The Herd with Colin Cowherd - THE HERD - Hour 3 - Tomorrow's headlines today, Tyler Dunne

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Colin talks to NFL reporter Tyler Dunne about Joe Brady being hired as the Bills next head coach, the relationship with Josh Allen, how the Sean McDermott era ended in Buffalo, who was at fault, and more Tomorrow's headlines today with Jason McIntyreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I've talked to him a lot on the volume here at FS1, former beatwriter for the Bills, Buffalo News, former beat writer for the Packers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, covered the Patriots. He is tied in to all this stuff. he was at the Joe Brady Presser yesterday. Tyler John Dunn, NFL writer, joining me. So J. Mack thought it was super emotional, but my take was, first of all, it's a big job. Second of all, he's got a really human relationship that's intense with Josh Allen.

So let's talk about that. You never see Sean McDermott get that emotional at a podium. I watched the first time I watched Joe Brady at a podium. He gets super emotional. is that part of the attractiveness to hiring him? Absolutely, Colin. I think, look, there's everything we see and then there's everything we don't see

when it comes to Shaw McDermott and how it ended after nine years in Buffalo. What we see is bad enough, right? I think only three coaches in NFL history in the Super Bowl era have won a Super Bowl, their first Super Bowl, but they're with a team in year nine or beyond. You're talking Bill Cower, Tom Landry,

and Hank Stramm. And Stram won an AFL title. So it was time. The message got stale. You move on. In the last six playoff losses, 52 non-neal down drives. They've allowed 25 touchdowns, 13 field goals, forced only three turnovers, giving up 3.83 points per drive.

So that's what we see. That's enough. What we don't see is what I've kind of heard coming out a little bit more, you know, in addition to our series in 2023, look, this is a coach who grinds on people. Right? Like he walks into a room, it sets a certain tone. It sets a certain mood. And what I was told by a high-ranking source in that building is, and we talked about

it in 2023, when that came out, he tried to loosen up, tried to soften a little bit. But whenever the pressure ratcheted up, Colin, you're in the playoffs, you're facing Andy Reed. It's a big game. He kind of resort back to his old ways. And that wears on people, not just players, but we're talking, you know, the medical department, trainers, coaches, everybody. So that needed the change. The message you needed the change.

And then there's a matter of accountability. You heard Joe Brady at that podium, taken blame for five turnovers against Denver. I frankly, never really heard much of that out of Shaw McDermott over his tenure. You know, after 13 seconds, publicly you hear that word, execution. That's code for the player screwed up. Oh, as we found out at Go Long, it was Shaw McDermott overruling the squib, you know, taken over the defensive play calling.

And then blaming the coaches the day later. you guys got to figure out what went wrong here. It was always worse privately than publicly. So to hear that kind of accountability out of Joe Brady, breath of fresh air. To hear him know that everything orbits around Josh Allen, breath of fresh air. That was not the case with Sean McDermott until it was too late at the end.

So you also covered for years, Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rogers. I mean, you know this relationship very well. Ian O'Connor, a very established guy yesterday, said, you know, Mike actually took Aaron out of college, Aaron, I remember watching him at Cal. I remember watching a USC game. He was very mechanical.

He was very, very good. He had a huge game at the Colise. Yeah, yeah. And he was great. I mean, you knew he was good, but he did. He looked like a college guy. He was a little tight. And Ian said, Mike loosened him up.

Well, he became kind of the loosest of all the quarterbacks. McCarthy, Aaron. Take me through the journey you had with him. Do you think they can say, you know what? Let bygones be bygones. Right. I mean, you're the analogy expert, right? Colin, is this like, we all have that friend later in life who's single and, you know, the market's getting a little dry. They kind of just get married to get married. And I don't know, like, does Aaron Rogers really have any other options here?

Is anybody banging on the door for a 42-year-old quarterback? True. Look, his brain is good. His arm is good. But Father Time is undefeated. He's set it himself. You saw how to do it. ended against the Houston Texans. So I think from Aaron's point of view, he'd probably love to go back to Pittsburgh because I don't know who else is going to take him. If I Mike McCarthy, though,

I know he has said nice things about Aaron Rogers. And look, it ended poorly. Like Aaron, it's a double-edged sword. He's an all-time grudge holder. That's part of what makes him special, part of what makes him a Hall of Famer. And that's part of the reason everything fell apart with Mike McCarthy at the end.

And the play call comes in and he kind of does his own thing. So I think they're all going to say the right things right now. the bullets are flying what happens you know and i knew we're i knew you're probably going to bring this up so i texted uh a player for the packers who was on those teams uh was was a source for me back in that bleach report story and actually if i remember right he was very pro-errin like he loved playing with aaron rogers and and wasn't really thinking that mike mccarthy was this quarterback expert anyways i was like is this going to work like if they get together and at first he kind of joked and he's like yeah it's a cinderella story and then he goes no he goes her and

an all-time grudge holder. They're going to be fighting right away. They'll be at each other's throws. This isn't going to work. So, you know, I think Mike McCarthy is an underrated quarterback, coach, teacher. He did way better in Dallas under awful circumstances. They don't really care about football that much down there. At one point at the cafeteria, I was told, like, there's marketing people all over the place. It's a circus. He turned to somebody and said, man, if I knew it was like this, I wouldn't have taken the job. So I'm happy that he has a chance to go to a place that wants to win games. You just hope he's got a chance to work with a young quarterback. Dude, I mean, why not just pay up from Elite Willis?

Give him a chance to develop a young quarterback like he did back in the day with Aaron Rogers. That's interesting. You know, you do, because you were working on the Packers, you covered a lot with the Chicago Bears. And I said this the other day, is that the two best teams in the NFC were Seattle and L.A. by the end of the year, I think Chicago was third. Chicago almost knocked off the Rams, and the Rams didn't drop a pass or have a, I think they had one penalty. You know, I mean, the Rams played almost a perfect football game in Chicago, given the weather, and still had to go to overtime.

Chicago was a really good team at the end of the year. You did a, I'm reading this here, a three-part 27,000-word series, House of Dysfunction on the Bears. And so you're kind of an expert on this. Ben Johnson to Matt Eber Flues, behind the scenes. What were the biggest changes made? So, yeah, I talked to a lot of those coaches, players, front office people. It was ugly for basically all parties involved, that rookie season for Caleb Williams. Now, I think initially with Iber flus and that staff,

and it was kind of a continuation from the draft, when the bears are doing everything in their power to recruit Caleb Williams and convince him to want to be a bear. I mean, you know, they changed their offense. They changed their play. Everything was kind of to placate Caleb and run what he did in college. It does make a lot of sense. But it didn't go well, obviously.

And by the time that it gets to an interim coach like Thomas Brown, and he wants to do what Ben Johnson did in year two, hold Caleb Williams accountable. You're one of 53. It was too late, right, for that message to really resonate on the fly. So I think Ben Johnson comes in. And I talked to somebody who's close with Ben Johnson after our series came out. And he's like, you know, just so you know, Ben did his research.

He knows what he's getting himself into when it comes to Caleb Williams, all the stuff we reported on behind the scenes with the team, the GM, all of that. And to Ben Johnson's credit, Colin, day one, it's like, you're going to play the quarterback position. You're under center. They take the wrist band away. So they're building an offense. They're building a quarterback. They built a powerhouse rushing attack. They're forcing a ton of turnovers on defense.

And Caleb was really allowed, I think, to develop week to week to week to week to the point where you see the theatrics he did at the end of the season. Because a lot of the same problems were still there, right, with completion percentage. But hell, they go out, they signed three offensive linemen in the first week. That helps. And I think that Ben Johnson just being an old school, you know, hard coach on him, it wasn't coming upon Caleb to respond to his credit. He did.

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I think he's an NFL quarterback, but I didn't think he was a replace Sam Darnold quarterback. I thought if you couldn't get Bo Nix or Drake May, those guys to me are all building. build around. When the GM gets fired today, what are your instincts? I'm not sure if you've made a call. What are your instincts on what happened? There's Adam Schaefter said there was tension in the building. JMAX says, I don't buy that. That's just one of those things to bury the GM. What did you make of that move today by the Vikings? I think it probably was building for a while. The tension, head coach, GM, right? Quasiido It comes from analytics, numbers, metrics.

That stuff is important. Kevin O'Connell is a quarterback guru, whatever word you want to use, right? He has worked with some of the best quarterbacks. He knows the position inside and out. So I'm sure there might be some clashing going on, and all that stuff is going to come out now, right? It always does. It's hard not to look past the Sam Darnold thing, right? And when Sam Darnold's in a Super Bowl, he was in your building.

somebody's going to be held accountable. Was it the GM's fault? I don't know. Right? I mean, because Kevin O'Connell, you can see the logic in him wanting to draft his own guy, develop his own guy. He has been effusive in his praise of J.J. McCarthy.

But I just think more than anything. And I actually was just talking to a player for the Vikings, a veteran about this a couple days ago. And the way he put it was perfect. And he said, our plan was just a little confused. On paper, it looks great. rookie quarterback contract, spend a lot of money on the lines. They've got the defense and got the weaponry.

Everything makes sense. But you didn't really know if J.J. McCarthy was that dude yet. You just kind of saw it in OTAs, and you just got a sense for his charisma, but you didn't know if he could play yet. And, I mean, it was ugly, obviously, in his first year as a starter. So this is this kind of thing that happens. Somebody has to be held accountable. Little updates on all of it.

Circle back one more. McDermott's not taking a head job. Does that surprise you? Sean McDermott's going to pass. I think he would have been interested in say maybe a Baltimore, but now it's Arizona. It's Las Vegas. Are you surprised?

You know him well. You sat and talked with him before at length. McDermott's like, I'm getting out of this. Are you surprised? You know what, Colin, not surprised because I think it did take until about year eight, eight and a half of nine. for Sean to really realize, look, we don't have jobs without Josh Allen. It took too long.

But I think eventually he kind of saw who really makes the thing go. He's not just going to hurl himself into a bad organization, a bad environment without the quarterback. Now, he's going to be picky, he's going to be choosy. But does that team exist next year? That's what we don't know. And look, there were a lot of assistant coaches who worked for him that took lateral jobs. It might be difficult for him to build a staff too. Probably the best decision.

Just take a year off, step away from the game. He's a grinder himself. If he wants to go that route and rebuild the team, that's what he does well. But I think he knows he needs the quarterback. GoLongtD.com. Always inside stuff. Great job, Tyler Dunn, as always. And I appreciate you stopping by.

Anytime, Colin. Thanks so much, man. You bet. Substack, go longtd.com. He's got all sorts of stuff out there. You hear him on this show. the volume we put him on, he just does a terrific job. J-MAC with the news.

No, no, no, no, no. Turn on the news. This is the herd line news. With all due respect to the Super Bowl, the World Cup is the biggest sporting event every year that it takes place. It's not even close. And Colin, the excitement for the World Cup right now is crazy. Kicks off June 11th.

FIFA says it received more than 500 million. That's million ticket requests in a month. long application window, which closed this week. Everybody's asking for two to four tickets, right? So that likely means one billion ticket requests. One billion. This is going to be incredible. I'm so excited.

Now, they have the most requested matches. None of them involving the U.S., which is kind of a bummer. But, you know, people want to see stars. So Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal was the number one most requested game against Colombia. Obviously, Mexico is huge. Mexico was number two and number four. World Cup final checking in. I'm geek for the U.S. games.

Hope to go to two of them out here in L.A. Skilled team ever. Yeah. Unlike the last World Cup where we were just too young, we played the Netherlands at one point, and it felt like, you know, it felt like the grownups and the young guys. I think we're at the perfect spot where our young players are moving into their early primes. For what's unique about this, we usually are really good in goal.

That's one of the only positions. we're not quite sure. It's very unsettled, and that's usually a strength of the United States men's national team, but I can't wait. We've got a new coach. We've got a new coach. There's been just enough, not dissension, but just enough turbulence to keep it interesting. But I do think this is the first time going into a World Cup that the United States men's national team does not have to play against elite teams,

sort of a defensive style, that we can be an attacking team against even the best countries. And I've never felt that before. There's the U.S. matches on the screen. We open against Paraguay, followed by Australia. I'm not lying, Colin. We should go 2 and 0 in those games. We're going to be favored in both of them. Here's the real interesting aspect.

I do believe this is a team that could have a ceiling of like making the final four, making the final eight. Do you think that's like reasonable? Remember, we're at final eight. Yes. I do think there's an advantage if you can play here in the States. Yeah. And again, health is a factor if we go in healthy. But we're more skilled than we've ever been.

Our team got a little old couple World Cups ago. Last year we were a little young. It's just like every other sport in America. When a majority of your roster is either in their prime, going in their prime, or maybe hanging on for a year, two of their prime. When a majority of your roster is somewhere around you know that in for soccer

maybe it's five, six years of prime athleticism and I think that's where we're at. We have a lot of guys Pulisics in this prime but we have a lot of guys that are young just going into their prime which means the next World Cup after this will still be in it. It's a pretty good group of players.

Yeah. I mean yeah now the prime window is tough. Obviously Messi and Ronaldo two of the greatest athletes to ever walk the planet. It looks like both of them are going to playing this world cup which is crazy we thought we were they were done after the last one uh i'm so fired up all right let's go back to the nflbcullen and if you remember the buffalo bills owner mr pagula yeah he jumped in on a press conference with uh the gm and was like hey the gym didn't pick keon coleman uh and it got ugly essentially they were taking jabs at the underperforming

um i think he was a second round pick and they were saying hey the coach that we fired wanted him Well, Josh Allen was asked about the Keon Coleman situation, and this is what professionals do. Here's Josh Allen. He will come back from that. I'm not going to give up on zero. He's got too much ability, you know, and I will not give up on him.

We're going to work tirelessly, him and me, and as well as everybody else in this building, to make sure that whenever we step foot on the field, that we're going to find ways to win football games, and he's going to be a part of that. Now, listen, he, go ahead, go ahead. Well, Brady's, Joe Brady came out and said, I stood on the table for Keon Coleman.

Like, he did the opposite of what had been said earlier. He was like, kind of put a life preserver out there. He said, I love this kid. I'm the one that jumped on the table and said, go get Coleman. This is my guy. So that's going to ingratiate, right, Joe Brady. He's crying for Josh Allen.

He is stumping. for Coleman, he is, as Tyler Dunn just said, Joe Brady is younger and more player-friendly than McDermott, more emotional, and that'll play well. Yeah, listen, these young guys who come into the league, not all of them are ready to be pros. I mean, this guy was late to meetings, he got benched a bunch. Like, Colin, that stuff happens.

Do you remember how goofy you were in your first TV gigs? Oh, yeah. Colin, I was a young guy working newspaper jobs, and they'd be like, hey, you've got to cover this high school football game on a Saturday. Well, I'm going out Friday night and I'm getting hammered. I'm having fun. I'm chasing girls. And I'm vomiting Saturday morning, being late to football.

Like, that's stuff it happens when you're 20. That was your two dual earring. Double hoop earring. Yes. I was rocking the double hoop earrings. Listen, when you're in New York City, you're like, what do I care about this high school football game? I want to have fun. So listen, Keon Coleman, there's some growing up to do, some maturity involved.

I think he's going to be fine. And I do like Josh Allen keeping up for his embattled wide receiver. Don't like the owner. Take a jabs. Final story, Colin, the Browns hired Todd Munkin. I like how you laugh as soon as I say the Browns. How about this one? It has come out that as part of the hiring process,

the Browns gave all the candidates a personality test. And one of the questions was, how would you develop Shadur Sanders? I'm going to go ahead and let you take it away from here because I've said enough not nice things about Shador this week. This is the hardest job. of all the jobs available, two look really tough to me. Arizona and Cleveland.

I think if the Raiders get Mendoza, that job, you could win. Two jobs look difficult. Arizona, Cleveland. Why make it tougher? Why ask more of your candidates? It just doesn't. Also, what if you're Deshawn Watson or Dylan Gabriel in the quarterback room? By the way, the last coach had Dylan Gabriel start ahead of Shadour.

Shadour was a practice squad guy. What are you thinking if you're Dylan Gable? Oh, they're done with me. I'm out like I got no shot. They don't even think about developing me. Just what are we doing? Cleveland. My goodness. Just pathetic. J-Mack with the news. Well, that's the news. And thanks for stopping by. The Herd Lye News. J-Mack's tomorrow's headlines today. I can't wait. Next.

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And we'll make sure we bring on the right ones. But this week has moved along because of all the coaching hires, some high-profile ones. And so with that, we move into one of my favorite segments every week. It's called Tomorrow's Headlines Today. Mike McCarthy and the Steelers, James. Amak, what's the headline? All right. Now, it's difficult to do some of these outlooks because free agency, the draft, coaching staffs aren't even fully filled.

But we have an idea of where teams are headed. So for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mike McCarthy, the headline next season will be, it's McCarthy. We can lose if we want to lose if we want to. I don't see it, Colin. I don't. I'm tracking here second oldest roster in the NFL. That's not great. I'm counting a guard as a free agent, maybe their best guard,

gain well, their backup running back who's good, an aging defense. Colin, there just isn't a lot of blue chip talent on this Pittsburgh Steelers roster. Now, if McCarthy can find a quarterback, great. We know he's an offensive mind. But everything I look at, up and down, offense, defense special teams,

they're not as good as the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't think they're going to be as good as the Baltimore Ravens. And remember, if the Ravens kicker makes that field goal at the end, a 44-yarder. And the Ravens go to the playoffs and the Steelers miss, is it total panic in Pittsburgh? We'll see if Will Howard is the guy. I've heard pretty good reviews on him. I think the smart move, and I know Steelers don't want to, fans don't want to hear it,

is you write out Will Howard, maybe you win five games, and you get a high draft pick and you get a quarterback and you start the cycle again. Interesting. Tomorrow's headlines today, I think I know where you lean on this. First year coach Joe Brady and the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, listen, Josh Allen, I believe it's the most talented quarterback in the league right now. He's great. So they're going to be in the mix.

But I did say the Super Bowl windows closing. And Colin, the headline for the Buffalo Bills and Joe Brady will be say it ain't Joe? Bill's barely clear playoff window. As you see, Josh, diving out as the window shrinks, I think they'll make the playoffs only because the division is rotten. I mean, my jets are a dumpster fire. They continue to be just horrific. The Miami Dolphins, I don't think they've had. a good offseason so far with the coaching hire, the GM. So Buffalo by default is going to fall

backwards and win 10 games, assuming Josh Allen's upright. But Colin, you want to talk problems. Eight starters are free agents, eight. And several of them are on defense where they were pretty lowly rated against the run, against the pass. I don't know that the talent is there. We'll see what happens. As you noted, Josh Allen's cap hit sixth biggest among quarterbacks next season and maybe they can retool. You know, Bosa comes back on the cheap, but two starting linebackers, free agents, Milano who's starting to age because of all the injuries, Shaq Thompson, you know, cornerback or Trinavius White, is he going to

come back? Again, if Josh Allen's healthy, they're fine. If Josh Allen has to miss a couple weeks, this is a, honestly, a bottom five team in the league. Give me 10 wins for the bills. You make good points. Tomorrow's headlines today. New head coach.

I like the quarterback they're going to draft. Well, we think they're going Mendoza. I can't envision an alternative scenario, but it is interesting that they haven't hired anybody and Seattle is still playing. The headline for the Vegas Raiders will be Rubik's Kubiak. Raiders still stuck on playoff puzzle. I do believe, like you, Kubiak will be the next head coach of the Raiders.

It's an attractive job. You're right. Mendoza, he's got a lot of promise. You do have the left. and Colton Miller, elite tight end in Brock Bowers and Ashton Genty, who we like a lot. The problem, Colin, is after that, there's not a lot of talent. Now, this may surprise you. The Raiders have the third most salary cap room heading into this offseason, right?

So they can retool on the offensive line. Have you seen their wide receiver room, Colin? It might be the worst group in the NFL. It's not good at all. They traded Jacoby Myers, which turned out to be a disaster. The defense, it's weird. they graded out pretty good, like league average. But if you look individually at the player grades, they're not great.

Some of that could be that the offense was so bad, Gino Smith with the turnovers, that the opposing teams weren't trying to score much. They were just handing off because it was a formality. So I think there's a lot of work to do here for Kubiak. This is still a five, six-win team, but you and I are both bullish on Mendoza. I see a young, young, early-stage Tom Brady,

just a smart quarterback cerebral puts the ball where it belongs. So I do think the future is bright, but next season, it's going to be a tough go. Yeah. Our final NFL topic, tomorrow's headlines today. The Arizona Cardinals, I felt a couple years ago they were so promising and it feels like it's just bottomed out. Yeah, I don't know what the quarterback situation is there with Kyler Murray. Hell, what are they doing? A head coach, the headline for the Arizona Cardinals will be one Lefleur over the Cardinals.

Cardinals stay cuckoo. I think it's going to be Mike LaFleur, the Rams offensive coordinator. He had a run with the Jets that was not really memorable, but then again, he had Zach Wilson and quarterback. Obviously, the brother of LaFleur, the Packers. He's been with the Niners as well.

So I think there's some promise here. Here's where it gets interesting, Colin. I believe they move off Kyler Murray, and the name to watch here is Malik Willis. So he was with LaFleur's brother in Green Bay. He showed well as a backup, I think it's a seamless move. And honestly, here's the scary part. That division's loaded. The Cardinal's skill position guys, James Connor is a top 10 back in the league.

McBride is an elite tight end. Fitzgerald, Wilson. Well, not Fitzgerald, but Harrison Jr. Harrison, Jr. And also Michael Wilson, who had a thousand yards seven touchdowns. Good player. I'm just telling you, you get a quarterback in there. They've got the engine ready. And Arizona can hang. They showed that they could hang with the NFC West this season. defense is another story, but I do think Lafleur would be a step in the right direction for Arizona. That's kind of interesting. I kind of like that. The Harbaas and the Lafleurs.

Well, there's been a big headline. The Greek freak is the nickname. Tomorrow's headlines today. Janus, moving. Nick's heat feel right. To me, some speculate the warriors, what say you? So the trade deadline is next Thursday. But unfortunately, Janus is on the shelf, Fort.

with another calf injury we'll get to shortly. So you and I were in Arizona for the Super Bowl. I'll never forget being in an Uber when I got the news that Kevin Durant was moved. I don't know if you remember that. It was seismic stuff. Will we see that next Thursday? The headline for Janus will be fed a get about it. Greek oak planted in the garden.

Yes, I do believe the Knicks and impetuous James Dolan make an irrational move and they go after Janus. Colin, I'm a little nervous because they're, I think, two in the east right now. You get Janus, he's out four to six. You're going to fall in the standing. Now, the only way the Knicks get him, it's not going to just be for Carl Anthony Towns. No. They're going to have to move off O.G. and Obie. And there is a huge divide among Knicks fans.

Yeah. Well, shucks, is Brunson, Hart, Mikhail Bridges, and Janus? Is that enough? Is there enough shooting? Because Hart's not a great shooter. It is enough in the east. And here's why I think it makes sense, because I think they're going to have. I think you're right, is that you have got Brunson is a liability defensively,

but he's so good offensively and so smart and such a good leader. He is the best quarterback New York has had since Eli Manning. He is a great, I want him to be my guy. For his size, he's a remarkable closer, tough, gritty. I like everything about him. Classic Villanova guy with great skill. Kind of a liability on the defensive end. You can work him.

And that's okay. A lot of great offensive players. Luke is another one. Hardens another one. I don't want them, you know, you can pick on them. You got to, you got to be able to defend the rim. You need length and athleticism. Carl Anthony Town, similarly, is a below average defender. And so just getting, just that move alone is, and again, I think there's a lot of Josh Hart.

You know, Brunson and Janus give you two elite players. Oh, yeah. In the East, that can win the East in a year Jason Tatum is out. And by the way, if you did it and just got to this finals, in New York, that plays pretty well. You'd be good with Janus, but this may be your opening. Tatum's out. Boston's still good. Halliburton will come back.

Orlando is still young. We talk about this all time. You can see aggressive teams seize the window. Yeah. Outside of Detroit, this is the moment for New York. So I think the Knicks feels like the move. Yeah. So even if they don't do OG to the Bucks,

they may have to move OG to a different team, get more picks because he's going to be in high demand, 3-D wing, and then you put the picks in towns and send them to the bucks. Colin, I just don't know, Mitchell Robinson, right? He's an amazing offensive rebounder. Can you play Mitchell Robinson, Janice and Josh Hart, three non-shooters at the same time? You'll be great defensively, but I just don't know if the offense is going to be there, man.

Here's the thing that's really, to me, that's really interesting. And we've noticed this with this draft and next year's draft. They're unbelievable, like stars everywhere. We went about 20 years where you were lucky if you got three really, really good guys in the draft. I mean, this past draft, it looks like the top five guys are all dudes. Like now, they're all good now. And they're all kids. And last year's draft was pretty good.

my take is draft picks going forward mean more. There was a 20-year period where you were getting, you know, you were getting a lot of guys that were wanting to have done guys who played in a very deluded weak college basketball, a sport. Now, because of NIL, college basketball has got all sorts of good euros. So you, if you're Cooper Flagg, you're planning against euros, you're playing against better players, so it's a better training ground. so I value draft picks going forward.

So if the bucks could get four draft picks, those are four potentially nice starters. Yeah, let me ask you, though, this Janus calf injury, this is the third calf injury, he's had in two years, Colin. And you know what those lead to historically. He is 31. A lot of tread on those tires, a lot of playoff trips, although they haven't had success recently.

It would be devastating if they traded for Janus, forced him back, and you know what, like... Well, that's why it said. Jemak, I don't think Yannis equals titles. I could argue if you trade for him, this is the year. Because Tatum and Halliburton, this is the year that guarantees a trip to the finals. Once Tatum comes back, that that team is better than the next. But don't you think the Knicks can get to the finals without Janus this year?

I mean, they're number two in the east. They went through a little malaise recently. They're stacked, man. They got a great team. Carl Anthony Towns is not playing like a guy who's thrilled to be in New York giving the honest chatter right now. Wish they would have kept Tibbs.

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