The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 03/10/2021 - Best of The Herd

Episode Date: March 10, 2021

Colin discovers a new trend and the secret to winning championships in professional sports. He also criticizes the Green Bay Packers for the conservative approach and why Aaron Rodgers deserves better. He shares his “Highs and Lows” for the quarterback prospects in this year’s NFL draft. Plus, Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to tell Colin where Odell Beckham Jr. might be playing next season.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The herd brought to you by Jersey Mike's subs. Be a sub above. Joy Taylor is joining me. Talked a lot of Dack Prescott yesterday, scaling back a little today on the Dack Prescott talk. Little. I don't think we've ever talked more about someone's contracts. And you and I are not even contract people.

It had to always been. I don't make more money if someone else makes less money. I don't like to talk about guys' money. Yeah, it's just, even mobsters who whack people. The rule is like, don't sell heroin and don't talk about a guy's money. Are those the rules? I think they are.

Whack guys, make sure the boss is happy, but, you know, it's just like, I don't want to talk about people's money. Well, we don't have to anymore. We don't. So this is interesting. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the best team in the NFL, at the end of the year easily. Crushed Kansas City. So they have now agreed the terms with Levanti David, the linebacker.

Just made it work. They franchise tag Chris Godwin, slot receiver, great player. They just made it work. And apparently they're in talks now with Shaq Barrett, great player. Tom Brady's now restructuring his deal. They want to add another star. Anybody noticing a trend in not. not just that aggressive teams win.

I've talked about that ad nauseum. They now win immediately. Katie to Golden State, title year one. Kauai to the Raptors, title year one. LeBron A.D., title year one. Tom Brady, Tampa, title year one. Monkey Bad's Dodgers, title year one. You don't even have to wait.

You don't have to speculate. But the time people are talking about expectations, you're bringing home a trophy. And it never used to be that way. At best it was year two. Guys learned the system. But usually there was a process to it. Why? I was thinking about this this morning.

From all of my adult life, bad teams needed stars to quickly fix their problems, mediocre to slightly above mediocre teams went and got stars because they thought it put them in a different class. Now it's changed. Now the great teams are like, let's get greater. Tampa Bay is like, yeah, we dominated. Let's add more. Dodgers kept winning their division title, best roster in baseball.

They're like, no, let's go get the best player in the game. I mean, think about that. Think what the Rams did this year. went 10 and 6 in the toughest division. And if a call got overturned in Buffalo early in the year, they were 11 and 5. They go on the road and win a playoff game. And they're like, we're going to upgrade at quarterback. Jared Goff was 42 and 20 and got to a Super Bowl with Sean McBade.

They're like, not really good enough. We're going to upgrade at quarterback. It was 42 and 20. He went 10 and 6 in the toughest division. Broken hand end of the year. Won a playoff game with the broken hand. Not good enough. Golden State won a title.

Following year, they went 73 games. They losing game seven. And I'm like, you know, that's not good enough. Let's get KD. What? I mean, the fact that Tom Brady's like, no, I want to rework this to get another star. It didn't used to be that way. Like, you were great.

Your job was safe. Your GM, your job was safe. Coach, your job was safe. Uh-uh. now franchises are worth a billion dollars. Owners, they don't want one. They want multiple. So the only thing that guarantees employment for a GM and for a coach is multiple.

You can always say, well, they won a title, but I mean, you know, Gene Chiswick won a title at Auburn. I mean, there's been a lot, you know, some average quarterback. So Brad Johnson won a title in Tampa. But that's why Jimmy Garoppolo, San Francisco. They're a great team. They're like, no, let's upgrade. That's not good enough. Now you get it.

And it's why I kind of roll my eyes at these teams that are like, well, you know, just can't quite fit JJ Watt into our, what are you doing? Well, I mean, New England's like bid and lost on like seven players. What are you doing? Like the best team in football is reworking deals with their quarterback. They had another star. The Dodgers got mokey bets. They won a World Series.

They're like, let's add Trevor Bauer. What? You just had the Cy Young winner? You were already easily the best team in baseball last year. And you have Walker Bueller and Clayton Kirshan, David Price. They're like, no, let's add the best pitcher. Why? Why not? It used to be average to slightly above average.

The bad teams went and got stars. Now the star-driven teams are adding stars. They'll figure out the cap and the problems later. Let's get another. And this leads me, this leads me to the Green Bay Packers. Good God. So they did not franchise tag Aaron Jones. Great running back.

That means Aaron Jones will hit the market. Someone's going to make an offer. I love Aaron Jones. by the way, they couldn't find a way to pay for J.J. Watt. And they're going to lose their center, Corey Lindley, which is amazing because he's like a pro bowler. Like, isn't the thing in football, this is a kind of easy one, you get the right draft picks and then you keep them. So they got Aaron Jones in the fifth round, Corey Lindley in the fifth round. They paid them nothing.

They became great. And now they're like, it's a little tight for our budget. You wonder why Aaron Rogers sometimes gets a little prickly. They've literally, the Packers are doing the opposite now of what wins titles. And they become the Post Office. The Packers are the Post Office. The rest of us now, like the Rams and the aggressive teams, no, they're the post office. You know how the rest of us can send a letter electronically?

It arrives instantly and it's free. Not the Packers. Not the Packers. The Packers write a handwritten letter. It write the handwritten letter and then they lick the envelope. And then they go into the drawer and they get the stamp. And then they get in their sedan and they drive to the post office. Hi, Betsy.

And then they give her the letter or him. And they're like, oh, it's Friday. The mail's closed Sunday. That's what they're doing. Is Green Bay watching teams like the Dodgers and the Warriors? Are they watching what the Buccaneers are doing? Like the world's changed. The great teams now with no needs are adding more.

Dodgers didn't need Trevor Bauer. Tampa Bay doesn't need any more stars. The Rams were winning their division and going 10 and 6, 11 and 5 with Jared Gough. It's not good enough. Golden State didn't need Kevin Durant. I won 73 games without him. The other thing is, I have this feeling about New England. Like, if dad's uptight, the family's uptight.

This is my theory. I started noticing years ago, I'm kind of intense. When I was uptight, everybody's walking on eggshells in the house. So if I was in one of my moods, I just leave the house. So when dad's uptight, Because dad's the big booming voice in the house, off in the tallest person, the biggest person, dad. All the kids are like, ooh, and they get uptight.

And mom's a little uptight. Oh, boy, your father. So I was like, loosen up. Or if you're in a mood, get out of the house. The Packers now are so, their culture is so safe and frugal that progressive Matt LaFleur comes in, the coach, right? Young guy, young guy. what did they do on the last series of the year?

They got super safe and conservative and kicked a field goal. We never thought Matt Lefleur was safe. We don't think Aaron Rod. You're like, go get her guys. These are get her done. And at the end of the season, Matt Lefleur is like, no, I didn't kick a field goal, lick a stamp and take it to the post office and hope. What are you doing?

That's the culture of Green Bay. The culture, have you ever been fun guy? You work at an office. Everybody's uptight. And a year later, you feel like, I'm uptight. Dad's uptight, the house is uptight. Boss uptight, the office uptight. Culture uptight.

Coach quarterback become uptight. Green Bay needs to loosen up. Buy some leather pants. Seriously, unbutton your shirt all the way to your navel. You guys need to lighten up. You couldn't pay for J.J. Watt. You're not going to pay for Aaron Jones. Corey Lindley, you're not going to keep.

Are you watching what Tampa's doing? Tampa's like, listen, we're kind of inappropriate. We may get home late. We've had too much to drink. We're going all in on it. We're going to pay for stuff we don't even need. That's winning. That's what's winning in Los Angeles.

That's what's winning in Tampa. God, we get to Aaron Jones. Just let him go to the market. No, no. Corey Lindley can't afford him. J.J. Watt. It doesn't work for our budget. I don't know.

It doesn't feel right to me. By the way, my family now is a lot more fun. Uncle Colin now is not as uptight. What do you make of my dad uptight family uptight theory? No, it's very accurate and very reflective of the Packers and the last play of the I mean, what's amazing? Reflected that as well, yeah. Matt LaFleur is around that uptight building and he is now making calls where we're all going.

what are you doing? Well, the energy and the tone comes from the top. And that's how the Packers do business. If I ran the Packers, two rules. No dockers in the building. No dockers? No khaki pants in the building. I'm not going to allow any khaki pants in the building.

Secondly, Wednesday, cocktails for lunch. I was not to say. They may want to mix in like a work happy hour or something. It kind of, you know, not saying you don't need to run a tight ship. How about this? once in a while you've got to relax. New ruling Green Bay. No, Starbucks.

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They've got a huge brand. Dallas Cowboys. I'm not telling you anything that 99% of you don't know. I'm not going to spend Urban Meyer and Trevor Lawrence for the first time of my life, I'll talk Jags football. But by and large, a third of the NFL just doesn't get on the show, unless you have like a star quarterback or there's a controversy. And you know this to be true, and this is the reality of our business.

If I don't get a rating, if join don't get a number, we don't have a show. They're putting up bars. We've got no show, and we're just sad. So we've got to talk about stuff that the majority of people care about. So the Dallas Cowboys are literally every year the number one rating on every network. If they're on the NFL network, it gets the best rating of the year. Fox best rating, NBC best rating, CBS best rating. But when Dak was signing a contract, I thought about this,

driving home yesterday is that if you take out the Dack Prescott contract discussions, Joey and I talked about, if you just took those out, he's a quarterback, it's the Cowboys, Jerry Jones, Dak, we talked about. If you took those conversations out last year, it's the least I've ever talked about the Dallas Cowboys. We talked about that during the season. Very rarely, they just didn't make the lead on Mondays. They just weren't interesting enough.

The head coach is boring, the quarterback, Dak, or Andy, don't have a lot of. a sizz. And I was thinking next year, if you put Dallas's seven best players on a piece of paper, and this morning I was thinking, you know, Zach Martin, Jalen Smith, Amari Cooper, Demarcus Lawrence, Dak, Zique, I think C.D. Lamb's pretty special. That's their seven best players. And I kind of struggled with the seventh. Zeke, by the way, is regressing. Demarcus Lawrence is regressing. and Amari Cooper feels overpaid now. Let's take the best team in the NFC. Tampa Bay, seven best players.

Brady, Mike Evan, Shaq Barrett, JPP, Tristan Worf's, Levante, David, Chris Godwin, and I couldn't stop. Because Devante White made a Pro Bowl, V-to-Via is their highest rate of defensive lineman, Antoine Winfield, Jr., is about as good a rookie safety as I've seen in years. And I'm not done. like Tampa's got like 14 special players. Dallas is a big brand. There's not a lot of special there.

I mean, you asked me this morning, C.D. Lamb has a chance to be really special. He looked really, really good. Offensive line used to be special. It's in rebuild mode. I mean, last year, people forget this. When DAC was healthy, they started the year one and three,

and the win was on a, miracle onside kick recovery against awful Atlanta or their 0 and 4. Well, now you've paid DAC $40 million. I was talking, actually had dinner last night with, I'll just, and an NFL owner. And there's certain things he can't say and can't say. But we were talking about the salary cap and this misinformation by the media that it's just going to explode over the next four years. No, it's not.

It's just going to go up gradually. $40 million for DAC is going to be a lot. lot of money for the entire contract. And I don't, and the only way when you don't have a bunch of special players to get special players, pay for them, can't afford it, or crush the draft. That's hard. New England doesn't crush the draft. Cushing the draft and not a lot of people crushing the draft for stars. Jimmy Johnson on the show yesterday talking about this. I think he's a great leader for the team. I think the team really rallies around him. He could make plays with his legs. He could run the football. And he fit into their system. He has had

problems at times being inaccurate. He can win you a championship if he has great players around him. I don't think that can carry a football team if he doesn't have great players around him. And he doesn't. The only way to get him is paying for him. And I looked at Dallas's schedule next year. They face a lot of teams next year with special players. Arizona. Tampa, Kansas City, Chargers, Vikings, Saints, those are on the road. So you start looking at that schedule. There's a lot of teams on that schedule with special players. So again, I can love DAC.

But I was just thinking about this when I drove home. I was just like, they just don't have a lot of special players. It's a great brand, but there's not a lot of sizzle to it. Kansas City's got sizzle. Rams got sizzle. Green Bay's got some sizzle needs more. Buffalo's got sizzle. Tampa's got a ton of sizzle.

Seattle's got some sizzle. There's some sizzling this league. There's like, whoa, whoa, those are great. Arizona's got a couple of guys. You're like, wow, Chandler Jones, DeAndre Hopkins, Kyler Murray. Where's Dallas's? Best player is probably a guard. That's it.

I mean, the Colts last year, Jonathan Taylor, end of the year of the running back, you're like, oh, okay, that's a star. Michael Pittman, oh, it's a star. It's not wrong with having a great guard, Quentin Nelson, but it's just fun. You know, I sat driving home. I'm like, Dallas is just not a topic to me. I mean, if they start out 5 and 0, I'm not going to say I'm not going to cover them,

but I don't know. There's not a lot of there there. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. Nick right now joining my friend First Things 4. Brought to you by Mercedes Ben's the best or nothing. That was good. That was funny. What can I say? Hang out with the stars.

Okay. Jack Prescott, a lot of money, more than I like. Your thoughts initially when you saw it. It's the best contract any players ever gotten in NFL history. And I do wonder how it will affect you were talking about Lamar a moment ago. If I'm Lamar or if I'm Josh Allen or dare I say on this show, if I'm Baker Mayfield, the next crop of quarterbacks who are going to get paid, what teams have always been able to hang over the head of those

quarterbacks they want to extend is well you know if you don't take this extension we can always just wait you out and franchise tag you and I think now you've got well Kirk Cousins got franchise tagged and got nothing but guaranteed money he's the 13th best quarterback in football and no quarterback's taken home more cash over the last six years if you include this upcoming season than Kirk so that worked out

Dak Prescott got franchise tagged. He's probably the ninth best quarterback in football, and he's going to make $75 million cash this year and never be able to be franchise tagged again. That was the sneaky important part of the deal. So while I think that the Cowboys had to get it done, I actually think the butterfly effect of this is Jerry Jones, I think put the Ravens, the Bills, and the Browns in a tough spot

if any of those quarterbacks want to bet on themselves like, Dak didn't play hardball because the franchise tag is not as ominous as it once sounded for quarterbacks if Dak can snap his ankle and they get $126 million essentially fully guaranteed. Yeah. So I was saying new rule on the show. You can't ask Aaron Rogers to beat Brady next year when they're not going to keep Aaron Jones, Corey Tinsley, and couldn't land JJ Watt. And here's Brady reworking his deal so they can add another star.

What do you make? I mean, yesterday it's like Chris Godwin. Boom, Levanti, David, boom, Shaq Barrett. We're working on him. It's like, they've got a different bank. What do you make of their off season? So I think you're asking me about the Packers. If we're asking me about the Bucks, I can answer that later, I guess.

The Packers. Let's do the Bucks first. What do you make of their aggressive off season? Okay. The only part of the Bucks off season I don't understand is this. If you could only franchise tag, and you could only franchise tag, either Godwin or Shaq Barrett.

I'm very surprised they didn't prioritize Barrett because Godwin feels like more of a luxury to me. You have Mike Evans, Gronk's going to come back, O.J. Howard's going to come back from injury, Cameron Brayt's already there, Scotty Miller's there, Tyler Johnson, who had like nine catches all year but made that unbelievable catch in the playoff game against the Packers. And then Troy said, you know, I talked to Tom about this kid.

He said just hadn't been able to find passes for him, but they like him, AB might be back. I thought Godwin was more of a luxury, and I thought Shaq Barrett was more of a necessity. Now, I know there is some belief that Shaq Barrett, you know, they're going to get something worked out. But Shaq Barrett's been in this league seven years.

He was undrafted. His first four years in the league, he made a combined $1.9 million bucks. He has two rings and $25 million in career total earnings. That strikes me as the type of player that's going to take the most possible money and he's going to hit the market. So I think it's been a good offseason. The Levanti David contract's great and obviously Brady's helping him with cap flexibility. But Colin, I'm a little surprised that they're opening the door to Shaq Barrett leaving when there are other

major pass rushers. I mean, JPP's 31, Indomacusus, 32. Like I thought they would have tagged Shaq Barrett. So I want to see what happens there. If he signs a long-term deal, then it's an A-plus off-season. If he doesn't, then I do wonder about the Godwin-Barrant decision. It is. And let's go back to the Packers now, because I do think Aaron Rogers can be prickly, but he's got to be looking at this thing in New England, or excuse me, in Tampa, and just going, you want me to beat that. We can't even keep Aaron Jones. And I'm supposed to be, we won't keep my Pro Bowl center. Is there a solution for Green Bay?

Well, I don't know if it's quite a solution. And the one thing I'll say on Aaron Jones is I think it's possible they do keep him. I think the franchise tag number for running backs 11 million bucks, maybe they think they can get him for three years, 27 million with like 18 guaranteed, something like that. So I don't know if he's quite out the door yet, but they certainly opened the door to him leaving. But I heard you saying, Colin, the Packers need to put on, I think you put it some, you said some leather pants and unbutton their shirt down to their navel.

And I don't know if you were being literal or figurative there, but I know a guy they could acquire who I would imagine has some leather pants, and I think very often wears his shirt unbuttoned to the navel. And that's Odell Beckham Jr. You don't want him in Cleveland anymore. No. You got the 28th pick of the draft. You've got Devante Adams.

Odell, this would be what I'm hoping for my friend Odell, the Randy Moss career arc, unbelievable first stop, kind of confusing second stop, and then he finally gets with a superstar quarterback, and he is nails in his third stop. I think Cleveland needs to prioritize their secondary in the draft, and they need to add draft assets to do so, and one other point is the Packers last year spent a first round pick on a guy they hope never, or Aaron Rogers hopes never plays. If they this year spent their first round pick on a guy who's a la Stefan Diggs in Buffalo or D'Andre Hopkins in Arizona could make an instant impact, I think that is the type of move they could make. And I would recommend that

they do make his contract super reasonable, 14 million per each of the next three years. And I think he's available. So I think that's the move that fixes a lot of this for Green Bay. And And what would make Uncle Colin happier than OBJ and Aaron Rogers on the same team? I mean, two of his favorites, all-time players. It would just be beautiful. It would just be great. I do think OBJ with Aaron, a veteran quarterback, would work. I think OBJ, you know, Eli was shot at the end.

Baker's not Aaron. I think Aaron and OBJ, there would be a, you walk into the room and you're like, you know you're playing with a Hall of Fame. I think it works. Finally, Washington doesn't have a quarterback. About five teams, New England doesn't have a, well, Cam quarterback, Chicago doesn't have. Sam Darnold's out there.

Surprise, nobody's called. San Francisco doesn't like Garoppolo. I just love, this is like, I don't, I was trying to think about what my Sam Darnold is. And I couldn't quite pinpoint it. I just love the soft spot Colin has for Sam Darnold. I love that Sam Darnold could end up being in the, CFL and Collins are going to be like, you know, I'm going to tell you guys a guy that you should look out for.

Sammy Darnold. I don't know if you watched him on Saturday, but you love this guy. And I am, here's what I'll say. I think he's been in a brutal spot. I think he has been in a spot where it is almost impossible to succeed. I am very curious if the jets are out enough on him to trade him within the division. Because if any way, you know, he could rehab things. You would think it would be New England. And you're right that a lot of these, there are a lot of openings,

but I don't know a lot of openings where they're going to be patient with a guy. I think New England would be fascinating for him. I also think that the better move for Pittsburgh would have been to just, you know, cut ties with Big Ben. I know it's not what they wanted to do and they didn't do it.

Take a flyer on Darnold and either you've got your young quarterback or you're, you, you, you, you, and you end up drafting a quarterback the following year. I don't think he's, let me just throw one thing, and I know we're short on time. Let me ask you real quick, if both are available, who do you, who would you rather take a flyer on, Darnold or James? Because I think post-LASIC James is fascinating.

I think James, with his eyes fixed, might actually be, have something there, and he's available without a trade. Like, James, I'm interested in. It's a good, I'd take, Darnold. Maturity with James always, I thought he was a lot. I know. You're not quite there. But I've also said this.

It was hella productive. It's never been a production issue for him. He throws for a zillion yards. He just every other pass is a pick six. That was good. Now, that's a good question. I've very good job today. Kind of grilling me.

I can take it, of course. But I'll rethink my darner positions. You can take it? Who is the owner? Tell America, who was the owner? Spill the beans, Colin. Can't do that. Who is the owner you have dinner?

Can't divulge. The reason owners have dinner with me is they trust me. Very trusted in NFL circles. And you pick up the tab. Dad, I didn't. See you. Nope, didn't even reach for the Amex card. Didn't even make an attempt at it.

Good stuff with Nick Wright. One more herd? The herd streams 24 hours a day, seven days a week, within the IHard Radio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you'd like. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join me every weekday morning on my podcast, Straightfire with Jason McIntyre.

This isn't your typical sports pod pushing the same tired narratives down your throat every day. Straightfire gives you honest opinions on all the biggest sports headlines, accurate stats to help you win big at the sports book, and all the best guests. Do yourself a favor and listen to Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. call it grotesque, others say it's unleashing human potential.

Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHeart Podcast presents soccer moms. So I'm Leanne. Yeah.

This is my best friend, Janet. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. Now a redacted amount of years later. We're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips, wider. This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey.

With all the snacks and drink. Sidebar. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? They had a bogo. Well, then you got it. Do you want a white collar or something here? Just hit it. Oh, what are y'all doing?

Microphones? Are you making a rap album? Oh, I would. Come on. Could you imagine? I would buy it. Cutts through the defense like a hot knife through sponge cake. That sounds delicious.

Oh, you're lucky I'm not a drug addict. You're lucky I'm not an alcoholic. You are. I'm lucky I'm not a killer. I love this team and I'm really trying to be a figure in their lives that they can rely on. Oh. Listen to soccer moms on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Deanna Maria Riva, actress, mother, lover, and a Jen Exx

woman walking through life one hot flash and hormonal crying jag at a time. You ladies know what I mean. I'll bet you a paramedipausal chin here you do. So let's talk about it. Join me on my new podcast. How How Hard Can It Be with the Anamanea Areva, where I call on my Gen X squads from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate Midlife's most fantastic BS. All of a sudden, I'd had hanginess happening on my own. I was like, what the hell is that? I was married when I had her, so I didn't even consider how empty that mess is going to be mood swings night sweats fupas sex drive wait what sex dating at 45 how how can it be getting naked at 50 with the new guy that one's kind of hard well that's lighting they say we can't polish a turd but we're sure going to try so let's get blunt with laughs tears or tears

of laughter and dive into it unfiltered and unbothered and ask how hard can it be i cannot believe i'm about to say this out loud in public listen to how hard can it be with diana maria riva as part of My Cultura Podcast Network available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano, and our podcast Point Game is about defying the odds. Like LeBron heading into the playoffs without Luca and Austin Reed. And finding ways to win no matter what. He's the smartest player to ever play the game. 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 Reid. 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 stop by, like Quentin Richardson, we dive into some playoff history too.

Steve Nass would get that thing. That man, hell get the flying. He running up the court, licking his fingers, why he got the ball, like, 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, or wherever you get your podcasts. So this game we play, it's called the High Low Game.

I take first round quarterbacks who are perceived to be going, and I give them a high end. If things go well, here's who they are at their best. And if things don't go well, here's who they are. Now, we all know this is factual that where you land matters. That's not disputable. Josh Allen would not be this good if he had a crappy coaching staff. But Sean McDermott's great. Brian Daibel's a great OC.

They got him, Stefan Diggs. You know, it matters. We all know that. That is not up for dispute. So I'm considering a lot of different things here, where they're drafted, everything. Stylistically, it may not always, I can always, you know, you can't. find the perfect fit, right? But here we go.

Let's play the high-low game. Let's start with Trevor Lawrence high-low game. The high for Trevor Lawrence out of Clemson is Troy Aikman. Looks the part, arm, accurate, nobody disputes the talent.

Day one walks in and you're like, that's what a franchise quarterback looks like. Bumpy for the first couple years until he's surrounded with legitimate talent. But in the About year three, you're like, we got ourselves a Hall of Fame talent. The low end, Andrew Luck, size, mobility, called an all-time talent. But the franchise holds him back.

He gets beat up with a bad O-line for a couple of years. And you're like, you know what? It just, you don't blame him. He doesn't take the hit, but he could just never get maybe the GM, the line, the support, right. high-end low-end Trevor Lawrence is Troy Aitman's career or Andrew Luck at worst. That's pretty good. Zach Wilson, BYU. All right.

The high end is Matt Stafford. Lively armed. Nobody disputes his talent. People talk about his talent. Ten years in the league. But he can't save a bad franchise. He's got a good YouTube. You look up YouTube.

He's got all sorts of plays. and he's slick, got his own kind of style, but he can't save like the Jets at number two. Low ends, Baker Mayfield. Fun to watch. Ceilings a little lower than we thought. Maybe a bit of a reach as a number two draft pick. Certainly watchable.

Even when he struggled, fun to watch, got a flare to him. Zach's got a flare. The high end, though, he goes to the Jets feels like he can't overcome their nonsense. How about Justin Fields? Ohio State. The high end to me is Deshawn Watson. Dude is a playmaker.

Armed feet, he's a playmaker. You can win any game with Justin Fields. It doesn't have the smoothest delivery. It's not the prettiest football, but high school star, college star, and you're not surprised. If the franchise is bad, he can carry him to the playoffs.

Teammates love him. Total difference maker at quarterback. The low end is Sam Darnold. Super talented. Inconsistent. Sometimes you're like, God, I love him. And then the next series, you're like, he's missing wide open receivers.

Is that, and you think to yourself, that's crazy. But I watched Justin Fields this year against Clemson. I was like, whoa. And then I watched them against Northwestern. I was like, oh. I didn't know week-to-week quite what I was getting. but the high side and the low side, you're talking about a dynamic athlete.

Trey Lance, North Dakota State. I think high low, high is Josh Allen. Total wow factor physically. Like, whoa, a small school. So you're questioning, is he just better than all these average players? A bit of a project. You're not going to have him walk into this league and light everybody up. Could become very dependent on where he lands.

may struggle a little early. But in year three, if he's got the right people, you're going to say to yourself, why didn't we like him more? Why wasn't he the number one fit? Big upside. The low side is Blake Bortles. He kind of looks the part.

There's some athletic ability here. He wins some games. But you're like, he kind of plateaus, and you just kept waiting for Blake to get to the next level. and it's never got to the next level. But there's something there. Athletically, you're not going to dispute that. Blake could move around and make play, so could Josh.

And then Mack Jones, Alabama. The high side is Kirk Cousins. Delivers the ball, not real athletic, does not look like the future of the quarterback position. But coachable, surrounding him with premier players, He can get them to football. You don't feel like in the big games against the best quarterbacks, you kind of feel like you have the second best guy at that position.

Low side is Matt Barkley, USC. Big school, great teammates, really well-liked. Pretty low ceiling. Can't do anything with his feet. Strictly a pocket guy. Overdrafted. Stayes in the league forever because coachable, good in the film room, nice guy, but you just kind of feel like, yeah,

It's the talent around him that kind of did a lot of the work. That's my high-low game. We're 50 days, by the way, until the draft. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier.

This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement, Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and friends on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano. It's our favorite time of the year on our podcast point game, the playoffs.

We're digging into the biggest surprises of the season. And I'm looking back on some of my greatest playoff moments. If we didn't talk ever again, I was hungry. You just understood. That's how personal it got. Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis come until he's like, you know I love you, dog. You know, it's all love. This was just playoffs.

This was just basketball. So listen to Point Game on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're watching the latest season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, you already know there's a lot to break down. Gorsha accusing Kelly of sleeping with a merry man. They holding Kay Michelle back from fighting Drew. Pinky has financial issues.

On the podcast, Reality with the King, I, Carlos King, recap the biggest moments from your favorite. favorite reality shows, including the Real House Wise franchise, the drama, the alliances, and the T, everybody's talking about. To hear this and more, listen to Reality with the King on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. I'm Joey Dardano, and on my new podcast, Hope from a Hypocrite, I'll be changing lives,

helping people in need with thoughtful solutions. Sike, I'm a comedian. I'm not qualified to give good advice. Join me and my comedian friends as we riff rant recommend some of the most legally dubious advice known to me. This is Help from a Hypocrite, the worst advice from the dumbest people you know.

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