The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 – Kickoff in Brazil & Bryce Young’s “Prove It” Year

Episode Date: February 19, 2025

2 Pros and a Cup of Joe fill in on The Herd, and the NFL continues to build their international fandom by kicking off next season in Sao Paulo with the Chargers. The Panther keep Andy Dalton to develop Bryce Young. And Deion Sanders refuses to make house calls when recruiting #2prosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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That's noon Pacific time as we get you off. Oh, there he's doing it again, isn't it? He's doing it again. Full moon sighting in studio here. Yeah, who knew? It's a black moon of black history mom. Definitely. Lee,

put your fist down. Throw yours up too. Lee, put your fist down. Throw your black fist up, Lee. But we are rock and rolling here on a Wednesday. How are we feeling, boys? How is everybody feeling here on this fine Wednesday?

So we get set. I just want to know if Q went into the steam room for 35, 40 minutes. That's all I want to. You didn't say 35. You said 40. 40. No, I did not. I consulted with a physician.

And they said, whoever you ever told you that needs to stop passing along these health needs. That's the world you live in, Q. That's the world you live in. F. that physician. You're talking to Dr. L.A., brother. I'm telling you. Oh, God.

40 minutes. All that good come up out of you, everything, you're good to go. 40. Yep. 35, 40. I feel like you're trying to kill me off the show at this point. No way. No way.

No way. Some of us is just a builder Different, you know what I mean? Like that physician sees soft people, everyday people, normal people. Like you, you're not normal, bro. There's no deals between mermaids and men, lions and men. There's no deals. There's no packs.

You know, Troy, Keeley's told us that and Troy, you know what I mean? You're different, bro. But if you want to be like everybody else, you be like everybody else. That's cool. Okay. You and your physician. I'd like to be alive. God bless you.

Man, I've been doing. that for like five, six years, seven years. I would love to witness this. I would love to sit there with a timer and actually see if you sit in there for 40 minutes. Yeah, anytime, anytime. All right. Anytime. How hot does it get? I did it this morning. When I go that long, I stay at 110. When I do 20 to 30, 30, 30, 20 to 30, I do like 120. I do 120. With a sweatsuit on and socks on my hands and my feet. I feel on that. That's important because you don't want to burn your toes or anything like that. You know, just telling you.

You feel really good, man. Like you feel like clear, clean, rejuvenated. Like, you feel good. I mean, my eyes be fire red, but other than that, you know, you're good. Nice and relaxed. Yeah, it's good. But anyways, that's just for, you know, people like me. You know, that's all.

You know, I'll take that. I want you to be alive, too. You know what I mean? I'm not trying to kill you. you off. This is not an assassination. This is not a self-inflicted assassination attempt on you, I promise. Thank you, sir. It's all good, man.

It's not a coup. No, not at all. What are we cooing? I'm not taking over anything. Anyways, this is the Colin Cowherd show. This is the hurt. It would be sweet if we did find out this was all an attempt so that you could steal his big noon kickoff spot.

This would be sweet. I certainly would not get his big noon. LeVar Leap. Yeah. I don't fit the criteria to take Brady Quinn's seat. Just saying. Why not? That certainly would not clear it up for LeVar Arrington, just so we're clear.

Why not? That's easily not what it would be for. What seems to be missing? Well, you tell them, Johnson. All right. Although it is Black History Month. So if it were time to do it, it'd be now. You know what I mean?

Try to leverage it. That's right. Yeah, and you got 31. No, no, there's only 28 days in it. Yeah, it's not many. They don't give you the long month. Yeah, I'll say, why didn't they give you a long month? They don't give you the long month.

They give you the shortest month, you know what I mean? Let's get it in, let's get it out, let's get it done. So I can agree to here, guys, okay? Let's not get carried away, you know. Settle down. All right. All right, so. All righty then.

Speaking of the NFL, not that we talked about the NFL there, but the NFL, there was an announcement that was made. So you remember that game of Brazil last year? So you remember that game in Brazil last year? It opened up the season on a Friday night. You had the Packers and the Eagles. It was the night after the opener between the Ravens and the Chiefs. And that game was presented in Brazil. Apparently we are going to be going back there.

And we already know who the team designated as the home team is going to be that team to open up the first Friday of the season this year as none other than the Los Angeles Chargers. They will be in Brazil. so the bolts are going to be in Brazil, which begs the question. Well, a couple of questions. First, I guess last year went okay. I guess last year went well enough that they're returning. Second, who are they going to be playing?

And we do have some options and some teams that are out there that would be potential options for the Chargers when they're opening up the season as the home team. You've got your divisional games. And then you've got your Texans, Colts, commanders, Steelers, Vikings, and Eagles. I'm assuming they're not going to send Philly back there. Obviously, they just won the Super Bowl. We're just in Brazil. But that would make sense.

Because they open up the year. That's a Thursday tradition. The Super Bowl champ always opens up the season the next year, like the Chiefs did. You're clearly establishing the Chargers as the home team. So is that a market? Are you trying to position them just like maybe the Jaguars are being positioned for Wimberley? Can I ask this question? Excuse me if I missed this.

in discussing who's playing. Who's at a home game for? Chargers. Okay. So technically it would be a CBS game, right? Because they have the rights to that unless, again, I'm wrong in assuming how these games get swapped. But usually NFC is CBS, AFC is, no, excuse me, other way around.

So it's AFC. So it would be a CBS game, but NFC is Fox. It was Peacock last year, the opener. It was. Okay, there you go. So maybe. And the reason why this matters, you know, it just so happens that, you know, if you're a prominent, you know, figure, like the number one guy at a network, maybe you would or wouldn't want to go back down to Brazil to call a game. It's just, you know, it's awesome.

I want to go. I 100% would go to Sao. Yeah. I don't doubt that you would want to go. I'm just saying for something. There's a touch your subject there. Yeah, I get it. Like, you know, jihitsu and all that.

stuff that's where it's that's where it comes from that's where it originates from and when you know that jujitsu you know you know how to manipulate your body and put people in chokeholds and locks and and leg locks and submissions submission is a big one cue that is a big one and that might be why that person doesn't want to go call the game good call you know why submit you're a champion you know ultimate champion yeah there you go many times over yeah but i would say this i would venture to say there are more models out there that would probably wear Victoria's secrets or or do a, you know, a Sports Illustrated shoot for the cover. And I'm just saying, I would do it.

At what point are we at getting to the, I guess, the eventual spot of, yeah, we're kind of going overseas a little bit too much. They're trying to expand the borders. That's why I was leading off with what my thought is, what is the ultimate goal for the bolts? You have two teams in a market where it's a super large media market, but let's be clear here, it's not the greatest for the NFL.

It's not the best media of the market for football team. Oh, you think the bolts are going to Brazil? I mean, the Sao Paulo bolts? I mean, is it the possibility that you could expand your borders to a very large market? and extend your growth of your fan base into South America. Lee, can you look up... Is that South America?

Central America. Is that South America? South America. Lee, can you look up Chargers in Portuguese? Like, how do we say that? And, I mean, by the way, since they're going to Brazil, they're real lucky that security guards not working for the team anymore. Dang.

Because that would have been dicey. A whole lot of hand in his pocket. Yeah, that would have been real, real dicey there. I'm seeing what their soccer... Caragoras. What? Caragadores. What?

Caragadores. Caragadores. Caragadores. The Los Angeles Carragadores. I can't. Get your hand out of my pocket! Oh, no. What's wrong with you guys, man?

Oh, no. Can you just be professional for once? Just once in your bleeping career, be professional. We're trying to talk about the NFL going to Brazil, and you guys are trying to steer us into the ditch. You've clearly hit a saturation point and fan base. and fan growth in America. You maxed out when you went to Taylor Swift

and started leaning on her to be more appealing to the female audience. Like you've met, you're, they are maxing out in the United States. Oh, what do you mean? There's still,

there's a lot of people who didn't watch the Super Bowl in the US. You got to get those people. Those people probably aren't going to watch it. They're probably not going to watch it. And probably a lot of them are in California that aren't going to watch it. I just think that expanding the borders, that's always been something that that has been a major point of emphasis, especially since Goodell has been the commissioner of the league. And you're talking about how they've had to combat the concussions, you know, the concussions deal.

They've leaned very, very deep into flag football, turning it into a more global sport, you know, globally, you know, embrace globally consumed. It's going to be a part of the Olympics that comes to the United States. I mean, there's just, if you look at how the positioning of it is, you know, they're expanding their borders. NFL Euro didn't work. I don't know why it didn't work, but it didn't work. But nonetheless, there is still an audience that is abroad that the NFL is targeting.

and it must be based upon the information that they're collecting and the data that they're collecting and seeing who is participating. And I guess this part of Brazil or this part of South America checks off the box to continue to try to develop there. I mean, to me, that's how I make sense of it. I could be all the way wrong, but that's how I make sense of it. I think you're always going to have a hard time in breaking into like what is the world sport, which is soccer or football they would say overseas. you know, the NFL can try all once to have games there.

Maybe they create fans out of people of the game, but soccer is always going to be near and dear to their heart. So that's just the truth. And so these games, to me, signify if you normalize more regular season games in other cities and destinations across the world, I think it creates more of an openness to, I don't know if it's going to be a team in one of those cities in the future or even just a Super Bowl in a place other than,

one of the venues that we've got in the U.S. Like that's what I feel like sometimes it opens up to is the opportunity to play a Super Bowl in a foreign country. Like we kind of all have tabbed if there's going to be that country, it's probably going to be London. Like England's probably going to host that first one because they've been there so much for the Jags and for the international games in general.

But I feel like the more you normalize, you know, this ability to go play regular season games in foreign countries and figure out a way. of doing that, the more you try to kind of bring more excitement to the sport. And this is actually, like this thought dawned on me, and it happened back in New Orleans. And I don't know how you guys felt, but it just didn't feel like there was much of a buzz. And granted, we're there early, but we also were there to a point to where you could see a little bit of the crowds, people who would kind of come through at Radio Row.

But it just feels like there's something off. And I'm not going to say who said this, but the comment was made that, Yeah, it's another Super Bowl. Same, you know, guys who've been done playing for 10, 20 plus years now, just walking through selling something. Like, that was basically like the comment that was made. Yeah. And it's true.

But it's true. And it is kind of tiring. It's like, yeah, we've seen it again. All right. What are you pitching this year? You know, and there's nothing wrong with that. Like those companies think it's successful for them to make money. And obviously the player wants to get paid money or the past player.

I get all that. but there is something to, if you put one of these major games like a Super Bowl in a different venue, different city, there would be more excitement around it. There would be a new buzz around it.

I can only share that a little bit just from going to an international game for the football game when we went over for Notre Dame Navy. That was one of the coolest experiences ever. And it was cool because you got to share that with a bunch of people who are curious about football. Maybe they know about Notre Dame, maybe they don't.

But regardless, I mean, one of the funniest things that still struck me from that experience was the cab driver was excited about the flyover because they never get flyovers for soccer matches or rugby matches. So that was his whole thing was like, he's, oh, I can't wait for the flyover. And it did feel like maybe they don't do that very often over there because those things could have potentially landed in the stadium. They're so low.

But the general point is I just, I feel like it would bring a new sense of excitement outside of hosting a Super Bowl in one of these newly constructed stadiums. But how? In the United States market? What do you mean? Like here? It will bring excitement here.

Where is it bringing the excitement to? It's bringing excitement. I wanted to go to a destination. I mean, you're traveling to go see a game over there. I mean, again, going to a London game, being a part of one of those for the international games. And this is, you know, dating back to, what, 2010, when we went over with the Broncos, played the 49ers.

It was just cool to see the response to football and how people showed up at the stadiums with all these different jerseys on. It wasn't like it was just like Broncos fans or 49ers fans. It was like a slew of people who were just fans of football. And so, you know, I think that experience to share it with other places great. But, I mean, think about this. These games have become so expensive to get into.

That's what I'm thinking. It's not like your average Joe Schmo's going to the Super Bowl anyway. Correct. So it's more of an experience. appropriately speaking or an experience in general. You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like it's an experience in general. So like if you're planning going to the Super Bowl,

you're planning on going, but you know you're going to shell out a lot of money for it. It's like what does it make that big of a difference to you if it's in Brazil or London or somewhere else versus if it's in, where is it, San Francisco next year or Santa Clara? I think it makes a difference only in the sense that there's a familiarity. It's more exciting to go somewhere else to it. I mean, I,

I mean, no disrespect to going to Santa Clara. I'd much rather go, I'd much rather go to to South Paulo to go see a Super Bowl that way. I mean, I must rather go there any day, period, Super Bowl. Really? Or not. I love the Bay Area. I mean, the Bay Area is cool. It's technology there. It's a lot

of things going incubating going on there, but I'd like to incubate in and, you know, South Apollo. I guess. I guess. Do they eat cornbread there? Hey, they eat something. They eat something there.

because it's very good, whatever it is. But I just say this. I just, again, I think the further you get away from it being an American sport, the United States sport, which that's what football is. That's what American football is. I think you run the risk of going away from the culture and the pillars and foundational components that made the game what it is today. But how do you expand the sport then?

It is a dilemma and it is a challenge to try to figure out how do you grow and expand the sport. I see it more as an opportunity. And that's why I feel like the NFL sees is when they did this in NFL Europe, which, I mean, I'm sure you played with guys who played over in NFL Europe, right? Because that was just what winding down when you were kind of segueing out? I think it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, winding down, correct. Which, I mean, look, I'll go back to this. Like, I think that set the foundation.

Right. But I think that set the foundation for a lot of the fandom that's there now for the game of football because they were introduced to it at a young age. And then as it's grown, they've probably kept tabs. And as it's, you know, continue to expand where they want to play more games, like actual regular season games there, there's more excitement around it. So, again, you know, who knows if it'll ever happen. but if it did happen, I could see a Super Bowl being played in London.

And I know it may upset some purists and some fans, but it's the same fans who want to complain about officiating rule changes. It's the same fans who want to complain about something else that they're frustrated by or upset by. You're still going to watch. If we learned anything from this past Super Bowl, one in which you saw two teams that had played a couple of years back, one that's played three years in a row now, a blowout, yet it still was the all-time highest rated game.

Yeah. There's also something too. Like out here in Southern California, I would be willing to bet that there are more Cowboys fans than Chargers or Rams fans. And that's smart of the Cowboys to come out here every year. And that's part of it because they've made this a destination and they go to Oxnard, as Brady calls it, Knoxnard. They go there and they put on their training camp. and the Cowboys, because of that, have a huge fan base out here. Same with the Raiders. So for the Chargers, but they did say that it fell off a little bit this past year.

They did say there wasn't very many people, not as many people coming in droves like they had in years past. But they were all in. It doesn't make any sense. They were all in this past year. That's why, you know, I find that hard to believe. But, you know, just throwing it out there again like we did last year. If they need us to go cover this game in Brazil.

I think we should go. We talked about it last year. I make sure I had my passport, man. I still haven't went and got it. Really? Yeah, I was like, hey, we didn't go. I'm not in the rush. I did it.

Wait, you never got your passport? I never went to get it. Yeah, I never went to get it. It's like the rush period. I paid for the rush period, and I had to drive all the way back over to where that court building was. And once I missed the flight, I just wasn't motivated to go take that drive again

within like the next week or so. Lee, any advice for Levar on how to get this handled? Well, I just got to go to like a drug store, right? Take the picture and send it in and then like CVS or something. See, I tried doing that and then they just want the money so they just make you pay for taking a picture in the office anyway. They're like, yeah, that picture doesn't work. I'm not driving all the way back over, which I don't know how far away that is from where I currently live now, though. The L.A., you know where the L.A. courthouse is or whatever that is.

I don't know. I just didn't want to go back and do it. There was a line. There were like three lines and they were literally, you have to schedule your time, your appointment, which is dumb because then you go stand in a line full of like 60, 70, 80, 90, 100 people. And there's like three lines of them.

It's not, it's crazy. Yeah, definitely make an appointment. Yeah, but it doesn't matter. I'll show you, I'll show you some images on Instagram from places to go to in Brazil and you'll probably get motivated real quick. Would Bobby Orchids go? I mean, he would never come back.

I'll tell you that. What about Deshawn? I don't know. Rob, walks. He better keep old massage and Justin Tucker out of there. How about tuck me, Tucker? The hat? Dang.

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you get your podcasts. You got problems, man. That's how Q gets ready to work out, huh? Oh. Wow, bro. Got to get that lifting. Or was that Lee? Is that Lee?

That's probably more so Lee. Probably Lee. Probably Lee. Yeah, probably. Got to get that lifting. Your physician would not approve that that be the way you get pumped up the lift. Oh, man. There we go.

Whatever works. Yeah, definitely for you. Lee. I hear that, Lee. Yeah. All right. It is the herd here on Fox Sports Radio. LaVar Ayrington, Brady Quinn, Jonas Knox, in for Colin.

Coming up here a little over 15 minutes from now in another edition of the Hurdline news, a Hall of Famers decided to just do things differently. And just going to do it how he wants to do it. We'll give you the information and the details on that for you. Again, a little over 15 minutes from now. If you were one of those fan bases out there that was like, you know what?

I want Andy Dalton this off. season. Well, tough balls. He's staying put. The Carolina Panthers have resigned him to a two-year deal. So he has been reportedly instrumental in the help of the development of Bryce Young. And so Andy Dalton is back with the Carolina Panthers and he will be there to continue on his mentoring of Bryce Young, who apparently those two have become very close over the past couple of years. So anyone who knows Andy Dalton knows he's a good dude. I think the other part of that signing is he, he, he, he, stepped in when they've needed him. And he's played fairly well to a degree.

Now, obviously, that roster, that team, they've had some tough circumstances. They're not where they need to be. I think we all know that. But they probably like the growth that they saw from Bryce Young, you know, from, from, you know, previous years to last year, really how well he was playing by the end of the season. Where I think you'd probably admit, he might have played his best game of his career to finish the season. Yeah. So there's something to be said for that. I think as Carolina is going to mole over everything right now.

I mean, when you're a team that's in their position, there's the potential of a guy dropping to you. Remember, Dave Conallis didn't draft Bryce Young. So he doesn't, I mean, yeah, he took the job, knowing Bryce Young would be his quarterback, but he's not tied to him in that way. And this team could move on if they're presented that opportunity to do so. Would that be via a veteran or, you know, a younger guy?

That's, unfortunately, the day and age we live in in the NFL, where there's just not a lot of patience with a lot of these quarterbacks even when they've showed a growth and improvement from where year one was to year two. So it's a sign that I think they're probably going to stay the course moving forward with Bryce Young, but it's the NFL.

So you can never say never. And you never can be surprised when teams make a certain move, especially if they love a guy that happens to fall to him in a certain spot. When I look at this Carolina Panthers scenario and situation. I mean, they lost a lot of games last year, but a lot of those games were

close and maybe closer in score than what they really were in reality. But, I mean, they did play some pretty decent games, especially down the stretch when they, you know, kind of shocked the Giants with the win and was very close, was in a competitive

game with the Chiefs, and they were in a competitive game with the Bucks and even with the Eagles. Now, those were losses. but nonetheless, they look to have a little bit more competitive nature connected to what it is that they were bringing to the table. So there are some positives to draw from if you're the Carolina Panthers. The question, the biggest question to me, and the biggest concern to me is in moving forward with these being your quarterbacks and perceivably, obviously Bryce Young coming in as the incumbent starter,

do you feel comfortable and confident building what it is that you're trying to build off of with the competitive nature of which you were playing hitting out of last season? Do you feel comfortable and confident that Bryce Young is that guy? I almost feel as though that that is an admission that you do feel confident in Bryce Young because you are bringing Andy Dalton back. And obviously there's no reason to move on from Bryce Young. but would be a tad be confusing to me is that you benched Bryce Young last year. You benched him and you went in a different direction away from him.

Do you feel as though with this new head coach that you have that he has the confidence and the patience to invest and continue to invest in seeing if Bryce Young can possibly be that franchise quarterback for the Carolina Pather's? Because there are some positives to draw from this team. team, even though you looked at them in what was perceivably a very, very poor season in terms of wins and losses. His first year was a waste of time. The organization was a disaster.

You know, David Tepper, Frank Reich, that whole thing just didn't work. It didn't work for anybody. And so I think this past year, when Dalton went out, which is crazy, you know, this is because he was in a car accident, and that's why Bryce Young took over and got the job back. could just never look back. At the very least, Bryce Young earned the right to get another look. At the very least.

Like to where, yeah, you're not sure if he's still going to be a franchise quarterback, but the way he played down the stretch, he was really good, man, like really good, and looked completely different than he had before he went out when he was benched and, of course, last year, which was a disaster. So, or his rookie year, which was a disaster.

So I look at it and I go, at the very least, he's earned the right for another shot to be the guy going into it, and then they'll know after this year whether or not they want to continue forward with them. And I think that's a spot they're in. Again, I look at this Carolina Panthers team, and I'm taking a hard look at everything, at every position and everybody. Because, again, you're in a division. Keep in mind.

You're in a division where Tampa, Bay was the ones that came out on top. Pretty good team, but, you know, they have an aging receiver and Mike Evans. Who knows what's going to happen with who's the receiver that got injured? That's usually on the other side. He's a Penn State or Toronto. Chris Godwin? Yeah, they're trying to work on a deal with him.

I saw that. I mean, but this is an aging core of players that you have in Tampa Bay. I don't know what we're going to see from Atlanta. It's still largely a question mark. Is Mike Penix the guy or not? And can Rahim Morris turn this team into a competitor? The point is that this NFC South is a division part of the NFL that is for the taking.

And it doesn't take much to improve in a manner to be competitive in the South. So if I'm the Carolina Panthers, you got to feel good. that maybe you're like three players, four players away from becoming a more competitive team in terms of your approach to the division that you're in. And I would start right there. How am I viewing my team as it applies to just trying to get a hold of the NFC South? Because that is a more feasible approach and way of looking at where I am with building back my team to trying to be a winner.

That would be my first initial thought process to the whole idea. of who are we working with personnel-wise moving forward? I mean, I would say baby steps. Of course. Dave Canales did not get fired after his first year. So David Tepper maybe is starting to learn his lesson a little bit. Okay. Got to be a little optimistic there.

Yeah. It'd be interesting to see if Bryce Young can pan out, though. Like who, you know, receivers-wise, like, do we like Carolina's receiving core? Can we name Carolina's receiver? Adam Thielen. Thielen's a good name. It's messed up, man. Thelan's a good name.

Up top, Brady. Yeah. Take that one, too. All right, who else? I took the dunk contest. Who else? Well, they drafted Xavier Leggett last year in the first round. Who might be one of the better characters in the NFL

and has one of the better accents in the NFL. Real questions about his diet, though. You got Coker. You got Jalen Coker You got I don't know what this dude's name is Dan what Chishima Chishamana

I don't know Devin Tompkins Do we feel good about any of these guys You got Tommy Trimble at Tighten Chitavian Sanders at tight end I don't really know any of these guys Tommy Trembal

Come on man I don't know who he is Domer Is he? Yeah I don't know who he is actually been pretty solid for them. Yeah, I don't know who he is.

So I'm not, I doesn't mean that he's not good. Ian Thomas, they've got some good tight ends. I mean, they're good in that regard. They need more help in particular to the wide receiver spot. There's no secret to that. It was been that way since Bryce Young's rookie year. It doesn't matter if you change coaches. It's been that way the whole

time. I mean, they play a majority of their snaps in three wide receiver sets. And to your point, outside of drafting Liget as a rookie. You've got feelings there as a veteran, but you've got to do more to improve that group not only with speed,

but just some big playability. That's one of the things that I think hurts, you know, this roster, this team, as opposed to others, is when you have to have 10, 12 plus play drives, you're not going to be a very successful team. The best offenses have explosive plays, and that's born out of speed.

It's born out of, you know, guys who can make yards after the catch, yards after contact, and this roster is devoid of some of that. So that's ultimately what Carolina's got to try to find, at least on offense, this offseason. And really, to help out, whether it's Bryce Young, any, Dilton, whoever, it doesn't matter who the quarterback is. If they don't find more talent out around them to help them out with creating bigger plays downfield, it's always going to be a struggle. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific.

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Guys, in case you missed this, Colorado has a budget of $200,000 put away on its annual budget for private air travel and recruiting expenses. Problem with that is that Dion refuses to use that money for personal recruiting visits. In fact, he talked about it. Take a listen. I don't go to nobody's school and nobody houses. I'm not doing that. too old to be going to somebody school

and somebody else. All the kids that I'm recruiting, matter of fact, they're in the portal. They're grown men with kids. They ain't don't need me to come around their crib and try to convince them to come play for me. No. Good strategy, you guys? I mean, it's working. They had the 27th ranked recruiting class last year. That ain't

working. Does that include the portal? Yeah, it'd have to include the portal, which usually they're one of the higher ranked portal teams. Yeah, they were like top five. weren't they like number one in the portal? It says included 26 best transfer class. That's probably the top 10 portal classes.

Yeah, well that's where you got to pay attention. Because that's how he's building it. That doesn't mean that ultimately that's going to be the way he wants to do it in the long term. But in the short term, I think he's still trying to get the roster right. And that's trying to utilize the portal. So look, the reality is he's been successful from year one to year two. And so you've got to give him the benefit of the doubt. He's got some challenges where Chador's not going to be there anymore.

Travis Hunter won't be there anymore. And we'll see what it looks like. But so far, everything he's done has worked. So you can question it if you want, but you're going to be on the wrong side of it based on history. I just know Dion is connected to three-step. And three-step has always been at the forefront of getting... What the hell's three-step? Yeah, I'm about to tell you.

It's a company that has the ESPN top rank players. You know, Tom Luganville is a part of it. A lot of people are a part of the recruiting service that he's connected to. He knows these kids. He's been in contact and connection with these kids since long before they became big-time prospects. So while he may be building what he's building directly through the portal right now, he also has relationships and people who have relationships with these players and their families growing up because of the camps that Under Armour has historically ran. A lot of his connection points come early on with these kids.

And he did an excellent job of establishing that. I mean, I give him a ton of credit because when I was watching what he was doing, he established the communication lines with the parents and with these kids, probably from the time they're in seventh, eighth grade all the way up through high school doing the summer camps and the prospect camps where you're trying to go get your stars and seven on seven stuff like that. So it's probably amazing.

And he's Dion Sanders. So there's a lot of major reasons as to why he doesn't feel the need to have to jump on the airplane and go to people's homes to talk to him. He's seeing them anyway. Just curious to see how it looks without Shador and Travis Hunter. I just want to see how Colorado looks. I think they're going to be better, man.

I think they'll be better because I think that there's the idea. I think that. I think so. I think they'll be better. I think that'll be better. You think this year they'll be better than they were last year? Yes. I think they'll be better.

I will take that bet. All right. It wouldn't be the first time you're wrong and I'm right, but we can do it. Damn. That'd be, you know, I've just said. Are we being serious right now? Yes. Yes.

Especially with the Cleveland Browns. Now, I've got two other people who work with us that can keep tabs on you and all the many times you've been wrong, like your Penn State Notre Dame prediction, where that didn't work out for you either, did it, pal? You want to go there, huh? I just sort of laughing back on to go. How many more are you to go?

You do know I'm not too old to whoop your ass. You do know that, right? That's fine. You can try. You're on that PhD. All right? Let me tell you some of us stay ready. You young, some of them a bitch.

Some of us stay ready. We don't have to get ready. How dare you throw Notre Dame and Penn State in my face like that? Like, all right, the gloves are off now. I did what happened. I'm going to now. The gloves are off now. I just called myself making a like a little, all right, you're right,

you're right, that really hurt. My feelings are really, my feelings are really hurt right now. I didn't say a word after that game. To be fair, to be fair, LeVar, you kind of started it when you pulled the who with Tommy Trembal. Yeah, that was a little disrespectful to Notre Dame. The problem here is, is that

I attacked Q on his picks. That's fine. He has a hell of a comeback every single time, and now I'm aware that he is willing to go there, so I'm going to leave him alone from here on out until Penn State beats Notre Dame or something happens. But be clear, the moment Notre Dame fumbles or stumbles and wobble, wobbles, I'm coming for you.

Damn. I'm coming for you. God damn, that was cold-blooded what you just did to me. Jolly. I can't even focus right now, John. What the hell are we even talking about? before that. I don't even care. I want to go to break now, man.

You've really hurt my feelings. He really hurt my feelings. Here's the thing, go back to the Dion thing. Here's the reason why I feel like they're going to struggle to be as good as we were last year. Think about the Baylor game. Think about how many other games. It was Shadour, it was Travis Hunter at the end of the game,

making a play for them to win. Agree? Like, I go back to that, I go, you're not going to find that right away, whether it's Jujo Lewis, whoever, you're not going to find that right away in year one. It's really hard to replicate it. And I think most teams, when they lose a guy like that, they find out that next year.

They're like, oh, man, he was special. But now we feel it more than we would have otherwise, right? I think as an overall team, he will improve the team overall. And some of the things that they felt that they were difficult for them may not be as difficult this season. That's my take on it. And it's less of a focal point on Father's son. it's now more of a focal point on him coaching and their team.

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