May 16, 2024 • 29 mins
Colin can't contain himself with the release of the NFL's schedule and what his biggest takeaways are. He points out the Bears specifically have an easy start to their season with new franchise QB Caleb Williams. Plus, 2-time Super Bowl champion Jimmy Johnson joins the show to give is thoughts on the Cowboys upcoming season
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh here we go. Schedule release, Uncle calling up all
night live in LA. It's the Herd wherever you may
be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making
us part of your day. I got today. I have
j mac Schrager's on the show, Jimmy Johnson, Tom Rinaldi's
(00:47):
like a layup thro I'm just gonna, you know, keep
the warmups on easy show.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh boy, I'll do a lot of NFL talk about
my Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I know. I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna let
you talk about them first on the show that we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Do thirty seconds on the maps in then NFL.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, because I know it's your team and I've been
a I pushed back on it, so I'm gonna let
you and headline have the first crack at the mass today,
but you know, I get first crack at the schedule
because I love this. So there's a lot of different schedules.
The NFL's incredibly strategic. They gave Netflix and Amazon really
good schedules. The streaming giants the richest companies. They can
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see the future. But you know what I thought of
when I saw the Pittsburgh Steeler schedule. I thought Justin
Fields looked at that thing and went, oh, I'm gonna
get some snaps. Justin Field's gonna get some snaps. That
is the toughest schedule I have ever seen Thanksgiving on
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in league history. Art Rooney, the second of the Steelers owners, said, well,
it's not the way I would have put it up,
but we'll do the best we can. Mike Tomlin has
never had a losing season. He's going to have a
losing season, and he'll get hired immediately by one of
the streaming giants to be the analyst, maybe Fox, who
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knows to be the analyst on TV, in which I
believe he'll be absolutely phenomenal, like Sean Payton was, maybe
even better. But they end the year with a declining
quarterback Russell Wilson and a kid behind him that wants
to play. They end the year with Lamar Jackson twice,
Deshaun Watson twice, Joe Burrow twice, Patrick Mahomes, and Jalen Hurts.
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Thanks for flying United. That is brutal. Mike Tomlins never
had a losing season. I've defended him, but I've never
seen anything like that. Now, some of that's just the
division's tough and the quarterbacks are good. But to stack
it like that eight straight weeks, Lamar DeShawn Burrow, DeShawn Hurts,
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Lamar Mahomes, Burrow'd like college football getting three Georgia's, two
Bama's and in Ohio State and the Clemson in a row.
There's just attrition after a while. You can't go into
a game with quarterback deficits week after week. Now. Conversely,
I did think there were three teams that got a
little bit of a break, some of it their own doing.
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Like people are lamenting what the Niners got. All they
face all these teams off of bye. Not every coach
is great off of bye. The offensive coaches are, so
the Niners are a veteran team with a veteran head
coach so this is a really, really smart team that
can play on short rest. They're not rebuilding anything. They
get whufun go back at safety. They've got a couple
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of young receivers they'll work in. But they kept Debo Kittle,
Trent Williams, pretty CMC Brandon and I. They brought the
band back and look what they face until October tenth.
New new, new new Jets in their new offensive line, Minnesota,
two new quarterbacks, New England knew everything. Seattle new coach
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really last two years, rebuilt the defense now no Aaron
Donald new new with a veteran high Q offense, adaptable
against kids, young staffs, young old lines, new old lines,
new defenses. Very very good start for the Niners, who
don't need help because they're stacked. I also thought the
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Dallas Cowboys got a bit of a break. Dallas is
top heavy in a little fin they can't afford injuries
down the stretch. And the three most physical teams they
play in, the three best Baltimore, Detroit, and San Francisco,
they get all of them before week nine. They get
them off the schedule, probably at their healthiest. Baltimore week three,
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Detroit three weeks later, off of bye, they get the
Niners off of by the three best rosters they face,
one of them off a bye by the way, having
gotten beat and buy him they'll have a little revenge factor,
and then two other roster. They're all off the board
by week eight, and the Cowboys at the end of
the year get a lot of young quarterbacks and average
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quarterbacks as they're fighting Philadelphia, Washington, and maybe the Giants
for a playoff spot. That worked in Dallas's favor in
my opinion, easy late tough games done by late October.
I also thought the NFL wants the San Diego Chargers
and Jim Harbaugh to go two to zero. LA Chargers. Sorry,
you can argue the two weakest easiest games on their
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schedule are at home against the rebuilding Raiders. Right new
staff knew everything in room. Coach now head coach new
GM new now new. You can argue Raiders at home
and Carolina Panthers. That's what the LA Chargers would have
signed up for. They also end the season where it's
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a bunch of men Denver, New England, Vegas, Tampa. Seems
like to me, harball off a natty with a high
profile Michigan program is good for the NFL. He is
a polarizing head coach, quirky. NFL is saying, we're gonna
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give you two to o start. Now, here's a schedule
that on paper, and I've told you this, the NFL
is very strategic. On paper, the Jets schedule looks easy
because they don't face a lot of great quarterbacks. But
the NFL made it as hard as it could because
the Jets generally unraffle as a franchise. So the NFL said,
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We're gonna squeeze all the juice out of this orange.
In the first three, four, five, six weeks, the Jets
have five short week games, six late night TV games,
one international game, six primetime games in the first eleven weeks.
So the NFL is saying, like when Russell Wilson got
to Denver, we don't know how this is going to go.
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Let's get all week Canada, Russell Denver first year with Hackett,
it goes sideways. You're protected. They're doing the same thing
with the Jets. They don't know what The Jets are
got an impulsive owner, a coach in the hot seat,
Aaron's old off, a surgery. Let's go heavy Jets, early
short weeks, international night games. That's the toughest Jet schedule
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possible because on paper it's easy, but I want to
save some time for this team, and this team selfishly
is good for Fox. So the AFC has got more
star quarterbacks, and star quarterbacks are good for ratings. Chicago
has never had really a truly star quarterback, and there
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is a belief they finally have one. And I actually
looked at the Bear schedule and look at what they did.
It's a lot like Houston last year with CJ. Stroud.
They get no elite defenses from last year until November seventeenth.
They got no elite defense Tennessee, Indie, rams Is, Young Carolina, Jacksonville, Washington, Arizona,
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New England. They don't face a top ten defense from
last year until November seventeenth. Caleb Williams isn't opening with
the Niners or the Chiefs or the raven Nope, nope, nope, no, no,
it's a lot of average defenses. He also, Caleb and
Chicago get a lot of ten AM Pacific, one AM Eastern,
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a lot of early window games. They're only on primetime
three times. Two of those are Week fifteen in week seventeen,
not under the microscope, not big pressurized games, Nope, couple
of primetimers late one. In week two. They also get
to open a quarterback event. Will Levis rebuilt staff, that's
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the opener. Tennessee's the opener. That's a good opener, right,
rebuilding their receiving core, brand new coaching staff, rebuilding a roster,
one of the weaker rosters in the NFL. So you
get no elite defenses early Tennessee to open, no really
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heavy microscope games of note. Week two. You're on national TV,
but you know it is Chicago. Here's the other thing.
Look at the quarterbacks all through this, Drake May, Jalen Daniels,
Bryce Young, Will Levis, Anthony Richardson, JJ McCarthy Week twelve.
So the Minnesota Week twelve game, you could put that
as the opener, and you're gonna get a Sam Darnold.
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If they go sideways, they'll be playing JJ McCarthy Week nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
They also don't give the Bears any of those like
nitty gritty divisional games Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay, those intense
rivalry games that feel different than average games. They don't
get any of those. Caleb Williams doesn't get any of
those until week eleven. So I thought, this reminds me
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a lot of Houston last year. Remember CJ Shroud. They
open up with the Ravens, whoa the Bears. Week two,
get a national champion or a national TV game, right, big, big,
big game, exclusive game. And then if you go back
to that Houston schedule, they built confidence and momentum off.
You know, Desmond Ritter in Atlanta, Colt Saints, box Steelers
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with Kenny Pickett. All of a sudden, this young team
with a rookie quarterback and a young coach, you're not
sure to meet go Ryans. I'm not sure if they're good,
but they're playing like they're good. I'm not sure if
they're good, but they certainly believe they're good because they're
beaten pretty average and below average teams. So I thought, Chicago,
and it's good for our business. You know, I love Chicago.
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I mean, they're not facing any of those big divisional games,
not a lot of microscope games. It's a lot of
ten am windows. You open with Tennessee, it's no elite defenses.
Early you look at that schedule you could have faced
opening week San Francisco, Green Bay at Lambeau, early Detroit.
A couple of times. They don't face Detroit until Thanksgiving.
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Caleb Williams canna have all these starts before he faces
the best, most talented roster in his division, Detroit. I
thought the Bears got a little bit of a break.
It was as if the NFL said, you know, it'd
be nice if we could have one of our major
markets for our broadcasting partner. Since New York's in the toilet,
the New York Giants are in the toilet, it'd be
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nice if we could, you know, make Chicago something. I mean,
we have the La Rams, but La is more of
a basketball baseball market half the time. It'd be nice
if Chicago. I don't know if Chicago's gonna be good,
but that's a groove schedule. That's the opposite of the Steelers.
That is a groove schedule. And j Mac I gotta
be honest when I looked at the Chargers schedule, pretty
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easy when you have a Mahomes and division. Let's say
bo Nix is okay but not special. You're right, eight
and a half wins take the over on the Chargers.
That was my initial take when I looked at the
beginning the closing, I'm like, take the over on the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, I mean, that's probably a smart move. I'm surprised
you glossed over the Jets in that cupcake filled schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, but it's a weird I mean, I'm you can
tell what they do with the schedule. We don't know
what's going to happen at the end of it, so
let's just get them on television, you know, six times
in the first weeks. And by the way, you know,
if you ask most veteran quarterbacks, their creatures have habit.
They don't like night games. Brady hated them, Peyton Manning
hated him, Big Ben didn't like him. You want to
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go to your family. Young guys don't care. Old quarterbacks
generally don't love all the night games, all the off
schedule games, the exclusive game. Nobody wants to play on Thursdays.
Jets got a lot of weird night short week games.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So you know, you can do exotic bets during the
NFL season. There's a million of them. One of them
is last team to be undefeated. Okay, if the Jets
can get by San Francisco big if obviously.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
They're they're you know, underdogs.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
If they win that game, there is a decent chance
they will be the last undefeated team in the NFL.
Because they follow sanfran with Tennessee, they're gonna be big favorites.
New England, big favorites, Denver, big favorites, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
We don't even know who.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Their starting quarterback is.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Hold up, hold up.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And then it's versus Buffalo at home, and remember the Jets.
Historically you split with Buffalo and have played them well
at home. Then it's Pittsburgh, New England. These are all
teams with win totals in the five to six seven range.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Colin, I'm not I'm trying to contain the excitement.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But it's hard.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's very difficult right now. This team, the arrow's pointing up.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I'm feeling good. Well, they haven't played since the end
of last year's disaster, so I'm going to have a
more tempered If Rogers can get through the first five snaps,
I think we're in good shape, you know, right, I
like that. Take the Boston Celtics. It hit me last
night and it should hit you if you're a Celtics fan.
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This has not been what they wanted, and I'll explain
that coming up.
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Speaker 1 (14:11):
So hey, stop me if you've heard it before. The
Celtics sleep walk through the East and make the Eastern
Conference Finals again, and once again it's a team that's
falling apart. Calves have no Donovan Mitchell, Chris Lavert, Jared
all Karris Lavert, Jared Allen. Bad team match, just like
a that's just not a good team when you're missing
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those guys. Evan Mobley crossed your fingers. Just not enough offense.
And so you know, fans are like, yeah, blowout. But
then you go look at the West and the intensity
and the relentlessness of OKC Dallas and the t Wolves
in Denver. You think Boston's ready for a street fight.
And up next is the Knicks missing for their top
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eight players. So Miami fell apart, Cleveland falls apart, New
York falls apart. Look, you can watch the Celtics sleepwalking
walk through the park week rosters that were week before
being riddled by injuries, Boston. Think about this, clinched the
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number one seed March twenty fifth. How seven weeks ago?
It's May sixteenth, seven weeks ago, and now they walk
through two injury riddled rosters going to a third injury
depleted roster because the Knicks are gonna beat Indiana eventually.
I know you're thinking, hey, we're getting rested. I don't
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know if you can flip a switch. Charles Barkley talked
about what he saw with Boston.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
They had the worst offense I've seen for grown folks.
Like it's like it's like they just get a ball
to one guy and go one on one. They win
a lot of games because they got talent, but there's
it's like, what are they doing. It's like, here's a
you get to the top of key, go one on
one shoes, step back three dayleen, you go back there,
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you make a move, everybody just stands around. It's frustrated.
I don't maybe some things have changed when pausingis come back,
but the way they play offense right now, they can't
win a championship like that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Again. Boston wrapped up the number one seed March twenty fifth.
Now think about that, Caitlin Clark has gone into the
Final four, played for a Natty done Saturday Night Live,
had some rest, gone to camp, got drafted, played through
a preseason, and played a regular season game or two
since the last time they clinched. The last time they
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played a game a good team, not a great team
before they clinched was the Phoenix Suns on March fourteenth.
And you think, you think in the June you're gonna
meet Denver, OKC, Dallas, maybe Minnesota. Those guys have been
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in street fights, intense playing from behind. Defensive players of
the year. You gotta loud, Dort got, Rudy Gobert, Aaron Gordon.
I don't know, and like Eastern Conference finals. Fine, and
I know there's the flip of switch thing, but Jason
Tatum signing a three hundred million plus contract after the year,
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Jalen Brown just signed it this year. So this is
the best the roster's ever gonna be. And these Western
teams like Minnesota and OKC, they're just getting better. They
got all the draft capital, so like this is the
year to get them. You don't want to face Okay,
see if they win this Dallas series and you have
to face them next year, with that confidence and other
draft picks and other deals you don't want to face.
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You want to face OKC. Now you want to face
these young teams. Now you want to face ANT. Now
you don't want to face ANT Next year when we
average thirty four, they've moved off towns and got a
more reliable number two score. Here's Draymond Green on another
Eastern Conference champampionship.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Kenny say, they're the winning this duo over the last
five years in basketball, and that's true. No one cares
because there no one cares. No one cares at all.
They're at that point now where you need to win
a championship. Getting to the conference finals every year don't
matter anymore. And how you know that they're at that
point because that's actually affecting Jason Tatum MVP voting in
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the last couple of years, because no one wants to
see you win every year in the regular season, get
to the conference finals, and then not finish the job.
So this is good, obviously it's a stepping on the way,
but no one cares that they're going back to the
Eastern Conference finals again.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I just I watch the West and I watch how
hard Denver's having the Battle Minnesota, Dallas battling OKC. And
I watch that stuff. Jimmy Butler out, the Knicks beat up,
I mean Lavert, Allen Donovan, Mitchell out. I don't know.
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I don't see it. Poor Zingles will help, but I
don't see it. I think it's hurt them. The East
is hurting them.
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Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Jimmy Johnson two super Bowl champions, nine seasons in the NFL,
also a legend at Miami, so it's interesting he lives
down in Miami. He coached at Miami twice NFL in college.
So I was thinking, when we were bringing you on today,
how did you look Because you're Miami's tropical So did
you look at that? What was home and advantage? Did
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you look at your NFL schedule and go, okay, we
got to go up north all through you know, December.
How did you view it as a Miami coach college
or pro let's let's stick mostly pro.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Well, the first thing I looked at it was late
in the season, if I had to go north, and
if I was going to have to order me some
thermal underwear. We didn't like going into the cold weather.
But as far as you know, the Dolphin Games and
the University of Miami early in the season, we felt
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like it was an advantage because our guys practiced in
the heat and in the humidity and they were accustomed
to it. You know a lot of times in the
fourth quarter, the opponents they would struggle because they weren't
accustomed to that humidity and that heat.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I thought it was interesting. Mike Zimmer is a very
smart defensive coordinatories now in Dallas. I actually thought us
got a little bit of a break in their schedule,
so it's gonna take Michael while to get that defense
up and running. And if you start looking at November, December,
January for the Cowboys, I mean they're facing Jaden Daniels twice,
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Daniel Jones Carolina. It's a lot of young and average quarterbacks. Now,
am I overstating the fact that Zimmer will need time
to get the defense right? But I look at that
and I think, boy, that's about the time Zimmer's defense
comes into its own. What do you make of it?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah, I think that could be an advantage if they
are still confident and if they're healthy going into last
part of their season. You know, they've got some difficult
games right off the bat. You know, for instance, they
go up to Cleveland, a great defense. You know they're
gonna have a young offensive line that's gonna struggle against
you know, that pass rush of Cleveland. Then the third
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week they've got Baltimore, you know, a physical football team.
I think the big thing is, you know, the Cowboys
have got to survive the early part of the season.
They've got to survive not only confidence wise, but also
health wise. And if they do that, they can finish strong.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, so I actually thought, I mean, you know, the
NFL is strategic. You know they got they got the
Kansas City Chiefs on eight different networks. You know, they
know what they want to do. They gave Jim Harbaughs
two easiest games to start the season. I'm like, oh,
they want Jimmy to go to and zero. But it's interesting.
I watched Chicago and Caleb Williams, and you know, at Fox,
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we would love for Chicago to be good. It's good
for your pregame show, it's good for our ratings. Jimmy.
That's Chicago schedule. Not only do they open with Tennessee,
they don't play at top ten defense until week eleven. Jimmy,
they don't play the Packers, Lions, or Vikings a divisional
game until week eleven. I looked at that and I thought, man,
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that's a little bit of a break. They're not on
national TV much early. I kind of thought, if I would,
did you like to have your divisional games earlier late?
If you have a young quarterback.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Well, with the young quarterback, you'd like to have him late.
Because with Caleb Williams young, he's going to be a
player that is going to make some spectacular plays, because
you know he's that talented. But by the same token,
he's a rookie, and you know he's got a good
supporting cast. I think they've got a good football team
around him. If they can have some success early, he
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could come on strong there at the end of the
season when they have to play those division games.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You know, I, Jimmy, offensive line is an interesting position.
You told me once there's not a lot of great
offensive line coaches, even at your Miami powerhouse Hurricanes. The
old line is the place you often struggle to get
the five star guys. And because of the new CBA,
they don't hit as much in practice. Veterans don't play
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in the preseason. And I looked at Aaron rodgers new
offensive line with three new guys, a rookie from Penn State,
and I thought that they open with San Francisco, And
I thought, that's not a good opener for Aaron Rodgers.
He's got four new offensive linemen. What do you make
of an older quarterback coming off an achilles surgery with
a brand new offensive line? That worries me a little
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early in the season. Should it.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
The offensive line that's going to struggle or because of
any experience, would have a bigger problem if they had
a young quarterback. They've got a quarterback with Rodgers that's
gonna get rid of the football. Now. He may not
make a lot of completions way down the field, but
he's not going to take a lot of hits, and
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I think because of his savvy, I think he'll be
able to protect that offensive line until they can kind
of get the experience and get the roll in here
later in the season. The other thing is with the Jets,
they've got a strong enough defense that you know, they
can probably win some games, you know, just for their defense,
as long as their offense doesn't turn it over. And
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you know, Rogers will be really good at protecting the ball.
So I think that they're going to have a little
bit of a cushion with that offensive line getting some experience.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Tom Brady, our new colleague at Fox, had an interesting
quote about c. J. Stroud, and he was talking about
his humility and he said, you know, there is a
way to win and a way to lose, and a
way to celebrate as a quarterback. It may not be
that for a corner, an off ball linebacker, a guard,
but quarterback is different. I mean I watched the old
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films with you and Aikman, and he is a coach
on that when you're when you're got the headset on,
he's back there coaching. And I want you to address
that because I've been saying this for years. It does
bother me if I see Ego, if I see her
on twelve commercials before you've done anything. But I but
if you say that to fans, they don't want to
hear it. How did you view it?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yeah, you like for the quarterback to be one of
the guys. You know, Troy's best friends was the offensive line,
that's who he hung out with. In fact, his best
friend was probably the deep snapper, you know, an offensive
blindman and Dale hell straight, you know, so they created
a bond. The main thing, you know, you're going to
go through some adversity, and so you want the entire team,
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you know, to be backing your quarterback and liking your
quarterback rather than being somewhat jealous of him doing a
bunch of commercials and having a bunch of comments that
might offend him. Right, So, yeah, you know, the quarterback's
got to be one of the guys. But the main
thing is they've got to respect him, and he's got
to have credibility with that group. You know, you don't
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want them being jealous of him, and you don't want
them not liking him.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Finally, there's the question about Tua and I really like him.
I think he's he reminds me of Dak. He says
the right stuff, he's respectful. I think the players like him.
He's a good kid. He works hard. I worry about
his size. I worry about winning games in January in
the North. His ball doesn't cut through it. I worry
about his injury history. Jimmy, you knew the draft before
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anybody else figured it out. You understood the cap. Listen,
you start paying quarterbacks mid fifties. You can't keep a
second tight end, a third good corner. You have to
make sacrifices. What are they going to do in Miami
with two of the cap and the extension? What would
you do?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I think you know they're in a situation where they
have to extend him number one to a state healthy
last year, which he did a plus and so yeah,
I think that they have figured out, you know how
to protect him, you know how to keep him healthy.
And what kind of supporting cast to give him. But yeah,
he deserves an extension and he will get an extension.
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I think he's a good quarterback, and you know, I
like what he does. He doesn't have the same talents
that some other quarterbacks have, but he's a winning quarterback.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, all right, Jimmy, it's eighty one. You said today
in Miami, it's a little chilly here? Do it like today?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So let's see what time. I want to see what
time it is. So it's eleven twelve, So it's two
twenty eight right now. You live down So what is
a guy in Miami? Is a Hall of Fame coach?
At two thirty in the afternoon, you're going to wrap
up this? What is the rest of your daylight? Because
I like to live vicariously through your life. What is
the rest of your day?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Like?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Well, I'll probably turn on the horse races and make
a few wagers on the horse races for a few hours,
and then I've been really into those NBA playoffs. I've
been watching them every single night. Of course, my main
man worldwide West and Leon rose up there with the Knicks. Yeah,
I'm pulling for the Knicks here. Tomorrow night. And so
(28:57):
a little bit of horse racing this afternoon, little bit
of NBA tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
And then I watched a little golf. You know, Tiger
was one over today in the PGA. Uh and Sheff
Loop you know there they're going to have an outstanding
PGA tournament this weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
That's some life. Awquaal Water. Got a couple of boats outside.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Hey, and I may go fishing this weekend. I caught
a nice little mahi the other day.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know what, man, that you've You've earned it. That
is a hell of a life. Open up. Have one
Heineken for me. I know two's your limit.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Have one for me, Honeken silver. You know they've got
to cut down on the calories. I'm watching my weight.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right. You don't need to, but okay, talk to you.
Good seeing okay, Colin. All right,
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh here we go. Schedule release, Uncle calling up all
night live in LA. It's the Herd wherever you may
be and however you may be listening. Thanks for making
us part of your day. I got today. I have
j mac Schrager's on the show, Jimmy Johnson, Tom Rinaldi's
(00:47):
like a layup thro I'm just gonna, you know, keep
the warmups on easy show.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh boy, I'll do a lot of NFL talk about
my Mavericks.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, I know. I'm gonna let you. I'm gonna let
you talk about them first on the show that we'll.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Do thirty seconds on the maps in then NFL.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, because I know it's your team and I've been
a I pushed back on it, so I'm gonna let
you and headline have the first crack at the mass today,
but you know, I get first crack at the schedule
because I love this. So there's a lot of different schedules.
The NFL's incredibly strategic. They gave Netflix and Amazon really
good schedules. The streaming giants the richest companies. They can
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see the future. But you know what I thought of
when I saw the Pittsburgh Steeler schedule. I thought Justin
Fields looked at that thing and went, oh, I'm gonna
get some snaps. Justin Field's gonna get some snaps. That
is the toughest schedule I have ever seen Thanksgiving on
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in league history. Art Rooney, the second of the Steelers owners, said, well,
it's not the way I would have put it up,
but we'll do the best we can. Mike Tomlin has
never had a losing season. He's going to have a
losing season, and he'll get hired immediately by one of
the streaming giants to be the analyst, maybe Fox, who
(02:08):
knows to be the analyst on TV, in which I
believe he'll be absolutely phenomenal, like Sean Payton was, maybe
even better. But they end the year with a declining
quarterback Russell Wilson and a kid behind him that wants
to play. They end the year with Lamar Jackson twice,
Deshaun Watson twice, Joe Burrow twice, Patrick Mahomes, and Jalen Hurts.
(02:32):
Thanks for flying United. That is brutal. Mike Tomlins never
had a losing season. I've defended him, but I've never
seen anything like that. Now, some of that's just the
division's tough and the quarterbacks are good. But to stack
it like that eight straight weeks, Lamar DeShawn Burrow, DeShawn Hurts,
(02:52):
Lamar Mahomes, Burrow'd like college football getting three Georgia's, two
Bama's and in Ohio State and the Clemson in a row.
There's just attrition after a while. You can't go into
a game with quarterback deficits week after week. Now. Conversely,
I did think there were three teams that got a
little bit of a break, some of it their own doing.
(03:14):
Like people are lamenting what the Niners got. All they
face all these teams off of bye. Not every coach
is great off of bye. The offensive coaches are, so
the Niners are a veteran team with a veteran head
coach so this is a really, really smart team that
can play on short rest. They're not rebuilding anything. They
get whufun go back at safety. They've got a couple
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of young receivers they'll work in. But they kept Debo Kittle,
Trent Williams, pretty CMC Brandon and I. They brought the
band back and look what they face until October tenth.
New new, new new Jets in their new offensive line, Minnesota,
two new quarterbacks, New England knew everything. Seattle new coach
(04:00):
really last two years, rebuilt the defense now no Aaron
Donald new new with a veteran high Q offense, adaptable
against kids, young staffs, young old lines, new old lines,
new defenses. Very very good start for the Niners, who
don't need help because they're stacked. I also thought the
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Dallas Cowboys got a bit of a break. Dallas is
top heavy in a little fin they can't afford injuries
down the stretch. And the three most physical teams they
play in, the three best Baltimore, Detroit, and San Francisco,
they get all of them before week nine. They get
them off the schedule, probably at their healthiest. Baltimore week three,
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Detroit three weeks later, off of bye, they get the
Niners off of by the three best rosters they face,
one of them off a bye by the way, having
gotten beat and buy him they'll have a little revenge factor,
and then two other roster. They're all off the board
by week eight, and the Cowboys at the end of
the year get a lot of young quarterbacks and average
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quarterbacks as they're fighting Philadelphia, Washington, and maybe the Giants
for a playoff spot. That worked in Dallas's favor in
my opinion, easy late tough games done by late October.
I also thought the NFL wants the San Diego Chargers
and Jim Harbaugh to go two to zero. LA Chargers. Sorry,
you can argue the two weakest easiest games on their
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schedule are at home against the rebuilding Raiders. Right new
staff knew everything in room. Coach now head coach new
GM new now new. You can argue Raiders at home
and Carolina Panthers. That's what the LA Chargers would have
signed up for. They also end the season where it's
(05:55):
a bunch of men Denver, New England, Vegas, Tampa. Seems
like to me, harball off a natty with a high
profile Michigan program is good for the NFL. He is
a polarizing head coach, quirky. NFL is saying, we're gonna
(06:15):
give you two to o start. Now, here's a schedule
that on paper, and I've told you this, the NFL
is very strategic. On paper, the Jets schedule looks easy
because they don't face a lot of great quarterbacks. But
the NFL made it as hard as it could because
the Jets generally unraffle as a franchise. So the NFL said,
(06:38):
We're gonna squeeze all the juice out of this orange.
In the first three, four, five, six weeks, the Jets
have five short week games, six late night TV games,
one international game, six primetime games in the first eleven weeks.
So the NFL is saying, like when Russell Wilson got
to Denver, we don't know how this is going to go.
(07:00):
Let's get all week Canada, Russell Denver first year with Hackett,
it goes sideways. You're protected. They're doing the same thing
with the Jets. They don't know what The Jets are
got an impulsive owner, a coach in the hot seat,
Aaron's old off, a surgery. Let's go heavy Jets, early
short weeks, international night games. That's the toughest Jet schedule
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possible because on paper it's easy, but I want to
save some time for this team, and this team selfishly
is good for Fox. So the AFC has got more
star quarterbacks, and star quarterbacks are good for ratings. Chicago
has never had really a truly star quarterback, and there
(07:47):
is a belief they finally have one. And I actually
looked at the Bear schedule and look at what they did.
It's a lot like Houston last year with CJ. Stroud.
They get no elite defenses from last year until November seventeenth.
They got no elite defense Tennessee, Indie, rams Is, Young Carolina, Jacksonville, Washington, Arizona,
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New England. They don't face a top ten defense from
last year until November seventeenth. Caleb Williams isn't opening with
the Niners or the Chiefs or the raven Nope, nope, nope, no, no,
it's a lot of average defenses. He also, Caleb and
Chicago get a lot of ten AM Pacific, one AM Eastern,
(08:35):
a lot of early window games. They're only on primetime
three times. Two of those are Week fifteen in week seventeen,
not under the microscope, not big pressurized games, Nope, couple
of primetimers late one. In week two. They also get
to open a quarterback event. Will Levis rebuilt staff, that's
(08:59):
the opener. Tennessee's the opener. That's a good opener, right,
rebuilding their receiving core, brand new coaching staff, rebuilding a roster,
one of the weaker rosters in the NFL. So you
get no elite defenses early Tennessee to open, no really
(09:20):
heavy microscope games of note. Week two. You're on national TV,
but you know it is Chicago. Here's the other thing.
Look at the quarterbacks all through this, Drake May, Jalen Daniels,
Bryce Young, Will Levis, Anthony Richardson, JJ McCarthy Week twelve.
So the Minnesota Week twelve game, you could put that
as the opener, and you're gonna get a Sam Darnold.
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If they go sideways, they'll be playing JJ McCarthy Week nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.
They also don't give the Bears any of those like
nitty gritty divisional games Detroit, Minnesota, Green Bay, those intense
rivalry games that feel different than average games. They don't
get any of those. Caleb Williams doesn't get any of
those until week eleven. So I thought, this reminds me
(10:04):
a lot of Houston last year. Remember CJ Shroud. They
open up with the Ravens, whoa the Bears. Week two,
get a national champion or a national TV game, right, big, big,
big game, exclusive game. And then if you go back
to that Houston schedule, they built confidence and momentum off.
You know, Desmond Ritter in Atlanta, Colt Saints, box Steelers
(10:24):
with Kenny Pickett. All of a sudden, this young team
with a rookie quarterback and a young coach, you're not
sure to meet go Ryans. I'm not sure if they're good,
but they're playing like they're good. I'm not sure if
they're good, but they certainly believe they're good because they're
beaten pretty average and below average teams. So I thought, Chicago,
and it's good for our business. You know, I love Chicago.
(10:44):
I mean, they're not facing any of those big divisional games,
not a lot of microscope games. It's a lot of
ten am windows. You open with Tennessee, it's no elite defenses.
Early you look at that schedule you could have faced
opening week San Francisco, Green Bay at Lambeau, early Detroit.
A couple of times. They don't face Detroit until Thanksgiving.
(11:07):
Caleb Williams canna have all these starts before he faces
the best, most talented roster in his division, Detroit. I
thought the Bears got a little bit of a break.
It was as if the NFL said, you know, it'd
be nice if we could have one of our major
markets for our broadcasting partner. Since New York's in the toilet,
the New York Giants are in the toilet, it'd be
(11:28):
nice if we could, you know, make Chicago something. I mean,
we have the La Rams, but La is more of
a basketball baseball market half the time. It'd be nice
if Chicago. I don't know if Chicago's gonna be good,
but that's a groove schedule. That's the opposite of the Steelers.
That is a groove schedule. And j Mac I gotta
be honest when I looked at the Chargers schedule, pretty
(11:50):
easy when you have a Mahomes and division. Let's say
bo Nix is okay but not special. You're right, eight
and a half wins take the over on the Chargers.
That was my initial take when I looked at the
beginning the closing, I'm like, take the over on the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah, I mean, that's probably a smart move. I'm surprised
you glossed over the Jets in that cupcake filled schedule.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
No, but it's a weird I mean, I'm you can
tell what they do with the schedule. We don't know
what's going to happen at the end of it, so
let's just get them on television, you know, six times
in the first weeks. And by the way, you know,
if you ask most veteran quarterbacks, their creatures have habit.
They don't like night games. Brady hated them, Peyton Manning
hated him, Big Ben didn't like him. You want to
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go to your family. Young guys don't care. Old quarterbacks
generally don't love all the night games, all the off
schedule games, the exclusive game. Nobody wants to play on Thursdays.
Jets got a lot of weird night short week games.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So you know, you can do exotic bets during the
NFL season. There's a million of them. One of them
is last team to be undefeated. Okay, if the Jets
can get by San Francisco big if obviously.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
They're they're you know, underdogs.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
If they win that game, there is a decent chance
they will be the last undefeated team in the NFL.
Because they follow sanfran with Tennessee, they're gonna be big favorites.
New England, big favorites, Denver, big favorites, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
We don't even know who.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Their starting quarterback is.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Hold up, hold up.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
And then it's versus Buffalo at home, and remember the Jets.
Historically you split with Buffalo and have played them well
at home. Then it's Pittsburgh, New England. These are all
teams with win totals in the five to six seven range.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Colin, I'm not I'm trying to contain the excitement.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
But it's hard.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It's very difficult right now. This team, the arrow's pointing up.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
I'm feeling good. Well, they haven't played since the end
of last year's disaster, so I'm going to have a
more tempered If Rogers can get through the first five snaps,
I think we're in good shape, you know, right, I
like that. Take the Boston Celtics. It hit me last
night and it should hit you if you're a Celtics fan.
(13:57):
This has not been what they wanted, and I'll explain
that coming up.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
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Speaker 1 (14:11):
So hey, stop me if you've heard it before. The
Celtics sleep walk through the East and make the Eastern
Conference Finals again, and once again it's a team that's
falling apart. Calves have no Donovan Mitchell, Chris Lavert, Jared
all Karris Lavert, Jared Allen. Bad team match, just like
a that's just not a good team when you're missing
(14:33):
those guys. Evan Mobley crossed your fingers. Just not enough offense.
And so you know, fans are like, yeah, blowout. But
then you go look at the West and the intensity
and the relentlessness of OKC Dallas and the t Wolves
in Denver. You think Boston's ready for a street fight.
And up next is the Knicks missing for their top
(14:54):
eight players. So Miami fell apart, Cleveland falls apart, New
York falls apart. Look, you can watch the Celtics sleepwalking
walk through the park week rosters that were week before
being riddled by injuries, Boston. Think about this, clinched the
(15:14):
number one seed March twenty fifth. How seven weeks ago?
It's May sixteenth, seven weeks ago, and now they walk
through two injury riddled rosters going to a third injury
depleted roster because the Knicks are gonna beat Indiana eventually.
I know you're thinking, hey, we're getting rested. I don't
(15:35):
know if you can flip a switch. Charles Barkley talked
about what he saw with Boston.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
They had the worst offense I've seen for grown folks.
Like it's like it's like they just get a ball
to one guy and go one on one. They win
a lot of games because they got talent, but there's
it's like, what are they doing. It's like, here's a
you get to the top of key, go one on
one shoes, step back three dayleen, you go back there,
(16:04):
you make a move, everybody just stands around. It's frustrated.
I don't maybe some things have changed when pausingis come back,
but the way they play offense right now, they can't
win a championship like that.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Again. Boston wrapped up the number one seed March twenty fifth.
Now think about that, Caitlin Clark has gone into the
Final four, played for a Natty done Saturday Night Live,
had some rest, gone to camp, got drafted, played through
a preseason, and played a regular season game or two
since the last time they clinched. The last time they
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played a game a good team, not a great team
before they clinched was the Phoenix Suns on March fourteenth.
And you think, you think in the June you're gonna
meet Denver, OKC, Dallas, maybe Minnesota. Those guys have been
(16:57):
in street fights, intense playing from behind. Defensive players of
the year. You gotta loud, Dort got, Rudy Gobert, Aaron Gordon.
I don't know, and like Eastern Conference finals. Fine, and
I know there's the flip of switch thing, but Jason
Tatum signing a three hundred million plus contract after the year,
(17:19):
Jalen Brown just signed it this year. So this is
the best the roster's ever gonna be. And these Western
teams like Minnesota and OKC, they're just getting better. They
got all the draft capital, so like this is the
year to get them. You don't want to face Okay,
see if they win this Dallas series and you have
to face them next year, with that confidence and other
draft picks and other deals you don't want to face.
(17:42):
You want to face OKC. Now you want to face
these young teams. Now you want to face ANT. Now
you don't want to face ANT Next year when we
average thirty four, they've moved off towns and got a
more reliable number two score. Here's Draymond Green on another
Eastern Conference champampionship.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Kenny say, they're the winning this duo over the last
five years in basketball, and that's true. No one cares
because there no one cares. No one cares at all.
They're at that point now where you need to win
a championship. Getting to the conference finals every year don't
matter anymore. And how you know that they're at that
point because that's actually affecting Jason Tatum MVP voting in
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the last couple of years, because no one wants to
see you win every year in the regular season, get
to the conference finals, and then not finish the job.
So this is good, obviously it's a stepping on the way,
but no one cares that they're going back to the
Eastern Conference finals again.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
I just I watch the West and I watch how
hard Denver's having the Battle Minnesota, Dallas battling OKC. And
I watch that stuff. Jimmy Butler out, the Knicks beat up,
I mean Lavert, Allen Donovan, Mitchell out. I don't know.
(18:57):
I don't see it. Poor Zingles will help, but I
don't see it. I think it's hurt them. The East
is hurting them.
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Speaker 4 (19:37):
Well.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Jimmy Johnson two super Bowl champions, nine seasons in the NFL,
also a legend at Miami, so it's interesting he lives
down in Miami. He coached at Miami twice NFL in college.
So I was thinking, when we were bringing you on today,
how did you look Because you're Miami's tropical So did
you look at that? What was home and advantage? Did
(20:00):
you look at your NFL schedule and go, okay, we
got to go up north all through you know, December.
How did you view it as a Miami coach college
or pro let's let's stick mostly pro.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
Well, the first thing I looked at it was late
in the season, if I had to go north, and
if I was going to have to order me some
thermal underwear. We didn't like going into the cold weather.
But as far as you know, the Dolphin Games and
the University of Miami early in the season, we felt
(20:34):
like it was an advantage because our guys practiced in
the heat and in the humidity and they were accustomed
to it. You know a lot of times in the
fourth quarter, the opponents they would struggle because they weren't
accustomed to that humidity and that heat.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I thought it was interesting. Mike Zimmer is a very
smart defensive coordinatories now in Dallas. I actually thought us
got a little bit of a break in their schedule,
so it's gonna take Michael while to get that defense
up and running. And if you start looking at November, December,
January for the Cowboys, I mean they're facing Jaden Daniels twice,
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Daniel Jones Carolina. It's a lot of young and average quarterbacks. Now,
am I overstating the fact that Zimmer will need time
to get the defense right? But I look at that
and I think, boy, that's about the time Zimmer's defense
comes into its own. What do you make of it?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Yeah, I think that could be an advantage if they
are still confident and if they're healthy going into last
part of their season. You know, they've got some difficult
games right off the bat. You know, for instance, they
go up to Cleveland, a great defense. You know they're
gonna have a young offensive line that's gonna struggle against
you know, that pass rush of Cleveland. Then the third
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week they've got Baltimore, you know, a physical football team.
I think the big thing is, you know, the Cowboys
have got to survive the early part of the season.
They've got to survive not only confidence wise, but also
health wise. And if they do that, they can finish strong.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yeah, so I actually thought, I mean, you know, the
NFL is strategic. You know they got they got the
Kansas City Chiefs on eight different networks. You know, they
know what they want to do. They gave Jim Harbaughs
two easiest games to start the season. I'm like, oh,
they want Jimmy to go to and zero. But it's interesting.
I watched Chicago and Caleb Williams, and you know, at Fox,
(22:33):
we would love for Chicago to be good. It's good
for your pregame show, it's good for our ratings. Jimmy.
That's Chicago schedule. Not only do they open with Tennessee,
they don't play at top ten defense until week eleven. Jimmy,
they don't play the Packers, Lions, or Vikings a divisional
game until week eleven. I looked at that and I thought, man,
(22:55):
that's a little bit of a break. They're not on
national TV much early. I kind of thought, if I would,
did you like to have your divisional games earlier late?
If you have a young quarterback.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Well, with the young quarterback, you'd like to have him late.
Because with Caleb Williams young, he's going to be a
player that is going to make some spectacular plays, because
you know he's that talented. But by the same token,
he's a rookie, and you know he's got a good
supporting cast. I think they've got a good football team
around him. If they can have some success early, he
(23:30):
could come on strong there at the end of the
season when they have to play those division games.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
You know, I, Jimmy, offensive line is an interesting position.
You told me once there's not a lot of great
offensive line coaches, even at your Miami powerhouse Hurricanes. The
old line is the place you often struggle to get
the five star guys. And because of the new CBA,
they don't hit as much in practice. Veterans don't play
(23:57):
in the preseason. And I looked at Aaron rodgers new
offensive line with three new guys, a rookie from Penn State,
and I thought that they open with San Francisco, And
I thought, that's not a good opener for Aaron Rodgers.
He's got four new offensive linemen. What do you make
of an older quarterback coming off an achilles surgery with
a brand new offensive line? That worries me a little
(24:20):
early in the season. Should it.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
The offensive line that's going to struggle or because of
any experience, would have a bigger problem if they had
a young quarterback. They've got a quarterback with Rodgers that's
gonna get rid of the football. Now. He may not
make a lot of completions way down the field, but
he's not going to take a lot of hits, and
(24:46):
I think because of his savvy, I think he'll be
able to protect that offensive line until they can kind
of get the experience and get the roll in here
later in the season. The other thing is with the Jets,
they've got a strong enough defense that you know, they
can probably win some games, you know, just for their defense,
as long as their offense doesn't turn it over. And
(25:07):
you know, Rogers will be really good at protecting the ball.
So I think that they're going to have a little
bit of a cushion with that offensive line getting some experience.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Tom Brady, our new colleague at Fox, had an interesting
quote about c. J. Stroud, and he was talking about
his humility and he said, you know, there is a
way to win and a way to lose, and a
way to celebrate as a quarterback. It may not be
that for a corner, an off ball linebacker, a guard,
but quarterback is different. I mean I watched the old
(25:39):
films with you and Aikman, and he is a coach
on that when you're when you're got the headset on,
he's back there coaching. And I want you to address
that because I've been saying this for years. It does
bother me if I see Ego, if I see her
on twelve commercials before you've done anything. But I but
if you say that to fans, they don't want to
hear it. How did you view it?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yeah, you like for the quarterback to be one of
the guys. You know, Troy's best friends was the offensive line,
that's who he hung out with. In fact, his best
friend was probably the deep snapper, you know, an offensive
blindman and Dale hell straight, you know, so they created
a bond. The main thing, you know, you're going to
go through some adversity, and so you want the entire team,
(26:24):
you know, to be backing your quarterback and liking your
quarterback rather than being somewhat jealous of him doing a
bunch of commercials and having a bunch of comments that
might offend him. Right, So, yeah, you know, the quarterback's
got to be one of the guys. But the main
thing is they've got to respect him, and he's got
to have credibility with that group. You know, you don't
(26:46):
want them being jealous of him, and you don't want
them not liking him.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Right.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Finally, there's the question about Tua and I really like him.
I think he's he reminds me of Dak. He says
the right stuff, he's respectful. I think the players like him.
He's a good kid. He works hard. I worry about
his size. I worry about winning games in January in
the North. His ball doesn't cut through it. I worry
about his injury history. Jimmy, you knew the draft before
(27:13):
anybody else figured it out. You understood the cap. Listen,
you start paying quarterbacks mid fifties. You can't keep a
second tight end, a third good corner. You have to
make sacrifices. What are they going to do in Miami
with two of the cap and the extension? What would
you do?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
I think you know they're in a situation where they
have to extend him number one to a state healthy
last year, which he did a plus and so yeah,
I think that they have figured out, you know how
to protect him, you know how to keep him healthy.
And what kind of supporting cast to give him. But yeah,
he deserves an extension and he will get an extension.
(27:56):
I think he's a good quarterback, and you know, I
like what he does. He doesn't have the same talents
that some other quarterbacks have, but he's a winning quarterback.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, all right, Jimmy, it's eighty one. You said today
in Miami, it's a little chilly here? Do it like today?
Speaker 7 (28:12):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:12):
So let's see what time. I want to see what
time it is. So it's eleven twelve, So it's two
twenty eight right now. You live down So what is
a guy in Miami? Is a Hall of Fame coach?
At two thirty in the afternoon, you're going to wrap
up this? What is the rest of your daylight? Because
I like to live vicariously through your life. What is
the rest of your day?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Like?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Well, I'll probably turn on the horse races and make
a few wagers on the horse races for a few hours,
and then I've been really into those NBA playoffs. I've
been watching them every single night. Of course, my main
man worldwide West and Leon rose up there with the Knicks. Yeah,
I'm pulling for the Knicks here. Tomorrow night. And so
(28:57):
a little bit of horse racing this afternoon, little bit
of NBA tonight and tomorrow night.
Speaker 6 (29:03):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
And then I watched a little golf. You know, Tiger
was one over today in the PGA. Uh and Sheff
Loop you know there they're going to have an outstanding
PGA tournament this weekend.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
That's some life. Awquaal Water. Got a couple of boats outside.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Hey, and I may go fishing this weekend. I caught
a nice little mahi the other day.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know what, man, that you've You've earned it. That
is a hell of a life. Open up. Have one
Heineken for me. I know two's your limit.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
Have one for me, Honeken silver. You know they've got
to cut down on the calories. I'm watching my weight.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
All right. You don't need to, but okay, talk to you.
Good seeing okay, Colin. All right,
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Colin Cowherd
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