The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 06/01/2021 - HOUR 3 - Lakers, Jazz, NFL QBs

Episode Date: June 1, 2021

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So Jim Jackson played for a decade and a half in the NBA. He did the Bucks Heat Games Saturday. Nets Celtics game five tonight. and he is now joining us live. You know, Jim, it's interesting. M. B.D. is now hurt. Luke is hurt. Chris Paul's been hurt. A.D. is hurt.

It seems like there's more injuries now than ever, or am I over dramatizing it because we live in the moment. When you go back to your days, were injuries as common and were they as influential as they are now? I thought football was the injury sport, but it's these basketball guys, all these stars. I mean, was it this bad years ago and we just didn't pay attention? Yeah, I would say injury has always been a part of. I think it's because now maybe it's the names that are associated with the injuries

that cause the alarm a little bit more. But, you know, at this state juncture of the season, Colin, as you know, is such a long season that everybody has. something. Now, it's a different between playing injured and hurt. You know what I mean? And playing hurt, a lot of guys are playing hurt. A lot of guys are playing hurt. But it just seems like I think the names because of what it is. And Lucas is probably not as serious as maybe 80s because of his groin. And Kimba's because of his knee, things like that. But it's just ironic that a lot of big-name players are kind of quote-unquote injured right now, just port into the season.

Were you more impressed with the Bucks or less impressed with Miami since you called that? What side do you take? What side was more alarming or impressive? You know, more so this, Calder, it was the Bucks because this year I thought this retooled team with Drew Holiday. I think Bobby Porter's, Bryn Ford's really playing well. They're so different than the Bucs team of last year, just having that dynamic. And, you know, all year, Miami has struggled. So I was not at all surprised that maybe not that the books swept them, but how and what fashion they were able to do it in.

Miami just had the struggles and their two best players, Pam out of bio and also Jimmy Butler really didn't have the kind of impactful games along with the Tyler Hero and Duncan Robinson. So watching that team play all year, I knew Milwaukee could get through this round. I didn't know it would be a sweep, but just this thoroughly impressive. with how Milwaukee is going about their business. So Nets are going to finish off the Celtics, I would presume, tonight. Then they would face Milwaukee. So what should I watch for when I watch Brooklyn tonight, what will they be able to do against a Milwaukee?

And what would concern you if you were a Brooklyn Nets fan going forward? Well, I mean, it's a dynamic that's different. Steve Nass talked about this. with this Brooklyn team, because we always talk about how great the big three are, okay, especially in isolation situation. But they really want, Steve Nash really wants the ball to move chain size because that makes it more difficult to have to guard this team. But it also gets guys like Joe Harris, Landry Shamid,

gets those guys involved as well in the offense because James Harden sets the table for everybody, okay? And when the ball is moving side to side, it's tough to guard every inch of the court. And this Brooklyn team is so dynamic with their big three that the other guys are going to get opportunity. So if you're watching this Boston game tonight, just keep an eye on how many passes Brooklyn makes before the shot goes up. And I'm not saying it's going to be like that all the time. But when they do that, this is a different dynamic of their, you know, offense. And when you play against a tough Milwaukee team who has, you know, defenders that are very good. And plus you have

size and side with Janus and Brooks Lopez, you got to move that. size in order for you to really get shots at the basket. Listen, you watch a lot, you do college and pro, but you watched Anthony Davis with Kentucky, then you watched them as first six or seven years with the Pelican. So Laker fans are like, man, this guy gets hurt a lot. It gets hurt a lot. And my takeaway would be, no, he always has. You just didn't watch Pelican games.

So when I look at this Anthony Davis, and I'm like, if I'm the Lakers this morning, Jim, I'm like, we've got a five-year deal on this dude. And this cat, it's getting more games and more games and more games. I mean, do you think the Lakerland, those executives and LeBron are sitting there thinking, we are tied to this for five years, guys, and this is what he is. He's hurt about every third game. You know, it's interesting, Kyle, I'm glad you brought it up because when I saw what we were going to talk about, I was going to say the bigger pitcher for the Lakers moving forward is that, okay, LeBron,

he can go another couple of years, but at what level is he going to be able to play at? It's still going to be a high level. But post-Lebron, the fielding in upper management has to be that we have to get somebody else in here. Yes. Because AD can't carry the load by himself because he is injury-pronged. And, you know, I hate to put that on a person, but I don't know if it was a late growth spurt with Anthony Davis coming out of high school when he grew. All of a sudden, in his body has rejected a lot of that because he's been injury. He's injury prone.

And it's just a little thing. And sometimes there's nothing as an athlete that he could do. Now, he didn't come into the season in the best of shape. That's right. Because, you know, the bubble and they didn't have a lot of time off. So, you know, he chilled. He won a championship. Let his body rest.

So putting that pressure early on to get himself back in shape, I think had some residual effects that we're seeing later in the year. But, you know, I hate it for Anthony. Davis because he's such a phenomenal player, but this has been a part of his playing history. And if you're the Lakers, you better be concerned well beyond this year. Yeah, no, this is a really good point, is that even if you love AD, he is not a bankable number one star with his injury history. So I was saying, and again, you're a college pro guy, the Utah Jazz or Gonzaga.

They're great, but until Gonzaga can win a title and we can see it, we just discount him. and Utah has got the comeback player of the year, defensive player of the year, Donovan Mitchell, Quinn Snyder, most threes, great at home. Nobody talks about him. And I'm watching this Memphis series, and I'm like, they got like nine guys that can stroke a three. Like, this is a real team. Do you buy Utah or do you, are you a, well, you know, they don't, their ceilings low? Where are you on the jazz?

I mean, I love the jazz. I love the way they play, especially Mike Conno. He's on Ohio State guy. So I got to pull for it. I got an poor for that, but I love the way they played a game. Now, I never thought that they were the, you know, the team I would pick to win a championship. Could they get to a conference finals? Of course, they could.

Could they get to a finals? Of course they could. They have the talent. They have the size. They play defense. They can shoot the three. But it's ironic is that even when, think about this, Colin, and you were, I think in Portland at the time, Seattle area, when Utah, when you had,

Carl Malone and John Stockton. That crew, as great as they were, didn't get him really run. People weren't knocking down doors to go see Utah play a lot. I mean, really, you know, they weren't headline top of the sports center or, you know, the NBA docket. And it's the case. It's just some teams, some organizations, no matter how good they are, they're still not as sexy as a New York team that is not as good. But the sexiness drives from it being in New York compared to Utah. Right.

Yeah. No. By the way, the Utah with Jerry Sloan was great for 11 years. And by the way, nobody gave Michael Jordan's Bulls more trouble in the finals than Utah twice. So. I know. You know, and nobody, but then it's like, okay, they get there, right? Yeah, Utah, but then you don't pay attention to them again, which is.

unfortunate because if you haven't seen Utah play, I mean, this team can play. Defensively are great. They love to move the ball and spread it around. You know, I love watching Joe Ingalls play slow-mo Joe because he just plays the right way. I mean, just, you look at him, you like, how in the hell is he just beating everybody or get his shots up? But that's just basketball. And Quinn Snyder, from a coaching perspective, out of bounds plays, underneath out of bounds plays, just on the sideline, just drawing up these. but great basketball to watch.

So if you're a basketball fan, you appreciate it. But if you're a novice and you're just outside looking in and just like to view the game, Utah is not going to be a team that you're just going to watch. This Utah Memphis series for a lot of people, they're like, eh, eh, I like John Moran, but I'd rather watch something else. And that's unfortunate. Yeah. So, you know, there's the phones now, Jim, and you and I grew up in a generation without phones being our cameras.

So you and I, you know, you can go golfing for four hours and not even play with your phone and you don't care because you didn't grow up with it. And I didn't grow up with it. I'm the same way. I can watch a game and not have the phone around me and be totally okay. And so when I see this fan behavior, part of me thinks this is outrageous. And then part of me thinks was this happening in the 70s, 80s, 90s, but we didn't have phones. And, you know, so you tell me, go back to your career. What I am seeing with fans now, does it bother you or are you like, That was every road trip. You'd go on the road.

If you went on a seven-game road, you'd get two of these. No, it bothers me because it's not, look, look, players understand, I don't care what sport it is. You're going to get heckled. Well, okay, you say what you want. All right, that's fine.

I can't play or whatever it may be. That's fine. That's your opinion. But once you start getting personal, that's another source of it. That's when you cross the line. You really cross the line when you put your hands on somebody or then throw objects.

Now, let's put it in perspective. Here in America, that's some kind of anomaly, okay? We don't really see it a lot, but we're seeing it more. Boy, let me tell you something. When you can play over in Europe, you get pennies thrown at you, batteries thrown at you. That's what they do over there. So it's common for that to happen in Europe. But in America now, we're starting to see a generation of people who feel they have the right to do whatever they want to do with no recourse.

Okay, I'm mad at this player. and now I have the right to throw something at them because I paid my money. Oh, I'm upset. Or I want to run on the court. Now, we've seen people run on the court before and do crazy stuff like that play right there. We've seen streakers, you know what I mean, running across the football field. Okay, we've seen that. But the actual events of throwing something at a player to me is bothersome.

Because that shows that one, you have no respect for the. player for the game, for the arena, for the teams, or anything. But two, it shows a level of arrogance where you think you can do whatever you want to these players without any recourse. And they're just some animals in cages and you're just out there watching and here, I'm throwing something. That's the part that bothers me. Somebody's going to get seriously hurt if this continues to happen, whether that's the player

or the person that's doing it in the stands, somebody in the stands is going to take some actions, okay and it's going to be ugly before the cops can get to that person yeah Jim jackson Fox Sports uh calling the SNET Celtics game five tonight I think Brooklyn's going to sew it up my man it's great seeing you as always always always enjoy you bet he's loyal to that Mike Conley Ohio State guys Buckeyes are loyal all of them every Buckeye ever know they're loyal be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays at noon eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the I-Hard Radio app.

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This is the herd line news. Apparently, Florida Gators are loyal too because Urban brought in Tim Tebow and instantly grabbed the attention of the sports world. Yes. According to Albert Breer, the media circus that surrounds him, has led to one common complaint from Tebow's former coaches is that Tebow doesn't do anything to actively calm down Tebow mania. How do you do that? The hype that follows him wherever he goes.

How do you calm? Now, a serious question. What is Tim supposed to do? You can't help if you're a polarizing person or you're a star. You don't make that determination for yourself. People try to do that all the time, become stars, and they're mostly just stars in their own mind. Like you have that kind of, you know, sprinkled us on you or you don't. And so from that perspective, I would agree.

It's not his fault that everyone is obsessed with him. Like, that's just who he is. Right. That said, I do think that you have to have some level of self-awareness. Yeah. When you are in a situation as unique as this. The baseball thing didn't bother me. Didn't work with football.

You still want to play. He was so young. That was years ago. If he can make it, so what? He's obviously getting the opportunity because he's Tim Tebow. But, I mean, by all accounts, he had a successful run at it. It's not like he made some huge, miraculous career out of it. But that's what a lot of guys aspire to do is play baseball professionally,

and he was able to do that. So I didn't have a problem with that. But the issue I think that most people have with Tebow is that he continues to get opportunities that he doesn't necessarily deserve. Now, you could argue that he has great relationships. And anybody who has great relationships who takes advantage of those relationships, maybe they earned them, which in this case, maybe Tebow did by being a great player for Urban Meyer and being a great person, which he is. Yeah.

But this feels a little bit unfair. Gimicky. Feels a little gimmicky. And that, I think, is the issue that people have in this situation. And where I would argue against the he can't control the Tebow Mania thing is, to what end are you going to continue to. put yourself in these situations. We know that Tebow could be a very well-paid broadcaster right now, which most people do not have access to, which is fine because he did it and he was good at it. We know he could be a speaker. So like, what is it about this particular opportunity

that is bothering everyone so much? And I think when you look at it, it's that it feels a bit unfair. Yeah, I've heard this criticism of the media, which is, well, he's offered it so he should take it. And I'll just give you a personal example. I get offered lots of money to tweet stuff, a lot of money, and I turn it down. Right. I don't think it's good. I think it's bad for everything. It's bad for a brand.

If I have one, it's bad to associate Fox with something. I get offered a lot of stuff. I've had more cannabis companies, nothing against them. So the idea that you have to take every opportunity is not true. The idea, Tim knowing in Jacksonville, Florida Gator territory, right down the road, switching positions. He's smart enough to know the circus will implode. Right.

So I think if he's going to take this opportunity, if I'm Tim Tebow, and he obviously put himself out there, it's not like everyone was calling him to come and come back and play tight end. Right. I would sprinkle a little self-awareness on it by being adamant that I am only here to play tight end because I can want I still want to compete. I have no interest in participating in any kind of quarterback situation whatsoever. That's not what I'm here to do. This is Trevor Lawrence's team like push that out every time you have the opportunity to say something or even if you don't

like make it a point that everyone knows that that's what you're trying to do. He's not going to take the job from Trevor Lawrence. But that to me, I think having a little humility in the situation. And being like extra humility. Like not that he's not a humble guy. but like laid on us a little bit. Yeah, like it's not outrageous to think somebody with more self-awareness would say, you know, it's Jacksonville, Trevor Lawrence is a rookie, I could probably be a distraction. Like I don't think that's outrageous for Tim to have said, which is I've been given my chance. I've been out of the sport eight years.

Urban's a great guy. I appreciate the offer. I don't think that's that heady. My first takeaway is, does Tim understand? like Timma is aware of his brand. Tebow is a business. If I'm Tim Teabone was offered this, I would have been like, no, no, no, no.

I'm not going to create a circus for Trevor Lawrence. And I can honestly say, I've turned down a lot of things in my life. Yeah, there's power and no. There's power and no. And I think the one part of the brand that I think that maybe coaches are talking about in this is that you have to be aware that in this brand.

This isn't everyone's brand, but in Tebow's brand, there are a lot of people that truly despise the fact that we're talking about this right now. They don't like him. They're actively rooting for him to fail. And if that is something that is a part of your brand, you have to be aware of that as well and just kind of smooth. Just give those people a little bit of what they're aching for as well. So fans in Chicago are very excited about their future with Justin Fields.

Now that he is with the team, Matt Nagy said on our show last month, that they would not play him until he was ready. to make sure that he is successful. I still have Andy Dalton and Nick Foles on the roster. But according to Jeremy Fowler, Fields will be given the chance to earn the starting job if he has an impressive training camp. Now, is this just come out today?

I didn't see this this morning. Did this just come out? Yeah, he's going to be given the chance to earn the starting job. Justin Fields also has three of the top five selling jerseys in the NFL right now. The other two are Tebow. By the way, he also had a lot of college starts. So this is not Trey Lance. This is not like a guy that hasn't played.

this guy started for a college football power two years of starts. Like Joe Burrow, you didn't pay attention to his junior year, but he did start his junior year. I don't necessarily subscribe to the idea that a rookie has to wait behind a veteran. Well, especially if he's got 35 college starts. Yes. I mean, I think there is some value to learning on the job training. I think there is some value to that. And, you know, the Bears' front office isn't in the most comfortable space.

And sometimes rookies come out and surprise us. Justin Herbert did. Joe Burrow wasn't a surprise to me, but he was certainly impressive. Also should be noted that the college game and the NFL game are more similar than years ago. So Justin Fields, a lot of the concepts, I mean, if you watch Matt Nagy coach, Tribisky did some college stuff because Trubisky was more athlete than thrower. Justin Fields is a way better thrower and an athlete. But a lot of the stuff that Justin Fields, he's just going to have to memorize a new language,

but they're going to run a lot of the same. I mean, it's not like when you watch Ohio State they're running the wishbone. They've got a lot of NFL. He's been thrown to NFL players for the last two years at Ohio State. I just don't know how if he's not even slightly impressive in training camp, how you're not going to start him. You have to give the fans something to be excited about. And if they're seeing Justin Fields look good and competent in training camp

and the reports are that he's doing well and the players are buying in and then you try and bring out Andy Dalton week one. You know, it's really funny about this. Two years ago, we were hearing all these stories about Justin Herbert. He's stiff. He reads one side of the field. He's mechanical. And Justin Fields, it was like he doesn't go to his second progressions.

It's really interesting to me. First of all, how similar Herbert and Justin Fields are as athlete, big strong mobile athletes with big arms, big play guys. And it's similar to some of the criticisms. So it's funny. Like Justin Herbert, I remember that first camp, Joy, we weren't even giving him a chance to play. It wasn't Tyrod Taylor's team.

and then all of a sudden in camp, because I know the charge was pretty well, people were like, that kid is good. And they were like, but he's not ready yet. Well, then they gave him the start. Well, they had to. And he was ready. Like, it's very hard to say a guy's not ready in preseason because Justin Herbert, there is a, and I don't know how to explain it, but there's levels of football, there's practice,

there's preseason, there's regular season, there's playoffs. like Justin Herbert once it counted like was a better player in a game than he was at practice. Like Justin Fields is so naturally gifted you're going to see some stuff at practice but I think you put him into a game situation. A lot of what he and Justin Herbert do

you can't just tell in preseason. You've got to see live bullets. Yeah, exactly. How are they doing in the moment? And like Justin Fields, I watched almost every start that mattered in his career. he just did some stuff. You can't do it practice.

He was very often the best player on the field. And you can't do it scrimmages. He is going to pop when you see him live. So the playoffs continue tonight with three game fives and every home team is favored. According to Fox Bet, the Nets are 12 and a half-point favorites over the Celtics to close out the series tonight. The Nuggets are favored by two and a half to take a three-two series lead over the Blazers. And the Lakers are five-point underdogs to the Sons following the report that AD is unlikely to play. Can I see the Fox bit odds again?

Nets are favorite by 12 and a half, Nuggets by 2 and a half, and the Sons by 5. I don't like giving up 12 and a half. Yeah, I would imagine the Celtics would give a little more fight to try and... But I would probably take... My favorite bet of those is Nuggets minus 2.5. Same. I'll take the Nuggets minus 2 and a half. The other two are passes, but I do think the Sons and then that's a win, but those numbers...

I think the Sun's Lakers game will be closer than that, but again, I would stay away from it. But 12 and a half points is a lie and a close-out game. for the Celtics with everything that's been going on in that series. Boy, I'll tell you what. Milwaukee, Brooklyn, coming up next, that is such a good series. I just hope it goes seven.

So good. Want some game sevens. Yeah. All right. Joy with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Hurd-Ly News.

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So we thought to celebrate 100 days out. And camps start in a week. This is a league run by quarterbacks. And I don't think in my lifetime we've ever had more great young quarterback. I said this about the NBA. The talent's never been better. You can complain about leadership, but talent, it's insane. Quarterback talent is remarkable.

So the 10 best quarterbacks in the NFL, 25 years of age or younger. These are the babies. Okay. These are the babies. Here we go. Number 10. All right, Daniel Jones. Now, before you say, you can't beat winning teams.

Well, this is a franchise and a rebuild. He's the only Giants quarterback ever. 5,000 passing yards, 35,000 touchdown passes in his first two years. That is without a great O line and no Sequin Barclay. So they have, Daniel complaint. Now, Daniel's issues until the end of last year were turnovers. But his talents there. He's Alex Smith with a better arm.

Dude can run. He's an athlete. Number nine. Sam Darnold. Okay, say what you want. Do you know no quarterback in the NFL, none, have played with fewer pro bowlers since they've been drafted than Sam Darnel. He was pressured on 42% of his passes last year. Easily, the highest percentage in the league.

Now he gets Christian McCaffrey, Chuba Hubbard, DJ Moore, Terrace Marshall, Robbie Anderson, and a coach that's not a crazy person. Number eight. Trevor Lawrence. I'm just going to say it right now. I said this about Andrew Luck. He will be good game one. He'll be very good. He's never lost a high school or college regular season game.

He's 86 and 4. All of the losses have been like, you know, playoff stuff, losing to Alabama or an Ohio state. He's a remarkable once in a decade talent. Number seven. Joe Burrow. Now, you know he got hurt, but you had to be blown away. We don't even know if that coach, Zach Taylor's good.

the offensive line is average at best, and they had one go-to wide receiver. And yet he had five games of 300-plus yards passing. Okay, first rookie quarterback in league history with three straight 300-yard games. Again, without great protection, tough division, and a really, really young head coach. Number six. Tyler Murray. What I liked about him, he got better to everything. He got better. Passing yards up.

Completion percentage, up. T.D. passes up. Passer rating up. Wins up. What does that mean? He likes to learn. He cares. He's into it. He got better at every single thing. And we still don't know. Let's be honest. Fourth best roster in our division. And we don't know if Cliff Kingsbury is the guy. We don't know. We think. We don't know. Number five. Justin Herbert, I could have him low. Do you know in the entire league last year? He had the highest passer rating in the NFL under pressure, a 99. Now, pressure can unravel Brady. Legends.

He had a 99 passer rating. The Chargers O-line was rated first or second worst in the league. So now they have massively retooled the O-line. They're in the hunt for Julio Jones, many believe. He broke every record. imaginable for a rookie quarterback. Touchdown passes, total touchdowns. He had eight 300-yard games, completions.

He is just way better than I think even the Chargers thought. Number four. Deshawn Watson. I don't know if you know this, though. He has the highest completion percentage in league history. Did you know that? I didn't until I read it, 67.8%. Don't know what's happening to him in the offseason,

but he led the NFL in passing yards last year. Not his fault. They were 4 and 12. Number three. Lamar Jackson, you know I like him. He's won 80% of his games. I don't want to hear about anything else. He's won 80% of his games.

Okay, when he trails by 14 points, he's 0 and 6. Guess what? Go look at Aaron Rogers' record when he trails by 14 points. That's two touchdowns in the NFL. Most teams don't win. Lamar Jackson can play, folks. 80% winner in the NFL. Number two.

Josh Allen. I mean, 6-6, huge arm, runs fast. I don't know. Again, I thought this kid had a bus potential. because if you watched his Wyoming stuff, he was all over the map. He is, I mean, Buffalo is going to be a Super Bowl contender for the next 12 years because of him. First player NFL history, 4,500 passing yards, 35 TD passes, five rushing TDs in a year, in a season. Number one.

All right, whatever, Patrick Mahomes, he's good. I mean, we don't know. I don't have to go into detail. It's like Patrick Mahomes is really, really good. Highest passerating NFL history. Highest winning percentage in the Super Bowl. era. Yeah, and good kid.

Huge arm. Cartoon arm. There you go right there. Mahomes, Alan, Lamar, Deshaun, Justin, Kyler, Murray, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Sam, Donald, Daniel Jones. You guys are just going to eat it on Sam Darnold this year. I'm going to be so right on that.

I cannot wait. He's going to be like 10 and 7, and you're all going to eat it. All right. I'm going to eat lunch. We're done. MDrive. Check them out.

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