The Herd with Colin Cowherd - THE HERD - Hour 2 - The top 10 players in the Super Bowl, Fred Warner

Episode Date: February 4, 2026

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But I saw somebody said the other day, Megan Rapino said, you know, sports is about inclusion, and I think sports is mostly about competition. If it was inclusion, people wouldn't get cut in high school, college, and pro sports, right? Inclusion's great, but the bottom line of sports is standing's first, last cut day. I always think that about the Super Bowl. We're trying so hard to get the Super Bowl in all these different locations. Put it in Miami.

Where in America are you guaranteed to get usually? Now, I know it's snowing in Florida this week, but in my lifetime, where is the weather good in February? It's not California. L.A. 2nd. Arizona's kind of second-ish, Miami. I am four Super Bowls in one place. Santa Clara, nobody in San Francisco ever goes, what do you want to do to have lunch today? Where do you want to go? Santa Clara.

To me, the Grammys are held in one spot. Marty Graz held in one space. They dropped the ball in Times Square. Why do we have to move Super Bowls to multiple locations? You know, these owners, they want the action in their hometown. I went to a Super Bowl in Jacksonville. I remember that, like 2004-ish. One hotel.

They had to bring in cruise ships for rooms. They had such a shortage of taxis in Jacksonville. These are great people. They tried so hard. They had such a shortage on taxis. I was with a producer, Chad. You sat in ballet waiting for it. There was no Uber back then.

There was no Uber lift. Taxis were it. And they were calling on local citizens to help. At one point, a van pulls up. And he opens the back door, and there was like, surgeon gloves and rope. And I'm like, that's Buffalo Bill, silent to the lambs. Like, I can't get in the van.

Jacksonville's a great town. Should not host Super Bowls. Right? Like in Santa Clara, nothing against Santa Clara, but it's like nobody in San Francisco goes there for lunch. Miami is such a great place for the beach. It's international. It's fun. It's an NFL city. The weather's good. There's places to hang out for, you know, and just enough places for players to get into trouble. Yeah. Hot people everywhere. Do you remember the Super Bowl in Detroit? It snowed significantly, like 2005-ish? All the parties had to be indoors. And Michigan's amazing. And Detroit's great. They've redone down to town.

It's not. Yeah, I mean, it's what it is. So we were talking about Mike Frable, and so Robert Kraft didn't get into the Hall of Fame, which I think he got slighted. How's Jerry Jones in? And Robert Kraft is not in. He's got 11 Super Bowls. The New England Patriots had the worst record in the NFL, the previous five years, to Robert Kraft owning them. Since he's owned them, they have the best record in the NFL.

Multiple coaches, multiple quarterbacks. I don't, I don't. So anyway, Mike Vrable was sort of asked about the Patriot job. And remember, he was the hot coach on the market. You were the hottest name on the coaching cycle this time around. Presumably you had your pick of job. So personally, professionally, what really separated this choice among the others? Well, I think that the ability to have open dialogue with,

with Robert and Jonathan was something that was critical. Elliot and his staff, obviously, what I believe and what everybody else believes is a young dynamic quarterback. Yeah, he said open dialogue with the owner. Mike McCarthy had the Dallas Cowboy job and left on his own accord because they didn't have open dialogue.

What Jerry perceives as open dialogue is not really open dialogue. Like Robert Kraft, you can push back. I mean, I always thought it was interesting. Belichick was so deeply bothered that Robert Kraft one time stepped in and had a personnel opinion. Remember that? Like he said, you're not getting rid of Brady. We'll move off Jimmy Garoppolo. That was the one time Robert Kraft stood up and said, no, no, no, no.

I'm going to be, I'm going to meddle in football. you do realize Kraft was right and Belichick was wrong is that Jimmy Garapolo was not the future. Tom won another Super Bowl. Tom was still great. Tom was great seven years later when he was in Tampa and he decided to retire. So, you know, when you can get an owner

who, and I've said this, a lot of these owners, a lot of these billionaires, they strangely still like pinch pennies on coaches. It's just, I remember when the Chargers had an opening. And I know Dean Spanos, because he's told me this a couple different times, occasionally listens to our show. And I was literally sending a direct message to him on the show. I'm like, pay for Jim Harbaugh. Pay for him.

They'd gone, in my opinion, kind of cheap on coaches. And it had cost them. I'm like, SoFi, the L.A. market. It's not San Diego. Pay for Harbaugh. I had dinner with Dean six months later. He's like, it's better than I thought. There are so many unintended or unknown benefits to hiring a Vrable and a Payton

or, or, you know, a John Harbaugh now with the Giants, that will pay itself over the next two years on stuff you didn't even understand. So here was Albert Breer yesterday on sort of Mike Vrable's path to the Super Bowl. what he's evolved into is the total package as a head coach leadership relationships scheme game management roster building i just think when you're talking about the totality of what a head coach is mike frable checks every single box i just think mike has grown into becoming the total package as a head coach Yeah, and I said this yesterday. Most ex-players, you know, a lot of guys who would become head coaches in the NFL, maybe they played college football, but they weren't like NFL players of note.

There's an argument, Vrable is the best ex-player that's been a head coach, you know, an ex-player of some renown that you know. Now, Mike Ditka qualifies. I don't think, I think Vrable soup to nuts is kind of, manages the whole component of coach better than Ditka did. I think he's just

I just you know the NFL tends to be a credit league so if you're bad and get good everybody wants credit and I've said this before I think the Patriots

are underrated very rarely does a team get to a Super Bowl and they're underrated but because the Patriots lost to the Steelers and the Raiders in September, and people just sort of, okay, they're at the one o'clock window games. And I remember when they kept losing early, and I've got it on tape, I kept saying, folks, do not judge the Patriots in September.

Between free agency and the draft, they've got like 12 new starters. You've got to give this team to late October. And I said it. That's why I've said most of the year, when the Patriots were winning, you got to forget the Steelers' loss, and you got to forget the Raiders' loss. Okay, no starters do not play in preseason. Free agents, draft picks, this team will be fully baked by Thanksgiving.

And they are. And with that, Tom Brady, he is joining us now live, seven times Super Bowl champ. So you are known for preparation. I think a lot of things you were known for. But more than anything, almost a health. Obsession, right? Most successful people. Or unhealthy obsession.

One of those two, I'll be diplomatic. But I would say this. Sean McVeigh admitted after losing to the Belichick, he said, I'm over-prepared. The game got into my head. Is there a danger for like a Drake mayor, a Sam Darnel thinking,

I mean, I've got to be locked in. All of a sudden, it's paralysis by analysis. You went to so many that you, You could judge them based on that. Your first one, your second one, is there a danger in that? First of all, I'm going to apologize for the drill that's going on above my head right now. I'm in an apartment. They're literally doing, I don't know, redoing the kitchen or something.

I'm trying to figure this out. You know, I think being over-prepared, at least in my opinion, I wasn't the type of player that could ever feel like I was over-prepared. The more information I got, the better. I loved having two weeks to prepare. For this Super Bowl game, over a period of time, it just got more important for me to double down on all the processes that I thought could prepare me for the game. And the more you were to give me, the more I could handle. I love that part of the preparation.

You know, I will say some players don't do great with that. That's right. So some players are opposite. Some players, they just want to know what they need to know. And then they want to go out there and play free. I totally understand that. I think a guy like Ray Lewis, a guy like Ed Reed, they wanted as much information as they could get.

That would be their way of preparing and feeling like, I have all the answers to the test. Now I get to go out there and play very freely. So could there be a danger in over-preparing? Maybe overthinking, but not over-preparing. I mean, you've got two weeks to prepare. This game, you're going to remember for the rest of your life. that's the best part about this game.

Win or lose, you will be remembered for this game for the rest of your life. So you want to make sure, to the best of your ability, going into the game, you feel like you give your team the best chance of succeeding, which means you have to prepare as if this is the only thing that's going on in your life, which the reality is that's all that should be going on in your life. So it's a different way of asking this question, is that, you know, you look at a lot of film, And there, you have a pretty good understanding all your years in the league. Man, we don't match up in this spot.

I'm going to get some, I'm going to get some, our pass pro is going to be pushed to the limit against Justin Tuck and Strayhan. And, you know, you kind of know going into games. Did you ever go into a Super Bowl and think, we have better personnel? And if you did, did it affect the way you play? Did you think, okay, just, Tom, let's just don't, don't throw that seam route. could you, did you ever battle that psychology of, we are going to wear this team down, we got better players? I have a feeling you're referring to the 2007 undefeated Patriot team.

That lost the Giants. Am I wrong or what the hell is going on here? I thought I was a guest on your show. I'm bringing up my worst football memory. I mean, there were days where I felt like going in, we were, you know, on paper, you know, however it would match up. Okay, we've got a great chance. And honestly, when I do my games for Fox, a lot of times people on our crew will say, well,

who do you think is going to win? And I always kind of say, well, if they were to play 10 times, I think this team would win seven and this team would win three. And that's, you know, because on any given day, if a quarterback goes over, goes out and turns it over three times, guess what? You're not winning. Right. So the reality is, is the best team in a one game series doesn't always win.

that's why I always think basketball, baseball, the seven game series does identify the best team because you've got seven chances to get it right. In football, you got one chance to get it right. That's really the challenge. You could have an off day or we're up there in Seattle doing the last game of our year in championship weekend with me and Kevin Burkart.

And we watch the pun returner from the Rams muff the punt. Seattle jumps on the ball, gives them all the momentum. Seattle goes on, takes advantage. and that ends up being one of the big turning points in the game. So that's how finicky the game is. It's a real challenge to win this game and to do everything right over the course of the season

to get to this game. And then to win this game requires a lot of good things happening and things still bounce in your way. So that's really the challenge and the hard part about winning this game. So you had a line about Darnold. And I can tell whenever a broadcaster has a really good line, I can tell because I remember it a week or two later. said this during the Seahawk game, and I followed

Darnold since late high school, and I'd never heard it been put this way. You said, you know, Sam's more explosive than surgical. And I thought, oh, yeah, that's exactly right. But what's interesting is, with the Jets in Carolina, and maybe Minnesota, sometimes he had to be dynamic and not surgical. When I watched them against the Rams, I thought, oh, no, he's being surgical, because outside of JSN, it's a run team and a defensive-led team and I'm wondering

when I watch Sam I thought that's exactly what he is and then the Rams game I'm like oh no that this is actually surgical I'm wondering if he recognizes what he's surrounded by and Tom

Sam realizes really this is about it's surgery I don't want to be as explosive do you think that's part of it sure I do I think there's different ways to win every single week. And you always have to find kind of the formula for success in a given week,

depending on who's in for you, because you could have some injuries, and who's out for the other team or where you want to try to attack the coverages of the other team. Some teams call, and there's probably more in vogue than, you know, in the last five, six years, since really the Rams with Brandon Staley played more of a shell type defense, a lot of variations in two high defenses which are built to protect the deep part of the field and forces the quarterback to make surgical decisions on the underneath parts of the field. So when you decide to play this top-down approach, well, you better find a surgical passer that can throw to tight ends, that can throw to running backs, that can find and be okay with six or seven-yard gains to advance the ball. Okay.

Now, differently, there's some teams that come up and want to press you at the line of scrimmage and try to defend the short parts of the field and make you earn higher, more challenging completions down the field, which are less percentage of happening. But they will say, all right, we're going to get up here and try to take away the short stuff, and we're going to force you to hit the hard ones. That's another style of defense.

So you have to go in and out of different modes at different times. Sometimes you could be explosive, sometimes you could be surgical. Sometimes when they're all inside, you've got to throw the ball outside. Sometimes when they're deep, you got to throw it short. When they decide to cover short, you got to throw it deep. When they're all inside, it's just, that's how you have to develop a style of play over a period of time.

That's why I think it's really important for quarterbacks to, they have to go to the line of scrimmage with a plan. And what's my plan on this play? What did the coach call? What did he call that play for? This is all part of processing information. As I walk to the line, now I get to look at the deep. defense. All right. Now, what are they in? Is the coach the play that the coach called? Is it going to work against the defense that I'm seeing? That's the judgment the quarterback has to make. When you have a very

highly intellectual quarterback, let's look at Matt Stafford, who's going to probably win MVP. That's how he walks to the line of scrimmage now. He's got 17 years of wisdom. He can now say, great, there's a very high percentage chance that this play's actually going to work. Let's run it. That's how you continue to take growth as a quarterback and level up every single year because the processing information, the speed of processing information can get better as you get older. And that's why I think you see a lot of success from quarterbacks in their mid to late 30s.

So when you went into these Super Bowls, a majority of, of them you had Josh McDaniels. Did he pace it? Did he add stuff late? Was the install clean and he kind of knew going in first two days? Here's what it is.

You're smiling as I say this. What was it like? I mean, there was some of the coolest things I ever remember working with Josh in those moments and having those two weeks to prepare. Knowing the magnitude of what we were playing for, you have 60 to 70 plays left in the entire season. That's all you got. So why have 300 calls on the call sheet? You're not

going to call them all anyway. Why don't you try to just thin it out to the plays that you feel give you the best chance to win and that your team can execute well? So a cool story. 2014, we're playing the Seahawks in the Super Bowl. And we have four days of practice in Foxborough. We're playing against the Legion of Boom. Man, that was a legit defense. Unbelievable. We have three days of practice down in Arizona where the game's being played. It's Friday night after we've had seven practices and we go out to dinner with my family, come back from dinner. It's about 9.30. I'm walking from the parking lot up to my hotel room on Friday night. And I said, I called Josh. I said, I'm not feeling great about the red area.

I just, there's a lot of moving parts, and I feel like if I look to the right, the defense's going to move the right, and that's going to take away the guys. If I'm thinking about, if I look to the left, they're going to move, and they're just going to move with my eyes and cover our receivers. And I don't think we can gain any leverage. Can we just go through the plan one more time? He and I at 10 o'clock on Friday night, after seven plays are done, are watching red area film of the Seahawks defense, okay? All the hay is in the barn. Practice is over.

We got no more shots of practice. Josh and I come up with about three or four plays on that Friday night between a 10 and 11 o'clock at night. We walk through the plays. That's one particular play you just showed on the screen. It was one of the plays that we installed on the Saturday morning, the Sunday before the game that we put in, we walked through them. And we threw touchdown passes on two of the plays that we installed on that Saturday morning. So talk about feeling like you could be over prepared. No, you could be prepared, and then you can go to the next level, which is cross every T, dot every I.

Because in that game, that game came down to the smallest margins. And what does it take? Sometimes that's what it takes. And that's the trust and confidence that he and I built on one another. Did you tell teammates of the changes, or were there things that were singular with you and Josh? Or did you have to tell everybody, guys, this is what we're doing? Yeah, guys, this is the place we're going to add three. or four plays. We're not going to get a chance to practice them.

They may not come up, but we're going to walk through them to make sure we're ready to go. We walk through them two or three times and then boom, you cut it loose. But there's no full speed reps. There's no ability to get out there on the practice field and run. It's just, hey, got all these weeks together, but I think this play can give us a good easy chance. And what I wanted to do was I wanted a really good hard sell play action so I could get Bobby Wagner to kind of step up into the line of school, so I didn't have to worry about him. because I couldn't look off Earl Thomas and Bobby Wagner.

A lot of times they would line slightly opposite. So if I looked off Bobby Wagner, well, it brought Earl Thomas more into the play. And if I looked off Earl Thomas, it brought Bob Wagner more into the play. So I wanted a hard sell play action where I could kind of take the linebacker out of the play and now I could just work off one defender.

It was a very challenging style of the play that they played, but it took us and, you know, a lot of years of working together to come up with a few kind of breather plays down there in a low red zone that gave me a clean decisive throw where I could just focus on making one clean read and making a great throw to score. Coaches will deny it publicly, but how much do you think Mike Vrable is leaning into we're underdogs, Donald's going to be MVP, we're lucky to be here, how much is he leaning into that?

No one in Brable, he's probably got every bit of underdog material. material up everywhere. We were 14. Underdogs in 2001 Braves as part of that team. Believe me, Colin, if you picked the Seahawks, I'm sure he's going to be telling the entire team that Colin Tyler picked the Seahawks. We're underdogs. That's just the mentality. And, you know, that's okay. I mean, someone's got to be that. Patriots have had an incredible season. I think what they've done is surprised everybody. It's so many guys that have come together, coaches, players that are new, great communication, great toughness. They played in a lot of tough environments and you know they certainly deserve to be representing the a fc you know in this

super bowl it's it's going to be a great game these teams are had played so well all season long they've been clutched they play good defense they play good offense they've been explosive plays surgical plays they run the ball they've got explosive runs they've really found a lot of different ways to win and that's why they're that's why they're playing in this game so you you know you always get asked about you know the last week about bellichick but i i i defended robert craft this morning and I said the Patriots had the worst record in the league for five years before Robert Kraft

owned them. From the day he bought them until today they have the winningest record. And I said Wow. And I said go to the Yankees with George Steinbrenner. 37 years won seven titles. Had 23 different managers, sometimes

Billy Martin for a third, fourth time, different GMs and players. I said, we don't like to admit because owners are billion and they've got their own plane and the quarterback, the coach, the coordinator. I said, but most business people,

I know I work at Fox, most of us make seven to ten decisions a day and the smarter people make the right one 90% of the time. And so I said, if you're going to be outraged by Bill and Bill will get in, then you should be equally outrage that Robert Kraft, who has more Super Bowls

than the rest of the AFC East, the AFC South, and the AFC North combined. You don't understand. I mean, Washington changed owners, Tom. 24 years embarrassing. The next year they're in the NFC championship, I do not believe in coincidence.

So I want to just address the craft part of this and that he was not necessarily a meddler, but I don't believe it's a zany happenstance that you guys literally coaching hires.

draft development, trades in season. Could you give me a sense? I know you are close to Robert Kraft. I think fans just think it's all players and coaches. I'm like, no. It's the same crappy teams drafting at the top every year. It's the owner. It's not the coaches.

Just your thoughts on the moment. Just a great point that you make. And it always starts at the top. And the leadership, the figurehead, the organization is, for the Patriots RKK. And it's, you know, being there for 20 years with him and watching the nuances of that ownership role was something for me to learn a lot from. How he managed different personalities, how he can fill in the gaps when he saw them and

where he saw them. He just did the most unbelievable job. And it's seeing firsthand of being a part of it, recognizing the importance of that role in a football organization. I believe that the owner is the chief accountability officer. And you know, you hold everyone to a standard and you expect everyone to live up to that. And believe me, when the owner is sitting in their team meeting room, the players are sitting up a lot straighter. The head coach's message is directed a lot more intently. And RKK, his office was at the stadium. He would sit in there in team meeting rooms.

He would be out there on the practice field. He would be there at every, every road game shaking people's hands as they walked off the field. There's an importance of football that, that in Patriot football, that RKK does not take lightly. And not only that, look at the contributions that he's made to the league, to the NFL in general, to negotiate media rights deals. And this is the most popular sport in America. It's, you know, the thousands of hours that he's spent bringing this game to life for the fans. That doesn't go on notice. Certainly now that I'm in TV, I understand the amount of work

it takes for Fox to actually broadcast the game. The partnership that Fox and its partners have with the NFL, it's extremely important. That working relationship is so critical to this game being spread throughout our entire country and bringing a lot of joy to people's lives. So to me, it's not a matter just like Bill of if they're going to get in. It's just when they're going to get in. They're tremendous at what they've done in the league. And maybe it's not trending so well for ex-patriots. Maybe I should be a little concerns here. But, you know, I think at some point this thing is going to go in everybody's direction the right way. You know, it's what's interesting. I want to cap it with this

is that, you know, Bill could come off as very hardened because Bill is, that that is his personality. And do you think it hurt him for that 24, 48 hours when he didn't get in just what you know of bill i actually think in some ways um it rallied a lot of people who played for bill and made sure they reached out to him to express um you know how much they appreciated them which i'm sure felt good for for bill um and i said before it doesn't look we all want everything in life to happen on our time frame and our time schedule we want everything to go and we want it to go but the reality is that's not life um i actually think think it's going to work in his favor when he does get in because there's going to be a lot of

people that realize the impact that he made on their life as a coach as a player and they're going to be there to celebrate him. And this was another opportunity for everybody to reach out to him and tell him how much they appreciate him, even though he didn't get exactly what he probably deserved here the first time around. All right. Okay, well, I didn't hear the construction. According to you, it said it's quite a job. Did you? I can't hear it. geez all right good yeah a great seeing you so is Tom see you my brother take care I'll see you good soon okay bye guys bye bye bye yeah I think it's uh I said this about Kraft is

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Because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHart Women's Sports. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in.

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You need to tell me what you know. Is somebody coming after me? Jacob told Levan, you're ruining my life. Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It is obviously the first Super Bowl for not only Sam Darnold, but Drake May. And I had Tom Brady on for about 25 minutes. And one of the things I asked him is, you know, it's one thing, Tom, when you've been to your second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth Super Bowl. But a lot of quarterbacks that get there don't get back.

Is there a danger in over-preparing analysis by paralysis? for a young quarterback getting to his first Super Bowl? The more you were to give me, the more I could handle. I love that part of the preparation. I will say some players don't do great with that. I think a guy like Ray Lewis, a guy like Ed Reed, they wanted as much information as they could get. That would be their way of preparing and feeling like,

I have all the answers to the test. Now I get to go out there and play very freely. So could there be a danger and over-preparing? Maybe overthinking. but not over preparing. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. Kind of the narrative out there, this isn't a great Super Bowl,

and I honestly think it's the same team. Seattle is a better version of New England. They're both athletic, big quarterbacks that move well. One's got a little more experience. Both offensive lines are kind of the weakness of the team, I think Seattle's is a little bit better, especially on the left side. Both defenses are excellent. I would say both secondaries, outstanding, two defensive coaches, both blew out nine teams.

I think Seattle is a slightly better version of New England. So I think it's a great matchup. And there's a reason there are four, four and a half, potentially five-point favorite. But weakness, strength, coaches, quakes. Quarterbacks, it's, I feel like strong run games with both. I think it's great matchup. I think Seattle's just a slightly better version of New England. In LA, it's the herd.

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. Hey, it's us, the Jonas brothers. And guess what? We have some big news. What's the news? Huge news. We created our own podcast called Hey Jonas.

We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name Hey Jonas, guys?

I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast,

where people could call in and say, Hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Just listen.

We don't care where you hear it. 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. The French Open is one. one of the toughest tests in tennis. And I know firsthand because I competed there myself.

I'm Renee Stubbs, and on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast, I'm breaking down everything happening at Roland Garris. Every match, every upset, and what it really takes to win on Clay. Jenchian won. I mean, she went down in three to Rabakina, but I'm delighted. She's an outsider to win the French for me. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lina Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now.

And I actually can win on any. surface because if she's serving, well, good luck. Consider this your court side seat to the French Open. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Capital One, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports. Jacob Kingston grew up in an isolated polygamous sect. We were God's chosen kingdom on earth.

He felt destined for greatness. So when a swaggering Armenian businessman, catapults Jacob into an extraordinary world, he doesn't look back. Ferraris and Lamborghinis, private jets, meeting the president of Turkey. I'm Michelle McPhee, and this is one of the most shocking criminal conspiracies I've ever come across. When Jacob met Levant this plant to a billion dollar fraud. But with two kings from entirely different worlds, just how long can their empire survive? The largest tax investigation in American history.

to tell me what you know. Is somebody coming after me? Jacob told Levan, you're ruining my life. Listen to Kingdom of Fraud on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind. Highlights are trending, opinions are flying, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in.

I'm Timbo. Every episode, we're cutting through the noise. Breaking down the plays, the controversies, and the stories behind the headlines. We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves, their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context, and ask the questions everybody wants answered.

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Let's start with the L.A. Rams, offensive coordinator. It's an open spot. It's a really good job, obviously, working under the McVeigh tree, sets you up for success. Michael Flore has moved on to the Cardinals. One of the big names is someone will get to in a second. But here's what McVeigh said about an internal candidate. I did think that this was something that could occur. So we've got great candidates in-house.

You know, you obviously just based on the rules and I think what is the appropriate thing? you're going to do an extensive search to really just dive into what's going to be the best way to bring in new people. And we've had a lot of reps at it for a lot of the right reasons. But I am excited about diving in and it never fails. Every time me and my wife go on vacation, somebody's usually getting a head job. And then I'm spending too much time on my phone. Yes, you and I know the feeling anytime you're on vacation. Well, now, people will say, Colin, you don't like in-house candidates.

I don't mind them when the offensive coach is the offense. Like if Shanahan loses a coordinator and goes in-house or, you know, Kevin O'Connell. Dan Campbell, not a scheme guy, needs to get the best replacement for Ben Johnson. There are offensive guys in this league I don't worry too much about. Look at this coaching tree on the screen. This is ridiculous. Working under McVeigh, Zach Taylor, who's with the Bengals, we don't think he's great, but whatever. Liam Cohen gets to the playoffs in year one in Jacksonville.

Kevin O'Connell, one of the sharp young minds, and of course, Matt LaFlewer in Green Bay. Cohen gets overlooked. Look what Liam Cohen did in a year. They won 13 games. Not only that, but Trevor Lawrence, people were out on him. Like an MVP candidate. Yeah, I mean, it says, like, Liam Cohen gets lost because Jacksonville,

you know, it stands that college country. Jacksonville was a mess. I mean, I love Trevor Lawrence. I was kind of done. I was not. You sell stock too early. You love to bail. I'm a day trader.

Yeah, basically. The guy to watch here is Nate Sheelhouse. He interviewed with the Browns, a bunch of other jobs. He seems like the odds on favorite to be the next OC with the Rams. All right, let's move on to, ooh, this is spicy. We haven't talked about your guy, Aaron Rogers lately. He's always something with Aaron Rogers.

All right. So Mike McCarthy gets the job in Pittsburgh. He's installing his new staff, and he's expected to bring on a gentleman by the name of Frank Signetti Jr. Kurt Signetti? As an offensive advisor, Kurt Signetti's brother. Okay? Here's the interesting thing.

Okay. Frank has a negative history with Aaron Rogers dating back to their time with McCarthy in Green Bay. According to a report, Rogers in 2018 was upset that the Packers did not renew Alex Van Pelt as the quarterback coach and they went with Signetti. Rogers was allegedly so ticked off. He refused to speak to Signetti and the two had to communicate through backup quarterback Tim Doyle. I know you love Rogers. I don't know. some level of petty to not talk to your quarterback coach. Listen, we all know the game with Aaron. Like, it's no, it's, it's, it's, I mean, we just know.

I mean, I know two guys in the Packer locker room that played with Aaron, and they both have said the basically same thing. Aaron depends on the day. Sometimes good Aaron, sometimes Moody Aaron. It is what it is. That's not a guy that, by the way, we haven't even talked about this. Rogers is probably done, right? There was no victory tour, no like, hey, here's a rocking chair present.

Or is that just an NBA thing? But like, I mean, ask yourself this. Do you think Mike McCarthy knows about Aaron and Frank Signetti? Of course. Well, then why would he hire him? Yeah, I think Will Howard's going to be their guy. You and I would agree. Yes, I mean, I think the hiring tells you that Mike McCarthy,

this is a very intentional hire by Mike McCarthy. So, you know, there's a big actions versus words thing. A lot of young people will learn this. They'll give you lip service and say all the right things, but action speak louder. Colin, they're saying we're not rebuilding. They say that in Pittsburgh. If they go with Will Howard, is that a rebuild to you?

I mean, I'm going to wait to see the free agent moves, but this is a quiet rebuild in Pittsburgh. McCarthy, I'm sure, was given guarantees. Hey, take your time. You never have more leverage. Two times a coach has leverage in the NFL. After a Super Bowl, and first year with a team.

McCarthy has real leverage here. They are disappointed in Pittsburgh. So Mike can push the discomfort to a little higher degree. If Mike go 7 and 10, you lose the leverage. Mike has staff leverage here. And I think what he's doing, what have his two hires been? Frank Signetti Sr. and the O-line coach. I love that the news out of Pittsburgh is offensive improvements.

So I think McCarthy is putting his stamp. Listen, I don't care who you could be Brian Kallan. Your first year in Tennessee, you're the guy. Everybody follows up. Everybody, you know, they follow behind you. They want to lead, they want to be behind you over the hill. So McCarthy is making his tweaks. What's your reading?

I think that signals the end of Aaron. Yeah. By the way, Aaron Rogers, fun fact, final pass in the NFL was a pick six against the Houston Texans. Remember that in the playoff game? Do a pick six, and then he was like, it's over, they're down 30 to nine or whatever, and then he went to the bench. Fun way to end his career. I just had to get that in. All right, final story.

Let's go to Denver. Colin, though, Denver Broncos obviously lost the AFC championship game. This is kind of fascinating. I did not realize this. We know they moved off O.C. Joe Lombardi. Yeah. Right? And they're going to promote Davis Webb to be the new offensive coordinator.

Davis Webb, a hot young name out there. Did you know Joe Lombardi had been with Sean Payton for 15 years? Oh, yeah. He was his guy. He was with him in New Orleans for years. 15 years and he moved off him just to keep Davis Webb? Well, that is stunning. Well, Webb is the young... I don't care. Fifteen years?

Listen, what do you have to stay with people? I don't know what you do, but moving off, just because Davis Webb is getting some nibbles out there in the market. You're going to move off your guy at 15 years? 15 years is a long time, bro. Come on. See, I look at the opposite. 15 years is a long time to be with Joe Lombardi. Okay.

Joe Lombardi should be, hey, I made a lot of money with Sean Payton. You don't get the... Just got to an AMC championship game. Are you trying to tell me something? Three years together? You know what's going on? You look at it like, where's the loyalty? And my take is a 15-year relationship, coach coordinator?

A lot of success. Lots of success. Fourth down gets... I'm sure Joe Lombardi had that fourth down call. Sean Payton, I'm sure down that up. Listen, Joe Lombardi is fully aware of Sean Payton's personality. And I think one of his quotes was, you know, Sean was just got into the mood. He wanted something new.

And I think when you coached with Sean Payton, he's very emotional. And he wears his emotions. It leads with his chin. And I think you just, you realize that. We shall. I'm going to monitor this next year. See how Davis Webb, the immortal Davis Webb. He had such a great NFL quarterback career.

Well, you don't. We'll see. I know nothing about the guy. We'll see. maybe not take shots at. Well, I'm not, I'm just, that's a reality. He did not have a great NFL career. Well, you know, it was as a player.

Yeah. How many great players are great coaches? That's a damn good question. I would argue being a serviceable rotational player where you had to do all the little things right to get on the field. Yeah. It's like in baseball. A lot of, like, managers are catchers.

Why? They wear the gear. It's the hardest position to play. You see the entire game. You call the game. It's an intellectual position where you don't have to be the twitchiest or this or that. You basically have to be one of the smart guys playing and dealing with the emotions of a very emotional pitcher. Yeah, the backup quarterback is going to be a good coach because you know what?

You've got to be smart and bowed them to say on the roster. Well, your backup, Kevin O'Connell's a good coach. There you go. I mean, the stars, they make a lot of money. They were grinding. They don't need to. What are they returning for? They're not coaching.

Why would you want to coach? After you made a lot of money as a starter for 10 years. brutal. No. J. Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Hurd Line News.

I don't want Davis Webb to think I'm out where this show's out here taking shots is that Davis Webb played and Davis Webb now getting a coaching opportunity. And I root for all these young. Like former players that coach I think is a cool thing because it's really, really hard. And a lot of them made money so they don't necessarily need the job. And you have to sacrifice time with your job. your family. So like players that go to coaching, like tip of the cap, like it's hard. And they know how hard coaching is because they're in these rooms with these coaches

who have baggy eyes and put on weight and live on coffee. Yeah. So interesting. He's been with the Broncos since 2023. He had, he threw 40 NFL passes in his career. He was in the league. Third round pick, interestingly, 6'5, you know, looks the part. We'll see. I mean, again, you go to the AFC championship. You're on the doorstep of the Super Bowl. I mean, if Bo Nix plays in that game, Colin, they probably win that. They're at home? And then are you moving off, Lombardi? Well, I mean, wasn't it interesting when Bo Nix was listed as out, the line shifted?

Like way more, you know, people who are always like Bo Nix is, you know, maybe he's worth a couple points. Well, the line dramatically shifted. Yeah. Vegas told you. No, Bo Nix's a good player. Solid. Above solid. Gino said his solid.

He's no Brock Purdy. He said it is not solid. Come on. Okay, Cam Hayward, Jordan Palmer around the corner on a Tuesday, live in Los Angeles. It's the hurt. Hey, guys, it's us, the Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin. And I'm Nick, and guess what?

We created our own podcast called, Hey Jonas. We invented a podcast? Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to us. We're the first people to do podcasts. We get to ask other people questions because we're sick and tired of being asked questions. Well, sick and tired is a strong way to put it, but, you know, tired and sick. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. 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, SNL'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 I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Last night, a blown call changed a game. This morning, the internet lost its mind, and nobody's telling you exactly what happened. That's where Sports Slice comes in. I'm Timbo, and every episode, we're cutting through the noise, breaking down the biggest moments in sports and giving you the real story behind the headline. And we're going straight to the source, the athletes themselves. their reactions in the moment and the stuff nobody gets to hear.

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Join me, Renee Stubbs, on the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast for no nonsense breakdowns of the biggest matches, the toughest players, and the moments that define Roland Gower. She's an outsider to win the French name. And she likes Clay. Listen, Lina Rabakina is arguably the best player in the world right now. And I actually can win on any surface. Listen to the Renee Stubbs tennis podcast on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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