Colin Cowherd Podcast - Tom Brady As A Broadcaster, Colin + Taylor Swift BFF’s, Should Lakers Trade LeBron?

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All right, Well, it's sort of a lull before the storm the week prior to Super Bowl week, and so I tend not to break down the games or worry about that stuff until we get to Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of next week. This week we had Tom Brady on, and it's interesting. One of the questions I get asked a lot, how do you think Tom Brady will do it Fox as a broadcaster. And I've always had this kind of opinion about people. Whatever job you do, you

become your personality. So let's just take quarterbacks. So Tony Romo was a playmaking quarterback who was really fun to watch. He was a little loose, wasn't always efficient, but a big playmaker, and I thought he was always underrated. He didn't have Troy Aikman's career, he doesn't have Brady's career, but Romo's personality if you'd met him, it's fun, it's loose, it's easy going, and I thought that's how he played he only had a two to one touchdown to interception ratio.

Tony made some mistakes and threw a lot of picks, but he was also a playmaker and was good off script, and as a broadcaster at CBS, he came out flashy like he was as a player, with a bang, predicting plays a lot of attention, and I guess the criticism of him could be he's a little loose sometimes not quite buttoned up, don't always feel like he's completely prepared, fair or not. That's the criticism from critics, media people who monitor this stuff. But his personality became a style

as a quarterback, and his style as a broadcaster. Brady is very very much the opposite a three to one touchdown to interception career, more efficient, more about preparation, always feels completely buttoned up, but not flashy at all. And I think that's his personality. I think that was his football career and I think that's what he'll be like as a broadcaster. He won't be predicting plays early and get him a lot of attention for that that that

won't be that. That's not his personality, that's not his style. He will get better over the course of time, and he'll be highly conscientious, super prepared, and I think over the course of time you will appreciate him like New England did, like Michigan football did over the course of time. Tom doesn't blow you away with playmaking and flash, but it's attention to detail, his leadership, his kind of self awareness, understanding what is what he isn't and leaning into it.

And I think all broadcasters sort of their careers become their personalities, and I think that's what Brady will be as a broadcaster. I think, by and large, most people doing this do a good job. I was I don't talk much about broadcasters. People get very sensitive. I'm a broadcaster, so you know, I don't want to talk about it a lot. Last year I offered kind of a marginal criticism of Romo that he had a reputation, he loved his golf like sometimes I felt, and blowout games. He

was nos dialed in It's no big deal. That got a lot of pushback, and to validate my opinion, Sean McManus acknowledged publicly that he went out and went down and talked to told me Romeo about things he thought he was good at and things he needed to get better at so I never felt I was off base.

But back to Brady, I think I kind of have a sense of what Tom will be as a broadcast because I watched his career and I know his personality from enough people around Tom a lot of detail, a lot of preparation, slow growth, slow build, and you'll look up in two or three years and think he's a heck of a broadcaster. Broadcasting, you know, I've always had great respect for the people that do broadcasting on site, the play by play people, the sideline people, and the analysts.

So what I do is a studio show, and I have to add lib for three hours, and I don't think it's easy. But these game broadcasts you have to deal with the environment and the crowd and directors and read commercials and throw to the studio, throw to the sidelines. I think it's very, very difficult. But play by play guys Turco and Kevin Burkhardt and you know all the great people at Fox, ESPN, NBC, Jim Nantz, they're terrific, Al Michaels, you do get into a rhythm of a

game and calling a game. Not that it's easy, it's much harder than what I for a living, but I think one of the hardest things to do is football analyst work. I think it's damn hard. So basically, you have to talk in eight second intervals two hundred and fifty times a game, and if you make one mistake, it is all viral. You're trending one mistake out of two fifty. That's why I think the criticism of analysts

is mostly embarrassing, ridiculous. I do think Romo can be a little loose sometimes, but it's it's not to me that noteworthy. I don't turn the game off. I think Nance and Romo are entertaining, They're fine. I think Tariko Zola's got great energy. Burke Hart Olsen I think have been just magical together in a short time. You know, Michael's is good with everybody. So I just I think sometimes when I read the media critics, I don't care if to take shots at me, I really don't see

all of it. Don't care. But I think to be a football analyst you have to be patient with these broadcasters, these players. This is not what they do. It's very, very difficult. I don't know how the college guys do it, like in the NFL, You've got a limited roster to be a college football analyst, and you got eighty five scholarship players walk ons, and you get into a blowout game and the third quarter and you have to have an opinion on a player that you've maybe probably never

seen play. I mean, you're looking on your sheet. Well, you need to be prepared. Nobody's that prepared. You haven't memorized the life story and the career of every backup for Toledo football. So I'm going to be patient with Brady. I thought people got a little too hot hyperbolic on Romo early calling plays. I thought it was fun, but that can't define you. I mean, what are you gonna do? Hit fifty percent? You know that's tough. I do think Tony brings in a pretty good energy. He's fun, and

I think, again, that was his career. I love watching Romo play. I defended Romo as a player for years. I thought he was terrific. He was just sometimes loose, you know, Tony throw an interception at the wrong time, but he is one of the most underappreciated Dallas Cowboy players of all time. Career didn't last very long, but at its height, it was wildly dynamic. Go look at his numbers, google his stats. He had some big years,

a lot of big years, and he could move. That's why when I said I thought Joe Burrow was like going to be a better version of Tony Romo. I always thought Tony Romo was an eight to A and minus quarterback. He didn't play very long, but I thought in Tony's best years he was like a you know, FARV was a plus, Aikman was a A plus. Brady obviously Manning, but I thought Tony was lower end ARB plus plus

plus plus. And I think as a broadcaster he can be fine, But his playing and his broadcasting feel the same to me, and that's what I think you'll get with Brady. So this week I talked and defended sort of Taylor Swift against the p people that have been bothered or pestered, irritated by her appearances briefly on broadcasts, and whenever I kind of crossed that rubicon and talked, you know, nonsports, it always gets more feedbacked off and

than when I talk sports. I don't do it that often because I understand that, I mean, most of you just want to hear my sports opinions. But you know, I kind of a just a happenstance. Years ago. I was seeing kind of a life coach. This was like fifteen years ago, and he had these seminars, and so in the seminars was a guy and named me. He

was a Southern guy, played footballt Kentucky. Thad and we were talking one time and he was right down the hallway in his financial firm in Nashville from Taylor Swift's dad, and Taylor Swift was just becoming a name. So I said, oh my god, my daughter like mentioned her like six months ago. She loved Taylor Swift. This was fifteen years ago. And so he goes, oh, that's cool, and lo and behold, I didn't even expect this. Thad went out gave me an autograph frame picture of Taylor Swift with a pick.

It's still up in my dhutters somewhere in her room. And so I've been aware of Taylor Swift for a long time. And then, without getting too much into my private life, my wife and I vacation in an area on the East coast that we find this just a charming little town where you just ride bikes and walk and Northeast Beach is my favorite part of America in the summer. Is not where I grew up on the West Coast. It's actually in the northeast. Nantucket's hard to

get to. Hampton's is a little bougie. I like some Rhode Island beaches, so I go there a lot. And this little town, Taylor Swift moved into it. You know, I'm sure she has thirty homes. She's like the celebrity in the area. So yes, every time when I go on my walk the fifteen days a year, I'm in that area. Every time I go on a walk, it ends. I do a It's about two mile beach. I walk up, see her house, turn around at her house, and walk

back the beach inns. So a lot of you don't know this, but I have a kinship with Taylor Swift. I wear her bracelets everywhere I go. This one says it's me Hi. I always like to wear that one. This one is Taylor Swift, So I wear these all the time wherever I go. My favorite is Midnights because that's your most recent album and I hello already have it. I'll wear that one through the night. Oh shit, I broke it. I just broke it. It didn't last to midnight.

So I just think I should reveal that stuff, you know, because you know, I want to be authentic to you. And I thought because of this week I defended her and we do have sort of a kinship. I was going to send her a swifty bracelet, and so I thought, this is the one I would send to her. Can you see that, BFF because I do consider consider us to be kind of I don't know BFFs. Anyway, that's

a little behind the scenes with me. I don't like to give away my private life, but I feel in this instance, I have to reveal some truth between Taylor Swift and my family. So there's been a lot of talk recently. The NBA trading deadline is coming up, and people have discussed what about the Lakers moving off Lebron James and I don't think this is going to happen, And there's a lot of reasons here. So Lebron's good

for business. The Lakers haven't. They won the bubble year, but you know, they've been a really inconsistent and at times dysfunctional team over the last four to five years and for the last I mean the last five years before Lebron became a Laker, they were a mess. They were like record wise worst or second worst in the league over half a decade. So they had the bubble year,

but they've mostly been a really inconsistent franchise. And Lebron sells out games and he's one of the great Lakers of all time, even though the Laker fans got him post prime, right. But I think you have to consider if you trade Lebron James, and he doesn't want to be traded because he has such a dynamic business portfolio in Los Angeles, you're going to piss off Lebron, and

that means you're going to piss off Clutch Sports. And Clutch Sports got a d to LA And in the NBA there's a handful of very influential agents that you don't want to be on the wrong side of. It doesn't work that way in football, but it does in basketball. It can be very provincial. I mean, I can remember years and years ago, Michael Jordan's agent was highly powerful, very connected to David Stern, and that was the reality.

Michael was just really really important for the league. So I don't think there'll be a trade because I don't think. I think Lebron committed to you as a franchise and has sold so much merchandise and so many tickets, and he won you a championship that I do feel the Bus family and they historically have been very loyal to people that have rewarded them. I think Lebron's really kept you afloat for the last five years. He's kept you viable.

He's made you tens and hundreds of millions of dollars and added to your value, and I just don't think you'd trade a player like that. That doesn't mean I'm going to rebuild my roster solely based on what Lebron wants. But the Lakers are a small ownership group. The Bus family is not nearly as financially secure or dynamic as the Clippers owner Steve Balmer. He's the richest owner in the NBA by far. So I just think when Lebron came here, he to a large degree, kind of saved

the franchise. You know, they weren't good in Kobe's last years. They weren't competitive. The Warriors were running the league. They were an afterthought. They had run through coaches, and I think Lebron did them a solid by coming here. Now Los Angeles has also helped his business career. His net worth is robust, probably over a billion dollars now. But it's it's been a relationship where Lebron has helped the Lakers. The Lakers have helped Lebron. And it's not that the

Lakers couldn't get other players if they traded Lebron. I never buy into that nonsense. The bottom line is players take care of themselves. But I think just on a personal level, Lebron doesn't call out coaches publicly. Lebron is good for business. Lebron does interviews after every game. Lebron's been an upstanding citizen in the community. I don't think you treat him that way. And I you know me, I'm not super loyal guy. When it comes to, you know,

sports history. Move a guy and you could say, well, Colin, you trade Klay Thompson. One of the talks has been trading Lebron to the Warriors and getting some pieces back. Klay Thompson is different. He didn't save the Warriors. Steph Curry's been the face dramon the two, Clay the three, and he's been a great part of that franchise. But Klay Thompson's not selling to tickets. Steph is and Klay Thompson also as a point in his career that you'd only be able to overpay him to keep him. And

he's not as good a player as Lebron is. Lebron is still on any given night, the best player on the floor in an NBA game. He's not as good as Jokic over the course of a season, or Jannie or mb but on any given night, Lebron's the best player on the floor in the biggest games of the year. So I just think there are certain times Lebron's been good for the Lakers. The Lakers have been good and Los Angeles for Lebron. I don't think you trade him.

I think you sit down with him and say, hey, this thing's getting to a close, let's make it as elegant as we can, as thoughtful, conscientious as we can, and then you go from there. But I just Lebron's been very valuable the Lakers. He's on on a lot of nights. He's the only reason you go. On most nights, he's the only reason you go. He's made a lot of people in that organization a lot of money and there's value in that right, they're there. Yeah, I wouldn't

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