The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 3 - Josh Pate

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

In this hour of The Herd, college football analyst Josh Pate joins Colin to opine on Miami's win over Ohio State, the Big Ten's overall dominance the last few years in college football, Arch Manning's first full year as a starting quarterback at Texas, and more! Finally, it's another edition of Tomorrow's Headlines...Today!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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not much of a power run game. And they put a lot of their offense on Julian San's shoulders, and he looked a little outclass. against Miami, Josh Pate, who does a remarkable job. He's got the Josh Pate College Football Show on YouTube. You see him all over the Internet. We love him. So I got to be honest, I thought Miami was the side if you were a better. I thought nine and a half was a lot.

I think I told you I saw them play Pitt, and I was like, okay, this team is no fun to play. They just throwing pit all over the field for a warm weather team going into Pittsburgh. How surprised were you by the bullying? Miami did to the Buckeyes? Man, not as high on the scale as you would think. I think we were on the same side. So you took Buckeyes to win, Cains to cover.

I think that's where I was. I don't know that many people watch Miami down to stretch, Colin. You didn't have a conference title game to watch them in. I think people tuned out on them after probably the SMU game because they thought their season was over. And to be frank, or to be honest, if you even looked at Miami's schedule after that, there was nowhere they were going to earn anyone's trust back because no one respected the back half of their schedule, including the

pit game. Like no one respected that. Notre Dame went up there and smoked them too. So nobody was really going to be bought back in on Miami. It was going to take something like we saw. And when it happened, like there were some folks. I hinted it this last week that said, Miami's nearly a double digit dog. And I don't remember a double digit dog ever in my mind having an O line, D line.

edge. Oh, by the way, they've got the QB experience edge. And boy, I took some knives to the chest for that last week. Because I think people had to see it. Like I'm not even hating on folks. People had to see it. And then they finally saw it. And it's jarring because the one thing, even if I thought Miami had the edges, the one thing I didn't think anyone was going to do is just totally out physical Ohio state. And it wasn't to the degree like Indiana did Alabama. It wasn't to that degree. But they did have those decided edges. And that's a place in Columbus, Ohio, that just flat out didn't believe that was possible. So I had said a couple years ago, I said, I thought the Big Ten would eventually, I didn't think it would be overnight, but had a chance to overtake the SEC. Now the SEC footprint,

there's more great high school players, but I said, you know, these large Big Ten schools flushed 40,000 kids, you know, into the job market. They love their schools. The endowments at Michigan, they're massive. And I said, I think they're going to buy a bunch of plays. and now here comes Rich USC and Rich Oregon. You know, you have been following college football for a long time, especially the SEC. Are you kind of surprised? You wake up and you're like, is the Big Ten at the top better? Are you surprised by what we saw over the last three weeks?

It makes sense once you say it all out. Like once you write it down on paper, it makes sense. It was kind of like the Miami microcosm there we just laid out. people had to see it, me, me included, I had to see it to believe it. And so obviously we're in a blender in college football, have been for the past five years, a lot of stuff's changing. I think for a long time, talent was currency. I mean, currency got the talent in the SEC, but the talent was the currency as well in the

SEC in fortifying the argument that they had the dominance and whatnot. It also made them very loose with other practices. And I'm telling you, Colin, this is some of the feedback that I'm getting more. and more, but it's also some of the observations that I've made. Because they out-talented people so thoroughly, they got loose with a lot of other practices in the SEC, not the least of which was staffing. Now, they went and hired top-of-the-line head coaches. That much is clear. But one of the things that disappointed me the most and underwhelmed me the most, when I sort of really got my hands around how various aspects of the sport works was how staffs come together. Because I always thought

it was a mad scientist pulling levers behind a curtain. And really all it was, was your representation, you get you that head coaching job, and then you just fill your building with a lot of their clients. And you look at it and you almost think, there's no way that's the way it works. Well, in the South, in a lot of cases, that's the way it works. And so I'm not even speaking about Alabama specifically. This is generically a situation where you got folks who are ill qualified to have top of the line assistant coaching positions, to have off-field positions, administrative positions. And it's just, it's lazy because you could have been lazy when you had that big a talent edge. You don't have the big talent edge anymore. And the Big Ten for a long time

has just gone about their business a different way. They largely have merit-based hiring practices, and therefore you get really, really good staffs. And in some cases, it's not a coincidence. Their staff's full of guys whose names you haven't heard of a whole lot because they haven't been promoted a whole lot relative to their southern counterparts, but they're better. And so then you get on the field and you start asking questions like, let's look at Indiana and Alabama specifically. you start asking questions like, how could this happen? How could Alabama have the former recruiting rankings, Talonage? How could this be?

How could that be? It's because there are no wobbly parts at Indiana. Everything fits. All the Lego pieces are in place. And everything that guy right there, that's Kurt Signetti, everything he says, Sabin said a decade and a half ago, they've put it in practice there. And this is the result. The, you know, I really think it's a Miami-Indiana,

final. I don't know if Ole Miss can make stops. What do we make of Oregon? I think Dante Moore is a year away. I just watched them play yesterday and I'm like they played with their food. I just feel like we could have two lobsided games. I saw Indiana beat Oregon at Oregon and it wasn't as close as the score. What do we make of Oregon? Because I think we both agree that Miami and Indiana looked apart. They look like national champs. Oregon in that class? Yeah, what a sentence, man. Just go back a month.

Miami and Indiana. Just your obvious national championship matchup is wild. We're already sitting at a point, by the way, where we're going to have a new national champion head coach. So someone's going to win their first no matter what. I right now, as we sit here today, I'm with you. I think back to yesterday. So here's what our instinct is.

I think you'll probably be aligned with me on this. Your instinct is when you watch a team do what Oregon did yesterday. And they win a game. They shut out someone. in a playoff game. Like, that's a big deal. But when they do that, and there's so many mistakes,

it's just riddled with inefficiency. What you think is, kind of to have a better's mentality, wow, so there's still a lot of upside with that team. There's still a lot of rungs on their ladder. They could climb in terms of efficiency. Well, I'm going to bank on that. Well, we're running out of games to bank on it,

is the point. Like, if we're doing that in week four, that makes a lot of sense. But this is the postseason. Yeah. And everything about you, says Oregon should have come out razor sharp yesterday. They didn't.

Their defense afforded them the ability to have a ton of mistakes offensively. I just, again, I had some instincts about Alabama against Indiana. Like I thought, oh, they may get right against them. No one's getting right against Indiana is the most glaring lesson that I've learned in this whole ordeal. Ohio State, like they're not figuring out how to open up their offense against Indiana. Alabama's not figuring out how to have a more efficient ground game and to work that intermediate deep passing game, even though they got healthy. That's not happening. So

Indiana just exposes more of what already are your flaws. You don't correct them against Indiana. I know that line came out three and a half or four. And that's a huge swing off of what they had on the field in Eugene. But I think we've had a huge perception change since then as well. So until further notice, I'm working with you. I see it the same way you do. Bob, before we go, Arch Manning played really well. It's Michigan. I mean, they're a bit of a mess now. But our arch has always been athletic, the most athletic, kind of like the, you know, the older, the grandfather, Archie Manning for the Saints ran around all over the field. And then Peyton and Eli are pocket guys. Is Texas the number one in that conference next year?

Are the Longhorns with Arch's play? What does the South look like? Because I know next year, Michigan will be better. Oregon, Washington, USC should be. I kind of know who's going to be good. I don't in the South. I don't know who's good. Is Texas the team to beat next year?

It's a really important two weeks coming up right here in the portal to answer the question you just asked. But I think, yeah, they may. I mean, and you're going to have a lot of boy cried wolf syndrome. I can just picture SEC media days now. I think it's in Tampa next year because when he, when Arch Manning and Texas came in there this last year, I haven't seen anything like that since Tua and then Mansell before him and then Tibo before him in terms of just a.

strong of people following him. He's got all these preseason accolades and then he doesn't live up to their expectations immediately. So then Texas gets written off. But then at the very end of the year, all of a sudden, oh, that's what we were looking at. So he's going to be coronated again. And people are going to doubt it because all they're going to say all offseason is, well, that's what you said last year. It may be right this year. It may have just been a year early last year. I, yeah, I would say right now they would probably be the favorite. I just think back to myself, and I think about how different his situation is. He's in a situation where he doesn't need to go chase NFL money immediately,

and you just look at the maturation process. And because there's such bigger expectation placed on guys, they look at it, you know, if it's a bag of popcorn, and I put it in my microwave over here, they think, well, since there's higher expectation, we can just take it out after 42 seconds. It says a minute on the bag, though. So everyone's bag has a timer on it,

and it doesn't matter how big a bag you've got in NIL. It's going to take that much time before you're ready. it may just be that Arch needed this much time. You saw him like, look, Michigan, Michigan not a highly rated team than playoff teams as usual this year, but that's not a bad defensive team either. And that athletic profile, just him doing that right there, combined with a third season under Steve Sarkeesian,

yeah, I trust you'll get a complete game from him next year. Josh Pate, it's all over YouTube, volume we use them as much as we can. Great to see you, buddy. Happy New Year. Appreciate it, Colin. Same to you. Yeah, I think the portal opens up today. So it's a buying season. It's Christmas in college football. The portal is opened up.

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Let's go to the NFL, and Lamar Jackson obviously announced he's practicing, he's a go. However, he's also combating those rumors. Remember a week ago, right before Christmas, there was a report out of Baltimore that he was falling asleep into meetings. Yeah. Yeah. Credible. Well, Lamar waited, waited. He waited over a week to reply.

And here he is addressing those rumors. I got to get a question about or I hear things about, oh, I don't know if he was like, I never quit on my team before, you know, so I never quit anything to be honest with y'all. So I don't know what that noise came from. I heard I'd be playing a game at like one or two in the morning. I don't even do that in the summer, so I don't know what that comes from either. But, yeah, I don't know, man. I don't know. I don't know what I come from.

Yeah, Lamar, but it said that you're falling in the sleep at the case. How do you respond to that? Do you think Harbaugh I let me fall asleep at me? That's crazy. I'm right in the front. Like, man, I don't know, man. That's what it is, though. I mean, it's a legitimate reporter.

The whole thing, listen, if Lamar comes out Sunday and is magical, then nobody cares about anything. But if he comes out, he struggles, they lose. It's not the end of the world. Ravens are well run. But that's what I think the game itself will be ugly, but the magnitude of the loser going forward is fascinating. Like Seattle, San Francisco is two excellent teams.

Baltimore, Pittsburgh is two struggling teams. One is going to have an ugly offseason. So I think it's a fascinating watch on Sunday night. You know, I don't want to split hairs here, Colin. but falling asleep in team meetings. I mean, there's a big difference between dozing off, which somebody may characterize as falling asleep versus straight up falling asleep, head down, you're out.

I don't think this guy would make something like that up. That's a bad look. So it's pretty clear that something happened in the team meetings. Harbaugh, I don't think, has addressed them. But to counter that, it's like, well, if Harbaugh, do I have to address every single rumor about all my players? So there's really no win here. But you're right.

If the Steelers managed to win this, that will be an interesting offseason in Pittsburgh, in Baltimore. And we know Pittsburgh. We don't know, like Tomlin. We don't know about Rogers. Yeah, that division could look very different. What's going to happen in Cleveland?

What's going to happen with Zach Taylor? I mean, hell, could they lose three or four coaches in that division this offseason? Would anything surprise you? No. It's a wacky situation there. All right. Let's move on to the big men. matchup, Brock Purdy hosting Collins guy, Sam Darnold, in a Niners, Seahawks Tilt for the ages.

How about Christian McCaffrey, Colin? Being a workhorse this season, you had that stat on him getting 27 carries, or 27 touches, rather. He's had that in back-to-back weeks now. Mike McDonald of Seattle was asked, how do you prepare for Christian McCaffrey? Here he is what he said. Blaze, you're just, that's what you, I guess, terrible answer, but it's by situation again, you know, like who do you have on the field? Who do they have on the field?

Where's the ball? You know, are you trying to attack? Are you trying to kind of hedge? Those are the things you're thinking about. But he's definitely someone you have to account for at all times. And they do a great job of moving around. I mean, you can do everything. So you have to account for everything.

Yeah, it's, there's just nobody else in the league like McCaffrey. I mean, it really isn't. Since the Carolina days, there's nobody like you. Now, interestingly, some Niners fans have dug into it. So in that earlier meeting, San Fran at Seattle Week 1, the Niners lost Joanne Jennings and Kittle in that game. Remember, the game winning catch was by Jake Tongass, who nobody had ever heard of.

So if Kittles able to play, we know Jennings is playing, all of a sudden, you've got your full arsenal of guys. I think that's a big edge for the Niners, Colin. I know people want to say, well, you know, the defense can't stop anybody. can Seattle stop or slow this diner's offense? They're a juggernaut. Now, the defense is they faced Colts, Bears, not elite. Seattle's pretty elite, would you say?

Yeah, Seattle's defense. Chicago's like gives up big plays. The Bears' defense is a liability. It's not even a, it's a problem. That's what's going to keep the Bears out of winning multiple playoff games is their defense. They get gash for big plays and bad spots. Now remember, just a few weeks ago, the Rams had 30 points through, what, three quarters against Seattle on the road? And earlier this season, Baker Mayfield, when he was hot, went to Seattle, and I think they scored 35 or 38 points.

So it can be done. Let's not act like they're the 85 bears here. That's right. I just, can we make a handshake agreement that whoever wins will not just totally trash the opposing quarterback? Come on, man, I need you. If Donald somehow wins this, I don't want this to be an indictment of. Rock Purdy. And I'm not going to hammer Darnel. You know, I like him. He was a former jet. Yeah, no, I think it's a very competitive.

I think it qualifies of one of the better pro football games in America this year. Well, there's also so much at stake. The number one seat is massive, just enormous in the NFC, which is a gauntlet. Well, especially at number one seat if you're San Francisco. Dude, Trent, Kittle. Yeah. Seattle is not better off with time off. Seattle's young. They want to play. San Francisco could use a week off. There is no question.

Philadelphia and San Francisco are two of the only teams in the league could use time off. Colin, you go from hosting a game and getting a buy, hosting every game and getting a buy, to on the road next week. Like that's totally different. One of them might have to go to Philadelphia across the country. Final story, Colin.

Let's go to Trayvon Diggs. The Cowboys dumped him earlier this week. And guess what? The Green Bay Packers scooped him up. I think we might have predicted that here on the show. Matt Lafleur, how about this one? Hasn't ruled out the possibility of Diggs playing in the regular season finale. Now, we know the Packers' defense is really beat up,

and Diggs production has not been great this season, but he's confidence in bouncing back after a change of scenery. I'll just be myself, you know, be who I know I am, go out there and perform and everything will take care of itself. You know, I'm not chasing accolades. I'm not chasing anything. I'm chasing, you know, being a better me. being better every day, you know, helping this team win.

It feels good, you know. I want to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with being somewhere that, you know, I've never been before. Just starting over, starting fresh, you know, a clean slate. Yeah. Colin, we talk a little bit about teams that are rested and beat up. I went back and looked. Do you want to guess who had the earliest buy this season?

Week 5 was the first week of buys. Green Bay. Green Bay. then now also Chicago that week had the earliest by in Pittsburgh so those are teams that have been playing straight through for three months now yeah I think that shouldn't factor into the handicap for anybody who's uh betting next week in the wildcard round all right good good note J mac with the news well that's the news and thanks for stopping by the herd line news Josh Pate RG3 blazing five j mac has his picks next be sure to catch live editions of the herd weekdays in noon eastern 9 a.m. Pacific. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast. Well, we didn't invent it.

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Great to have you in. Happy New Year, everybody. Yesterday was just, you know, it is. College football's got a lot of fans who are really, really traditional, driven. And, I mean, for about a 15-year period, all we got in college. football, let's be honest about it, was Clemson, Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, maybe thrown in LSU,

and now we get Oregon, and we get Ole Miss, and we get Indiana, and we get Miami. And that's, you know, like college basketball sells mythology to all these different teams have a chance to win it. But it's always

number one, two, or three seeds, occasionally a four. And college football, uh, I don't think anybody in November 1st thought Miami and Ole Miss were going to be here, especially with Lane Kiffin leaving. So the new reality in the sport is Georgia can't stop a good offense, Bama can't run. A lot of people are saying Kaelin Dabors is in trouble. Kailen D'Bore's a great coach. He's a great coach. Alabama, let's be totally honest, got worked, beginning to end. Quarterback, O-line, run game. If you watched Alabama, I watched them a half dozen

times. They couldn't run the football all year. You're not a national championship team. I think you have to play real defense to win a natty. Old Miss can't win the natty. Oregon could, but I think Indiana, Miami feel in this day and age, NFL guys all over the field, really physical first above everything else, and I think they should be favored. Didn't Oregon just pitch a shutout, though? I mean, that defense shocked me. The kid in the back end with two picks. No, I mean, Oregon recruits at a high level, but they don't, I mean, to me, they played with their food, that game. If Indiana played Texas Tech, do you have any doubt it would have been 45 to nothing? I mean, it just, they were.

Maybe, yeah. But the Dante Moore angle against Mendoza, essentially, I don't want to say for the number one pick, but this is a chance for Dante Moore to be like, hey, I'm that guy. J-MAC with the new, oh, excuse me, my bad. We go to headlines today. tomorrow's headlines today. Lost my say. It's the new year.

You know, I mean, everybody's a little fuzzy. I had so many chicken enchiladas last night. So, listen, you got your five picks. I've had a very good season. I need to have a winning record. I want to feel good with my last blazing five. This is your, I mean, you're going to do more in the playoffs, but this is a full slate of game.

A lot of them with backups. So it's a very treacherous week to make. make picks. You like to say you don't like to bet week one. You don't want to do a blazing five week one, right? That's the one you want to punt on. This is the one you don't love. This is the one I don't like because everybody, I just saw Juan Dale Robinson's out for the Giants. I know people are like who. He's at a great season. I love the Giants. Glad I did not put them in headlines. But yeah, it's very difficult to find out who's playing. Okay. Panthers box is your first game up. Yeah. So they just met a couple weeks ago. Panthers with a surprising victory. This one's for the

division. The headline for Panthers, Buccaneers will be Airbnb. Bryce out battles Baker for Southern Sweet. Colin, I'm doing it. I'm taking Carolina on the road to win outright. I just, you know, we joke that Tampa's been leaking oil. No way. This is like the Titanic taking on water. I mean, they haven't covered in eight straight weeks. They can't get anything right. This Baker injury that he won't talk about. Clearly something's wrong with him. What happened to Abuka? He was having an unbelievable rookie year. He's kind of just stopped catching passes. They're not looking at him anymore. I don't know what's going on with Tampa, so I'm taking Carolina. And of course, Carolina had 54 yards passing last week against Seattle. However, some fun stats. Carolina has

eight wins as an underdog, most in the Super Bowl era. That's incredible. And also, after a loss this season, seven and O against a spread, Canales has his guys bouncing back. Rico Dowdell, I saw, needs like seven scrimmage yards to trigger a $1 million bonus. Hell, So I'm going to go with Carolina on the road, taking down Tampa. I like it. Tomorrow's headlines today. Listen, I know the side you're on. I want to hear the Seahawks at the Niners.

Oh, we're going back and forth on this all week, all season really with these two. You love Seattle. I love the other team. The headline for Niners Seahawks will be half Macaf, Seattle jittery after pot of Purdy. You know, I'm a Brock Purdy guy. Hey, man, listen, it's undeniable, Colin.

And he has been so good since he's back. We saw the Niners do well with Mack Jones, better than treading water. Well, now they get Brock Purdy and they make the jump to light speed. And they have been unbelievable in the month of December. I just can't go against his team right now. Now, obviously, if they don't have Kittle or Trent Williams, that's not great. It sounds like, you know, parsing words from Shanahan. He thinks Trent Williams will play.

Kittle is going to try to give it a go. But if they get that win at home, boy, having the number one. seed, not having to leave Santa Clara. That would be enormous. I'm sorry, Colin, I saw Sam Darnel late last year, and he kind of fell apart, and I saw it in the playoffs. And then we started to see it a lot this month. They got lucky against the Rams, the punt return, things bounced their way.

I can't go against San Fran here. And I will just say, Kyle Shanahan, seven in one straight up, six and two against a spread. He's dominated Seattle of late, not all those against McDonald. I do want to go back to that first meeting, though. Boso was a monster. had a sack, three tackles for loss, force fumble, now he's out. What can Sala do to find a bosa? You can't find one of those on the bench.

You're going to have to do something exotic. Do you remember what he did against Caleb on the final play? He rushed two. Caleb was like, what's going on? Robert Sala dropped defensive tackles at the goal line into coverage. It was masterful. Can he dial up something like that? I'm going with San Fran as an underdog.

Tomorrow's headlines today. Colt Texans on Sunday, who you got? Now listen, we talk about riding hot teams. One of these teams is hot, the other most definitely not the headline. For Colts, Texans in the ASC South will be the Frio Grande. Texans float by Chile Rivers. Philip Rivers, obviously, not starting. They're turning to Riley Leonard.

Remember how much you loved him in Notre Dame? I want to watch him plays. I think he's an interesting prospect. Yeah, you want to watch him run for his life against Will Anderson and Hunter coming off the edge. The Colts are just a... sad story, man. They went all in with Sauce Gardner, and then it fell apart. Daniel Jones got hurt and Sauce Gardner got hurt. Sauce, it looks like he will play here. I just, I'm going to ride with the Texans. Some things to watch. I think Demico Ryan's, he's had some hot starts, including last week

against the Chargers, but then they've tailed off. You've got to keep that momentum. Unbelievable stat, Colin. So inside the five-yard line, Texans have been terrible in the red zone. Inside the five, they have 23 carries for four yards this season. Three touchdowns. They're can't figure it out. The offensive line can't block. They've got to nail that down heading into the postseason. This feels to me like a 27 to 9 type Texans win, win with the defense and prevail and head to the postseason. Tomorrow's headlines today. You told me to keep my eye on this one. I did. Brown's Bengals in Cinsee. Yeah, there's only one game I really like, and that's this one. Bengals hosting the Browns.

The headline for Sinci and Cleveland will be. Shadur at the thought. Sincis skyline, too chilly for Browns. Nice work by the artistic team there. Yeah, I like Burrow here. Listen, if there's a team trying hard late in the season, since Burroughs, since Burrow came back, four out of five games, they've topped 30 points.

I don't know if they're trying to save Zach Taylor's job or what. Seems like he's probably safe due to the cheap ownership, but they have looked good late in the season. And I know Cleveland's good at home, right? Five and one against a spread is a dog this season at home. You go on the road, one in five is an underdog. How about this? Six and 18 against the spread on the road the last two years.

They just don't seem to show up. Obviously, the Miles Garrett situation will be fun to watch. Maybe Burrow takes a sack early. He gets a record and we move on. But by the way, Shadur likely to be down three offensive linemen. Yep. And Harold Fannin, the good rookie tight end. He and Djoku are going to be out.

we know the running back's injured. After they lost fan into injury, they didn't have a drive last week over 40 yards. There just aren't any guys. I think this is Bengals 35, 10. Finally, tomorrow's headlines today. It's Sunday night. Ravens Lamar's supposed to play against the surviving Steelers, I guess.

Somebody's going to get beat up badly on Monday here by you. The headline for Steelers Ravens on Sunday night will be Les is Lamar. Ravens come up short with QB back. I'm going with the Steelers here. It's not a super confident play, but Mike Tomlin against John Harbaugh as an underdog, 414 and 3 against the spread. Basically just take the dog in this series. I think Pittsburgh is not a good football team, but I don't think much of Baltimore, Colin. I know people are making the case. Hey, get Lamar into the playoffs. They're going to have a shot. I don't know, man. I think Pittsburgh wins this outright. I mean, it's kind of a risk.

call. Pittsburgh did beat them a few weeks ago. But when they beat them, Lamar was there. Derek Henry was there. So I just, you know, the DK Metcalf loss obviously is a big one. But Arthur Smith, I think, could dial up some stuff here, 16, 13 Steelers. Yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, I would think about this the last couple days. I was watching college football and how much the games mattered. You know, there's a lot of talk. They're going to extend the season to 18 games. And I'm like, Guys, this week is, last two weeks have been like choppy. By the way, are you surprised that they made this the Sunday night game as opposed to Seahawks Niners? I'm just guessing it's because of the markets and the East Coast, you know, larger.

It's the better game is Seattle Sanfran. Oh, I mean, Bears Niners last week was maybe the game of the year. So I expect more of the same. Seattle's defense, Niners offense. I think it's just going to be big numbers. It's going to be great. Sometimes the league, it feels like, prioritizes TV audience overall just so they can brag about ratings. But Seattle Sanford is an amazing game.

And I think that should be Sunday night. Plus the Niners could use an extra day of rest. You know, one of the things I thought Indiana would hammer Alabama, but I thought Fernando Mandoza really put a stamp on the game. I love mock drafts. I literally read them every day. if you don't think Fernando Mendoza's going number one, I don't know what to tell you.

If you don't think he's a first round quarterback, I don't want to tell you, don't overthink through. I remember when Andrew Luck came out. I don't think he's as good as Andrew Luck. But when Andrew Luck came out, there were people like, I don't know about his arm. I'm like, it was fine.

Mendoza's big. He can move well enough. I think his arm strength is good. This is a pro-style offense. so he's an easy guy to do comps for it's an easy guy to read so i mean i'm just really interested to see because i'm i am shocked at the people who thought alabama could win this game i'm shocked at the pushback on fernando mendo's i've always trusted my instincts on this quarterback stuff it's just the way he sets up the velocity i mean he never like like he always it's really

hard to intercept his ball like in the end zone he throws it he makes sure his guy only can catch it RG3 earlier on Mendoza. I love Fernando Mendoza because Fernando Mendoza knows who he is. And I've seen some of the memes of like he sounds like chat GBT when you ask him a question after a game. It's funny.

It really is funny. But the thing I love about him is he's going to process. He's going to do it well. He's going to do what his team needs him to do. I think he's a first round pick. I think he's a top 10 pick. I think coaches are going to love him. He's a big kid.

Like you said, size does matter. But he can make every throw on the field. And he's not afraid of the big moments. Colin, let me ask you a quick question here. So let's say Mendoza goes one to the Raiders. Let's say Pete Carroll is pushed out. If you're the Raiders, don't you at least have to call Kurt Signetti and just ask, hey, man, I know Indiana's paying you $10, $12 million.

Do you have any interest in the NFL? I mean, what he's done in two years is one of the great stories. It's college. All right. I mean, Brian Flores top of my list. Mike McCarthy, I think Jeff Hathley. A lot of people are down

with a retread, and that's not negative against these guys. But Jeff Hathley has coached college, so he gets the college game. What did he do at Boston College? I mean, I didn't see anything like Kurt Signetti. Yeah, but they don't care about football, like Big Ten teams care about football.

Even at Indiana. So you don't even want to ask him? Wouldn't be my choice. I would ask him at any college, college football job, including Bama. I mean, I think, you know, Indiana's got a very good business school. Mark Cuban, obviously. There's two or three families lined up.

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