The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Richard Sherman Podcast - Will 49ers pay Brock Purdy $60 MILLION?

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

Richard Sherman weighs in on the ongoing debate about how much San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy should make on the contract he’ll sign this coming NFL offseason. Sherm pits Purdy’s numbers up against quarterbacks making north of $50 million like Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys, Jordan Love of the Green Bay Packers, Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, Trevor Lawrence of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and Tua Tagovailoa of the Miami Dolphins and contends that Purdy has done more than enough to make the same amount of money as them. Also, he reacts to John Lynch and the Niners suspending De’Vondre Campbell for the rest of the season after walking off the field during their loss to the Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald saying he’s “optimistic” about Geno Smith suiting up for the upcoming matchup against the Minnesota Vikings, Sam Darnold leading the Vikings past Caleb Williams’ Chicago Bears on Monday Night Football, the Detroit Lions adding running back David Montgomery to their long list of injuries this season, Emmanuel Acho’s criticism of Dan Campbell, and University of Colorado star Travis Hunter winning the Heisman Trophy over Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty. #volume #herdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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presented by our friends and partners over at Brighton. Got me shining right, got me shining bright. A lot of things to talk about today, but we're going to start it off with the San Francisco 49ers in Brock Purdy's contract. It's been a lot of debate. Should he get 60 million? Dad got 60 million. You know, there's other quarterbacks right now with 55 million. Trevor Lawrence got 55, Jordan Love, Joe Burrow, all that 55 million, Tuatunga Vilo at 53. What does Brock Purdy deserve? They did a poll in the Bay Area. 38% say he deserves 20 to 30 million, 29% say he deserves between 31 and 40 million. 19% say he deserves between 41 million and 50 million and 14% say he deserves between 51 and 60 million. Let me tell you something, people. I hear you.

I'm with you, but this is the National Football League. You guys are speaking like fans and businesses don't quite work that way. I'm sure, you know, you're not happy with his performance right now, but I can name one, two, three, four, five quarterbacks on that list making over 50 million that have not even sniffed a Super Bowl, have not even sniffed the second round of the playoffs and haven't come close to winning anything. And this guy's been to an NFC championship in a Super Bowl. I understand it's not going great this season.

That's fine. You know, not every season is going to be go how you want it. You're not going to go to the Super Bowl every single season. But he's been had a lot of success in the postseason. He's played incredibly well in the postseason, better than most. the quarterback's on this list outside of Joe Burrow. And that's it. That's it.

I mean, you can talk about Dak Prescott and his playoff walls. You can talk about Jordan Love and his playoff walls. And they ended the season last year on an interception off his arm in a two-minute drill. Maybe that narrative changes this year. But Trevor Lawrence has one playoff win and no playoff since has been, I think he's 215 over his last 17 games or something like that. Tuatunga Vailoa has had the concussion issues. So when you're negotiating,

with a team, unless you're willing to move on from Brock Purdy, they're going to be paying them 50 plus million. Now, how they maneuver that money, how they dish it out, how much guaranteed, how much upfront money, how much is injury guaranteed, etc., etc. That'll be up for debate. But it'll be within the $50 to $55 million range. I don't think it'll go to $60. The salary cap has jumped, and it'll jump again.

And quarterbacks always, especially top quarterbacks, they're always a certain amount of certain percentage of the cap. It's been getting really excessive lately because they're closing in on like 24, 25% of the cap. But it's usually around 17 to 21% of the cap. It used to be now that's kind of ballooned a little bit. But I think he's going to be around 50 to $55 million. Prague and John Lynch are going to figure out how to spread it out. Again, I'm sure there are going to be some salary cap.

casualties this year. I don't know who those guys will be, but that's why you have to draft. Well, that's why you have to replenish your team through the draft and have a lot of depth and have young guys ready to step up because in order to be successful and sustainable for a long time, that's the way you've got to build your team. You're going to pay guys. You have good players. You either let them walk or pay them. And you could hear with the Dallas Cowboys. Now you hear them talking, Stefan Jones, talking about they may not pay Micah Parsons. I said that this offseason. They hadn't paid him yet. So it doesn't look like they're going to pay him.

They're going to see if they can get a first round or a two for him. And if somebody else wants to pay him. And that's the unfortunate part in this league. Like if they wanted to pay him, they would already pay him. And that price is only going up. You know, he's a great player. So I'd guess his demand is $36, $37 million now. When before the season, it probably would have been $3435.

So I, again, think Brock Purdy is going to get his money. I think he's done a great job over, you know, a lot of his career. the majority of his career. Unfortunately, this is a down year for him. This is an off year. If we talk about stats and passer ratings, he's still amongst the best in the national football league. And I think that's the part that's going to help him. I mean, his passer rating compared to all the guys we named, he's the top of all of them, a 106.3 passer rating over his career. That's fantastic football. He needs some offensive line help. He needs a healthy roster. That's why you're paying all these guys. You need them on the field in order for your team to

function the way they need to function. And that's been a problem this year, and you can say what you want about it. But that's how the National Football League goes, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry. Now we can keep going to the Devon Dre Campbell fallout. John Lynch officially announces that he'll be suspended for the rest of the season, three games without pay. There are people out there saying this is unfair, that this is not how the world works. You shouldn't be able to stop him.

The NFLPA will likely appeal this. I highly doubt it. It's unprecedented. territory and when you're in unprecedented territory, you get unprecedented punishment. And that's what's happening right now to Devandre Campbell. He's not going to be rewarded for quitting on his team because imagine the president that sets for other teams. Hey, you want to get out of here?

You want to go try to get on a playoff team right before the season ends? Just walk out. Just walk out the game on your team. You'll get cut. Somebody else will pick you up. You'll be playing in the playoffs before you know it. And you might get a ring out of it. I don't think that NFL wants that.

I don't think the NFLPA wants that. I don't think players want that. They don't want guys quitting on their teams like this, especially to get on to another team. Now, you don't usually have as much shatter as you have heard from the San Francisco 49ers, but you can just tell how much it hurt because this wasn't a blowout.

This wasn't a game that was out of hand. This was a game that he could have impacted in a positive way, and he chose to walk out. In a game, he would have played a whole half of football. He would have started for the second half, and he would likely have started for the rest of the season. But it is what it is. San Francisco 49ers got to figure some things out.

They're going to likely be playing for pride at this point and trust in this team. You've got to play for the guys that are next to you, play for your spot next year, show the coaches that you deserve to be on his team the next season and that you're a guy that regards to circumstances will go out there and do his job at a high level. Now, I'll switch hats because we'll talk about the Seattle Seahawks and Gino Smith. Mike McDonnell told reporters they're optimistic

that he will be ready to go against the Minnesota Vikings, and that is great news for the Seattle Seahawks because I just don't think that you want to see the other quarterbacks start another game. I'm sorry, I know, you're like,

oh, he didn't have the whole week. We saw enough. Gino Smith needs to play against this forest, coach defense. His defense has played well all season. They're going to bring a lot of anxiety, looks. They're going to bring pressure. Gino handles it well. Usually, he's trying to stay in the pocket. He's delivering the ball on time if he can. And if he's playing, it gives the Seattle Seahawks

the best chance to win. And I'm happy to hear that it's a lot better than people thought than I thought because the way he walked off and not able to come back into the game, it was really concerning because usually that means it's a longer term injury. So thank goodness. Gino's going to be okay. Right now they're tied with the Rams at the top of the NFC West, but the Rams hold the tiebreaker. Obviously, they play at the end of the season and if the Seahawks can win a couple and the Rams win a couple and they're both even, then their last game will be for all the marbles more than likely.

We'll see how that goes. The Rams play the Jets, Cardinals, and Seahawks. Those are considered tough tasks for the Rams. Seahawks play Vikings, Bears, and then Rams. Again, this, Vikings game is the toughest of all those games. So we'll see. They played really well tonight against the Bears. Started off slow.

Sam Darnold battled his way through that game. They ran the ball. Aaron Jones ran the ball really well. That defense made some plays. Pressured Caleb Williams into our early turnover early in that game. Came up with a crucial stand deep into their red zone to hold the Vikings to three. They're playing good football. And it's going to be a really tough task for the Seattle Seahawks to go in there.

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The Vikings got a big win today. So they continue their great season. They're 12 and 2 now. The Chicago Bears, 4 and 10, continue to struggle. Obviously, all the prayers and all the third. thoughts go out to Randy Mollis and everything that he's going through, a great Hall of Famer, a great person, a guy that played the game the right way, that lived the game the right way.

And we hope that he finds himself in good health and he beats this and wins this battle that he's going through. He was an idol of mine growing up when I play receiver. So thoughts and prayers. I hope it all goes great, Randy. The Vikings played in his honor today. We saw Chris Carter and Jake Reed come out with his, what his. Jersey pregame.

You saw all the players represent, but this was a good win for the Minnesota Vikings. It's a great season. I don't think anybody saw the Minnesota Vikings going 12 and 2 at this point in a season, especially losing Kirk Cousins the way they did. Flores, you know, this defense doesn't have a ton of big names, but they got a lot of guys playing really good football

and probably their best football. Jonathan Granard and Jalice Turner both had a sack in the game. Sam Darno, 24 or 40. One touchdown, one interception, 231 yards. Aaron Jones, 18 carries 86 yards and a touchdown. Justin Jefferson, seven catches 73 yards and a touchdown. Caleb Williams, the solid game, 18 for 31, 191 yards, one touchdown. But he was, you know, he got sacked a few times.

Again, it's just a struggle of a season for the Chicago Bears. They've lost eight in the row, 117 on the road. Obviously, they got a number of things they need to fix. They've already fired their coach. Pete Carroll is a name that I've heard that is at least interested in getting a Chicago. I'm sure Chicago job. I think there will be a number of coaches that will be interested in that job. They have a really talented receiving core.

They have a talented defense. A lot of great pieces that you can build around. A lot of great pieces you can win with. And I'm looking forward to seeing who they pick as their coordinator. Obviously, Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn of the Detroit Lions will be names that come up in that discussion. We'll see how they go. We'll see where they go with that. But another good game for the Vikings again.

We just talked about them. They play to Seattle Seahawks in Seattle again next week. I'm looking forward to that game. I can't wait. The Bears host the Lions. Might be their ninth loss in a row. I don't know. Unfortunately, though, the Detroit Lions are now going to be without David Montgomery

for the rest of the season. He's sprained his MCL. That's unfortunate. Sonic and Knuckles have been a really great combination all season long, and I was looking forward to seeing how they pan out in the playoffs. You know, that's when you need to run the football. That's when you need to lean on your run game. Obviously, a lot of the weight is going to fall on Jemir Gibbs' shoulders now.

He's going to have to carry a heavier load. He's going to have to do more for this offense, and he's already been doing a ton for this offense. They also lost another defensive player, Detackle, Allum McNeil, torn his ACL out for the season. Carlton Davis. is out indefinitely with a fractured jaw. Khalil Dorsey out for the year with an ankle injury.

The Lions already have 13 defensive players on IR heading into the Bills game. Don Campbell says nobody cares. Nobody's going to give us a pass or an Astorick next to their record. And he's right. Nobody cares. But that's a lot of injuries on the defensive side of the football. That's a lot of injuries on a team to put on IR. But that's a lot of injuries on defense.

We'll see if they can continue. to overcome that. Obviously, they weren't able to in the Buffalo Bills game. They battled in that game only lost by seven points. Their offense scores 42 points in that game. But what I really want to talk about is all of these Dan Campbell haters coming out of their woodworks. It's like

now everybody's like saying you have to play fundamentally sound football and you can't go for it on fourth. You can't do things that are unexpected. That's not Super Bowl winning. That's not going to win you Super Bowls. I don't know about that, especially coming from Acho. Achos watched the Philadelphia Eagles and Doug Peterson in a game against the New England Patriots. Doug Peterson and the Philadelphia Eagles that year went forward on fourth down as much as anyone.

They were second in the league. They went forward and went forward and went forward. They were going forward on fourth down all the time and just living by the edge of their seats. Because why not? if you have the momentum, everybody else loses to. There are people that do it exactly as you should. Hey, we're going to kick it on fourth and three from the three. We're going to kick it every fourth down.

Hey, we're just going to kick it. We're going to kick field goals. We're going to punt the ball. And they go home. It's not like that's a strategy that guarantees you success. It doesn't. This strategy doesn't guarantee you failure. It's just like when the warrior starts shooting threes.

And they start shooting a boatload of threes, a boatload of threes. And everybody's like, this is going to work in a playoffs. It never works in the playoffs. Every, oh, this is going to, this is going to stop. They're going to get beat by a team that just dominates them in the paint. And then the Warriors had a dynasty. And now everybody's shooting threes. Now people forget that you used to play from the post.

You used to, oh, it used to be mid-range. You have to drive the basketball. You couldn't just live and die by threes. It's changed, literally changed the way basketball has played on a lot of levels, for better or for worse. It's changed it. But before, it was unthinkable that this, strategy would work. And so Doug Peterson in that Super Bowl, everybody remembers the Philly Special and

that crazy play right before the half. They were up 15 to 12. It was fourth down about 27 or so seconds to go in the half, fourth down from the one. They run the Philly Special on fourth down and get it. Score a touchdown. Now they're, instead of being up six points, they're up 10 points. And they win the Super Bowl that year. That's risk. Oh, that's unnecessary risk. They shouldn't have done that. They should have kicked it.

They won the Super Bowl. We could talk about last year's wild car round when the Lions went for it on fourth and one in the second quarter. Sam Laporter scored a touchdown. And on that play, they could have kicked the field goal. They won that game by one point. So again, when you sit here and say all this craziness, are you saying you don't want teams to go for it on fourth down because you think that strategy is,

is unsustainable. Perhaps. But not going for it on fourth down has lost people games too. So there are two sides of the coin. There are times teams go for it and get it and it propels them to the next round. And there are times that they don't go for it. And they kick the field goal and they take the points and they go home anyway because they played it by the book.

And all people can say is they played it by the book. They did what they should have done, but maybe they should have gone for it. Like hindsight is always 20-20, but was the on-side kick unnecessary? Yes, because the strategy isn't what it used to be. But when Sean Payton kicked an on-side kick against Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl and it works and the Saints go on to win their first Super Bowl in franchise history, it's a legendary play because he was a risk-taker.

And now that's how legends are born. That's how tides change. If the Lions win the Super Bowl playing it this way, It's going to change the way a lot of teams play. Because what do you have to lose? Everybody's done it the same way for so long. Eventually, things have to adapt. Things have to change.

Things have to evolve. And maybe this is the next evolution and iteration of the NFL. Maybe this is what the three-point shot it was to the NBA. And you sit there and say, every team has four downs. And you've got to live with it. You've got to live with it. If not, then you're going home anyway. Like, there are a lot of bad teams out there.

They're doing everything by the book. Hey, we kick it when we're supposed to. We punning when we're supposed to. We don't go for it. We don't take unnecessary risk. And guess what? They've got four wins on the season. So let's not go there with that because I don't think that's the right way to see it.

But we're going to keep moving forward and move on to the Kansas City Chiefs. Matt Ryan says they should sit in my homes. I'm not totally against that, but you've got to win this next one. You've got to win this next one to clinch. and if they win the next one and they clinch the number one seat, then you can sit them. But if he's able to play, I think you have to play him. Unless you feel comfortable putting Carson Wins in there and letting him go,

I think you have to play him. But, you know, I'm not the coach. Andy Reid has usually played him. Patrick Mahones has been injured before in the playoffs or right before the playoffs. He's usually played. So I would guess he's going to play. They play Houston, Pittsburgh, and the Broncos.

The Broncos are a scary team. You don't want to lose those three games. It's not like you've lived and blown teams out this season and played some world beater football. There have been nail biters throughout this season, throughout every single week, whether the team is good or not good, by record standards,

they've usually struggled, and it's come down to the end. And you don't want Patrick Malone sitting on the sideline with a sweatsuit on when those moments come, especially against teams that you could potentially see in the playoffs. The problems that you're going to have, again, are your offensive line, your left and right tackle, and you're talking about two of the premier past rushes in the National Football League in Houston. So again, I see why he wants to

send him having these Kansas City Chiefs tackles deal with Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter. Do you really want a banged-up patching Mahomes trying to evade those guys? Probably not. But also, do you want Carson Wentz out there dealing with that? And potentially, you lose this game, you lose the next game against the Pittsburgh Steelers team. Now they may be without T.J. Watt. That's all still up in the air. But the next three games, the Chiefs play against some of the premier pass rushers in the National Football League.

But Nito for the Broncos, the second in the league in sacks with 11 and a half. They got, I think they got five guys with at least five sacks for the Broncos. You talk about Alex High Smith, Cam Hayward, Preston Smith now with the Steelers. There's not going to get any breaks. So if you rest them, you don't rest them, these are going to be really, really tough games to win if those tackles can't stand up. But what about the league? The league is doing a great, great job of scheduling these games.

The Steelers, Chiefs, Texans, Ravens all have to play three games in 11 days. And they're all meaningful games. If they lose win, there could be a lot of movement in terms of seating. The Steelers can go from, you know, leading the north to, to fighting for a playoff spot if they lose a number of these games. The Ravens could be from go from five, six seed to three seed, two seed, depending on how these games shake out. That's why you love the National Football League.

Obviously, Buffalo is going to have a great chance, a easier schedule right now. And if they win their games, they'll likely be the one or two seed. The Chiefs will probably say the one seat if they can win one of these last three games. I'm excited. I'm excited. It's the most wonderful time of the year, not only because it's Christmas, but because the schedule is so phenomenal. We're going to get a lot of answers here soon. Hey, it's us, the Jonas Brothers.

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deserved, special talent, generational talent, never seen it before. Receiver, you know, 92 catches over a thousand yards, 14 touchdowns at corner. Should have been up for the Thorpe, you know, won all the worst defensive player to year, offensive player to year in Heisman. I think it's going to be a really long time before we ever seen anything like that again. So congratulations to him. Now I'm hearing C.J. Stroud wants Derek Stingley to play receiver because of his elite ball tracking ability. I love it.

Give him a shot. He's a heck of an athlete. Obviously, they've had some injuries. Stefan Diggs is out for the season. Nico Collins was out for a while. Give him a shot. I'm always happy to see a corner play both sides and make an impact. I mean, Travis Hunter winning the Heisman.

Maybe that's inspiring people. to say, let's break these football rules and put guys out there and give them a chance to make plays on both sides of the football. The more the merrier. I'm happy for it. But again, this transfer portal stuff is insane. Penn State's Bo Prabula enters the transfer portal less than a week before they play the college football playoff game versus SMU. Why? I don't get that because it's not like you're leaving for the draft

or you're saying, hey, I don't want to get injured going into the NFL. I could kind of respect that, but you've battled all season long to get to the playoffs. You got a chance to win a national championship or at least compete for one. And you're leaving? Like, that's a bad look. There's no way you could justify that and say that's a good look. Wherever you're transferring to, whatever team you're going to play for, I think Penn State had him in the game plan against SMU,

and you leave, you leave your teammates, you quit on your teammates to go somewhere else. I mean, I feel like NFL teams have to take that into consideration when talking about drafting these kids and thinking about drafting these kids. It's got to be some kind of competitive makeup where I'm like, hey, I'm going to finish these playoffs and I'm going to get what I earned because I battled all this time with my teammates. And if I want to leave, I'm going to leave after we get eliminated. Not before. I'm not going to leave before I do all this work.

And then be like, all right, fellas, we did everything. We did what we said we would do. We made the playoffs. But, y'all, good luck. Mike, I don't know. I never thought I'd be the guy saying, this generation, but what's wrong with these dudes, man? What the heck is wrong with these dudes?

I don't get that. But now, it's time for our Thursday night football preview presented by Prime Video. The Denver Broncos are playing the L.A. Chargers. The Denver Broncos are playing great football defensive. Offensively. Bow Nix had a really, really grind of a game through three interceptions.

But again, they found a way to win. They found a way for their defense to step up and make plays. Again, Nick Bonito has a pick six in the game. His second this season, along with his 11.5 sacks. If you knew the name, we'd be talking about an all-pro season for the kid, but I think he's going to be a couple years away because people just don't know enough about him in the Denver Broncos. Obviously, him and Cooper have been playing really outstanding on the edges for the Broncos.

Broncos have a four-game winning street. The Chargers have dropped two in the row, but this is going to be a game with a lot of ramifications for the end of this season, for this division, for the playoff seating, et cetera. Both of these teams have really, really good defenses, have pretty average sporadic offenses. But I love a great defensive game. Hopefully we get to see Patrick Sartan get into. to this ball game. Obviously, he's questionable with an injury. The Chargers defense has been playing really good football with some really unsung heroes out at the edges and at the

cornerback position, some fifth round picks that are playing at a really high level. I think it's going to come down to the past. Rushers getting home. Justin Herbert on a bum leg. He's on a bum ankle. He's battling through, showing a lot of toughness. I'm looking forward to this game and seeing who can step up when it matters the most. This is where champions are made. You know, made. This is when legends are made. December football. Usually it's not in the dome, but, hey, so far as a beautiful stadium. I can't wait. But that was this week's Thursday night football preview presented by Prime Video. And be sure to watch the Broncos take on the Chargers this Thursday. I'll be there. It'll be entertaining for sure. It'll be an entertaining game and an entertaining

show by the best crew in football. Of course, I'm biased. Now it's still. time for my power rankings. Oh, it's going to be a really tough call because Mitchell, his Detroit, Honolulu Blue, Detroit lines have been on a tear. They take a bad loss. I mean, not an awful loss because Buffalo Bills are a really good team, and they're up there in the power rankings too. But I got to move them down. They now have two losses on the season. I'm going to move the Kansas City Chiefs up, even though, again, they've had underwhelming wins, but they still only have one loss on the season.

There's a bunch of two lost teams. The Philadelphia Eagles are going to be two. They're playing some really great football and impressive win versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. It puts them there. I got to put Buffalo at three. A win against the number one team in our power rankings, but they still have three losses on the season.

Then it's going to be tough, but I'm going to have to put the Minnesota Vikings in there at four. They're 12 and two. Again, that Flores coach defense, Sam Donald, doing enough. Kevin O'Connell drawing it up. Justin Jefferson continuing to make plays. Jordan Addison flourishing.

You got to appreciate what they're doing out there. And then we've got to have the Detroit Lions backing it up at five. That defense has just struggled so much. And they're getting more and more banged up every single week. Hopefully they're able to turn it around and figure out a way Aaron Glenn is doing everything he can to duct tape and hold this defense together with Band-Aids and bubble gum. But if they can find a way to get healthy going into these playoffs,

they're going to be a tough team. beat and I'm sure they'll move up, but we have to bump them down with a loss where they give up that many points. They gave up, what's it, 48 points in that game. That's tough. That's tough. Obviously, Buffalo's offense is a really impressive offense, and Detroit's offense was able to score 42 points.

Jared Gough threw for almost 500 yards. We give them credit for that, but you got to find a way to win these games. You've got to find a way to hold the scores down. I'm sure Detroit will finish this season off strong, hopefully continue to move towards that number one seed and they will move closer to the number one rankings in these power rankings. Yeah, I know how it is. I appreciate you guys. Every week joining me, supporting me, watching me, arguing with me, disagreeing with me.

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