The Herd with Colin Cowherd - THE HERD - Hour 2 - Top 5 Moves of the NFL Offseason

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Colin shares his 5 favorite moves of the NFL offseason including the Raiders landing Tyler Linderbaum and the Rams trading for Trent McDuffie. Colin believes the corner 3, not tanking, is the biggest problem in the NBA right now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So there's still a few moves being made. Bradley Chub got picked up by the bills. I thought that was a decent. He's going to get you about 9, 10 sacks the year. I thought that was a pretty good get by Brandon B. and the GM. They got DJ Moore, Bradley Chubb. Those are good pickups, especially DJ Moore. So I thought I would give you, these are my five favorite moves of free agency.

These are the five that jump out to me that are like game altering. Number one, I think Tyler Linderbaum and Jalen Naylor, the wide receiver from Minnesota, I think the Raiders nailed it. I think Linderbom is second best center in the sport. This is what the Bears did. Go get your young quarterback in an elite center. I also think Jalen Naylor was the fastest Vikings wide receiver last year under the radar signing to go along with the Brock Bowers, Ashton Genty.

I thought the Raiders nailed it. two, the Rams getting two corners, including Trent McDuffie, made them literally in Vegas Super Bowl favorites. So Jalen Watson's a good, solid corner, arguably better than anybody, but McDuffie now on the Rams. But the Rams are not paying anybody on that defense for another year or two. They've drafted so well, they're very young, so they get a veteran that can match up with the top-niner, Arizona and Seattle receivers in division, and beyond. I love that move. Number three, Malik Willis.

I know it's only six starts, but last season he was 30 of 35 with five touchdowns and no picks. Really accurate. Jeff Halfley, the head coach at Miami, was the defensive coordinator in Green Bay. He watched him for two years. 22 million makes him the 17th highest paid quarterback in the NFL. I think it's very realistic that at some point next year,

you will feel like Malik Willis is at least the 17th best quarterback in the NFL. I feel very confident saying that. The number four team, I think DJ Moore is a good get. I think he's a very good player, never miss his starts. Five years, really durable, smart guy. I think sometimes late in the year with the explosion of Luther Burden for the Bears in Colston Loveland, he felt a little lost and overlooked. He will not feel that way.

in Buffalo. So he's going to get 12 targets a game. He can go over the top. Josh Allen, like Caleb Williams, strong-arm quarterback. He can get free deep. Thought it was a great move by Brandon Bean. And I like Tarek Woolen to the Eagles on a one-year deal. Listen, they've already got two great corners. No other team in the NFL can say they have three elite trait corners, except the Philadelphia Eagles. He joins Cooper de Jong and Quinion Mitchell. So this is a stacked secondary for the Eagles. I loved all five of these moves.

Those were as good as it gets to me. And I will say this. I do think Bradley Chubb coming in late, Trey Hendrickson to the Raven solid, Bradley Chubb to the Bills, solid. Those are good plays as well. So, you know, if you're struggling as a business,

And I don't know if the NBA is struggling, but it's always hard, whether you're a football team or a business. You have to identify your problems. And I think the NFL has been very good at that. I think baseball recently. Baseball a couple years ago, Rob Manfred said, the game's not fast enough. And we're losing young viewers who are on their phones. We cannot have three hour and 20 minute games. So they instituted a pitch clock.

And baseball also had another issue. analytics told them, hey, home runs over everything. Well, the problem is strikeouts went up. Because of a defensive shift, there were fewer base runners, and the game was boring. There weren't enough guys on base stealing bases second to home play at the plate. So baseball made moves. So I think the NBA is struggling to figure out what their real problem is. They think it's tanking.

And I don't. They've been tanking forever. They think it's dynasties. I don't. The heels were popular. The Bulls were popular. Kobe and Shaq were popular. I don't think dynasties or tanking are the problem.

I think the game's gotten boring and repetitive with too many threes. So I would eliminate the corner three and make it easier to defend the arc threes, the perimeter threes, and forcing players to move inside the line, body on body, more physicality, more collisions at the rim, get rid of the corner three. Darry, who was Mr. Analytics, who was a proponent of the threes, has now said, you know what, we've overcorrected. Here's Darry. I could not agree more. Change the three-point line.

I don't have the exact remedy. I would move the line back. Even that won't fix it. I would get rid of the corner three. I would move the line back. will help, but I wouldn't get rid of it, for example. I believe something needs to be done. I think it's more urgent than tanking.

As much as people talk about the different ways, people get to threes, I think that's all true. The reality is 50% more is too much for that shot. The game is unbalanced. For sure, three is too much for that shot. So it used to be the three-point shot was featured on All-Star Weekend. Now it's called Tuesday Night Hawks Against Hornets. So last season, here's something I just want you to think about.

So most NBA teams shoot about 35% from threes. 35%. So let me ask you, if you're only succeeding at 35% of anything, it could be five-foot puts at the Masters. What if Major League Baseball pitchers only through strikes, 35% of the time, it would slow the game down. Your hit rate for anything in sports has to be higher than 35%. If the NFL decided, summarily, the league decided, no more screens, no more drag routes,

no more rollouts, no more underneath stuff, everything has to be 20 yards plus down the field. Do you know what the completion percentage in the NFL was last year for 3, throws 20 plus down the field, 35%. Do you think the game would be better if quarterbacks were completing 35% of their throws? It would be unwatchable. It would be awful. It's excellent when it's at 65 to 68%.

Right? We want offense to succeed. It's great that baseball pitchers half the time or more throw strikes, speed the game up, force batters to swing. So listen to these numbers. So last year, 396 games, there were at least 83s. Again, at a 35% hit clip. That gives you on average 52 bricks a game.

Do you believe watching an NBA basketball game? Oh, I watched 52 clanks. If you have any more bricks, you can join a union. I mean, at some point, it's not good sports. That's why Roger Goodell cleaned up the catch. And Roger Goodell changed the PAT because the NFL's always understood aesthetics matter. I've said it many times on this show. When you go to a nice restaurant, they want to make sure it looks appealing, not just tastes appealing.

Because you eat with your eyes first. That's why there's no blue food. You don't eat with your mouth. You eat with your eyes. So if you go to a Bobby Flay restaurant, if you go to an Emerald, you go to any nice restaurant where I live in Chicago, anywhere in the country, it looks appetizing. The problem of the NBA, you watch these games, it's not aesthetically pleasing. You have the greatest athletes in the world shooting 35% on the shot they shoot the most. You know what's beautiful?

Michael Jordan's mid-range game. That's beautiful. The sound of the swish, the aesthetics of the swish. It looks cool. So we don't talk about this at all. Baseball had this issue too. Home runs were everything. Well, it was home runs or strikeouts.

Launch angle. The problem is there's no base runners. Part of the beauty of baseball is first to third, second to home, stealing bases, athletes on the base pass. You eliminate that, it's not the same game. And Rob Manfred got it. And the catch and moving the kickoffs. NFL got it. Forget the math may work on the three.

but you're asking teams to launch 52 bricks a night. You go to basketball game. You ever once driven home after a basketball game. I've got to tell you, that eight out of nine bricks in the third quarter was riveting. It's bad aesthetics. It's boring and bad to watch. So I don't buy for a second that tankings the end of the world. Teams were tanking during Jordan's era and magic and birds.

And I don't think dynasties are a problem. If they happen, they happen. I mean, in college, I mean, college basketball, if I told you Michigan wins the next three national championships in college basketball, it gives you somebody to hate, right? Give you somebody to root four and somebody to root against. So, I mean, here's another one. Wimby's seven foot six. Wemby took 403 three point shots last season. Do you really think that's aesthetically pleasing?

But if you cut off the corner three, okay, now it's easier to defend the wing three, forcing guys in. And I'm also a believer of that I think basketball is better. You'll see this in March Madness and you'll see it in the NBA playoffs. I think basketball is better when there's physicality and there's bumping and tempers flare. And I think physical basketball is more fun to watch than just up and down the floor, YMCA, pick and roll, jack a three.

I don't think it's that compelling. And what's amazing. Wemby took 403, three-point shots, and he missed half the year with blood clots. I mean, at some point, guys, it's just the same. Everybody's playing the same game. The other thing I've always thought about basketball, it's our most artistic sport. I mean, Magic didn't play like Bob Coosie, didn't play like Alan Iverson, didn't play like Steph Curry, Dr. Jay didn't play like anybody,

and Michael and the tongue out and the switching hands, and it's artistry. Like, there's a real artistry to basketball. why would you sap and reduce the artistry by asking everybody to shoot threes? I want Ant driving to the basket. I want Kobe and MJ. I want them being artists. Go look at them. Go look at Dr. Jay's highlights.

I watched Vince Carter and Dr. Jay highlights last night. Just go look up Vince Carter dunks and Dr. Jay highlights. Not a three. But it's incredibly. The artistry is insane. And I think the threes are formulaic. I do. I just watched the great movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn.

It was the opposite of formulaic. I didn't know what I was getting. That when you watched MJ and Dr. Jay, you didn't know what you were getting. Every time down the floor, it's like, I got no idea what MJ's doing. I know exactly what I'm getting from everybody, every possession now. 52 bricks a game. Yeah. So guys like Jemak who like to jack him up, love it.

I mean, you said a lot there, Colin. You seem a little combative on this NBA. First, it was tanking. Everybody's outraged. I'm not outraged by that. I'm not out of my gosh. And now it's like, well, too many threes. I mean, art is, art changes over time.

It evolves, right? What was awesome, art-wise in the 15th century changed by the 17th century. I would argue. 1770s NBA. I would argue that's not true. Picasso today was worth more than Picasso then. Great art enduers. Yeah, but nobody's painting like Picasso did.

They're painting in different ways. ways and now modern art is different, but still beautiful. I would just say that the dunks are happening. And the threes are artistry. I've never seen a seven-foot-seven guy. How tall is what I'm seven-five, seven-six? Whatever he is. He's a giant. He looks like a praying mantis shooting threes and it's fluid and clean. And to me, that's art. I don't, I love threes. I'm a little disappointed in Daryl. I guess he's upset that he just was never able to break through with all his strategies and numbers and process. Or he's seeing the same thing everybody else. is World Baseball Classic ratings, Olympic ratings, World Cup ratings, NFL ratings,

college, back. All these ratings are up, up, up. And there's this, you know, there's a little bit of a malaise with the NBA where people are like, even like diehard NBA, people are like, the regular season. Let's cut games. Why got to cut games? Hockey guys aren't cutting games. Baseball aren't cutting games. NFL's out. Everybody's adding games. Basketball is like, we've got to have fewer games. How about work on your products? Well, the counter is World Baseball Classic is like two weeks, okay? Baseball, season is long and their ratings were not great last year in the regular season. NHL ratings were down last year in the regular season.

So let's compare Apple to apples. NBA 82 games. Don't compare to NFL or college. Major League Baseball. Three years in a row. Ratings through the roof. Yeah, but they're not significantly like above the NBA or anything. I mean, their regular season games are fine. World Series amazing. Those ratings are massive. NBA playoffs are going to be fine.

We're going to shelve all this talk. As soon as the playoffs hit. You're going to love the artistry of Anthony Edwards, three-pointers. Oh, Colin. Geez. Austin Reeves, no artistry there? Again, I don't think he's a three-shooter. I think he drives to the basket, creates contact. I like watching Austin.

He's a contact creator. He's not a three-point shooter. I mean, I don't think of Austin Reeves as a three-point shooter. I think he's a contact creator. I love a Dwayne Wade contact creator. I love those games. Guys jacking him from the corner doesn't do a thing for me. Be sure to catch live edition.

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first round quarterbacks drafted in the second decade of this millennium, 2010 to 2019. Just three, three of 29, remain with the teams that drafted them. Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson,

Josh Allen. All three joined winning cultures, Ravens under Harbaught winning culture. Sean McDermott bills had made the playoffs the year before Josh Allen got there. And, you know, Andy Reed and the chiefs

for making the playoffs with Alex Smith. Three of 29 in a 10-year period, still with their team. Quarterbacks, kids, and actors, you're a product of your environment. There's a reason the best actors in Hollywood try to work with the same directors and writers over and over and over again or the same companies. You know, you'll sign a deal with Netflix and the same director. And, I mean, you can only do so. I mean, Joe Burrell can't make the playoffs now.

And on any given Sundays, the best quarterback in the league. Cincinnati. So, you know, I've said everybody's looking for the reclamation project in the NFL, the next Sam Donald. It's Kyler Murray. I don't know if it will happen, but it would be the same team Donald exploded with in Minnesota with the coach and the receivers and the O-line and T.J. Hawkins. It's like, Kyler Murray, if he's ever going to make it, this Minnesota team, this is going to be the one. And it's a division. Detroit, Chicago, Green Bay defenses are beatable. They're not elite defenses. So you can walk into a division. vision where you're not, you know, you're not facing the best, necessarily the best lineup of

defenses. So, but it's a product of your environment. There's only so much you can do. Joe Burrell can only do so much to overcome the front office ownership of kind of a second tier franchise. A J-Mac with the news. No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. All right, this Max Crosby stuff, Colin, it's not going away. The Ravens and their GM, Eric DeCosta spoke to the media yesterday, and they pushed back against the narrative that they had buyer's remorse over Max Prosby. I understand it.

We live in that age of skepticism and people question, especially people that don't really know me or know the Ravens culture and the Ravens organization. So I understand it. It's very, very challenging. Again, I understand how people might, maybe from afar would feel that way. But nobody's more upset about this than maybe. gutted by it actually and so

a regret, a big regret for me but we will move on as a football team. Yeah, well, I mean they can't close, they've struggled to close out leads in the fourth quarter

so they also lost, by the way, they lost a running back to the Chargers kind of a very speedback and they lost their tied end of the giant so, you know,

it's been a little bumpy Ravens off season. So it's interesting, this narrative that instantly built. Oh, oh, Ravens are backing out of the deal because buyer's remorse. Once that took hold, Colin, it hasn't let go. I think, you know, we're in an era of social media where people are just wedded to their idea, their belief.

They're not coming off of it. If they believe something, they believe it. No amount of facts or evidence can trust them otherwise. And I just wonder, can the Ravens fix this? This is just who they are now. They play dirty. It's the offseason, so everybody's fine. It's not in season.

But, I mean, Keton Mitchell was a nice speedback. He's gone, the tight end. Now to the Giants, he's gone. You thought you had Max Crosby. So I said this, Jay Mack, I said this two months ago when John Harbaugh left. You know, sometimes, you know, when you lose your job, and everybody's like, oh, I feel bad for John Harbaugh. A little bit of a mess in Baltimore right now with Lamar Jackson and his health.

and he wants a new contract and he really wants to be the highest paid and there's a recent history, the highest paid quarterback can struggle to make the playoffs. So I think everybody looks at John Harbaugh. When Jim Harbaugh left the Niners, he did just fine.

When Jim Harbaugh, you know, they kind of wanted to show him the door in San Francisco. How did San Francisco look for the next three or four years after that? I think the Ravens have some real challenges ahead. Some might be putting it mildly. All right, let's move on to your Chicago Bears, Colin.

And I guess there's some consternation in Chicago that maybe Bears fans are like, what are we going to do something? We're going to get a big guy. You got cowher out here talking about Max Crosby. We didn't get him. I know we lost DJ Moore. We lost our center.

And Chicago, I don't know, Colin. I'm looking at their moves. Khalif Raymond is a fine get. But you look at their wide receiver depth. It's not great after Adunze. The set with Chicago Bears are talented enough today to win a Super Bowl, not saying they should be favored. Remember, you may not play the best teams.

They get upset. If you look at their roster, Devin Bush, Gallimore, Jedrick Willis, and they also have picks, they've drafted pretty well. Their talent is good enough. Drew Dolman is a loss. But picking up, Garrett Bradbury, is about as well as you can do considering the situation.

They, the bear, there's seven or eight rosters in this league that are good enough to win the Super Bowl. Rams, Seahawks, lions, eagles, bears, Buffalo is close.

Chargers. Denver. There's about, there's about seven, eight that you need breaks, but I think the bears fall into that. They've got enough weapons. They've,

O-line, quarterback coach. They need an edge rusher. You get that in the draft. So I think they're fine. So it's interesting. They got the 25th pick. Obviously, the defense was not great all season. And Colin, how often do you say, hey, you got the quarterback on the rookie deal. Spend, spend, spend. Well, they did. They went and got B players. They didn't take one big swing. Who's, you really think Gallimore's a B player and Devin Bush? I don't know, man. Pro football focus, the analytics for those guys is, it's not great.

Kobe Bryant is probably their best defensive move. But does he shore up what was a weak link in the defense of secondary? Well, my guess is their first pick is a corner because the end of the first round got three or four really good corners. So they go get, they go get him from the Seahawks, then they get their first

picks a corner, and suddenly, now they've only got one real need, and that is an edge rusher. All right. We'll wrap up with Caitlin Clark, Colin. I feel like, remember how it's big of a deal she was a couple years ago here on the show. She hadn't played in eight months, and she made her debut for the U.S. senior national team at the Feebo World Cup qualifiers.

Obviously, the USA rolled by like 60 points. But how about this? Clark, 19 minutes, had 17 points in 12 assists. And, you know, I was talking about the producer here about this segment, and I'm like, so she shoots like Steph Curry, and she's now adding a passing element, 12 assists in 19 minutes. That's Magic Johnson-ish. Somebody put a cut up together or the real of her assists. She's making some really nice, no-look passes, high-level stuff.

She's, I'm not going overboard. She's a Curry Magic Johnson combo as a point guard in women's basketball. That's kind of a nice. And for the record, I don't mind her shooting threes because she's revolutionized women's basketball, taking threes well beyond where any other WNBA player will take it, and she's a guard. I don't have a problem with Steph Curry shooting threes. I don't have a problem with Kevin Durant shooting threes. I don't want Wemby shooting.

400. And that's my take on what Darrell Morrie says is we got, it's too much repetition. There's the corner three, there's too much. Caitlin Clark is on a short list. I compared her to Tiger Woods. I'd never seen a golfer like Tiger Woods. If she's playing and I'm bouncing around the TV and she's on, she's got an incredible sticky quality that I'm not changing the channel. She's very unique in the history of women's basketball. I don't think there's ever been any player like her, ever. People are making some hot takes about it. I totally agree. Colin, I didn't know there was a

Feebo Women's World Cup qualifier until I saw Caitlin Clark was playing, and then you see the highlights and you're like, oh, this is interesting. She just does things that you don't see normally. I'm kind of excited for the WNBA season. I can't name 15 players in the league, but I know if Clark's playing, like you said, I'm tuning in. Yeah, J-Mac with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by.

Third Line News. Had Tom Izzo on. We had Rick Petino on recently. Mark Few came on. Tom Isso today about, you know, there's been a lot of changes in college sports. And, you know, I've heard, you know, a lot of the, listen, it's broken, it needs to be fixed. Well, I think any time you introduce something radically different to, like, AI right now. I mean, there's a lot of guessing with AI. I don't think it's the end of society. I don't think unemployment's going to 30%.

I don't buy it. I think people like relationships and working with groups and people, not computers. And when you introduce NIL and transfer portal to college, it's jarring. It's like, whoa! But the ratings for college football

and college basketball are way up since the NIL and the transfer portal were initiated. So I think you have to figure some things out. There is no, listen, it used to be that, you know, you choose a school and you're kind of stuck. And then if you did transfer, you had to sit out a year. Well, that wasn't a good system. Coaches could move.

Players could. Now do I think we have too much movement? In college basketball, it feels like it. In college football, I'm still pretty comfortable with the movement, which is eight to nine, ten players a year for most programs. You got 85 scholarships, 10 guys change teams. It doesn't really bother me. You know, quarterbacks, they're going to get paid. That's the most important position.

But I had Tom Izzo on last hour, and I asked him, you know, with NIL, you know, players can transfer at any minute. Do you coach them as hard? Do you coach them differently today? I'm at the point in my career where I don't need to worry about it. But, you know, I've had the privilege of being, you know, around guys like Magic Johnson or, you know, watching the NBA. I've had some chances to go there. And I think they all think the same thing. You know, the great players want to be coached. Everybody's got to be pushed. I mean, everybody pushes people. That's the way it should be. That's the way it needs to be if you're really

going to be successful. If it was easy, as they say, everybody would do it. Yeah, I am for, just like AI, I think it's going to be revolutionary. It's going to be jet fuel to the economy. I don't believe it's 30% unemployment, new stuff scares people. And I mean, I had friends who love college football tell me three years ago, I'm not watching college football. It's pro football now. They watch as much college football as they ever watched. So I do think, you know, college basketball feels a little top heavy because the rich are

getting richer. But can we be totally honest about March Madness? A lot of it's always been mythology. I mean, how many 16s have beaten ones? many 15s have beaten 2s. It was a lot, you know, every other year you'd get a massive upset. And so, you know, it's easy to promote and sell and market the fact, oh, it just upsets everywhere.

No, it's not. That's not true. It always ends up being one, two, three, and four seeds in the elite eight, especially the final four. So to me, the great thing about the transfer portal in NIL, the very best thing is that if it used to be that if you, you know, your program was a mess and it took you like four years, three years to kind of get it right. And it feels like you can stab your fingers, Indiana football gets the right coach, wow, they're good, wow, they're national champs. To me, you can, you can course

correct so much more quickly if you get the right coach. And it, you know, it's up to you as a university to get the right coach, which, you know, it's a 50-50 proposition. Be sure to catch live 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,

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Hey, Johnny Mansell's coming on next hour. And for years, I've said with Johnny Mansell, I just don't think, and I said it pre-draft, I didn't think he kind of had the maturity to be a franchise quarterback. I thought he was a good guy, a good time. He loved to go golfing with him, hang out with him. But in terms of like franchise quarterback, I just didn't think he was the guy, and I thought Cleveland made a big mistake. And so I had bumped into him a couple times before. I once jumped into an Uber SUV years ago in Florida, and he had just taken Johnny Mansell the previous weekend around with a girlfriend, had great Johnny Mansell stories.

And so he's a good time, no question. But last week I had Matt Hasselbeck on, and I heard a story about Johnny Mansell sort of mentoring one of the quarterbacks in this year's draft. And I'm like, eh, that's a bad idea. And Matt Hasselbeck said, I had Jeff George, who had a very turbulent relationship in the NFL. with media and teammates. He mentored me and he was fantastic

because he'd had so many chaotic moments in his career. He had all sorts of things for me, Matt Hasselbeck, to avoid in my NFL career. And so I thought, you know, that's actually a great way to flip the telescope on that. Let's get Johnny Mansell on the show. And let's talk about that. I mean, Mansell's no dummy.

He just, what, there are certain things to be a franchise quarterback that are really important and one of them is maturity. Because you're like, you're the centerpiece of it. And I was very critical of Baker Mayfield, though I thought Baker was a huge talent. I'm like, I'm not sure if Baker's mature enough.

And sure enough, he went to Cleveland, and he kind of wore out his welcome. So Mansell's going to be interesting. He's, his life story is something else. I mean, I saw a documentary a couple years ago on the Cleveland experience.

It was something else. So I've said today, Max Crosby goes to the Ravens, and then it blows up. It unravels. He doesn't pass a physical. Everybody says, the Ravens wanted to back out of this?

I don't believe that. That's internet chatter. The bottom line is you take him back. People break up all the time. Who cares? I mean, the bottom line, great player. Here is the reaction from the two newest Raiders, okay, Tyler Linderbaum and Quay Walker.

Here's their reaction on joining Max Crosby in Las Vegas. Listen to this. Love, you know, Max to be here and play with him. And I've gone against him. He's not fun to go against. You know, we have to scout him. And his just ability to lead a team is pretty special. There's so much that he can do and the intensity that he play with.

Honestly, I just love his play style. And I can't wait to play alongside him. And honestly, just to match his energy day in and day out, that's all I got to say. I think Max Crosby, his name and his play. before. So a very few guys in this league that feel like the team they play for. Max Crosby feels like a raider. Like to me, he feels like a raider. I always said this for years and years. Aaron Rogers played for the Packers. He didn't necessarily feel like a Packer. He's just good-looking L.A. guy lives in Malibu, you know, dating celebrities. I'm like, oh, he plays for

the Packers. He doesn't necessarily feel like a Packer. I mean, Tom Brady in the summers, he got out of Boston. He'd go to New York. He'd go to Europe with Giselle. And did he feel like a patriot? You know, people now in New England don't think he's loyal enough to the team he used to play for now that he's a broadcaster for Fox. Max Crosby feels like a Raider. And that has value.

Here's Tim Matt Hasselbeck earlier yesterday on Max. Max Crosby has the respect of the NFL. Players, teammates, opponents, coaches, scouts. everybody and he's not a one-trick pony a lot of these guys that come up with all these sacks they're they're great at rushing the passer they're not great against the run this dude's the real deal in every way i mean he i he's always at the top of the list tfls tackles for loss in the run game he's the real deal in the run game the past game on the field off the field and identity setter um you know he's a dog i think it's it's interesting there was a stat that um i think jason

one of our producers gave me this week uh that i thought no was ryan It's a fascinating stat. It's hard to wrap your brain around. Four of the last seven Super Bowls, no other sport is like this in the world. Four of the last seven Super Bowls have had a team in it that didn't make the playoffs the previous year. Last year, Seahawks Patriots, two for two.

Didn't make the playoffs. And I'm not saying the Raiders are going to do that, but if you look at the Raiders to, If Clint Kubiak and Fernando Mendoza are as good as I think they're going to be with Tyler Linderbaum and all these young offensive players, Colton Miller back at left tackle, I'm telling you, the Raiders, if they stay healthy through camp, see what they do. They have 11 picks in the draft. So again, they've got a first, a second, a third, a bunch of force and fifths.

I would not be surprised. They're such a young team. if they took a bunch of those fourth and fifth and sixth round picks and moved up and got more threes and went kind of top heavy on the draft. And the other thing is you could say to yourself, well, I mean, the Raiders aren't going to leap Kansas City. Right now, the Raiders roster, if Fernando Mendoza is as good as I think, it's not that far off Kansas City's roster. It may be better. You think I'm crazy.

It may be better. They don't have a pass rusher close to Max Crosby. Colton Miller is better than any offensive lineman playing tackle right now for the Chiefs. The Raiders have the better younger tight end, the better running back. They're both a little thin at wide receiver and both have issues in the secondary. Both have offensive coaches, one obviously Andy Reed. So listen, I think, Jay Mack and I agree on very little. Kansas City is interesting.

So the Chargers have a ton of cap space. They picked up another running back last night. Chargers have a ton of cap space. Denver is stacked. The Raiders have 11 picks and have had a very good offseason. I think the number one off season so far

has been the Raiders. And Kansas City is doubling down on Travis Kelsey, who again is productive and is durable. Here's Kelsey on being back next year. taking a step back, letting the emotions settle down, the frustrations from the season. Of course, I want to come back.

Of course, I don't want to end my career, not making the playoffs. It still felt like I was hungry enough to get back at it. And obviously, there's still a little bit of that gridden that emotion that, you know, I hated the way that shit ended last year. And I want to do this. I want to make it right. So the playoff teams last year in the AFC, Broncos, Patriots, Jags, Steelers, Texans, Bills, and Chargers, AFC teams that miss the playoffs for Colts, Ravens, Bingles, we tend to think they'll all be better.

I'm telling you, it's pretty log-jammed at the top. Can I ask two questions? So in this Raiders chief scenario, who are you penciling at quarterback for the Raiders? cousins or Mendoza? Mendoza eventually. Not sure day one, Mendoza eventually. And then who are you penciling at quarterback for the Colts? Because, listen, Daniel Jones coming off a major injury.

I would assume at least the first eight games he's not going to be there. I mean, maybe I'm being a little conservative. We just saw Jason Tatum return in 10 months from an Achilles. But if it's not Daniel Jones starting, are the Colts even? If you asked me to pick the seven playoff teams in the AFC, right now. Broncos, Patriots, Jags, Bills, Chargers. You need someone from that Steelers. Texans. I don't have the Chiefs in.

No, the Chiefs are definitely not in there. Probably Ravens. Probably Ravens. Let me push back a little on the Jags. So they lose E.T.N. They lose their great linebacker, who was the All-Pro, who had the pick-six of Mahomes. Name escapes me right now. But those are two significant losses.

They get Travis Hunter back at receiver. There's a lot of chatter, Brian Thomas, probably going to get shipped here in the coming week. A lot of change. Do you think Jacksonville continues? Yeah. What was a pretty damn good season? Yeah, the second year, Liam Combs said, no, I'm just looking over at playoff teams. Patriot schedule is going to be a lot more difficult.

Yeah, I mean, I think Kansas City's in a weird space. I think it's, I think the moves they made like Kenneth, Walker, they were kind of forced to make. I don't think they had a choice. It was a bad running back draft. And they, it's not like the chiefs had the Raiders 11 picks where they could move, use two or three fours and go get Jeremiah Love. They don't.

They don't have that many picks left. And they're up against the cap. And their stars are getting old. Yeah. I mean, I think Kansas City, I think Kansas City had to go get Kenneth Walker because I don't think this draft after Love provides a day one plug-eastern. play star running back. There's one in the whole draft. If you think this Chief's team is a playoff worthy, you believe Steve Spagnolo

can work magic with that defense. Colin, again, you could go position group by position group. Who are their four best, who are their five best players? Mahalms, Creed Humphrey, top. I don't think Kelsey's in there. I mean, Kenneth Walker probably has to be. Kenneth Walker's right now. Is Rissie Rice in there? Chris Jones is aging. Again, they just don't have a lot of talent. Like, it's not a knock, guys.

Look at the secondary. Look at the lineback. Nick Bolton was good a couple years ago. I don't know. It's, you get, once you pay the quarterback, you get old very fast. And so, you know, because you pay the quarterback and you want to keep people that the quarterback like Travis Kelsey is comfortable with. And Travis and Mahalms are great. Third down, red zone.

So when you have that veteran quarterback, you tend to keep people around the veteran quarterback who are expensive. offensive, familiar. That's why Seattle moving off Kenneth Walker takes some guts. I mean, you have Sam Darnold, you lose your O.C. Now you lose your running back. I mean, that's big. So, no,

this is not a, I think Kansas City is really well run, but what makes the NFL so great, you can go pathetic to playoffs in offseason. And keep your eye on the Raiders. Hey, guys, it's us. The Jonas Brothers. I'm Joe. I'm Kevin.

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