Best of The Herd

Published Jul 22, 2022, 7:42 PM

After signing a massive contract extension, Colin points out how Kyler Murray clearly made the right decision by choosing to play in the NFL over professional baseball. He discusses Deebo Samuel's contract standoff with the 49ers and why Samuel has a legitimate compliant with how he's used in the offense. He also has bad news for one NFL team that believes they're in contention for winning a Super Bowl. Plus, QB expert Jordan Palmer joins the show to tell Colin how Joe Burrow can improve after a break out season and what to expect from Trevor Lawrence in year 2. 

Thanks for listening to the Best of Herd podcast. Are 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. Ah, here we go on a Friday. We are slowly now segue pivoting to the football season 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. Jason McIntyre filling in again today for Joy Taylor. Joy is back next week. J Mac. You can feel it. We talked about this yesterday. People starting to get into their fantasy football, the dads, the college kids getting into their fantasy scheduling the dinner and the nights. You have not done that yet. You're in three leagues. Three leagues. I'm trying to lobby a fourth league to have our draft in Vegas in August. Okay, wife has not signed off on that, but we're efforting that right now, okay, So yesterday was not only a big day for Kyler Murray signing with Arizona, but it points to something that's happening a lot between football and baseball and why so many great young athletes are choosing football. Mahomes played baseball and football. He chose football. Kyler played baseball and football. He chose football. I think Baker Mayfield, if I recall football, baseball chose football, and it is the right choice. And here's why. Number One, if you're a high school baseball and football star, football will offer you a full scholarship four years college is free. Baseball doesn't. Baseball does not have eighty five full ride scholarships per team. I believe the number is eleven point three. Maybe one guy in a baseball team has a full ride. Even great players, shortstop, center fielders, catchers have to pay some of their own way. You don't think that matters. How many great high school athletes come out wealthy? Not many. I don't know Kyler Murray's background, but a full ride to Oklahoma or a partial ride somewhere else game over. The second thing is in football, if you're a quarterback, you're a star. And then the second you get into the NFL even if you weren't all time stuff. The endorsement train leaving the station year one. Bryce Harper spent parts of three years in the miners. Derek Jeter years in the miners. The minor league system for football is college football Bama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon, Wisconsin, Iowa, Clemson. We're watching those games. I'm identifying you. I have a connection to you. I am rooting for you. Bryce Harper disappeared for three years. Look at the television ratings between both. Patrick Mahomes has over fifteen current endorsements. Mike Trout wants at a subway commercial in life, if you can ride a wave and somebody can do work for you, let them. Kyler Murray's current salary is more than the entire Oakland A's payroll, and a huge part of that is he's a star. He sells tickets and merchandise, and as long as he is the quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals, mister Bidwell, the owner knows we're relevant. I get on more national TV games. The third reason is the sport now pitcher or quarterback. The sport is so much about quarterbacks. The way they protect you, the way they promote you in their commercials, the way they pay you. Kyler Murray was going to be a second baseman, maybe an outfielder. He could have been moved around by multiple minor league coaches, sitting in the outfield for three and a half hours waiting for a flyball, never on camera. Only four at bats in the NFL or college football sixty eight touches, cameras constantly on you. You're the leader. Companies see it. You're protected by your league. Your league is increasingly a quarterback centric league. If you're a quarterback, wide receiver, edge rusher, cornerback, go football. It's not close. The sport has so much juice in America now, I mean legalized gambling only started that more, only push that more. We're a football country, period, pro or college now at NI held to it name image, likeness. Or a college quarterback Caleb Williams at USC, I'm told makes over five million a year. That's just this year. It'll increase next year. So Mahomes or a Kyler Murray college baseball, those guys aren't making anything. Quarterbacks in college football, It's not close. This is an ongoing trend that people inside of baseball have been concerned about the smart ones for years. So many of the great high school athletes are quarterbacks and pitchers, and they're overwhelmingly choosing football, and it looks like economically, at least, it's an easy choice. So, you know, Charles Barkley and I agree on a lot. I think there's a story out there that the Live Tour, this is the Saudi Arabia backed golf tour, has asked Charles Barkley to be a golf commentator. They've already picked up David Verity, very funny entertaining guy, and Charles Barkley said this to The New York Post. He said, Listen, we're making up words now, like blood money and sports washing. We've all taken blood money, we all have sports wash something, so I don't like those words, to be honest with you. If you're in pro sports, you're taking some type of money from not a great cause. Here here, there has been way way too much pearl clutching on this, and I understand it. Any Time something is new and different and disrupts tradition, people love tradition. People freak out. Not everybody, but a lot of people freak out. Now eventually people kind of get in line as people join this new disruptive trend and it gets normalized. Sports gambling is a great, great example. I can remember coming up in my career when I would talk gambling, people were like, whoo, taboo, stigma, dangerous. Now leagues are in it, players are promoting it. TV networks are invested in it. States are legalizing it. It almost seems rigid, odd, weird not to kind of support people putting twenty bucks in a football game. The Europeans have been doing it for decades and they're okay, we'll be fine. But calling the Saudis calling the Saudi's all right, hello, you guys. Here about China, they're human rights. NBA been doing business with China for over a decade. A lot of the shoes worn by NBA stars from China. By the way, play TikTok my wife does, Yeah, that's from China. We are in an economic relationship with China, and so is sports. There's golf tournaments in Saudi Arabia, have been for years. They own EPL teams. It's all been normalized. Secondly, there's a lot of tesla's on the road. You don't have to agree with Elon Musk. I don't even know if I like Elon Musk, but I've always had this feeling, and it goes back to a story I was told years ago by a news director I had, and that you don't really know the company that owns you. You don't really know. You're not a trained journalist. I'm kind of a journalist, but I don't know what everybody does at every company I've worked at. I go to the store, I like eggs, bread, the products I buy. I don't know who's on the board. I don't know they're every mood. I got six kids, I got a life. Do you have to be a Washington Post journalist for every company you use? If you create a great product. I'm in now. I maybe read something at some point. I mean, I'm not going to be staying at Trump hotels. I'm gonna put my foot down on that. No, thank you. I thought he was beyond a disruptor. I thought he was dangerous and toxic for America. And that's not an anti conservative, anti Republican opinion. I'd vote for a Republican tomorrow if I liked it. I mean, that's not that I don't occasionally take a stand, but you can't ask everybody be a trained journalist. You like what you like, if you like Tesla, if you like if you like a Snickers bar. Do you have to go to the board and figure out all their political their family history. In the end, there's been a lot of pearl clutching about live golf, and I do think there will be some pushback. Phil Mickelson will have a few maybe hecklers here or Greg Norman that comes with it. But it's very predictable. When something is new and something is different and it disrupts tradition, people freak out. Forty percent of Americans this beautiful country never move out of the area code in which they were born. A lot of people just they like comfort, They get content. They don't want to push boundaries, They don't want to change traditions. China products, iPhones, TikTok. We don't have to agree with what they do. But isn't part of globalization realizing you don't have to agree with everything everybody does. Governments work together and have strong disagreements. Now sports sort of does. I don't have to love everything about live golf, but there's a lot of stuff going on with the companies you either work for support or the products you consume. You have no idea what's going on. Let's not pretend like we do. Be sure to live editions of The Herd weekdays in noon Easter not a Empacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeart Radio app. So, Deebo Samuel, if you recall the game against the Packers in the playoffs and at the end of the year, one of the more unique hybrid players in the NFL. And sometimes being a hybrid employee in any business can help you and sometimes it stretches you thin. So Deebo Samuel of the forty nine Ers recently told Ian Rappaport or Ian Rappaport broke the story that you know, Debo didn't want to be in Kyle Shannahon's offense. You know, he'll do the Cooper Cup stuff. He'll do some end a rounds, you know, jet sweeps. He doesn't want to be a running back. And this is where I side with Deebo Samuel. So he's not a diva wide receiver saying I want the ball more or I'm not going to run that route. What he is is him a wide receiver, not a running back, and I'm looking around this league. Derrick Henry was out half the season. Delvin Hooks never played a full season. Saquon Barkley doesn't feel like the same back. Christian McCaffrey can stay healthy. His added responsibilities at running back only take years off his career. Now, sometimes it benefits the athlete. Micah Parsons is a linebacker. The Cowboys like to use him off the edge, so that hybrid model is good for the player. But football players are notoriously short professional careers, and it's the most popular league, so employees and football players have rights too. Kyle Shanahan system and I love it. It's the closest thing to nineteen seventy five smash mouth football. But Kittle's often dinged up. Elijah Mitchell missed six games last year, Deebo Samuel's banged up, Kyle Uschek gets hurt. Why it's not a coincidence. It is physical football that is Kyle Shanahan football. And as much as I love it and is daunting as it has been for the more finesse Green Bay Packers who cantlewas solve it, it's a highly physical offense that asks a lot physically from its players, and Deebo Samuel is saying, go draft another running back. I'm a wide receiver. And here's a great example. Deebo Samuel is in year four, he's already dinged up. Davante Adams in year nine, fresh as a flower, year nine, just signed a massive contract. Derek Henry can't stay healthy, Christian McCaffrey, say Quon Barkley, Dalvin Cook, the best guys in the league are struggling to stay healthy. So that's the thing about our football players. The greater the football player, the longer I'm going to watch that football player. And the NFL has done a very good job, in my opinion, to regulate levels of unnecessary violence in the sport. But there is one position where you can't do anything about it, and it's running back. It is the only position offensively where a running back can run right down the middle of the field and you can hit him anyway you want, anytime, at any speed, from any angle. That's why even the great running backs who've been doing this for years and now and understand how to lessen the blow, get hurt. So Deebo Samuel's is not being a diva. He'll run any route, he'll do anything. He'll do jet sweeps. But in this offense, he's saying, look around, listen, I want to be in year nine doing this and being great, So I don't want to be a running back part time. And for that I support him. He's not being a diva. Players have rights too. Employees have rights too, especially valuable ones. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and noon Easter nine a Empacific. Bill Barnwell, it's a very respected guy reporter. He came out with a weapons ranking this morning, and we mean football weapons wide receivers tight ends running back ranking of all thirty two teams. And you and I all know this. It is becoming more of a weapons league it was not in the seventies and eighties. Receivers are more icing. But if you don't have elite weapons, I just can't consider you a super Bowl team. You can make the playoffs, especially if you're in a bad division. Green Bay's in a kind of a wonky division Indie. The Colts don't have great weapons. They have great running back in Jonathan Taylor, but not great perimeter weapons. You can win that division because it's not a very strong division, but so he ranks them one through thirty two, So Bengals number one. No disagreement here. They're good across the board. But here's what's sort of interesting. A lot of NFC teams, who does green Bay have to get through to get to the Super Bowl? So Niners are third, Vikings four, Tampa five, Rams seven, Philadelphia Eagles are eight. So a lot of NFC teams and this year, oh, by the way, where is green Bay on this? So the Vikings are fourth, green Bay is one spot. Well, they're twenty nine, so they are slightly better than the New York Giants and Bears, worse than Atlanta and the Jags. And Atlanta right now is a mess because of a suspension and losing a player to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So this is why I picked the Vikings to unseed, unseat the Packers in the division. So think about what Kirk Cousins, who's always, by the way, done pretty well against Aaron Rodgers. I think he's about five hundred and we all know Kirk's a good quarterback. We don't trust them in big spots, but he's a very good capable b plus quarterback. So Cousins now has lots of weapons, a new offensive coordinator, and will be for the first time in maybe three years because he and Mike Zimmer weren't tight. He'll be comfortable together. Aaron Rodgers, meanwhile, built will be asked with a sixty nine year old new but older quarterback coach and no number one or number two save us weekly. Aaron, we need to be the point guard. Also score most of the points. It's very much the James Harden Westbrook model. You're the point You're the point guard. Yeah, You're not going to distribute much. Just score a bunch of points. Kurt Cousin's going to get the ball, distribute to weapons. We got a bunch of them with a clever new offensive coach. So and I think Green Bay and Aaron are going to win a bunch of games. They play the Jets and the Giants win, win, they play the Bears twice, they play the Lions twice. I don't think Green Bay I have them making the playoffs. But if you're looking at this division, and I've said this now, once you get to the playoffs in the NFC, you got to have weapons. You look at the top of that ranking again. Niners, Vikings, four, Bucks, five, Ram seven, Eagles eight. Gott to have weapons in the NFC. Forget about Greenmey winning a Super Bowl. They're just not built for it. I mean, you've got to remember Bengals won, Raiders too, Charger six, Dolphins, nine, Bills ten Steelers. I mean there's Denver. Forget I'm not even talking super Bowl. I'm talking about getting through your division and getting through the NFC. It's not a shot at Green Bay. I know everybody thinks I don't like Green Bay. I'm a Yannis fan. I'm happy the Bucks. One always like Wisconsin football. Don't root against anybody, including the Brewers. But I do believe you can see the end coming in dynasties and great teams. You can see it coming. Alabama's dynasty is gonna keep going. Why because Saban just said yesterday I'm on coach for a while. You can see New England getting very weird. Limited quarterback Bill is going to have no offensive and defensive coordinator this year, another weird draft. They don't have an number one receiver. You can see the San Antonio Spurs just traded another young star. Six years no playoffs, they're not even relevant in the West. They're less relevant in their own state than the Mavericks. So you can see, when you know great programs, the Packers now are way way too dependent on Aaron Rodgers. That was what they remember years ago when Kobe threatened to leave the Lakers. And Kobe's thing is I like being the man. I don't like being the only man. And they got on Pau Gasol like you're getting to a point with this offense, and I like their running backs. You gotta have weapons because all those teams in the NFC, if you go to the top ten teams in the league, green Bay has so far and away the worst weapons on this list. Look at who they're surrounded by, the Texans, the Bears, the Giants, the Jags, the Alkins, the Jets. Like that's the group they're in. Those are not those are? It is so dependent on Aaron Rodgers. And for the record, he knows it. He absolutely knows it. Hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. Would meet a lot to have you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name is the Fifth Hour. I'll tell you it's a spin off of that Ben Maller show, Colt hit overnights on FSR. Why should you listen? Picture If you will a world will? We chat with captains of industry in media, sports and more every week Explorer, some amazing facts about a human nature and more. Listen to the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, he's the founder of QB Summit. It's a program that helps quarterbacks reach their potential and Jordan Palmer's QB Summit heads to Orange County this weekend. He's worked with everybody, folks. He's worked with Mahomes and Deshaun Watson and Josh Allen and Joe Burrow and Trevor Lawrence. I want to start with Burrow. I'm a big fan, and I said coming out, I think he's Tony Romo and I like Tony Romo. Well he's better than Tony Romo. There's an it quality to him. So and you talk to him regularly. So he was great last year. Where are his areas as somebody that does this for a limming a living that you look at Joe Burrow and say, Joe you've got to get better here and here does he have holes? Where are his I don't want to say weaknesses, but where are his areas now, Jordan to you of improvement? Well, I actually use the word areas. I used to call him aoas areas of attention. So it's more specifically finding an element of inefficiency from last year, right, And that's what I do with all these guys. Right, we'll look at it and maybe it's the hitch. Maybe it's how they're getting out from under center. Maybe it's not starting in a place of efficiency and a gun stance and how you can get disconnected through your drop and that's why that one ball died on you at that one moment. So it's not really any different what I would what I helped Joe with with the other guys. But what I would say is, and you've you've connected the dots between Joe Borrow and Tom Brady in the past. His approach is pretty similar to what I hear about Brady always trying to find a thing, whether he went to the Super Bowl or not. And so the way that he approaches the game, because it's not his physical prowess, it's the way that he approaches the game that I think is what's separating him from the other guys his age. But also I mean, Colin, this is his first time. He just got to play a full season. The year before that, it was, you know, six games or whatever he got before he got hurt. Like, this is the offseason where you go, Okay, now I know exactly what it takes. Yeah, Like, now I know exactly what the routine, the schedule, the fatigue of an entire And he didn't play seventeen games. He played like nineteen or twenty, right, So I just think like the approach, plus having a reference point in context for what a full season feels like, puts him in a position to, I think, take another step this year. So Trevor Lawrence is interesting. I just had him on the show. One of the things that really jumps out to me with Borrow and Trevor Lawrence, they're really very young adults. Like they get the importance of the position, the importance and the responsibility of being a quarterback. They don't have to win at the podium, right Like they get it, And that's a big deal for me. Maybe I'm into that more than others. I get mocked from time to time, and I think it's pretty funny. But I do think Doug Peterson works for him. So whatnt There was a lot of turnovers last year. I get it, he didn't have a good old line. What do you think I'll see in year two from Trevor Lawrence somebody you've worked with. Well, when I look at last year, I can evaluate, but I can't judge. I just think it's hard to judge any of these young franchise quarterbacks, these high picks, when they're in a terrible situation. And last year, I mean, just think about all the stories that were coming out of Jacksonville last year, Colin, you know as well as I do, that's what forty percent of that things that are actually happening on a regular basis, right, fifty percent of the thing. I mean, we're not hearing everything. And so it's not just the issues that Urban Meyer had, it's the way everything was organized and ran. And you've got to think about Trevor was coming out of a great high school program, Okay down in Georgia they want and he lost four or five games in high school. Then he goes in place for Dabo Sweeney, right, and in high school structure stability. I know what I'm getting. Then he goes to play for Dabo Sweeney. They had already won a national title before went to Shaun Watson structures stability, only lost a couple of games. Then you go to that situation in Jacksonville last year. So as far as I'm concerned, I can evaluate the play and the movement and the accuracy and that, but the whole thing's awash to me. He's now got an adult who's done it before. He's got structure stability. I think this year we finally get a chance to see what Trevor Lawrence looks like in an NFL uniform with a situation that's at least commisserate to the people he's playing against. Listen, I've been doing this long enough where I trust my sources. Kyler Murray is not your kind of classic everybody gather around me locker room guy. He's got a different personality. You know. He was raised in baseball, which is more about the individual than the collective. Like I get it, and there are quarterbacks. Aaron's personality is what it is, and Kyler's is what it is. And so let's anybody in the league knows there has been there have been some concerns in the building that he is not always like team lead guy that said is he's talented. Would any of that stuff concern you? Can you win super Bowls? Can you create a dynasty? If you're maybe not? You know the classic Peyton Manning, let's go have beers tonight, where like not everybody's the same personality, the world's changing, you're seeing it. Well, I've always said this something I've talked to you about it. I think quarterbacks get really good at what they need to do to survive and thrive. So if you're a guy that runs around him makes plays when it comes down to the game on the line, you're probably gonna do that. Pete Manning at the end of his career when he was losing velocity in athleticism, he had to get really good snap and make sure that every play they got in the perfect play. When I think about Kyler Murray, there's a bunch of stuff personality and leadership wise that I know. I work with quarterbacks of all ages, and I would advise against behaving the way that he behaves. But here's the problem. It's working. He's the winningest high school quarterback in Texas football history. That's relevant. He won a Heisman Trophy, he wanted was the number one pick, he just got paid. What's who's going to tell him to change then that this isn't working. And so I think Steve Kyman, Cliff Kingsbury knew exactly what they were getting when they drafted this guy, and they're just taking their lumps on the stuff that they wished would be different. And they've got to rely on this guy to play. They're paying him to play at a level I think higher than he's even played at so far, and as far as his game, the elevation, I've watched him get better. But it's an interesting category. So when we think of we look at amount of sacks that a quarterback takes, we automatically think about the old line. Right, somebody doesn't get sacked a lot o good old line. So I get sacked lot battle line. But when you look at the true athletes at this position, Kyler Lamar, josh Allen, Kyler Murray his rookie year had forty eight sacks, and I remember watching him play going this, All these sacks are on this guy. He's running into these sacks. He's trying to run around and create and he's ended up. He's just not misjudging how the speed of these edge rushers and these sacks are on him. And then I watched that number go down and it went down again. So I think they keep adding playmakers. They've got some big names on defense, But the evolution of his game moving forward, and if they can really win with him in his philosophy and style, it's going to be in his ability to win. He goes to buy time, only good things happen and not bad things like sacks. Listen, we all love Mahomes, but I've seen five and six games stretches in three straight years, whereas mechanics go sideways. That's what Scout said. He's able. He appears so coachable that you can kind of corral him, put a fence around it. But it is interesting, is this just to be who he is mechanically? It's a little wild, Thank God for Andy Reid. Is that just gonna be who he is? Yeah? I think this is a big misunderstanding with the football world evaluating quarterbacks when it comes to mechanics. So few people really actually understand ground force and understand how the body is connected and how maybe having a weaker core versus a stronger core can shut down power to our extremities. And when I look at like Patrick, I don't think he has bad mechanics. I think he has his own mechanics. He trains with a guy named Bobby Stroop. He's got a reason. If you were to interview and ask Pat and he were to be candid about why he does what he does, he would have fantastic answers. Colin. He would not say, I just figure it out. What he would talk about is how he gets connected to the ground, how he maintains stability and maintains that connection all the way through the release of the ball. That's why when he whips one side arm, it's not a trick shop. But I'll say this, as far as Patrick's concerned, it's less about mechanics to me, and it's more about this guy. I always tell this to like big time high school quarterbacks. I say, if you want to be a five star recruit in high school, that kind of comes down to making plays. When you want to have success in as a college as a quarterback, it's a hybrid of being able to make enough make plays, but also you got to start learning how to put the ball in play. And I think success in the NFL, you want to win, it really comes down to putting the ball in play. Because as far as like run around, jump over a guy, whip one across the field, I don't know if I've ever seen Tom Brady to do that. And so what I see Patrick doing at times is trying to make plays and getting away from just putting the ball in play. But I think that's part of that system too. They take shots, they push it down the field. And so it's for me when I watch Patrick, if somebody would say, hey, these throws right here, look at how bad the mechanics are. I don't connect it back to mechanics. I connect it back to is he putting the ball in play or is he trying to make a play and actually what's called for it on that specific play. Get smarter every time we talk. The founder of QB Summit, you got a young quarterback in your family, This is the place should go. QB Summit Tour heads to Orange County this weekend. Borrow Trevor Lawrence, Josh Allen, boy boy, he's become something. We'll get to that next time. Like the nautical theme behind you. It's very very nice. Find Jordan on Twitter at JW Palms. Good see anybody. Thanks for having me you bet Oha smart stuff. 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. The Patriots are not naming this year offensive or defensive coordinators. It's never been done before. And part of me thinks, well, Belichick knows a lot more football than me. I don't know what it's going to look like. It's like Warren Buffett and newspapers. Does he you have some inside information. I don't own newspapers. They do not appear to be a good investment ten to fifteen years ago, and I think they were up. And I look at this and go, this is Belichick having too much power. If you look at their current staff, he's got three kind of people on the staff. You out there be related to him. He's got two kids on the staff. You have to have played for him. Troy Brown, Jared Mayo on the staff, or of a long relationship with him. And he said something about five or six years ago that really stuck with me, He said, I only want to coach players. I enjoy coaching, Bro, It's not the way it works. Not every employee is your cup of tea. But they're gifted. So what if they go nine and eight? They have no chance to win the division. If Josh Allen's healthy, it's a completely different level of football. And what if they don't make the playoffs again? So three years post Brady, no playoffs and one first round exit and not really competitive. They have a defensive coach in an offensive leaning league. They don't draft well. They had another bizarre draft that was largely mocked where they overdrafted three of their first four picks. They have no great skill position players at wide out. You know san Antonio, I know Popovitch knows more basketball six years. They haven't won a playoff series in six years. They're not even relevant in Texas. The Mavericks are. So you know, it's it's weird, like I don't think somebody can be really really really smart and miss. Somebody can know an industry and miss, And I mean Andy Reid got fired, Tom Landry got fired. I don't know what you do. I'm I'm fascinated to watch it. But Bob Kraft is not. He's a very bottom line guy. I've read every Bob Kraft book or every Bobcraft article. And because I lived in Connecticut for over a decade, you know you got a lot of Bob Kraft. He's not a sit around and just be patient guy. Like he said something a couple of years ago, like this is getting old. So and what I find fascinating. Popovich has so much power in the Spurs. Who pushes back? Well, Greg knows more basketball than you, Warren Buffett knows more investing than me. Newspapers was a bad investment. Belichick knows more football than you. Yes, but he's got too much power. Be very careful about giving anybody too much power in any business. So Bill was always known as somebody who liked to make other teams uncomfortable. That was his hallmark trademark thing, I'm gonna make you play left handed, I'm gonna take away your strength. Bill Now himself only likes comfortable. I only want to coach certain players. I only want certain people on my staff. Bill has no discomfort around him. That was his trademark, to make other teams uncomfortable. Bill now doesn't want to be uncomfortable. He doesn't want to have a diva on a team, even if he's good. He didn't want to have a coach that pushes back, you know, so to me. I mean, the new England staff is either related to him, played for him. I saw this morning. Joe Judge is now the new quarterbacks coach. All right, well, football's football, not really, not really, Football's not football. Mike Zimmer's a defensive coach. Struggled to get along with this quarterback. So did Pete Carroll, so did Belichick. At the end, so did Brian Flores. Like defensive coaches see the world differently. Nothing wrong with that. But Bill's not good at drafting wide receivers. He's not really. I mean, I think losing Josh McDaniels is a big thing. I don't think it's a small thing. I think he's as good as any offensive coordinator in the NFL. So Brady's gone, Josh McDaniel's gone. They had a weird draft. They don't have elite receiver I no coordinators. I don't know. It's like, maybe he is Warren Buffett. It just one really bad investment, or maybe you know something I don't know. But it is weird. I'm here to watch it. I don't see him as a playoff team Colin. Do you think he's trying to recreate what Nick Saban is doing in Alabama? Let me bring in all my former coaches to help me out because I'm not seeing things the right way, like rehabilitating them and helping I always go back to that comment, and I don't remember exactly what it was when Bill said, or it was reported or he said, and I don't recall which one. It's like, I only want to coach certain guys, like I'm not gonna deal with headaches, and I'm not. If you run Fox, there's headaches. Like it's not linear, it's not good person, good employee, Good day, babe. I see you Monday. Like you got obstacles and hurdles. That's the reality of running a company. Football teams are companies. So it just feels like Bill wants comfort. Are you related to me? Did you play with me? Do I know you? I want a fresh set, you know what it feels like? Belichick family business. That's my argument against the Cowboys and the Lakers right now. I want outside push, I want outside opinions. It feels like, it's Belichick's family business and he wants it to be really comfortable, and you know, I mean, he certainly earned the right to some of that. But boy, Bob Kraft, I mean, what if they're I mean, what if they're certainly competent ten and seven don't make the playoffs where the NFL's added playoff teams, and that's certainly possible. AFC now is much deeper than the NFC, and it's not particularly close. I mean, teams that could finish fourth in the AFC are the Raiders and the Browns. Those are really good. Those are really good rosters. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays and nun Easter not Ampacific on Fox Sports Radio FS one and the iHeart Radio app. Bob Myers runs the Warriors, and he was asked about the whole Kevin Durant thing, and he said, I like our team and where it's at, And I was thinking about this. It's it's not just that the Warriors won the title, it's how they won the title. They needed a team and you know, I mean, so many of the stories about the Warriors this year were so positive. The Andrew Wiggins validation. Can Steph win a title without KD, redemption, Clay's comeback from injury, Jordan Poole's emergence. It's not that they want, it's how they want. It was such a team, and I think KD it's hard. Gore and Dragic said this two weeks ago. The Nets weren't a team. It was just individuals and Isoax and I think if you bring KD in, you know you're gonna have to pay more attention to KD and not everybody equally. And there's something we have to admit, and this is okay, but some people are high maintenance and some people are lower maintenance. And Steph is really low maintenance and Kadi is higher maintenance. And so when you coach the Warriors. Steve Kerr acknowledged his last year with k D was not fun. Draymond Green is acknowledged k D bristled and a lot of KURS coaching. And so Bob Meyer is really close with Steve Kerr and he doesn't want to hand his friend Steve Kerr a headache. I think it's a lot of that is that we've already seen it. Draymond Green has been quoted saying it was difficult. It was kd is somebody you've got to manage. You don't really have to manage Steph Curry regardless of who's better. Some people are just a lot and Aaron Rodgers, there's a lot of layers. There's Okay, still gonna make the Hall of Fame. It's gonna be a rich guy. I think the Warriors are so good they can pick and choose now sort of. You know the risks they take. Will you fit into our culture? And you know they I just think that's the way it works. The more you win, the more leverage you have. And you know, when when Belichick was winning every year, you can move off Randy Moss. You don't have to give up much to get Randy Moss. You've got leverage. Now Belichick, in my opinion, Greg Popovich are losing leverage. They're not winning now. You have to listen to people more. You can have as much control. That's the way generally works. So it's kad. I guess my point is Steph and Katie are exactly where they should be. Steph is easier to manage, therefore he's part of the best culture in the league. Katie is harder to manage. Therefore he's unhappy again and the market small. I say this often you end up in life by the time you're like in your career ten years, you end up where you should be. Can't blame your parents, can't blame the president, can't blame your boss. Your ten years in a career, you are exactly where you should be. Because we all make ten, fifteen, twenty choices a day. Our choices dictate our position. I know a lot of you don't want to hear that. You gotta blame the parents, and you gotta blame this, and you got Katie's exactly where he should be based on his maintenance. Unhappy after a poor decision, with a very small market and still gifted. And Steph is completely content. One titles pre one titles with one titles after him, best culture in the league, their personalities, this is where they should be one totally happy one right now. Not content. That's of course where they would end up. I mean, Lebron James decided I'm gonna move to Los Angeles, not for quality of basketball. We got to rebuild the roster for business, so shocking. Lebron's business is crushing and the basketball part is less than perfect. There were other better rosters. Philadelphia wanted him, they had himbiid, other better rosters wanted him. So Lebron is exactly, based on his choices, where he should be now. Still really talented, but a bit of a mess upstairs, a log jam, not a lot of cap space, crossing your fingers with Anthony Davis's health, and not really a realistic, viable championship contender. His choices have led him here. So you know all these situations these guys are in, They're in him for a reason. I mean, Kyrie had the Celtics, couldn't make it work, Kyrie bailed on Lebron. Is it a shock that Kyrie's exactly where based on his choices he should be? Unhappy, not working, wants to get out and can't. So you can blame everybody. You can blame your agent, you can blame the coach, you can blame your parent, you can blame Everybody's where they should If you're in your career ten fifteen years, you're exactly where you should be. Colin. At some point they've got to stop blaming others and just realize that they're just unhappy dudes. Kyrie and Kevin Durritt. They're just not happy anywhere they are. Yeah, I mean I don't I don't think Katie's miserable. I just think he's somebody that he likes challenges. He probably left one too early, and again, it just it's not a good bad thing. It's a yend where your choices lead you. And it's not a shock that Kyrie Katie are there. Lebron's there, and Steph's where he's at in a perfect spot, very happy and winning championships. His personality and choices got him there and kept him there.

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