The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 01/11/2021 - HOUR 3 - Eagles, 3 words

Episode Date: January 11, 2021

Colin discusses the Eagles firing HC Doug PedersonThree word game: Colin describes the NFL games over the weekend in 3 wordsGuest: Michael Vick Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Let's ask him. Let's get Michael Vic on, joining us live. So Michael, Doug Peterson fired. Where did you work with Doug Peterson? In Philadelphia from 2009 to 2012. So I was with him for four years. Wow. Yeah, we spent a lot of time together.

I know Doug personally, and I kind of know how you think a little bit. Okay, so let me ask you. I didn't like pulling Jalen Hertz. I thought it was a big mistake. I think when you have a young quarterback, you're just trying to give them these moments where they can build confidence. It was a moment for Jalen Hertz to win a football game.

I thought it was a great moment for Jalen, and I think Doug butchered it. That's my opinion. Do you think that led potentially to his firing? Oh, no doubt. Without question, I think everything in the end, down the stretch was sort of mismanaged by Doug, and it started, you know, when he first put Jalen Hertz on the field,

you know, was it a need to put Jalen out there? I don't know. Was it out of desperation? Who knows? But, you know, I just felt like a lot of things was mismanaged. And, you know, that was a game of significance for the Philadelphia Eagles. One, to get a look at Jalen Hurts and, two, to kind of close the season out in style, you know, so to speak.

But, you know, he pulled Jail Lerner. and we was all excited about Jalen, and we talked them up, and we wanted to see him finish and play against a good football team, you know, a decent football team in the Washington football team. And for him to do that, you know, took the air out of the building. So, you know, it's shocking that they fired Doug. You just, you know, four years removed from the Super Bowl, but he accomplished some great things in Philadelphia.

By the way, I'm not going to tell you there are comments that Mike and I talk before he went on the air. He actually golfed two days ago with Jeffrey Lurie, the Eagles owner. He didn't mention anything about firing a coach, right? No, but he certainly picked my brain on some things, and it's fair to say he's a great listener. But, you know, we didn't talk about, you know, Doug at all. It was more about, you know, just coaching principles and things to look for.

And I thought it was very intriguing. And myself and Larry Fitzgerald, we had great conversation that had a good round of golf, but I didn't know that it was going to lead to this. And it's fair to say I had nothing to do with this, Doug, if you're watching. I appreciate that. Well, you and I were both happy, and I've said this before, is I think sometimes we bully in the media. We can all be kind of bad.

And I think I was tired of hearing about how Lamar Jackson couldn't win if he was behind. And I'm like, timeout. He's won 81% of his games. Hall of Fame coaches win 57% and we give him a gold jacket. I thought it was a real moment for Lamar. And I got to tell you, down the stretch. to that game. With the lead, I thought he played really smart. He knew to sit down. He stayed in bounds. There was ball security. I felt like I saw growth with Lamar. Your thoughts?

Yeah, absolutely. And for one second, did I think that Lamar was going to lose that game, even after he threw the pick early in the first quarter. And it was a ball that I think got away from him. But for him to, you know, just stay in sync, stay in tune with the offense and not get flustered and not, you know, start pressing, play within himself, and allow his teammates to work for him and work with him. I think that was the telltale sign in the game. He showed a lot of heart, a lot of resiliency. And, you know, he had a lot on his play. He had a lot on his back. And yes, you know, as the media and as critics, because we can be critical, you know, we have that platform, you know, we kind of say the things that we mean or what we expect to see. And Lamar, he

He might take it personal, but he understands how this whole business works. And, you know, that's why you get what you got yesterday. You get a guy who's, you know, just in tune with what's going on and, you know, very enthused about, you know, playing a game of football. And it showed up yesterday. And, you know, I won't say he's out to prove everybody wrong. He's out to just continue to progress and get better to help his team progress towards a championship. All right. Saints pretty much rolled Tom Brady twice. now they meet for a third time.

Will it look different? Anything you like about Tampa right now? You know, the thing I love about Tampa right now is, you know, Mike Evans, you know, he's really turned up right now. He's playing a different game. He looks different, playing with a lot of confidence. And Antonio Brown, you know, I think it's going to be the X fact in this game. He didn't play in the first one.

I think he was just coming, joining the team the second time they played. Yep. But, you know, Janores Jenkins and Marsha and Lattermogne had their work cut out for him because Antonio Brown is still one of the best receivers in the league. And I think he's a great compliment to Gris Godwin and Mike Evans. So he opens everything up. And it's hard to be the team three times in a row, not to say that it can't be done. But, you know, some crazy things are going to have to happen in order for Tom Brady and

not walk out of the stadium with a win this weekend. Would you give Big Ben another year and if so, why? I'll give Big Ben another year. I'm not saying this because he's my boy. I thought he left a lot out on the field last night. I thought he battled. It was a very intricate season for the Pittsburgh still is when you think about it in this totality, from scheduling to COVID to not having to buy.

And these guys, I think, wore down. It was tired. You had a lot of guys injured, especially when Devin Bush and Boy Dupree went out, you know, early in the year. It killed the momentum of this football team. And, you know, the one thing that has to happen of being. is going to come back, you're going to have to find them a running game. You look at the older quarterbacks in the league, they all got run game.

Yeah. They all got a run game around them. Aaron Rogers, he has a run game, Drew Breeze, Tom Brady. You know, those guys got run game to compliment what they're trying to do at this age. And it's not easy. So they need that compliment. And that's the only way, you know, I think Ben should consider coming back. Because right now, it's at his discretion.

So Jared Goff's got an injury. I don't like their chances going. up to Green Bay, warm weather team, go to cold weather Green Bay, well-rested Packers. But as we saw, Pittsburgh was well-rested, some of their stars and didn't play well. Can you, I mean, golf's not playing with confidence. Go back to your career. If you struggled, if you had a two-game streak, did you ever lose confidence? How do you regain it as a quarterback?

The only way to gain confidence as a quarterback is to go out and find some confidence. And if that's throwing the touchdown pass early, if it's just finding a way to win the game, that's what it's going to take. But it takes an awful lot. And it's easier to lose your confidence than to gain it. So what you have to do is just play with a lot of heart, play with the will to win, so to speak, and not worry about making the mistakes because, you know, at that point, you know, you already have everything barreling down on you. The only thing you can do is train up from there. I think it's going to be tough

for Jared golf this weekend, especially with the thumb injury. I know it's not all the way here and it's going to be cold. So, you know, the pressure is going to continue to mount, but expectations won't change for Jared golf and the Rams. Yeah. By the way, I saw the line this morning. The Cleveland

Browns are getting 10 points. They're a 10-point underdog to Kansas City. And I said, here's my thing with Kansas City. I couldn't tell you the last time they beat a team by 10 points. I thought they played terribly down the stretch. And then they didn't play Mahomes in week 17.

So they're just sitting home and watching. Did you ever get a buy? Do you know guys that got a buy? I don't think the buy is always the answer to everything. Your thoughts on Kansas City sitting around and Cleveland coming off their best win in 30 years. Yeah, the best thing about the buy is getting guys healthy in terms of momentum. It's kind of hard to replace that. It's hard to simulate game speed and being out there, getting hit, throwing passes into

coverage. Those are things that have to happen when you're out in the field. And Kansas City, they've been sitting for a long time. And Cleveland, you know, they're riding their wave right now. And momentum is real. So, Kansas City, you're going to have to be ready. And Baker Mayfield is coming. The one thing I know about the Cleveland Brown's team is that when they come into a stadium,

they know exactly what they're going to do to you right now. and they're going to try to pound the ball, keep the opposing quarterback off the field, make their plays, and try to find the way to play some defense to win the game. Yeah. Mike Vic, back in Florida, he'll be back out here in California. We've got a Sunday NFL kickoff show on Saturday this week on Fox. Mike, a great scene as always, man. No doubt. Thanks for having.

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Listen to PodMeets Twirled on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joy Taylor with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the Heard Line News. The Chiefs haven't beat 18 by more than 10 since the Jets. And that was, what, week 9, 8? It was.

Eight. and you're given Cleveland 10. I think it's a lot of points. I will say it's Kansas City at home and the Chiefs are not the Pittsburgh Steelers. No, and they're healthier. You know, Pittsburgh was down since like almost Thanksgiving,

down two of their best linebackers. But it still has a lot of points. So the big news, Doug Peterson is out in Philadelphia, just three years after winning the franchise's only Super Bowl. Peterson has reportedly been fired as the Eagles head coach. In five seasons with the team, he had a record of 42, 37, and one, and was four and two in the playoffs. So now there are seven teams that need head coaches, the Chargers, the Eagles, the Falcons, the Jags, the Jets, the Lions, and the Texas. Well, I see, I think this changes

things. I think the Chargers is still the best job. I think Philadelphia is now the second best job. Well, what makes this very, I don't know, it's confusing, but there's a lot to process here. So you're moving off of your head coach in Doug Peterson. So are you sticking with Carson Wentz? Well, that's what it feels like to me is you get a coach that can get along with Carson Wentz. So what do you do with Jalen Hertz? Well, he's a backup and you, I mean, maybe you let him compete in camp, but the reality is you're paying Carson Wentz $35 million a year. He's got to play. You can't sit a guy paying $35 million. So either engineer a trade, what I think it tells me, Joy, is they're going to hire an offensive coach.

They've got to get the Carson Wentz thing fixed. Do they? God. I mean, if they were planning on sticking with Doug Peterson, then you trade Carson Wentz and you stick with Jalen Hertz. I think, I don't know. I have to talk to some Eagles fans and see what their pulse on this is, but if I'm an Eagles fan, I am ready to move off of Carson West.

Well, if I've seen enough from Jaylen Hertz this year. And it's no, like, disrespect to what Carson Wentz is capable of. I just think it's just, you saw too much with Jaylen Hurts from to sit. If Carson Wentz goes out there and struggles, Well, here's the thing. We know Chris Mortensen reported San Francisco will look to move off Garapolo. Doesn't mean they will, but they'll look. We know the Colts are a dynamic quarterback away from winning the Super Bowl. And Frank Reich is there. So there's two, and both those rosters are ready to win the Super Bowl. They need a healthy dynamic quarterback.

So I think the Niners and the Colts will make some offer to Philadelphia. and if that's the case, I think Philadelphia would probably take it just because of the reality of what we're seeing in playoffs is, if you don't pay your quarterback anything, they're not paying Jalen Hertz anything. You can just get more free agents. And that money is, the money thing doesn't matter in that situation because you're not paying Jalen Hurd. So that money is just like what's slotted for quarterbacks on your team.

That's right. So it's not like you're doubling up. So if he's not there and it's a cap hit, you're not paying Jalen Hertz. Anything. So you'd have to pay him regardless. And now Peterson is on the market. for a job. So Jake Glazer just tweeted,

keep an eye on Doug Peterson and the Jets. He has a great relationship with GM Joe Douglas. I don't think that Doug Peterson is a bad coach. That was a bad decision. Well, I don't think he's a bad coach, but he certainly wasn't as good once Frank Wright left. No, that was glaringly obvious. Okay, so, you know, again,

when Kyle Shanahan left Atlanta, their head coach didn't win as many games. Like, there are these superstar coordinators and the coach is capable. Doug's capable. But boy, he was never the same when Frank left. And Frank, by the way, what a shock. The Colts are really good.

Yeah. So after starting 11 and O, the Steelers lost four of their last five regular season games and were bounced in the playoffs with a 48 to 37 loss to the Browns last night. That final score does not reflect the absolute demolition job that the Browns did to the Steelers. You've never seen a score that meant less.

Cleveland crushed. Absolutely. And Mike Tomlin had a tough time explaining what happened to his team in Pittsburgh's collapse. We didn't do enough. We didn't position them in enough good circumstances. We didn't make enough plays, particularly in the critical moments. You know, we were a group that died on the bind. I don't know what the Steelers were doing yesterday.

I have no idea. Just didn't look prepared, didn't look ready to play. They didn't look prepared. And then once things took a turn, what are you dinking and dunking for? you're down 28 to nothing in a playoff game. 10 yards, this little five-yard checkdowns are not going to do it. Throw the ball down the field. And you saw what happened when they actually did.

Now listen, the Browns weren't a different defense at that point. But you have to do, you have to get chunk plays. It was impossible. Look at Ben. It was a disaster. Look at Ben. That is such a weak effort. We banged on Cam Newton for not going after a fumble.

Look at this effort by Ben Lothelburg. This is pathetic. Here's the thing about Pittsburgh. They lost Bud Dupree. They lost Evan Bush. And nobody's paying attention to that because it's not sexy, but it matters. They also have no rushing. They do not rush.

They had 52 total yards rushing. That's not going to work when you have an old quarterback. That doesn't work. Cleveland, on the other hand, did not have that problem. The Browns rushed for 127 total yards. Nick Chubb, 76, Cream Hunt, 48, and Baker added two. But you don't have any kind of rush rushing game whatsoever. You lost Devin Bush.

You lost Bud Dupree. Big Ben is aging. Aging. I thought that they should have done something at the quarterback position in this past off season. Now it's glaringly obvious that they have to do something, but I don't think that Pittsburgh will. The thing about the Pittsburgh Steelers is they have Super Bowl expectations every single year, as they should, because they're a winning organization that's run very well. They're a very loyal fan base and a very loyal organization. And sometimes you can be loyal to a false.

Yeah, it's very Midwest feeling. You can't be loyal to Big Ben anymore. If you watch that last night and you're still talking about Big Ben has a little bit more enemy, just needs some more pieces, you're watching something different than the rest of the world watched, and that's probably because you have loyalty to Pittsburgh. I was born and raised there. I know how it goes. Ever since they lost Levion Bell or Levion Bell left, however you want to look at it.

Can't run the football. Can't run the football. Doesn't work. No, I mean, the 28, 29, 30th. If you go look at their last three years running the football, I saw it earlier this year. They can't run the football since you left. Finally, Alabama and Ohio State meet to next. night in the national championship game to round out this week uh christmas football weekend it's just

like a gift it should be a high scoring affair both teams have explosive offenses Alabama scored second most points for game this season and is home to the heisman winner devontes smith and justin field is coming off an unbelievable performance against clunson with career highs and both passing yards at 385 and passing touchdowns with six fox bet has Alabama favored at eight and a half where are you? going with that. I would probably take Ohio State if I get 8 and a half, but I don't feel great confidence with it.

I think Alabama's better and we'll win. But again, you're giving me Justin Fields, a really clever coach. Eight and a half points is a lot. I mean, giving Ohio State University, eight and a half points doesn't feel like ever a good bet.

It feels like a lot. The only thing I will say is we have not really talked about Alabama at all. Like they just ran through Notre Dame and then it was It's all about Ohio State Clemson. We've all been focusing on Ohio State. So we know Clemson's a great program. The last two times Ohio State has played Clemson,

they beat them, and then they outplayed them and lost. So it's like, I think the Ohio State Bama gap is smaller than we think. Eight and a half feels, I think Ohio State's better than Georgia, and Georgia can go toe to toe. I always feel Georgia can play with Alabama, and I think, you know, I think Ohio, Georgia's struggles but beats Notre I think Ohio State would beat Notre Dame with some space. So I think the best program is Bama, talent-wise.

I think Ohio State feels like second, and then Clemson's an inch behind. Then you get into the Georgia and Notre Dame stuff. So I think it's going to be competitive. I think it will too. I think Alabama is liking that everyone is talking about Ohio State for the past couple weeks. Right. I enjoy with the news. Well, that's the news.

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Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations,

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His IQ is at a level that we've never seen before. And he knows without Luca and Austin Reeves, I got to manipulate the game. We get a player's perspective on the challenges of the playoffs. I think Joker's going to be exhausted this series because when they don't have Rudy in the lineup, he has to really guard guys like Nas Reed. He has to guard Julius Randall. And then he has to give us everything he gives us on the night-to-night basis on offense. And when IT's friends stopped by like Quentin Richardson,

we dive into some playoff history too. Steve Nash would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers why he got the ball. Like, after you go through a training camp with that, Isaiah, you figure it out real quick. Get your ass up and down the court, and you're going to get the ball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

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discussing football team. So here we do the winner and the loser of each playoff game this weekend. Here we go. Colts, missing one piece. Listen, they got into the Bill's territory in all nine of their offensive possessions, excluding the kneel down and they couldn't win a game. That's almost unheard of. They moved the ball, but situationally in the red zone,

they're incredibly limited. Colts were the first team to lose with 450 total yards and no turnovers in NFL postseason history. They got to get more dynamic at corporations. Back. Bills. All on Allen. First quarterback to have 300 plus passing yards, 70% completion percentage, 50 plus rushing yards in a playoff game since 1948. Now, the question becomes they're not running the football well. Their pass rush is hit and miss. They're very well coached. But if you're not winning in the trenches, and they did not win the battle in the trenches this weekend, how long and how far can an uber talented quarterback take you?

Well, we know the answer. It's the ability to beat the Colts. Rams, great, except golf. Listen, they're 30-7 and O'n when leading at halftime, so they're well-coached. Their defense gave Russell Wilson absolute fits. Five sacks. But Jared Goff completed nine throws. They didn't want to start him.

They didn't want to play him. This miraculous Cooper Cup catch was really the highlight of the day. I don't see how you can go to Lambo and beat Aaron Rogers when you've got a quarterback, the coaching staff, and the quarterback himself lacks confidence in. Seahawks. Russ got cooked. 11 completions, 41% completion. percentage. The Seahawks started the game 0 for 8 on third down. I don't have an answer for it.

They got healthier on offense and worse. I do think they need to address the offensive line. It's never been a strength of Pete Carroll. I don't think they've ever had a top five, six offensive line since he's been in Seattle. Thank God for the left tackle spots pretty good. Outside of that, they need some work. Bucks. Exactly. is planned. Leonard Furnett, when they went and traded for him, this is why you get him. If Ronald Jones is hurt, which he got hurt before the game, you got Antonio Brown, this is what we all thought.

They'd be a wild card team. They were good enough to win a wild card game. We did think their ceiling in year one would be low, but we also thought, listen, the defense will carry him early. And Tom of the new playbook and teammates will probably start rolling after Thanksgiving. And sure enough, Brady and the Bucks are 5 and O off since the buy, and he leads the NFL and touchdowns since the buy. Washington, a bright future.

Taylor Henneke, listen, it was nice. Taylor He's nice. He's not going to be the franchise guy, but it was a nice start. He's mobile. He moves. He's inexpensive. Love to have him in my franchise as a backup. But total defense, it was very much Ron Rivera.

Fifth in total defense, third in scoring defense, fourth in sacks. Chase Young was great. They got a nice, listen, they had a lot of things to overcome. Chaos from ownership, quarterback mess, coaches battling cancer, you know, injuries. And to get to the playoffs, and that game was a pretty interesting game Saturday. It was a competitive back and fourth game. Titans, two one dimensional. first career game Derek Henry, 40 or fewer rushing yards on 15 plus carries.

I thought he looked tired. You know what he looked like? He looked like that baseball pitcher that pitched 240 innings and he gets into the playoffs and he can't get past a sixth inning. I just thought Derek, they did a good job to play their one-gap defense. They didn't give him a lot of openings. I thought Baltimore outside of the first quarter just felt like the better team was winning the line of scrimmage, but they got to get him help.

Corey Davis had a good year. They need more help, tight end help, wide receiver help, O-line help. Ravens. Lamar gets revenge. Yes, he does. Fourth youngest quarterback to lead a double-digit comeback in NFL postseason history. This was the play of the game. Listen, he's special.

It's not the best passer, but he's good enough. But when you're the fastest player in the world playing your sport, you're a 10 in that department. You can be a six in the other one. And I also thought he played measured, very, very. self-aware on the last couple of drives of the game. He was very aware of the clock. He was very aware of ball security. He tucked it in runs instead of like taking a gamble. He had one bad throw. It happens. It's the playoffs. Bears ditch the Mitch. No games of 300 plus yards passing. He's just limited. Not blaming it all on him, but it's limited. And when you go on the road and you can

put up that kind of defensive performance. It feels like you sort of owe your team some big completions. Saints, not a breeze. 21 points, season low. They average five yards of play, three and a half yards a rush, way below their season average. So that was not an easy one. That was a physical one.

Browns, well, looky here. First playoff wins since 94. snap a 17-game losing streak at Pittsburgh, and they will look smart and adult and efficient and dynamic. Steelers give Ben Boot. They're a bad team. They ended the season 1 in 5. He had one great half against the Colts after Thanksgiving.

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