The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Falcons shock the Eagles

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Colin gives the Falcons big time props for their comeback win over the Eagles and why they're silencing all their critics from the offseason Eagles fans need to relax, Philly will be fineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What a wild Monday night. Okay, so all game you're like Philadelphia. At home. I'll post a W. and all of a sudden you look up and you're like, what just happened? You know what just happened, Jay Mack? Kirk Cousins happened. Hey, did they fire Nick Siriana yet this morning?

Oh, my gosh. What was he doing? Holy cow. So I want to start with this. It was exactly April 25th. The Atlanta Falcons drafted Michael Pennock. You all went crazy. They were universally lamb-based because they'd already signed

free agent quarterback Kirk Connick. So when they drafted Michael Penix, y'all freaked out. There was just one voice in America who defended Atlanta. A beloved sportscaster here in Los Angeles. Me. And last night's why? My quote at the time was, let me get this straight. Having a four-time Pro Bowl quarterback and the best backup potentially in the league is a bad place to be in.

all the Belichick sycophants and the fanboys because he didn't get the Atlanta job. Oh, they came pouring in. An avalanche criticism. Did you watch Kirk Cousins in the second half last night? On the road? Off the surgery, 13 of 16, 16, 16, 16 yards, two touchdowns, 149 pass-a-rating. Michael Pennix ain't winning that game. Kirk Cousins is.

Michael Pennix also isn't taking a beating like Jaden Daniels, Bo Nix. He'll be better on the bench than on his back. He's not getting his confidence shattered. I told you at the time, and I'll say it again. Bryce Young, Caleb Williams. I mean, these guys sound different after a two, three game losing streak. They sound different. Penix will be fine.

This is very Mahomes, Alex Smith. And Atlanta's good, by the way. O-line, last night, controlled the second half. Run game, maybe the best running back room in the league. Tide-end, wide receiver, strong. And Kirk Cousins, for the record, in the last, I mean, second half last night was insane, but if you go look at Kirk Cousins between Minnesota and Atlanta,

his last 10 starts, he's got a 102 passer rating, completing almost 70% of his throws. The dude's made four Pro Bowls. He's the best quarterback, in my opinion. I like Baker, but the best quarterback in his division. Come on now. The move always made sense. It is never bad in the NFL to have arguably the best quarterback.

quarterback in a division, he didn't sign a DAC contract. He didn't sign a Mahomes or a, it didn't sign one of those contracts. If he starts this year and a chunk of next year, you can move off it and move if he wants to play. But it's amazing. There's a reason Belichick's on TV and not coaching because he ran out of quarterbacks. Atlanta's got two. So it's not the end of the world. Philadelphia lost. This is a team that has a chance to win their division. And for the record, C.J. Stroud is an outlier. Mahomes. sat for a year. Lamar sat for 10 games. Kirk Cousins

in two years played four games to start. You're seeing these older quarterbacks. You're seeing people who are pushed to the side. They're doing fights. See, young guys that are man overboard. You think Pennix wins that game? You want Pennix on his back? I don't. So Atlanta's got an excellent

offensive line, excellent running backs, above average weapons. I like their coach. And a veteran quarterback who controlled the game in the second half on the road. fan base. I mean, every single fan base, there's no patience in this league, right? And if your moves don't pay off immediately, every fan base in the NFL would take a top, outside of maybe Kansas City, would take a top 10 quarterback, top 12 quarterback in the league, and the best

backup. And you're all freaking out. Atlanta's good. Green Bay's done it three times. This is what Green Bay does. They draft a really good guy, let him sit and watch football for a few years. I don't know, Farr, Rogers, Jordan, Love, it's paid off three times. So, I don't know, I watched this game last night. Everybody's freaking out. I picked Atlanta to win 12 games. I picked him to arguably fight for number one seed. The first week was a disadvantage because their former coach was the Steelers

offensive coordinator. He knew all their personnel. That was a coaching disadvantage. But last night, my staff made fun of me yesterday. I came into the morning meeting. I'm like, I like Atlanta to win. I think Atlanta, and they're all like, don't say that on the air. literally don't say it on the air.

I think Atlanta can play. I think they have arguably after Detroit, the best offensive line in the league. And everybody always craps on Kirk Cousins. You watch the second half? Watch that final drive? Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, touchdown game over. Here's Kirk after.

You know, it's so important to find ways to win, and that's how you put together a great season is when you have these games that you go either way, you find a way to have it break your way. And that's the way this league is. And so when we can find those inches, it can really change the tail of the season. So we're going to have more of those up ahead, and we're going to have to keep, you know, as a whole team, finding ways to make the plays to get it done.

Okay, now let's talk Philadelphia. Very popular team. I'm actually concerned about the state of Pennsylvania. You do realize, if you look at all the polling, you're going to decide the presidential election. We need adults in the room here, not throwing a tantrum every time. time you lose a football game. Folks, Sequin catches the football. You're 2-0.

You beat a team if he catches the football in Green Bay that could win their division, and Atlanta could win theirs. Kirk Cousins is good. It happens. It's football. Your division's a mass. Giants, Washington don't look very good. Dallas is typical Dallas roller coaster.

You'll be fine. Now, Nick Seriani's not Andy Reid. Who is? There's one. People even complained this weekend about Kyle Shanahan. Sean McVeigh's Owen, too. John Harbaugh's Owen, too. Yeah, you don't have Andy Reid.

But A.J. Brown, your number one receiver, did not play. That is a thing. You can defend Philadelphia much differently when A.J. Brown's not on the field. For most of the game, you look like the better team. You also have a very expensive offense, and because of that, there's some liabilities or weaknesses on the back end. You know what you really are, and you should take pride in this. You're really the opposite of the Steelers. You're great at quarterback.

You spend your money on offense, but you're not, you probably don't trust your defense to win a Super Bowl. Would you rather be the Steelers who spend all their money on defense, and that quarterback room is just not good enough? Two and O start, yeah, check back in eight weeks. So, I mean, Philadelphia is going to win their division, I would imagine, and then ultimately at some point late in the season, they're going to lose a game in January or maybe February.

They just can't make a stop. Okay, but that's because nobody is stopping Patrick Mahomes, right? As Cincinnati, a really good team with a great pass rush. They couldn't stop them enough to win. So Jalen Hertz, let's look at the good news. Jalen Hertz, back to be in dynamic. Jailen Hurts was something. A.J. Brown's returning.

Seekwon Barclay, say whatever you want to say about Seekwuan Barclay. It's clearly a really good player who just dropped a ball. your offensive lines top five in the league you're deciding our democracy I need you to take a deep breath everything is going to be okay now we'll check back on November 5th on your decision but everything is going to be okay

Sequin catches at your 2-0 over two teams that could win a division here's the coach we wanted to they were running a certain defense and junking it up in the middle so we're trying to go on around the outside and, you know, it didn't work with it being fourth and three to go for it.

I thought, you know, with them not having any timeouts, I wanted them to be down a touchdown and see if they could drive the field. And they did. Hats off to them. Yeah, hats off to Atlanta. You know, it's funny about this, is that there are certain quarterbacks. Look who is doing well at quarterback in this league. Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield, Derek Carr, last night, Kurt Cousins, Gino Smith,

lot of reps, older guys, been around the league. league in the first two weeks of the season when, you know, no starters are playing in the preseason, offensive lines are out of rhythm. Atlanta was a tough, tough game last night. Okay, you know who is flourishing? Veteran quarterbacks who have been around the block since no starters are playing in the preseason. The Bakers and Sam Darnolds, they look pretty good.

G-no's doing well. And Kirk Cousins last night with a good offensive line. That was a tough game for Philadelphia. Atlanta's no pushover, but take a deep breath. Nick Seriani has been to a Super Bowl. He can't be that terrible. Not a lot of terrible coaches end up there. He's not a top five coach.

They're not terrible. Listen, in Dallas, they don't like their coach. In New York, they got a good coach. They don't like Brian Dayball. Like it's an epidemic. Take a deep breath. You're going to be fine. All right, J. Mack.

First of all, wildly entertaining football game. wildly entertaining opening rant from you, huh? Falcons, everything's fine. They were like, they should be 0 and 2 this morning. We would be laughing at them for letting the Eagles walk up and down the field against it. This is not a should-be league. Oh, I know. It is a, what's the final score league?

Pittsburgh's 2-0, Ravens 0-2. It should be Pittsburgh's 0-2, and the Ravens are 2-0 by a toe. And they led the Raiders late, but it's not a should-be league. And Pittsburgh looks like it's headed to 3-0. seen this Justin Herbert update where he's definitely not mobile and not looking good. And now Pittsburgh might be 3 and O. And they have one offensive touchdown. Oh, what a league.

What a start to the season. Just banana. Last night was, it was, hey, here, listen, Jalen Hertz looked good. Yeah. J. He's fine. He did with no A.J. Brown. By the way, how many deep passes did they complete?

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Tasty. Very tasty. Nick Wright, top of the next hour, heard higher art. after two weeks. I have a team that's 0 and 2 in my top 10 and a team that's 2 and 0 that's not. It's not standings. That's the other network. That's not standings. I don't do standings.

It's not like USA Today. We get standings in the red section. No. I'm telling you what I see. What I see is interesting in San Francisco. New story today. Debo Samuel out two weeks. So now Christian McCaffrey, the motor, is out of the offense.

And Debo Samuel, who is the great chess piece for the Niners, he's out of the offense. So now Brock Purdy, no excuses, instead of having the most stacked roster in the league, is like a George Kittle ankle sprain from just having a really good roster. No excuses. Sam Darnold didn't have its number two receiver as number one. one tied end and by the end of the game is number one receiver and lit San Francisco's defense up. Joe Burrell still doesn't have Higgins.

He was really good against Kansas City. I mean, I'm watching guys all over this league. So here's the question with Brock Purdy. Is he a foundational piece? Because at the end of this year, he's going to want money. He's going to want money. Not like he's making a ton with endorsements. And so the next two, three weeks now, no McCaffrey, no Gets.

Debole. Brandon Ayuk relationship right now is building but has not been good. He's not getting a ton of looks. And I'm looking around this league, Sam Darnold was missing all sorts of stuff Sunday and outplayed Brock Purdy. He didn't have his number one or number two receiver or his number one tied in by the end of the game and look great. Now the good news for the Niners, their schedule, they got layups coming up. Rams are all beat up then New England. So there's layups. But I'm watching Jalen Hertz last night. Didn't have AJ Brown. Jalen Hertz was unbelievable. The bills are top three in scoring and they don't have Stefan Diggs. He's gone. So you start looking around. You can really figure out, are you just going to be a guy that needs to be carried or are you a guy that can carry? Because no Debo and no

Christian McCaffrey, those are great players. And they're not only great players, one's the engine, the other is the primary chess piece. But you still have Kittle, Trent Williams, We think Jennings will play. Backup running backs good. Brandon Ayuk. But it's important now. Is he a foundational piece or just a good poker player when he has the right hand, when he has the good cards, he can win a hand?

Which is he? You know where I land, like him. I thought he was solid Sunday. But these next three or four games, when he may not have Debo, he may not have McCaffrey, watch closely. J-Mack with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news.

This is the herd line news. Ah, love when you needle, Brock Purdy. Needle, is that what you call? That's what you're doing. I don't see it as neatly. He's got a stack deck. He should win, and then he doesn't have anybody.

You got to win. It just feels unfair, buddy. Josh Allen looks better than ever without Stefan Diggs. Diggs. Darnold was amazing Sunday. Jay, well, hold on. John, Josh Allen faced the Cardinals' joke of a defense, and then the dolphins who don't have a defense at all. Like, let's calm down. Yes, he has looked good.

I have my fantasy team. Oh, okay. Let's just. It's funny. Do you have Brock Purdy on your fantasy team? I do. He's the backup. I'm not even kidding.

That is not a joke. Which is what he would be in Buffalo if he was on the team. No, no, no. Fantasy is all about stats, and Josh Allen's rushing for touchdown. So I am. What happens when you're uniquely gifted? All right, let's start with Justin Fields here. He's filling in for the injured Russell Wilson.

Listen, he's 2 and O, doesn't have any turrets. He's not really throwing the football down the field, but who cares? Steelers are 2-0. Russ is close to a return, but former Steelers legend, Big Ben Rathosberger, believes Fields has earned the role of QB1. If Russ is healthy, I'm sticking with Justin. I like what I've seen. I like that he's getting into it.

I like he's getting the feel of it. You know, if you told me they're 101 or 0-2 and these are going on, I'd say, yeah, we've got to do something. But again, he's not turning the ball over. They're 2-0. I think it's got to stay with him. I really do. He's probably right.

Yeah, it's not like a hot take or anything. Probably what you do. Ride the hot hand. This has become what we predicted. That eventually the defense is good enough. If you don't turn it over, you can win games in Pittsburgh. You're not going to go anywhere in January and February. Zach Wilson won a couple games with the Jets defense last year.

The Jets won seven with the worst quarterback playing the league. If you're playing defense, you can win a bunch of games. You're not going to do anything late, but you can win. win them now. And in August, I was hammering the Steelers saying there's a five or six-win team, and you were like, eh, Tomlin can coax some magic. I think, I said I thought that they could get to eight. But Steelers fans are thumping their chests out now because they're two and oh, okay? Well, in fairness, they had, if you watch Kirk Cousins against the Steelers, like he didn't

move. He told Troy Aikman last night, I'm not 100%, but in the pocket I'm 100%. I thought last night, especially in the second half, he moved within the pocket. I thought Kirk looked like Kurt Cousins. I thought early in the game, first drive he looked a little stiff, I thought week one he looked stiff. But I thought, you know, by the way, when you have an injury, I thought in the second half he was getting good protection with the run game. I thought Kirk Cousins, I couldn't tell the difference between old Kirk and New Kirk. And by the way, I thought Aaron Rogers, you'll see this over the course of time as his O line get some reps together.

Aaron will look a little more nimble. But I thought Kirk, first week, with that T.J. Watt coming around the corner, Kirk looked old and off an injury. I thought he was a little rusty early last night. But I thought in the second half he looked like Kirk. By the way, were you surprised that the Eagles did not blitzkirk once on that two-minute drill drive when he went down the field for the game? The Fangio, that's not his style. Well, that's dumb.

I'm sorry. That's stupid. Spagnolo, one of the, maybe the best defensive mind in the league. Any big down, we're bringing the house. We're coming after you, whether it's Verro, Super Bowl, I don't care. Yeah, I know. But Kansas City's defensive personnel is better than Philadelphia's. They've drafted very well.

That's fair. When you can move off Sneed at Corner and you may be just as good or better defensively, you've drafted and developed well. But you got a statue in the pocket. You got to get them off his spot. I think that's fair. It was embarrassing. Here's the other thing about that Kirk Cousins drive.

I mean, it looked like I'm a home's drive. Boom, boom, boom, touchdown. I mean, it was so rhythmic and simple. I'd rather not talk about that anymore. All right, let's move on to the Cowboys column. You love the Cowboys. But listen, they got a big one this week. after the blowout in week two, gave up 44 points of the Saints.

Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer tried to protect his player's performance saying he didn't believe effort was the issue. Adding he needs to do a better job, but Micah Parsons, you know, because he's got a podcast, has chimed in with his own interpretation. The effort was not there by all 11. It doesn't matter who plays well, who didn't play well. The effort by all 11 wasn't there. The basic fundamentals of the game of football was not there.

and, you know, at the end of day, you have a standard of who you are during training camp and throughout this process to get you ready for the season. We didn't uphold that standard. That wasn't the Dallas Cowboys that I saw or I knew that showed up last week. It was not the same team this week. Was it the preparation? What was it? I don't know, but I'm determined to get this thing right.

Okay, words, words, words. Third time in like six games, you've been blasted. Sorry. Well, it's weird. Cowboys could be one and two. Ravens could be O and 3. The loser of this game's probably going to lead to show. Who's got that game?

Fox. Fox has that game? I'm pretty sure. Yeah. In a weird way, Baltimore losing has made that game even better. Oh, it's a massive game. Oh, it is. Listen, with Dallas,

with Baltimore, there feels like some desperation. Well, O and 3 is a death sentence in the end of it. It's all season done. Especially in that division. Cincinnati's good. And Dallas falls to one and two. Then you start the who's coaching next season. McCarthy's going to be gone.

So we, Fox has Baltimore, Dallas. Yeah. That is a, that's a record game. By the way. America's Game of the Week with Brady. Brady's getting some good game. I mean, I'm getting ahead of myself, but is this job attractive after giving Dak Prescott all that money, this Cowboys coaching job?

It's not as attractive. Yeah. Well, first of all, just structurally, if you were an elite coach, you know it'll pay okay. But if you were an elite coach, Jerry Jones is the de facto general manager. That makes it unattractive. It's just not that attractive a job. I mean, here's what's great. The Hunt family is really the way to do it.

They're rich, but they live in Dallas, and they have a president, a GM, a coach, a quarterback, and I happen to know a couple of people in that organization, and everybody is given responsibility, and you take the heat if you fail, but that's not the way it is in Dallas. Jerry wants the credit when they win, and he don't want to take it when they lose or overpay for somebody. So I don't think Dallas is a great job.

Jim Harbaugh is really smart. He could have stayed at Michigan. He took the charger job. He's like, it's a really good draft, the weaknesses I can solve. I've got an owner that's non-meddling in Los Angeles where he's lived in California, and I have a star quarterback into edge rushers. Like if the elite candidates are only applying for a handful of jobs, like Chicago. If Matt Eberlew's gets run out, it's the poorest owners, it's a defensive culture.

I mean, Chicago's a tough media, it's a loud, tough media and fan base, bad weather, so it's not a great offensive city generally, although Green Bay would dispute that. So, I mean, when you asked me, what are great jobs? Dallas is structurally not a great job because Jerry is your general manager, at least pretending to be it. And the allocation of resources, like it's all gone to DAC, C.D. Lamb, and guess who's going to get paid. Michael Parsons. And they should. I don't know about the offensive line. And I don't think you can

contend with paying those three, everything. Well, you're not a great team. Take out quarterback. You're not a great team if losing one player can significantly alter the outcome. I mean, Minnesota was missing

Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, and their number, I mean, Justin Jefferson's a great player at the end of the game. It did not affect them. San Francisco's won games. You know, when they're missing. Right, right, right. I mean, the Rams now have had cluster injuries on the O-line. That's different.

But if Dallas lost C.D. Lamb, that is not a very good offensive football team. They are incredibly C.D. Lamb reliant for anything over 10 yards. And they didn't have Ferguson, the tight end. He may come back. He's probably their second biggest target. Cook's his third. The ninth best tied-in in the league is your second target? It's not great there in Dallas.

Final story, Colin. Let's stick in the NFC East, or at least I should say, the New York Giants, they fell to 0 and 2. Jake became just the second team in NFL history to score three touchdowns, not allow any touchdowns, and still lose. New York also had to answer questions about the kicker situation. Listen, Daibol really screwed this up. Graham Gano came in injured, and then on the opening kickoff re-agravated a hamstring wasn't available. They couldn't kick extra points, couldn't kick the game-winning field goal with like four minutes left. end up losing Brian Daibol's answering questions about his job.

He responded, I've done this for a long time. My focus is on our football team. They are big underdogs in Cleveland this weekend. Deshawn Watson versus Daniel Jones. My take is the general manager did not impress me with HBO hard knocks. Daniel Jones, I wouldn't assign to the contract. I think Daibald's good. Daibol's going to get in their job.

Daibol's fine. Andy Reid got fired in this league. Belichick just got fired. Pete Carroll got fired. A lot of good coaches have left. Wait, I'm sorry. Do you think Daible will stay after the season or he'll get fired and get another job? I don't know. But if he got fired, he got fired, he'd hire Daibald tomorrow. He can be a little hot-headed. I'd sit down. Tom Conflin used to have that issue. Morrow family's like, hey, chill out. You look like a plum on the sidelines. You're bright purple.

I think Brian Daibble's got to, you know, chill out a little bit. But in terms of HBO Mac's show, Hard Knocks, I thought the general manager looked a little lost and not decisive. I don't think the quarterback's the guy. Although I didn't think he was terrible Sunday. I thought he was fine. I thought Daniel played up to Daniel's ceiling on Sunday. I thought he was fine. Well, I mean, I think 28 pass attempts and 18 of them were attempted at Malik Neighbors, the rookie.

Well, so what? They've got less than Dallas. Well, I mean, they're thrown to the right guy. At least, you know, I think Daibol's the strength of the franchise. I think Daibol and the defensive front and the left tackle are the strength of the franchise. Neighbors, I think, will be very, very good. But he's just one player. I'll give you a team for Daibol if they go four and 12.

Okay, please do that. If this Jacksonville stuff continues with Peterson, I think he's run out. And if I'm Daible, I am running to that Jacksonville job. Trevor Lawrence, I know he hasn't been great, doesn't have the wins. The tools are there. And they've already paid him. So you're going to get three.

By the way, his contract is less punitive, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth year of the contract. And they got some nice pieces offensively. Now, their structure in the front office and stuff isn't perfect. But that's a good second. I would hire Dave Ball in a second if Doug Peterson got whacked. Yeah. I don't know if Belichick would take that.

I don't know if he fits culturally in Jacksonville. Belichick solving a quarterback is not on my radar. Belichick's got to go to, and here's the thing. Now that Buffalo looks like they're really, really good, because that was one of the ones I looked at and I thought, oh, Belichick with Josh Allen, you're not getting that gig. Buffalo's too good. They're not going anywhere.

It's early to Crown Buffalo. Just a little early. Let's see how the Jets do Thursday because I think they're going to stay on the heels of the Buffalo Bills if they beat the Patriots. Big if. J-Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

And thanks for stopping by. The Heard Lye News. Ham Jordan of the Saints is joining us. They're on fire. A Nick right next hour, the herd hierarchy. So I saw a headline this morning. Caleb Williams is finding out what Justin Fields already knows.

Oh, God. Here's a little problem. Again, people say that it's too early. No, it's not. It's not too early to look at the Rams and go, yeah, they play the Niners next. They're in trouble. It's not too early to say Kansas City looks like a better version of last year. I don't buy that at all.

There are red flags all around this league. Baltimore's offensive line is a red flag. The red flag, don't tell me it's too early. It's too early to crown Pittsburgh that hasn't thrown a touchdown pass. Crown them. It's not too early to go. Sam Donald looks pretty good with this coach and this team. It's not too early to say that.

So Minnesota, Detroit, and Green Bay in Chicago's division, have all had moments this year where you've gone, yeah, they're good. Minnesota just waxed San Francisco. Green Bay won with a backup quarterback, very impressive. And, I mean, the Lions overtime went over the Rams, they just leaned on them with that run game. Through two games, the Chicago Bears haven't had a single impressive series. I mean, their best drive, their only touchdown drive, start. started at midfield off a lousy Houston Texans punt and included a pass interference call. They've had only one offensive drive over 50 yards.

Their longest play is 27 yards. It's the worst in the league, including Carolina. So this looks like a fourth place team in a division with a lot of competent quarterbacks. We knew Detroit and Green Bay's offense would be good. Oh, crap. Minnesota's looks really good. So you've got to win shootouts in this division. Because Green Bay is young and getting better.

Detroit will get their act together. Minnesota, that coach, that quarterback, those weapons, that left tackle, they're good. The biggest concern for Chicago is that every single red flag that we were concerned about, every single one has already surfaced through two weeks. O-line issues, coaching competency, accuracy issues, Keenan Allen struggling to stay healthy like he did with the Chargers. Caleb not playing great or always in structure. So all the red flags have surfaced.

And I said the two things that I believe going into this season. I said, do the bears have the structure to take this wildly improvisational quarterback? I mean, he's, there's a little, you know, he's an improv quarterback. It's a lot of off-script to stuff. And that was Mahomes early. Now, Mahomes now is much more structured. But Mahomes' years, you know, first year starting, second year starting, there are a lot more improvisational stuff.

The Chiefs had the structure. Shane Stuyken gave Jalen Hertz the structure. Harbaugh, less quarterback-reliant, giving Justin Herbert the right structure. I don't know if the Bears have it. And I said, before this. season. I think there are a seven or an eight-win team. Are you going to be satisfied with that? It's a loud media and a loud fan base.

So Caleb Williams needs to be coached hard. And I don't know if Chicago can do it. And I don't know. I mean, I'll just throw this out there. You look at their schedule. If they lose three of the next four games,

you will hear Lincoln Riley rumors. I promise you. Now, I don't think Lincoln Riley wants it. He's got great staff at USC. They're going to beat Michigan. They're going to be 3 and 0. They're going to be a top 5, 6, 7 team. You're not going to take that job. That's not a good fit for Lincoln Riley. But this is a quarterback that lives on improvisation. Brett Farr did a lot of it. I'm okay with it. Lamar Jackson does a lot of it. Mahomes Early did a lot of it. Kyler Murray this weekend did a lot of it. I'm for it. But those kind of

quarterbacks need strong coaching to get structure. And I'm not sure it's in the building. I am not sure it's in the building. Matt Hasselbeck yesterday, you know, this guy's played the position for 18 years professionally on Caleb's early struggles. If you're counting on a rookie quarterback to play well this whole year, like if you think this is your year, it's not your year. I saw a guy throwing the ball late.

It's very easy to blame offensive line or to blame scheme. but if I had to put money somewhere and I have a rookie quarterback, I'm guessing that the rookie quarterback didn't get his protection or his eyes where they needed to be when people blitz. And I think that's definitely something you saw yesterday was rookie quarterback, we're going to blitz you and see if you're ready to go on the past protection stuff. And clearly right now it's still, it looks like someone learning on the fly.

Yeah, there's no question. Again, I'm okay with learning. on the fly. But when you are an improvisational, I don't care if it's an improvisational actor, quarterback, you need a strong director. And I just don't know if Chicago's got it in the building. And for the record, this is what we asked before the season. We're not following this story.

We've been leading with this story. This was our question. I did multiple rants archived. Are you going to be okay if they win just seven games? You'll think you have a better quarterback. But Minnesota is way better than anybody in the league thought. They're like the Saints. they didn't beat San Francisco, they housed them.

Green Bay just beat a pretty good team with a backup quarterback who looked terrible, you know, last year in Tennessee, joined the Packers late, and they won. You know they're going to be good when Jordan Love gets back. And then Detroit, they've got too many good players not to win a bunch of games. So this division, we thought was good. The fact that Minnesota, who many people earmarked as a fourth place team, looks spectacular offensively. That may not last.

But even if this little streak doesn't last, Minnesota's more than capable. I mean, they were doing it this week missing all sorts of receivers and tight ends. So it's, again, seeing a red flag, you know, week one Cincinnati, T. Higgins not there. Jamar Chase, kind of there. A little bit of a red flag. We got to get, we got to get T. Higgins in here. We got to get Burton ramped up. Jamar Chase needs an intense week of practice.

has a little bit of a red flag. That's solvable stuff. That's a red flag. I mean, Chicago is like nine of them. It's like one of those watchtowers during like a hurricane. It's all red flags up and down it. Like, it's a problem. I don't even know what I can take out of it.

When you have the, when you have the 27-yard plays your biggest play, even Carolinas, I haven't watched every second of Carolina, but apparently that's the worst in the league, meaning Carolina's got a 28-yard play somewhere. That ain't good. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific. Hey, we're Kavino and Rich. Fox Sports Radio every day, 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern.

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So, I saw this today. Overreaction Tuesday. NFL offenses through two weeks. Fewest touchdown passes since 2006. Fewest passing yards since 96. Fewest pass attempts through the first two weeks since 1991. Lowest Red Zone touchdown, percentage since 2006. Everybody's freaking out. So, you know, I think this is explainable. There's a lot of

different things all converging, but you have fewer padded practices in the NFL and fewer starters playing in the preseason. And what's happening is more than anything that hurts offensive lines and rhythm. Offense is about rhythm and timing. Defense is about alignment and pursuit. So that's your explanation. You got offensive lines. That's why Atlanta's O-line looks great because they return all of them. Or, you know, a Saint O-line or a Philadelphia O-line look good last night. You're returning most of your players, right? So that helps. So offense has always been about rhythm and timing. I mean, Tom Brady and his prime would take his receivers on vacation. He didn't take his guards on vacation or his corners on vacation. He took his receivers. And also, scoring down doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong.

The ratings are up, and underdogs had a great weekend. That's great. Every league wants some parody. So, I mean, last night was great television. Did you watch last night and think, the league's in a bad spot? I thought it was absolutely sensational TV with two very good quarterbacks spinning it. Two very strong run games, two very good offensive lines. Here's my wacky take.

that starting this weekend in the following weeks 3, 4, 5, 6, you're going to see offenses, A, offensive lines, young quarterbacks will improve, offensive lines will get better rhythm, defenses tend to have more injuries than offense, and they'll start getting banged up, and everybody will be fine offensively, except the Carolina Panthers. They'll stink.

Everybody else will get better. All right. So O-N-2 is generally not good. Since the league went to 17 games, 21 teams have started O'N-2. Only two have made the playoffs. So the list of teams this year that are O'N-2

include one of those teams that went O'N-2 and made the playoffs of Bengals. And I will tell you right now, I think the Bengals have a legitimate shot to face Kansas City and the AFC championship. here's what we know about the Cincinnati Bengals. They never get good until pumpkin spice lattes are available. So they're about a week from turning it on. Once the leaves turn orange, they get good.

Joe Burrell's been 0.2 multiple times. Fifth time in six years, they're o'n two. They're fine. Okay. Once Joe Burroughs got the new hair thing, once the roots go dark again, they're going to be just fine. I'm in on Cincinnati. Why?

coach. Do you see what Jake Browning did last year? A backup quarterback was Zach Taylor? Stop telling me Zach Taylor can't coach. He's more than capable. Not Andy Reid more than capable. Quarterback A, pass rush A, weapons right now a B, but T. Higgins comes around. They're back to being a B plus A minus.

They're going to be fine. So I'm not worried at all. Even against Kansas City in the fourth quarter, they had double the yards of Kansas City. On the road, Arrowhead. against an excellent top three defense in the league. They're going to be fine. There are teams that are 0-2, like the Ravens have O-line issues, the Rams have major injury issues.

Those teams are in trouble. The Giants, a lot of things, you know, there are teams that are 0. and 2. Carolina is just bad. But Cincinnati is a past interference call from being one-in-one, and they went toe-to-to-to-and-down-the-stretch, looked every bit as good as Kansas City. and I think Kansas City is a better version than last year's Super Bowl team.

So think of teams in terms of components. Think of teams in terms of component. Do you have an A quarterback? Check. A pass rush. Check. Eventually A weapons. Check. Coach, capable.

I say this. You get to a Super Bowl. It's not all borough. Okay. Zach Taylor's, he's from the Sean McVeatree. Like Kevin O'Connell. there's two groups of coaches in this league that almost all their assistants work Sean McVeigh's and Kyle Shanahan's their assistant unlike Belichack his stunk

that's why he hired all them back like McVeigh and Shanahan's guys work Zach Taylor's really smart here he talks about their own two start you don't anticipate the start that's not what we anticipate but at the same time I think there's a lot of things that we'll continue to build off of and we're going to be in the right direction Everyone's got to be on top of all the details, and we can't get these guys an inch, and we've got to find a way to make every play we can and get this first win.

But, you know, there's still a lot of football left to play. I'm confident our guys are going to respond the right way this week. Yep. Go look at their schedule. Go look at their schedule. They're going to win six of their next seven games. They're beating Washington, Carolina, host Baltimore, Giants, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Raiders.

Look at that schedule. I mean, we knew Kansas. Kansas City was going to be tough. Carolina's worse than we thought. Washington's worse than I thought. Giants are the Giants. Raiders have been adorable, but that's not going to last. They're fine.

It's Tuesday. It's week two, Tuesday. Heard hierarchy. It's wacky. I got a glimpse. It's wacky indeed, yes. Doesn't mean it's inaccurate. Just like less offense doesn't mean bad football. Next.

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