The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast - 'Sharp or Square’ Early NFL Week 1 Bets, Fake Q’s on Baker, Rodgers

Episode Date: July 8, 2022

First, Fake Questions, Real Answers (3:00), including if Draymond Green was right to defend Kevin Durant bailing on the Nets, what Zion Williamson re-signing with the Pelicans says about his future, what Aaron Rodgers new tattoo really means, if Colin will still talk Baker in Carolina, and if college football conference expansion is out of control. Then, the Action Network's Chad Millman tells Colin if he's sharp or square with his early Week 1 bets, including the Eagles at Lions (13:00), Raiders at Chargers (15:00), Packers at Vikings (22:00), Millman’s favorite early bets from Week 1 (24:00), and if Baker Mayfield to Carolina has shifted their season win total O/U (31:00). Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates and check out FanDuel for the best wagering and daily fantasy action! #Herd See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The Colin Coward podcast presented by the Fandul's Sportsbook. Hi, everybody. Welcome in to the Friday edition of the Colin Coward podcast. Chad Millman, the betting lines moving with the Baker Mayfield acquisition by Carolina and other bets and odds to look at. Week one lines are out. But we start with fake questions, real answers. There's things I want to talk about, but don't want to wait for you to ask me. Dear Colin, what do you think of Draymond Green defending Kevin Durant from the critics who say he's running from the nets? Well, he is.

running from the nets. I think where people have a problem is here. It's not mobility which drives people crazy. We understand that because most Americans have changed jobs. What bothers fans where the disconnect lies is that Kevin Durant just signed a four-year deal and is walking out and the business slash the Brooklyn Nets are pretty screwed. People resent that. Not only Brooklyn fans, but most Americans could not do that. They would get sued. They'd be unable to do that. I don't think Americans resent players making a lot of money.

I don't think players resent mobility. But walking out with four years left on a contract doesn't sit well, frankly, with me. I don't like players walking out four years early. But then again, I'm defending KD because they should have never left goals. Golden State in the first place. Dear Colin, Zion Williamson signs with the Pelicans, and he

said his real goal is to win a championship. Do you believe him? Well, no, by signing the most money available, his real goal is to get financially comfortable, and that's where I'll defend Zion Williamson. Zion Williamson

signed a contract that's going to guarantee him about $240 million. If he were to get injured just one more time, and let's talk about maybe an injury that takes out half the season, not the entire season, half the season, he would never get a big guaranteed contract for the rest of his career. I understand players taking that first contract. The way the NBA-CBA works, the players can make their most money resigning with the 10th. team that drafted them. I did think Zion had a chance to be a historical outlier because of a shoe deal that he didn't really fit in a football city and he'd move on. But once he had multiple injuries, Zion has to sign with the Pelicans. He is a nasty knee sprain from not being able to accumulate

generational wealth. In this case, the kid is right. It's not about chance. It's not about championships today. It's about getting that first massive deal that changes your life and everybody in your family's life. Dear Colin, did you see Aaron Rogers new tattoo? The internet is buzzing about it. What did you make of it? Well, it's cryptic. We're not sure what it is or what Aaron's trying to say. So it's perfectly on brand because that's how I feel about it. Aaron Rogers. He talks cryptically and he's calculated and he's passive aggressive. Listen, Aaron is a guy that likes to say things and leave us all hanging, right? Like he's got the magic key to unlock the answer box. And that's what this tattoo is. Nobody can figure out what the

fuck it is. And nobody can quite figure out, what the hell Aaron Rogers is ever really truly thinking? I'm going to retire. Maybe I don't retire. I could play a year. I could play three years. That Aaron Rogers tattoo looks like a Kyrie Irving Instagram post. Aaron is in a constant race to show you how unique and different he is. God was that tattoo projecting 101. Dear Colin, do you think Baker Mayfield, now that he's with Lousy, Carolina will stop being a hot button topic? Baker Mayfield was never a hot button topic except on my show. Russell Westbrook's really not that much of a hot button topic, other than maybe my show and Skip Bayliss's show.

Listen, Baker Mayfield was a reach, but 90% of the people that cover the NFL and that cover college football, thought Baker was going to be a huge hit. I was the outlier. He looked small, unathletic, too snarky, cocky. I just didn't think he had number one pick stuff. So he really was never a driving ratings topic on any show other than mine. Because I didn't buy into the college football people or the NFL experts who said he was going to be a great quarterback. through 59 games in his NFL career.

He's 29 and 30. Even in his two years with Kevin Stefansky, I'll take out the Freddie Kitchens years. I'll take out the Greg Williams year. I'll take that stuff out. Just in the Kevin Stefansky years, he's a C-plus quarterback, and that's with the best offensive line in the NFL

in Cleveland the last two years. Dear Colin, more rumors. About the changing landscape in college football, the SEC may poach a couple of ACC teams. What do you make of it? What I make of it is it's really discouraging to watch the American political and sports media overreact to virtually everything. Two teams left the Pac-12 conference. It now has 10 teams. Two teams joined another conference.

It's not the PAC 2. It was the PAC 12. And of those remaining 10 teams, it's quite possible eight will join the Big 12 and will form another very good conference. Folks, yes, Oregon State and Washington State may be left out in the cold. I'd argue, wouldn't Washington State and Oregon State rather compete in a conference with Boise State and Fresno State and Air Force, with a chance to vie for a conference championship every year? Do you want to be a dormant? Really?

Look at the size of Washington State Stadium. What do they seat? Like 35,000 people? They should be in a conference with Boise State. Fresno State. San Diego State. It's a better fit. Take a deep breath.

College basketball has it figured out. A massive playoff at the end of the year makes the conferences less significant. because you're inviting so many people. Therefore, there's a lot of avenues to get into the tournament. If you create a 16 or 18 team tournament, let's say 16, you could take 5 from the Big 10, six from the SEC, two from the new Big 12, two from the ACC. That's still leave room for an independent. Take a deep breath.

The only thing that's changed in college football, the great teams will still be great, the irrelevant teams will still be irrelevant, pretty good will still be pretty good. The only thing that's changed is the departure and arrival cities. The flight paths have changed for a handful of teams. All right, Chad Millman, chief content officer of the Action Network is stopping by for a little summer discussion. For the record, I just got back from Turks and Caicos,

which is very warm in June and early July. but I will tell you this, Milman, I'd never been to the Caribbean, spectacular, leisurely, wonderful local people. Not sure if you've ever taken

your beautiful wife and kids to the Turks. I highly recommend it. What say you? I have not been to what we like to call T and C, but I have been around the area

and it's phenomenal. it makes you feel like you can see to the end of the world and you're never going to reach it and you don't care because you're so relaxed because you're just having a drink. You're sitting by an infinity pool. You're reading a book. In your case, you're posting Instagram videos every 30 seconds responding to the news, usually shirtless with someone in the background, either looking at you funny or wondering why is this guy talking to a camera or it was one of your family that was wondering why is he still working

when we're on vacation in Turks and Caicos. But I will say vacation generally has never been more important and restorative. Yeah, no kidding, right? Jesus. All right, this is our segment called Sharpen Square. So I thought this week, the week one lines are out. I'm going to give you three games I really, really love, not like, love. And then you can give me a couple you like. And I want you to respond to mine. So I'm going to give you my three and you respond to it. Yep.

First game I like, Detroit plus four against Philly. I think by the end of the year, Philly is better. But I thought last year, Detroit was about as competitive as a bad team could be. I like their off-season between T.J. Hawkinson, Amarong St. Brown, Penae Sewell, DeAndre Swift, Jared Gough, more than a competent offense. Philadelphia has got some new pieces. I think eventually they gel. But week one, you know, Chad, average teams don't think they're average in September. They know it by October. There is no way I can lay four points. I love the Lions plus four. upper square. Look, the lions as a dog, the lions as a home dog, that's going to be a theme for us throughout 2022. I love this play. The wise guys love this play. The line in a lot of places has moved

in the lion's direction, meaning it's gone from four and a half down to four. The lions are a team to believes, right? And the Lions are a team that also knows who they are. The Lions are a team that got more talented. And the Eagles are a team that is already starting to have to defend against ideas that they are an all-star team, right? What did AJ Brown say last week? You were on vacation. You might not have seen it. Then again, you responded to everything, so you probably did. Yeah. He's saying, we're not a team of all-stars yet. And look, everyone thinks Jalen Hertz. They're talking about how jacked he is, how much better he's gotten. I'm a believer on the Eagles. If you ask me, do I like the Eagles over nine and a half wins? A hundred percent. I like the Eagles over nine and

half wins. Do I like the Eagles to cover in week one on the road at Detroit against the coach, who the jury is out, whether he's good or not. But I am a huge fan of Dan Campbell. And I do think getting this team jacked for week one as a home underdog, that is the team I want to play. All right, here's the second one I love. I'm going to go in Order of Love. I love that one. I really love this one. Raiders getting over a field goal at the Chargers.

It'll be a 6535 Raiders crowd. Devante Adams to Hunter Renfro to Josh Jacobs to Darren Waller. Josh McDaniels is a very clever offensive coordinator. Is he a great head coach? I don't know. But I thought the Raiders, and I think they had a great off season, making the playoffs. I think there's a lot of really positive energy around this team. It's going to be really a home game. And the verdict's out on, I think the Chargers have a really good roster.

There is no proof that they win big games. There is proof they're talented. But in games like this, they're not good enough to give over a field goal. I like the Raiders a lot here. Yeah, I agree. Like, look, you've got an intra-division game against two teams that a lot of people would say are relatively evenly matched. The Raiders got better on offense. The Chargers got much, much better on defense just by virtue of getting some players back, plus some of the trades they've made to improve their pass rush. Games like this, they shouldn't be more than a field goal. Like, it should be a field goal.

And when it's a field goal, you should pass. If it's minus three and a half, you should take the underdog. If it's two and a half, you should take the favorite. And that's it. So right now, this number is sitting at four. You got to take the Raiders in this spot. This baseball season turn K's into cash. Big hits into big wins with Fandall Sportsbook.

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He's in a good mood. He also has the taller Sean McVeigh coach. The league is changing. Defensive coaches who are legends. Pete Carroll in trouble. Tomlin. Hasn't won a big playoff game in a decade. Bill Belichick feels mediocre.

Zimmer fired. Fangio fired. Flores fired. Revere. getting heat. There is one ascending defensive coach in the league. Sean McDermott. And that's mostly because of Josh Allen. The league has changed. Offensive coaches win. That's, they have a relationship with the quarterbacks. Brady couldn't get along with Belichick at the end. Tua couldn't get along with Flores. Zimmer couldn't get along with Cousins. Pete couldn't get along with

Russell Wilson. Vic Fangio couldn't get along with any of his quarterbacks. It works. Kirk's got money. He's got security. He's got an offensive coach. We both like their weapons. They have nice players all over the offense. Green Bay could be good, but there's no proof that Aaron Rogers in week one is going to trust a rookie college receiver from an FCF school or Alan Lazzard being his one or Sammy Watkins being dependable on a flag route. That may develop, but Aaron has trust issues with his own family. We saw it in the playoff game with teammates for years. Minnesota early, they're bringing a new offense. Green Bay is going to be guessing.

We know what Green Bay is going to do. And Minnesota's got tape on what they do. Love the Vikings here. You are 100% correct about the Vikings in this spot. A short home dog against a very public team is always going to be the side you want to take. I do feel like you've got a little vacation brain if you're trying to compare Mike Zimmer and Vic Fangio and how Vic Fangio did with no quarterbacks or how Mike Zimmer did with Kirk Cousins and their defensive pedigrees as assistant coaches with Mike Tomlin and Bill Belichick and the history they have

as Super Bowl winning coaches. Entirely different conversations. That should not be a factor in why you're betting on the Vikings against the Packers. I agree with you 100% about the Packers in this spot. Who are their offensive weapons? Who will Aaron Rogers trust? How are they going to build a game plan about anybody and how can they get downfield? I also, I kind of disagree about Kirk Cousins being comfortable. I think the reason you take the Vikings here almost has nothing to do with the talent on the field. If you're professional better, you're looking at this number and you're taking it because of

the percentages, because of what the precedent tells you, because you know you've got a match up of a Vikings team that is very competitive, that lost close games last year, and has experience beating the Packers and beating Aaron Rogers. And you're getting them as a short home dog. You know the public is going to be on the Packers. you want to be in the Viking sir. Okay, so now I've given you my three. We get rare three for three sharper square agreement.

You, when I told you I had three picks, you told me, ooh, I got a couple I like. So give me two that you love. All right. Number one, it's so disgusting. It's going to make you wonder if I've spent too much time sipping my ties in Turks and Kekos. Give me Houston plus seven and a half. Yeah. at home against Indianapolis.

If there's ever a time, look, Houston overperformed last year with Davis Mills at quarterback. And you could honestly argue if Davis Mills had come out this past year instead of the year before. And he had developed at Stanford for one more year with his size and his arm. And the caliber of quarterbacks in this past class where Kenny Pickett was the only one taken in the first round, Davis Mills could have been the number one overall pick. Yeah, I good. Like with the way he performed for the Texans last year, I think they have a serviceable to better than serviceable quarterback.

I think they have a very, like a defense that is good enough. I'm not going to be hyperbolic here and say they have a very good defense. But the one time when you want to take a team that you expect to be bad all year is week one at home as huge underdogs. We talked about it a little bit with the Lions. But we've seen this for years, right? A couple of years ago. The Jags win one game the entire year.

What is the game? Week one against the Colts. Yeah. We all saw it coming. We all made that bet. We all made that money on the Jags that one week. Yeah. So that's one.

That is one. By the way, Colts, Giants, perennially slow starters, Chiefs, perennially hot starters. Indie doesn't play well in September. That's just their DNA. So that leads to another one which is interesting. The Dallas Cowboys plus two and a half against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Oh, boy.

Dude, this is a primetime game at home. I know it's Tom Brady. I know it's the Bucks. There are certain spots where you know the Cowboys are going to. going to show up. Dak Prescott now has a full year of being back from that ankle injury. It takes a while to come back from those things. But just based on the numbers alone in a primetime game like that, it's going to be ugly.

I got to go with the Cowboys. I'll say this. I had this discussion. Somebody made fun of me. I said, so Brady's entire career, he would bark on the sidelines. He would bark at coaches. we have video evidence. Yep.

And then last year, he was very unhappy at the end of the year. And you didn't see it. Tom had made that quick pivot to, I'm going to retire. I mean, he does nothing impulsively. Then we find out when the season's over, oh, yeah, he was ready to go to Miami. He was going to be in the ownership group. He was going to go with Sean Payton. Well, he didn't just make that up the moment it was offered.

I think Tom knew it was his last year. He retires. Then the story comes out. Brian Flores lawsuit. He backs off. Now he reengages to the league. I think part of him is already a little retired. Like, I really do.

I thought at the end of last year, I said this on the air. I said he's just not quite as barky and demonstrative and over. overtly frustrated. He would make comments in the paper like, you know, we're not there. We're not playing as a unit. But you didn't see that sort of that aesthetic, that classic Tom barking. And I think that's what happens. I mean, if I have a job and I'm going to leave a job, and this has happened to me four or five times in my career, that last six months, you don't sweat the small stuff.

You're already out the door. You don't sweat the small stuff. I don't think Tampa is going to be a Super Bowl team this year. I just feel like, I feel like the McVeigh-Stafford thing is ascending and aspirational because Matt feels like he wasted a huge chunk of his career. And I feel like Buffalo is ascending and hungry. And Kansas City wants to prove they didn't need Tyreek Hill. Cincinnati, there's a lot of these ascending teams. I kind of feel like Tom, he's got a foot, he's got a foot in the pool, just a little bit.

And that's my takeaway. So if you told me, Tampa goes 10 and 7. 11 and 6, and they lose mostly the games against the best teams, it wouldn't surprise me. It really wouldn't. When you are a senior in college, a senior in high school. Oh, yeah. And you know what your next gig is going to be. Those last six months, forget about if you're leaving a job, you've got it all figured out, right?

you know the game. You know how to survive. You know how to succeed. But you've also got one eye down the road on what is my multimedia company going to be? What is my FTX involvement going to be? What is my ownership potential going to be? How am I going to start becoming a better broadcaster than Troy Aikman and Tony Romo and anybody else who has ever been a broadcaster? Because you know everyone is already saying, Tom Brady has not been that good as a speaker. And so why would they give him this kind of money? So you know he's going to work as hard as he can to become the best broadcaster ever. So, yeah, those are part of the reasons why, where you've got Dak Prescott,

who's got a lot to prove and the cowboys who have a lot to prove and they still have good weapons. And the first game of the year isn't the last game of the year when you expect them to choke and you've got a season's worth of data to show how they make horrible decisions. In the first game of the year, it's almost like they can shock the opponent with how many bad decisions they can make. And the bucks will be like, wait, they shouldn't be doing this. Whereas by the end of the year, the teams are expecting them to make bad decisions so they can play against it.

Finally, Millman, give me the movement on Carolina with Baker Mayfield. Where were they, where they at? So they've gone up by about a game. So it was in win totals, five and a half to six and a half. I like Carolina over six and a half. I like him more with Baker Mayfield. I wouldn't have played him with Sam Darnold. What's interesting about Carolina to me isn't so much Baker Mayfield, who I think is just a better quarterback than Sam Darnold.

He's proven it, right? Like he's had good years. And so if you're not counting on the Baker Mayfield who had a terrible left shoulder injury for the latter half of the year, And look, we talked about this in the favorites last year. Someone on the volume social team just reshared a clip where we were talking on the favorites in January of last year. Where do we think Baker goes? What do we think is the damage from not playing with a full, not being fully healthy at the end of the year? And we just thought he screwed himself.

Like he tried one for the team, looked terrible. Yeah. Lost all his value. And we're like, Carolina is the right spot. Yeah. And this was in January. So if he's fully healthy and can give the ball to Christian McCaffrey and can be better than Sam Darnold, this is a team that defensively, people will knock them for being bad. They were only bad because they were on the field more than anybody else.

So like the other team had more opportunities to do more things. If you put them in a vacuum in an average number of plays, they're a pretty good defense. And I know a lot of people knock Matt Ruhl. I was a huge fan of Matt Ruhl two years ago because of their defense. Last year, I think was a lost year. So I would bet the over six and a half with Baker playing quarterback. Yeah, I agree. All right, buddy.

We'll talk soon. We'll do our regular stuff here pretty quickly. We're starting to feel like we're getting somewhere. Mike Silver came on yesterday. There's some Trey Lance stuff that's real concerning. We're getting close. What are you about 10 days from camp? You know what's funny?

I think we're two weeks from camp. I think we are 64 days from the start of the season. But you know what's weird? July is such a weird month when you work in sports media because it all of a sudden really is like the slowest time of the year. NBA playoffs are done. Free agency is done. Draft is done. You got baseball.

NFL, like everybody is away. So there's not a lot of news, right? And it's when a lot of us take a vacation. You just want a vacation. I'm going on vacation in a couple weeks. You come back for vacation. And like, it's not like August. is still the summer.

It's August 1st, and you've got to be ready to go. Oh, I'm ready to go. Oh, yeah. July is both when you have to plan everything. And it's also when, like, there's nothing going on, and you can lose that month like that. It just, in the snap of the finger, it's gone. So, yeah, camps are two weeks from today, I think.

The season's in 64 days. I'm kind of ready. I'm ready to start doing nothing but watch football. Yeah. Same here. I got to buy my bowl tickets. for USC and Lincoln Riley. So I got to buy my either Rose Bowl or Fiesta tickets.

I got to get on that. I hope you can afford them. They're going to be really, really pricing. We didn't even talk about USC in the big time. Well, we're going to get to that. Yeah. Listen, we're going to do that. Today was just me making my picks and you making some picks.

We just want to wet the appetite. People, we can't give people too much. But I have so many thoughts. Well, welcome to my world. You can't shut this computer off. off, pal. I know because I saw 18,000 videos. You were more productive on vacation than I was at home the entire time you were gone. All right, Milliman. Get out of here. All right, brother. I'll talk to you later. All right. Volume. Make sure to check out the Dramon Green show. I brought Dramon Green into the

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