The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Herd - Hour 1 - The Lions are for real

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

Colin can hardly believe it but the Lions look like the team to beat in the NFC North going forward after another dominant win to improve to 6-2 The Raiders dismal performance once again that has them on the outside looking in for the AFC playoff race Thoughts on the James Harden trade  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thanks for making us part of your day, one hour from now. There's some good football teams out there. Most of them have good quarterbacks. The herd hierarchy, one hour from now, the top 10 teams in the national football. Ball League. I said it to my producer this morning at four in the morning. I get up early on Halloween. Jay Mack, Gulls, which is tricks, treats. How about Detroit? I know you love the Packers in this division. That's a sad ending. Yeah, I'm a huge Packers fan. No, congrats on the Lions winning the division. And I'm hearing, there's a report now, it just came out on social media

that the Jets will be making an appearance in the herd hierarchy. So I'm very excited. for next hour. Don't hold your breath on that. All right. Get used to saying this. Detroit Lions. NFC. North champs.

Detroit Lions. Playoff team. Detroit Lions. Vision. Best in the division. Roster. Best in the division easily. Green Bay doesn't have their future quarterback.

Now that Kirk Cousins is hurt, they don't either. My guess is Chicago doesn't either. The Lions do. Now, in typical, Detroit Lions, fashion. They dominated the game, almost 500 yards to 150 for the Raiders, dominated time of possession. Nothing's ever easy. In the fourth quarter, it was in doubt. But from general manager, quarterback, edge rusher, coordinators, O-line, weapons, they're really good. They're really

good. There's nothing about the Lions I don't like except their history. It's why come January, I'd probably trust the Niners, Philadelphia, or Seattle in the NFC playoffs. How did it happen? How did this happen? This laughable franchise, three years got good. Well, everybody in the same direction. They go and hire Brad Holmes. He'd been scouting Rams forever.

Passed over multiple times. Finally gets the job he deserves. He wants to prove he's the man for the job. He has been. Great drafting. How did it happen, too? He makes a move for Jared Goff. He gets younger at quarterback and gets draft picks.

Goff had a chip on his shoulder. Why? Felt he was disrespected. Took all the heat for McVeigh's failures at times, though rare in Los Angeles. What then happened? The head coach was hired. Dan Campbell, little odd, little unique, very quirky, had one chance earlier to coach, got kind of a late.

as, you know, not a thinking man's coach, a little bit of a meathead guy, so he had a chip on his shoulder. New GM, quarterback, coach, all something to prove. They deserve their positions, and they've all crushed it. One, two, and three, all pulling in the same direction. Brad Holmes stud for years. Look at the guys he drafted while with the Rams. Jared Goff got to a Super Bowl.

seen him out dual Mahomes. Jared's really good. And Dan Campbell got a plan. Tough guy. Physicality. Players love him. Bill Parcells for years has backed him. It's amazing what happens when you're all pulling together in any business.

Take a look at their division. In Green Bay, the GM was looking for the future. The quarterback Aaron Rogers was talking retirement and Matt LaFleur wanted to run his offense, not going in the same direction. In Minnesota, Kirk Cousins wants an extension. and love. Let's be honest. The GM, the owner, and the coach want to get a new quarterback. And Chicago, are they ever pulling in the same direction? It is remarkable to watch. The GM, who deserved a GM job earlier, the quarterback who felt overlooked, blamed for everything in Los Angeles,

and the coach who got a label that he didn't think was fair, a real human, smarter than people gave him credit for, he laughs at it now. Talks about biting kneecaps. And this team with its coordinator hires is one of the smartest teams in the league. Now it's Detroit. Nothing is easy. I won that game. It was my favorite bet of the weekend.

And I'm sweating it in the fourth as they dominate the game, dominate the clock, dominate the yards. I mean, the Raiders were one for nine on third and fourth down. How is that game close in Detroit? Some of it is their history, Detroit. They've never been here before. But this is a real team. They're going to win the division. for the foreseeable future.

Most of their players are young and on the cheap. Goff's not cheap, but he's good. I'll pay for a top 10-12 quarterback. There's not many people on the planet who are as good as Jared Goff. Here's the coach, Dan, after the win. I told the team the most important thing about this game was us getting our identity back. And that was what all the work that we put in this week was about. The whole focus was about getting back to what we do.

and that was the most important thing, and that really showed through today. Was it perfect? It wasn't perfect. But ultimately, we got what I wanted to get out of it, and you come away with a win. By the way, if you go look at their GM and their coach and this year's draft,

linebacker, power back, tied end, the GM and the coach totally aligned on what they want this team to be. Resilient, tough, forceful. The GM, the coach, the quarterback, all in the same direction. Green Bay's well run. Got splintered. Right? Minnesota.

Kirk Cousins. Different feelings about the future in the building. Chicago's never aligned. Detroit finally is good for them. All right, let's talk, Raiders. They were awful. Go ahead, blame Garoppolo. But this is, we know this.

In most of your dynasties and great teams, you have a great quarterback, a great head coach and a really good GM. Do we know if the Raiders are good at any of those three? Mark Davis hired all of them, right? Mark Davis signed off the owner on all of them. This was once a proud division, a proud franchise. It was once a proud franchise. Committed to excellence.

I'm not sure what they're committed to. John Gruden got a 10-year contract. Who gives an NFL coach a 10-year contract? Mike Mayock, nice guy, TV to GM? That was odd. bring two New England Patriot guys to run the show. Well, the two New England guys, it didn't work in the South. It hasn't worked here.

It hasn't worked there. Why is it going to work out West? And then give Garoppolo three years. Like Jimmy G., three years. If I said to you, shaky ownership in the NFL, you'd name six or seven franchises. Washington, they have new owners. We won't hold our breath. Chicago, Vegas, Arizona, Houston, Cleveland.

haven't y'all had a bad boss or a bad owner? You can do everything right. Employees often get the blame, but it's virtually impossible in my 20-something years in this business to overcome shaky bosses and bad owners. I'm lucky now. I was in Tampa. I had a bad owner. I had bad bosses.

I had a bad newsroom. You can't overcome it. I've been very lucky my whole career. But all of you out there, no, bad boss, bad owners, bad company. Every time the Raiders have to make a hire or sign a big check, Mark Davis gets the call. Don't know him personally, but I didn't think the franchise was run in Al Davis's later years at an optimal position,

and I don't now. The Raiders have not had, and this is hard to believe, back-to-back winning seasons in 20 years. That is hard to do. That's hard to do. They fired coaches, GMs, new players, hit on draft picks, missed on draft picks. 20 years, 18 non-winning seasons. How?

It's a big brand. People like playing in Las Vegas. How come they can't turn it around? Yes, Jimmy Garoppolo was bad. Yes, you can blame the coach. Devonte Adams, really upset, been outspoken, telling us the truth. But, I mean, it all starts at the top. if I say to you six or seven shaky NFL franchises, name them.

You'll notice how many are in last place or third place and will eventually end in last place. The guy signing the checks has the final say. I don't trust the guy with the Raiders signing the checks. Here was DeVante Adams after. Honestly, I don't know what to say at this moment. I truly don't. I wish I had the words to, you know, to say something that's not going to get blown up in the media and taking out of context. So I'm just, I truly just don't know.

For the record, I will contend they have four or five great players. I mean, they hung around that game last night. They've got some great players. Don't blame the employees. Max Crosby, it's like martial arts. You can't block him. Hands, feet along. Can't block him.

Devonte Adams, amazing. I've got players. They've got guys. Don't blame them. It all start to the top. Just list the six or seven shaky ownership groups in the NFL. Why are those teams all bad? Employees are not the problem. You may not love Garapolo. He got to a Super Bowl. It's not the employees. All right. Clippers make a deal. NFL trade deadline. Steph Curry's amazing. Brock Purdy is going to continue to start. Are people out of their mind. I can't believe I am defending Mr. Irrelevant in a draft a couple years ago. All sorts of stuff on deck. Nick Wright, joining us next hour, The Heard Hierarchy here on Halloween. Props to the people at Fox who build these sets a couple days before Halloween. Are you going out tonight, J-Mack? Of course. Kids all fired up. Well, one kid is at a camp right now for school, but the other one is very, very excited. Yeah. Are you going to dress up? You know what? I got some things to do.

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The Sixers, by the way, didn't get a star, but I think won the trade. So the Sixers got lots and lots and lots of good draft picks or draft swaps, too. They got a chemistry upgrade getting hardened out of the building and multiple expiring contracts, which means they could have $65 million next year in cap space. The Clippers got a well-past their prime diva who's never reliable in the playoffs, adding to their weird circus of a roster. None dependable, Kauai physically, hardened mentally, Westbrook shooting when it matters in April, May, and June. It feels like the Clippers owner, Steve Balmer, who really is a basketball junkie, is making a business move over a basketball move. He's opening an arena next year in a very crowded sports market in Los Angeles, where the Lakers are

relevant, the Rams are relevant, college sports are relevant, Dodgers are relevant, so let's open the new building with Stars. Kauai, Paul George, Hardin, Westbrook, and every time one of these big city owners, because there's so much money at stake in the big cities, choose business over basketball, it fails. We saw it with Brooklyn. They made the playoffs. People like the staff. They had chemistry. Blew it up for stars. Mess. We've seen the Knicks do it multiple times. Stars. Now I feel like the Clippers are doing it. Add Hardin to Kauai, to George, to Westbrook.

I say it out loud. I wish Tailu the very best. Hardin has quit on, what is it? Three teams, maybe four. I lose track. But it feels like it is business over basketball. Tell me a GM that doesn't want lots of draft picks and draft swaps, expiring contracts, better chemistry, and a handful of players like a Robert Covington

who actually do some things pretty well. Situationally good players, role players. I think much more about Philadelphia not only now but the future. I think the clippers just got weirder. Say it out loud. Read those names on the roster. Tell me a GM, they all want draft picks, draft swaps, expiring. contracts and better chemistry and cap space.

The Sixers got all of them. I mean, they included a third team reportedly. OKC. They'll get another draft pick. I don't know what the Clippers got. Headlines? They can go to their fans and say, look, we've got another Hall of Famer. Hardin is a Hall of Famer.

He's played with Hall of Famers. Does it matter in late April, May, and early June? It never has. Jay Mack with the news. No. No, no, no. Turn on the news. This.

is the herd line news. Interesting. We're going to have to revisit this a little later in the show. So you think it was a good deal for the Sixers, huh? I just, if I ran an NBA franchise, I've got two stars in Embed and Maxie, a third good player and Tobias Harris. Now I have expiring contracts, better chemistry, draft swapswps, draft picks, and cap space. That's a dream for a GM. I've already got one of the league's best players, the MVP. I've got an ascending two and a solid three. I've got the coach I like. I like. There's nothing that's an obstacle other than M.B.B.'s health on getting to the Eastern Conference finals.

You've got everything you want for now and the future. What did the Clippers get? Weird. I mean, I think the Clippers, the Hardin will have nights. He's still a good distributor can hit shots. But I mean, just say it the team out loud. It's, thank God it's Ty Lou as a coach, because he has an ability to make players who can be a bit high maintenance or have difficult games that don't conjoin. He tends to make everything work. And there's a lot of talent on that team. But you don't win without chemistry. You don't win without guys who are selfless. They don't have the expiring.

The only winner for them, they didn't have to give up Terrence Mann. That's a real win for the Clippers. That really helps. But it feels like they're opening that big... You know, James Dolan of the Knicks opened the sphere up. Who did he have? You two when he opened the sphere up. Well, you're going to open up a new arena.

You need stars. You need headliners because you're in a town with the Lakers, the Dodgers, the Rams, USC. you need headliners. Interesting. All right, let's go to the NFL. The Denver Broncos have been in the middle of a lot of trade rumors ahead of today's 4 p.m. Deadline. Jerry Judy and Cortland Sutton have been mentioned, but Sean Payton says the team isn't trying

to shop any of their players. We're not openly or even remotely shopping anyone. And so, yeah, people called, sure they have. And typically the buyer wants the media to know they've called, not the seller. I'm sure at some point I'll meet with George. We're looking at the next opponent, and obviously it's a buy week, and then it's a Monday night game, so the schedule changes a little. But I don't know that it's any different because we have a buy.

I would say it's probably the same, and it's just a matter of what those other team's game is important, and it's hard to predict that. Yeah, I mean, if they can continue to run the ball, which we've seen the last couple of games, this team can get to seven wins, eight wins. Is that a good thing? Well, I'm just saying, you have to be positive about this, because if I'm Sean Payton, I'm selling positive. We got younger on defense.

We've moved older guys. We've got some picks. We're running the ball. We like our backs. Old lines still a work in progress. We're creating Russell Wilson, a bit of the old Russell in Seattle, complimentary player with a passer rating over 100. They've ridded the ship.

Does it mean they're great? But I don't feel like, just because of the... the Denver win. It doesn't feel like a circus like it did three weeks ago. Fair. By the way, a couple years ago, Brian Flores was in Miami, and I liked him a lot. He eventually wore people out. But it took him about eight weeks, and he didn't have a Russell Wilson issue, but he had a quarterback issue. If you have a quarterback issue, it's going to take you a couple of months in the NFL to get things right. And I thought Brian Flores was excellent. And it's taken about seven, eight weeks for Sean to kind of get things right. If you have a

quarterback, like let's say somebody took over the Chargers next year, you can be right in the first two weeks. But I think when you, if you look at what Denver had to get through, you've got the Russell thing, the culture thing, the defense thing. Maybe didn't get every coordinator you wanted. There's a lot. There's a lot of lifts here. And I do think you have to give Sean credit. Running the ball, got Russell right, playing better defense. This is kind of the timeline for taking over a mess and kind of at least getting it in the right direction. They do feel like what they're capable of doing well, they are currently doing well. All right. Next up, interesting one here.

So Arizona has benched quarterback Josh Dobbs this week, Colin. They are one and seven. And Dobbs has played pretty well. He struggled the last two weeks with turnovers. Yeah. But they have announced that he's been benched in favor of rookie Clayton Tune. Okay. Head coach Jonathan Gannon said,

Kyler Murray will not be ready to play against the Browns this week. You're not throwing Kyler Murray in the ravenous Browns defense in Cleveland, probably 30-degree temps. What's interesting here is, benching Dobbs the day before the trade deadline. They announced us yesterday. You think Dobbs gets shipped somewhere today? Like there's a lot of teams.

Remember Dobbs was a 4.0 student at Tennessee. He was like an aerospace engineer major intern at NASA. This is a smart dude. He can quickly pick up an offense and help a team. How about Minnesota? That's not terrible. I think Minnesota's the feel for me. Because, again, offensive coach, nice weapons.

You know, in Arizona, he's running for his life. They don't have a ton of weapons. I think Minnesota, I think, I tend to think Minnesota has too much talent to bail on the season. And also in the NFC, it wouldn't shock me. Like, if you don't get Josh Dobbs, Minnesota's season's over. Listen, Josh Dobbs went to Tennessee last week, late in the year, was starting and nearly got them to the playoffs. Remember, nearly beat Jacksonville in the final. I'm a fan of him.

I think he's a great backup or an occasional starter. Spot starter, yeah. Yeah, I think Minnesota is the place. It's not going to happen. I'm not advocating it. But if the Jets got Josh Dobbs, they're not getting him. Like, I'm sorry, I would trust him more right now than Zach Wilson. Like, and I know Daniel Jeremiah, who's a guest on the show, is out there saying, listen, Zach Wilson was not terrible this past weekend. And it's like, he made this significant plea about it. And I was like, he's like, listen, third string center, Jason, right side of his line was out. I like the Jets at home against the Chargers plus three. Yes. I'm not betting it because it's the, the Chargers, but I think the Jets is one of the better bets this week.

It's just Monday night, and I'm not, I've refused to bet the Chargers. I got the Falcons and the Chargers I'm not betting. I'm running out of teams, but I will tell you, I think the Jets are going to beat the Chargers. That's the kind of game that Chargers will outplay them and lose. So I did bet, I'm pretty sure it's Atlanta, Minnesota, and if Minnesota gets like, the line is going up. If Minnesota gets Dobbs, they're going to be live.

Like, they will be able to, he can just make plays and keep you in the game. I know he's had some rough weeks here, but he's not working with him. much in Arizona. Minnesota has some dudes. Jordan Addison would be very happy about that deal. Final story is Mack Jones and the Patriots. They have not looked good. Let me down this past weekend. I wonder if we're going to show the Mack Jones interception in the red zone to Jalen Ramsey. Gosh, tick me off, Cowherd. Anyways, New England, according to Albert Brewer, New England is already scouting top QB prospects for the 24 draft. They've had live game exposure for all the top guys besides Caleb Williams. Reportedly, the plan is to see him soon.

The team is taking a hard look at their potential option. So, Colin, a couple weeks ago, member Belichick made the kid Malik Cunningham active. Yeah. I felt like that was to try to boost Mack Jones. Hey, bro, get it together. Mac Jones regresses this week against the dolphins with that. I mean, that was a putrid pick, like a basic stuff.

All of a sudden, we read about now the pictures are scatting quarterback prospects. Like, this is another Mac. We're going to light a fire under you, dude. Chances are running out. I know you like him, but Colin. I don't love him. I do think if you gave him, which is not going to happen now. So, for instance, when the story was not out about Belichick's contract extension,

I thought, go get Ben Johnson, OC at Detroit, Mac one more year. Now that the stories come out that they're keeping Belichick, I'd move off Mac. Oh, Belichick and Mac can't work. If Belichick wasn't in the room and you got an OC, my takeaway was you can draft another quarterback in the second, third, or fourth round. Give Mac one more year with a legitimate offensive creative mind. But now that Belichick's resigned, Belichick and Mac Jones can't win in that division. With Aaron Rogers coming back, two of those weapons that coach and Josh Allen, he's by far and away with Belichick.

Now, with Ben Johnson, he may be a bit of a gamer. Remember, the longer he's been in New England, the worse he's been. He was very good as a rookie. It's gotten progressively worse. Some of that's not him. Let's end this one with a hot take here. We said Josh Dobbs in Minnesota could make sense. Yeah. What if Bill Belichick called Kevin O'Connell and GM in Minnesota and said, hey, you guys want Mac Jones to save your season? We'll trade you Mac Jones right now. Any interest on Minnesota's end? Quarterback on a rookie deal. You get him for the rest of the season? Josh Dobbs is a better guy in the locker room. Josh Dobbs would relate to the Minnesota players. Josh Dobbs is a gamer. Mack Jones has struggled to ingratiate himself to Patriot players and coaches. I take Josh Dobbs. Mack Jones, I think, throws a more accurate ball consistently.

But I'm not sure he's the kind of guy that you can bring in midseason and work in the room. I think Josh Dobbs works in the room. Everybody likes Josh Dobbs. Everybody likes him. So I agree with everything. The idea, though, that it's so toxic in New England with Mack Jones because people just don't like him. And of his ego, maybe you try to get him out if you're Bill. Like, we don't need this to fester any longer.

Let's just move on. It's a mistake. But I don't know if there's a taker for Mack Jones. His reputation is kind of damaged around the league now. That rookie year, it's gone so downhill for him. Yeah. J-Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by.

The Hurd-Lie News. So this is, you know, I think it's fun when fans overreact. I get it. Your fans. Short for Fanatic. You're emotional. We need you. We like you.

But this story cracks me up. Kyle Shanahan won't consider a change from Brock Purdy to Sam Darnold. Okay. Perspective. Did you think Brock Purdy was going to go 17 and 0 and throw for 62 touchdowns, he was going to keep up the pace. If he was never going to lose a game, I can explain Brock Purdy's losing streak. He should remain the quarterback, and I love Donald.

He's missing his left tackle Trent Williams' first ballot Hall of Fame. The backup's not even in the same class. He's missing his number one chess piece, Debo. Christian McCaffrey is banged up, which is often. Then in Cleveland, the Niners kicker missed two makeable field goals. or they would have won in Cleveland. In Minnesota, he had a concussion. He didn't realize until he was on the plane.

Could have explained his two miscus late. Sunday, he lost to, I don't know, Joe Burrow. Not all losing streaks are the same. If he had a more dependable kicker, it would be a two-game losing streak. For the record, Purdy was the Niners leading rusher Sunday, and he threw for more yards, actually, than Joe Burrow. Brock Purdy is good. He's not great.

I don't know if he's very good. He's good. He moves. He makes throws downfield. He's good. And the Niners are very good and fine. But if you look this morning at the third best odds to win the Super Bowl, it's San Francisco. Yes, he got off to do a blazing start.

This happens in Major League Baseball. A rookie comes up. He starts, oh, April, May. He knows. but he's seen him. What do you throw him? Everybody's got film now. He had a brief mini-concussion in Minnesota.

Field goal kicker couldn't hit kicks. He should be on a two, maybe a one-game losing streak. Everybody's going to be okay. And I'm a Sam Darnold fan. But if you watch that game, Pretty made a couple of big mistakes. That generally, we just talked Josh Dobbs, is the difference between a star and good and good and a backup.

are the mistakes. Almost everybody except the Giants backup can throw the ball down the field a little. So Purdy's fine. The Niners are fine. Trent Williams comes back eventually. So does Debo. Schedule perhaps lightens up. No more concussion. Field goal kicker hits a couple. They'll be fine. All right. Good stuff today. Top of the hour. Nick Wright. Saints great player Cam Jordan stops by today. It's the NFL trade deadline. The Bears, listen, they got a defensive coach. You know, pushing for it. They go get a defensive lineman from the commanders. They give up a second round pick. They still have two firsts, one of which I would presume they'll get a quarterback, then probably a weapon or another defensive player with a defensive coach. So coaches can talk

GMs. They lean on them. Let's be honest about this. Mike Tomlin's going to lean on you. Pittsburgh may be out there looking for a corner. Mike Tomlin's going to lean on that GM. Matt Eber Fluce is going to lean on that GM to get me a defensive player for the Bears' fairly anemic defense. So that's one of our first big deals today on the trade deadline is at one today. Albert Brooks' final hour as well. Be sure to catch live editions of the Heard, weekdays at noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific. Hey, we're Kavino and Rich. Fox Sports Radio every day, 5 to 7 p.m. Eastern. But here's a thing. We never have enough time to get to everything we want to get to. And that's why we have

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Then we move to the 12-team playoff, and we all joyfully rejoice in what will be a splendid way for the rest of our lives to enjoy college football with a March madness sort of feel, but in January and December. So those are the four best. Michigan is the best team. Georgia and Texas are the most talented.

Oregon's the most complete with the first round quarterback. Those are the four teams, I believe strongly, will not, for the remainder of the season, lose. Wait, Washington? What happens with them? They're going to lose to Oregon when they meet again. They're not built to beat Oregon again. Oregon's more complete. They just lost up in Seattle.

Texas will be favored heavily against. Oklahoma. Michigan's going to blow through the Big Ten, and I think Georgia will figure out a way to escape the SEC. That's a pretty good Final Four. That's what it feels like to me. It's also big brands. Texas, Big Brand, Michigan Big Brand, West Coast Team. Oregon's very, very good. They're a bigger brand than Washington, obviously. Well, no, Washington's got the national championship in the bigger city, but Oregon, I think, is a bit more progressive. I think in the last 15 years, they've been in big TV games, they've been more consistent, they do better in recruiting. I'd rather see Washington in the final. Well, I think Washington's offense is

more fun. I think Oregon's a more complete team. Seen them twice live. No mistakes. I don't disagree. Better defense, more physical. They just don't have the wide receiving perimeter talent. And the quarterback, I think, is better for Washington. Who knows? All right. So, and tonight, we get our first unveiling of the, you know, the poll tonight. Oh, right, right, right, right. Right, right. So Steph Curry had over 40 last night. That is something interesting.

Last year, Warriors never won three straight road games. Last night, they won their third straight road game. It's all about Chris Paul. You know, it really is. Steph was here last year. Draymond was here last year. Clay was here last year. Steve Kerr was here last year.

Chris Paul wasn't. And Jordan Poole was. When Chris Paul got signed by the Warriors, my takeaway is, bring in smart people in any industry. The rest will work itself out. The NBA has always been filled with talent. You've got to sell me on more than talent. You have to be unbelievably talented to make an NBA roster.

Young talent in the NBA in a roster gets you about 24 wins. It's called Houston. High-end playoff teams have a lot of smart. Kerr, Chris Paul, Clay, Steph, Drayman, Wiggins, a lot of smart. Just go back one season. This same roster with Poole and no Chris Paul was terrible defensively. A turnover-prone mess, a tire fire on the road. chemistry stunk.

Blame Draymond all you want. Draymond's on this team. Draymond's on this team. Chemistry's great. Draymond was on last year's team. Chemistry was bad. What's changed? Jordan Poole, see ya.

Chris Paul landed. You kept blaming Draymond. It was not the problem. Nobody liked Jordan Poole. And so Chris Paul, as the NBA, has pushed toward more youth, maturity is declined. But look at what the good teams did this offseason. Boston, adult Drew Holiday, Milwaukee, adult dame, warriors, Chris Paul, Phoenix, Bradley

Beale, grownups, adults. I'm always hearing about the young talent. Houston's got a bunch of it. Who cares? Now, will there be Chris Paul turbulence? I'm not starting? It could be a skirmish year there, but they'll figure it out smart people do. but Chris Paul's got money, a legacy, Hall of Famer.

What's he missing? One goal, ring. What Steph Curry always been about? You knew that when he allowed KD to come in and star. One goal, winning. Steve Kurt, winning. Drayman winning. Clay winning.

Everybody aligned now. Jordan Poole wanted his points and wanted his minutes. That's fine. Go to Washington. That's what they're about. But Chris Paul, this is what we said. Too often people outthink the room on NBA trades and NBA moves. and NBA moves.

Bradley Beal to Phoenix, he's smart and scores 20 a game. Plus, it'll work. Dame to Milwaukee, it'll work. Chris Paul to Golden State. It'll work. Drew Holiday with a Celtic, smart guy, smart players, smart organization. It'll work.

Don't out think the room. Smart people figure stuff out. Warriors did something they didn't do all last year. Three straight road wins. Well, for a pretty good team. Here's Chris Paul. it's whatever I got to do to help our team win. You know what I mean?

And so if that means that, that means not finishing some games or whatnot, you know, if you get a chance to play long enough in this career, there's things that's going to change. There's things that's going to be different. And, you know, I'm here. It's definitely different, but at the end of the day, it's basketball. All right. So I'm a radio host and I don't take calls, mostly pointless.

Although it should be noted, this is a TV. and radio show, so nobody takes calls on TV. But college football fan calls are the absolute worst. There's no point. Dabo Sweeney found that out. So Clemson was very irrelevant. Then Dabo Sweeney showed up and they started winning 10 plus games and winning national championships. So in these small southern towns, they do this all the time.

The coach does like a call-in radio show every week. Oh, good hell, it's awful. I mean, why not just put your coach on a losing streak in the town square and throw tomatoes at him? You're getting no context, a bunch of goobers calling to rip the coach, animosity about what he makes in a small town. So Dabo Sweeney, a great coach who turned this completely irrelevant program around, was on that old radio show last night. And here's a call he took. Why are we paying you $11.5 million to go four and forth? Let me tell you something.

We won 11 games last year. And you're part of the problem. The expectation is greater than the appreciation. And that's the problem. And so, you know, we've won 12, 10-plus win seasons in a row. That's happened three times in 150 years. So if you want to know why, Clemson ain't sniff a national championship for 35 years. We've won two in seven years.

And there's only two other teams that can say that, Georgia and Alabama. By the way, since he runs. arrived at Clemson, only Bammon Ohio State have one more. And they're complaining about him because of what he makes. And I get the animosity, small town, richest guy in the state. Like, I get

all that stuff. And I understand those radio shows. They're just dreadful. But in the South, it's a big deal. Especially in small town south. Clemson has had 12 straight years of 10 plus wins and they're not very good. So years ago, Mike Schoefsky went through a couple years

where he was just not a big fan of transfers. Like, like, like, his whole thing was the one and done. He didn't like one and done. Mike Shishchevsky. Old school at West Point guy. I don't like one and done. Don't like one and done. And it hurt Mike Shishowski. And then he rebooted, accepted one and done's and he's great. Dabbo has struggled with the transfer portal. He's old school south. He don't like the transfer portal. You're not comfortable with some of it. And my guess is he's going to reboot here and do some more transfer portal stuff. That's been the knock on him. But no fan bases are more delusional than college football fan bases. They think they own the team. It's a religion and they're in the choir.

But you are completely utterly delusional. If you're banging on dabbo Sweeney, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. My entire life, Clemson had like one really good team in the 80s and then nobody talked about him in the very crowded South, where college football's king. All this guy does is win. You may not like him at times. I know some of the the progressives in college football media don't love him all the time, but get over it. He's a great coach, and he's right. People, and I've seen this for years at Ohio State. Ryan Day is going to lose to Michigan again. Go to the message board that day. Fire Ryan Day. He's 35 and 2 in the Big 10. Two losses to Harbaugh.

Fans, don't take calls from college football fans. I love the sport. I'm going to Washington, USC this weekend as at Oregon, Utah last week, don't take calls. You are lost if you don't think he's the right guy. That doesn't mean these coaches, Bobby Knight at one point here, and then he wouldn't recruit top players there. Mike Shishchevsky wobbled. He didn't want to do the one and done stuff.

He rebooted. Calipari, King of the Hill, and he's kind of had a couple rough years. It happens. Like Harbaugh, by the way, you all wanted Harbaugh out about three years ago. He had to reboot his staff. This college stuff is very fluid. The transfer portal, the NIL, a lot of heat. Now you've got conferences, Pact 12, out to the big tent.

This stuff is hard, and most of these coaches are making $10 million a year, and they're in tiny towns where there's some economic resentment and absolute delusion that you don't win 11, 12 games every year. In the NFL, fans understand it. In these small college towns where they think they own the program, you know, it's the religion. You know, Saturday football stadium is the first church. Sunday's the second church.

And they're in the choir. But this guy knows what he's doing. Never forget, you were all trying to run out Harbaugh three years ago. You were all trying to run out Sark last year. And you're all trying to run out Ryan Day when he loses to Michigan. He's 35 and 2 in the Big Ten. If I was a college football coach, first thing I'd say is, I don't care about my salary. I'm not doing a weekly calling show.

That I won't do. All right, her hierarchy, top of next hour. Let me throw one more thing on the Chris Paul. Just circle back to Chris Paul. Now, you didn't love the move. You're not a Chris Paul guy. You're not a Chris Paul guy. No comment.

What do you mean? You're in the comment business. Really good point guard. I think he's a bit of a... You're here for comments. Difficult guy to play with. Yeah, I'm not the biggest Chris Paul fan. Because he's difficult to play with.

He's never wanted. anywhere. Oh, good Lord. He won a lot of regular season games. Whoopty damn do. And then he's hurt always in the playoffs. Those are just facts. These numbers are impressive. Okay, let's throw out for our radio audience. By the way, I like my radio audience, just not dabbos. So Chris Paul and Steph on the floor together this year, plus 15. Chris Paul without Steph in the court, plus 31, Chris Paul off the floor this season,

minus three. It's a home run. He's working. He stabilized the second unit. Which is what all he said. We didn't ask him to be. Dame. We just said he will stabilize the second unit. I do believe he will elevate Cuminga, who we just, they're sitting around waiting for Cominga to pop because Wiseman didn't. Moody is what he is. What are we? Four games in? Three game road losing streak. Woo! This is tough for me because I'm such a Curry fan. It's early. If Chris Paul's healthy, it changes everything. But we will see. We'll see if he can

And how much is he going to like coming off the bench, you know, a month from now, two months from now? We'll see, Colin. You know what? Winning solves a lot. They're an interesting team. Heard hierarchy, Nick Wright-Nack. Another podcast from some SNL late-night comedy guy, not quite. Unhumor me with Robert Smigel and friends.

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