Colin Cowherd Podcast - Vikings Upset 49ers, Niners Defense, Cousins Value Rising, Michigan Scandal

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eligibility and deposit restrictions, Terms and responsible gaming resources. All right, So it was an upset weekend in the NFL as the Vikings, who played several levels above themselves, beat the forty nine Ers twenty two to seventeen at home, surprising for a lot of reasons. The Vikings weren't very good this season. The Niners were excellent, and that Kirk Cousins

historically shrinks in primetime games. He has a bad record on Monday Night Football and against playoff teams in his career, and was about after that first interception was about as good as I think I've ever seen Kirk Cousins play. We also saw that Bill's big favorites get beat by the you know, BB gun offense of the New England Patriots. A couple of small upsets, but four to one win. Teams went on to win this weekend, and it happens

in the NFL. The margins are much closer. It's why the NFL is so much more popular than college football, because you go into a college football weekend and you know, if you get two upsets, it feels really special. In the NFL, you get weekends like this when teams that are going nowhere beat teams with a really good shot to make the Super Bowl. You know, again, I said this today on FS one. I don't think less of

the Detroit Lions getting clobbered by the Ravens. NFC teams are one in sixteen against Lamar Jackson, right, Like, if you've never played against Lamar Jackson live, it's a shock to the system, you get avalanched. The way to beat a Lamar Jackson a team like that is you know you're playing repeatedly and can figure out Larubik's cube a little on how to slow down Lamar Jackson. So you know, I don't think anything less of the forty nine ers.

I think the forty nine ers when they have Trent Williams back and Deebo Samuel and I have a complete unit. They won't be playing. There's a good chance they will be playing a playoff game or two at home. But needless to say, this just happens in the NFL. I do think there's one thing to worry about if you're the forty nine ers. So they've been kind of injury plagued, not ravage, but injury plagued several years. It's becoming an older team. Trent Williams and kittle Bosa's got some you know,

a lot of physicality and miles on those tires. There's a lot of you know, the linebackers. They've been in the league for a while, and so as you get older, you have more injuries. You just hope collectively everybody's ready to go by the playoffs. But last year, the defensive coordinator was Demiko Ryans. So he is a former player, very good. He was a quick rising star as a coach. The Niners named him as like, you know, a defensive coach,

linebacker coach, coordinator, head coach Texans. I mean it was four or five year period. He flew through the organization of the forty nine ers, and I can remember, like his third year, people saying, Oh, this guy's going to be a head coach, and You're like, he was just playing years ago. He didn't go to the college level. He didn't bounce around the league. He coached for one team, the Niners. Quality control on defense, linebacker, defensive coordinator gone.

And he's been excellent so far with the Houston Texas. Steve Wilkes college head coach for a year, losing record, NFL head coach for a year disaster, was fired, then went to Carolina interim. But Steve Wilkes bounced around college and pro coaching forever, a lot of jobs, a lot of cities. Was not a rising star, and like we've all had, most of us have had like one boss

that's just exceptional. I mean, I've been in this business thirty years I've worked with some really good people, haven't had you know, only a couple of like wow, and they usually in and out of the building quickly. Right. It's it's rare for anybody in any business. You know. You see sometimes you have a coworker or a boss and you're like, wow, they're a visionary that person. She's great,

he's great. They just and that was Demikil Ryans flew through the Niners organization, first team he coached with, and he was gone head coach. And so I think they're just not as good. I noted this several times on FS one. They're not as good in the red zone defensively as they have been in previous years. And it's I think that's a coaching thing. You know, we always talk about offensive coordinators, but we rarely talk about big

leaps with defensive coordinators. Dan Quinn for the Cowboys has certainly been excellent, but I mean, if you look at the Vikings tonight, I mean Kirk Cousins in that offense, four hundred and fifty two yards with an average O line no justin Jefferson. They moved off Dalvin Cook and they passed for almost three hundred and eighty yards, six point eight yards of play, twenty four first downs, eight for thirteen on third down. You know you lose to

Meko Ryans. They've lost their edge. They're not The Niners are not as good situationally coaching on defense brock perty was. You know, now we've seen Brock pretty last couple of weeks playing from behind, and you know it's not quite as special as I've said many times. I think brock Purty's good, and I thought tonight you saw Troy Aikmann pointed this out. Brock Purty six to seven times throws the ball down the field, higher risk throws, and throws

it accurately a lot. Now, he had a couple of picks won, a bad pick could have been on the receiver. But you know, I've said this about Jordan Love, he just can't throw the ball down the field. He's completing thirty eight percent of his throws ten plus yards. Like Green Bay's got a problem at quarterback. Rock Purty moves well enough, throws the ball aggressively down the field, and

for the most part, very accurately. But there's a big difference in this league playing with a lead and a run game at home and trailing the entire game on the road, and Brian Flores is bringing heat with every snap, sometimes to his detriment, like that Christian McCaffrey touchdown. But that's a different ball game. Playing from behind, you've got to throw. Everybody knows it. Brian Flores tends to be

hyper aggressive. Just a different ballgame. And so there's very few quarterbacks in my life that you can't distinguish a difference between their playing with the lead or trailing. I think Brady was one of them. Elway was one of them. Patrick Mahomes is one of them, and I can't think of a fourth. So it's you know, Brock pretty looks very, very human playing from behind, but I think he's good. I think he throws the ball accurately down the field

to a lot of different weapons. He's got some physical courage, he'll take a hit. So I like Brock Purdy. I don't think he's great, And I think over the last couple of games playing from behind on the road, it's not the same quarterback. Nobody is really except for the r Lways. And you're Patrick Mahomes and your Brady's so really interesting game. I that's as well as Kirk Cousins has played. Jordan Addison, the rookie from USC what a night.

You know. Again, they didn't Steve Wilk's defensive coordinator. They didn't throw a lot of change ups. I mean, Jordan Addison worked the nine or second from the beginning to the end. Didn't change much coverage as far as I could tell. But I think with Kirk Cousins, you know what you could look at if you're Minnesota. Not only do you feel good about the win, I don't think it translates to anything beyond this win, but you showcased him. Think about that you can get if you move off

Kirk Cousins. If you have a top ten twelve pick, you're gonna go get a quarterback you can get. Could you get a first round pick for Kirk Cousins certainly get a couple seconds. I mean, he looked young, he was accurate, arm strength was good tonight. He's never been a big mover, but he can move a little. I thought Kirk Cousins standalone game against the forty nine ers. If I'm a general manager looking around this league, I'm like he's somewhere between ten and thirteen, ten and twelve

we have a good roster. Let's roll the dice. I mean, if you're gonna give up three picks to get Trey Lance or move up to get college quarterbacks, you're not gonna give up a second round pick for Kirk Cousins. Think somebody is I've said this about Justin Fields. He's got too much talent not to get a second chance. Sam Darnold got a second chance, right, He's just too much talent. So I mean, you know Kirk Cousins tonight,

I mean, he he didn't look his age. And this is a very respected defensive roster for the Niners, and Kirk Cousins tore it up. He tore it up. He had that battery pick boom, tore it up for the next three and a half hours. So really interesting weekend. I you know, it's I don't on a macro level, I don't feel much differently. I think Detroit will do just fine. I know they got crushed by the Ravens, but they'll win eleven or twelve games in the NFC.

They will, you know, host a playoff game, probably win, and then go on the road and probably lose. They'll go on the road and face of Philadelphia. Detroit go on the road face of San Francisco and they'll probably lose. But considering they gave up Matt Stafford, they got Jared Goff came in with a kind of shaky reputation right couldn't play in certain big games. I don't think less. I do think less of the Buffalo Bills because, unlike the Lions, I don't like their offensive line. I don't

like their momentum. I thought they were bad at the end of last year. So there are you know, They're all losses are not the same. Buffalo losing to New England feels like we have a negative trend here. Detroit losing to Baltimore. I don't take much from it. That's a hard place to play, and I think right now Baltimore is the best team in the NFL. Last two weeks, I've thought Lamar Jackson has been the best player in the league, absolutely beyond exceptional. So I don't take a

ton from this game. San Francisco is going to probably win their division. I would say it's highly likely, and they're going to host a playoff game, and Minnesota's going nowhere and it's going to move off. Kirk Cousins, and now we'll probably get a little more off a showcase game. He plays in a lot of one o'clock games. These these standalone games, every GM in the league is watching

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You know this Jim Harbaugh Michigan story. You know that people are adding to the story now and that this staffer, this low level staffer, he bought tickets on a ticket app and had his iPhone and some equipment watching other teams. Listen. The Big Ten, like the SEC, cares so much about its football. It is so important for the revenue, the overall economy and sort of the the kind of emotional happiness of a lot of these Big Ten schools that it's intense. And you know, we've seen this in the

SEC for years. If this story would have come out in the SEC, you'd be like, well, that's the cost of doing business. And you know, the Big Ten has got these esteemed academic powers, Penn State, Northwestern, Michigan, but Big Ten football is so financially strong. There is so much at stake. You know, you can laugh and say, why would Michigan have to, you know, do this against Rutgers in Maryland. It just shows you the intensity of the conference. And I think it's a lot of nothing.

Burger I think they'll probably be a slap on the wrist, you know, the equivalent of sending an intern to a spy using you know, whatever the device is. It doesn't rise to you know, major suspension or forfeiting wins. But it does make me think about the intensity. And it does remind me of Pete Carroll at USC when he hired a special teams coach and it was a violation. And you know, Pete was always pushing the envelope. Competition Wednesday, move beyond that, pushed the envelope and he got very,

very frustrated. Pete did with the NC Double A and eventually went to the NFL. And I remember a couple of years before he left, his name came up with the Miami Dolphins, and I thought, oh, why would Pete leeve He's done the NFL, He's you know, he's been fired twice. Why would he Why would he go back to the NFL. But he got very frustrated with the limitations in the NC DOUBLEA of college football. And so

I think Jim Harbaugh relentlessly competitive. We know that like Pete, and you know, he's having great success at Michigan, and I could see him getting frustrated. I think he's much more important for college football than pro football. I hope he stays in college football. But it's got a Pete Carroll feel to it. It's got Pete Carroll field that Jim Harbaugh wants to take more, one more big swing at the NFL. And as great as Pete Carroll it was at USC, I mean, it's hard to remember when

he was there. It's like such a distant memory. And I mean, Harbaugh is still vibrant and young. He's got fifteen more years. He's got incredible energy and juice. If Jim went to the NFL after this year and coached for fifteen years somewhere, would it surprise anybody. Hope he stays at Michigan. But I think he sort of looks at this and the slap on the wrist for the Hamburger violation earlier, and I think he rolls his eyes, and I think he thinks, you got to be kidding me.

Got you got schools out there buying and players years ago in the South, you know. I mean, I think he looks around college football and thinks, this is it, this is really you're gonna hold this against me? And I think it's a lot of the ways that Bill Belichick thought about Spygate in to Flakegate. I think Bill Belichick rolled his eyes it. It's not golf, it's not a gentleman's sport, you know, it's you're gonna push the envelope. I mean, Pete Carroll in the NFL has been tagged

a couple of times because of practices practice violations. So I'm watching it. I'm interested to see the result. I read the latest story or stories today on it. Not that it was an eye roll, but it doesn't rise to heavy forfeiture or violations. But we'll see, all right, instant reaction. See tomorrow the volume