on statistics. Well, he had three hundred and seventy

seven yards. First of all, Shanahan is one of the great play scriptors in the league. Andy Reid and Shanahan are probably one and two in the league. Sean Payton's probably third those three guys. Bow Next played Justin Herbert a week ago. Bownicks looked way better in the first half than Justin Herbert. Why because the first half is scripted. In the second half against the Chargers defense, bo Knicks

didn't look as good. That's about talent. In the first half, brock Purty on Kyle Shanahan's script is remarkable in the second half. Two picks behind Jowan Jennings on a key third down throw. Here are the numbers for Brock Purty in the second half this year and again the first half, especially when you have elite offensive coordinators or elite play designers like Andy Reid, Sean Payton, Shanahan. McVeagh, by the way, is not an elite play designer. The Rams have been

an average offense all first half. Nick Sirianni's an offensive coach. He's not an elite play designer. Not all offensive coaches are. Dan Campbell's more offensive side, He's not an elite play designer. Purty in the second half, first half, off and on script second half is talent pretty second half this year eight touchdowns, ten picks. That's bad. Jayden Daniels is remarkable in the fourth quarter, awful. This is not his first

year in the league. He's got Kyle Shanahan. And the other thing is Shanahan you get so many open Ricky Pearsall and George Kittle opportunities. And this is what Andy Reid does. I mean Andy Reid in a Super Bowl a couple of years ago, in their first Super Bowl win without Tyreek Hill. He's getting Sky Moore wide open looks in the red zone, that congested area. That's what great play designers do. By the way, Ben Johnson's very good tonight in the red zone down near the goal line.

You know, Jared Goff had open receivers. That's what clever coaches do. So you know, and I'm not saying Jared Goff isn't benefiting from a good old line and an excellent play designer. But this is the second team Goff has done that with. And McVay is not known as a brilliant play designer. He is a culture guy. He's got a great eye for personnel. He's a motivator. He designs excellent run games. But so many of the completions

for Brock Prudy are two wide open players. But the difference between good and great in this league is squeezing the ball in these little holes. Darnold did that yesterday multiple times. Jayden Daniels did that. Hell, Michael Pennix had a throw like that yesterday for a touchdown for Atlanta. The opening was the size of a football, and Pennis has real velocity. I mean he can really cut it loose.

So Brock Prudy isn't big, isn't super athletic, doesn't have a big arm, and benefits greatly from Shanahan's play calling. He's good, he's functional. But the idea I'm gonna pay him forty and fifty million, Baker's make him thirty three million. You got to be kidding me. Yeah, it's just eight touchdowns, ten picks in the second half this year, and he was the difference in the game tonight. Don't blame the kicker those two second half picks, that was the difference.

So yeah, when you listen, Detroit is one of those teams like Minnesota right now where they've got spectacular offensive players and excellent coaching Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores well Aaron Glenn defensive coordinator for Detroit Ben Johnson. So a lot of this stuff is coaching, a lot of this stuff when you look at the teams in this league, Spags and Andy Reid, I mean, look at San Francisco when they had Demiko Ryans and Shanahan. That was their

best staff in my opinion. Look at the results you're getting the Super Bowls, you're getting the Conference championships. So I think with Purty, you just have to be totally honest. I would just play it out. I'm not gonna pay him. You want to sit out, go ahead, but I need to see another year. There's no way I'm paying him early, no shot. Don't care what he does, don't care if he sits. If Sam Darnold's available, go pay for him. But I'm and this is not hate. Second half numbers abysmal.

Second half is off script. That's when the true talent comes out. That's when you see Mahomes win Super Bowls. Second half ad libbing, that's when Justin Herbert has been pretty spectacular. That's when Josh Allen takes over games. The other thing about Detroit that's fascinating. There's this sense that the AFC, because it's got the Bills and the Ravens and the Chiefs, is much better than the NFC. But the NFC is wide open. I mean, the Bucks are

three to ohero against NFC playoff teams. They beat Washington, Detroit, and Philly, and the Lions could potentially They've been media darlings all year. They're a one loss on Sunday Night against Minnesota from being the number five seed going to Tampa or LA and they beat LA. Remember earlier this year in overtime, LA was all beat up. LA is now the healthiest team in the league. The Rams are

the healthiest team in the league. All their starters are back, and they gave Detroit pushback when they were all banged up. Now Detroit's all banged up. So Detroit's been this media darling all year long. Can you imagine going to Tampa and facing that defensive line which doesn't allow you to run, and you know Montgomery comes back. Maybe that's the difference. But if Montgomery's not ready for a playoff game, yikes. I mean the NFC. I mean you got the Commanders

at the bottom of the NFC. I mean, Houston won a division in the AFC. Houston's a mess right now. Washington is sneaking in. I would want no part of Jaden Daniels, Terry McLaurin, Cliff Kingsbury and Washington. I would want no part of that. So the NFC is deeper. Their bottom is much stronger than the AFC, whereas the AFC's top's probably better. But you know, it's funny. We've been watching all year just the NFC North is fascinating.

So all year we're like, Detroit's the team, green Bay's second, little young, and Minnesota is a great story. If Minnesota beats Detroit, they're the best team. Green Bay is still a little young. And Detroit goes to La or Tampa all beat up defensively, and I want to go back to that. You gotta win this game tonight. If you're San Francisco, I don't want excuses. I mean, how many backups are playing for Detroit on the defensive side this They were there for the taking. Detroit was there for

the taking tonight. I know you guys think I'm not a rock pretty guy. I am for thirty two million dollars after next season. But if you want me to pay him big boy money now a year early, not remotely interested, not gonna happen. Let him sit out. I mean, I've been saying this for eight weeks. I think the Niners are in a rebuild. They just don't know it yet. I mean, if you can't beat Detroit at home the week before their game of the year, when they were

there for the taking, you're not that close. Forty thirty four Detroit, How good is football. I want to add one NBA topic. So Adam Silver. I was told the NBA got a hold of me and said, Adam Silver is going to be in LA like to come on my show. I'd love to have him. He's the guest I've been asking to get for about a year. And j Mac got people riled up when he said one of the problems that the NBA has been having is their most popular show with Barkley and Jack, Kenny Smith

and Ernie Johnson. They're very, very critical of the NBA and every time you tune in, you know they're super critical of the NBA. And to that, I would say time out. Because the top reporters in the NBA do not want to lose access to the top agents, and they break all these stories that by and large NBA coverage is can border on pandering. It's really really pretty tame. I mean NFL coverage. NFL reporters and talk show hosts

crush NFL players, crush them. I think the Barkley Shack Show works because it's the only coverage of the NBA that is critical. NBA TV is not. I think ESPN feels like they are the they are the network of the NBA, and it feels like it very complementary. So Shack and Barkley and Kenny are the one critical place for NBA coverage, and they should be. The league's got issues. There's too many three point shots. The domestic players, the young players don't feel like they're as skilled or as

focused as many of the international players. Those that's not negative criticism. That's that's forthright, up front and completely honest to me. I like the NBA, especially the playoffs, but I for instance, baseball is a very tough sport for a reporter to be critical because one hundred and sixty two games spring training, you're with these players around the clip.

They'll shut you out. I've had friends. I wrote a couple books with a guy named Tim Kune who used to cover the San Francisco Giants, and he's like, listen, man, you get in the bad side of players and like you're a virus, like it, they will just stay away from you. They'll shut you out for the season. NBA

is different. There's half as many games. There's also a lot of times even on your own team, the stars have their separate agents and separate camps, and there's more divisions but NBA coverage by and large is very favorable. Home announcing teams aren't critical. The big your Shams woes when he worked in it. You know, they're not beating guys over the head. It's a pretty tame media landscape in the NBA. The one show that's critical is that one, and the audience likes it, fans like it. It's also

it's not all critical. I mean, I watch inside the NBA act regular basis. There have been nights I watched that more than the game. I'll literally tune in it's on TV, I'll watch the halftime show or the pregame show. I'll watch fifteen minutes of the game, get bored and leave. I watch more of the pregame show and the halftime show than the game, especially in like you know, October, November, December, January.

I don't think it's all negative. It's probably fifty to fifty split, but you remember the negative stuff more than the positive stuff. But leagues are covered differently, you know, like international soccer. I've read some of the coverage of international soccer. Those guys are rock stars. There's really strong opinions in international soccer from the people who cover it. The NFL college football, very strong opinions on coaches. Maybe

that's just a football culture in America. We're more critical. But usually basketball, you know, it's a long season. Not a lot of reporters have fangs and much of a bite. That's not a criticism, it's just the reality of my entire life of watching NBA basketball and the media that covers it. So if inside the NBA is the one guys that occasionally bring out the anvil. But I mean, just do you watch, listen to listen to NFL reporters and former players of the NFL highly critical on a

regular basis of the NFL. Any show. Anytime I bring somebody on my show, and I don't think they're negative people, they'll be critical regularly, be critical of players and coaches. It comes with a territory. It's so infrequent in the NBA. You notice it when you hear it from Berkley. The volume