The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 11/06/2020 - HOUR 1 - Packers, Tua, Saints-Bucs, Broncos, Notre Dame

Episode Date: November 6, 2020

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No. Unless it was Schitt's Creek. Yeah, you love my wife's favorite show. I'm binging it right now. Yeah, it's fan. I want to choose a low anxiety binge choice for this week. I watched half of a football game last night. That was enough. I watched the whole thing, but yes. Well, I saw a headline today. It's great to have you in a Friday. A lot of choices. Thanks for choosing us.

I saw this headline. Beware NFL. Aaron Rogers and Green Bay are only going to get stronger. Bleacher report. Oh, stop. We didn't learn anything last night about Green Bay. They're the NFL's frontrunners. They're always good when it's comfortable.

And all of the physical 49er players and their starting quarterback were all out. Wide receivers were wide open. They were good on time of possession. excellent on third down. Again, they're the convertible sports car of the NFL. Summer and early fall, easy, breezy. Wait till it snows. I didn't learn anything about Green Bay.

Nothing. They've been doing this for two years. The smallest dogs always barked the loudest, but you can put them right in your purse and they disappear. Pit bulls growl more than they bark. That's Pittsburgh, and that's Kansas City, and that's Seattle. Those are the kind of teams that can get physical too. but they can be pretty.

Oh, the Steelers can be pretty. They can go all deep ball on you. Seattle, Russell Wilson can go pretty to D.K. Metcalf and Kansas City goes without saying. But they can get into the trenches and growl and not just be loud on the porch. Let's be honest about this. There's two games I care about Green Bay. Two games. I want to see him play the Philadelphia Eagles, a physical team December 6th.

And I want to see them play Tennessee in Week 16. Then we can talk. because I didn't learn a thing. Five days ago, they got pushed around by the Vikings. Two times in the last month, Green Bay has been embarrassed, humiliated physically. And Packer fans are becoming Cleveland Brown fans. They get amnesia. They'll get clobbered by the Steelers.

And a week later, they beat Cincinnati and everybody in Cleveland is like, this defines us. No, I just watch you get boat race by Pittsburgh. I'm supposed to look at that game and have any definitive opinion on Green Bay. I said yesterday. I bet this game last night. I'm like, the best bet of the week will not be my blazing five. It was last night. I got nothing out of this.

But Green Bay likes talking. They're like Brown fans. They've really become, they're brown fans with a better pedigree. They've got some titles. They got some Lombardi trophies. It's named after a Packer. But Devonte Adams, yeah, it's all rosy and we're all great this morning. Do you think you're at the point where you can say you're the best wide receiver in the NFL?

Yeah, I think that's fair to say. I think that's not being. seated. That's just being confident. I think, you know, obviously what I've done and what I'm going to continue to do is going to prove that to anybody who isn't on board with that. But I truly believe that. That's okay. That's okay. But don't take last night as the reason you're the best receiver in the NFL. That one doesn't count. You may be. You're certainly in my top five, but last night proves nothing. This has become a franchise that looks beautiful in the summer, beautiful in camp, beautiful in early fall.

December 6 against the Eagles, later in the year against Tennessee. The rest of it, it's Jags, Carolina, Detroit, bad quarterbacks, couldn't care less. I've seen this before. This is all on the Packers. All my cynicism is because you have delivered it. A lot of yapping on the porch. I want growling. I see that in Kansas City.

I see it in Pittsburgh. I still see it in Baltimore. I see it in Seattle. I don't see it in Greenback. All right, I'll tell you the game that I'm really jacked up to watch this weekend. Of course I am. It's two against Kyler Murray, Miami against Arizona. And for years and years, I've talked about this.

If you go look at where most quarterbacks in the NFL played college football, it's remarkable how many of the great ones did not play at college football powers. Aaron Rogers played at Cal. Philip Rivers, North Carolina State, Russell Wilson, North Carolina State to Wisconsin. I mean, Brady was fighting for a starting job at Michigan. He couldn't even become a full-time starter. There are very few Deshawn Watson's from Clemson. I mean, where did Patrick Mahomes go?

I mean, his coach got fired. He couldn't even win with Patrick Mahomes. And the reason being is because the NFL is all about discomfort. And when you're a college quarterback at a national power, like an Oklahoma or a Clemson, or a Clemson, Ohio State. It's all about comfortable. You rarely get hit. So last week, Tua, who was comfortable in college at Alabama,

great running game, great coach, great stars, NFL guys on the offensive line, he was comfortable against the Rams. He had two weeks to prepare. Now he gets just one against Arizona. He was home against the Rams. Now he's rowed against Arizona. He got a defensive touchdown, a couple of special teams touchdowns. He won't get those against Arizona.

Miami's starting running back. is out. Miles Gaskin. Now is a test on Tua. Last week in his college career has all been about comfort. One of the reasons I really like Kyler Murray is he has to keep burrowing through discomfort. Kyler Murray had to transfer in college, started at once, had to transfer. Nobody babied him. Then he goes to the NFL. His NFL coach has never coached in the NFL. Oh, boy, we're learning on the job same time. Then he goes to a brutal division. His defense can't stop anybody his rookie year. And there's massive pressure on him. He doesn't have Ryan Fitzpatrick to start to. No, they got rid of the quarterback so that he had to come in and

play immediately. And they gave him the entire playbook. Kid, we can't stop a nosebleed. Score 30 a game. Tyler Murray, time and time again, has been put in uncomfortable situations in his life. Texas A&M, rookie NFL coach, toughest division in football, doesn't have the defense to save him, has to start game one, and all he has done, every single time is just get better and better and better. And I think this is one of my favorite picks in a long time. love Arizona this week. I am not, as I saw it, before Kyler came to the NFL, I was very cynical. He looked tiny to me. I bought in by the second game in the pros. Tua, I was totally four, but I watch his first week and I watch his college experience and I think, guy, this guy's

life's just comfort. It is just all. He was, he played at a high school in Honolulu that was a powerhouse. Wins 11 games every year. Alabama wins 11 games every year. Last week, got all sorts of help from the defense special teams, only eight first downs. This is really two. first start. One week on the road, now some expectations. And here's something to think about that I think is really interesting. Miami has said, this is not an experiment, although we know it kind of is because they have Houston's pick. But the Miami coaches now, yes, they want to win games. But nobody's going to get fired on this Miami staff if Tua loses and they don't make the playoffs. Nobody's getting fired here. Brian Flores has been exceptional. For the first time in years,

I really like everything about a coaching staff and their personnel and where they're going. They have a bad old line. That'll get better in the next two years as it should. But it'll be interesting to watch here because at some point, Brian Flores knows what I just said is right. You can't coddle anymore. This kid was power high school, power college, last week, eight first downs, no tough throws. At some point, it's going to be interesting to see if the Miami coaching staff says, and it may only be once or twice a game, but situation.

situationally. Let's throw the ball here. Let's see if he can do it. Because I think the Miami staff, knowing, knowing what they have to compete against in the NFL, which is the Burroughs and the Herberts and the Lamar's and by the way, the good quarterbacks, the big bends and the Brady's are playing longer. The Russell Wilson, Aaron Rogers could play for another eight years and the young guys are getting better. So you cannot be average at quarterback and you've got to find out if you're any good. So watch the Miami staff this weekend. I think they're going to test two. He may pass with flying colors, but they're going to put him in spots to fail because that's what Arizona's been doing for a year and a half with Kyler Murray. And the reason he's a star is because he has passed. Not every time. He's had bad games and bad halves, but passed with flying colors. Tua on the road against Arizona. I love the Cardinals this week. Blazing five top of next hour.

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talking about the quarterbacks this week, Breeze against Brady. And we should. They're both old, right? But one doesn't look quite as old, Tom Brady. I want you to for a second think about this. One of the things I was told by somebody really smart person years ago, those with power don't need to use it because everybody understands it. People in power don't have to brag about the power they have. It's unspoken. The Saints and the Patriots have been really great franchises for most of the last decade, certainly New England. They both have Hall of Fame coaches, Belichick and Sean Payton. But Belichick's won more Super Bowl, so he has more power.

And as he has accumulated more power, he has pushed away people in the personnel department. Bill now controls the draft. and the Patriot drafts have been poor for the last four or five or six years. The more Super Bowls he wins, the more power Belichick has. Sean Payton is also a Hall of Fame coach. And maybe if he had four Super Bowls, he would get a call the shots. But he has Mickey Loomis, one of the best GMs in football. And if Tom Brady had Mickey Loomis as his general

manager in New England and would have had Alvin Kamara and Michael Thomas drafted, Tom Brady would have never left New England. And Jared Cook and Emmanuel Sanders in free agency acquired. He would be in New England. Tom was never tight with Belichick. 20 years, they never went to dinner. That's fact. That wasn't why he left. He left because Belichick got more power, wouldn't let Tom have a say. and as he got more power, didn't let his scouts help him in the draft. Tom Brady would be in New England. He and Brady, Belichick, were never tight. So when people called Brady a shot fighter,

my argument was, why are we not looking at Belichick? He made the classic mistake. I've seen Bobby Knight make this mistake. I've seen old coaches who get rich and powerful. Greg Popovich with Kauai Leonard. when you get powerful in this sport, often you want to flex and push away dissenting opinions. Belichick, it's a hole in his game. He is becoming a little bit like that classic old dominating college football coach who doesn't age well.

They're bad offensively. They have no weapons. Brady just chose a place where a younger GM and a veteran head coach work hand in hand. So when you watch this weekend, and this is why Brady is better right now than Breeze, Breeze is struggling with great weapons. Brady now is very good with great weapons. But we've spent so much time looking at Brady and Drew Breeze. We haven't looked at these two Hall of Fame coaches.

One has been left to his own worst devices and tendencies, power. The other, Sean Payton, is held in check by a great general manager. Tom Brady would never have left if Mickey Loomis, was in New England and said to Bill occasionally, I got it. This is what I do. You're a great coach. I'm a great GM. Belichick's trying to be a great coach and a great GM.

There's never been an example where it works. There's been great GMs that couldn't coach and great coaches that didn't GM, but we've given Belichick this past and he's just magician. He's terrible. Offensive skill people. He hasn't had a pro bowler since gronk. So when you look this weekend, finally Brady has weapons. And of course, Breeze does.

He's had them for years. They've even built their offensive line over in New Orleans. That's got two pro bowlers on it. Joy Taylor with the news. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. Well, it feels like the NBA season just finished. It did.

And it's about to get started again very soon. Eight weeks later. The NBA players' reps voted in support of the league's plan for the next season. The Players Association released a statement. yesterday saying that they have approved the December 22nd start date with a 72 game schedule. You know, in times of crisis, sometimes there's opportunity. Yeah. And I personally love this.

So do I. I actually would like it more. I just think we're in a world where it's unfair to the four final teams and really an advantage to be a non-bubble team, but that's life. Life's not fair. There are still details that need to be negotiated, but the NBA is on track to begin again in just a few weeks. The NBA draft is scheduled for November 18th.

So that's in just a few weeks as well. Obviously not the same buzz that we usually have for the NBA draft, but it is going to change a few things. There's a couple big names in there. Anthony Edwards, obviously, the Mello Ball. So the NBA finals finished October 11th. With the December 22nd start date, to your point, that Lakers and Heat will only have 72 days off or 10 weeks.

The Nuggets and Celtics finished on September 26th and 27th, respectively, so they'll have 12 weeks off. Then the six teams that left the bubble before the playoffs would have 18 weeks, and then obviously there were also eight teams who know. never went to the bubble, and they wouldn't have playing a game in nine months, which includes the Golden State Warriors, who will be coming back healthy. So they have been able to hold mini-camps, but to your point, the teams that last the longest in the bubble are at a slight disadvantage. They haven't had a lot of time off. They've also, I'm sure, had to mentally reset from being away

from their families and their lives for the time that they were in the bubble for those three months. But we have to make adjustments, and there's a majority that the NBA, has to be concerned about as well here, not just the Lakers. Right. The good news for the Lakers, Vogel's a veteran coach. Most of the players are veterans. So they do, you can have a much lighter practice schedule because these guys understand. I mean, you don't have to tell Rondo and LeBron and A.D. how to play.

Right. So it's not a young team trying to build chemistry. What we were shocked about last year with the Lakers, how good the chemistry was in the first week. So the good news is you got a title, you got chemistry. I would go through a really, really light first month of camp. I'd play LeBron 20 minutes, not 30. and you're going to lose some games, but, you know, the good news is most of it. Now, Miami's different where they're young and they probably need to get in camp,

but I think the NBA has always should have started by Christmas, and it's always, I've always been a 68 to a 72 game guy, so I love it. I love the adjustments, and yeah, I don't think anyone needs to be overreactive to if you don't see a lot of LeBron or AD at the beginning of the season. If Jimmy Butler is not out there at the beginning of the season, that's fine. I do think that we're going to start to get away from the load management with the rest of the league because that obviously did not work out well for the clippers and Kauai Leonard, but for the teams that were there the longest, you'll have to just be a little patience.

So the Titans looked like one of the best teams in the league a few weeks ago, starting the season 5 and 0. But they've dropped their last two to the Steelers and a stinker to the Bengals, and Ryan Tannahill is anxious to turn those things around. Everyone's frustrated. Just not going out and performing the way we expect to. frustrating. Plain and simple. But at the end of the day, we have no one to look to but ourselves. We have a lot to clean up and, you know, excited for a few opportunities this week to get back to work, clean those things up, and go play against a really good

team on Sunday. I thought about putting this in the Blazing Five. There's a theory in the NFL that after you play the Steelers, they are so physical that the next week, you're banged up and flat, you come down from playing the Steelers and they looked awful against Cincinnati and they'll rebound this week. But if you watched that game last week, It was not competitive 10 minutes in. So Tennessee was just, and I think that's what it is. It's the post. They've said this about the Patriots, by the way.

Remember when the Patriots were in the dynasty? The week after you played New England, you had been teams had a blueprint on how to beat you because New England and Belichick would say, here's how to beat this team. The next coaching staff would go, oh, Belichick gave us the blueprint to beat the jets of the Dolphins. So there's a little bit of that rebound theory.

They lost the Steelers close, 27, 24. but to your point, 312 to the Bengals last week it's not what you expect to see from the Titans. I don't know, though. The Bears are one of those teams that is similar to the Rams.

You just really don't know what they are week to week. Their Titans are favored by six and a half according to Foxbat. They are at home. But this is a very, very big game for Tennessee. You don't want to lose three in a row.

Yeah, that's the right number. I think Titans will win and they'll win by a couple of field goals. I think the number is right. So Richard Sherman has gone up against Tom Brady a few times in his career, and he spoke with Chris Collinsworth about one important thing that separates Brady from other quarterbacks.

He's much more intense throughout the play than most quarterbacks. It's almost like a franticness about his play sometimes, where it's like, I need to get this ball out. I know where it's going. It's almost like the game's moving slow, so slow in his mind that it's like his mind's fast forwarded to the spot where the guy should be, the moment the ball should be out, and the guy isn't there yet, and he has to wait for him. I mean, that makes sense.

When you do something that for that long, that many times, it becomes a second nature to you. It's more of the physical now than it is with Brady mentally. And he's right. Like, he knows where the receiver is supposed to be. He knows exactly where he wants to go with the ball. So he's so far ahead of everyone that he's, like, holding it like, okay, get to where you need to be. If you've ever been in a kitchen with a chef, a long-tenured chef, and there's utter chaos in a kitchen. I mean, it's like intimidating.

And you watch a great chef He can see He can plate everything at the exact same time I can't do eggs toast And at the same time They don't match up But if you watch a great chef He's literally he can anticipate everything

The timing and I think that's Brady He is a play Wayne Gretzky they said at the end He was a play ahead He was a pass ahead of the sport And I think that's where Brady is Yeah similar to LeBron Like LeBron knows the game so well

That's why he gets so frustrated with young players and Brady does too because they know it so well. They're like, why don't you understand what I'm saying to you? Like, this is so simple. But when you've been doing it 20 years, it's you know, it starts to slow down for you a little bit. Good stuff. Joy with the news. Well, that's the news.

And thanks for stopping by. The Heard Lye News. So, by the way, I made dance on the show Monday. What? What did Colin say? So Drew Locke, I went out,

This week. And I've said this. I like my quarterbacks to be quarterbackial. I like my presidents to be presidential. I'm not into this high, you know, like a lot of attention and a lot of, I'm not into that stuff. So I drew Locke turned me off this week with all the dancing. And I said, I was out on James Winston. I was out on Johnny Mantel. I was out on Baker. And I knew Cam would be semi-successful, but I was not a big fan. Too silly, too cool. I like my guys to be even. temperament. And I drew lock this past week. I saw him get silly. And I said this earlier in the week. We have a new cool guy. I was right on Mansell. I was right on Baker. I was right on Cam. I was right on James Winston. Too silly, showboat, too cool. I was right. It's four for four. Bring your argument on. Here's number five. I'm not into Drew Locke. All the cool dancing. Win more games, Cub Scout. Win more games. Okay. So Drew Locke has a sense of humor. I like that.

Drew Locke apparently heard about that and responded. I definitely got it sent to me. And truthfully, I feel like the person, if not, you know, other people, there might have been more than one. But that person just might not be able to dance as well. I would be sour that way, too. We'll see. Hopefully, my dance moves get better in the public eye because I probably probably. They're probably not going to stop.

Okay, he's got a sense of humor like that. Okay, so here's my thing. All right. So, a little dancey, dancy. It's not my cup of, I like my Russell Wilson, my Andrew Luck, my Brady, my Breeze. I like a certain, not into this at all. So one of the reasons I do not like dance guy, showboat guy, Superman guy, is because that tells me you're not an even temperament guy.

Everybody can have a great game. I want to see great stretches. That's been my knock on cam. great week, bad game. Great year, bad year. Great half, bad year. Baker Mayfield's had great moments, followed by bad moments. So this is my promise to Drew Locke.

You were great last week late. So prove to me that it didn't go to your head, and I'm not even going to ask much. All I'm going to ask you to do this week is beat crappy Atlanta. Atlanta's two and six. They've won two of their last 11 at home. their defense is terrible. Because what I worry about James and Johnny and Baker is often, oh, they can dance and they're cool, but they go way up and it's followed by way down.

The guys that stay neutral, I get kind of the same thing. It's one of the things I like about DAC. So all I'm asking, all I'm asking now, just go beat Atlanta. Just go beat Atlanta. And if you beat Atlanta, crappy Atlanta. I'm not asking you to beat the Titans in Tennessee or the Steelers. I'm not asking you to beat Russell Wilson. I'm not asking you to go Lambo.

Beat Atlanta. And I'll make a bet. If you beat Atlanta, dancing's allowed for the rest of the season. No criticism. I thought you were about to say you were going to dance on the show. And I will dance a little on Monday if you win. Little. But if you lose to Atlanta, I'm coming after you.

It's not, you're going to get, your buddy's going to be. sending this for weeks. That's all I'm saying. So I'm not asking much. Because I think this week you're going to devitile. I think you're going to go, ooh. You're getting real high and you're a lot. So that's a little bit. I'm all I'm asking to beat Atlanta.

Doug Gottlieb, the Dugger is now joining us live. Brought to you by Mercedes-Benz, the best or nothing on the Friday. Speaking of the young quarterbacks. So everybody knows I had an epiphany a couple weeks ago. I looked at two, blah, blah, blah. I liked him all the time. And I said, listen, sometimes your epiphanies happen after the draft. And I said, he didn't have size.

He didn't have a wiggle. I got to see special. So I watched the Rams game. And I'm like, I don't, I just don't see it. And so you watch the Rams game. What did you see? It just wasn't an it play or wasn't like you and I have played golf before. Of course, if it's ADD or I'm not sure, couldn't make it through 18.

But when you and I play golf, we're not great. But there's that one shot that keeps you coming back. When you and I play tennis, that is really not great. But there's that one rally or one serve that you have, right? Like everybody has that. And when you watch young guys that are prospects, just coming into league, oftentimes they're not consistent. They're not great.

But there's a one moment where you're like, oh, okay. That moment wasn't there Sunday. I think that was the kind of most alarming, right? I understand that the questions about Tua, for the most part, were, would he be healthy? Could he remain healthy? Because every time he got hurt in college, it was trying to run away from a college defender. And NFL defenders are faster, bigger, faster, stronger, etc. But I just, again, I'm not saying he can't be fine, but in comparison to the first time we saw Burrow, the first time we saw Herbert, both made

wow plays. By the way, both lost and he won. But I think if you watch that tape, you're like, I just show me a reason to believe long term. And that reason is not yet apparent. So I watched the Niners last night and don't blame anybody. I still think they have a good GM and a good owner and a great coach and all that stuff. But I do think when you're in a division with Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray and Jared Gough and McBay, you not only have to be better than average, you have to be healthy. He now gets hurt a lot. And it's just what it is. So I don't think this is crazy. I look at New England's quarterback issue and I look at 49ers and I'm like, Garoppolo's going back there, right?

Like, is that a hot take or is that there's something there, right? No, no, there's something there. I mean, I hypothesized through this out like a week and a half ago. Like, all right, I understand Matt Ryan makes a bunch of money, but he may be looking for a short-term home. Obviously, he was the MVP under Kyle Shanahan. Does that make success? Or is it a Sam Donald? I think the one thing, though, that we have to kind of catch our breath is, you got to, if you're going to get rid of Jimmy Garoppolo, no matter what his warts are and his inability to not make the big error or to stay healthy.

healthy. All of that said, you better know you got somebody who has played in this league because when healthy, that's a great roster. I mean, really the story this year in the NFL is who's healthy, who's healthy, right, right. You can't, none of us believe that Kyle Shanahan's a bad coach. They're a bad team last night because they couldn't compete because the players they're putting on the field. Same thing with Bill Belichick. They had eight guys opt out. And of course, they weren't a super talented team and they lose Brady. What do we expect? Dallas Cowboys, I'm with you. I don't know if that coaching staff fits long term, but there's no way of knowing when you're missing four offensive linemen in your quarterback. So that's the first thing. But in terms of Garapolo,

there's been something there. There's been an obvious frustration. And it was Blake Bordell's like in the NFC championship game, right, where, you know, they just handed the ball off or in the Super Bowl, you know, where they didn't allow him to throw the football and really believe that he could lead him down the field at the end of the first half when they had a full boat of timeouts. So there's been something brewing there, and it does make sense. You always go back to a place where somebody believes in you, and that place may be New England. But it's a lot easier said because we had so much quarterback movement this off season. Normally, guys fight it out to the bitter end, and normally an injury, and all of a sudden the team falls apart, usually helps solidify that quarterback.

So let's see. It's not a crazy hot take. It's reasonable, but the actual execution of it, it doesn't happen that off in the end. So you were a great college basketball player, and basketball, you know, they always say, defense is a want. If James Harden wanted to be a defender, he could be. Clay Thompson wants to be. And so it's the same in defense in the NFL.

Green Bay is like a really good basketball player where offense comes easy. I'm just not sure they want to play defense. They're not a physical team. It's not who they are. In your basketball career, you probably played with great guys. And you're like, oh, man, they took half that effort on the defensive end. And I'm not saying their personnel is perfect in Green Bay. But I watched last night, and I'm like, I didn't get anything out of this.

These are the games that are always great. Like, what do I make of Green Bay today after Minnesota, then this? Well, everybody needs a get right game, right? I mean, everybody needs a game in which you start to feel confident. And even though, and this is a crazy stat, there wasn't a player on the Niners' active roster that played against the Packers last year in the NFC championship game. So, yeah, I mean, it's really hard to take. tell they beat up on the Niners JV, no question.

But we could also be honest and say, like, look, Minnesota came in last Sunday and kicked their tail, with the exact same kind of game plan, the exact same blocking schemes. So the takeaway is, like, it's still a work in progress defensively, but also this is the way the team was constructed. You know, get a lead early,

and then they have a very good pass rush. Yeah. They're not necessarily designed to stop, you know, that run game. What did I learn? I mean, if Devante Adams is in a top five wide receiver in the NFL, I'm not sure who is. Aaron Rogers, when he gets time, is still a magician. And when they get a lead, that's how they're designed. Do I know if they can stop?

I like a legitimate NFL team that likes to run the football. I have no idea because, again, the Niners are just crushed by injuries. By the way, Bucks, Breeze, Saints, Bucs, Brady, Saints, who do you like and why? Well, look, I don't know if you've heard this, but Breeze has a shoulder issue. I do wonder if this is not a great opportunity to let's see what James has against his old team. I'm with you. I think Breeze is a shot fighter. I think the arm is done.

I thought last Sunday in Chicago, I know they won the game, but it's a bit of an indictment. And if you, they're not, I don't think they're going to be able to play all their games at home in the playoffs. And remember, the last two years they've lost at home and he hasn't been great. Of course, the dome, he's a much better quarterback. So is he going to go on the road and win in Seattle? They're going to go on the road and win in Green Bay? Or maybe even have to play on the road in Philadelphia, right? If they win the division, the answer is it doesn't look likely.

On the other hand, they are supposed to get Michael Thomas back. And whatever his personal issues are, he's an incredible wide receiver, and he's covered up some of the flaws for Drew Brees in the past. So who do I like? Like, I like the Buccaneers. They have a very good defense, especially in the front. And obviously, they're starting to come together offensively. I still think that I'd like to see James.

Like, let's see what he's got, especially considering the weakness to the Tampa defense is in the back end. And the guy who can make those throws is James Winston. We just haven't seen him yet for the same. That's interesting. That would be interesting to watch, actually. Like, look, we saw this with the Broncos, right? And Peyton Manning, I don't know if he was hurt or if he was injured or if he was just old.

But remember, Brock Osweiler kind of carried them. late in that regular season, and then they benched him to bring in Peyton for the playoffs. I don't think it's unreasonable here if you're the Saints, and you say like, you know, Breeze has got a shoulder issue. Let's sit them down for a week or two. Let's see what else we got. Again, do I think it's going to happen? No, but I don't think it's crazy, especially considering it's the Buccaneers. James threw for 5,000 yards last year in the NFL.

Yeah. And there is some precedence with it, not just with Breeze getting hurt last year, but when Peyton Manning got hurt his last year with the Broncos. I'd be honest with you. I think it would make the game more interesting. That's weird to say. Yeah. I think it would actually make the game.

I would like to see James play. Production's not his issue. Bad picks or his issue. Why don't you like that? What is your thing with dancing? Like, I'm not convinced Drew Locke is the long-term starter for the day. I was out on my- What's your thing?

Is it because you dance like the president? No. No, no, no. No. I mean, Joy should be offended by this. She does dance party Friday every Friday on Instagram. And here you are saying that, Dan, you're like, what is it? Like footloose?

No, I like, but we can't dance inside city limits? Presidents to be presidential. Quarterbacks to be quarterbackial. You can, if you're great, I'll give you passes. Aaron Rogers gets. So, so Aaron Rogers does the discount. No, no, he's great. Right, that's bad? He's great.

Magic Johnson could do anything in his prime. He's great. When you're struggling to be a franchise quarterback, scale it back a little. Okay, I'll, can I give you the real and Joy can tell me if that I'm totally wrong here, right? All right. This ain't about me and you. It ain't about the fans, okay? True luck's got a little swag. And that swag works in the locker.

I'm like, okay. Oh, this young guy, he's got a little something. Like, it has nothing to do. This is like when old guy gets on radio or TV and says, like, I don't like those uniforms that college kids are wearing, right? Well, hey, guess what, Gramps? It's not for you. It's designed for the high school kids that want to play for Oregon, that want to play for,

you know, pick whatever, right? It's the same thing. the dancing is not for you. It's not for me. It's not for the fans. It's for those fellas that block form. They got to believe in him. You've got to feel like you're one of them.

And I think Drew's got a little, he's got a little hitching his giddy up. And if you can, if you can do it, do it. And if not, I wouldn't, you sound like the guy complaining about the party being too loud because he didn't get invited to the party. I am four for four. Mansell, Cam, James Baker. I'm four for four. I don't like it. It is my thing.

But prove me wrong. He's an underdog to Atlanta, so somebody doesn't buy... Listen, listen, I'm not disputing that I'm not convinced that Drew Locke is a long-term solution at quarterback. But I think these two things are separate and distinct. Because at the end of the day, aren't you supposed to have a little bit of fun, right? Like, do you know how lucky they were to pull out that game? They were on the Chargers, Chargered, right? That's basically what happened.

They found a way to lose a game that they were completely and totally done. He steals the win at home. You want to do a little dance? Do a little dance, dude. Feel good for yourself. Everybody makes fun of old guys, but we own everything. So, I mean, we're doing something. We're doing something.

Wow. Wow. I'm just being honest. Everybody rips old guys. Everybody crushes old guys. Old guys. Dance party Friday, Colin. Get on board.

Dance party Friday. All I want is Drew Locke. Go beat Atlanta. Horrible Atlanta. Can't even win at home Atlanta. If you can beat Atlanta, I'll dance Monday. I'm so excited to see this dance. You need to do it for all of us.

I'm four for four on this stuff. I'm four for four. I understand where you're coming from. Hey, I'm going to ask a question. Could you give me an answer? Could you give me an answer? Because I got a question. No conspiracy theories.

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Matt Campbell was 8 and 5 at Iowa. and everybody got to flutterer. Oh, Matt Campbell, he got to put him in the NFL. Because he went eight and five at Iowa State. Brian Kelly's won everywhere, every level. He's still in his 50s. I don't get it. They have a chance to meet Clemson this week.

At a school, Notre Dame, that's an academic powerhouse, cold weather, tiny town, private. And he competes against the big boys. He's not as good as Clemson or Alabama or Ohio State. He shouldn't be. A lot more restrictions there, harder to recruit there. But I don't get it. Shiano had a couple of good years at Rutgers, head coaching job. Chip Kelly was really good for a while at Oregon and the Softpack 12.

He got two head coaching jobs. Brian Kelly can't get a sniff, and I know he's been interested. First of all, when Pete Carroll left USC and went to the NFL, it was a huge advantage for about three years because Pete knew all the college players. He'd recruited him. He'd played with him. He'd played against him. And Seattle, for the first three years, Pete came to the NFL.

ace the draft. They were finding guys, they were finding great players in the fifth, the sixth round. Brian Kelly would have the same advantage. He knows all those Florida high school guys that are now in the SEC. Try to get him. He has many NFL guys. He's still in his 50s. He's great with personnel, obviously.

Notre Dame, hard place to get into, has not had this many good football players since Lou Holtz. I mean, you go watch the draft now. There's very good Notre Dame players in the NFL. His offensive lines are excellent. His receivers, his backs, the linebackers. I don't get it. I do not get it.

I mean, it's guys that don't even look the part. Freddie Kitchens got a head coaching job. He doesn't even look the part. Jim Tom Sulla. Did you watch his first press conference with the 49ers? It was humiliating. Guys that are maybe good coordinators, Steve Wilkes in Arizona. He was there for a year.

They're like, ooh, big mistake. Why aren't people considering Brian Kelly? He reminds me a lot of Tom Coughlin. A little grumpy, a little edgy, up in Boston College, real smart. And by the way, Brian Kelly is also but at Notre Dame, so he's good with the media. I mean, think about this. Cliff Kingsbury had Patrick Mahomes and couldn't win in college. It could not win in the Big 12 where tackling is illegal.

Cliff Kingsbury comes to the NFL. It's not like he's 70. He's in his 50s, late 50s. I mean, Mark Tressman was a Canadian football league coach. And people were like, oh, he's a wizard. it's the CFL. You get 12 men. You get seven receivers.

They have a 45-yard end zone. You're at the two-yard line. You can run a post-pattern. It's the CFL. They don't even run the football. Of course, his offensive numbers were great. He goes to the NFL Zippo. I can't figure it out.

Cliff Kingsbury couldn't win in the Big 12 with Patrick Mahomes. He had a sub-500 record in the cruddy Big 12. All the Chip Kelly gets two guys. gig, Shiano, Tressman. I think Notre Dame's going to give him everything they have this weekend. And Brian Kelly is won everywhere. Everywhere he's been.

Directional schools, small schools, Notre Dame, he's good with the media, super smart, develops players. He takes a lot of academic three-star guys and they end up playing on Sundays. I think he's really, really good. Now, Clemson's got better personnel. They're missing a couple starters plus Trevor Lawrence. So I think it's a very competitive football game. If the weather was cold and crappy, I would like Notre Dame more.

But I think Joy said it's going to be 65, 70. So Clemson probably prevails. But Fox Betts got it at like four and a half point spread. That tells you it. It's going to be an even football game. So I just can't figure it out. Matt Campbell went 8 and 5 at Iowa State and everybody freaked out. We got a new NFL coach.

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