The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hour 3 - The anticipation

Episode Date: May 15, 2024

NFL reporter Dianna Russini joins the show in anticipation of the release of the NFL's regular season scheduleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. Find your local station for the herd at Fox SportsRadio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. All right, I get into the schedule release. Not everybody does.

I remember years ago, I get into the draft. Peter King doesn't like the draft. He was like, yeah, doesn't do a thing for me. You and I like the schedule release. Not everybody does. I get it. I just, I like order. I said this.

Like a day has order. I like getting stuff done. And tonight, I get order to all my games. So it's like majoring in architecture. I like the order. order of stuff. I'm a creature of habit, so I tend to like that. You artists out there don't need order.

You know, I'm not that. Anyway, Diana Rossini is just listening to this nonsense. Whatever. Okay. I'm listening to this nonsense because I know you're talking about me there. You're taking a shot at me because you know, I'm not the biggest schedule freak.

You know, I mean, I know the fans love it. And I do understand having the answers, right? Like, have an idea what your fall is going to look like, what you're going to be into, what you can get ready for. I know from the player perspective, they don't really get that into it as much. They really are just about,

when's the bye week, when's the Thursday night game, when are we on short weeks, when do I have to go to bad weather? You know, those are really the things that players care about at this point. I mean, you know who you're playing. You have an idea at this point.

So I did talk to a GM this morning, though, that he's got a holiday game, and holiday games are tough. I think even though everyone knows what the season's about, and that's pretty much sacrificing everything in your life, I don't think anyone really, truly wants to play on Christmas Day, but we'll see how that turns out, of course. Yeah, I thought the Jets getting, because they're rebuilding their O-line,

and as you well know, if you talk to general managers, they will tell you the hardest group to get to play well together is the O-line. That's why having veterans, so the Jets have three new veterans, a rookie left tackle. And by the way, veterans don't play in preseason much anymore. And they open up with a Bosa on the road. And I'm like, that's a tough opener, right? For the Jets?

Yeah, you would think the NFL would just want to give Aaron an easy first game considering what we saw him have to go through and what Jets fans had to suffer through last year, just a few plays in and obviously all going down the drain from there. So, yeah, I definitely see this being a little. bit of a gauntlet coming out for the Jets. Definitely not an easy. I wouldn't think of it as an easy schedule for the Jets opening up. I happen to know some of the games that they have coming up after that, and they're not great either. So look, I think just in general, I said this to you probably this time

last year, the New York Jets have the potential to be great. If Aaron stays healthy, we know that they've tried to make some changes in this offseason here. They move the staff around a bit. They meet some changes on the offensive side of the ball with the coaches, with some assistance. And, you know, it's the same story here in New York, though, Colin. Aaron Rogers is running the team. They're listening to him, and they're comfortable with it because they know that they're banking on his success. They're banking on his improvements that he's made. I think he's also learned a lot.

And I've spoken to some people in that building about who Aaron is right now. And he's not at a point in his life where we're going to see this tremendous amount of growth. Right. He is who he is at this point. Right. But he had a little bit of an adjustment, right? All those years in Green Bay and then coming to New York and dealing with what he had to deal with and seeing the things he had to see.

But obviously we've seen from the roster standpoint, and even through the draft process, Aaron Rogers was well aware everything that the New York Jets were doing there. There are two teams in this league, and they feel different. They almost feel like the 70s, the Packers and the Steelers. They don't make a lot of changes. Packers don't even have an owner. They're really, and I say this respectfully. They're old school, but yet smart enough and well-run enough to win now, especially Green Bay.

They get the quarterbacks right. And then all of a sudden you take Russell Wilson, Sierra, Pittsburgh. And I'm just fascinated to watch it because he's not really on brand. I mean, Big Ben could have drama, but Big Ben kind of felt like Pittsburgh. They got the scruffy beard and motorcycle, and it kind of felt like Pittsburgh. what do you make Russell Pittsburgh what is just kind of your vibe on it I think it could go sideways

I think it could be excellent what do you make about are people talking about it yeah I remember the Saturday morning getting the text that he was there and that this was going to work out and just thinking that I was making a mistake because I was multitasking that maybe I misread it but no like Tomlin and Russell Wilson

I know they like each other like I'd seen them on the field before after games when they would play one another. There was always just a mutual respect that you could see and an understanding. But just when I think of who Mike Tomlin is, what he's about, what I've even learned as a reporter from him, just observing him as a leader and how he conducts his team, what that locker room looks like.

And then I think of Russell, they're just very different people. Right. So you have this marriage now, and everything I gather in terms of just having tons of conversations since this went down, is that they want him there. So that to me immediately says, like, this is fabulous for Russell Wilson, knowing the environment he was in in Denver, which was as bad as it possibly could get in terms of him being just wanted, right?

It was very clear. There was no slow burn there. It was a pretty hard breakup. And it was probably better for both sides, right? So now here he is. They want him there. They're excited by him. They enjoy him.

And I really believe. in terms of the roster, he is set up to succeed here. And I think if he learned from his last experience, which let's hope he has, I think if he just puts the confidence and trust and belief in Arthur Smith, I think that's where he can probably take off here and do well in Pittsburgh. But it's really going to come down to whether or not he's going to have that ability to trust a coach again after what he went through with Sean Payton. So the Houston Texans, this is one of the things.

in baseball, you know, it tends to take years and years of drafting and then hitting on a few players to go from bad to good. It takes a while. It's a process. Same in the NBA. You get a 19-year-old, played one year of college. But in the NFL, you can be the Texans, awful, laughable, and a playoff team. Get the coach right, get the quarterback right.

Tom Brady was talking about C.J. Stroud on the Pivot podcast, talking about his humility, his maturity, his, he's got a plan. And Tom talked about there is a way to last in this league. Not just talent. There's a way to do it. And I just wondered if you had any thought. I mean, C.J. Stroud, I mean, his comp was Jared Gough. That's a good comp.

It's kind of blew everybody away, myself included. Blew me away. How good he was. Yeah. Like day one. Like what? I have a lot of interest. I have a lot of interest in this in terms of how coaches and GMs, even owners that are really involved,

how they judge these young quarterbacks coming out in the draft. How do they decide? How do they sit there? You know, we just mentioned Sean Payton, and he's a great example of somebody. He knows right away, right away. This is the guy, this is the guy, this is the guy, this is the guy. He's very gray.

He's very rarely gray on people. And I've asked him before, like, what do you look for? What is it? What is the thing that says, yes, this person has the maturity. They have the leadership, you know? And so much of it is just that toughness. It's the ability to take the criticism. It's the openness.

It's the humility. And it's what makes it so difficult and so rare to find because you're asking a lot of characteristics in playing the hardest position in sports to be able to have the physical makeup and then also have that emotional mental maturity to go along with it. And I actually think there are separate things here. I think you can be a leader because I think most people think leader maturity. I don't believe all quarterbacks in the NFL right now are mature. There's a few immature ones that I've come across, but they're really good leaders. That's okay.

And then you have those few. You've got the Jared Gulfs, the Matthew Stafford, the Dak Prescott's, the Justin Herberts, the Patrick Mahomes, who they're the whole thing. They're the whole brand. It's really, I think what Tom Brady pointed out, though, and C.J. Shradwood makes him really just quite a unicorn is that he is so young and is already able to conduct himself

and understand how this works, which is really adding to the story of why that was such a shock in terms of, yes, there were people around the league who knew he'd be good. But to have that mental, emotional maturity to go with it, I think that's really where Houston hit a grand slam. I want to ask you finally about an organization that you know well. For just years, there was just everything about Washington felt wrong. Now they've got a new owner, a new GM, a new coach.

And the Jaden Daniels stuff I'm hearing is so encouraging. He's intentional. He's got a plan for everything. And, you know, by the way, he went from, you know, Arizona State to LSU. So we went from kind of a nondescript program to a star program, never in the news for the wrong stuff. Productive worker bid. Very easy in college football to get distracted now in the NIL era. He never did. I don't know.

It just sometimes is he going to be, not Caleb Williams, is the number two quarterback going to be the hit like last year? Are you hearing anything on what the early? indications and talk of Jaden Daniels is? Yeah, and here's thing. It was the talk of Jaden Daniels before the commanders took him. It was the popularity and truly just how much he connected with so many different head coaches and GMs that met with him during the process. Just brave reviews across the board.

I had dinner with a head coach at the Combine who had met Jaden earlier in the day, and we spent the whole dinner just talking about this kid, and that was not the intention of us having dinner. catching up. We really had tons of other things that we wanted to get to. But he really was shocked how impressive he was in that meeting. Now, where we are now and how he's been able to conduct himself, I always listen to players. That to me, like, yes, the coaches are all going to say he's learning. We've got a long way to go. And, you know, they give you all the coach talk. But the players are the ones you know and the veteran guys. And when you hear the things that they're saying already in

Washington about the leadership already, it's been a month, you know, and the fact that he's been able to already make an impression there. You know, you mentioned Caleb Williams, and I think what happened along the way here with Caleb's, because, yes, the Daniels buzz is phenomenal, and I do think he's going to have tons of success in Washington. I do think they made the right pick here. But the Caleb Williams, to me,

is the best pick Chicago is made in terms of surrounding, or the timing of when they picked Caleb and what they did to build around. It's the best Chicago's ever done, probably for any quarterback since you and I've been covering the league. So we constantly asking the question, which rookie quarterbacks are come out here and have the most success. Based on the roster, to me, it's Caleb Williams because of what they've been able to do.

Commander's offensive lines still worries me, Colin. That's where I feel like we're going to see the snag in some of their game. But we'll see if they can coach that up and make some of those fixes. And maybe Jalen is able to work around that. But we've seen it over and over, even the great struggle if their own lines not strong. Diana Rusini, the athletic. Great to see you. I like the background.

I like the mood of the background. It's kind of very soothing, very nice thing. That's what I go for. Last time we were on, we fought a little. So I thought that I'd bring a little bit calm to the show. You're yelling at me,

accusing me of why. You know what it was? You just didn't want to, you believed my reporting. You didn't want to believe my reporting. You were mad about it. I wasn't. And then when Peter Schreger said it,

you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. I'm like, I said it on the show. But it's not. All right. Forgive you. I love you guys. Love you. 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.

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You can learn on this show. It's like it's like mentorship for free. Give you stuff. J-Mack with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. Okay, whatever that was.

Let's go to the Cavs who lost game four without Donovan Mitchell Collin. It's starting to sound like he playing tonight. According to Shams Sharani of the five places he reports for, Mitchell is expected to miss game five dealing with that cap strain, which is a major bummer.

Now this is where it gets interesting. Brian Winhorst, who I think you know and I know he comes on my podcast, he is reporting that the Lakers and Nets have offers ready for Donovan Mitchell. Should he say... The Lakers and who? And the Nets. He's a big

New York... The Nets. Brooklyn Nets. Yeah, not the Nicks. The Nets. I said Nets, right? Yeah, no, I think you did. He doesn't fit with the NICs. No, he doesn't fit with the NICs. Now, they should have offers ready, or they will have offers ready. Should he say, get me out of here, I don't want the extension? They're ready. I think that the Cavs owner is going to be really ticked off when he hears this.

Like, guys, he's under contract. Why are you going to a reporter? Well, you like him better than Trey Young, and most of the league does. I just think Trey Young feels like L.A. I mean, I'm smart. That's why I like. Well, Trey Young ditched. clutch sports, that means he may go to San Antonio.

Well, there was a report. I forget where I saw this. You know, listen, there's a lot of NBA satellite guys who hear stuff and put stuff out there about whether or not he would fit in Orlando with Paolo Bancaro. Orlando needs to level up. They don't have a point guard. They were close. They almost beat Donovan Mitchell in game seven. Donovan Mitchell can be, and am I being fair, he can be a little selfish.

I don't think that's-stars are selfish. I don't think that's great for Orlando. I think they've got great chemistry. he may disrupt it a little bit. Not a bad guy. Not a bad guy at all. I don't know that he gets it, accomplishes anything going to Brooklyn. That's why everybody's pointing to the Lakers.

But I said it yesterday. Rachel Nichols said it today. It's tough for me to see the owner of the cabs saying, oh, yeah, Donovan Mitchell wants to go to Lakers. Sure, I'll trade him to Lakers. I don't see that happening. Well, isn't Donovan Mitchell a Mets fan or something like that? I think his dad played for the Mets or something like that. Yeah, so I think he may want to go.

So Brooklyn could make sense. Yeah. Is there a world where he ends up on the Clippers? If Donovan Mitchell wants to go west and the Clippers say, we're going to move off James Hard. Do they entertain Donovan Mitchell? I think the Miami Heat, they're always big game hunting. Pat Riley.

You know, that's a good call. I think Miami's interesting. Yeah, I mean, you put together a Tyler Hero package, some draft things. Oh, I could see Miami. Miami, Donovan, Butler, Bam, that's a title team. That's in the running for a title team. Oh, that's really good. Yeah, it's a really good team.

Did you just come up with that? And by the way, no, I mean, you said it, and I took it off you. But by the way, you know who loses in that scenario? Because Boston's not beaten Denver. Nicks? No, the Celtics. Because they, by the way, Miami's already got the better coach. Then you give me Donovan Mitchell, Jimmy Butler, and.

Bam. Bam. Dogs. The dogs. I got over, I got, I got, I got, I want to share the ball, Jason Tatum. I want to be one of the guys, Jason Tatum. I'm telling you this Boston thing. They got this.

They already got the top. They rebuilt their kitchen in their title room this year, and I don't know. I think they're going to, are the Celtics going to become the Kings? Oh, stop it. The Kings can't make the finals. What are you talking about? It's going to be back in the finals. Boston is not beating Denver.

I just said they're going to get in the finals. We'll see what happens. Denver's not a lock to get there. They probably will. But if Miami lands Donovan Mitchell, every Celtic fan who's realistic is going crap. Every time Spolstra has close to even talent, he's beaten Boston. Well, yeah. I think you're overreacting a little bit.

But you're trying to treat Jason Tatum like he's some also red. Like he's a second tier guy like a James Harden or something who doesn't show up in big games. And this disrespect, Colin, it's bubbling up under. And I know you're going to be leaving the show sometime soon. And I've got some stuff ready in the chamber. I'm not leaving the show. You're going away for a day and I'm hosting. And I've got some stuff ready on Tatum.

I don't want to get it. in the back and forth. But Tatum is that guy. I'm taking a day off. That's not... Taking a day off. You're trying to speak things into existence. No, I don't want to leave the show.

Leaving the show is kind of finals out of it. I'm getting on a plane for three days and then getting on a plane back to the show. Okay, fair enough. Next up, Bronny James got in some work at the Combine yesterday. Look at his floater game. Huh? Ronnie James, nice little floater there. He crushed some workouts.

Remember he shot 19 of 20. 25 from 3. Athletically, he's crushing it. Now, he did not grant interviews when he was at USBC, but spoke for the first time about his goals yesterday. Now, listen up closely. I would be happy about getting to the league instead of me thinking about playing with my dad. But that's, like, not my mindset or not at all.

I'm just trying to put in the work and see what takes from my turn. Bronny was just a nickname that I was just given when I was younger. but you know everything that that follows my dad and people just try to you know link me with that and all the all the greatness that he's achieved like I I haven't done anything so I feel like there needs to be that

that divide between Ronnie and LeBrony and LeBron You know I will say this I I'm not an NBA Combine guy I mean I watched it yesterday I sat and watched it for like 40 minutes yesterday. But I'm not, Ryan Rosillo camps out there. I mean, I think he has a tent somewhere in the back of the facility. Like he'll sit there.

He loves that stuff. And I just, I watch it, but I don't, you know, again, the NBA draft is so different. None of these guys are going to make an impact. But I did, I did go online as I was watching it and read a couple of places, I think, are pretty smart, savvy personnel guys. And not only is he smart. but he's got a dip in his shop. You can't do that in the NBA. You're not going to get, you can't,

his jumper needs refining. He's three and a half inches shorter than they said, so he can only be a point. You can't put him at, who's he going to guard at the two? So, and again, I think he's a smart kid and a good kid. But people were talking about a shot and they're like, that's slow. That's not fast enough.

And I was like, and these are people I trust that live for the combine. Let's back up a little to what he just said. my dad's accomplished a lot. I haven't accomplished anything. And it sounded to me. Think about when you graduated college. Way back in, what, 60s, 70s, whatever it was. You graduate college.

Do you want to, like, go work with your parents? Do you want to go home? You want to get the hell out of Dodge. Well, I didn't want to be a lot. I don't know that I'm believing all this LeBron Brownie stuff. If my dad would have owned a hedge fund, I'd work for him. He was an optometrist in a small town. So, I don't know.

think a lot of kids want to work with their dad. I think a lot of kids want to be their own person. Once you go to college, you... Well, I did, but I didn't want to be a doctor. Yeah, you want to be your own? I don't... If you listen closely to what he just said, I feel like there needs to be that divide between Brony and LeBron.

He's been in his dad's shadow forever. I like the idea of this guy just doing his own thing in the NBA. Not going wherever his dad wants to go or his dad following him. You know, he needs to become his own man. Like, I'm rooting for this kid. Generally, the greater the dad, the more average the kid as an athlete. Yeah, because you're growing up in privilege and wealthy and not having to work as hard. And this guy's a hard worker, by all accounts, on the basketball court.

It's going to be tough for him, though. Well, I think also, it's not like a little thing. I thought he was 6'4. He's 6'4 feet and a half. 6'1.5. It's not the same thing. And he also is the people I were on yesterday sitting there and they were like, this jump shot is slow. He's like 20, 21 years old growing into his body.

It's going to take some time. He's probably going to be in the G League next year, right? Wherever he goes, he's not going to be an NBA coming off the bench as a rookie, right? I guarantee you that's the worst hotel he's ever stayed at. The G League. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you name three G League teams? There's one in L.A., I think.

Yeah, they're the South Bay Lakers, I think, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Haven't been to a game, but I've heard it's a good experience. El Paso Explorers, Durango Dynamos. I'm just making these up. Let's wrap up with the NFL schedule release. I know you're very, very excited. I feel like you're making fun of me because I like it.

I don't feel like you're supporting me. No, no, I'm supporting you. Come on, bro. Diana wasn't certain. Diana was making fun, but clearly. The NFL has announced four additional international games to go with Packers, Eagles, from Brazil in week one. Here we go. Jets Vikings in Week 5 from London.

I don't know if J.J. McCarthy will be starting. Oh, so another time the Jets have to have a difference. schedule. Yeah, they come back. I did see, well, according to the leak, they come back and they don't play on Sunday. They play on the Monday night football against Buffalo. So an extra game. Look at, look at what the league is giving international audiences. The Giants, Carolina, New England. There's not enough beer in Germany for me to take on Giants, Panthers. Oh, yeah, I would never. I'll tell you, though, I want to go to Germany. October Fest? I've had relatives that have lived there.

My son speaks a little of it I'm going to go to Germany at some point I'm happy for you I've known several Germans very smart intense I'm going to go there Maybe we shake the show there

No I'm going to pass on Giants Panthers in Germany Sorry but Jags bears looks like a really good game on paper Caleb Williams versus Trevor Lawrence Pretty good I mean But don't you think they're sticking it to the Jets again Oh the Jags are go Did you see that Jags are week six and week seven

versus the bears he goes to Jacksonville games. Then they stay and they host the Patriots. I don't even know if Drake May's going to be starting by week seven. It might be the Jacoby Preset show. That's depressing. Jay Mack with the news. Well, that's the news.

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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. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential.

Either way, the podcast, Superhuman, documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. 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. Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. Joe and I are both lifelong Star Wars fan, so we're celebrating May the 4th with a brand new week of fun, thought-provoking Star Wars-related episodes. Join us as we tackle science and culture topics from a galaxy far, far away,

such as the biology of taun tons and wampas on the ice planet hot, or the practicality and corporate business sense of the Sith rule of two. Listen to Stuff to Blow Your Mind on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you remember when Diana Ross double-tapped Little Kim's boobs at the VMAs? Or when Kanye said that George Bush didn't like black people. I know what you're thinking. What the hell does George Bush got to do a little kill?

Well, you can find out on the Look Back at it podcast. I'm Sam J. And I'm Alex English. Each episode, we pick it here, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it. Including a recent episode with Mark Lamont Hill, waxing all about crack in the 80s. To be clear, 84 is big to me, not just because of crack. I'm down to talk about crack on day, but just so you all know. I mean, at this point, Mark, this is the second episode where we've discussed.

That's correct. So I'm starting to see that there's a through line. We also have AIDS on the table right now. Thank you for finishing that sentence. Yes. I don't think there's a more important year for black people. Really? Yeah.

For me, it's one of the most important years for black people in American history. Listen to look back at it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. For NFL season with NFL Schedule Release, presented by Verizon, every game reveal. Watch tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on NFL Network and NFL Plus. Subscription required for NFL Plus. Learn more at NFL.com. And NFL Network, don't stretch it out. Just lay them out and talk about it. Like these networks, they're like, here's the Titan Schedule more after this break. I don't want a lot of that nonsense.

Let's get to the good teams and give me the schedule NFL Network. Whoever's going to be on the show. Don't be playing around on this stuff and teasing with a lot of chatter. Let's just get, first up, let's just get the most important teams out west off the board. Then we can move to the Titans. But you know what they're going to do, J-Mack. A lot of teasing. Apparently, the Jets open with the Niners.

You know, second week is a breaking news. Do we have a breaking news banner? Allegedly at the Tennessee Titans week two. That's a win. That's a win. And then they have the Patriots allegedly on Thursday night football. That's another layup. Okay, so here's the quarterbacks they face to start the season.

Brock Purdy, Will Levis, Jacobi Bresset or Drake May, followed by Bo Nix, then in London versus J.J. McCarthy or Sam Darnold. So you should be five and one. Four in one. Four and one. And then they have the bills,

followed by the Steelers and the Patriots and the Texans. The Jets don't face good quarterbacks. No, there's a reason. Yeah. Here we go. Here we go. They face a gauntlet of have-nots. That's the big advantage.

Whereas the Packers, a better team, face much better quarterbacks. Golf a couple of times. Caleb's going to be a fascinating player a couple of times. Detroit's got a first place schedule. Jets, as usual, have a losing schedule, so it's soft. Well, at the end, it gets a little tough. Weeks 15 through 18, allegedly.

When they're in the playoff chase, who do they face? Trevor at Trevor Lawrence, versus Matt Stafford, at Josh Allen. That's Cole Buffalo. And at Tua and Miami in warm weather. Not difficult. They could go two or two in those. going to end on a four-game skid so you better get the momentum. It's officially 12 and 5. I've just bumped it up.

You're ridiculous. I'm so excited. I really am. I got to get out of the house after the show because I'll be locked in all night watching this stuff. I won't even, who's playing in the NBA tonight? Dallas and OKC. I'll watch a little bit of that in the other team. Boston's 16. No, I'm not watching that. Passive Jason Tatum, winning by 20.

Morin. All right. So this is interesting. So J.J. Reddick, there's a rumor out there. Now, Mike Shosheskysk's name is being thrown out there. He's going to kind of legitimize the search for the Lakers. After Darvin Ham got hired, remember Phil Jackson was tied to it. He was consultant, legitimizing the hire, which got some criticism.

So Phil legitimized it. Coach K can legitimize JJ Reddick because he's never been a coach before. Here's Eudanus Haslam, very heady veteran, smart guy had him on the show multiple times on a potential J.J. Reddick hire to the Lakers. If it's JJ, it's going to be a cynical locker room. You're going to see guys that are going to say is coach going to do a podcast after the game with LeBron. You're going to have a cynical locker room with guys that are going to side out everything JJ says because they're going to wonder, is it JJ's message or LeBron's message?

Now, that is interesting. Is it JJ's message or LeBron? But could I not argue this? in the NBA in the last three years, we've had 42 different coaches. So plus two new hires next season. Players are cynical on most of these guys. Middle age guy that never played. They're cynical about him too. So now there's about five coaches in the league that I think own the room. Spoe, Pop, Tibbs, Kerr, Malone, as five.

I think Chris Finch has got it going. But those guys feel like they could deal with a controversy in the room a little bit. But it's hard. It's a young league getting younger. Stars have unique power that NFL stars don't have. And if a star wants a guy out, like LeBron, they go to a Cavs game. They sit up front. They kind of manipulate the situation.

So I do think Eudanis makes a good point. If you got a message, is it from LeBron? But here's the thing. you know J.J. Reddick, and any coach that has LeBron is going to do what LeBron thinks is right, or he won't be the coach long. So essentially, any coach you hire, I mean, Darvin Ham got on LeBron's bad side. He's out of work. So, like, the idea that, hey, JJ, this may have come from LeBron.

Well, of course it did. Because if LeBron doesn't get the okay, every coach with him in his career outside of Spoe, Spow's the only one with the organization said, no, we're not moving off him. He didn't like Spow initially. So I think LeBron's gotten a little more difficult to coach through the years because you don't get any guarantees even if he plays well. You're not getting to the finals. And the truth is he probably wouldn't have gotten to the finals had he played out West for a lot of his career.

The East was so awful and has been mostly since MJ retired. But, yeah, I do think there'd be some cynicism, but it's the NBA. Who are players not cynical about? Like in the NFL, you can take a coach, like Robert Salah. Got a losing record, never proven it. I think he's got the room. I don't think he's lost the room. What are you rolling your eye?

I think he's got the room. How do you have a room when you can't win a game? I think he still has it. It's like 73 games under 500. How do you have a room? I think in the NFL it's hard. You know, Dave Wonstadt says you can lose games. You lose three in a row.

You can lose the room. So that's when you get in trouble. But by and large, I could not tell you the last time I watched an NFL game and I thought a team quit on a coach. I can't tell you, I can't tell you ever. Now, I've seen Carolina was bad, but Bryce Young didn't have any weapons. You watch NBA teams and you're like, they have tuned. I mean, the Raiders, people said kind of may have sort of like quit on Josh McDaniels

because you watched how hard they played for Antonio Pierce, and it was harder than they played for Josh McDaniels. So that's not quitting, but I would say that room was uninspired with their head coach and very inspired. with Antonio Pierce. You could see the intensity they played with down the stretch with the same personnel. So that was a team that was clearly more inspired once a guy got out of the room. Here we go.

Didn't Chargers lose 6321 to the Raiders? Remember that last season? And I think that they quit on Brandon Staley at that time. Well, I think Herbert wasn't there, and Staley was an awful coach. Maybe that's just not knowing what you're doing. But I think the team, the defense just quit. Like nobody was...

He lost the room, right? I think he was fired a couple of days later. It happens. Yeah, I guess it does. But you're right, maybe Sala still has it, but you say you lose three games, you could lose the room. You lost three straight seasons, dude. I already have the Jets' early schedule. They're going to go four and one.

Are you sure they're not beating the Niners? No. Will Levis and Drake May against that defense, that's a W. Could be an ugly choppy W, but it's a W. The only way of Tennessee in a New England could beat. Aaron and the Jets is pass rush. And that is a concern early in the season, but I don't think New England or Tennessee is going to have a great pass rush.

Can you imagine what I'll be like if they beat the Niners on that opening Monday night? I can tell you right now, I got an ice cream headache, won't make the show. I will call in sick. That Tuesday, I can already feel it. Chest congestion. See you tomorrow. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, Not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smygel and Friends.

Me and hilarious guests from Bob Odenkirk to David Letterman help make you funnier. This week, my guest, S&L's Mikey Day and head writer Streeter Seidel help an a cappella band with their between songs banter. Where does your group perform? We do some retirement homes. Those people are starving for banter. Listen to humor me with Robert Smigel and Friends on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Imagine an Olympics where doping is not. not only legal, but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential. Either way, the podcast's Superhuman documented it all, embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds.

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. Hey, this is Robert from the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast. Joe and I are both lifelong Star Wars fan, so we're celebrating May the 4th with a brand new week of fun, thought-provoking Star Wars-related episodes. Join us as we tackle science and culture topics

from a galaxy far, far away, such as the biology of taun tons and wampas on the ice planet hot, or the practicality and corporate business sense of the Sith Rule of Two. Listen to Stuff to Blow Your Mind on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever, you get your podcast. A win is a win. A win is a win.

I don't care which I'm saying. Yep, that's me. Clifford Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, my basketball and college football journey, or my career in sports media. Well, now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifers Show.

This is a place for raw, unfilled conversations with athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. So let's get to it. Listen to The Clivert Show on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok's podcast network on TikTok. This is an IHeart podcast, Guaranteed Human.