The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 12/07/2020 - Best of The Herd

Episode Date: December 7, 2020

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Wherever you may be in, however you may be listening, we're on Fox Sports Radio, IHeart Radio, and FS1, one hour from now where Colin was right, where Colin was wrong, plenty of both. Joy Taylor is joining me, vibrant today, dynamic. Two Monday night football games tonight. Good week of Blazing 5. feeling in a very robust mood today.

Two Monday night football games tonight. Yeah. A Tuesday night football game tomorrow. A Thursday night football game. Who's on the Thursday night game, Goulai? It is Rams Patriots. Wow, what are we? Yeah, big fight this weekend.

Wow. Big fight news they were just talking about, which we'll get to later. Well, let's start with this. 2020's been a heck of a year, right? And I get in discussions with my kids all the time. I said, listen, it's given us a recession. It's given us a pandemic. This has been a rough year.

But yet in this rough year, many people, companies, families have actually flourished. Oh, they have. Everybody, when you don't have any speed bumps and curves in your life, it's much easier. But can you adapt to trouble? Adapt to a life that's different. I saw something yesterday that was, I'm going to leave my show with it. The Patriots beat the Chargers, 45-0-0. It was not a good game to watch, but I'm going to lead with it.

So 45-0-0, does the talent between the Patriots and Chargers say 45-0? No. That's like Alabama against the Sunbelt Conference team. The Kansas City Chiefs would not beat the Jets 45-0. Let's just marvel at Bill Belichick what he has done in 2020. The best quarterback ever leaves. Eight players opt out for COVID. He loses a top assistant.

They have multiple defensive starters leave for free agency. He has no stars at wide receiver or tight end. Cam Newton appears to be shot. And they have to completely change their offensive game to a power running game. Oh, wait. there's no preseason. And this morning, they're six and six, and two plays away from being eight and four.

If Cam doesn't get stopped at the goal line against Seattle, and it was really close, and if they don't fumble against Buffalo, they're eight and four. How in the hell is that possible? Cam Newton yesterday threw for 69 yards. And they won 45-0. Okay, if you'd have told me,

so Cam Newton threw for 69 yards, and the Patriots beat the Chargers, I'd be like 9 to 6. 1714? No, no, no. It was 45 nothing. Could any other coach win games with what he's been handed with? Philadelphia lost a coordinator, a play caller, Frank Reich.

They're a disaster. Atlanta lost Kyle Shanahan. They're a dumpster fire on half the Sundays. Does everybody understand what you're watching here? You can really judge somebody by what happens when things go south and how you adjust. Mike Tomlin has never had a losing season in 14 years. He almost made the playoff for the quarterback named Duck. He's had drama.

He's had injuries. He's had A.B. He's had Lavian Bell out. Big Ben got hurt. 14 years. Never had a losing team in Pittsburgh. That's a coach. Sean Payton, back-to-back years, lost a Hall of Famer.

Drew Breeze. How'd he do? Eight, nothing with like five blowouts. What? Yeah, Taseham Hill. The Tebow guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he can throw it out. What?

I mean, now, there are a handful of coaches in this league that have completely separated. Think about this. In the last two years, Belichick has lost Brian Flores, who appears to be great. And Joe Judge, and eyes wrong on this. Wow, can that dude coach. He lost both off a staff. And they're a play from being seven and five. I mean, my eyes tell me, Cam is kind of shot.

but he has five touchdowns and nine picks. He's got more wins starting this year, six. He has touchdown passes. They have nobody to throw two. And they won 45-0-0. Belichick took a guy yesterday named Gunner Olchevsky and got him two touchdowns. He sounds like a 1968 hockey player with no teeth. Gunner Olchevsky, the pride of Bommiji State.

Don't even know what state it's in. marvel at it. Because I don't, you can say Anthony Lynn can't coach. You got a team to a playoff a couple years ago. 45-0 nothing with a quarterback that threw for 69 yards. They so dominated the Chargers coaching staff, it was over seven minutes in. I mean, that 45-0 is Bama over a Sunbelt conference team. That's not even Chiefs over the Jets backup quarterback.

That game would be somewhat competitive for a quarter. I mean, it is a marvel. what we're watching. And again, nothing went his way. I mean, of all the years, you'd have to completely change your offense from Tom Brady to Cam. They got it in a year in a pandemic and no preseason. Look at them now. It's incredible.

All right, let's talk Baker Mayfield. Why don't we? Oh, Colin, how did you not lead with this? So I'm going to give Cleveland a path. So Cleveland got a huge lead. But in the second half, Cleveland was outscored 28 to 3. I'm going to give them a complete pass on this. Why? Because Cleveland led 38-7 at half.

Cleveland doesn't lead anybody 38-7. Cleveland went into halftime. They went into the locker room. And the coach is like, guys, it's 38-7. And they're all like, we lead? They didn't know what to do in the second half, because they'd never been there. I'm going to give Cleveland a total. New England, Kansas City, good Steelers go in big at half.

they kind of know what to do. I'm going to give Cleveland a past. They didn't know what to do. They've never been there before. And I got to say this. Biggest win in Baker-Mayfield's career, that goes without saying. But I want to say this, and let's add context. When you have the number one quarterback on a rookie contract, you should be winning.

Russell Wilson got to two Super Bowls. Golf got to one. Mahomes got to one. Flacco and Cam got to one. Because when you have a rookie, you know, a top young quarterback, you're not paying him anything for three to four years. So you can go get free agents. What did the Browns did? They went and got a right tackle Jack Conklin, elite right tackle. They couldn't afford that if they're paying Baker 30. They want to get Jarvis Landry's expensive. Austin Hooper. So when you could, this is what the Rams

did with Goff. It's what the chiefs can do with Bahams before the contract. It's what you can do. If you've got a quarterback, you can load up right now. The Brown's offensive line, now this was before the game, was rated as a top two pass blocking line. and a top two run blocking line. You can do that when you're not paying the quarterback anything. But the question has always been. We know Goff is mature.

He's real quiet. We know Mahomes is. We know Russell is. Like, we know those guys are mature. The question is, when you have that young quarterback, and he gets all that talent, he'll never have that much talent offensively the rest of his career because they're paying Baker nothing

and Goff was getting paid nothing and Mahalms getting paid nothing and Russell nothing. Can you steer the ship? We know you're not experienced. We know you're young. We know you'll make mistakes. but are you mature enough and steady enough to just kind of move the luxury liner down the river? And I never thought Baker was.

I mean, I picked the Browns to make the playoffs, but I never thought I'd see yesterday. That's what golf looked. Like, first couple years, they'd have these games where like, man, ma'am's got a lot of weapons. Mahomes got a lot of weapons. Mahomes is not going to have this many weapons in two years. He's not. They're not going to be able to keep everybody. You can't pay your quarterback $45 million.

So this was a really nice, moment for Baker. We've always known the ups and downs of Baker. But these are the moments when you get that franchise quarterback and you can go big into free agency at tight end and wide receiver and right tackle and you can really spend some money on it. Is he just stable and mature enough to guide all this talent down the river? Just guide it to wins. And yesterday was the first time I watched Baker and I thought, oh, he could win a playoff game. Baker could win a playoff game. It's been Rocky to get there. a lot of stuff I didn't like. First time I watched him, I thought Baker Mayfield could win a playoff game.

And I'm going to give them a pass for the second half because they've never let anybody 38 to 7 at half and they didn't know what the hell to do. They had no idea what to do. Do we just run it? Do we pretend like we're in a close game? But that was impressive. And Baker Mayfield talked after. What's different about you now as opposed to a month ago, last year, whatever? Is it something looks different?

What's different? Whenever I'm about to do something, I think would an idiot do that? And if they would, then I don't do that. Good answer from the office. Now, what is the next step? And this is going to be even harder for Baker and Cleveland. Because O'Day feeling themselves today. Next month, you play Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and the Giants.

Those defenses are good. And you can't shoot any more TV commercials. Can't go out late at night. Got to wear a mask. Got to be smart. Can't be cocky. Baker proved I can go on the road and win a big game. I can guide this ship like Goff did Mahomes, did Russell Wilson did.

But the difference because of those three players temperaments that win wouldn't unravel them. Trent Dilfer has a great saying. He goes, you got to learn how to win in this league. Everybody loses the same. They're pissed and they work really hard. He goes, not everybody wins the same in this league. Some guys win, they buy a new this, they buy a new that, they shoot a new commercial.

So step two, step one's been accomplished. You can win a playoff game with Baker. Step two is let's work twice as hard for Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and the Giants. Because those are way better defenses than the Titans. That's the next step. That's what Mahomes did. That's what Goff did. That's what Russell Wilson did.

Oh, win. Impressive. And Baker deserves credit for them. that. But they went to bed early, studied twice as hard, we're great the next week. Can Baker do that? We'll see. Hopeful, not rooting against them. Don't root against good quarterback. I never root against young quarterbacks. This league is awful with bad quarterback play. I said before, I watched Baker a ton the first two years. When he started going downhill, I stopped watching and stopped talking about him. He wasn't as interesting. He just wasn't as good. If this is what I get

from Baker, interesting, good can win playoff games. Now let's just do it again and again and again and again. because now this is the second stage of it. You won, you shut people up, now work twice as hard this week. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeard Radio app. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged.

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Yesterday, the Seahawks lost at home to the giant 17 to 12, and the Giants were playing a backup quarterback Colt McCoy. And on the inner web, a lot of people were saying, oh, biggest upset of the year. Oh, it's the biggest upset of the year. I mean, that is unbelievable upset. And I'll say, I would caution you to that because one of the things I like about the NFL over college football is Sundays are crazy all the time. The Steelers, and I was around to watch it, dominated the 70s, a true dynasty. The 49ers dominated the 80s, a true dynasty.

And they got upset all the time. New England, the year they won the Super Bowl two years ago, were destroyed by Matt Patricia and the Lions in the same year. I don't think this was as big and upset as we think. The Giants have been in eight straight close games. They've won five a seven. They're going to win their division and host a playoff game. And defensively, their defensive line is excellent. And Seattle's primary weakness is their offensive line.

Now, it's an upset. But if you've been, and I've been on this now, for two months. When they were one in seven, I said, they remind me of Miami. And this is counterintuitive to what we think. But at the end of last year, Joy and I, both said this. The dolphins were better than New England. In the last nine games, they were a better football team. And it's counterintuitive for a lot of you because this team started, the Giants started 0 and 5. They are a better football team than many of the teams that will make the playoffs.

But this is more important to me. As a talk show host, and you never see political talk show hosts do this. That's why I just don't listen to most of them. As a sports talk show host, I think it's my responsibility to admit when I am wrong. It gives me credibility, because nobody's right all the time in politics or sports. I thought Dave Gettelman, the GM of the Giants, was a goofball. I thought he was horrible in front of the microphone. I thought he was goofy. I thought he was completely out of his element. He did three things. I didn't like any of them. He hired Joe Judge. I'm like, what? He drafted Daniel Jones. Sixth? And he traded OBJ. He was right on all of them. And by the way, I did like his Leonard Williams trade from the Jets.

That I liked. But to show you the power of the Giants culture, because Leonard Williams didn't suddenly get way better, Leonard Williams has more sacks this year for the Giants than he did three years for the Jets. That is about coaching and culture. And I got to be honest about it. I just didn't like the Daniel Jones draft. I didn't get the Joe Judge higher.

There was a lot better coaches I thought more experience. and the OBJ trade, I understood the criticism. But yesterday was just a great defensive team facing a Seahawk team with a bad O line. It's now the Seahawks primary weakness. Russell Wilson wasn't terrible, but he was sacked five times under duress. And this is a well-coached team. We spend a lot of time on this show criticizing winners that lose. Sometimes we have to give credit that losers that win.

And this Giants team isn't a great team with a great record. But they won that game. they were clearly all day, three and a half hours, the better team. There was never a moment in that game, Seattle, I felt was a better team on that Sunday. It was like, oh, Giants just, their defensive line is controlling Seattle's offensive line, therefore they're controlling the football game. And I got to admit when I was wrong, the Giants are formidable. Their GM, by the way, Gettleman, I thought had a very, very good draft as well.

And I said that after the draft, I'm like, this is pretty good draft. and I don't think this is all about the upset. I really don't. I think we're going to look back at this in six weeks. If the Giants win a playoff game and go, that wasn't that big of an upset. You know, when Miami beat New England last year at the end, who, what an upset.

This morning you're like, how much of an upset? Miami's good. And New England's okay. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd. Weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. Philadelphia's got a real dilemma. So everybody's like, Jalen Hertz played well.

Okay, if he's the solution, it doesn't solve the problem. You do not want a $35 million backup. There are certain combinations in life that are just bad. If you're a director of a movie and when it's all done, you go to the studio and go, yeah, it's long and boring, you're done. If it's boring, make it quick. If it's a little, you know, little stodgy, little clunky, make it quick. When you have an expensive quarterback and he's currently lousy,

you are done in this league. You're done. That is like, I've got a car. It costs me a fortune, and it's always breaking down. How do you get out of it? You've got a car payment. You've still got to get to work tomorrow. Like, I don't see the few.

I look at bad teams in this league. I see, I mean, I'll get Cincinnati right now, and I think, God, Joe Burrell comes back. They'll go heavy on offensive line personnel. They're great. They'll be fine. Jets, Jags, I can see the sunlight. man we said earlier this is bleak i don't there is no solution i look at philadelphia and if jalen hurts kirk cousins you may have thought he was overpaid we all did but he was never terrible

he had a ceiling he wasn't terrible uh jimmy garoppolo who i like more than you we felt for about two years not not anymore with the contract but for two years we're like oh that's a lot for jimmy garoppel but it wasn't terrible wence is expensive and terrible and there's no way out This league is predicated on two things. It really is. Your quarterback's talent and how expensive is he? And if he's super talented, you can have a little less talent around him. And if he's not expensive at all, Baker, golf, and his rookie contract,

then you get a lot of talent around him. When his talent now is debatable and he costs you a fortune, somebody made a movie, maybe Kevin Costner was in it. No way out. I don't know the answer. I don't know the answer for Philadelphia. One more herd? The herd streams 24 hours.

Today, seven days a week within the IHeart Radio app. Search Herd to listen live or on demand whenever you'd like. We call it Colin right, Colin wrong. I make mistakes during the week. I have strong opinions. They go either way. And here we go on a Monday. Where Colin was right?

It's been a roller coaster ridiculous year for Blazing 5, and this was a great week. Almost went 4 and 0 yesterday. Went 3 in 1. Had the Browns to cover, had the Rams to win, had New England to beat the Chargers. Oh, by the way, I thought I had a backdoor cover on Philadelphia. until Aaron Jones went Aaron Jones. Have the Niners tonight. I'm 30, 32, and 2 on the year.

Let's keep it going. Where Colin was wrong. I didn't know if Matt Lefleur was the answer in Green Bay. He'd been a coordinator for one year. My sources told me he sometimes struggled to own the room. Tennessee's offense got better when he left. But you know what? Aaron Rogers and Matt Lefleur are 22 and 6 together.

I thought last year he was very good on the play sheet but didn't adjust at half. this year. Green Bay's a better, not great, but a better second half team. Aaron is happy. He's crazy productive. The eye rolls are gone. He seems fully engaged. And it works. I mean, now, they are sometimes Devante Adams dominant, but I've got to be honest with you. I'm not so sure. He's not the first or second best skill player in the league. So, you know, we always criticize coaches when, why don't you go to the number one guy? Well, they go to the number one guy a lot. They go to Aaron Jones and Devante Adams a lot. and that's what you have to do when you have great players.

So I think Matt Lafleur has surprised me and been better than expected. Where Colin was right? Well, I said the Belichick Anthony Lynn game yesterday had the makings of the biggest coaching mismatch of the year in the NFL. It's nothing against Anthony Lynn, but this was embarrassing. It was a New England toyed with the Chargers staff, special teams coach, defensive coach, defensive, Gordon, 45-0 with Justin Herbert and those weapons. By the way, I've been on this for a month.

I've said, listen, I know Anthony. I like him. The players play hard for him. But there are losses and there are moments. When you get one of these all-time potential great quarterbacks, you've got to get the coach right. No more coordinators. You got to go spend some money on a head coach. By the way, the last two times Belichick faced Anthony Lynn, 45-0-0-0-0-0-0-8 and 41-28.

And that game was 41 to 14 at one point as a coaching mismatch. Where Colin was wrong. I've always had this thing where if your owner's an A, your GM's an A, your coach is an A, and your quarterback's an A, or they're all close. You're a Super Bowl contender every year. I've been so high on Philadelphia for three years. They're bad at everything. I mean, they're a mess right now.

They have some good defensive personnel, but it's a mess. The Carson Wendst thing is a mess. Alshan Jeffries is shot and overpaid. For some reason, nobody's ever healthy. Their first and second round picks had a good, they showed signs yesterday, but don't look as dynamic as you'd want a first or a second round kind of franchise to be. And I got to own it. Philadelphia right now is bleak.

Doug Peterson. I don't know if that's the right coach. Listen, Belichick loses coordinators, Andy Reid loses them every two years. It's not man overboard. Doug Peterson lost one guy he really connected with Frank Reich, and they can't get it right since he left. It may be the wrong head coach.

Where Colin was right? We called it when the Giants were one in seven. We said it's the best one and seven team ever. We said this is the Miami Dolphins guys. Keep your eye on the New York Giants. And we called this when they were one in seven. Five of their seven losses have been one possession. They now lead their division, and I don't see anybody that can really threaten them, to be honest with you.

Seattle's offensive line was overmatched. This is a franchise. This is Miami of last year. They got into a big hole. Remember Miami was like 0 in 7 or 0.8 last year. But when you were watching them, you were seeing a team that was losing competitive, baby steps. Then at the end of the year, Miami started winning narrowly. This is what the Giants are doing.

Blowout early. losses are close, wins are close. This team's not that far away from some blowout W's next year. So we were right on Joe Judge. Where Colin was wrong. Kyler Murray is a Hail Mary pass. One Hail Mary pass from a five-game losing streak. And I always said with Kyler, even if he doesn't run,

he throws the prettiest ball in the league. He can be a pocket quarterback. What it looks like is running is really essential to his game. He only has one win this year where he didn't rush for 60 yards. He really does, and that's okay because he can do it, but Kyler needs the running element to work. I think he throws such a beautiful. And he made a couple of great throws yesterday, one in the end zone to DeAndre Hopkins, which was a complete needle thread.

But he needs to run. He can be kind of inconsistent, and he still makes mistakes yesterday, 21 and 39, not great. Where Colin was right? I said Westbrook and Hardin would never work. And people say, oh, they're close. friends and I'm like, I'm going to speak for guys on this. Guys don't care. If we're great friends and you're screwing my career, we're not great friends. I'm not

going to speak for well. I'm going to speak for guys. Listen, they're hard to play with. And they're both ball-centric. And Darry and a lot of people are like, oh, they're friends. They get along. It's like the games don't work. And as Chris Broussard taught me a long time ago, your game's your game. Your games, you get, Ben Simmons can't shoot. That's his game.

So you've got to figure out a way to work around Ben Simmons. And Westbrook is athletic and he's fun and he's amazing and he's talented and nobody plays harder. And he has a lot of steamable qualities. I wouldn't build my franchise around him, but you're being intellectually dishonest to say Westbrook's not a first belt hall of famer and he's not fun and there's not assets. Nobody plays harder. But he and Harden were never going to work. It was a dumb argument. Where Colin was wrong. The Belichick coaching tree appears to be blooming. It ain't a redwood. It ain't Andy Reed. But I think I tried to uproot the tree a little fast. Joe Judge appears to

be great. Brian Flores is really good. And by the way, he gets gets a little credit for Mike Vrable. I don't know how much, but he gets some. But there are three coaches. Brable had a bad first half yesterday, but Vrable can coach. Brian Flores is a coaching rock star. And Joe Judge, I mean, I'm sorry, man. When you go 0 and 5 and your team plays hard, every play.

You can lose lock. You know, Dave Wonstead always says. You can lose games. Don't lose the locker room. Joe, Judge, went 0 and 5, and some of those losses were pathetic. He never lost that locker room for a second. So the Belichick coaching tree is, is, it's still blooming.

Where Colin was right? Last week, BYU fans and college football media, how can you put BYU behind two lost Georgia? BYU is undefeated. Yeah, BYU lost is something called Coastal Carolina. Their mascot are the,

is it the Shanticleer's? I don't know what a Shanticleer is. Listen, BYU, would get rolled by any of the top four or five SEC teams. College football is decided in early February on National Letter of Intent Day. It's nothing against Coastal Carolina. But they ran for 280 yards and ran all over BYU.

You physically pushed them around. Can we stop with this nonsense argument from college football media? How can a two-loss, three-loss SEC team be rated over an undefeated blank team? Because they got more good players. just watched National Letter of Intent Day in early February. It usually happens right before or right after the Super Bowl. And look at all the good high school players. They're all going south or most of them.

Right? So like, I'm over hearing that dumb argument. You're smarter than the argument if you're making the argument that a two lost Georgia team, who, by the way, has lost a Bama in Florida. You watch Bama in Florida this year? Great coaches, great rosters, and really good football teams. It's called the shank. What are they called the?

Shanta clears. Shanta clears. And that is a singing group in vaudeville back in the 30. What is a Shanta Clear? I think it is a singing group, actually. A musical ensemble? It's a rooster. It's a rooster.

It might also be a singing group, but it's a rooster. That's their logo. That's a weird. Are roosters big in the Carolinas? Or maybe they're big? I don't know. I don't know. If they are, I still wouldn't be like.

I think roosters are just annoying. They're pretty, though. Do you even know which Carolina they're in? No, I don't, honestly. What Carolina are they in? They're in South Carolina. I'm being honest. I don't know.

I don't know. But you know. Justin Johnson in a while. You was willing to take a game. I'd give you credit if you lost narrowly to Bam or LSU or Oklahoma. I thought of you when I saw the end of that game. I was like, is this ready made for calling? Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays and New

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This is Help from a Hypocrite, the worst advice from the dumbest people you know. Listen to Help from Hypocrite as part of the Mike Coutura podcast network available on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Trent Dilfer is now joining us. 15 years in the NFL, a Pro Bowl and a Super Bowl. The Bad News Lipscomb Academy, he's the head football coach, lost 35, 28 in the state championship. So that is no good.

Hopefully he's in a good move today for us. Well, that's the first time I've talked to you as a losing coach in a long time. So, hey, Belichick's lost a couple Super Bowls, right? Happens. It hurts, brother. It hurts. but I'm super proud of our boys. We didn't coach our best game, but our boys are fantastic.

It's been quite a ride the last couple years, and we're very optimistic about the future. So I said, I don't like firing coaches mid-season, but there are thresholds that you can lose the locker room. I think Greg Williams or the Jets loses a locker room if you don't fire him. I don't know what you do with Anthony Lynn now, but I do believe players are smart enough to go, we're not 45, nothing bad in New England.

We got whooped. in those situations, have you ever been a player on a team that you just knew your coach was so superior or inferior? It wasn't about the Jimmy's and the Joe's at some point. Yeah, I felt that way when we were rolling in Tampa, 98, 99 with Tony Dungee. We were just so well coached. Again, the Super Bowl year with Baltimore. There were times with Mike Holmgren where he just felt like you were superiorly coached in the team you were playing. You would watch them on film just like, hey, they don't have any idea what they're getting.

getting ready to do. You know, this is one of Belichick's better coaching performances. And I look at a few things. Their ability to create an identity now offensively with Cam Newton as their quarterback to not panic when it wasn't pretty. There were some really ugly games there with Cam as the quarterback, with Stidim as the quarterback. It just didn't look right. But they've stuck to their plan to be a physical downhill run team, a little bit of an action team, creativity with trick plays, quarterback runs. Defensively, they've been pretty darn good all year long and then special teams. It's kind of a passing statement in the NFL.

I think in the high school game, the college game, people make a bigger deal out of special teams is truly a third of the game. And the NFL might be more than a third of the game sometimes because a lot of times it reveals your identity as a football team. It reveals what you invest in the most in. It reveals how creative your staff is, it trying to find a way to win a game that might be close or might be a tough one on the road. their ability to create an identity of physicality in the run game,

stopping the run, and then being dominant on special teams. I mean, dominant on special teams shows that they're really turning over every page they possibly can to find ways of winning games. And they made this game laughable mainly because of special teams. Yeah. So, I mean, let's, I'm just going to lay it out there. Great first half, spotty second half, but do you look at Baker Mayfield a little differently this morning?

Well, you know, we said this a while back, and I hate being the guy that says, hey, I told you so. But, you know, with Baker was pretty simple. They have the most snaps under center of any team in the NFL this year. Baker is most efficient under center. We've been saying this for weeks. And I think the staff is starting to realize his DNA. And you've been on this as well. He's not a great athlete.

He's not. I think everybody had this picture of him as Oklahoma that he was this Johnny Mansell-type quarterback, that he was best when he was being. athletic and moving around in a playmaker. And really when you study Baker, he's best on rhythm. He's best with in structure. He's best in the play action game where you cut the field in half. He's actually pretty darn good.

He has great eyes. He's very precise with the ball. He's got a large throw catalog. And that's what they've done. They discovered his DNA. And they built an offense around Nick Chubb, running the football downhill, and then a really cool action game to go with it. And then they trusted him yesterday.

They knew Tennessee wasn't going to allow a lot of a first half run opportunities. So they trusted him in a very creative action game to lead with the past, but not lead with the past from four wide receivers and a spread set, spread set, taking the ball of the gun. They did it under center, flash faking the back, half rolls, full rolls, misdirection, throwbacks. They did a lot of this stuff that they've discovered he does well.

If they can stick with this formula, Baker can be a really, really successful quarterback in this league. I just think this is as much coaching and developing young players we've seen in quite a while with the quarterback. So we knew going into the league. I remember Pro Football Focus had Seattle's D-Line rated bottom five and O line bottom five. Well, it does appear with some acquisitions, Jamal Adams, Carlos Dunlap. They have solved the pass rush issue. They have a formidable pass rush, which we all know will help the secondary to some level.

But then I watched that Giants game yesterday, and I'm like, man, it is hard to win a Super Bowl, Trent, when the quarterback is off platform and running. And I watch that giant team, and I'm like, Giants are just pushing them around the field. Seattle's O-line can't do anything. And I thought to myself,

is Seattle's O-line enough of a liability to keep them out of big games, the Super Bowl, a conference championship? Yeah, I saw two things going on yesterday in that game. There's two really distinct stories going on. Number one, the Seahawks are not a Super Bowl team. I still think they're a really good football team, and I never bet against Russell Wilson.

And they will fix some of these things. But they don't have the physicality on the offensive line to finish this race. It's just too frenetic. It puts too much burden on playmaking. And what you saw yesterday was Seahawks didn't make some plays they typically make. They dropped some big passes. Russell actually missed a few. He forced a few.

It just puts such a burden on Russell and his skill guys to make up for their lack of physicality that you can't see that being sustained throughout a playoff run. They're a very good team. They have one of the best players in the world in Russell Wilson, but that lack of physicality up front is going to cost them. And then the second story going on is Joe Judge and what he's doing with the Giants. And again, going back, basically, I can just take all those comments I made about Bill Belichick and apply him to Joe Judge.

The physicality, they have an identity. They're very physical defensively. Offensively, they stick to the game plan. They have an identity. It's very simple. And I don't think it's Super Bowl caliber down the road. they're going to have to evolve, but it's right for this team and then special teams. Here's a little secret thing you always got to look for as you're studying teams.

Watch how teams cover kicks, not just return kicks, not how they play on special teams overall, but how they cover kicks. It's really a way of identifying a team's physicality. Watch the giants cover punts and cover kickoffs. They are relentless. They are physical. They are fast. They're dominating at it.

And what it means is that Joe Judge has gotten this team. Remember, these first four. weeks of the season was preseason. These guys didn't have a preseason. So we've got to measure these teams from week five on. They have one of the top, they have five wins since week five. They're one of the more physical teams in football. They've had some signature wins. They've gotten themselves in the playoff mix. And they've done it through finding an identity of physicality, mental toughness, physical toughness. It's a great foundation to lay for the New York Giants. And you can build a lot of sizzle on top of it in years to come. So the Rams Cardinals was a game. If you watched it,

did, you never felt the Rams were threatened. And Arizona meanwhile is a Hail Mary pass away from a five-game losing streak. I want to talk Kyler. My feeling was when I watched him earlier is what a baseball player. What a beautiful throw. He can win from the pocket. But increasingly

when you take the runout due to an injury, he can't. He's a little inconsistent. Having coached quarterbacks forever, can we take him to a different level as a thrower or is the reality with Kyler? He's got to run a little bit, and maybe a lot of a bit to win. Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that.

That's not a criticism. Same reason I don't criticize Lamar Jackson because he has to run a little bit. These great athletes, it's how they've grown up playing the game. Their identities wrapped up and running the ball as much as just throwing the ball. We go to these camps over the country and they'll give you their rushing stats the same time they give you their passing stats. It's who they think they are. And I think Kyler, a lot of what gives him juice is when he's dominating in the run game,

when he is creating in the passing game. I think for the Cardinals, and this is easier said than done, especially for a coach just lost a game, didn't call his best game. You got to be very intentional with the plays you call. You can't fall into a rhythm of calling every traditional play when you have a playmaker like that. You've got to make sure you're constantly tapping in to his persona and calling plays so he can be magical, calling play so he can be involved in the run game, calling unique plays to keep the defense off balance. You'll also be very intentional about creating a run threat with your game. tailback so the defense starts sucking in on the runner so that your quarterback can be a runner.

I think Kingsbury has a challenge each week how he calls the game because he has to call it to Kyler's skill set and make sure that he's giving them the juice all the time. Yeah, good stuff. All right. So you lose a big game. It's not the end of the world. Let me talk you off the cliff a little bit. So how much offseason do you get like you get a couple weeks here? What do you do? What do you do with your life now? We're back to work doing season reviews and scheme reviews and coaches meetings, but I will get myself a chance. We'll get out to our place in Tahoe soon.

And I'll get a little bit of a breather over Christmas with my family and then be right back out to work. Yeah, I called your AD. I recommended you not be fired yet. A couple more games. We'll see where it goes. It's tough, man. The skies are gray. The food doesn't taste very good after you lose.

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