Colin credits the Thunder for playing aggressive defense and comparing them to the “Legion of Boom” Seahawks and why it’s clear defense continues to win championships. Following Shohei Ohtani’s return to the pitching mound, Colin unveils his “Mount Just-More” listing all-time great athletes who are clearly above their contemporaries. He also talks to Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh about his quarterback Justin Herbert and what he needs in order to find postseason success
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It is a Tuesday. This is gonna be a good one. Jim harbaughd Nick Wright, stop by Jmack and I joining you. You know Jmax. Sometimes as a young broadcaster, you don't pay the respect that certain teams and players so richly deserve. And I'm watching OKC last night, and this is a very good you follow the NBA draft. It's a very domestic draft. It is a very good draft. People are speculating there is twelve to fourteen players in this draft that could be at some point in an All Star like it's one of our better drafts in a while. And OKAC has the first pick out of the lottery. They got two picks in this first round, and they may have five of the top thirty defenders in the NBA right now, two guys who made the All Defensive team.
But you gotta be honest, Je Meck.
I know they're not esthetically pleasing, but they're an all time defense.
Yeah.
Well, there's a reason I've got a different facial hair look this morning, Colin. That's because I've been going into witness protection because I've been bashing these guys all season, and.
Now they're going to be the chance. That's what I have to do.
Well, let's do I think the series is over. Okay, going back to Indy, but I think it's over with Halliburton's injury. But once again, when a historically great defense meets a fast paced or dynamic offense, the defense usually prevails. Times of flat circle, history repeats itself. It could be the Bad Boy Pistons, Yep, they kept beating MJ. It could be Belichick's defense in New England beating the greatest show on turf. It could be a Sabans dynasty time after time dominating a great offense. The truth is the Pacers have the lead, leading pace, and they look at times completely out of sorts, overwhelmed by this relentless defense, which again may have five of the top thirty defenders in the league. It's got a Seattle Seahawks league in a boom feel where it's like fast and relentless and well coached and twitchy and aggressive.
Go ask Peyton and Manning about it. Even when Brady.
Beat him in the Super Bowl, it was a defensive interception. The Patriots game plan was catch it and go forward. Do not run side to side, or they'll strip you of the ball or tackle you for a loss. That's how much the Seahawks defense was in Brady and Peyton Manning's head. In Halliburton's injury, that's like the one way to beat him. Halliburton's pace, his quirky, hurky jerky style, it can be hard to defend. He moves the ball so well.
He's hurt now.
So we spend so much time in basketball discussing offense. KD and the Splash Brothers. No, those teams had the best defense in the league. Michael Jordan's Bulls, MJ Rodman and pippin first team All NBA defense multiple times. The Kansas City Chiefs wide receiving corps been a mess the last two years. The run game sometimes disappears. Last time they won a Super Bowl. Yeah, Spag's defense was number two in the NFL, and that's why the Lions died. Not Jared Goff. They couldn't stop anybody. They were all beat up. I know SGA doesn't dunk a lot, and you don't know much about Jalen Williams, but there's a reason James Harden, Dominique Wilkins, Mellow and Allen Iverson have no titles.
You gotta make stops too. Yeah.
Yeah, Iverson stole a lot of balls. Yeah he cheated on passing lanes, but in the end, he didn't guard anybody. Oklahoma's City's offense, especially on the road, can disappear at times. It can be a little hit and miss. It's very young. Young players don't play as well on the road. If SGA is not getting to the free throw line, then a lot of time that thunder offense on the road. It can have bad quarters. But here's what travels well. Defense. And the Indiana Pacers are o. N seven in the playoffs when they score under one hundred and ten points, Yep, that's the series and without Halliburton, good luck. So defense is not just about steals, it's not just about blocks.
It's like.
Great defense is like two factor authentication. It's just tedious and aggravating and it makes you work a little harder and it really is annoying. And that's really the defense for Oklahoma City. The ball pressure on the perimeter, meaning if you do get past them, you're off balanced.
There's always a.
Body on you. And then home Gren is a great rim protector. So like he didn't have a great offensive series, but he can defend you on the wing at seven to two, can defend you at the basket. Even when you try to get putbacks off block shots, those can get blocked. Last time, I think, okay, so he had fourteen blocks. But it's not just about blocks and steals. It is the constant pressure the minute you take it over half court, they make it constantly uncomfortable.
And in the end it's switchable.
It's twitchy guys can guard you outside all the way down the floor. They can block a shot at the rim, and SGA their best offensive player notices we.
Were very disruptive defensively, kind of had them on their heels, was pressuring and we because of that had like felt three or four steals in a row. Then we were able to get run, get out and run, get easy baskets. But yeah, it always starts defensively for US.
Yes, defense first.
When historically great defenses meet fast paced or dynamic offenses, often the result is this. And even when you do have all time great offenses. The Moss Patriots, they didn't win a Super Bowl. They the defense wasn't as good. And the Katie Warriors, they were great defensively. Iggy at one point got an MVP of the Finals. I want to talk about Jayalen Williams. So I have been on this kick for multiple years about Jalen Williams. Not Jalen Williams, but on this kick is that the NBA has tried to marginalize college basketball for years, and I think it's a huge mistake. Where are all the G League stars in this final? Words, Scoot Henderson, anybody's seeing Jonathan kaminga Jalen Williams, small college, military parents, three years grinding his butt off, not seeking a shorter route or a quick buck. College basketball's got better coaching, major march, madness, environments, packed houses, TV pressure. I'm going to show our TV audience this look at the last six years of Jalen Williams basketball.
Journey.
Look at these numbers, Santa Clara seven, then eleven points, then eighteen, then to the NBA fourteen, nineteen twenty one. No shortcuts, gradual improvement. He's got the touch that tells you he has spent so long in the gym. He can score in transition, he can hit a three, he's got mid range, but it's that beautiful touch around the basket with his enormous length. That's time in the gym, and there'll be a point at some point. And I think Adam Silver's now realizing it that the NBA will treat college basketball like the NFL's always treated college football as an adversary, as an ally. The coaching's intense, the environments are intense. You come into the NFL. You've played in Blacksburg or Tusca Loosa. You've played in Austin or Norman, Oklahoma, or Madison, Wisconsin, or Athens, Georgia. You played in front of one hundred thousand people night. It's been intimidating. Ain't getting in the G League. You're not getting big time coaching in the G League. Look at this finals. Look at Jalen Williams. Is just what this finals is all about Jalen Williams, Tyrese Halliburton, Nemhart, Alex Caruso, TJ McConnell, Pascal Siakam, Nie Smith, Obi Toppin a lot of guys who spent multiple years in college grinding. Oh yeah, there's a one and done guy here. There not a lot of G leaguers, not a lot of G leaguers. When I watched Jalen Williams last night, dude, he that dude has grinded his way to being an offensive machine. He didn't just get forty fifty six percent from the floor, only had one turnover. Super efficient. I mean that that is what it takes to be great. Halliburton was overlooked. Jalen Williams goes to Santa Clara. I'm not saying SGA shouldn't to be a one in don Ra, Miles turn or some of these guys. You know, they're just they're just like prodigies. But Oklahoma City may not be a riveting team, but I respect the hell out of them. The culture, the coaching, the grind you listen.
Offense is fun. Defenses work.
Oklahoma City plays defense like a hard coached college team, and it was Jalen Williams a forty spot last night.
Every time we play in the finals, it's the biggest game of your life, you know what I mean. So I think that's given me a little more comfort, and just like playing hard and playing aggressive, I think I just understand the opportunity that we have and I just try and play as hard as I can, and then whatever happens after that is is where the chips fall. But I'd be lying if I said I could imagine doing it.
I did tonight.
But I definitely could have seen myself here a long time ago. I just didn't think it happened this past and I didn't think it would be with the group of guys that you know. I truly am my grateful to be around.
To play this level of defense. The Seahawks may have fallen apart later and pointed fingers the Seahawks culture maybe didn't last forever, but generally, to be a great defensive team, it's teamwork, it's chemistry, it's coaching. You've got to all be tied together by a string. You have to believe in the same thing. That's why I criticize guys like Luca. I'm like, dude, it can't just be about getting buckets. You got to defend on the other end or else. It tears at the fabric because defense is all about effort and work. Nobody's born a great defensive player. There are people that are born long and at good genetics. They're long and they can be athletic and they've got like, you know, the right hips to be a corner, you know. But defense, nobody comes out of the womb. All NBA first team defense, that is effort. There have been great big sewer defenders small who were great defenders. I mean Alex Caruso. That is effort to be a defender like Alex Crucoe. He's guarding guys seven inches taller. That is effort. And Jalen Williams on both and I watch Oklahoma City, man, I respect that culture.
Those are workers.
Even a SGA's game, you're not jumping over you, they're not dunking over you.
That's just years in the gym.
Jmak in his time, you paid a little respect. Wow to the thunder.
Wow Colin, I gotta say, bravo. That is a great take on Jalen Williams.
I'm not gonna lie. The audience couldn't see it.
But when you said I want to talk about Jalen Williams, I honestly rolled my eyes, like, oh, what.
Is he the best number two in the league? Colin.
That's a great take because you're spot on this guy.
When he came out of college.
I remember he was drafted twelfth overall and there was a guy sitting there who just won MVP of the Final Four, a Badji from Kansas, And I'm like, why are they taking this guy over Agbodji who just won the MVP the Final four and Oklahoma City saw something in him, and You're right, he stuck around in college, slow growth.
Colin. That's a great take.
I totally agree with you, and I wonder if you look at this draft coming up or we gonna see more guys instead of hey, let's just grab a freshman. Is there a junior or senior who can help us win in the next like two years.
Well, I think what you're seeing between Halliburton and Siakam and Jalen Williams and SGA, you know what I'm seeing maturity. I'm seeing these are really focused, mature teams and it's impressive. I'm like, I don't care what the TV ratings are like, all I know is when I watch this final, I see committed athletes that are coachable, that work their butt off. I don't want to talk about Scott Foster. I want to talk about the defense and the pacing and the maturity and the effort. There are a lot of good basketball players when I watch, when I watch SGA, when I watch Jalen Williams, you can see the time in the gym to have Jalen Williams touch. Yeah, he can shoot at three, he's got a mid range game, and he's got handles. He's got beautiful touch. Dude.
You know that. Again, that's in the gym.
And it's funny in his work because remember the one and done guys. Ben Matheren had one good showing. Otherwise he's been kind of all over the place. And I'm not bassing Jed Holmgren. He was terrible last night. I think like four for fifteen shooting.
Yeah, another one and done guy. And I'm not blasting them, but.
They don't have the maturity to consistently show up the way some of these other veterans have. Listen, that's one of your better takes this summer.
Colin, well done, well, I really appreciate I didn't know if we had a leaderboard on that, but I do appreciate it Nick Wright and Jim Harbaugh Today.
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What was the thing we talked about yesterday?
We said, if I said to you, you're not gonna believe what Blank did in sports, the two people I would put in there are Caitlin Clark and show Hey Otani. Caitlyn Clark had thirty eight seconds this weekend at the WNBA. It was the greatest, most exhilarating thirty eight seconds in WNBA history. She was shooting thirty three footers, bang bang, bang, demanding the ball. It was it didn't look real, okay, so oh Tani pitch last night against the Podras. By the way, he is now pitching and hitting. The Podres sent out their ace because he's pitching. He came up to face the race, no practice wings.
He threw over one hundred miles an hour.
And Dave Roberts is to a point now where he is the Dodgers manager.
But he acknowledges. It's hard not to just be a fan of show.
Heyotani, I thought the stuff was really good, much better as far as the fastball velocity than I think anyone anticipated hit one hundred. You know, I was thinking ninety five to ninety seven. But I think that just competitor adrenaline came out in him. To see him come into the dugout from the pen all that stuff. I was kind of fan boying for like half an inning.
So even in high school baseball, kids become what they call pos pitchers only like we know in baseball that how taxing just pitching is. I mean, you'll often hear this in the postseason. I don't know if we could throw Verlander on short rest. You know what, rech rest Otani gets four and a half minutes in the dugout until he's hitting. I mean, it's insane that he is an ace in twenty twenty five, with how specialized pitching is. This is Dereck Henry of the Ravens being the leading tackler for Baltimore at linebacker, or Patrick Mahomes being the top edge rusher in the conference.
I mean, just insane.
He is the best player in bathe the gap between Otani and the second best baseball player, and that second best player maybe Mookie Betts, and even he gets engulfed by the gravitas and the talent of Otani.
And you know a lot of times you hear about the Mount Rushmore.
There are a handful of athletes I would call them they make the Mount just more. They're just more than even the second best person in their sport. Michael Phelps would be on my Mount Just Moore. Ten more Olympic medals than anybody else, fourteen more gold medals than anybody else. When I was a kid growing up, it was like Mark Spitz. I mean, it's an afterthought. And by the way, if you're saying, well, how come there are so many faces, that's why it's called Mount Just Moore.
We even have just more faces.
Number two would be Usain Bolt, three straight Olympics, one hundred and two hundred meter champion, three consecutive Olympics. As an old man, he was the world's fastest guy in two events. I would say Wayne Gretzky at one point eight straight MVPs. Wayne Gretzky would be on the Mount Just Moore. That's like when he's twenty three years old. Also, he still holds fifty five NHL records. Now, think about how fast Hawky is, how international it is, and how good the athletes are. He still shares or holds fifty five career NHL records. Serena Williams in the open era, twenty three more major women's singles title than anybody else. And by the way, a dominant doubles player singles doubles, dominant tiger Wood's highest career earnings, lowest career average, and literally change courses. I think it's fair to say he changed equipment and change courses. And I think then you have to go on my mount just Moore, it's gotta be el tawny. In a specialized world of sports, we're in high school. If a guy is a great pitcher, that's just what he's gonna do. First player. And oh, by the way, he's not only a great hitter, he's not.
Only an ace. He'll steal your fifty four bases.
I mean, it's just insane what Otani does last night. He's pitching, goes to the dugout comes out, Padre is throwing their ace.
He don't even war them off. He just goes pitching, boom, gloves off.
I'm gonna go hit. There's just nothing like it. I mean even even Dave Roberts. I'm gonna fan boy.
A little bit.
One more Heard. 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. Let's bring him on. Been talking about this all day. Jim Harball, coach of the LA Chargers, is joining us live and often.
As you see, Jimmy's got a smile on his face. I know why he's got a smile because Joe Alton, year two, Hampton Nause, Mike William, Trey Harris. I was saying this earlier, Jim. I followed your career. I always feel Jim Harbaugh teams in year one, you change the culture. But it's not until year two, when you have a second recruiting class or a second draft that I feel like it's a Jim HARBAUGHD team. I look at this team and I think, oh, that's a Jim HARBAUGHD team. Two tackles, two stud running backs. I felt last year, I'm like, it's not Jim's team quite but the culture is good. Did you feel you feel like this is more complete this year?
I loved our team last year, and as you know, I want I wanted to get everybody back running back version two point zero.
That that wasn't the case.
We couldn't do that this this era of free agency and everything else, et cetera. But we made some great additions. Joe Hartiz our personnel staff has done an incredible job, I mean going out and finding some of the guys that that they brought in, plus what we did with the draft.
That, yeah, I do. I feel like we're.
I know, we're in a better place, uh you know June seventeenth than we were last year at June seventeenth. Part of that is probably you're doing everything for a second time. Everything you've done before year you're doing again. But uh, you know, the uh the entire mentality of the of the team, and it's it's from the leaders like like Justin and Derwin and k Mack and.
Dan Henley, all the all the guys.
I mean they they they train and prepare like they've accomplished nothing, uh so that when the season comes they can they can be that guy.
So I am I am taking that same lead, and you just don't.
Talk about it really, you know, unless unless we're on an interview and somebody you know, puts a microphone in your face.
Uh, you know, then then you really you have to talk about it.
But uh, you know, the guys are the guys are doing and prefer to do. Uh you know, they're talking in the in the training environment and on the practice field. And I I am, I am drinking the kool aid by buying completely into that.
And that's that's the way we've been rolling. You know.
If I think of Jim Harbaugh teams, your teams always have leaders. And I think to myself, do you recruit leaders? Can you tell when you're recruiting a kid if he's a leader in high school? Do you draft leaders? I mean, Joe Alt goes to Notre Dame. He's a smart, tough kid.
Your teams.
When I think of Harball, I think tough and good leaders. How do you end up with them? Do you create them? Or do you draft or recruit them? Why do your teams end up with those?
The Uh yeah you recruit them? Yeah, yeah, you draft them. You can tell, you can tell the minute they walk onto the field, you know, the the minute Derwin James walked out of the field our first h off season, O t a uh when I when I when I walked over to shake justin Herbert's hand, it's you know right away, you know it's there's a presence there, saying with Khalil mack uh, there's the presence when he talks, everybody's everybody's listening. When he's playing, everybody is is watching. It's and it's never what somebody says. It's never what they say. It's it's what they do. And that that gets reinforced with how they train, how they how they go about their business, how they how they play the game of football. So uh uh, we like we we have a saying that we really love, which is what you say. I can't even hear what you say because what you do speak so loudly that I can't even hear what you're saying.
You know, it's obviously and I said this when you went college to pro I said, man, Harbaugh is going to be a great drafter for the first two to three years because he's recruited half these guys. Did you find in this draft, for instance, had you recruited any of your draft picks or at least seen their tape in high school? Did did the Michigan stuff help you a little bit in the first two drafts? Like Joe Alt, you probably recruited at Michigan. Has have you found that it's helped you a little bit in the draft process.
It really helped a lot, Colin, and and not just for it was my knowledge of guys.
It was, Uh, it was Mike Elston's knowledge of.
Joe Alt, who told all all the stories of the you know, the the when he came in as a freshman, Uh, how athletic he was. Uh, you know that Jesse mentor you know, I could Steve Klinkscale, who I believe is uh one of the best, if not the best, secondary coaches, and in all of football. The guys they recruited, the guys they coached, the guys that uh that you know, they they watched weekly because they were preparing for him, uh in an upcoming game.
So it was It's not just me, It was.
That cumulative effect of all of us who'd just really been in that environment, you know, just a couple of months earlier.
I remember years ago talking to a guy named Bill Pouley in the legendary Hall of Fame front office guy. And he said when he drafted Peyton Manning, he said Peyton cared so much. He called him a teeth clencher. He said, sometimes we have to say, hey, Peyton, it's ice cream after practice, lighting up, it's okay.
And when I watch Justin.
Herbert, he cares so deeply that there are times I think he gets so frustrated with himself.
He's too hard on himself. That's my view of it. Am I right? And if I am?
How do you make sure Justin still you gotta have fun, Jim, You gotta have fun when your coach have to have fun when you play. Do you ever worry that Justin is too hard on Justin?
No, don't change the thing. Do not change a thing about Justin Herbert.
Yeah, he he he does everything, everything great. How much he cares, Yeah, he cares, He cares deeply. How much he trains, He trains the the perfect amount.
You know, everything that.
He does is is don't change the thing. Our challenge is the rest of us, you know, especially the ones on the offensive side of the ball that Justin's counting on. Uh, you know, the playmakers, the offensive line, the backs, the tight ends, the coaches.
You know, it is our challenge to get.
To his level because, uh, you know the only in my opinion, you know, his biggest weaknesses is us. You know, we've got to we we have to be the ones that rise up to his level.
So you're in a division now with Pete and Chip, with Sean Payton's a pretty good coach, Andy Reid and Spags. It's the best coach division in football. You get no breathers every week is like a coaching challenge. You're you are feisty and you're tough and you love challenges. It is a you don't have a lot of breathers on that schedule. But would you rather face that schedule in those staffs and say, you know the roadblock, You'd rather have the book on Pete.
Although you have a pretty good book.
There is there an advantage to being in a division that is the best coach division in football?
Well, first of all, I mean there's I've never seen the coaching, uh you know, at a level that it is across the entire.
National Football League.
I mean, it's it's great coach after great coach because the way they prepare their teams everybody is great.
Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna play games.
No matter who we're playing, it's gonna get decided in the last two minutes of the game. They're gonna come down to one score games. This is the National Football League. Everybody's really well coached, everybody's really well trained, everybody has has great players. You know, it's it's at an unprecedented level where the league is right now. I mean everybody's good. Yeah, it's it's competitive. Dogg eat dog for sure. You know, tremendous in the AFC West, tremendous in every single division as you look across pro football.
So it is. It is something you got to get prepared for. I mean, we know it.
Uh, we're gonna play the Kansas City Chiefs Game one in sath Paolo.
Let's make sure we get ready for it.
I've said for years, I always like Nause Harris. He played in front of offensive lines that were kind of couldn't quite get it right. And I think you do occasionally find these players in the NFL that maybe the fit's not perfect, and then they go to a second place and you're like, oh, he's better than I thought. I think Nause Harris is one of those guys. What did you see about him when you looked on film and Pittsburgh. What did you say, okay, that that's gonna work here with the Chargers.
Uh.
It's everything that he does is is at a high level and great and he's he's there every week, He's there every game.
Uh, and it's so cool.
I mean you mentioned a little bit about being in college before now and and guys you recruited, uh and guys that that that I coached. I mean, nobody recruited harder than Najie Harris, you know up in Antioch, California. Uh, you know, as many trips as I could make I made there.
Uh yeah, and uh and Makai back then.
I mean, I'm just I'm reminiscing going back to to watching uh Makai play basketball and in high school and being in a game where uh I see him see him slam dunk of basketball and then uh then he gets then he got elbowed. He got elbowed that he might have broken his nose, and uh, he went over the towel. There's play coming out. He throw him a towel from the bench and you know, he wipes it.
Off.
I think he was out for like, uh you know, like a whistle or two and then right back in the game. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's that's my kind of guy right there.
You didn't then to come to Michigan. He with with the Louisville and had a had a tremendous career. But uh, just so.
Many, so many great guys, so many great uh great stories that way. Uh, and I get you know, you get a chance to to to be a part of it and coach these guys. I mean you can imagine the excitement, you know, and still still kind of pull it down, uh that we have justin Herbert and and Derwin James. I mean I just I just loved him watching him play football. Uh, you know, just an appreciation for how he played the game. And now to be able to get to coach him. Uh, I mean Derwin James, he likes people that that like football. If you like football, you're gonna like Derwin James. And he's gonna he's gonna like you back. And yeah, you just pull it down that you get to get to coach these guys. You know, it's a it's uh best darn drive ever had Colin.
I'll just say, you look good.
You look you look a little betner than last year you've had. You had a couple of hell things. Give me an update. How do you feel, how are you doing? How is your cause? You look good. You look younger than the last time I had you. That's Southern California sushi.
That's Jackie Harvall said. The said the same thing. Uh yeah, I get that. Got a hip replaced. Uh, it's it's working great, all patched up. The iron horse had to go in for a few uh fine tunings, and I had an ablazing had an Ablazian done. That was Uh, it was, it was really really successful.
It was Uh. I was really super happy. My uh my doctor, doctor Shibata. Uh he came in and tell me how it went. He goes went, he went good. It went really good. And uh, I go what every doctor says, it went good.
I mean I never talked to a doctor after a surgery that that that uh said it.
Didn't go well.
I go tell me about it, and he uh, I mean he started describing what he did and and it was like it was like a football player describing you know the miraculous uh you know way that he scored a touchdown.
You know, he really I could tell, Okay, now we're getting.
Somewhere, and uh he really he really feels uh really feels good about it, you know, and uh he kind of was described. Well, you know, why why did I asked him, why why didn't they why didn't they fix that issue? You know the the last time I had this place, and well, you know it wasn't you know, they're really good.
Uh you know, the technology is a lot better. I go, na, doctor, it was you, it was you.
And uh so yeah, I feel you know, it just it just fires you up when uh, when you get that kind of you know, right here and.
Uh right here in l A.
By the way, you saw Tawny pitch last night. I think he's it's just unbelievable. It's just unbelievable. He's good looking, he's great, Like you talk about the whole package.
He's magnetic.
When you go to a Dodger game, it doesn't even feel I mean, you know what great is when great is when among great players they look.
Up to you. I always used to say this about Mike Tyson.
Other heavyweight fighters were intimidated by Mike Tyson. That's what great is You watched o'tani last night? What do you see?
I was just blown away by the whole thing. Uh just everything his his walk up.
Song, I mean, uh you know, the uh.
The way he puts his bat you know, at the end of the top of the plate there and he measures it and he puts his foot in the same spot and uh, you know, I really watched him as there was my son Jack who's a who's a twelve year old baseball player, and son Johnny who's eight, and Katie, and I'm going I just study him, just watch watch, uh watch him. He's in a rhythm. Everything he does is to create the rhythm. He does it the same way every time. Look at that the pitching motion, whether it's from the stretch or from the you know, from the from.
The wind up.
H his his routine rhythm, rhythm, you know, rhythm, get the rhythm, get there, you know, get the get the freaking rhythm.
Rhythm the rhythm, get the freaking rhythm. You know it's you just watch.
It with him and uh yeah, the the uh hit him nukes a couple of nukes is uh. As Johnny with my son eight year old, would say, uh, this incredible.
The walk up song is is so good. Uh, just everything about it.
But that's sports, you know, Colin, You gotta you've got to be able to uh to get the rhythm. You get out of rhythm, you start trying to make adjustments and and then you're out there, You're out there floundering. So uh, youngsters and sports, uh, you know, get in the rhythm, have that rhythm trained and practiced, and then go do your job.
Uh get the rhythm.
And and uh and let the chips fall where they made. But don't try to start start questioning yourself or making uh making adjustments.
I mean that's that's.
Uh, that's probably my biggest takeaway of watching, uh watching last night's game.
Yeah, all right, and.
Another l I guy, JJ Spahn, How cool was that?
You know what's amazing is that JJ spon you here? Did you hear the story that he literally his daughter was sick? Is that JJ Spahn calling you? He's his daughter that morning?
Call her back?
So his his daughter was throwing up Sunday morning, he was up at three in the morning, went to a CVS. He he was working on four hours sleep.
Wow.
And then he goes in rain delay and this kid ends up hitting one of the great pots in the history of the US Open.
He was up at three in the morning driving to a s He.
Asked because his daughter, Well, that's what being a great dad is. And he said, actually, he said, it took my mind off golf. Yeah, I didn't think about golf. I was worried about my daughter all day and I was like, sixty four foot pot.
That that's a winner right there.
Yeah, how about the one where he hits the pin, you know, hits the great shot in there and uh, you know, kind of sucks up, then it hits the pin and.
Then it goes oh, brutal all the way back down. I mean this, I mean one of the most brutal breaks you could get.
Uh, and uh, you know, it just he was just a he was just an iron wall to that negativity that, you know, just just just shattered in that adversity, that negativity, you know, negativity just crumble and uh to watch him go about his business, I mean, uh, it was Uh.
It was tremendous.
Okay, listen, Andy Reid right now is working on plays.
You got to get back. I want some razzle dazzle in that opener gym. I want something. I want something with Mike Williams. I want some lad Maconkey double pass. I want you to go because I that game. I have you winning the division and he's a wildcard team, so I know he's working right now. You got we got to get back to work.
Okay, Yes, sir, appreciate you having me on.
Jim.
It's great seeing you're smiling more than you ever had, the great Jim Harbaugh.
Thanks coach,