The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 3 and Out - Week 3 NFL Reaction

Episode Date: September 26, 2022

John reacts to Week 3 NFL action, including what he saw in the Packers huge road win over Brady and the Bucs, the Raiders looking like a disaster under Josh McDaniels, why Brandon Staley is in over his head with the Chargers, red flags with the Cardinals coming to fruition again, and his take on Bills OC Ken Dorsey’s press box explosion in Miami. 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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of all time. And I said it all week going into this game. The only thing that mattered was the Packers finding a way to win. Like last year, they got crissed. Curb stomped in their first game. Same thing happened this year, and they turned around their season. Now, this team is built a lot differently than last year, mainly because Devante Adams, who's now on a team that is a full-on disaster,

we'll talk about it a little bit later. And the Packers are built differently. They are built, we talked about it leading up to this game, to get into, let's call it what it is, a street fight with teams like the Bucks, the Rams, and the 49ers. Because the last several years, they have not been able to do that when it matters. They weren't physically tough enough. Mentally toughness, we can question you'll never truly know that until the playoffs

because I thought the last couple of years they were mentally tough and then they failed in the playoffs. But I do think it's easier to be mentally tougher when you are just a physically tougher team. And the physical toughness of the Packers today, they held Tom Brady and listen, they got a ton of injuries on offense. Tom's getting up there in age even though he still looks fantastic. They were kind of relying on like playoff Lenny and Russell Gage. Regardless, though, you've got to find a way to win in 12 points. When Rogers, you know, he had a bad pick. It's not like he was light in the world on fire after those first couple drives because the Packers came out swinging.

And they won. Coward talks about this all the time, and it's so true. I say it when it comes to basketball and baseball, how meaningless most individual games are. That is not the case in football. We see it on Saturdays and we definitely see it on Sundays. Every game matters. And when you're playing other playoff teams, especially when you factor in, swing games when it comes to seating.

Home field advantage is so meaningful because it's only a one-off in the playoffs. Now, the Packers have lost multiple home games the last couple years, right? They lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers two years ago, and they lost to the 49ers last year. Two games, hosting playoff games, that is the goal of any season. If I tell you right now, regardless who your team is, they have in the first or second round, a home playoff game, that means your regular season was a wild success, right? You won your division. The only way to get a home playoff game in the first or the second round means you are a

divisional champion. And the Packers have taken care of business. And I still would bet on them. I said it last week when we saw Cousins play on Sunday, was it Sunday or Monday night football against the birds that as long as Kirk Cousins is their quarterback and Rogers is the Packers quarterback, I would. will take the Packers to win the NFC North. I feel even better about that today.

Though they are not going to be as sexy as Minnesota as some games. Throwing all these touchdowns to Thielen and throwing touchdowns to Jefferson. Like the Packers are wrong with Alan Lazard. Sammy Watkins is on injured reserve. Shocker. You know, the guy only gets hurt every year. But this team is so much more physical now on defense. And running the ball, we know they've been able to do that last couple years,

but they're really going to rely on it. And at the end of the day, they still have Aaron Rogers. So when he's a little off, whatever. I'll still lean with Aaron Rogers a little off more than 99% of quarterbacks. Even Tom Brady. Today was somewhat of a struggle today.

A lot of Dinkin and Duncan, because that's what he had to do. And that comes down to a two-point play. They're right there. And when you have a great quarterback and you have a physical defense, you're always going to have a chance. Like, do I love what I see out of the bucks through three games? Of course not.

They're missing all these players. They're relying on older players on the outside. But at the end of the day, day, they have a top-notch defense, and they have Tom Brady. And if the Packers can basically copy that, which I think they have been trying to do, you will go into a playoff game with Aaron Rogers and a really good defense. If you have that, I like my chances in the playoffs. What has been their problem in the last several years in playoff games?

Defense let them down. Now, last year, ironically, the offense let them down. But if you bring that, and especially if you're going to play a game at Lambo, because one thing, there is no avoiding that when they get a home playoff game in Lambo, whether that's in the first round or whether, I guess now only the one seed gets the buy, that, you know, it's going to be freezing cold. It is going to be cold. And more than likely, the game is going to be ugly.

Think back to when Tom Coughlin's face froze off. Think back to last year against the 49ers. The simple reality is that you've got to find a way to win in ugly games. And I do think they're built much more toward that this season. And listen, you can say whatever you want, ugly wins. This is the NFL. This is the sport of football. Winning is the only thing that matters.

It's the only thing we'll judge you on. And I got a lot of coaches who can't win, and we're going to dive into right now, that they would give anything to have a win and not a loss. Doesn't matter if it's pretty. It doesn't matter. Lincoln Riley, I stayed up late last night watching USC Oregon State. You know, when the dust settled, USC ugly game, they won.

That's all that matters. And I got to give the Packers credit. I said, you just got to win. They figured it out. Let's get in some teams that are in shambles. And I've been thinking a lot about this because I give the media a lot of shit because they just, you know, in the sport of football, agents and curing favor with future head coaches and head coaches is a big part of their job. I don't necessarily blame them, right? You need their access for the stories you're writing.

Even though, you know, I don't really know who's reading all these stories in 2022 as much as we used to, maybe 10. 15, 20 years ago with the newspapers. But I'm still a sucker for the athletic. I understand and I respect the job of needing access to do your job. Like ultimately, I don't need any access. My job is predicated on me just giving opinions on what I see. I don't need to be able to text a guy in a front office. Now, I'm lucky enough to know some of these people. And sometimes I piss them off with things I say because I feel obligated to you guys, the consumer. The only fucking thing I care about is just trying to represent the guy sitting on his couch who watches them. and sees it being a disaster. And people often think I have a motion towards certain takes. No, I do believe in what I say. So when I give a take and I believe it, I'm not going to pivot off it until I'm proven to be wrong and then I have no choice. C.C. Jalen Hertz.

I thought he was a running back coming out of college. Right now, he's been one of the better quarterbacks in the league so far this season. I have no problem saying I'm wrong. But when I am right, and I'm right on several things right now, and here's the thing on the media. I think football and politics have some similarities. Media narratives can really grow, and they can influence the way we think. Now, in politics, it's a little differently, it different because ultimately politicians,

they all kind of fail and none of it ever matters. It's all just a bunch of fluff BS. Where for those of us in the private sector, we either like, if we fail, if we stop making money, we go under. If we don't produce at our job, we get fired. in football, you can have the greatest hype train. And let's face it, Josh McDaniels had that hype train. And I'm guilty.

I believed what I was reading. I believed like Josh McDaniels is going to figure it out, even though he has a long history going back 12, 15, or however many years ago was with the Denver Broncos, right? Well, was it 08 and 09, maybe 09 and 10? That's a long time ago. And I've given him a benefit of the doubt. Like, listen, I was, you can't compare 10 years ago to any.

of us to us now if you've progressed, if you've learned, if you've gotten better at whatever you do. But then just not that long ago, right, five years ago, he pulled out of the Colts job, another pretty big red flag. And you started thinking like, you know, something a little off, but then he started doing all this like introspection, look in the mirror. He had Dan Pompeii and all these guys writing these articles on him. And I was like, this guy, Belichick, he's going to come and crush it. And he takes over a team. Think about this. The Raiders last year won 10 games. their coach was fired early in the season because of the text message scandal

and then a wide receiver two weeks later killed an innocent girl and her dog and is in jail currently. And he was a good player. So they lost their coach. John Grude is a $100 million man. Their star first round pick who was becoming a stud went to jail because of murder

and still their team rallied together with an interim coach who was the special team's coach, the core of the team, Derek Carr, Max Crosby, Colton Miller, Hunter Renfro, Darren Waller, and they won 10 games, and they made it to the playoffs. It's one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen. They had no business winning like seven once those things happened.

Most teams would have unraveled, but the core of their team, good players, high character guys, held it together. Rich gets fired. They get Josh McDaniels. Then all of a sudden, Devante Adams is like, you know what, Green Bay, I'm tired of this place. I'm a West Coast guy. Send me back west. Somehow, Devante Adams is able to force his way out, goes to the Raiders.

And Devante Adams, the last three years, has been one of the best players in football, a part of a team. They won 39 games, 13 games a season. That's what the Packers are doing. So their core group of guys that Josh McDaniels inherited, literally just made the playoffs. Devante has been part of one of the best teams in the sport and their second best player kicking everyone's ass. So he inherits a group, playoff players for the Raiders, adds a winning star player. yet somehow I'm watching the Raiders today and they're 0 and 3 and today was an embarrassment and listen

Hackett has gotten a ton of shit but know this and I'm recording this part before the Sunday night game Hackett took over the Denver Broncos who have been losing the last several years I say it all the time Russell Wilson's a great player every offensive coordinator's ever had has been fire yet Josh McDaniels like somehow turned the media on his side when usually the Patriot guys are all hated yet he is a disaster they had to delay a game and then coming out of the delay of game, they had to call a timeout. Stuff that if he was coaching for the Dallas Cowboys, like Hackett on national, we'd be shitting on them. But somehow, Josh McDaniels been flying under the radar.

And I saw this quote again today. He keeps talking about we need to learn how to win. No, Josh, you need to learn how to win. The Raiders last year won. 10 games, playoff team. Devante Adams, all the guy can do in the playoffs is win, or all the guy can do in the NFL is win. That's always been a part of.

I had someone texted me today. involved in football that was like only the Raiders could get Devante Adams and become worse in the red zone. I don't know how it's possible, but it's taking shape and taking place in front of our eyes. Josh McDaniel's utter disaster. And I'll be the first to say, I didn't see that coming. I picked the Raiders to make the playoffs. I thought he would be good. I bought into the media hype.

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loved them i refused let's start let's move down the list brandon staley one of the media's favorites and i've said it all along i'm born and raised in california i can sniff and smell out of fraud from a mile away lived around them my entire life people that say one thing and do another it's part of the ethos of where i'm from i know these people better than anyone and brandon staley i sniffed him out early. I said, something is off. Because I know when a guy actively tries to play the media. Like politicians, the media is their mark. And they know how to use them and manipulate them. And I saw Brandon Saley using all these words, playing some of the media favorites with analytics and calling him by their first name. It was just, he was putting on a clinic. But for me,

I'm not impressed by any of that. Mainly, I don't really give a shit. But I know when it's like, he's doing that on purpose. Because deep down, he's a fraud. And a lot of people like, Middle Cup, you're just a hater. I didn't hate, I don't even care about the guy. But my point is, something's off. Last year he had a top five quarterback, and they missed the playoffs. Like I said, losing to the Raiders in a must-win game. Then this year, lose a game last week on the road that they should have won against the

Chiefs. It's like, okay, listen, playing the Chiefs, one of the best teams in the league, even if you should win the game, quarterback gets a little banged up, whatever. Then you play the Jags, who, the Jacks have been the, they've had the number one overall pick the last two seasons. So literally, they have been the worst NFL team for two years running. Last year is one of the all-time great debacles. Some people were even like, Trevor Lawrence sucks. Hell, even I started to think, like, is the guy that good? Well, it turns out, Fraudmire, who, you know, who's actually pretty good on TV. He's a college guy, even though I don't know

if he'd be quite as good of a college guy anymore because now everyone can pay the players. That was a huge point of difference for him at Florida and Ohio State. He could cheat. Not everyone could cheat. Now that days are gone. But Fraudmire, let's not spend any time talking about him. Because they get Doug Peterson, who's won a Super Bowl, high-level guy, know him, super high character guy,

obviously he knows offense, had a lot of success in the NFL, won a Super Bowl with a backup quarterback. And I watched him today play Brandon Staley, and you go, oh, Brandon Staley had a bunch of injuries. Joey Bosa got hurt, Slater got hurt. I get it. They had some injuries.

Here's what I know. Like I said, the Jags were literally the worst fucking team in the league for 24 straight months. And most people coming in in this league, maybe some football nerds, thought they were going to suck again. they just beat the Chargers.

Last time I checked the score, 38 to 10, was that the final? 38 to 10? You can't convince me that Brandon Staley is not a fraud. And then today, late in the game, they are getting curb stopped, absolutely killed. And Justin Herbert, who's battling a tough SOB, battling through some rib injuries, is still in the game. What are we doing? Like, your defense is getting worked by Doug Peterson. Of course it is.

He is an infinitely better coach than you. But then the only hope your franchise has, with Joey Bosa on the sideline, with Slater on the island, two great players, is this quarterback who is banged up and you leave him in the game. Do you get what's going on? Or did somehow you just work your way to this job? And part of it is Dean Spanos loves a good cheap coach. Staley's not making that much. And I said it over and over again.

People thought I was crazy because I have an agenda. I have no agendas. If Staley was good, I'd be the first to tell you. If Josh McDaniels and the Raiders were a high-level organization, I'd be the first to tell you. If Steve Sarkisian knew what he was doing, I'd be the first to tell you. But you watch these teams. I know you do. I do.

And they suck. And you go, how is this possible? And the only reason it's possible is because guys are over their head. The reality at the sport of football, there have been a ton of good coordinators well before I was born in 1984 and a ton since. A small percentage of them are meant to be good head coaches. Just like a small – there's been a million quarterbacks. Play all over the country.

Division one. division two, play college football. A small percentage of those guys make it to the NFL. Then a small percentage of the group that makes the NFL is actually good at playing quarterback. It is very, very hard to be a good head coach and a good quarterback. We see it every single year. We see it every single decade.

We see it in sports. And Brandon Staley is clearly a good coordinator. We think he only had one good year. But he is a terrible head coach. He just got beat 38 to 10 at home to the Jax. Like, listen, Jags, good little story. Doug's a Super Bowl winning coach, 38 to 10, pretty gutless effort by your guys.

And then the Cardinals. Like, I'm not taking a victory lap on this one. I don't believe in them. I don't believe in anything they represent. Last year, I was thinking watching the day, the Rams just kind of work them, even though the score was actually closer. Stafford was having a weird game.

It's like, this team is just not good. You know, ultimately the Chargers, even when they're missing some guys, like they should be, like they have no excuse to not make the playoffs. To me, I think we're going to look back and go, isn't it pretty nuts? Isn't it pretty wild that the Cardinals made the playoffs in the 2021, 2021 season? Isn't that pretty crazy? Because they're never going to make the playoffs again.

Like, they suck. They are not good. They're not a well-run organization. They don't have a winning football coach. Their quarterback is kind of just, he can pull things out of his butt. But for the most part, like I'm watching him, he just seems like not that good right now. He had those couple moments against the Raiders. but watching him the day, it's like, I just don't see it.

Now, you can say he's missing some players. Okay, a lot of people are missing some players. You either find a way to get it done or you don't, and I think the cards are in major trouble. To me, the chargers, the cards, like this thing can fall off the rails fast. And I think the question will be for the cards, if they have a disastrous season, would you fire everyone? You just gave them five-year extensions.

Hey, Dean Spanos, you have this coach, because everyone keeps telling me, Sean Payton's going to the Dallas Cowboys. Sean Payton's going to this Dallas Cowboys. Why would Sean Payton want to go to Dallas Cowboys? He has an owner who's 78, 79, 8 years old. Feels like he's losing a little bit, even though he entertains me. I think it's one thing to be entertained by Jerry Jones, be another thing to work for him.

He has Dak Prescott, which good guy, high character, had a pretty good story, made a lot of money, but would you want him as your quarterback if you had to choose? If I'm Sean Payton, I call Dean Spanos and be like, can we work out a deal? Now, here's the thing, Dean. You're making money hand over fist just because of the league making you money, because of the enormous contracts the league is signed

with CBS, NBC, ABC, E, E, SPN. Like, we get it. You love putting money in your savings account. But how about do this? You have a coach who's a complete fraud and he's terrible. Fire the guy when this season ends and go hire Sean Payton. And if I'm Sean Payton, like listen, the going rate for me is $15 plus million a year. That's what it costs. That's what Andy makes. That's what McVeigh makes. You know, Kyle, college coaches are making 11 or 12. So instead of paying a guy $5, 6 million to embarrass yourself every year, go get a real coach, pay him a premium, get them with Justin Herbert, and give your franchise a chance to not be one of the great

underachieving franchises we've ever seen. And last but not least, I will take somewhat of a victory lap on this. Because like I said, the media anointed this guy. And I get it. People like other people. There are certain people that I root for it.

Matt Nagy's a friend of mine. I rooted for him with the Bears, even when it wasn't going well. I understand it. But this guy, like Matt Nagy made the playoffs twice. Steve Sarkeesian once, he gets so much credit for what he did at the University of Washington. He took over a program.

I'm pretty sure it was 1 and 11 the year that he got the job. Tyrone Willingham got fired. And he started to win like seven games a year, literally for like six straight years. But here was the problem. He took a terrible program, started winning like six, seven games. That program had NFL players everywhere.

And then Sark, in the middle of the night, goes to the USC, and Chris Peterson comes from Boise, takes that same program to the playoffs. Why? Because Chris Peterson's a good coach. And the only thing we judge you in coaching, like ultimately how good you are at practice, how good you are with the media, how good you are with your team. We talk a lot about that, but ultimately you're judged on do you win or do you lose?

And for whatever reason, I can't put my finger on it beside, I don't know, maybe he's just not a good head coach. Steve Sarkeesian always loses. He's seven and nine at Texas. And listen, you lose to Alabama, you lose to Oklahoma. We get it. Last year, loses to Kansas. This year loses the Texas Tech. Like, are you ever going to win a fucking game when people are like, just win the game? But he doesn't. I don't know what else to say. And I think people really want him to be good so badly because he's really liked. And listen, I've had friends that have had addiction.

I lost a friend a couple years ago that had some serious issues. Most of us, the older you get are going to be around it, whether it be in family, whether it be in friends. So I try not to hold what happened at USC, you know, quote unquote, off the field. the problem was, is he carried it onto the field. And I can never look at him the same once players were saying he coached the game drunk. He came to the team meeting wasted, even though he resurrected his career, I guess, as a coordinator. Well, clearly as a head coach, whether it's getting his life back on track, which everyone's rooting for the good story, and I get it.

But he just can't figure it out. And he looks lost on the sideline. His teams are soft. yesterday Texas Tech Texas literally paid more money for their team their coordinators than any team in the country and all everyone told me

watch out for Texas they're locked and loaded they bought all these guys they got the best running back in the country he signed all these players with all the money and then I watched him against Texas Tech Texas freaking tech who just fired their coach beats them like I just what else needs to be said at this point and last but not least

there was a a Ken Dorsey video. And it really hit me. Ken Dorsey, the bills lose this crazy game. I didn't watch that much of it, even though a big story is to a guy concussion. Then they claimed it was his back. And now they're all running.

The media's going to freak. Whatever. I can't even keep up. Dolphins are 3 and O. Pretty impressive. And they're playing on Thursday night. 3 and 0. Listen, I bet against them.

Didn't see that coming. Obviously, I would have hammered the bills this week. And the bills lose the game. But so at the end of the game, wide receiver, he runs out of, he, instead of running out of bounds, the bills are not any tight ends or any timeouts left. He kind of does these moves, stays in bounds.

There's 10 seconds. They're not able to snap the ball. So the game basically ends on that. I bet most people saw the end. But what they definitely saw is the viral video of Ken Dorsey losing his shit. And I thought to myself, a lot of people, it's funny, and it's just, it's an easy thing to share on social media via a clip. But it resonated with me, like, that's why the NFL is won. That's why football is number one.

Because every game, every snap, every snap, every. Divisional game. It just couldn't mean anymore. And that moment of that coach losing his shit, shattering the iPad, shattering his play sheet, pencils flowing everywhere is no different than you sitting at home having $100 on that game and losing. You sitting at home that needed that extra yard and fantasy football and your guy going out of bounds instead of getting it losing your mind because you lose to your buddy. You sitting at home watching your favorite team. If a Raider fan, if you're a Charger fan, if you're a Cardinal fan, if you're whoever fan, if you're a Pat's fan, you being furious with you losing. That to me represents

football. The fans, the coaches, the players, it all means so much. You know, it just, when something happens, it just feels so devastating. It's no different when something good happens, it feels incredible. Like if you're a Dolphins fan right now, you're on top of the world. We'll see the Giants Cowboy game. But if you're a Giants fan right now, you're 2 and 0. You're thinking if we get the Cowboys, we're 3 and O, we're right there with the Eagles. We haven't even played them yet. And there is nothing like the urgency in the sport of football. You see it on Saturdays. I've watched so many games yesterday where it's like everything's on the line right here. Even though it might not technically be, but Clemson Wake Forest, it felt like Clemson's chance to make the playoffs, they lose this, they're in trouble.

USC, like Lincoln Riley's got them back. He's on the ropes on the road. Florida, Tennessee, like is Tennessee going to be Florida? Is this really going to happen? How much it meant? to those 100,000 people watching. I think Michigan's going to kick Marilyn's ass. Turns out to his brother's pretty good. Maryland gives them a game. All of a sudden, it's like Michigan's season could be derailed right here.

Obviously in the NFL, how much everything means. And I love those moments. And I think that, I say it all the time. One reason football's really pulled apart is the power and the urgency and the importance in everything we watch. Now, maybe I'm hyping it up a little bit, but the other sports don't hold the,

this is week three. This is week. three, I say it all the time, like, I love baseball. I like baseball as a 37-year-old guy about to be 38. Most of my demo does not. They do not consume it. And when I say I like it, I don't watch it that much anymore, though I used to a lot more. And Aaron Judge, who is from the Valley, Fresno State guy, I couldn't be a bigger fan of Aaron Judge. I don't know how you could not root for him. Elite player, having an elite season, high character guy, he's just the total package. He is everything you want in a superstar in any sport. Well, yesterday,

ESPN, of course they would. They're run by a bunch of northeast academic elites who probably love the Yankees. But the simple reality is Texas Texas Tech is on. And if I'm a UT grad or Texas Tech guy or I have money on the game, I don't give a shit about Aaron Judge. I couldn't

care any less. And part of that is just the sport is not as important and what's the record he's really going for? 61. What does that mean? Maybe call me a Giants fan. Barry Bonds holds the record. I mean, what are we talking about here? And they kept going to his A-Bs. Like, No one watching that game cares about the A-Bs.

Why? Because Texas, Texas Tech means a lot. In a weird way, it's crazy to say, but the Yankees star outfielder who's having one of the greatest seasons in the history of the franchise. And the Yankees are easily, you put every team on the open market,

they would get more than like 90% of NFL teams. Yet the AB, for this moment, is completely irrelevant to everyone watching Texas and Texas Tech. If we wanted to watch that, we would stream it somewhere else. But if we're watching that game, which a lot of people were, we do not care about Aaron Judge. And listen, I think about it all the time.

This is the sport that I'm most known for. I'm very lucky to have to talk about football that just means the most to people in this country. And it feels every week, all this stuff happening, the game even separates from the pack. It's wild. Insane day, have a lot more stuff coming up on Tuesday's show. But what a day for football.

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