The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Herd - Hour 3 - Divisional round of the playoffs

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

Previewing the 49ers-Cowboys divisional playoff game Thoughts on Sean Payton possibly going to the Broncos   Guest: Donte WhitnerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Played for 11 years, a multiple-time Pro Bowl or a Super Bowl appearance. And the former San Francisco 49er and Bill Dante Wittner is now joining us live, doing a lot of local media now in the Bay Area and doing a great job. So, you know, we have a history. You know this. Half the guys in the League are undrafted. Antonio Gates, Hall of Fame are undrafted. Tony Romo undrafted. Kurt Warner undrafted.

You look at the Niners. Jennings, receiver, six-round pick, Kittle Five. You know this. There's players everywhere in this sport. Maybe they're undersized. They don't go to a big program. They get overlooked. They're not in an Alabama.

So when I watch Brock Purdy, Dante, my takeaway is, I don't know. That looks like he's twitchy. He's got to, I mean, I don't know. You tell me you played in this decade. Is this a guy you could build a franchise around? Do you buy into this lightning in a bottle stuff? Or what do you make of him? Well, when you look at Brock Purdy and what he provides for this 49er offense is the reason why they're ascending since the week 14,

his ability to create plays when defensive coordinators catch Kyle Shenahan in certain concepts. The ability to run the ball or play action game, but not only that, his calm and composure in the pocket. When you turn the film on on his young quarterback, it's not that he's just throwing it to where Kyle Shanahan is telling him to throw it. He's creating throwing lanes with his mannerisms, his eyes, and the understanding of who the free players are in the defense and how to attack them. And then he has the gusto to try to fit the ball in in tight coverage. I would say that Brock Curry is a combination of trail ads with the athletic ability, but more twitch, and the precision and quick release. Lisa Jimmy Garoplo. He's Kyle Shanahan's perfect quarterback match. Now, does Dallas create issues? Dallas, to me, is a pretty easy figure. If Dak throws 35 or less and he can be complimentary to a

run game, they're a tough out. You're asking Dak to throw 44 times, which they've done this year, or you get into that number, you're asking too much of him. He's more complimentary, though when he is complimentary, like against Tampa in the run game, he's a handful. So is there any matchup, though, on either side that you look at and think that's problematic for the Niners? Well, when I look at what C.D. Lamb can do for that offense and how they move him around, primarily at that number three position near the tight end. He's attacking the field. He'll sit down at five yards. He'll run through the defense. He'll run deep overs. He makes you declare what defense you're playing. And if you try to take him away, this is when they attack you on the outside with Noah Brown.

and Michael Gallup. But I think that they have to worry about Tony Pollard, creating explosives in the running game and receiving the ball out of the backfield. You know if they're going to run some screens, being that the 49ers, defensive line can sometimes get overly aggressive. Yeah.

And then I think another guy who a lot of people are not really thinking about him, have a huge game last week, is Dawton Shillers. He is starting to awaken in this offense. He can attack you vertically. He's a number one threat in the red zone. So the 49ers,

they're going to have a lot to worry about. but it also comes down to stopping a run, set the edge, getting the Cowboys into third and medium and longs, but then executing the defense when you get into those predicaments. Third down is one of the Cowboys strengths. You know, you look around, the Sean Payton rumor is the Denver thing. And I know Sean pretty well. Ownership matters a lot to him. They got new owners.

They got a lot of money. quarterback matters a lot. And it's an interesting thing. It's been well documented now, publicized that Russell can lack some self-awareness, the Bentley, the mansion. Well, Denver's offense is a bunch of kids. And Tom Brady always made a point, Dante, to connect with the young guys, the music, the tech.

He's 40. These guys are 22 years old. Is Russell Wilson, the personality stuff solvable? Did you ever, as you age, did you see? players disconnecting from the young guys because Dante, I was saying this, Denver's defense is good and they're going to pay some of these guys. The defense is going to get older.

Because of Russell's contract, the offense has to be fairly inexpensive around him. They've got to build that all line. So that offense is going to have a lot of kids on it. Do you think it's solvable for Russell to come back down to the kids and relate? Or maybe that's just not who he is?

I think it's definitely solvable. but let's look at it from this point of view. If Russell Wilson goes out and wins 10 to 12 games this year, are we talking about his marriage to Sierra or his mansion or his Bentley? I've seen multiple players on a lot of these different things in the locker room, and we've gone through losing and we've gone through winning, but as a quarterback, you're going to take the hit of it all. Playing against Russell Wilson for many years and many big games,

I know that he has all the tools and the capabilities to be a top-tier quarterback. I don't think he just fell off a cliff after last year. When you go to a new team and you're implementing yourself into a new organization, of course you have to win that locker room. But you have to know that ends and out and the intricacies of your offensive package. And it takes a lot more than one year to learn that. And when you think about what Russell Wilson did for the Seattle Seahawks, he had Marshaun Lynch around him, he had all of these weapons on the outside,

he had the lead you to boom. All he had to do was play his role. now he's been thrusted into a role and they want him to drop back, throw the ball 35, 40 times a game and be a top tier quarterback that's just slicing up defenses. I never thought that's who Russell Wilson was.

So, yeah, I think it's totally solvable. I know that Russell Wilson is going to go to work this offseason. And if you can pair him with a guy like Sean Pate, who I put it up there or even higher than Sean, I mean, Coach Shanahan, I think that they can do some special things. playing against that offense and that offensive philosophies for many years, he's going to give Russell Wilson to where he can, you know, finish his career on the right track. So you were a Buckeye, so you know Michigan football well, and you've seen the ascension with Harbaugh.

He won at both the pro and college level. You know Jim well because you were with him in the Niners. And I said, I think he's more important Dante for college football, and I love college. He's really important for the sport. these northern division teams outside of the Buckeyes, they feel like for years they fell behind the south. Jim gives you another northern power, and I love the Big Ten, and I love that kind of football. But he also won at the NFL level. You tell me, in the current NFL, players have more power.

I know it was only five or six years ago. Do you think he made the right call? I don't know if he necessarily made the right call. And you see he keeps wanting to scratch that itch. Ultimate goal in football at any level is to win in Lombardi. And when we came so close to winning Lombardi in that Super Bowl and we lost it, I know that he still had that eagerness and that thirst to capture the ultimate goal. This year he made it to the final four.

Yeah, you almost had a chance to win a national title in college, but it's nothing like the taste of victory at the NFL level. Yeah. I know that Coach Harbaugh, with, you know, his track record, with his philosophies, with the way that he plays certain mind games with the front office, the players, his coaches, his colleagues, the team. He has all the ability to get to the NFL and capture the ultimate goal, and that's to win on Lombardi.

So, yeah, I know he went back to Michigan, but I do see at some point, Coach Harbaugh going to the NFL. Yeah, I mean, they're just nothing like winning a Super Bowl. There isn't. Nothing. It's just, you are completely defined as a player, as a coach. Okay, by the way, I got about 30 seconds left. I like the Niners in a fairly low-scoring game, 27-20-ish.

Your thoughts, what do you think transpires? I don't think it's going to be a low-scoring game. When you look at the deficiencies from the Dallas Cowboys defense, it's all about stopping the run. Christian McCaffrey, having the ability to get Debo the ball in space to attack the edges of his defense on the outside. Yeah, they get some interceptions, but they do a lot against it. I'll Shanahan having those extra 36 hours to really break down this defense is going to go wonders.

I'm giving the 49ers a three touchdown advantage in this. Wow. Dante Wittner. Great seeing you, man, as always. Appreciate it. Great seeing you guys. I hope we talk soon. All right.

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Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. J-Mack with the news. No. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. Wouldn't be surprised by Niners in a row at all, given this defense and Brock Purdy. Dallas needs turnovers. Listen, if they don't create turnovers, I don't really think they have a chance in this one.

I'm still surprised Miami gave Buffalo fits last weekend. You know they sacked Josh Allen seven times? Miami. No, it's a bad old line. It's a bad old line. Five years, Sean McDermott. What if Buffalo loses? What are you?

What are you? You don't want to put McDermott on the hot seat because they're good, but they came into the season as Super Bowl favorites. They have not solved their run game or their own line with a defensive coach in five years. They still, the greatest example of this is what Greg CoSell. The tape tells you, Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs are great. They're not that talented in an offense. Why? It's a defensive culture. They have all sorts of talent, every level of defense.

Can I give you a prop bet I'm looking at this week? Josh Allen over rushing yards. McDermott, a defensive guy, is not going to let his quarterback be flinging it and lose the game. Remember, all the red zone turnovers? Josh Allen, in the high big-time games, he runs the football a lot. This is like a 70-yard rushing game for Josh Allen. At least that's my read. First up, Jags? Feeling good?

after the comeback against the Chargers. Now they have to go to KC to continue their playoff run. Trevor Lawrence spoke about the environment. He expects to face at Arrowhead on Saturday. The environment and the atmosphere we're going to play in as one of, if not the best, in the NFL. I mean, I can't imagine it would be much louder than our fans were here on Saturday, honestly,

but that was when we were on defense, not offense. So we played there earlier in the year, but this is a little bit different. It's a playoff game, division, around. So the stakes are higher. expect them to be even crazier and more packed stadium. But, I mean, at the end of the day, you just got to go play and you got to make sure you communicate. That's the one thing. We've got to get in and out of the huddle.

We've got to get the line of scrimmage so we have time to communicate because everything naturally takes a little longer when it's loud. Everybody got worked up over that. Did he just prepare Jacksonville to Arrowhead? Well, Herbert's beaten Mahomes twice in Arrowhead. Bengals beat him there last year in the ASC championship. Josh Allen has. Let's not pretend Kansas City fans. are amazing. Homefield's about a point and a half.

They're doing, Washington Post had a great article on this. Homefield's no longer three and a half, four. The game has changed. Players now are basically treated almost better on the road between the stretching and the heat therapy, whatever they do. I mean, I was reading the article in the Washington Post. I'm like, they set up basically, you know, like a camp inside of a hotel on the road. These players are treated like royalty. The planes are bigger. They're, they're, they're, they're,

hydrated better than ever before. Roads not that big of a deal. Remember when the Vikings had a huge home field advantage? It was all big. Remember that? The dome, it gets loud. It's raucous. Daniel Jones went in there and won the game.

Like, no problems. Daniel Jones tore up Minnesota there twice. Twice. Daniel Jones. Yeah. It's just home fields. It's great. Probably worth a point. I would rather have it than not.

Oh, yeah, certainly. If you go to the history of the Giants, I always feel like they're a better road playoff team than home. The numbers probably don't back that up. Eli, I mean, Eli wasn't, one year, Eli had to go, and I remember with Plax had to go to Lambo. They had great, they had to go, I think they had three roadies. Yeah, the road games. I have some numbers on some interesting road games.

I'll save them for tomorrow for the gamblers out there. Next up, Pittsburgh Steelers. Kenny Pickett, not sure he's thrilled about this, but OC, Matt Canada, he will be back next season. He's been the OEC for the last two years. The offense, well, Colin, it's not been good. They rank near the bottom of the league in points, yards, big plays, with Matt Canada calling the shots. He loves, Matt Canada loves nothing more than a first-in-10 dive into the line of scrimmage. Najee Harris up the middle from.

Another defensive coach can't figure out the O-line. Yeah, here are the numbers. Is this inspiring? Now, now, with a defensive coach, so McDermott and Tomlin can't figure out the O-lines and the consistent run games. They also, however, don't sense the urgency with it. Well, Pittsburgh had a. great offensive line. They aged out. Remember everybody got old quickly. It's been four years. They've been

trying to rebuild it. And they had lost that great offensive line coach. I'm spacing on his name now. But Pittsburgh has to figure that out. They got a quarterback on a rookie deal. This is a summer to spend. Do you think it's a coincidence that many of the worst old lines in the league, let's think about it right now. Chicago

defensive coach. Pittsburgh struggling, Buffalo struggling, Houston struggling. Now, I can't blame Lovie. He just got there an hour ago and got fired. But it is for the record, when Mike McDaniel got the Miami job. Now, they had some injuries this year, once one of the first things he wanted.

The offensive coaches, now the Rams had a battle line this year due to injuries, but I'm concerned about the lack of urgency by Pittsburgh. They're okay with this. It's four years now. By the way, you see how quickly Andy Reid rebuilt that offensive line after the Super Bowl disaster? A year. One year. Buffalo's on year four.

Pittsburgh year. We're at the point in the draft where you've just got to gobble up linemen. I mean, hell, if the Chargers had any offensive line depth, they might have been a better team this year. Next up, oh boy. LeBron continued his hot streak. 32 points last night. Great performance, but it wasn't enough to get over the Sacramento Kings. Lakers lost their third game in the past week by a combined 10 points.

Yeah, they lose close. Well, they don't have any shooters, and their half-court offense, if Westbrook's on the floor is not great. Their closing lineup includes like Troy Brown. Yeah. And was that Thomas Bryan I saw running the floor? In the NFL, we always talk about it. It's like baseball. You got to have some home run power on your offense.

You got to have not everything can be a seven-double-three single rally. You need guys that can Aaron Judge can jack it, right? You need power. In football, not every, New England, not every touchdown drive can be 13 plays. You need cheap touchdowns. NBA. Lakers just don't have any spot-up shooters. They got to work very much.

Work so hard for points. There is something to be said about, like, warriors can get to 126 and not play well. Yeah. So LeBron, still unhappy, as he should be, given this roster that they're trotting out there. Here's what he said after the loss. We're definitely a ball club that has, we have zero room for error. And tonight, although we played a pretty good game. I mean, we only had, once a game, we only had seven turnovers.

That's nine turnovers in two games. that is amazing. But we don't have much room for error. You know, we are limited with bodies. We're playing. We play pretty much, you know, almost everybody tonight, just, you know, just getting ready while I look. And so, you know, until some of our big guys, our key guys, get back and, you know, there's been a problem for us this year with 80 and with 80 and AR and and Lonnie, guys who are huge in our rotation, you know, we have to continue to play how we play the last couple games trying to play a mistake-free basketball. Get no freebies, no spot-up shooters.

Colin, Max Christie played 27 minutes last night. Now, he was solid. But they picked up Patrick Beverly in the offseason, and he has been a train wreck. An abject failure minus 16 last night. Defense is his calling card, and he's getting lit up. He can't shoot. We know he's on our offensive threat.

This front office gave you Westbrook and Patrick Verbeck. Well, LeBron allegedly. Well, allegedly. Leading the charge for Westwood. I'm a journalist. I need proof of that. Despite being 20 and 25, let me just remind everybody who's so down on the Lakers, just reminding everybody, currently, they are a whopping two and a half gains out of the six seat. That's it. Two and a half out. They're going to be fine.

Oh, by the way, the Suns. Well, AD's coming back. Hey, AD's coming back. Lonnie Walker, Austin Reeves. Lonnie Walker's not terrible. He's good. Yeah, I thought he was a third best player. But I just want to remind people, Phoenix Suns are cratering.

No, we're not talking about it. But Chris Paul's falling off a cliff. Devin Booker's hurt. Like, there's stuff happening in the West. You know what they are? The sons are the, remember that Sacramento Kings team that had about, Rick Adelman was coached. They had about a three-year window. Weber.

It was Fantii. Bibiot's on that team? Right, right, right. And then, was Vladia Divots on that team? That might have been, I don't know. So for about three years, we thought they were going to unseed Shaq and Kobe. And they came close. Well, they came close.

And there was some bad officiated game, and then in game seven, they got beat. But their window closed like it felt like overnight. I feel like the, sons had this two to three year window, and now all of a sudden, Aiton and the coach, and Chris Paul's aging, and it's just closed. And now like Denver's just, Denver's better. I'll just read off the top three teams in the West right now, Colin. Let me guess. Denver, Memphis, Pelicans. Pelicans are tied with Sacramento. So Denver, Memphis, Sacramento, New Orleans are the top four teams in the West. Now, if you are an NBA TV partner, you might be a little

So you'd think the Warriors are going to win this thing? The top three favorites. Those are a bunch of kids. To win the NBA finals are all in the East. But that's a mistake. Philadelphia is not winning anything. They're not one of the top three. It's nets.

Nets aren't going to do anything in the playoffs. That team is not built for the playoffs. When you play a seven-game series and you can find a weakness and just burrow into it, attack Kyrie, put Simmons at the line, and force, to defend every time down the floor. And Durant's amazing. That team is built for the regular season. But when Boston or Milwaukee faces Brooklyn,

they're going to go after Kyrie, they're going to force Durant to defend, and they're going to put Ben Simmons on the line. It's over. That team's going to get beat fast by the Sixers, the Celtics, the box. It's funny. You mentioned Memphis.

You know who their second best player is after John Morant? That's a tough part. Desmond Bain is their second best player. He played in the Big 12, 21 points a game. Great shooter. But, like, that's how obscure Memphis is. Like, fans, it's going to be a tough, tough NBA playoff sell if that's the top of the West. And I love the NBA, as do you.

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I don't know who I'm taking. This is a tough one, Colin. Everything to me points to Eagles as they've gotten healthier. Yeah. But Brian. day bowl in rematches this year. Four and no against the spread. He makes great adjustments.

And that kind of dovetails into what we may talk about now. I don't know. What we were talking about, you know, you do lists and you rank. So there's eight coaches left. So seven are offensive coaches. So if you said who rank the eight coaches left, Andy Reid's one. After that, it gets very tough. Well, I think Kyle Shanahan, I think the greatest compliment you can give a coach

is when he creates a system. Bill Walsh, West Coast offense. Shanahan has his own system. If you talk to coaches, like Sean Payton will tell you this, Shanahan does an amazing job to find extra blockers on every play. Like their plays, you can watch them as a viewer. They look beautifully scripted. Like certain teams, just dial up plays. Like the Niners, you can see the fluidity of the blocking and the extra blockers.

You're like, so I would go Shanahan too. It's funny about this. So we do this. Somebody gets a reputation. So people would go, Brian Daible. What do we do with Doug Peterson? He does have a Super Bowl win. With Nick Folles out-coached Belichick in one year turned a losing franchise into a

playoff winning franchise. Doug Peterson's a great example. So he was an assistant longer. He wasn't one of these hot shot guys. So middle age gets a fill. Philadelphia job, wins with Nick Fools, then struggles with the owner and the GM and they fire him.

So the, okay, sits on the beach for like two years. You're like, weird, goes to Jacksonville, a complete cultural mess, and turns it around in eight weeks. So I would put him third. Doug

Peterson. I guess I don't hate that, but what about McCarthy? Yesterday you did the McCarthy next to all these other legendary coaches. Dallas is back-to-back double-dig-win seasons? Like, he's been incredible. No, you've got no argument from me. So I go Peterson 3, McCarthy 4, then Daibals only got one year on the resume.

It's been excellent. It's been amazing. And as an offensive coordinator, he was outstanding. So I don't have a ton to work with. So I would do Daibol 5. Bengel's fans are like, wait a minute, where is our guy? Well, again, Sean McDermick, Zach Taylor, Nick Seriani. I go back on Sean McDermott.

I've seen this exact thing four years in a row. The mistakes are worse. O-line can't get solved. Run game, they bail on it. Is he eight? No, I think I don't have enough on Siriani yet. So I think Zach and Nick- Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't have enough on Siriani.

They went from like, we don't know what we're doing a quarterback with Carson Wentz to the playoffs last year to number one seed this year and you don't have enough on him? I think he's got to be above Mr. Taylor in Cincinnati. who went to the Super Bowl last year. But was that Taylor or Burrow? Both? He gets no credit? Both? He gets no credit?

Which coach do you hear more about? Taylor or the defensive coordinator all season in Cincinnati? Yeah, yeah. Zach gets no credit. Seriani gets all of it. Well, is it Taylor hurts? It's a tough one. Very difficult.

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