The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - Dodgers Win The World Series! Yankees The "Inferior Team", Steelers Suprise Colin

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

Colin gives his instant reaction to the Los Angeles Dodgers beating the New York Yankees in game 5 to win the World Series! He congratulates the Dodgers and explains why the Yankees were the inferior team and why Shohei Ohtani deserved to win on baseball’s biggest stage (3:00) Then, he pivots to the NFL and why out of all his correct predictions, the Pittsburgh Steelers with Russell Wilson are the team that managed to surprise him the most of any team at the NFL’s midseason mark (19:30). (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates!  #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Instant reaction. And then on the back end, some thoughts on where I was really wrong this football season with one team in particular. Congratulations to the Dodgers winning their eighth World Series title. I think I'm very clever. Headline Walker Bueller's two days off. Ferris Bueller Walker. Anyway, I love Dave Roberts, who deals, because of you. of the Dodgers payroll and their commitment to Betts and Freeman and Otani. It's like an

all-star team. There's a lot of pressure on Dave Roberts. And, you know, here's a guy with the Red Sox. Here's a guy that, you know, wins a World Series. And then Dodgers as a manager. And I just think he's a classy guy who's taking a lot of shit. And he did a great job, a masterful job of not only managing the team, but managing his resources. Now, I felt very strongly tonight that it was going to go back to L.A., and the Dodgers were going to pitch. At least I thought this in the eighth inning. They were going to pitch Yamamoto and Walker Bueller, their two best pitchers at home, whereas the Yankees just expended Garrett Cole, so he's done for the series, and they go on the road.

But I really thought as much as the Dodgers won tonight, I thought the Yankees, and I thought they were the inferior team. I thought they gave the game away. And the fifth innings are the craziest thing I've ever seen. Over the course of 10 minutes, Aaron Judge, with a 5-0 lead, drops a routine fly ball. It was the kind of ball that you, if you were playing catch with a friend,

he drops a routine fly ball. Then Volpe at short, short hops a throw to third. And then Garrett Cole, who had a masterful 108 pitching performance, doesn't cover first base. It would be a... You would think that was a bad spring training performance.

You'd get chewed out after a spring training game. To be in a World Series game and have three misuse, one after the other, is just insane. And then the game is tied. And then I felt like the Dodgers were playing loose and with house money. I mean, at that point, I mean, you get down 5-0, you're like, okay, we're going back to L.A., we got Yamamoto.

Yamamoto, we've got Walker Bueller. This will be it for Garrett-Cole. We have a pitching advantage, hitting advantage, home field advantage. They're not going to win four straight against us. That's what it felt like to me. And so all bets are off. But, God. And Max Muncie, who was just great in the NLCS, had a rough world series.

Otani didn't hit. And Dave Roberts, you know, I mean, there are a lot of people that didn't want Max Muncie coming up, you know, that final time. So you got Muncie struggling, Otani's struggling. And remember, Jack Flaherty, who the doctor, Rogers got. There was a story last week. I think it was in the LA Times where his velocity had come down. So, you know, he didn't look like, you know, he had his best stuff. So after the bullpen loss yesterday, Flaherty struggling today, you're thinking, you know, to me, it was just like, okay, you're going home, Yamamoto, Walker Bueller's stuff is nasty. You're in great shape.

I've been taking notes for four hours. I got so many notes. And then, you know, again, the Yankees in the top of the 8th. You got back-to-back singles by Keithke Hernandez and Tommy Edmund, and then Will Smith walks. You have no outs in the bases loaded. And so you get, and then there's a catcher's interference against the Yankees. So, God, it's like the fifth and the eighth. It was just time after time the Yankees.

You know, as I said before, I don't watch a ton of baseball in the regular season. I mean, it's on in my house with the Dodgers when I lived, at ESPN back east. I always had the Yankees of the Red Sox on. It was the Yes Networker Nesson. I watch my local team, right? I kind of keep track because I used to work for the Padres. So I kind of keep track of the Padres a little bit.

But this was a game in which the Yankees just kept giving the Dodgers every break in the fifth inning and the eight inning and catchers interference and airs and free passes. And the Dodgers eventually, you know, took advantage of it. So, you know, it's interesting. years and years ago there's a coach, the late Lute Olson coached at Arizona. He had great teams in the tournament, and he just could not win a championship. And there was a lot of years they went in as a heavy favorite lost in the first round. And then eventually they got this team with Miles Simon and a bunch of freshmen and a bunch of kids, and they won the national championship. And it's just so interesting, so many times with Dave Roberts and the Dodgers, you've gone into the playoffs and you felt really strongly about them.

And they just, they kind of unraveled and they have a bad pitching performance. performance this year. I mean, think about it. In this world series, Otani dried up. Max Muncie, who was brilliant in the NLCS, dried up. All of a sudden going into the World Series, Flaherty's velocity dips. You've already used 40 pitchers. You're going into a World Series coming out of a National League divisional series and a championship series where you had to have bullpen games. You're just managing resources of all the years to win it. If you're written down this, script and said, yeah, oh, Tani, it will just be brutal in a series. Max Muncie will dry up. I mean, you'll have basically two starting pitchers and Walker Bueller's kind of crossing your fingers because

he's been hurt for a year and a half, two years. So, God, that fifth inning, I think all five of those runs, the Dodgers scored, I think all five were unurned. Is that ever happened in a World Series game? Five hundred runs. Well, it's just, it's just crazy. And, you know, it's, you just never know in these championships where they come from. And I thought it was interesting that the World Series came down to Garrett Cole being pulled, not singularly came down to, but Garrett Cole being pulled in game one got a lot of heat. And then Garrett Cole not covering first kept that fifth inning going for the Dodgers. So Garrett Cole, who was, you know, the best pitcher in the series for either team, I think, ended up being so crucial, probably pulled a little early.

early at 88 pitches and the Dodgers, you know, had to go to their bullpen and good luck against the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium with your bullpen. And then in this fifth inning, you know, he was brilliant tonight, 108 pitches, but he didn't cover first base. I mean, that's just crazy to me. A guy that zoned in doesn't cover first base. So, I mean, the Dodgers aren't going anywhere. I mean, it's just so many, so many things went wrong physically for the Dodgers. I mean, Otani's shoulders, collarbone. What are the chances of that? On a slide to second base, you're looking at him, you're thinking there's no collision? All of a sudden, he grabs his shoulder, and you're like, you've got to be kidding me. The timing's terrible. Ends up they didn't need him.

So it's easy, I find it's easy to root for the Dodgers. I think it's a really classy organization from research and development. They don't miss on trades. You know, when they call guys up, they deliver. It's just, you know, Kershaw, to Otani, to Betts, to Freddie Freeman's story, to Dave Roberts, to the late Vince Scully and now Joe Davis. You're just, it's class personified as an organization. And you can blame Aaron Boone and you can blame the defense in the fifth inning.

But, I mean, if you really really. looked at what was happening. If the Dodgers would have not come back in the fifth inning, you were going to L.A. to face the Dodgers' best two pitchers. And at some point, Otani was going to get a big hit. I mean, Aaron Judge finally, Aaron Judge tonight roared back. I mean, really roared back tonight. And despite what happened in the World Series, the Dodgers three years ago set their sights on Otani. And what a significant upgrade for him personally. Because, you know, when you get these star players, it always reminds me to a lesser version of like Joe Maur with the twins or a Joey Votto

with a Cincinnati Reds where you just can't, you pay him and you can't surround him with elite players. And the Angels couldn't really do that. But with the Dodgers, you can have him clean up. You can bat him third, fourth. You're going to have Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and Max Muncie. You know, and tremendous players all around him. He's going to usually get better pitchers. And it's just, I mean, for him to be as classy as he was, I mean, this season started with that, you know, gambling story, which could have derailed the franchise, derailed his career. And he was just poised, under control, a beloved in the locker room, fit right in. And it feels like they're just certain players. I mean, it's like Aaron Judge needs to be a Yankee, right?

like Otani really needs to be a Dodger. It's nothing against the Angels, but, you know, they're just, the Dodgers have more resources, and the Yankees have more resources. And there's just a handful of teams that can surround these great players with better players, so they get better pitches. And I just thought, think of how the season started pretty bumpy for Otani, and it ended pretty bumpy, but let's not forget what he produced for a majority, 95% of this season.

He was the best player by a lot. And that's saying something on a team with Batson Freeman and Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper and the amazing players in Major League Baseball. Otani by a long shot, 50-50 club was the best player in baseball. I like how it ends for him and the Dodgers. So great players eventually have their moment on a stage like this. So congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers in what was one of the weirdest, most bizarreo World Series games I've ever seen

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Number one, I said the Washington commanders cleaning house will immediately become a playoff team. So it looks like I'm right on that. I had pretty good insight with Cliff Kingsbury who banged the table for Jaden Daniels in the draft. And he really felt he was like a better version of Kyler Murray and he has been. Fewer mistakes, more of a leader. And so I feel really good about that, that I got it right.

I also predicted I thought the San Francisco 49ers had peaked. and that you'll start to see flaws and limitations with Brock Purdy and the overall organization, which is very Christian McCaffrey reliant. I think I was right on that. I picked the Denver Broncos and Sean Payton to be the one team, the safest bet on the over-under scale. Vegas had him at five and a half wins. My take is Sean Payton is going to win you a couple games, outsmarting mediocre coaches. Bow Nicks with 61 college starts by at least Thanksgiving will be a real NFL quarterback, franchise quarterback. I think he is now.

And frankly, the AFC's got, there's a lot of winnable games on the Broncos schedule, including two in division against the Raiders. And so I think I got that right as well. So Denver, Washington, San Francisco, I thought I got right. I think the one I really got wrong was the Pittsburgh Steelers. I had said I thought Justin Fields would win the locker room. Now, I think I got that right. But I think one thing that is very clear.

And I'm not talking about winning a Super Bowl. If you go look in the last three to four years in the NFL, the final four coaches are all offensive. But to win a playoff game or two, you know, Sean McDermott can do that as a defensive coach. And I think Mike Tomlin, and we've always thought he's credible, but I think what Mike Tomlin has shown over the course of this season, and I'm wrong on this, is that I always felt he was a little tone deaf to offense. But by pivoting off Kenny Pickett, Mason Rudolph, and Justin Fields, who had a winning record, and settling on Russell Wilson, I think it shows that he is more aware than I gave him credit for. And defensive coaches can struggle with this, that he understands the urgency at quarterback. This is why I banged on Ron Rivera at Washington, who thought Sam Hal was good enough, or Pete Carroll in Seattle, I thought Gino Smith was good enough. No, they're not.

And I don't think Russell Wilson's good enough to win a Super Bowl, but he is better than Mason, and Kenny Pickett and Justin Fields. And I think even though they were winning, it's hard as a coach when you're winning to make changes, right? Like you're going to disrupt things. We're four and two. I'm not going to disrupt the locker room. That takes a pair by Mike Tomlin at four and two to go in and say, guys, we're, we should be

five and one. We're a better team than this. And I think the thing about Russell Wilson is that's really encouraging, if you're a a Steeler fan, is that Russell never made a time. mistakes. He was always elusive. He was always smart. He took the right risks. But I think Russell is, I think he knows, now he's got, he understands sort of what he's become. And I look at the Steelers and it's sort of Seahawks light. Power run game, Marshawn Lynch is better than Naji Harris. Power run game, defensive coach, defensive culture, a couple playmakers on the outside,

good pass rush, good home field environment and a really good tough physical culture with Seattle and Pittsburgh. Russell's not as good as he was. But he's also capable. He's a better quarterback right now than Aaron Rogers, and I think he's as good a leader. I think he's certainly in the class close to a Kirk Cousins, who I predicted would win 12 games this year and be the number one seed potentially with Atlanta. So I think I was really wrong on Pittsburgh. I think Tomlin was more aware of the need for urgency on offense. I thought it took real guts to get rid of Justin Fields. nice kid, liked in the locker room, high ceiling, but a really low floor. And so I may have Washington right so far in Denver right and San Francisco right,

but I think I've been wrong on Pittsburgh. That's a real team. And you start looking at that schedule. Well, Cleveland now stinks. Cincinnati's not very good. Baltimore's better. I think over time Baltimore's better, but Baltimore's not very good on the defense event. So could Pittsburgh win that division?

Absolutely. I'm going to favor Baltimore, but they can win that division. You know, the very top of the AFC, Kansas City, Buffalo, Houston, Baltimore, those are very good teams. It gets real squishy in the middle and really bad on the bottom. But in the NFC, the middle of the NFC is pretty good. Arizona can beat anybody with those weapons. Minnesota can play with anybody with those weapons. The Rams when Pooka Nakua, Matt Stafford, Kairn Williams, Cooper Cup are healthy. They can play with anybody. So the top of the AFC is really good, but Pittsburgh could very well be the best team in the middle along with the Chargers. And that's my take, is that the Chargers and the Steelers, they're not Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo.

But because the middle is so soft in the AFC, I think what I'm seeing is the Chargers, Harba Herbert, and the Steelers, Tomlin, Russell Wilson looked like clearly the best of the next group. And that next group should be winning playoff games. The volume. Thanks so much for listening. If you've enjoyed the podcast, take a moment, rate, and review. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and friends.

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Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the Look Back at it podcast. From 1979, that was a big moment for me. 84 was big to me. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English.

Each episode, we pick a here, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it. with our friends, fellow comedians, and favorite authors. Like Mark Lamont Hill on the 80s. It was a wild year. It was a wild year. I don't think there's a more important year for black people. Listen to look back at it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show.

This is a place for raw, unfilled of conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clifford Show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok. Hey, what's good, y'all? You're listening to Learn the Hard Way with your favorite therapist and host Kear Games. This space is about black men's experiences, having honest conversations that it's really not safe to have anywhere, but you're having them with a licensed professional who knows what he's doing. How many men carry a suit or armor.

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