The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Herd - Hour 3 - Building a championship team

Episode Date: July 11, 2023

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Okay, so let's start with this. So we've been on this today is that Justin Jefferson, who has an argument as the best receiver in the league. No question. He's, I mean, I love Jemar Chase. I don't think he's as good as Justin Jefferson. No question. Devonte Adams is great. Is he Justin Jefferson?

So he's great. So he was asked the name as five favorite quarterback. And he did not put Kirk in the list. Does that bother you? Should he have? No, absolutely not. When you talk about the special quarterbacks in the National Football League, the special throwers of the football, the National Football League, Kurt Cousins is not top five.

And it's no, it's no knock that you are my quarterback on my team. Like, hey, I think you are a really good quarterback, but you are not in this class of quarterbacks that he put on his list. And even other quarterbacks, he left off his list. So I don't mind this by Justin Jefferson at all. It's not a shot at their relationship. It's not a shot at Kurt Cousins. It's just that these dudes right here are different.

You are not different like these dudes right here, period. Do you think it would bother him a little that Aaron's on it, and Kirk just had a better year than Aaron? It's a lot of, especially him being a young player, right? A lot of us has watched Aaron Rogers for a very long time. All these quarterbacks that come out of college, the Patrick Mahomes, the Herbert's, all these dudes that come out, the Joe Burroughs, arm talent-wise, who they compare to, Aaron Rogers.

So Justin Jefferson has seen Aaron Rogers spinning his ball over the yard, being in the division with Aaron Rogers, Aaron Rogers winning MVP. He's titting on that sideline like, man, I wish I was Devante Adams because 12 could spend it. So I'm not surprised at all that Aaron Rogers is on this list because he knows and watching him that Aaron spins the ball with the best of them. Okay, so Joe Burrow talked about,

Joe Burrow came out and said, hey, man, I'm close with Jamar Chase, T. Higgins. I don't think you can be a great team unless you have great chemistry with your teammates. And one of my knocks I always had on Big Ben was I mean, I don't think he was close to any of his receivers. Now, Antonio Brown was a little toxic, but sometimes you have to make stuff work. Yeah. Right, you've got to make it work.

But I don't think he had a tight relationship with a lot of these guys. He didn't. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. I've heard plenty of stories, you know, coming out of Pittsburgh that, you know, guys wouldn't even sit at the same table and have some lunch with Big Ben. You know what I mean? He wasn't a type teammate like that that you wanted to be around, you know, receivers and other people on the team.

So, you know, off the field relationships, he did not have that with his receivers. Do you think it hurts? I do because, number one, the chemistry that you build off the field translates on the field, you know, and even the unselfishness, you know, like you hear the stuff coming out of Buffalo, right? So now you got Josh Allen and, you know, Stefan Diggs and, you know, now you could, I got to force him to football and things like that. To know that you have receivers over there that, you know, we have a really good relationship. They're not. worrying if I throw to T. Higgins. He ain't worried if I throw to Jamar Chase. We got really good chemistry, you know, off the field. I think that all that stuff matters. You know, the best

football teams that I've been on is not the most talented football teams. The best football teams that I've been on are the closest football teams. Wow. You know, and the closest football teams that I was won, we went really far. We lost 18 starters the year we won a Super Bowl, but we were extremely close. We weren't the most talented football team. You and Jordie Nelson were both on that team. Exactly. Young players. By the way, I could argue in Aaron's career. You two were the closest he's ever been to a receiver. 100%.

And you can add Randall Cobb in there. Okay. So by the way, I remember that year, you guys were, and you were losing but losing close or winning close. And then all of a sudden you got healthy at the end. Amon Green started to emerge and you just rolled through people. Yeah, James Starks came along and we had to win our last two games. Was it James Starks and not Amon Green?

Maybe I'm wrong on that. James Starks came in there and he started rolling. He was healthy. So we had a little bit of run game. We had to win our last two games to get in, but it was an extremely close football team. So let's go back to Aaron on this. Did you have a close relationship the first week? How did it develop?

Well, me and Aaron Rogers hit it off from day one. You know, when I first came in there, Brett Farr was a starting quarterback, right, in 07. So, you know, I came in there. I didn't just jump in there with the ones. You know, it was Greg Jennings and Donald Driver in there with the ones. Robert Ferguson was the number three receiver at the time. You were out of San Jose State. Yep.

So my whole time in training camp, I was out there with Aaron. You know, and me and Aaron was going to work in training camp. And it's crazy because it's a funny story because before the first preseason game, the coach said, James, you're starting for Robert Ferguson, you're the number three receiver. You're going with Brett. And I said, no, I'm not. I told my receiver coach straight out there on the field. I am not going in there with Brett Farv.

I've been out here in training camp on Aaron Rogers. Me and Aaron Rogers have ate lunch. We have built a relationship off the field. We have built chemistry, you know, in training camp. I'm going with Aaron. I got to show the world what I got. Brett Farv don't know. me, he's not going to throw the ball to me. He's been building chemistry with Greg, Donald,

Robert, I'm not going in there with him. How about that? You know, and he was like, well, you're going, whether you like it or not. And I said, well, at least don't take me out after the starters get out. Leave me in there so I could play with Aaron. And he left me in there so I could play with Aaron and me and Aaron had a pretty good preseason. But again, you had a relationship. We had a relationship. Aaron trusted you. That matters. Because you got to understand a lot of these conversations that you're having off the field, they show up in games.

It's been plenty of times where Aaron is on the field with me and he was like, JJ, remember, hey, at the lunch table when we was talking about the en route, this is how I want you to run that. You're like, that stuff matters whether people want to see it or not or I want to understand or not. That stuff matters. You know what I'm saying? Edelman, Gronk Brady, tight.

Kelsey Mahomes, tight, Dallas Clark Peyton Manning. Last year, Cooper Cup and Stafford, I heard they immediately hit it off. And, I mean, it was so crazy. Like, we would talk about stuff sitting down at lunch about just even if he looked at me a certain way. Like what? Like, JJ, if I double look at you, this is the route every time. So if he get up there and he say, green 18, green 18, I know exactly. Okay, he won't hitching go.

You know what I'm saying? But that type stuff is not just stuff that you just. That stuff at lunch. That's it. And that matters. That's a good trick. Jemak, if I look at you twice, that means you're okay to talk about the jazz. So if I give you that twice there.

There it is. I love those inside things. Okay, so I think Anthony Richardson didn't play much in college. What he is is a remarkable athlete. He's not going to be brilliant year one at the line of scrimmage. Oh, you got to go through it with him, yeah. So my thing is what he's great at, he can be great at now. Yeah.

Now, if he was Jared Goff or C.J. Jared Goff, not a mover. If Goff's not good at the. the pocket, he's in trouble. Big trouble. Right. But Anthony, what he's gifted at, he's gifted it now. Let him be gifted.

That's it. If he ever becomes a master, like Mahomes admitted year three, everything slowed down on the pocket. Kenny Pickett was choppy early, and he started for three or four years in college. So Anthony's going to be, it's not going to be beautiful to line of scrimmage all the time, but he can run. No doubt. I would play him day one.

100%. I'm putting him out there day one. let him go through the growing pains. But you just got to make it simple for him. I think the best example I could give you is how Pete Carroll handled Russell Wilson. When Russell Wilson first hit the scene, it was, hey, young fella. Hey, it's boom, boom, one two. Or move.

Or get out of there and create and do what you do. That's the same thing for Richardson, right? It is one, two, right? Right now until we grow, until we expand the offense for you, until you get more comfortable in this game because it's moving extremely fast, coverages is moving extremely fast. It's one, two, and then you be Anthony Richardson. You create.

Whether that's getting outside the pocket, throwing the football, or whether that's running the football, you be you, pick up some first downs at your legs to keep this drive going. But do not force the football into no-tight windows, trying to make a special throw. Be you, get out of the pocket and make it. You know, I was talking about this about Victor Wimbunyamba, that he'll be so disruptive defensively because of his size

that even if he's not polished offensively, He'll be so valuable with the defense. It'll allow him two years to get the offense right. Whereas like Yokic wasn't a great defender. So he didn't matter much when he wasn't defined offensively. I look at running quarterbacks. That's why I'm kind of out on the pure pocket guy. Caleb Williams, USC will go to the NFL.

He's going to be lost. But if you can run for first downs for about two years as you figure out the phone book. No doubt. And that, to me, Anthony Richardson, isn't that going to be great at the line? He started 13 games. Let him run and move.

He's a fascinating player. Yeah, and it should be, they should have, in this offense, they should have a bunch of plays where he's on the move. I mean, he should be used, you know, pre-snap, he should be used just like Jalen Hertz is used,

right? You got to account for his legs in the read option, and then you come off with some plays off the read option. And like I said, if one or two is not there, you take off and running, right? But even in the National Football League, you don't have to be Lamar Jackson. You don't have to be Jalen Hertz, right?

Patrick Mahomes is not a fast, scrambling quarterback. But he knows when to run. Twice a game. Same thing with Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson is not Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hertz, or these guys, Justin Fields running the football, but he knows when to choose to run to pick up yards. and he's been doing that since he was a young player.

So that's the same thing for Richardson. Even in practice, I want you to get out of this pocket. I want you to step up in this pocket and use your legs. I want you to get comfortable to not forcing the football and picking up first downs with your legs because it is going to be hard for the defense to account for you. James Jones, Super Bowl champion. He's on, I see him on Craig Cartner and you.

You're on that show all the time. And you're on the guys after us sometimes. He's on our show regularly. He brings the heat. You do. He preps and he brings the heat. Great, seniors, always, my hand. Appreciate it, my man. Thanks for having me. You bet.

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This is the herd line news. So this video just emerged this morning. So Anthony Davis is now working on some new techniques, Colin. Look at him. He's in the boxing ring, looking very clunky. Well, the guy he's fighting is 5-8. Yeah, that doesn't make a lot of sense why he would be matched up against someone like that. Put him in there with Tyson Fury or someone.

So, I don't know, AD says he's working on... I kind of like it. I like it. A couple things. My only concern would be he's throwing a lot of punches with that right hand. The last thing you need is this brittle guy who's made of glass to mess up his shoulder. I've got to be honest with you. I like this for Anthony Davis.

Have you ever done... a boxing class? No. I like this. I respect this. So I've done boxing. I've done Krav Maga. I'm just saying some of these things are

incredible cardio workouts. Now, Anthony, though, because he's 6-11, he just looks a little awkward there. The footwork. I don't know. It looks pretty good to me. That footwork is horrible. Come on.

Come on now. Footwork is horrible. It is. You haven't taken a boxing class. Yeah, here's Mr. Sweet Science over here. I never said. Look at his jab.

Oh, look at the that right cross. Boxing on the internet if you care to check those out. Anthony Davis is way better at this than I would have guessed. Total respect to Anthony Davis. Definitely. I don't know. You don't like his...

You're asking him to be Ali. He's a basketball star. I'm asking him to be a Vanderholyfield. Not quite Ali. Is that a big... I'm just kidding, obviously. I'd really like this. I don't know why.

I think I have a lot of respect for Anthony. I want to go. For climbing in the ring without headgear because your opponent's not throwing punches. Yeah, definitely. Certainly, certainly. All right, let's go to the next story. Patriots and Titans have been frontrunners for D'Andre Hopkins, but how about this? The bills have expressed interest in Hopkins if he lowers his asking price. Buffalo does not want to pay him big money, but they would find a spot for him if he wanted to ring chase.

Well, how's Stefan Diggs going to like that? Now, now, that's interesting. If you move off Diggs, you're not moving off Diggs for Hopkins. No way. Diggs is like 140 a year target. guy. They're throwing a billion passes his way. Hopkins can't handle that. I'm just saying if you move Diggs got Hopkins. As you move Diggs, you got like a number three receiver who could give you 35 catches. Hopkins gives you 65 and then you get an unhappy player out of the building. Stefan's got real value. Like he's in his prime and he's a dominant player. So what would you say the

chance of moving off Diggs are like 1% or zero? Well, if they didn't have any dead cap money, I think they'd be more willing to do it. I think the reality is Hopkins is just not being realistic about his options right now. He really thinks he's getting some Odell Beckham type deal. Do you think he's a one? No. He's not right now. He's not. In his career, sure. But not right now. Do you think right now in his career he's a two? He's worse than he? I think he's a two and a half of three. I mean, it'd be great on like the Titans who don't have a one. He can emerge as your best receiver while Burks, the young kid out of, I think, Arkansas, kind of, you know, lures the ropes.

But, um, again, we're looking at a guy who's at, what is this, three or four weeks that Hopkins has been out there, Colin. He's being choosy. Oh, yeah. Sure he is. Final story. Vlad Guerrero Jr.

Won the home run derby last night. How about that? His first time back in the derby since his rookie year in 2019, he said his family pushed him to participate again. His father, of course, Vlad Sr., the great, I loved how Vlad Sr. batted with no batting gloves. Do you remember that?

Oh, yeah. I love watching him. Glad Guerrero was great. He won it in 2007. First father's son duo to win the home run derby. Of course, the All-Star game is tonight. Did you see that crowd in Seattle? Was it massive?

Yeah. I mean, Seattle loves their baseball. They haven't been rewarded very often. But it's one of the nicer stadiums. They have a great bar in center field. You can have some craft beers out there from Seattle, watch the Mariners. not a craft beer guy. Yeah, I don't mind the craft beer. Stop it. You're vodka tonic. Every time I've gone out with you, it's been a mixed drink. No, a new me. I've changed up. Oh, right, yeah, right.

No, I'm going to beers. So instead of watching this last night, I played tennis. Yeah, sport you have given up on. Remember we played that one time? Yeah, gave up. Why? It's a great workout. Yeah, you know what else is? Getting on the treadmill, doing some lifting. So boring. Well, you know what? I'm boring. I don't need entertainment with my workout. Forty-five minutes, sweat. I don't need to be entertained. Are you doing that uphill thing? I've read the new uphill on the treadmill is apparently amazing. Yeah, I go. I start at eight. I do it in like nine minute intervals. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, eleven, five. And then I go down about six for a minute and a half and I'm done. So are you calling people and watching TV during this? I have my TV on. Sometimes I

put fubo on. So like, yeah, a couple days ago when I did it, I had the United States men's national team on and I was watching Wembe. So I was watching NBA Summer League. How many TVs you got in that in that room where you're just watching. I got a lot of TVs. And I always use my phone. I always use Fubo. Fubo TV is good. I'm aware. So I can carry it, you know, carry it around all the time. Pretty cool. I'll be honest about that. J-Mack with the news.

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This is a place for Raw, Untax. filtered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated. One week, I'll take you behind the scenes of the biggest moments in sports and entertainment, and the next we'll talk about life, mental health, purpose, and even music. The Clifford Show isn't just a podcast. It's a space for honest conversations, stories that don't always get told, and for people who are chasing something bigger. So, if you've ever supported me, or you're just chasing down a dream, this is right where you need to be. Listen to the Clifford show on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

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Glorious. You need to watch. It's the only All-Star game that's worth anything. So the NBA Board of Governors is voting on some possible rule changes today. These are actual possible rule changes. So we're going to play Ruler Fool. And J-Mack is going to read me a selection. I'll say, if it's it real or it's just trying to fool me. I've gone through all these.

Some of them are hysterical. And you can't look at me. because I'm going to be, I can't hold back laughter in this game. Let's start with an easy one. Official NBA socks cannot extend higher than a player's knee. That's a rule. No, it's not a rule, college. Well, I mean baseball, socks, NFL, baseball.

We're talking basketball, buddy. Come on. Are really uptight. All European players are required to be paid in U.S. dollars currency. That's a rule. You can throw out Bitcoin and you can throw out European. Oh, dear, this is going to be a tough segment. Next up, a player cannot hold any direct or indirect interest in the ownership of any NBA team.

That's a rule. That's correct. Well done. Nice a job. All right, here we go. In the event where a referee's whistle becomes inoperable, the sound of the whistle shall be verbally provided by the referee. So he's going to go wee!

That's false. That's false. That can't be true. Okay. A team can initiate a maximum of five pump fakes per possession. Failure. That's stupid. That's fake.

That's fake. I can't get through some of these. All right. Like a referee would call it. Was that five or six pump fes? Wait. All right. A ball may be bounced directly off the ground and into the basket for a field goal. Yeah, I mean, it could happen once a season. You would count that. That's a real world. There you go. Nicely done.

Next up, official NBA basketballs prior to the game shall be inspected and weighed using an official pick and roll scale. What is a pick and roll scale? That's nonsense. That's false. If you look closely, yeah, pick and roll. You see what they did there? Yeah, I know who wrote these. He's a genius. I can see with my radar vision. That was fake. All NBA floor sweepers are required to complete the league's two-year degree in custodial arts.

That's false. That's stupid. It's a bunch of 19-year-old kids. Correct. All players are prohibited to wearing their team headbands upside down. Now, time out for one second. Yes. Leagues get really uptight about headbands and anything with a logo on it.

I'm going to say it's fake. No, it's real. Can't wear the headband upside down. Yeah, they get a little upside. Yeah, no, that's a good read. See, that's why I thought the socks thing. I mean, seriously, the NFL is like really uptight on socks. Way too uptight.

Way too uptight. All right. Next up, an owner may not engage with opposing players on social media during home team possessions. An owner on home team possessions. So you can do it on. That's fake. That's not even a good attempt at fooling me. It slowed you down.

All NBA courts must be composed of at least 80% maple hardwood and no more than 20% various soft woods. Like balsa? I think this is fake. Correct. Softwoods. I don't even know what a soft. Balsa is a soft wood, right? Okay, sure.

Next up. The public address. operator is required to announce that there are two minutes remaining in each period. I don't think that. Yeah, in the first quarter, you have to announce it. The public address announcer has to announce in the first quarter. There's two minutes left in the first quarter. Who cares? False. Go to a Laker game. The guy has a great voice. Two minutes, two minutes, all the time. Yeah, it's real. All right. A timeout can be granted only at the time of the request, and a timeout wish is granted after each successful swish.

That's false. It was so bad I couldn't figure out if it was trying to trick me. All right. Next up, team possession ends when the ball goes out of bounds. The spirits are successfully cast out. The opponent gains possession. Okay, it's false. Yes, correct.

All right, next up, home arenas are required to have a spare backboard. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you got that. Bingo. So, the ball becomes dead once an official blows their whistle or gestures by tracing their fingers across the front of their neck. You're not supposed to do that move. Nobody is. That's false.

That's like a no-no, isn't it? Yeah, you'll get a technical for that, I'm pretty sure. And finally, the designated team captain is the only player who may ask an official about a rule interpretation during a timeout. That seems false. Only the captain can talk. They had that rule of my men's league. One of our guys got a technical, and I had to go up and talk to the referee. That's real.

And the NBA. That's in like any sport, dude. You think they want to be hearing from the whole sideline? Well, I mean, the NBA players never stop barking at the refs. That is also true. Luca Donchich. Every possession. Yeah, I went to the Mavs-Lakers game, and I swear, every other time up and down the court,

he's saying something to the ref. It was a little bit much. but by the way that's a fun game this true or false stuff yeah it's tough yeah the maple hardwood yeah 20% balsa question i didn't know you know about balsa wood wow you're just so you're like a renaissance man over here you know so much about so many things yeah except rules in sports no the uh so i guess you're right when you go to an NBA game two minutes yeah that's a real thing two minutes yeah you're right your favorite topic today seemed to be the kirk cousins top five list. Okay, so they show up at camp here in two weeks. Justin Jefferson walks in. Kirk Cousins is there.

Do you think Cousins says anything, like a joke, some levity? There will be a reference to it at some point. Somebody's going to bring it up in the locker room. Maybe the media. I don't think it's a, I don't think it would be a big deal. I don't think that. I mean, the Aaron Rogers thing is interesting because last year, Kirk had statistically a better year. I think they beat him both times. Detroit beat the Packers both times. Kurt, Kirk outstatted Aaron Rogers. I mean, you look at pro football focus.

Kirk Cousins was better quarterback. Football outsiders, Kirk Cousins was better than Rogers. Again, I'm a Rogers guy for the Jets, but last year he was not good. Well, some of that, a large percentage of that was his unwillingness to work in camp with two rookie wide receivers. And there was a bit of a hand injury. A little bit. But I thought post- Thanksgiving, Green Bay and Aaron was pretty good.

I don't have the numbers, but I thought he was a better quarterback post Thanksgiving. I just think he was trying to figure. I remember the first game of the year against Minnesota. He went deep to Christian Watson down the right sideline. He dropped it and then kind of ghosted him. Wasn't that like the first possession of the game? Yeah, he went over the top. So Watson had a very good last.

He's a playmaker. We'll see how it goes with Jordan Love. He looks like a one. He looks like a one. We'll see. We'll see. All right. Speak for yourselves next.

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