The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 3 - Dak Prescott is playing like a MVP

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

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How about that in-season tournament title? Saturday night, LeBron and AD dominate the young Pacers. LeBron 24 and 11 named MVP. Anthony Davis, 41 and 20. 41 and 20. That's a yokeage kind of line. You know he has those moments. After the win, LeBron spoke about the partnership he and AD have built.

Especially at the later stages of my career, you know, to be able to get, you know, a young, hungry, you know, alpha male to go out there and just do the things that he do. It's definitely, you know, giving me an opportunity to be able to not only watch as you. he continued to grow, but also be able to try to inspire him as well, you know, as he continued to grow in his career and vice versa. So, you know, I feel like, you know, when we're on the floor together, we're healthy, we know what we're doing. We just played too many games together. We've shared too many moments together, playing in too many big moments together to fail each other. So, you know, it's been everything, you know, like I said, especially at the later stage of my career. Does it feel like Anthony Davis in the last, like, year?

of total basketball has been healthier. Like he was dinged up for like years and years, but this year healthy and the last year healthy. Even that series against Denver against Yokic, everybody was like, ah, I didn't do much. He actually played really well. It's just Yokic is the world's best basketball player. But Anthony Davis, I don't know

what it is that he changes training. I don't know what the answer is, but it does feel like he is more consistently healthy than he has been in several years. That's what it feels. And also, LeBron's having an insane season. So, AD, you know, I started calling him always down because he would always be down on the ground. My buddy told me, you can't call him that anymore.

He's staying up and healthy. You know, Lakers, probably a top five team in the league right now, Colin. When you look at the roster. No, I mean, Denver and Boston are the best starting five, don't have a bench, and then the Lakers are absolutely in the discussion. And I'll say it again, there were 7 and 0 in the season tournament. If you're talking about a single game, only Denver and Boston, I think. are better. I think LeBron and AD for a single game. I just think if you look at the fragility

of Anthony Davis's career in LeBron's age, the playoffs is hard for these teams. You get into these six-game series, six-game series, six-game series. They're not, Boston's younger. Denver's younger. And LeBron just did something Michael Jordan's never done. Michael Jordan never won an end-season that's right. That's a big W for LeBron. Big, gigantic W. Just put it in the ledger. I think you can put this up there with a championship. Which championship for LeBron? many. I've forgotten them. Yeah, I mean, I think this is just an inch below an NBA champion. Jordan couldn't do this. He just couldn't.

It's a fact. Next up, Detroit Lions. Boy, they are trending so poorly right now, Colin. That offense did just fall behind early. Gough was another turnover machine. Two more picks. They had 76 yards in the second half. I mean, it was an abysmal performance all around after the game. Dan

Campbell, he did not seem happy. It's discipline. I mean, across the board. And that's why I bring that up, man. We've been a disciplined team and we just weren't enough today and they were. And ultimately, we played their game, you know. We never really got to play our game. We've got a pretty resilient team here.

And we'll bounce back, man. It was a loss and it steams. Nobody feels worse about it than those guys do. And the coaches, I mean, we all feel, and this is hard. It's a hard pill to swallow. But the guys we got, it only motivates you to want to move on. get a win. So I will say this about Chicago. What do we always say if you have a young coach? Does he get his side of the ball right? So they pick up Montez's sweat. Look at this defense now.

It's actually pretty good. So Matt Eberflue say what you want. His side of the ball, Brandon Staley's defense when the charger stinks, right? Can't do anything. This defensive coach's side of the ball, if you want to run him out, it's like Sala. The bear's defense now is pretty darn good. You can't run on him. Wait, wait. If you want to run him out, What I'm saying is everybody wants to run Saul out. I never have a problem with the Jets defense, but they've had good pieces. The Bears finally now have some nice defensive pieces. Well, it's a very good defense.

So, and the other thing is, I think because you have to make a move on Justin Fields' contract, right? You have to extend him. So he's going to get expensive. Atlanta isn't paying any of their young players. If I'm not, I think Caleb Williams is too talented to pass on, and I want to restart the clock for a rookie quarterback, because you have to make a move on Justin Fields. But I do think these big games for him make him much more viable on the market

to get a first round pick. I think he's going to get a first round pick. And now you're going to have three first round picks if you're the Bears. Nobody's giving up a one for Fields. What if he has three more of these? He has three more. Like, it's not that big of it.

Trust me, he's not getting one. However, quickly are the Lions. We're selling our Lions stock. But you look at the schedule. No more outdoor games than the regular season. That's huge. Goff, we know crumbles in the cold weather. They played Denver next.

This game against Denver's massive. I mean, the Broncos are closing it on the Chiefs. I saw four down to three and a half, so early money on Denver. Detroit favored at home. I don't know. Coaching this match. If I get four on taking Denver. Your boy, Dan Campbell against Sean Payton.

Two of your favorites, right? Peyton and Campbell. Remember what I call Campbell a bottom seven coach and you bit my head off? Yeah, I remember that. What are we doing? Final story here is week 14 wraps up tonight. Two MNF games. This is weird.

both games are at the exact same time. Yeah, I know. I don't like that. And I've got a championship game in my men's league. I don't know how I'm going to do all this. I don't know how America is. Miami is up to 13 and a half against Tennessee. Packers, some Giants money, down to six. I don't know why they'd put them on at the same time.

Why would you do that? This is not the one o'clock window on Sunday. I want to watch the Packers. Yeah, there's no red zone for this. You can't. I'm going to be stuck while. I have to multi-screen it. Don't love it.

By the way, Will Levis is tonight. So is DeVito. Those are bad quarterbacks. Luckily, we get Tuah and Tyreek Hill. Listen, if you're Tyreek Hill, you saw Dak Prescott win, you saw Brock Purdy win. If I'm Tyreek against his secondary, I'm going for like 200 yards tonight. Big showcase game, Monday night football. This is his MVP chance to make a statement today.

Yeah, I agree. Jay Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Herd Lie News. 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.

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Three nothing. Hey, it happens. That's actually when you get tested as a broadcaster when there's no points. Not the easiest game to do. It's a defensive struggle. Did I hear a championship men's league game? Oh, boy, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

So your buddy, Dan Chris is playing in it tonight. So you're refereeing a game? Oh, that's harsh. Jay, how did you get a championship? Not a men's club. Sorry. All right. So we were talking about this.

Bree, Steve Young, Montana, Brady, Dack. It's, they hit 30. So everybody now wants, two years, I want to see if you can play. But you start looking at Steve Young and Joe Montana and Breeze and Brady. And they start, Peyton Manning, by the way, most of their Pro Bowls and MVP's are post-30. And we're saying is if you're a freak physically, Lamar, Josh Allen, Farrv, you can kind of do stuff post- snap early in your career. But if you're not, it takes

time to become what Tom calls the chess player. Sure. And when I watch Dak, I'm like, there's some chess here. Like he's getting in and out of stuff. Mark, they just don't put themselves in bad spots much. Yeah, I think after the by week, too, they've really

ascended. And I think they've switched a couple things. They let him do a little more at the line of scrimmage. I think Brian Schottenheimer's been a huge addition for that offense. He's really made things simple and Dax kind of handled it the right way. But what you mentioned, I think, is an interesting part of quarterback careers. When you're still athletic enough and you have enough arm talent to get things done,

you still have enough mobility to move just enough to create a little space in the pocket and make a throw and your brain, your anticipation, your experience, the rolodex of defenses and plays that you've seen and blitzes that you've seen, and blitzes that you've seen are starting to intersect. And both of them are still there. I think that's your prime. And it's right around 30 that you just mentioned where these guys, I know what's coming

and I can still move enough, look out. Because I know where this ball's going to go. I got you now. Bring the blitz. Don't bring the blitz. I don't really care what you do. I'm so confident in my ability, because I can still sling it.

Look out. This is where things get really fun for a guy like Dak, but this is he's been fun to watch man no question he's been throwing lasers you know it's funny too mark because um there's a lot of new owners and the new owners are kind of impatient yeah they want it now yeah say what you want about jerry he kept jason garrett way longer than the fans wanted mike mccarthy everybody bailed two years ago he didn't dack what do we make of him jerry's old school money like he's like this is not my first rodeo i'm not going to listen and i will give him

credit where the league is getting much less patient. Jerry's kind of like, I'm just going to stay with Mike. You know, I didn't think the Kellynne Moore thing would work. It's a better offense now. And by the way, they also, they've been patient with the offensive line. You know, they'll go get guys in the first round in the offensive line, and we crushed them for it. But part of it is, I feel like Jerry's kind of this old school, which is, guys, let's stuff

bake a little. You got to play the long game with some of this stuff. the marathon versus sprint analogy, meaning keep the core group together. Keep some of the core pieces together. Don't keep changing up the offensive system, forcing your quarterback to learn a new language every other year. It just makes it hard. Keep the same guys together because that original playbook that you come in with day one,

it evolves over time. You have to think of these offensive playbooks as a living, breathing, almost like an animal, okay? And it's a baby when it first starts, and it's very simple. It can only do a couple things, and the players make it special. Well, as those players stay together and that offense grows a little bit, this offensive playbook takes on a new shape, a new life, and it's becoming something different. There's new code words. Hey, we're going to switch this up.

We're going to add a tag, Travis Kelsey, on this route that you've run 900 times, and we've hit 899 times out of 900. We're so good at this, but teams are starting to play it now. here's their response. Boom, now we have a response to their response with this little tag. And we're just going to signal it with a little hand signal, whatever it is. So you can tell when you keep guys together, you let it bake, as you mentioned, that's where you start to get success.

And that's where you have success in crucial moments because guys have been there before. They've seen it. They've been through the fire together. And they can execute when it all matters. Is Philadelphia, because I sort of downplayed their loss to San Francisco as, you know, battle fatigue. God, they'd play the Niners, the Chiefs, and the Bill, like heavy snap games. But there's also, as you well know, there's a reality of personnel limitations.

They're not great at Corner. And the other thing is, they lost two great coordinators. And I watch their offense, Mark, and it's just, it's not as diverse. It doesn't have the dexterity. I think they forget about running. Some of this is, you know this. Not all coordinators are equal. No.

And as much as it's the coordinators, I think some of it, a lot of it has to do with the running game. Like when DeAndre Swift is on early, it made life easy for Jalen Hertz. He had a chance to run a little bit earlier in the year. The past couple years, he ran a little bit. As soon as he hurt his shoulder late in the year last year, he's running numbers and production have really plummeted. And it's because they're trying to take care of him. And then this year, he's nursing and knee injury. So he can't, he's not quite as explosive.

You could tell when he's running, it's the, to get out of trouble not to attack. And it's a different mentality. And so when they don't hit those rushing numbers, when they don't dominate the line of scrimmage, when they're not controlling the tempo and pace, the other teams have done that to them. They've kind of flipped the script on the Eagles two weeks in a row.

And mind you, these are two of the best defenses you're going to play. You know, Nick Bosa makes a comment last week, hey, we put the blueprint out there to beat these guys. Well, you also have to have the players to be able to do that. Okay, not every defense in the league can, okay, we're just going to use that plan. Well, okay, who's rushing the passer? or who's keeping them in the pocket.

Who's going to make them throw it 45 times? Right now, like, you make Jalen Hurts throw it 45 times, I like my chances on defense. That's fine. Go ahead, drop them back every time. Because I know where it's going. We're going to double those two outside guys. Somebody, we're going to mix and match on Goddard

and try and confuse them inside. We can hold up in the run game. I mean, they rest for like 60 yards last night or whatever it was. So that's an issue for them, figuring out that run game and his health. You know, if he's not as capable as a runner, then it better start showing up from the pocket or, you know, this is what the games are going to look like when you play those really good teams. And those two teams that they just played, you're going to have to beat those teams at some point to get to the Super Bowl. So I don't think it's been a wonderfully officiated year.

And I do think there are tipping points where it's probably time to pay some officials. So I can think two things. One, Cadarius Tony's foot was over the line. But two, what you don't want to do is get in the way of the greatest play of the year. When you watch that, what was your interpretation of him? Listen, is he over the line? Yes. Without a doubt, hands down, no two ways about it.

He's over the line. Is that a foul? Yes. Now, how do you officiate it? I don't know. How do you officiate Bradbury's call in the Super Bowl last year? Is it a PI in preseason? Yes.

Is it a pass interference in training camp? Yes. Is it a pass interference in the Super Bowl? Yes. Okay. Crappy time for that call. However, they usually give you a warning. That's what I thought.

Especially the first, second time. Like, you got to really, it's got to be egregious, right? But he's blocking the ball. And the problem is he's the third inside receiver. So it's harder. You know, when you're number two or number three, meaning closer to the referee on the sideline, those guys line up on the ball, they look out at the guy and they say, hey, am I good?

And the ref either gives you one of these or he goes like this or like this. Move forward or move back because you're too far in the backfield and you're going to get a penalty for too many in the backfield or illegal formation or your off sides. In this situation, I don't know. Did he get warnings earlier in the game? Was it an issue? It sounds like no because of what Andy Reid said.

And then, of course, I mean, Patrick Mahomes just blew his top last night. But he was... But he... That's who he is as a competitor. I saw him yelled at how to read last year. And there's way more cameras and microphones and all... You don't think Jordan's like that?

You don't think Kobe's like that? Like, that's who these guys are on the field. They are this crazy and unrecognizable version of themselves. The guy that steps in between the white lines and puts on number 15 for the chiefs in that red jersey, especially like... when he's going like that is a different guy than goes and visits the children's hospital, okay? You know what I mean? It's the same person, but it's a different personality, completely different personality. So when he's on the field, he's a stone cold killer,

and when things don't go his way, he's pissed, and it's everybody else's fault. You know, like, that's just the psychology behind it, and that's fine. So a bunch of people caught mics and people are saying, oh, he embarrassed himself. All right, that's just competitive. So to get to that level, you've got to be a little bit of that. Now, that moment, the bills needed a break. They got a break. But that I can't say, and maybe I'm burying the headline, that was one hell of a play, man. Oh my God. You kidding me? I couldn't believe it. I mean, as soon as he cut the, as soon as he even motion like he was going to throw, I was like, what the hell is? Oh my God. That's a walk off. So we said, and then you see the flag thing come up,

you know, the little, uh, yellow, the yellow deal on the TV. I was like, oh no. Oh, not a hold. oh, not a pre-snap. Oh, God. You know, and so, yeah, it's a tiki-tag call, but it's the rules of rules. I don't know. What are you going to say? Brock Purdy breaking down tape with Mark Sanchez. He brought tape in a second.

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I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions,

my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment,

and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So if you've ever supported me or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast.

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It's insane. Let's go. Can you imagine? I think Stefansky gets a nice. not because he's conservative, but what he's done with Joe Flacco, tip of the cap, man. Can you imagine if they go on a serious run here with that defense? Like he knows exactly. It's almost the way he played when he was younger when he first came in the league.

Like he didn't have to do much. They're running the ball with Ray Rice. They got one of the best defenses in history of football. Well, they got another historically good defense. Dude, you don't have to do much. And when they're open downfield, this dude still got freaking canon. Oh, Joe always had a cannon. I love it.

And he's just so happy and grateful. Did you see the interview out of the game? He's just like... He's having the time of his life. We talked to him in the production meeting. He was talking about throwing the balls to his kids in the yard before he got signed to the Browns. And so immediately I go, all right, who's...

Give me the receiver depth chart of your kids. Give me their names. And who's your one? Who's your go-to? Who's your third down? Gotta have it play. He goes, dude, come on. I can't do that.

I can't crush my kids. They all did great. I'm like, Joe, tell me for real. And he wouldn't do it. To his credit, he said they all were great. He's having the time of his life. But they did give him a hard time when he'd throw bad balls.

He's like, occasionally I'd miss and they're all over me. That's great. Great story. All right, we got clips. We got video of Brock Purdy, take it away.

So this is great. I think just to preface, first and 10, always an important down. You want to get positive yards, and both of these plays are on first and 10. The first one, the games,

the game's and the balance in both plays, but they're down 10-7. And they're running one of the, the most basic old school West Coast, Joe Montana, Bill Walsh plays with a little different flavor on it because they do it out of empty. So go ahead and roll the clip.

They're going to motion out, Christian McCaffrey out of the backfield, but essentially there's going to be, you know what, a five when you're rolling dice and you roll a five? There's going to be guys in those five spots. One in the middle, two up high, two down low. Well, your reed starts over the ball, and you go towards the squeeze. So Kittles, number one, this backer squeezes to the right.

now your eyes go to the right. Well, Brock has to move a little bit, and I don't like what Iyuk does at the top. He confuses a quarterback a little bit, and Brock ends up having to move because there's a D-Lyman right in his throwing lane, and just a bad ball. He throws it too far inside.

Iuke tries to reach for the ball. I don't like Iyuk at the top, so both guys are wrong. Brock Purdy with a bad throw, and they happen. This is okay. You know what? First and 10, oh, shoot.

Bad ball, bad route, boom. Let's get it fixed. no worries. This guy's also had seven straight games completing 70% of his passes. So the kid's on fire, right? He's like casino dealer in Vegas, just dealing. Well, next time he gets a first in 10, roll this next clip. He's going to have to get out of the pocket. This is your worst nightmare. When you drop back, you'd prefer to see, look over the nameplate of your offensive lineman. You don't want to look face-to-face with your offensive lineman. And sometimes this happens. But look at my man. Remember Joe Montana, Joe Cool, look at this guy. You see the stripe of the helmet. Downfield, where am I going? First and 10, let's be smart. It's one-on-one. The defender's not looking at me.

Julian Love got him with the pick last time. This shows me that this guy has amnesia when he plays. He can forget the last play, which is awesome. So I'm just going to lob this ball up, give my guy a chance, if not it's second and 10, and we'll get back on track. But this is the kind of stuff that I love seeing from him. He makes a mistake, a crucial mistake,

in a tight ball game against a divisional rival, and he comes right back. Same situation. Boom, has to escape the pocket, has enough athleticism, enough arm strength. He's playing out of his mind. And they had, you know, that rough stretch. They lost three in a row. They're missing their tackle. Trent Williams, they're missing Debo Samuel.

Debo Samuel had a big one blew right by Jamal Adams in coverage. Like, it was such a good game from Brock Purdy to just stay sharp. And it's just like his personality. You know what I mean? You see him in the press conferences. nothing affects this guy, man. He doesn't flinch. He doesn't worry about anything,

and he can come back from crucial mistakes, which I really love watching. So I was saying earlier, I think a lot of coaches do some coaching in the off-season, and then the really good coaches do coaches. You see the transition in-season, in-season coaching. I think offensive coaches are better equipped to do it. If you look at the last six weeks of the Denver Broncos,

the defense was a yard sale. It was a mess. Russell wasn't right. They couldn't consistently run. Take out last week, and Houston's got a defense. Mark, six weeks in a row, they look like a little like Green Bay. It's a totally different team than six weeks ago. What do you make of Peyton the Resurgence?

I think Russell is playing really, I think what he's done is said, listen, this is what Russell's going to do. And I'm going to get the most out of the time. of what he can do. Exactly. But one big play, a lot of twitchy run stuff, but he's not asking a ton from him.

Correct. Tell me what you see. So I made the mention in our game a couple weeks ago. First, I got to give credit to Vance Joseph because he's got this defense playing well, putting Browning in great positions, and Browning was hurt at the beginning of the year, number zero coming off the edge. I mean, that guy's making a serious impact now.

He is. And they've brought him in, you know, um, uh, carefully, you know, pitch count early on coming off his injury, and then boom, now he's just full go and wreaking havoc in the backfield. So Van Gogh has done an excellent job with Sertan, with, I love Justin Simmons,

or center field or free safety. He's really good. Cereemps. Yeah, I mean, they're just, they're in sync and they look right. Um, offensively, I made the mention that this, this offense when they say, you know, let Russ cook, let Russ cook. That was the whole thing in Seattle and the whole riff and whatever. And now, he's in Denver. Well, let Russ cook can be a couple different things. You can have a cheesecake factory menu where it's anything and everything or it's like a chef's prefix menu. And you get two options here, two options here, and I'll let you have a dessert. And that's what they're doing. And the way he's giving Russell ownership of it is you'll see him go to the line of scrimmage in some odd formations with four

receivers to one side, motion the running back around, just to try and get some information. And he's going up there with a package of plays. And you can hear it sometimes on the audio when we're calling the game of what he's telling the guys up front. And he's basically going through a quick little checklist of, okay, we're good, let's run this. Boom, hey, we're running left. Boom, we're running right. Okay, quick throw. And he's giving him some easy ones because with that formation, it's going to tell you everything you need to know about this defense. Man, zone, whatever it is. I got answers for you. Russ, trust me, stay within our system and call these plays. Now, when they're run the ball the way they have been. When Russ gets involved in the running game, he steals a few yards

on some scrambles and stuff. Then they become a team that can hit some of those play action shots downfield. And it's usually a one-on-one situation where he just launches it up to Sutton. Or when he has Judy screaming across the field. And it's one-on-one, Russ. Just throw that beautiful deep ball that you can throw that we all know and love. And let those guys do the rest. Don't worry about it. I don't need you to drop back 50 times a game. Go from progression one through progression five. While there's pressure in your face, like, that's not who we are. And so a couple games earlier in the year. Yeah, remember that?

Yeah, he had to, I mean, they literally gave up 70 points, okay? That beat down in Miami, that, I mean, that's like makes teams either shut down or go the other way. And credit to Vance Joseph, Ben Kotwicka, their special teams coordinator, and Sean Peyton, for getting all three phases to work together and figure this thing out. they're riding a wave right now and they look confident they look tough they're starting to believe

they're figuring it out and and Russ is playing great you know it's interesting when you get the quarterback right it cinches it I look at them they have a safety I like a corner I like two linebackers I like a D-Lyman I like a tied end to receive you start looking at all the personnel and you're like they don't have a ton of holes

no like Philadelphia I don't like their back end yeah it's the other defense well as soon as Avonte Maddox went down that really threw him in a tailspin. That made a tough one, Philly. Oh, you have the Bears next week. We got 30 seconds. Justin Fields going to be fun.

I think it's interesting because what are you going to do with that pick? Like, what if he plays out of his mind the rest of the year? The NFC North is turning into the NFC South a little bit. Right? If the Lions keeps nose diving, the Vikings, who knows where they go? The Packers are surging. And then here come the Bears? Are you kidding me?

So what if he plays out of his mind? Do you go give up the pick and get him some help? Well, I think it's a fluid story. I'm interested in that. I will say, that Cleveland defense in Cleveland? Oh, no doubt. I mean, this is going to be a real test. That's one of the best defenses in a while.

Yeah, and at home, they're splits. They're incredible. All right, Mark Sanchez was absolutely money today. Chris Sim stops by as well. Colin right, Colin wrong. I want to thank everybody who stopped by. Congrats to the Lakers and the Dodgers. Oh, Tani.

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