Colin Cowherd Podcast - Niners Dominate Cowboys, Bears Coaching Fiasco, Eagles Soar, Jets Crash, Star-Studded World Series

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in the third quarter. I do not trust this Niner pass rusher team Laighton games. They've been burned late in games. I thought brought pretty really struggled low off target early. I thought later in the second half to gain confidence, he used his legs a little bit, started moving, kind of gain confidence, hit on some nice throws.

this for a while. Dallas almost if you're a cowboy fant and I You're like, wow, we made it competitive at the end. I think they got to take a swing.

be forced to roll coverage over. I think it's despite the score tonight, I think it's grimmer for Dallas than people think, especially with Washington now like looking like the next decade they're gonna be locked in with Jade Daniels.

in a row, twice in the playoffs. They molly wopped him last year on Sunday Night Football. They were up in this game twenty seven to ten, missing a lot of guys. This matchup, which is one of the biggest matchups of my life in terms of brands in the history, is currently Kyle Shanahan, who's you know for a young guy who's been coaching in the NFL for twenty years and his dad is one of the most famous offensive coaches of all times, so he's been around football's whole life.

And John Lynch, who currently last year or two years ago just went into the Hall of Fame. That's the forty nine ers brass building this team against an eighty plus year old Jerry Jones. It just it was like, this is not really a fair fight, because it's not like they both hit on some high end players Micah cd nick Bosa, Right, I mean they've both hit on trade for Trent Williams paying a bunch of money. But the forty nine Ers team is littered with guys in

the fourth, fifth, sixth round. That Isaac Grendo is a fourth round rookie running back and boom, plug and play. What's the whole thing? Cowboys? No running back? They're playing Zeke can't run away from me or you who's tough, physical guy but can't move. They draft Isaac, well, guess what, I think he went a couple picks right after the pick that they traded for Trey Lance, who is their third string quarterback. Right, and listen, I admire Jerry's clearly

from a business standpoint. He's been incredible for thirty plus years. I mean, hell, they sell practice facility tours to make a little ex income. But that he tried to strike oil on that one, and sometimes he does that, and you're not gonna strike oil Jerry, like you're gonna take Kyle who are you bidding against? On that one? And the other quarterbacks in his draft class who are way better went for like six and seventh round picks Fields, Mac Jones, Zach Wilson. So that's kind of a microcosm

of Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch. But you could just go right less need Sean McVeigh, Dan Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell, Guda Kin's lafor how is Jerry compete the NFC even you know the Eagles Sirianni's under but no one questions

Howie's intelligence. So from a football standpoint, in that conference doesn't have the high end quarterbacks of the Mahomes, Alan Lamar, Burrow Herbert, but it does have very very high level front office and football guys, coach and GM combos that I would say and have built very very good teams. Because you watch the Cowboys, they got injuries. Like you said, how many guys are on the sideline for the Niners. Hell, halfway through the game, Deebo's got a seventeenth injury of

the season and he's in the blue ten. Didn't even matter to me that score, Like, don't get me wrong, I mean it was You're on the edge of your seat. Those last couple of minutes not really indicative what we witnessed when the Niners really put a pedal in the medal there and when the game mattered.

whiffed on some guys. I mean, you know, he's taken swings and missed on guys. That wide receiver from f m U he was a second or third round.

had misses. I mean, he had Rashad Penny in the first round as a running back that never panned out really, so, but it's just I just feel San Francisco also the advantage that San Francisco has they're they're better at drafting, but they also have a coach that has a certain style, so stylistically, there are things you can draft that almost always work with Shanahan, like running backs, slot receivers. It's they almost always work because you know, it's like they're

like with Andy Reid. I mean, they've missed on some wide receivers, which by the way, is the hardest position to draft in the first round in the NFL because I mean, for a lot of reasons. A lot of times you get a mature quarterback. He's just not patient. He just doesn't want to wait for some kid to figure out the routes. They don't trust.

certain positions. Dallas, it feels like you just kind of taken the best value in the draft and you're not quite I mean, they've hit on their first round picks, but a lot of misses, a lot of you know, Tyron Smith, they had on Zack Martin, do on Ceedee Lamb, they hit on Michael Parsons. They've been pretty good in the first round, but I don't feel like they find enough elite. They don't find like San Francisco Kittle fifth round,

Jennings sixth round, brought pretty seventh round. I don't feel like Dallas creates that.

have Girndo or Jordan Mason on their team? But they can't run a normal drive because they can't run the ball, so they have to attempt to throw it and they go basically four and out right in the game. The game immediately ends. And this gets back to building the team. Like I get where Jerry's like, we didn't have the money, Derrick Henry would not have looked like he did on

the Cowboys. But you should be able to find good running backs with ease midway through the draft, undrafted free agents, guys for a couple millions on the scrap heap instead of what did Jerry do? Kind of like Bill at the latter end of his career with coaches right brings back all these guys Zeke Elliott, Like who else? How is Zeke Elliott getting run for you? It doesn't make any sense. So this is what happens when like ultimately there has to be some checks and balances. Do you

think John and Kyle agree all the time. No, But they have an offensive philosophy a defensive philosophy, and they can find middle ground and they can help each other out. Veitch and Andy are the best example. Like the personnel guys and coaches butt heads. It's natural. One guy's living in the moment the other guy sees it, you know, kind of from a forty thousand foot view sometimes, and Jerry has no balance. You're not listening to anything Mike's

telling him. I mean, Stephen is in a tough position as his son. It's like maybe he can influence them a little. But at this point in time, we all know. Anyone that's ever been around a really, really old guy who has a lot of money, they're naturally very stubborn. And Jerry is that on steroids clearly right now. I mean the words he said, I mean that that article that came out this week about the tours, Yeah, to me, that is not coming out if everything hadn't happened the

previous couple weeks. It was ripe for the taking right there, Jerry, Like that is a product of Jerry Jones. No one was talking about those tours were going on last year when they were twelve and five and hosting the playoff game. But no one cares, right, But the moment you start leaking oil, things get weird. Jerry's being I mean, he's he's being it's a little different, but he's got some mal Davis two thousand and seven vibes, right now doesn't.

both kind of the same. Neither has a big arm down field good enough, they both see the field particularly well. They're both grown ups. I feel like pre snap they're both fine. But the difference is one's free and and one is now paid. Top of the league. And so I mean, and you got that thing hasn't even kicked in yet. So I just I look and I look at the NFC, John, and I've said this, I'm watching Detroit today kick the you know what, out of Tennessee,

Detroit maybe the best team in the league. And here comes Washington and Chicago can play. Philadelphia had its best game in forever today. You know, green Bay is just stacked offensively. If Jordan Love can stay healthy, I think that. I think the Rams are going to go on a run here now now that they got their receivers healthy. If they can get their interior O line healthy, I think they'll go on a run. Hell Arizona is a tough out.

take a deep breath. This season has been the season from Hell. To me. Every team has it, But what are your standards? The Jets have it, They're done. The Niners have it. It's like four and four, Okay, does Christian McCaffrey come back in two weeks? And then their schedule opens up a little bit at Tampa, who just lost their best two players and they gave everything they had today and it's just not gonna be enough in there in shambles. Then they get Seattle, who they own,

so you could look up pretty quick. And then the forty nine ers are six and four and they can take a deep breath. Now they have to. They have a trip where they go, oh, I don't know, I don't know the order, but it's at Green Bay and at Buffalo. Yeah, so I mean those two games, and then they played Detroit at home late in the season. So to me, if you can win one of those three games, handle some division games like this could be

a ten and seven team will win the division. And then the one thing the advantage you have is a coach and a bright lights, battle hardened team like you saw George Kill. The night lights are the brightest. Dallas Cowboys. I'm gonna fucking dominate, Yeah, Samuel Fred Warner, same within Nick Bosa, so they are not gonna be intimidated by any of these teams. Now, they need Christian McCaffrey back. They need Deebo Samuel to stay healthy, and Drake Greenlaw

would help as well. But these guys are all I mean, I think Debo will be fine, but if they can get Christian back like that would be a pretty big addition. There's not a if you tell me Christian McCaffrey's eighty eighty five percent of the guy we saw last year. I mean, there's not a team in the league that could trade for a better player given what he means to this team. Right.

Do they have Steve Spagnola or you know Brian Flores? No, they do not, but they do have on every level good players. So I don't know what the hell happened there down the stretch. That was pretty embarrassing, especially like it's one thing of a couple of random guys break plays, but eighty eight like that, that cannot happen. But I do think they have the talent to compete with all these teams. Would I bet my money for them to win the Super Bowl as we sit here right now,

or to win the NFC, I would not. But no team in the NFC, and it includes the Eagles who got to the Super Bowl a couple of years ago, have had more recent playoff success than the forty nine ers. They've won on the road, they've won at home. They are coaching mismatch, their player mismatch in terms of their

comfortability in those moments. I mean that they have a lot of guys, guys who have been through the ringer, so they'll probably be an underdog if they're on the road in Green Bay or you know, Detroit or whatever. But you wouldn't just say a god, obviously, health, you know, impacts this. You wouldn't say they would have no shot in these games. The other things you saw in that game, you know, once Dak shattered his ankle, he clearly has

never moved the same. Perty That looked a little like the second half in some of those playoff games where he just gets you some extra first downs and he doesn't turn the ball over. When he turns the ball over, the Niners offense bad. When he doesn't, and they run the ball, they tend to win.

a little bit in the first half. He threw behind a couple of receivers. He threw low, and it kind of felt like and he knew it, and it kind of felt like, Okay, I'm just gonna start moving here a little bit, you know, I want to. I want to kind of get the mojo back. And I thought he did, and I thought, yeah, and I think, you know, he's a pro athlete. And then I thought he got confidence back. And then it's like getting your jumper back, and then he made a couple of big throws down

the field. Couple won really nice though to Kidle, and so I thought in the second half was a truer, a truer copy.

you regret it. No, take a deep breath. He's making a bunch of money. He loves being here. There's no better spot for him, and you just this is a fluid situation. But he plays like that, plays winning football, like he's got a place with Kyle. Because that's the other thing with this coach, you kind of need a

specific type quarterback. The one problem with the Niners is, and we talk about this all the time, is you know their offense can be so run dependent because the pass then comes off that they can't really the one thing that McCarthy and Dak have no problem doing, spread it out, playing the shotgun like they're comfortable with a lot of teams all over the NFL. It's not really the forty nine ers passing game, you know.

they moved the pocket. I just I think you have to feel if you're San Francisco tonight thirty twenty four of Dallas, you played a pretty poor first half your quarterback was off, You're missing seven to eight key players, Deebo gets hurt in the game, and you're like, we won. I mean we got five hundred yards of offense. I think in the end, I mean they lose tonight they're three and five.

stretches these last couple of years. They're very comfortable in every environment, and the forty nine ers over the course of these last three years have had slow starts I think twenty two. They started three and five, So it's like they are used to some madness for a really, really good team, and they're comfortable in these environments. Now they got some big games. I gotta get guys back. But it all comes down if Perty's playing well, they

have a chance to beat anybody. When he plays like he did last week against the Chiefs, they become very average to below quick because their defense, like you said, it's not as dominant in years past, but at any moment they could get an interception, Fredkin forms a fumble. They have like they can be disruptive at a moment's notice, and all of a sudden they get the ball and flip a field like that that they're not as likely to hold you to two hundred yards and those days are done.

time Thursday Night Football and it's on Prime Video. Restrictions apply. Seeamazon dot com slash Amazon Prime for details. Are Week eight reaction presented by Uber Eats Get almost almost Anything for Game Day greatest ugly game in the history of the NFL. Washington beats the Bears eighteen to fifteen on a hail Mary. Let me just start with this. Washington was the better team. They were the better coached team. I thought Chicago's offensive coaching at the end of the

game was egregiously horrible. Late in the game, and I give me, let me just say, Caleb and his movement and his side arming stuff. You can see the Mahomes comps. He's running around the old lines getting overwhelmed. I mean, first of all, it was nine to nothing at half. Chicago had thirty three yards passing in the first half. I thought the game was over. But Chicago, you know, their defense, you know, kind of kept him in the game.

And then Washington's offense stalled. But I got us John the third and goal where the Bears did the fridge perry. The following drive on a third down to win the game. You thought they did a draw, essentially putting in the hands The whole game came down one play, Thank god, Keenan Allen.

He looked like one of the best players in the league. The thing I wrote down is if you could pick these two coaching staffs, Ibra flus Waldron and Dan Quinn Cliff Kingsbury, the gap is like going from a star starting quarterback to some random backup. You're like, it's not even close. That's why when they take the lead, I'm like, listen, it's sports. Crazy things happen. But there haven't been many games this season where a team would have came away

with a victory that was like, oh, you didn't. You didn't even come close to call the play to a backup offensive lineman on like I was one years old with the refrigerator Perry plays, but he did it a lot right. It was part of their arsenal. They weren't a good obviously Walter Payton, but they weren't some dynamic offense. You got, you drafted the receiver nine, you got Keenan Allen, you got DJ Moore. Your running backs are the reason

you're in the game. Yes, I mean if it wasn't for Swifts whatever, huge run, oh huge, we wouldn't even have been close. It was like that gave them life because they had none none, They had none to give him that play, even they ended up taking the lead with twenty seconds left. That's I think that has to go down as the most egregious play call of the season.

Second would probably be that. Remember that fake play the Bills ran, I think against the Ravens when they were storming that, But that was way worse to get backup offensive lineman. I mean, it's not even you can't even blame him. Belichick would say, it's not on the player, it's on the coach. Yeah, you can't call. You can't put that guy in that position, right, It'd be like me, hey, John, make this video edit?

a mismatch. You can see the plays off a bye. It like was a Syriani. It's like you got nothing, you have no you have no design plays. And it's one of those things where in the first half, Jaden Daniels was the best player on the field. I will say Caleb won't show up in the box score, but his ability because I mean Washington's pass rush John, especially in the early portions. I think what happened sometimes Washington's defensive line control the first half. These are three hundred

pound guys. I thought they wore down in the fourth and it gave Caleb another second to a maneuver around. They just they're big. They mean these guys like pain. You can't get sixty snaps out of these guys at the same energy level. And I thought Caleb bought time. I thought he made a couple of really really high end throws in the fourth quarter. But John that drive that gave them the lead on third down, This is

not a field goal situation you're going to score. They run another quarterback draw and I thought, just after running a previous one, I thought, well, what are we doing here now?

you know, Miles Garrett or something. A couple things. I think you give Caleb credit for competitive character because that was a game where he could have just folded like a cheap tent, and he you know, you could tell he was pretty down on the sideline. And then those last couple drives, the second to last one, he made a couple miraculous plays little out Allen iverson juke move of a defensive lineman to keep a play alive, throwing across his body. It looked like like USC last year

versus Arizona. Remember when he was just making some of these players, You're like, holy shit, he did that tonight.

find wide receivers all over the league. You can trade for him in the middle of the season to not draft the Penn State guy, the Oregon State guy who can play five different positions. Yeah, so everyone, and I would imagine, you know, the way the game ending that ended, that's going to be the headline. But if it had just been a Washington just dominant victory, it would have been shitting on Caleb and he did not play well. That offensive line was getting worked work, And this was

my concern, Like, I don't give you. You get credit because you've been an underachieving team. So you take care of teams like Carolina. That's the first step of like becoming good. You got to beat the bad teams. But it doesn't translate when you play better teams. It's why, like you watched that first half, you're like this team, they're gonna let a lot of people down in that city because they're not gonna be able to play with good teams. And it starts with their five offensive linemen.

Washington is not Joe Gibbs, I would imagine had a pretty good defense line. That's not what they're rolling out. I mean, this defensive line. I'm happening to google some of these guys. It's really more dan Quinn raw Rock coaching these guys up, and they are getting beat like a drum on like every other play. So yeah, Caleb, obviously you're you're kind of freaking out back there. You don't have any time and balls start flying all over

the map. But how many times did he step back two seconds later and there's like three guys coming at him.

You haven't won since Robert Sola left. And when they fired him, I said, you just let your best coach leave the room. You just let him leave and the defense is not as good, John, They're not as good. I mean, actually, I mean look at that final drive by Brissett.

classic Jets. They are now a mediocre defense with a forty year old quarterback who's a total pocket quarterback. And Ian O'Connor had a tweet during this game. He said, the Jets talk about energy. They're slow out of the huddle, they're slow to the line. He said, they're just applodding, slow, energy less offense. Well, that's on Rogers, that's on Aaron and so I can I can blame it. But the Jets had eight penalties, knowing didn't have as many penalties

in New England's the younger team. I think it's just a systems failure. It's just a mass of an organization.

The podcasts would get worse and sales might go down. Why because it makes no sense to put me in that position, So you put Olbrich Colin. I don't think I've ever seen this in my entire life, high school, college or the pros. Going into the second quarter of the football game, the Jets had zero timeouts. They used all of their timeouts in the first quarter, and it was offensively. I mean, I don't know how many delay

of games they had. They literally had a delay of game when they scored the final touchdown to take the lead in the game on the two point conversion. On the two point conversion, So Olbrik's gonna take a lot of shit. I can't blame him for the delay of games. He has nothing to do with Aaron Rodgers try offense nothing, I mean absolutely nothing. Now, in fairness to Aaron, they go down to get they score, not in a million years. And I'm rooting for this Jets collapse because it's pretty fun.

I never thought Jacoby perssecond lead him down the field and score a touchdown, even how bad the Jets defense has played the last couple of weeks since Robert Sli has left. That was that was jarring to watch that. And now I think we have to acknowledge their defense, which has been held to highest team, is just it's not only ever, it's just not good at all.

You know, in a situation, so your GM is useless this guy, you basically give him all. And then I even saw to day He's like, yeah, it's pretty rusty. Of course he's rusty. I mean he showed up three days ago. I mean, this team is really an embarrassment to football, and it's something that Listen. I'm not trying to give myself credit or anyone that bet against him, but I didn't think it would be this bad obviously today is I mean, this is one of the lowest

points for any high priced team of my lifetime. I mean, to be two and six Colin, well, right, you've played what you've played eight games, so you got nine games left. To get to nine games, you'd have to go seven and two down the stretch. This seems like they can't be the Patriots. They're not going seven and two. They'd be lucky to go like five and four.

I think he would come back. But if you're the Jets, you have to draft a quarterback. You have to draft the quarterback because the roster doesn't have a ton of eats. You have to go get a quarterback. And it's a bad quarterback class.

just like a young prime Rogers. The way he moves, the way he just flings it and lets his arm go, and you're watching him just throw some of these balls, and he can be a little ratic with is such confidence to those guys, And then you look down and one thing I wrote down is Rogers used to throw with such confidence in the prime of his career, and then even those couple of years when he really got a roll to the floor. And you watch him now, like we have to acknowledge he no longer can move.

He's getting peppered. Okay, he's forty years old coming off of Achilles, understandable. I feel like he just throws these lollipops like sometimes you see with Caleb, like he doesn't really know where it's going. Rogers never really played like that. It was either thrown it away or thrown a dart to a guy and hitting him in the hand. And now these balls go up into traffic like, well, I can't move to save this. I gotta get rid of it.

Fuck it. Well, I mean what it's the Jets, I mean what, Yeah, it feels like he's as loosey goosey because you've been on him as much as by far anybody that talks about, you know, football, that he really is sneaky, like kind of hides from risk taking. It's not really his thing. And now it's like he just kind of lets it go all over the place. So they have gone all in on this player who is you know, I mean, if Pete Rogers was a ninety eight out of one hundred, the guy they're getting now

is like seventy or something on good series. And he can look sometimes like a fifty and sometimes the ball just flies up. You're like, that could be a disaster. And that was never his thing, ever, his thing. So they got this player who is no longer good enough, like he's not a top ten quarterback in the end.

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and Morgan is easy. Okay, I got to talk about this. Texans beat the Colts twenty three to twenty. It's not an overly sexy game. I have so many notes on this game. So Chris Ballard is built. It's a good roster. Just offensive players. Jonathan Taylor, Stud Pittman, Josh Downs, workable tight ends with Shane Steinken. He cannot get close to completing fifty percent of his throws. His judgment's horrific. He is totally big play reliant.

enough to let's development over making the playoffs. Joe Flacco plays out this season like they're gonna win nine ten games and be in the playoffs. They could barely beat Miami last week with Huntley and Tim Boyle, I mean barely won that game. And it's because of the quarterback Jonathan Taylor. Every time I looked up today, he looked like Walter Payton out there jukend guys breaking tackles.

it all. But just to play quarterback, you have to be able to hit a wheel route, you have to be able to hit a quick out route, you have to be able to run the plays when they are working, and he cannot. And you get to a point where you know, for up until Josh Allen, most people thought it was impossible to improve accuracy. That's why most people

wouldn't touch you if you were an inaccurate quarterback. Like really, one of the only examples in like NFL history is like Warren Moon, who got dramatically more accurate as he got, but he was an complete outlier. And then Josh Allen, like, I'm pro just in generle in life, take a big swing, totally understood Anthony Richardson. But there's a huge risk reward

in that. Like this isn't like invested in the apple, Like this is invested in something that could go belly up or five hundred x. And right now you are staring bankruptcy in the face because you can't play. Obviously, the Texans are a playoff team. But you're you're playing shitty teams like Miami and getting by by the skin of your teeth because this guy can't complete basic routes. Everyone likes the high character guy works hard at the

highest level of pro sports. It's like, well, there gets to a point where all that stuff, Okay, we're rooting for, but are you good enough? And he's not even remotely close to like average on basic things. Yea, the most inaccurate quarterback in the NFL.

gonna roll with Flacco and go. Because I wouldn't be shocked if Flacco won five out of six games, I wouldn't be shocked. I like the Colts weapons, downs, Pittman, Taylor. I like their players.

like once in a generation players. Yeah, if I'm never been a big believer in you know, and I think we saw like the Kenny Picketts and Mac Jones versions are the worst case, Like they don't even have the physical skills and they're clearly not good enough the physical skills. I mean, he says, I was exhausted. Well, no shit, they have to run you because they can't pass because

when they passed, they got a punt. And I think we all acknowledge, like this guy's a really good coach and he's proven it now with countless different type quarterbacks. Like this is not a coaching thing, this is a basic Like some guys in basketball just can't shoot. They get with every coach under the sun, and that's ever gonna be able to shoot. Yeah, he could the best shooting coach in the history of the league. Nothing would change.

And I think that's the more you watch this kid play, You're like he would be inaccurate for the next ten years. But how much longer is he going to get to play? Because you could pull the trigger right now and go to Flacco Monday morning and just say, hey, we're gonna we're gonna give you a breather, buddy.

Then he could turn into like the thirteenth best. He was all over the map, but his high end, like you don't even really see that with the Anthony Rigson. Beside one give and throw, the other thing is Cam was a way more dominant runner I mean, Cam's the most physical runner in the history of the NFL. Yeah, I mean he was just bigger and stronger and played more powerful and he didn't break down early. I mean, this guy, every time he goes down, You're like, is

he gonna get back up? Like right now, Bryce Young is obviously has a chance to be a historic bust. He's probably not going to be on the Panthers next year. I don't know if this guy is that far away. He's just bigger, stronger, faster, right, I mean they're they're kind of similar, Like, what the hell's the difference of the two. Well, one guy plays actually in a better organization, one that when other functional quarterbacks come into play Minshew

and Flacco, they win. Yeah, so you could argue that there's really he's just bigger. He's a bigger, stronger, throws harder version of Bryce Young.

are not a good first quarter offense. This is a game he could have gotten behind and it could have unraveled. But as I watched this game, I had two big takeaways. Philadelphia, it feels like, to me, John, you're a former scout for the team and you have good context there. It feels like they're asking Jalen to do less in the passing game. They've just come to terms with We're not throwing at thirty eight times. That's not what we're gonna be. We're not gonna do that, and that's fine.

can't call the Chargers cheap anymore. Sinnati team they let go of mixing, which, by the way, even even very good quarterbacks need run games, right like even the good ones need run games. They've already moved off defensive players a year before they're gonna pay pay Jamar Chase.

it just snowballs and the Eagles ate them alive. To me, there was a talent gap today overall on the team. Oh god, yeah, pretty clear. I do think the Eagles, and this gets ties into the Giants, who will see Monday Night, Saquan's elevated their team. He's clearly one of the best players in the league. Jalen throws as pretty I would say, wouldn't you say Jalen is like the twenty sixteen version of Russell Wilson in terms of that

deep ball in the air. You think it's going to be completed to one of those two guys.

round pick. And I think I think Philadelphia, it's easy to fall in love with a player because he was so damn good with steiking. But since he's left and this is your reality, you know, today was the classic sixteen to twenty some runs. I think they just kept the game in front of Jalen Hurts.

it's like an automatic touchdown. There's nothing you can do. When have we ever seen that? Even if you stop it once, they go right back to it and then they score. Yeah. I mean they've had some injuries on the offensive line, so he was running around a little bit. But do I totally trust their defense, not but their talent. I mean, you get aj Brown, DeVante Saquan him, you'll end up getting god her back. Like how many Lions and the fully healthy forty nine ers. I mean there's

a short list. I watched the Chiefs, like, do they have one guy that would start on that team beside like of their skill guys, you know, even Travis Kelsey when he's now thirty five. If god HER's healthy, so you're just it is a special and Saquon clearly has this chip of proving himself and he's healthy. I mean he today he ran a guy over you get him in the open field. They've had good you know, the

DeAndre Swift used to be their running back. They've had Miles Sanders in the past, They've never had anything like this. This feels a little bit like remember when Jalen was at Oklahoma with Lincoln Riley. It's like, this feels like a collegiate offense. And the one thing that I think slows him down sometimes the coaching staff can kind of get a little tricky, and Jalen, you know, sometimes wants to prove he can be a pocket guy and get

himself in a little bit trouble. But I thought that second half, that's the best half of football the Eagles have played. It feels like in two years. No.

they're gonna go. So when you sign up, this goes back to Carson Palmer, like this organization, Like a lot of the complaints haven't just been entitled athletes bitching and moaning. This is this is, this shouldn't be this way, And you have to wonder, like what hell it took Dean Spanos, who's down in LA around the Dodgers and Lakers a long time to go Okay, I need a fifteen million dollar coach yep. And he wants to bring his three

four million dollar defensive coordinator. We'll do that too. It's gonna be the best thing he's ever done, because I mean, eventually, if they I trust, they'll build the thing up, they'll they they'll be in a super Bowl in three years. Yep. And they would not have been hiring these four or five million dollar coaches. And I listen, you can't tell me would Joe. I thought for most of the game like I was like, God, Joe looks good, and people wouldn't be lined up. But they're also not taking the

job for six million dollars. That's right, you're telling me Belichick wouldn't be interested in coaching Joe Burrow. I don't think he would be. I jut if the organization paid and they would listen to him. But they're not gonna change.

phenomenal good. But this is what coaching does. With Sean Payton Boone Nicks today who in his last game, I text Sean, I said, man, his mechanics are off. Sean's like, hey, the kid's great. We're gonna get it. Cleaned up three touchdowns, no picks, two hundred eighty yards, nine different wide receivers, tight end targets, only one penalty. When I was watching the game, there may have been more, but when I wrote it down, only one penalty. They were tremendous on

third down. No Carolina, I get it. Denver was picked to win five games by Vegas. They're at five and three halfway through the season. They are coaching the you know what out of this team, John, This is the defensive personnel. Remember, because of Russell Wilson, they didn't have any draft picks. They got the LS kid out of Utah. I think third round. They got Franklin, the wide receiver who dropped the ball right through his hands today, a

deep ball. And I don't even think bo Nix would be this good, and he struggled in the first month, but I watched him today backfoot confidence this. If you think we're being hard on Zach Taylor, Denver is squeezing every ounce of juice. You tell me how they're generating this pass rush. You tell me how bo Nix is thrown for three hundred yards behind kind of an okay offensive line. I watched Denver and I think that is coaching.

you have to google some of the guys the team. Yeah, this is not Neil Smith and Bill Romanowski that You're like, oh, these I don't even know who these guys are, and now we're gonna find out a lot more about him. On Thursday night playing that New Orleans team a week ago, I mean, that was kind of a joke squad. And I didn't eve think bo Nix was that good in that game. The Ravens and the Chiefs coming up. But hell,

they don't have to win those games. If you get to nine to eight with this roster and a rookie quarterback, what a great building spot. Now, this is the thing with hiring good coaches, Like look at Lafloor. He's six and two at a starting quarterback in and out of the lineup, completely unfaced. You're gonna look up. I don't know how many games Jordan Love who knows how long he's out. They're gonna be an eleven twelve win team no matter what. The power of that position in this

sport flies by everything else. Is it Aaron Boone's fault that Aaron Judge has no clue what's coming out of the pitcher's hand. There's nothing he can do right where in coaching you watch in college last night, Texas A and M has been one of the biggest jokes in college football the last couple of years, and you watch them now, you're like, Holy hell, this looks like Alabama or something. And it's because it's not even just about

the play calling. It's about the messaging. It's about the structure, it's about the discipline. It's about basic things like you know, how you practice the first ten minutes of warm ups, what is okay and what is not okay? If you come out with the wrong stuff, do I make you go back in and change or do I let it slide? And I think you just see the separating you see. The Jets are a good example. They got no clue what they're doing. It's one of the worst coaching staffs in the league.

They make it for a reason because you're gonna feel pretty good about them winning double digit games every year going forward. And the other thing that we don't talk a lot about with coaches, who do you hire your staff? It's one of the Harboff families great attributes. I would say Sean Payton for the most part, has always had good coaching staffs. Yes, Dan Campbell was assistant. Dennis Holland's not a good head coach, but he's an excellent defensive coordinator,

so he had a staff. And now, listen, I was skeptical of Vance Joseph. You gotta give him a lot of credit. Like their defense is flying around. So that's your job is more than just calling plays or the draft, like it encompasses a lot.

today You're like, now again it's Carolina. But I'm seeing this time and time again when they beat the Jets, we thought it was a fluke. No, Denver is better with Bo Nicks. They're a better football team than the Jets with Aaron Rodgers, and the Jets have significantly better players overall.

Aaron Rodgers in a like a semi tropical storm. Peyton won't get Coach of the Year, but he should be honorable mention because I think what he's doing with this roster is incredible.

And now you watch him today lose to Arizona. They're soft, I mean, and they really have been down the stretch of the last last year when they should have cruised to that division championship right in the AFCs. Then you watch them this year I'm not blaming them for poor offense when TWA gets the concussion, but the whole team just falls apart. And then you get him back and

they look dramatically better. Like Mike McDaniel like, yeah, you can scheme up some good plays, but can he be a good head coach, And to me, the answer is no, and they're gonna be terrible. And then you look around the league at some of these other guys, like like Demiko, he's got injuries, he's got all sorts of shit going,

his quarterback's not playing well. And then you just look up there's like, yeah, they're gonna be like twelve five like you just some guys just really know what they're doing. And because like when times get tough, Tom Win's a good example of this, the standard in which you make guys practice every day has to be really fit. It's really easy now to just another walk through. You don't need to do pads today, Like that's just not allowed

certain places. And then that translates to these games, because eighty percent of the games you play in the NFL are gonna be pretty tightly contested in the second half. This is not college football where you look up and it's thirty to ten in half the games. That's not the way the NFL works.

two things, urgency, the games have to matter and stars. Well, there's no urgency in baseball until October, like none, and the sport doesn't have a bunch of stars. And then Otani goes to the Dodgers, Aaron Judge, Yankees start, you know, get to the World Series and Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper. Now you got about four guys who you can just put on the screen and people go, oh, that's Mookie Betts,

Oh that's show. Heyo, Tani, I'm watching that game. I don't remember a world I grew up with the Reds Red Sox in nineteen seventy six, Bench Rose, Morgan, Perez, Carlton Fisk, you know, like like like you go back. I can remember the names now. Yeah, but I'm looking at that game and I'm thinking Jesus, there's seven Hall of Famers here. Now Judge is having a terrible World Series. And I had said before the series, I think shoe Hey is the best player in the series. I think

Mookie Betts is actually the second best player. Is versatility, shortstop, second base, outfielder, speed, average power. But it proves once again, the consumer is always right. The consumer was telling you for years, we're just not that interested in Alabama. Georgia college football dipped for about a six year eight year stretch. It got too regional. The audience said, we're fatigued with Alabama Clemson. Now college football ratings are going up. Alabama

doesn't dominate. George's not quite as good. Here comes Texas, Here comes Ohio State, Here comes Oregon. The audience tells you what to do as a talk show host. And I watched the National League Playoffs the Dodgers Padres, and I'm like, there's like, there's like eight great players here, Dodgers.

like that, I mean he could barely make content. You're just useless. Remember a Rod had some moments when he was on the Yankees. When he got there, You're like, ah, they're gonna move him down in the lineup. You're just you're just worthless. And to me that's even more riveting. It's like, is this guy gonna get it? Can this guy even get back to the ball? And to me that I just think we've obviously haven't seen this matchup since when like nineteen eighty one, So it's part of it.

You know, you said the Alabama Georgia thing, you felt if we got Dodgers Yankee seven years in a row, wouldn't quite feel as cool.

I mean, it was really interesting in Game one when Aaron Boone and I thought to him myself, this is gonna be a bullpen series, especially for the Dodgers.

you face the Dodgers lineup. It's I mean you and I. I watch it because it's in the summer. I just keep baseball games are on in the house. The Dodgers have had forty different pitchers and they're in the World Series. What does that tell you about their lineup? Forty different pitchers.

were the pitchers. Yes, you know, because those guys on any given moment could go one hundred and thirty pitches complete game and he had eighty eight. It's not like it's one thing. It's like, well, we didn't want to push him past one ten eighty eight pitches and he was mowing people down, mowing that That's that's insane. Even last night with Otani's buddy from Japan, what they pull him with like eighty five, Like what are we doing here?

What's this is the World Series? This isn't this isn't August. But well, that's the sport.