The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 02/19/2021 - HOUR 1 - Wentz, Darnold, Raiders, Patriots

Episode Date: February 19, 2021

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You're listening to Fox Sportsport. Radio. Here we go on a Friday. Maybe we'll have breaking NFL quarterback news today as well, live in Los Angeles. This is the hurt. Wherever you may be, however you may be listening, Fox Sports Radio, IHeart Radio, FS1, it's a sweater Friday, and Alex Curry is now joining me, filling in for Joy Taylor, who was back Monday. I felt like I wanted to, it's winter. and even though we're in Los Angeles, I felt like, you know what, I feel like it's,

I got a little winter thing going on now for the next two weeks. I'm going to go with it. And it's cold everywhere else, so it's kind of like you're showing a little compassion for everywhere else in the world right now. By the way, our thoughts and prayers to people around the country, these stories, my wife and I last night

looking at the stuff in Texas. It's heartbreaking. Oh, my God, it's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. So we're thinking about you. It's great to have you on a Friday. So yesterday, Carson Wentz got treaded right before the show.

And this morning, another story came out. God, I have never seen in my life two franchises that regularly go to the playoffs, the Eagles and the Texans capsize in two, three months. The Texans literally are taking on water and they don't have any life preservers. And Philadelphia this morning, they get worked in that trade with Carson Went. and the story out today, they're not going to give the quarterback job to Jalen Hertz. He's going to have to earn it. Oh, boy.

So you hire a head coach, young kid, Nick Seriani, who butchered his press conference, appeared incredibly nervous, unproven, going into a vicious, verbal, intense city with a quarterback competition. I just don't remember, I don't remember a time when two, like, winning franchises, Philadelphia and Houston have capsized in the offseason. And the offseason just started two weeks ago. And I was thinking about the Carson Wentz deal. Obviously Carson Wentz wins yesterday.

He gets a better O-line. He gets a better culture. He gets a better GM. He gets a much better now coach. He gets better weapons. Philadelphia's defense is fine, but I think he gets a little better, younger defense, obviously. But the winner in this is also the NFL. And when you're a well-run business, and I've defended Roger Goodell for years, the media doesn't like the NFL as much because the NFL has power and the NFL doesn't need the media.

The baseball, baseball in the NBA, they need the media. So what you'll find with the media is they talk way more NBA than actually there is interest in the NBA. And baseball, because of the newspapers and the box scores, have always had a great relationship with baseball. That's how I grew up. And so everybody grew up, you go to the newspaper. to get your box score. Not as much now, but certainly how many of us are 40 or 50. That's how we lived.

But the NFL doesn't need the media. They don't need newspapers. They don't need me. They don't need the radio. And the media likes to feel needed. And the NFL doesn't need them. And for years and years, I always said this about Roger Goodell. I'm like, by and large, this is by far and away the best run league.

They don't have nearly the issues of the lack of competition in the NBA. NBA kind of feels like coastal, baseball, there's the rich, everybody else. But this Carson Wentz deal, this is why it's so great for the NFL and the Matt Stafford deal for the Rams. The bottom third of teams in any sport don't matter. You're never judged by that. When Michael Jordan ran the NBA, the bottom third of the league was drag. It was awful.

It didn't matter. You don't put them on television. Your network partners and you are not putting them on television. So it didn't matter. that the bottom third of the NBA during Jordan's era was awful. Same with Shaq and Kobe. It doesn't matter if the top of your sport is good, where your best players are on your best teams,

hopefully in like traditional powers, Green Bay. You want Green Bay to be good in the NFL. You want Pittsburgh to be good. You want the Celtics, Lakers, to be good. Miami Heat in the NBA. These are really good well-run franchises. But Carson Wentz was really good. wasting his talent. What you don't want is Matt Stafford for a decade wasting his talent with

the dysfunctional lions. What you don't want is Mike Trout with the Angels. You want Mike Trout with the Dodgers. I mean, Mookie Betts is an amazing story. Like I'm a casual baseball fan. I love the postseason. I love the postseason. I'll watch a postseason baseball game over a Thursday night NFL game. I love baseball postseason. But Mookie Betts goes to the Dodgers. It's the the first time in 10 years. I can't wait for the season to start. He had so much energy and so much juice. It was nothing against being in Boston, but David kind of last couple of years rebuilding. You want your stars in the right places. So right now, Stafford to the Rams from the bottom of the league to one of the better organizations, and Carson went escaping the dysfunction

and going to a top six or seven roster, huge win. Now, both of those are in the Super Bowl hunt. Right now this morning in the NFL, I looked it up. Half the NFL is 30 to 1 or better odds to win the Super Bowl. Half the league, eight NBA teams are. You want your stars to avoid dysfunction. Anthony Davis with the Pelicans did nothing for the league. Anthony Davis with LeBron, now we've got a story. Now we've got a dynasty.

Bradley Beal for the Wizards is awful for the NBA. He's an unbelievable kid and unbelievable talent, wasting away in Washington. You put him on the Celtics tomorrow. You put them on, you know, rockets. That's how leaked. Because think about the NFL. The games that matter for the NFL is the 4 o'clock game on CBS and the 4 o'clock game on Fox. Sunday night football on NBC, Monday night football on ESPN, and Thursday night games,

they stand alone, they matter. Where you can bury teams is the 1 o'clock. clock eastern window on Sunday. You can put the Jaguars on there for years. They disappear into the ether. There are seven, eight games. Nobody watches them. You only put them in like seven percent of the country. Leagues hide. The NFL hides its bad teams. But it makes sure it gets its stars at four Sunday night, Monday night and Thursday. Get your stars. That was one of the deals. When Fox got Thursday night, Fox went to the NFL and said, can we get better games? We'll promote the hell out of it. We're good with the NFL.

You know we'll take care of it. You've got to give us better games. And so suddenly, what did the NFL and Fox do? They gave them more divisional games, Ravens, Steelers, Packers, Bears. That's why Thursday Night Football with Fox has been better, because they gave us better games. Remember when Thursday night football used to be on the NFL network and you get Jags Titans and they'd wear goofy uniforms?

You're like, this is bad product. NFL finally figured it out. And so this is so good. Wence goes from dysfunction and chaos. to an incredible football culture. Huge win for the NFL. Now you've got an other Super Bowl team. Stafford goes super talented from the dysfunctional lions to the Rams with other stars.

So when I look at these moves with all these leagues, this has been a great, when did Stafford get traded? It's been a great two weeks for the NFL. Stars in the right places. It's like Zion. I hope the pelicans get it right. I really do. I do. I think they're well run. But if he's there seven years and makes the playoffs once, that's bad for the league. You don't want Zion buried on a 500 basketball team.

I mean, think about Kevin Garnett. He was a stat monster in Minnesota for years. Wasn't on television? Nobody taught. He was just a really good, you had to be a diehard NBA guy to follow it. Then he goes to the Celtics, and he becomes one of the three faces of the NBA, and everybody loves Kevin Garnett. Now he's on television. Now everybody, I mean, he was is a smart, interesting guy. Nobody knew about him. It was in Minnesota. It was like Death Valley of the NBA.

He was this great player just wasting away. Then he goes to the Celtics. He's a top. I mean, we talk Kevin Garnett all the time. That's what sports needs. And that's where the NFL's hit two home runs in the last couple of weeks with Stafford and Wentz going, by the way, Deshaun Watson. Just throw this out there.

Deserves better. Deshawn Watson needs to go to a. winning organization. He's too talented now to be buried in Houston with that coach and that owner and that nonsense in the front office. So the NFL can really hit the lottery. If Deshawn Watson goes somewhere that's functional, you're going to have Stafford Winson DeShon. Chaos defunctional. Huge win. That'd be like three Bradley Beals going to the Celtics, Lakers, and Spurs. Huge wins for leagues. All right. Here's something I don't understand. Stafford's off the market

and Wentz is off the market. So there's two guys left. There's the super talented Deshawn Watson. We all know he's great. But to get to Sean Watson, you've got to give up massive picks and players. To get Sam Darnold, who is cheap, talented,

hardworking in only 23, you have to give up nothing. Because of the Went's deal, it probably makes it easier to get Darnold. Because if Wents only got what he got, Donald's probably only going to get a second round pick or a third round. You have to give up nothing to get him. And he doesn't cost anything. Meaning if you get Darnold, you don't have to give up anything to get him.

Here's two teams that if I was running the Bears or the Washington football team, I'd be on the phone this morning. Like there's a lot of teams that want to upgrade quarterback. We know San Francisco isn't in love with Garoppolo. But Garoppolo does win games. We know Carolina doesn't say. see Teddy Bridgewater as a long-term guy. But he's a pretty darn good quarterback.

We know Atlanta would eventually like to move off Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan's going to get Hall of Fame votes. But there's two teams in this league. They have winning head coaches. They have great defenses. They were playoff teams. Washington and Chicago. You don't have a quarterback.

What are you doing? Are you sitting around and waiting? And there's only two guys. on the market left. Nobody's going to go big, in my opinion, except maybe New England, after Garapolo because of his injuries. That's a really dangerous space to be in, to sign Jimmy for a long term. In Chicago and Washington, winning coach, great championship level defense, playoff teams. You can get Sam Donald for almost nothing. What are you waiting for? Mariotta is a limited thrower and has injuries. Garoppolo, injuries. I'm sitting here thinking to myself,

Washington, this division is yours if you can be competent at quarterback. Chicago, if you're competent at quarterback with that defense and you re-sign Allen Robinson, just upgrade your offensive line a little. You can challenge Green Bay. So I'm a little, I'm a little shocked. We heard the Carson Wents Rumblings and the Matt Stafford rumblings for four or five days before they had. We heard that Stafford wanted out. We heard that Carson Wence was going to get traded. There's no new news on Sam Donald and I don't get it.

I mean, I understand if you want to go big game hunting for Deshaun Watson like Carolina. But Chicago and Washington now are winning teams, but they're not teams that can give up the farm. for Deshawn because they still have too many needs. So you could get Deshawn in Washington or Chicago, but you're mortgaging your future and you're not good enough teams to give up a ton, get Deshawn and win. But they're both good enough to get Sam Darnold not give up anything. Bolster, Washington could bolster their offensive weaponry.

Chicago definitely needs another receiver back and maybe another tackle. So I just look at Washington. and Chicago, and I'm like, you guys have winning records, playoff teams, great defense is momentum. Get on it. Stafford's off the market. Wence is off the market. And neither the bears of the Washington football team, in my opinion, have the pieces or the ability to get Deshawn. They've got holes.

They've got to solve so they can't be given up seven, eight, nine draft picks. By the way, yesterday Lance Briggs, legendary bear pro bowler, his thoughts on Darnold and doing something at quarterback. We need something different in Chicago because what's been doing, what's we've had isn't working. Even as Sam Darno at the right price can give some sort of new hope. And it's really going to have to come from a veteran quarterback because there's a lot that needs to be shored up on this offense. There's guys that need to be resigned. The offensive line needs to be bolstered.

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I thought he was a great broadcaster. A lot of the media critics, and what do they know? They've never worked in TV. John Gruden's great on television. He's a home run. The NFL draft coverage for ESPN has never been as good since Gruden left. That's not a shot at the people on it. They're very capable.

Monday night football. Never been as good since Gruden left. His quarterback camp was much watch. Gruden is a TV star. He's great. Tomorrow, if Fox came to me tomorrow and one of our big stars retired and they said, who would you do? I'd be like Gruden.

Gruden's great on television. And the media critics are idiots if they don't get it. He is juice. He is energy. He's chucky. He's goofy. He's opinions. He's great.

great on television. But I've always said, the coaching thing, he's likable. Like Pete Carroll. When we like somebody, we defend him. He's won 51% of his games. Mike McCarthy's won 60%. He has five playoffs wins. McCarthy's got double that. But we don't like Mike McCarthy. He looks like a cab driver from Chicago. He's a regular guy. He's not very funny behind a Mike. He's kind of uncomfortable, and Gruden's unbelievably comfortable. So Gruden always gets a pass with the Raiders. I saw this story. Derek Carr, you want to know who inquired about him? Who's the best young GM in the NFL? A lot of people think it's Chris Ballard of the Colts. Story out today, Ballard wanted Derek Carr. And the Raiders said, no, no, no, not Derek Carr. And this cracks

me up. Derek Carr always gets blamed for everything with the Raiders. So Chicago and the Raiders both went 8 and 8.8. But Chicago's quarterbacks kept them at 8 and 8. Derek Carr got the Raiders to 8-N-8. Is anybody paying attention to Derek Carr the last two years? He's completed 70% of his throws. He got 48 touchdown 17 picks and a pass rating over 100. He's the glue to the organization. What I mean trade him?

First of all, John Gruden's reputation as a coach is winner. His reality is his last nine years coaching, he's got no playoff wins. He's the only coach in the NFL that's had three straight losing years, missed the playoffs, three straight years, still has a job. He's the only one in the league. That's it. Three years, no playoffs. Still employed.

He's the only one. And I like him. And I find him unbelievably likable. He walks into a room and he steals it. He sucks all the oxygen out of it. I was in a room in New York years ago. He just is chucky. He's big and he's verbal and he's funny and he's interesting and he's passionate.

And he was always underrated as a television personality. He's great. Listen, I like Bill Parcells. There are a lot of guys. Joe Montana. There are a lot of guys that are great. They're not great on television. Gruden is great on TV.

But this idea that cars getting in the way of Oakland, there's a million questions in Oakland. They have one player on the entire roster that had more than three sacks last year, Max Crosby, Vegas Raiders. They have one guy in the whole roster with more than three sacks. Their last two top picks have been busts. Henry Rugg's wide receiver is a bust. He was their fourth leading receiver.

he was 21st in receptions among rookie receivers. He's fast and can't run routes. Okay. Cleland Farrell, the Clemson kid, and I said at the day they drafted him, was a reach. He's got almost no sacks in two years. So I got questions about the GM. I got questions about the defense. I got questions about the roster.

I got questions about Gruden. Derek Carr is the only thing I don't have questions about with the Raiders. So the fact that Chris Ballard came out and was like, I like that guy. He should. By the way, pro football football. Focus, Derek Carr, 10th highest graded quarterback. And that's, again, a guy that has to be in shootouts every week to win. The other thing about the Raiders, the last two years with Gruden, they've regressed

badly after Thanksgiving. So I don't know what that's about. I'm not in the rooms. But post Thanksgiving, the last two years, the Raiders have been a mess. Does Gruden coach them too hard at practice? Do they work them too hard? Do they too intense early? And they just melt at the end of the year?

I don't know. I don't have the answer. But it's not a good trend. The best coaches in this league, the Belichick's teams get better after Thanksgiving. Gruden's Raiders last two years, post Thanksgiving, die, except Derek Carr. So I love this story. Finally, one of the Sharp GMs is like, yeah, we like Derek Carr. He is the life preserver.

There's a million questions with the Raiders. Carr's the only thing I don't question. Alex Curry with the news. No, no, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. So Deshawn Watson wants out of Houston, but the team is still standing firm and wanting to keep him. Now Carson Wentz just got his wish of starting fresh with a new team.

And after the trade news, Deshawn's personal coach, Quincy Avery tweeted, what's the criteria for a quarterback asking to get traded than actually getting traded? Asking for a friend. Now, Colin, you had him on the show on Wednesday. He made some great points. He said, Deshawn's always doing the right thing. He's never complained. All he wants to do is be a leadership in a winning culture.

Yeah. And it's just gotten to the point. where the relationship has just gone so south, I don't think there's any fixing it. And I also, I don't think it's a total loss for Houston. He's off his best year. He's healthy now. You can get probably four first round picks, a bridge quarterback, and another player. You can really set yourself up.

What does Houston need? Draft picks. You can get four first rounders and a couple second rounders for him. And as great as he is, he's had a couple injuries. He's been hit a lot. Unlike Russell Wilson, he does get hit. So this is not a, if we don't trade him, we're doomed. Houston can get a bridge quarterback like a Teddy Bridgewater and Carolina's pick to get their next quarterback.

All is not lost moving him. And to me, if your quarterback's disgruntled, it doesn't ruin the franchise. When your quarterback's disgruntled, it seeps into every room. It's time to move him. He doesn't want to be in your city or with your team. And if they play it right, everybody wins in this situation. You're just going to play it right. Moving on, Tom Brady was as motivated as ever to find success during his first season in Tampa.

He accomplished his goal winning an unprecedented seventh Super Bowl. And Mike Evans said Brady's extra attention to detail leading up to the game helped the team prepare. Take a listen. He was texting us a lot of clips, lots and lots of film and what to expect on certain down the distances. And he does that all the time, but just in the playoffs and especially this game, He went above and beyond. Like 12 at night, six in the morning. He's aiming up.

He's telling us, hey, this won't work versus this guy. You got to do it running like this. And the detail that went into this and the extra meetings and all the hard work, it all paid off. And Tom is a great leader. And you know what this reminds me of? This is the opposite of Big Ben. Yeah. Who doesn't do film study to a high level.

Who's not a great practice player, who's not committed in the offseason. If you look at Brady and Big Ben's talent, Big Ben's more talented, has been for years, but he's not as committed. That was always the knock on Flacco. Flacco was gifted, but he wasn't totally committed in the offseason or in season. Is Brady's greatness is so much about being all in in the moment. It's not about the great arm. It's not about his mobility. The reason he is aging well is the exact reason Big Ben and Flacco age poorly.

The amount you give in life to something is the... the amount you will get back. Tom has given his life to his family and football, and it's paying him back at the end of his career. And that's Russell Wilson similarly. Russell spends a million and a half in his body. LeBron James spends $2 million a year in his body. It's not a coincidence.

Brady, LeBron, Russell, age more gracefully. You're going to get back what you put in with your body and your profession. Well, hearing that he texts his teammates at all hours of the night, I think just adds to the legend that is Tom Brady. And Bruce Ariens was on the show yesterday. He said he stepped into that bigger leadership role. He let him coach. And so maybe his way of leading was texting guys at all hours of the night.

And if I remember correctly, he had his family leave two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. So if you think about it, he was just by himself in his house too. So he was probably watching tape thinking about the Super Bowl nonstop. And that's something he had to do when there was only five other players on the bucks besides Brady who have won a Super Bowl before. Yeah. So it was a big deal. I love stories. I love when athletes.

give to their profession. Yeah. All in on it. By the way, on average, you got eight to ten years. Yeah. Just commit to a decade to something.

That doesn't mean you have to spend less time with your family. Just go. I don't understand having the natural gifts. Like I asked Tony Gonzalez this one time. I said, what percentage of football players did you play with that are all in? I mean, like the way they eat, the way they sleep,

he goes three percent. That's crazy. Can you imagine being physically good enough to be a pro athlete? Yeah. And then half-assing it. Be like, what? Why? What are you doing?

By the way, there's also, unlike a lot of professions where you can work your butt off and there's no fiduciary reward, you'll get a reward for it. You'll get millions more if you work hard. It just seems to me so few Americans, less than half of 1% are physically capable of being a professional athlete. Once God or whatever it is give you that gift, just go all in on the way you eat, the way you live, the way you sleep, the way you prepare, the way you commit. Yeah. There's no secret, there's no secret recipe. Put in the work, take care of your body. He'll give you back. And give it 110%. You're going to do great. We're seeing that with the top at the top.

Yeah. All right. Well, despite no, Kevin Durant, the Nets are playing incredibly well. Last night, they got a 109 to 98 win over LeBron and the Lakers, who were also missing key players, Anthony Davis and Dennis Schroeder. James Harden led the Nets with 23 points and 11 assists. Joe Harris added 21 points with six three-pointers in the win. And Kyrie had six. 16.7 rebounds as an X extend their win streak to five games, which is their longest win streak since 2019. Now, we knew that all these players were going to be great individually on the Nets, but I think a couple of big questions are slowly getting answered. And we kind of saw that last night was the chemistry. Was there going to be chemistry between these guys?

And it's there. They remind me they're a better version of the Phoenix Suns with Steve Nash. Well, they're not probably. Brooklyn's the most offensively gifted team since the Warriors. The difference is the Warriors, Draymond and Clay were elite defenders. So that's the difference. I think offensively, this is a top 10 team potentially ever. Oh, yeah.

But what made the Bulls the Bulls wasn't Jordan's jumpers. It was the Bulls are probably the greatest defensive team ever. The Pistons, Shaq and Kobe. You had the great rim protector in Shaq. Kobe was a great, it was an all-defensive wing defender. So right now, Brooklyn is fun. They're not great. No.

They're really fun. I still contend Harden and KD could get to the finals, those two alone. But if they don't improve on the wings defensively and at the rim, there's just going to be limitations. Golden State doesn't have any of these titles. Because Draymond no longer is a great defensive player. But Steph Curry never has a title if Clay isn't a great defender because Steph isn't. So to me, I find them to be a fun NBA team. with little potential, it'll be great unless they make a move and get better defensively.

They'll get him to the playoffs, but they need the defense to win in the playoffs. Alex for the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Heard Lye News. Well, he's considered by most to be the best running back in the NFL. The Minnesota Vikings Dalvin Cook is a two-time pro boulder. We've talked about this a lot in the last year.

He's too good not to be in the playoffs. He is now joining us live. brought to you by Mercedes Fenn's the best or nothing. He averaged almost 140 yards from scrimmage. That's a lot of yards. All right, so now it's off-season for a running back, and running backs, you guys get hit, and it's hard. So what do you do in February and March, Delvin?

What do you do? You chill, you hang out. Where are you? Do you just take time off and let your body rest? Yeah. I'm down to Florida right now. I spend a lot of time with my family. I take care of my body.

It'd be a long season, like you said. And just the little thing that people don't think we do, we do it. No, I don't get right back until workouts. I get my body a little rest. And then once I get going, I'm going. You know, we were just talking about how committed Brady, Russell, Wilson, LeBron, like they're gifted athletes, but they spend seven. seven figures a year on their bodies, which when you're great, you should.

It's your body. Do you do stuff above and beyond? Because you probably play, along with linebacker, running back is the most physical position in the NFL. Do you do extra stuff? Your diet, your off-season, your daily workout. Yeah, I think being committed to this sport is the most ultimate goal that goes past the average athlete's head.

and, you know, just being around a lot of veteran guys that put me in position to, you know, do Pilates that took my game to another level, to stop my routines to lift weights. And do stuff like that, you know, you got to do the extra. And, you know, those guys putting that much money into their body, you know, everybody's different. Those guys, you know, playing at an elite level. And I think, you know, everybody don't need to put that much money into their body. Some guys just need to do that. I think with me, just stick it to my basic routine.

You know, just lifting weights, getting faster, getting stronger. You know, I take my game to the next level. You ran for almost five. You were a great high school back. You ran for almost 4,700 yards at Florida State. You're a workhorse with the Minnesota Vikings. Do you worry at all, Delvin, because you carry the ball and you're such an important part of your offense?

Do you worry? I mean, you just got a contract, so you got a lot of juice. You got your money, you're good. But do you worry about your workload being so heavy that it could shorten your career? Is that something you think about as a running back? As a running back, you know, they paint a picture for us regardless. They short an eye. I spend, you know, before you even get to football, they tell you.

You know, you got three years to play the football league, four years. But, you know, a guy like me, you know, that put in so much work and that love the game, that's so committed to it. I feel like I play felt. I feel like, you know, just being realistic, you know, like I know a running back, you know, take hits and do all that. But, you know, I put in a lot of work, and I trust my preparation. I trust the people that I put in place to get me ready to play.

And, you know, each and every year, I think my games want to evolve to be something special. Yeah, I mean, you know, you're an interesting back because you do everything well. You guys draft, you let go with Stefan Diggs, who's an unbelievable. But you go then draft Justin Jefferson, who is filthy good. How long did it take you to figure out? Maybe it was your first couple practices that you looked at this kid from LSU and said, oh, my God. How long did it take you to realize you had an emerging superstar at wide receiver?

It took a conversation, to be honest. I talked to JJ, just talking to him. He was a kid that looked at the both. just the game, you know, it's squarely about, you know, how he carry yourself, you know, what he's standing for, who he is. And, you know, like you see right now, he's doing the greedy. And, you know, that's something he brought to the game, you know, just being who he is. And I think, you know, JJ, his ceiling is so hot if he, you know, just keep being who he is

and keep working hard, you know, I think he could be one of the best in the game. You guys are a well-run organization. I like your coach. You have a competent quarterback. I was shocked. In fact, you were the team I missed on last year. I had you as a playoff team. It didn't work.

Explain what happened in the room. When did you know this year was not going to be special? What happened to the Vikings? Because it's not a lack of talent. What happened to the Vikings in 2020 was, I think, you know, us starting this season. we didn't adjust to the new life of what today's society is. We came out flat some games.

We didn't get ready. Like, if you look at the Vikings, we just, some games, we just didn't come out ready to play. And I think that's due to us not having the fans and not having the people. And no excuse, we still, NFL players, we still got to go produce and play a game. And I think that's what we started to adjust it to.

during the season, but I think it was just too late. We just didn't get our groove. We just didn't get that continuity that we needed. And we had a lot of guys hurt, but I think this year coming up for us is going to be a big year for the Vikings. All right. Finally, you're going to be, you are the owner. There's a new league called the Fan Controlled Football League,

and you're the owner of the Zappers, Johnny Mansell's team. Okay, so first of all, I saw something on Twitter about this three days ago. What is this league? To the finals league is an opportunity. It's an opportunity for guys that that's trying to get a second chance, that's trying to show the world. I'm still here to make plays.

I'm still ahead to play football. Whatever the opportunity presents, I'm here to do it. And, you know, you got guys like Johnny Mazzell, Anthony Jones and all those guys that's planning the league that's having fun. They look forward to Saturday to play football. And I'm just happy that we're giving those guys the opportunity to play football again. Dalvin Cook, NFL's best running back and new owner of the Zappers in the controlled football league with Johnny Mansell. Appreciate you coming on.

Stay in shape. Enjoy Florida and your family, man. Thanks. When we lose, we get booze. Thanks, Johnny. All right, good luck to you. By the way, I am not a conspiracy theorist. You know that.

Okay, I say that over and over. I think conspiracy theories are nonsense, and I've got my theory on people who believe in conspiracy theories. And I don't have a conspiracy theory, but something does not make sense, and I don't get it, and there's no answer for it. And I'm not sure I should say it publicly, but I'm going to. when all the dot nothing connects with an organization that was known as the most meticulous and well-planned, and now they've got no plan. Something is a miss in New England. Something doesn't make sense.

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Okay, so Matt Stafford said no. Goff, no, Wentz, no. So we all kind of thought New England. Brady leaves, COVID year, they're going to rebuild. They're going to get their cap space. They're going to get picks. They have no plan. So they have no quarterback.

They have no tied end. No functional number one or two receiver. No great pass rusher. Secondary deteriorating. No star running back. They have a good old line. That position they've drafted well. But they won games one way last year.

This is it. Bill confused young quarterbacks. Five of their. seven wins were against young quarterbacks that Bill confused. Donald twice, Justin Herbert, Lamar Jackson, and Kyler Murray. That's what Bill does. Is Robert Kraft at least a little concerned about a coach who has a history of being petty in holding grudges, still pissed he had to get rid of Garapolo?

is he a little concerned that of the six defensive coaches for the Patriots, three are billerous kids. They've got no plan at the most vital positions. The worst weapons in the league, in a league that's becoming more weapons-centric. You're not going to beat Kansas City with no weapons. You're not going to beat the Colts with no weapons. You're not going to beat the Rams and the Seahawks and the Packers with no weapons.

What's going on? I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm not. But if I'm Robert Kraft, and I know a coach who was ticked off when Garoppolo got moved, that's the only time Kraft has gone over Belichick's head, just think about this. If Belichick tomorrow,

they don't even have their GM anymore, Nick Casario left. If Belichick left tomorrow, the defensive staff gone. gone, Belichick con, kids gone. No quarterback, no weapons. I'm not going to go X-Files here, maybe a little, but it is

weird. I'm not going to say sabotage. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, somebody give me an answer here. They have no planet quarterback in a quarterback league. They have the worst weapons in the league. Belichick now has more power. It's he

and his kids on the defensive staff. They've got no plan. Something is just off. And I don't know what it is. And I'm not claiming to know. But I just want it known if something crazy happens and Belichick retires, Uncle Colin, who hates conspiracy theories, at least through a little something out there.

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