Thanks for listening to the Best of Herd podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday from twelve to three eastern nine to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS one. Find your local station for The Herd at Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Herd. This is the Best of the Herd with Colin Cowhern on Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. It is a Friday. We are live in Los Angeles. It's the Herd. Wherever you may be and however you may be listening iHeartRadio, Fox Sports Radio and FS one. One hour from now our blazing five NFL picks. It is great to have you in jamac on a Friday. A pretty scary moment last night watching but Miami actually, all things considered, what they had to deal with the emotion of losing their quarterback, good for them. I mean, they played really well. It's a lot to digest and consume as a teammate. Indeed, if you live with the negative, I thought you'd leave with the positives. That we cast tickets for everybody around the country telling them Bengals all week. Now we got to start with the real serious stuff today. And there are certain jobs that take courage in America. We know what those jobs are. They're firemen, they're policeman, there's a lot of jobs like that. They take real courage. People in this country regularly put their lives on the line a lot. And then there are jobs that to a lesser degree, there is courage, much less degree than a fireman or a policeman. There's a UFC fighter. Would you walk in an octagon? There's a professional football player. These sports have a regulated level of violence. You do not see a lot of NFL players living into their hundreds. And with all these professions, there are scary moments, even for professional athletes. And we saw this last night with Tua laying on the ground his hands. It's called fencing. When you have head trauma. It's a very, very scary moment for anybody watching it. Can you imagine being a pro football player knowing you're gonna play Sunday and you're watching that happen. Can you imagine being a Miami dolphin Teddy Bridgewater, Hey you got to go in now. That's tough. And in all these professions, with these scary moments, and they may be infrequent, but they happen. We often need to protect the athletes from themselves. For football players, I've seen it too many times. It's a badge of honor to play hurt. Justin Herbert last week with four broken ribs pounded on the table, took a shot and played and was in absolute pain. The first series was wincing when he got hit. Now, obviously ribs aren't as serious as head trauma, but I would imagine twa banged on that table to play. Colonies shouldn't play well. The NFL and the NFLPA had an independent neurological exam this week, and they let him play. Tua probably had to be saved from himself Justin Herbert the week before. We cannot just have athletes there to entertain us, and they do magically every week, and no league quite like the NFL, but we got to step in sometimes. And I think it's okay today to be cynical about the Miami Dolphins and what they did. I don't think Mike McDaniel, Yale educated, Ivy League educated Mike McDaniel the new coach, I don't think he's a bad guy. He's not a doctor, but he's highly educated nobody has supported two like Mike McDaniel. Do I think he's a bad person? Know that'll be screamed on the internet. I do not believe Mike McDaniel is a bad person. I think he deeply cares for Tah's humanity, his profession, and there is for the record, the NFL and the Players Association have agreed. I looked it up this morning to independent neurological consulting and the Dolphins and to a pass the test. But as a parent that happens to me. Occasionally you step in and you make a common sense decision. On Sunday too, A wobbled on Thursday. They're not going out there. We're not gonna let him go out there. And by the way, you have a right and I have a right to be very cynical about the Miami Dolphins. Their owners currently suspended. They were trying to poach Tom Brady as an owner and a player. They were trying to get Sean Payton. They're in a lawsuit with a coach, Brian Flores, who claims they wanted to tank games. We have every right to have disdain for the Phoenix Suns owner for things we read that have been talked about for years, and we have every right to think the Dolphins and Stephen Ross have been sketchy and done things covertly and inappropriately for years. But I don't think Mike McDaniel an Ivy League educated. I don't know many people that know Mike one love him. Wonderful guy, pro player, progressive, smart. Is he a bad person for letting him play? No, Tua probably sat there, pass the test pound to the table. That's Tua is trying to prove all these critics wrong. He's trying to prove to everybody in the world he's a smart kid. He hears it. You're two this year too, that he's trying to prove he can make it. And he's banging on that table to play. And justin Herbert's a young kid and didn't make the playoffs and he's banging on that table to play. Sometimes we got to step in for athletes. They're not here just to entertain us. We got to save him from themselves, because it takes a different kind of cat to be a UFC fighter, to be a fireman, to be a cop, to play NFL football. About twenty years ago, I went down to Arizona to watch a Cowboys game and I had a sideline pass. It was an unbelievable situation. I'd never seen this before. I don't think I've seen it since. And so I was in the end zone, right along the sideline. I was right so I could see players come in and out of bounds, and a player I don't even know what team Arizona got thrust out of bounds. Was so fast and was such intensity. It was shocking. And these players Thursday Nights not going away. Thursday Night football is not going away. It's not. It's been agreed upon. Amazon's got it, and athletes are getting bigger, stronger, and faster, and the collisions are worse, and the league is doing everything it can. I believe they really really are. You can't hit quarterbacks, you can't hit receivers over the middle. But we got to be honest about this. Big strong players banging into each other. You're gonna have scary moments. And this morning, I think we all have a right to be really concerned about how it was handled from the Dolphins. I you know, I'm this is kind of layman terms. I would create a wobble rule. You wobble on Sunday you don't play for a week. About four or five times a year, I'll see a player get up, unsteady out. Don't want to talk about it. Don't care about the tests. Don't care if he says he's okay. I don't care what the cats can say. I don't care. You wobble. You're out for a week minimum. Thursday shouldn't Two shouldn't be out there. Sunday's moving around. He passed all the tests. But like a parents, sometimes you just go, you know what, You're gonna stay home from school. We're not going there. You're not doing that. I don't think Mike McDaniel's a bad guy, and I think two is a tough kid. He's probably shouldn't have been out there. The Dolphins upstairs. I got my issues, but here's the coach after as long as I'm coaching here. Um, if there's in you know, I'm not gonna fudge that whole that whole situation. If there's any any sort of inclination that someone has a concussion, they go into concussion protocol and it's very strict, absolutely zero patience for or will ever um put a put a player in a position to um for them to be in harm's way. That is like, no what I'm about at all, and no outcome of a game whatever influence me being irresponsible as the head coach of the football team. Maybe I'm completely naive. I think he's a good guy and I believe him, but there are times you have to step in and save an athlete, a pro athlete, from himself. It is a badge of honor for these guys to go out there. It is a brotherhood. They are fighting every week to prove, especially quarterbacks, because they can't hit him in practice. These quarterbacks are out there and they want to prove, Hey, I'm tough too. I believe Mike McDaniel. I think he cares deeply and it was really really scary, but common sense told all of us Sunday watching him against Buffalo. I'm watching last night and I'm thinking, yeah, they probably shouldn't be out there. All right, let's talk about the game briefly. You know, I was thinking about this driving in this morning. Think about what Miami players were dealing with the hurricane, so their families are dealing with that. They played ninety snaps the defense against the best offense arguably in football. Buffalo short week two is hurt doesn't necessarily practice all week Wednesday or light practice, and then they had to watch Twa get hurt his hands fence, which is scary. Then Bridgewater comes in. I mean, how you play football after that is it is unbelievable. So my takeaway in Miami was kind of a courageous effort by the team. I was kind of sometimes you have good losses in the NFL, is like, boy, this team's they're well coach, they're well managed, they got a lot of good players. They went through the hurricane, the tah the injury, the trauma. Miami went to a lot last night and they fought to the end. Cincinnati is kind of hard for me to get my hands around. I think they've solved most of their issues. They had seven sacks in game one, six two, and last night we're only sacked one time, so I think they've solved their pass protection. They have very good skill players, but they can't run the ball at all. And their loss was an overtime and close at the end of the game to Dallas, So I mean they could they could be undefeated, right, But Zach Taylor, the head coach, I didn't understand running a sweep on fourth and one. That's football one on one. You don't run horizontally on short yard and situations. They also ran it too much and they can't run it. And also they took the ball out of Joe Burrows hands fourth and inches, just go for it. So two times in that game they just took the ball out of their most important player, Joe Burrows hands. And here's what I wonder about Cincinnati. Andy Reid has made a career and I'm tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking. The league changes, You've got to change with it, Sean mcvagh this year, oh my gosh, tweaking, tweaking, tweaking, injuries. Zach Taylor built an offense, they got to the Super Bowl, and I watch it this year and does he have a second gear as a coach because it's kind of the same old team. They need big play at the score and now people are taking away some of the big plays and they can't run block. They're thirty first in like rushing yards per rush. So it's going to be very interesting. Was Zach Taylor listen he got to the Super Bowl? I think he knows what he's doing. But is he a McVay, is he a Shanahan? Is he and Andy Reid? Is he a guy that can consistently annually make those tweaks with his quarterback? I don't know. They just kept taking the ball out of Joe Burrow's hands last night. Game was very much in doubt with about six minutes five minutes to go. You know, my takeaway was, I think Cincinnati's kind of got it right, but it's not there yet. I kind of came out of the evening being more impressed with the effort from Miami. And I said this last week, I was more impressed with Tampa losing than green Bay winning. Last week. I was kind of blown away by Miami as an organization, even though the two of stuff feels kind of appalling. I'm just talking the effort by the players on the field. So here was Joe Burrow afterwards. On offense, We're finding our stride. Defense has been great all year. You know, we're starting to click on all cylinders. We just got to be more consistent throughout the game. You know, there was three or four series there that you know, we kind of sputtered that no point did you know, we feel like we were underperforming, but you know we could. We can just be better throughout the entire game, putting points on the bar, on the board, moving the chains. I don't know the guys we have in the locker room, and it's just like I said, after the two losses, we just got two wins. Still a long season, we still got a long ways to go. Doesn't mean anything if we go on and lose the next thirteen games. So you know we're gonna enjoy this win. We enjoy the long weekend, come back ready to go next week. Yeah, I think they've solved some of their issues, but I think their standard now after getting to a Super Bowl is getting to more Super Bowls. Can this coaching staff do an Andy Reid tweak, a mcbaye tweak, a Shanahan tweak, a Sean Payton tweak. That's next level? Coach. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Eastern nini Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeartRadio app. Sometimes. I know people are bothered by this, but all of us work in certain industries. We are insiders and our little fiefdoms, our little industries, and my little industry is radio, right, And then there's outsiders, And often outsiders can't believe what's going and I'm always like, who cares? We know what we're doing right. Same in football. A lot of times football players nine people in America do not do their job like on camera. Football players do, basketball players do, Hockey players do. So sometimes people are just outraged by things as outsiders by what they see. Remember Ken Dorsey, the coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. Everybody's freaking out. I can't believe this, I can They're coaches. Remember how the other coaches reacted to Ken Dorsey freaking out so like it didn't even happen. They yell and scream all day. Hey, you're an outsider. You're not an insider. You have no idea of the swearing, intensity, passion. You don't get it. This is how coaches. I mean, it looks crazy. You think that's the first time that's happened. He knows there's a camera there. Sometimes the answer is who cares, don't give a story oxygen, don't feed the media, don't feed social media, don't don't hype it up. So Eric b Enemy and Patrick Mahomes had this little, I don't even know what you call a little skirmish, and I thought it was interesting, like he's the you know, the biggest star in the league and the enemy's an intense guy. But he went on to talk about it yesterday and I thought he gave a great answer. I really thought, Eric b Enemy gave a fantastic answer to what we saw here. Here's what I love about Pat. Pat is a competitor. You guys have heard what I was say in the past about him. You warn him that way, that's how you want them. You want to finish every drive in the end zone with a score at that particular tie him. As a staff, we decided, you know what, we're getting the ball, you know, to start the second half off, So we just wanted to take a knee. So obviously, you know, Pat being a competitor that he was that he is, you know, he wasn't ready to hear that. He later went on to say, who cares, This is what we do. Players and coaches bark all the time. By the way, Tom Brady got in the face of Josh McDaniels and is screaming at him. It was on tape, and they won the Super Bowl that year. A coach can't occasionally get a player riled up. Players are yelling at coaches all the time. I saw a coach player for the Jets last week get in the face of a coach sometimes like who cares? When you're in an industry, You have an industry that I don't know anything about. I have one you don't know much about. But it's on television. Sports is on television. You see these glimpses of intensity and you think it's inappropriate or you don't know how to h is. Don't get it like it's okay barking and yelling. My reaction when I saw that was, yeah, that is intense. Watch how the Buffalo Bills coaches around Ken Dorsey acted. It didn't. It's like, yeah, he's upset, We're all upset, But it's his offense. He's the coordinator, and his team's his side of the ball screwed up. If the defense would have screwed up, you have seen the defensive coordinator freak out. Sometimes the appropriate answer is, come on, who cares? That's okay? I thought b enemy nailed it. That's what you want your athletes to be. Tom Brady's passionate, Peyton Manning yelling at Jeff Saturday on the sidelines, Tom Brady yelling at coaches, Eric b Enemy barking, dispassionate indifference bothers me. Very rarely does passion get under my skin or worry me. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon Easter Ninny Empacific. Shady McCoy, he's on speak now. Lashaw McCoy was talking about kay Tyler Murray and he doesn't really like his game. The way he plays here is shitty McCoy. He's trash. He played a high school player, runs backwards, he does a circle, ballering a circle, then goes left, goes right, turns all the way around again. That looks for a while receiver. He's trash. That's not a quarterback. Every passing hold of the ball, let's make a miracle this Watch the guy every game he's played, watching them play, it's really embarrassing to be honest, like, who's coaching this kid? Okay now now, Kyler Murray not necessarily responding to Lashawn McCoy, but responding to the critics. This year, after a bad start, Kyler Murray had this to say about his style certain situations as if you know late were, um it's got to come off scrambles and stuff like that, whereas teams may not you know, allow me to scramble as much as you know, Um, people asking why I'm not running and stuff like that, like it's not it's not it's not by you know, want to or anything like that. I think just designed right now, is we probably you know I've said I would, you know I would. I would love to implement that more. But I just asked, how you not do what I'm ass? Okay, so let's just think about the last week about hyper athletic quarterbacks. Josh Allen the belief is he's running too much, Russell Wilson, he's not running enough, Lamar Jackson, Ed Reid said, business first, stop running, and Kyler Murray all sorts of mixed messages on running. Four of our really great running quarterbacks Kyler and Russell and Josh Allen and Lamar you're running too much, you're not running enough, you shouldn't run at all, and now makes messages in my opinion, mobile quarterbacks, use your superpower, just learn to slide. Now. Josh Alan hopefully doesn't remain the primary running back for the Buffalo Bills. But if you want to get rich, and you want to win games, and you want a big contract, and you want to be productive, and you want to be famous, and you want to consistently win as a mobile quarterback, run Kyler should run, Russell should run, Josh should run, Lamar should run. That's how you win games. It is a superpower, and about five to six guys in this league have it. If you have a super strong arm like Josh Allen, use it, Big Ben did, Aaron Rodgers does, Brett Farve did. If you have a superpower with your feet, Michael Vick, Lamar, big Ben when he came in, Josh Allen, use it now again, learn to slide. But if I'm Kyler Murray, I mean, we have all these running quarterbacks just in the last week. You run too much, You don't run at all. You need to run more. You shouldn't run because it's business first, and mix messages. Kyler Murray's a better quarterback when he runs. You want the stat that defines this and backs up your argument. When Kyler has at least ten rushing attempts. Arizona is nine and one nine and one. Now when he doesn't, when he has less than five carries three seventeen and one, he needs to run. Just like you said, Like I mean, if if God gives you a great singing voice, sing, if you don't get a job on Broadway, sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing at your church, use your superpower. Lean in. Some people just have natural gifts. It's a singing voice, it's height, it's athletic ability. Lean into it. Now. It may be at times dangerous or physically can put you in harm's way. All right, figure out a way to get sacked or slide Josh Allen, Please, you saw a big Ben slide. But like to me, when I watched Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson the other not against the Niners, he decided to run on the fourth quarter. The Niners defense, which is topping the league, couldn't stop him. Kyler run. It's what got you paid. It's gonna get your wins, and it's gonna get you everything. And one in life wins money, fame, admiration, the locker room, and probably an extension. Hey, what's up, everybody, it's me. Three time pro bowler Levarrington and I couldn't be more excited to announce a new podcast called Up on Game. What is up on Game? You asked, along with my fellow pro bowler t J. Hushman's Outa and Super Bowl Champion. Yep, that's right, Plexico Burrs. You can only name a show with that type of talent on it. Up on Game. We're going to be sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen to Up on Game with me, LeVar Arrington, t J. Hushman's Outa and Plexico Birds on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast from. Let's blaze it up, Fired Up, it's Collins Blazing Fuck Jaguars and Eagles. I'm gonna take the Jaguars plus six and a half. They've won back to back games by twenty points. Let's be honest this season, their top ten in scoring, offense, top five, and most categories. They've only given it away once. They're getting good protection, and the Eagles offense, as good as it is, has been shut out in the second half of their last two games. So it just seems like the numbers two big. I don't think the markets figured out quite yet that Jacksonville spent three hundred million dollars and went and got a bunch of good players outgraded severely. At head coach, I think it's too many points. I think it's going to go down to the end. I'll have the Eagles winning twenty seven, twenty six. I gotta take six and a half points here. It just makes too much sense to me. Chargers at Texas absolutely taken the Texans at home plus five and a half. They've held all three appointments to twenty three points or less. Their defense is playing great, especially against the pass. Brandon Staley, the Chargers coach in twenty games with Justin Herbert's ten and ten, Justin Herbert's hurt, Keenan Allen's hurt, Rashawn Slater's out, Corey Lindsley's hurt, and the Chargers offense is one of only six teams without a rushing touchdown. Also, their defense, when you take out Bosa and Khalil Mack and now Bosa's out doesn't get to the quarterback way too many points. Texans are feisty. I think the game is low scoring. I'm gonna take the upset here. I'm not even sure if it is an upset with all the injuries to the Chargers. Twenty seven, twenty three, Houston Jets at Steelers. I wish I was getting three and a half. I'd like it a lot more. But Zach Wilson makes his debut. I'm gonna take the Jets here. Listen, Mike Tomlin as a favorite against the spread, is eighty two and ninety four and five as a coach, and the Steelers without T. J. Watt don't have much of a pass rush. Their offense is a disaster now. They had some extra time to prepare. But Zach Wilson has some tasty weapons here. I think they're gonna score. The Steelers are always most dangerous when they're an underdog, especially in division. This is an out of division game. I think I get a more talented quarterback. I think I get a little bit of a desperate team. I'm gonna take the Jets to win here twenty three twenty one. It won't be pretty. Jet wins aren't, but I like the Jets, Broncos and Raiders. I think the Raiders are a mess. I'm taking Denver plus two and a half. I have to hear listen. The Broncos defense has been unbelievable. It's number two in the league. They're good at everything, pass, rush, third down. This defense is outstanding. They've got two or three good corners, two or three pass rushers, excellent linebackers, a thumping safety. The Raiders defense, meanwhile, is one of the worst in the league. Only team in the NFL that's oh and three. And by the way, the teams that beat them, none of them have won a game, so they're losing the bad teams. I'm gonna take the Broncos to win here. Get on the right track, Russell Wilson. I think he's going to run a little bit more. Now, move the sticks more, keep it away from Derek Carr. Twenty eight, twenty three Broncos Patriot said, Packers upset of a week. I'm gonna take the Patriots plus nine and a half. If Mac Jones plays, they win. I think he can play. If Brian Hoyer plays, they cover the spread. First of all, this is a ridiculously big spread for two running teams. I mean, name the number one receiver in this game. If Jacoby Myers doesn't play, there isn't a number one I'm not sure there's a number two in this game. These are running teams and the Packers offense right now. Five giveaways through the first three games, Aaron Rodgers averaging two hundred and twenty eight yards passing. It's a career low. They don't score off script in the second half at all, one touchdown. I think it's a very close, low scoring game. And if Mac Jones plays, I think you're looking at a game that goes down to the last minute nine and a half points. This isn't college. By the way, the number one ranked corner in the NFL plays for the Patriots. Like, the secondary is really good. Their pass rush is decent. I'm gonna take the shock of the weekend. Patriots twenty four to twenty three now. And no, no, I know you're a freaking out, but every weekend we have a game that absolutely stuns us. I love underdogs this week, I really do. I like all of them. And you know what, you watch the Houston Texans play. I know we're not paying attention to them. Davis Mills, maybe they don't have to draft the quarterback. You think I'm crazy, I'm watching him. He's accurate. Houston Texans may have found their quarterback. You just didn't watch him play in college. But they're fighting their butt off in Houston. One more Herd. The Herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week within the iHeartRadio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like. All Right, Peter King, Football Morning in America is joining us. That's what I love about the NFL. I like underdogs all weekend long. I love the Jet Egg story, absolutely love it. I think the Texans are playing hard, so the Denver thing is interesting. So I have this belief that Russell Wilson is a good guy, and he gets a rookie coach and he's trying to be respectful, and he is, and then the Seattle disaster happens, and he gets to the end of the Niners game and Russell says, Okay, I'm just gonna run. I'm gonna take this offense over it. And it was a beautiful drive against arguably the best defense in the league. And I believe it was a turning point. Peter. Not that all their problems are solved, but I do believe Russell's now going to have a seventy thirty control of the offense. I think he's a smart guy. That's my takeaway on Denver. Or are you still deeply concerned with what you see. I'm concerned with what I've seen. But that drive was vintage Russell Wilson. It is what has been missing from Russell Wilson's game since Labor Day weekend just disappeared. He stopped running. Everybody in Seattle said he stopped running because he's not a runner anymore. And he proved in this game against San Francisco that he absolutely, unequivocally still can run and he's still, more importantly, Colin can throw on the run. Yeah. And I talked to Nathaniel Hackett after the game and he said, look, give him a little bit of time because he came not only came to a new team, all new coaches, he had never worked with before, he had never worked with any of these receivers before. So he said, I think it's it's unrealistic to expect, especially the way practice works now in the NFL, It's unrealistic to expect that he's going to hit the ground running in Week one. Maybe so, but he needs to play the way he always has played. He doesn't need to play like Carson Palmer, where you're staple to the pocket. Basically. Yeah, So Jalen Hurts, as we said it the other day, his improvement looks like Josh Allen. They may have different styles, but you're like, you have doubts. Very good, Yeah, have doubts. Make a leap in year two, make another leap in year three, and you're like, whoa, whoa, we have a game changing quarterback one out of Wyoming, one that had to you know, had to transfer, and in both the ascension is massive in back to back years. What do you think the key is for now? Brian Davil gets the Josh Allen credit, What do you think the key is for Hurts's ascension? I think it is pretty simple, Colin. You know, he basically was in a far different offense in both his stops in college football, and now he's in an offense where he's got two deep threats, and they want him to throw the ball thirty three times a game, and they want him to be a prolific downfield passer. There's all these things that he's being asked to do now that he really wasn't asked to do all the time in college football, and I think it's just a matter of maturity. He's only twenty four years old, and I think it's a matter of maturity and the fact that both Shane Steike and his offensive coordinator, you know, and also Nick Siriani, the head coach, see him as a specific kind of player who can do both things. He can run well, but they're gonna warn him the vast majority of the time on offense to be a thrower of the football. I just think it's a it's a maturity of a guy. I think the one other thing about guys like Jalen Hurts to a tongue of Valoa, Joe Burrow, they have played gigantic football games by the time they get to the NFL. Trey Lance never played in the single one in college football. These guys are playing big games every week in college football. So anyway, that's how I see it. Yeah, I had I had a scout tell me years ago that he loved SEC players. He said, those kids come out of NFL environments. There's one hundred five thousand people every weekend. You know, those kids have had massive in game stress. By the time four years in the SEC, they get to the NFL, and I want to segue to Joe Burrow. Zach Taylor got a lot of heat last night. And I did not like the fourth and one running horizontally sweep. I just like, I'm out on that. That's a yeah, I hate it. But as I watched them play, there's a little McVeigh here. McVay set tends to the knock on mcvayh as he falls in love with a run and you're like, come on, let Stafford, let it loose. And and my theories always been he trusts Stafford late in games that Sean wants eat clock. Let's get late. My quarterback in me will beat you late. And I watched Zach Taylor, and I watched Zach and I'm like, he's doing a McVeigh. They're not running the ball, it's eating clock. He wants to get to seven minutes left. He trust his quarterback over at that time, Teddy Bridgewater. And so it's easy to bang on him. But I do think that Zach's got a plan. He's not just being stubborn, or do you see it differently? I think last night's game you should draw next to no conclusions from last night's game. I mean because I want you to think about what last night's game was for the Bengals. Right to me, the Bengals should have been favored by two touchdowns in this game. Yeah, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but they should have been a significant favorite. Why because the most energy that any team has expended in the first three and a half weeks of this season is Miami's energy expended to beat Buffalo in ninety eight degree heat index conditions when your defense is on the field for up to ninety snaps. So I just look at that game last night. Even if Tongabaloa does not get hurt in this game, I thought the Bengals just were simply going to outlast them. You know, if this is a twenty minute game, it's a different game a sixty minute game. All all you have to do if you're the Bengals is outlast this team. That's all you have to do. Don't turn it over a lot, keep banging on them, and by the end of the game, they're gonna have nothing left. And I think they had nothing left midway through the third quarter, and it was just very hard for them. For Miami to be very competitive and Colin, I'm not diminishing a victory by the Bengals. But what I am saying is that anybody who realizes that the key players for this team, we're all dragging in a big way on Sunday night, they're just not enough time to recover. No. We said this yesterday on the show, Jason and I that I thought Cincinnati was going to blow him out. I thought the second half, and I even did think in the second half the secondary for Miami got beat deep on multiple plays. I said it to start the show today. Two times this year, I've watched the team lose and I was more impressed with him Miami last night and Tampa last week against Green Bay. I was more impressed with the losing team than the winning team. I want to go to the Tuah injury because it's obviously very scary. It's very public. We're watching it. It's freaking us all out. The NFL and the NFLPA agreed to independent neurological testing and he passed it. And Mike McDaniels an ivy league guy. He's a very genuine, decent human being. I don't think he's a corrupt bad guy. So everybody on the internet now Sue this guy and fire that guy, and I'm like he passed the tests. McDaniels has a great reputation. What do you thin I think happened? What am I supposed to think of why he's playing? Uh? Well, Colin, the NFL needs to do something now, because the optics here are some of the worst. I mean, I've covered the NFL for thirty nine years, and this is one of the worst things I've ever seen, the fact that following the Sunday game where he was clearly shaky and had to be lifted up, had to be helped, and then he got ragged dog last night for this sack. So here's here's my feeling, Colin, that what has to happen in the NFL now is if someone has gross instability at some point of any game, if he is wobbly, if he has to be helped up, if he if he if he has if he if he has to lean on people to even get off the field, he is done for the day. Yeah, don't tell me that a guy like that can go in and halftime and prove to them that he should be playing. You know, I Rob Nikovich, I heard him today on ESPN. He was very good. He goes. You know, the fifty four year old tah will say, man, what was I doing at twenty four? Why did I insist on coming back and playing in the game. And I think he's exactly right. When you're twenty four years old, you're indestructible. Yeah, but the object of the protocol in the NFL should be that no one can hide from head trauma and head injuries. And if you show signs of gross instability, as Tagamloa did on Sunday against the Buffalo Bills, he can't come back in that game. Yeah. Then after the game and Monday, you decide if there's any lingering resolts. If there isn't, then okay, then you let him play. But to me, I just think that the crime crime. It's not a crime, but the bad part of this happened on Sunday when he was allowed back in the game to play the second half. Finally, I thought Eric b Enemy had a great answer when asked about that little argument with Patrick Mahomes, and he said, you get that's what you want. You want a quarterback fighting to throw the ball down the field. And I've watched Brady scream at Josh McDaniels in a year they won the Super Bowl and the enemy basically came out and said, folks, who cares about this stuff? And I said to myself, you know, Peter, everybody's outraged constantly on the internet, the Ken Dorsey reaction, the Ken Dorsey reaction. And I talked to two guys in the league and they're like, Colin, I've seen worse in a coaching suite. Sometimes Americans don't do their job on camera. Pro athletes do, and networks want to see all of it. And sometimes it's ugly and there's yelling and screaming. And I thought the enemy was great. He's like, this is what I want my quarterback to do. I want to have arguments. What did you make Colin? Colin, first of all, I'm on the side of Mahomes in this. I think he should have given Mahomes a couple more snaps. Mahomes's point was very simple. You have to trust me not to throw it away. I'm not going to take a chance here. I'm gonna throw safe sideline routes or whatever. I'm gonna throw, you know, to the fifth receiver here, and I'm not going to take the kind of chances that you're worried about. Put it in my hands and we'll be fine. But the fact that the enemy said it's over, it's done, go into halftime and we'll figure something out. He's within he's within the right to say that too. He's the coach. And Mahomes, who is I'm not saying he's a he's a off kid. He isn't. I don't mean that. But he takes coaching and he understands that sometimes even when I don't agree with the coach, I'm gonna do what he says. But Mahomes wanted to get the point across. Hey, trust me, I've earned the trust to be able to make two more plays to try to get us in field goal range. Four by the way, three points or maybe even seven points that they really could have used in Indianapolis. Peter King, Football Morning in America. Great as always, Peter, Thank you all right, Colin One more Herd. The Herd streams twenty four hours a day, seven days a week within the iHeartRadio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you like. During the Patriots Tom Brady Belichick dynasty, it was Fort Knox. Nothing got out no secrets ever, totally secretive, no leagues ever now to leaky well once a week. But he says something to the media, nobody reacts. Belichick doesn't say anything. He didn't let his assistance talk years ago. Now players talk all the time. Leaks everywhere. Here's another one. Mike Girardi got a leak from a Patriots player. Love Mac Jones. Tough kid, but he's hurting pretty good. Hope everybody's smart about this. It's a long season that never used to happen. Leaks everywhere now. I don't do conspiracy theories. I don't believe in them. I've always had a theory about conspiracy theories. It's less successful people who feel society doesn't pay enough attention to them. So I'm gonna come up with inside information that nobody else has. I don't buy him. But if you were a rich head coach with one hundred million net worth, the greatest coach ever, had your legacy rings money, and you really didn't like the owner who in multiple books called you out, said you were impossible and difficult, multiple books. Leaks at Belichick not a good guy, and you thought I got my rings, I got my house in Jupiter, Florida. If I was into conspiracy theories, there would be seven ways to leave on your terms and hand the owner a mess. Tick off the greatest quarterback ever until he leaves. Hire your kids on the staff, draft a very limited quarterback. Next, spend a ton of free agency on players who don't make a difference. Rehire guys who were disasters as head coaches on your staff, so you have no air apparent when you leave. There's nobody in the building that can be it. Assign them to roles they're not comfortable with. Overdraft your first pick, and then ruin the culture by letting players constantly leaks off and don't call him out. Then at the end of the year, retire, and Robert Kraft goes, what do I do now. I don't have the speed, I don't have a roster, I don't have the quarterback. I don't got the coaches in the building, I don't have the culture. I'm not I don't believe in conspiracy theories. And I'm not saying this is true, but it's almost as if Belichick has already made his mind up and wants out. Even McIntire's given me a look like it is kind of interesting. I mean, they have done like seven eight things. It's the slowest roster leaks everywhere. Kids on the staff, rehiring guys that bomb that you could never give the job to and giving them roles. They'll fail at reaching on picks. Spending money on players that don't make a difference. Wasn't BELICHICKO was a genius on in league personnel. He's spent two hundred and thirty four million dollars on a bunch of guys that can't run. I'm just saying that said, I think they beat Green Bay this weekend, So what do I know. I'm just saying if I believed in conspiracy theories. By the way, just to make it not too suspicious, you have to occasionally win some games, right Yeah, Hey, this would be one of those. You would win calhard. The Patriots have more leaks than the Iraqi Navy right now. It's getting ugly out there. That's the fourth one this year, third or even players are calling them. I'm loving this now. You know, I don't believe in any of this, but I'm just saying, if I did them. Okay, So here's the other thing I have to for my job. I promote stuff on social media. I don't run most of my social media. I've got people that want it. I'm on Twitter a little, not a lot, but I'm not running it most of the stuff because I think it's toxic and it's a lot of board, lonely, snarky, superior people gotta be cool on Twitter. You know who gets ripped on Twitter? Steph Curry. You know what Twitter loves NFTs in bitcoin. It is Loserville people that need to be accepted, less successful people ripping more successful people. It's it's a barnyard musical. You should try it sometime. So um, Russell Wilson just gets crushed. Steph Curry, because he's not cool, gets crushed. Russell Wilson gets crushed. You know who everybody loved, They love Baker Mayfield, Cam Newton, Johnny Manziel Sky Cool, Drew Lock. Everybody loved Drew Lock. Nobody loves Steph Curry because he wears pharmacy shoes, and nobody likes Russell Wilson because they say he's cringey. So here's Russell Wilson's news subway sandwich spot for on TikTok or wherever it was. Hey, you wanna put the subway sandwich. It is my signature sandwich. M It's called The Danger, which can't wait. It's dangerously good, looks good, be careful though it's spicy. Have you ever done anything dangerous? No, Jesus, that is dangers. The reaction on social media just blasted Russell Wilson after seeing the ingredients in The Danger, which I can understand why Pete didn't let Russ cook by the way, this way say cool on social media. No, Russell Wilson was just voted by adults in America, people with lives who aren't consumed with being cool, the most likable player in the NFL. Twitter defended Johnny Manziel at every turn, Baker Mayfield, Cam Newton, the cool guys. Oh, it's cool, Hollywood's big. But you know what's not cool our current president. You know what's not cool, Steph Curry. What's not cool? Russell will A lot of times adults aren't cool, Like they have kids and responsibility and jobs and they have to manage Pete pull and make tough calls and are not consumed with, you know, having the coolest trends and the coolest watch and the coolest, most people aren't snarky. They're happy, they're doing their thing. They care about their kids. I love every Russell Wilson cringe ee moment. He has voted most likable player. You know who was else was on that list? Patrick Mahomes, who's got a kind of a silly brother. Sometimes his brother's out there being silly. We've all got a silly sister or a silly brothers. That's America. It's not cool you have one of those in your family, somebody that sometimes it's cringey. But you don't have one, of course, because you're you're cool. Steph Curry. It is unbelievable how little respect he gets. By the way, Yanna, same thing, because Jannis is not worried about being cool. I love. I'm gonna go to subway after this show. Can you order the Danger Witch? Is it on the menu? Is it because I'm gonna order it? It's a good question. I will today. I'm not joking. Yeah, I haven't been a subway in years. My wife does not like the smell of subways. Well it's there, it's their bread. Yet she did not authorize me to say that on air. But is like we're driving on the robot kids. There's a subway. No, no, we're not going there. So she doesn't like the smell of it. Yeah, it's very pungent. Well, now, come on, they could be an advertiser. You know, you gotta be a point. Apologies all around. But I like how russ is leaning into He's there is like a bit of stick there, right, I think, oh no, no no, no, Russell Wilson's really smart. Yeah he knows that America in the middle they're not cool either. Show it again. I love this commercial subway. Congratulations, all this free press. Yeah, I love people leaning. Somebody once said to me, that's a dad joke, and my reaction was, I'm a dad. Yeah, Obama does that. He'll do a joke and go, okay, here it comes to dad joke. Yeah, he's a grown up, he has kids, he's a dad. It's okay not to have the hippest joke when you're a dad, because you're trying to relate to your kids who laugh at your dad jokes and you kind of have a linking moment with your children. Dads should have dad joke. If you're too cool as a dad, your kids will end up on math