The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Herd-HOUR-3-NFL week 1

Episode Date: September 14, 2020

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Find your local station for the Hurt at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHart Radio app by searching Hurd. Fox Sports Radio. Well, I've said this before. I've learned more football from Jimmy Johnson than anybody I've ever worked with. He's just one of my favorite people. And I love the fact that he's still on the show. He's down in the Keys.

And he was one of the great college football coaches, won a couple of Super Bowls in the NFL. And he is just one of the reasons I like working on the weekends. I can talk to Jimmy. And I just pepper him with questions. And he's always got thoughtful answers. And he is joining us live. A Hall of Famer now, richly deserved.

We complain about it for years. We didn't understand why he wasn't in. Now he is. He's joining me down in the Keys via the Coward Global Satellite Network. So let's start with this. So no preseason. And everybody like me can come out and criticize Mike McCarthy. And I don't think they look very multiple on offense.

And then part of me thinks, well, settle down here. How good can they be? What are the expectations? When you watched the Cowboys offense, which struggled in the second half, what's the problem? Where's the blame? Am I being too harsh saying they're just too vanilla? I think you're right on as far as not.

having a preseason, not having the offseason, not being able to implement some of the things that McCarthy can bring. The one thing, they are a very talented roster. Prescott is a very good quarterback. The more I evaluate Prescott, more it reminds me of a quarterback that I used to have when I was at University of Miami. I had Bernie Cozhar and Vinnie Tessoverte at the same time. And people wanted me to compare the two, Testaverdi or Cozhar.

Testi Verde, big, strong, could run like a deer, had a rocket bullet arm, could scramble, could run, could do it all. But the offense had to be precision for him. It had to be take the step, throw it here, throw it here, look, read the safety, throw it here, or throw it here. That's it. Cozar, you could throw him out there with a bunch of rag knots on the sandlot. And he was going to make plays. You know, I mean, he just made plays. In some ways, not as talented and not as good, obviously, but in some ways like Aaron Rogers,

can just make plays, you know, throw off your back foot, sling it underarm, you do all these different things. And I think Prescott's a lot like Testaverti. You have to have a very precise offense to be successful. But as far as letting him go and just drop back and read the field and make a lot of decisions, that's not his game. So McCarthy, I'm sure, will implement some of his stuff in time. But they are at their best.

You know, when they are taking the lead, pounding the football, rushing the passer. but playing from behind or even in a tight game is not their game. By the way, you're a fan of McVeigh. Last night, your interpretation. I like golf more than people do. But I think McVeigh is a pretty special guy. What do you see as a Hall of Fame coach with McVeigh? I thought he did a masterful job last night,

knowing that they've got the pass rushers, knowing that he did not want to take the negative play. you know, and the negative play, the interceptions are the sacks. So he ran the ball, he ran the ball. At times it was boring he was running the ball. When he wasn't running the ball, it was play action, dump it over in the flat. Very rarely did he have to go down the field. Yeah.

He did a great, great job there. Hey, and they played coverage against those receivers and were able to rush the passer. He did a great job, kept it tight, and then, of course, one at the end. So Bruce Ariens very, very much, he did. very critical of Tom Brady. And, you know, Tom's been around the block. Your thoughts, even though it was our first game together, were you often publicly critical of a quarterback?

Are you okay with that? I probably was at times I shouldn't have. It should have been a one-on-one conversation. So it's hard. I mean, anytime you call out one of your players publicly, especially a quarterback with their egos. You're going to cause some tension there. And I think it's tension that you don't really need.

But sometimes all of us, you know, the reporters asking questions, you know, right off the cuff, you want to give them the right answer. A lot of times you shouldn't give them the right answer. Belichick's got it best, you know, owned to Cincinnati. And so, yeah, I don't think it's good to publicly criticize you. your quarterback. Yeah. You know, I tried to consider the circumstances with Joe Burrow. I thought it looked pretty darn good. I thought that last drive, his feet were good. You could go back to Aitman, compare. Like, even when you were losing with Troy early, there were probably things you

saw that you liked, and you knew deep down, I just got to get him better players. What did you make a Burroughs debut? I thought he did a great job. You know, first time, you know, right out of college, you know, with no preseason, you know, no offseason work. I thought he did a great job. He put him in a position to win against a decent, not great, decent football team. And so, you know, he was able to tuck the ball down, run, actually got the score that way. He's going to be good. And, you know, Norv Turner worked him out when they were getting ready for the draft.

And he said, hey, this guy's got it all. He loved the guy. I think he will get better, better. It's almost like the conversation I had with Troy Aikman, his second year. I said, you know, if Troy hadn't hurt his shoulder, we would have made the playoffs the second year. And I grabbed him in practice one day. I said, Troy, I said, I tried to get you in the Pro Bowl, but it didn't work. I'm sorry.

He said, coach, don't worry about it. I'll get plenty of Pro Bowls. You just keep surrounding me with good players and we'll be fine. And that's the same thing for Burrell. If he gets enough good players around him, he'll be fine. You know, it's interesting. Baker Mayfield plays Burrow on Thursday. And Cleveland's got better players right now.

And Baker's on his fourth head coach. One of them interim, you know, three head coaches. And I watched him yesterday. And, you know, I've been critical of the kids. So, you know, my word doesn't carry a lot of weight anymore because I've been so critical of him. But, God, we're on a fourth head coach. He still is hot and cold.

accuracy. He and OBJ doesn't work. I still think he thinks he's a little more athletic than he is. At some point, Jimmy, as a staff as an organization, you're either in or you cut bait. Where do you think, I mean, is there going to be a point this year with Baker if it's the same stuff that you have to go sit to the owner and say, we got to, we got the wrong guy. It's not going to work. Yeah, I think you've just got to scale him back and do what he does best. I mean, that organization is so just here, there and everywhere. They've got some talented players, some that probably got more talent than they've got since. But there's something wrong there. It's been something wrong there for quite some time.

Yeah. You know, I watched Minnesota in Green Bay yesterday, and it's funny about it. this. So when I watch Arizona with Kyler Murray, I mean, Jimmy, they let him throw 40 times. The coaching staff, they're really handing the playbook to him, and they're letting him go. And then I watch San Francisco with Garoppolo, and I don't know if Kyle trusts Jimmy in certain spots. And I wonder about that from a coaching perspective. Are you sending a message in San Francisco to the players that the coach doesn't trust the quarterback? Because I watched Seattle yesterday with Russell and Kyler, those coaches just said, throw it.

And I feel like that, the players can figure that stuff out. Would you worry in San Francisco that they're taking the ball out of Jimmy's hands a lot now? Well, they may be doing it for a reason, Colin. I just throw it to you. You got Russell Wilson or Jimmy Coropolo. Which one do you want? Yeah, Russell, yeah. Yeah.

And even though it's only been a little over a year, Kyle Murray. Connoe is better. Probably. Yeah. I mean, so maybe the coaches are doing exactly the best that they can do to get the most out of their player. You don't want to throw stuff at a player that he can't handle. You know, they're doing the best that they can do to win ball games. And they say, hey, this gives us the best chance to win.

If we open it up and we start doing all this, you know, we're going to barely be eight and eight. And so they're doing what's the best thing for them to win ball games because their quarterback is not as talented as the other two. With Russell Wilson, you can do about whatever you want to because he's got that much talent. I mean, the guy's great. Aaron Rogers, you know, hey, what do you want to do? Aaron can handle it. They're great players, you know, but every quarterback's not a great player. So you do what you have to do to win games.

That's interesting. You know, it's funny yesterday, New England only through 18 times. with Cam, but I got to tell you, Jimmy, when I watched him, I thought it was an incredibly efficient game plan. I thought it was like, wow, that's what you do with Cam. Hey, would you expect anything different from Belichick? I know. Yeah, he's not going to let Cam Newton lose the game for him. He knows what his talent is. I've talked to Josh McDaniels two or three times here in the last, oh, in the last month. And they are so pleased. Of course, Cam, Cam's got to prove himself.

You know, Cam's a very proud egotistical individual, and he's gotten beat up the last year or two. Yeah, he's healthy now, and he wants to prove that he is a premier quarterback. But, you know, being a premier quarterback's not necessarily dropping back and throwing it, you know, 40 times. Right. You know, his strength is running the football.

And, hey, this is going to be a very difficult offense to get ready for. You know, don't forget, Josh McDaniels had Tebow and won with. them. They're in Denver. I mean, one, a few didn't win big, but won a few. And, you know, here they're running the read option. They're doing all kind of things that Cam can do. Now, as time goes on, Cam has shown he can throw the football as well as anybody. But it's got to be a little bit like I talked about on Prescott. It's got to be precision. Read the safety, throw it here or throw it there. Don't drop back and look at the field.

Right. And so I think I think they're going to be fine. And then, Once people spend all of that time working against the Reed option and working against Camp running the football, that's going to open it up for Cam to throw it down the field. I mean, I thought they did a great job yesterday doing what they had to do to protect Cam and to win the game. By the way, you're going to go fishing today? Now, I may go tomorrow, though.

Can't go two days without fishing. Okay. Well, I want to be ready for your show, so I didn't want to go fishing this morning and then be real tired and not want to do your show. You're the best. Absolutely the best. The Hall of Fame. Coach, it's great seeing you. Thanks for coming on.

All right, Colin. Good doing it. All right. Guy knows his stuff. Yeah, I mean, you know, if you really listen to that segment, what he kept saying over and over basically is you have to identify what's the best way to use my quarterback. That's that segment right there. And the whole thing is the identification. This is what he does well.

Let's tailor a game plan. Like McVeigh last night with the Rams, Jimmy puts it perfectly. They didn't put him in the crosshairs. He was moving. There was no drop seven, sit, pound, pound. They didn't do that. It was run, screen, rolling.

So they put Goff, and I thought Goff played pretty well, in a position to succeed. Belichick put Cam in a position to succeed. You have to identify, though. And that's what Jimmy Johnson's strength was always personnel identification. Jimmy was the great recruiter at college. Like he could see a Warren Sapp was a tight end in high school. And Jimmy's like, no, he's going to be a great defensive lineman.

That's what Jimmy Johnson did. He took tight ends and made a defensive ends. He took receivers, made him corners. But that's that identification. A lot of coaches get that wrong. Well, I just don't, to me, that's the identifier of a great coach. A system is fun and that's cute and adorable. That's really about you.

you have to do what your players are capable of. If you identify what they do best and put them in a position to elevate that, you generally win. If I'm doing play by play. I'm fired in about two games. I'm in opinion. Like that's what I do. Right.

Like everybody's got a strength. Right. Yes. Don't put people in positions to fail because that's not their strengths. If I didn't play by play, I just start rambling on about stuff. Yeah. Play by play is a lot harder than people think it is. Yeah.

This is just making stuff up. Yeah. That's like we just wing it half the time. Accuracy and stuff. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential.

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No, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. I love Jimmy's subtle flex with a Lombardi behind him, by the way. We see you, Jimmy. He's with that trophy right there. So Gardner Minshu is not here for any Jags tanking talk. He went 19 for 20, 173 yards.

19 for 20 in the NFL. 19 for 20 in the NFL. Against the Colts, which Colts fans could not, I mean, they couldn't tell me enough about how great they were going to be this year. Obviously, it's week one. Not going to get crazy, but he did take the hell to Jacksonville, who was supposed to be thanking. 2720 win over the Colts,

and Minchu was fired up in the locker room afterwards, telling his team that just shows what we can do right there. That's just a bleeping glimpse. We ain't even scratching the bleeping surface yet. Don't be satisfied with 1-0. We got another division game coming up, so it brings, so bring, it this week in practice. Iron sharpens iron.

What an unlikely stud. I loved week one. There was a storyline from every single game. Anybody that boycotted the league, bummer, because you missed like 15 stories. Enjoy watching that paint dry. I'm sure it's thrilling. Philip Rivers actually. He threw it 45 times. He had a lot of good throws, just two stinkers.

Yeah, well, those two stinkers often end up being the storyline. the game. He was 3646, 363 yards, one touchdown and two stinkers, two interceptions, as you mentioned. But I thought this was a very interesting game, obviously not the outcome that most people expected, but I like the Jacksonville is feisty. But this is the thing about tanking. Players and coaches do not tank. So this idea of tanking only ever in any sport applies to the organization, the owners, and the front office. Players and coaches are not interested in any tanking talk because no matter what, whatever you do week to week is going on your resume. So for the next team or for the next year, that's what people are going to pay attention to,

not like, oh, well, you were on a tanking team. That doesn't matter. Just think about this. What if Minshu with this group of players went eight and eight? And Trevor Lawrence is out there. Well, Trevor Lawrence is out there hoping that happens. Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. He's rooting for that. So, but look, I'm never rooting for a team to be terrible anyway. That's not good for our business. We don't like. does. Like everyone always thinks we're rooting against Cleveland and we want them to be terrible.

We want Burrow to be terrible. Bad football stinks. Everyone to be great. Not great. I would like everyone to be competitive. There's not, there's not a week where you're looking forward to watching the team that's tanking. So everyone being competitive is the ideal situation. Very impressive out of Jacksonville yesterday. The Bears were down 23 to 6 to the Lions at the start of the fourth quarter. And Twitter was going crazy about Chubisky. He was like, well, show you a little something. Actually, it's just the Lions doing what the Lions do. But he did. He was very impressive, though.

Gargan credit, he led Chicago to a remarkable comeback, throwing three touchdowns in the final quarter to get the 27-23 win. They also had some help from D'Andre Swift, who dropped what would have been a game-winning touchdown pass with seconds remaining. That's rough. That's rough. You know what, though? There are people that I think are good people.

Like, I think Trubisky is bothered by the negative press. I think it's sensitive. And it's like good for Mitch Trubisky to win that game. We know this is the end But it's like You know what man He may end up getting moved on He'll stick in this league

Somebody will use him as a backup He works his tail off He's a good kid There's certain limitations But that is a huge win For his self-esteem That was a that I'm like I'm over Detroit

Like I don't buy him This was great for Mitch Trubisky I know Matt Nagy I you watch that game and you're like You know what? That's a resume filler That's one of his great moments Good for him.

The book on Chibisky is that he is a great guy. Jimmy Graham called Trubisky pretty special after the game and said there was never a moment on the sideline when he wasn't upbeat and very positive. And they were down to the fourth quarter. Yeah. And those are the intangible things that even if you're not a great quarterback can put you in the position to make a comeback like that, if you don't allow the ups and ebbs and flows of a game to affect how you feel about yourself or how you feel about what your team's capable of. That's what you want in a quarterback. Now, you also have to have the talents to go with it if you're going to be a great franchise quarterback.

But in a situation like that, against the Lions, who often do what the Lions do, which is exactly what they did yesterday, you have the ability to make that comeback with the right guy with the right attitude. So finally, the Cardinals had an impressive duo with Kyla Murray and DeAndre Hopkins this season. In his first game with Arizona, Hopkins set a career high of 14 receptions for 151 yards and a 2420 win over San Francisco. very impressive win for Arizona. He's very open about how happy he is with this new team, saying after the game, after which you guys saw today, the sky's the limit on what this team can do. He also tweeted, words can't describe how happy I am to be a part of this organization.

He also just got paid quite a bit of money for his services. When you are a team with a great defensive line, what can minimize that is a quarterback that moves. Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson are having success against that 49ers front. And Lamar had some success, too. Like, that Niner front is great. But Russell and Kyler Murray run around. They never get tackled.

He ran 13 times yesterday, Joy. He got hit once. He got pulled down once. He either slid, got out of bounds, or scored. Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray are literally the two quarterbacks in the league in Lamar that can neutralize some of that dominating Niners front. Well, there's several kinds of running quarterbacks, right? Like, you can be a mobile running.

quarterback and not necessarily be elusive, right? And know how to avoid contact. And the three of them definitely do. And you're right, that does neutralize a great defensive line. It's just, that's a nightmare for a defense. And then you just step out of bounds.

He's got, because last year he took some shots. Yeah, you can't do that. No. That was a concern we had about Lamar early on. And he's learned how to get out of bounds and get down as well. Kaila Murray was 26 to 40, 230 yards, one touchdown, one interception, and also had 91 rushing yards. in a rushing touchdown as well. Very impressive.

Very. Good win for them. Joy with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Heard Line News. It's called the three-word game. We can sum up every NFL game yesterday and three words that's coming out.

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embedded in the games and with the athletes for a full year. Within probably 10 days, I'd put on 10 pounds. I was having trouble stopping the muscle growth. Listen to Superhuman on the I-Hard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. A win is a win. A win is a win. I don't care which I'm saying.

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waxing all about crack in the 80s. To be clear, 84 is big to me, not just because of crack. I'm down to talk about crack on day, but just so you're just so you. y'all know. I mean, at this point, this is the second episode where we've discussed crack. So I'm starting to see that there's a through line. We also have AIDS on the table right now. Now you're finishing that sentence. And yes, I don't think there's a more important year for black people. Really? Yeah. For me, it's one of the most important years for black people in American history. Listen to look back at it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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we get so wrapped up in the chase that we don't realize that we are in possession of the thing. And we're still chasing it, and we don't know when we've done enough. Because people scoreboard watch. Life becomes about wins and losses. Steve Burns, Dustin Ross, because you find it important to be a good person while you hear on earth? Are you a good person because you're afraid?

Because that's two different intentions, bro. Absolutely. And that's two different levels of trust. I want you to just really be a good person. Join me, Kear Gaines, is we have real conversations about healing, growth, fatherhood, pressure, and purpose on my new podcast, Learn the Hardway. Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Learn the Hardway and listen now. By the way, can I read this here, Joey? Yes, you may.

Bucks at Saints yesterday. Highest rated week one game on Fox in four years. The biggest audience in American television since the Super Bowl, up 10% from week one last year. How about that? Congratulations, guys. Very exciting. Very excited.

How do you not watch yesterday? It was wonderful. It was a great day of television. Awesome. Sports everywhere. My dogs that run around the house. Just looked at me and said, Dad, we're going to sit here with you and watch this thing. It's awesome.

How about the highest rated week one game on Fox in four years? By the way, the pregame shows on Fox, I don't even watch the other networks. We're good yesterday. We're always excellent. I'm not going to lie. Beard, ratings. Listen, we do football the best. We do.

Actually, Fox does, yeah. All right, here we go. Three word game, Powell, let's go. Texans chiefs Thursday night. Gunslinger goes surgical. Yeah. Mahomes didn't have a single completion over 20 yards. 75% completion percentage.

Andy Reid said, you're not getting hit. Our offensive line's not ready to protect you. The gunslinger went surgical, scary for the rest of the league. Seahawks Falcons, fearless and flawless. Tied for the third highest single game completion percentage in NFL history. He was insane yesterday. Russell's the only quarterback to throw multiple touchdown passes in the first quarter in week one. Pete Carroll gave him the offense finally.

Let Russ cook. They did. Jets bills. Awful. Gase closed. Adam Gase now 7 and 10 is a Jets head coach. Only team with fewer than 270 total yards. I understand they're rebuilding the offensive line again.

That was embarrassing. He ain't making it to Thanksgiving. A Raiders Panthers. A bad rule. Oh, come on. Game right here. Got Christian McCaffrey, fourth and inches, and they handle a fullback. Hell. What are you doing? Teddy Bridgewater is a pro.

Christian McCaffrey's the best running back in the NFL. Matt Rule. This is the play you run if you're not creative. Matt Rule, you are creative. Bad play call cost him the game. Eagles, Washington. Wence was wincing. Sacked eight times. 41.3 passer rating in the second half was the worst among all quarterbacks in week one. Sacked eight. times. Bears Lions. Fourth quarter Mitch. Only quarterback to throw three plus touchdown passes. In the fourth quarter in week one. That's impressive. He stunked for three quarters, but MVP Trubisky is my new name for him. Stellar in the fourth. Colts Jags.

More Minchew Magic. Listen to this. First player in NFL history. To throw three plus touchdown passes and complete at least 90% of his passes in week one. And by the way, Colts have a defense. Colts will get after you. They went and got DeForest Bruckner. They got Darius Leonard. They got good young corners. That's not a stinky defense.

Packers Vikings. Packing on points. Franchise record for Green Bay in week one. It's also the most points allowed by a Mike Zimmer team in his era. in Minneapolis. Now they had some injuries. They lost a great corner. Griffin has gone past rushers.

So this defense will get better. It's not as good as it was last year and the year before, but Aaron tore them apart. Browns Ravens. Same old Browns. Biggest blowout of any game week one. Mayfield had his second worst passer rating of any starting quarterback in week one. Browns haven't won a season opener since 2004. This organization's got to come clean.

on this. If you're led by Baker Mayfield, it's not much of a team. He's got to be a component, ancillary piece to a strong running game. That's what Baker is. Dolphins, Patriots, lights, cam, action, only quarterback with multiple rushing touchdowns in week one. 15 carries. That's the most carries by any Patriot quarterback in franchise history. They realized what he was. I'll tell you what, Belichick needs him. needs Belichick. A little harmony. Now, now it's dolphins. They were fared by

a touchdown. It was the dolphins, but it was a nice opening week for Cam. Chargers, Bengals. Burrow gets bengled. Listen, Burrow was good. He was great in the last drive. He was calm. He was poised. He had one big mistake. Second to last drive. He had a bad

mistake, but I thought he looked great. And they missed a field goal. And the kicker pulled his hammy in the same time he missed a field goal. But overall to me, I thought Burrow was B-B-plus, a ton of composure. Looks like a really, really potentially excellent franchise quarterback. Buck Saints. Work in progress.

Buck had nine penalties, had a punt block. Brady had two picks after throwing eight all last year. Give it time. It's fine. Tommy needs a preseason. Mike Evans didn't practice all week. This is pretty much what we thought it would look like. We really did.

Cardinals 49ers, Wild Wild West. Best division in football. DeAndre Hopkins, Kyler Murray, 15 catches. This was really a game. A lot of the country did not get this game. Garapolo really struggled. Kyler really didn't. This division, if Arizona is the worst team in this division,

watch out. Because this division is stacked. Three great creative offensive guys and Pete Carroll. Cowboys Rams, Rams. So far, so good. Rams 4-0 and season openers under McVeigh. The stadium's remarkable. Joy and I have flown over it 100 times.

It's the last thing you see as you come into Los Angeles. Apparently, Al Michael said last night, you can actually get a sunburn inside the stadium. So the roof is like transparent. It's a stunning looking stadium. Rams, a little better coach, made more key plays. This is 15 minutes from my house. It looked amazing.

Yeah, right off the freeway. Look at that circular screen. Stan Cronkey's best friends with Jerry Jones, and Jerry's the one that told him moved from St. Louis, we need NFL in Los Angeles. It succeeded. It looked really big, even with no fans. It's a sight.

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