Colin Cowherd Podcast - Ravens Blow Out Bills, Vikings Best In The NFL? Commanders Cruising, Eagles Get Smoked, Jets Lose Ugly

slash Amazon Prime for details. All right, little instant reaction as Baltimore did everything right and hammered Buffalo. We're going to have a really really long breakdown of many of the games this weekend, including Alabama Georgia with John Middelkoff in about ten minutes. So you know this, Buffalo and Baltimore, two teams that met tonight, are both were to good teams, great cores, really solid coaches, excellent organizations, front offices, draft

developed well. But they're they're unlike Kansas City, which wins all these games. Kansas City never blows you away all year long. Usually when you're a dynasty. You know, Steph Katie Klay Thompson in their prime, Bama in their prime, Yukon women's basketball, Yokovic and tennis. When you get dominant players Serena, they jumped through the TV. I mean, it's just they're just exhilarating blowout wins. Kansas City doesn't give

you that. Kansas City just plays close and wins, which I do think eventually now with Rashi Rice perhaps out for the year, cross your fingers on that. Maybe that's that's the tipping point. But Baltimore in any Sunday can look like the best team in the world. And Buffalo last Monday looked like the best team in the world, and yet the Ravens lost at home to the Raiders and the Bills that I weren't even competitive. So those teams are just Baltimore to me is so highly emotional.

Half to half, I mean, their first half statistics in the last two weeks between the Cowboys and Baltimore and then the Bills tonight in Baltimore, I mean, it's remarkable. Their efficiency, their power, they're dynamic. You don't quite know ever what you're going to get half to half from Baltimore. But tonight's one of those nights. Where everything went well, Derek Henry big eighty seven yard run to start it,

and just gashing Buffalo. So I like Baltimore in this game to win because I thought stylistically they Buffalo hadn't faced a team like this yet, and you know, Baltimore is Chris Collins were set at tonight. They're like facing one of those academy teams in college that runs you know, you know, you think it's an outdated, weird offense. It's hard to practice for it, especially in a short week. There's nothing like Baltimore and Lamar Jackson in the league,

So I just thought that played in there. But in the second half, Buffalo had, you know, just for a minute, had a little momentum. They were running the ball pretty well, and then they tried a weird trick play. And listen, if you're gonna do trick plays, I'm a fan of them. About every third or fourth week. They have to work because any trick play that fails, you look like the worst coach in the face of the earth. The McDermott was just getting killed when they are the offensive coordinator

Joe Brady when they make that call. But it wasn't going to be Buffalo's night. You could tell from the first half all the energy, the tackling wasn't great, just was going to be Baltimore's night, and last week was going to be Buffalo's night. Those two teams, I mean, on any the three teams in this league that in any half can look unbeatable, or the Minnesota Vikings, the

Buffalo Bills, and the Baltimore Ravens. And so when Derreck Henry now is finally cooking for them and Lamar Jackson, I will you know, I've defended Lamar Jackson for years, and my take is all these quarterbacks are different, some tall, some short, you know, some more running, some better pocket. I love Stafford, Aaron Rodgers in the pocket. I like Lamar out of it. The guy who wins seventy six percent of his games and take away the Kansas City Chiefs.

He wins big games, just beat the Cowboys, just beat the Bills convincingly in both. He's just so damn dynamic. There's nothing else on the planet like him. And so, you know, I used to kind of be like, you got to be a pocket quarterback. Wiggle a little. The game's changed, the rules have changed, and you know it took everybody about a year to figure out if he could play. But you could just see tonight Buffalo's totally out of sorts, Lamar playing with a ton of confidence.

And you know, we live in a weird world now where you can present people with evidence. You can literally present people with evidence. I see it in politics all the time, and people just don't want to believe it. And it's like, you can look at all the passing numbers for Lamar Jackson fourth quarter passing in the pocket passing, you know, he's very good, He's better than average. He's

obviously the greatest running quarterback of all time. But this idea that he can't throw from the pocket now Jalen hurts from the pocket, I don't think it's great. You know, Russell Wilson from the pocket, I don't think was great. Lamar's really above average from the pocket, and tonight he was hitting and they finally furnished him with decent wide receivers. Mark Andrews doesn't feel like the player he was about

two years ago. Tight Ends tend to age fast, more collisions they're asked to block, their bodies get beat up. So about the time Mark Andrews feels like he slowed down a little bit. You know, they finally drafted and developed some young wide receivers, but everybody was hitting tonight on all cylinders. And so that's why, you know, when Baltimore got off to a sluggish start, I said, you know, there's too well run of an organization to bail on him.

And I really do think there are about eight organizations in this league that are really really well run. You know, we all know Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore. It's not just winning their well run. I think the Rams aren't playing well because they're all beat up. They're well run. San Francisco's well run. Generally, Philadelphia is well run. And then there's about a third of the league that's a circus, you know, impulsive owner, you know, too many kids in

the front office from the owner. They're just not particularly sharp. So Buffalo and Baltimore are going to be around at the end of the season. This league is crazy. I guess you know we're going to talk about this with John my surprise team this year. Before the season started, I said, keep your eye on Washington. So we've been right on that. Minnesota's playing Minnesota maybe the best coach team in the league, offensive head coach and defensive coordinator.

They're Buffalo's. Minnesota's defense is playing well, and it's not a highly heralded defense. But I think I think the early indications are Minnesota feels completely for real to me. Coaching, quarterback play, weapons, they feel absolutely real to me. Washington is really fascinating offensively. I think the coaching and the quarterback play is like kind of mind blowing for a rookie. I still think they're fairly awful on the back end

of their defense. And the question for Washington is if they start peeling off wins, here, are they one of those teams at the trade deadline that thinks we're going to be a playoff team and can win playoff games. Do they go out and make a move at the trade deadline. I could see them doing that. Some draft capital go get a player. Washington. Their efficiency on offense, I keep saying, regression of the mean, it's going to pull back. I bet against them this weekend. I thought

Arizona would win. It's just unheard of. It's like they're setting all sorts of records. Minnesota feels more legit than Washington. When Washington gets into the heart of their schedule. I don't think it's gonna look like this. I watched Tampa Bay run through them like a hot knife. But Washington and Minnesota two NFC teams. I'll tell you this. Here's the other thing that jumps out to me.

starved franchises that haven't had great owners. Washington's got new ownership, Chicago's same old ownership, but they've got their quarterbacks.

game because I could see two different things happening. And one of the things I can see happening is Jordan Love without a lot of in game reps against Brian Flores and just being rusty, just being off. I mean, Brock Purdy and CJ. Stroud were like, this defense is insane. I've never seen anything like it. And I did feel like Jordan just kind of it was moving real fast for him, and I mean they're special teams. Their defense

it wasn't good either. Green Bay had I think seven penalties in the first half, but I did give them. I mean they made it tight. Is it a fair defense of Jordan Love? Is this may be the best defensive coordinator you're not getting in game reps? This is a lot. I mean, this thing made Brock Purdy and CJ. Stroud look lost. Is that fair?

matter what, you play right if you can. And by the end of the game, he definitely looked a little bit better. But here's the thing, Colin, and this goes back to last year and even before he got injured in the Eagles games, he could be really sloppy with his footwork. Yes, and maybe he took good notes from Aaron Rodgers. I would say Aaron Rodgers is one of the only players that has ever gotten away with it at the level in which he's gotten away with it.

You know, far balls. He threw a lot of interceptions, right, I mean, it's it's not normal to throw the ball constantly off your back foot forty yards and the when you're playing a high end defense. I did a little research the last couple of weeks because I was like, do people in the league think Minnesota is for real? The Niners and the Texans both responded, Hell yeah. Then they came out today, Kevin O'Connell and Sam Donald that first half look like Joe Montana and Bill Walsh and

obviously their defensive coordinator. Like after that first half, it wasn't even close. No team was in their realm of level of play through three weeks and a half. It's not the Chiefs, not any other team in the league. And honestly, well, I guess we'll see the Bills the night, but not the complete game, the defense and the offense and the weapons they have. Colin So you ran into a buzzsaw, but you can't throw interception. He wore a

far of jersey to the game. Jordan loved it, and he played a lot like him in the first half, flinging it all over to the other team.

things speed up. They'll get really loose. We've seen by the way Stafford earlier in his career could do this where you know, when things break down, you're running for your life, you're moving, you're trailing, you're just trying to make plays. So I give Jordan Love a little bit of a pass. But I think the thing with Donald that's unbelievable is that his precision. I mean he had

sep twenty to twenty eight seven rushes. So you're getting all the upside that we always knew with Donald, which was guy can make plays, a big, strong guy, and we're getting none of the reckless. So I was, I was texting with a friend in the league today. He goes, Minnesota's got the best coaching staff in the league right now,

top to bottom, the best coaching staff. Everything's hitting, and this is an offensive league, and we always know who the hot offensive coordinator is Ben Johnson a couple of years ago. Last year, we don't talk about the hot defensive coordinator. Mike McDonald for Baltimore was But you're over shadowed because it's an offensive league. Brian Flores, people forget when he was in Miami, take the two a thing out.

He takes a mess over. They're not very good for about four weeks they get pretty interesting for four and by week eight Miami had elite defense and special teams, and he has worked hard. Flores has to clean up his reputation. When Tua bagged on him, he immediately addressed it and apologized. He smiles. Kevin O'Connell, by the way, have you noticed this is letting Brian talk at press conferences. He's giving him an opportunity to like, hey man, we're

going to rehab your image here a little bit. Brian is smiling. I mean clearly Minnesota like knows what they have, knows they're not going to keep forever. He's going to get a job. We'll rehab your reputation. But I think what Flores is doing Jordan Love, Brock Purtty, c. J. Stroud look completely lost.

and his athleticism showing up. This is a guy went from like, oh, he's gonna get a good contract to every game that goes by, it's like, what is this team gonna do? I mean, you don't let a quarterback who's playing like this walk out the building. You just don't. And with every passing week, I mean that they are dominating these games. I'm sorry when you go up twenty eight to nothing. We saw it in this game. We

saw it in the Alabama game. It's a little bit different for the offense in the second half than when the game is, you know, ten to seven in the third quarter. Just the corners, the DB's, the coordinators are not calling the same things, but their speed on offense is eye opening. I mean, Jefferson is an all time talent. I mean he just jumps off the screen. Addison is a fantastic player and the play calling everyone in the league.

You talk to him, I talk to him. Kevin is just like a very humble, low key, you know, former quarterback, good looking guy, but he does carry it. You know. Jim Harbaugh carries himself like a big swing and Dick Kevin O'Connell when he's a pretty mellow, low key you wouldn't know he was San Diego State, you know, just drafted by the pat Patriots. You wouldn't know he's a

former NFL quarterback just watching him on the screen. But as a play caller, I mean he's right up there immediately with the Andes and the Kyles, and then he a couple of years ago, remember how bad their defense was and hiring Flores. It's it's they look like a juggernaut right now now. Yeah, I mean you never know Donald in some of these bigger games. There's just you won't know it till he plays it. But he keeps answering the bell against the best teams of the league.

out of sorts. I'm gonna give it a little bit of a green Bay pass just because of It's like your first test is a calculus test in college, Like that was a tough one for Jordan Love to walk into that defense and that momentum. But it's not And I love Sam Darnold, but this story is equal Donald's redemption and resurrection and the defense it is shutting people down. I think Green Bay is gonna be fine. Now for a segment called making It Look Easy, brought to you

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going to pivot to another game. Ram Chicago. Chicago beat the Rams twenty four eighteen, and again Rams don't have Pooka Cooper their best offensive linemen. If they did, I think they win this game. They just couldn't convert. They're not They can't convert in the red zone very well. They don't have playmakers. Every drive for the Rams feels like it has to be like a seventy play drive.

But I thought Caleb Williams today speaking of the North. Now, again the Rams weren't fully staffed, but I thought Caleb Williams today with a run game, so Swift had I think seven catches, they had one hundred and twenty five yards rushing. Therefore, the offensive line was better because the defense had to be honest. I thought Caleb looked and again they had these young quarterbacks. Even Jaden Daniels can struggle with this. You know, the motion penalties they go

on the road or it's loud. I mean, even Jordan Love, Aaron Rodgers today the Jets had five of them. That's tough. But I thought Caleb today looked, feet were better, poised, o line better, and he had a run game. And it's like, yeah, that's I thought Caleb played really well.

score is insanity. It's one thing when you got paid Manning or Aaron Rodgers and you're not setting the guy up for success. And I'm with you, I like, they just have to find a way now they kind of like bench swift. But then he started making plays. They were saying during the week they were gonna give other running backs a shot, maybe to give him a little kick in the ass, Like you're dancing around too much.

We paid you to depend on you to help this young guy out and he just listen, you don't turn the ball over. The reason we talk about turnover so much and here coaches talking because in these NFL games, even early in the slate, you're like this, this seven games going on right now is terrible. Half of them are all tight in the fourth quarter. So you give

the ball away. It's pretty devastating. And he doesn't throw a pick and you're only throwing the ball twenty three times, Like that's a successful strategy against you know, most teams that you're gonna play. But you cannot ask this guy to throw the ball fifty times a game and think that's conducive to winning. Not with the guy playing the fourth game of his career who has a little hero ball syndrome to him. Yes, so when you're asking him to do it a lot, it's gonna get a.

knows defense because you have to. They don't give you a lot of freebies. The Rams today again they had didn't have Cooper Puka, so it makes it really difficult. But when I watch Chicago today, I guess the word I would use is the one you used formula. I'm like, oh, yeah, this this will work. They've they played even when they led, it was just the off. It's just amazing, what a decent it doesn't You don't have to rush for two

hundred yards one hundred and thirty. Just Swift popped about five runs, several catches and it just that's the formula. I still think this is going to be a seven win team, but John, it will feel better than last year's seven win team. You'll look at it and go, oh, we didn't have Keenan for a bunch of games. The defense is excellent. It feels when I watch Caleb play and justin fields, I feel sometimes justin fields is it's he's lost. Caleb's wildly talented, he just sometimes misses easy throws.

But I kind of I feel like today a couple of times his expression doesn't change, he doesn't get down. There was a couple of the clocks winding down. I just felt, justin I just felt Caleb felt under control today.

I think the problem though, big picture, if the Bears only end up with seven or eight, you know, you just got coaching flux. Then you got new coordinators and then you got more movement. I mean, that's just always an issue whenever we talk about young quarterbacks and just young teams in general, because they do have a lot

of talents. But if you couldn't win this game, Colin the Rams, you know, understaffed coming off a big win, so you know they can inhale a little bit that ten am kickoff for a West Coast team long trip. This was if you're not winning this game, you're probably instead of heading for seven or eight, might be heading for five or six. So this was a big game for Chicago at home. Quiet the crowd a little bit because the fans, they're like, what the hell's going on here?

Partly because the expectations were so high. That's why think about with Jayden Daniels, both of them, I mean, these guys went one too. Both of them won the last two Heismans. But the expectations for Jaden weren't nearly as high as Caleb just because of the Avalanche hype. Really over the course of his college career from three years ago when he came in for Spencer Rattler in a Kansas game and ripped the ball out of the guy's hands.

And you watch Jayden Daniels and you go, I don't know how you could look much better, just in terms of calm, poise, deep ball accuracy, accuracy across the field, just zero freak out whenever there's a rush, throwing guys open, like to me right now. And it's not apples to apples. They're playing on different teams. His offensive coordinators clearly better. They sculpted an offense around him that just fits. He's

in the shotgun. But Kingsbury's added more physical run game by Adam Anthony Lynn, who they stole from the Niners, who's kind of an old school running back guy, and it's just working. And I don't know how many games, how good their defense is. Ultimately, the Cardinals might just suck, But just if you just watch him independent of everything, you go, holy shit, this guy's this guy's got a lot going for him.

It's some guys, it's a strength. Like Sam Darnold. I always feel like has to kind of have his feet set to throw the ball accurately. Yeah, Jaden Daniels, it's just Washington. On run plays, on screenplays, it feels there's so much space. I feel like it's easier. Jayden Daniels is it's just easy looking to.

of carry. Their run game fundamentally like what I grew up around football. Pat Hill. Andy Reid's a little more physical than Cliff Kingsbury, but he has mastered what he does, that shotgun run, and it's working right now for them, and clearly as quarterback is comfortable in that, and their offense has got to be one of the more fun units in the league to watch. But when you're completing at that accuracy, like Caleb still has passes where you're like, god, yeah, it's a little off.

got a long way to go. But the odds, you know, Caleb was like plus one fifty to win Rookie of the Year. This guy was like five to one. I mean, he's he's got a lot of momentum right now. If he keeps this up. I mean, look at the division, Cowboys and shambles, bunch of injuries. Eagles look like trash. We know the Giants aren't going to win many games. Maybe you were right, maybe this is a playoff team, not even a playoff team. I mean, could they win the division? Long way to go?

I've supported him, it's an issue. But I was talking to him about Cliff and he said, listen, he said, Cliff now has tried head coaching twice. It hasn't worked. He says, but when you sit down with him and interview him, the reason he got head coaching jobs. He's a really a brilliant guy. He's just not he's he's not a disciplinarian. Things got a little loose, right, like like it would get loose. But Kime told me when he went to Washington, he goes that jad and Daniels

kid could not literally get a better guy. First of all, he's not a yellowness screamer. He's a teacher. He's fun. He likes to make it fun. He gives you, he watches what you do, manufactures and offense based solely on what you do. And because Jaden moved, Cliff was banging on the table for this guy. He's like, guys, I don't want to hear about J. J. McCarthy. This is the guy. This is the guy. So he went all in on this. Adam Peters, the new GM, dan Quinn,

they listened to Cliff. Cliff was like, this is it, and it's just this is very true. Brian Flores is the best defensive coordinator in football. His personality got in the way of his coaching as a head coach. Cliff's personality the opposite of Flora's. It's not intense, he doesn't bark, he doesn't discipline. Cliff's the opposite. So Flores in Kingsbury

are the antithesis of each other. But in both instances, one guy is too intense or was, and one guy doesn't want to manage and discipline and you.

winning the math game. They just looked like, I mean, these runs, John, these running backs aren't having to create anything off contact. They're getting four and five yard runs before anybody initiates contact. It just it just looks so easy. Maybe I'm waiting for them to struggle and get into a fistfight, but it's like they just it's just up down seven on seven.

management spots. But in football, the number two spot, whether you're the offensive or defensive coordinator, especially on a team where the head coach is the opposite, pays you like two to five million dollars and you have no responsibility when someone gets injured, when someone gets DUI, when who knows what happens, which we've all followed the NFL long enough.

Literally everything happens. Ain't year problem. You're still getting paid three million dollars and it's got to be one of the best jobs in It's still you spend a lot of time. It's a lot of work, but in terms of the amount of money you're getting paid in the when you're great like Flores or Kingsbury, whoever the best coordinate Steve Spagnola, and none of the responsibilities on you and you Basically in those guys individual spots, they kind of get to be the head coach of their group. Right.

Kevin O'Connell's not telling Flores what to do. Dan Quinn's not telling Kingsbury what incredible gig now there is. I understand there's a big difference between three million dollars and fourteen million dollars or ten million dollars. But some of these guys, especially once they've tried it, like you could do this for a long period of time and just

become a legend doing this. Like where is Cliff I would imagine maybe not the NFL, but like over the next couple of years, colleges are gonna call him again, right Yeah, And they pay a lot. I think forty guys make over four million dollars. I mean, you make a lot of money and you don't have to answer to anybody. Hard to get a better gig than that that he's got going right now right in why And I'd say same thing for Flores. I do think Flores

is gonna battle. You know, like you said, did you see the viral clip of Kyle lightening into Brandon Ayuk for wearing the wrong shorts? It came out. It came out on Friday, Brandon, and you came to practice with the wrong shorts, you know, in the regular season only, like the press is only allowed there out there for fifteen minutes, so it's the only time they were out there, and Kyle went up to him and lit him up. I mean it was kind of embarrassing. For Ayuk, like

there's a dress code. He has the different shorts than literally the entire team, and that's type stuff. You know. Some coaches, like one thing I heard about Cliff is like, oh, just let that fly, let that go, and you can't like that ain't flying. And Kyle's not you know, Belichick here. But it's hard being like that's on you as a

head coach. Little things like the wrong socks, right, And I think Flora is dealing with the quarterback because that is kind of like the heartbeat of the organization is not really going to be anything. He's gonna be able to answer as a coordinator. But eventually, if you're that good, you know someone's gonna give him another because he's he's not good. I mean right now, he's elite. Like you said, yes,

defense more than offense too. It's usually about like you got to have the Jimmy's and the Joe's and who do they got? Harrison Smith's like my age, I mean, who who what are they? John Randall's not on the defensive line. What are they going out there? In Minnesota? So it's yeah, those two guys right now, you're talking coordinators of the year through four weeks. I mean it's Brian Floras and Cliff Kingsbury kicking everybody's ass well.

of pressure on McCarthy, Sirianni Dable. That Washington building right now is like, how good. That's one of the best flights the Washington football team has flown in a decade. Arizona to DC five hours that flight that sas big. I mean, if you're a Commanders fan, that you haven't seen that kind of competency forever.

within the pocket. And like you said, Philadelphia, that that place you can only have and maybe who knows, maybe Tampa and Jason Lyt and Todd Bowles just a great matchup against the Eagles. I mean they've kicked their ass twice in the last whatever six games, right the playoff game and in this one. But you don't get too many of those when you come into the season with the pressure spending all this money and that thing, that

thing was on, and it was on. It was twenty one to nothing before you even blinked time.

Philadelphia sixteen Eagles looked unprepared. You know, I was thinking about this time of possession thirty six minutes to twenty three. I mean, it wasn't close. And Philadelphia is the kind of team because of their offensive line prowess through the years. They do that to teams where they just play keep away. You know, Jalen Hurts may not get your touchdowns all the time in the red zone, but they dominate time

of possession. They usually are that kind of team. Detroit can do that now with their offensive line for them to get dominated. I was sitting and watching that game and I thought, so, they're not dominating time possession. They're not tackling well. Hurts is eighteen for thirty. They were outgained by I wrote it down here at one point two and twenty yards. I don't know where it finished, but it was close to that. They don't do anything well right now. Saquon Barkley a great player, and you

can't use injuries anymore. Like, there's no question Philadelphia. The Chargers they're beat up. I mean the Rams they're beat up. It happens, but I can still see things the Rams do or teams that are beat up do, and I'm like, oh, that's that's good football. I don't know what Philadelphia does well. And again I thought this.

who have injuries all over the place. Mahomes lose, Mahomes literally takes out his best receiver, probably blows out his knee. You know, Herbert's out back there running for his life. But when you watch him you go, these are two special players, right right. You watch Jalen and you watch him when he's off, and you go, this is it's

hard to function. That game wouldn't have been as close as it was, Colin, if Saquon hadn't busted like this sixty yard run that led him to a touchdown, that was looking like it's going to be like forty to ten, and Saquon just busted a huge run and they scored a touchdown. But that game wasn't remotely close. And when it's off for Jalen, like you said, injuries, literally the

whole league's Herbert right now. Yeah, so it's like you still got Dallas Goddard, pro bowler, he still got pro ballers on your offensive line, you got Saquon Barkley, you got more than functional wide receivers with I don't think Tampa's exactly got Dion Sanders Dereaux reeves back there right now, and you just watch him. He gets down and you go, I don't see it. I don't see it. Like I'm watching perty today and I'm watching Jalen Hurts and I go,

I don't even think it's close. Just a guy that calm can make throws, and you watch Jalen and he kind of feels like the guy that you saw at Oklahoma that everyone thought like, is this an NFL quarterback? Now, clearly he's better than that. But once I give him two hundred million dollars, the expectations quadruples, and you watch him and you go, well, I'm watching Baker and I'm watching this guy. It ain't even close. Who's got the better quarterback?

Shane Steichen. And I think I feel the same way about Darnald, Like if you gave him Sam a bad coach Tom in sixty games from now, it wouldn't look this good. Like how about this. Jalen's closer to Sam Darnold in that he needs absolutely two or three things for it to work. He's talented, but he's not talented enough to overcome mediocre coaching.

he's still in charge. You ultimately work for him if you're one of these coordinators, but you kind of don't because what's he really telling you to do, especially if you're Fangio and I think the Eagles tried to pass. I mean, I think they thought long and hard last year, clearly after they got just molly wopped in that wild card game against Tampa about firing him and just hiring Belichick.

I think that was a long and hard decision. And a lot of times when you make a long and hard decision, I think you could say this about a personal relationship if you're like anything, a break up with her six months later, like I probably should have done it back then, firing somebody, you know, I think it's the same. And I think you're kind of seeing you're

always gonna have injuries. But this Sirianni thing is, can you imagine the discussion tomorrow just in Philadelphia, and like these players, the coaches, Howie that they all hear it. It's like no one's like putting their ear muffs on what's going around. It's one of the last cities in America or radio's massive, The local television shows do huge numbers.

The Eagles are their Yankees, and you lose it's football that they got bludgeoned by a team that literally just knocked them out of their playoffs and ruined their season, and you might have to see again in the playoffs. And that's just And I think it gets back to also, Sirianni and the conversation is going to start coming up more as a quarterback good enough? You know, was that year two years ago? Perfect situation, perfect boss, perfect coordinator

gonna be an outlier year? Cam Newton had one, right, the MVP year, Matt Ryan had one, Kyle Shanahan. It happens to players. Perfect situation, confidence is high, great coordinator, whatever, and you look back at the course of their career and you go, yeah, he ended up making two hundred and fifty million dollars, but how many great seasons does he have now? Matt Ryan and Cam Newton I think

are better players than Jalen Hurts. I mean, there's a reason one guy went one the other guy went three, like Jalen was the second round pick that most people thought, like was that a little rich? I thought that, And listen, I've been wrong. I thought he was a running back and I didn't think he threw the ball well enough. And he still doesn't throw It's weird. He throws a good deep ball, but he can't. Like you watch Herbert today,

doesn't matter where his feet are. That thing is he could throw a rocket anywhere on the field all angles soak In Mahomes, Jalen simply can't yea if his feet aren't set at the pocket, the ball like flies, It flutters, just it's not a pretty ball. Colin.

for they just they're always good. Now he's got Saquon, so you have a very loud city, good well owned, smartly run I'm gonna be less patient. All you can't always have. Let's be honest. If you get a great coordinator. Stikin was going to get a job. Tom Telesco when he ran the Chargers told me because Herbert had Stike in his first year. He's like, we're not going to be able to keep this guys. Guy's way too. It's

the same with a kid in Houston, Ben Johnson. They thought they lost, but he exit stage right on the plane, got off, it came back. So the truth is you can't have a quarterback in pam a fortune if everything's right now. Is Josh Allen better with Brady than Dorsey, but he's still wildly productive when he didn't have the right guy. And so you get to a point with Philadelphia's history is John they're not patient. You shouldn't have to have a quarterback. It shouldn't have to be perfect

for it to be good. Jesus Rashi Rice out for the Chargers. Their online this year is not very good. Last year they had horrible receivers. No, not everybody as Mahomes. But my take is with Jalen Hurts, is this a guy where everything has to be right, because when healthy, it's almost all right.

now of Jalen, you know, and the Sirianni thing. So it's like I'm four moving on. Like, if you're not good enough, you're not good enough. There's a bottom line business. I also think though, you know, the Carson Wentz was right at the tipping point when contracts were big, and now they're like historically massive. It does get a little more difficult with dead cap and signing bonuses, like to

just cut it off after a year or two. You know, like this guy's getting another coach, like when sirianni Let's gets fired at the end of the year, which I think we'd all bet on right now because this team's not going to go to the super Bowl, Like, Jalen's getting another year and it'll be very fascinating. Also, like how interested are people to work with them? Because it's it's kind of complicated, right, He's not just a plug and play guy. It's not like Lamar's not either, but

everyone would have no problem doing that. You know, Jalen's like he's fast, but he's not running by everybody. He's got a good arm, but he's a little inaccurate at times, not that confident as a thrower. So it's you know, is that Belichick and Josh McDaniel's written all over you? I don't know. But where else is he going? I mean, I'm looking at Trevor Lawrence barely throwing for one hundred and fifty yards, Doug Peterson's owing four. He's gonna get

ran out of town. These gave that guy two hundred million dollars. I mean, yeah, is that just a plug and play job? I don't know what this is.

not a ton of pressure. I mean, let's be honest. Jacksonville. You know, they're occasionally interesting.

defense that I like that I could use easily. You look at Jacksonville. Everyone goes there and loses. Everybody, Yeah, every single person and the cons everyone seems to like them in the media. I don't know him personally, but everyone goes there and fails and fails hard, and like sometimes we have to admit, like Trevor Lawrence got up more than Jalen Hurts. I mean they gave him two

hundred million dollars guaranteed in that contract. Like Jalen's is starting to kick in, Like this thing kicks in like after this year. Right, if you're Trevor Lawrence, he just might not be very good Colin. I mean, it just might be that simple. We've seen infinitely more at a Jalen Hurts than we have at Trevor Lawrence at this time. I would choose Philadelphia in a heartbeat, because one the owner has a history of like, I'll do whatever it takes.

What do you need, coordinators, help you want me to rip down a building, build you a new one for a facility for the players, he'll do anything where it's like I also think if your Bill you kind of like the bright lights, you know, your Bill freaking Belichick, Vince Lombardi, you know this is this go to Jacksonville like one. I'm not saying he would choose that, but I would hope if it came down to those two, he would choose Philadeli.

enormous pressure. Aaron Rodgers got banged all day fifteen times, multiple sacks, hits. They could not protect him. They had I think five either delay of games or offensive penalties at the line of scrimmage. I thought the Jets looked out of sync. Aaron had no time. Aaron took a beating today, and that's the second game in a Row Denver's defense. Denver's defense, you know they drafted a couple of guys on that side. It's it's playing really well.

I think it's playing over its head. But the bigger, my bigger takeaway was undisciplined penalties on the Jets. Maybe it's an outlier. Aaron got crushed. They couldn't protect him, and that's not an elite defense in the eyes. We're not talking Kansas City, even Buffalo Baltimore. And by the way, Jets have Minnesota next in London. So this was like, get the layups. This was a layup, extra prep time. Lose to Denver. This is where Aaron kind of called Saula out after the game on some of his stuff.

Does it go sideways or do you just say bad weather game?

you can't get to twelve or fifteen. And this just gets back and even Aaron says after the game, like, yeah, the weather was bad in the first half, but I was making bad throws. He's running for his life. Yeah, I mean there are several times we were like, Aaron, you better get ot a bounce and he's running as hard as he can to get because they're coming for him. And you know, this gets back to what a Denver half.

They have one of, if not the best corner in the league, and where they put that guy on their best wire receiver, so it was harder for them to operate. And some of these other guys they are not exactly rolling out. This is not Green Bay. They're not going three deep at that position. They're so dependent on him and when he couldn't and it was gonna be hard, especially in the first half it was just torrential downpour.

Its hard. You have to win that game. But you know what, Colin do They Their head coach is Robert Sala, who, now let's just look at his history. Nice guy, not winning a lot of games, and we just don't trust their coaching staff. So it's like, vance, Joseph's come a long way from last year around this time and give it up seventy points. This year's doing a really good job because, like you said that, they're not exactly rolling

out Pro bowlers everywhere on defense. But who are you taking just in a game, bad weather, game, weird situation, Sean Payton, Robert Sala even if you don't know the quarterbacks, you're taking Sean Payton every day of the week. And that was a type game where it's like, well, I thought the Jets are supposed to be gritty and tough. It's like, okay, you're playing the Patriots, and listen, you and I and anyone that watch gave Aaron a lot

of credit. Looked really good. I watched the Patriots play the forty nine ers a day and the Niners treated a thing like a practice in one by twenty. I mean things, they're a joke. They're not any good. So okay, you get it's the NFL. You want to win, But like, did we put too much stock in that game? Because I'm watching today it's like, well, where's your grittiness and toughness. This is a type game where your defense gets a

couple of touch downs. Weird game, but you win seventeen to ten, but you score nine points nine points like that's just and it comes down to a field goal on a bad weather game that the dude missed.

they got boat raced by San Francisco. They looked awful today. To me, this team has had one really good game against As we watched the Niners hammer New England, the worst team in the league, I think we're over. If the Jets played in Indianapolis, US, you know, I think we don't like their head coach. We know the coordinator is suboptimal. The offensive line today got worked by a hyper aggressive defensive front without a pro bowler. I mean, I just I mean Denver was beat up. I think

in the linebacking corps. I mean I watched that game and I'm like, Okay, don't be too harsh, but you that is not extra prep and that was the offense.

Like that's a game where you're running it NonStop. But Aaron gets to play call, Like does he listen to everything that Taniel hacking? I don't blame him because in Aaron's mind, I know more football. I'm smarter than this guy, and the only reason he's there is because of him. It's a very weird dynamic. The whole thing. It's like, it doesn't feels like Aaron's the superior. But he's there

because Aaron wanted him. But it's just I just don't see how you're rushing for twenty like twenty three attempts. Like to me, that number has to be well over thirty in a game like that. It's not to be one thing if he's averaging ten yards to say, hey, they're still being explosive in the weather, They're not. I mean he was dinking and dunking even when he was

completing balls partly couldn't even grip the ball. And every time he went back there, like you said, by the end of the game, like he just hurt his knee. You know, he's kind of getting up because he's getting paid.

let alone slippery. Right, It's that turf in New York that everyone hates. You're asking Aaron to drop back a lot. That's a brutal loss. I mean, that is a brutal loss. Even if Denver turns out to be solid, like you, you're going on the road to Minnesota. I think in a in a week they play Pittsburgh. I mean their schedule. I remember looking at it like it's kind of yeah. I mean as they could get. We just do not

trust their coaching staff and the NFL. You know, in college you see it all the time, like even when the game plans bad, if you got better players, like you got no shot, like USC, Like they've got way better players in Wisconsin. So even if they're off, like

who cares? The NFL is just not like that, Like unless you're the seven Patch or some of these teams that are so dramatically talented than the opponent, Like what the hell's the big difference for in New York Jets and Denver Broncos maybe they're better if you just put them on a neutral field and beautiful weather, but that's not football and that's not the NFL. So you get

this spot. It's like, well, Vance Joseph and Sean Payton for the last second half of last year and so far this year like kind of feel like they know what they're doing. And Robert Sala and Thatt Hackett, now we got pretty long evidence that given their spots, like Sala as a defensive coordinator, as a head coach, it just hasn't been great. And it's like this excuse, this excuse, that excuse, Like eventually you either win or you don't.

Niners organization. They looked at Demi Eco as a superstar.

And Demiko was that guy's a player. When I was with the Eagles, we traded for Demiko, like he just we traded his play. He'd torn his achilles. He wasn't same player, but we valued his intangibles as smarts and it's translated. The guy went from like graduate assistant or quality control to the defensive coordinator in like three years.

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And they got off to a seven nothing lead. Herbert to that that Lloyd Maconutee the kid, Oh god, that back of the end zone touchdown throw is just it just that illustrates how hard it is to be a successful quarterback. Chargers had three sacks Surtay, they'd lead seven nothing. You felt like Herbert was limping, but it was working, and you're and you're like, oh, Chargers aren't little bit of a hole. But watching my two thoughts were the same Charger players and a couple of Marody Expensive, the

same guys are getting hurt all the time. Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Harwall got rid of them. They just weren't healthy. I kind of think they're going to move off Bosa eventually and Derwin James. They're just hurt all the time.

like every Kansas City game now looks the same. Everyone is that you know they'll they'll fall in a hole, or you'll watch them early and you're thinking, this isn't the Sunday They just they're they're just not and then Rashee Rice gets hurt very early, and I'm like they're on the road they're out of sync. Chargers had multiple sacks and then they just and I think so much of this is Andy Reid inspects they just slowed the game down. They're really good at killing momentum. Mahomes had

a couple of big runs. He had a couple of beautiful passes. Kelsey was more visible today and available. Obviously, with Rastee Rice out, Travis Kelcey becomes more available. But there is something about Kansas City is that we tend to love flash like Darnold's numbers, and I like Kansas City. But I ask you, if they played Minnesota tomorrow, I would take Kansas City. What are we supposed to make of this team that isn't pretty? Every single game is close.

It doesn't matter who the opponent is. They don't start necessarily well, they always end great. Do you worry at all that Kansas City is sort of following in this it's kind of a fulfilling prophecy. It's they're just winning the same way and they're not playing particularly well for long periods of time.

And today after Mahomes, he threw a pretty bad pick early in the game Eric Carol Kelsey and then he hit He didn't mean to, but Rashi Rice is their best receiver and he kind of ended up hitting him like he's John Lynch because he was trying to make a tackle, might have blown out his knee. Like that's so you let's just hypothetically say he's gone for a long period of time or the season. That's pretty devastating. They were playing with Kareem Hunt. This is not twenty eighteen.

He's back on the team because they're starting running back just broke his leg and the other kid from Missouri, his own family threw a wedding last Sunday because they didn't even think the guy was gonna be an NFL player. So I just I don't know, like, it's remarkable what they're doing, and they've been playing like this basically for two and a half years now. He does feel eventually, like I love these guys and they are It's truly one of the great runs of my lifetime any sport.

What they're rattling off now these over this five years, but specifically these two years. I don't know how you can maintain this. Eventually, you're gonna obviously they're gonna lose some games this year, but like they're margin foreir in a playoff game, it's just very, very difficult for them

to score. And Mahomes cannot and you saw Andy get kind of mad ely you cannot turn the ball over, you know, And I think Andy felt right away like this Charger team came to play this Jim Harbaugh, They're ready, like this could be fifteen to thirteen final score, and he airmails it and steal fumbles and it's like you could tell Andy was pissed because this has to be a flawless We hold onto the ball, even if we're gonna score fourteen points total, Okay, we'll win at fourteen

to ten. We can't hate them. The ball at their own thirty yard line. And I think if the two tackles are there, Chiefs easily could have lost today. I mean, they are holding on. It's it's competitive character, the toughness, it's it's what you get out of like some of those late nineties Bulls teams, some of those Curry Clay Draymond teams. Like it's only they're the only team in the league that has this in the back to keep doing this, like eventually just drop a game. Whatever. They

just they refuse to lose. They got nothing. I mean, they're best receivers carted off the field five minutes into the game. They're riding Kareem Hunt. Well, I'm pretty sure it wasn't even in the league like three weeks ago, but they had no choice because the other guy broke his leg. Yeah.

Belichick basically took over the drafts. Belichick only wanted to coach players he liked to coach. They got very rigid. They started buying into their own stuff. And by the way, Greg Popovich, you know I'm not going to deal with Kawhi, well you probably should. He's great. The danger of the danger. One of the things I always respect about Saban. He just kept hiring great coaches. He went from a defensive culture to a quarterback wide receiver culture. Saban was just like,

whatever wins wins. And I always said that that's really different with Saban. He doesn't have Belichick's ego. He was willing to just pivot off guys, move into guys. I mean, good God, in the middle of a national championship, gave me changes quarterbacks. Saban was whatever wins works. I feel with Andy Reid, I get that, I get I don't feel like there's this definitive sort of moral standard, this saying, you know, just do your job. Kansas City doesn't have

one of those. They don't have to do your job right, they don't have one. Well, they just they do what they have to do in this series to score.

his core and his personality. But he has high standards and I think that's set by their core leaders in Mahomes, Jones and Kelsey. Now I do think they benefit. Is a league watered downs the wrong way, but it's definitely not as top heavy because the Bills and Ravens play tonight. Well, Chiefs been beating them for years right in big games, so it's not like Mahomes Nandy would be intimidated in those spots. But who else are they really worried about? Right?

The Steelers? No? Well, I think you think Justin Fields is beating them, It have to be Buffalo and lamar In that in a game to beat the Chiefs would have to be awesome thrown the ball because they are not going to let him run around. They just are. Yeah.

think I think Buffalo finally has given Josh James. Cook's a real running back. He's explosive. So I think that's the play. But I just again, I'll go back to it when I watch Kansas City. Generally with dynasties, we get this. You know, Durant shows up in Golden State for three years, they look different, Bama Saban looked different.

Georgia for a couple of years, looked at front. I mean, hell, last year Michigan was so dominant they didn't throw the ball on the road against rivals and beat Penn State. It looks like a dynasty. If you just saw the Chiefs on a week to week basis and had to guess who's the best team in the league, you wouldn't put HM in the top six. Like, I mean, Mahomes

makes a terrible throw. I mean, they got so lucky today he threw a pick, then the guy fumbled down the sideline, Like, I mean, it's just here, doesn't look like it should.

Steve Sarkisian, and Dan Lanning. The one guy kicked his ass. Now, granted Michigan was a lot better than Washington was hardball bors destroying these other guys. They're all making ten to twelve million and running college football. And Jim Harbaugh has proven you see that stats the first time ever a reigning national champion had played the reigning Super Bowl champion. You know, I think there's a fifty to fifty chance Jim Arbaugh wins a Super Bowl one Like he's that

level of a guy yeah, it was. It was awesome to watch his team today just come out like they were there to brawl and they were not. And how much money did they have sitting in the suite? Three hundred million dollars, right, I mean, so it's just wait till they, over the next couple of years are able to build it up. Andy's been in Kansas City how long now, eleven years? Like it's gonna take him a

couple of years. But if they can keep Herbert healthy, that thing's gonna be real because that style, the exactly what the Chiefs are doing always translates tackle everybody, rush the passer, run the ball, and have a good quarterback who just it's weird, like he wants a game manager with but with the that type skill set. Because I watch Herbert today and I don't know what his box score was, and I bet half the people talking about it will be like he's overrated, Like I don't know

what you're talking about that guy. I'd take that guy on my team any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

He's like, listen, man, we're Georgia. We have good players. There's nothing on the planet like. Yeah, when you watch George's quarterback without brock Bowers and Lad mcconkeye, okay, a great player, but when you watch him without that safety valve brock Bowers, There's no way I could draft Carson Beck number one. Absolutely no way. Now, I think quinn Ewers is really interesting. Shoudur Sanders is a talent. Do you want to deal with the other stuff? I'm not sure.

I think cam Ward's insane, but it's I watched that George Obama game and I'm thinking, I'm sorry we didn't think it was a good quarterback class. I think cam Ward and quinn Ewers you cannot watch. I thought Carson Beck just does not look like a number one guy on the board. You take away that tight end weapon and that slot weapon, they still have the best talent in the country. It that was my take on that game is I thought I picked Alabama to win. I

thought Bama would win. It got very close at the end. There was a million plays in the second half. I mean, you could talk about that game for four days. But that was my take is that cam Ward is becoming with quinn Ewers, they're becoming the top two picks.

and fit it into windows, he looked completely overwhelmed. Now it's not saying he's not talented, he's not an NFL player, but to me, he's like a second or third round pick. I couldn't take that guy in the first round. Are you insane? Have we seen? And like you said, all these guys had him on the top of the board, and these last couple of weeks you're watching them and there's a lot of pressure and you go, eh, it's not I don't care how many yards you throw for

when you're down thirty three to fifteen. I'm sorry that the defense isn't quite playing like they were when it was seven nothing or fourteen nothing in the first quarter and it's all on the line. The lights are the brightest.

can't unforget that, you really can't. And I how good does Kailan do? Bore Well?

a team. Kailin didn't win nine games there. He beat Oregon three straight times in two years. Oregon had better players, and we think Dan Lanning's a good coach.

these college guys can recruit. They're not great play creators, play callers. Lane Kiffin is, but he can also recruit. Lane's pretty good coach. But Klin de Boor's ability to get three star athletes turn them into four and five star players, so he can recruit, he can develop. His game plans are insane. I mean they they just every time they played Oregon first three series, Oregon's in a hole. I mean, Georgia had one of what forty two straight regular season games. It was over. He may create the

best game plan. And some guys are just great in the film room. They're just they're film room wizards. But I mean, I bet bet Alabama winning the first half, I mean for for the next eight years, because that's what he did at Washington. And and by the way, in Washington didn't have anything close to Bama's talent.

I'm sorry, Kirby, high level guy. His resume speaks for itself, but just in terms of schematics, like I'm taking to bore you know what I mean, I just I just am. And it's an offensive sport. Even Nick has admitted to that. So Kirby's just had a disadvantage. You just take the offensive coaches, right, I mean, look at sark get Ryan Day.

It's an offensive sport, especially in college. But Kaylin Duboor, I think it's the total package of he clearly knows what he's doing, like it's undebatable now, but his offensive prowess, which I was like, what's he gonna look like without his guy Ryan Grubb that goes to Seattle, Oh, exactly the same. I mean to be up twenty eight, nothing like that at home against it's borderline impossible to follow a Vince Lombardi or a Nick Saban or John Wooden.

I don't think it could go any smoother after last night. For that guy, Nick's already given him his blessing. You eventually have to do it. But to work Kirby like that, you can't convince me that was a close game. It was thirty three to fifteen with ten minutes to go in the game. They hit a couple of big plays. Now it ultimately Bama had to hit a big play, which they did, but that was that was domination Colin.

That was to come out like that at home. I means he getting on track extension at the end of the year. I know he just got hired, but I mean, how do you do how do you go from Nick Saban to that? How lucky are they? Well?

scouts don't like. But it was pretty clear earlier, like Pennix throws, he's like a bigger tu The ball's too pretty, so he's gonna get drafted. I didn't when I watched Jalen Milroll, I was like, kind of athletic. His game is cleaned up, like.

a disadvantage. You pull a win out like that. Coaching is just bigger than we think.

I mean this guy, I mean, he's borderline Jesus in the state of Alabama, and that's who you're taking over for. And to have it go like this because I think they got a guy who is secure enough in himself because he's nothing like Nick. He's not a screamer in a yeller. He's much at all, like I said with Chris Peterson, much more cerebral, much more mellow. But he's so good schematically. At the end of the day, the

highest level players in college you can either resonate with them. Now, Nick's a great scheme guy too, but Nick was so intense they were kind of scared this guy just knows everything that's going on football wise. How do they not listen? They clearly are and it's working. I mean, it's not out of the realm possibility that they're in the National Championship Game? Is it? After what we just witnessed last night?