The Herd with Colin CowherdColin credits the Chiefs for always finding a way to win games despite their sluggish offensive output so far this season. He tells you why he was right about Brock Purdy and wrong about Georgia vs Texas. Plus, 3-time Pro Bowler Matt Hasselbeck joins the show to explain why the Steelers were able to pull off a win over the Jets in Russell Wilson's first start with Pittsburgh
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Brog party to go toe to toe with Patrick Mahomes. It did not, It did not transpire the way you are hoping for. So thank you for making me laugh to start the show.
Because there's gonna be a lot of.
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It is official. Kyle Shanahan now ozer to five against Andy Reid.
It's official. Number one.
Kansas City is the best team in the league, maybe by a lot. Number two. They're easily the most resourceful team in the league. Everybody has injuries doesn't affect them at all. And number three Andy Reid is separated from even the other good coaches. Kyle Shanahan's special teams annual embarrassment. Kyle Shanahan's red zone offense totally dependent appears on Christian McCaffrey. Shanahan's a very good coach, but in high leverage situations, he doesn't have the adaptability the ingenuity of Andy Reid. Kyle Shanahan has a very good system that's excellent with Christian McCaffrey. You take out that player a running back, and even when their backup running back is good, it's not the same team Andy Reid. Let's put Carson Wentz in the backfield with Mahomes. That'll get them again. Both teams were missing the star running back. Both teams were missing collection of receivers. Neither quarterback played their best game ever. Offensive lines for both Kansas City and forty nine Ers okay, but in every single high leverage situation, Mahomes in Kansas City up here, pretty Shanahan down there. Now, you could say to yourself, Colin that come on, don't be naive. This is all Mahomes. Okay, let's say it is. That's even worse news for San Francisco. You're gonna give the bag to brock Purty. Brock Purty, let's please contectual. Good quarterback, but when he's missing pieces the red zone offense man, you know, his two big completions both underthrown. Thankfully Tom Brady called it out. This is what I've consistently said about brock Purty. He's a good quarterback with nice mobill, but he was just eight for eighteen missing deebo a Uk may be gone now eight for eighteen on throws just five yards downfield with three picks. That's what he was. Yes, he was missing. Debo An Mahomes has been missing. Rashi Rice Well, I mean I Yuk yes Ayuk dropped a ball and then left later. Look at what Kansas City's been doing for three years at wide receiver ham and egging it, just trying to find anybody Juju Smith, have him, lose him, bring him back.
Gets hurt.
That's the story of the Chiefs for three years, just trying to make it work. Bondo band aids, whatever works. So I think brock Purty is overwhelmingly although I think he's got some talent. He has been the beneficiary of a good coach with a great system and a collection of Hall of Fame level George Kittle, Trent Williams, Christian McCaffrey. Take those out and there's almost no extraordinary to brock Purty size arm movement. Eh Yet, in all those situations, when you remove all of those, pretty and Mahomes are asked to do two different things. Perty Is asked in San Francisco, don't screw up. Here's the keys to the Mercedes. Don't screw up. That's what he's asked to do. Perty is six and eight in games in which he's just had one one turnover. Mahomes is asked to carry a franchise, get rid of Tyreek Hill, move off great players, average offensive tackles. Can you be magical when we don't have all the resources we had to start the year, start the dynasty, or start the game. These are two different asks. One is the best quarterback on the planet, regardless of who's around him. One does a good job when everything's in place. And that's what I've said about this. Just contextualize. You give most quarterbacks in this league time to throw oh, number one receiver, excellent offensive line, They're gonna look good. What Mahomes did yesterday on a game in which he didn't play that well, he just in the highest moments. I mean, yesterday was a referendum on head coaching at the highest level, quarterbacking at the highest level. Mahomes and Purty. I mean you may not want to hear this, but I mean, even on that bruising touchdown run, it's just Mahomes off script on script. It doesn't matter. He always makes the play.
I actually was not trying to like lower my shoulder. I was trying to like absorb the hit. I know I was gonna be right in the right there in the end zone, and that Dad bond Man just had enough weight on me where he went down, So it wasn't like I was necessarily trying to like seek out contact. I was trying to absorb it and getting the end zone and just ended up looking good for me.
Yeah.
I've just watched this matchup too many times and I keep seeing the same exact thing every time. Mahomes is magical in crisis. Party needs everything to be in place. Shanahan has a really good system. Their special teams are annually cringey and Kansas City's more resourceful. Both these teams were missing all sorts of players. One kind of capsized, the other elevated. And that's what I've watched now five straight times. All Right, let's talk about the second best team in the league, and I think it's pretty substantial and clear. It's Detroit. That was not an easy game at Minnesota. Minnesota has engulf good teams, and the Lions may never get their defense right. They've been trying for years. The minute they get it right, that horrible injury to Aiden Hutchison, right, but quarterback o line, run game, clever, offensive coordinator, power, finesse culture, there are no weaknesses to that offense. I mean, Jared Goff essentially looks like he's playing catch with his friends. In his last three games, Jared Goff's completing eighty five percent of his throws with one hundred and fifty three passer rating. It is a video game. And remember, Minnesota's defense, especially at home with that crowd noise, is ferocious, is outstanding. He had three incompletions against them.
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Stroud, Brock Purdy, I've never seen anything like this defense. I was seeing Ghosts, Jared Goff's playing catch. It almost feels like as we head into Week eight Chiefs Lions Super Bowl, it's kind of starting to feel inevitable. You don't have to reach for the narrative or grasp for a story. I mean, Detroit's offense in an offensive league. Here's what I also love is that there's this collective chip on the shoulder with Detroit. I mean, Goff was cast off in LA Get out of Here, and then Dan Campbell has been mocked and the city of Detroit for years has been a punchline. And Detroit has taken that and built this muscle car from different parts. It's got mad maxfield to it. And they are head coach GM offensive line tackles everything. They are a knee cap biting monster. They are just the team. And Minnesota's really good. Minnesota's got a brilliant defensive coordinator. Jared Goff had three incompletions. So, I mean, and what I loved about this game for Detroit, Detroit trailed on the road, and then Detroit led, and then they trailed again, and then they came back, and then they had to hold off a more than capable Sam Darnold Viking offense. It's the kind of game you see in January and February. All these routes are fun. But what you watch with Detroit and Minnesota that feels like the NFC Chamchampionship. And you're on the road and you trail early and the crowd is humming and you can't hear, and you just start running the football and you take a lead, then you fall behind, and then you rally and take the lead again and hold on. That looked like a playoff game. I feel like with Detroit, I'm watching this sort of adolescent boy and every couple months his voice gets deeper, he's got more confidence, few pimples, you know. But then he walks out when morning and Mom looks up and he's six five, two forty five and has a D one scholarship offer to Ohio State or Michigan. It just they just look the part. Power, finesse, run game, effortless completions, win, leading, comeback when trailing. I don't see anything about Detroit.
I don't like.
I just seen it for years from Kansas City. I've never seen it before from Detroit. This year was going to be an interesting year for the Lions. Instead of hunting. They were the hunted. They're fine, They're fine being the hunted. Here's Dan Campbell after.
You guys didn't bout an eye.
I love this freaking team.
I love the coaches, I love the players, I.
Love everything about it.
Man.
We are so freaking hardened even when doesn't go the way we want it to. Man, you find a way that as an outstanding we are one to zero in the division.
That was something else that that was Sometimes you get these in the regular season.
You'll see it in the NBA.
You get that handful of games you're like, oh, that's a playoff game, that's a conference final. That felt like an NFC conference championship game. And Detroit goes into Minnesota with the defensive coordinator Brian Floric Flores who had flummixed everybody, and they just rattling off drive after drive, clever, smart, physical power. That was something.
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Was right, that's a I think brock pretty is a good quarterback, but you're going to be judged ultimately on how do you play against the best teams in high leverage situations and when not everything is available to you? Yeah, guess who was also missing receivers in a running back Patrick Mahomes. He now doesn't have a stacked deck. Brock pretty doesn't. He's twenty second in completion percentage. Got lectured during the game by Kyle Shanahan, and listen, that's why we said contextualized quarterbacks.
Who was their coordinator?
It's a lot different getting you know, the keys to a nice car was Shanahan and Trent Williams and Deebo and Christian McCaffrey. But eventually, if you had to pay Rock pretty, you don't get all those toys where Colin was raw woy. Georgia thump Texas, didn't they? I mean, Georgia re established itself. It looked like Texas was too busy feeling good about Texas. Georgia had seven sacks, felt like they could have had seven more. Longhorns could not run the ball. They felt like they kind of panicked at quarterback. They were atroci on third down. You know, listen, with a college football playoff, these two could probably meet down the road in eight weeks or whatever it is. But in the end, this was a program built on defense against the high glamour program that wanted to tell you they were ready, they were ready for the moment, and Texas was not ready for the moment at all.
Where Colin was right, my.
Guy, boringly elite Jared Goff twenty two to twenty five against a very good Minnesota team, four games in a row, passer rating at least one thirteen.
And the thing I love about him, there is no sizzle.
It is all stake and I know his TikTok videos aren't as cool, but in the last four games it looks like pitch and catch.
He is just in a zone.
In fact, in his last four games, Detroit has more touchdowns eighteen than Goff has incompletions sixteen. Where Colin was raw, I have defended Lincoln Riley at every turn and he's not going to get fire. But increasingly you were wondering if he's the right fit. They lead in the fourth quarter, in the second half in all these games, but they lack the physicality and the toughness to put it away. Now, some of this is they're very very young on offense, but you know what, he took over Bob Stoops in a very good program with inertia and momentum, and he had to rebuild this thing. And after a flashy first year where they were probably better than they should have been, it's all been downhill. Maryland, Minnesota. I'll give you a loss to Penn State. That's a terrific program, but I'll.
Go back to this.
They have one running back they trust in the program, it's usc and two tackles that can play. After three years, that's not good enough.
Lincoln where Colin was right.
I'm a Jordan Love fan, and I know he makes mistakes and he's more far than Aaron Rodgers. But the joy he plays, with the support he gets from his coaches even after big mistakes. Matt Lafleur doesn't care. Look at how they coach Love. I mean, this offense is read and Watson and Dobbs their kids.
Jordan Love.
But he's tied for passing touchdown lead in the NFL at fifteen and he's missed two starts, and there's great quarterbacks all over this sport. He's in a tough division, but this this is what great looks like. I mean, he may not be Mahomes great. Yet we don't have to classify every player, but he is special.
Where Colin was right.
When the Giants let Saquon Barkley go to the Eagles, we said, the worst part about this is Saquon's gonna humiliate you twice a year and once at home and in front of your bosses. It is a bad Monday in the Giants facility had more yards than the Giants did in total. And you know, yes he got booed, but I mean, you got to be careful. There's there's a reason there's the old term never never trade in division. Well, you don't want to trade your best player to your arch rival and division. And I guess guarantee you it is walking on eggshells in the Giants facility today, here's saque after.
I probably talked a little more today and I usually do.
You know, I didn't help myself when I said earlier week, I didn't think I was gonna get booed.
But you know they're going for a reason. It's a complement at the end of the day.
That's how I took is a great player getting his congratulations.
Where Colin was raw.
You know, a couple of weeks ago, I called Colorado the fake id of college football. They have apparently turned twenty one. They have a run game, defenses playing well. Crushed the decent Arizona team thirty four to seven. Listen, Shador Sanders, I think is the best quarterback in college football, especially after watching Texas and Georgia. They're one win from Bowl eligible and they've you know, it felt like a lot of hype the first couple of years, but they're one in the football. They're playing defense, they have a pass rush, and they have the best quarterback in college football.
So shame on me.
Colorado looks real where Colin was right.
My number one pick this year on my over under bets was Denver. Vegas had him at five and a half wins. I said, Sean Payton is just gonna get him to seven to eight. They beat the Saints Thursday. Same defense as last year, I mean, same players, But I think Peyton is squeezing every ounce of talent out of this roster. He comes from the Bill Parcells tree, and that's what Bill did. He had a good eye for personnel and the ability to get the most and motivate players. Denver's not a great team. And it's kind of an okay roster, but they've got winning streaks, and they win the games they should, and they beat the Jets in New York with a rookie quarterback.
We were right on that one where Colin was right.
The Clippers announced that Kawhi Leonard would not only miss the opener into it Dome, he may miss big chunks of the season. Steve Ballmer's obviously smarter than me. I do not get doubling down on this. The face of a franchise, if nothing else has to be reliable and the winning has to be sustainable, I never know what he's gonna play. I just don't understand this. Death taxes and Kawhi not being available are the three things here I'm pretty used to. And they double down on it. So over the next three years he's got a fifty million dollar cap hit each of those seasons. I didn't get it. Then I didn't get doubling down. He's not really a leader in the locker room.
I don't get it.
And Steve Ballmer's a brilliant guy, but I just don't get this Kawhi thing. It's not who I would build around. I would not let Paul George go who may get injured from time to time, But I know what I get with Paul George, Like he's gonna play if he's healthy.
Colin right, Colin wrong.
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Now. Matt Hasselbeck eighteen years in the NFL, three Pro Bowls, a Super Bowl. You know, and I've said this before, when you're a sportscaster and a quarterback comes in, he looks good. The two things I look at is how does he play when he's trailing everybody? You know, when it's when you lead twenty seven to six in the third quarter, The game's different for a quarterback. How do you look when you're trailing? And how do you look when you're missing a left tackle? You're number one receiver, you're on a backup quarterback. And I watched Mahomes in Purty and neither had a full set. I mean it was just players everywhere, and in those high leverage moments. Matt Mahomes is just crazy. I mean Brady said it. It's like he's doing stuff you shouldn't do throw backwards, you know, you know, taunting. I mean, what do you make of Mahomes? Yesterday was a day I don't know. People say he didn't play well, but in the big moments he did so I thought, you know, everybody has likely picks.
I thought he played kind of well, didn't he.
Listen, Patrick Mahomes does some stuff you're not going to find in the statue, you know. You know, even the play that Brady said, you shouldn't throw back across your back, across your body, like.
That's a design play for that team.
Like that's how guys like Tom and guys like me and guys that can't do what he you know, like that physical stuff, that's how they get coach Mahomes.
That's part of their offense. That's just normal for them.
You know.
I just think he's one of these guys that has those things that you call in tangibles where the opponent is intimidated without really him really having to do anything. He saw where he ran over the guy in the end zone. The defender was so afraid of getting a flag because it's the Patrick Mahomes and so like, whether it's throwing it left handed, underhand behind his back. Patrick Mahomes almost has mind control over people the way.
That he plays.
And listen, I say all that he has not played his best football. I think he'd be honest and say that as well, he really has not played his best football. That offense hasn't looked their best, and yet they are the probably the number one or number two in all of football right now.
First of all, San francisc goes good. They're gonna win a bunch of games. Let's not overreact. But in this space against this team, it does. We're getting to a point now where I like, yeah, I've seen this barbecue, Like, I know what this looks like. Do teams get another team's heads or was this just better team? One to you for San Francisco.
Listen, Yeah, Colin, I'm glad you brought that up.
I think there's matchups that we don't talk about enough. It's play caller to play caller. It's Kyle Shanahan versus Steve Spagnolo. Like those two guys have gone up head to head so many times to shoot. Spags has gone up against Mike Shanahan, never mind Kyle Shannahan, and so like, there's definitely an element like I'm watching the I'm rewatching that game today this morning, and I'm saying, like, wow, that was such a good defensive.
Call, you know.
I mean, the Niners are an offense that has so much respect around the league that people copy them, they study them, they know them. And I just thought Spags's game plan was so exceptional, Like he knew where the hot was going to be. He knew what they not necessarily what they were going to do, but he knew what they were not gonna do, so like on their naked bootleg type stuff based on formations, based on splits, he knew they weren't taking a shot. He knew it was a completion mindset. And those safeties were playing deep but downhill. I mean they were. It was almost like they were told in the meetings, you have our permission in this formation with this action to play downhill and go for an interception. A lot of times defenders are told, hey, you're safety, you're deeper than the deepest. They did not say that in this game yesterday. They were telling those guys to fire their gun as soon as you see it, pull the trigger and make a play. And that's exactly what they did.
You know.
I had said everybody in Pittsburgh big band is like, you can't play Russell Wilson. And to Mike Tomlin's credit, Mike's like, this is why I get paid. And I know what I'm seeing, and it was I gotta tell you, man, it was pretty choppy in the first quarter. There were some bad misses and I'm thinking, boy, I look smart. In that second half, I'm like, I saw a quarterback who was not panicking, good feet, the cadence was good. He got Pickens in vol and I was like, well, the defense is good. Mike's won a Super Bowl to power run game in Russell's like in his prime, not making a ton of mistakes. I will say this, I think Russell's always been pretty darn good.
In the red zone.
When you can get him from out of the pocket and move it and he gets a defined look at stuff.
I think he's pretty good in the red zone.
I don't know I was surprised by Russell or should I have not been? Is this kind of what he was in Denver last year?
Well, what I'm not surprised by is Mike Tomlin a very confident coach. There's a saying in football be who you can afford to be. Mike Tomlin can afford to make a risky decision like this.
He can afford to like, Hey, you know what, I'll play the other guy.
It's just the Jets, you know, the meat of my schedules coming up in about.
A month, maybe a few weeks. Like, let's just try it out. I trust him.
Russell Wilson started out shaky, maybe rusty. I thought Pickens played great for him. I think playing with the lead helped. I thought it was good. Listen, I think you're gonna see both quarterbacks this year, though. I don't think it's just one guy. I think there's stuff that Russell Wilson brings to the table. But like what you're talking about in that low red zone, I don't think he has that anymore. I don't think he's the scrambler and the runner that he once was. I mean, even on the quarterback sneats yesterday, it wasn't like he's just showing his age a little bit. And so like I think you take how special Justin Fields can be as a runner in that low red zone low red zone meaning ten yard line in Yeah, defensive coaches absolutely hate to go up against the guy from the ten yard line in that can run.
And you've seen justin field score I.
Don't know, probably five touchdowns this year with his feet, whether it was a designed run or just hey, they covered it perfectly and I'm gonna go run. So I think you'll see both guys going forward. And it's a total thing that like Pittsburgh can do.
They've done it in the past. I think they could do it again.
So you see this in the NBA, and we saw it with the Phoenix Suns, where you put a bunch of good players together and there's this sense that, well they're smart guy KD and Bradley Beal and Booker and they'll figure it out. Let's well, that's not really how it works. Like there's different dynamics and it takes a while. And I was reading the New York Rich Jimini covers the New York Jets, and he had said in a post last night, he goes, this is just an accumulation of talented guys. It's not really a team. Now we're on an interim coach. It's old old lineman, rookie old lineman. You know, it's just it's a button. Now we're on a second offensive coordinator. And I watched the Steelers and I knew what they were regardless of limitations. I knew what I was watching. And I watched the Jets and I'm like, their offense is kind of let's dump it off the breeze hall, let's try a go route. Is it fair to say you played on one two five teams? Were you ever on a team that was talented but you couldn't there was no cohesion. You felt like, we can't pull it together. I kind of feel like that watching the Jets.
Well, I'll say this, you know, I think there's something really special about the Pittsburgh Steelers that is missing from the New York Jets right now. And I think what I would say is most special about the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I think anybody who played or coach in the NFL would agree with me. The Steelers are one of those organizations that they are bigger than any one player, like they just are.
We're the Pittsburgh Steelers.
We are bigger and more important than any one player, and we are a team.
It's almost like the fans are part of that.
Ownership's a part of that, and nothing gets in front of like the Steelers, and I just don't think the Jets have had that. I think the Jets have been sort of the opposite of that. And so there's something really special there. You mentioned basketball, but I mean this is eleven on eleven and it's really thirty three. You know, you got the offense, defense, and then you get the fourth down army there. So I just, you know, I think there's something unique. There's teams out there that are like that. The Baltimore Ravens are like that in terms of like it's you know, you're bigger than any one superstar player and that.
Gets hard and harder these days. But I think the Steelers have that, and I do think that's that's worth something.
So I'm watching the Vikings Lions yesterday and Peyton Manning said, once he goes listen, there's preseason speed, regular season speed, divisional rival speed, playoff speed, and super Bowl speed he goes, everything feels a little more intense. And I'm watching Vikings Lions and I'm like, Okay, that's playoff speed in the regular season. Those are excellent football teams. And I mean for Detroit to go in there, I mean, I'm just watching playmakers everywhere. I'm like, how many Hall of Fame level players do we have in this game? This is an insane spectacle. I think you're going to look back at that game to win, to trail early, come back, trail again, come back. That's like to me, I knew this year Detroit was hunted, not the Hunter. That was a defining win for me. For me as I watched them.
No doubt, Colin, Listen, like, I could talk about this game for an hour. I mean, they're down ten points, but go back to the Dallas game. I think it was Dallas game last week, where you know, Ben Johnson's like calling all these plays to offensive lineman, doing all this craziness. Everyone's just like, oh, he's just having fun. He's just punching the bully in the mouth all that stuff. No, it's not. It wasn't just that he was thinking ahead. This is like a guy playing chess. Okay, he's thinking ahead to I'm playing Brian Flores coming up. I need to give him so much crap to think about and to study for, and to like chill him out with all of his exotic cover zero blitzes and bluffs and all that kind of stuff.
He was thinking ahead in that game.
And so what he did is he got exotic against kind of a simple defense in Dallas, and then he got simple against an exotic defense in Minnesota. They went pretty basic and then they got creative in the sense that they were gonna.
Block you your.
Defensive ends with a wide receiver plus a running back and take a shot. I just thought it was an excellent game plan. And I would say it started started last week. It started last week where they said, you know what, we're thinking ahead about a division game, and you can tell that this team is hyper focused on winning that division, like every game is an important one, right, the biggest game is the next game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
But you can tell in that locker room, Dan Campbell has a mindset for the coaches and the players this division is going to be ours. We are done given this division up to other people. It's going to be ours and it's a great division.
So we'll see. But they're off to a great start.
Want to zero in the division, and I really think it's because of how smart they played. I mean, everyone wants to talk about how tough they are. They played really smart.
You know, I want to talk about this. I always say that the two things generally create a dynasty is you got about seven of your best players in their prime. I think the Niners are getting a little creaky. Detroit's got Pro Bowl players. They're in their prime or going into their prime. The second thing is the ability to be gifted and yet have a chip on your shoulder. Belichick did this for years. Do your job. We're not the most talented team. Kansas City's got that where they're like, Read is just constantly innovative, never get stale. Detroit mauls you on the offensive line. But what I like about goth La bailed on him. The city of Detroit. We've rolled our eyes at Dan Campbell knee biting and your Seahawk teams. When you have great players, but in the building, there's a feeling like nobody respects us, nobody likes us. It maybe make believe, but I kind of feel that with Detroit. So many people it's almost they're in the perfect city. Detroit, did you ever have a team where you were like, we have better players than everybody, but in the building a lot of players thought they were disrespected.
Yeah, listen, I think I think the city of Seattle felt that you know, I remember Jimmy Johnson going on you know, the Fox pregame show, and he was like, yeah, they're up in South Alaska. It was almost like this chip on our shoulder, and I think our fans felt it. No one wanted to come up and cover our team. It was almost like being in the witness Protection program if you played in Seattle. And so I think I think the Twelves became a thing like they you know, when when the national media came to do a game when it was a primetime game, they said.
You know what, we were going to be a part of this game.
We are going to make the New York Giants jump off sides eleven times.
We are going to send a message.
To the league, like like for sure, I think our team felt that. And I think Dan Campbell's the perfect fit for this, right, Like he's a guy that was mentioned for head coaching jobs for years and years. He was an interim head coach and just kind of passed over, passed over. You mentioned bite off the kneecaps. That whole thing kind of made fun of the Detroit Lions. Like when I was playing, they were the team that went Owen sixteen. You know, they're an afterthought. You know, even on Thanksgiving when Detroit plays in Dallas plays, it's always about Dallas.
It's really never about Detroit.
So I just I think absolutely and then and then they drafted well, and then they take on the identity of their team and of their head coach, the whole team does, and then they're really tough. But like you could point, I could point to one play in that game.
It was a touchdown pass to Khalif Raymond.
Yeah, and two different guys, Okay, a tight end and maybe a receiver have a chance to absolutely declete someone on a blind side block. And when you always sell like we're tougher than them, we're tougher than them like that, those are usually the people that.
Get the fifteen yard flag. And it just I just thought, like they played so smart. Neither one of the guys took a cheap shot.
It ended up being a touchdown, It ended up being very critical to the win. And so like, if you can balance that chip on your shoulder, that toughness, that mental toughness, physical toughness, plus just intelligent football.
Like x'es and o's and all of it, I just think.
You're you're cooking with with what you want to be cooking with, and they got it going on right now.
By the way, I love that you still remember what Jimmy Johnson said, there's still embedding you.
It's funny. Listen.
I mean all the you know, Tom Brady knows that he was picked one ninety nine.
He's the greatest football player of all time.
Like whatever it is, like you said, whether it's real or not real, you can take those things and people talking about it is like bulletin board material, but it can push a button with people. And I think Jared Goff getting kicked to the curb, getting unceremoniously sort of just shipped out of LA I think it was good for him and I think it was probably in the long run, something that endears him to his teammates into that city. Ye. And oh, by the way, he got graduate course work from Sean McVay in the process. And I think he's one of the game's best quarterbacks, probably probably because of it.
Oh god, this is fifteen twenty minutes a week. We all get smarter. It's great seeing you. He's in a different room this week, big construction. Hassel Beck could have bailed on us like, just move into the closet. I'll be fine.
Pretty much. I'm basically in a bathroom calling you know. We'll get it better, we'll get it right.
Great seeing you, my man.
