The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 05/11/2021 - HOUR 3 - Three words

Episode Date: May 11, 2021

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Download the app, play for free, and tune in to the release show on FS1 and NFL Network tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern. One of the questions is, what will be the first Fox 4.25 p.m. Eastern America's Game of the Week. The options are Cowboys Giants, Packers Saints, Bears, Bears, Steelers, Packers, Ravens, or Cowboys Patriots. Colin, what do you think? I don't it's funny because with Aaron Rogers trade discussions I would think you'd put Tom Brady and Tampa in there I know he's going to be a buccaneer isn't that weird like if Aaron got traded and you're Fox

what do you do with all the Packer games I mean because I imagine the schedule you've got all these 4 o'clock Packer games right and NBC's got at least three Packer games and then Amazon's got one on Thursday and Monday night football Packers are now one of the two or three like best watches in the league well, what happens if Aaron Leith? It's going to change dramatically, according to what the GM thinks about Jordan Love. Yeah, and I mean, think about it, we got a big break at Fox when Brady came over from

AFC to NFC, so we have the NFC games. So it's obviously great for us. We would love to have Josh Allen and Mahomes in our conference in Justin Herbert. But we have Russell Wilson and we have Tom Brady and we have Aaron Rogers. We do not want to lose Aaron Rogers. He's a TV number. I still have the Cowboys. Dax back.

Again, they'll vie to the very end, but you'd love Philadelphia to have their quarterback right. You would love Aaron to be a Packer. I mean, a lot of this stuff, to be honest with you, I've been in this business long enough, you have. That's what I think about. Like, Aaron goes to the AFC. It's not good for us.

Well, Brian Gutikens get this stuff wrapped up. Yeah, figure it out. Right. Oh, Bucky Brooks. Let's go. a former NFL player, former NFL scout, Fox Sports Analyst. By the way, I am Mr. Optimism.

That's what I'm known as around here. I am a glass half-full guy, and I like Urban Meyer. But if you think you're going to sell, Tim Tebow is a tight end to that locker room. I think you're going to get a bunch of eye rolls that he's going to put his hand in the dirt and block a defensive end. I hope he's got a mouthpiece.

I don't know. Bucky, I don't buy it. I think it's a hard sell inside that locker room. You're taking a job from somebody, right? Well, I mean, I don't think it's that big of a deal in the locker room because let's be honest. Tim Tebow hasn't played since 2012. Most of these guys that are in the locker room don't really even remember Tim Tebow

and Tebowomania. I think the bigger thing that you have is what Urban Meyer is doing is really commonplace in the National Football League. Every coach has a set of pet cats. guys that come along with them. Dan Quinn, when he went to the Dallas Cowboys, brought Keanu Neal, Demontee Kazi. When Brian Flores went to Miami Dolphins,

he brings over Calvin Noi. Kevin Stefansky brings over Case Keenan when he's with the Cleveland Brown. So this isn't uncommon for coaches to bring along players that they know that they trust, that they want to kind of help jumpstart the program. The difference is Tim Tebow is nine years removed

from playing international football. league. He's playing a new position, a position where the transition, we've seen other guys do it, but we haven't seen guys do it in their mid-30s. And so it won't create a big chasm in the locker room. I think ultimately it's on Tim Tebow to prove Urban Meyer right by his performance. It is a little different for guys to have a nine-year layoff, but I wouldn't have believe last year that Alden Smith would be able to come back and play for the Cowboys and contribute after a four-plus year layoff. We've seen guys like Dionne Jordan come in and contribute. I'm not saying that Tim Tebow is going to make an impact to be a contributor for the Jaguars. I'm just saying that we on the outside are probably making it a

bigger deal than those on the inside will receive it. Well, Alden Smith was gone half the time and he was at one point a great player at a position. Tim wasn't even good at quarterback. I guess my takeaway is this, is that the media is going to ask Tim Tebow questions. Do you worry sometimes as a team, you don't have control. You want to control storylines and they go sideways and you can't control them. Would you be concerned that in Jacksonville,

which is Gator territory, the media is just going to pounce on it and they're just going to make stuff more uncomfortable than it needs to be for Trevor Lawrence? Yeah, I don't think it would be uncomfortable for Trevor Lawrence because Tim Tebow is not coming in to be a quarterback. It's another guy that is bringing attention to Jacksonville.

Jacksonville has been desperate for attention for a long time. So now you have Urban Meyer, you have Trevor Lawrence and Tim Tebow. They're destined to get a bunch of headlines. But I don't think this is going to be a major distraction. I think if anything, all of the pressures on Tim Tebow to prove it right. I think when you're Urban Meyer and you've had someone who's been very, very essential to your success like Tim Tebow was for him, I think you do want to pay it for it and give your guy every opportunity to kind of make a team. But I don't think this is really a big deal. I think it's more of a big deal. I think it's more of a big deal on the outside because Tim Tebow is polarizing in the locker room I don't think

is big deal at all. So Brian Flores again yesterday back Tua. And we know last year multiple players on the Dolphins went to the Miami Herald and said, we don't buy Tua. We watch them at practice every day. When does, I saw the Bears defense last couple of years, didn't give quite the effort. They weren't as good. And it's not because Kaleel Mack got lazy or lost his skills.

it is hard to sell Tribisky when you trail by 10 starting the fourth, it is hard to sell that to the defense on the sideline. One more stop when the defense is saying one more stop. I mean, it's three and out territory. How long before a coach can lose some of the respective players when he keeps trying to sell something that anybody can see isn't good? Well, hold on now, because you're seeing we can see that Tua isn't good. Tua hasn't played enough for us to make a judgment on whether he's good or not.

You can't make a decision and a determination on a quarterback until about 30 to 32 games. Oh, boy. You need plenty of stars to be able to tell whether a guy can play or not. And so I think the big thing that the Miami Dolphins have done, they've done what Aaron Rogers wants done. They did what Carson Wiss Wisch would have been done. They got all the distractions out the room. Fitzpatrick is no longer there.

They built this team around Tua, Tunga Valua. They're giving him every opportunity to really step into the QB1 role. Ultimately, how Tua performs is going to determine whether this team should be confident in him or not. But let's remember this. Tua Tunga Valu was coming off of basically a career-threatening injury. It typically takes two years for guys to get back to form from an ACL. I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. And let's just wait and see what he looks like this year.

I don't believe the Miami Dolphins have lost confidence in him because, remember, he hasn't really played a lot. He didn't get a full off season. I think they have plenty of confidence that he is going to be the guy that they drafted him to be. Yeah, well, Justin Herbert didn't get much of an offseason either. And five minutes in, I was like, yeah, that's the guy. I mean, at some point my eyes tell me the truth. Like Herbert, five minutes.

I'm like, okay, yeah, he didn't have an off season either. I mean, I don't know. You know, we got a history of Bama quarterbacks getting to the NFL, and the receivers aren't as open. I mean, at some point it's hard. he's small, doesn't have a big arm, has to have the play perfectly designed, doesn't make stuff happen with his feet.

I mean, if you start the year four and four and Buffalo's seven and one, isn't that a hard sell in the room? Depends on how he plays, depends on how he prepares and how he works. A lot of the confidence will come from the kid, having known the kid, having watched him from high school to college or whatever,

he's an ultimate leader, he's a great competitor. And people will take shots at him, and they've taken shots at him, I would say unfairly based on how he's played or how he was supposed to play coming in. But he's a rookie and guys progress at different levels. I will say this. Typically, when you draft a player, you give that player every opportunity to fail out of the position, particularly when it's a first round pick and as a quarterback.

We've seen people give Sam Donald the benefit of the doubt after three years. So I think to a Tunga Valaa certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt. He was six and three as a starter. He did flash some good things. everyone wants to see the quarterback that can come right in the league and put the team on his back. More times than not, when guys come into the league, they come in occupying a managerial role before they graduate into a role where they can be the playmaker. I think we need to give him time to see if he can ultimately become the playmaker.

So Green Bay and Aaron Rogers are trapped. Green Bay's GM says, Jordan Loves, quote, got a long way to go. I don't want to hear that. It's not what I want to hear. I mean, when you see a long, and by the way, they own Aaron's rights for three years, so he can't just retire. When you hear a long way to go for a kid that had 32 college starts, that's kind of an alarming sentence, isn't it?

A long way to go? I don't think it's alarming because what you're trying to do is you're trying to really placate to your very sensitive quarterback one in Aaron Rogers, who was so sensitive that when Jordan Love was drafted, it really irked him and he can't get over it a year later. This is a guy that just won an MVP and he's worried about the backup quarterback or the mere presence of the backup quarterback drives him to the point where he doesn't want to play. I think what Brian Gutikas is doing is he's trying to repair the relationship with the starting

quarterback. And because Aaron Rogers has acted out in a very passive aggressive sense where everyone else is carrying his water, he is trying to make sure that the message that's being conveyed to the public is one that, hey, Aaron, you don't have to worry about it. You're the starting quarterback. This is still your team, but we needed to draft a young quarterback to give us an opportunity to have a peaceful transition into the next phase of the Packers' organization's life at the position. And so I think Brian Guticus is maybe overselling the fact that Jordan Love has a ways to go to make sure that Aaron Rogers is very comfortable knowing, hey, you're going to be our

quarterback for the next few years. Sounds like you've turned on Aaron Rogers a little bit. That's what it sounds like to me. Look, I haven't turned on them. But, I mean, my goodness, like now with quarterbacks, we can't bring anybody in. Every other position is a very competitive position where they don't ask you, hey, we're going to bring your backup in. We're going to bring a young developmental quarterback in.

I think if anything, what we've seen, quarterbacks are very sensitive. From Carson Went to Aaron Rogers to even when Tom Brady maybe nudge Jimmy Garofalo out, the quarterback position is unlike any other position. But if you don't have one, we criticize you for not having one in the pipeline. It really puts general managers in a bad situation because if you bring one in as the next guy, the guy that is currently holding position, bristles at the fact at, oh, I may not be the guy three, four years from now. All quarterbacks want a lifetime guarantee that they can be the starting quarterback,

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them. Love rankings. USA Today released their rankings of the starting quarterbacks for the 2021 NFL season, and they were broken up into six categories. Oh, they do, do. Okay, USA Today to the six categories. I don't really think there are six categories of quarterbacks. are they?

All right. Well, they started with elite, which is the chiefs, the bucks, the Bucks, the Ravens, and the Bills.

Okay, so that's Mahalms, Brady, Rogers, Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. So that's their elite

quarterback. That's their elite. All right. Do you argue any of those? I don't think Lamar is quite there, but he wins a lot. He won an MVP.

Yeah, I don't know. I feel differently about Russell Wilson. I don't like putting Russell Wilson and Lamar Jackson in the same category. Okay.

So maybe you'd him down to their next category, very good, which is the Cowboys, Rams, Falcons, and Titans. I don't know if I'd put Ryan Tannahill in very good. I think Ryan Tanniel had a great coordinator. I don't think I'd... So would you put Lamar in this category?

I would put Lamar in this category. Matt Stafford in this category. Justin Herbert in this category. Matt Ryan's close to this category. Not quite, but close. Next is solid. But these are sophisticated titles. Killers, Niners, Vikings, Patriots, Lions, Raiders and Bears.

What time out? Andy Dalton's in the same category as Cam Newton, Garoppolo, Ben. No, this is, no. No. Jared Goff. Okay, so what's the next level? So the next one is ascending, which is where Justin Herbert is.

Ascending, Justin Herbert, Los Angeles Chargers, the Browns, the Cardinals, and the Bengals. Yeah, but you just went from. good to a, you know, like ascending is, why do I have to move to a different genre? Can't we just go, are you good now, not like adjectives to, okay, so you don't like these adjectives. Unproven, Jacksonville, Miami, Eagles, Panthers, and Jets. USA Today's Unproven quarterbacks. Darnold, Zach Hertz to Trevor, okay. Again, I don't know. Are we ranking? I thought it was a tiers of how good you are now, not. These are their rankings. And then finally, Shaky. Washington football team, Colts, Broncos, Saints, Giants, and Texans.

No, Deshawn Watson's not shaky. The franchise is. He's not. This list is a hot mess. But yeah. Yeah, this list doesn't. Okay, so you don't like their categories. No, I mean, Deshawn Watson's not shaky. Deshawn Watson's great. The organization's shaky. Well, maybe we'll do Collins rankings sometime this week. There's not six tiers. There's like. It's not tiers. It's not tiers. as categories. How about this? You carry a team. You're good enough to carry a team. Team has to carry you. Two categories. You want to do that? I need to throw in ascending, devolving. It's too complicated.

Not good, but attacks right off. Step sister, cousin. It's like all, it's just all. I thought they were interesting adjectives to describe each of them. I thought that was a hot mess of a list. I just am lost. just how about good enough to carry a team and not good enough but you don't want like we don't know if you're not good enough because that would still be not good enough the way the USA today

USA today you can carry a team you can carry luggage to the airport forget about the team you could carry water to a plant I like Ted Lassow ice cream is better than waffles and this guy's no good it's like where are we going with a list

So the Dolphins rebuild seems to be nearing an end. Head coach Brian Flores was on Peter King's Football Morning in America, and he seems pretty comfortable with the roster moves they've made in recent years. He said the guys we got in 19, the guys we got in 20, the guys we got in 21 that we get in this draft, that's the team. You know what I mean? That's the team moving forward. As we move forward, that's going to be the crux of the big chunk of our team.

They'll be the reason why we make noise or don't make noise. Well, we don't know if the draft picks can play. So he could be right by October 10th. Like I still feel they're rebuilding. Their only win over a playoff team was the Rams last year, and that's when they had a buy and the Rams were on a short week, traveled east and played the early game. That was their only win.

Well, I think as far as the chunk of the team, so I think he's right about that. Like the core of the team, I feel like, is set. We know their defense was great last year. Let me rank the dolphins based on how the USA Today would do it. They're ascending and they're good, but they're pretty solid, but I'm not sure. That's the USA Today ranking.

of the Dolphins. How about this? The rebuild, if this draft works, appears to be over except at quarterback. I think, well, yeah, I think the rebuild is determined actually on last year's draft. If two doesn't work, then they're still in a rebuild. The guys who they have brought in over the last three years will still be the core part of their team, but they are still in a rebuild if they don't have the quarterback. Deshaun Watson's not shaky. What was going on with that? I was not prepared for your reaction to that, I guess. I should have organized that better. So Lakers have been the front runner to return to the finals. But lately there's been some doubt, obviously, with the absence of LeBron.

MBA champ Rashid Wallace is part of the group that thinks L.A. might be in some trouble without the king. LBJ is definitely the glue for that team. And I'm not disrespecting AD. I think he's a great player. He's definitely deserved all the accolades he has and he's gotten. But they're definitely going to need LBJ. If they want to go ahead and go back to back, they're going to need LBJ.

We all know that. Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's any disrespect to Anthony Davis at this point to say that if LeBron is not out there and healthy, the Lakers are not winning a championship. You need LeBron's leadership. Yeah, I mean, they're two and two in LeBron's most recent absence, 10 and 15 without him and their seventh in the West, one and a half game behind the Blazers. They might have to participate in the play in tournaments to reach the playoffs. By the way, they have to face the Warriors. Everybody's saying, ooh, the Warriors, Lakers should be scared of the Warriors and Steph Curry. the Warriors are a tiny team.

I'm going to have LeBron A.D. and Andre Drummond? The Warriors are not to... If LeBron is healthy, it's still up in the air whether he's going to play tonight. He was a full participant in practice yesterday, but Vogel wouldn't reveal if LeBron will be available tonight. That's why they don't like the idea of a playing tournament. I would tend to agree with you, but it's a play in tournament. Warriors are...

It's not a seven-game series with everyone healthy. I'd take the Lakers over the Warriors. I would too, but I do think that they... want to avoid being playing. I don't bet a lot of NBA games. I'll make you a deal right now. I'll make my biggest NBA bet ever. If LeBron comes back and is healthy and they face the Warriors in a play-in game, I'm going to bet the most I've ever bet on an NBA game on the Lakers. Because the whole world's like, ooh, Steph, they're tiny. It's not a seven-game series.

Time to put up or shut up, coward. Joey with the news Well, that's the news And thanks for stopping by The Hurd Lie News That whole Bucky's like You gotta give Tua 36 starts Bucky's being very generous

Generous 36 starts I would also push back on the quarterbacks Not being comfortable with bringing new guys in The last two times we've seen Teams be aggressive in bringing Quarterbacks in too soon It hasn't really worked out for them

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Here we go. New Micah Linebacker. It's called a Mike Linebacker, but Micah Parsons is their latest star from Penn State. They didn't really need a linebacker, and they drafted two Micah Parsons and Jabriel Cox. They already have Jalen Smith, Leighton Vandrish, and they brought Keanu Neal over from Atlanta. so it is a crowded linebacking core, but he is probably the most talented defensive player in the draft. Philadelphia Eagles.

Hertz to watch. Jalen Hertz, four career starts at quarterback, one win, three losses. They hired Nick Seriani as coach. I don't feel good about it. They spent the least amount of money by any team in free agency, so they didn't exactly give him a fair shot. the good news, it's a bad division.

New York Giants. Just Judge Jones, Daniel Jones. Okay, Joe Judge is fine. This is about Daniel Jones. He now has Kyle Rudolph and Evan Ingram at tight end. He now has Kenny Galdi at wide receiver with Sterling Shepherd, Darius Slaten, and rookie Goderius Tony. He's got Sequin Barclay at running back. This is actually an extensive, a deep reservoir of offensive talent.

it is on now Daniel Jones to win some games Washington football team not right fits Ryan Fitzpatrick 19 17 years only quarterback actually only player in NFL history with 5,000 passing

attempts without ever playing in a playoff game he's a little bit of a gunslinger in fact he's a lot of a gunslinger it's an odd fit I think if you had like a Teddy Bridgewater who played it safe that defense could win you 10 games. I think Fitzpatrick can play it in some games and play it out of even more.

Green Bay Packers. Cheese and wine. Oh, boy, what an offseason. Aaron's not happy. The fans aren't happy. He's gone public. He's gone scorched earth. They added Amari Rogers at wide receiver.

Probably should have done that last year in the second round, not getting a backup running back. But it's just been a lot. lot of noise this offseason. Minnesota Vikings. Your fourth cousin, Kirk Cousin's fourth year. Again, 7 and 13

career record against teams with a winning record, excuse me, 7 and 31, not 7 and 13. Listen, it's low ceiling, Kirk. I think there's a reason the Vikings were interested in Justin Fields. They have tremendous wide

receiver and tight end talent. They have a star running back in Delvin Cook. They're offensive line, they've worked on that the last two or three drafts. So if they don't get to the playoffs, this is not on the coach, it's not on the front office. They've got plenty of talent. Detroit Lions. No more Matt's. Matt Stafford gone.

Matt Patricia gone. There's Dan Campbell. And I thought their draft was interesting. They did address their offensive line with Penae Sewell. I like that. Probably their best offensive line in a lot of years. That part I like. Chicago Bears.

Quarterback one or quarterback two? Only active NFL franchise without a quarterback who's ever thrown for 4,000 plus yards or 30 TD passes in a single season. That has been their liability. They've had great players. They've had great coaches. They can't get the quarterback right. So they moved up to draft Justin Fields. It's a big swing, but I kind of liked it.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Brady's bunch returns, all 22 starters back, all coordinators back, all coaches back. That just never happens. Usually you want to add a little in energy, but they just get along so well. And the leaders on the team, Levanti, David, Mike Evans, Brady. You know what? You can tell when guys are good guys, when they get along with somebody quickly. Like they wanted it to work down in Tampa.

They weren't jealous or Brady. Those guys wanted it to work. They were happy to have him and it worked instantly. New Orleans Saints. An uphill battle. Least amount of cap room, despite not adding any notable free agents. Jason, Taysam Hill, by the way, he's talented, but he has four touchdown passes in 53 career games. And by the way, for all you that think I hate Tebow, I don't think Teebo.

Casem Hills, a franchise quarterback. And he's way better than Tebow. Carolina Panthers. Sam's new rule. Sam Darnold, 23-year-old. If he fails here, it's on Sam. They got good players. Chuba Hubbard and Christian McCaffrey at running back. I'm in. Atlanta Falcons. Flying with Ryan. Matt Ryan is really expensive. The organization hired an offensive coach, and they're going to roll with Matt Ryan.

I agree with their draft pick of Kyle Pitts. They're going to with Matt. San Francisco 49ers. Nighting Sir Lance Alat. Trey Lance, 318 college pass attempts. Fewest by any quarterback drafted in the first round in 40 years. Good luck with that. Los Angeles Rams. Off from Goff. Jared's gone. Should be. Didn't throw well under duress. Sean McBray runs the franchise tired of him. Arizona Cardinals. Watt and offseason. J.J. Wat. Cardinals now have the top two players in sacks since 2012.

Chandler Jones and J.J. Watt. We're at a time. Sorry, Seattle. Oh, wait. No, I'm not. Here we go. Seattle. Seattle Seahawks. Restless in Seattle.

Just three draft picks. Russell Wilson, third most sack quarterback last year. When a team's only got three draft picks, they're telling you they think they're really close to winning a Super Bowl. That's what they're telling you. And I don't disagree.

I will give Pete Carroll and John Snyder credit. Upgraded O-line, upgraded tight-end, like their top two draft picks. This team, no excuses, won 12 last year. Russell Wilson has enough talent to win a Super Bowl. They changed coordinators, too. So I was critical of Seattle, but they absolutely, they gave Russell an upgrade. Tight-end, O-line, and re-signed Chris Carson and their fullback. Enjoy spa-like comfort. Water never runs out, saving your space, your water bill with a Navian tankless water heater. Tanklessmadesimple.com, tankless made simple.com. All right, now we're officially out of time.

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