The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - Eagles Beat Cowboys, CeeDee Dropped The Game, Dallas Impressive, Jalen Carter Ejected

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

Colin reacts to the Eagles beating the Cowboys 24-20 to open the 2025 NFL season. He highlights the brutal drops from Ceedee Lamb and argues that missing Micah Parson didn’t make the difference for Dallas. He explains how Saquon Barkley managed to make positive plays even in bad situations, and why it’s hard to make sweeping predictions after only one game but was pleasantly surprised by the Cowboys. Finally, he rips Jalen Carter for his stupid decision to spit at Dak Prescott resulting in his ejection. (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) All lines provided by hardrock.bet Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates!  #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He's got Sequin Barclay, and he has at least a head coach that he's very familiar with. They have a new O.C. Kellyn Moore's gone, and it was kind of an unimpressive kind of second half adjustment for the Eagles offensively. I thought they make great defensive adjustments to get pressure. But there's a big advantage. Jalen Hertz, O-Line, Sequin Barclay, at home. And they looked unbelievable in the first half. Three drives, 200-plus yards, three T-Ds, Eagles were flawless.

And everybody points to, well, what about Micah? Well, the Cowboys could not stop the Eagles twice last year with Micah. So, and I'll give you an example. I saw this. Last year, today, the Cowboys versus the Eagles without Micah, Without Micah, one sack and five quarterback hits. The Cowboys' last game with the Eagles with Micah, one sack and one quarterback hit. Micah wasn't the difference.

Okay. So in the first half, I mean, Philadelphia did this twice to Dallas last year, and they did it to Kansas City and the Super Bowl. That offensive line gets rolling, Sequin, Barclay, those receivers. They didn't even use A.J. Brown barely looked at him in the first half and were up and down the field, with or without Micah. At one point, Chris Collinsworth said, this is the Micah effect. Yeah, I mean, it's, Micah's really, really talented. But I didn't think that was the ballgame. I think what blew me away with Dallas, especially in the first half,

DAC got excellent protection. They don't have a great running back room. They're not going to be a great run team. But they opened some rush lanes. And yes, Jalen Carter's absence changes Philadelphia's interior defense. I mean, it's just no question. He is the dominant interior defensive lineman along with Chris Jones and the NFL of the Chiefs. But I thought Dallas in the first half got Dak had time.

The wide receivers got excellent separation. George Pickens looks like he's a real asset, although he had a really, really bad penalty. It ended up the Cowboys fumble, the first turnover of the season, but it pushed Dallas back. and who knows how that drive transpires if they don't get pushback on the Pickens penalty. But George Pickens is going to be an asset, that length, his ability to keep the ball away, the way he stretches out from defensive backs, because Philadelphia's got a great secondary. But I thought Dallas's O line held up very well. Dack had a lot of time.

I thought Dack played really, really well. They didn't move him much. He sat in the pocket. At this point in his career, he's a pocket quarterback. But I thought he was very, very affected. and C.D. Lamb had three drops and the brutal drop, back-to-back drops on that last drive, and that deep ball was a beautiful throw by Dak. So I think if you're Philadelphia, you made excellent second half defensive adjustments to get pressure. And, you know, that ends up being crucial,

because Dak was way too comfortable in the first half. Meanwhile, he threw under duress in the second half. There were a lot of bang, bang plays in the secondary. A couple of balls could have been picked. But C.D. Lamb dropped three balls. A couple of balls could have been caught. So I came away impressed with Dallas. Philadelphia won back-to-back, tush pushes. I think if you put Seekwon Barkley on the Cowboys and took away Seekwon Barkley for the Eagles,

you'd have a different outcome. I thought Seekwan's ability to, you know, that one-handed catch on a crucial drive, his just ability to escape. A lot of times, Sequin doesn't even get credit for picking up three yards on a play that should lose a yard. It's not as long runs that making exceptional. It's the catches out of the backfield. It's taking, you know, these one-yard gains and making it a three-to-a-four-yard game.

He is just a sensational talent. And he got, he got, you know, Philadelphia out of little jams throughout the course of the game, wiggle here, drop his shoulder here, make a one-hand catch there. Sequin was voted the best player in the league by players in a recent poll. He's just a sensational talent. And he does all the little things well. He can pick up a blitz, one-handed catch. But overall, I think if you're Dallas, you have to feel great.

I mean, they've got one of the best kickers in the league. Their offensive line in the first half held up. I like the game plan. Dak looked comfortable. Their receivers created separation. Again, they're the road team. They're the team of the new coaching staff. George Pickens is a new player.

Mike is not there. Trayvon Diggs didn't practice much. And Dallas had a very good performance. C.D. Lamb catches the ball. They win the game. So, listen, it's game one for a variety of reasons, is hard to make any sweeping, a general comment about. A, Jalen Carter out changes Philadelphia's rush defense.

Secondly, you're tired. In the second half, I thought Dallas is, I thought Dallas looked a little fatigue, their defensive front. You know, you got that O line leaning on you, longer drives by Philadelphia. But overall, I mean, Dallas's D line, you know, Mazi Smith was a, I wrote this down, inactive, so he's a bust. You know, Mike is no longer there. Kenny Clarkman in nice play. He's a nice addition.

But, you know, considering Mike has gone and Mazzie Smith is a bust, they have a little bit of depth up front. That's encouraging for Dallas. You know, I'm looking at some of the numbers here. Philadelphia's second half offensive game plan, kind of uninspiring. Again, it's week one. New coordinator. I don't quite know how to feel about it. Philadelphia was, I mean, Jalen Carter spitting. had four very early penalties, four early penalties in the first half.

Personal fouls. Philadelphia wasn't tight. And it almost cost them. Yeah, I mean, in the end, Philadelphia had 158 yards rushing. You don't lose a lot of games in this league with 158 yards rushing. But Dallas, you know, Dallas has 24 first downs. Dallas averaged five and a half yards of play. You got to feel pretty good about that. Dallas had more total yards, more passing yards, themselves rushed for 119 yards, had more yards per play, more first downs, were very effective seven for 11 on third down, had only four penalties. I mean, Mike McCarthy's teams were penalty plagued, only one turnover in the game. Now, Philadelphia, again, more rushing yards total. And

in the second half they pulled away in time of possession. They were flawless in the first half offensively. But overall, I would give the Eagles a B plus because they won. I would give Dallas a solid B to B plus. New coaching staff on the road, first game. I mean, last year, I just didn't like Dallas's offensive line. I thought there was real growth. If you're a cowboy fan, I thought you had to be encouraged with the protection.

Dak Prescott got, especially in the first half. And Dak hung in there in the second half. I mean, he was under duress in that second half after the adjustments. I know I'm going on and on about Dallas. Maybe, you know, if I'd come into this game with a clean slate mentally and not feeling like Dallas is just going to be a mess, I'm going to have to revisit the Dallas schedule tomorrow on FS1. I was really impressed. You know, it's not like C.D. Lamb didn't have a bunch of catches.

I mean, he had great separation all night, and those are excellent corners for the Eagles. So Philadelphia, sloppy, maintained a lead, at home won a game. I feel differently about the Cowboys now than I did four hours ago. Let's address, before we go, the Jalen Carter spitting moment. First of all, it's idiotic. DAC did spit first, but was further away and spit to the ground. Don't get either. But Jalen Carter has to know better.

And that's the way it always works. It's always the second guy that gets caught. I mean, NBC didn't catch DAC spitting until later in the game. And they didn't even address it until later the game and they saw it. So, you know, DAC spit more down. Jalen Carter gets closer, spits at DAC. and you're going to get ejected. I just thought overall Philadelphia was loose.

But we talked about this today on the herd. It's such an emotional team. I mean, they've got their bodyguard and Suryani. There were some personal fouls. That's Philadelphia. Their talk radio, their fans, the intensity opening this season in Philadelphia. It's just, and here's Jalen Hertz. that reservoir of stoicism, calm, mature.

I'll tell you, Jalen hurts on that, you know, final drive to seal the game. I didn't love Dallas not having like a spy on him. He just, he's such an effective runner. Overall, I thought the Eagles' second half coaching adjustments were better than Dallas, and that falls on Brian Schottenheimer. But my, I came into this game with such a low sense of what the Schottenheimer's could pull off. I was just almost blown away that they played a really strong first half. But it just, there was a lot. It was just, it was Philadelphia. It was a lot of emotions.

They're Super Bowl champs. They're feeling themselves. They're spitting. There's ejections. There's a ton of penalties. They had nine in the game, four very quickly. It was an unpolished, unrefined effort. But this is why Philadelphia, this is what the Eagles do. I talked about it today. They do things that bad teams do. I mean, they literally have to restrain the coach. You know, they're firing a Super Bowl winning coach. You know, they spent money on a running back who had a history, say, Juan Barclay of injuries. They signed Carson once they get rid of him.

I mean, they do things bad teams do, but they're so obsessed with winning and they're so willing to put it out there and take big swings and they draft so extraordinarily well. They just overcompensate for it. But again tonight, in a very emotional Philadelphia team, here is the highest EQ in the league. Jalen Hertz, head down, stoic, mature, wraps it up in the end, the final drive, the first down, the win. And that's what hurts and the Eagles do. The volume. Well, I'm fired up to announce hard rock bet as the volume's new presenting sponsor.

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Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and IHart Podcasts presents soccer moms. So I'm Leanne. This is my best friend, Janet. And we have been joined at the hips since high school. Absolutely. A redacted amount of years later, we're still joined at the hip. Just a little bit bigger hips.

This is a podcast. We're recording it as we tailgate our youth soccer games in the back of my Honda Odyssey. with all the snacks and drinks. Why did you get hard seltzer instead of beer? Oh, they hit a bogo. Well, then you got them. Listen to soccer moms on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 crying. You just understood. That's how personal it got.

Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis 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. Hey, I'm Deanna Maria Riva, and on my new podcast, How Hard Can It Be?

I call on my Gen X squad from Ohio to Hollywood as we navigate Midlife's most fantastic BS. Unfiltered conversations from night sweats to futas to scheduling sacks. Wait, what sex? Is it just me? or does every woman my age want to look at Pinterest instead of having sex sometimes? They say we can't polish a turn, but we're sure going to try. So let's get blunt with laughs, tears, or tears of laughter.

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