January 6, 2026 • 41 mins
Colin Cowherd argues Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills are the team under the most pressure heading into Wild Card Weekend with other star QBs like Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow missing
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We will have all of them. You know, a lot
of times you'll hear people say, well, you know these
teams they I mean, they're just they don't know how
to draft quarterbacks. Twelve of the fourteen playoff quarterbacks our
first round quarterbacks, and the best one left is Josh Allen.
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That's why, as I peruse the playoff matchups this weekend,
one team cannot lose until maybe they get to a
super Bowl. That's Buffalo. Here's the bad news. Last eight
road playoff games, Buffalo is zero to eight, not all
of those on Sean McDermott all the playoff games this weekend.
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Only one team is not allowed to lose Buffalo or
the domino effect starts. Kevin Stefanski don't take a job yet,
and the excuse for Buffalo has been well, there's Patrick
Mahomes and Joe Burrow neither made the playoffs. It's bad
enough that you lost your division to Drake May and
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Mike Vrabel, and it was Rabel's first year taking over
a team that is still in my opinion, in a rebuild,
you can't then lose the AFC to potentially Liam Cohen
taking over the wobbly Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And Sean McDermott can coach.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He has a higher winning percentage, believe it or not,
than Belichick and Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Sean McDermott can coach.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But the downside to having a generational quarterback talent like
an l Way or a Peyton Manning or a Josh
Allen is the new standard is January. That's the new standard.
So there's a saying great power comes with great responsibility
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in the NFL. Great quarterbacks create great responsibility. It is
Sean McDermott's responsibility to be completely buttoned up and win
a road playoff game over a team, frankly Jacksonville that
is better than you this year. I was looking this
morning at the most consecutive seasons of ten plus wins
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NFL all time. The Bills are now fifth, and they're
the only team that has not reached a super Bowl
in that seven year stretch. Not only is every other
team when they have these stretches been to a super Bowl.
Six of the seven have won a super Bowl. Buffalo
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hasn't reached it. And Josh Allen leads the NFL in
yards in playoff history. Think about that, most yards in
playoff history. It is averaging, not total averaging? Is Josh
Allen never been to a Super Bowl? So losing to
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Mahomes and Burrow, okay, that's a reason. You can't lose
to Bonnicks. You can't lose to Drake May, you can't
lose to Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You can't. Doesn't matter. You can't.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Twelve of fourteen playoff teams have first round quarterbacks. You
have the best one. Here's Sean McDermott on the Weekend Ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You don't take them for granted.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Let's just start there. But at the same time, the
experiences I've been here, we've been here, and so that
comes with I guess it brings some.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Level of.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Called seasoning, and you would hope poise and composure as
we prepare this week and go through our process.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Like anything else, you learn from experience.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay, So I had mentioned there's a lot of coaching openings.
J MAC will have more of those in twelve to
fifteen minutes. I said this yesterday. And I have a
little company, and I don't like the fire people. I
really don't. I think there's a spot almost always somewhere
in a company for people.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But you can always tell.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I was told this years and years and years ago
by a boss I had, like thirty years ago. He said,
you can always tell if you made a mistake when
you let somebody go, based on how the job market reacts.
So Cleveland fires Kevin Stefanski, in my opinion, mistake. According
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to Adam Schefter, the Falcons, Giants, and Titans top of
their list. Yeah, Cleveland just screwed up again. Can't get
the right quarterback, fire the wrong coach. So five years
in a row I have made a pick. I call
it a double yr win total team and if not double,
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the most improved team Vikings in twenty twenty two. I
got that right rams the year after a Washington in
Denver a couple of years ago. This year I had
New England double your win total. Most improved team would
be Seattle. So I'm a little bit of a heater.
Not only should Stefanski be the leading candidate. If the
Bills lose, the team I would pick next year double
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your win total would be the New York Giants. If
Kevin Stefanski is hired. That's how highly I think of him.
So I've gotten it right four or five years and
teams in a row. The Giants with Kevin Stefanski would
have a last play schedule, Jackson Dart Scataboo neighbors Raturns,
Andrew Thomas good left tackle again, last play schedule, number
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five pick in the draft. They can manipulate and get
more picks. This is an absolute layup. Nothing against Mike Kofka,
the interim guy, but you know, I don't like. I
don't like when teams fire a coach. The interim guy
comes in and you're like, wow, that looked pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's the substitute teacher.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Everybody loves the substitute teacher, right, They're more chill than
the previous teacher, more chill than the previous coach, not
as harsh. Yeah, Mike kaff is not the answer. Someday,
I don't think this is the space. And people can say, well, Colin,
you thought Pete Carroll was gonna work in Las Vegas. Yeah,
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I thought Pete Carroll was a solid choice. It should
be noted I picked the Raiders to finish fourth with
Pete Carroll. I said, they'll still be a last place team,
but they need like guidance and maturity and stop with
the interim stuff and just go hire a guy that's
one big Pete Carroll. It didn't work. It's a man overboard,
but I still picked him for fourth. The New York
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Giants have several key components, Like you know, Jackson darts
in the blue tent way more than I like. But
when you have a number one receiver, a number one
left tackle, a number one back, a number one quarterback,
an excellent pass rusher, the number five picks, that's pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, you go look at the teams at the
top of the draft outside of the team that gets
Mendoza Giants pretty interesting. Here's Joe Shane on their coaching
vacancy right now in New York.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Each of those franchises brought in new head coaches and
were able to turn it around rather quickly. And you
know Drake Mayson, the MVP, you know race right now.
And you know Caleb Williams. We obviously played against him
and has has had a really good year in playing
at a high level. So, yeah, that's that's certainly an
opportunity that you look at those franchises and how they
put it together in the quick turnaround and you know
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an ideal world. Yeah, that would be from the people
I've talked to, you know the consensus, there are a
lot of potential head coaching candidates that are excited about
the opportunity here because of Jackson Dart.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, fifty to forty fifty percent of first round quarterbacks
that are drafted don't become great franchise quarterbacks. I don't
know what Jackson Dart's going to become, but no reasonable
person would deny it's encouraging if he can stay out
of the blue tent. The Giants were swimming in chaos.
He was kind of encouraging Skataboo neighbors Andrew Thomas, Jackson,
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Dart Abdul Carter. It's kind of encouraging Kevin Stefanski takes
that job. That is a double your win total team,
not saying it to a great team. They're not going
to turn into New England this year, but they'd be
a really good team. J Maack, we got all sorts
of stuff happening, some of it not surprising, one move
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very surprising. And this is such a great time that
you're starting Thursday.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Do you want to just tell them what happened in
the list?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So Cliff Kingsbury is now mutually decided he does not
get along with the GM. Adam Peters I've been told, yeah,
he doesn't necessarily see eyd eye with a GM. And
now dan Quinn, this is the downside to hiring a
defensive coach. And I like dan Quinn. I thought it
was a solid hire. Or now you lose your offensive
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coordinator and here's Jayden Daniels all banged up, going, who's
my coach?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
By the way, also fire their defensive coordinators, so both
coordinators gone. That usually means, hey, head coach, delivered this
season or you're gone. I try not good for Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So that's that's what we've always said, hire an offensive coach.
Now there are exceptions. Demiko Ryans came highly touted. Jesse
Minter with the Chargers. Everybody loves Mike McDaniel was thought
of as the Sean McVay of defense. There are great
defensive coaches. But even if you nail that guy, he
loses his offensive coordinator every couple of years. So you,
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I mean Dan Campbell did a great job this year.
Offensive coordinator didn't work because as well, he had the
takeover offensive play calling and it disrupted the flow of
the team.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
They'll probably be a line out the door for this job, right.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
You want to get in coaching Jayden Daniels because he's
such a superstar. I wonder where does Cliff Kingsbury land.
You think he wants to maybe spend the fall in
New York. I'll just tell I'll tell you. I have
this as well sourced as I can. I love Cliff.
He's not an NFL head coach. No, No, as eoc
If we get Dante Moore in New York as a quarterback.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Would that excite Cliff Kingsbury living in New York?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Coaching done King for the Jets does not excite anybody.
I mean, it's right now, it's the worst situation.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
In the league. It's up there.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Let me say what you want about Tennessee. They have
cam Ward.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, the readers are in trouble right now.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, but they get Mendoza. Yes, yeah, I mean everybody
Tennessee has cam Ward. Giants have Jackson Dart. Think what
you want. Raiders are getting Mendoza. I mean, you can
say what you want about the Falcons. But Kirk played
well at the end. They still have Penix. They're going
to hire an offensive guy, perhaps Stefanski. Jets are at
the bottom right now. Thirty two to thirty two.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I'll accept it.
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Speaker 1 (12:14):
I don't think people. Maybe they do, but there's been
a sea change in college football and we're down to
the final four teams. It's Tuesday, Thursday night they start
playing again, and the SEC is no longer it's it's
not disputable. Their bull record this year is four and nine.
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The SEC is no longer the number one conference. In fact,
of those four wins, only two or non SEC teams.
They beat themselves, and then they beat Tulane, who fired
their or lost their coach in Michigan, which has been
enough free fall for the last eight weeks until they
hired Kyle Whittingham. Those are your two wings, Tulane and Michigan.
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So if Ole Miss lose this to Miami on Thursday,
thurstraight year, no SEC team in the championship game, they're
not even getting there. This year National Letter of Recruiting Day,
which was always an SEC parade for the top five teams,
non SEC teams, and they're richer schools Notre Dame, Oregon, USC,
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and Ohio State. So the big ten plus Notre Dame
have a lot more money. A great example of this
is Bama's number one booster is Bear Bryant's son. Oregon
has Phil Knight, founder of Nike. Indiana's got Mark Cuban,
who's among three huge boosters for the Hoosiers. So the
SEC always had a slogan it just means more. Passion
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ruled the sport. Big problem though, now going forward, the
new slogan in college football is it just costs more.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
And that is the reality.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm reading a story this morning, well, is money making
over college football? Yeah, it was always leading college football.
There was the facility's mad rush paying kids in the
South through the churches. And now it all comes through
the front door, as a orderon said, not the back door.
All four quarterbacks left in the playoff transfers. And here's
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something that's fascinating. The number one SEC team on the
rise is Vanderbilt, the number one academic school, which has
the richest group on average of graduates. Academics do matter,
So it's very interesting when people talk about oh which
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is a better conference. There's no arguing. Right now, they
are four and nine in bowl games. The only two
wins against non SEC teams were tu Lane that lost
to coach and Michigan did two a different way.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It just means more, nah, it just that's the reality.
College football now is forty to fifty percent pro football.
By the way, attendants up ratings up. It was always
sort of a provincial, tribal wonky sport with no leadership.
Now it kind of looks like the NFL playoffs and
the numbers prove people are into it. SEC super expensive
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conference this point forward. That's how you win it. Keep
your eye on Bandy Jmack with the news.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
No, no, turn on the news. This is the herd
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Speaker 6 (15:32):
All right, Colin, Let's go back to the NFL.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Dallas Cowboys fired their DC Matt Eberflus. Not a huge surprise.
I mean their defensive dumpster fire fresh season. You know,
you trade Michael Parsons and then you allow twenty nine
points per game, worse than the league. They were thirty
first in points allowed and allowed three hundred and seventy
six yards per game. Colin, it was abysmal all around.
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I don't really know where they go from here.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
They got a lot of.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Work to do on the back end of the defense. Well,
Ravon Diggs, by the way, who they refuse to play, goes.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
To Green Bay, has a pretty good week eighteen.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well in a meanless game. Cincinnati is a great example.
You could have Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and t Higgins.
You can't score your way to the playoffs. You're seeing
in college football Oregon, Miami and Indiana play real defense.
Oh Miss, doesn't you have to play? I mean the
downfall the SEC is that Baman Georgia don't have dominating
defenses anymore. It's not that they don't score points. So
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Cincinnati proves that you can have a great offense, you
have to make some stops. In fact, that's what I
think both of us agree will be. The downs fall
of Chicago is that Bears give up big plays. They're
better defensively at home. But yeah, largely so. I think
take Cincinnati as an example. Your first two picks should
probably be defensive players, and you should probably let Pickens
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go and go buy another. I mean, you got Quentin Williams,
Kenny Clark, draft an edge, get a safety, Caleb Downs
or a corner and then you'll probably go after to
spend some money somewhere in that secondary as well.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It's a lean secondary.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Caleb Downs would be a home run. I don't think
he's going to be there when they're drafting.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I mean, hell, the.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Chiefs could be interested in Caleb Downs. So really rough
one for the Cowboys defenses here all right? Sticking in
the NFC, he's the big news. The Commanders dumped both
of their coordinators, Joe with the DC gone, and we're
calling it a parting of ways with Kingsbury and dan Quinn.
Now my guess is something's going to come out on
this column. This feels awkward, right, Like, why would you
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move off Kingsbury? You were in the NFC Championship a
year ago with the healthy Jayden and Daniels. Kingsbury was
amazing and now you're just moving on from him. What
you get a whiff that there's anything going on here?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, they hired a defensive coach who had been fired
in Atlanta, dan Quinn.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We thought it. We both thought it was a good
B plus higher.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Because we both love the idea of stabilizing the organization.
But if you're asking me what I would have ideally
done is hire an offensive coach. By the way, the
Bears Caleb Williams inherited a defensive coach, they have now
permitted to do an offensive coach. Bo Nicks offensive coach
Drake May has a defensive coach, but he has a
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probably the best coordinator in the sport. Josh McDaniels, right,
I think dan Quinn's on the clock. So interesting, What
great coordinator is going to take that job in Washington?
Why would I take the commander's job? Well, I know
that if Quinn doesn't win, you get I'm not getting
the job as a coordinator.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I think you're trapped.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I think this puts the pressure on dan Quinn and
what guy with options is choosing this job and that
Now that.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Would be year three with.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Jayden and it's this year, next year's bad. Then you
get a new coach year four, and then the rookie
deal is wasted. Colin, what if there's a scenario that
Kingsbury is going to be a head coach? There are
six openings. I know you don't think it worked well
in Arizona. He did get them to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Kyler Murray's only trip.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
What if the Raiders kicked the tires on Kingsbury because
remember he was in discussions with that.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The answer is Pete Carroll's last couple of jobs, bad Kingbury.
Kingsbury got fired by his alma mater. He's not a
head coach.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I know.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
There are a couple good quarterbacks out there, Dark kim
Ward and Mendoza are on the board.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
The knock on Kingsbury has always been he's not he
will not hold fairly disruptive players accountable. He's an offensive guy.
He's a nice guy, but things get loose very quick.
They did it as alma mater, his alma mater. Again,
that was like seven years ago, eight ten years ago.
Now we're maybe he needed to be around Quinn to
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see what it's like. It's a round of mature head coach.
You either have that personality or you don't. You don't
learn how to be tough. Now, there are tough coaches
Kaflin who lighten up. But Wade Phillips was always a
great guy. The knock on him was always he's not
tough enough. You know, you can go back with tough
people can lighten up. The tough dad can lighten up
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and chill out. Light, soft, nice, don't get mean, don't
buy into it. Kingsbury's not going to become uh McVeigh.
He's not going to become like Shanahan in that building.
Is not only respected, he's a little faired. He'll move
off yet maybe Vey is feared. He moved up Von
Miller he I mean Cooper cop like McVeigh in that building.
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Players love him, but he moves off guys a year early.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Kingsbury doesn't need to become anyone.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
He could just become a slightly different version of himself
and so maybe not crack the whip hardcore.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I mean that almost makes.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
It sound like Mike McDaniel in Miami. He's soft, He's
kind of a Mike.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Can't Kenny.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Mike McDaniel made two a Pro Bowl or made the
playoffs with a GM that was apparently completely over his skis.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
I mean, if I'm Kingsbury sitting in a meeting with
Tom Brady or whoever, hey man, Kyler Murray's only trip
to the playoffs with me Jaden Daniels I took him
to the NFC Championship in his first year. Like, I
think he's got a decent resume. I'm not totally out
on Kingsbury a head coach in this cycle. I mean,
obviously Stefanski would be ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
But you're saying no shot, No, he may get hired.
I'm not saying no shot. I'm telling you, when you're
Alma Mater gets rid of you Alma monters don't want
to get rid of people that went to their own
and then you go to Arizona. And I'm not blaming
him entirely in Arizona, but the knock was he didn't
quite hold people accountable. It's not his personal We say
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this whole time. A lot of people are vice presidents,
a lot of people are vps. They're not built for
the boardroom. They're not built to make hard, tough decisions.
I don't think Kingsbury is. I think Cliff's great guy.
I think he's sharp, I think he's a good OC.
But why would Adam Peters, the GM who's highly respected,
why would he butt heads with Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Why something's going to come out in DCS or Kingsbury
has over.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
The next week or two. Start reading all your I mean,
I'm going to make two calls after the show today.
Why didn't Peters and Cliff get along. I mean, Peters
is considered super sharp. Yeah, they turned it around quickly.
This year a disaster, but anyways, final story.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Cone Benon Johnson and Caleb Williams. Their big playoff debut
is this weekend. Caleb obviously had a great season with
the Bears, franchise record thirty nine and forty two passing yards.
Ben Johnson is confident in his quarterback.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
He's played in a lot of big games over the
course of his life. I think he's he's primed and
he's ready to go. He was built for these moments.
He plays his best when when we need him to.
And so there's really not a whole lot that needs
to be said. He just needs to be him.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Okay, So wise guys slash sharps always look at the weather.
Very interesting the weather for this game up to thirty
mile hour wind gusts.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
What does that tell you? Take the better run game?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So where is Chicago vulnerable giving up big plays? Good
luck throwing it down the field to Christian Watson. So
run games and throws to tight ends. Colston Loveland, Loveland's
really come on strong, well, Cole come at Loveland. Caleb's
strong arm run game. Better offensive line is Chicago. So
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the weather right now is favoring Chicago. Keep the ball
on the ground, throw to your tight ends underneath stuff
Bears at home.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
So Caleb in the first meeting with the Packers one
hundred and eighty six yards passing, not a great game,
had a bad pick, did come on strong late. Second game,
wasn't doing much and then had the big throw in
overtime to put them over two hundred yards. But two
meetings against the Packers. I this is a tough one
for him. Man, this is the one game I'm afraid
to pick. I just don't have a strong feeling either way.
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Gut tells me. Maybe the Packers willin. But I'll be
rooting for your Bears sometimes. I root for your teams,
even though you take dumps on the Jets regularly, I'll
root for your Bears.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I'll root for it, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Jmack with the news.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping that. The
herd line news.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So as we get ready to go into college football
starts Thursday, then Friday, then Saturday through Monday night with
the Steelers Texans is just going to be a parade
of greatness. So I want to establish something as we
go into the playoffs. So this is hard for the
radio audience to devour because it's a lot of numbers.
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But PFF has ranked every playoff team in order, past
blocking O line on the left, run blocking O line
in the right. Here's the good news. Denver and Buffalo
have the two best offensive lines in the playoffs. Look
at the very bottom, the Chargers have the worst pass
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blocking of all these playoff teams thirty first. Only one
team in the whole league is worst, and they have
the worst blocking offensive line in the entire league playoff
teams non playoff teams, So the Chargers would be the
worst offensive line in the Pro Football The PFF era
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to just win a playoff game, to win and Justin Herbert,
I know what you're saying. If they lose to New
England Colin how good can he be? And how good
can he be now on a playoff game. If Justin
Herbert out of college landed in Philly with Howie Roseman,
they'd be building a bust in Kenton, Ohio. If you
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look at Justin Herbert's career, all of it including the playoffs,
when he is sacked once or few or he's twenty
one and six, but even when he's sacked two or
more times, he's still excellent. Now he's under five hundred,
but a ninety one passer rating. So there is a difference.
Let's get it all out here. There is a difference
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between not doing something winning a playoff game and being
the reason you haven't done something. This is an offensive
line that should immediately disqualify you as a team from
making the playoffs, and yet Herbert has engineered an eleven
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and six record with the worst run blocking line in
the league and the second worst pass blocking and of
the playoff teams, it's not close. The second thing we
need to establish. The second thing we need to establish
on those rankings of offensive lines, the Chicago Bears have
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the number six passing on line and the number three
running on line. So the Bears and Caleb Williams have
an excellent top four O line in the league, not
just playoff teams. They have an excellent play designer and
caller Ben Johnson, excellent weapons, and the better run game
against Green Bay. So two things this weekend. If Justin
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Herbert loses, I don't want to hear about, well, Colin,
where the playoff wins. They're an underdog for a reason.
They have an offensive line that should not sniff the playoffs.
The factor eleven and six is insane. But if Caleb
Williams loses, when he's got the coach, the old line,
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the pass blocking, the run blocking, the weapons, that's on Caleb.
He has got to beat Green Bay at home, facing
a Packer team without Michael Parsons, no excuses. The pressure's
on Caleb. You got the home, you actually have weather
that benefits you. You've got the run game, the old line,
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the play calling, to play design. Herbert is looking up hill.
Here's harball on facing the Patriots, excited for.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
The game, excited, you know, for the opportunity alter competitive season.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
This is a this is this is that time, you know, And.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, I kind of that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Put up a shut up time for the record.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Herbert, justin Herbert led the Chargers in rushing seven times
this year. That is not what they want in Los Angeles.
That's why I like the Patriots in this matchup. Heard
hierarchy our last regular season. Heard hierarchy of the year
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Joel Klatts around the corner. College football playoffs start Thursday.
It's the Hurd.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
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Speaker 1 (29:01):
By the way, this news that is coming out, Todd
mcshae advised Dante more the Oregon quarterback, regardless of how
he is playing, that Mendoz is going to be the
number one pick out of Indiana. Todd McShay said, avoid
the Jets, do not go to the NFL. Stay at
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college now. Dante Morre at Oregon is going to make
four million dollars probably around that ballpark. That is what
the top quarterbacks are going for Texas. Texas signed a
really talented quarterback who I think it's good enough to
play now in the NFL for about four or five
million bucks. So it's great for college football because you
know football is as good as quarterback play. So it's
great for college football. You're going to keep guys in
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college another year at the most important position. It's also
great for these kids who can get another thirteen to
fifteen college starts that can't hurt. It's also good for
the secondary quarterback market in the NFL. Like Malik Willis
is going to eat and mac Jones and Murray and
Daniel Jones. It's great for those guys, it's not good
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for poorly run organizations because I and I would strongly
still listen to your agent. Agents want to get paid.
All you college guys, when you get agents, all agents
want they want to get paid. They don't really care
what's best for you. They want money. And the bottom
line here is Aaron glennon the Jets is a is
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a hazmat spill. They don't what do they offer? Strong ownership,
proven coach, great old line, lots of weapons. I mean
Garrett Wilson I think remains the number one Jets receiver.
I don't think he's got a catch since Week six.
I mean it is so to me Oregon for another
fifteen games. Dan Lanning's a great recruiter. Stay at Oregon,
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win a bunch of games with that. Joel Klatt joins
us live as we get ready for the game starting
a Thursday. Mimi, ole Miss, you know I got to
tell you there are and I've been saying this about
callllege basketball. College basketball had about a twenty year stretch
where it was unwatchable because guys were going to Europe.
It was one and done, and the European players weren't
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coming over. Then the NIL came and suddenly now the
American universities go buy fifteen Europeans. Europeans can't keep. I
mean like Spaniards. Now they'll leave a Spanish league. They'll
come over here and go play for Illinois. And then
guys like Zach Edy, who are really good players, say
I'm gonna stant Purdue one more year. So college basketball
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has been fortified with about twenty to twenty five to
thirty kids that instead of playing and you know, it
could be Israel, it could be Overseas, Lithuania, could be Japan,
it could be wherever there's come back to college and
make three million bucks a year. So I think this
is great for college football. That that Texas Tech kid
who played at Cincinnati and Dante More they could both
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play in the NFL. Now they're going to come out
with fifty more starts. I mean your take, you played
the position in college. I love this for college football.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I did too.
Speaker 10 (31:59):
And then, by the way, it's going to make them
better pros. You know, this is not just about the money.
It's also about the impact that they're going to have
once they're NFL players.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You and I have talked about this a lot.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
You look at the best players in the NFL, and
in particular the quarterbacks that win in the postseason and
ultimately go on and win Super Bowls. You average out
their college career and you've got thirty plus starts, one
thousand plus attempts, very experienced guys. In fact, you know,
the least experienced quarterback from a college perspective to have
won a Super Bowl in the last twenty five years
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is actually Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
I mean that should tell you everything that you need
to know about what you need coming into the league.
And obviously fit, like you were talking about with the Jets,
fit and organization are obviously going to impact that as well,
but your experience and maturity level is a big factor
in that. And so I would also if Dante Moore
called me today and he said, hey, like, what should
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I do?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I wouldn't blink an eye.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
I would say go back to school because it's no
longer just a financial decision. He can make life changing
money at Oregon much less than the National Football League,
and getting extra starts prepares you for what you could
potentially have, which is a long NFL career. Because you
want to get to the second contract, that's one really
matters for you in the National Football League, And we're
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starting to see by the way in the last couple
of years, experience at that position and experienced teams in
general are the ones that are winning in the postseason.
Look at Indiana, they've got experience. Look at Ohio State
last year, Michigan the year before. Experience at the quarterback position,
Experience across the line of scrimmage. That's what's ultimately winning
out right now.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
In college football, well, I mean, bo Knicks had sixty
one college starts, So Sean Payton, it's not a coincidence
that when he got to Denver, Sean Payton said, here's
the entire playbook and answer luck three years four years
at stand for three years. Like when he came into
the league. They're like, okay, here's the entire playbook. We
don't have to babysit you. So it not only helps
you in college, but by the time he get the NFL.
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I mean, bow Nicks had like four or five different
coordinators in college. He was like a pro in common
So I love that. Well, Mahomes said a ton of starts.
Matthew Stafford had a ton of starts. Look at what
he's doing, it's a good chance he's going to win
the MVP.
Speaker 10 (34:08):
So this this is born out. This is not a
one or two year sample size in the National Football League.
This has been a twenty five year deal where we
can look and see who's succeeding in the postseason in particular.
And that's why it's easy to, you know, say to
a guy like Dante more or a lot of these quarterbacks,
stay in school, stay in school, and now they're getting
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paid to do so well.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
When I watched Alabama in Georgia, my takeaway was those
defenses are don't have a lot of depth. They didn't
generate the pass rush without bringing extra people. And my
takeaway is college football has officially changed. The SEC has
gone two and seven against non SEC teams, and that's
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over Tulane, who lost their coach in Michigan. That's been
a mess for you know, six to eight weeks. I
think we have to be honest about this is that
of the four teams left, Joel three play real big
boy defense and Ole Miss doesn't. And they don't and
I think a lot of it it's just money. Ohio
State can buy both sides. Miami and Oregon can buy
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both sides of the ball. I do think it's money.
I do think it's experienced as well. You know, I
think that that comes into it, which I was alluding
to in that last answer.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
But think about who lost in the quarterfinals.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
Ohio State lost in the quarterfinals, Alabama lost in the quarterfinals,
Georgia lost in the quarterfinals, and you could make a
strong argument that a lot of that was depth related
and linus scrimmage related. Like Georgia started losing players on defense,
they got banged up on defense, they lost the guy
to targeting, and all of a sudden, they didn't have
what they had five and six and seven years ago,
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which is a two deep littered with five star players.
Because they could just hoard those guys, they didn't want
to go anywhere. So now all of a sudden, they
don't have the depth that they used to. What would
have been a forty to nineteen Georgie to win seven
years ago turned into an old miss win because they
were able to make some plays and attack that Georgia defense. Similarly,
like Miami was able to invest in a line of
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scrimmage game that ultimately beat Ohio State. The defensive line
for Miami was outstanding. The offensive line for Miami was outstanding.
Oregon very similarly was able to handle the game at
the line of scrimmage and more specifically on defense. This
sport has turned into you've got to have a great
defense to win in the postseason, and in particular down
down the stretch when you get to the semi finals
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and the finals. That's why I think it's going to
be tough for Role Miss. Their defense is ranked twenty
ninth in scoring defense. The rest of the participants. Miami
is sixth, Oregon is fourth. In Indiana is second in
scoring defense. So everybody can play defense right now, and
that's ultimately what it comes down to. So Ole Miss
has multiple coaches who are splitting time between LSU and
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Ole Miss. I think Miami is the better team, significantly
better defense now that you look.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
See.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Here was my thing on Lane Kiffin. I don't want
to be a hypocrite. I have been mobile in my career.
I'm not going to tell people not to upgrade, So
I don't want to be a hypocrite. That said I
was curious. I said, I'm not so sure Old Miss
couldn't score their way to the National Championship game. I
think they'd be beaten by a better defense, but they could.
They could knock some teams off. Now, in the rear
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view mirror, you look at the mess at Old Miss.
Speaker 10 (37:27):
What do you make of Kiffen leaving. It's it's a mess.
Like you just said, that's the best way to describe it.
I said at the time, and I said it on
your show, I said it on others. I said it
on Big Noon Kickoff right before Michigan Ohio State. I
said that that if Lane was ultimately doing all this
and making all these decisions in order to compete for
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a national championship, then all he had to do was
look at what's right in front of him, because he's
going to have that chance this year with this Old
Miss team. And that's exactly what has panned out. They're
just doing it with Pete Golding. Now, he decided to move,
and that's that's fine, although, like I also said during
that time, there are consequences to those decisions. Listen, what
I don't think Lane understands is that he's not the
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victim in this scenario. You know, I think that there's
a lot of things going on right now, And what
I look at is the player. If I'm Trinidad Chambliss,
don't I expect desire my offensive coordinator to be one
hundred percent invested in what's going on with the national
semi final. Yes, that's that's what I hope for if
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I'm in that position as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
And the reality is is that's not the case. Now.
Speaker 10 (38:37):
Lane would tell you that Charlie Weiss has had all
the time necessary and hasn't missed a meeting, and don't worry,
he's been back and forth to help recruit at LSU
and being back there, and it's been a little bit
toxic at Ole Miss. All these things. That's what Lane
would tell you. But the bottom line is is the
quickest way to be defeated is be distracted. And you
cannot serve two masters period, period. And so the city
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situation sucks for the players. And I'm sure Lane is
catching heat from Old Miss and Ole Miss is catching
heat from Lane, and they're bantering back and forth now
and all of these different things, and all I keep
thinking about are the players. The players just want their
coaches to be there to help build support, prepare them
for the task at hand. And I don't know if
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that's taking place right now one hundred percent, and that's unfortunate.
And that's one of the reasons why I would pick
Miami in this game. The matchup, actually, if you look
at it, Ole Miss resembles SMU enough that they can
get their quarterback Trinidad Chambliss on the edge tower and
tire out Baine and Mesador.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Like the matchup is not bad for Old Miss. It
really isn't.
Speaker 10 (39:43):
No, but you better have an offensive coaching staff and
they better be one hundred percent vested in this game.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
And that's what you can call into question. Yeah. I
always like underdogs.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
If the underdog is built to play from behind, and
we just watched Old Miss, they're absolutely built to play
from behind because then Dad Chamblis can do a little
off script stuff. I always think underdogs get in trouble
when the Ole Miss can throw it if they're forced
to or they want to. They're throwing the football, So
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they're built to be out played for three quarters and
come roaring back and win. And I can't wait to
wall I do like Miami. I think Miami is the
most physical I hate to use the word, but the
most violent physical team I've seen. That's what the Buckeyes
were last year. Sure, and may beat people up physically. Yeah,
I would agree with that. I think it comes down
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to two things. Pay attention obviously to quarterback play. But
here's the deal.
Speaker 10 (40:39):
Colin Carson Beck has been allowed to play in manageable
third down situations and he's been brilliant doing so. If
you can do that, Miami will succeed.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yep, Joel Klatt, great stuff, Joel, appreciate it on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Awesome, but have a good one.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
I mean, listen, there's an argument. The best offense left
is not Indiana Oregon. It's actually Ole Miss. So Ole Miss,
and you saw it against Georgia. I like underdogs when
they can, you know, like Chicago is a great example.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Chicago can be brilliant.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
They get outplayed against Detroit the entire game and then
you look up in six minutes later it's tied. So
Ole Miss has the ability to do that. You know,
it's just interesting. The best SEC team now doesn't have
a good defense. They're led by offense. Welcome to twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six college football.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
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We will have all of them. You know, a lot
of times you'll hear people say, well, you know these
teams they I mean, they're just they don't know how
to draft quarterbacks. Twelve of the fourteen playoff quarterbacks our
first round quarterbacks, and the best one left is Josh Allen.
(01:11):
That's why, as I peruse the playoff matchups this weekend,
one team cannot lose until maybe they get to a
super Bowl. That's Buffalo. Here's the bad news. Last eight
road playoff games, Buffalo is zero to eight, not all
of those on Sean McDermott all the playoff games this weekend.
(01:35):
Only one team is not allowed to lose Buffalo or
the domino effect starts. Kevin Stefanski don't take a job yet,
and the excuse for Buffalo has been well, there's Patrick
Mahomes and Joe Burrow neither made the playoffs. It's bad
enough that you lost your division to Drake May and
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Mike Vrabel, and it was Rabel's first year taking over
a team that is still in my opinion, in a rebuild,
you can't then lose the AFC to potentially Liam Cohen
taking over the wobbly Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And Sean McDermott can coach.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
He has a higher winning percentage, believe it or not,
than Belichick and Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Sean McDermott can coach.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
But the downside to having a generational quarterback talent like
an l Way or a Peyton Manning or a Josh
Allen is the new standard is January. That's the new standard.
So there's a saying great power comes with great responsibility
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in the NFL. Great quarterbacks create great responsibility. It is
Sean McDermott's responsibility to be completely buttoned up and win
a road playoff game over a team, frankly Jacksonville that
is better than you this year. I was looking this
morning at the most consecutive seasons of ten plus wins
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NFL all time. The Bills are now fifth, and they're
the only team that has not reached a super Bowl
in that seven year stretch. Not only is every other
team when they have these stretches been to a super Bowl.
Six of the seven have won a super Bowl. Buffalo
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hasn't reached it. And Josh Allen leads the NFL in
yards in playoff history. Think about that, most yards in
playoff history. It is averaging, not total averaging? Is Josh
Allen never been to a Super Bowl? So losing to
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Mahomes and Burrow, okay, that's a reason. You can't lose
to Bonnicks. You can't lose to Drake May, you can't
lose to Liam Cohen and Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
You can't. Doesn't matter. You can't.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Twelve of fourteen playoff teams have first round quarterbacks. You
have the best one. Here's Sean McDermott on the Weekend Ahead.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You don't take them for granted.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Let's just start there. But at the same time, the
experiences I've been here, we've been here, and so that
comes with I guess it brings some.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Level of.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Called seasoning, and you would hope poise and composure as
we prepare this week and go through our process.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Like anything else, you learn from experience.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Okay, So I had mentioned there's a lot of coaching openings.
J MAC will have more of those in twelve to
fifteen minutes. I said this yesterday. And I have a
little company, and I don't like the fire people. I
really don't. I think there's a spot almost always somewhere
in a company for people.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
But you can always tell.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I was told this years and years and years ago
by a boss I had, like thirty years ago. He said,
you can always tell if you made a mistake when
you let somebody go, based on how the job market reacts.
So Cleveland fires Kevin Stefanski, in my opinion, mistake. According
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to Adam Schefter, the Falcons, Giants, and Titans top of
their list. Yeah, Cleveland just screwed up again. Can't get
the right quarterback, fire the wrong coach. So five years
in a row I have made a pick. I call
it a double yr win total team and if not double,
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the most improved team Vikings in twenty twenty two. I
got that right rams the year after a Washington in
Denver a couple of years ago. This year I had
New England double your win total. Most improved team would
be Seattle. So I'm a little bit of a heater.
Not only should Stefanski be the leading candidate. If the
Bills lose, the team I would pick next year double
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your win total would be the New York Giants. If
Kevin Stefanski is hired. That's how highly I think of him.
So I've gotten it right four or five years and
teams in a row. The Giants with Kevin Stefanski would
have a last play schedule, Jackson Dart Scataboo neighbors Raturns,
Andrew Thomas good left tackle again, last play schedule, number
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five pick in the draft. They can manipulate and get
more picks. This is an absolute layup. Nothing against Mike Kofka,
the interim guy, but you know, I don't like. I
don't like when teams fire a coach. The interim guy
comes in and you're like, wow, that looked pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's the substitute teacher.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Everybody loves the substitute teacher, right, They're more chill than
the previous teacher, more chill than the previous coach, not
as harsh. Yeah, Mike kaff is not the answer. Someday,
I don't think this is the space. And people can say, well, Colin,
you thought Pete Carroll was gonna work in Las Vegas. Yeah,
(07:07):
I thought Pete Carroll was a solid choice. It should
be noted I picked the Raiders to finish fourth with
Pete Carroll. I said, they'll still be a last place team,
but they need like guidance and maturity and stop with
the interim stuff and just go hire a guy that's
one big Pete Carroll. It didn't work. It's a man overboard,
but I still picked him for fourth. The New York
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Giants have several key components, Like you know, Jackson darts
in the blue tent way more than I like. But
when you have a number one receiver, a number one
left tackle, a number one back, a number one quarterback,
an excellent pass rusher, the number five picks, that's pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
That's pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I mean, you go look at the teams at the
top of the draft outside of the team that gets
Mendoza Giants pretty interesting. Here's Joe Shane on their coaching
vacancy right now in New York.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Each of those franchises brought in new head coaches and
were able to turn it around rather quickly. And you
know Drake Mayson, the MVP, you know race right now.
And you know Caleb Williams. We obviously played against him
and has has had a really good year in playing
at a high level. So, yeah, that's that's certainly an
opportunity that you look at those franchises and how they
put it together in the quick turnaround and you know
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an ideal world. Yeah, that would be from the people
I've talked to, you know the consensus, there are a
lot of potential head coaching candidates that are excited about
the opportunity here because of Jackson Dart.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, fifty to forty fifty percent of first round quarterbacks
that are drafted don't become great franchise quarterbacks. I don't
know what Jackson Dart's going to become, but no reasonable
person would deny it's encouraging if he can stay out
of the blue tent. The Giants were swimming in chaos.
He was kind of encouraging Skataboo neighbors Andrew Thomas, Jackson,
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Dart Abdul Carter. It's kind of encouraging Kevin Stefanski takes
that job. That is a double your win total team,
not saying it to a great team. They're not going
to turn into New England this year, but they'd be
a really good team. J Maack, we got all sorts
of stuff happening, some of it not surprising, one move
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very surprising. And this is such a great time that
you're starting Thursday.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Do you want to just tell them what happened in
the list?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
So Cliff Kingsbury is now mutually decided he does not
get along with the GM. Adam Peters I've been told, yeah,
he doesn't necessarily see eyd eye with a GM. And
now dan Quinn, this is the downside to hiring a
defensive coach. And I like dan Quinn. I thought it
was a solid hire. Or now you lose your offensive
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coordinator and here's Jayden Daniels all banged up, going, who's
my coach?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
By the way, also fire their defensive coordinators, so both
coordinators gone. That usually means, hey, head coach, delivered this
season or you're gone. I try not good for Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So that's that's what we've always said, hire an offensive coach.
Now there are exceptions. Demiko Ryans came highly touted. Jesse
Minter with the Chargers. Everybody loves Mike McDaniel was thought
of as the Sean McVay of defense. There are great
defensive coaches. But even if you nail that guy, he
loses his offensive coordinator every couple of years. So you,
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I mean Dan Campbell did a great job this year.
Offensive coordinator didn't work because as well, he had the
takeover offensive play calling and it disrupted the flow of
the team.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
They'll probably be a line out the door for this job, right.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
You want to get in coaching Jayden Daniels because he's
such a superstar. I wonder where does Cliff Kingsbury land.
You think he wants to maybe spend the fall in
New York. I'll just tell I'll tell you. I have
this as well sourced as I can. I love Cliff.
He's not an NFL head coach. No, No, as eoc
If we get Dante Moore in New York as a quarterback.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Would that excite Cliff Kingsbury living in New York?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Coaching done King for the Jets does not excite anybody.
I mean, it's right now, it's the worst situation.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
In the league. It's up there.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Let me say what you want about Tennessee. They have
cam Ward.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, the readers are in trouble right now.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, but they get Mendoza. Yes, yeah, I mean everybody
Tennessee has cam Ward. Giants have Jackson Dart. Think what
you want. Raiders are getting Mendoza. I mean, you can
say what you want about the Falcons. But Kirk played
well at the end. They still have Penix. They're going
to hire an offensive guy, perhaps Stefanski. Jets are at
the bottom right now. Thirty two to thirty two.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I'll accept it.
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Speaker 1 (12:14):
I don't think people. Maybe they do, but there's been
a sea change in college football and we're down to
the final four teams. It's Tuesday, Thursday night they start
playing again, and the SEC is no longer it's it's
not disputable. Their bull record this year is four and nine.
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The SEC is no longer the number one conference. In fact,
of those four wins, only two or non SEC teams.
They beat themselves, and then they beat Tulane, who fired
their or lost their coach in Michigan, which has been
enough free fall for the last eight weeks until they
hired Kyle Whittingham. Those are your two wings, Tulane and Michigan.
(12:58):
So if Ole Miss lose this to Miami on Thursday,
thurstraight year, no SEC team in the championship game, they're
not even getting there. This year National Letter of Recruiting Day,
which was always an SEC parade for the top five teams,
non SEC teams, and they're richer schools Notre Dame, Oregon, USC,
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and Ohio State. So the big ten plus Notre Dame
have a lot more money. A great example of this
is Bama's number one booster is Bear Bryant's son. Oregon
has Phil Knight, founder of Nike. Indiana's got Mark Cuban,
who's among three huge boosters for the Hoosiers. So the
SEC always had a slogan it just means more. Passion
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ruled the sport. Big problem though, now going forward, the
new slogan in college football is it just costs more.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
And that is the reality.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm reading a story this morning, well, is money making
over college football? Yeah, it was always leading college football.
There was the facility's mad rush paying kids in the
South through the churches. And now it all comes through
the front door, as a orderon said, not the back door.
All four quarterbacks left in the playoff transfers. And here's
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something that's fascinating. The number one SEC team on the
rise is Vanderbilt, the number one academic school, which has
the richest group on average of graduates. Academics do matter,
So it's very interesting when people talk about oh which
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is a better conference. There's no arguing. Right now, they
are four and nine in bowl games. The only two
wins against non SEC teams were tu Lane that lost
to coach and Michigan did two a different way.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It just means more, nah, it just that's the reality.
College football now is forty to fifty percent pro football.
By the way, attendants up ratings up. It was always
sort of a provincial, tribal wonky sport with no leadership.
Now it kind of looks like the NFL playoffs and
the numbers prove people are into it. SEC super expensive
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conference this point forward. That's how you win it. Keep
your eye on Bandy Jmack with the news.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
No, no, turn on the news. This is the herd
line news.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
All right, Colin, Let's go back to the NFL.
Speaker 7 (15:34):
Dallas Cowboys fired their DC Matt Eberflus. Not a huge surprise.
I mean their defensive dumpster fire fresh season. You know,
you trade Michael Parsons and then you allow twenty nine
points per game, worse than the league. They were thirty
first in points allowed and allowed three hundred and seventy
six yards per game. Colin, it was abysmal all around.
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I don't really know where they go from here.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
They got a lot of.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Work to do on the back end of the defense. Well,
Ravon Diggs, by the way, who they refuse to play, goes.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
To Green Bay, has a pretty good week eighteen.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Well in a meanless game. Cincinnati is a great example.
You could have Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and t Higgins.
You can't score your way to the playoffs. You're seeing
in college football Oregon, Miami and Indiana play real defense.
Oh Miss, doesn't you have to play? I mean the
downfall the SEC is that Baman Georgia don't have dominating
defenses anymore. It's not that they don't score points. So
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Cincinnati proves that you can have a great offense, you
have to make some stops. In fact, that's what I
think both of us agree will be. The downs fall
of Chicago is that Bears give up big plays. They're
better defensively at home. But yeah, largely so. I think
take Cincinnati as an example. Your first two picks should
probably be defensive players, and you should probably let Pickens
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go and go buy another. I mean, you got Quentin Williams,
Kenny Clark, draft an edge, get a safety, Caleb Downs
or a corner and then you'll probably go after to
spend some money somewhere in that secondary as well.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It's a lean secondary.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Caleb Downs would be a home run. I don't think
he's going to be there when they're drafting.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I mean, hell, the.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Chiefs could be interested in Caleb Downs. So really rough
one for the Cowboys defenses here all right? Sticking in
the NFC, he's the big news. The Commanders dumped both
of their coordinators, Joe with the DC gone, and we're
calling it a parting of ways with Kingsbury and dan Quinn.
Now my guess is something's going to come out on
this column. This feels awkward, right, Like, why would you
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move off Kingsbury? You were in the NFC Championship a
year ago with the healthy Jayden and Daniels. Kingsbury was
amazing and now you're just moving on from him. What
you get a whiff that there's anything going on here?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Well, they hired a defensive coach who had been fired
in Atlanta, dan Quinn.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We thought it. We both thought it was a good
B plus higher.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Because we both love the idea of stabilizing the organization.
But if you're asking me what I would have ideally
done is hire an offensive coach. By the way, the
Bears Caleb Williams inherited a defensive coach, they have now
permitted to do an offensive coach. Bo Nicks offensive coach
Drake May has a defensive coach, but he has a
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probably the best coordinator in the sport. Josh McDaniels, right,
I think dan Quinn's on the clock. So interesting, What
great coordinator is going to take that job in Washington?
Why would I take the commander's job? Well, I know
that if Quinn doesn't win, you get I'm not getting
the job as a coordinator.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I think you're trapped.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I think this puts the pressure on dan Quinn and
what guy with options is choosing this job and that
Now that.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Would be year three with.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Jayden and it's this year, next year's bad. Then you
get a new coach year four, and then the rookie
deal is wasted. Colin, what if there's a scenario that
Kingsbury is going to be a head coach? There are
six openings. I know you don't think it worked well
in Arizona. He did get them to the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Kyler Murray's only trip.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
What if the Raiders kicked the tires on Kingsbury because
remember he was in discussions with that.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
The answer is Pete Carroll's last couple of jobs, bad Kingbury.
Kingsbury got fired by his alma mater. He's not a
head coach.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
I know.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
There are a couple good quarterbacks out there, Dark kim
Ward and Mendoza are on the board.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
The knock on Kingsbury has always been he's not he
will not hold fairly disruptive players accountable. He's an offensive guy.
He's a nice guy, but things get loose very quick.
They did it as alma mater, his alma mater. Again,
that was like seven years ago, eight ten years ago.
Now we're maybe he needed to be around Quinn to
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see what it's like. It's a round of mature head coach.
You either have that personality or you don't. You don't
learn how to be tough. Now, there are tough coaches
Kaflin who lighten up. But Wade Phillips was always a
great guy. The knock on him was always he's not
tough enough. You know, you can go back with tough
people can lighten up. The tough dad can lighten up
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and chill out. Light, soft, nice, don't get mean, don't
buy into it. Kingsbury's not going to become uh McVeigh.
He's not going to become like Shanahan in that building.
Is not only respected, he's a little faired. He'll move
off yet maybe Vey is feared. He moved up Von
Miller he I mean Cooper cop like McVeigh in that building.
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Players love him, but he moves off guys a year early.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Kingsbury doesn't need to become anyone.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
He could just become a slightly different version of himself
and so maybe not crack the whip hardcore.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
I mean that almost makes.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
It sound like Mike McDaniel in Miami. He's soft, He's
kind of a Mike.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Can't Kenny.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Mike McDaniel made two a Pro Bowl or made the
playoffs with a GM that was apparently completely over his skis.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
I mean, if I'm Kingsbury sitting in a meeting with
Tom Brady or whoever, hey man, Kyler Murray's only trip
to the playoffs with me Jaden Daniels I took him
to the NFC Championship in his first year. Like, I
think he's got a decent resume. I'm not totally out
on Kingsbury a head coach in this cycle. I mean,
obviously Stefanski would be ahead of him.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
But you're saying no shot, No, he may get hired.
I'm not saying no shot. I'm telling you, when you're
Alma Mater gets rid of you Alma monters don't want
to get rid of people that went to their own
and then you go to Arizona. And I'm not blaming
him entirely in Arizona, but the knock was he didn't
quite hold people accountable. It's not his personal We say
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this whole time. A lot of people are vice presidents,
a lot of people are vps. They're not built for
the boardroom. They're not built to make hard, tough decisions.
I don't think Kingsbury is. I think Cliff's great guy.
I think he's sharp, I think he's a good OC.
But why would Adam Peters, the GM who's highly respected,
why would he butt heads with Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Why something's going to come out in DCS or Kingsbury
has over.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
The next week or two. Start reading all your I mean,
I'm going to make two calls after the show today.
Why didn't Peters and Cliff get along. I mean, Peters
is considered super sharp. Yeah, they turned it around quickly.
This year a disaster, but anyways, final story.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Cone Benon Johnson and Caleb Williams. Their big playoff debut
is this weekend. Caleb obviously had a great season with
the Bears, franchise record thirty nine and forty two passing yards.
Ben Johnson is confident in his quarterback.
Speaker 9 (22:26):
He's played in a lot of big games over the
course of his life. I think he's he's primed and
he's ready to go. He was built for these moments.
He plays his best when when we need him to.
And so there's really not a whole lot that needs
to be said. He just needs to be him.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Okay, So wise guys slash sharps always look at the weather.
Very interesting the weather for this game up to thirty
mile hour wind gusts.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
What does that tell you? Take the better run game?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
So where is Chicago vulnerable giving up big plays? Good
luck throwing it down the field to Christian Watson. So
run games and throws to tight ends. Colston Loveland, Loveland's
really come on strong, well, Cole come at Loveland. Caleb's
strong arm run game. Better offensive line is Chicago. So
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the weather right now is favoring Chicago. Keep the ball
on the ground, throw to your tight ends underneath stuff
Bears at home.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
So Caleb in the first meeting with the Packers one
hundred and eighty six yards passing, not a great game,
had a bad pick, did come on strong late. Second game,
wasn't doing much and then had the big throw in
overtime to put them over two hundred yards. But two
meetings against the Packers. I this is a tough one
for him. Man, this is the one game I'm afraid
to pick. I just don't have a strong feeling either way.
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Gut tells me. Maybe the Packers willin. But I'll be
rooting for your Bears sometimes. I root for your teams,
even though you take dumps on the Jets regularly, I'll
root for your Bears.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
I'll root for it, all right.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Jmack with the news.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well that's the news, and thanks for stopping that. The
herd line news.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So as we get ready to go into college football
starts Thursday, then Friday, then Saturday through Monday night with
the Steelers Texans is just going to be a parade
of greatness. So I want to establish something as we
go into the playoffs. So this is hard for the
radio audience to devour because it's a lot of numbers.
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But PFF has ranked every playoff team in order, past
blocking O line on the left, run blocking O line
in the right. Here's the good news. Denver and Buffalo
have the two best offensive lines in the playoffs. Look
at the very bottom, the Chargers have the worst pass
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blocking of all these playoff teams thirty first. Only one
team in the whole league is worst, and they have
the worst blocking offensive line in the entire league playoff
teams non playoff teams, So the Chargers would be the
worst offensive line in the Pro Football The PFF era
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to just win a playoff game, to win and Justin Herbert,
I know what you're saying. If they lose to New
England Colin how good can he be? And how good
can he be now on a playoff game. If Justin
Herbert out of college landed in Philly with Howie Roseman,
they'd be building a bust in Kenton, Ohio. If you
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look at Justin Herbert's career, all of it including the playoffs,
when he is sacked once or few or he's twenty
one and six, but even when he's sacked two or
more times, he's still excellent. Now he's under five hundred,
but a ninety one passer rating. So there is a difference.
Let's get it all out here. There is a difference
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between not doing something winning a playoff game and being
the reason you haven't done something. This is an offensive
line that should immediately disqualify you as a team from
making the playoffs, and yet Herbert has engineered an eleven
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and six record with the worst run blocking line in
the league and the second worst pass blocking and of
the playoff teams, it's not close. The second thing we
need to establish. The second thing we need to establish
on those rankings of offensive lines, the Chicago Bears have
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the number six passing on line and the number three
running on line. So the Bears and Caleb Williams have
an excellent top four O line in the league, not
just playoff teams. They have an excellent play designer and
caller Ben Johnson, excellent weapons, and the better run game
against Green Bay. So two things this weekend. If Justin
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Herbert loses, I don't want to hear about, well, Colin,
where the playoff wins. They're an underdog for a reason.
They have an offensive line that should not sniff the playoffs.
The factor eleven and six is insane. But if Caleb
Williams loses, when he's got the coach, the old line,
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the pass blocking, the run blocking, the weapons, that's on Caleb.
He has got to beat Green Bay at home, facing
a Packer team without Michael Parsons, no excuses. The pressure's
on Caleb. You got the home, you actually have weather
that benefits you. You've got the run game, the old line,
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the play calling, to play design. Herbert is looking up hill.
Here's harball on facing the Patriots, excited for.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
The game, excited, you know, for the opportunity alter competitive season.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
This is a this is this is that time, you know, And.
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, I kind of that.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Put up a shut up time for the record.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Herbert, justin Herbert led the Chargers in rushing seven times
this year. That is not what they want in Los Angeles.
That's why I like the Patriots in this matchup. Heard
hierarchy our last regular season. Heard hierarchy of the year
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Joel Klatts around the corner. College football playoffs start Thursday.
It's the Hurd.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays
and noon eastern non a em Pacific.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
By the way, this news that is coming out, Todd
mcshae advised Dante more the Oregon quarterback, regardless of how
he is playing, that Mendoz is going to be the
number one pick out of Indiana. Todd McShay said, avoid
the Jets, do not go to the NFL. Stay at
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college now. Dante Morre at Oregon is going to make
four million dollars probably around that ballpark. That is what
the top quarterbacks are going for Texas. Texas signed a
really talented quarterback who I think it's good enough to
play now in the NFL for about four or five
million bucks. So it's great for college football because you
know football is as good as quarterback play. So it's
great for college football. You're going to keep guys in
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college another year at the most important position. It's also
great for these kids who can get another thirteen to
fifteen college starts that can't hurt. It's also good for
the secondary quarterback market in the NFL. Like Malik Willis
is going to eat and mac Jones and Murray and
Daniel Jones. It's great for those guys, it's not good
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for poorly run organizations because I and I would strongly
still listen to your agent. Agents want to get paid.
All you college guys, when you get agents, all agents
want they want to get paid. They don't really care
what's best for you. They want money. And the bottom
line here is Aaron glennon the Jets is a is
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a hazmat spill. They don't what do they offer? Strong ownership,
proven coach, great old line, lots of weapons. I mean
Garrett Wilson I think remains the number one Jets receiver.
I don't think he's got a catch since Week six.
I mean it is so to me Oregon for another
fifteen games. Dan Lanning's a great recruiter. Stay at Oregon,
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win a bunch of games with that. Joel Klatt joins
us live as we get ready for the game starting
a Thursday. Mimi, ole Miss, you know I got to
tell you there are and I've been saying this about
callllege basketball. College basketball had about a twenty year stretch
where it was unwatchable because guys were going to Europe.
It was one and done, and the European players weren't
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coming over. Then the NIL came and suddenly now the
American universities go buy fifteen Europeans. Europeans can't keep. I
mean like Spaniards. Now they'll leave a Spanish league. They'll
come over here and go play for Illinois. And then
guys like Zach Edy, who are really good players, say
I'm gonna stant Purdue one more year. So college basketball
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has been fortified with about twenty to twenty five to
thirty kids that instead of playing and you know, it
could be Israel, it could be Overseas, Lithuania, could be Japan,
it could be wherever there's come back to college and
make three million bucks a year. So I think this
is great for college football. That that Texas Tech kid
who played at Cincinnati and Dante More they could both
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play in the NFL. Now they're going to come out
with fifty more starts. I mean your take, you played
the position in college. I love this for college football.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I did too.
Speaker 10 (31:59):
And then, by the way, it's going to make them
better pros. You know, this is not just about the money.
It's also about the impact that they're going to have
once they're NFL players.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
You and I have talked about this a lot.
Speaker 10 (32:08):
You look at the best players in the NFL, and
in particular the quarterbacks that win in the postseason and
ultimately go on and win Super Bowls. You average out
their college career and you've got thirty plus starts, one
thousand plus attempts, very experienced guys. In fact, you know,
the least experienced quarterback from a college perspective to have
won a Super Bowl in the last twenty five years
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is actually Tom Brady.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (32:30):
I mean that should tell you everything that you need
to know about what you need coming into the league.
And obviously fit, like you were talking about with the Jets,
fit and organization are obviously going to impact that as well,
but your experience and maturity level is a big factor
in that. And so I would also if Dante Moore
called me today and he said, hey, like, what should
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I do?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I wouldn't blink an eye.
Speaker 10 (32:53):
I would say go back to school because it's no
longer just a financial decision. He can make life changing
money at Oregon much less than the National Football League,
and getting extra starts prepares you for what you could
potentially have, which is a long NFL career. Because you
want to get to the second contract, that's one really
matters for you in the National Football League, And we're
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starting to see by the way in the last couple
of years, experience at that position and experienced teams in
general are the ones that are winning in the postseason.
Look at Indiana, they've got experience. Look at Ohio State
last year, Michigan the year before. Experience at the quarterback position,
Experience across the line of scrimmage. That's what's ultimately winning
out right now.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
In college football, well, I mean, bo Knicks had sixty
one college starts, So Sean Payton, it's not a coincidence
that when he got to Denver, Sean Payton said, here's
the entire playbook and answer luck three years four years
at stand for three years. Like when he came into
the league. They're like, okay, here's the entire playbook. We
don't have to babysit you. So it not only helps
you in college, but by the time he get the NFL.
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I mean, bow Nicks had like four or five different
coordinators in college. He was like a pro in common
So I love that. Well, Mahomes said a ton of starts.
Matthew Stafford had a ton of starts. Look at what
he's doing, it's a good chance he's going to win
the MVP.
Speaker 10 (34:08):
So this this is born out. This is not a
one or two year sample size in the National Football League.
This has been a twenty five year deal where we
can look and see who's succeeding in the postseason in particular.
And that's why it's easy to, you know, say to
a guy like Dante more or a lot of these quarterbacks,
stay in school, stay in school, and now they're getting
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paid to do so well.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
When I watched Alabama in Georgia, my takeaway was those
defenses are don't have a lot of depth. They didn't
generate the pass rush without bringing extra people. And my
takeaway is college football has officially changed. The SEC has
gone two and seven against non SEC teams, and that's
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over Tulane, who lost their coach in Michigan. That's been
a mess for you know, six to eight weeks. I
think we have to be honest about this is that
of the four teams left, Joel three play real big
boy defense and Ole Miss doesn't. And they don't and
I think a lot of it it's just money. Ohio
State can buy both sides. Miami and Oregon can buy
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both sides of the ball. I do think it's money.
I do think it's experienced as well. You know, I
think that that comes into it, which I was alluding
to in that last answer.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
But think about who lost in the quarterfinals.
Speaker 10 (35:28):
Ohio State lost in the quarterfinals, Alabama lost in the quarterfinals,
Georgia lost in the quarterfinals, and you could make a
strong argument that a lot of that was depth related
and linus scrimmage related. Like Georgia started losing players on defense,
they got banged up on defense, they lost the guy
to targeting, and all of a sudden, they didn't have
what they had five and six and seven years ago,
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which is a two deep littered with five star players.
Because they could just hoard those guys, they didn't want
to go anywhere. So now all of a sudden, they
don't have the depth that they used to. What would
have been a forty to nineteen Georgie to win seven
years ago turned into an old miss win because they
were able to make some plays and attack that Georgia defense. Similarly,
like Miami was able to invest in a line of
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scrimmage game that ultimately beat Ohio State. The defensive line
for Miami was outstanding. The offensive line for Miami was outstanding.
Oregon very similarly was able to handle the game at
the line of scrimmage and more specifically on defense. This
sport has turned into you've got to have a great
defense to win in the postseason, and in particular down
down the stretch when you get to the semi finals
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and the finals. That's why I think it's going to
be tough for Role Miss. Their defense is ranked twenty
ninth in scoring defense. The rest of the participants. Miami
is sixth, Oregon is fourth. In Indiana is second in
scoring defense. So everybody can play defense right now, and
that's ultimately what it comes down to. So Ole Miss
has multiple coaches who are splitting time between LSU and
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Ole Miss. I think Miami is the better team, significantly
better defense now that you look.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
See.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Here was my thing on Lane Kiffin. I don't want
to be a hypocrite. I have been mobile in my career.
I'm not going to tell people not to upgrade, So
I don't want to be a hypocrite. That said I
was curious. I said, I'm not so sure Old Miss
couldn't score their way to the National Championship game. I
think they'd be beaten by a better defense, but they could.
They could knock some teams off. Now, in the rear
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view mirror, you look at the mess at Old Miss.
Speaker 10 (37:27):
What do you make of Kiffen leaving. It's it's a mess.
Like you just said, that's the best way to describe it.
I said at the time, and I said it on
your show, I said it on others. I said it
on Big Noon Kickoff right before Michigan Ohio State. I
said that that if Lane was ultimately doing all this
and making all these decisions in order to compete for
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a national championship, then all he had to do was
look at what's right in front of him, because he's
going to have that chance this year with this Old
Miss team. And that's exactly what has panned out. They're
just doing it with Pete Golding. Now, he decided to move,
and that's that's fine, although, like I also said during
that time, there are consequences to those decisions. Listen, what
I don't think Lane understands is that he's not the
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victim in this scenario. You know, I think that there's
a lot of things going on right now, And what
I look at is the player. If I'm Trinidad Chambliss,
don't I expect desire my offensive coordinator to be one
hundred percent invested in what's going on with the national
semi final. Yes, that's that's what I hope for if
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I'm in that position as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
And the reality is is that's not the case. Now.
Speaker 10 (38:37):
Lane would tell you that Charlie Weiss has had all
the time necessary and hasn't missed a meeting, and don't worry,
he's been back and forth to help recruit at LSU
and being back there, and it's been a little bit
toxic at Ole Miss. All these things. That's what Lane
would tell you. But the bottom line is is the
quickest way to be defeated is be distracted. And you
cannot serve two masters period, period. And so the city
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situation sucks for the players. And I'm sure Lane is
catching heat from Old Miss and Ole Miss is catching
heat from Lane, and they're bantering back and forth now
and all of these different things, and all I keep
thinking about are the players. The players just want their
coaches to be there to help build support, prepare them
for the task at hand. And I don't know if
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that's taking place right now one hundred percent, and that's unfortunate.
And that's one of the reasons why I would pick
Miami in this game. The matchup, actually, if you look
at it, Ole Miss resembles SMU enough that they can
get their quarterback Trinidad Chambliss on the edge tower and
tire out Baine and Mesador.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Like the matchup is not bad for Old Miss. It
really isn't.
Speaker 10 (39:43):
No, but you better have an offensive coaching staff and
they better be one hundred percent vested in this game.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
And that's what you can call into question. Yeah. I
always like underdogs.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
If the underdog is built to play from behind, and
we just watched Old Miss, they're absolutely built to play
from behind because then Dad Chamblis can do a little
off script stuff. I always think underdogs get in trouble
when the Ole Miss can throw it if they're forced
to or they want to. They're throwing the football, So
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they're built to be out played for three quarters and
come roaring back and win. And I can't wait to
wall I do like Miami. I think Miami is the
most physical I hate to use the word, but the
most violent physical team I've seen. That's what the Buckeyes
were last year. Sure, and may beat people up physically. Yeah,
I would agree with that. I think it comes down
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to two things. Pay attention obviously to quarterback play. But
here's the deal.
Speaker 10 (40:39):
Colin Carson Beck has been allowed to play in manageable
third down situations and he's been brilliant doing so. If
you can do that, Miami will succeed.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Yep, Joel Klatt, great stuff, Joel, appreciate it on a Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Awesome, but have a good one.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
I mean, listen, there's an argument. The best offense left
is not Indiana Oregon. It's actually Ole Miss. So Ole Miss,
and you saw it against Georgia. I like underdogs when
they can, you know, like Chicago is a great example.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Chicago can be brilliant.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
They get outplayed against Detroit the entire game and then
you look up in six minutes later it's tied. So
Ole Miss has the ability to do that. You know,
it's just interesting. The best SEC team now doesn't have
a good defense. They're led by offense. Welcome to twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six college football.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Herd hierarchy. Last one of the regular season neck
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