The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd’s Instant Reaction - Wild Card: Raven/Bengals, Giants/Vikings, Dolphins/Bills

Episode Date: January 16, 2023

Colin gives his instant reaction to Wild Card Sunday action, including Joe Burrow and the Bengals suffering potentially catastrophic o-line injuries in their win over the Lamar Jackson-less Ravens, Brian Daboll's underdog Giants getting a huge road win over the Vikings, and the Bills surviving a scare from a Dolphins squad led by 3rd string QB Skylar Thompson. Also, Colin’s top takeaways from the entire Wild Card weekend. Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates, check out FanDuel for the best wagering and daily fantasy action, and visit Cuts for the latest Fall fits! #Herd #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And it was a 14-point swing, and there's your ball game right there. I talked about this last week on the volume. When you ask a team, even if it's a superior team, and the Bengals with Burrow are clearly the better team. they were favored by nine and a half, Ravens covered, but Bengals, big favorite, you're going to get close games. I mean, Miami, I'll get to that in a second. I thought outplayed Buffalo again, even though they were outmanned, even though they were on a third quarterback.

So these AFC North games are so competitive. Let's talk Cincinnati. I've had Cincinnati ranked number one in the league for about a month and a half, four or five, six weeks. You know, they're not the same team now because of Lyle Collins, the tackles, out. Alex Kappa, the interior lineman's out. Jonah Williams, a tackle got hurt during this game. So they're down three starting offensive linemen.

You're not going to win the AFC, missing three starting offensive linemen. So they're a little bit in flux right now. And really how that slows you down, Burrough's going to have less time to throw. So that's going to take away a lot of the vertical passing game for Joe Burrell. He's not going to get, you know, to pound the football back there, a couple of palms, and a half seconds. That's over. That's the downside. You won't run the ball quite as effective. It'll take away some of your over-the-top stuff with Jamar Chase and T. Higgins. You'll do more short passing underneath routes. You can be effective. You can move the ball. I'll move the

ball. But that Cincinnati likes to occasionally with Burrow go over the top. So Cincinnati got dinged in this game losing another offensive lineman. And let's face it, they had a couple of players hurt because the games with the Ravens are so damn physical. So Cincinnati limped and wobbled out of this thing with a W. We'll check on their injuries throughout the week, but they got dinged. They got dinged in this game. It was like every game this weekend, a very unique game. I thought Tyler Hunley played his butt off.

You know, he's a backup in this league. Total gamer played his college ball at Utah. Watched him there. But, you know, he's a pro. He's a gamer. We've seen it with Taylor Heineke, you see it with Tyler Huntley, athletic guys, undersized, not going to build a franchise around them, but in a one game setting, anything can happen. So Cincinnati goes on to win, dinged up, we'll update you, everyone will throughout the course of the week,

but they have been weakened because of these offensive line injuries. Let's move to the Giants win. I guess it's an upset over the Vikings, although it didn't feel like that. You know, I can hear all giant fans now. The owner, Mara said we're back. Well, kind of. This league overwhelmingly is about two things. Find the right coach the Giants have and find the right quarterback.

Kind of. You know, a lot of the downfield statistics are not great for Daniel Jones. Some of that is it's a pretty enemic receiving core. They're going to have to go out, fix the interior O-line. I would go out if they could and get another tight end, get another wide receiver. This offense needs a lot of work. It's kind of a classic Giants team. You can go back to Jeff Hostetler, Phil Sims, the Eli Manning teams.

It feels like the Giants always have a good solid running game, a better-than-average quarterback, though not super athletic, good defensive front. And they've, when they've had the right coach, Parcells, Tom Coughlin, now Brian Dable, they can win playoff games, especially on the road. Daniel Jones now is pretty athletic. And there's a fundamental advantage in the NFC. You don't have the Burroughs and the Mahomes and the Josh Allen's. You know, Daniel Jones with his legs, his size, with that run game, he can stack up pretty

much in the NFC. This is not the AFC. He doesn't have to win by shootout. I mean, when I'm watching Daniel Jones against Kirk Cousins, Daniel looks bigger and stronger than he did the year ago. He's much better athlete than Kirk Cousins. He probably has a stronger arm. And I thought he played with more confidence than Kirk Cousins.

It was very telling late in the game. Not only did Kirk Cousins on a fourth and eight throw it underneath, but the previous drive, the Viking staff had him throwing screens. Brian Dable has unleashed Daniel Jones over the last four or five games. He's really unleashed him. He's throwing the ball down the field. he's taking shots, he's letting him move. I think it's a great sign if you're a Giants fan that this coaching staff has gained trust in Daniel Jones.

He looks more confident. He's always been a big kid. He looks a little bigger, a little more willing to run. Not only do they design running plays for him, but he's more confident and willing to run. So I do think there's a ceiling right now with this Giants team. But if I told you before this season, with the Daniel Jones, we had seen, hey, they'll get into the playoffs, go on the road, and win a playoff game. You would have taken that in a New York minute.

So much of this league is coaching quarterback. Daibble is a home run. I have my reservations, big picture with Daniel Jones, but with this quarterback, they're only going to get better in the draft. Tide end, another receiver, clean up the interior O line. Pretty interesting. for people in Minnesota that are at wits end with Kirk Cousins. This is who he is.

You know, one o'clock window, Kirk Cousins. He's not a playoff guy. He's not a big play guy. Is it frustrating? Yes. But as Greg CoSell has often told me, there's only five or six great quarterbacks in this league. Somebody's got to have Kirk Cousins, right?

He's going to need to be surrounded by more. But I mean, listen, throwing underneath to a tight end in man coverage is useless. A corner on a tight end underneath is useless. Kirk should know better. But I think he plays with his teeth clenched and he plays scared in big spots. And I think it's obvious. You know, they drafted a quarterback Texas A&M a few years ago. If I was the Vikings, I would draft a quarterback every year, third, fourth, fifth round.

see if I can get lucky. Kirk Cousins was a fourth rounder. But for the time being, they won their division. They won a lot of one-score close games. What you don't want to be in the NFL is chaotic at quarterback. You're not with Kirk Cousins. But going into this weekend, a lot of people, myself included, had a strong feeling about the Giants winning the game.

And one of the reasons was Kirk Cousins and that Vikings run defense. And in both instances, you saw the weakness up close in person. All right, first game of the day was Buffalo and Miami, surprisingly close. So I talked about what concerns me about Cincinnati. They've been dinged with the injuries to the offensive line. I think something that's very obvious now, as Brian Daibble has cleaned up the game of Daniel Jones, completions up, turnovers down. Josh Allen has gotten, in the second half of the season, increasingly turnover prone and slugher. Loppy, missed open receivers, missed wide, missed high, made poor decisions, bad choices, especially in crucial times.

This Buffalo team is really talented. I've compared them multiple times to Mike Tyson, not the early Mike Tyson who had a little bit of a jab. Had Custamato as a trainer, was really an ascending boxer with a lot of weaponry. At the end, Tyson was sloppy, didn't have much of a jab, was nose in the greatest shape, but he still had knockout. power. Buffalo does a lot of things poorly. I felt for the second time, Mike McDaniel, with a significantly less talented quarterback, went into Buffalo and outcoached Sean McDermott. No doubt in my mind, back to back. I think McDaniel's got a great future. Whether they bring back to it or not, there's a report earlier today. They're bringing back to a, that's fine. I don't think in a division

with Josh Allen. If the Jets went out and got a Derek car or a better quarterback, a Ryan Tannahill, I think there's limitations to Tua physically, athletically. Be that as it may, I think McDaniel's an excellent coach. It's hard. There was a couple things situationally. I didn't love with Miami, but he's clever. I thought he out-coached McDermott for the second time in two meetings. I have grave concerns about Buffalo's ability to play clean football. You're not beat in Kansas City. right now, and it feels like it's getting worse. You know, I've said throughout the course of the season,

they tend to bail on the run game. They need Josh Allen too much in their run game. Stefan Diggs is excellent. Gabriel Davis had a little bit of a showing today. Dawson knocks the one-headed touchdown catch. They've got the weapons. It's not a lack of talent, but

they're sloppy a lot, often. This game should have been over several times. So, you know, my takeaway throughout the course of the weekend is number one, not only was the comeback by Jacksonville startling, the second half domination by Brock Purdy's offense in San Francisco was startling. This was a great wildcard weekend. I don't remember anything like it.

Every game was unique. Brock Purdy, as a rookie, had one of the great second halves ever for a rookie quarterback in the playoffs. The Chargers blow a 27-0 lead. Keep your eye on Sean Payton for that job. All of the Spanos's may not want to pay it. that kind of money. Buffalo gets a real scared by outmanned Skyler Thompson and the Dolphins. The Giants, Daniel Jones looked like a significantly better quarterback to me than Kirk Cousins. Have they found their guy? Probably. They're going to keep them for a while. And Baltimore, on a 14-point swing,

was a playaway from potentially beating Cincinnati. So I just thought from top to bottom, it was an outstanding wild card weekend. I said going into the weekend, I worried that you put in a couple years ago another playoff team, Seattle and Miami, and I said, cross your fingers, is one of these teams going to get knocked out? It's a star player from a team, the Niners who should have a buy, or the bills who should have a buy, going to get knocked out. Crossed our fingers. Everything went sort of kind of as planned. I don't really count Jacksonville as an upset. in that space, if I'd have told you going into the weekend, one team will blow a 27-0 lead.

It would be the Chargers. Would it not be the Chargers? I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and there was always sort of a running joke with the Washington State Cougars, Coogan it, because they just had a way of blowing games. And Chargering is a term used in the NFL. I have said this multiple times. I think Brandon Staley's smart, but I don't think he's created a consistent. identity for this team. If you go and look

at second half stats offensively and defensively for the Chargers, they struggle to adjust on both sides of the ball. They're a bad second half defense and a bad second half offense. Don't know what to tell you. I think

Sean Payton is the answer. Anthony Lynn and Brandon Staley feel like they're wasting some of Justin Herbert's inexpensive years. But the Spanos family has historically go look at their coaching hires. They don't pay big money. You'd have to buy out a couple of years from Brandon Staley. Sean Payton's going to cost you $20 million a year. Do I think it's worth it? Yes. For a franchise that would sell tomorrow for $4 or $5 billion, do I think paying the second most important person on a football team, quarterback one coach too, do I think he's worth $20 million?

Yes. And I believe it's the only job Sean Payton has truly ever won. Wanted. He would go back to the Saints if he could get a star quarterback or the Chargers and Justin Herbert. It's a really good roster. I think they have a smart young coach, but he's not a great coach. And Sean Payton is. That's our Sunday night instant reaction from a fabulous and tense and dramatic and weird NFL wildcard weekend. Looking to get more out of the NFL.

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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. 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 Cliford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve

to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to the Cliford show on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcast. or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok podcast network on TikTok. This is an IHeart podcast, guaranteed human.