The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 1 - The Dodgers are World Series champs

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

Colin credits the Dodgers for winning the World Series after some disappointing exits and why this LA team finally showed some toughness to finally get over the hump The Dodgers should go after Juan Soto in the offseason The Colts were right to bench Anthony RichardsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, happy Halloween, everybody. Greg CoSell in one hour. Greg CoSell in one hour. Let's start with this. Two things seemed very, very clear watching the World Series. Series. Number one, the Yankees make a lot of mistakes, and most of them seem to happen in the fifth inning last night. With a five-nothing lead, the New York Yankees unraveled. First, Aaron Judge dropping a routine fly ball, basic fundamentals. He'd just broken out of a slump,

absolutely jaw-dropping. That was followed shortly thereafter by the Yankee shortstop, Anthony Volpe, bouncing a ball to third. Again, routine. play. How about this? Followed bizarrely by Garrett Cole miscommunication, not covering first base. That's day one of spring training stuff. The El Sagundo Little League team had that stuff buttoned up. What's going on? Suddenly a 5-0-0 Yankee lead. They could have been out of the inning if Garrett

Cole gets to first evaporated. First there's Freddie Freeman. Yes, Freddie Freeman. The MVP. Two RBI single. Now it's 5 to 3.3. followed by Teyoster Hernandez. Remember early this year in New York in the regular season, he owned the Yankees? He did it here, drives in two with a double. It's five, five, all five runs. Unearned, all five of them, and we are tied.

It didn't end there. We go to the eighth inning, a huge break. Otani was struggling with his confidence. He comes up, and the Yankees led him off the hook. a catcher's interference. Crazy. Otani, in this situation, had struggled all series. Next batter up, wouldn't you know it?

Mookie bets. Mookie bets with a sack fly. Dodgers take their first and only lead at 7 to 6. So that's the first thing we noticed. The Yankees make a lot of mistakes. The second thing is the Dodgers proved, literally they weren't just rich and talented. They were resilient. Outfielders moving to the infield because of an injury.

Tommy Edmund. Or role players being inserted to the starting lineup, Kike Hernandez, or your star Walker Bueller on two days' rest being asked to close. Eight different Dodger pitchers last night pitched. 40 over the course of a season. Every move Dave Roberts, the manager, made, worked or if it didn't the bullpen game it was part of a bigger plan. Yes the Dodgers have an enormous payroll.

Yes, they outbid people for stars but half of them especially the starting staff seem injured all year. This organization it had been lamented for years they didn't play inspired. They weren't resilient but yet they led the

National League in come from behind wins very early on This team proved a resilience beyond the money, beyond the expectations. Here, capped by Walker Bueller, who we thought would start in game seven, nope, raised his hand, I'll take the mound, and seal the Dodgers' eighth World Series title. Here it is. The Dodgers, a strikeaway.

Angelus, your Dodgers have won the World Series. I'm proud of the fact that we got more out of our players. Certainly we got a lot of talent, went through a lot of stuff, but I just saw a different gear in our guys a fight. And it didn't matter circumstances. Who was taking the baseball? Who was taking in at bat? The score didn't matter.

There was fight. And so that's something that I wanted to pull from our guys, and they performed. Winning the World Championship coming from down five runs in the fifth, down one run in the eighth, what does it say about this championship team? I mean, we're obviously resilient, but there's so much love in this clubhouse that won this game today. That's what it was. It was love, it was grit. I mean, it was just a beautiful thing, and I'm just proud of us, and I'm just happy for us. Well, as far as the Yankees go, I was reading

this this morning. They're the only Major League Baseball, the New York Yankees, all in the same game, regular season or postseason, since earned runs became an official stat in 1913. They're the only team to blow a five-plus run lead, allow five-plus earner and runs, commit three heirs, a balk, and catchers interference. Wow. Now, once Aaron Judge hit that early home run for the Yankees, it did feel like everybody could finally exhale, right? He'd been struggling.

If Aaron Judge can't hit, the same. series is over, and then he hits a bomb. But the Dodgers from the Padre series, the Mets series, the World Series stayed even keel, good or bad. The Yankees didn't. You could feel the stress with the Yankees the entire series. Aaron Judge felt stressed out. Aaron Boone pulling Garrett Cole in game one created anxiety.

In games one and five with Garrett Cole, New York had leads in later innings. But it never, ever felt like they've been. were under control. And it always felt like it would come crashing down, and it did. The stress, the anxiety, and the pressure. Now, Aaron Judge, his first ever air, first ever playing center field. I mean, you don't think that stress created? The entire series, the Dodgers felt loose and inspired, maybe because they've been there

before. And the Yankees felt uptight. A balk? Catchers interference? Short hopping a ball to third? Not covering first? We've seen it with Mahomes and Brady. Experience matters, especially in those high-leverage situations.

The Dodgers had been here, dominating their division for years, and winning in the postseason. Not always the World Series, but winning. And the Yankees haven't. Outside of the American League Central, they just don't want a lot of playoff series anymore. This became a nightmare on 161st Street. And there was a Freddie terrorizing everybody. His name was Freddie Freeman.

But more than anything, even more than Freddie Freeman, it was the stress, the mistakes, and the unraveling. The only game, the Yankees won in this World Series, was the Dodger bullpen game. And let me rephrase that. The Dodgers lower-tier bullpen game. Even their ace, Garrett Cole, finished two starts without a one. win. Here's Aaron Boone after.

Yeah, we just had a bad inning. You know, Garrett was amazing. Kept picking us up. You know, obviously a few mistakes really cost us in that inning. It happens. And

that hurts. But that's also baseball. By the way, I don't think I've never seen, and we find out statistically it never happened. I've never seen something happened in the fifth inning like that. Aaron Judge first air, a drop fly ball,

the short hop to third, not covering first. That was the crazy stuff. Then a balk, then catchers interference. But one of the advantages of not going to a game, because you don't see this when you're at a game. But going to a game is more fun, especially a World Series game. But one of the advantages of not going to a game, you see things on TV

that you wouldn't notice when you're there. And you could sense the stress. You could sense the anxiety from the Yankees, and you could simultaneously see the looseness and the joy and the inspired effort of the Dodgers playing with a chip on their shoulder despite this massive payroll. And I thought it was very obvious last night as it all came crashing down for the Yankees in the fifth and the eight innings.

J. Mack, we don't do a ton of baseball on this show, but I would say this, and I'll talk about this later, Juan Soto is on the market. It has been reported that Dodgers are very, very interested in. adding Juan Soto to Freeman, to Kershaw, to Betz, to Otani. And I will tell you, if any New York Yankee fan is outraged by that, never forget 10, 15 years ago, the Hot Stove League was essentially the Yankee Red Sock League. That's all it was. Yankees just outbidding everybody when they had the cable advantage with the Yes Network.

That's all gone. The Yankees are a smarter front office. They have more money. The Dodgers are now, and they're going to use it. You think he gets Otani type money in the same? neighborhood? Oh, I think Soto will end up being, I think O-Tani is more global, and I think merchandise. I mean, I was reading a story yesterday where the World Series ratings were bigger in Japan. It was incredible. So the merchandise that O'Tonnie can fuel is just different. I think

it's different. But I think Soto is regarded as fair as the best young talent in the sport. And so that market is, in any sports league, you could be Aunt Edwards, Wembe, Soto, It doesn't matter what sport it is. You're going to get paid handsomely. All right. Coming up, hey, we've got good news, I swear to you. Greg CoSell in one hour, we have good news coming up for the city of New York. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the IHeard Radio app.

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football. So when the Jets win tonight, all I ask, because they will win, C.J. Stroud, by the way, home, he's 10 and two in his career, road, he's under 500. Everything dips. Completion percentage, yards per game, touchdown passes, passer rating dips. He's just, he's like a lot of young quarterbacks. He is really good potentially when everything's lined up. You put him on the road. Can't quite hear. Missing a receiver. Protection breaks down.

C.J. Stroud. My guess, Jets are pretty good on early downs defensively. It'll be a lot of third and longs for C.J. Stroud. Protection will be an issue. Jets will win. All I'm asking is when you win tonight? Could you have a moment?

I'm not asking for much of humility, just a moment. Because the last time you won on Thursday night, again, at home, short week against a team that wasn't in the right spot to win New England. The next several days, New York media and Jets Nation had the composure of a nine-year-old after eating two pieces of birthday cake. Just take a deep breath. You're a two-and-six football team. You do not have the infrastructure or leadership from the owner, the head coach, the offensive coordinator to be an elite team. You are now in survival mode at two and six.

You'll be three-and-six after tonight. There's two or three teams in the AFC. Let's not even count the whole league. In the AFC, there are two or three elite teams, Kansas City, Baltimore, Buffalo. Then there's another three or four teams that I think are very good and could win a playoff game if things line up. Texans, if they're healthy, they're not now, Chargers and the Steelers. And there's one team in the AFC, I think it's going to be good next year. But they're a little young at quarterback.

Need another draft, the Denver Broncos. You do not qualify as any of those. And you'll win tonight because the circumstances line up. You are closer to the Raiders, yes, the Raiders, and the Colts, and the Bengals. That's what you are. You're in that group of eight or nine teams in the AFC, Miami, Raiders, Bengals. You're not Buffalo. You're not Baltimore.

You're not Kansas City. You're not the Chargers. You're not the Steelers. You're not the Texans when they're healthy and playing at home. You're not that either. You're not Denver, because you can't get young at quarterback. It's a bad quarterback draft class. you're not getting Shadoor Sanders, and Aaron's here probably for another year.

So let's take a deep breath. After the Mets collapsed, and the Yankees collapsed, and the Giants have collapsed, and the Jets have collapsed. Hey, Carl Anthony Town was good last night. Here's the good news. You can win tonight. You will win tonight. Take a deep breath. Here's Aaron.

At 2 and 6, Aaron, what is your frame of mind right now? It's got a wind, baby. What message would you have for your fan base? smile show up trust leave root us on as hard as you can we need that noise we're trying to rectify this

as quickly as possible I know it's been frustrating for everybody but still a lot of season left 27 24 24 23 24 20 it's going to be all it's going to be okay but but that's all it's going to be it's going to be 3 and 6

not 6 and 3 it's going to be okay tomorrow more I'm looking forward to the saying nice things in a Friday morning about the Jets, but I did that a couple of weeks ago about the Patriots and you freaked out. Don't freak out. This is a spot. Home, veteran quarterback, short week off a humiliating loss so you're totally inspired. You won't be looking ahead to anything. Jay Mack with the news. No, no, no, no, no, turn on the news. This is the herd line news. All right, let's start with a good football matchup that's not Thursday night football.

NFL North, Lions Packers, everybody's very fired up, Colin. We still don't know if Jordan Love's going to be able to go after that groin injury last week, but he spoke to his chances at playing. Obviously, not practicing during the week is not the ideal format for trying to play a game. But like I said, things happen. So if that's a scenario, you know, I'll be fine. But definitely it's not the ideal scenario for going into a big week. I feel like we ask this often.

Is this gamesmanship from the Packers on the floor? He's done it before this season. The next five years, Packers Lions could end up being the best rivalry in the NFL. These teams are stacked offensively. Jordan Love plays. I like Green Bay plus the points. If he doesn't, I like Detroit. But I think Detroit's going to be boringly consistent.

When you have a dominant offensive line, you don't go high and low. I mean, if you have great skill people, and maybe a really talented pass rusher, you can get shut down and have quiet weeks. When your offensive line and your run game is great, you're kind of the same team every week. Right now Green Bay is a little hot and cold. They're young. They don't have a dominant offensive line. Jordan Love, week to week, is he healthy?

So Green Bay is giving you a little half to half. You're not sure exactly what you get, but you know they're talented. You're going to get the same game from Detroit, barring another, You're going to get the same game for the next 10 weeks. First outdoor game of the season, right? Does that mean they're going to go ground and pound with the heavy run game? Yeah. I mean, they only have golf to throw 18 times last week. Well, last week was weird. They had like 225 yards of offense. The Titans had like 430.

Now they were trailing by 30 for much of the game. Right. But it was 14-14 first half, right? I mean, Tennessee moved the ball well. I don't see why Willis can't have a lot of success on the ground through the year. This is not a great Lions defense. defense. If you stack all the contenders, who has the worst defense of Lions, Packers, Eagles, I guess Washington's a contender now, so it's probably them. But this Lion's defense. Baltimore's

back end and Washington's back end are both very sketchy. But with no Hutchison? I mean, who's the best defender on the unit? Branch, the young safety. Yeah, yeah, Branch. I don't. I think I'm on the Packers here, Colin. We'll talk about it tomorrow in headlines. Let's go to the next story and that's Lamar Jackson. It's got multiple MVP awards we know. Still yet to make a Super Bowl. He's looking good this year, but the excuses has been that he has not had enough weapons. Well, they got Derek Henry in the offseason. They just added Deonté Johnson. And the show before us, the facility, Emmanuel Alacho believes Lamar is out of excuses. Hey, unanimous MVP, we're going to give you another running back, Derek Henry. In addition to

the running back, you got Rashad Bateman. We drafted him in the first round. They've flowers. We He drafted him in the first round. Mark Andrews, the third round picked some years back. Isaiah likely an elite tight end. And then we're going to acquire Deonté Johnson, who was a former thousand-yard receiver. Lamar's been out of excuses for me. I mean, y'all realize about five teams a decade when they win the Super Bowl, so 50% of the

time, it's because they have top-flight defenses. Lamar last year had a number one defense. His excuses were done then. Yeah, I mean, I still contend if you win 77% of your starts. I'm going to wait on the Super Bowl. If Lamar gives me one in his career, I'll be good with it. I mean, he's already closer to the Hall of Fame than being out of it. Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's hard. I think Peyton Manning took a long time. To win his Super Bowl takes a lot of things. Coach, the right defense. I mean, think how great Matt Stafford is. If Aaron Donald doesn't come through and get Joe Burrell on that play, Matt Stafford, as good, as talented as anybody not name of Holmes and Brady in the last 10 years, and maybe Aaron in his prime doesn't have a Super Bowl.

Like, it's hard. So Super Bowls, to me, I do think they need more pelt. they need more playoff wins. Super Bowls, everything has to work. Spags, Reed, Mahomes, Kelsey, Jones, like A-plus, and they've had to come from behind with everything working.

New England never scored a touchdown in the first quarter of a Super Bowl. Lost two on a singular play to Mario Manningham or a David Tyree. It's like winning a Super Bowl. San Francisco's been virtually everything right, except get a superstar quarterback.

They can't, they're struggling to get to Super Bowls. So, you know, I've used the James Hardin analogy before. Just great regular season player, but it's easier to defend Lamar. But I think Lamar is a different human being. I think his work ethic, his passion. Hardin has never felt like the soul of anything. I think Lamar Jackson feels like the soul of the regular, of the city. So let me ask, you mentioned Matt Stafford.

So what is Stafford's career if he doesn't go to partner with McVeigh and become a Super Bowl? If he gets this Detroit group behind him and starts winning games, I think it's... No, but he was in Detroit forever, and I don't think he ever won a playoff game. He was really talented quarterback, but, like, if you don't have the pieces around you, the right coaching... But the difference is, Lamar's teams have been great in the regular season. Stafford's teams were okay in the regular... I mean, Lamar is literally, if you took out one player in the league, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar's been the best player in the league for the last seven years.

If you take out Mahomes... I think that might be a strong. I mean, I... He's going to win his third MVP. He's been the most dominant player in the sport. It's like people bag on the Dodgers for years. They don't win a World Series. They, excellence, you don't have to be the number one realtor in Los Angeles to be redeemable.

You may not win that top realtor, but it's like this idea that championships define you. Lamar is the best football player in the planet. If Mahomes didn't, if Mahomes would have chosen baseball, Lamar Jackson's the best football player in the world for the last, for the last five years. Are we sure? Yes. Are we sure he's better than Josh Allen? Well, again, the argument both ways, one guy's got more MVP's.

One guy has, you know what I mean? One guy's got the hardware. It's close. I think Allen, same argument. It's like Mickelson and Tiger Woods. If Tiger chooses baseball and not golf, Phil Mickelson's got four more majors and nine more tournaments. I would need to look at Allen's postseason numbers. But Lamar's have been bad, Colin.

Two and four record, even if you say records are not a quarterback's that fine. 57% completions in six playoff games. It is a small sample size. six touchdown six picks. That's just not getting it done. Final story is Jaden Daniels having a monster season with the commanders. Feels like rookie of the years locked up already. They're going for their seventh win of the season on Sunday.

Daniels heads to New York for a divisional matchup with the Giants. And Brian Dable has been very impressed with Jaden's play. He's one of better quarterbacks in the league already. You've got great vision. He can throw the ball. in any area he needs to throw it. You can throw it under pressure. He can escape, make plays with his feet.

He can escape, make plays with his arms. He's got good command, which we knew. He was just a smart guy when we spoke with him. He's playing really well at a high level. Yeah, I think what he said is true. He's already one of the best quarterbacks in the league, and we're very, very, I mean, C.J. Stroud last year, halfway through by Thanksgiving,

we're like, C.J. Stroud's a top 10 quarterback. I think he is. Now everybody's falling apart in his team. He won't play great tonight if they didn't have the weapons. I think it's fair to say Jaden, Daniels, is one of the top 10 to 12 quarterbacks in the league. That's what I see every weekend. Is this game in your Blazoned 5? Could be.

You know I love that number 4. You know I love that number 4. Whenever a team is favored by 4 or 5, I take the favorite. Who's the, I forgot, who the coach is in Washington again? What's his name? Dan Quinn. Yeah, how did he do historically when he was in Dallas against Daniel Jones? should probably look into that.

I don't know. I know people want to get off Washington because of the Hail Mary luck. How do they respond? Giants on a short week. No, no, no, no. I have three games I love. This is number three. And you know when it's a four-point favorite.

Now, last week I got burned because Green Bay was a four-point favorite over Jacksonville. That was the right side. Trust me. I was going in for a touchdown and took a knee. They led by 10 with like seven minutes left. I know. The magic number four and five. Take the team.

Take the favorite. Jay Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Heard Line News. So, I'm watching the Dodgers win last night, and we are all distracted. I'm distracted. Now, I'm not one of these perpetually online people.

That's now like a demographic, perpetually online people. They say those people now, the TikTokers and the Instagrammers are replacing Hollywood people. May be true. That's what they're saying. But we're all distracted. Caffeinated. Now, this is an election year, so we got anxiety coming out of our ears. But the best thing that could happen to Major League Baseball, dead serious here,

is that Soto, Juan Soto for the Yankees is arguably the great young player in the game. He and Atani would be for the Dodgers to outbid everybody and the Dodgers to add him to Otani, Freeman, Betts, Kershaw, Soto. It would be. Be the ultimate villain outside of Los Angeles. Couldn't take your eyes off it. Major League Baseball has not had a dynasty since like the early 2000s.

And by the way, go look at the NBA. Last time they got great ratings. MJ's Bulls. Kobe Shaq. Steph's Warriors. I think the Dodgers should make a run. This year, the Dodgers led baseball in home attendance, and they also let it in road attendance.

They're interesting. It's a star-studded machine, add another star. We're all distracted. You have to create urgency. And I think five former MVP, keys on a team would create special and unique. Create an experience. You can't get anywhere else.

Everybody got mad when KD. went to the Warriors. They watched. They were a villain. It was unique. We were calling them the greatest basketball team of all time. Again, there's a million platforms, a million channels, a million places for your eyeballs to go. People are not watching good. They're watching Caitlin Clark because there's never been anything like it in women's basketball.

The WNBA ratings are still okay. Her ratings are great. I would go after Soto, move other pieces. I mean, I just think in 2024, sorry if you don't want to hear that, but I think the sport needs a dynasty. Sequels not only work, they have redefined Hollywood. We got rid of independent films. It bothers the artists. It doesn't seem to bother the consumers.

Mahomes and Brady's dominance has not hurt the NFL. whatsoever. Hasn't hurt it a bit. I think Major League Baseball needs a dynasty, and nobody has the wherewithal and the passion and the attendance and the inertia and the momentum and already a launching pad of a franchise like the Dodgers. I would go after Soto. You'll probably have to let somebody go. Okay.

But when the Warriors went and got KD., Adam Silver was very uncomfortable. And then people stopped watching the Denver Nugget win a title. I know. It makes you uncomfortable. That's an unfair advantage. Sports is all unfair. Yukon women's basketball. The sport was very healthy when they won every year. Couldn't take your eyes off him. I lived in the state. I was watching. I'd never watched women's basketball regularly before. It got me to a TV. It got me to an arena. So you have to create special and unique to get audiences now. Everybody's distracted. Now, this is a strange

distracted year. That'll end in about two weeks, you know, the political channels, the losing side political channel ratings, whatever side loses, whether it's, you know, Republican, Democrat, their readings will come crashing down. It'll come back down to earth. People go back to watching sports and hopefully have less anxiety. But I'm sitting there watching last night and I'm like, I think if I was the Dodgers, I'd go all in again. And I think baseball would get kind of weirdly uncomfortable like Adam Silver did. Mahomes and Brady has not hurt at all. all NFL's dominance. It's helped it. And the last time we deeply cared about the NBA, it was KD and Steph and Clay and Draymond and everybody complained about it, but you couldn't take

your eyes off him. I'm not saying you want to win eight straight championships, but MJ's Bulls, Shaq and Kobe, KD, the Yankees' early 2000s, that's more than ever what draws eyeballs. Dominance, unique, special, a totally stacked roster. All right, coming up, next. I actually think it is arguably the most important game of the week for a player and a franchise. And I don't think it's going to get a ton of eyeballs, but it's a uniquely huge game for a franchise that can either fork in the road become great or unravel. I'll talk about that coming up next. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd. weekdays in noon

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They were all over downtown Los Angeles. They were at the beach. I don't live in a Ritzie Beach area, but I could hear the fireworks where I was at. So this organization has been so dominant, but like a lot of organizations, very rarely do you get the organization, the Patriots, the Chiefs, the Warriors, that when they had the chance, they win them all. A lot of organizations for years and years are great, and they had had the COVID championship. and this year seemed so unlikely because the Dodgers couldn't keep anybody healthy all year. Even Otani was all banged up in the World Series. And so it just felt very special for a – you know, I always knew it was a Dodger-Laker town.

It's been a Dodger-Laker town forever. But the Lakers just don't feel as premier as they did years ago because they're just not that successful. I mean, they're not a top five or six organization close to it. The ownership is not very wealthy compared to even the Clippers. But the Dodgers have been fantastic forever. And you really, last night winning, you could hear it where I lived, you could hear the fireworks all over Los Angeles. And it felt like a big, finally, finally. And there were a lot of times this year where it didn't feel like it was going to happen because the Dodgers were so beat up.

And I'll go back to it. That fifth inning last night for the Yankees, I'm sitting there watching every pitch like everybody in New York or Los Angeles. I could not believe what I was seeing. I could not believe Aaron Judge dropped that ball. He'd never committed an error in center field. And then Volpe, very good shortstop, New York kid, the toast of the town, hops a ball to third. What, this is all, to me, the stress you could feel was palpable. And then Garrett Cole, who was masterful, miscommunication, doesn't cover first base.

It was just insane. And the Dodgers bats, I mean, it's a much more sense. stack deck. Whereas the Yankees are very dependent on like Soto, Stanton, uh, uh, and judge for their power. The Dodgers just feel like it's an endless stream of guys, but once they committed all those errors, here comes Freddie Freeman, Teosca Hernandez. Teosker Hernandez isn't really necessarily part of the future plans. He's like a one-year deal guy. He was great against the Yankees this year in New York in that regular season series. He was a best player in the series, and he was so valuable again last night. So not.

Not everything went well. Max Muncie was great in the NLCS. Kind of didn't get it done in the World Series. Otani was great. Padres Mets didn't do much in this one. Flaherty, by the way, we warn you before the series started, they were concerned about Flaherty's velocity dipping. So his second outing wasn't very good, but they just found a way to use the bullpen. Outfielders becoming infielders. Kike Hernandez, now you're in a starting role. It just sort of all worked out, and I hope to get Dave Roberts on next week and a couple of Dodgers.

It was something to behold. That fifth inning was bizarre a world. It was. I mean, the Yankees, did they, did they, the entire season, Aaron Judge didn't drop a fly ball. Did Volpe short hop the third baseman all year? Did Garrett Cole not cover first all season? All happened in a span of 10 minutes. Just unraveled.

It was crazy. It was just absolutely crazy what you were watching. The game was over. It was 5-0. It's over. And you're like, man, we need to break here because Garrett Cole's second time. He's humming through the lineup. And it was like dropped ball, short hop third.

Garrett Cole doesn't cover first base. And you're just sitting there thinking, at that point, after Freeman and Teoska Hernandez tied it up, at that point I'm like, Dodgers are going to win this thing. They're going to figure out a way to win this thing. It's intense. I didn't know Walker Bueller would be that good in the ninth. He just mowed through the Yankees. But congratulations again to a really well-run organization.

And I've said this. I root for well-run teams. When I lived in New England, I rooted for the Patriots. They were more efficient and smarter than other teams. I root for Kansas City. You watch Kansas City on third down, fourth down, goal line stands. They're just smarter and better. I root for well-run organizations for the Dodgers to have this much depth

that they can move outfielders to the, the infield that they got they had a guy start in their bullpen game who'd never started before and they just patch work bondo sew it together make it work finally it was a dodger team that had the resilience and toughness that equaled their talent so to me it's very easy to root for well-run organizations i said this year in the NBA i like the celtics in oklahoma city i think they're really well-run i think Oklahoma city thunder are really well-run accumulating draft picks getting value out of their trades. I root for efficiency.

Smart sports is better sports. So there's a game this weekend that doesn't feel huge, right, on the national scale, but I actually think it is gigantic. The Bears at Arizona. Arizona's playing well now. We know they beat San Francisco. They went to Miami, and I'm like, I didn't trust them. And then now they play Chicago.

So, and you got all these Bears players coming out publicly this week, like a DJ Moore. And I thought the Bears coaching was a. mess in the second half. I got no problem with the players coming out and saying, it's not good enough. But if you look at Caleb, this is why it is a little bit of a tenderbox here. If you look at Caleb, he had finally given us a three-game stretch. He was getting better, better, better.

He was very confident. He was moving. He wasn't panicking. And we're all thinking, okay, Caleb's what we thought. Then off a buy, they go to Washington, and he's out of sorts. He completes 42% of his throws. Passer rating's at 60. First six series, seven, six.

series, all punts. It was a mess. So it's a huge step back. And the Bears have yet to face. Remember, they've yet to face one NFC North team. And it's the best division in football. So the next couple of weeks, they have Arizona and New England. They're going to win those games. Because this thing could unravel really fast. If you go look at their schedule, it is just a gauntlet of Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay. But they have two games they should win. Arizona and New England and if they don't this puppy could unravel

because remember Matt Iberflus as a road coach has won three of 17 games or three of 20 he's 3 and 17 so Matt Iber flus bad road coach Matt Eberfluse bad coach in division 2 and 10 so there are just moments in time

for an organization that doesn't have the infrastructure or the historical inertia and momentum to overcome turbulence. And losing that game last week, that second half was turbulence. So this thing, I think Chicago could go off the tracks if they lose against Arizona. Then the New England game is a go-either-way game. Then into your gauntlet at Detroit, at Minnesota, Green Bay, at Green Bay.

So they're just, this is a franchise. Caleb Williams is a quarterback. They're just trying to get their feet under them and be consistent. And they had been for three weeks. and now last week's second half, you see how bad, how quickly the Chicago Bears can get. I mean, you went from feeling great about the organization to the hell am I watching. And that's what happens when you don't have an infrastructure. You don't have a great coach.

You don't have a great history. You don't have a stacked roster. Little turbulence. And you get veering off the tracks. Here's Caleb Williams trying to rebound from that Commodore's mess. You know, we just lost the game. We lost a game in a way that sucks. There's obviously a sense of accountability that I have to take.

Didn't play well first half. They got multiple three points that allowed them to put themselves in a position to be able to obviously have that 30-second drive and throw a hell, Mary. Yeah. The other thing I think is interesting this week has been the pushback on the the Colts moving off Anthony Richardson and going with Joe Flacko. And I was reading a story this morning. The NFL is really no longer a developmental league for quarterbacks.

Stay in school another year. Do a Bow Nix. Just stay in school another year. You're better off. It's not a developmental league. So if you come to the NFL like Anthony Richardson with 13 starts and you're like, well, all get two to three years to get cleaned up. No, you won't. No, you won't. I mean, Jim Ursa is one of the more impulsive owners. You will get a year, and by Thanksgiving of year two, that's always been my

timeline. Thanksgiving of year two, people are making decisions on you. Now, the Colts beat that by about a month. They already made a decision. But this idea that, hey, it's a slow build. When owners used to have a net worth of $480 million, it was. Now owners, the poorest owners, worth $2 billion. Like, that's not the way it works now. So what does that mean? They can fire an entire staff $48 million. It's a rounding error.

They can make that in the day now. They don't care. They want to win now. Billionaires are less patient on Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the NFL. So this idea that, oh, this kid deserves time. Deserves? That's over. It was literally, if you think I'm wrong, ask yourself this.

Wasn't everybody shot when the Giants gave Daniel Jones a new contract? What more do you need to see? You're like, and look at the mess the Giants are. So this idea that the NFL, oh, it's just a developmental. No, it's not. Stay in college. Stay in college. Get another 12 games under you.

I mean, I don't think Bo Nix doesn't jump off the television, but the part that I really liked about him is he was more. athletic than you thought, and he played 61 college games with two programs. So you knew when he came into the league, he'd be ready to play. He'd have to catch up to game speed. That'd take about six games. But if you watched the last couple of weeks, you're like, okay, he's caught up to the speed of the league. He looks like a franchise quarterback.

But you don't go to the NFL thinking, hey, I've got to get time here. Kenny Pickett? A Pittsburgh kid. The Steelers were like after about 10 games, it doesn't look great. After 15 games, like, I don't know if this works. Boom, gone. Greg Cocell, top of next hour. Quebec football, plays fantasy football,

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