Colin Cowherd Podcast - The Cowboys Aren’t Close, Athletes Doing The “Trump Dance”, NBA On TNT Moves To ESPN/ABC

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they call it the yips. He lets go of the ball too quickly. I don't worry that he's got, you know, more interceptions now than he did all of last year, because when he had Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins healthy, he was four and one. He's still undefeated in division. He's four and four after the win over Dallas tonight. In the rest of their games, I think the Houston Texans are fine. They're the Green Bay Packers of the AFC. They're a year away. They need another draft. They're a

little bit thin. The Packers are a little young. Texans are a little thin. They both have good young coaches, really good young quarterbacks. They're just not ready to beat the Detroits or like the Buffalo's in Kansas City's. But it's a good team. And I don't take anything away from c J. Stroud. His comp was Jared Goff. Well, if you go back to Jared Goff's third year in the NFL that wasvey, his passer rating dip to like mid eighties, high eighties, and so you know CJ doesn't

trust his protection. PFF has their O line at like twenty six twenty seventh. His top receiver, Stefon Diggs is out. Nico Collins came back tonight. He's been hurt. Nico Collins is amazing. He went to Michigan. He was a southern kid from I think Alabama went to Michigan. Productive, but not a superstar in college, like mid thirties catches, and they got him in the third round. And boy, he is a hard guard. He is a hard guy to defend. It it you know, you can tell c J. Stroud and

his comp is golf, so he's not a playmaker. He's a sit in up pocket and throw darts. When Goff's offensive line is great, Jared's great. His rookie year, c J. Stroud had a very good offensive line. He was outstanding. Goff and Stroud, those were the comps by scouts, and it was accurate. CJ moves a little better. But when they don't have great protection, they rush things, they throw more interceptions. They're just not as on point. And I

think that's c J. Stroud just needs better protection. He'll be fine. I think the Jared Goff comparison's always been true. And they have great protection. They're really special. You know, it's interesting though watching the Cowboys. So the Cowboys right now, if you go to the current NFL draft order, there's five teams with two wins Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Las Vegas Giants, and then there's four teams with three wins, the Jets,

New England, Carolina, and Dallas. Dallas is now at three and nine, and so the advantage for Dallas is, Listen, they have a chance to end up with just three wins now with Cooper Rush. But they played Tommy DeVito and the Giants on Thanksgiving, and if they win that game, and I think they will, that'll be their fourth win. It'll take Dallas out of any shot for a first, second, or probably third pick in the draft. It's not a particularly strong draft, and they wouldn't take Shador Sanders anyway.

But what I was hold because if Dallas can get into the top five, and they still have a shot even if they beat the Giants, that would be four wins. They also play Carolina. But if you're Dallas at this point, this is why the New York Giants are not going to go to Drew Locke. They're going to Tommy DeVito. They'd rather not win games and the Giants have a real shot because I think Jacksonville, Tennessee and Cleveland are

two talented. They'll win another game. If the Giants get beat by Dallas, there's a real possibility they don't win another game and they have the number one pick, and they will absolutely draft Shadoor Sanders. So Dallas, I would draft Shaeddoor Sanders, but I wouldn't sign Dack to a long term contract. But Dallas isn't going to draft him. There's some good players in this draft. The number two pick I think will be Kelvin Banks. He's an offensive

tackle from Texas. Travis Hunter, a very explosive player from Colorado, will go second or third. Mason Graham, the defensive tackle Michigan, Will Johnson, the corner from Michigan. Will Campbell, the offensive tackle from LSU. T Mac the wide receiver Arizona, really big target, Southern California kid. He's really good player. Cam Ward is going to go somewhere in the top ten, although I, you know, a little backyard football for me, I wouldn't draft him that high. But it's not a

great draft. There's a lot of Mikhale Williams the defensive the edge for Georgia. There's a lot of Georgia and Michigan guys in the top twelve, top fifteen. Not a great draft. And listen, if I was Dallas and I got a top five pick, I would move down because I don't think they're close to Detroit, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Kansas City. I don't think their rosters close. I don't think one

player is going to solve it. But if I don't think this is a good enough draft where people are going to want to move up unless you have a top five pick and maybe a top yeah, a top five pick, and somebody wants cam Ward, who I think is an okay prospect. I think shud Or Sanders is a strong prospect, kind of in the Jade and Daniels class. You know, electric moving arm, very accurate. You know, he's a winner. He was a winner first year in college.

He's a winner at Colorado. I mean, they're a really good football team now that could win the Big twelve. So you know, Dallas there is This is what happens for the Giants who reached the Daniel Jones the Cowboys, who have overpaid Dak had some injuries. I would strongly consider the one thing about this draft. It's week at quarterback, it's strong at wide receiver, and it's strong in the first round on edge rusher. I would consider moving Micah Parsons.

You know, somebody's going to give you a first round pick and have to pay him. But you know, there's a lot of teams in this league that are close, but they could use an elite edge rusher and mic O unhealthy is that and you could go draft another edge rusher and restart the clock on that position. And there's several. Abdul Carter the edge rusher from Penn State, it's a top ten pick again, Williams from Georgia, top ten,

twelve pick. But I think I think Dallas, you know, they they have to have like a come to Jesus moment. They're just not very good. I mean, you watch tonight. You know Ceedee Lamb's an explosive player, but they know their past protection is just okay. They have the weakest running back root in the league. They have nothing after Ceedee Lamb. Of note, they need a lot of help. Their corners are okay, not special in my opinion. So

I think that's that's where Dallas is. It's not a year in the NFL draft to want a quarterback, there's one, and I think you know, listen, Vegas and the New York Giants both need one. I think Sam Darnold will probably have a market, a decent market, because I think Minnesota is gonna I think they've got a chance to sneak into the playoffs. They're just good enough. But Dallas has a long way to go. Houston's gonna be fine. They're gonna be fine. They're gonna get better next year.

I like their coach, their quarterback, their front office, they got some players. Their old lines just kind of a mess. A lot of penalties, don't pass protect particularly well. You saw it tonight. They don't pick up blitzes, they just they just it's a bad unit. But but Dallas has to really think long and hard. The downside a mediocre draft like this year is the Cowboys would love to

trade down. This is why I believe they have to have a top five pick because the people the only players that people will trade up for is a Shadoor Sanders or maybe a cam Ward. There's like there's like one or two great tackles. There's four or five. I think Mason Graham the defensive tackle for Michigan's really really special. He's been unblockable by a single offensive lineman in college football.

You kind of have to double team him, so you know, just it's it's interesting to see all these teams at the top of the draft. Jacksonville, Tennessee, Cleveland, Vegas. You know, you're kind of used to them, Jets, Carolina. Then all of a sudden you go, oh yeah, Dallas, Wow, Dallas. But you watched the night there's nothing there, So you're you're seeing something all through college and pro sports, and

it was very noticeable this weekend. You know, the Trump dance by young NFL players, African American players, white players, veteran players, Brock Bauers, the young tight end for Las Vegas. But I was really you know, athletes have a sense of humor. You know, it's a sport. It's a business, but it's a sport, and you know, after you score,

you celebrate. I don't care what players do, I really don't, but I did think it was interesting that in soccer, United States men's national team star Christian Poolisic did the Trump dance. And the reason I think it's surprising is that soccer tends to have a very young left leaning audience, and when he did it, I thought, oh boy, there's going to be a meltdown. And regardless of where I've always viewed myself really as a moderate independent. But you

can drive yourself crazy all you want. But the reason the athletes are doing this is because it's really a quirky, weird, odd dance. And every time Trump did it, it just looks so outdated. And I think Trump sort of leans into it now and knows people get a kick out of it, and it's okay to take a deep breath. And regardless of what you think of a politician, it is a three second, four second dance. They're pro athletes. Take a deep breath, or you can go into therapy

for the next four years. And because you're side lost and be miserable, you know. Sometimes I think in politics the greatest advantage conservatives have is people watching the other side melt down and look crazy and out of their mind. It's just a dance, it's no big deal. It's three seconds. Athletes have a sense of humor. We're all going to be okay on that. But it was noticeable to me that when Poolisic did it, I thought, Oh, that's that's surprising.

You know, soccer players in the soccer community have always felt a little European, kind of left leaning, young stylish. That's what it's always felt like to me, you know, the hipsters. I love. I love soccer. You know. I've

told the story before. My mom was British and when I was a kid, really really young, I was probably six years old, seven years old, my mom took me to England and England was the Netherlands with Johann Crouve a great soccer star, and England were the dominant kind of teams in the world, and England had won a World Cup back then. And my mom bought me a little soccer set and I can remember playing with it in the window ledge in England, Lancashire, in the middle

of England, where my mom was from. And so I I remember those I had these strong It's one of the first memories of my life is playing with this soccer game. And Netherlands wore orange, that's their country's color, and it was on television. It must have been around, you know, the World Cup, because that's all my mom and her twin brother, my late mother and her twin brother Peter. That's all they you know, that was like a big topic of conversation, and they went and got

me that soccer game. So I've always been and then I moved to the Pacific Northwest, you know, I was from there, the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers, and then I went there in my career. So I've always liked soccer, especially the United States men's national team. But I didn't look at the reactions of their fans when Polistic did that. But I thought there's gonna be some melt founds over that. And again, take a deep breath to four second dance.

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mostly boring. The top executive for Warner Brothers just pissed off Adam Silver and he no longer wanted him associated with the league. And so basically they struck a deal and ESPN is going to get the show, The Barkley Shack Show. I actually think it is significant because in the regular season, that show is often more entertaining than the games in a long NBA regular season, And I'm a huge fan of Mike Breen. I never understood breaking

up Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Mike Breen. I thought at the time it was easily their strongest broadcast unit. I didn't get it. Probably political. Van Gundy had been at times critical of the NBA, so it felt like Adam Silver stepped in and blew that up. And it's happened before. I remember when David Stern was commissioner. I had heard complaints that he wasn't happy with the I forget the broadcaster one of the broadcasters on ABC ESPN

and David Stern had pressured ESPN to make changes. So but I do think ESPN's NBA coverage for the last I mean, what do they had the rights twenty twenty two years. I love Breen, but it's just been a revolving door of personalities and they've never really stepped up and spent big money and got landed a superstar. And I think this will really cement. I mean, let's be honest, for years and years, Monday Night Football was kind of

swimming in mediocrity. It's nothing against the broadcasters, but it never felt as good as like al Michaels or you know, the bigger broadcast teams. Jim Nantz and so Buck and Aikman have solidified Monday Night Football. They make it feel big again. And for years, I just I felt like it just it didn't feel as big as the Fox Game of the Week or the Sunday Night Football Game of the Week, or the CBS Jim nance Romo Game of the Week. ESPN felt like Number four and buckan

Akman have elevated it. And I think ESPN's pre and postgame show has been really weak. And I mean I mean the halftime shows like two minutes and commercials. I mean they don't even care. They're just selling spots. So I think this will make it more formidable like buckan Akman do. It'll make it feel big. And I think, if you're Adam Silver, NBC is going to have NBA, ESPN's going to have NBA, and Amazon's going to have NBA, but the incumbent is ESPN, and I think it's a

strong play. I think, you know, I love the business I'm in. I think Jimmy Bataro, who runs ESPN, has taking big swings. I think Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, Bucan Aikman, Shaq Barkley, Jason Kelsey, Bill Belichick, those are big swings. And I think is our business as the market's gotten wider and wider and wider. It's harder to develop shows. It's easier to go get widely recognized personalities. To put a Nick Saban on a Game Day, and I think

he's been the perfect tonic on that show. Between all their other casts, it just he just clicked with them, and so I and the reason ESPN has done some big game hunting, I mean they've really taken some big swings is because for years and years they were swimming in red with their streaming growth, you know, Disney Disney Plus and it was losing you know, four five billion

a year. Well they just turned a profit. This year, they made a billion, and so this point forward, Disney's going to be making four eight, twelve twenty billion dollars a year in their streaming. So you know, underneath Disney is ESPN. And even though cable television is probably got six years left, seven years left from what I read,

Disney's now humming. So they're taking big swings and they're going buying big name people as the market has become very very wide, and it's just it's when people there's so many platforms, there's so many options. I mean, people are sitting on TikTok all day. To get attention, you got to go take big swings, and you know, I think that's what Shack and Barkley and Kenny and Ernie are. I think that's arguably as good as any pre postgame

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