The Herd with Colin Cowherd - HOUR 3 - QB stats

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

Possible outcomes after Vikings-Steelers tonightColin guesses the stats of starting QBs in the NFLGuest: Greg Jennings Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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1972 was the first year I remember watching sports. The Washington football team won the Super Bowl, was in the Super Bowl against Miami. I remember watching it. And I remember watching the Lakers against the Portland Trailblazers from my bunk bed in 1972. So that's the, I was eight years old. So there's, I've seen so many players. So there's this thing on the internet today where they give you five great quarterbacks, Brady Manning, Fav, Elway, Joe Montana, and Breeze, and you have to cut two of them.

Right. And it's funny to hear all the young sparkies out there. Cut Elway. I'm like, no, bruh, why you sit this one out? Let Uncle Colin tell you how good Elway was. Elway was the first quarterback who had a huge arm and could run. run. Like we had big arm guys, and then we had guys like Fran Tarkin who ran around. Elway was the first guy that had the best arm in the league, and he was the most mobile guy in the league

simultaneously. And he was a baseball star. The Yankees wanted him. So he was so before his, I always tell the Elway story. So you're not cutting Elway. I would cut Farve and Breeze. You're not cutting Joe cool. Well, I mean, to remove all nuance from the conversation, wouldn't you just pick the quarterbacks that have won more than one Super Bowl? There you go. Now, that could be it. Yes, that's certainly part of it. So then it's Breeze and Farr.

Yeah, but many people say, listen, winning is not a quarterback stat. I think it's more than you think. But Breeze has the weakest arm of these guys. He didn't have the big over-the-top arm. The rest of them, Joe Montana. The rest of them had better arms. And I also think Breeze is a little smaller.

He wasn't super-mobile. And Fav, let's be honest about it, he played kind of a gunslinger style. a lot of picks. He had a lot of mistakes. He was easy to root for, but he lost so many big games because of his style. So Farvin Breeze are out, and by the way, they're top 10 guys ever to me. But I, I mean, that's how the game goes. You've got to make a decision. I always tell the Elway story. The first NFL game I went to was Seahawks, Denver Broncos. I sat in the third deck first row. And Elway came out with his football pants on, no helmet and a half white shirt, which was

big apparently in the, like, 80s. And Elway was at the, kingdom and there used to be a big Seahawk helmet as a logo like enormous and I'm a little kid and I'm watching Elway and at that point you didn't have the red zone you didn't have all these cable TV and stuff so like you didn't get a C Lway play unless he was like in the playoffs I got Seahawk games Elway but you heard about him I know he played at Stanford I was a Pac-12 fan midfield he sat at midfield and he was throwing balls to the pylon in the end zone front of the end zone and it was like a golf with a great wedge and he was just,

Elway was just flicking his wrist and the ball would go 50 yards and sometimes it would hit the pylon, it would come within a foot of the pylon and the ease in which he threw the ball 50 yards. So the Seahawks had Jim Zorn as a quarterback and I love Jim Zorn but Jim was

more a runaround guy. He had it, he was like a left-handed Elway without quite the talent. But L.way would just grab the ball and just go, boom, boo! And it's like 50 yards. It's like, what? You got wind up to throw 50. yards. And Elway, when he would throw a deep ball, it was a rope. He would never throw the lollipop Russell Wilson. He would throw 62 yards in the air,

and it was a rope. And so you're not cutting Elway from that. Okay? That's just the end of the discussion. Greg Jennings is, Greg Jennings is joining us 10 years, Super Bowls, Pro Bowls. You're too young. You don't even remember Elway, do you? Do you remember L.A.? I do. He's the original Brett Farre in my opinion. Yeah. You said it right. Yeah, he would throw a deep ball and it would be about a foot and a half off the ground. It would be just a close line for 59 yards down the field.

So it is interesting. I was defending Aaron Rogers earlier. I said he's 21 and 5 or whatever he is against the Bears. You have a right to be cocky and funny and jam it in their face. Your whole career, you dominated the Bears for almost all of it. Was it, do you think it aggravated Chicago? Could you sense when you played them that you guys always had the star quarterback? You almost won every time you played them.

Were the games, did they feel like a rivalry or not because you crush them every time? They did feel like a rivalry because no matter what the score was, it was almost as if we could never really just run away with the game. I remember one game we were up, I don't know, 28th at Lambo and they ended up coming back and made it a close game. We had some fumbles. But for us, it was always about the quarterback. We always had the X factor under center. Brett Fav and Aaron Rogers. And they've never had the X factor under center.

Now, we'll see what Justin Fields ends up eventually being throughout this career. But that's why it's definitely a great rivalry. But the dominance started when Brett Fav and Aaron Rogers started to take on who they were as their identity as quarterbacks in this league and the rest is history. Yeah. So we were talking during the break about Mahalms. people forget Dan Marino's best year was year two in the league. He never, year one he got to a Super Bowl, never got back.

Year two, he threw for 5,000 yards, never duplicated it. And when Mahalms throws for 50 touchdowns, everybody lined up and they thought he was going to duplicate it. And you were telling me during the break, you don't think he'll ever get to 50 touchdowns a year again. Yeah, I just don't. I don't. And here's why we all immediately, oh my gosh, Patrick Mahomes. He's just set the bar so high. so early, but when you look at the talent that was around him and that is around him,

it's very similar to what he had that year. And so for him to have not come close again, it's just going, for me, it starts to, it starts to play on a guy's ability to kind of reboot. And this is why Tom Brady was always so great. When you look at Peyton Manning, he's the only quarterback that has 50 and 49 touchdowns in his career. Everyone else, and Ryan, The President's best year of throwing touchdowns, and he has thrown hundreds of them was last year. Tom Brady, his best year, 50, was with Randy Moss. Like, it is so hard to throw 50 touchdowns in few interceptions. Like, I just don't see Patrick Mahomes with having that gunslinger mentality.

He's going to now, as a veteran player, make more mistakes and be more prone to take take more risks than anything where when he was a younger player and he's still young but when he was year two which was really his rookie year he was very coachable he was going to do everything he was going to go through progressions he wasn't going to get out he was going to use his legs secondarily versus primarily and so that's why i feel like it's not a knock on him but he's just not going to be that's not going to happen yeah i mean people forget about this like all of a sudden Now, he's only a $7 million cap hit this year. So next year he could be a $25 million.

And then $30 and $30. And they'll work around his contract. But the reality is, is you're more expensive. So you may not be able to get that great slot receiver you wanted. Also, sometimes you just get a bad break. Like tonight, Adam Thielen's not available for the Vikings. And it's like you lose a guy, an injured player. So, you know, it's funny.

People forget this. He had 50 touchdowns. The following year they went to the Super Bowl, he had 26. and they got to the Super Bowl. So it's like it's a lot of luck, it's a lot of injuries, how bad is your division, all that stuff. So tonight is Steelers Vikings. And you live in Minneapolis,

in some sort of a state with multiple levels. That's not the point. The point is, the point is this, you know you live there, you can hear sports radio, you watch the local sportscasters, you know the heart. You have to live in a city to really understand

the personality of it and what people are saying. And people are very nice in Minnesota. So they're probably not screaming or yelling like New York or whatever. But if Mike Zimmer loses tonight, my takeaway is they will make a decision upstairs. The league is veering into offensive coaches. You can't blame Kirk Cousins. You're locked into him and he's having a good year. That I think tonight for Zimmer, if they lose, I do think people upstairs are going to be like,

he's not loved by the players. What are fans? And I think that stuff matters, Greg. It matters. What are people saying in Minneapolis about Zimmer? future. It's, it's for me, it's not even so much what people are saying. It's what former players have said and what current players are starting to mumble. It's the Zimmer has lost that connection to the players. When you start to lose that, and Zimmer's a very prideful individual. So when you

listen to him in his press conferences, and last week, prime example, when it falls on the defense, he takes that extremely personal and as he should, but it's starting to happen over and over and over and over again. And he's also a coach that I've experienced personally, Colin, where he has called out his offensive play callers and made sure that they knew they better write the ship or else. And so now you better write the ship or else. Too many of these losses are coming down to defensive kind of just debacles at the end of the game and then two-minute situation. So it's going to fall on him. A lot of you hit the nail on the head.

Minnesota, the mantra is the Minnesota night. So people are treading lightly. But the Zim talk is definitely, his seat is definitely a little, a little hotter than what people believe. Yeah, no, I think it is. You know, it is, Justin Jefferson's a remarkable player. There's so many good receivers. this league. Tell me why, I mean, my eyes can see why he's good, but there's so many great young

receivers. To you, what separates Justin Jefferson? Because most people are saying he's the best young receiver. His route running ability, his ability to make contested catches, I think he's underrated in that regard. And his just ability to understand how to get open. And the reason why I say that, because as a young receiver, when you understand how to get open, all your skill sets, all your intangibles, they only can become even highlighted. They only

magnify as you continue to gain experience. And this is year two. And he's been without Adam Thielen, even last year, Adam Thielan missed time. And this kid still was a star. And so you see that happening, even in year two, when we see players go through that sophomore slump. He has completely ran through that sophomore slump. Like, no, I'm a guy. And, you know, I'm a guy. And, you know, And in my opinion, watching receivers across the National Football League and being won for as long as I was, he's top five, maybe top four or three right now. Yeah. The route running thing's funny.

Fans never embrace that. They like when you can catch in crowds. They like what you can run. But when you can get a young receiver that knows the route tree, like that's my knock on DK Metcalf. I think he's really talented. I don't know if he's running great routes. You know what I mean?

Like there's certain guys that run to. Absolutely. Right. They run two routes and that's it. By the way, how many routes are there in a route tree? Top of your head. There are so it's a zero through nine. Okay, what was your best route?

What was your best route? A slam. Which, when you think about critical moments of a game and you need a catch, the reason why route running is so important in the National Football League as well as understanding how to get open

is because if you can create separation at the line of scrimmage, which he is one of the best. When we talk about separation at the line of scrimmage, you talk about Devante Adams, pretty much in the league of his own. Well, Justin Jefferson is becoming one of those guys that we got to start talking about when we talk about releases. But a slant, he gets open on every single route. What was your worst route?

I didn't have a worse route. Colin, I'm a receiver, man. Come on. I thought you're... Come on, Joy? Like, what kind of question is that? You guys are icing, not cake. Yeah, the seam route was a little, I don't know.

I didn't love it. That's like me asking you what day of the week is the worst for Colin as far as a radio host, a TV radio host? You could say, what's my worst sport? And I would say hockey. I don't know hockey. That's my best. That's my worst route. Hockey talk.

But you can avoid it. Well, that's true. You're in charge. Yeah, that's right. Glad you know it. That's right. Greg Jennings, good seeing you, buddy. Take care.

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Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. All right, time for some hockey talk. What happened? Just kidding. Ezekiel Elliott. That's no just to hockey, but I just wanted to catch Colin off guard. Ezekiel Elliott has been playing through a knee injury this season, though it hasn't caused him to miss any games yet.

He says he's not 100%, but you have to drag him off the field to quit playing. He got an MRI after last week's win over the Saints, which showed the knee is healing, actually. Yeah. And it's going in the right direction, so that's good news. He was a full participant in practice on Wednesday and is going to play Sunday against Washington. You can give him eight carries, though, because Tony Pollard can get 16 carries, so they're in a good space. Well, that's kind of been the question with the Cowboys, as it pertains to the two of them, who should be getting more carries, who should have the bigger role.

Obviously, Ezekiel Elliott is compensated at a much higher level, so there is maybe some pressure. I think Tony, Polard is now the best, is he the best number two back in the league? Well, the question is, is he the number two back for Dallas? Like, should he be the number two back? Well, now he shouldn't. He doesn't rush for more than 50 yards in the last four games and only has two games over 100 yards this season. I don't think that it should change. but he has been dealing with an injury,

maybe it's okay for Tony Pollard to have more carries. They're in a very interesting situation because when Pollard goes to the market, he's going to get, somebody's going to pay Tony Pollard. He's an explosive back and you're already, you can't pay two backs big money. So Dallas can't keep Pollard. At some point, you can't. You can't be your quarterback, your receivers, your backs and your left tackle. Like that, you've got to put some money on the defensive side.

So Dallas on a little bit of, the bottom line is this should be a really good year. Like you got a strike when the iron's hot. And like right now you're not paying Tony Pollard or Micah Parsons or Trayvon Diggs. It's essential. You start winning now because those guys are going to be real expensive to about two years. Well, they rank sixth in rushing yards per game this season. Washington is two games behind Dallas and the NFC East. The Cowboys are favored by four against them, according to Fox Bet, this weekend.

But they still have to play them twice. So Washington's remaining games are all. against the NFCE. So they really control their own destiny. They play the Cowboys and they're at the Eagles, then they're at the Cowboys, then the Eagles at home, and then at the Giants.

So Washington's been hot right now. Everyone's asking if Taylor Heineke's the guy and they seem to have gotten things on track. Well, they control the rest of their season. Four of the Cowboys remaining games are against the NFCEs as we've talked about all the original games are stacked now at the end of the season.

So we're going to talk about a player that you don't discuss anymore. The Browns haven't quite lived up to, the very high preseason expectations that they had for them this year. They're sitting at 6 and 6 coming out of their buy. And Baker Mayfield is ready to lock in and make a final push for the playoffs. That's nice.

Very nice. Everything that we can accomplish is still in front of us. So if we handle it correctly, that'll happen that way. So I feel confident where I'm at, where we're at, and where we're headed. That's kind of the mentality we went into the last two weeks. We still have everything in front of us. But now it's, I mean, it's crunch time. Everybody's talking about playoffs, but that's when we need to have that, you know,

singular focus block out everything else and realize that, you know, we need to take care of business one day and one week at a time. This is a huge, huge game for Cleveland because if they lose, what are they going to be six and seven? Now, in that division, they're still viable. But what that tells you, if Baltimore beats them, gets a ninth win, they're at six, they're not going to win the division. So they're vying for a wild card spot if Cleveland loses. Well, the problem with that is the wild card race, the teams they would battle to the

wildcard race would already have a seventh and after this weekend maybe an eighth win like the Colts and the Chargers. So this is the season for Cleveland. Everything else doesn't matter. If they lose, they're done. Yeah, I mean, that's what that's what Baker's talking about. You don't have to worry about the playoffs. worry about the next game ahead of you. Now, in the NFC, they'd be fine because you could literally Seattle's got four wins. And it's still in it. Yeah. So the Brown's remaining schedule is the Ravens this weekend. Then they have, which they're favored by two and a half, according to Fox Bed.

Then they have the Raiders at home. Then they're at the Packers, at the Steelers, and then they have the Bengals at home. So if you look at the schedules for the rest of the AFC North, Steelers have at the Vikings tonight, then Titans, Chiefs, Browns at Ravens. What's the Ravens schedule? At the Browns, then the Packers, at the Bengals, Rams and Steelers. They're all... Rams and steals are at home. The bottom line is

they're all tough schedules. Cleveland's season to me feels like this is it. Because if Baltimore's 8 and 4 goes to 9 and you're at 6, you're not winning the division. You are only a wild card team. And then you've got to keep your eye on the Chargers. Oh, by the way, what if Buffalo beats Tampa, which I think this weekend? Now they're a wild card team with eight wins. So this is it, Cleveland. This is your season. And good luck to the quarterback kid. Steph Curry is closing in on an NBA record. He made six three-pointers and last night's win over Portland, which put him only 10 away from breaking Ray Allen's all-time career record of

2973. So his next chance to break it will be on Saturday when the Warriors traveled to Philly to take on the Sixers. If he doesn't get 10 against the Sixers, then they have the Pacers at the Pacers on Monday. So essentially this weekend, he will likely break Ray Allen's record. They are also 21 and 4, first in the West with the best record in the league. So individual statistics, along with. team wins. Do you cheer

every time a basket is made at an NBA game? I'm always amazed. If he hits a three, all the Golden State fans like, yeah! I never cheered a game. Well, you and I are a little different. We're a little jaded. Am I jaded? I just don't want to put that kind of energy into it.

That's a lot of energy to clap 68 times a game. If you're a season ticket holder, you're like a warrior's mega fan. Yeah. Like, that's what you're there for. I cheer every game, every basket by Steph. I am not a, I'm not a cheer every, I've never booed every play. I've never once in a game gone said these words.

Boo! I've never done that. I can't. I can't. I've never booed one time in my life. Am I jaded or does, are people out there? I mean, you met like a crazy sports fan? This is what they do.

Like they go to, right, like go to games and dress up and like put pain on their faces. I like going to games with my arms crossed and analyzing it. Yeah, but you're. this is what you do for a living. That's what I'm saying. You and I are, like, privileged and spoiled. I am not spoiled. Yes, we definitely are.

We're definitely spoiled. I am. I will speak for myself. I am very, very spoiled. I'm not. I eat chicken harm. Pasta. I've been to a lot of games.

I've been to a lot of games. Like, if someone offers you tickets, if you don't feel like leaving your house, you don't go. Right? Yeah. Well, listen, Ryan goes, you have sushi and cocktails. Yeah. Not every night.

like twice a week? Is that spoiled? Yeah, I ate prosciutto and barata and had a nice glass of $20. Charterne. We are really not relatable to the American public. In the middle of the afternoon yesterday. So yes, absolutely spoiled. I don't like I worked hard, but yes, definitely.

I don't like where this is going. We have a caviar lifestyle. You a bit more than me, but still. That's not true. Tubbs of caviar. When you go to Collins' house, he greets you with a tub of caviar. I've had it one time my whole life. Really?

Yeah. I did not a big fan of it. Oh, I love it. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, we set off firecrackers four nights a week at my house. We're very middle America. Joy with the news. Well, that's the news.

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You give me multiple options. Correct. The four quarterbacks are Kyler Murray, Matthew Stafford, Kirk Cousins, and Aaron Rogers. Which category do these four lead the league in? Passer rating touchdown passes or sacks? I'm going to go touchdown passes. Passer rating. Okay, okay, I'm wrong on.

All right. Moving on. The four quarterbacks are Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford, Justin Herbert, and Josh Allen. What category do these four lead the league in? Interceptions, passing yards per game or touchdown passes. I'm going to go passing yards per game. Touchdown passes.

Brady has 34, four more than the closest player, had 40 all of last year and still has five games left. Stafford, Herbert, and Alan follow in suit. All right. Four quarterbacks are Tom Brady, Derek Carr, Matthew Stafford, and Justin Herbert. Which category do these four lead the league in? Passing yards per game, pass attempts or game winning drives? Pass attempts. Passing yards per game.

Brady has 314.3. Second high of his career. All right. All right. Four quarterbacks are Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Ryan Santa Hill, Patrick Mahomes.

Which category do these four lead to league in? Pass attempts, completion percentage, or interceptions? Interceptions. Correct. Correct. Burrough has 14. Had five in 10 games last year. Then Jackson is 13, Tanael, 13, and MoMA says 12. All right, I got that one right.

The four quarterbacks are Kyla Murray, two at Tungabailoa, Mack Jones, and Zach Prescott. Which category do they lead the league in? Yards per attempt, completion percentage or turnovers? Completion percentage. Correct. Kyler is 72.2. Good.

It's highest since Drew Breast in 2019. Two is 70.9, Jones is 70.3, and Prescott is 69%. Okay, now I'm rolling, two in a row. All right. Kyler Murray, Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Burrow and Matthew Stafford. Which category do these four lead the league in? Rushing touchdowns, yards per attempt, or passer rating? Yards per attempt.

Correct. Kyler is 8.9. Jimmy G has 8.3, Borough 8.3, or 8.5, sorry, Burrow 8.3, and Matthew Stafford is 8.2. All right. All right. Justin Herbert, Big Ben, Lamar Jackson, and Taylor Heineke. I know this one. This is the one I know for sure. What category do they lead the league in? Pass attempts, sacks, or game winning drives?

Game winning drives. Correct. That I knew. Herbert and Ben are tied for five. But Rathusberger's five are the most since his rookie year and tied for a career high. reason I knew that was, because he doesn't lead in anything else, but he has had a very good. Now, some of that is, they've been in kind of ugly low scoring games. But to his credit, he has been in big spots.

I have never thought of been as clutch, but he's been clutch this year. Oh, he's a lot of experience. Yes. Jalen Hertz, Kyler Murray, Ryan Santa Hill, and Sam Darnolds. Oh, boy. Which category do these four lead the league in? Sacks, rushing touchdowns, or incompletions? Now, this seems too easy.

I'm going to say rushing touchdowns. Correct. Boom! Hertz has eight tied for six amongst any rusher and three more than any other quarterback. Kyler has five, T.N.Hill 5 and Darnell has 5. So I've hit five in a row. It's like my blazing five. It's heating up here in December, peeps.

All right. Taysam Hill. Taylor Heineke. Aaron Rogers and Daniel Jones. which category do these four lead the league in? Receptions, incompletions, or rushing attempts? Rushing attempts. What?

Receptions. That's a trick question. What do they have one? That's stupid. He has four. That's stupid. He has one. Rogers has one and Jones has one.

These games, see, I have to control stuff or it just goes off the rails with stupid questions. I mean, it's. So I went five and four. What did you say rushing attempts? Well, you know, I still can't get over this. The very first question was Kyler, Marie, Matthew Stafford, Kurt Cousins, Aaron Rogers. Yes. And what did they lead

in passer rating? Passer rating. Matt Stamford's up there in passer rating? 106.3. Wow. All right. Well, he does, you know, he does have Cooper Cup and had Robert Woods for a while.

Okay. So big game tonight. It's on Fox. It's a very promising network. to do good stuff and Buck and Akeman. So we get Vikings don't win, do win absolutely in the thick of the NFC playoff picture. Believe it or not, they are. Lose, I think upstairs they make a

decision, Mike Zimmer's in trouble. Steelers win doesn't necessarily change anything other than they've got a better chance to be a playoff team. But if they lose in that division, they can still win the division, because I think Baltimore is going to lose to Cleveland this weekend.

Yeah? So I, yeah. Well, Cleveland is coming off of a buy. Yes, and they're healthier. The Steelers have, they're the Titans and they're at the Chiefs. No, it's... And then they finish with the Browns and Ravens. I don't feel there's the urgency for Pittsburgh tonight.

If they win, it doesn't guarantee anything. And if they lose, if Cleveland beats Baltimore this weekend, I think they will, because Baltimore is literally falling apart physically, and the Browns are off a buy, and Pittsburgh's a... Pittsburgh's fine. But Minnesota is, I honestly feel like Mike Zimmer, you've got to win this thing. It's a Thursday. Kirk Cousins isn't big in these games.

He's not. It's a big standalone TV game. So that's why I like Pittsburgh. I think it's really close. I think it's one of these games on paper you wouldn't think is great. And I think it ends up being a really good football game. All right. For Joy and Ryan, that's game we just played.

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