The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 3 and Out - Jags AFC South Champs, Fire McDaniels, Mailbag
Episode Date: January 8, 2023John reacts to Saturday Week 18 NFL action, including the Jags taking down the Titans to win the AFC South title, why the Raiders should fire Josh McDaniels after one season, and answers listener ques...tions in the Middlekauff Mailbag. Subscribe NOW and follow Middlekauff and The Volume on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube for the latest content. It's always FanDuel for the best wagering action! #volume #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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What is going on, everybody, John Middlough, three and out podcast Saturday night.
I wasn't planning on doing this, but, you know, we usually do a mailbag on Sunday,
and that's the game plan here at John Middlecough.
I just don't have that many questions.
So I'm going to need you guys to fire in the DMs over the next couple days.
I'll put one out on Tuesday as well on top of the podcast at John.
Middlecoff is the Instagram, firing the DMs, get on the mailbag.
But enough happening today, football-wise.
I thought I do, you know, 10, 15 minutes.
Do a quick little Sunday podcast.
Again, this three-and-out podcast, appreciate everyone listening.
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As well as, yeah, we'll be rocking and rolling after Sunday night.
We'll know the playoffs.
and we know the Jags are in,
and we'll see what else happens on Sunday.
But I guess we will just react to that game.
First and foremost, remarkable job by Doug Peterson.
He took over a franchise that has been a perennial joke for a decade.
I know they had the one year and 17,
but for the most part, they drafted in the top five every year.
And the franchise he took over just drafted number one overall.
Now, unique situation given that Trevor Lawrence was on the team.
but the Trevor Lawrence we saw his rookie year was pretty terrible.
What Doug Peterson did with him this year was impressive.
It's what a real coach does with a real quarterback prospect.
Turns them into a really good player.
But as you saw tonight, and as they've won some big games this year,
their defense made some big plays.
And when you draft over and over and over really high,
you're going to have some talented players on defense.
Josh Allen was a top 10 pick.
You see a move on that fumble.
it looked like Derek Henry running.
Number two, Jenkins,
obviously the plays he made against the Cowboys,
made a sweet play tonight.
I mean, he's not, you know,
some top 10 pick,
but they have, you know,
the rookie from Georgia on the defensive line,
made a couple plays tonight.
Like, they got some talent on the team.
But overall, to me,
that game and just this season reflected
from the number one overall pick to nine and eight.
Now, part of to win a division at nine and eight,
you need the division to,
suck. It did, and they took advantage of it. And to me, the number one reason wasn't necessarily
Trevor Lawrence. Over the course of the season, he had a huge impact. He had a great stretch of
football. Tonight, I thought he was okay. Missed a wide open touchdown. missed another pass on
third and seven. He threw it down the sideline out of bounds. I got news for you. A pass has
never been completed inbound. Now listen, it's his second year. He is going to, the talent is all there.
he's going to have to get a lot better in big games.
I mean, he's going to have one coming up more and likely against the Chargers.
If they're going to win that game and they'll probably be underdogs and, you know, more than likely they won't.
But if they're going to compete, they're going to need a better performance out of him.
But they do have some talent on that team.
And obviously, you know, he is the gap between him.
I was thinking about this tonight.
The gap between him and Zach Wilson is like the Grand Canyon.
And I started looking back at some of the previous, like, has there been a bigger gap between
the number one overall pick and the number all overall two,
the number two overall pick in recent memory.
And I got to Miles Garrett and Mr.
Misk him.
I was a pretty big gap.
But I think the gap between Trevor Lawrence and Zach Wilson,
when it's all said and done,
will be a lot bigger.
But congrats to the Jags to go nine and eight this season is an impressive
accomplishment.
And honestly,
to me,
the Titans,
I mean,
they were going to win that game until the fumble happened.
They were phenomenal the night,
given what they were dealing with.
And really these last couple weeks,
to play with a guy who was on a practice squad, not on their team.
What a remarkable effort these last couple weeks by Joshua Dobbs.
I'm not a big fan, never have been, but I was really impressed.
I thought these two weeks alone, he played himself into being a backup or getting a shot to be like a legitimate backup next year.
If I'm a team and I need a cheap quarterback, I would call him and sign him.
Good arm, good athlete.
You know, I know he dumped it off on the fourth down at the end of the game, but just the Titans had no business.
team had no business even being in this position. Mike Vrable, I think we all have to agree,
big time coach, has his team ready when they shouldn't be. They compete. They fight when they don't
have the horses defensively. They're always tough and physical, but they just didn't have enough
tonight. And ultimately, the difference in the game was the fumble. But, you know, if Trevor
Lawrence hits, was it Kirk, whoever was wide, or Zay Jones wide open in the end zone,
you know, maybe this game wasn't as close as it should have been or could have been.
but I had fun.
And you know what?
It's kind of weird because you're so foreign to watching big games in Jacksonville because it never happens.
That was a foreign experience.
I'm glad it was on Saturday night.
You know, I'm ready for Green Bay on Sunday night, but overall takeaways, that was really fun.
And then on the previous game, does kick off the day?
I don't know.
Same thing, rinse, wash, repeat.
Chiefs win the division again.
Chiefs beat the shit out of the Raiders.
Raiders are 6 and 11.
The Chiefs are, you know, 14 and 3.
I mean, what did we expect?
And the record is kind of crazy.
Every team that played the 49ers lost the following week.
Oh, and 15 this year, teams that played the 49ers.
Pretty crazy stat.
And the Raiders got their ass kicked.
And there's nothing really to say about the Chiefs.
They're the number one overall seed.
You know, I would say that they are, they have as good a chance to win the Super Bowl as any team in the league.
And we'll get into them much more in depth over the next couple weeks as we get closer to them playing.
But as we break down some playoff stuff, nothing changed tonight or today for me with the Chiefs.
They're a powerhouse.
They have a powerhouse coach.
They have a powerhouse quarterback.
And they're not a team you want to play.
To me, the Raiders, it kind of hit me today.
Josh McDaniels, do I think he's a fraud?
Like, obviously he knows football.
He's not a good head coach.
Like he took a team that was in the playoffs last year and went.
six and 11. And honestly, the eye test, it looked worse than that most of the season.
You'd be like, oh, they were in all these games. They lost them all.
Defense is horrendous. Derek got worse on his watch.
Now, I don't know if the guy can't afford it, and more than likely he can't because he is
the least cash poor owner or one of them in the NFL, even though he's moved to a very
lucrative stadium. He doesn't necessarily own the stadium. City does. He's got huge
loans. He's very leveraged. So I don't know if he has unlimited cash. But he's proven before
to be a big picture thinker and to take a big swing.
He did it with John Gruden.
Now, it didn't work, but I loved Mark's mindset when he made that move.
He needed a splash, he needed a name, and it needed a guy that he thought turned out not
to be correct, but in his mind was like a rock star Super Bowl level coach.
And I know Gruden's won a Super Bowl 20 plus years ago, but I think we all agree watching
him coach, like those days are long gone.
To me, the move's pretty easy.
they did not talk to Jim Harbaugh last year, which to me was pretty head-scratching.
What I would do, because it's pretty clear.
I'm shocked to see the NCAA put like sanctions or coming down with him with violations
or whatever the exact verbiage is on how we define what's going on.
I honestly didn't know the NCAA still exists.
Like, there's still a thing.
Like, no one gives a shit about them.
I don't blame Jim Harbaugh for not talking to them at all.
To me, they don't feel relevant.
that they don't even feel legitimate,
but I guess they still are around.
If I was Mark Davis,
I would fire all my coaches in my GM
and I would hire Jim Harbaugh.
Because one thing's clear,
they are desperate for some sizzle and some pop.
They're in Vegas.
They suck.
They just have no momentum.
And now they're kind of starting from scratch
because they're getting rid of the quarterback.
I would get rid of Josh McDaniels.
Under no circumstances,
can you feel comfortable about what Josh McDaniels has proven
in his two and a half years,
won a long time ago and then now this time with being a head coach.
It has been an utter failure.
Jim Harbaugh is guaranteed to work because he literally works everywhere.
I understand Josh McDaniels and Mark Davis wanting Tom Brady,
but to me, Tom Brady feels a little bit like a Band-Aid on a bullet hole
because he's 46 years old.
So even in the best case scenario, he still has a high-level football
and you're competitive and you compete to make the playoffs.
It's a one-year thing.
It's a one-year thing.
And who even knows?
I mean, there are a lot of rumors that he might not even be that interested.
To me, Jim Harbaugh is a long-term thing.
You fire all these guys.
You offer Jim a six-seven-year deal.
And you have the guy on the front of billboards.
Exactly what you had with John Gruden, except Jim will win.
Because that's what he does.
Wins.
Look at John Grun's resume.
He loses a lot.
Jim does not.
So that would be my move.
if Mark can afford it, if he has the cash,
if you can take out another loan,
I wouldn't hesitate.
Because to me, it's clear that Jim Harbaugh,
if he gets offered, we'll leave.
And he is a big believer in history.
He loved Al Davis.
His start in coaching back in, I think, 0203,
was with the Raiders.
He's even said before the respect he has for the franchise.
That's what I would do.
A couple other stories today.
Sean Payton, the Denver Broncos requested to talk to Sean Peyton.
Here's why it's not going to work.
They don't have any picks.
And while I don't think the Saints are going to end up getting a number one overall pick,
and I don't mean the number one overall pick in the draft, a first round pick,
is because they don't, Sean Payton is not coming back to you guys.
Like, those days are over.
So you take a couple threes.
Like when John Gruden was traded, he was the Raiders coach.
Sean Payton works for Fox.
I get you have his right.
but he's not coaching for you anymore.
So are you better off just taking what you can get?
Take a profit, right?
Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered.
If he's going to come back, like, what are you going to do?
Deny him?
I don't think that will be the case.
So to me, the Broncos make no sense for Sean Payton,
why you'd want to work, you know, with Russell Wilson,
I would be no chance.
The one thing I do question Sean Payton a little bit
is he wants to bring Ryan Pace as his general manager.
Now, I understand that Sean Payton will ultimately be the decision maker whenever he comes back.
Like every player on the roster, free agent or draft pick, he'll have to sign off on.
So even if Ryan Pace is technically like not a true GM, he still ends up doing a lot of work.
And I just don't think he's very good at his job.
That would be a little bit of a red flag for me.
But I think the Denver thing, I don't blame Denver for wanting to talk to him.
but to me, that's never going to happen.
And last but not least, before we dive into a couple mailbag questions,
it sure feels like Sean McVeigh is going to quit or retire.
I mean, to me, it's quit.
Like he's not retiring.
He's 36 fucking years old.
And I get it.
I mean, he is a hard worker, gets up super early,
no balance in life.
I mean, I get his wife wants him home more,
but I don't know, man.
And I get being burned out.
We've all experienced that.
I just think that now if he thinks the Rams are going to suck,
I get it, but that is somewhat of a reflection on him.
Like he's the one that created this.
He's the one that wanted this.
And then he's just going to leave them with just a shit sandwich to deal with.
You talk about a bad job.
Who in their right mind would want to go to the Rams?
So it sure feels like he's going to do that.
And I would bet a large amount of cash that if Sean McVeigh goes to TV,
which clearly that's what he'd retire to do
because he wouldn't lose any money.
He'd give up his $15 million salary
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Herb Street would be done
and they would just put Sean McVeigh
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have had the chemistry of oil and water.
I mean, it's been a tough listening and watch.
It really has.
Now, would Sean McVeigh just be some star?
Who knows?
But at least he would know the NFL.
So to me, that's an easy transition.
Sean McVeigh doesn't lose any money.
but listen, I've changed careers before.
But I do think like part of being a coach is working these crazy hours.
It's like, you know, I need some balance with the family.
You don't even have kids yet.
Like, what do you think?
Some of these guys with families.
So maybe he'll never come back.
Maybe it's just something he did it.
He got to the mountaintop and he's out.
And maybe it's just as simple as I only know one way to do this.
It's not a healthy way.
My wife's giving me a lot of pressure.
But there's going to be a lot of resentment in the coaching world.
Time's got a little tough.
You had a shitty season.
Like, welcome to the NFL.
Andy Reid, P. Carroll, Sean Payton.
Like, all these guys have lost before.
Like, they've had down seasons where they miss the playoffs.
It's competitive.
You know, it's hard.
But it honestly feels like his decision's already made.
So if he does retire, and part of it is like I don't want him to leave because the Rams will probably get some other random coach.
But ultimately, the only thing I care about if he does retire,
is he's calling games
Mel Michaels.
As a consumer,
I just let's just get Herb Street
full time back to college
and we'll be off rocking and rolling.
And again, I like Kirk Herb Street.
I do.
I'm not trying to like talk shit
about Kirk Herb Street.
He's just, him and the owl
are just a very, very tough watch.
They do not work.
And Herb Street just, in fairness to him,
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Let's dive into some Middilkoff mailback questions.
We'll bang out a couple and then I'll let you get on with your Sunday.
At John Middlecough is the Instagram.
At John Middlecoph is the Instagram firing those DMs.
Hey, John, you often mention how pre-NIL players will still paid on the download.
I'm curious how this would occur.
Would players find an envelope of cash in their locker or room?
How would the players know if they were going to get paid?
Would coaches openly discuss it when they were recruiting?
Yes, I think a lot of times on recruiting,
visits, your parents or the kid would discuss it either with a position coach or the head coach.
I've heard stories about like fast food restaurants.
They told you to go to a fast food restaurant.
I don't know exactly who they are, but it was communicated to the player.
Go to the fast food restaurant.
You go to Burger King.
You say, I want the number one.
They know when the kid walks in and they hand them a bag.
And in the bag is a lot of cash.
I think there are a lot of different other ways to do it, you know, whether it's fun,
Fulnelling homes to family members, getting family members jobs, and through that funneling them money.
Again, I have no problem with any of this.
I just, I've always despised the disingenuous nature of many of the media elites who acted like the top kids were getting paid.
Some people are not getting paid. Some people are still not getting paid.
You know, most of them are probably not worth anything.
I love this like, how many guys truly have NIL value?
decent amount of guys do, but a lot of guys do not.
And clearly last year, a lot of guys are getting paid that should not have been paid.
Now, you can argue that happens in the NFL too.
Baker Mayfield got a million commercials.
Lamar Jackson didn't get any.
So it's part of business.
You win some, you lose some.
But, yeah, I just, the pre-NIL cash, obviously I would say it's a little bigger now for the top guys.
Like if Caleb Williams or Drake May or some of these guys are getting off four or five million
dollars that wasn't happening in football in basketball some of the numbers over the years you've
heard have been astronomical but in football because there's way more players so it's like is it worth
it to give a million dollars to a pass rusher he might not live up to the hype in basketball
if you pay a premium for the top guys like who are the top guys Anthony Davis sion Williams
Kyrie Irving like the top guys are usually the top guys for a reason they're sweet in football
it's a little more hit or miss uh so now we'll see I I still think there's going to be a huge
I would say just reckoning with this and just smoothing out process with the cash flow.
You guys know where I stand.
I would only pay transfers.
Like I would pay Caleb.
I would pay the Wake Forest quarterback.
I'd pay quarterbacks and maybe some like wide receiver and linemen.
But they'd have to already be in college.
I'd be hesitant to go big on recruits.
Okay, love the pod.
I get on here a lot to ask questions,
but I always get lost in looking at baddies on the gram and forget what I came here for.
A few of you, dog.
Mizzou is reportedly hiring Kirby Moore as their new OC quarterback coach.
What are your thoughts on him since you know the Freso State better than anyone?
Thanks.
Well, Kirby Moore is Kellyn Moore's brother who played wide receiver for Boise when Kellyn was there.
Kellyn and Kirby's dad was a big high school coach in the state of Washington.
And these guys were born to coach.
Now, people nitpick Kellan, and I get it.
Part of all, so it's like, he's the Cowboys Offensive Coordinator.
I would bet the farm on those two guys, long term.
Like long term.
I think Kirby Moore and Kellyn Moore, you're going to hear about these guys
coaching for a long, long time.
I don't know if they'll quite be the Harbaugh brothers,
but they are not going away.
They were raised in the coaching family.
They happened to be good at football,
but both their careers basically ended after Boise State,
and they were born to coach.
So I think Kirby more, I think that's a fantastic hire.
Now, coaching at Mizzou, it's tough, right?
Georgia, Tennessee, you know, Florida's in flux, obviously.
Kentucky had a shitty year.
So who know?
Actually, maybe it's not that bad of a job.
Vanderbilt sucks.
Who else is in that?
South Carolina is actually not bad.
That division's gotten a lot better.
Remember, like three or four years ago, that division was a joke.
Now it's much more competitive.
I saw Shane Beamer got a big, got a big raise.
Hey, John, big fan of the pot.
It's clear to me the Jets are done with Zach Wilson.
I don't think they will draft someone as it seems they likely need an established
quarterback.
Who do you think they should go after?
Trading for someone like Lamar, assuming he gets franchise tag or car or signing someone
like Jimmy G.
I think I might have already answered this one, but I think the Jets just royally screwed
up that situation and now are in a position where they have no leverage and they're
desperate.
You know, I think this notion, I like Jimmy G, I respect Jimmy G, I think he's a solid player,
but he gets hurt all the time.
Like all the time.
One of the stories that came out this week, I think Albert Breer was on with Dan Patrick.
And one thing that's kind of leaked out about the Raiders is they were over Derek like three or four weeks into the season.
Over him.
Over him.
And if they don't get Tom Brady, like, they're going to go after Jimmy G. probably.
Obviously, Josh knows him.
He knows the offense.
Jimmy gets hurt a lot.
Jimmy does not have seasons where he doesn't miss games.
For the most part, Derek's missed like two or three games in his career.
So this notion that you can sign Jimmy, whether you're the Raiders, whether you're the Jets, whether you're the dolphins,
and just expect him to be the player, right?
Like when you sign Philip Rivers with the Colts or traded for him, I guess you signed him.
He just started every game for you.
That's not, if you sign Jimmy G, if he makes it through the season, that would be astonishing.
that would be eye-opening because it never happens.
I'm very hesitant when it comes to Derek Carr in cold weather cities.
It's just not really his cup of tea.
It just really isn't.
So that would make me nervous with the Jets.
Honestly, I don't really have a good answer for you with the Jets.
I guess, you know, I don't know how you would turn down, Derek,
but I do not love the fit.
I just don't.
Hey, last question here.
Do you think offenses that are being run in college
are making it easier or harder for college players
to adapt to NFL playbooks?
You mentioned the steep learning curve for Christian Watson
and Romeo Dobbs had to adapt to play with Aaron Rogers.
Does running spread offenses college
help or hurt in transitioning them to the league?
My friend Phil Savage,
who now scout for the Jets, used to run the Senior Bowl.
I remember talking to him years ago,
it was probably two or three years ago
and he was telling me, for the last like three or three,
four years of him running the senior bowl, whenever the players would show up and they would have a
meeting and like both coaching staffs would be in there and they would ask the quarterbacks,
they go, how many guys in this room have been under center? And he said, year after year, most
years, no one raised their hand in college. I guess some of them, but even most of them in college
or I mean in high school.
So in the NFL, even if you run spread concepts
and your offensive coordinator likes being the shotgun,
it is still very dependent throughout the game
and throughout the season of being under center
for run looks, for quick passing game,
for just balance of your offensive formations
against defensive looks.
And most of these quarterbacks have to learn how to go under center.
Well, then if you think about it,
most wide receivers, the timing for the quarterback
is a little different from them out of shot.
shotgun. And then obviously some of these offensive linemen coming from spread concepts
makes it a lot different because they're not in run situations for quote unquote power run
situations. So it's just a big transition for a lot of offensive guys. Defense like if I'm a
pass rush or I'm a pass rusher, ball snapped, I'm chasing the quarterback. If I'm a DB and
we're in man coverage, like I'm either a good enough athlete to mirror you and cover you or I'm not.
right linebackers it impacts because if I'm a linebacker in the big 12 and I play against
a bunch of spread offenses and then I get to start playing Seattle and the Niners and they're
running down my throat you know I play for the Rams or the Cardinals like it does impact you
so for sure yeah I don't know what else to say beside it it has a it has a big impact
but there's nothing you can do about it you know it's part of why scouting is so difficult
because you're scouting the individual talent,
like this guy is the skills,
the route running ability,
he can catch,
but he doesn't run any of our routes, right?
Or this guard,
I think there's a lot to work with,
but it's going to be a transition.
So a lot of it is projecting,
you have to go,
that's why you've got to scout the person.
This guy's really smart.
He loves football.
It means everything to him.
His work ethic is top-notch.
Then he go,
not only does he have the physical skills to translate,
but I think he's intelligent enough
from a football standpoint.
I don't care.
I mean, it matters.
Usually guys that takes things seriously
in every walk of life.
Translates to all walk of lives.
Some people think if you get straight A's,
if you're a football player and you do well in school,
then you take football seriously too, right?
Some guys do bad in school,
but they take football really seriously,
maybe because school doesn't come easy to them.
So you're trying to figure out the way the guy's mentality is wired.
It's why it's difficult, you know?
It really is.
But ultimately, if you have the physical skills,
just use Dobbs and Watson.
Then it comes down to the transition of learning the offense,
the timing, playing with Aaron's not easy,
your football intelligence to learn a pretty intense offense.
I mean, the Shanahan offense is just not easy to learn.
Obviously, Aaron's not easy to play with.
You know, he's doing all these hand signs when you're learning on the fly.
So yeah, it's just there are a lot of variables at play.
It's why coaches make a lot of money because the good ones are worth it.
And the bad ones are fucking stealing.
Have a good Sunday.
I'll talk to everyone soon.
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