The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - The Cowboys won but they have problems

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

The Cowboys bring home the win on Thursday night, so everything is great in Dallas, right? Not according to Colin The Giants have the right coach but they need to right players and we saw that last night  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Live in Los Angeles, it's the herd, wherever you may be, and however you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. J-Mack, Julian Edelman, stops by. blazing five in one hour. We kind of told you what was going to happen last night. It happened last night. And what's the fallout? One of the opinions. What's going on with the Cowboys and the Giants last night? I don't think it's terribly complicated, but I'll have a theory. I'll throw that to you in a second. Are you ready to go on a Friday? I'm fired up. Feeling great about this weekend's game.

All right. You watched the game. Here's what I saw. I saw two things last night. Number one. And I'll get to this one in about five minutes. Giants are really well-com. coached. The Giants had no run game, a bottom end quarterback, bottom third of the league, and we're driving to win the game and dominated time of possession. That's coaching. And by the way, weren't plagued by turnovers like the Cowboys. So I told you yesterday on the show, Dallas go win, C.D. Lam's going to look really good, and Dak's going to be really solid. He was 22 at 27, Cowboys will win, and it will be nothing. No, I mean, it means nothing. DAC is 24 and 4 against the Giants in Washington.

24 and 4. That's it. 24 and 4. And Washington and New York, since Dak's been in Dallas, win 38% of their games. They're terrible. They're two of the doormats. So, Dak and Dallas both have benefited greatly. And Dak has benefited too. He's not getting that bag if he's in the NFC North and he's facing the Packers and he's facing the line.

He's not winning those games. but he's gotten rich, good for him, happy for him, don't resent it, but Dak and Dallas have benefited greatly from having two layups in their division. And to his credit, he's beaten them, I guess. But they don't be good teams. They don't win big road games, big standalone national TV games against the good teams. Now, for the record, Big Ben and the Steelers had this for years with Cleveland and Cincinnati. They just, before Burrow got there and Baker got there,

Pittsburgh owned Cleveland and Cincinnati. but Pittsburgh got two Super Bowls out of it. So they were beating the layups. You know, by the way, Brady had some doormat. Miami and the Jets and Buffalo for you. But Brady paid you off in the end. I'm not blaming you if you have a couple of dormats in your division for eight years. Like that, Cass.

Pittsburgh had it, but you got the payoff. But what also happened with Big Ben late, uh-oh, Burroughs in the division now. Lamar's in the division now. Hell, Baker's in the division now. And at the end, Cincinnati and Cleveland weren't the layups. And suddenly the Steelers got really irrelevant, really fast, and brag about never being below 500. That's their standard.

And the Cowboy standard is, hey, we win 12 games a year. Now, kind of eight and the four laps. Pittsburgh started lowering their standard. Hey, we're never 500, under 500. Yeah, but you're irrelevant. in January and February, like the Cowboys. But to Pittsburgh's credit, they did get trophies out of those two layups for years. It did help them get home field advantage when you go four and o every year against the lousy

bingles and the lousy browns. But here's what's happening. But Cleveland briefly got the right quarterback, Cincinnati got the right quarterback, and Lamar Jackson and Baltimore. And suddenly you get much less relevant. So here's what's happening in the NFC East. Philadelphia just needs the right coach. And even Siriani with the right coordinator got to a Super Bowl.

So Philadelphia's got better players than Dallas And they're a better organization Washington's got Jaden Daniels Kid can spin it Hey, who's he looked like? Lamar Jackson You know, ask Big Ben about that So now you've got a Lamar Jackson clone

In the Division and the New York Giants And I'll get to this in the second They're just a quarterback away That's all they are. They got the coach So Dallas, congrats on the division titles But you have this advantage Brady took advantage of for years the Jets being dysfunctional,

the Bills being dysfunctional, and Miami being dysfunctional, because it guaranteed him five or six wins in division. He gets the number one seed home playoff games. And Big Ben to his credit would beat Cleveland and beat Cincinnati, and he would use that to get seating and home field advantage, and he got Super Bowls out of it. Dallas has had that. Just layups.

Washington and the Giants have been layups. That's 24 and 4 against them. It's getting your home playoff games. And what are you doing with it? getting your doors blown off by Green Bay. So this doesn't mean anything. They've been doing this for years. And by the way, those tough road games and the better teams you don't beat,

I looked at your schedule this morning. Here they come. At Pittsburgh, Detroit, at San Francisco, Philadelphia, Texans, even the Atlanta games tough. Those are games you don't win, tough road games. So I don't begrudge you for getting a couple of layups in your division, but Brady and Big Ben and the Steelers took advantage of it. But what happened after a while for Tom Brady?

He looked around and went, uh-oh, Josh Allen's in the division. Then Big Ben went, oh, Lamar and Joe Burrow are in the division. Jaden Daniels is now coming to town. And if Jalen Hertz can get, who knows, Shane Stike and May say, I'm going back to Philadelphia, the way Anthony Richardson looks. I'm not begrudging anybody for taking advantage of opportunities. Generally, most great quarterbacks and coaches. I mean, when Nick Saban was in the SEC, there were so many bad.

had coaches. Then Kirby Smart went over to Georgia and now Lane Kiffin's in there. And here comes Sarkin, Texas. And Alabama doesn't have that road like they used to. Staven retires, Kailen DeBoren. The point being is Dallas has given you nothing having this like seven, eight year advantage where Washington and New York have been garbage. Yeah, they're winning the games as Pittsburgh did, as Brady did. But those guys gave you something at the end. Dallas can't even win a second playoff game. Lesnar does mean anything. Here's deck after. We've got to continue to be pros.

That's not done. That's not done when you get a win. And that's my point about we're not going to get over-excited or hopefully the guys don't listen to anything that's being written now. Good or bad. It's about focusing on this process. We're able to get a win tonight, puts us at two-and-two, going into a long weekend. But we've got to go on the road next week against a good Stillers team.

All right. Now I want to talk Giants. and I'm sure New York media today is pounding on them. But listen to this. Who had more first downs? The Giants. Who was better on third down? The Giants.

Who had more totally yards? The Giants. Who dominated time of possession? Giants. Who had a third the penalties? Giants. What I watched last night in New York was great coaching. They have no run game.

Devin Singletary got no juice. Their O-line has one really high-end player left tackle. They have a bottom tier quarterback, and we're driving for the win. Huh? Huh? Hear me out. If you took a Josh Allen and you put him on the Giants.

Let me ask you. You would suddenly have this. Devon's single terriot running back, Brian Dable on your offensive side, a great left tackle, tremendous defensive front. Oh, wait. and one-star weapon. That's Buffalo before they got James Cook.

And yes, the Giants do need to upgrade it running back. Get that in the fourth, fifth round. The Buffalo bills for years, before James Cook, had all the elements. The bones are here for the New York Giants. The bones are here.

Dayball. A great left tackle. Excellent defensive front. One of the best defensive tackles. Great edge rusher. Star weapon and an offensive coach. The bones are here. The quarterback isn't.

I mean, hell, the Giants and the bills even plan New York. Now you're saying, Colin, Colin, Colin, Colin, Colin, you're not going to get Josh Island. No, you're not. You're probably not going to land Josh Allen. Next year's got four quarterbacks in the draft. First round, people like. Could be a Cam Ward, could be a Quinn Ewers,

could be a Schererner, could be the back kid at Georgia. You got four. You always end up with about four to five. Riley Leonard will go second round, a lot of talent, whatever. but the bones are here to the house. You think I'm crazy, right? Go look at Tampa before Brady. What do they have?

One great weapon. Excellent defensive front. Offensive coach Bruce Ariens. A playmaker on the outside, Mike Evans. The Giants have an excellent defensive line, a star receiver who's only getting better, an excellent left tackle. And an offensive coach, Tampa had Ariens,

a star weapon, a good defensive front, and then they drafted to solve one great offensive linemen at tackle, Tristan Wurps. Houston Texans, before they got C.J. Stroud, what did the Houston Texans have? A great left tackle. Nico Collins just needed somebody to get him the ball. They were fourth in takeaways in the NFL. I mean, they had this, the weapon, the left tackle, the defensive takeaways.

So I don't buy this Giants Camp play. I'm watching last night with Brian Daibol. Dominate, this is almost unheard of. Dominate time of possession with a bad quarterback and no run game. And I will say this. As I say, you know, Daniel Jones isn't very good. Here's what's amazing. Is until the final drive,

Daniel Jones was good on third down, no picks, dominates time of possession with no run game, and is 29 for 37. You cannot do better than that with Daniel Jones. Before the final drive, when you're more desperate, half to throw 29 and 37, no picks, decent on third down, dominating time of possession with no run game. That's coaching. That's what coaching looks like. Bruce Ariens needed a guy.

The Texans needed a quarterback. The bones to the house are good. The Giants have the left tackle and the weapon and the great defense. front and the offensive coach. They got it. And there's four quarterbacks in the draft, and many of the bad teams don't need a quarterback. They just drafted one. You're going to get one of them. The future

for the Giants, I got the bones. I got the big bones. The Cowboys, I just got big contracts. I'm going to have to pay Micah Parsons, who once again last night's either hurt or makes one or two splash plays, and I'm left thinking, not T.J. Watt, not Miles Garrett. Not Hutchison.

Good, but I'm going to have to pay him like he's great. So I, my takeaway, you're looking at that game last night. Ah, Dallas beats him again. I got big contracts. Don't love the ownership group. O-line, eh. Left tackle.

Ugh. And a quarterback, I'm paying a fortune. Here's Brian Daibald on Daniel Jones after. For three games, he's been locked in. He's played well. He's seen the field. He's delivered the ball where he needs to. you know again we had some opportunities to to continue drives today as well so i'm uh i'm proud of

of how he's performed how he's prepared um he's done a nice job for us yeah i mean he's done the best he can do i mean he went to duke i know he's smart i think he works hard it's sort of like that art project your kid brings home that you put on the refrigerator i'm proud of him at a Picasso. You can be proud of him. He works hard. He's a good kid. I hope he does well. And Dave Bull's squeezing every bit of juice out of that orange.

He's squeezing every ounce of it out. And I was really proud. I got emotional. Look at that art every time I opened up the fridge. My kids gave it their best effort. It was not a Monet. And that's who's hoisting trophies. Kansas City has won.

Buffalo has one. Cincinnati has one. For years, New England had one. San Francisco with Montana had one. Denver had one with Elway. You can be proud, appreciative. A student. Harvard is hoisting the trophy. Doesn't mean you can't be proud if you get into the state school.

Daible is doing everything he can. And this organization, coach, left tackle, defensive front, weapon. That's all the structural foundational bones Super Bowl teams have. Houston was in way worse shape. and they got coaching quarterback right. Hell, the Giants have the coach. He's got to get the dude. Jamack, I told you.

This isn't even a neurogum day. This is just firing today. Blazing five in 45 minutes, Julian Edelman stops by as well. You know how many sacks Michael Parsons has in the last three weeks? The same number as you and I. Zero. He's not even getting the pressures like he used to last year.

I know people aren't going to like this. Again, I'm not signing. him to a long. No, no, no, there's an argument to be made. You watch T.J. Watt. Just trust your eyes. You watch T.J. Watt. And you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You watch Miles Garrett. Whoa, you watch Nick Bosa. But the difference between

Nick Bosa and Joey Bosa, Joey Bosa makes splash plays. Nick Bosa dominates games. Micah made a couple splash plays, lateral quickness. Against the better left tackles. Last night he faced one. He'll beat him. He'll make him look bad once or twice. Where is he?

I'll throw this out there. C.D. Lamb's an unbelievable player, and you're not moving off Dak. Zach Martin's great, but it's getting old. There's an argument. Edge rusher, Micah, would have massive appeal. Can you get a hole for him? Absolutely. And then somebody else has to pay him, not our miss. Absolutely. This whole league is looking for

edge rushers. Outside a quarterback and left tackle. The argument is, edge rusher is either the second or third most important position. I tend to think it's quarterback left tackle edge and then weapon. I'm just telling you, go to Micah in the playoffs against better left tackles. The Giants have a very good left tackle, and everybody will point to that one where he swooped in under it. That's nice. That one play is not.

T.J. Watt is wearing your arse out for three and a half hours. Aidan Hutchison is a monster, and Rex game plans. Micah's just not doing that. He's not that guy. he's athletic. I guarantee you. There are teams in this league that are close and just need an edge rush. And now Parsons is going to have a game where he has three and a half sacks.

And he's a see, I told you he's great. The consistency isn't there, Colin, especially not in the postseason. The numbers are. The numbers are clear. When he plays San Francisco and Trent Williams, where? And so, again, Micah's a really good player. But I would argue his value is greater than his significance in January. and that's the key.

There are a guy, Hutchison now is one of these dudes, T.J. Watt, Miles Garrett. I mean, Vaughn Miller still makes plays. There are a handful of them where their talent and what they disrupt is equal to what you have to pay him. Micah's going to get paid in the Hutchison space, and that's not what he is. He's a really good A-minus guy. He's not wrecking your game plan. The Giants with Daniel Jones and no-run game dominated time of possession. You ain't doing that with T.J. Watt on the edge.

I mean, I guarantee you when Harbaugh on the Chargers go there and Justin Herbert's banged up, all they talk about all week is T.J. Wartz banged up. We cannot let T.J. You have to literally change your blocking schemes. And that's with Rishon Slater, who's a good left tackle. So I brought to smoke today. How about Cowboys hitting minus four and minus four and a half? I don't want to get it. Just like the doctor ordered, huh? No, I didn't have that number.

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interesting. I'm not making definitive statements on it, but it is interesting. We have said the one position in football that college football is furnishing the NFL with an endless supply is wide receiver. Left tackles, you get about one great one a year. Edge rushers, one or two good ones a year. Elite defensive tackle, one or two a year.

wide receiver you get 15 minimum in the league every year you can find guys fifth round puka nakuwa amaran st brown you can go you can go into the third the fourth the fifth ron jennings san francisco six round it is the one position in football wide receiver more kids want to be wide receivers it's where the money is at they're playing it's the best athlete off and on the field i look up every year and there's another ten guys at wide receiver and I'm like all they needs to go. Nico Collins just needed a quarterback. Dude was special.

And so this is interesting. Yet, what NFL position makes the most noise is the biggest pain in the butt wide receiver? That ain't good for loud wide receivers. Interesting stat. Patrick Mahomes' first three games without Tyreek Hill look a lot like Josh Allen. first three games without Stefan Diggs. I won't go through all the numbers for the radio audience. It did not phase Mahomes or Josh Allen.

Whatsoever. So this is true. When you get a star quarterback, any receiver drama, move him out of the building. Demanding a contract a year earlier, move him out of the building. Even Brock Purdy, and he's not Mahomes or Allen, even Brock Purdy. He doesn't have Debo,

Christian McCaffrey, and George Kittle. Joanne Jennings, I'm fine. It makes me wonder if San Francisco made a mistake going with Brandon I.Uke. Because once Kiddle, Debo, Christian, and Jennings are all playing together. Why'd you pay 27 large a year, whatever you paid? I'm just going to remind you, Aaron Rogers, one Super Bowl, he didn't have a superstar receiver. Patrick Mahomes' last two didn't have a superstar receiver.

The best receiver Tom Brady ever had easily was Randy Moss, no trophies. Drew Brees, won Super Bowl. Marquise Colston. He had a receiver much better later in his career. Couldn't get to the Super Bowl. Eli Manning's Super Bowl. One of them it was Mario Manningham, and in the other one, the biggest catch was by David Tyree. I am not saying receivers don't have value.

I want a dude, but he can't be a diva. if the receiver, if the quarterback is special. Now, if you have Tua, Tyreek Hill is necessary. If you have DAC, C.D. Lamb is necessary. If you have, I mean, I love Sam Darnold and Kirk Cousins, but Justin Jefferson feels necessary. But I'm looking at San Francisco with Brandon Ayyuk, and Brock Purdy looks pretty damn good.

And they've got McCaffrey and Chanahan and Debo. and Kiddle and Jennings, and they just drafted two receivers. I'm just saying, Stefan Diggs isn't even in Buffalo still, and he doesn't even live there. They're still asking Josh Allen about it. Like, the one position college is furnishing in the NFL at an accelerated rate is receiver. And the one position where you get the most noise in the NFL, look at the offseason of San Francisco and Cincinnati and Dallas.

They've all been a little disappointing. I know Cowboy fans, you love that win last day. All been a little disappointing. Just something to point out. If you are in an industry and you have a position and you're making a lot of noise and that position is one that college graduates are coming into your industry at an accelerated rate, you may want to chill out a little bit. You may want to be more of a team guy, not go,

scrub your social media because things aren't working out the way you planned. But I'm looking at all these wide receivers. I'm looking at this kid from Florida State Buffalo has. That dude is a baller. I'm looking at Malik Neighbors. That guy's a top 10 receiver now. When's the last time you got a left tackle and you're like, within three games, you're like, that's a top three left tackle.

Even Aidan Hutchinson, the kid from Detroit, the pass rusher. It took a year. I covered Warren Sapp. It took a year. Malik Neighbors is great today. I mean, it's just the way it works. That is the position. So it's very interesting.

This offseason, we spent so much time talking about one position. You know, they still had a year on a contract, one position making noise. And I'm looking around this league, and I'm thinking, I'm looking at Allen, I'm looking at my homes. Zero impact. And I like Stefan Diggs. I liked Randy Moss. T.O. was just too much for me to deal with. But I understand wanting the ball.

Dak Prescott did just fine without Des. Didn't win more left. Did just fine. Be very, very careful. You're seeing now, I mean, you're seeing quarterback matters more than ever. If the quarterback has a good coach, I'm just not going to in any industry, my noisiest employee, I've got to see a connection to Ws. Right?

Or revenue. Well, Buffalo's selling out every game regardless of who's wide receiver. In any business, if you're the noisiest employee, you have to be impossible to replace or driving wins in revenue. No star receiver in this league is driving wins, revenue, and merchandise sales. That's not the way it works. So I can deal with noisy. I can deal. Like Charles Barkley got real noisy during that contract thing.

Berkeley's driving ratings and revenue. I can deal with that. I can deal with drama, but you've got to be driving stuff. Can't be in the passenger seat. You're driving ratings, you're driving revenue, you're driving wins,

you're driving merchandise. I can take the noise. I can take the noise. Just saying, there's so many great star receivers coming into the NFL, be very careful star receiver guy about getting loud in the off season.

Because I, Josh Allen and Buffalo, offense looks good to me. It looks better than it did last year. And the hoist and trophies in Kansas City last two years without Tyreek Hill. He's a hell of a player. But he's much more necessary in Miami than he is in Kansas City. Jay Mack with a news. No, no, no, no, no, turn on the news. This is the Herdline News. Let's get started with Kellynne Moore. Colin, the Philadelphia offensive coordinator was brought into fix Jalen Hertz after a rough last year.

It's working so far. Eagle's second in total yards per game. The offense has looked very sharp, although they didn't score enough points against the Saints, but they're two and one and just a few weeks into the season. Nick Siriani said he's playing a role, some of us can relate to, backseat driver.

I'm letting Kellan run, you know, drive the car. And just like my wife will say, you know, to me, hey, make sure you take it right here, left here and she can give me directions. I'm a, you know, same, same thing in these scenarios is just, is just chiming in when I have something to chime in. Well, he's been at his best when he lets his coordinator, if the coordinator's competent,

call to play. That's okay. They call him walk-around coaches. Jimmy Johnson let his coordinators make calls. Pete Carroll was a walk-around coach. Belichick, to a large degree, walked around, monitor his coaches. occasionally he has to snippet Josh McDaniels once a game like Josh do this do that but in the end I don't have a problem at all with Nick saying I'm gonna let my guys drive the car I prefer my coach

like Kyle Shanahan's calling the plays he's brilliant I would prefer that's not the case well for now that's fine if all of a sudden they're sputtering at six and six and six and we know seriani's on the hot seat he's not going down letting Kellyn Moore call a place you know that's going to happen if he's fighting for his job right he's got to take over no Now, it's early in the season, but... No. They just... Let me say this again.

God, you guys. Philadelphia just went to the hottest team in the league, New Orleans, and beat them. So what? We're on to week four. You don't know, but without A.J. Brown, they're best players. So they're without A.J. Brown this week. I'm looking at the practice report right now. Devante Smith.

No Lynn Johnson. Devonte Smith. And they're going to go to Tampa and eat. Ooh. Okay. That may show up in the Blazing Files. Oh, it may show up in... Philadelphia is going to...

Tampa and they're going to eat. So guys. May show up in headlines as well. Ooh, a little head-to-head action, huh? Wow. So you're really fine with, hey, hey, we beat the Saints. It's all good in the hood. Let's just let Kellynne Moore keep calling his place.

Yes. I'm just telling you, if you look at the history, this is not the NBA or a college basketball. I mean, Nick Saban controlled virtually everything. Lane Kiffin's call in place. I get it. In the NFL, most of the great coaches are not necessarily. on the headset. They may put it on in crisis, but they're not on the headset.

Right, but for now, when your job's on the line and they're trying to run you out of town, you better get on the headset and save your job, no? Or do you just let it? They just beat the Saints. And now they're going to get back in the plane fly down there. Let me tell you, they'll be drinking my tithes 20 minutes

after that game of the bucks. Real? The wind and rain from Hurricane Haleen may be too bad. That feel could be really ugly. Okay. Well, Devonte and A.J. Brown may not play. So you're telling me it's going to be a run game with Saigon, Barclay, Jaylon, Jailen Hurts. 35 carries for Seekwold. I'm saying.

So I looked up the weather. My take is, well, the weather would benefit Philadelphia because I got Seekwan Berkeley, Jailen Hurts. So quarterback running back, I got better players, especially running the ball in crappy weather. So the weather plays into Philadelphia. I mean, if you got a 25 mile an hour away, you're not throwing deep balls to Jalen, A.J. Brown anyway. So the weather even helps Philadelphia. What you don't want to do is go down to Miami as a northern team in like September, and it's 98 and humid. But going down there when it's wet and windy and you have a Sequin Barclay, I'm good with that.

All right. Okay, so let's go to the second story. Brandon Ayyuk. Boy, he's off to a rough start. Cherpy offseason is the highest paid receiver on the team, and he's doing nothing so far for San Francisco. Well, 49ers legend, Steve Young, who's got something to say all the time, says, Missing all that preseason time is the reason Brandon Ayuk is struggling. Here he is.

Brandon needs to look at in the eye. Like, you know, I'm sure there's things, maybe the plays haven't been called for him as much. Maybe there's some odd things that happen on certain downs where he wasn't the primary when they thought he would be. But in the end, the full measure of what's happened, Brandon needs to own it. Like, I've come back, I miss the camp, and now I'm not, it's not happening. So I have to take that on myself. There's no blame other than yourself. Own it.

That's right. He's totally right. Niners screwed this up. Well, I should have traded him way back before the draft. I will say they draft. So here's what's interesting with the Niners. They drafted two wide receivers.

So you were clearly unhappy with the noise. So then move off the noise. So now I think if Pierceall had that incident, that near tragedy, and he hasn't quite been what we think, apparently he hasn't been in regular. I mean, he just, he got banged up early, then there was the awful. shot. No, no, yeah. So he was banged up early in camp. That hurt shoulder injury, which is reoccurring. And then he had, you know, the incident in San Francisco. So he's just, this year's just a throwaway year. But my take is they made a move in the draft signaling,

we see noise coming, we're going to move off it. And they didn't. They doubled down on Iyuk. So Iyuk has 11 catches for 119 yards through three games. I think Joanne Jennings eclips that last week against the band. Jennings is good. And we like Ayuk. I like him a lot. As a player, yeah. I don't know him as a guy. I like him a lot as a player.

Everything I've read about him as a guy and heard and seen the contracts with that, that's just not my cup of tea. Yeah, same here. I don't need that, you know? Less drama, right? I know you like kind of drama kings, right? Don't you? I'm like all these. I'm okay.

You have to be driving wins, revenue, rating. You've got to be driving stuff if you're drama. Once the drama outweighs the reality of. of what you're creating. Like, I like Randy Moss, but Belichick's like, I'm winning trophies with Dion Branch. I'm not,

they moved off Randy. Randy got unhappy. They moved off him, and then they won with Edelman and Grunk. So I'm not anti-Rani Moss. He's one of the best players I've ever seen. But if they had two Super Bowls, if they beat the Giants,

then I'm going to pop a little more. That's fair. I would counter that more people like, respect, or thought that Randy Moss team was better than any Deon Branch team the Patriots ever had, right? That's sweet. Where's the trophy? I mean, they went undefeated in the regular season.

You know? So that makes the loss even more disappointed. Lost in the Super Bowl, but... Okay. Seems like it matters to me. Yeah. Oh, boy. My standards, I guess, are out of whack, winning.

Let's go to another receiver to wrap it up. Justin Jefferson, excited for the Packers Vikings game, especially his personal beef, with Jair Alexander the last time these guys were healthy. Alexander held Jefferson to 15 receiving yards and then hit the Gritty in his face. Justin Jefferson, of course, made the Gritty pretty famous in the NFL because he's a damn good dancer. Justin Jefferson's talked to trash back to Alexander.

He likes to do that stuff to get inside someone's head. I'm not really tripping on that. I'm going to just get back by Gritty and in his zone. So I'm not really, I'm not tripping on it at all. I'm excited for the matchup. I like this game. I don't have a pick yet. I just want to watch the game.

I did not put this in Blazing Five. I can't wait to watch the game. There's two schools of thought. Jordan Love hasn't been playing, and now he faces arguably the best defensive coordinator in football. Who likes to Blitz? And he just hasn't played, and he may not be 100%.

The other school of thought is Minnesota is really good at home. Now you're going to Lambo. It's going to be a little regression. Sam Donald can be reckless. Green Bay is taking the... the ball away like crazy. So to me, you can sell me on, when you can sell me on two outcomes, I stay away.

I could see Green Bay getting to Sam. He gets a little reckless. Or I could see Brian Flores driving Jordan loved nuts. He's throwing stuff out there in the young receivers. Jordan's been inactive. I can see both outcomes. I don't have any conviction on this. It is interesting.

Vikings undefeated and they're three-point underdogs on the road against a team of a hobbled quarterback. For the record. those, huh? For the record, and it's weird. Underdogs are crushing this year. They're barking. So last year, favorites won, meaning the fans won last year. Fans won last year.

The books are winning this year. Fans are broke right now. Fans are not doing well. Even last night, Dallas was the better team, and I lost by a half a point. See, this is why the early in the week betting stuff. You have a blazing five, I don't get to do that. Well, we need to maybe have an amendment.

You know what? You and I, from now on, Blazing Fives on Monday. Well, I think if Monday you come out and say, I bet the Bears and the Cowboys at this line, lock it in. You can't do all five, but you can do a couple. Ryan, let's vote on that. We got two that agree with that. Yeah, yeah, it's done.

It's fast. And Ryan, oh, Buzzkill Ryan's like no good. I mean, if you could come out Monday and say, hey, I'm already taking this and here's why. I think that counts. Ryan just said in my ear, the segment is for the fans, not the Sharps. I've got to be honest with you. No, it's for you.

Sharps put money in my wallet. The fans are going to stop tuning in because you lock in on Monday. Maybe we'll drive up the Monday number more. How about I get one pick a week to lock in? A new segment called Collins locking it in early. J-Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

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Today in college football on Fox, and it all begins with Big Noon Saturday as Minnesota. Heads to the big house to take on Michigan. Then at 3.30 Eastern, Coach Primes Colorado Buffaloes take on UCF. And under the lights at 11, Dylan Gabriel leads Oregon against UCLA. It all kicks off with Big Noons Saturday. So when Justin Field went from the Bears to the Steelers,

he went from a defensive head coach to a defensive head coach, a defensive culture to a defensive culture. It's not like he went to Andy Reed, Sean McVeigh, Shanahan. He went from a defensive coach and a defensive culture to the same thing in Pittsburgh, just a better run organization, better owned organization, better operated. But it's kind of the same thing, right?

Well, he was on a podcast recently and with Cam Hayward, and he said, no, no, no, no, no, no. Pittsburgh's way different. Coaching Pittsburgh or Chicago. That was a joke. Come on. What's it like with Arthur Smith?

It's been great with him so far, just his competitive spirit. He's really smart. Definitely knows how to do deep, like kind of detail plays to its player's strength. So, you know, that's always good to have an O-C and stuff like that. So, you know, it's been great. And kind of just, you know, still learning each and every day

and kind of how he operates in the game. But, you know, everything's been smooth. And he's been awesome. First thing he said is it's not close. So you either have a disgruntled ex-bear, and he didn't sound like it. There's no proof he was ever an angry kid. He's a good kid. Everybody likes him.

Sounds happy. or it's a coaching thing. And my eyes tell me it's a coaching thing. O-line has regressed badly. Run games disappeared with the new O-C. So the defense is still good with Iber Flutes. I've said, I don't know if he's a head coach. He can coach defense.

Defense still good. Nobody's scoring a lot of touchdowns on the Bears. That's not it. No, it's the O.C. And, I mean, this is crazy. I mean, going from the Bears, to the Steelers culturally in terms of their defensive coaches, their defensive cultures, they're tough towns.

And he said it's not close. I mean, I thought he went from like a studio apartment to a one bedroom. He sounds like he went from a studio department to Bel Air. And we all knew coming into this season there were four or five coaches on the hot seat. So Dennis Allen, but he hired a really good O.C. Mike McCarthy, he remains week to week, or at least year to year. Nick Seriani's more week-to-week. There was Robert Sala.

Well, Aaron's upright, getting protection. He's good for now. The thing that's interesting is, I don't like interim coaches, and Iber Fluse does show an ability. He knows his side of the ball. I think the bigger issue is ownership and the offensive coordinator. But can you get rid of Shane Waldron in season? Now, the bills have done that with Josh Allen.

They moved out Ken D'Whoran. Dorsey and they moved in Brady, but Josh Allen was an established superstar. And Sean McDermott's there. And there's a formidable organization. Nobody's going anywhere, right? McDermott got a little heap at that. That's more Buffalo, believe it or not. Now it's really formidable, foundational.

So you can make that little move in the season and go, hey, we're just going to shift OC's. Chicago's leaking everywhere. So I don't think you can make that move. I don't think you can make that move in Chicago. So, I mean, it's just really interesting that Justin Fields, he's not a disgruntled kid. I didn't live him as a quarterback, but he's a lovely guy. Like in Chicago, everybody liked him.

I couldn't find anybody. Nobody banged him to his personality. It was his accuracy. Everybody liked him. And when you listen to him on the podcast, he sounds happy. He's laughing. But for him to say it's not close, we don't look at Pittsburgh and go, offensively, that is Google.

I mean, those guys are out there changing the world offensively. We've been banging on the Steelers' offense forever. Can't get the old line right, the run game right, the coordinator right? So maybe it's just Arthur Smith, and it could be it, just, just Arthur Smith. But, I mean, I'm watching the Bears like you. Now, the big game this weekend, that Rams Bears game is, I know you're looking at it thinking, well, Rams, losing record, bears, losing record. No, that game means something.

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