The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - Give the Niners credit

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Colin gives the 49ers credit for bringing home the win on Thursday night over the Seahawks despite having struggles throughout this season Thoughts on the Yankees advancing to the ALCSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm so fired up. I'm going tomorrow. to watch Texas, Oklahoma in the afternoon in downtown L.A. at a place called Cosm, which is amazing. But then tomorrow night, the little ducks and buck eyes. Tonight, Dodgers Padres, J. Mack, that's the biggest, it feels like the biggest West Coast baseball game in a long time.

I know it's divisional round, but it feels so big tonight. Massive baseball game. Huge football weekend. By the way, thanks for the invite to watch that football game this weekend. I'm very excited to. Oh, wait, you didn't invite me. That's right. Maybe next time.

Okay, one hour, blazing five. So the Niners win again and kind of comfortably. Got a little tight in the end, but they were the better team. So Seattle right now is a team that currently doesn't do a lot well. They have a great running back, they can't run the ball. They have a defensive head coach, but can't really stop many teams. And they have a veteran quarterback, Gino Smith, who makes rookie quarterback mistakes. San Francisco does a lot of things very, very well, but they are judged differently.

They scored 36 points last night. I walk into the staff meeting this morning. It's like, well, I mean, Debo Blue, yeah, there's a blown coverage. I mean, that fourth quarter picked by Gino got him off the hook. Well, let's be honest. They have a higher standard than almost everybody in the league not named the Kansas City Chiefs, and you can feel that pressure, weekly on Kyle Shanahan. and on Brock Purdy and on Bosa.

You can feel the pressure with San Francisco because unlike the Chiefs, they're the great team in the league the last five years. They're the only one that doesn't have a trophy. Don't call Buffalo great. Maybe Baltimore. But there's a pressure when you are great and you can't win the major on the tennis or the golf circuit.

So they hold themselves to high standards. There are a lot of things they do well. Because Kyle Shanahan, maybe the top scheme guy in the lead, once again, they got a big first half lead. If you lead in the NFL in the first quarter, you win 60% of your games. And San Francisco almost always leads games and almost always is playing downhill. That's a big advantage when you have a BOSA on the defensive line pursuing your quarterback. They also, San Francisco scores uniquely.

Most teams in the league don't. Last night, a fullback has a touchdown. Last week, they blocked the kick for a touchdown. They score uniquely. They also take the ball away. Two picks last night of fumble recovery. Three turnovers should have had four, got butchered by the referees. So they're top three in the league in taking the ball away.

That's what championship teams do. They also lead the NFL in time of possession. How are you going to beat a Lamar Jackson? How are you going to beat Patrick Mahomes or a Josh Allen or a Jared Gough? Have them sit on the bench and watch the game. But it does feel when San Francisco wins, and I felt this last night, it's a little unsatisfying. they are the great team in the league, maybe Baltimore is the other, that doesn't have a trophy because Kansas City and Mahomes and Reid are hogging all of them.

And so even when they win, it's Gino Smith, Cioxx blew a coverage, they went on the road against the team. I believe Seattle was called the Dark Horse Team in the league by a lot of people, not me, but a lot of people before the season. They scored 36 points without Christian McCaffrey in one of the toughest NFL environments. Well, Colin, the red zone offense of the Niners. Well, when Christian McCaffrey returns, my guess, that will improve. It was number one last year.

It will return to an elite red zone offense. Well, Colin, uh, uh, yeah, Brock Purdy is just okay. Well, I watched last night. He's better than Gino Smith. And Gino Smith has made back-to-back Pro Bowls. So the Niners win. They win comfortably on the road. They create turnovers.

They dominate time of possession. And it feels unsatisfying. But my takeaway is, this is how Kansas City wins every week. Wouldn't Cincinnati, Joe Burrow and the Bengals just be satisfied with a W? You go on the road, you win games. I want to hear about blown coverages. I don't want to hear about Gino Smith. Gino Smith is a very accurate throw over the football.

You know what he is against the Niners? Oh, and five, and not that accurate. And throws a lot of picks. so because San Francisco is held Baltimore similarly to a standard because we think well Kansas City is a great team but they have trophies. Niners and Ravens are the one we're like

where are the trophies? I think they're coming, especially for Baltimore. Here's Brock Purdy after. For us, our standard is high here and so I think a lot of us would go to all right, like we could have done this or that and be better here. But I think at the end of the day, man,

it's a team sport. And so to go four quarters with all these different kinds of emotions and parts of the game and to be able to rally together and defense getting a turnover and then us score touching at the end. And it's just that's team football. All right, the Yankees, Garrett Cole, that's why you paid for him. The Yankees are in the American League Championship Series. But over the last five, six, seven years, the Yankees feel different. They're still good.

They mostly make the playoffs. They have two or three superstars. It's that. But the Dodgers have more money. The Mets now, because of their owner, have more money. And in my opinion, the Padres have more talent. The Yankees have Soto. They're not going to sign him.

He's going to go somewhere else. They have Aaron Judge. They have Garrett Cole. But that's the minimum, if you want to win the World Series today. They're not intimidating. They have a new stadium, not as intimidating. In fact, I would argue in the playoffs, what's led the Yankees, their bullpen. I mean, nothing against Mariano Rivera did that, but they had so many other elements.

They were intimidating. The old Yankees in the big moments, the big crisis moments, they just, they created fear, and they don't anymore. I mean, an example is this team's built on power with Stanton and Judge. Soto, they're built on power. The Milwaukee Brewers have more home runs in the postseason. They haven't played in a week. The Padres have 11 home runs. They're still playing.

Yankees have three, and they're built on power. So they can beat you, but they don't overwhelm you, and they don't intimidate you, and that's what we're used to. And by the way, when Garrett Cole's on the mound and Aaron Judge is in his own, they beat you a lot. But, I mean, beating Kansas City, let's be honest about this. Well, it was in Kansas City. Kansas City has lost. I think it's eight straight home games. They haven't won in Kansas City since early September, and now their season's over.

So the last time, and this is the point, the last time the Yankees won a World Series, it was in 2009. I was on the East Coast. I was going to games. I was watching the Yankees on television, the Yes Network, or listening on radio in my car virtually every day. And at that time, they not only led Major League Baseball in salary, they pretty much got whoever they wanted in the offseason. And second place was, I think, $40 or $50 million behind them because the Yes Network was such a cable advantage. Today, they're just another passenger in the VIP lounge before takeoff. The Dodgers ownership group has more money.

I mean, the Dodgers spend more money in the Yankees. The difference is the Dodgers push all theirs down the road, but the Dodgers spent a billion dollars this offseason. They just push it all down the road. They fudge the numbers. The Padres, they operate like the Boston Red Sox. They got stars everywhere. The Mets, they have Steve Cohen.

They're going nowhere. They will outspend the Yankees going forward, my guess, on a regular basis. So Major League Baseball's upper echelon, it used to be like the Yankees, occasionally the Red Sox would knock them off, but it was, it made almost Boston feel like a small market team. The Delta Lounge now, they're just one of the VIP members. Everybody's getting in. The Padres are in it. The Mets are in it.

The Yankees are in it. The Dodgers are in it. and they're in the ALCS, but it doesn't feel the same. And here's the manager, Aaron Boone after. Hopefully it's not the end of the road for us, and we expect more. But, you know, you've got to savor these times, too, because, you know, to get down to the final four here, and I feel like being in good shape from a team standpoint,

I feel like we're playing well. I feel like we're pretty well-rounded. We're not perfect, you know, by any means. I'll take our chances. They're well-rounded with a great bullpen. They're a good team. Mosey gets in the playoffs. Doesn't feel the same.

J-MAC blazing 5 in one hour, I believe J-Mack. This is the best weekend of football this year between Texas, Oklahoma, Penn State, USC, Ohio State, Oregon, and Eugene. Excellent, excellent NFL Sunday. And then on Monday, Aaron Rogers, it is his first. franchise now, hosting the Buffalo Bills and desperate Josh Allen for first place in the AFC East. So not only do we get the best baseball game potentially of the season, Mets would argue,

tonight, Dodgers Padres, tomorrow is easily until the college football playoff, the most stack weekend. You've been talking about this for six weeks. Yeah, yeah. This is the weekend for college football. And then we get a great Sunday, Cowboys Lions on Fox. I'll talk about that in a second. and then Monday night off the firing.

So Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, this weekend is going to be insane for sports fans. This is the first weekend of the season I have bet on more college football games than NFL. NFL is a tough slate this week. And don't forget, Jaden versus Lamar is a fun matchup on Sunday. Best four-game stretch, four-day stretch, starting tonight, Padres Dodgers, best four-day stretch. of this year.

I'll argue it. That first weekend of college basketball NCAA, I know you don't love it. I know you don't. You give me Xavier Butler, I'm blue to the TV. Hey, Creighton against Nebraska in that Midwest

rivalry, I'm going nowhere. Coming up next, this Sunday will be the beginning of the oil leak with the Dallas Cowboys starting this Sunday. I'll explain that coming up. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeart Radio app.

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Listen to PodMeets Twirled on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All right, so this season, I made several predictions. I thought Washington, the commanders would be the surprise team in the league have been. I said the team that will absolutely be better than what Vegas predicts a bad team, Denver, will actually be pretty good. They're on a three-game winning streak. And I've had a few misses as well. Didn't think the Jets would be a playoff team.

Also didn't think it would be quite this chaotic. But I predicted with the Dallas Cowboys after three straight 12-win seasons this year would be, because it's now too DAC reliant, he's too expensive, we would start to see a regression starting this year. Not tumbling down a cliff, not a ski accident where you lose equipment and break a leg. Not that, not that. Kind of a slow, steady decline, like putting weight on in your 50s, where about every five to six months, the pants just keep getting a little tighter. Or an oil leak, right? Takes a while for your engine to blow.

I think this slow regression will officially begin. Everything's gotten an official date, right? Sunday, 4 Eastern only on Fox. because here's the Cowboys schedule over the next seven weeks. UG. Detroit, at the Niners, at a team in Atlanta that can beat anybody,

rival Philadelphia, Houston. And you notice the last two? At Washington and New York. Oh, remember the good old days. Dax's like 24 and 4 against Washington and New York. Easy. That's like 4 and 0 every year.

Yeah, the way it was for Big Ben in Pittsburgh until Baker, Mayfield, Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson arrived. Daniel Jones now is playing his best football. Jalen Hurts is the equal at least or close to Dak Prescott and Jaden Daniels looks like Lamar Jackson.

So Dallas, here's the three things that are inarguable. They can't run the football. Translation, more pressure on deck. They can't stop the run, meaning bad time of possession team. More pressure on deck. He gets fewer opportunities. Oh yeah, in an offensive league where you need weapons, they have exactly one great

weapon. Cross your fingers on the health of CD Lamb. So with what they're paying that going forward, the Dallas Cowboys with an 81-year-old general manager have got a nail draft picks. They have to find stars in the third, fourth, fifth round. Not good players. You've got to find stars. Do what Pete Carroll did when he got to Seattle. Find a Richard Sherman in later rounds or a Cam Chansom. because Dak, unlike a Patrick Mahalms or a Lamar Jackson, there's no proof he can elevate solid players. That's not what he is. He needed Amari Cooper in his prime or Zeke in his prime or Zach Martin and Tyron Smith in his prime

or C.D. Lamb and somebody else in his prime. That's what he needs. Again, did I mention the owner is going to be, is 81 will be 82, I think here pretty soon, right? Or is around that age? Yeah. Yeah. And that general manager slash owner holds weekly press conferences to inflame situations and force the quarterback and the coach to answer to stuff that's silly. Now, I have suggested Derek Henry was the solution, but they ran out of money and couldn't make $8 million become possible at the trade deadline last year.

So they have the worst running back room in the league. There are those that are saying, what about Devante Adams? And Jerry Jones says, hey, what about the scout team? Well, I agree with be aggressive, but the guy we got out there, be aggressive. We've got guys on the practice squad and can step up there and make those plays we brought in one last week. And so aggressive in the sense of being aggressive about letting the guys that you have his death go play. Very interesting. The oil leak begins 4 o'clock Eastern for the Dallas Cowboys only on Fox.

Jay Mack with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. Let's talk about a team that's not leaking oil. The Philadelphia Eagles, Colin, they are back and healthy off the by week. They are. You got to love this.

A.J. Brown, back. Devante Smith. Back. Lane Johnson. Back. Oh, they're going to put a hurting on the Cleveland Browns. And if they don't. Let's not go there.

Be positive. Come on, man. It's Friday. We got some stats here. AJ Brown. with the field Philadelphia Eagles offense. They are lights out. They've been so good with him.

He stretches the field. You can't man him up because he's one of the best receivers in the league. 34 points per game with him. Now, without him, they're down at 17 points per game. The yards and everything. It is very skewed. Having A.J. Brown is big. Now, Colin, I know we talked about Siriani's hot seat.

Can I just say something about the Browns real quick? Sure. I had to look this up. Their offense doesn't have a 300-yard game this season. They don't have a running back whose top 70 yards. Deshawn Watson has it topped 200 yards. How on earth are the Browns going to keep up with the Eagles in Philadelphia? Well, they shouldn't.

There is this disconnect between Hertz and Siriani. I, you know what I do? The biggest line of the week, I throw it off the board. I don't bet those games. You can rethink that. But I do think Philadelphia is the better team. And I think now they're healthy. There are certain cogs to this machine.

A.J. Brown, Lane Johnson are two of them. They can live without Devante Smith. Lane Johnson's gone. A.J. Brown gone. That's not the same offense. Those guys are Hall of Fame-level players. Denzel Ward hasn't practiced yet this week. Their safety for Cleveland.

Their safety, Grant Del Pits and Concussion Protocol. If those guys aren't on the back end, this is a monster day for Brown. Listen, you never want to say players are quitting, but we saw the Chargers players quit on Brandon Staley last year. We've talked about it. I don't think they're quitting on Stefanski, but is it possible they're quitting on Deshawn Watson? Well, here's the thing, is what they call taking one for the team. So Stefansky would bench him right now. But because the owner signed that outrageous contract, and the owner's got some vanity here at play,

Stefansky is taking one for the team. Deshawn Watson is shot. It's over. He's not great pre-snap. He's not accurate. He's not as athletic. He's shot. You can watch the game.

You can watch that Dallas game. That was Tom Brady's first game. Remember that first week? There's nothing there. And that's with Stefansky. Is he a one or a two-time coach of the year? Like, he's a really good coach. He was Kevin O'Connell before Kevin O'Connell got the Vikings job.

So, like, it's done. It's over. It would be one thing if Deshawn Watson had been injured this year or had a defensive coach and had no weapons. That's not the case. You talked about it earlier. The Phillies have now been eliminated from the postseason, so all of Philadelphia sports fans are turning their attention to the Eagles. I thought you were a little hyperbolic with the Nick Siriani could be in trouble if they lose this.

But now that, you know, Phillies eliminated, we'd all know, the Sixers are pretenders, the Joella Well, it's also the beginning of the season. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all, everybody's focused on the league this weekend. Philadelphia sports fans were in a bad mood because they just lost to their rival, the Mets. So the heat is on Nick Seriani.

I told you this yesterday, and you laughed at me. If they lose this game, Siriani's in big trouble. Yes. I do like to stay safe stuff for headlines. You like Philly. This game makes an appearance. I like to just trickle out some nuggets.

You're not going to hear any well. This seems obvious, but I haven't heard people talk about it. This is a third straight road game for the Browns. Three weeks in a row on the road. And you got a, you got Deshawn Watson. That's a good nugget. Barking at guys on the sideline. Barking at guys in the huddle.

And it's like, dude, you stink. You know, like, I thought Nick Chubb could revive this team. You know, a shot in the arm, a leader coming back. I don't know, dude. It feels over. Let's move to the Bengals, Colin. One of the best offenses in the NFL. They have been mighty strong.

The defense, quite terrible. Yesterday, Jamar Chase made a point that the Bengals are used to starting out like this. This has to be the game. We set the standard right here and leave it all on the table. And everyone knows that we're a great offensive team. And we always start slow without defense. They always get it back at the end of the season and, you know,

pick it up their pace. I feel like, you know, it won't be too long until we turn this thing around. Jab at the Bengals defense there? Not great. All I know is I get three and a half points with slinging DJ Danny. Dimes Jones. This is going to be... Oh, my gosh.

You, because of your disdain for the Giants, are not noticing something that's happening. Tell me teams in the NFL right now that have a better O-line-D-line combo than the Giants. I'll wait. Niners, O-line, nope. Tibido's out. Tibido's going to be missing. That's a big loss for them. He's good...

What are you shrugging your shoulder in? You guys keep... Everybody in the world had Cincinnati last week. All the wise guys and the sharps have Cincinnati. I'm not... like, stay away. It's Lamar. They can't stop anybody. They had that game locked up. Okay. Who's the coach?

Zach Taylor fumbled the bag on that one. Okay. Jeez. Okay, sure. Seriously, Giants are a play for you? I have been on the Giants for three weeks. Once they beat Seattle and controlled the line of scrimmage, it's like, okay, I'm going to stop. I said three weeks ago on the show us, anybody watching the Giants? Offensive line.

By the way, Malik Neighbors. Hmm. Yeah, but what's going on with him? Huh? Are we going to talk about neighbors? Ready to play. Is he? I don't know.

Was it a Travis Scott concert this week? You think he'd be at that concert if he wasn't playing? I don't know that he's practiced yet this week. He's been like on the field, but I don't know that he's doing drills yet. My concussion. My sources tell me he's doing jumping jacks. Hey, so my daughter got a concussion at volleyball nationals, and then the next day they tested her,

and jumping jacks was one of the things she had to do. And at 10, she was like, can I take a break? I need to stop. And they were like, you're not ready to play sports. So like, these concussions, you can be going to a, concert? The noise and the flashing lights, Travis Scott. My gut tells me Neighbors doesn't play.

I like the Bengals. I like how we're head to head on this. Final story is, oh yeah, the Jets fired Robert Salo this week. And so everybody seems to like them against Buffalo. But the Bills are not taking the Jets lightly. The AFC rivals have split the season series the last two years, including last year opening night when Aaron Rogers popped the Achilles. Bill's offensive tackle, Dionne Dawkins.

He's a friend of the show. He's really hyping this matchup against the Jets. Stone Mano is going to cause some tension because that's what it is. Like, who wants to play when everybody's friends? Like, let's push ourselves. Yo, the Jets ain't never liked the Bills and the Bills ain't never liked the Jets. And it was a great matchup, you know. And that's all it is, you know, creating the narrative that we want and that I want and go after it.

Come out swimming. I'm for sure swinging. That's going to be a great game. It should be excellent. You know what happens when you get the interim coach in house. First couple of weeks, team plays great. Jets will be hair on fire. That's what interim coaches.

First couple of weeks, teams play very well for interim coaches. This is the state of the bills. I'm looking at the injury report. And Khalil Shakur, who is very crucial to that offense. I think he's caught every target Josh Allen's thrown at him. Did not practice. Now, there's a Monday night game, so obviously Thursday's not as big, but he did not practice yesterday with the ankle.

Colin, nobody on that receiving course scares the Jets. Okay? Sauce Gardner, DJ Reed. As long as they spy Josh Allen, I think they should be able to contain him. Is this plays in five material for you? It is. I think it's a really good game. It's a really, really good game.

So you're excited about... Well, no, I think the franchise now, it's Aaron's franchise. I mean, before we talked about it, now it is. You're not going to blame the interim coach if they lose. So now it's Aaron's franchise. I'm excited for it. J-Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

And thanks for stopping by. The Herd-Ly News. So this is amazing, and you never see this, and it's the third time it's happened. So first, Pete Carroll wanted Russell Wilson out. And then Sean Payton had a quote, once he inherited Russell Wilson, I'll read you the quote. He said, will you blankety blank stop kissing all the babies? Sean told Russell Wilson per ESPN.

You're not running for public office. And then Arthur Smith said this yesterday. He loves Justin Fields because, I mean, there's like three levels to this. There's no drama to Justin Fields. He doesn't try to live through the avatar or create a perception. That's probably why he was so indebted. to his teammates in Chicago. That is a direct shot.

That's not even subtle at Russell Wilson. And whether Russell Wilson and his handlers want to hear it or not, among players and coaches in this league, he is viewed as a phony. I've never ever seen anything like this, a star or former star being called out. Even guys that are a headache like T.O. had his fans. But Russell Wilson in just a few seasons has gone from perennial pro-bowler, two Super Bowls to not sure anybody wants them in their locker

room, certainly no coaches. Pete didn't, Sean didn't, and now Arthur Smith is over him. So, I mean, we're just four years removed from less, let Russ cook. And they did, and he burnt the kitchen down. So here we are,

a nine-year stretch with seven pro bowls and two Super Bowls, and Arthur Smith, I mean, usually assistants don't do a lot of talking with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Arthur Smith is calling him out. And I'll be the first to admit, I got fooled. I thought he, not Pete Carolyn, Marshawn Lynch and the Legion of Boom.

I thought he was engineering the drama and the comebacks. I thought he was the catalyst to it. But the further you get away, you know, it's almost like, it's like you watch a movie and you really like it. And then it's got an absolutely horrible ending. and you're sitting there going, what did I really watch? Was this a vaunt guard or just crap?

And I fell for it. But I mean, Pete Carroll, get out of here. Sean Payton called him out publicly. And Arthur Smith, this isn't even subtle, calls him out. So, I mean, it's, I've never seen anything like it. I think it's crazy. Here's Arthur Smith this week with praise. for Justin Fields.

No drama with him. I don't think he has a guy to live through his avatar, creative perception. That's probably why I'm so endearing his teammates in Chicago. That's what I really enjoy about working with him. Extremely coachable, extremely bright.

That's just different. That's crazy. Caleb Williams goes to London, Blazing Five, top of next hour, and the Pressure is official. I can't wait for this.

That's why Monday Night Football is so great. That's going to cap off the great weekend. It is official now. It's not subtle or nuanced. The Jets are now Aaron Rogers' team. Win or lose, credit, or blame. It's all on Aaron. I'll explain that coming up.

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kind of a circus this week, not necessarily in the short term bad. Interim coaches have this weird ability to fire up teams. Maybe the players are trying to oppress the interim guy, whatever. But Aaron Rogers took some responsibility for last week's loss.

The idea of manifestation involves attention and intention. And then a word that goes along with that is accountability. You know, we need to be accountable to each other. When you make a change on the offense, it's a mirror that's held up for all of us who played. And we all feel terrible about the opportunity that we had, that we squandered, that led to robber getting fired and hack getting demoted. I play better. This doesn't happen. There we go.

Aaron being very, very truthful. I'm still skeptical on other statements like Woody Johnson, called him after the loss and they didn't discuss Robert Sala's future. A little cynical on that one. Skeptical. But that was honest and it was Aaron's loss. Three picks against Minnesota, all ugly. That last pass up the sideline, woefully underthrown.

Aaron is not the same quarterback he was two years ago or the MVP years. He's not. You can't deny that. Look at these picks. That is a bad pick for the TV audience. That's Darnold in New York. pick. This pick right here, this is what happens to rookie quarterbacks. Then there's the pick six. I mean, again, just doesn't see somebody standing in front of him.

It was a bad Sunday. May have been Aaron Rogers' worst Sunday. He was awful. Salah wasn't. But here's the thing now. A hundred percent of the team, it's all on Aaron. You can't blame Sala. He's gone. You can't blame the interim coach. He was a coordinator an hour ago. you can't blame Nat Hackett. As of this morning, he has been demoted. Can't blame Nat. Can't blame Salah. Nobody's going to blame the interim coach. It's his first week being a head coach.

He's a former player. He's young. This is what ownership looks like. And I said this week, Aaron's the only player to own three teams. Green Bay, the Bears, and now the Jets. This is his team. And he said he's manifesting stuff. I'm sure he has a vision board. and he's got it all figured out.

But this is what it should be. When you are the savior, when you're the owner of it, it's on you. And I'm totally comfortable with that. Here we go. It's Buffalo. You're at home. They're reeling. It's really interesting.

There's nobody else. I said this a week ago. If they signed Devante Adams, it would then be Aaron's team. I didn't know Sala was going to get fired off an actual, really solid defensive effort by the Jets. But whether it's Devante or Salas dismissal, it's now Aaron's team and the pressure's on him. So it's kind of report card time for Caleb Williams.

The Chicago Bears go overseas to take on Jacksonville. It's a weird game. Usually the team's favorites win over there, and Chicago is a favorite. Favorites win. I like Chicago. Don't love them, like them. Jacksonville's been over there multiple times, so they have an advantage in the environment.

But again, I think I like Chicago as a slight favorite. But there are certain things I love in the morning, fresh fruit, hot coffee, and the NFL when I wake up. And this is the first game on the board, excited about it. And with young quarterbacks, like Caleb Williams, you have to sort of judge them in quadrants or phases. You can't just look at everything is the same. And so let's look at, you know, phase one for Caleb Williams, three and two. Phrenetic, chaotic, bumpy, slightly better. Last two weeks, really good.

So phase one was not a lot of great quarterbacks. Matt Stafford, yes, but playing without Puka, Cooper Cup, and two of his starting offensive linemen. They go three and two. The second phase is really interesting. Jacksonville and Trevor Lawrence, Washington and Jaden Daniels, Arizona, Kyler Murray, Drake May in New England, and Jordan Love. So it's basically five really, really talented young quarterbacks, which is exactly what he is.

And so you're going to see two quarterbacks, Drake, May, and Jaden Daniels that were in his draft class. And then you get his biggest rival quarterback, Jordan Love also young in his division. and then you get two stars that we think are stars, but they should win more, Trevor Lawrence and Kyler Murray. So this next bunch of games is really interesting. It's all young quarterbacks. I mean, it's Kyler Murray, like 25, 26 years old. Like, it's all young quarterbacks.

All first round picks. All super talented. All of them until recently ascending, right? We all kind of feel Drake May we haven't seen yet. But so now in phase two, phase one, it was a lot of Will Levis. It was Anthony Richardson. Let's be honest about this. It was Andy Dalton.

You know, it was a lot of that. And so you're just watching him be trying to improve in phase one. But he comes out of it three and two. NFL, I thought, said this before the season, did Chicago a favor with the schedule. They could win some games, get momentum, and be interesting. Phase two, teams are better, quarterbacks are better, and all these quarterbacks are sort of in his group, his level. You know, obviously Trevor Lawrence has more experience, and they'll play Sunday, and so does Kyler Murray.

Jordan loves not that much more experience, but it's been in the league a long time. He just sat behind Aaron Rogers. So I think this stuff's next five games, it is how, it's basically the stack-up phase. Phase one was, all right, let's get our feet under us. phase two is how does Caleb Williams stack up? And no Super Bowl quarterbacks here. There's no Patrick Mahomes. There's no superstar quarterbacks.

There's no Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen. It's just young dudes. That's what it is. It's young dudes. And phase two of his career. This week, his teammate, DJ Moore, said he's being more of a leader because he's getting bossy. Here is Caleb. Certain people you can be a little bossy with certain people.

You have to talk very monotone and control of yourself. All the time, just people that you can just kind of lash out. And I don't really lash out much. It's not really my vibe. I want to go back to last night because you know my feeling has been about Brock Purdy. So I thought he was, he inherited a Mercedes-Benz. They gave him the keys and said, listen, just don't drive. into a tree. And he did a really good job. And everybody was going crazy MVP votes. I don't care

about awards at all. I mean, Yokic should have been a three-time MVP. They gave it to Embed. It was silly. Yokic was won a title that year, clearly the best player, most valuable player in the league. But I watched Brock Purdy last night. And then that was the game a couple of weeks ago, where he's running around without Christian McCaffrey. And I had said, okay, I will acknowledge that I have not given his athletic ability enough respect. And, um, he's a good quarterback. But I thought last night was important because Gino Smith has made the Pro Bowl

back-to-back years and everybody loves Gino-Smith's story. And he's significantly better last night than Gino Smith. So he's not Mahomes, Alan Lamar. We know that. But I think you have to put him above the Derek Carr and the Gino Smith. I think that's fair. I watched Derek Carr on Monday

throw a ball up the sideline all these years in the league that looked like a backup on a rookie contract. Derek Carr was bad on Monday. And you know what? Brock Purdy's not bad. There are times he's less efficient or times he disappoints you in the red zone. How often has Brock Purdy been what Gino Smith was last night? Or what Aaron Rogers was last week?

You're like, that's bad. And so as I watched them last night, my takeaway is one of the things that matters in quarterbacks is not just the ceiling. You know what it is? It's the Kirk Cousins thing. it's consistency. I kind of get the same game at a Brock Purdy. Good or that's pretty good.

That's really good. I don't get a lot of stinkers. And last night, Gino Smith, kind of a stinker. You don't get that with him. And it's not, and you know, we watched a couple, about a week ago, we watched Kirk Cousins throw for five football fields. And Kirk's never gotten a love. You start looking at the NFL record book,

you'd be surprised how often Kirk Cousins has a record or is near the top. he keeps winning everywhere he goes and you don't have a lot of moments before Thursday was there a game that you're like that's one of the great games ever for a quarterback no and so we don't love Dak's got a lot of this quality I kind of get the same guy

every week I mean sometimes they don't have a run game Dak will throw bad picks everybody throws bad picks my homes throws bad picks but as I'm watching Purdy last night against Gino Smith back to back Pro Bowls I'm like he's better than Gino Smith and Pete Carroll thought Gino was good enough May it cost him his job, but he did.

And so it's begrudging respect to Brock Purdy is he doesn't have any stinkers. And that is one of the things you have to say about Kirk Cousins, who have been lauding for the season, the signing, Thursday. Kirk doesn't give you a lot of stinkers. You kind of know what you're getting. And that is part of being a great quarterback. You can have a bad pick. Mahomes rarely has an awful game.

He has bad picks. Everybody does. So how's that? my hottest take off the Niners win over Seattle is Brock Purdy. He's knocking on the door of Mahomes, Alan, Lamar. That crew, Burrow, there's a group of four who are above everybody. Brock Purdy is approaching it. And Colin, it's not just because of the numbers, which are incredible,

9.1 yards per attempt last night, insane. But the way he's moving in the pocket and the poised. Yeah, he moves really well. He doesn't look rattled. Some quarterbacks, my left tackle's falling apart. They get shaky. Brock Purdy looks totally under control at all times. And like you said, he doesn't really vomit all over himself.

No, you see some guys, oh, there's a pick. I mean, even Josh Allen had a nine for 30 game. Brock doesn't give you that. Brock had one bad game against, I think the Ravens last year. Remember it was like the Sunday night football game? I think he had four picks. It was a bad one at home. That's fine.

That's one game in like three years. Yeah, also Baltimore outside of the Rams crushed everybody at home last year. They did murder everyone. I'm just telling you, Brock Purdy looks like he's in total control at all times. They're down to their third string running back. They're nursing a lead. Did Brock Purdy? get rattled? He just delivered. I mean, the guy is

clutch, man. Yeah. It's, you know, and I was just watching him and Gino last night, and I didn't trust Gino when he let go of the ball, and I trusted Brock Purdy. Why did Gino throw it 52 times, by the way? What's that all that? What's funny? They have a star running back in Walker and a good backup, and they can't run the ball. And they've

drafted, they've had, used their draft cap of the last several years on the all line. They can't run the ball. Their right tackle, somebody, Stone Forsyth. Sounds like a detective. Oh, yeah, they drafted him from Florida years ago. He got destroyed by Well, he doesn't, doesn't move. particularly well. All right, Blazing Five. Hour 2 is coming up. Another podcast from some SNL, late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and

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