The Herd with Colin Cowherd - The Richard Sherman Podcast - Reaction to Shedeur Sanders rumors, Parsons & Cowboys, 49ers & Seahawks NFL preseason
Episode Date: August 26, 2025Richard Sherman reacts to Micah Parsons’ contract dispute with Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, Shedeur Sanders’ challenging preseason game vs. the Los Angeles Rams, and why he feels th...e Cleveland Browns should trade him. He also comments on the Seattle Seahawks’ impressive preseason under head coach Mike Macdonald and explores the San Francisco 49ers’ roster uncertainties before Week 1 as Brock Purdy, George Kittle, and Brandon Aiyuk look to start the NFL season strong.0:00 – Intro 0:31 – Cowboys News: Micah Parsons vs. Jerry Jones contract drama 7:03 – Browns QB News: Shedeur Sanders’ rough preseason game 10:29 – Cleveland Browns Roster Move? Shedeur Sanders trade or cut 15:57 – Seahawks Preseason Reaction 19:57 – 49ers Preseason ReactionSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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And what a crazy training camp, August we have had.
You've seen teams trade players.
We're getting to the cut deadline.
You know, players that you thought were going to be bawling out, didn't have a great preseason.
It doesn't mean they won't have a great career.
And there are players that you have high expectations for that are exceeding those
expectations. Jackson Dart, we're looking at you. There are guys that may be looking for a new
team soon or sometime in the future like Micah Parsons. And that's where we've got to get into.
Because as I have said before, Jerry Jones cannot get out of his own way. And now he's telling Stephen A.
Smith, no matter what, we got him for three years. If the relationship between Micah Parsons and
Jerry Jones was as positive, as healthy, as incredible, as Jerry and Micah over the past
few years have made it seem, I don't think we would be here.
But Jerry is a guy who wants things his way.
And now he's saying, David Mulligeta, there's no place for the agent in these
negotiations, which is actually illegal in the NFL and the way they do.
business unless the players representing himself like I have before, the agent has to be involved.
That's the way it works.
Micah doesn't necessarily have to be involved.
He doesn't necessarily have to talk to front office or management or anything because
there's conflict of interest if he's not representing himself.
He's not going to know, hey, they're trying to get you for 10 years.
They got Tyron Smith for a 10-year deal at a very reasonable rate.
you looked into that deal at year five, year six,
you had a really good, good tackle for a very affordable number over the time.
And so this is a situation where I don't think Jerry Jones should have done this.
And I don't think he should keep doing what he's doing,
which is digging himself in a further hole and create a bigger divide
between he and one of his star players.
And now they've done the x-rays, the MRIs on his back.
they had him laying down on the training table.
Look, none of that matters.
And Chodinheimer's like, oh, man, I'm going to go talk to him.
I'm going to go, you know, we may find him.
It's screaming disaster.
It's screaming disaster.
And it's getting worse and worse and worse.
This is not how you treat arguably your best player.
This is a guy who's had no off-the-field problems, no issues, played hard, done everything.
He's got a little banged up.
but three all pros, productive, dominant.
What are we doing?
What are we doing, Jerry Jones?
You have him for three more years.
If he doesn't play in the first four games, five games,
there are statistics out there that say,
your defense is the worst defense in the league
are dang near when he's not on the field.
I think it's 29th.
And they're among the best when he's on the field.
Why wouldn't it make sense?
to just make sure he's on the field.
And you say, oh, he's under contract.
Well, the same way guys are under contract and get cut.
And people are like, well, you know, they didn't need to honor the contract
because they could cut him in there.
Well, he can exercise this.
He understands the consequences of his actions.
And a player can be banged up.
Who's to say he's not?
MRI's the next race.
They don't know everything.
I mean, you could have injuries that they're not picking up.
It's happened before.
It'll happen again.
So what happens now if Michael Parsons continues to be hurt, gets rehab, continues to make sure he's
taking care of his body, and he's going to get out there when he's healthy.
You're, you're, you're, you're, you're, could have cost your team real life games.
And you could lose games because you refuse to honor and respect the guy who you're saying
you want to make the highest pay non-devency, I mean, non-quarterback.
Then do it.
called David Mulligan. He's not unreasonable.
There's a reason he's done all these deals.
He's done a billion dollars worth of deals in one season because he's the best.
So give him a phone call.
I think Jerry's going out of his way to make this situation more volatile than it needs to be,
more combative than it needs to be.
It doesn't need to be this combative.
You telling you telling this guy, there's no room for your agent to negotiate.
But what?
What is this?
You want to pay me as the highest paid non-defensive player?
There's a number on that.
There's a number on that.
It's a high number.
I think it's $42 million right now, maybe more.
So $42 million a year,
over however many years you want them.
If you want a five-year deal,
cool, you could, those are semantics.
Like, you may want a seven-year deal, Jerry.
They may want a three-year deal.
Like, you meet somewhere,
in the middle and you get a deal done. But it seems like something else is in play here for
Jerry Jones. Like there's a different kind of pride, a different kind of mentality where he's
like, hey, I'm not giving here. I own the boy. And I'm like, ah, Jerry. It's getting kind of
crazy when you start talking like that because you're talking about human beings with real emotions,
feelings and all that. And he knows how to play the game, just like you're playing the game.
And sure, fans can get mad, they can get irritated or whatever,
but just as the team has the right to maneuver how they want to within the confines of these contracts,
players are getting smarter and they're going to maneuver within the confines of these contracts,
and we'll see who wins.
We'll see who wins.
He gets paid either way.
He gets paid either right.
Hey, if he doesn't play week one, he gets paid.
If his back is tight, week one, he gets paid.
What are you going to do?
So you're going to pay him to play, or are you going to pay him to,
for his back to be tight.
You want to have to figure it out, Jerry,
because it ain't changing anytime soon.
And Schefter's reporting that he don't think Micah's going to finish his career in Dallas.
I would agree.
I would agree.
It seems like Dallas is going to have a lot of issues going forward.
If this is the way Jerry Jones is going to approach every negotiation,
every conversation with players that have had multiple all pros on a rookie contract,
you're going to have a very difficult time.
You guys have done a phenomenal job drafting in the first round,
I'm drafting all pro after all pro after all pro after a great player.
But now you don't want to pay the guy would arguably the best resume among those guys.
Doesn't sound like a recipe for success for the Dallas Cowboys to me.
But who am I?
Just a humble servant.
Now, on Tishador Sanders, the topic of conversation,
everybody, one of the worst games he's played,
obviously he hasn't had a ton of games as a pro, but had a rough game,
took some bad sacks, and it's created a,
incredible discourse online.
You're either on one side of the fence or the other.
You're saying he didn't get a fair shake of it,
or you're saying he played behind the same offensive line that
Huntley played behind who led a two-minute drive for the game-winning
touchdown, et cetera, et cetera.
I think it's somewhere in the middle, as always.
I think he can be a good quarterback.
He's a rookie.
He's going to learn.
You can't make those plays that you did in college.
you can't take those sacks.
As fits and wit always inform me and educate me because I'm a defensive player.
So I'm not thinking about the way a quarterback is maneuvering to make sure he's not
throwing in completions or how the sacks that they're taking is affecting the offensive line
but not affecting his QBR and completion percentage, et cetera, et cetera.
He's going to have to get over that.
And I think he's trying to make sure the numbers look like they're supposed to look like,
but this is the National Football League,
let the ball go, lift and fight another down, save the yards.
And I think that's going to be the learning curve
for him going forward is that, hey, you can't protect
your completion percentage and all that that way.
You're not going to be able to do it.
If they get to you quick, you're going to have to let it go.
You're going to have to dirt the ball,
and you're going to have to get us to the next play.
It can't be second and 25 and think,
oh, man, we're going to keep taking second and 25s
and try to dig ourselves out of the hole.
you've gone eight for 10 for 140 yards and two touchdowns.
At times it's going to look worse than that.
At times it's going to look like you're, I don't know,
you're going to be eight for 19 for 140 yards
and four or five of those are going to be throwaways
because the pressure got there.
You had nowhere to go with the ball.
You got quick pressure and you had to get the ball.
Like people understand that.
They're watching the games.
That would come off better than taking these sacks.
But that's something a young quarterback is going to learn.
He played really well on his first.
had a rough outing in his second start.
It's football.
Unfortunately, we won't get to see him again unless something drastic happens until next year.
That's the life of a backup quarterback in the National Football League.
There are only 32 starters at the position, and he's behind multiple guys.
Joe Flacco stays relatively healthy, and he's playing really good football.
He's a good quarterback.
If he was playing behind a rookie or a guy who doesn't have,
have a lot of experience, a guy who has a short lease, then there's a chance that they would
rep him in practice. He'd get to develop throughout the season, getting, you know, a few reps
with the starters here and there. Obviously, the starting quarterbacks get majority of the reps.
The backups usually do the scout team, but the Browns keeping four quarterbacks would be
head scratching because there's only a limited amount of spots in NFL. And having three guys who
aren't contributing on game day on your roster, on your active roster,
when you have got, you know, offensive line issues where offensive linemen,
defensive linemen get banged up and you've got to have another guy in the,
on the bench that can come in and play.
I don't know.
I don't know if they're going to do that.
I think this is going to be the position.
I mean, this is the point we've been waiting for to see what they do with Shador
standards, whether they trade him, whether they cut him.
because keeping forward is a head-scratching decision.
I mean, even nowadays, keeping three active is a head-scratcher for a lot of teams
because roster spots are so valuable.
So everybody has to be a contributor, whether it's on special teams,
whether it's an offensive, defensive, you may be the sixth receiver
and you're the punt returner, kick returner.
You have to have a role that you play and impact.
a fourth string quarterback being on the active roster,
it's nothing to say about Shador.
It just doesn't make roster sense in the NFL.
It does not make sense.
That's why they don't do it.
Those are the practice squad quarterbacks who play the scout team.
And usually still, you don't keep four, you keep three.
So this is new.
This is interesting.
I would think they would move him, get the draft pick,
send him somewhere who would value him and need him more than you would need him.
obviously you feel good with Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel.
That's what I've heard.
That's the way the death chart says.
I think they should move him somewhere.
I think the Saints would be a good landing spot.
I think the Las Vegas Raiders, obviously they're looking for a veteran backup,
but that would give them a chance to develop under Pete Carroll and his staff.
I think there are a few destinations that make sense for a rookie.
Pittsburgh, a guy he could go in there and learn from Aaron Rogers, you know, develop behind him, learn that offense, great coach in Tomlin.
But I think you got to move him. I think you got to move him. I think it's becoming too much of a distraction in Cleveland, and that's what a big name quarterback is going to do.
When you drafted him, you knew the name, you knew the acclaim, you knew the hype that comes with him, the crowd, the fanfare.
and now there are there Kevin's the fancy is having to answer questions real life questions each and every press conference about a fourth string quarterback like that's the kind of energy and attention and headlines that Shador Sanders he's Dion Sanders son he's a quarterback is going to be an issue and that's what any other team is going to have to be willing to take on if they trade for him but there are teams where he would be competitive and and I think he could help I think the saints are
one of them. You know, you got a young quarterback who's inexperienced. Can you develop him?
Is there a quarterback competition that could develop there? I'm sure there is. I thought they would
draft him in the beginning. But I don't think it's a good idea for the Browns to keep him as a
fourth-strain quarterback on the active roster when you have so many other holes that you need to
feel when filling out a game day roster, especially your first 53. And if you cut him,
I think one of these teams just picks him up on waivers and you don't see him again.
Like there's no way he's, in my opinion, but I also didn't see him going in the fifth round of the NFL draft.
But I don't think there's a way he makes it through waivers and he comes back to you on practice squad.
That'd be really surprising.
If that happens, then they knew something that we didn't and good job on the Browns and in great decisions.
And it makes sense.
But I don't think he makes it through waivers.
I think there are teams that would poach him.
and do exactly what I said.
You'd be on their practice squad or on their active roster.
So I'm interested to see how that goes.
There are people making a lot of noise about the offensive line he played against.
I mean, play behind, this is the NFL.
That's what happens.
That's what happens.
You know, these guys at the end of a preseason, the third preseason game,
these are likely the guys that are getting cut.
Most of these guys, unless somebody does something incredible.
there are receivers, you can go for 200 yards and you're probably still getting cut.
The decisions are likely already made.
These are just guys getting a chance to put things on tape.
Audition for the other 31 teams that can potentially pick you up after you get cut,
whether it's practice squad or active roster.
It's an audition, but it's not like this is something really crazy.
And I know people are like, man, he set him up for failure.
I didn't understand not allowing him to do the two-minute drill.
I think that just might have been their rotation.
They gave them, they had a certain amount of plays.
that they wanted him to do.
Then they wanted to give Huntley an opportunity
before they cut him the next day.
Those are things that wouldn't look as unusual
in another situation,
but look unusual in this situation
because of all the attention on Chador.
I think Chador is going to be successful in the NFL.
I think when you put him behind an offensive line
that isn't very good and he gets early pressure
in his rookie year is going to be tough.
He's out there with third stringers,
third string receivers.
It's going to be tough.
but I don't think that's an indication of, you know,
where his career is going to trend or where he's going to go.
I think that's just a rookie dealing with rough circumstances.
He'll continue to develop something he'll learn for him, watch the tape, and improve.
You've got to throw the ball away.
You've got to get rid of it.
You can't take those sacks.
It's not hard to understand for me or anybody else.
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But this preseason, we can talk about the Seattle Seahawks, that that I'm wearing.
They had a really great training camp and great preseason, had great conversations with Mike
McDonald and just the changes that he made.
Obviously, you guys seen the interview, but outside of the interview, had more conversations.
and it's just a different energy with the team.
It's a different energy from him,
a different understanding in year two,
some tweaks and some adjustments.
Obviously, on the offensive side of the ball,
the running game looks totally different.
It looks like they have an identity, a toughness.
Gray Zabel looks really good.
Obviously, there's going to be some learning there,
but there's a togetherness in the offensive line room
that hasn't been there in over a decade.
and not that they haven't had good teams.
It's just a different kind of continuity, a different kind of togetherness,
brotherhood, chemistry, whatever you want to call it,
guys that respect each other and want to show up for each other
and sacrifice for one another.
You start to hear that in an offensive line room.
You start to say, okay, all right, this could be a special group
because that's not the case everywhere.
That's not the case in every locker room or every offensive line
where there's going to be, hey, man, I'm, I'm,
let me tape my wrist up today because I don't want to let my brother down.
He's dependent on me to be in the spot I'm going to be in.
Like, offensive line rooms are the big fellas.
They are together.
They protectors and all that good stuff.
But sometimes there's a selfishness to them.
You know, if I'm hurt, I'm going to take care of myself and get myself right before I go out there and not put anything bad on film.
That's natural in the National Football League.
But when you start to hear guys saying they're going to sacrifice, they're going to tape up,
they're going to make sure to go out there, even if they're not 100 percent.
they banged up because they're not letting their brother down,
then those are guys that are playing for something else
and playing with a little more ump.
And so that's the conversations that I'm hearing
around the building when you go in there
and you talk to the offensive line
and you talk to the coaches and the staff and other players.
And you see that on tape.
You see that mid zone, that split zone,
that outside zone working really effectively,
Charbonnet and all the other backs
had some real success in this preseason.
for I think 268 yards against Kansas City Chiefs,
not that the Kansas City Chiefs had, you know,
their world beaters out there.
But that doesn't happen very often in any preseason game.
I mean, I don't know this entire preseason in any other game
if a team ran for 268.
So that's an encouraging sign,
especially with the struggles they had running the football last year
and how that will open up the past game with JSCN and Cooper Cup
and all those guys.
It's going to be interesting.
And defensively, they just are.
or playing with a fire and intensity that hasn't been there in years.
They're playing with a confidence, energy.
I mean, you've seen the fights and all that in Green Bay.
You don't want to see that,
but you also see guys standing up for one another
and coming up and handling business.
They're not taking, they're not taking no shit from people.
And that's what it's about.
It's about imposing your will on defense.
You're running, you're hitting.
You're not about to bully us.
You're not about to punk us.
Like, we're here.
And they played a lot of this preseason without their starters.
You know, you haven't played.
Jay Reid, you haven't had Leonard Williams out there.
You're not playing with all your starters,
your big boys up front, Demarcus Lawrence.
You're not playing with all the guys that are going to be there on opening day.
And so I'm really excited for them and what they're going to be defensively,
offensively.
If they're running a ball like that, what it's going to open up for the past game,
it looks like they're going to be something special this year,
but they got to put it together and put it on tape.
So we'll see.
But it's been encouraging things going on for the Seattle Seahawks.
And the fans, you guys should be really excited.
So let me switch my cap from my other 10.
That's have for Chivisko 49ers.
And again, a very top-heavy roster full of some of the best players
in the National Football League,
evidence by the top 100 rankings or whatever.
But you still got Trent Williams.
Healthy Christian McCaffrey, by all accounts, looks very good, looks dynamic.
They traded for Brian Robinson, which I think is an incredible move.
Isaac Garindo, if he gets healthy, you know, be another contributor.
But a veteran in Brian, I think he's been a good back.
I think he had 800 yards and eight touchdowns last year.
Fred Warner
All-Pro Fred Bosa
These are premier guys
that are premier positions
who are going to help this team
Ricky Persol looked good
in the
in the preseason games he's played
the connection with Brock Purdy
looks like it's incredible
George Kittle of course
the All-Pro best tight-in in football
I think that's going to be a fun
it's going to come down to how healthy they can be, but that offensive line.
And the same issues that have presented itself for the last few years
are the same issues that are still there, can they stand up in pass pro?
They've shown success, enough success in the run game to get that respect and to think,
hey, it's going to be fine.
They're going to be able to run the football.
Christian McCaffrey is going to find the holes.
They're going to be fine there.
But can everybody outside of Trent Williams hold up in pass pro?
and protect Brock Purdy and give him the time to be the efficient quarterback that he has been when he's protected and he's got time to deal.
He's a really effective quarterback, but no quarterback's effective when he gets pressure or pocket collapses.
And that's been the Achilles heel of this offense.
And that was the Achilles heel of this offense last year.
Obviously, there was some separation issues at the receiver spot that Joanne Jennings solved a lot of times, especially on third.
down, that situation is starting to get to be what I, what I kind of hinted at earlier
in training camp, like this calf, we're at the end of August now.
So it's starting to seem more like, like posturing than an actual injury.
And again, this is how it goes.
This is how negotiations goes.
A guy wants something, he is using what is in his means, what is in his
ability to, within the constructs of his contract, to negotiate.
The leverage that he has, he's exercising.
It is what it is.
I'm not, look, you guys can be mad at it.
I've been a player.
I want him to get as much money as they can.
You got to do what you got to do.
Now, as a fan, you want him to play.
You know how he's going to make an impact.
This could be a great season for him, a season that propels him into an even bigger
stratosphere and a bigger contract.
but he's doing what he can to try to secure his family and secure the bag right now.
Can't really be mad at that.
But they're going to have to figure it out.
They're going to have to figure out what they're going to do with him,
whether they move on from him and trade him or they pay him so that he's out there on week one.
But he's going to be a pivotal part of this offense going forward,
especially with Brandon I, you sideline till at least week six to week 10,
depending on how he progresses.
You need him there.
You need this young receiving court to have a veteran there.
Brock Purdy to have a guy he knows he can depend on a guy you know can separate,
can get open in a phone booth.
And Joanne Jennings is there.
He's also a tone setter for this offense.
He's also the attitude, the energy, the muscle, along with, you know, George Kitto and everybody else.
But he brings a different element.
He brings that element of a bully, an attitude to this team and this offense.
And so it's something that's necessary, especially opening the game in Seattle against the Seattle Seahawks,
who have looked really good in the preseason, looked really good in training camp,
a defense that's going to be trying to impose their will and create an identity and establish an identity.
You're going to need to, you're going to need him on the field.
Kyle Shanahan said he expects him to be ready week one.
He expects him to be back for week one.
That's a positive sign.
that's great.
But we'll have to hear about him going to practice and going through the motions and practice.
If he's there, week one, that'd be a great sign for this offense.
But defensively, still a lot of question marks.
I'm sure there's going to be some waiver-wire pickups, even though on the offensive and defensive line,
there's going to be some waiver-wire pickups.
Are those draft picks who you thought they were?
playing defensive tackle as a rookie in a national football league is rough.
This is a veteran game.
And some of these offensive lines, they have people movers.
And so you usually want to have that big veteran in there who's been established
that crusty veteran plays first and second down, does not move,
understands double teams, understands, you know, how to keep them off as linebackers,
et cetera, et cetera.
So I'm expecting them to be very active on the waiver wire and in free agency.
once these cuts happen or in the trades.
Obviously, they traded for Sky more as well because the receiving core has been so depleted.
Are they going to use him in that Debo-Sam your role, you know, on the end of rounds, in the backfield to try to continue to have that dynamic that Kyle Shanahan has had for the last five years?
I think so.
Obviously, he's also a talented returner, and they'll use him in that space.
but I think they've got to make some moves
to strengthen the depth of their offensive and defensive line
and the only way they can do that right now
is through trades or picking up guys that have been cut or released.
The secondary is also banged up.
So you got to get it together.
You got to get together.
Hopefully these guys, up and stout is ready.
Renardo Green is ready for week one.
That would answer a lot of those questions.
If they're healthy, I think they'll be solid back there.
Renardo showed a lot of flashes.
Obviously, we know what Diomador-Lanour has.
The linebackers will be great.
But in the special teams, looks like it improved.
You know, big play.
There were a few big plays in the preseason.
You know, I know fans are really concerned about Jake Moody
because that's the wild card.
You're not ever supposed to be holding your breath for PATs with a kicker or every kick.
You're like, you know, it's just going to be.
It's just going in.
You want consistency.
You want to have an expectation, hey, these are dependable.
You can get three.
You can get three.
This is the national football league.
Hey, you're within the 40.
You're inside the 40.
You know this is three.
And that's what they had for a long time with Robbie Gold.
And I know San Francisco fans are sitting there like some of them are like,
We're ready to get rid of Robbie, and now you're looking back like, oh, looking at pictures of Robbie, like, hmm, that sure was nice to have that kind of consistency.
But it looks like they're rolling with Jake Moody.
I would guess he's going to have a short leash if things don't go well in the first few games or something happens and he doesn't kick well.
I would imagine that they're going to bring other people in, but they seem to believe that he's the guy for the job and they continue to show confidence in him.
He did hit the game winner the other day in the preseason game.
But then you see the MISTAT and then the kick out of bounds and you're like,
come on.
But it looks like he's going to be the guy.
So wrap your heads around that.
He's going to be the guy.
He's going to be out there.
Hopefully he shows the promise that he showed when they drafted him in the third round.
Because if he doesn't, I think they're going to be picketing outside of Levi to get to bringing
bringing a new kicker.
But there's going to be a lot of players available.
It's the cut deadline.
There's going to be people that are cut that you weren't expecting.
There's going to be players that available that I think weren't available earlier.
Here in safety, Kyle Dugger is available.
The Patriots have made him available.
It looks like the San Francisco 49ers have made Jair Brown available as well.
So there's going to be a lot of things that change.
I don't think you're going to find any guys you're going to bring in
and make immediate starters.
Maybe at the receiver spot, you may find guys that are impact players.
But I think you're going to see your roster change pretty, not drastically,
but pretty reasonably as these cuts happen and players become available.
I expect the San Francisco for Donors as much as anybody to be out.
active, especially offensive and defensive line depth.
And at the receiver spot, like if they can get him,
I'm seeing Jacoby Myers is looking for a trade out of Las Vegas.
I doubt they grant him that.
He's been their number one receiver.
We'll see.
We'll see.
But as always, I appreciate you guys joining me.
You can be anywhere in the world, but you choose to be here with me,
getting your NFL news, and I sure do appreciate it.
We're going to be back with a season preview.
And more updates as these cuts and trades and transactions happen.
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