The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Best of The Herd: 10/31/2018

Episode Date: October 31, 2018

Colin thinks the Packers are bowing down to Aaron Rodgers and it is becoming an awkward relationship. He reacts to the first College Football Playoff Rankings and thinks the committee is sending a clear message about one conference. Plus, FS1's Nick Wright talks about the awful Houston Rockets and says that the Packers owe Aaron Rodgers more help. Presented by Perky Jerky. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo, and every episode, we're cutting through the noise,

breaking down the biggest moments in sports and giving you the real story behind the headline. And we're going straight to the source, the athletes themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions in the moment, and the stuff nobody gets to hear. Listen to Sports Slice on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok.

Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smigel and friends. Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, SNL's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter.

Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, guys? This is Clivert Taylor the Fourth. And on my podcast, The Cliverts Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me. He goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her.

What? Time out. Quarterback on office blue with 42. Hey, Wreck, my mama want you to weigh better. What? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

What's up, fam? It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano. It's our favorite time of the year on our podcast point game, the playoffs. We're digging into the biggest surprises of the season. And I'm looking back on some of my greatest playoff moments. If we didn't talk ever again, I was harmed. You just understood.

That's how personal it got. Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis come in to her, he's like, you know I love you, dog. You know, it's all love. This was just playoffs. This was just basketball. So listen to Point Game on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening to the best of herd podcast.

Be sure to catch us live every weekday from 12 to 3 Eastern, 9 to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS1. Find your local station for the herd at Fox SportsRadio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeart Radio app by searching Herd. This is the best of The Herd with Colin Cowherg on Fox Sports Radio. This is The Herd. Wherever you may

be and however you may be listening, live in Los Angeles, IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and right here, today we're packed on FS1. Joy Taylor is joining me. You've got sort of a Halloween-ish-cool looking thing. I'm going with the

Elvira. The sheep morticia. Adams. I like it. Today. She's like the millennial morticia and I'm just dressed like your local accountant. I'm completely boring. You look fan.

You're a lactose intolerant sportscaster. I'm going again as a lactose intolerant sportscaster tonight with my son. He can't wait. He's going as one of those Mike Myers Halloween guys. I want to start with this. You know, it's important that relationships have balance.

All relationships have balance. You respect her. She respects you. You feel lucky, she feels lucky. But I've seen some of my friends in their lifetime. Maybe you have to date somebody that's a little out of their league. And like they spend all this time with them and they're obsessive about it. Like relationships need to be balanced, that you both need each other. Green Bay and Aaron Rogers is getting uncomfortable here.

So yesterday at the Green Bay Packers, in the incredibly competitive NFC. The Rams are better at practice today. The Redskins are better at practice today. The Dallas Cowboys with Amari Cooper are better at practice. Philadelphia added Golden Tate, they're better at practice today. The Green Bay Packers are not better at practice today. They gave away Ty Montgomery, and they gave away Ha Ha, Clinton Dicks. By the way, there is not a seventh rounder available in any draft of my lifetime that is good as Ty Montgomery. I'm not saying Time Montgomery is a star, but there's a reason

he was in your running back meetings, your receiver meetings, and your special team meetings. That's a pretty valuable guy. That's a pretty valuable guy. In a good organization, the Raven said, you know what? We're going to put him in a bunch of our meetings, too. Ha-ha Clinton Dicks. There will not be a fourth rounder this year as good as ha-ha Clinton Dix.

There won't be. Won't be. So at practice today, you're less talented. But we know what happened. is that Ty Montgomery's gone because he ticked off Aaron Rogers and Ha ha ha Clinton Dick's gone because of Aaron Rogers new contract. This is becoming Shaq in Orlando, Oklahoma City in Westbrook, LeBron in Cleveland, and Aaron Rogers in Green Bay.

When you date somebody out of your league, it's never an even relationship. Ted Thompson, get him out of here. Time Montgomery, good player. Get him out of here. He ticked Aaron off. And Mike McCarthy's up next. That is not to say New England doesn't love Tom Brady.

But Tom Brady doesn't own the franchise. Okay. That's not to say the Lakers don't like LeBron, but they told him we're not giving you the franchise. That's not to say the Warriors don't like Golden State. But they won without him. Is that success breeds confidence. big markets breeds options, small towns that gets professional sports franchises,

especially if they don't win, and even if they do, they have often low sports self-esteem. Cleveland's tiptoeing around LeBron and Oklahoma City doesn't want to make Westbrook unhappy, and they enable them. And yesterday, Time Montgomery, yeah, we don't need you. Really? I watch them. in their own division, Minnesota and Chicago have better players than Green Bay. You don't need Ty Montgomery.

You don't need Ha-ha Clinton-Nicks. You don't need them. Oh, okay. Because, by the way, Minnesota, Chicago, in your own division are better. Philadelphia is better. Rams are way better. I'm watching all these NFC teams. Dallas has better players.

But, okay. I just want to make sure when the Packers are at practice today, you do understand they're a less talented football team. You get that, right? Nobody in the world in the NFL thinks this morning that the Packers are more talented. They're not bailing on this season. I'm not saying that.

But they're going to New England, and they just got rid of one of their most talented players and certainly one of their most versatile. You get into these relationships. Westbrook and Oklahoma City is one of them. They're just tiptoeing around. Billy Donovan. Don't tell Westbrook that.

don't you leave us and they got into that in Cleveland I saw it first hand I lived in Florida with shack in Orlando and I saw it with Dwight Howard in Orlando and I'm watching this Green Bay thing right now it's getting weird it's getting unhealthy you're dating somebody out of your league this is how guys act they get weird I can't speak for women I've seen guys do it you start buying really expensive stuff you're on your phone all day talking to her like everything schedules around her what about your friends? What about your life? What about your parents? What about your, this is this whole thing. Time Montgomery. Ticked off Aaron. Get out. Clinton Dix. Going forward, got to pay Aaron. Get out.

Good luck. Forget your own division. The NFC? Because I watched this morning and three teams in the NFC got better. They added talented players. They didn't get out of the talented player business. Let me shift to this. One of those teams is the Eagles. They picked up Golden Tense. I like that a lot. I think it's like it matters. Like that was not one of these like, well, they picked up a white. No, no, no, no, no. Golden Tate to the Eagles matters.

I'll tell you why. Wide receivers in the NFL due to rule changes have become three-point shooters in the NBA. They used to be specialists. Used to have like, you used to have a three-point shooter. Like Steve Kerr, 20 years ago with the Bulls, he was a specialist. Steve Kerr in a golf bag was a sand wedge. now Steve Kerr in the NBA would be a putter or a nine iron or a driver or a three wood. He'd be valuable.

Things that used to be a specialty. Like if you owned a big company 15 years ago and you had a really good internet site, you had a digital presence. It was like, it's a great company, brick and mortar, but you know, they got a cool website. Now if you don't have a cool website, the CEO gets fired. It's no longer a specialty. It is a necessity. If you look at Golden Tate to Philadelphia, they got the quarterback, star tied in, good old line, great pass rush, excellent coach, great GM.

Boy, they could use a difference maker outside and they just picked that up. At this time of the year in the NFL, we're getting close to Thanksgiving. There's always about seven or eight teams that feel like, because this is the way it works. I mean, in the NBA now, now that Houston stinks, what do we have, two, three? In baseball end of the year, you felt like there were six. In football today, there feels like there's eight teams to me that are in the Super Bowl bubble. And I was on the fence with Philadelphia, and then they went and got Golden Tate. And the teams to me that feel like these eight teams are going to win the Super Bowl are New England, Pittsburgh, Chargers, Texans,

Kansas City, Rams, Saints, Eagles, all with good wide receivers. By the way, Carolina is on the out looking in real close. And the reason is they're not going to get any cheap over-the-top touchdowns because they're not good enough at wide receiver. Carolina is on the outside looking in. If you look at the chargers, Saints, Eagles now, Kansas City, New England, Houston, Pittsburgh, weapons. And now, Minnesota, Atlanta have good wide receivers.

That doesn't guarantee you're in. Minnesota's quarterback's not good enough. can't put him in and Atlanta's got deficiencies on the defensive side. But Greg Jennings was talking about this yesterday. You see this in three-point shooters. They're no longer a luxury. They're no longer a specialty. Doesn't matter if you have LeBron.

If you don't have two legitimate big-time three-point shooters, you're not winning the Western or the Eastern Conference. You're not. You're not winning it. And in the NFL, when Golden Tate goes to Philadelphia, I think about them differently this morning. I really do. They're in the club of eight.

Here's Greg Jennings. I like the Philadelphia move. I like Golden Tate. When I look at this Philadelphia Eagles team, they just extend it and added to not only their running game, but obviously their passing game. Golden Tate is a running back playing wide receiver. He's a big, heavy yards after the catch guy.

You get the ball out of Carson Winst's hands, quick, fast, slot guy that they trust more than even. and Nelson Aguilar, and he adds that stability. Totally agree. First of all, how great was it yesterday? We had all these playoff teams adding people. The NFL trading deadline, and it used to be in baseball, they had the hot stove league. That used to be a baseball thing, but the NFL is so smart that they move the trading

deadline back two weeks, which is brilliant, because now by week eight, if you're one in seven, two and six, three and five, like Denver's lost twice to the Chiefs now, why not get rid of a receiver? The NFL, baseball used to own this space. Now it's football. Now it's the NBA. Football moved back their trading deadline two weeks. And so Detroit's like, yeah, we don't have the Minnesota.

We're not this, this. By week six years ago, no, no, no, teams wouldn't bail on players. But by week eight, one in seven, two and six, three and five, you lose to the chiefs twice. If you're Denver, let's move people. I thought it was a great move for Philadelphia. One more herd? The herd streams 24 hours a day, seven days. a week within the IHeart Radio app.

Search heard to listen live or on demand whenever you'd like. What I'm about to talk about, I've seen happen my whole life. Dynasties in sports make the rivals crazy. People forget this.

Before Tom Brady, the Buffalo Bills were a great franchise. They had been to the playoffs in a 12-year stretch, eight years. They had Hall of Famers all over the roster. Franchise quarterback. Hall of Famers. Post Tom Brady, the Buffalo Bills, are reactionary loony tunes. The Miami Dolphins before Tom Brady were a gold standard of excellence. Don Shula,

Dan Marino, Jimmy Johnson, free agent market. From 1990 to 2001, 12 years, they'd made the playoffs nine times. They had an all-time great quarterback. Don Shula was arguably the best coach ever. Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills before Tom Brady were standards of excellence, brilliant front offices, superstar quarterbacks, move the television ratings. Tom Brady arrives, they reach, overpay, overreact. That's what greatness does. The Houston Rockets now are terrible. They got this close to beating Golden State. Golden State's great.

and they went crazy. They signed Carmelo Anthony. And Carmelo Anthony makes no sense for them. They shoot only threes. He's awful at it. They finally got good last year because they played defense. He's probably the worst defensive forward in the game. And they played great last year because not only was their defense good,

but their chemistry was terrific. And is there a worse chemistry guy in the NBA than Carmelo Anthony? Darry's a smart guy. But I've seen this happen. When you get close to beating great, Jacksonville got close to beating Tom Brady. And they're not even a rival of Tom Brady. What did they do?

Overreact. Blake Bortle's huge deal. He was 21 and 40. What the hell are you doing? He had 21 TD's 13 picks. You pulled the Brinks truck up. What are you doing? That's what greatness does.

It creates crazy. Nick Saban. LSU fired their coach, Les Miles. They were winning 11 games a year. They fire him. Next year they lose to Troy, and they're going to get smoked by Alabama this weekend.

I mean, it's amazing to me why Houston, now struggling, brought in Carmelo Anthony. I had lunch a couple weeks ago with Darryorne. I said, I don't really get it. You're the guy that went to MIT. I went to Eastern Washington University. You're the smart guy, but your chemistry was great.

He's awful for it. Your defense was fine. finally great, he doesn't play it, and you shoot three pointers, he's awful at it. He's shooting 36% this year, and I've seen it happen my whole life. And when you get close to beating it, you almost beat the Patriots, Jacksonville. You almost beat the Warriors Rockets. Then you're really, now you're like, oh my God, I can't sleep. Remember, Daryl was on the air and, to his credit, acknowledged his fascination and obsession with the Warriors. How motivated. How motivated are you to keep pace with the Warriors?

I mean, it's the only thing we think about. I think I'm not supposed to say that, but I mean, we're basically obsessed with how do we beat the Warriors. We counted it. It's like 90% if we're going to win a title. We've got to obviously beat the Warriors at some point. And so we're extremely focused on that. And a lot of our signings and, you know, what we do during the year is based on that.

I mean, since Saban arrived in the SEC, there's been 72 head coaching firings. People have gone crazy in the South. I mean, crazy. And since Brady arrived, Buffalo and Miami have become loony bin franchises. And Golden State took an MIT guy who loves analytics to get the worst analytic forward in the NBA, Carmelo Anthony. And I think this is what great does.

It drives you nuts. I got to beat it. How do I beat it? I'm in a competitive industry. Oh, damn, we got to. close to beating it. I mean, even Tom Conflin Jacksonville. Oh my God, we almost beat Brady. Let's give Blake Bordels a ton. How about let's not? He's 21 and 40. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the I heart radio apps. I host, the first things first. My buddy, you know, I used to.

Wide receivers used to drive me crazy. But I always say, I can't be a hypocrite. You got to evolve. You got to adapt. and the rule changes in the last six months. Wide receivers now have more value. Golden Tate to Philadelphia does change things, and with that via the Coward Global Satellite Network, my buddy Nick Wright. Okay, I used to bang on wide receivers. I called him icing on the cake,

but I've got to be honest with you. I'm also a guy that says constantly, life changes, change with it, or get left behind. I think Golden Tate to Philadelphia, it matters. I mean, I acknowledge today. I have to start liking wide receivers. react please. Well, the game has changed, right?

Like, is Troy Vincent, who works in the league office of higher-up? He sends Chris and I every Monday, like the latest records that have been broken. They all have to do with points scoring and passing. You were talking during Hirdline News about how bad Eli Manning's been this year, right? And to the eye test, he's been terrible. Yet he's having statistically the best season of his. career. Why? Because all of the numbers are funny right now. It's some type of football inflation going on based on the ability of teams to throw the ball downfield. So if you can add talent at the

wide receiver position, it's more valuable now than it's ever been. I applaud the Eagles for recognizing that their season isn't over. They have had a bad first half of the season. They are still the defending champs, though, and they shouldn't be 21st in the league in scoring. Let's try to add the single best run-after-catch receiver in football. And that's what they did. He's not one of the best 10 best overall receivers in football, but he has a very specific skill set that he's great at. It's something they need.

They're a bottom six run-after-catch team right now. So I love the move for Philly. Yeah. And I did like Amari Cooper for the Cowboys. That was the same reason. I said they have everything else. They got the linebackers, the pass rush, the running back, the left tackle. Let's get some speed on the outside.

So the Packers this morning at practice, I would say this, Nick. The Green Bay Packers this morning at practice are less talented. They're a less talented football team. I won't get their division. I already thought going in there were less talented than the Vikings and the Bears. This feels like Ty Montgomery ticked off Aaron, get out the door, and nobody's going to say that publicly. But Mike McCarthy, I think, is about eight games from ticking off Aaron Rogers and being out the door. They already demoted Ted Thompson.

I think there's a weird, unhealthy relationship. small town and Aaron Rogers. I felt it was Shaq and Orlando. I sometimes feel it with O'KC and Westbrook. What did you make of the Montgomery? Ha-a-Clin' dick's moves? All right, listen, I don't care about the Thai Montgomery move. Time Montgomery is not an important player in this league.

He found a way to make an imprint on a game in a super negative way. If that soured the locker room on him, fine. The reason I know he's not a super valuable player is here's what they got from him. approximately the 240th pick in a draft the year after next. The smallest compensation you can get. The Ha ha-ha Clinton Dicks move is perplexing. And for me, a football fan, not a Packer fan, but a football fan, it's infuriating. The Packers have spent first-round picks on defensive players each of the last six years.

He's the only one to have made a Pro Bowl. Pro football focus says he's the second best active safety in the league right now. second two, DJ Sweringer, who he's now going to be a teammate with. You trade him for what's going to be the 110th pick of the draft. You're not the team leading your division has Mitch Trubisky a quarterback. By definition, they can't run away with it. The Vikings have been good in spots this year, but not overwhelming. You've got Aaron Rogers.

Think about the teams that either right now are great or have a superstar, Asian quarterback. The Saints, they add Eli Apple. The Pats, they add Josh Gordon. The Rams, they added Dante Fowler. The Chiefs tried to add Earl Thomas. The Packers, no, we'll be sellers at the deadline. The hell you're doing, cheeseheads? Come on. It's awful. You know, I was talking about this, and it's right in your alley because you used to live in Houston, that great dynasties, Sabin's making people crazy in the South, Brady's made the bills and the dolphins nuts. They're nutty franchises.

They used to be gold standard. And Darry, who I love, got real close to beaten Golden State and then added the last thing they need. A moody, poor defensive, aging star, unwilling to hit threes. The rockets are off to a terrible start. Can I make the argument?

It's that whole crazy thing. You almost beat a dynasty and then you reach in the off-season. You know, it's funny. I think you can make the argument, but I think you're making it with the wrong piece of evidence. I don't think the argument that Golden State is making guys go crazy is Houston signing mellow. I think it might be the trade that they haven't been able to pull off for Jimmy Butler. Darry has always valued flexibility, assets, and he offered up the most first-round picks you're allowed

by NBA law to offer up for what could have been a one-year rental of Jimmy Butler. That would have been, I think, an example, even though it would have made the Rockets far better this year, an example of a team going crazy. But it's got to feel maddening in Houston. They were for two weeks better than the greatest team ever, the Golden State Warriors. They then have their second best player get hurt, the greatest three-point shooting team in the history of basketball last year's Rockets. then miss 27 consecutive threes at home, and you're going home, their champions,

and then they add boogie cousins. But for them to be one in five, Colin, look at those last four losses, or look at the first loss in the last three, all at home. Four home blowout losses. They only had one home blowout loss all of last year. They only lost seven times in total all of last year.

They're one in five. last year, do you know when they lost their fifth game? Game 30. They started 25 and 4. Like, I'd be upset and panic too. And one other thing on the Rockets, Darrell knows what this feels like. Four years ago, they won 56 games,

made the conference finals, and the Warriors beat them. And the next year, the mountains seemed too damn big, and they limped to a 41-win season in the 8-seed. I'm sure our mutual pal, Darry, nervous about that, even though he hasn't told me that he is. If I were him, I'd be nervous about it. Finally, yesterday, one of the things I've always loved about the NBA, the season ends, and I get a month of free agency, and it's as good as the regular season to me. In fact, I like the playoffs first, that, then the regular season. Yesterday, the trading deadline, I've got to be honest with you,

Nick. It felt NBA-ish. I loved it. Did you? This is the one thing the NFL has never done as well as the NBA or even Major League Baseball, the transaction. Free agencies muted in the NFL because of that ridiculous un-American franchise tag that is just an absolute black mark on the league as a whole, but that's another story. And because of the convoluted nature, oddly enough, of prorated signing bonuses, trades have never been huge in the NFL because you have to deal with the cap ramifications in ways you don't in baseball and basketball. Over the last few years, what teams have realized is our GMs have way overvalued the 170th

player in an upcoming draft. Every GM forever had thought, well, I can't trade away a fifth round pick. I'm a genius. Obviously, I'm going to find Richard Sherman. I can't trade around a fourth round pick. I'm a genius. I'm going to find Russell Wilson. No, you're not.

You're not a genius. You're not going to find that guy. I trade for tangible assets you can touch. I loved it. I thought this was the most active and important trade deadline in the NFL in my lifetime. I want to see more like it. I think it's a step in the right direction. Yeah, by the way, the Redskins, the Cowboys, and the Eagles, I can make an argument,

were the three teams that improved the most, all in the same intense Northeast division, a well-funded big media markets. So I thought the NFC East had a great day. And to your point, the Packers did not. Nick Wright, great talking to you, bud. Absolutely. Good talking to you. Good to see you, Joey.

Talk to you guys later. What's up? John Middlecoff, three-and-out podcast on Colin Coward's podcast network. If you like Colin's show, you will like mine. I talk a ton of football. Talking Brady, talking the paths, talking Andrew Luck's comeback story, the Cleveland Brown debacle and Todd Gurley's MVP. P-case all coming up on the podcast.

Again, John Middlough, three-and-out podcast. You can find me wherever you listen to your podcast. It is weird to watch the Rams, you know, keep spending money. Dante Fowler, who's been sort of an underachieving pass rusher for Jacksonville. Decent player, underachiever, but he is a pass rusher. It's the Rams' biggest weakness. They don't have an edge rusher. And they gave up draft picks, and people kind of overreacting to it.

and my takeaway is so what? They got a first round pick next year. They got a fourth round pick next year. The following year, they got a first, a second, a third, and a fourth. How many draft picks can make this Rams roster anyway? I mean, seriously, how many guys in college right now could make the Rams roster? Certainly as starters? Why not give it?

I mean, I would give up everything about my first, second, and thirds. There are no fourth rounders making this roster. There's a new rule in the NFL, and by the Rams doing this move, and by the Cowboys getting Amari Cooper and by the Eagles getting Golden Tate and by the Texans getting Demarius Thomas, are you noticing what's happening in the NFL? If you have a quarterback

on a rookie deal, Goff, Wentz, Dak, Deshawn, Mahomes, go for it. That's what all the winning teams are doing. Now, if you have, who didn't make a move yesterday? Saints, New England, they got old expensive quarterbacks. Pittsburgh, Colts, Atlanta, Detroit, Minnesota.

They have expensive quarterback. So what do you do if you're a team that you can't afford to do that? To me, I don't tell you what I believe to be true. I never understood the hand-wringing with Amari Cooper to the Cowboys. Who cares? They need a receiver. He's better than any of the college guys. Why the hand-wringing?

Yesterday on the internet, you know, when all these receivers got traded, people were freaking out making fun of the Cowboys, a first round pick for Amari Cooper. If he comes in and can win you a game to get you to the playoffs, who cares? There's two rules in the NFL. If you have a young quarterback on a rookie deal, go for it. Be aggressive. If you have an old expensive quarterback, my belief is the rules change. you can't be too aggressive.

What you can do, though, to ensure continued success, you can't overdraft the offensive line. Indianapolis got heat for getting an offensive lineman, an extra one in the draft. Andrew Luck hasn't been sacked in a month. Tom Brady, New England drafted offensive linemen. I mean, Philadelphia, they've made sure we've got to get this offensive line. You know, go look at the teams in the NFL.

Young quarterback, be aggressive. Give up picks for players. Old quarterback can't afford to do that. Can't have a good enough offensive line. You can't spend enough in Indianapolis on your own line. You can't spend enough in New England to protect Brady or enough in New Orleans or enough in Pittsburgh. Because with the new rules in the NFL, these old quarterbacks, they figure this game out. These veteran Philip Rivers, best year of his career, Tom Brady,

crushing it. Big Ben crushing it. I mean, go look at all these veteran quarterbacks now. Even Eli's numbers. So, I mean, I like what the Cowboys did, the hand-wringing. Jerry Jones talked about it. I don't get the hand-wringing on Amari Cooper. Here's what Jerry Jones said about it.

I'm more urgent. We're more urgent because we dug a hole here. And in order to really be where we want, then we'd be pretty strong in our success here. And we don't have time here. We don't have the room to wiggle here. We just want to

now get ourselves in a position so that that can execute in a game winning way. And that's it, pure and simple. Let me shift to this. One hour from now, Joel Klapp, the voice of college football at this network, will throw a fit. He will go crazy. he will be upset with what the committee did last week with their first playoff seating. What did I notice the college football committee did? And what did I notice about the poll? The best undefeated team, Alabama was ranked number one, SEC. The best one-loss team, LSU 7-1 and SEC team.

The best two-loss team highest rank was Florida, 6-2, SEC team. The best three-lossed team with Mississippi State. They were ranked 18th, SEC. The best undefeated team, the best one-lost team, the best two-loss team, the best three-loss team were all SEC teams. The committee clearly favored the SEC, and they should. Not just because of the last 15 years. Watch the games. Auburn against Georgia looks different than Utah against Washington. LSU against Alabama is going to look different than the Arena League called the Big 12, Texas Tech against TCU. Alabama LSU, Georgia, Florida, Auburn LSU, Georgia LSU looks different than Miami, B.C.

This past weekend. Listen, the SEC is better. It's the way it is. I don't necessarily think it's great for college football. I don't think it's great if you want to be a national sport to be completely lobsided in one region of the country. But the committee told you their highest rank unbeaten team, their highest rank one loss team, their highest ranked two loss team,

and their highest ranked three loss team were all SEC teams. Again, I think it's really important for a team west of Denver like USC to be good, but they're not. and with the Rams emergence in Los Angeles, college football is dead in L.A. I live here. It's dead. Nobody talks about it.

LeBron Lakers, Rams, chargers, Dodgers. Nobody talks about it. I think what's good for college football is Michigan, Notre Dame, Ohio State, USC. But the committee told you the truth. The best conference, once again, is that one down south. Turn the games on on Saturday. LSU Bama will look different than everything else.

Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. What I'm about to say is obvious. What I'm about to say everybody knows, but you don't want to live it, but it's actually good for you. Failure is a great thing. Failure creates resilience. And, you know, I mean, I can speak. for myself, but I don't want to do too much self-analizing.

But I think one of the reasons Brady continues to be the greatest quarterback ever is because nobody ever falls in love with him. Belichick wanted to move off from him. Everybody calls him a system quarterback. Go online any day of the week. System quarterback. There's no Montana, not as good as Aaron Rogers. He reads that stuff.

That's what makes Brady. Why does Brady get up and work this hard? Because he still has doubters. Remember a few years ago they did a story on him about being drafted in the sixth round? He had four Super Bowl rings. He cried about it. I tell my wife this all the time. It never goes away.

It doesn't matter how successful I can be, how much money I've ever made. I'm still a kid, a child of divorce. I'm a child of divorce. And that's how when I wake up in the morning, I'm going to get fired tomorrow. And that's why, I don't need to work as hard. I don't know. Why? If you look at successful people, they've all had massive failure.

And I used to think Aaron Rogers, I think he's been two quarterbacks in his life. I think there was the I'm going to prove you wrong, prove you wrong, prove you wrong, chip on the shoulder, Aaron Rogers. And then he won a Super Bowl and he's like entitled Aloof Aaron Rogers. And so this week, Rogers goes to Foxborough to face Tom Brady. there's no quotes about Rogers talking about Brady but even Tom Brady oh my God Aaron Rogers

I think he's so phenomenal with how he you know managed himself in the pocket his ability to throw the football is you know unlike anyone in the probably history of the league it's pretty awesome to watch the greatest quarterback ever eight Super Bowl trips five rings awesome he later said his incompletions are fascinating

Nobody ever says that about Brady. You ever noticed that? Tom Brady did not get the Whitney Houston, the Tiger Woods, the Mike Tyson, you know, the Cindy Crawford jaw-dropping DNA. He was told he was not going to make it. And by the way,

Aaron Rogers was told that up until he won a Super Bowl. Before Aaron Rogers won a Super Bowl, he had to go to a junior college before Cal. He fell in the draft. He was in the shadow of Favre. He had no playoff wins. Did not have a big contract. That Aaron Rogers,

though cocky, was driven, intense, hungry, on a mission, and not entirely public. since he won the Super Bowl, it's 24-7 worship, no threat in the organization, television endorsements, date celebrities, massive contract, five and six in the playoffs, and multiple people calling him out. When you get the jaw-dropping DNA, Aaron always had it, but before the Super Bowl, He had to prove the PAC 12 wrong. He had to prove the people who passed on him in the draft wrong.

He wanted to prove to the Green Bay teammate. He was better than Fav. He wanted to prove to the NFL that you needed him. Prove, prove, prove, prove, chip on the shoulder. Then he won the Super Bowl and he became a celebrity. And now it's endorsements. Now it's money. Now it's nobody can threaten him in the organization.

He can call him out online. He can call him out anywhere. 24-7 worship. The reality for Aaron Rogers is, here's the truth today. He's 35 in December. He's not 100% healthy. He's not going to take a pay cut to help the roster. He's got the third best roster in his division.

And they just let go of one of the top two safeties in the NFL. Sorry, that's his reality. Brady's reality is he's got the deepest running back group he's ever had he's got the second best tied in in the NFL his organization is willing to pay big money for Stefan Gilmore at corner and McCordy at safety

a weaker division and Brady's 100% healthy the worship should go to Tom today but once again the worship goes to Aaron Rogers it feels like there's been two of them. He was always cocky, but there was the chip on the shoulder, Aaron. I'm going to prove the Pact 12 wrong.

I'm going to prove the NFL wrong. I'm going to prove the Packers that I'm better than Fav. I'm going to prove to the media critics. I'm the greatest of all time. Prove, prove, prove, prove, prove, prove. Now I feel like I get a little more worship, call people out, nobody can touch him, media slobbers over him.

That's not the reality of him today. We got a game Sunday. Maybe Green Bay wins. But the reality is Brady's more coachable, takes pay cuts, has a better team. Once again at home, we'll win his division, we'll have a buy and be favored in every playoff game unless they play the Chiefs in Kansas City. That's the reality. That's the reality.

You can keep worshipping. You can keep telling me his incompletions are amazing. but when you get that constant worship, it changes people. It amplifies what you are. If you're kind of cocky, you become real cocky. If you have a little ego, it becomes a big ego. If you're nice, you become super nice. If you're coachable, you become really coachable.

Money and fame just amplify what you are. Today, the worship should be for Tom Brady, doing something that's absurd. Football dynasties don't last 18 years. It's not the way it works in the NFL. NBA dynasties are built to last. Players don't get hurt every 15 minutes. In the NFL, you win your division, you have a tougher schedule. Doesn't work that way in the NBA.

NBA stars don't get hurt constantly in miss years. Don't retire at 26. What New England's doing is unbelievable, unexplainable, inexplicable. I can't explain it. But once again, Rogers Brady are playing. And the media, oh, every, oh, read the articles next week. Read them in the next five days. I want to hear Tom Brady again.

Lather praise on Aaron Ryan. I want to hear it again. Brady psychologically, just gassing him up. By the way, you do realize who's a touchdown favorite in this game. I just want to remind everybody who the touchdown favorite is, it's New England. Go ahead, Tom. He's done as a quarterback is inspiring because I think he's so phenomenal with how he, you know, managed himself in the pocket.

I mean, his ability to throw the football is, you know, unlike anyone in the pride history of the league, it's pretty awesome to watch. It is. Pretty awesome to watch them. Lose 34 to 23 to New England on, is that Sunday night football? Sunday night football. I'll be fun to watch. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where SportsSlyce comes in. I'm Timbo, and every episode we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the biggest moments in sports and giving you the real story behind the headline. And we're going straight to the source, the athletes themselves,

their locker room stories, their reactions in the moment, and the stuff nobody gets to hear. Listen to Sports Slice on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more, follow Timbo Sliced Life 12 in the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. Another podcast from some SNL, late night comedy, Guy not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends, me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, S&L's Mikey Day and headwriter, Streeter Seidel, help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform?

We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, guys? This is Clifford Taylor the Fourth. And on my mom, podcast, The Clivert Show, I'm bringing you conversations about all kinds of stuff. Like being an internet famous referee. We're in the middle of a game. This linebacker, this linebacker walks up to me, he goes, hey, ref, my mom wants you to wave at her. What?

Quarterback on office blue 42. Hey, ref, my mama want you to wave at her. What? Where's she at? Hey, Miss Parker. Listen to the Cliford Show on the iTunes. Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. What's up, fam?

It's Isaiah Thomas. And I'm C.J. Toledano. It's our favorite time of the year on our podcast, Point Game, the playoffs. We're digging into the biggest surprises of the season. And I'm looking back on some of my greatest playoff moments. If we didn't talk ever again, I was hungry. You just understood. That's how personal it got.

Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis' keep coming to him. He's like, you know I love you, dog. You know, it's all love. This was just playoffs. This was just basketball. So listen to Point Game on the. iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.