The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - INSTANT REACTION: Falcons STUN Eagles With Late Touchdown Drive

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Colin reacts to Kirk Cousins and the Falcons stealing the game late on the road against the Philadelphia Eagles 22-21. He points out the importance on an experienced quarterback in the early part of the NFL season and why both the Eagles and Falcons can win their divisions. He also points out the reluctance to play starters in the preseason as a reason for the low offensive output league wide through two weeks. (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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and Pittsburgh's got a very, very good defense, and they gave Kirk Cousins a lot of trouble. I thought he had a little more spring in his step. Now, in week one against Pittsburgh, he was static. He just stayed in the pocket. But I thought tonight he moved a little better. He told Troy Aikman, he's 100% in the pocket. He's not 100% yet. But I think two things are very clear about these two teams.

Those were two good offensive lines and two good run games. And Jalen Hertz, obviously, part of Philadelphia's run game. But Kirk Cousins, 15 to 23, 170 yards, a touchdown, no picks, and a great. final drive. Just pick, pick, pick, pick, nice passes. And by the way, when they paid for Kirk Cousins and they drafted Michael Pinnock's, I said, you're telling me, that's a mistake. Look at all the rookie quarterbacks right now. They're brutal. You know who isn't Michael Pennix sitting behind, like Mahomes, who sat behind Alex Smith. Michael Penix is sitting behind Kirk Cousins and learning the game of football. Just like a Tom Brady did with the Drew Bledsoe. He's just sitting on the sidelines and

watching. That's what Mahomes did. You know, it's what Carson Palmer, I believe, did. This idea, Lamar Jackson sat for like 10 games behind Joe Flacco. So this idea that bringing in Kirk Cousins to mentor, and I said, I think they can win the division. I love their personnel. Their offensive lines great. They have multiple running backs. Bejohn Robinson was underused last year. He's fantastic, but you just, and the Eagles have a good defensive front. They pushed them back. Both those offensive lines had their way tonight. So I think Atlanta's a real team. I, Philadelphia, you know, I know they feel terrible about this loss, but Philadelphia lost, I mean, what are upsets?

San Francisco just got housed by the Vikings. I mean, Baltimore's Owen, too. The Rams season looks like it's over. You know, New England beat Cincinnati. Cincinnati should have beaten Kansas City. So I think you looked at two teams that, will probably, or at least could, the Saints look pretty good, could win their division. So, you know, my take on Philadelphia, and sometimes you'll just lose games. And, I mean, hell, Atlanta, with that Drake London, you know, taunting penalty late, thank God they have one of the best kickers in the league, or they could have missed that extra point. So, you know, it's, I don't, I don't think Philadelphia is a bad football team. I think, I think Atlanta and

Philadelphia could win their divisions. And I think what this proves, though, at least, early is you're watching all these young quarterbacks. They're completely over their skis, bailing water. And Michael Pennix is just sitting back learning how to play football. You're not winning that game with Michael Pennix tonight. You're just not. And I thought Cousins, who, by the way, is four and one in his last five Monday night football games, big stage, Kirk Cousins after he started terribly. He, you know, there used to be these discussions. He didn't like playing like off-schedule games. He had a very rigid schedule. You prefer the one o'clock's. especially at home.

I thought he looked really good tonight. And again, he's not moving much. But Aaron Rogers doesn't move anymore. Jared Gobb doesn't move around much. You can win a lot of football games that way, especially with that old line and that run game. Falcons have three running backs I like. Two I really like.

You know, I thought Jalen Hurts by and large played pretty well. I mean, he had that last pick because he had pressure on his face. But, you know, Philadelphia, you know, these offenses, I got this text tonight. I want to read to this. So there's a lot of discussion about why are the offenses so bad? Okay, why are the offenses so bad? So fewest points through two weeks since 2017,

averaging 42 points a game combined. Fewest touchdown passes through two weeks since 2006, 18 years. And I think a lot of this is the reluctance to play any starters. Now that you've watched Bonex and Caleb Williams and Jaden Daniels, couldn't you argue they should have played virtually every snap of the preseason, every snap. You know, I mean, Atlanta played Michael Pennix, I think one preseason game and said, we're done. Now, he didn't have to start, but nobody's playing starters. And you've gone from four preseason to three preseason games.

You're going to go down to two once they had an 18th game. And so I think you just have to look at weeks one and two is there's a lot of experimenting going on. There's some bad offensive play. And the hardest unit of any football team to build cohesion is arguably the most important unit of any football team, the offensive line. So, like, I think the Jets offensive lines done fine so far. But if there's any growth for the Jets as their defense falls apart is, you know, these older offensive linemen will play together. And their own line hasn't been atrocious, but it will certainly get better over time. So I think it's kind of explainable.

starters aren't playing snaps, own linemen aren't playing snaps, especially if they're long in the tooth. And the quarterbacks are paying the price. They're on their back. They're getting hammered. Also, I think because the owners are richer than ever, they're willing to fire coaches after one year.

Coordinators move off quarterbacks early. I also think part of the offensive struggle is it's hard to keep cohesion in your coaching staff. Owners now will just, it's a rounding error to write a $50 million check and fire coordinators and coaches and staffs, they don't care anymore. Used to be owners made, you know, their net worth was $600 million. Yeah, you know, you don't want to write a $60 million check, but when your net worth is,

you know, $9 billion, you'll write that check to win games because now teams, you know, they're all getting $3 and $450 million checks annually from the TV deal from the NFL, especially since gambling was legalized in the gambling dollars. So these owners now are getting massive checks. they're less patient. It puts pressure top down in the organizations. You're moving through coordinators, quarterbacks and coaches. You're playing quarterbacks earlier. So I think there's a lot of things that explain it. But another one is nobody's playing starters in the preseason. In the first two weeks, you can tell. Good for Atlanta tonight. I took notes the entire game on this.

Then it came down to the final two drives. Pretty boring first quarter. But after that, I thought Jalen Hertz really got hot in the second half. I thought he looked good. And And, you know, it just goes to show sometimes that these moves, there's repercussions, obviously, for some of these personnel moves. You know, the Giants move off Sequin Barclay. So Sequins, obviously, you know, is a nice get for Philadelphia. Now he dropped that ball at the end of the game that would have been a touchdown out in the flat. That was a pretty good pass, and he dropped it. That wasn't one of his shining moments. But he's obviously been a huge addition for Philadelphia. He's going to win them some football games. simultaneously, the Giants are now

0-1-2, and there's talk about Brian Dable getting fired, who I think would get a job within the year. But, you know, you start looking around, when you give up a player like Sequin Barclay to a division rival, if he'd have caught that ball tonight and the touchdown, I mean, if you're a giant staffer, New York Giant Stafford, thank God, Saquine Barclay dropped that tonight.

He would have the game winning touchdown. So he had it's clearly a dimension to Philadelphia. So I thought it was a good football game. Two good offensive lines, a lot of good running backs, a real resurgent in running backs over the weekends. J.K. Dobbins, Alvin Kamara. I mean, there's, you know, everything's cyclical in sports. And in the NFL, I mean, six months ago, nine months ago, we were talking about running backs don't get paid. Eventually, with all these young quarterbacks playing, right, you're probably going forward are going to need a stronger running.

game. I mean, obviously, you know, with J.K. Dobbins and Harbaugh style, he's going to run him extensively. But Atlanta looks like a team with Kirk Cousins' limitations run team. I think the lions are not running it enough with Montgomery and Gibbs. I mean, there are some teams in this league that I think are going to run over 50% of the time or at least should. And Atlanta's one of them. So nice win for the Falcons. How about that division? The NFC South, Atlanta's a real team. And Saints look like a completely different franchise. Baker and Tampa Bay. Carolina's trash. But the NFC South, I don't know. Looks pretty good. And everybody's beaten Carolina twice. So those are two Ws right there. Speaking of the NFC, the last four undefeated teams in the NFC, the Vikings,

the Seahawks, the Bucks, and the Saints, just like everybody predicted. why this league is so great. By the way, Saints veteran quarterback, Buck's veteran quarterback, Seahawks veteran quarterback, Vikings veteran quarterback. That goes back to what we talked about the preseason. These teams in the NFC that are starting strong, we don't know how they'll finish. There may be ceilings for Sam Darnold and Derek Carr and Baker Mayfield and Gino Smith. But it is an advantage having, you know, a thousand reps in this league in the first two to three weeks of the NFL season. That's very clear that a lot of these veteran guys who have bounced around the league are off to really nice starts.

They feel like they, you know, they might not be masters of the position, but they're miles ahead of these rookie quarterbacks and younger quarterbacks that just don't have the time in the league. The volume. All right, I want you to grab your smartphone, download the game time app. Now, they have a new feature called Game Time Picks. that makes getting tickets for your favorite live events even easier than before. GameTime picks filters out the fluff to show you only incredible deals on great seats, so you don't have to waste time searching through thousands of tickets. So you take the guesswork out of buying concert tickets with GameTime.

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