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Colin Cowherd Podcast - MNF Reaction, Zach Wilson, Rock Bottom For NY Sports, NFL Midseason Assessment

Nov 07, 202316 min
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Colin reacts to the Chargers win over the Jets on Thursday Night Football. Colin explains why Zach Wilson has shown to have no feel for the game and why that means the Jets have zero margin for error (2:49). Colin asks the question…”is now the worst it’s ever been for New York sports fans” (9:45). He also gives his NFL midseason assessment and the one common denominator that made the results entirely predictable (15:40).

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as a head coach of the Chargers. He got the Bears and Zach Wilson back to back w's with both timing in life is essential for success and Brandon Staley's defense I couldn't stop anything gets a backup quarterback for the Bears and Zach Wilson with multiple offensive line issues, and you know, listen, Zach Wilson just doesn't have any margin for air. That's special teams touchdown by the Chargers,

seven nothing lead. Zach Wilson playing out of a have a nothing hole, just a seven nothing hole, feels like a massive canyon for him to operate out of. And I went and looked up, as you know, I didn't like Zach Wilson out of college. I thought he was a more talented Johnny Manziel, hero ball, undisciplined, didn't make good decisions, talent, But I would never ever put my

franchise in his hands. And made a couple of calls, looked at some stats, watched the Coastal Carolina game, and I just thought, I mean, he just doesn't have good judgment. You saw it again, tonight. There was a play that and it was a really small play in the first half, but it felt significant to me because I just don't think Zach Wilson has a feel for the game. Joe Burrows got obviously a great feel for the game. But some guys are just talented. They play the game. They

don't think it. They play the game, they don't feel it. At quarterback, it's essential to feel the game right, and the good quarterbacks all have that ability. A lot of guys Johnny Manziel didn't love football. He just didn't love football. He didn't have a good feel for it. I don't think Zach Wilson has a feel for the game. So in the first half, he's running, he's scrambling, and he could have run for the first down, and instead he shovels it off and the back gets tackled, and it

was just sort of a backyard play. You know, you do that flag football, hey, school football. If you have any feel for the game, just keep the ball and run for a first down. And I don't think Zach has any feel for it. Troy Aikman, to his credit, was highly critical all night, and most analysts don't like to go there with athletes, especially on these big broadcasts a Sunday Night Football, a Monday Night Football, the big Window game. You know, they know their words are listened

to and they end up back in locker rooms. But Akman, to his credit, has no patience for Zach Wilson, and he called him out multiple times. The very first pass of the game, Zach just has no feel for it, misses a layup. And by the way, I don't think Aikman would say that unless he's hearing that from the Jets, like he's very comfortable hammering on him. You can watch

Saula's body language and exasperation throughout. And really the game came down very simply to this, a special team's touchdown by the Chargers and Justin Herbert's ability on third down to pick up a handful of crucial first downs. And that's the game on the road. Sometimes it's just that simple. Keenan Allen with one of the catches of the year

certainly helped to seal it. But I went back and looked at the NFL draft rundown on Zach Wilson tonight, and as I'm just watching them scuff and struggle with everything, and you know there was some obvious straints. He's got a good arms, some escapability. But if you just if you read that, it said boom er bust, potential decision making hero. I mean, it was all laid out. This is what scouts do professionally. I've leaned on him for years.

They know what they're talking about. Now. Things didn't go perfectly. He has a defensive coach, the offensive line is not great. He really has one excellent receiver, Garrett Wilson, not much else.

Alan Laizard still struggles to catch. So it's not like he's working with the components that a Mahomes would work with, or a Stafford with Sean McVay and Cooper cup Like, I understand that, but you know, it just it really it just goes to show you that the margin, if you don't have a franchise quarterback, your margins are tiny. You have to play perfect football. You cannot surrender a

special team's touchdown. You can't That seven nothing hole felt like twenty eight nothing for Joe Burrow, you know, twenty thirty nothing for Mahomes. It just felt like a massive hole you're digging your way out of. If you get a five yard delay of game penalty and it's now to eight, not third and three. It feels insurmountable for Zach Wilson. The margins are so thin for air, so

you have to play some perfect football. And I also think what happens is over the course of a season you're seeing it now, is that when you ask a defense to be the savior every drive, every quarter, every half, every game, they get discouraged. You're just asking guys to march out, make stop after stop after stop. And you get to about week eight, Week nine, Week ten, and even the Jets defense I think will dovetail a little bit here. I think it's just harder to ask guys

to win every week. You know, It's like Lincoln Riley had to fire as defensive coordinator. I was talking to somebody in college football about that. I mean, you can't keep asking the offense to drop forty forty five and lose. You just divide a locker room. And so I don't believe Aaron Rodgers is going to come back. There's no point if you're out of the playoff race. If the Jets lose again a couple times in the next three weeks, what's the point of asking Aaron Rodgers to come back. Listen,

go back to week one. Aaron gets hurt. The fact that we're at this point in the season and there was some optimism around the Jets. It's kind of frankly surprising in a division where Miami looked Buffalo looked like real teams. Now they've both regressed. But I think you just go back to something. Really great players, really great quarterbacks. They make it look easy. C J. Stroud sees the field so well, really good decision maker, a quick thinker. CJ sees it, delivers it. He is a quick thinker.

Zach it's laboring hard, doesn't see things quickly. The judgment is slow, and this is what you get tonight. Ugly. You know what, I bet Zach Wilson over Justin Herbert my bad. I deserve all of it. At least I stayed awake for it. I mean, you gotta give you some credit. I deserve some credit. I feel like Robert Sola right now. Jet fans just exasperating between the Giants and the Jets, the Yankees and the Mets. At some point we all need to have a little bit of

sympathy for New York sports fans. I mean, we should all just summarily pull for the Knicks. It's his New York Sports ever been this bad over a twelve month stretch. The Giants are the worst offense in the league, the Jets are exasperating, the Mets fell off a cliff, and the Yankees were as bad as they've been in forever. Incidence, stress, pressure, unrealistic optimism. I don't know what it is, but this was just par for the course in twenty twenty three

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eligibility and deposit restrictions, turn and responsible gaming resources. I will say this, it's halfway through the NFL season, and I do think forget week to week against the spread, that's always tough. Professional gamblers hit fifty six percent, that's always going to be tough. Blazing five is fun. But you know, if I can go three and two, I'm overjoyed every week. But I do think the league is getting easier to predict on a macro level, simply because

quarterback means so much. This week in the NFL, the best quarterback one virtually every game. Last week it was all but one game. So now against the spread, who knows but Eagles Cowboys in first and second. We predicted that Niners Seahawks in first and second. I predicted they both make the playoffs. Lions winning the NFC North, predicted that Saints lead Falcon second in the NFC South. I

predicted that. Again, I don't consider myself of some soothsayer of NFL predictions, but right now, the Dolphins would make the playoffs. I predicted that, so with the Chiefs, so would I believe the Steelers at five and three tied with the Browns, and so with the Jaguars. Predicted that. So Cincinnati I think will eventually move up and make the playoffs. I missed on the Ravens, although I had them just missing out. But I mean, if you look at the NFL right now, what's the big surprise? What

is the big surprise in the NFL? There is a one. There is a one. There's not a single thing that is shocking in the NFL. Tampa was for about five minutes. They're now three and five. There's nothing shocking. There's not a single team. Rams surprised us early, they're now three and six. Buccaneers early, they regress to the meet. There is not a single surprising team in the National Football League. The ones with really good quarterbacks are in playoff position.

I would say this, here's your big surprise. Buffalo's not as good as we thought. But you know this, everybody knows this. At the end of last year, you got Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen arguing with each other. They weren't playing great football. At the end of the year, struggled to beat Skyler Thompson, the backup quarterback for Miami, at home, embarrassed by Joe Burrow in that playoff game

in Buffalo. So Buffalo was not playing well at the end of last season, had kind of a turbulent offseason, and right now this year struggling, scuffing, can't quite get it right. That's your big surprise. But it's amazing. Halfway through the NFL season there is none. I mean, Saints Atlanta predicted that, Philly, Dallas predicted that Jaguars, everybody predicted that Kansas City leads their division. The AFC North is scrambled. I still contend Cincinnati will win it, Baltimore will finish

first or second. So I had Pittsburgh aching in as a wild card team. I don't know what I was thinking, but you know, I just love their overall roster and their coaches. Mike Tomlin just figures out ways to win football games. He has no business winning. He's really good

at that. But I think the league is getting more not that it's college football where it's very very regional, but this has always been the concern when you become very quarterback centric, is that it gets easier and easier big picture to know who's going to make the playoffs. By the way, I would rather watch Trevor Lawrence and Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson make the playoffs. I mean, this past weekend, you're watching Sam Howe and Mac Jones.

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