The Herd with Colin Cowherd - HOUR 1 - Wilson, Rodgers, Packers, Tua

Episode Date: September 19, 2022

Who is to blame for another rocky outing for Russell Wilson with the Broncos? Thoughts on Trey Lance's injury and the 49ers going forward The Packers win over the Bears wasn't a surprise People are elevating Tua Tagovailoa too soon because of 1 game   Guest: Jimmy JohnsonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the herd, wherever you may be. However, you may be listening. IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, FS1, one hour from now where Colin was right, where Colin was wrong. Sean Payton, Jimmy Johnson, Trent Dilfer, stacked today, J-Mack. Well, first of all, congratulations on the most stirring Jets win in a five years. It felt pretty good. I'm on Cloud 9. On the road?

Yeah. Back up quarterback. We got the Bengals this week. Bengals can't block anybody. I might suit up at defensive end and get a sack of Joe Burrow this week, Colin. Well, good for you. I thought you were the first guy I thought of. Good, good viral stuff on the Jets and Flacco and Robert Salah.

Congratulations to them. So two games in, do we blame Russell Wilson or Nathaniel Hackett? Blame the coach of the quarterback. So the fans booed Russell a little and booed the head coach a lot. So here are all the hallmarks of a coach that's over his head. You burn through timeouts. Denver is burning through timeout. That's the first sign.

Secondly, you're really bad situationally. Third down, should we go for a field goal, fourth down, kick it? Denver is horrible situationally. Russell Wilson wasn't in Seattle. Another thing, at one point, they had no punt returner on the field. So there's all the whole. hallmarks of, oh crap, this coach is over his skis. Now, 75% of coordinators who get a job, like Joe Judge, remember that? We all bought into Joe Judge initially. It usually takes about a year

or two to go, he's the wrong guy, but not always. A lot of us bought into Joe Judge for a year. And then we find out that it's not working. Remember, Matt Patricia, remember, he won a couple big games already, beat Belichick early. So it takes a while, but not all the time. Jim, Tom, Sula San Francisco. Disaster first month in. Freddie Kitchen, Cleveland. Very bad, very early. And again, you're seeing the hallmarks of a coordinator who is just that. And this is something to think about. What were Nathaniel Hackett's responsibilities in Green Bay? Matt LaFleur, an offensive coach, ran the team. And Aaron Rogers is a strong-willed quarterback, veteran quarterback. So how much did Nathaniel Hackett do in Green Bay?

It doesn't appear he ran the clock because the clock stuff is really bad for Denver right now. They're flying through timeouts. They're a mess situationally. They don't have punt returners on the field. They can't figure out what to do on fourth down. So my question is, what did he do in Green Bay? The headline this morning in Denver, this is from a newspaper, thank goodness Russell Wilson grabbed the wheel of the clown car from the clueless Bronco Nathaniel Hackett.

That's a headline in Denver today. And the other thing, and this isn't really Russell Wilson's full. it's Russell Wilson's reality. Anybody watch Kyler Murray run around yesterday? That's what Russell did his first four or five years in the league in the red zone. Right? Russell's moving the ball in Denver between the 20s. The yards are not the problem, but they're not good in the red zone.

Why? Because Russell Wilson used to play like Kyler in the red zone. He'd run around and buy time and run around. Now, I don't think he's quite as clever as Kyler Murray or as quick or twitchy as Kyler Murray, but it looked a lot like that. You can go back 10 years ago and look at Russell Wilson first three years in the league. He's running around. He's making stuff happen. He's buying time. The exhausted defensive linemen are chasing him. That's how Kyler Murray now scores in the

red zone. Because we don't know if Kyler Murray has a great head coach. And we don't know if Kyler Murray is great at the line of scrimmage, but he can make stuff happen at the red zone. Well, Russell used to do that. That's not Russell now. He's been hit a few times. He's put on 15 to 20 pounds. He's not a runaround guy in the red zone. So the yards are fine. But how do you score in the red zone. You either have like Andy Reeder or Sean Payton, a brilliant situational coach, or you have a quarterback like Brady,

who's unbelievable at the line of scrimmage and a great pocket passer, or you have a runaround guy. Well, I don't think Russell's ever been a great all-time pocket guy. He doesn't run as much, and he's got a clueless offensive head coach. That's why you're seeing what you're seeing. So we can all blame Russell Wilson, because I understand

you always want to, it's always the quarterback's fault. Quarterback gets the glory and the coach gets the blame. right i understand that when the packers lose in the postseason it's McCarthy and matt lafleur it's never errant i get it but um there's a convergence of things a young coach that right now is completely over his skis a veteran quarterback who doesn't move like he used to and that is what is happening in the red zone Denver is a mess and here's hack it after the crowd obviously frustrated at times but can you just give me a sense of overall i don't blame him i mean

heck, I mean, I was booing myself. I mean, I was getting very frustrated. I mean, get down to the red zone two times. Don't get another touchdown, which is unbelievably frustrating. I don't think we've scored in there yet. And that's something that all of our guys got to step it up, whether we run the ball more, whether, whatever we're doing, we just got to execute at a higher level. All right, let's talk 49ers. So it is possible in life. I know it seems very complicated, but it's actually possible to think two things at once. that sucks for Trey Lancy got hurt. Rehab stinks.

He needs time. He needs patient. He needs reps. It stinks for him. I know him a little. He's a great kid. It stinks for him. You can think that.

And simultaneously you can think this. Jimmy Garoplo is a better quarterback today. And the Niner players, did you see him celebrate after that first touchdown? They all know that Jimmy Garapolo is better today. And players don't care about 2026, 2025. They don't care about the tarmac. You're busting your arse as an offensive lineman ruining your body for the next 16 weeks. You have no interest in the future.

You've got an interest in Sunday winning now. And San Francisco now is a better football team. Yeah, it sucks for the kid. Well, I don't like to play. Kyle Shanahan was calling plays for a young quarterback that he thought would be effective. By the way, this is why they re-signed. and Jimmy Garoppolo. They knew Trey Lance as a distributor, a passer, wasn't ready yet. So they were going to have to run him a lot. And their concern was, it's football. He could get

banged up. He did. And now Garapolo comes in and everybody's like, well, I like the play calling better because they're not going to run Garapolo because he can throw from the pocket. So the Niners yesterday went from the teaching business to the winning business. They were in the teaching mold when the day he started. Let's be patient. Let's give Trey time. Let's get him snaps. and now they're in the let's go win games. So you can think two things at once. You can feel bad for the kid and it sets back his career. You can feel bad for him.

You know, broken ankles stink. He won't be able to push off on his foot for six months. It'll just delay everything. But you can also think immediately, watch the Niners. Folks, the Niners do not have their Hall of Fame tight end or their star running back. You can't have those two cogs missing and try to teach a quarterback how to play. That's why they couldn't move the ball. They've never needed Jimmy Garoppolo more than they need them now.

The Rams are for real. Arizona's dangerous. The heart of their schedules coming up. Go look at San Francisco's games. They don't have kiddle. They don't have their star running back. And their right side of their O line is just okay. That is not a time to be teaching somebody how to play a position.

That's the most important position in football. This team is built to distribute the ball, their playmakers, and that is Garoppolo's strength. And 24 hours ago, that's kind of Trey Lance's weakness to this point. Yes, I think Trey's got more upside. There's no question. But you were in the teaching business 24 hours ago. Now you're in the winning business with a lower ceiling.

And I think that it's, that's what teammates want. Watch the reaction when San Francisco scores. These guys like Jimmy, they know Jimmy. and for all the doubters on Jimmy Garoppolo, NFC championship, Super Bowls, Ledma Holmes in the fourth quarter, it's like you guys aren't watching the games. It's okay to admit it.

The Niners are better today in this season with the current quarterback, and that really stinks for the kid, who's a good kid, he's got a lot of talent, it may turn out, it may not. But they were in a teaching business without Kiddle, without Elijah Mitchell, and with the hardest games in their schedule for the next eight weeks coming up, including a couple with the Rams.

And in a weird way, here's the one silver lining. You really could have set back Tray Lance psychologically if you'd have benched him in three weeks. That could have really screwed him up. This is just an injury, which everybody has. Goropoulos had him. Brady's had him. Stafford's had him. Burroughs had him.

Herbert's had. Everybody has injuries. So you can still be confident that you get your rehab. have and be better. What really messes with a young person's head is, yeah, we don't think you're good enough. Week six, we're one in five, we're benching you. That could screw it up forever. This doesn't. You win more now. You don't screw the kid's head. He gets it done in six months. He can go back to practicing, working out whatever the prognosis is. Obviously, I'm not a doctor. After the game, Jimmy G. I'm comfortable here. The players, the scheme, all that stuff, the locker room,

It's uncomfortable. I'm familiar with it. So it's just, yeah, I'm not saying I knew this was going to happen, but I was ready for this in case it did happen and just want to take advantage of the opportunity. Folks, Kyle Shanahan's smart. Why did they bring Jimmy G. back? Because the Niner coaches had watched practice.

We have like seven different reporters in San Francisco. Mike Silver, a good friend of mine, is one of them. All the reporters were reporting the same thing in camp. The accuracy thing's a problem. So they brought Garoppolo back. Why? Because the feeling was in San Francisco is, listen, we're struggling a bit with the accuracy thing. So we may ask Trey to do a lot of running and RPO and you're going to get hit in this league.

So there's a chance at some point in the season he's going to get dinged up because that's the way to pick up first downs currently with his skill set. Well, we saw it. That's how they were trying to pick up yards. It's a little contrarian to what you want your quarterback doing. but when they're raw and when they're young and accuracy is an issue, you do what you've got to do the move the sticks. And he got hurt and he'll be fine. It's not a spine.

It's not a neck. It's an ankle. But San Francisco has proven to us. They draft well. They develop. They win a lot of games. They beat McVeigh. They know what they're doing.

This is not ideal. But this morning, I think San Francisco is a more viable championship team this morning than they were 24 hours ago. They're out of the teaching business. They're into the winning business now. Be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon Eastern 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1 and the IHeart Radio app. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games.

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Go to CarShield.com. Code Herd, 10% off your plan today. Or call 800, 391, 888, save 10%. So we told you Friday, listen, we make predictions on the show. We don't play it safe. We just go out, throw it out there, let it rip. And Friday, I said, here's what's going to happen. I said, Green Bay, I've seen this for like, you know, the last five or six years with Aaron.

They play a good team. They get whacked. And then they go back home to Lambo against the bears of the lions, crush them, and all is forgotten. Those primetime TV games with Aaron Rogers and a bad opponent in division. Oh, it just rinse and repeat, and everything's forgotten today. They lose to a good team. Aaron Rogers blame somebody else's moody, bad body language. They come home.

Remember, networks love Lambo Field and the Bears. It has a historic relevance. It looks fantastic. You get Aaron Rogers. The Packers win. Everybody's happy. Lambo looks great under the lights on Sunday night, on Monday night, on Thursday night. That's why they keep putting these Bears games on TV and they're not competitive.

the Bears and the Packers. It's not a rivalry league, really. That's one of the good ones, right? And it's not really a good one, but it looks good on TV, and it always looks good in Lambo. So they keep putting it on television, and it's always after, it feels like, it's when Green Bay really needs to play well

because they're bad in their opening week or bad early in the season. So, I mean, Chicago, Justin Fields completed seven passes last night and 15 in two weeks. He's learning how to play the position. So I said on Friday Blazing Five, it's one of my favorite picks of the year. Bay is going to roll them. It was over at half, and we all know it. But Chicago, and I've said this with

Justin Fields, I'm going to be very, very patient with Justin Fields. He's raw. He needs reps. It's a terrible old line. They have no receivers. And the organization hired a defensive head coach and their first two draft picks. What a shock. Corner and a safety. It's 2022. Get the kid some help. So he's got a bad old line. Moody's a decent receiver, but they can't get the ball to him. And let's get another corner and a safety. Good God. Some of these teams, I just roll my eyes at them. The bears love their defense. That's their history. They love their defense. And they love their defensive coaches. But the same issues with Green Bay this morning still persist. Aaron doesn't trust his young receivers. Ooh, Romeo Dobbs. His two catches were screen passes. He ain't throwing the ball downfield to him.

And he's a wonderful young talent. Christian Watson, it's jet sweeps. Those are running plays. it's Jeff sweeps. Sammy Watkins is not going to be the answer against that Niners defense against Tom Brady, against Stafford and the Rams, maybe even against Philadelphia. Same issues persist. He doesn't trust young receivers.

You know what Green Bay has become? I was thinking about this this morning. He's become a Bond film. James Bond. Incredibly predictable, fun, but never going to win the awards. Never going to be the best film of the year. And this team, despite beating Chicago at home, Lambo, cheese hats, the lights are perfect,

the announcing team, it's prime time, it's alone. Same issues persist. They don't really trust their two young receivers, and they're going to have to have really vibrant dynamic years for at least one of those guys to beat the best teams in the NFC. But I like Bond films. I watched all of them. I mean, never going to get an award. Tom Cruise's films, those are some of the best.

best ever. Mission Impossible, top gun, maybe the best films I've ever seen. Bon films out in the first round, but they're fun. Jay Mack with the news. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. Let's start with the Saints Bucks brawl. Fascinating. Listen, Tom Brady ignited that. You guys know, if you saw it, look at Brady talking trash to Lattimore. Latimore gets in his face. Fournette, then came to defend Brady. And then, of course, Mike Evans. who was basically on the sideline, comes running in with like a forearm shiver. It was brutal.

Latimore and Evans were ejected. Now, listen, the NFL just announced, according to pro football talk, that they're looking into Bruce Ariens' role in this. He was on the sideline. I know. You saw that. The cameras kept showing him. I didn't understand what was going on.

Like, why are they showing Bruce Ariens? But nevertheless. I do. I like how Mike Evans was voicing. It's Tom Brady. What do you want me to do? We got to back him up. I got to back up my guy.

Now, Evans is still mad that Latimore owns him. We talked about this on the show Friday. Evans had one catch against Latimore for seven yards. And on the plane ride back, there's some video coming out. Devin White, the Tampa Bay Bucks linebacker, who's everywhere. That guy's an animal. He was talking trash about James Winston. Hey, we dumped this guy.

He had 30 interceptions. We knew he was giving us the ball. These two teams do not like each other, Colin. No, it's really, I think college football is more of a rivalry sport. I think the NFL is just a really high quality of football sport. But this is the feisty. ugly, even Brady's struggling to beat him. So, I mean, when these guys play, it is, it feels like collegiate.

Like, it's regional. Like, these guys do not like each other. Tampa had 260 yards of offense. That's it. Now, I know they didn't have Godwin and Julio Jones. But you notice without Alvin Kamara, James Winston looked lost. I mean, he had interception, interception pick six on three straight series. Yeah, Kamara's really good.

Kamara's good. They missed him bad. This was one of the, you know, it was a 3-3 game for a long time. It ended ugly, but it was a very competitive game. for a long time. I was on the Saints. I don't want to talk about the referees. Yeah, there was some really friggin bad calls, Colin, in the fourth quarter. All right. Let's move on. Arizona Cardinals, your guy, Kyler Murray, holy cow, they were getting destroyed at 20-0. And Kyler Murray just unbelievable finish. He was one of the most electrifying players on Sunday.

The two-point conversion. I think they clocked him. Conlon, look at this. He scrambled for 84 yards on a two-point conversion. Oh, my God, he's unbelievable. Look at that. I don't even know how to explained Hunter Renfro with two fumbles on a drive? I felt terrible for him. Oh, and he's so clutch. Now, listen, Devante Adams, Colin, the guy they give up the world for had two catches for 12 yards. What are the Raiders doing?

Well, I think teams around the league, first of all, Devante Adams is arguably the best receiver, so he's going to face now double coverage. He is now playing in a much better division. Remember, he went from that easy division with chaotic teams. to now a division that's got like Josh McDaniels and Andy Reed and a defensive game. This is a good division now. Like the Raiders are in, I picked them for fourth, and I said they'll be a great fourth place team. But I mean, the bottom line is if you look at the Raiders schedule between their division

and playing teams like Arizona, the Raiders, if the Raiders can win seven games, eight games, that just may be what they are this year. They're out of conference and in division, brutal. You like defending Derek Carr, but up 20 to nothing. How do you not put your foot on the throat and just choke out? Can I have a, can I give one minute for a theory? So I got called from a friend yesterday. He goes, why aren't these games?

What is happening late in games? And I said, I've been hearing this from general managers for three years. Is that no team's got two good corners, but everybody's got three to four good receivers. So you get a lead in a game and they have like, they have to throw. You're leading a team. They have to throw. three or four good receivers, you have one decent corner. Everybody in the league, that's why corners now, how many great corners are there in the league? Four? Some football teams have three to four

good receivers, individual teams like Tampa. And so why are teams coming back? Because the great high school athletes in America, 14, 15, 16, 17. They want to be quarterbacks or wide receivers. You get the girls, you get the money, you get the fame, you get the touchdowns. They don't want to be running backs. And they don't want to be corners getting burned by these star receivers. So what you're seeing over the last six, seven years is college football has given us 25 new receivers a year, and they're brilliant in about two good corners. And these teams in the NFL get leads. And then when the teams, now all of a sudden it's nine minutes left, and they have three good receivers,

my number two corner is guarding a guy that is significantly better, and I can't hold the lead. The world has changed in football. Kids these days want to be quarterbacks or receivers. You can't hit a receiver over the middle. You can't hit a quarterback. They don't want to be running backs. They don't want to play defense. So why did the Raiders stop throwing the football?

What is Josh McDaniels doing? You've got a lead. You've got Waller, Renfro, Adams? The bigger story is leads are no longer safe. It is really hard. When you have an elite quarterback, like Cincinnati yesterday, got completely outplayed for three quarters. And then at the end of the game outside of Trayvon Diggs,

like Dallas is like, they got four good receivers. We got one good corner. It's hard to hold leads. I just wonder, last week we saw the, the Chiefs guys running wide open all day against Arizona. Patrick Mahomes had like 350 yards and five touchdowns in three quarters. And Derek Carr, they had nothing in the fourth quarter. It's like they punted offensively, Colin.

It's disappointing. They're not a playoff team in the AFC. We agree on that, right? Raiders are done. I had them to buy them for fourth. All right. Okay. Getting a little worked up here.

Final story. Let's go. The New York football jets. Look at Flacco. Deep door, wide open, Corey Davis. Busted coverage. Hey, Denzel Ward was asked about that. He's like, not my coverage.

Not my fault. Wasn't on me. They scored two touchdowns in the final 90 seconds. Wow. Recovered the onside kick. And here is, clutch Joe Flacco to Garrett Wilson. And you can imagine the excitement I had at home.

Look at it. Ashton Davis, former guy who drafted. Cal Bear. That was his only snap of the game. And he got an interception. Just a phenomenal win for the Jets. Again, this is a prime example, is that the Jets have some really good,

really, really nice wide receivers. Outside of Denzel. award. I saw it yesterday. I'm watching Cincinnati come back. I'm watching Arizona come back. How many good corners do the Raiders have? Because the weapons for Arizona are fantastic. The Jets have nice weapons. Cleveland had this game locked up. Nick Chubb broke off a touchdown run around the end. All he has to do, Colin, is slide down at the one yard line. It's over. A Jets were out of timeouts. The clock would have run out. Nick Chub goes in the end zone and then boom, the Jets score on like a 70-yard touchdown and the on-side kick.

The Browns misplayed that badly. And Colin, now they have the Steelers. Thursday night, short rest. Too early to ask for a pick on this one? No, Cleveland's going to win that game. Favor by three and a half. They're going to win that game. Cleveland's going to win.

You know, buying Trubisky? Come on. How bad is Pittsburgh? What is there to buy? All right. Just sell everything. So much fun this weekend. How great was that late window yesterday?

Unbelievable. We haven't even, well, we'll get to you next time. All right. J. Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Hurd-Ly News. This is something I've talked about with executives in the league.

It's like if you have a second great corner, you're very fortunate. It's hard not to have three good receivers. Some teams like Tampa, the Chargers, they've got three, four, five guys that can catch passes. And tight ends now can run. I mean, look at Kansas City. They lose Tyreek Hill. They get this guy, draft this guy, this guy, you watch their offense. They could never replace their corners that quickly.

but they replace Tyreek Hill overnight. There is so much wide receiver talent in high school, in college football right now, and it's just moving up the chains. Kids come out early. Jamar Chase and Justin Jefferson walk in this league. An hour later, they're unbelievable. But that's not happening with corner. So protecting leads, I don't, it is so, I feel so bad for coaches.

The Jets are a bad team, but they've got nice weapons. You forget how good Corey Davis was. Davis has talent. But outside of Denzel Ward, who are you going to put on him? He's big, he's strong, he can run. I want to say this. The two most predictable things of the weekend. Aaron Rogers was going to go and crush Chicago and you're all going to fall in love with them again. And Tua is going to start putting up big numbers as we predict it all offseason and you're going to get fooled and suddenly think he's great. Congratulations for hitting a bunch of wide open guys on broken coverage.

He's still small, not very athletic, with an average deep arm. Folks, if you can't hit some of these throws, he under throws Tyreek Hill there. If you can't hit these throws in the NFL, these are layups. Wow, what an amazing throw there. That's a practice throw. And then in the back of the end zone, he overthrew somebody who made a great catch. I mean, that's a great catch, actually. So again, you suddenly think he's now tall.

really athletic? This is so predictable. They give him an offensive coach. They get him Tyreek Hill. He already had Jalen Waddle, who's in year two. They get him Cedric Wilson. Both the running backs look dynamic. They get him an all pro-left tackle.

His numbers go up, as we told you they would, and everybody freaks out. Ask yourself today on the AFC. Where does two a rank? Is he Josh Allen? Hell no. Herbert? No. Burrow, despite the O-N-2 record? No. Patrick Mahomes? No.

Lamar Jackson, no. What is to a grade at? Size, arm, athletic ability, he's accurate. So is Jimmy G. This to me, though, this has become, we told you this was going to happen. We said the dilemma in Miami, I picked him as a playoff team. The dilemma in Miami is not going to be the dolphin's scoring points in winning games. They are.

In fact, the dilemma is not going to be contua play. If you look at Tua's numbers last year, they weren't terrible. He's limited, but he's a capable guy. We saw it Alabama and we saw yesterday. He can hit wide open fast guys. Absolutely. He's a good kid. He's great at the podium.

I really like him. He's a good kid. He's taking a lot of crap. The Flores stuff was bad. Deshawn Watson rumors. He's been a wonderful kid and he can absolutely, I think the Drew Breeze comp is silly, but there's a little Drew Breeze in which he's not going to be great over the top, but he'll be good at the line.

He's a good guy. He'll accurately throw it. Hell, Tua admitted last week, yeah, I can't see over the line. I'm too small. He admitted it. He's not Lamar. He's not Herbert. He's not Josh.

He's not Patrick. Not any of these guys. I think he's a left-handed Mac Jones. Maybe he's a little better, not much. But we told you this what happened. Miami's going to win, get to the playoffs. They're going to be so much fun to watch because they just took the Niners assistant and brought the offense out. That offense got Jimmy G to a Super Bowl.

This offense is so quarterback. friendly. And the dolphins have better wide receiver talent, in my opinion, than San Francisco does. So this was all very predictable. Now, does Tua deserve credit for yesterday? Absolutely. I thought it was awesome. It's one of the best games of the year. But we told you this was going to happen. Is that this Renaissance, in fact, I think we made a prediction at one point. We said add 20 to 25 percent on all his stats. The dilemma is going to be at the end of the year. You're going to talk himself in to be in Herbert, Allen, Lamar, Mahalms, and he's not. He's still small. He's still have an average D-Barm, but I'm happy for him because, you know, again, this kid has gone

through so much nonsense. The ownership stuff, the Flores stuff, the defensive coach stuff, the bad old line stuff, the rumors about Deshaun, Fitzpatrick coming in every third start. It's easy for me to root for Tua, and I really is. And he's proven he can put him in the pocket with protection. He'll hit open guys. That's not his issue. But this suddenly yesterday I'm on a social, Oh my God, Tua is small. Two is not that athletic. Look around the AFC. Where would you put him this morning?

At best, like seventh? At best? I mean, I know you got him better than Russell Wilson this morning. He's not. Here's two after the game. I mean, I would say I'm always, you know, confident in what I can do, confident in myself. But, you know, I think that just shows the resiliency of our team.

it brings all our confidence up. Confidence in one another, confidence that if the offense has its turnover, that the defense is going to get us the ball back and vice versa. So I think you look at the big picture of it, you know, the confidence goes up for the team. By the way, don't call me a hater. I had Miami beating New England and getting into the playoffs. I think they're a playoff team. I like the coach.

I think they're on the right side of the ball now. I love Cedric Wilson, Jalen Waddle, Tyreek Hill, two really nice running backs, a legit left tackle. In 2022, they are built to win some games. Even in the tough AFC, I can like something but not go go, go and fall in love with it. I like the story. I think Tua is going to, for the next two years, when a bunch of games this year he's into the playoffs. But the reaction is so predictable. Of course he's going to improve his numbers.

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And few can say that. He's a hall of fame. He's on Fox NFL Sunday. He's a busy guy, and I'm just taking 10 minutes of his life. He'll never get back, but he's nice enough to show up for us on a Monday, Jimmy Johnson. All right, Jimmy. They're going crazy in Miami. Tua might as well be Josh Allen this morning.

I'm watching the game, and I am rooting for Tua because I think he's a really good kid. I really like him. Right. But if you can't hit some of those open receivers, you're not in the NFL. What do you make a Miami and Tua's Renaissance? Well, I think you're probably accurate in your assessment of Tua. I think you're probably a little bit hard on him as far as his athletic ability. I think he's a decent athlete.

He's got a good touch on the ball. Yes. But like every quarterback, you know, you've got to have talent around you if you're going to be successful. And I like Tuel because when I went to the facility and visited with Mike McDaniel, I walked in. and he was in the train room, he said, hey, coach, wherever you've been, I've been wanting to meet you.

So I like him. Yeah, no, and I will say this. He's dealt with a lot of garbage and nonsense. They've thrown a ton at him, Jimmy, and he deflex it. He's got a Dak Prescott quality. He's got to deal with a lot of nonsense behind the scenes. He's always a gamer, easy to root for.

He probably is a little more athletic than I give him credit for. Let's go to Dallas, where, you know, I'm going to throw this at you. You tell me if I'm right. I love Joe Burrow. but he didn't practice because of a surgery, and he didn't play in the preseason. By the way, same with Stafford. Didn't practice, had an arm injury, didn't play.

Same with Brady. Left for 11 days didn't play. They have all struggled. I think Cincinnati, Jimmy, will figure it out. But I think their offense looks completely out of sync at times. Well, I think Cincinnati fell into a trap. They were thinking, no. Dak Prescott, and we're going to blitz them every down, and we're going to give this quarterback a problem as far as Cooper Rush.

Well, Cooper Rush has been in the system, and he knows the system, and he was able to hit receivers that played man-to-man, you know, because they've got pretty good receivers there in Dallas. The other thing is, you know, when Tampa, you know, when Tampa played Dallas, they ran the football. You know, Fournette just ran up and down the field. Yeah. Because they knew the strength for Dallas is rushing the passer. Well, what's the weakness of Cincinnati? They can't protect the passer. And so Cincinnati fell into a trap, well, we're going to beat this team just because they don't have, you know, DAC.

You know, Dallas has got a lot of good players. Dak's not the only good player. Yeah. And those pass rushers just kill Cincinnati. Jimmy, I don't, listen, it's hard to coach in this league. But one of the things I look at when a coordinator who's never been a coach gets a job is situationally. You know, when you're a coordinator, the coach or the quarterback can control some of that situational stuff. Lefleur and Aaron Rogers.

So he comes to Denver. He has a reputation as dad was a coach. You had him on your staff briefly. But Jimmy, I'm looking at the burning timeouts. I'm looking at the situational stuff. And it's bad in Denver. I mean, we can blame Russell Wilson, but Jimmy is. It looks disorganized.

What do you make of it? Yeah, I think there's more to being a head coach than just calling offensive plays or calling defenses. You know, as far as the time management, as far as the clock, as far as managing the game, you know, work in the situation to win the game, you know, no different than Cleveland, you know, against the jets. You know, here Hackett, you know, he's had a problem there. And, you know, he's probably a little bit more involved in some other.

other areas than what he should be as a head coach. But you look at Cleveland, you know, all they got to do is take a knee. And the game's over with. Sometimes my assistance, when they say, hey, there's, you know, there's too much time on the clock. We can't kill the clock. I said, okay, take a knee, run the clock, get them out of timeouts. Take a knee, get them out of timeouts.

Then we'll punt the football. You know, and they're not going to go to the length of the field on us in 10 seconds. And so there's a lot to be in the head coach. besides being an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator. You've got to manage to win the game. You know, I watched Green Bay polish off the Bears, and the Bears are a bad organization. Justin Fields is kind of learning on the fly.

That's not a very winnable game. I don't care who the coach was. But here's my thing. Yes, they beat the Bears. But they're still not throwing to their rookies. And we know Sammy Watkins' history is, you're not going to be around for all 17 weeks. I think you have to attack the Roachers.

Keising just said, guys, I thought last night was a great opportunity, Jimmy, to use those rookie receivers. Get them involved because you just got better personnel. I mean, Green Bay's got better players. I just still see the same issue with Green Bay's receivers. Yeah, and the only thing is, I don't know that you want to do it in the game against Chicago, because you're going to be able to beat Chicago with the people you had, you know, doing it that way with just like Sammy Watkins, and you know you're not going to have Watkins for the year. But the time, you're that they will have with those rookie receivers in practice. You know, give them a couple more weeks.

Those rookies will slowly start to go into the offense. And I think Aaron Rogers will have those rookies ready to play. But, you know, let's not take a chance in a game that we can win without them. Okay. Let's get them ready during practice. You know, so I'm watching Kyler Murray, and it's just so much fun for me. I think you'd go gray really fast in the first. the NFL if that's your quarterback.

But let me ask you this. He reminds me of Russell Wilson his first three years in the league before he got hit a lot. How do you coach this, Jimmy, when it's so gifted, but it probably would it drive you nuts as a coach? Well, first of all, I can't

compare him to Russell Wilson. I think he's different. He is a phenomenal athlete that's probably not the greatest worker in the world, not the most discipline in the world. Maybe if I was coaching him, I'd roll the ball out to him, and then I'd go into the office and watch TV, and then he could tell me if he won or lost.

Because there's no need coaching him. I mean, you don't need to coach him. Just give him the football and go about your business, and then have somebody call you and tell you if you won the game or not. He is a remarkable player. Finally, I feel bad for Trey Lance. He's a good kid. But I think San Francisco realized that in order for them to move the ball, they had to run him some.

And they were going to have to move him around. And that's why my guess is they signed Garoppolo knowing the kid's going to take a little bit of a beating because that's how we're going to move the sticks with him. That's my guess, Jimmy, your thoughts. Well, when we were at the seminar here this past summer, you know, past summer, you know, Jay Glazer was talking about the different options that they're trying to trade Garapolo. and I made the comment to Glazer. I said, why don't they just pay Goropolo at a reduced salary and give him incentives? Because, hey, he's a good quarterback. He took him to the Super Bowl.

You know, maybe they're frustrated with him because of some of his throws and some of his, at-time's boneheaded plays. But, you know, he's got value. And sure enough, you know, they just fell into it because they were trying to get rid of him. here Lance gets hurt, and so they end up with Garampolo, and I know they're thankful that it happened for them. Yeah, they've got good weapons, Jimmy. They got a second tight end, I like that. I mean, they got three receivers. They're doing it now without kiddling their top back.

I think it's a really good football team. Your thoughts? They're probably a better football team today than what they were three or four days ago. Yeah. And so, you know, hey, they're a playoff team, and who knows how far they can go. All right, Jimmy, go fishing, do whatever you got to do. I always appreciate on a Monday you didn't have to do this, and thanks for stopping by. All right, Colin, good talking with you.

All right. And, yeah, I mean, you start looking at San Francisco's personnel. They have drafted tight ends, wide receivers well, running backs well. They got players. All right, there's a story. Jay Max got a story that has come down, which could have, it's interesting. Yeah, Mike Evans officially has been suspended for one game for his actions. in the Saints Bucks brawl.

Again, he was like on the sideline came off. Yo, you got a suspended. And this has happened before. Him and Lattimore got into it in 2017. But the real ramifications is Evans will have to sit, assuming his appeal doesn't go through. The Packers' Bucks game this Sunday, the big game on Fox,

the big window game at 425. They still have Julio, Fornett, Christian Brayte, they still have Gage. They have Chris Godwin. You just mentioned Cameron Brate as a factor. I mean, my takeaway is Green Bay can't afford to lose a receiver. Right.

Okay. Tampa, they're probably deepest in the league at wide receiver, even without A-B. I just look at that offense is limited. They had 260 yards. That's it. I think they average 5.0 yards per play against the Saints. Okay. So think about it. Brady took 11 days off, marriage stuff. Brady didn't take a snap in the preseason. The O-line had major injuries. And the receivers didn't work with Tom because they had major receiver.

I look at Cincinnati and Tampa and the Rams, and I'm like, they're fine. But you've got three quarterbacks who didn't practice, didn't play, and that means the symmetry with the old lines in Cincinnati, Tampa and L.A. are bad. Those are good football teams, but when, you know, you had a surgery, you had Tom took 11 days off for family. Stafford had the arm issue, so they rested him. So I think the Rams, the Bengals, and the Bucks are all really potentially. This is week two. I think they're fine. I mean, there are teams in this league that are struggling that are bad.

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