The Herd with Colin CowherdColin explains why he thinks the overtime rules in college football need to changed, his thoughts on the Eagles win streak this year, and Albert Breer stops by.
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Hey, if they win tonight, they're the playoffs. They're waving at everybody else because the Colts are right behind them and they can't pass.
The Colts could pass the Texans day the Texans. What is going on with those guys?
The Texans are good. I like the Colts roster. I like the Texans quarterback. I'm gonna go with the quarterback.
I don't think both Nicks will do anything as impressive as Anthony Richardson's ninety yard game winning drive and the two point conversion. If you watch that, it was like, I mean, Richardson had like eighty yards passing.
Leading into that I know, and he delivered. I was like, Okay, that game was weirdly entertaining.
It was football. It was just awesome yesterday honestly, eight hours of a four days eating like four days of leftover.
I once saw that Georgia Georgia Tech game. That thing I was I hate college overtime, but it is what it is. Albert Breer, who was front and center as a Buck guy. Bad weekend for Albert. Other stuff percolating in the NFL don't go anywhere. The Bills continue to look like a Super Bowl contender. Hammered the Niners on Sunday Night Football, But last night Buffalo reminded me of an eight year old on the first day of winter snowfall. They were having the time of their baby. I think what you were watching last night is the champion that never was San Francisco and the potential champion that should be Buffalo, and the reason Buffalo should win A Ringer three. Josh Allen ran for a touchdown, through for a touchdown, caught a touchdown. Nothing he can't do, missing a couple of top offensive performers. Mah six straight games, thirty plus points on a driving snowstorm. We've been saying this, when you get Superman, you don't want to overuse him. And for years they didn't have a home run hitter at running back. Now they do. They had drama at wide receiver, now they don't. They add kin Kid Dalton kin Kaid a great tight end. They've always had a great left tackle. They've rebuilt their offensive line. This is the best version of Buffalo, and I believe in the AFC they've sort of separated Baltimore the defense, special teams, reliability. Joe Burrow has the worst defense in the last decade. Kansas City's flawed. The Chargers are not dynamic enough, and the Steelers. I like them. I was wrong on the Steelers, but I don't think their ceiling is Buffalo. They are built. The Bills are just they had a ball last night. I mean they're the only team that plays in snow. They don't have like a heating system under it. No, that's okay. We're six and zero at home. We're having the time of our lives. We'll lean into it. They are built for January and February football. You watched Miami go to Chili Green Bay, They're like, can we get back on the flight home? Even the uniforms Dolphins in Green Bay, it doesn't work. Buffalo's built for this stuff. You look at the dynasties of the NFL. They've been Green Bay right Oh, they're Kansas City, It's New England, it's the Baltimore's, it's the Steelers. Cold weather, January, February, and a sport mostly played outdoors. Buffalo's got all the elements. A strong armed corps. Don't have one of those in Miami. The ball can get through this. A strong run game, sometimes windy, you got to just hand it off, good old line, tough defensive culture. Snow games generally don't do it for me, except if it's the Bills. You know, it's Elvis in Vegas. It just works, you know, it just works. And Josh Allen is you're set of all weather tires, I mean, and then you're watching them have the time of their lives. On the other side, it's San Francisco, I said a week ago. It's time to tear this puppy down. People push back, that's not true or close. No, you're not. Christian McAffrey hurt again, Fred Warner hurt. Trent Allen Bosa didn't play. Folks. Put up the signs, liquidation sale, get draft picks the sooner. San Francisco admits this puppies over. The better reinforcements are not coming. Stop drafting wide receivers. Get Kyle Shanahan away from the personnel department. It ruined Bill Belichick and Bill O'Brien and among other things, John Gruden didn't help Pete Carroll. Get Shanahan away from personnel. Go back to being a strong, forceful team. Run first. Brock perty He's not a guy you can rely on in January and February if he's got a play in cold weather or against you know, he's not a Joe Burrow. He's not a La Ma Holmes. He's not He's not a I don't think he's a Jalen Hurts in terms of playmaking. That's not what he is. He doesn't throw it as well as golf or move as well as Jalen Hurts in the NFC or Jordan love So. San Francisco. The sooner they can come to terms with it, the better. But what you were watching last night is the champion that never was San Francisco and they're gonna struggle letting go of this puppy. It's over. Reinforcements aren't coming tear it down to the studs. And on the other side, you saw a Bills team once again dominate the AFC East. They're going to win this division as long as Josh Allen is in his prime, which is five more years, just like Bred And here's Josh after this.
One feels a little bit different. You know this early in the season. We still got five games left. At the same time, we're chasing the one seed. We understand that, we know that, and we got to keep getting better each and every week.
So but it's it's gonna be fun.
I mean to go out there and play free and play relax and play loose.
I think that that could be a dangerous team.
A lot of sports, when it comes to team sports, is taking advantage of these tiny windows. Kansas City's flawed, Baltimore and Cincinnati defense not up to spot stuff, and you start looking at Pittsburgh ceiling. This is the year for Buffalo, They're mostly healthy. They could get the number one seed. They've got a superstar quarterback, good front office, no chaos in coaching, and they've had a little bit of that in the coordinator head coaching space. This feels like the year for the Bills. I want to talk about this next. The Steelers beat the Bengals forty four to thirty eight. So for years and years I defended Russell Wilson. I think everybody liked him. Let Russ cook and then it ended poorly. Then he went to Denver. It was a bit of a mess. He and Sean Payton personalities clash. He went to Pittsburgh. In my take was, I think the players are going to like justin fieldsmore young, relatable athletic. But the one thing the Steelers haven't been, and I mean even in the Big Ben days, Big Ben Prime days, they've always been loose, a little overly dramatic, loud, and undisciplined offensively. And Mike Tomlin needed Russell Wilson and Frankly, Russell Wilson needed Mike Tomlin a head coach that isn't looking over his shoulder in the meeting rooms. Mike Let's offense do offense. And I don't know if this team Pittsburgh's going to beat Philly in two weeks or Baltimore in three. But Tomlin and Russell Wilson are perfect. Russell is the adult in the room for an offense that's desperately needed that for a year. He's focused, he's driven, he's aspirational, he's grateful, he's serious, he's disciplined. He doesn't turn the ball over, and defensive coaches like that. And here's the thing. Both Tomlin and Russell Wilson have trophies, have healthy confidence. I think they're good people. Both got humbled. Tomlin kept hearing, bro, you can't win playoff games, Brady Manning. Mike Tomlin had to look himself in the mirror and go, you know what, I got to get a grown up ruin this offense. And Justin Fields had a winning record. He pulled him out, gave it to Russ. Tomlin got nothing but crap, and he was right. He was right. He's like, I need a senior statesman. And by the way, Russell Wilson figured out in Denver, you know what, I'm probably going to be a complimentary piece. I can't be the savior for football teams. So before Russell Wilson arrived, the last several years with Pittsburgh, there was one way to win, create turnovers, mostly low scoring, played really well as an underdog, not necessarily as a favorite. Forty four thirty eight wins over Joe Burrow were not available to this franchise in the last several years, and now they are. So there's multiple ways to win. And I mean, in my entire life, every really great Steeler team has had two things, a great tough defense and a quarterback that could beat you over the top from Terry Bradshaw of Big Ben, and that is Russell Wilson's primary asset now at his age, he'll beat you down the field. And the last time the Steelers finished in the top ten in the offense, Andrew Luck was starting for the Colts. So it has been a while where they had a quarterback that would couple with a defense and a Mike Tomlin and a Chuck Knowle or a Bill Cower that could burn you if you weren't honest. And it gives the Steelers now multiple ways to win. And Mike Tomlin and Russell Wilson, there's no clash of personalities. Sean Payton sees offense a certain way, Russell didn't play it that way. Clash right, and then Russell saw the world a certain way. And by the end Pete Carroll didn't. The Tomlin Russell thing works. Here's the coach after thought.
Our group, you know, smiled in the face of it, particularly Russ. You know, it's the first time for him going through this AFC North football. And then I thought he acclimated himself to a well today he put himself squarely in the history of these series, in this series with that performance today, Man, we're thankful for.
I'll tell you there was a moment after the game. It was one of those in the hallway gestures where Tomlin grabbed Russ and gave him a hug, and you could really see the affection Tomlin understands. And this has been Pittsburgh even during the Big Ben days. Is Mike is a very emotional coach. His Steelers are tough, physical, they're emotional and sometimes with young players, you know, you got to have a grown up on the offensive side, because Mike will monitor the defensive side. But it's always been the offense and you're like, you're a little noisy, you're a little loud, You're a lot buttoned up. And that's what Russ brings. Disciplined focus, grown up, grateful, aspirational driven. That's exactly what they needed, and the fit works. I didn't think it did. I didn't think it would. It does. All sorts of good stuff left Albert Breer, the buck guy around the corner. A lot of people want Ryan daygone. I'll just say more chaos will ensue. I still contend Texas is the best team that a bad Saturday at home against Georgia. I think Ohio State, Tennessee, and Oregon are my best bats. I just don't think george is good enough. I think it Tennessee, Ohio State, and Oregon. Wouldn't be shocked if any of those ended up playing Texas. But I don't count the Buckeyes out. They've got too much talent and they don't have to play Michigan again. They don't match up with Michigan. Michigan is in Ohio State's Let's let's wait the calendar year and see if we go next year.
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After the game, the shocking Michigan went over Ohio State in Columbus, there was the flag planting incident, which was ugly, but it happened all over the country, so somebody will put a kai bosh to that, but it was it was. It was pepper spray and not good and put a little stain on the game as Michigan shocked the world. A team that can't master the forward pass this year beat Ohio State. Here was Wolverine's running back Khalil Mullings after the game with Jenny Taft.
At the end of the day, you know, some people gotta they got to learn how to lose. Man, you can't can't be fighting and stuff just because he lost the game. You know, all that fighting, We had sixty minutes, We have four quarters to do all that fighting, and now people want to talk and fight.
That's wrong.
You know, this is bad for the game. Class lists in my opinion, h you know, and and people people got to be better.
Well, let's go to a reporter, a journalist, Albert Breer. Yes, yes, he went to Ohio Stateton's a bit bitter today.
But what that was a convenient opinion.
I think.
You didn't mention the flag planning.
Well what do you make I mean, does it bother you?
Like I think if you win the game, you have the right to do what you want to do. But that doesn't mean you get to do what you want to do without repercussion. And if you are going to dance on a logo or plan a flag, you should expect to fight.
That's just what it is.
Because what you are doing then, as you are saying, not only did I beat you, I'm going to go ahead and disrespect you, disrespect your program, and I mean to me at least, like I think that is picking a fight. Yeah, so if you are picking a fight, you need to be ready for a fight. Coil bowings, That's that's the score here. Like you want to plant your flag, no problem, You do what you need to do, But you cannot do that without expecting repercussion.
I don't know.
Listening to him talk, it was almost like he had missed the whole part about planning the flag, Like planning the flag is what started the fight. When you plant the flag in that rivalry, you should know what's going to happen. And you know, I I agree with the Big Ten's decision to to to find both sides. Yeah, because one side picked a fight the other through oblige the other side obliged the side to pick the fight with a fight.
Why not just out We have a picture of you at the game as you were watching the flag planning. Uh, you very very distress.
Is this actually during the flag planning?
Well, it looks like it was at any point in the game watching your offense, and from what I can, from what I could tell, but why not just banned flag planning? Because I mean, by the way Sark in the A and M games, like he got his in front of his longhorns and he's like, get out of here. We're not getting involved on the road with that stuff. How about just ban it period in college football? How about that?
Yeah?
I mean I don't I don't know.
I mean, that'd be up to the powers to be you know, I think I think it's stupid anyway, don't you call him?
Like?
Yeah, like most of these fields are terf So what happens when you plant the flag as you jam it into the ground and then it falls over? Yeah, so it's like it doesn't even stick there, which makes it like like even more stupid. So uh, if they want to, if they don't, if they want to ban it, that's fine. I actually like kind of like field storming. Like I think field storming is like a good, good clean fun like a college activity, you know what I mean, Like in as long as everybody is you know, like everybody's not a psycho about it, like you know, like.
That can be fine.
If they wanted to blag to to to ban flag planning because it's causing fights, like I I wouldn't have a huge problem with that. Let me, by the way, you notice to thank for all. This is your old buddy Baker Mayfield.
Hey, he's always been a pioneer. Let me ask you I and I said this Ohio State can't be a first job. I mean, listen, Dan Lanning has worked at Oregon, but it's a big job. I've said. It reminds me of Mark Rick at Georgia quarterback coach. You get a big brand. I think Ryan Day's fine, but there is something to be said about steps. You don't start it where you work right now and write. You go to the local paper, a bigger local paper. Then you maybe you're a secondary reporter at a big space, then you become the columnist. There are steps to life, is it? Is it possible that Ryan Day here he's still figuring out how to coach because I don't even know what Ohio State's identity is as a program. I just know they're talented.
Yeah, I mean I think that that's fair.
You know, Look like, I think a big part of that job is understanding the terms of employment, you know.
And yeah, when I was in school there, John Cooper was the coach.
Yeah, and you know, I know that that's a that's a third rail name for a lot of people. But I I remember thinking, like, and I'm not from Ohio, but a lot of my fans is from the Midwest, and my family is Big ten, and.
So I felt like I had an understanding of it.
I think until you're in it, you don't really know sure how important the rivalry is and how the rivalry, how you approach the rivalry is really important.
Here's what I mean by that.
I think every coach who's coaching Ohio State feels the pressure. But how do you approach the pressure? Do you think the pressure is a burden? Do you feel like you're a victim of the pressure or do you think the pressure is a privilege? And do you think being in those shoes is a privilege? And I think that that can be the subtle difference sometimes, like Urban and you guys work with him. I was at the game in sixteen that was the one where Curtis Samuel you know, scores at the end in overtime. I think it's still the only overtime game in the history of the series. And and Urban like kind of falls to the ground. I watched Urban for a lot of overtime to where we were sitting. He had kind of a clear look at him, and it looked like he was going to have a heart attack, damn near the whole time, Like it looked like he was about to keel over and die. And like, so you can't tell me that guy didn't feel the pressure. But I never heard Urban ever.
Scuffle against the pressure or you know, feel uncomfortable.
It was just like he viewed like that is like a privilege, you know, like that that he was in that role, Like yeah, it's hard, but like he viewed that as a privilege. And I sort of felt the same way with Trussell, So I love Ryan as a person as a coach, Like I just I wonder sometimes like do you fully embrace it? Do you fully embrace the terms of employment, Because I think the guys who've been successful at Ohio State, and obviously Ohio State's ceiling has always been higher than Michigan's for a variety of different reasons, and the pressure there's always been more intense than it is at Michigan, and the winning has been more consistent and the bars higher on all the evidence shows that are you.
Willing to embrace all of that?
And are you willing to say, you know what, these two games that we're going to play at the end of the year do matter more the game for the game against Michigan, the game in the Big Ten title game, the playoff game, whatever it is, Like, that's.
How I'm judged you.
It's not by beating Iowa in the middle of October. It's not by beating Indiana. It's by beating Michigan, winning the Big Ten, winning the national title. So I just think a huge part of, you know, a coach's ability to succeed in that job comes down to how willing he is to embrace those stamps all right.
Two NFL things I have to get to first, is the Bears a great job? And is there a leader in the clubhouse? I hear Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame.
What do you hear?
So, Like, I know a lot of people are going to look at it and say they need an offensive guru. I don't really agree with that. I think they need somebody who's going to be willing to stand up to ownership, to stand up to the front office, to really be a leader not just of the guys in the locker room, but of the organization.
You know.
I think if you look over the course of the last fifteen years or so, there's something that's broken there. And they've gone back and forth an offensive coach a defensive coach, from a player's coach to a task master. And I think in the process, you're right, they've lost like any sort.
Of identity in who they are. So I think they need somebody to come in and establish an identity.
And I need to think they need somebody who's gonna be willing to stand up and and and and if ownership's wrong about something, tell them like, hey, you're doing this the wrong way. If the front office is wrong about something, tell them like, no, we cannot do.
Things this way.
And so like I I have my eyes on guys, and I think it's sort of similar to what Detroit needed, you know. So you know, I Ben Johnson is a name that's been you know, throwing around there for over a year, and I think at one point he really wanted that job. I'm not sure that if that's the case as much anymore, but I'd look at a Bill Belichick, I'd look at a Mike Vrabel, I'd look at you know, if you're you know, want an assistant to turn them into a head coach, like an Aaron Glenn who's been in Dan Campbell's program, you know, and who is a former player. I just think they need a really strong personality who has an idea of the identity he wants to establish, who's going to stick to that identity, you know.
I think one of the most impressive things about Detroit Colin is.
Those guys stood there on day one and they said they were going to build something, and they built exactly what they said they were going to build. I think that's what Chicago needs more than they need just some guy who's going to develop one player on the roster. So we get into this discussion during the break. I'm like, if I'm Pittsburgh, and I mean some of it is Russell Wilson historically doesn't get hurt.
You got these TJ. Watt players that you got to You got to chase the ring when you have them, these historically great players. And I think Russell's a free agent after the season. What's wrong with signing him? Do a three year deal at thirty million large? Is that crazy? Because I'm watching him play, He's highly effective. Well, you can't let Russell Wilson go.
Can you.
Well, their their policy is not to sign guys in season, and that's a long standing policy. And you can say it's stupid and they should make an exception, and maybe they should, but they just haven't done it.
And I do think, like just having to talk to people there, they want the full body.
Of work, right like, So they want the body of work, what it looks like in the regular season, what looks like in the postseason? How Justin Fields is going to figure into all of this, because remember he's a free agent too. I just think they want the old body of work. And you know, part of it too, is like over time, teams are going to build up some more tape on how Arthur Smith is deploying Russell Wilson, So where's your CounterPunch? There are all sorts of things that play into that. So I think they're comfortable with where they're at right now. They'd still love for Fields to have, you know, future with the franchise as well, But I think you're right, Like you could look at Russell Wilson now and how he's married up with what Arthur Smith is doing with him on offense and say this could be an effective bridge where for the next year or two, like he can get us to whoever our long term guy is going to be. I just don't think it's going to happen in season because they've never done it that way.
Let me ask one more question, niners. I mean, I'm telling you watching party against Josh Allen in the snow. I mean it was it was Mac Jones and Josh Allen. It was nothing special. Are you you're sure they're given purty the bag?
Yeah? I think so.
Now I can tell you like people that are flat out told me that that's the plan and they d you did for that, and that they're preparing.
They've been preparing to do that.
You know, I don't know where negotiations are going to go. And we know the Niners have had some protracted negotiations over the last few years, right So they had one with Nick Bosa, they have one with Brandon Aiyuk, they had one with Deebo Samuel. A couple of those got to the point where you know, the idea of making a trade was on the table.
So you know they've they've fought through these things in the past.
Obviously, a quarterback is a little different because you've got to know who you're starting quarterback is going to be in March, and so like I think for the Niners, it's going to be about sitting down and starting the process of this early. The last time they were in a situation like this with Jimmy Garoppolo, they got that deal done, if you remember, in January. So I'd expect that they're going to be aggressive and trying to pursue a deal with Brock Perdy whether the season ends at the right end of the regular season or at some point in the playoffs, you know, and then you see where it goes.
The one thing that does.
Kind of make it interesting though, Colin, if you do want to, if you, if you, if you do want to stir the pod a little on this is that Sam Darnold's had.
A great year, he was in their system.
He'll be a free agent. Yeah, And then Kirk Cousins contract is tradable. So right there you have two guys who are legitimate starting quarterbacks in the league this year where you could look at them and say, experience in Kyle Shanahan system, either of those guys could work. So if you're looking for like a leverage point that the Niners have with Brackbrock party where they could say, take our offer at forty, take our offer at thirty five, or else we'll go get this guy for that price, that certainly could exist as an element in the negotiation.
Good stuff, Albert Breer. Let's see that sad picture, because I've never seen Albert sad. He's such a joyful human being.
This man didn't get any happy pictures of me.
See this is the picture. This is the picture that I get to send to my buddies. Now, see my buddy Ron there on my right, my buddy Reagan. Nick is over Reagan's shoulder shock Trigono's out there for some reason. But yeah, like I like this is the picture that I got to send to my buddies.
Now.
I kind of look like a congressman, though, don't.
I You look like a you look like a senator who just got beat in the midterms or something.
I don't know.
It's just, uh, it looks like you hang around a bunch of tough guys. I would look like, uh, you had some fun in college. That's what it looks like to me.
Oh.
Absolutely, we definitely did all right.
Good seeing you, buddy. Don't worry. You're gonna be fine. Just gotta get another star quarterback. You're gonna be fine.
Hey, not to your bus, not of your bus.
Now that's it. I still like you. In the championship, you were Oregon against Texas. There you go. I'll let's go.
Let's go college.
When everybody's bailing on a good program, everybody's bailing on Ohio State, slow down. Just I just don't want to play in Michigan again, but slow down. I watched Georgia this weekend, I'm watching Miami, I'm watching and Texas looks here and every I'm gonna stay with just Oregon. Tennessee, Ohio State and Texas. If if the Valls win a Natty, who I Am going to be obnoxious. That's all I'm gonna say.
J McK with the news, this is the herd Line News.
Speaking of obnoxious, how about the Commanders. This was one of your best calls. I'm surprised you're not doing a victory lap here in the offseason. You were higher on them than everyone. They snapped a three game skid on Sunday with a big win over the Titans. Jade Daniels was on fire early. Washington scored TDS on their first four possessions. Daniels accounted for four of the scores, throwing for three, adding one on the ground. They outgained Tennessee by over two hundred yards and they're back in the mix for, you know, locking up a playoff spot. Jaydenon Daniels, by the way, improving his offensive Rookie of the Year odds. He's now minus two twenty bo nick second Brock Bowers has overtaken Caleb Williams for fourth.
Any thought of the Commander's rousing victory. I think they have a bye week, then they go to New Orleans. I think they're gonna win that game and they're gonna be own free. The weird one is the NFC South where it's like I picked Atlanta to win Kirk Cousins off the rails, and you know Baker is you know Baker can deliver when Baker's backed into a corner. And I like Tampa's roster. So if I had to bet today, I'd probably take Tampa over Atlanta. But Atlanta beat him twice already, so had they had a bitch tied that goes with the Falcons.
That Seattle Arizona matchup.
This is that one on Fox. That's a good matchup. By the way, what's the line on that? I like, Are you favor Arizona's favorite?
Yeah, I don't know that I agree with I would guess I think Seattle's such. I like the Seahawks team. Then I know they've kind of no show in the first quarter against the Jets, but I think they're they're a dangerous team playing at home in January.
That's as in Arizona.
No, No, I'm just saying in the playoffs, I like Seattle, but yeah, they got to get their first at Arizona this week. Washington is a dangerous seven seeds. They got to get Eckler back. He's on the ir now with that concussion. But Brian Robinson looked good the defense. By the way, Marshawn Lattimore sounds like he's gonna play this coming week. That's said big for Washington. Up next, how about this one Colin the Colts and Anthony Richardson with an incredible game winning drive. Yep, there's Richardson with the game winning TD toss. And then they went for two instead of playing for overtime and Richardson just bulldozed us into the end zone. Incredible, awesome. It was a nineteen play eighty yard drive for the win. Shaanstike and decided to go for two. And here's Richardson having with the ball in.
His hands, no doubt. Whenever has a situation like that, I would like to ball on my hand because I feel like I can make it play. But it's up a coach. You know, it's not really up to me to make a decision at some point. So if he does believe I can make it, make a play and make a change, no, I'll do it, and if not, you know, somebody else has to do it.
Look at him. If you didn't know what position he played, and you just said, this guy at the podium, guess which position he played, It's like Dwight Free. He'd be like rush end. You see that that too, that touchdown when he's running over people.
Now, as a thrower, I think he was twelve of twenty four.
It is a complete work in progress. It's not for the lax arm strength or coach ability because he like that. He'll make throws, but he is just not there. I was told by an NFL GM Jalen Milroe is a more polished version of Anthony Richardson, which to me is very draftable. Because I think you have because he only played thirteen college games, I don't think you can. I think you just have to wait till the years done. You have to look at it. Give him one more year. I mean, if you have the quarterback in the first round that's that physically gifted, you got to give him a third year.
Very young guy and.
Nice kid, coachable, hard worker, like everybody likes the kid.
If the Texans, they gotta be careful here. This Colts team can pass them. There's a chance that the Texans missed the playoffs. Texans just don't look crisp. I mean a culture. You know, this is a game against the Patriots, a bottom feeder. By the way, any thoughts of Drake may watching that game.
Drake can play, they're fun. I think he's good, you know, I think he's good too.
I mean he's got to argue with the weakest receiving course every past you're like, who is that guy? Okay, Shawn Bhute, whoever that is?
You know, like they drafted him in the sixth round.
Then throwing a sixth round guy, like that's your tire target.
You can come here for mock draft information. That guy nails it.
Vital story is uh Baker Mayfield in the Bucks. How about this thriller in Carolina?
I didn't watch that game.
Was Corner TV again, you missed out man. So Tampa, you know they couldn't stop Bryce Young Lordsly. He had a great Hey, he's had a good month. Oh he's been tremendous. He put them ahead with thirty seconds left, but Baker got him in field goal range and the kid hit a bomb in overtime, tough fumble by the running back from the Panthers, and then Tampa gets in field goal range and wins it. Bucky Irving I thought was the second story here?
Dude, he is he is good. Yeah, they have a lot of depth running did they drafted? What round was he? Because that guy's a stud.
They got three running backs and Tucker so they got Mike Evans is still like an ageless wonder. The Bucks and Falcons tied at the top of the division.
Who's Tampa play next?
Do we know?
I'd have to look that up, but they're both six and six and the Falcons on the tie breaker, which is not great for Tampa.
Bucky frown.
Oh, here we go, Here we go. Atlanta at Minnesota this week.
Oh, that's not a good spot.
That's a tall order. Meanwhile, Tampa Bay has the Raiders on deck. Raiders are awful, by the way.
Raiders play hard.
Tampa closes out with Cooper Rush Derrek.
Sorry that is the Oh my lord Baker Mayfield in the playoffs. Well, Atlanta's schedules garbage too, though.
And then yeah they're facing who I don't know who, The Giants have a quarterback. And then they got Vegas as well in Tarrotlina. That Washington game is gonna be a tough one because Washington's gonna be fighting for a playoffs, Buty. I like Washington. Yeah, Baker Mayfield, good story if he gets to the playoffs.
When you got the Raiders at the end of your schedule, you're in a good space. When you got a Raiders, Caroline, did.
You really say they started ten rookies on things giving Raiders played ten rookies.
No, Raiders play hard. He's played coaching them up. No, No, he the effort they get. They're playing a third of their or half their starters or rookies. They're playing rookies everywhere.
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Guys Horse, I mean you have to go like Callen Winslow junior for a prospect to tight end at Gibson. I mean he is something else. Jmckle the news, Well that's the news, and.
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We got. We got a lot of stuff going on. Poor Albert Breer. That was a tough one for him. The you know, I was watching that college overtime thing with Georgia and Georgia Tech. I don't like college overtime. First of all, you don't want overtime to last very long. Why because it affects you're gonna get more guys hurt. How many Georgia guys are wabbling off the field. So it's like, did anybody sit around in a in a college committee room and go, here's an idea. Yea, let's do two point conversions. It could last all night and nobody went, Now, that's a bad idea. They're college kids that could get hurt. Anybody gone skiing before the two or three times I've been hurt. Skiing is to like the last run of the day. You're tired, your shot, your legs buckle, you know it's yard sale. Your skis over there, pulls over there, you don't have anything left. Guys get hurt at the end of football games. You always had a theory on what overtime should be. In the NFL. Everything's built for the home team to win. You can't hear you always get a break at home. So in overtime in the NFL, the road team always gets the ball first, first point score. So what does that do? It forces the home team to be aggressive. Home teams like, let's just go to overtime, we can win it. No, no, no, home team's got to be super aggressive, and if a home team's being aggressive, a road team will, so just give the road team ball first to the road team. The road team may not be very good offensively and they don't want it, and they could elect to give it up, but the road team gets the call in overtime, just for the first possession. Because everything is built in the NFL, if you win the Super Bowl, you draft last. Everything's built for parody. College football is not. But I still think it works in college football. I mean, if you have nineteen twenty year old kids and you have thirteen possessions, and you're a home team in college and you can't put it away, road team gets the ball first. First score wins and college special teams are awful, so you'd have to score a touchdown. Nobody in college has a kicker, it's like one a year. So I always thought, you want the overtime and stopped this whole thing. Well, it's not fair. You had thirteen possessions. That was the fair part. Now, now let's end this thing as quickly as we can. Road teams, college and pro you get the choice, do you want it or do you want to defend it? First point? Score this whole thing about fairness. If you ever thought to yourself in college football, you know, this sport is not have than have nots perdue may win a national championship. The whole damn sport is a hierarchy. Let's stop the fairness thing. You want to end overtime as soon as possible, not to get players hurt. Even in the NFL, there's like they've done studies on this. Teams that go to overtime a have more injuries and lose the following week on average. You know this whole let's go to the thirteen. It was embarrassing kind of is At some point you're like, this is as bad for college football. Live in LA the Herds.
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So I'm watching the Eagles Ravens last night, and my take is Philadelphia brutal first quarter, then they start putting it away and Baltimore's missing field goal field goal pat by Justin Tucker. And you know Baltimore this year is a heavy, heavily penalized team, very reliant on Derreck Henry and Lamar j Accon and z A Flowers and Mark Andrews. They're great players, They're very reliant on their offense, but their special teams for years has got into the tank. It was so good for years. And John Harball is a former special teams coach. Justin Tucker, that was always like one of their specialties. They'd steal two or three wins a year on special teams. And their defense on the back end. Kyle Hamilton's amazing, but it's pretty you know, it's pretty limited. But I think a lot of it's just Philadelphia. From Jalen Carter, who's unblockable. They nailed a couple of draft picks in the secondary at corner one from Toledo, and I think Philadelphia is They're really good. I think today Philadelphia would beat Detroit neutral field or maybe Detroit. I think i'd take Philadelphia. Remember, Detroit's a dome team and Philadelphia is used to outdoors. That's a big advantage. Jared Goff historically very very good indoors above sixty degrees, and so when I watched Buffalo or I watched Philadelphia, it looks like they're made for the elements. And here's Matt Hasselback, who's been a big supporter of Nick Seriani on why he's higher on the Eagles than most.
I like Nick Sirianni. I think he's a really good coach. I think the Eagles are a really good team. I feel like I like the Eagles more than Eagles fans like the Eagles, which is in a weird.
Way, like I believe in them more.
No, listen, I thought, like yesterday's game, they coached around their injury situation. Injury situation, they didn't have DeVante Smith, and so they said, okay, you know what we are going to be.
You know a lot of people talk about RPO.
The Eagles in that game, they were an RRO offense, a run or a run option.
It's winning football. Dick Fangio does a great job.
I've told you Kellen Moore is learning his guys, and really it's a one to two punch in the defense is off balance. I thought they mixed up tempo. I just I like Nick Sirianni. I think he's got his team focused each and every week. And we pay attention to some of the antics, like on game day. But I think if you look at that team like Monday to Saturday, they're locked in.
They don't have distractions.
Now, think about the teams that are gonna play well in bad weather. Obviously Buffalo, strong armed quarterback, good old line, run game, tough defense. Pittsburgh, although they're a little reliant sometimes on the deep pass, good defense, russ can move. So Pittsburgh I think, is built for bad weather, and they, you know, practice planet. Buffalo built for bad weather. Kansas City with Isaiah Pacheco back, their interior O line for the chiefs guard center guard's good. So I think Kansas City, I think Buffalo, I think Pittsburgh. I think those teams, and Denver a little bit. I think they're built for cold weather. If you look at the NFC, I think Philadelphia is built for cold weather. I think green Bay now with Josh Jacobs, they're a power run team. I think green Bay is built for cold weather. I think Philadelphia is. I think Seattle. I like Walker and Sharbonday. I think they're kind of built for cold weather. I'm not sure if Washington is or Minnesota is. Yeah, Listen, there's I've been saying this for the last week or two, is that January February football is just It's December January February. It's just different. Football, and there are certain teams like I don't think there's any question Atlanta's not built for cold weather. Kirk Cousins, I don't feel like they're I don't Detroit's built to win football games. I don't think ideally they're built for cold weather, although they're just losing so many people on the defensive side. I don't know if Washington's built for cold weather. And then when you go to the AFC, I don't think the Houston Texans necessarily are built for cold weather. It matters the Chargers just the Chargers actually are. But now they got running back health issues, and they got wide receiver issues, and I think they're ahead of schedule. I could argue that even though they're a Dome team, if the Colts made the playoffs, Anthony Richardson Jonathan Taylor and their tight ends, they're actually in their defensive front. I could argue that Indy, strangely is built for cold weather. As a Dome team, they don't want to get in shootouts. That's not what they do. But keep your eye on Denver tonight. J Mack is a Verver. He didn't like bone Nicks at all. You're not a Bonix guy.
Just because I'm not all about him like you are, it doesn't mean I'm not I'm out on him.
Did you Okay, let's show the video. Did you watch brock Purty against Josh Allen last night?
You mean in the Blizzard?
Yeah?
I watched that.
Yeah, Well that's how you have to win games in December and January brock Purty slash Mac Jones. Did you see what he looked like? How about he threw the ball flop down?
It's stock coming.
I'm just being honest.
You just don't like rock Perty it's five.
It's not that I don't like him, but if I'm gonna pay him forty five to fifty million, it can't look like that in the snow.
Now.
You can lose, you can lose like Justin Herbert would lose or c J straup with. But it can't look like that. It can't look like best quarterback in the league and whatever that.
It can't look like so Tua got how much money to to it?
Well? I know, and that's my point. So when you watch Miami go to Green Bay, Tua.
Didn't play awful in Green Bay, but he's winless when it's.
They looked cold they coached cold.
I think they've had a season high for misstackles throughout the league, the defense and the twenty one miss tackles.
Twenty four to three and a half. Yeah, I mean it was just I mean, it's just so funny to watch Miami play in cold weather. You can see it. You could just they just look like they want to get in a flight and go home at half.
Yeah.
By the way, Detroit, I know they're a Dome team, but they're running game with Montgomery and Jimms. He is built with the great offensive line.
But if you play in Philadelphia, you're gonna have.
The big question is golf. He has turned into a pumpkin before in cold weather outdoors. There's a specific Chicago game memory when he was with the Rams Sunday Night football, like one of the worst cold weather performances I can recall. We'll see Ben Johnson's gonna have some stuff ready. You know that he's always auditioning for jobs.
Unbolievable. I like Denver tonight score thirty twenty. I'll go thirteen to nine Browns
