The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - Nick Wright Part 1, Jim Harbaugh Underrated, Best NFL Fits For Harbaugh, Sports Stars In LA, Warm Weather Teams Playing In The Cold

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

Nick Wright, host of “First Things First” on FS1 joins Colin for an extended two-part podcast. They look back on Jim Harbaugh’s coaching career and explain why he’s been vastly underrated (5:15). They also go over the best potential NFL job openings for Harbaugh (16:00). They offer competing theories on why Los Angeles is loaded with sports stars while why other large markets like New York and Chicago have virtually none (21:00). They also dive into the challenge NFL teams from warm weather cities face when having to play outdoors in cold weather (36:45). Don't forget to check back for part two of the pod! (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 I'm like, dry what? I've never heard of it. Yeah. Our little, our talks are pretty soon going to be called Cocktails with Colin. You and I just have a drink from afar. Now, the difference is, we don't have to say what time we're recording, but I'm on the East Coast. Right. You're three hours earlier.

It's barely drinking appropriate time where you are right now. You're kind of getting by based on it being an East Coast-based media environment. If this were pure West Coast, we would maybe be like, Colin, maybe you should consider dry January for your health. But otherwise, I think we're in good shape. I already worked out today. I did a show. I'm home free, baby. Home free. Oh, I got a buddy of mine bullied me into, put me in a group chat with a bunch of other people.

And it's just, it's just like seven guys that have to do 100 pushups each every single day. So I just get texts from people I don't know. That's like 20 down, 25 down, 40 down. And I'll be honest, the peer pressure works. Find myself in the morning. I was like, I'm not doing anything. I'm just a mess. I might as well knock out 10 pushups here sitting, getting ready to go to work.

do something. So yeah, something good. You're not a workout guy, but you're thin. Yeah, I think the medical terminology is skinny fat. I'm skinny, but I have the insides of a really, really unhealthy person. And so I just try to do a little better. I go on kicks on the Peloton, where for like six months all be super competitive and really good at the Peloton. But then after that, I won't. And I don't like going to the gym.

I don't like working out in front of people because I'm not that strong. So yeah, so I just do stuff in my own house, whatever. Yeah, I work. I lift weights for 50 minutes every day. 1-5 or 5-0? 5-0 all but Friday. I try to lift four to six days a week. Wow.

That's how you look as good as you do it. You're advanced stage. I like lifting weights. Whatever reason why I like lifting weights. So whatever. Good for you, buddy. Yeah, well, listen, I'll get there one day. Thus far, I haven't needed to.

All right. Let's move. to Jim Harbaugh. So one of the things, I wrote this, I think in my first book, two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports. And I always think, so I grew up in the Pacific Northwest where I was a Husky fan as a kid, but we didn't have teams that won a lot of championships. And ever since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a sportscaster. So I was never a fan, a true fan as a kid. You know, people know I like the Huskies or USC, but I'm not really a true fan. I love creating content. And anybody that knows me, you know me, Jamie Horowitz, Charlie Dixon. I love to create content. That's my love of my life beyond my kids and family.

I love to create seven-minute rants, eight-minute rants. And I love the audience to rip them, enjoy them, whatever. Yep. And this Jim Harbaugh stuff is why I is a moderately bright guy. have a great career, is that Jim Harbaugh has literally won everywhere. He got to a Super Bowl with Kaepernick. He won at academically rigid Stanford, like 12 games. He won 10 games at Michigan the first year with Brady Hoax players in the Big Ten.

And for years, people just kept pushing back. He's not good. And I tell people, it's called Google. It's a search engine. You can look at his brother's brilliant. His dad won a championship. His brother's brilliant. He's won everywhere.

And it was the reluctance for people because Jim makes people he's a disruptor, uncomfortable. He's Uber to taxi. He just pisses people off. He's new. We've done it this way. He does it that way. The Jim Schwartz Pat in the back. He's hard.

He pissed Pete Carroll off. And the idea that Jim Harbott needed the nattie to be viewed. as a great coach. And I'm like, Saban bombed in the NFL. Spurrier bombed. Like there's five, four or five guys ever, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Carroll, Jim Harbaugh, that one with both. It's really hard. I mean, Belichick, he wouldn't deal with donors. He wouldn't recruit. He's shown no ability to understand offense. That in our business, that if we allow the fans to be the jury and then you know, somebody can be the DA, somebody can be the prosecuting attorney, and you and I are just the judge, and you remove a motion from most of the arguments. It is rather bizarre that how often

greatness is obvious, and people because their agendas or their connections to other schools just won't subscribe to, yeah, Jim Harbaugh is won everywhere immediately. I'm shocked. I'm shocked. by all the people that are like, yeah, I had it wrong. That needed this to prove it. They needed it to prove it. Now, listen, I will admit, you know, it's not like we don't all have our own whiffs. I just mentioned the Yokic thing. So, like, it's not like anybody bats a thousand on this stuff.

No, no, no, I'm not saying that. Yokish, by the way, was an ascending player who was a second rounder. And it just, there was no precedent for it, which is part of what makes him so special when you're unprecedented. But, and also to add to your point, and I might be totally misconduct. remembering. But like a decade ago, didn't you have a really weird, like thing with Harbaugh? Yes. Like, I don't know if it was it. Right. But you, no, but you like there was an interview or whatever where it seemed like he was giving you the hard time. I don't remember the details of it.

Yeah. Okay. So I didn't interview. It was terribly clunky. I could have easily turned on him. But the reason that's what I was, that's what I was going to bring up was I thought it's somewhere in my brain I thought that existed, but I couldn't quite remember it. You, you, nothing would have been easier than to be like, everybody thinks this guy's a dope. He kind of was a dick to me when I talked to him. And it's always the safer bet to say someone sucks because it's hard to win. Yeah. Because you're going to get to be right so much more often than you're going to get,

then you're going to ever be wrong because there's only one winner at the end of the day. And if you can't win the big game, I mean, what do you want me to tell you? Like, I talk to the guys, it sucks. And I watch 10% as much college football as you, but I watch the biggest games, the biggest programs. And I obviously am very aware of what's going on. And it was like six years ago, I'm like, wasn't Harbaugh's team with way less talent like a bad spot away from beating Ohio State?

Yeah. Like, wasn't, it wasn't, hasn't so much of this narrative of, oh. Can't be the best teams. Like, aren't we basing that partially on a spot? We all agree was the wrong spot in a year. He would have either been undefeated or in the title game. I don't remember all the details. But there is, there's just so much data.

I'll give you the, and a different contemporary example. It should not have taken Patrick Mahomes for people to realize Andy Reid, pretty fucking smart. Yeah. You know what? And by the way. He would have probably never won a Super Bowl. You know what I mean? It would have just been Alex Smith to the next guy

because winning Super Bowls are hard. But when every player, every quarterback that you have, has their best seasons under you. And then it's like, oh, like, so all the, and I think, by the way, kind of a future take,

I can see some of the media turning on is too strong. But starting to do this topic, how good is Kyle Shanahan really? If they don't make, because it's like, oh, these great regular seasons, but where's the jewelry? Like if they don't win the Super Bowl, as opposed to being like, well, I don't know, he's taking quarterbacks that the moment they leave him are backups or benched or whatever. And when 12 games, 13 games, one playoff games, probably pretty good. And so I do think there is a level of folks that I think won't go with will only go with what they truly believe.

And see. Yeah. Up until it's like, this is not in the mainstream enough anymore. I'll disagree with everybody else. And so, and I think that's why not to bring up the Niners again. I think that's why people have gotten so frustrated with me on Brock Purdy. Yeah. It's because so many of the other skeptics laid down their swords, and I don't think they were convinced. I just think they got sick of getting yelled at.

And what I think folks don't know is, in order to yell at me, you better see me in person because I'm not seeing any of it. I'm not reading any of it. Like the only people who get to yell at me half like are Broussard Wilds, you, and people like, no. So like, I don't really, it doesn't impact me. And so the Harbaugh thing is fascinating. And I do wonder how much of it is they didn't like it.

They just thought the guy was weird and a jerk or whatever. And I don't want to describe that to him because I don't know him. But it seemed like a lot of it was like, I don't like this guy. Yeah, I had four. You know, I rely a lot because I'm older. So I know a lot of coaches and executives. I go to lunch with them. I have dinner with them.

So I know four different coaches. who have been on Harbaugh staff. And they all said the same thing. Guy is different. He's the most football-obsessed guy ever. He's just, it's insane. So a lot of times I have access, you do, that fans don't, right? They don't have these guys.

I mean, I go to dinner probably twice a year with Manjini. We talk about shit that I'm not putting on the air. Jed Fish is a good friend of mine. You know, different guys I've dealt with. So I do have some, you know, I can call a part of the job. Yeah. Right. This is what we do.

If you're a mortgage bro. are listening to me. You have access to stuff that I don't have. So, but I just found the Harbaugh stuff. It's like, guys, four times, including the NFL, first year he took the Niners over. They were excellent. And it's like if a lot of people get jobs and they don't last, but if you get four different jobs, five different jobs, you take crap and you make a good immediately and you're successful in all of them. I don't need championships. Now, and where was he before Stanford. I don't even remember. I shouldn't say that out loud. So he was at San Diego. It was a small university. That's where it was. Yeah. He succeeded there and he succeeded everywhere.

They had a quarterback who was good. He made him really, really good. Then he went to Stanford. Stanford was the worst program in the country with high academic standards. And they beat USC. There's a 40-point dog in the Colise. Yeah. I mean, I remember that vividly. I mean, I remember it. And, in my opinion, set the table. And this is the other thing that happens sometimes to guys. Are you pals with Chris Peterson. Oh, yes. Yeah, I like, I have them on my phone. Yeah.

Okay, so I feel like sometimes guys become victims of their own success. Yeah. Where they make a place so relevant or good that it stays that after they leave. And then to some folks, it's not as wildly impressive of what they did when they got there. So Chris Peterson, like, turned Boise State into such a power. after he leaves, it's still relevant. And it's like, no, no, no. That was created by him.

Similar thing happened with Harbaal with Stanford. Like Harbaugh can leave. They have Andrew Luck and David Shaw, and they're really good still. And it's like, oh, yeah, Stanford's always pretty good. It's like, no, it was not. Terrible. Like, that is, I mean, I understand there were times when it was and they were involved in famous games, obviously.

But when he took it over, it was terrible and made it great. And the Niners were in the will. And it instantly turned around. It instantly turned around for them. If you were advising him, what job would you, if he had his pit of all the NFL openings, what job would you tell him? I would say, Jim, you recruited Drake May. Do you think he's better than Justin Herbert? And if the answer is yes, you take the Washington job.

Because Herbert for the next rest of his career is expensive. Expensive. If you believe that Drake May is better than Justin Herbert, you take the Washington job. Your brother, coaches Baltimore, you take Washington. Your mom and dad can move between the two of you. Cap space, good roster, Drake May. Now, if you don't think it is, then just go with the best quarterback. I mean, the answer in the NFL is almost always go where the best quarterback is or draft the best quarterback.

Chicago, draft Caleb Williams. It'll just work out. It'll work out. Of course. Right. So the Chargers is the best job unless, and wherever Harbaugh goes, what's really an advantage is like Pete Carroll or Jimmy Johnson when they're in college and they come to pro. You get about a three-year window where you know all the college players.

You recruited all of them. Oh, that's a good point. Huge edge. So the rebuild will be much easier for you. Now, the Chargers is not a rebuild. They have cap space, cap issues. Washington's not a total rebuild, but a semi-rebuild with tons of cap space. So Harbaugh can walk in and go, yeah, I'm going to, like Jimmy and Pete, the rebuild is much easier for me.

I know all. And by the way, we will trade off some players, get draft picks. I'll probably take four of my Michigan guys who I know can play and I'll avoid the ones that I know that can't. I mean, you go look at Pete Carroll's first three or four drafts out of USC. I mean, it was just fifth round, sixth round. I mean, he was nailing people. Jimmy Johnson walks into the league. He is just fish in a barrel.

So I think Washington's very interesting. No cap issues, marginal rebuild. You look around that division, and you're like, Jaylen Hertz, DAC, Daniel Jones. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential.

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Listen to look back at it on the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast So here's something. I live in beautiful Los Angeles. In fact, tonight I'm going to go out to dinner, be by the water, and amongst the glitterati. And you will be in cold, windy New York. So we got into this discussion. I've done this a couple times. So New York's the biggest city in America. L.A. is two, Chicago three. And if you look at New York right now, With all the money, with all the influence, the biggest star in the city is Aaron Judge. Second is 40-year-old, increasingly weird, Aaron Rogers. And there is no third.

There is no transcendent star. The Clippers have more star power than the city of New York. The Clippers. Forget LeBron, A.D., the Rams, the coaches in L.A. Not even star coaches in New York. They're like nobody's. McVey, like him or not, Lincoln Riley, Harbaugh potentially. We've done this before.

Stafford, Aaron Donald, Justin Herbert, that forget California. Los Angeles, Otani, Mookie Betts, that if you look at Los Angeles and all their pro franchises, we got, we count, we get to about 24 between like players, coaches, like, like, like, Like star power. A listers. A listers. New York has two. Two. So I don't.

And one is played four snaps. And I get to the point where I think to myself, okay, that's not a coincidence. I don't believe in that. Chicago, similarly, for the size of the cities, Zach Levine, they have no stars. Is that increasing, I mean, literally Chicago, a city I was. Yeah, no, I was thinking. I was like, the reason I stopped was, I was thinking. I was like, yeah, the bears have, yeah, the bears have no stars.

The hockey guy, not a single star. The, the Cubs and white socks. Yeah, like there's. So, oh, yeah, this is correct. L.A. has 25 coaches are stars. And I think what's happening is something the rest of the country, if you watch cable news, nobody wants to live in L.A. Rich people do.

It's the land of opportunity. And that when people increasingly have options, professional athletes, and coaches. Many of the agents live here. The weather's better. Entertainment, production companies. When LeBron chose the Lakers, he did so because the 13th richest people in Los Angeles all wanted to meet him and talk about production deals. And that Los Angeles has literally separated from the company. We always talked about stars in L.A. But if you're watching what's happening in New York and Chicago, I don't think it's just bad GMs. Is that professional athletes and their agents. This is something Canada has dealt with.

Canada can't win the Stanley Cup. And the athletic had a story a year ago about the various reasons. And of the eight reasons, like number seven was the right reason, is that stars would rather live in the United States. The weather's better. There's more money. We're a capitalistic country that you'll just get paid more. You'll have a cuter girlfriend.

You'll be on the beach in Florida. You'll be in Phoenix. You'll be in Los Angeles. You're 27-year-olds and you're rich. Is that people can say they hate L.A. but increasing Harbaugh is going to have all this choice. Chances are he's going to take Los Angeles. So here, so I have, I've never really, so any, so this, you do this to me sometimes,

which is you bring up something that I haven't thought about before. So then I am forced to come up with a theory that admittedly I've thought of for 12 seconds. So I can't, I'm, this isn't one of those like, oh, I'm glad you mentioned this. I have a very well thought out opinion. We can edit it. You can take a, go get another cocktail. No, that's fine. No, no, no.

Because as you were talking, as often happens, and this is either a straight, I think it's a strength for me professionally and a weakness personally. As you were talking, I was 35% listening to what you were saying and 65% figuring out what I was going to say. So I have a slightly different theory that I just came up with, but I think makes sense. I think because, I think in the past, one of the massive draws of New York was the city will make you a star

so you will deal with shit weather abrasive media I think tax rate stuff is a little overrated but still something it's something it's not nothing that you know the fact that some people really want a house with a yard

and in order to get that here you have to live you deal with a real commute You know what I mean? Right. You've got to live a real commute away, all that stuff. But people were like, if you were a big time athlete, you're like, man. But nobody knows me.

Or I don't, you know, my profile isn't big enough. If I go to New York, it will be. In modern society, it's not that it doesn't matter, but it barely matters. In modern society, because of the way media, has changed and because of the way getting your own message out has changed and because everyone can be their own megaphone, you don't have to live

here to get it out. So you know where people choose good weather? You know what I mean? Soft or good nightlife? Relentless media. Exactly. And so it's not when you brought up Rogers like Rogers is the guy. Judge was drafted here obviously. Yeah.

Rogers opted, you know, chose the Jets. A couple things. One is the whole league wasn't after him, a handful of teams were. But if you spent 15 years in the exact opposite of New York in a city with the worst weather of any American sports city, the weather's not going to bother you.

And it might be a cool change of, oh, my God, there was nothing but a bowling alley as far as nightlife where I was. Now I have all these options. I'm going to go there. But for when LeBron's, you don't have to be LeBron. If you are like a star quarterback in the NFL, yes, there is something to being the quarterback for the Giants. I understand that. But would Lamar Jackson be way more famous as a jet than a Raven?

No. No. He wouldn't. Could Patrick Mahomes, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri, is it possible for him to be that much more famous? I don't know. His tight end is dating the most famous woman in the world. And I'm sure they really love each other. But the reason that he was in the same room as her was because of his proximity to the fame and his own fame in Kansas City. It's just changed. It's changed to where you don't have to be in, you know, one of these places. And so then why does L.A. do well?

L.A. does well because it's God, dog, beautiful. Also, it's awesome to live there if you're rich. You can hide. Manhattan's an island, right? Los Angeles, you do not see Matt Stafford in Los Angeles. You never see Jared Gough. People in Los Angeles, for those who, the uninitiated, if you live in Manhattan Beach, you don't leave. If you live in Manhattan Beach, you don't leave.

If you live in Malibu, you don't leave. leave. I watch Chiefs Packers at Lil Wayne's house. Yeah. I'm not going to say the neighborhood he lives in. It lives in a, it was a 40 minute drive from the Fox lot. And a neighborhood that I didn't, I hadn't heard of. I drove in there.

I'm like, it must just all just, it's a place I'd never heard of within, you know, tossing distance of. downtown L.A. And it's nothing but bazillionaire houses. And but it was like, it's like hidden. It's like,

you take a left turn. Like what the hell? That, that doesn't. So that is the other thing. Yes, you're right about L.A. There's all these different little unclear.

You can hide in L.A. And you can live. And so, so there is, but if that's not your type of thing and you're just like, you know what? I, I am going to,

if you're kept, did Kevin Durant become less of a star when he went from New York City to Phoenix? No. No. But in the past, he might have. And so that, so it just, one of the biggest draws I think New York City had for athletes isn't there anymore. Yeah.

And I also think you point to something. And you, this was sort of an aside, but it is impactful. First, what you're saying is right. But the smaller thing is to be in New York, you had to deal with a bunch of shit to be a star. And you don't in Los Angeles. The media is soft. the weather's better. We don't have a city tax-like New York.

And the truth is, it's a spread-out town where you can hide. I mean, I'm not joking when I say this, is I live in an area of town that has a lot of pro-athletes. Like, I'll see somebody tonight. There's pro-athletes everywhere. There's not a lot of Hollywood people. But I know somebody that lives in an area. I used to live in Santa Monica. And at my pharmacy, I would see like six stars.

Nobody cares. It's not sort of a Los Angeles. The industry is stardom. So the people on the street don't bother stars. Hey, autograph. It doesn't happen here. They just let them be. It's the best place in North America to be a star.

There's an understanding to give them space. And there's the last point I'll make on it. If you're a sports fan, if you're an athlete, there is probably something to be said to playing in a non-diehard city. Yes. The people at the games are going to be die-hards. You know what I mean? It's not like, oh, well, now no one's showing up to our games.

You play in a big city. The stuff's going to be sold out. But people are not as obsessed. Strident. And so, yeah. And so, like, there is, you know, the, if you're in a die-hard city, which is typically a northeastern city or a city of, like where I'm from Kansas City,

Kansas City is a little different because we have no celebrities at all except for the athletes. So typically people almost leave the athletes alone because it's like we just want them to be happy. You know what I mean? Like they're and it's such a small, it's a medium-sized city, but feels like a small town. So Kansas is a little different. But if you in LA, the other good thing about being an athlete, in L.A. is you might go to the store and people might just not give a shit.

Like, it's not even the team. You know what I mean? Like, if you're LeBron, it's one thing. You know what I mean? But I would imagine that, let me think of a good example here. I would imagine that Russell Westbrook can go to the store sometimes. Yeah. And people don't, you know, people for the most part,

you know what I mean? I don't say leave him alone, but don't freak out the way. They would in Philly. Damon Stoddemeier. Maxie was somewhere. When he was in Portland, he was from Portland and loved it. He said, I love Toronto.

He said, they're a hockey team, a CFL team, an NBA team, a baseball team. Damon said, you know, I'm not seven foot. I pair of glasses and a baseball cap on. I could hide. And in Los Angeles, I've always said there's, there are rungs of famous. There are the rock. Right, but there's Denzel. And then there's LeBron.

And then there is, you know, kind of B stars, soap opera, Vindisi Lee. And then there's, you know, like young music stars. I mean, I'm like the 37th rung of famous in L.A. That's what I was going to say is. And I, listen, I'm not you, but you and I, if we're in a similar tier of notoriety, I would argue it's kind of the best level of fame. Yes. Which is occasionally you get like a free meal.

You know what I mean? They're like, it's like, really? It's like, nope, like occasionally that. You get the natural like ego boost of a couple times a day if you're out and about. Someone being like, hey, love your stuff. You know what I mean? That. But you can just be totally.

You're never like bothered. You know what I mean? And so it's all the perks, none of the drawbacks. The actual famous people, the truly famous people who like have to strategize how they're going to leave the house, that sounds miserable to me. You know what I mean? That sounds like I would not enjoy that at all. But like this. And so to your point, L.A. is one of the cities where you can be an actually famous athlete and not treated like.

one unless you want to be. You know what I mean? Unless you're like, you know what I mean? You're opting into it. So yeah, I think that's probably super helpful. And the way. So the mother's pretty good. It's a damn snowstorm right now. Are you guys have a snowstorm? Well, it's like an ice storm something.

I don't know. It doesn't really snow in New York anymore the last couple winters, but they think that tonight's going to be bad. I don't know. I got an email for my kid's school saying we're going to call it. We're going to let you guys know at 5 a.m. If schools canceled tomorrow. Like, okay, great. Meanwhile, you, it's 74 degrees and sunny. I'm going to see what the weather is. Hold on. Yeah, that's great.

It is 64 degrees. Oh, cold front for you. And a few clouds. I'm going to dinner by the beach. That's a good life. Speaking of weather, and then we can do whatever you want to do before we're done. No matter what anyone believes in the chiefs this year, I understand I am on the furthest possible end of optimism about the chiefs. I think

whether I'm right or wrong, I think 90% of the world is going to join me by Monday because I think the dolphins are going to look so bad in negative 15 windchills. I really believe that. Their whole pass rushing unit is out injured. They have to feel like we went from being

the one seed to on the road and Arrowhead on a streaming service, Saturday night, short week in zero degree weather, negative 15 wind chill, and we have Isaiah Pacheco just running through us. I think that the weather is going to honestly be enough to give the chiefs a 10-point edge Saturday. And even if they're not as good as it looks, I think Saturday, Kansas City is going to look really good and the dolphins are going to look really cold. And I think that that is going to be a huge factor in that way. Well, I had a team that was, you know, before the internet that was very offensively ingenious was Air Correel, Dan Fouts, John Jefferson, Kellan Winslow. There were these charger teams that were kind of ahead of their time, never won titles, but they were kind of like pre Bill Walsh, Joe Montana Niners.

They were doing wild and zany, progressive offensive stuff. And they went to Cincinnati and played a playoff game. And it was four. In San Diego, I mean, again, it's palm trees and fowls goes there. And I remember watching the game as a kid. I've never seen human being. They might as well have been naked. They looked so uncomfortable.

And there is something to be said. I am now somebody who has lived for eight years in California. And it is amazing. It's 52 here. It was the other night. It was windy on my birthday party. It was windy. I told Ann.

I don't know what's happened, the climate change. This is just not even. She goes, it's 50, it's 52, honey. It's a slight wind. Like, it does affect South Beach is the last place in America. I mean, it's really the best place in America during the winter. Yeah. I mean, the idea.

And pretty soon it's going to not exist, unfortunately. It's going to be underwater. But, yeah, I mean, it is, no, I think, and I think that is, I think that the weather is, and that's one of my favorite things. things about the NFL is like there is this part of it that your most important games are played until the Super Bowl, of course. Sometimes there are these teams where it's like, yeah, I don't know how really good we are, but I know we can handle the cold. Yes.

And so if you get us to, then this obviously has not been the chief story over the course of their, you know, this little, this era. but for Cleveland or like these teams where it's like we might just Pittsburgh, we might just be okay but we also might get to the postseason and know how to deal with

what you might not have to know how to deal with and for it is such an odd thing to me about Buffalo that Buffalo historically with this team has not played great in bad condition and he's from Wyoming right? Right, and they should be the team that, you know what I mean, knows how to play in these bad conditions the best. But you have these, you know, you have these teams that play in domes and warm weather.

Like, I haven't looked, but I'm very curious if Houston were to win against Cleveland, which I don't know if I think they will. What the weather's going to be like in Baltimore that first weekend? And is Houston just going to be like, oh, fuck this. Like, we are not, we didn't sign up for this. So I'm very interested in how that affects all the outdoor cold weather games as the playoffs move on. The volume. Another podcast from some SNL late night comedy guy, not quite.

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