The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - Rams Put Up A Dud, Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

Colin gives his instant reaction to the Dolphins beating the Rams on MNF! He talks about why the Dolphins were better on third down and why the Rams put up an all-time stinker under head coach Sean McVay! (2:30) Finally, he preview the upcoming fight between legend Mike Tyson and Jake Paul and why great athletes are on an entirely different level and expects that one or two punches from Tyson could end the fight (12:00)  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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season. Now, Rob Havenstein, the right tackle, really good, was out, and it didn't help. But it was the interior line was finally healthy. So it was a really interesting game in which McVeigh, Stafford, Kyron Williams, Puka, Cooper Cup, they're excellent, excellent. Team was on a winning streak. They're at home. Miami had to fly cross-country, second road game. Everything told the Rams would perform. And the Rams played, that was as bad as a Sean McVeigh team has play at home, healthy that I can remember. They did nothing right on third down. They also, Miami, and I didn't check if they got a penalty in the last minute, but they had one penalty all night. That's pretty remarkable. You know, again, a long cross-country flight. Don't have a lot of

your fans here. And just one penalty, great on third down. That's your ballgame. And, you know, I don't want to overreact to one game. I don't think either of these teams are top 10 teams. But I thought the Rams really, it was a stinker tonight. But if you look at Miami's schedule, the Miami Dolphins have a lot of winnable games coming up. They're still in the playoff race. Raiders, Patriots, Jets twice, Browns, Niners at home, at Texans, but it's indoor. Indoor game.

Two has been better at those. So the schedule really works out for the Miami Dolphins, who of course, got off to a rocky start because Tua had the concussion. But, you know, you watch them tonight. You watch the pass rush tonight. You know, the Rams are such a weird team. They did really difficult things. Cooper Cup had one of the catches of the year. Stafford had a couple of unbelievable gem throws. Yet the simple stuff like hiking a ball to Stafford was a challenge tonight. It was such a weird performance. One of the worst Sean McVeigh, healthy team performances at home, I remember. Just a dud all the way around. I will say, I know.

notice somebody online was talking about how quiet SoFi Stadium was. And I'm not here to defend L.A. as a sports town. I don't think it's the best sports town in the country. I think anytime you have a beach, San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, the beach becomes a pro sports team you're competing against. On a nice day with average teams, people go to the beach. Lots to do in Miami, San Diego, and Los Angeles. So, you know, their teams that are located in great weather cities or beach cities are going to bail on average teams faster. And I just think that's the reality of it. So you can't call L.A. a bad sports town. They were missing the NFL for 20 years, which is just hard to get wrapped your brain around as the second biggest city in the country.

From 1995 to 2015, they didn't have the NFL. Well, the Washington National, You have the senators and then that long vacancy for Major League Baseball in D.C. until the Nationals. Well, guess what? The Nationals don't draw. Right now, the Dodgers draw twice as much as the Nationals, $48,000 to $24,000. And I think baseball is a challenge in D.C. people, it's just not part of generations' lives. Whereas in Los Angeles, they lead Major League Baseball for several years in a row. Could be a decade straight in attendance. In fact, they averaged 7,000 more for Dodger games than any other team in baseball, the Yankees, I believe, are second. So when you live in Los Angeles, it's an unbelievable baseball town. It's the best baseball town I've ever lived in. Yet I lived in Tampa, and I thought it was a great college football town, a great NASCAR town, a great NFL town, didn't care about basketball, didn't really care about baseball. Hockey was hit and miss. But L.A. is a great baseball town, a great NBA town. And it's not, you know, the Rams are in the middle of the pack. The Chargers Rams are both in the middle of the pack for attendance. But it's not, you know,

It's just, it's, it's a city that there's a lot to do. It's not an excuse. If you look at most great college football towns, they're in small towns, you know, Norman, Oklahoma, Athens, Georgia. You know, that's, there's, that's, that's Ann Arbor, Michigan. There's just not as much to do. And therefore, you know, the local university is really the entertainment center. You may have, you know, a local theater, place to go watch some plays occasionally or something, but it's like, you know, the teams are. You know, you may have, you know, a local theater, place to go watch some plays occasionally or something. But it's like, you know, the teams are, you know, you know, are the local entertainment. And in Los Angeles, you know, it's, you just got so much stuff going on here. So you have to be good. And you have to be exciting. So I don't want to bang on Los Angeles as a sports town or Miami. I mean, Miami's got the best beaches in the country. You know, the dolphins, when they're playing well, draw well. The Miami heat have drawn well. It's a tough baseball city. I don't think, to be honest with you, Arizona and Miami and the state of Florida didn't have baseball for a long time. Why? It's too hot. I mean, there was a reason that, you know, spring training, spring training was in the state of Florida, but not major league baseball teams forever. It's too damn hot. And so it's weird in a warm day to go inside. I mean, I just, again, I think I look at SoFi Stadium, Rams Chargers both draw okay. I think going forward

the Chargers with Harbaal will draw better. I think the Rams are about a year away, another draft away from being a really special team if Stafford stays around. He's 36 years old. But it's hard, you know, you look at L.A. and Miami and people just crap on them as sports cities. You don't have a beach. You don't have their weather. You don't have the options. So, you know, that's just, you know, you go to cold weather cities like Buffalo. Yes, they're great sports fans or Green Bay. There's not a lot to do there, especially in the fall and the winter. It gets cold. You're going to either sit inside and watch your team on television or you're going to go to the game. So just defending towns with great weather, cities with great Mediterranean weather and beaches and lots of options. You know, it was a crazy weekend. So this weekend I saw Bownecks outplay Patrick Mahomes at Arrowhead Stadium. I watched really the rebirth of Russell Wilson. I watched Drake May with no talent outplay Caleb Williams with lots of offensive talent. I watched both Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVeigh outcoached by Todd Bowles and

Mike McDaniel. It was a great underdog weekend. And I officially believe the Dallas Cowboys are the worst team in the NFL. I think Carolina and the Giants are slightly better. So it was just a, it was a crazy week. And it was in college football as well. It was hard to get your wrap your brain around how bad Georgia was against Old Miss. But I don't, you know, I think when you look at the NFL today, we think there's more movement at the top of the league. than there really is. My favorite teams right now, Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia. San Francisco's close. Pittsburgh's a bit of a surprise. Chargers with Harbaugh, I think, are somewhere in that 7-8, 6-7-8 slot. But it was, it's just, it's,

the NFL gives you mostly what you think is zany weekly results. And this was a strange weekend. but if you look at the divisions, best coaches and best quarterbacks are winning it. The Emirates NBA Cup is here. You can win big getting in on the action at Draft King Sportsbook. It's cool. Official sports betting partner of the NBA.

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Kobe Bryant's last game, he was unstoppable. You know, Brett Farve in his last season had unbelievable plays. We love to sort of cancel out or get rid of star athletes. But in my years of talking to or watching. aged pro athletes is that even the ones that don't take great care of themselves or the ones that age quickly, they still have moments. And I look at Mike Tyson and I look at his training. And the other day I saw a clip. I watched about two, three minutes on YouTube as training. And Mike Tyson could knock out 99 out of 100 tough guys at UFC.

If they got into a boxing match, he'd knock out 99 of 100 on the first punch. He's not a UFC fighter, but I mean, Mike's training. Mike's a pro athlete. And I think sometimes we just forget how much different pro athletes are. You know, I'll talk to Drew Bledsoe, who's a friend. Drew Bledsoe right now could spin a 40-yard ball out route on a dime. He wouldn't go through camp. he wouldn't take the hits very well.

He's lost the ability to train at a high level for long periods of time, but give him a football, let him spin it down the field, give him a few warm-up tosses. He'd look like he plays in the NFL today. And I always tell the story of years and years ago, I was watching a show. It was like a Saturday afternoon, and it was just, it was a make-believe show. I thought it was so fun to watch because I played flag football like many of you did in college. and they took, it was three on three flag football. They took the national champions, three guys from San Diego, and they play all the time.

And they took three old NFL players. Now, I remember James Lofton was one of the NFL players. He'd been retired for years. I think the quarterback was Ken O'Brien. Apologies to Ken if I'm wrong. And it was Kenlin Winslow, I think. So they took these old guys. You know, they got little, you know, they're retired, they're old.

in their 40s. And they'd never practice or played three on three football, flag football, ever. So, and these other guys were athletic. They were, they were good athletes, they were athletic. And one practice for the national champions against three old NFL guys and the NFL guys beat them. And so now if they'd have played for four hours, maybe the three on, you know, the three man amateur team would have won. But you start going. to these last couple of games. I mean, Tom Brady was 45 years old and could still spin it to the very end. So I think about that with Paul and Mike Tyson, Paul's a big tough guy, a YouTuber. When I've watched him fight, he doesn't have a lot of natural fighting talent. He's a big,

strong, tough guy who's worked very hard at it. I think you have to take him seriously. I respect the fact that he's worked his butt off. Mike Tyson looks like a pro athlete, an old pro athlete. So my tape, maybe I'm wrong on this. I could be completely wrong on this. But my takeaway is all it's going to take is one combination by Tyson. If he lands a left of the chin of Paul, Paul's out. Paul can hit Tyson. Tyson's a small, moves pretty well when I watched his training footage. Paul comes in with just a bruising right. But I just can't get away from the fact that when I watch Mike Tyson's video, as long as this fight is on the up and I, up. I just, now, I think Mike will be very, very good in the first round, maybe in the second. If the thing goes to a third round, then all of a sudden, you know, Mike's 61, he gets exhausted, his hands are down, and maybe Paul's in better shape. He should be at his age. But I, I just never doubt pro athletes. They're different than you and I. I mean, I've gone, you know, I've gone to events in my life, pro-ams, or used to do this Disney weekend at ESPN and there'd be all sorts of pro athletes.

And, you know, I've obviously covered them for a long time. And one of the thing, Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson, one of the things, when I see pro athletes, Andrew Whitworth walks into my studio or, you know, I had a Dodger pitcher, Jack Ferry, the other day. They're always much bigger than they look on TV. Like, I've never stood next to a human being as big as. as Andrew Whitworth. He is an effortless 6-7. At his playing weight was 3-10, and it's not like he was fat. He was 6-7-3-10 without a belly. He was just a gigantic man. Just genetically, it's, you know,

he wasn't a guy on steroids or a, you know, a gym rat where you thought it was artificial or synthetic muscle. It's just big. He's just a big guy. You know, he's 310 pounds and a flat stomach. Big hands, big shoulders. So I don't know. Jake Paul, I wish you the very, very best. I really do, Jake. I think your pursuit of this, your aspiration of this is redeemable. Very worthy of praise.

A lot of people have criticized you. I really think you care about it. But if Mike connects in the first two rounds, it is good night. and good night. The volume. Thursday night football is on. It's only on Prime Video. Best season yet.

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Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. 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. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year.

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. Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. Joe and I are both lifelong Star Wars fan, so we're celebrating May the 4th with a brand new week of fun, thought-provoking Star Wars-related episodes.

Join us as we tackle science and culture topics from a galaxy far, far away, such as the biology of tontons and wampas on the ice planet hot, or the practicality and corporate business sense of the Sith rule of two. Listen to Stuff to Blow Your Mind 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 you're 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. Well, 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 I Heart 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. On the Look Back at it podcast. From 1979, that was a big moment for me. 84 was big to me. I'm Sam Jay. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick a year, 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. 84 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. This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.