The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - The 49ers are under a lot of pressure

Episode Date: September 3, 2024

The 49ers are getting their All-Pro LT Trent Williams back right before the season starts and Colin explains why this year San Francisco is under so much pressure to win a Super Bowl The Chiefs are leaning into being superstars  7-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady joins the show to tell Colin what he's done to prepare for his first game as broadcaster for Fox SportsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tom Brady, the goat, stops by our show. Nick Wright as well. Jamek, rested. focused, ready to roll. The Niners got their guys back. Good to see it, man. After a great college football weekend, numbers were gigantic. We'll get into that later.

But good to see you, getting ready to go. I'm ready. All right. So here's good news. Trent Williams, who I think we can mostly admit, even if you're a non-49er fan, best left tackle and football. And what we've been saying on this show,

I love Brandon Ayuk. You better get Trent Woolfell. Williams back because it's not the same team. This offense is Shanahan, Trent Williams, and Christian McCaffrey. In any order. He's coming back. He's signed a deal. He's back in the bay.

So the noisiest offseason in the NFL is suddenly getting quieter. And I mean, the Niners off season made the Jets noisy offseason feel like a monastery. It was baggage. It was noise. Christian McCaffrey didn't play. Brandon, now you get that horrible Ricky Pearsall shooting incident. now out of a hospital. Prayers to him and his family.

Now, the Niners are an older team, and they're facing real pressure because Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle, and Trent Williams have a lot of wear on those tires. And you know who doesn't? Three of the best challengers in the NFC. The Packers, the Lions, and yes, the Rams are really good, have six-and-seven-year runways. The Niners plane is about to take off.

It's got the heaviest cargo ever. It may only have one great lift-off yet, and I'm not sure I like the landing gear. Now we're going to see a team that is facing real pressure. Kyle Shanahan, I need a trophy. I need a trophy. The Jets don't have a trophy either to the Niners. A lot of regular season wins. So that Jets' Niners matchup, the baggage bowl.

You've had noise, you've got stars, you got no trophies, and both think it's their time. So I can't wait for that on Monday night football, which is six days away. But the Niners are interesting now because we've sort of been, let's be honest, we kind of know who the great quarterbacks are in the NFL, and we've sort of been coddling Brock Purdy. But this is the year that the York family, owners of this franchise, Shanahan and John Lynch, will make the grown-up decision. Do we pay this kid real money?

They'll know by Thanksgiving. But the schedule's tough. I think the division, it may not be the AFC North or the NFC North, but I think the division's still really good. Keep your eye on Seattle. I think we're going to learn a lot about this team. A lot of noise, a lot of baggage, a lot of cargo, very expensive, and older players. Debo gets hurt.

McCaffrey, Trent Williams, Kittle. This is the best roster in the league. It is absolutely the best roster. older ones, but the best roster. Detroit may be close. Philadelphia good, like the Chiefs too. This is the best roster in the league. And if Stafford, Joe Burrell, Mahomes were the quarterback,

they'd be heavy, overwhelming favorites to win a Super Bowl. And they're not. Now they're in the top three. But now the pressure isn't just on everybody else, not name Brock Purdy. Now it's on Brock Purdy, too. So let's stop the coddling. Let's get this party started.

Trent Williams back in tow. Brandon Iyuk, back in camp. The noisiest team in the NFL suddenly got quiet, and I can't wait for the opener against the equally noisy and high-expectation jets. All right, so I watched a lot of college football this weekend, and the college football season got great ratings for a lot of reasons. Get into that later. But I was reading a takeaway, an article this morning that said,

The headline reads 10 takeaways from an eventful college football week one. And instead of going with 10, I'm going to slim that list down to one. Lincoln Riley can coach. Yeah, he's really, really good at coaching. The same people who banged on Lincoln Riley for years tried to convince you that Jim Harbaugh couldn't coach either. Do resumes matter anymore? I watch Lincoln Riley, with less talent on a neutral field and a younger team, out coach Brian Kelly, out-execute LSU, one of the top three SEC football programs.

This insatiable need to think you're smarter than everybody, and you see something the rest of us don't, that Harbaugh and Lincoln Riley can't coach. Give me a break. USC was a dead program. Four wins, 30 Division I players. and they won 11 games the next year. But like Harbaugh at Michigan, they weren't really nearly as good, and they're still not as talented as Ohio State.

Georgia, Bama, or Texas. USC does not have this morning that kind of talent, and they may not have Oregon's either. And the criticism of Lincoln Riley that did to me that was fair and that made sense and was reasonable was, okay, okay, he's won games. We know he can design plays. We know he's pretty damn smart offensively, and man, what he does with quarterbacks, all of them is magic.

But there was one question, and it was reasonable, is can he build his own culture? Because Oklahoma's always good. Not much of a rebuild in Oklahoma. A down year at Oklahoma is like nine or ten wins. Top five program ever. So that criticism, can he build his own staff and his own culture, was fair. And his first try at it, the defensive staff was terrible. but now he rebooted.

Deanton Lynn is now the defensive coordinator. He'll be in the NFL in two years. This defensive staff is the first time. It wasn't that USC won. USC's been scoring points forever. They scored him with Clay, Lincoln, Sark, Kiffin, Pete. But it was the first time since Pete Carroll that you watched a USC staff and you see other head coaches on the staff beyond the head coach Lincoln Riley.

that you literally felt they were going up against an SEC team with a $10 million a year coach, and they out-executed, they out-coached, they out-smarted, they out-planned, they out-adjusted, that's been missing. USC could have won 37 to 34, and you wouldn't feel the same way that you felt winning narrowly in a lower-scoring game.

Because USC with Caleb Williams, and you'll see how good he is in Chicago, had to put on the cape to beat teams like Arizona. Now they can go toe to toe. Coaching, execution, quarterback, secondary, they looked like a real team. Again, are they a 12-team playoff team? I think they are. I don't think they're Ohio State.

I don't think they're Georgia, Texas, Bama. I don't think they have that kind of talent. But it's not that they won. It's how they want. People all over the country on social media were saying, look at the tackling, which is like loving a carpenter because he's good with a hammer and a nail. Shouldn't he be?

Isn't that the foundational piece all construction guys are good at? No, that's how bad it's been at USC. So Lincoln Riley, I know, I know. You're trying to tell us that you're magical. You can see stuff the rest of us can't with Harbaugh on Lincoln Riley. you also try to sell us on NFTs, which are now worthless. Here's Lincoln after the win. I don't coach for the media.

I don't coach for headlines. We just try to do what's best in our program, and we try to stay just incredibly committed to it, regardless of what anybody says on the outside. We know what we've been building. We're very confident in the approach that we're taking with the people that we're putting in our program, players, staff, everyone.

And I just know I've been, I'm not the most experienced guy, but I have been through a couple of these. I have a decent idea of what pretty good looks like. And that was pretty good. Maybe not great. That's pretty good. And LSU is going to run the table the next four or five weeks and blow people out, go look at their schedule. So stop telling me LSU's no good.

LSU is almost always good. They want a national title with that Ors Geron. They got Brian Kelly. They'll be fine. Jay Mack, a lot of things going on. So, believe it or not, I took a couple days off. And during my brief labor-intensive break, a lot of very, very, a lot of work going on. I was in a small town that Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift and Ryan Gosley were all in the town, up the hill at a party.

And the town was buzzing. And my wife turned to me and said, is there any way you could text like Travis Kelsey and say, come on over for beers? And I said, I think it's going to be a hard night to pull them away. But it got me thinking about why the chiefs, beyond just talent, because you and I know this, not all dynasties are the same, they're not all great for networks and leagues. They're not. Sometimes it can get repetitive and boring. But I was thinking about that party in that little town and what happened there. You would not have believed what happened. And I was there to witness it.

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I could be very wrong on that. Tom Brady is going to be joining us in about 25 minutes. So, anyway, I just happened. It just happened stance weird that Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey, Patrick Mahomes, and a bunch of famous people, were hanging out in a little town that I spent some time in during the summer on vacation. And the town, like, blew up. there were all of a sudden in this town, which you don't see a lot of teenage girls, and NFL jerseys, you saw them. And I said to myself, this is perfect.

They are leaning into being celebrities. They don't lose their focus because they've been stars for several years. But the Kansas City Chiefs are the opposite of the New England Patriots dynasty. And it was ironic because that was in my little town I was at, it's all Patriot fans. Everybody's got a Patriot T-shirt or a hat on, although they don't wear it as proudly this year as they did in the previous decade. But this franchise in Kansas City, middle of the country, that's always been the strength of the NFL. Market size does not matter. Packers are much better run, much better franchise with much better players than Atlanta, Washington, the New York teams.

That's what's great about the NFL. And our current dynasty is smack dab in the middle of America. And they lean into trends and access and new and fun. And Andy Reid once got a play, he admitted, from a janitor. Not all dynasties are the same. Alabama, the ratings showed, was not great for college football. People Denver West stopped watching. The Northeast stopped watching.

The spurs were led by the big fundamental. New England, do your job. It wasn't that fun. Kansas City is stars, trends, offense, and personality. And my entire life, and this is not necessarily a bad thing, but I don't think sports should feel like IBM. The NFL's been corporate. You honor the shield.

But the world's changed. New athletes now, these college kids come in, and they already been paid. And they have brands. And Bill Parcells used to say, avoid drafting celebrity quarterbacks. Yeah, that's done. That's over.

They're all celebrities now. And they're all millionaires. The world has changed beneath the feet of Bill Belichick. You change the league and the plight of Bill Belichick. You change the league in the play. players are not going to. There's no fear of this being the NBA. Outside of quarterbacks, individual players just don't matter as much as an individual NBA star. But the NFL right now is about collaboration, a lot of smart young coaching. In fact, I think the coaching in high school

football, I think the coaching in college football, and the NFL is so smart, has never been better, has never been more creative. And I lived in Connecticut for 10, 11 years. I was tired of the movie. I was tired of the Patriots movie. They muzzled gronk. Hell, Tom Brady was tired of it. He left on his own accord. And I like what Kansas City is.

It's got a Shaq Kobe feel. The Zen Master, Phil and Andy Reid. You know, Andy likes steak tips probably more in Hawaiian shirts. Two megastars. Always introducing new offenses, new ideas, and new players to us with great ownership. And Mahomes was speaking. about hanging out a little bit with a megastar this summer, who apparently Taylor Swift has said,

I've got a play, I'd like you to run. And I thought Patrick Mahomes' answer to the changing of football, Taylor Swift and Moore, was interesting. I think it's been cool to see the girls and the women that have really embraced watching football. And I know being a girl dad, how cool it is for me. I mean, to see these little girls, these daughters, and how much they're loving and spend the time with their dad watching football.

and then meeting Taylor and realize how genuine and cool she is. I mean, I think that's been special to me because, I mean, she's, like you said, the most famous person in the world, she could not be, and she's really interested in football, and she asks a lot of great questions. She's already drawn up play, so we might put one out. So here we go. Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey, Patrick Mahomes, and that small market in the middle of the country cannot be ignored,

like the Packers have done many times in our lives, like the Colts did with Peyton Manning. They are the centrifugal force of football, and I am absolutely here for it. The Kansas City Chiefs, reigning two-time Super Bowl champs, going for a third, and getting an occasional swing pass in from Taylor Swift. J-MAC with the News. No, no, no, no, no. Turn on the news.

This is the Herdline News. I know I've been bashing the Chiefs all summer, but you'll be happy to know I got Patrick Mahomes in one of my fantasy drafts last night, Just to balance things out, right? Let's get started with the Cowboys, Colin. They kick off their season against the Brown Sunday on Fox. Dak Prescott still has not landed a long-term deal. According to Diana Rossini, there's been a reported holdup, and the sides are haggling over the years, not the money.

But the assumption is DAC is going to be paid at the top of the market. Hey, that's great news for Dallas, huh? It's about the years and not the money. Browns are two and a half-point favorite Sunday. You think you'll have a new contract by kickoff week one? No, I don't, but as we've said before, he will get a new contract. Jerry is terrified. Jerry Jones is terrified of being irrelevant.

And Dak, like a Kirk Cousins will do to Atlanta. Kirk Cousins will make your football team good, not necessarily great, but good and relevant. All Kirk Cousin teams are relevant. He was 500 against Aaron Rogers. The Vikings with Kirk were always... I mean, the last time Washington was relevant, Kirk Cousins, quarterback there. Minnesota was relevant. I think Atlanta wins their division. And I think that's what DAC does. He's a grown up. He says the right stuff. He completes a lot of passes. He's a great

leader. I don't think the Cowboys or Kirk Cousin's teams are ever great. They're always good. And I think that's what Jerry is terrified of of not being discussed. That's why in my opinion, that's why he drags out these contracts to get more free marketing. But, you know, your word of word choice of relevant is like, yeah, okay, you're going to win 10, 11 games. You're never going to compete for a Super Bowl if you're relevant, right? Do you want to win Super Bowls? You want to be relevant? Well, I think something in pro sports that doesn't get discussed much, but it's a truism. Not all owners are in it just for the ring.

Like Philadelphia is in it for the rings. Philadelphia has gotten rid of Super Bowl winning coaches. Philadelphia has moved off Carson Wentz, who was in the running for an MVP. Philadelphia is all about trophies. Jeffrey Lorry is about winning games. He will move off stuff that's working because it's not working enough. Stang Cronky, moved off Jared Gough, got you to a Super Bowl. In Los Angeles, the Rams were about winning trophies.

Oh, so Dallas. By the way, San Francisco. San Francisco, Jimmy Garoppolo. We're going to upgrade. He got you to a Super Bowl. There are certain owners, Stan Cronky, Jeffrey Lorry, Jed York. They want a trophy. There are others.

I'm not convinced that that's the number. number one thing. You can tell me it is, but I'm going to watch by your acquisitions, your drafting, and how you build your front office. I still contend this franchise needs a new fresh set of eyes in it. That's a good take. Jerry just is happy, be relevant, naming the headlines, making a lot of money. Philadelphia, I watch the, I watch the Eagles actions. That franchise up for trophies. I watched the Rams and the Niners. I know exactly what they're trying to do. But then I watched the Steelers in recent years. And is it about, family or trophies? Because I'm watching what Pittsburgh's doing and they're

becoming less and less and less relevant. So spending more money on defense than offense. So your actions will tell me what your real truth is. That's a dangerous game, you know, just being relevant because they could get zoop. But we could be like in week four and all of a sudden Dallas, which was a top five team in the NFC last year, top three or four. Yeah. They could be slide down. I mean if Chicago and Caleb Williams hit Colin, watch out. Week one, look out. Next up, hey, we got to talk about my Jets. Now listen to this. Bill Belichick, who spurned the Jets, hated the Jets, makes fun of the Jets, gave them some praise.

Belichick said the Jets are one of the hardest teams to prepare for from a skill standpoint because of Brice Hall. He later added, if you load the box, you're single out there with Garrett Wilson, and that's a tall order. Look at that. Belichick gassing up my jets ahead of a big season. Breeze Hall, by the way, so excited for him against the Niners. If he goes down, you're in big trouble. I will say... Anybody loses a star, they're in trouble. I will say, I am so glad I'm not doing a blazing five in week one.

It's official? Yeah, I just announced it. I don't need banners and I don't need PR campaigns. The bottom line is, there are two games. I have absolutely no idea, and I think all four teams could be great. What is the Rams Detroit going to look like? Because none of them played their starters in the preseason. I have no idea what they look like.

And I think both teams are. excellent. And I got no idea what the Niners Jets are going to look like. You got holdouts. You got a coach on the hot seat. You got an old team. Like the Jets Niners is fascinating. I have no, I want to watch that game, not biting my fingernails. You don't have money on it. I just, no, I want to watch it. I don't know what I'm going to get with this team. I mean, I read something on the athletic two weeks ago where people are saying the culture is a circus. But then I listen to Aaron Rogers and Sala and they, they see. unified and I don't know what the Jets are.

They're low-hanging fruit, is what they are. They're a pinata. You could just take shots at them because what? What's the defense? Like, the owner's a bit of a buffoon. The coach is on the hot seat. They haven't been in the playoffs and the longest drought in the league. Like, you know, it's easy to take shots at my Jets.

Final story, sticking in the AFC East, the Dolphins looked to rebound after a tough loss to the chiefs in that wild card game. The offense was fantastic, but Tyreek Hill thinks that they're even better saying this is the best team we've had since I've been out here. Dolphins Jags is an interesting one on Sunday. This is going to be a high scoring game, I think. Remember last year Dolphins Chargers week one? That game was like 3634.

It was. That's what Jags Dolphins is probably going to be. Yeah. I think last time I have till Thursday to make one more alteration to my playoff. Oh, right, right. I have Miami as one of the last AFC teams. getting in I made that prediction that's right yes yes yes that was one of the last teams I I think I know what they are it remember this about Miami that they were

a team playing very well and then they fell apart physically they had like seven injuries to starters on the defense before that they were creating a real pass rush we were all kind of looking at Miami thinking I don't want to play Miami in the first round and then they got two bad breaks tons of injuries all on one side of the ball and they had to go plan the coldest weather NFL playoff history and forever. Those were bad breaks. If the defense, now that it's healthy, is just as good as last year,

I think we're underselling Miami. There was no team in the NFL last year. Now, this is all on memory. I don't have it down here. But if I recall last year, they lost four or five starters over like a three-week period on the defensive side. Their best two pass rushers went down. Yeah, that was hard.

But before that, we were like, oh, they're good on defense and offense. and then they got the Kansas City weather game, which is literally the worst weather they could possibly play on as windy and cold. I think Miami, I think if you take out that month of injuries, I think they're pretty good. I don't know. This is year three of McDaniel, right? We like him.

Obviously, we love McDaniel, but you wonder, defenses started to catch up to him at the end of the season. At the beginning, remember, they hung like 70 on the Broncos or something insane. At the end of the year, the defenses started to slow them down a little bit. Well, offenses all tend to slow down a little in December. I think the Jags Dolph, that's a really good, I mean, they're all good games this weekend. I like Jags Dolphins. Trevor Lawrence.

When's the last time Tennessee played Chicago and you couldn't wait for it? That's all you need to know about the NFL. I'm looking at the Bears Titans and I'm like, oh, it's one of the best games I've ever seen in my life. That's unbelievable. Do you have your Sunday mapped out yet, like what you're eating for breakfast and, you know, just setting up your TV situation, internet? Dude, are you ready? Protein shakes and Red Bull. That will get me through Sunday.

I'm going to be up watching football for 12 hours all weekend. Texas, Michigan Saturday. I know. Watch out Michigan's in trouble. I'm just telling you right now. They're not scoring on Texas. Huh? No, Texas is.

I don't care what the line is. I'm taking Texas. I like Texas in that one. Jay Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Hurd Lie News. So this shouldn't be a problem, but it's kind of become a problem, but it's the world's best problem for the WNBA.

Caitlin Clark is much better, much sooner than even her biggest fans thought. Outside of Asia Wilson of Las Vegas, there are nights she's the second best player in the league in the WNBA. and it's kind of a problem because the players are struggling. Her passing, her pace, it literally her shooting looks different than the rest of the league. But unfortunately, she has also become the most flagrantly fouled players statistically in the league and the most targeted player. Yeah.

Now, I've said, I've seen this with men too. Bryce Harper came into baseball. And for two years, immature, insecure baseball players couldn't hack it and handle the fact that this young kid at 1819 was better, more polished, and more talented than they were. And you're seeing this here with the WNBA. But the difference is baseball's always made money and the WNBA hasn't. Now, thankfully, the league has finally put their arms around her, and Indiana, her home

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and their players for this petty, insecure lack of self-aware. fairness. Tiger Woods made all golfers richer. And the smart guys on the tour like Mark O'Meara figured it out about a month in. Rising tide lifts all boats. WNBA players. You're flying private because of one player. The commissioner couldn't get it done. The broadcast partners couldn't get it done. But Taylor Swift in sneakers, Caitlin Clark, single-handedly got you on private jets, charter flights embrace her understand

that she's going to enrich all of you the league the contracts the arenas she is way better way sooner than anybody realized the league to its credit

started off slow and has finally figured it out but since the all-star game where she finally got rest Because remember, with the WNBA, once the season's over in college, you have the draft and you play. You don't get time off like guys. She's averaging 25, 9 assists, 48% from the field, and her pace and tempo is different than everybody else in this sport. Everybody else.

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I'm so fired up. You know, I always knew I'd be Tom Brady's teammate. I figured I'd be a slot corner. I'm very twitchy. Let's bring him on. Tom Brady, the opener, Cowboys, Cleveland Browns. I always knew when I was Connecticut. I'm like, you know what, I should go down there,

show Belichick my back pedal, but, you know, we're different kind of teammates. Let me start with that. That's an interesting one. So you... Wait, your football career? That's not real interesting. So you exhale, you retire, you exhale. And you probably gave yourself about four or five months.

Just kind of just take a deep breath. I saw you slim down. You probably weren't sore for the first time in 20 years. And then you start prepping. You sign with Fox. What are you been doing to prepare for this opening broadcast for a year and a half? Well, I've reached out to all the different people that I've met over the years of in media, in sports, and got their take on kind of what the job entailed and then ultimately how the preparation goes during the week.

And then how do you be really good when you come on air? And I've had a lot of time, I think over the course, of my career in interviews, production meetings, and being on camera, that hopefully it's not too far from what I've already experienced, knowing that there's going to be a lot of things that are new to this. So I think the most exciting part for me is there's more of a structure to my life, but you've always enjoyed playing football on the weekends. Now I get to work on the weekends here in the fall.

And obviously, the NFL football season is back, which is we're all excited about that. I'm sure when you're walking into the studio today, it's a different feeling because, you know, this new cycle around NFL football is very exciting. And I'm excited to get going. I got the best teammates in the world, you know, KB and Aaron, Tom, and then everyone behind the scenes in the truck, Z, Roos, their whole team, the chance to get to know those people more intimately and to really put together something special for the audience is what's exciting for me. So I'm ready for football season. I'm ready to get back out there and watch

from a different perspective. And we're fortunate to be in Cleveland this weekend with a great game, Cleveland, Dallas. And it can't get here soon enough. So when you look at this film, all these years of experience, one of the things I asked myself about Cleveland, I love the coach, I love the GM, I love the O line. What's up with Deshaun Watson? I mean, you can play, he didn't play. Are you seeing anything in this matchup just on film from last year that you are saying, man, I got to see this developed? Like, is there a really interesting element that you can't wait to see?

I think there's a lot of storylines in this particular game. But the interesting part about the NFL is nobody really knows what they're going to be this season. You have hopes. You bring in draft picks, free agents, and you try to put together your team to say, all right, this is the way that we want to play based on where our deficiencies were last year. Certainly Cleveland's defense was top of the league last year.

They want to continue that. They want to get Deshawn back. They brought in a whole offensive staff to try to get him to play the way that he played when he was in Houston. Yeah. And they want to go out there and compete, not just for a division title, but for more than that.

And it's a great kind of test for them to go against Dallas, who, you know, they want to get over the hump as well. And they've got a lot of great players. They've got a lot of great talent. You know, they've got to get to, you know, I think Coach McCarthy, they have a great leader in Coach McCarthy that really preaches, hey, we want to stay focused day after day.

We want to eliminate the distractions. And they've had quite a few of that this offseason, but every team does. And I feel like Dallas has handled it very well. And it's a great opening game. This is what it's all about. A lot of guys coming back from injury. You got Trevon Diggs up there.

I want to see him play. And I want to see what DAC does coming off. last season, his best season as a pro. So so many great things to watch in this particular game. And again, it's a perfect day for football. It seems like it's going to be in Cleveland. On Sunday, it's not always like that there. Someone who's been there a few times.

But 65 degrees and partly Cloudy's perfect football weather. Okay, Trent Williams back. And we've said this before. I feel Trent Williams was more valuable. And I like Brandon Ayuk. I think the team is Kyle Shanahan's brain, McCaffrey's legs, and Trent Williams and Bosa. That's the soul of the team.

Tell me, what is the difference? If you knew you had Trent Williams and he didn't play, would it get in your head? I think his signing is gigantic for the Niners. You tell me how much it matters. I would be driving him to work every day if I was a quarterback. I'd be making sure Trent was with me every single place I went. There's no better protector in the NFL than Trent over the years.

And I think the way they use him, and obviously they, I think San Francisco's run game is incredible, the way they scheme their run game up. But having Trenton there, it's just an entirely different offense because of his athleticism, his rare combination of size, of quickness, of power. I mean, he's just, when he gets out there on the field, he's a matchup advantage for the Niners every time that he takes a snap out there. So when they have him out there, they all feel confident.

A lot of those plays are going to go to the left side of the line of scrimmage right behind him. They know that when he's in pass protection, he's going to hold up as well as anybody, doesn't really matter who he goes against. A tremendous player, and it's Niners at, you know, between the Auk signing and Trent, I mean, that was a little worrisome a few weeks ago. I actually did a practice game against the Saints up in Santa Clara a couple weeks ago,

and everyone was a bit concerned, but I think now a lot of those concerned are ease when both those guys are back in the building and ready to take their, put their pads on, go out to practice, and get ready to play game. Okay, Chiefs Ravens Thursday. Kansas City's done this dance, and they keep winning, it. I love Lamar. I love

Baltimore. I love the coach. I love the owner. I think it's the best run franchise arguably last decade in the leak. I think Baltimore does everything well except when in late January. You tell me, does it start wearing on you? Buffalo's going through this, Tom. You start hearing you can't win these

games. Is the pressure on Kansas City to defend the home field or Baltimore Thursday? I'd say a little bit more on Baltimore for that exact reason. I think that when you have great leadership, and I think of those Baltimore teams when they had Ray Lewis and Ed Reed as their two primary leaders. They, even though they may loss in a championship game, I actually saw this the other day,

a clip from Ray Lewis in the locker room after they had lost to us, I think in 2011 in the championship game. And how Ray talked about that team and how we wanted to get them back on track going in the next year, that's always what it's about. When you lose in the playoffs, you want to think about how are we going to get over the hump next year? What do we need to do? where are our deficiencies?

Where can we get a little better? Where is our margin of error? Is it taking care of the football? Is it third down? Is it scoring points in the red air? Is it production from a unit that we haven't got a lot of production from? Tight end groupings, running back groupings. How can we improve our team a little bit?

So when we get these big games, we're more prepared than the other team. We've got more margin of air. And look, to win a Super Bowl is absolutely incredibly difficult. There's only one team that does it. to do what the chiefs have done is really remarkable. And they want to try to do it again. That challenge of them doing it is going to be as hard a challenge as any team the NFL's ever had. That's why it's never happened to win three in a row.

But the chiefs are poised like they always are to go in there. I don't think they believe their height. They're very well coached. Obviously, great quarterback, great leaders. The defense played really well last year. So those guys are prepared. Baltimore wants what the chiefs. Scott and that's why you lead the season off the way they have it, Ravens Chiefs.

I'm excited to see that one get underway too. I couldn't tell you the last time I was this excited to watch the Chicago Bears play and the Washington Commanders, and that's the great gift the NFL gives us, is that we watch these great college players for three and four and five years, and all of a sudden I have an emotional investment. I can't wait to watch Jaden and Caleb. Give me one thing that you'll see with a young quarterback. you may see it with Drake May.

The one thing that Tom Brady will see that I can't that you'll be like, okay, he's going to be okay. He's going to be okay. What does a young quarterback, is it the feet? Is it the head movement? What do you see that I can't that you would know it's going to work? Well, I think there's lots of ways you can look at a quarterback play,

and I think it's very easily to evaluate the physical aspect of the game, how well he throws the ball, how fast his feet are when he drops back in the pocket. can you escape the pocket and make some plays on the run? For me, I think the sustainable part about quarterbacking is really what's up here, is what's in the brain. Are you snapping the ball and running good plays consistently against the defenses that you're out there watching as you're reading the defenses? So much of it to me is the coach giving the quarterback,

because he's going to see it every day in practice, the coach and the players. Are they given the quarterback the freedom to make the plays and the decisions that he needs to make to get the team to win. Because a lot of these guys can throw the ball. A lot of them can move in the pocket. Now, watching Caleb do it, he's exceptional at it. But to me, it's a deeper level than that. When you're looking at starting quarterbacks in the NFL,

everybody should be able to throw the ball well. Everybody should be able to drop back and make accurate throws. It's what can you do when you're in front of on the road, in front of 70,000 people, and every single player in the offensive huddles look at you in your eyes going, does this guy have the confidence in himself to bring us back when we're losing in the fourth quarter? And I think that's the mark of what I see in quarterbacks.

When I watch them, I want to say, okay, does this guy have the maturity? Does he have the poise? Does he have the composure to be at his best when his team needs him the most? 90 seconds, Drake May, would you sit him? I don't think there's a right answer. Would you sit him or would you put his feet to the fire and let it rip? So, I mean, I've gone on record to say that I think it's best, in my opinion, for young quarterbacks or rookie quarterbacks to kind of watch a veteran do it. And there's so much that goes on and quarterbacks need to process so much information so quickly.

And I think if you can have someone, and I sat behind Drew Bloodsill, my first year, what a great player he was, someone that I got to watch and learn from. Aaron Rogers watched behind Brett Farr. Patrick Mahomes watch behind Alex Smith. So when you have a real pro in front of you, they can help with that learning curve. Even though, that young quarterback isn't necessarily going out there and losing confidence in what his abilities are. So, you know, ultimately those young players are going to get opportunities. The franchises need those young quarterbacks to come in and take a big step and lead that franchise on into the future. Right.

I just like to give them a little bit of time to acclimate themselves to the pro game, the pro-game, the pro schedule. I mean, it's a big difference between college football and professional football. We've got about 90 seconds left. Week one is different than it used to be. Tom, nobody plays in the preseason. Veterans, I mean, the Jets and the Niners, some of these older teams, they're not playing anybody, so there could be upsets galore.

It is, I mean, if you had a lean in Dallas, Cleveland, because there's so many good veteran players in that, we'll circle back for about 90 seconds. I know. What do you think the game looks like, Cowboys Browns? What does it look like to start? I think it's a defensive game. I think you've got two great defenses.

Coach Zimmer is a huge addition to that Dallas defense. They've got a lot of the same players coming back on Dallas's defense. Cleveland does as well. I think both offenses, they're not quite the running games they've had in the past due to some injuries. So they've had some offensive line shuffling going on on both teams. So I think it's going to be a little bit more of a passing game. And I don't know if those passing games are quite in midseason form yet with

the way that these you know CD wasn't in camp you know that didn't have a lot of looks at that so again some of these passing games may take a little time to develop so I think it's going to be a really a very good defensive game two great coordinators

couple of the best defensive lines pass rushers in the NFL going so I don't think it's a zero three nothing game but I don't think it's a high flying scoring all over the place game either yeah last week in week one it was I'm always amazed the college kids play so well in week one without preseason these NFL games week one there's going to be a huge upset veterans don't play so you don't know what you're getting you know i think the pro football is a lot more fair than college football when you see these college football

games and you got a directional tennessee school versus alabama there's not much chance that it's it's it's tough for those teams to come in to compete against the big dogs so in the NFL look this is as fair as it gets which is why everyone loves this sport it's salary cap it's it's so many things that, you know, all these teams have the ability to re-compromise their roster and deal with them in the best possible way and try to be the best team they could be. It's a great battle. Great seeing you. Good luck.

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