The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 08/25/2021 - HOUR 2 - Broncos, playoffs, Bears

Episode Date: August 25, 2021

The Broncos have selected their starting QBColin predicts the new NFL playoff teamsMore on the Bears QB situationGuest: Phil Simms Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Live in L.A., it's the herd, wherever you may be, and however you may be listening. Iheart Radio, Fox Sports Radio FS1. Joy Taylor, joining me, The Herd, brought to you by Jersey. Mike Subsby as above. I am off tomorrow and Friday. I'm taking my last little vacation. I'm going to Chicago hanging out with my wife. Love Chicago.

I'm going to do a lot. It's be labor-intensive. Got a lot of dinners with NFL people. I'm going to be working. in between lovely cocktails with my beautiful wife. It'll be a labor-intensive three days, three-and-a-half days in Chicago. Chicago is... Rocking. August, rocking.

The best in the summer. So I will be going there. So it's the last time. It's the last break. Then, and even on this vacation, focus on football around the corner. So Joy Taylor is joining me as always. We have Breaking News. Breaking News.

told the staff before the show, I said, I have a feeling today's a breaking news day. You did say that. Yep. You're like, we're due for some breaking news in the middle of the show. And there's never a better time. Second hour. I get all the stuff I want to talk about out, blah, blah, blah. Second hour starts.

I got a big interview coming up. Boom, breaking news. The Denver Broncos, Teddy Bridgewater, beat out Drew Locke. Vic Fangio told the team today, we're going to go with Teddy Bridgewater. Folks, that's not great. Drew Lock's got 18 starts in this league. Teddy Bridgewater, Denver got him for a six-round pick. Carolina moved off him for Sam Darnold.

So Matt rules an offensive guy. They moved off Teddy for Sam Darnold. And Drew Locke can't beat him out. And I've said this about Drewlock. There's a Jay Cutler thing here. That's my comp. I know Jay. I've interviewed Jay.

I've talked to Jay. I don't have anything against Jay. but Jay was his own worst enemy. Jay, there was an indifferent and a coolness, Jay. I have a rule in life. Guys trying to be cool aren't. Like nothing makes you not cool, trying to be cool. There's a casualness to the way Jay Cutler played.

There's a lack of urgency. And when I watch Russell Wilson play, every play feels like the biggest play of the year. When I watch Tom Brady play, every down feels like it's urgent. I felt that way with John Elway. I felt that way with Peyton Manning. Every play is huge. It matters. Jay Cutler and Drew Locke are both the same thing.

Really good athletes, fantastic, plus arm strength. Can make plays. They can move around. I mean, Drew's a good athlete. Bigger, stronger than Teddy, he's a 59% completion percentage. That's just not good enough. That's just not zoning in. So it's not a talent thing for Drew.

Big arm. He can move. He's an athlete. I mean, you watch him. Drew can play. Drew should be a franchise quarterback. But when I watch him, I get the same feeling I got watching Jay Cutler. The great franchise quarterbacks play with urgency.

They understand that one mistake, fumble, interceptions the game. There's certain professions. Airline pilot. You got to fly with urgency. like you really have to pay attention. 90% of airline disasters are pilot airs, not the plane. Surgeon. You got to have urgency.

There's a lot of, mine's not like that job. I'm just rattling on, prattling on. There's no real urgency. I'm on for three hours a day. There's not a lot of urgency to this job. Airline pilot, surgeon, quarterback, politicians, there's not a lot of urgency. You know, you're walking around, you know, there's just occasionally big days, big votes. Politicians do a lot of stump speeches and ribbon cutting and quarterback's an urgent job.

You've got to act. Every play matters. Brady played with it. Manning played with it. Russell plays with it. You can sense it. He doesn't. He's just too casual.

Guys got 23 TDs and 18 picks. That's not playing with urgency. So that's not good to me. It's not great. So, and I, and I've, this is not, I'm not doing rearview mirror stuff. I've always used Jay Cutler as my comp here. It is not a talent thing. But there, there are jobs every second counts.

Quarterbacks one of them. You know, maybe you get one, two games a year to blow out fourth quarter. You make a joke in the huddle. I get that. I'm not Mr. Serious here. But by and large, that's rare. Average NFL games decided by 4. points. So I've got to bring in, you know, I bring Chris Sims on, and every time I say,

when's your dad coming on the show? Phil Sims, by the way, won the New York Giants, their first couple of Super Bowl, still holds the record for the highest pass rating ever in a Super Bowl, and the highest completion percentage ever in a Super Bowl, 88%. This thing never shuts off upstairs. Phil Sims now joining us live. All right, Phil. All right, here we go. Here we go. So, now I'm into this. So I just talked about this. occasionally with the Giants, you'd have a blowout, you can joke in the huddle. But Parcells isn't a big joke guy. And when I watch Drew Locke, Phil, he's too damn casual for me.

He just kind of, it's almost like he's playing basketball, like you shoot 50%. I think him not being Teddy Bridgewater out is saying something, and it's not great. That's my interpretation. How does it land for you? Well, everything you said before this, I really agreed with the way he played the last two years. But first off, let me clear this up. I'm not cool. I don't want to act cool and don't want to be cool.

So just get that out of the way. But Drew Locke last year, you pegged him perfectly. But I did see in these two preseason games this year, a different guy, more disciplined, trying to play within the system, knowing the team that he's on, all that. But I think they gave it to Teddy Bridgewater, because he did play very well in both preseason games,

and he's got more experience. And they know his history says he's going to play. somewhat safer than Drew Lockwood. And Denver, you know, my son, Christopher, I'll give him credit. He said, he heard an interview and one of the players said, hey, we got a really good defense. Big Fangio needs a quarterback not to mess this up. So all that kind of lends itself to, it was leaning towards Teddy Bridgewater. He took advantage of the opportunity, the experience, and being careful with the football.

That's why he's to start. I really like Joe Judge. And I think Daniel Jones, once he got over his turnover issues, was pretty, effect. If he reminds me a little bit of Alex Smith, he's got good straight line speed. I think he's got a better arm than Alex, but he's a grown up. He can move a little bit. This is a big year. And I, and I feel I've been talking about this. You grew up in an era in which you played some high school football, then you played college, maybe you start a year or two, go to the NFL. These kids now come out with 10,000 snaps by the time they're 12. And so coaches are demanding now. I'm not giving you four years.

if you don't have your act together and I look at Daniel Jones and I think to myself, I believe internally Phil by Thanksgiving, there will be conversations of all right, we got our guy or

these turnover issues are not going away. Am I unrealistic? Do you think he has, I think at some point this year, there's going to be big grown-up decisions on this is working or this is not. Am I wrong? Well, I'll just say this.

It's not saying you're right or wrong there. Listen, Daniel Jones, it'll have to be a catastrophe in my mind for him not to be the Giants quarterback next year. I think they're sold on who he is, what his talent level is. He's just got to go back and he's got to play a little more free. Quit trying to be Mr. I'm going to do exactly what the coach tells me. Play with the field. Know when the run. I mean, Colin, let's be real.

If I had those legs when I was playing, my butt would have been running all the time. He's using the enough. And, you know, it's there to be had for him because I watch every one of their games. and he's got to take advantage of that. And the other big thing is, look, the offensive line will be better. That's all we hear in New York. But Sequin Barclay, if he's back in the lineup and he's the guy that we think he's going to be, that will change the whole Giants football team, what they do on both sides of the ball.

And to me, that is not a big key. It's the whole key to this giant season. So I said the other day, when I look at Mack Jones, I see Phil Sims. And I said, I can throw it harder than he could, but go ahead. But I said Parcells and Belichick are forever linked. When you have a great defensive coach, who's also really good at building teams, that he's not asking you to do certain things that other coaches would ask their quarterbacks to do. And if you were to give Mack Jones advice based on your years with Parcells and say,

okay, kid, I know what you're going through. do this and don't do that. What is the advice you would give Mack Jones with Belichick for the next five years? He already knows it, Colin. Joy, he knows it because he played with Nick Sabin. He already knows. They're the same guy. So he's been taught, you know, mentally and all those things

and by an old school coach. I love that term. Oh, he's old school. Hey, old school is really good. I have to leave. All the guys are having great success are old school. But Mac Jones played for Nick Sabin. He knows the mentality, how to act, how to handle himself. And listen, I'm going to tell you truth. I was a big fan of his coming out, everything he did,

but he's even been better in the preseason games than I expected. Very quick with the football, can get rid of it, and moving around a lot more and looks even better than it did in college. So I think he, if you can handle Nick Sabin, you can handle Bill Belichick too, and that's what he's used to. So I'm watching Hard Knocks last night. And when I think of dynasties and great football coaches, Belichick, Parcells, Mike Tomlin, Bill Cower, the Steelers.

Most of our football success is not glamorous. Even when the teams are great, there is a blue-collar work ethos. I mean, right. I look at those cowboy facilities. It's the Ritz Carlton. I mean, every, Phil, I would eat off the floor in those facilities. It's ridiculous. And then they overpay, which New England, by the way,

Belichick and Parcells are not overpaying for great players. They overpay for good players. And I said to myself, this franchise, this football operation, has got a trust fund kid field. It's a little soft and glamorous to me. I like my football teams to still stay at the Marriott, even when their dynasties or feel like it. And your thoughts about the Cowboys' Lack of Success 25 years?

Could some of that be they feel a little entitled to America's team they're not the gritty operation that a lot of the great teams are. Yeah, listen, I think that's a great take. You know, they're always in the forefront. Anytime we get a chance, no matter what outlet I'm on, if I, last year on Showtime, this year it's Paramount, CBS, whatever. When you could talk about the Cowboys, everything lights up. They're still, they truly are the America's team, if you want to say it that way.

Jerry Jones does a great job of, you know, branding this football team even to this day. But you're right in saying that. When you talk about all these other teams and the coaches, they are gritty. There is toughness. That will never leave football. Let's get over this. Oh, we need a new age coach. Hey, tough guys.

John Harbaugh, oh, he's touchy, Philly. How about Bruce Ariens? What do you say the other day? All our offense practice terrible. What do you do about it, coach? He goes, in the old days, I'd have ran him to death after practice, but we can't do that now. And, you know, so, yeah, I do not get that feeling when I watch the Cowboys or seeing them. or think about them that they're one of the tough teams in the NFL.

And when it all comes down to it, that's really who wins almost every year. You've got to be tough. The coach has got to be a guy where every day is a pressurized situation to get you, to make you prepare and never let you let your guard down, which I think happens down in Dallas. Yeah. So what would you do in Chicago in the quarterback situation? Phil, what would you do?

Listen, I wouldn't even hesitate. I would play the rookie. I shouldn't say I wouldn't hesitate. But this talk that he promised Andy Dalton, I just don't get that. You know, coaches Justin Fields has done a really good job in the two exhibition games are played well. Preseason games, I should say.

And I think they can do more with him on the offensive side. I think the bears are not a team. They need their quarterback to make plays, that's for sure. Yeah. Just watching the scheme, what they do. And they did set up, But here's the plays you're showing, that was set up to make Justin Fields look well in preseason. And, you know, Andy Dalton's in a no-win situation.

Justin Fields is going to play in the opening game some if he doesn't start. And the fans are going to want it. Andy Dalton, no matter what he does, it's not going to please everybody. So I say the sooner you get Justin Fields in there, getting used to it, the better you're going to be in the long run this year. And, of course, it's building not only for this year, but for next year too. Finally, when I kind of look around the NFL right now, there's a lot of young coaches. And then we have one with Urban Meyer, who's not young, but he's a college coach. And Urban would acknowledge he would admit that he did not watch football on Sundays.

And you had Belichick Parcells. Those are NFL guys. Those are NFL guys. What concerns you about college guy to the NFL with no NFL background at all? Oh, what concerns me? I don't know if we really thought of it in those terms. That's a tough way to answer it. But, you know, the fact that it's so demanding, everything is so close.

Decisions you make in the game, you know, you can't get away with a bad decision in the game like you could in college. How about the thing they said on Monday night? Urban Meyer never really had to work a two-minute offense during his career at Ohio State. And you just go, that's incredible when you think about it. Because every week, they go out there. They're clearly the best team. And except maybe when they play Alabama. or Clemson. And so that's a lot of adjusting to get used to. And he's got, I think it's,

it's going to be a big learning experience for him this year, even more than it will be for Trevor Lawrence, who just to thrill this in there, that hit he took the other night, you just can't do that no way. But I went back and looked at some of my notes before the draft, and I wrote down in there, wow, Trevor Lawrence, playing for Clemson, and as good as he is, takes a lot of extra hits running the football that are definitely unwarranted in college. And sure, you can't do that in the pros, that's for sure. Just talking about that with a friend last night. We were talking about that exact hit.

It was, oh, no, no, don't. Oh, well, I winced. But it immediately brought me to, and I just, for everything he did, he threw the ball well, he's got all these things you want. But he would run inside at Clemson, and, you know, some of those defense, they were wiping him out. And I just thought, wow, that's crazy to play that way. And he will not get away with it if he continues at the NFL.

Well, you must be eating chia seeds and tofu because you look fantastic. Phil. You look like that. Well, I feel awful, but that's the whole other thing. But, you know, I don't want to say. What the hell is going on in my hair? I'm looking in the, you know, I have, well, I don't know. Look pretty good to me.

Say hi. Say hi to Chris. Phil. I love you. I always appreciate when you come on. Good seeing you. All right. Good seeing you.

Enjoy. Good talking to you. Nice conversation. Thanks, Joey. You bet. I feel. I'm not. Phil Sims.

Yeah, he still holds the NFL Super Bowl record. He had 151 pass for rating of Super Bowl. 88% completions. He, I do. When I look at Mac Jones, I see Phil Sims. That's exactly who I see. It's pretty good comp. Yeah.

I mean, Phil was again, Phil had a great lie. I don't remember if it was in a book or not. I read this. It was very funny. Phil had great self-awareness. He still does. Phil said, you never wanted Parcells to think that you thought you were smarter than him. He goes, there are times I had an answer?

I see, you just didn't want to, I just let Bill win the conversation. That's very smart. It is. Most people if they're right, want to tell you they're right. Oh, of course. I mean, everyone's right about everything. Just ask them. I mean, I'm an epidemiologist half the time.

Yeah. Yeah, I know way more than doctors. Everybody knows that in my house. Well, I can't find the Band-Aids. One more herd? The herd streams 24 hours a day, seven days a week, within the I-Heart radio app. Search Herd to listen live or on-demand whenever you'd like.

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I have nothing against Fox, but I'm going to be in Chicago doing labor and groundwork on the bears and having drinks and with my wife. But I'll try to sneak in the first half. Brett Beelma takes over at Illinois, so I'm interested there. Joy Taylor with the news. No, no, no, no, turn on the news. This is the herd line news, sponsored by Mercedes-Bets, the best or nothing. Well, Lamar Jackson has done a lot so far in his very young NFL career to prove that he is

one of more dynamic players in the league. He's heading into his fourth season with an MVP under his belt, but he still has a lot of doubters. He was asked about a recent report that some of the league think that this will be the year defenses figure him out. Figure him out. But he disagreed, saying I strongly doubt it. Lamar was 22nd in passing yards last season.

He was tied for 12th and passing touchdowns last season. They were number one in rushing. That should be noted. Yes. Number one in rushing, though. Well, Baker Mayfield, Matt Stafford, Matt Ryan, who's certainly not considered to be a mobile quarterback, and Kyler Murray also had 26 touchdowns. Yeah.

During touchdowns last year. I don't get it with Lamar Jackson at this point. I don't even think, I'd be honest with you, Joy, when I watch him pass, Cam Newton throwing always looks like it hurts. He has the weirdest mechanics. Philip Rivers, I'm like, ooh, that's it. I don't have a problem.

Lamar has a flip-it style, but the ball gets there. I don't find it uncomfortable to watch him passing. I think Nick Wright hit it earlier. Like Janus, he plays better with a lead than trailing. Yes. In fairness, most of the NBA plays better with a lead than trailing. Steph Curry's rare. There are very few people who thrive in those situations.

Yeah. Mahomes. When I watch Lamar throw the ball, touch. by the way, he's not strained throwing it. The ball comes off his hand. Again. I don't even know if it's really the passing part of it that they're talking about. I think it's the running element of his game that they're discussing when they talk about defenses

figuring him out. And as far as I'm concerned with that, as long as he's faster, it really doesn't matter. Like, you can know that a quarterback is a running quarterback. but if he goes off script and runs and he's faster than you, then it doesn't matter if you know. Like, they've been trying to marginalize defenses have been preparing and trying to marginalize running quarterbacks for a long time. It's not like Lamar Jackson is the first to do this. Why did we defend Drew Bree's last five years when he couldn't run at all,

nor could he throw the deep ball? And everybody lines up to go to all the time, great. So Lamar throws a very nice deep ball and can run. And he's probably not as good in your 12 to 18. yard routes as Drew. But Drew Breeze could not throw a deep ball, nor could he move in his last three years. And we never took New Orleans out of the Super Bowl bubble. We never considered that.

And by the way, I think the Saints and the Ravens similarly are smartly owned and very smartly coached and run. So it's like this people just eliminate Lamar from the bubble. You never eliminated Drew. They had nothing over the top for three years at the end. I think there is this element in. anything that is competitive, that when someone is great at something, that it's really just something that they figured out. It's like some little edge they have. And we'll figure out how to take them down

a notch. We'll figure out how to knock them off. It's not really that they're so good. It's just that they're a little bit ahead and we'll figure it out. And sometimes it's just that they are just more talented and they have something extra that everyone else doesn't have. Like he's just faster. than every other quarterback, and that's okay. But I think, do you see this in business? Like, it will be some genius that comes up with something. It's like, ah, like, he just, whatever, he just figured it out. Like, no, he's just a genius or she's just a genius.

And that's her gift. And you're not going to, like, knock that off because they're, like, they're cheating the system. Yeah, it's, you know, it's funny. When somebody is great at something, it affects other things. Yes. So Lamar is great at running. It actually is an out. for his passing because linebackers cannot cheat.

Forcing linebackers to stay home hug the line, what's the advantage? Their tight enderow is open because it creates a massive cushion between backers and safeties. It's the same thing. If you are a great shooter in basketball, Dame and Steph Curry, what does it create? It also gives you advantages in distribution because people will leave their man to guard you, leaving other people open. As LeBron has developed a better three-point shot, he's actually become a more effective passer.

Early on, you didn't have to worry about him shooting a three. Now you do. The defense has to lean over. So with Lamar, when you're great at something running in anything, it's going to help you in other stuff. And so I think it's made his passing. I mean, his passer rating is the fourth highest ever. Do I think he's the fourth

most easy, natural throwing quarterback ever? No. But the running is augmenting, especially passing to tight ends. They always seem wide open for Baltimore. Right. And until he loses an edge of that speed,

which will eventually happen... Six years. Six, seven years, now, whatever. There's nothing really to talk about. They know he's a running quarterback. He's not the only running quarterback. Defenses have schemes for running quarterbacks, but then they can keep them on us and throw, as you said. So Buck's head coach, Mike Bolden-Hoser, is staying in Milwaukee. He has agreed to a contract extension that is reportedly for three years.

We'll keep him with the team through 2024-20205. There's been some questions about his future before they won the championship after failing to reach the finals in back-to-back seasons, despite finishing with the best regular season record. Obviously this year, he led their team to the first title in 50 years. So he secured his spot with the organization. It's so funny with him. I thought he was awful against Brooklyn.

And then I thought he was great against Phoenix. And the whole Brooklyn series, I was just like, could you make an adjustment? Are we just? And then in the Phoenix series, I thought he made great adjustments. Proving once and for all that nobody's perfect and I probably don't know what I'm talking about. Well, also, you know, different series have completely different matchups and matchups. energies and he drove me nuts in the Brooklyn series. Don't me not.

But there was a lot that went on in that series. And they were a completely different team than the finals and in the finals. So it's, yes, coaching is hard and we probably overreact a lot to it. But that's what it is. You can't really fire players like that, not stars. So sometimes it falls on the coaching. But he did a great job, obviously, and they won a championship. And they have the third best odds, according to Fox Bet, to win the title next season.

The Nets are favorite at plus 230. Lakers are the second best odds at plus 400 and the bucks are at plus 800. So Tom Brady has become the gold standard for health and longevity when it comes to professional athletes. And Steph Curry is hoping to be around for years to come. He heads into his 13th NBA season and he's taken inspiration from Brady in learning how to extend his career. Steph said, I've actually talked to him about this. But even he said when he was in his early 30s, mid 30s, late 30s, it was always, I've still got two more years in me, stay, do everything I can to sustain yourself and stay physically.

and mentally sharp. And then you look up and you're saying that again, you're saying that again. You do everything now to set yourself up for now and the future. You know, it's funny about that. So I read a story the other day that every time you eat a hot dog, you lose 45 minutes out of your life. And I now know that. But sometimes in the summer, I want a hot dog. And I'm willing to give up 45 minutes of my life because in the moment, I want a hot dog. I go to a Dodger game. I want a hot dog. Yesterday I got home. And yesterday I got home and it was beautiful. My wife's gone.

So it's just me and all my bad, you know, habits. And I just lit a cigar and poured a cocktail about 4.30 after working out. I just lifted weights hard, strong, a lot of muscles. And I was just like, I know this is not good for me. I read the hot dog story. And I thought, I'm losing like four days. But I didn't care because I, when I look at Tom Brady and he said, I won't drink a beer during the season. Well, I want to have a beer.

I'm with my wife. If I want to have a glass of wine, my wife's a supermodel. This whole thing about living forever, folks, the minute I need glasses to drive, I'm checking out. Seriously, if there's a pill I'm taking it. I see people here 85 years old and I'm like hunched over. My grandmother always told me never get old. She would always say that to me. I think being old is a blessing.

But I haven't eaten a hot dog since I was probably seven or eight years old. Are you willing, if there was a table of contents that said, okay, if you do this, you'll lose a year. If you do this, you'll lose eight months. Right. And all the things in your life, like you'd like tequila. If you drink tequila, you'll die a year sooner. And you knew it. But do I know how old?

Like, am I starting? Like, I'm going to die at 92. No, no. And then I can start deducting. You just get a bunch of minuses. Oh. Would you still do them? Look, you know, my mentality on life is that it's for a living.

Yeah. So, well, I do think you. you need to take care of yourself. You know, you should do minimal things like drink water and exercise and, you know, get vaccinated when there's an international pandemic. That's a good call. Things like that, I think are, you know, natural, beneficial, intelligent ways to preserve yourself. But you also have to live your life. Like, people get into these very controlling situations.

I'm also not a professional athlete. So I can speak from somebody who doesn't have to use their body to, you know, make money in a performance-based space. So it's easier for me to say that. But when it comes to athletics, though, different people are wired differently. We all know people, we talk about this all the time, who can go rage in Vegas for seven days. I don't even want to be in Vegas for seven days. Like, I'm not going to Vegas for seven days without being paid to be there.

It is a no for me. That is not where I'm vacationing for seven days. Right. I'll go there for two days. Right. One day. And I'm still tired. But like, we know people that can rage until.

So 4 o'clock in the morning, get up and work all day. So, like, everyone is wired differently. Now, you're probably not going to have that high-level performance. Well, this weekend, I spent a weekend in Vegas. I knew I took at least three years off my life. And I would not. I had so much fun. I saw my son.

I went to Super Slam. I went to a Pachial fight. I went with my buddy Eric. I laughed. I mean, I laughed the whole weekend. And I know I lost years off my life. And I was like, well, they're the end years. Who cares?

Like 92 to 90. What are I giving up? I mean, literally, I mean, I've given up complaining about the weather and talking to... Eat an imitation crab. I mean, I just be, at the end, I would just be talking in circles anyway. So who cares? I mean, yes, there is something to living.

But again, we don't have to go out and, you know, put up 30 every night. So you know what I got yesterday? This is, I'm kind of rambling here. I'm going to stop rambling. So yesterday, remember I went and got a colonoscopy and on the stomach thing? Yesterday I had my meeting with a doctor, a Zoom link to talk about it. And he showed me it and everything. Clean as a whistle, and I've done nothing for 10 years, but sit on the couch, eat peanut bread and drink buttermilk, and I'm a bull.

It's unbelievable. He showed me my insides, and I'm like, look, I can eat nachos for dinner every night. I mean, it didn't even matter anymore. Go to Vegas. Have fun. You need to live, yes. Joy with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Herd Lye News. The NFL's getting easier to predict. I'll tell you why next. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the I-Hard Radio app. Hey, it's me, Rob Parker. Check out my weekly MLB podcast inside the Parker for 22 minutes of pipe and hot baseball talk featuring the biggest names and newsmakers in the sport.

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Yeah, it says here, drive high, get a DUI. Don't do that. All right. So I think the NFL is now much easier to predict, not individual outcomes of games. That's called betting. You never know week to week. But I think it's getting easier to predict division winners. Last year, I went seven for seven in the AFC. And I would have done better in the NFC, but there were some injuries. I did okay. I think I had four of the seven or three of the seven. NFC, I think is more balanced, whereas I think the AFC is getting easier. But I do think it's getting easier. Why? because it's more quarterback-reliant. Anytime any business becomes more about one thing, it's easier to predict the outcomes.

I'll give you an example, tech. Once Silicon Valley became about the phone, it's pretty easy to predict the last 15 to 20 years. Apple would kick everybody's butt. The number one revenue company, the most profitable company in Silicon Valley is Apple. I think they're the second most profitable in America right now to Berkshire Hathaway. Could be wrong, but Apple's up there.

Used to be Microsoft. It was Sun Microsystems. It was Oracle. It was been a lot of players. Dell. And then it became about the phone. And Apple owns the phone. And so every year, it's a pretty good bet that Apple's going to be the most profitable or have the greatest revenue.

Because it's become overwhelmingly the profit is in that thing that we carry around with us all day. Microsoft didn't embrace the phone initially. People forget before Apple, Microsoft ran the world, Seattle Company, no longer. So once Silicon Valley became about the device we all have, we all have a phone. We don't all have this app or that app or this iPad, the phone. It's easier to predict outcomes. Apple's going to kick butt. The NFL has increasingly become about quarterbacks. All the rules now are to quarterbacks. And so if you look at my prediction, I have one more amendment left. I made one amendment yesterday.

My division winners. Let's go division by division. AFC East. Who did I take? Josh Allen. AFC North. Who did I take? Lamar Jackson.

AFC South. Who did I take? Carson Went, so I've always been a huge fan of. Who did I take in the AFC West? Patrick Mahomes. Go to the NFC. The only exception is the NFC East. Why? Because DAC comes into the season, not healthy.

And I think Washington, of the four all very uneven teams, has such a dominant defensive front. They have like four stars. They'll just unravel the Giants offensive line, unravel the Eagles offense. And if DAC was healthy, you know, that would be a harder call. But DAC increasingly isn't. So I feel very comfortable going with Washington. Then I go Aaron Rogers in the NFC North, Tom Brady in the NFC South, and Russell Wilson in the NFC West. And I feel very confident.

I don't. Now, in many instances, I take the second best quarterback. I take Matt Stafford in the NFC West to finish second. I take Kirk Cousins to finish second to Aaron Rogers. I take Baker Mayfield, who right now in his last seven games would be number two in the division. Big Ben aged poorly last year. Joe Burroughs hurt. So right now, Baker, in terms of last seven, eight games he's played, last nine games, he only had one pick.

So I don't think, in fact, I was thinking this morning, I don't even have dark horses. The bottom of the league's terrible, five or six teams. The top of the league, seven or eight are very good. And the middle is the middle. The middle teams usually either don't have the coach or don't have the quarterback. There's three or four teams. I think you have to keep your eye on. In the AFC, the Patriots and Steelers are well run, had ugly endings.

I think that will motivate them to have very intense off seasons and they'll benefit. So Steelers, Patriots, these are well-run franchises who got their head kicked in a little late last year. They may play a little better than I think. And I think in the NFC, the Giants keep your eye on. If that gets hurt, the Giants will probably figure out a way to finish second in that division. And the Vikings, again, I got this Aaron Rogers Green. base situation, their schedules brutal. I think the Vikings could surprise me a little bit and be better than 9 and 8.

I do like Mike Zimmer. Now, that said, in the last 20 years, there are four new playoff teams every year. So as I made my picks based on quarterbacks, just like my theory on why I buy a ton of Apple stock for the last 15 years, is once it became about the phone, I'm going Apple. Once it becomes about quarterbacks, I just go and get the best quarterback with very few exceptions. but I always try to find four new teams. So this year, I pick four new teams. Good arguments for all of them.

I have the Dolphins. Well, they won 10 games last year in a rebuilding mode. I like their chances. The Chargers. The roster's really good and Herbert's sick. Cowboys. It's a bad division. And the Giants' offensive line, I think, is going to just unravel everything.

And the 49ers, well, they had like the most injured team in league history for one season. So it's not like I'm taking big swings here on crazy teams. Most of the teams I have picked, there's elements of the Cowboys offense, the Chargers roster, the Dolphins defense, the Niners personnel and coach. You know, I'm not taking big swings here. But I do think the league is getting, I think as it becomes more about one thing, a great quarterback, I think the league is getting a little easier. You know, there's always been this thing where we criticize, you know, the NBA.

Oh, it's so predictable. Really? Do you have Milwaukee winning? Do you have Phoenix in the finals? I always like, you want to know what's predictable? College football. College football, it's the same four teams for a decade. It's Clemson, it's Oklahoma, it's Ohio State, it's Alabama, and let's see who's

coaching Georgia. I'll put them in. But I do think most sports becomes somewhat predictable, somewhat. Why? Because in every business, 5% of people are just better. Real estate, politics, sports, Janus is just better than most people. So they'll just, they'll be really, really good. By the way, Matt Nagy

confirmed that Andy Dalton's performance will be a big factor in how much Justin Fields plays, and Andy Dalton is going to Fields is close, according to the story. The Bears are committed to giving Andy Dalton a chance

to prove himself as the starter in the regular season. But Fields is close. And this is what, I talked about this, my witness two or three days ago. I was told by somebody inside the bears, Justin Fields really was lost for about two weeks. They were a little concerned. Then he had a third week where they're like, okay, and then he's, he's been money since. He has been a dominant player in practice the last

couple of weeks. That's what I was told from somebody I trust. So I think the Dalton's going to start in September's come. Dalton's going to start two games. Is now Dalton's going to start game one. could be Dalton's and he's sitting by half. Channing Crowder, NFL or Miami radio host on yesterday. I asked him about

the Dalton, Justin Field, situation where he'd go. In my mind, Justin Fields would be the guy. Like you said, strong, fast,

young, charismatic. O'Connor reminds me of a young Cam Newton. I'm not saying he's winning NFL MVP, but a young Cam Newton, how his body type is, and his skill set.

He needs to get more accurate. We all know it. He needs to get more accurate. get better. But as a veteran on the team, I'm looking at who gives me the best chance to win. And with Chicago's O-Line struggling, Andy Dalton, if they do struggle like I've seen in the preseason, Andy Dalton is a sitting duck in that pocket. It's a really good point. The Bears drafted two offensive linemen. They only had, I think it was like two picks in the first four rounds. O-line's kind of a mess. So if you really think it should be Justin Fields and you're sitting having a

beer in a Chicago bar. The best argument is with this O line, Justin Fields is the better pick. That I cannot argue with you. I'm an Andy Dalton game one guy. I can't argue that. You win that argument. That argument at a bar, I got to buy you a beer. This old line is trouble and Justin Fields can solve a lot of those riddles. Hour three, live at L.A. Flying by, it's the hurt. 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

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84 was big to me. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick a year, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it. With our friends, fellow comedians, and favorite authors. Like Mark Lamont Hill on the 80s. 84 was a wild year. It was a wild year.

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