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Colin Cowherd REACTS to HOT SEAT LIST: Jets' Glenn, Eagles’ Sirianni, Packers’ LaFleur | HERD NFL

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Colin Cowherd REACTS to HOT SEAT LIST: Jets' Glenn, Eagles’ Sirianni, Packers’ LaFleur | HERD NFL", an episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd published February 12, 2026 (51 min, about 8,992 words). It mentions 32 people, works and ideas, including NFL, Super Bowl, James Harrison, Green Bay Packers, Matt Laflure.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Green Bay Packers, Nick Seriani, Kevin Stfansky, Super Bowl
  2. – 10:00: brotherhood, James Harrison, Hard Rock Bet, Big Ben Rothllessberger
  3. – 15:00: James Harrison, Super Bowl, brotherhood, Big Ben Rothllessberger
  4. – 20:00: Super Bowl, Dallas Cowboys, Trent Dilford
  5. – 25:00: salary cap
  6. – 30:00: salary cap
  7. – 35:00: Super Bowl, Trent Dilford, Rex Ryan
  8. – 40:00: transactional, NFL, Super Bowl, Trent Dilford
  9. – 45:00: Oklahoma City Thunder, NBA, San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors
  10. – 50:00: dynasties, Super Bowl, Golden State Warriors

Notable quotes from "Colin Cowherd REACTS to HOT SEAT LIST: Jets' Glenn, Eagles’ Sirianni, Packers’ LaFleur | HERD NFL"

  • Instant reactions, and more football content. So, I just saw this the Packers Matt Laflure, serious story, has landed on the coaching hot seat list.
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  • Kind of out. And Baltimore really leaning heavily into Jesse Mter, but I don't the market is the truth. Kevin Stfansky interviewed immediately for all the top jobs. What's…
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  • The Packers have always done a great job drafting and developing, mostly because that's the only way they can build dynasties, drafting and developing.
    about dynasties · at
  • Years the greatest Pittsburgh Steeler is Big Ben Rothllessberger and James Harrison's on a short list of the second best player, great players. Well, they have podcasts and…
    about James Harrison · at
  • Knows that. Anybody in the Steeler building knows that, but we protected him. Well, if James Harrison and Big Ben don't buy into the brotherhood, his word, maybe the…
    about brotherhood · at
  • Let's start at the NBA, Colin, where the San Antonio Spurs, the best team in the league. Yes, you heard that right. Best team in the league. Had a nice comeback to beat the Warriors. they won by 13,.
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  • That. Like in baseball, you can just go buy guys. In the NFL, you can go awful the great overnight. The NBA now, and this is the Adam Silver NBA, everybody's shooting threes…
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  • Yeah. All right, let's move on to the NFL. And the New England Patriots suffered a big L in the Super Bowl. it.
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Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • James Harrison — Person · Referenced expert · 7 mentions · first at
    Discussed for his critiques of the Steelers' culture and performance.
  • Matt Laflure — Person · Referenced expert · 2 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of coaching performance and team dynamics.
    Instant reactions, and more football content. So, I just saw this the Packers Matt Laflure, serious story, has landed on the coaching hot seat list.
  • Nick Seriani — Person · Referenced expert · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of coaching performance and team dynamics.
    Don't the market is the truth. Kevin Stfansky interviewed immediately for all the top jobs. What's interesting with Sirriani is I don't think he get her job. Not quickly. So, fans are completely swayed by winning.
  • Big Ben Rothllessberger — Person · Referenced expert · 3 mentions · first at
    Critiqued for his comments on the Steelers' culture.
    Can argue over the last, 15 20 years the greatest Pittsburgh Steeler is Big Ben Rothllessberger and James Harrison's on a short list of the second best player, great players.…
  • Kevin Stfansky — Person · Referenced expert · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of coaching performance and market value.
    When Cleveland fired Kevin Stfansky, he interviewed with the top five jobs within a week.
  • Trent Dilford — Person · Referenced expert · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned for his insights into quarterbacking and coaching.
    Well, that guy screwed me in the system and blah. What Trent Doer just said was pretty incredible. he owned it. He was I was a failure.
  • Joey Porter Senior — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned for his comments on the Steelers' culture.
    But according to Joey Porter Senior, whose son plays for the Steelers, so he gets very emotional. Joey Porter Senior says Big Ben, who he calls number seven, and James Harrison…
  • Brian Shottenheimimer — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of coaching hot seats.
    So here according to this story, the 10 coaches on the hot seat, Aaron Glenn obviously, and Brian Shottenheimimer, Todd Bull, Zack Taylor, like some are predictable. They have Matt Laflur at number nine. Second most.
  • Todd Bull — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of coaching hot seats.
    So here according to this story, the 10 coaches on the hot seat, Aaron Glenn obviously, and Brian Shottenheimimer, Todd Bull, Zack Taylor, like some are predictable. They have Matt Laflur at number nine. Second most.
  • Zac Taylor — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of coaching hot seats.
    So here according to this story, the 10 coaches on the hot seat, Aaron Glenn obviously, and Brian Shottenheimimer, Todd Bull, Zack Taylor, like some are predictable. They have Matt Laflur at number nine. Second most.
  • Bill Parcell — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned for his coaching career and team turnarounds.
    But there's a lot of different ways to win. Sometimes a coach inherits a mess, Bill Parcell's career, and turns around quickly. And sometimes a coach inherits a really good roster, Nick Seriani. He inherited a great O line and a great.
  • Jeff Scoutland — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned for his coaching expertise.
    Defensive coaches in a Super Bowl after years of offensive coaches. So, by all accounts, the offensive line coach for Philadelphia, Jeff Scoutland, considered the best…
  • Rex Ryan — Person · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned for his defensive strategies.
    Anything. But what you could do is make them sandwich between two semis. Rex Ryan's defenses did it sometimes. There are certain defenses that knew how to take Tom Brady's…

Companies & orgs

  • NFL — Company · Business focus · 3 mentions · first at
    Central topic of discussion regarding teams, players, and league dynamics.
  • Green Bay Packers — Company · Case study · 3 mentions · first at
    Examined for their team-building strategies and coaching.
  • NBA — Company · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed in comparison to NFL team-building strategies.
  • San Antonio Spurs — Company · Case study · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed for their team performance and strategy.
  • Golden State Warriors — Company · Case study · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in the context of NBA team performance.
    Let's start at the NBA, Colin, where the San Antonio Spurs, the best team in the league. Yes, you heard that right. Best team in the league. Had a nice comeback to beat the Warriors. they won by 13,.
  • Oklahoma City Thunder — Company · Case study · 3 mentions · first at
    Examined for their team-building strategies and success.
    Playing, how many minutes they're playing. This is what championship teams look like. OKC and the Spurs. when Denver won that title, they had the same thing. They had to move…
  • Dallas Cowboys — Company · Case study · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed for their team performance and culture.
    Which is don't settle. I'll give you a great example. This works. This is a two-way street. Demarcus Lawrence, who's who's a loves Dallas, played with Dallas, wanted to end his career with Dallas, went to Seattle, and he didn't do it for.
  • Foxports.com — Company · Business focus · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a source for coaching hot seat information.
    Coach in his first seven wins, seven years. according to Foxports.com, they got Matt Laflur on the list. Okay, I don't agree with that at all. The interesting one though is…
  • Orlando Magic — Company · Case study · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a partner of Hard Rock Bet.
    Hockey, so much more, all the great same game parlays, live betting, player props. Hard Rock Bet is the official sports betting partner of the Miami Heat and the Orlando Magic…
  • Denver Nuggets — Company · Case study · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in the context of NBA team performance.
    Playing, how many minutes they're playing. This is what championship teams look like. OKC and the Spurs. when Denver won that title, they had the same thing. They had to move…

Concepts & topics

  • brotherhood — Concept · Key argument · 7 mentions · first at
    Critiqued as a concept within the Steelers' team culture.
  • dynasties — Concept · Key argument · 5 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of team-building and success.
  • transactional — Concept · Key argument · 3 mentions · first at
    Critiqued as a negative aspect of modern sports culture.
    That is the new CBA. But the Lakers aren't close. And the Lakers have tried to transactionally trade for AD, trade for Luca, and you can get those players, but that's not what the league is anymore. And so is.
  • salary cap — Concept · Key argument · 2 mentions · first at
    Discussed in the context of team-building and player contracts.
    It is. I This is a big subject. I'll give you my thoughts on this. I've been saying this for years. one, I think in the CBA in the salary cap, they need to remove a portion for…
  • results-based analysis — Concept · Key argument · 1 mention · first at
    Critiqued as a flawed approach to evaluating performance.
    Okay, you can't just be swayed by results. That's like judging a real estate broker only when the interest rates are 3 to three and a half%. Anybody can sell a home with that. If you have a real.
  • Legion of Boom — Concept · Key argument · 3 mentions
    Referenced as a legendary defensive unit.
    Years on the first two picks, and I mean eight for eight great players, that's hard to duplicate. the Seattle defense looked a little bit like the Legion of, Boom and Legion of…

Places & events

  • Super Bowl — Event · Key argument · 11 mentions · first at
    Referenced as the ultimate goal for NFL teams and players.

Media & podcasts

  • Colin Coward podcast — Media · Business focus · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of the show's promotional content.
    Welcome to the Herds official YouTube channel. Make sure to like and subscribe. Don't forget to check out the Colin Coward podcast, all of our NFL instant reactions, and more football content. So, I just saw this the Packers Matt Laflure,.

Sponsors

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    Presenting sponsor of the episode, promoting their sports betting app.
    That's just not serious. Today's show brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet, Florida's best sports book. I know it's tough with no football, but like the song says, I will.

Full transcript with timestamps

Welcome to the Herds official YouTube channel. Make sure to like and subscribe. Don't forget to check out the Colin Coward podcast, all of our NFL instant reactions, and more football content. So, I just saw this uh the Packers Matt Laflure, serious story, has landed on the coaching hot seat list. So um here according to this story, the 10 coaches on the hot seat, Aaron Glenn obviously, uh, and you know, Brian Shottenheimimer, Todd Bull, Zack Taylor, like some are predictable. They have Matt Laflur at number nine. Second most wins in the history of the NFL for a coach in his first seven wins, seven years. Uh, according to Foxports.com, they got they got Matt Laflur on the list. Okay, I don't agree with that at all. The interesting one though is Nick Seriani, Eagles coach at two because I believe the market is the truth.

When Cleveland fired Kevin Stfansky, he interviewed with the top five jobs within a week. I said when they fired him, he's going to land the first or second best job on the market. Now, Buffalo didn't look like it had any intention of hiring anybody but Joe Brady, so that one was kind of out. And Baltimore really leaning heavily into Jesse Mter, but I I don't the the market is the truth. Kevin Stfansky interviewed immediately for all the top jobs. What's interesting with Sirriani is I don't think he get her job. Not quickly. So, fans are completely swayed by winning.

But there's a lot of different ways to win. Sometimes a coach inherits a mess, Bill Parcell's career, and turns around quickly. And sometimes a coach inherits a really good roster, Nick Seriani. He inherited a great O line and a great owner and a great GM and great team momentum. I mean, they got rid of a coach who won a Super Bowl. So, you you got to be careful. resultsbased analysis where you base everything on the results is flawed. That's what Miami did. And they paid 54 million a year for two. Well, he made a Pro Bowl.

I mean, he made the playoffs. He had a great offensive coach. When he was making the playoffs, he had a running back that led the NFL in touchdowns. He had a track team on the sidelines at wide receiver. and the Jets and the Patriots were a mass in rebuilding. Okay, you can't just be swayed by results. That that's like judging a real estate broker only when the interest rates are 3 to three and a half%. Anybody can sell a home with that. If if you have a real estate broker and the interest rates are 7 and 12%. I have a friend who's a real estate broker down in Florida. Everybody tells me, man, Florida, that that is a buyer market, man. The sellers, they can't they can't sell anything. That he's never had better years. He's really good. And the interest rates aren't ideal. That's a good real estate broker.

Anybody can anybody if you give them a track team on the perimeter Mike McDaniel 18 running back touchdowns weak division where it's Buffalo and team circling the drain Patriots be rebuilding Jets rebuilding. So that's my that's my take on Nick Seriani is he landed this great great job and you all think Nick Serriani is a better coach than Kevin Stfansky. The market reacted to Stfansk's firing. Everybody interviewed him. Sirani's got a trophy. If he lost his job, who's interviewing him? Seriously, who who who I mean, who's hiring him? Maybe he could get a job. I don't think he get one of the good ones.

It can't just be resultsbased judging. Winning takes There's a lot of different ways to win. We just had two defensive coaches in a Super Bowl after years of offensive coaches. So, by all accounts, I mean, the offensive line coach for Philadelphia, um, Jeff Scoutland, considered the best offensive line coach, he's still coaching. He left the Eagles with all that talent in the old line. He left it. What does that tell you? So, when Green Bay Packer fans get all worked up about Matt Laflur, you guys don't know how good you have it with Matt Laflur.

You do realize Green Bay doesn't land free agents. How did the Seahawks get Sam Darnold? big city, good coach, convinced him to come there. They there there were more than one team wanted Sam Darnold. So, Green Bay does not attract free agents like other places do. I mean, some players love playing there, but it's there's not a lot to do. It's a tiny town. That's a huge disadvantage. The Packers have always done a great job drafting and developing, mostly because that's the only way they can build dynasties, drafting and developing.

Seahawks can do it multiple ways. Eagles can do it multiple ways. Rams can do it multiple ways. Rams give up their first round picks and they're great. So, when I see coaching hot seat and I see Matt Laflur on it, I mean, it got to be serious. That that's just not serious. Today's show brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet, Florida's best sports book. I know it's tough with no football, but like the song says, I will survive. Hard Rock Bet, always something to bet every single night. Hoops, hockey, so much more, all the great same game parlays, live betting, player props. Hard Rock Bet is the official sports betting partner of the Miami Heat and the Orlando Magic, so they know their basketball as well. If you haven't signed up yet for Hard Rock Bet, never been a better time. Uh, signups, double your winnings on your first 10 bets, maximum 50 bucks. If you would have won

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But according to Joey Porter Senior, whose son plays for the Steelers, so you know, he gets very emotional. Joey Porter Senior says Big Ben, who he calls number seven, and and James Harrison uh broke the brotherhood. He uses brotherhood in the article I'm reading like seven times. So just remember that word. Here is Joey Porter Senior mad at James Harrison and number seven Big Ben.

Seven definitely broke the brotherhood because like that's the one I don't understand.

That seven do that did that we don't talk about. I know it's crazy. He should never grab a microphone and really talk Steeler business.

Yeah. Because if we talking Steeler business, his ass is foul of all foul. He's not a good teammate. won a Super Bowl, Woody. But the person,

he's just not a good teammate. Like, he knows that. Anybody in the Steeler building knows that, but we protected him. Well, if James Harrison and Big Ben don't buy into the brotherhood, his word, maybe the brotherhood's not that important. Uh, I also know Big Ben and James Harrison hit. When you start attacking the messengers and not the message, they're on to something. That brotherhood couldn't beat Blake Bortles at home in the playoffs or Baker Mayfield. That brotherhood in the last 11 games against playoff teams, one and 10, averaging 15 points, giving up 28.

The Steelers culture forever under Tomlin was talent and toughness. I like those qualities and I guess brotherhood. But with the Chiefs and the Seahawks and McVeyy's Rams and Shanahan's 49ers, um, I get the toughness and the talent, too, but I get discipline and schemes like smart football. Have you ever noticed over the last 10 years as football has gotten much smarter, more motion, more deception, more looks, there's so many great coaches out there. The O Ryan's, Mike McDonald on the defensive side, McVey, Shanahan, offensive side. Have you noticed during that time the Steelers have become less relevant? That's why I defended old guy Aaron Rodgers this year. Was he part of the brotherhood? No, he was the new guy.

But the offense finally looked like grown-ups. Fewer penalties, fewer turnovers. Yeah. Aaron Rogers, the new guy, walked in at 42 and it's like, "Oh, this is despite having some limitations at wide receiver." You're like, "Oh, this is how an offense should function." That Steeler brotherhood has not beaten a top 10 quarterback in the playoffs in 15 years. And Big Ben and James Harrison called it out. You know, Mike Tomlin, bottom 10 offense, seven years. Why? Not innovative, not creative. You can win with defense. Seattle did it. But a sophisticate sophisticated progressive, new approach, new looks, not just what the Steelers do. Let's spend more money. The Steelers pass defense this past year 29th defensively.

How's that brotherhood thing working? I don't know. Big Ben and James Harrison, and it takes some courage to do this, pushed back on very popular Mike Tomlin. Pushed back on this organization which keeps everything in house. Uh, I'm not into that. I'm about beating teams in February, in January, top quarterbacks. So, I mean, I this this whole thing about talent and toughness, everybody in the NFL is tough. Everybody in the NFL has talent. You can call it a brotherhood, but if Big Ben and James Harrison are saying things they shouldn't, to me, that's the underlying problem. What Joey Porter is saying is, "Hey, nothing leaves house." Yeah, that's the problem.

You don't discuss real problems. You don't put them out there. You don't take criticism. Well, you get stubborn and rigid and the way we used to do it, it's the way we do it. They brought in 42-y old Aaron Rodgers, old guy. In one off season, he fixed the offense to the degree anybody could fix that offense where you didn't have a number two receiver. So, I'm going to I'm going to defend Big Ben and James Harrison going out and saying there's some issues here and some of them were Mike Tomlin. It should be noted Mike Tomlin no longer coaches. So Big Ben and James Harrison aren't the only people that wanted to bring that up.

I'm reading a story this morning. How the Russell Wilson trade by Seattle really jumpstarted what we're watching now. They got all these picks, Devin Witherspoon, uh Charles Cross, the left tackle, and others. So they started building. But what's interesting is at that time Russell Wilson was good, but he was viewed by John Snyder, the GM, as not good enough. And that's what you can take from the Seahawks Super Bowl. You're not going to duplicate this defense, the dark side. You're not going to go eight for eight the next four years on your top two or three picks in the draft. You're not John Snyder. You don't have that. What you can identify as something to emulate is what the Seahawks did. It's the same thing the NerS did with Garopolo who got to a Super Bowl and San Francisco said, "We're not going to settle." It's what McVey said to Jared Goff, who got to a Super Bowl. We can be better at that

position. It's what Andy Reid and the Chiefs said, even though Alex Smith got Kansas City to the playoffs, we're not going to settle for that. The Eagles with Wentz. We found something we think is better. You can laugh at this, but the Bucks had Jamus Winston, who led the NFL in passing yards, was second in passing touchdowns as the league was transitioning to an offensive league. And they said, 'Now, we're going to get the old guy, Brady. It's not good enough. Jameus Winston was wildly productive. Pete Carol, by the way, thought Gino Smith was good enough and he got whacked. Mike McDonald got one year of Gino Smith, got him out of the building. We're upgrading.

That's what you can take from the Seattle Seahawks. Don't copy their identity, copy their mindset, which is don't settle. I'll give you a great example. This works. This is a two-way street. Demarcus Lawrence, who's who's a loves Dallas, played with Dallas, wanted to end his career with Dallas, went to Seattle, and he didn't do it for the money. He only got like 18 million guaranteed money. Demarcus Lawrence, do you remember when he said this?

You know, Dallas is my home. Um, I made my home there. You know, my family lives there. You know, I'm forever going to be there, but, you know, I know for sure I'm not going to win a Super Bowl there.

I'm not going to settle for the Dallas Cowboys nonsense. I'm going to go to better structure, a non-medling owner in his eyes, a better coach, a better system, and a better roster. So, it works. It works both ways. It's just that's what you copy from Seattle and the Rams and Kansas City and the Ners don't settle. Gino's fine. Darnold's better, obviously. And it was obvious before the trade or before the free agent sign. So, here here was Darnold um this week at the parade reflecting on his journey.

And I just want to say I've talked a lot this last week about belief. A lot of people, you know, didn't believe in me, but it didn't matter because the ones that are close believed in me, including y'all. I appreciate y'all so much.

That short list also includes Jody Allen, John Schneider, and Mike McDonald. Man, I appreciate the belief y'all had in me for signing me last this past year. Um, and last, but certainly not least, these players, man, for believing in me. You know, I I wouldn't be here without these guys.

Yeah, it's it's uh funny. Uh John Snyder, uh GM, and Mike McDonald, the coach of the Seahawks, both publicly and privately lamented the fact they could not figure out why Darnold was so negatively covered by the media. And I and I think this goes back to something we've discussed that those initial first impressions are really strong especially if it's like a three-year first impression and I'm seeing ghost people just were not willing to move off that. There's a lot of rigidity in sports which is silly. New information, new opinion. I've always said if your biggest criticism of me is I move off opinions, yeah, I'll I'll own that forever. New information, new opinion. Uh Sam Darnold Jets didn't work. Sam Darnold end of his Carolina run. Oh, four-2 as a starter. San Francisco, Minnesota, Seattle. He's a new player. New information. He's really, really good. Is he top 10 good?

Maybe closer to 10 than three, but he's good. There no question he's good. And I It was funny having Drew Brees on yesterday. Here's four quarterbacks who have gone through a playoff without a turnover. Darnold Breeze, Aman, Steve Young. All of them had great coaches. All of them had their best roster ever in their career. And they figured out, I'm not taking big risks here. You go back to that Saints team with Breeze. We were watching yesterday, the highlights of it. That Saints team was stacked. They had corners and safeties and linebackers and running backs. I mean, yeah, they had guys, they had like bit players on that team that could play special teams. And Drew Brees figured it out. You know, it's like there are times as a quarterback, it's like I got to take risks. We play from behind a lot. We've got holes. I mean, that's Matt Stafford. Like Matt Stafford knows the Rams corners. They should

draft two corners this year before the fourth round. Matt Stafford knows we got to be good on offense because you can beat us down the Carolina almost beat the Rams twice. I mean, there are holes with most teams. Seattle didn't have a hole. I mean, they do not have a hole. They have exceptional special teams, top three special teams. Even their offensive line, which I had criticized during the year, I think center, right guard, right tackle, it's okay. I think left guard, left tackle, very good. I mean, I I'm I'm we say this, I'm not sure when's the last NFL team, and I guess you could say Philadelphia last year, but you know, I was Philadelphia special teams this good. Jaylen Herz doesn't throw over the middle of the field. Ringer has an article this week on Jaylen Herz. He like literally doesn't throw over the middle of the field. There were Nick Serriiani's not in Mike McDonald's class as a coach.

Like I I'm trying to think of a NFL team in the last eight years, nine years, 10 years. This good everything. A at everything. And their O line, maybe they overachieved, maybe they're better than we give them credit for. O line was pretty good to me in the playoffs. Pretty good in the Super Bowl because New England's defense is good. That wasn't about the Seahawks O line. All right, here we go. Trent Dilford now is joining us live. Long time no talk, 14 years in the NFL. How where are you right now and how are you doing?

I miss you, brother. I am back after a complete failure in college football, back to where my roots are, high school football. So, I'm back at Lipkcom where I spent four years and was my happiest and uh what I'm wired to do, more transformation than transaction.

Ah, yeah. That's what college football is. You know, we we we talked about this earlier. Um I had Drew Brees on yesterday and I asked Drew, I said, "Does your journey remind you a little Sam Darnold where the first place is turbulent? You don't maybe get the support." And he said, "It does." And he went on and gave a really interesting answer. And it actually made me think of Arch Manning,

who had to sit for two years, I would argue, behind a guy he'll ultimately be better than. Then when he did play, got the crap kicked out of him and everybody ripped him. And then at the end of this year dealing with all that adversity, he was great in his last six games. And I'm like, when you were in college football, I mean, your your journey, I mean, I could go back, I was there, I was in Tampa working as a sports guy. Do you worry about having been in college football, forget the other positions that at the first sign of adversity, a lot of these quarterbacks and their dads are like, "We're out of town." Does that worry you? Mhm.

Heck yeah. As usual, you're right on this thing that nobody wants to talk about. What makes you wired to be a championship quarterback is the adversity, are the hard things, are the grind, are the failures. I got booed out of Outbacks. I had binoculars thrown at me. I I you know, if there was social media back then, I wouldn't be able to be on it. And many quarterbacks have the same story. It's what hardens you. And we're so scared as athletes in this generation for hard things, for adversities, for benchings, for failures, for four interception games, for not meeting expectations, what a guy might say about you, what you read on your phone. But yet, we need to embrace those things is the good stuff. The good stuff comes out of the hard stuff. And you get to a point where you really just don't care anymore about what others think. then you're free. But I think every young player has to go through

that pain point, has to go through that struggle so they're freed up that you're not playing for that. You're playing because you love football, for your teammates, for the job, for the passion. And that's what you say. And I'm seeing Sam Darnold highlights. That's all you've seen in Sam. Sam was wildly talented when he came out. I remember being at ESPN saying Sam Darnold is a can'tmiss guy if if he's developed the right way, if he's taught the right way, if the system's correct for him. But he went into a bad situation. It took the hardening of bad situations. Took resilience and grit. It took being with the right people in the right time and the aha moment. The guy's won more game in the last two years, I think, than anybody but Tom Brady in the two-year span. So, he has become a great quarterback because of the hardening that went into the process.

We tend to um you know, we tend to forget that football more than any sport is really collaborative. I mean, if you if if you're a great basketball player, you can get your 26 a night in Orlando or in Phoenix. But even as a wide receiver, look at Larry Fitzgerald's career. Boy, he was way better when he has Curt Warner. You know what I mean? like or so I mean even a a receiving position which we think is over on the sideline doing his own thing breaking the huddle first. I look at Josh Allen well because of his contract they don't have pro bowlers on defense. I look at Patrick Mahomes because of his contract they don't have a running game and they can't get their own line right. Brady and Breeze both said at one point Trent, I'm gonna take a little less and I'm going to win more. Well, what do you know? Networks come the minute you're off the air and they want to put you on the air because you're a winner.

go back to your career. Is is it is maybe the model going forward, guys, you will make that money back. You'll make it back because you'll have a better right tackle. You'll get a TV job. But it it is hard to tell a pro alete, don't take the most money available to you. That's hard for a quarterback, is it not?

It is. I This is a big subject. I'll give you my thoughts on this. I've been saying this for years. one, I think in the CBA in the salary cap, they need to remove a portion for the quarterback. I think every team football would be better if the teams weren't punished for these massive quarterback salary cap hits. Uh I've always thought that should be the case. If not, then I'm on your I'm on your page. Then they at least need to relax some of the rules that quarterbacks like Tom Brady and Drew be the face of the face of the franchise, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, you can go down the list, should be able to get an equity piece of the organization or be involved in business deals that are tied to the NFL because that's where real money I mean, you know, billionaires, I know billionaires, they're equity stakes, you know what I mean? They get a piece of something bigger than their personal brand. So imagine Tom Brady, I

don't know how much wealth he has. It's ridiculous, I'm sure, but he'd be even greater if he had a stake of the New England Patriots. Drew Brees should had a stake in the business dealings of the New Orleans Saints. If they could do that, then quarterbacks would take less because agents aren't going to let them bet on the TV contract. And I get it. I will say this too about Tom and Drew. They're both very good at it, too. You know what? I mean, I don't watch a ton of NFL anymore, but when I do and neither one of them's talking, I listen.

Where I don't listen to a lot of other people, you know what I mean? And there's a lot of really successful quarterbacks that aren't good on TV. I mean, they just don't know how to communicate clearly. They're not concise with their words. They don't have charisma. They can't teach the game. The game came too easy for him,

right? Um, I think a lot of times the g the guys that are the best on TV, the game came hard, too. Tom Brady worked harder than anybody else. So he can explain it to somebody that's in the developmental stage or doesn't totally understand it. Drew Brees, same way. He can explain it better because he took the hard road to the game and he has the gravitas of being a Hall of Famer. So again, agents are going to let you bet on the future. But if in the now they can have money, they could have revenue streams that are legal that are outside the salary cap, then they would take more. I mean, anybody would take more for a superstar wide receiver or a better left tackle or a dominant inside backer or an edge rusher. That would be a no-brainer for any of us if we knew that we had an equity stake or a business dealing that could bring us the hundreds of millions of dollars that we're turning down in a

contract. you you you said um you watch more college than pro and we've had this um kind of opinion on this show is that a lot of my strongest opinions on players are often because I have sources in a pro league telling me that or in an athletic department. Uh and then there's these occasions when I like somebody way more than my sources in the league or I want I like somebody way less than my sources and that's when I make often my biggest mistakes. And you can, you know, you look at and go, "How did you think that?" And I'm like, "Well, I I should have listened to people." So, Fernando Mendoza is one of those. My my sources like him. I love him. I think he's Matt Ryan plus bigger, stronger, more athletic than Matt Ryan. And I think Matt Ryan was really good uh in his prime very good MVP. Um Fernando Mendoza, what do you see? Do you see very good but not a star or or is it you? You tell me what you see.

Tremendously talented, very charismatic, great learner, compliant, which I think is one of the most under valued thing in quarterbacking, meaning that they will do as they're told to do by their coaches who are smarter than them. They're not trying to roll out the balls and be the best athlete on the field. They're trying to be a surgeon instead of a butcher. Have I told that one to you before? Both have sharp instruments, right? One has a makes you a pastrami sandwich with his instrument. The other one saves your life with his instrument.

Right. You got to have surgeons out there. So you got to be compliant to be a surgeon. Um he is he has played very remedial quarterback. So their passing game is very good but very simple. Um he does not full field read very often. If you notice, he tucks it and runs a lot because they're kind of a one, two, and go offense.

Yeah. Uh just I would say Justin Herbert is your best comparable. Um Hall of Fame talent, remedial progression in his development. Therefore, he needs to be handled in such a way early on because he's going to have to play. I still don't believe in playing them early. I still to this day I'm one of the very few out there that still thinks they should sit for a year. One year. One year. But everybody else says, "Oh, you got to pay him. You got to play him." Great. Then play him in a run action. Cut the field in half. RPO, good run game, third down. Protect him. Don't make him do all the protections and let him go be really good at that and then build over years into the surgeon. Um, I think he'd be as good as anybody there is if and and people are going to hold me to these comments and I'm putting there the if I want to know who's coaching him. I want to know who's developing him. I want to know who's in

his ear all the time. I want to know who his mentor is. I is he going out to Southern California working with Jordan Palmer? I hope so. You know what I mean? I hope that he's doing the things that the greatest in the games decided. I am okay right now, but I can be great and I need to surround myself with people that are great. Now, some of that is in his in his control and some of it like Sam Darnold, like a bunch of others that were really good that didn't make it, it's out of their control,

right? So, where he's drafted, who's developing him, how they've built the infrastructure around him, as Mike Hobern always used to say, build the building around that player's development because then we'll all have jobs forever.

Yeah. But if you don't build the building around his development, he's just part of the building, then he could have a Sam Darnold experience because he hasn't been taught. Um, and I love that staff. This is not a knock on Indiana staff, by the way. We've dumbed it down a little bit, too, in college football because you only have them for a limited amount of time. Yeah. And you got to win games. So, it's nobody's fault.

But when you look at his DNA as a quarterback, it's more of a one, two, either or. It's very defined. A lot of back shoulders, a lot of go balls instead of inside benders, runaways, not a lot of modern NFL passing game in his repertoire. So that just needs to be developed. Will it happen by the right person? It wouldn't even be that hard to develop them by the right person, but it needs to be the right person.

So I I was saying um we'll wrap it up with this. The Seahawks defense um which is really special when when when your GM goes eight for eight in the last four years on the first two picks, and I mean eight for eight great players, that's hard to duplicate. Um, the Seattle defense looked a little bit like the Legion of, you know, uh, Boom and Legion of doing and also looked a little bit like your Ravens defense. Now, your Ravens defense could corners could do things you can't do anymore. So, it's different.

But when I think of great defenses, I'm like, "Oh, the Tampa Bay, the Ravens, Richard Sherman, Cam Chancellor, Seahawks." And I watch this one, I'm like, "Oh, that that's one of the four." And and so Drake May gets engulfed. And my my take is he's 23. These guys I mean outside of Matt Stafford they ate everybody's lunch. They ate Stafford's got Puka and Devonte and McVey.

So you tell me uh when the times in your career the the when you were go back to your early days your young days and you faced the best defense in the league.

What does it look like? What was Drake May scene? Oh gosh. I'm so glad you asked me this question because I have a really fun story to tell to answer this question. My wife and I were driving across the country for the la for four days and the la the third day was Super Bowl Sunday and she wanted to stop and go to a fancy hotel and watch the game. I'm like, "No, I'm rolling. I'm 10 hours in. I want to do another two, three hours." So, we're watching the game on Highway 70, driving through the middle of America on our iPad and I'm driving and I'm going about 75 80 miles per hour and I get pinned in between these two semiis. And everybody that's ever driven a highway, when you're going fast, there's a lot of traffic and the semis pin you in. It's the most claustrophobic, uncomfortable, oh my gosh, I'm going fast, they're going fast, but are they going to sm, you know, uh, peanut butter and jelly

sandwich in these in these semiis? And I'm watching Drake, man. I'm like, we're living the same life right now. I'm going to get smashed by two semis going 75. He feels that way every time he takes a snap. The Seattle Seahawks defense was two semis pinned him in on its Highway 70 in the middle of America. And what do you do? You can't breathe. You can't think. Everything speeds up like he shortarmed some balls. I think the kid's phenomenal. I coached him in Elite 11. I love Drake May. He will be a superstar in this league for years to come. But you put and ask Tom this. I mean Tom's on your show. He's the greatest of all time. There's only one defense to Tom Brady. There's only one way you could take him away. You couldn't play man. You couldn't play zone. You couldn't blitz him. You couldn't drop eight. You couldn't do anything. But what you could do is make them sandwich between two semis. Rex

Ryan's defenses did it sometimes. There are certain defenses that knew how to take Tom Brady's superpower away. And it's his was more interior pressure, right? But this was an overwhelming side interior sandwich, two semis on the side of you on a highway pressure and no quarterback in the history of football could have thrived in that environment.

Yeah, it's um it's great seeing you again. I'm fired up, man. And you care not to say anymore after being a colossal failure in college football. At least I know a little bit. Listen, football is Bellichc got fired. Andy Reid got fired. I think you're okay.

You're getting fired or hired. When I decided to coach, that's what all my mentors told me. I was like, "Hey, if you're willing to be hired a bunch of times and fired a bunch of times, go for it." I'm like, "Okay, here we go."

Great seeing you again. You're the best, dude. See you. All right, Trent Bilford. Yeah. I mean, I I think um you know, we said this a year ago, Sam Darnold got sacked nine times by the Rams and everybody said, "Guy's a bum. Told you." Year later, he's hosting a trophy. They're going to get their offensive line fixed because it's obvious that's the weakness of the team. And Drake May faces the Seahawks next regular season. What do you bet he plays well? What do you bet he's a better quarterback? like it when I'm watching that Seattle game and I'm I'm youtubing it and watch the highlights.

Seattle's defense is just I mean the four best defenses top my head are like that Ravens defense. There was a Buccaneer defense. There's the Seattle defense with Cam Chancellor, Richard Sherman, and there's this defense and then now Houston Texans are really good too. They I but those four just in the end end up in Super Bowls. They just overwhelm people. That's why I said Stafford as MVP over Drake May. Stafford ate this defense for lunch. And some of it is Seattle's guard, center guard. Seattle's got or the Rams have great guards and great receivers and great backs. So Seattle's facing a Rams offense that that is a Pro Bowl team. There's like great players everywhere. Um but even that said, Stafford wasn't good on third down.

Stafford, I think, was 0 for six on third down. that they were very good early downs. So, I Drake May, I mean, you would agree Drake May is going to be fine.

We We'll see. We'll we'll see. Uh, by the way, there was some commentary from Seattle defensive backs about May. They could tell what's coming based on the way he was looking and reacting. There were some tells. They were like, "We couldn't see that with Stafford." Hey, Kyle, let me say something about Trent Diler real quick. Two seconds.

A lot of people when they have success, they they give themselves all the credit. Well, I was a genius. I was smart. And when they have failures, they blame it on other people.

Yeah. Well, that that guy screwed me in the system and blah blah blah. What Trent Doer just said was pretty incredible. I mean, he owned it. He was like, "I was a failure."

That's refreshing. I I I mean, that was one of the most real things that I've heard from any interview we've had this year. I mean, did you hear him? He was just like,

"Yeah." No, I mean, listen, I respect that. Steve Spurer, great college coach, disaster in the NFL, and and Nick Sabin failed. Um, and I don't think Nick's built for the NFL. He's really built for college. He's got a he's really got a he's a closer. He's a great personality. He's a great teacher. Um, but like Spurer just in my opinion, you know, Steve just didn't quite have like the the work mentality. NFL is no life. I mean, it just no football life. Like you just literally in the facility all day. That's not whose career is.

And and he used the word Dilford used the word transaction. Did you hear that? And college football is very transactional right now.

That's what it is. It's what are you going to pay me to come on your team? What's my role? And that's that's a little different. And

that's why a Curt Signetti and a Bill Bich, guys who are older, can flourish. It's a it's it's administrative. It's transactional. Bill Bichc's not going to go. You know, five, six years ago, Nick Sabin's literally on a private jet flying to Northern California. He's all over the country. You have no life. Now, a lot of it is recruit within your region and go buy the deficiencies on your roster. Exactly. And so it makes and and and get young staffs who will do the work for you, but it's a largely the head coach now. It's a transactional administrative job. And that that that means you don't have to have the best energy in the world. If you got a little bit of energy and can write some checks, you can solve a lot of problems on that roster.

Yeah. It used to be the K, you know, Nick Sabin, here's how I can help you. Now all the players are like, what are you gonna do for me? what are you paying me? What's my role gonna be? And it it's it's changed a lot. College football's in this this weird like transactional phase where I I think it's good. You think it's good, but on ground zero I

will say I I will say we've overstated it a little. I think the first few years, couple years of the NI NIL, everybody was just leave leave. I think universities have gotten much smarter on this. I think the first two years of it people over spent or or I should say over spent over signed.

Yes. I mean I I always have this take most if George is moving off a defensive lineman. They know the odometer. They didn't they didn't want to move off Jaylen Carter, right? Like like if you find LSU or Georgia or Alabama moving off an interior defensive tackle, he probably doesn't play as hard as they like. So the bottom line is most universities, the the power conferences, the power schools, they're going to pay the guys who are really, really great. And and I think teams have figured out the NIL, college football programs have figured out. There's a lot of good B players that you don't have to pay a fortune

that can like, you know, a second corner, a second running back, a second a right tackle, not a left tackle. And nowaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o occ occ occ occ occ occ occ occ occ occasionally you can go buy a Caleb DS wasn't he at Bama and goes to Ohio State you're like okay that that guy's just unbelievable but I think the NIL everything goes in a cycle

in the first couple years of it was like people were buying 35 players I always thought I've talked to a coach who said this the magic number is eight you won't screw up chemistry if you bring in about eight guys

you make he goes outside a quarterback plug deficiencies you don't have to go buy stars Go buy a great pass rusher if you can, but just you don't want to be terrible anywhere. The coaching's good.

Well, Texas Tech is trying to throw a monkey wrench. I just read an article about some of the stuff they're doing. They're very cutting edge, man. You know, that was my team last year. I gave it out on the show, Texas Tech to make the playoff. That was a plus 500 ticket. Big winner. Um, I'm looking for one this year. I don't have it yet, but uh I may have to pick your brain uh during one of these COMMERCIAL BREAKS.

TURN ON THE NEWS. THIS is the Herdline news. Let's start at the NBA, Colin, where the San Antonio Spurs, the best team in the league. Yes, you heard that right. Best team in the league. Had a nice comeback to beat the Warriors. Uh they won by 13, ended up covering the spread despite a poor three quarters to start the game. Uh Wem cooked the Lakers on Tuesday and then basically fileed the Warriors on Wednesday. He and Darren Fox combined for 53 points. Colin, this team is really on fire.

They got about seven guys. They have a starting five. They use two or three guys off the bench. It's very much like Oklahoma City. You know exactly who's playing, how many minutes they're playing. This is what championship teams look like. OKC and the Spurs. You know, when Denver won that title, they had the same thing. They had to move off guys and they've never been the same. But because they're not, you know, because right now you're not paying a fortune and you're not paying, you know, Stfan Castle a fortune is they've got their finances right. They've got draft picks, the Spurs and OKC.

That's how you do it. Great GMing, keep your draft capital, have ascending players, and uh and WBY is now is Wembley moved into best player in the league.

Uh he's in that discussion with Luca. Joic is number one. Giannis is ever healthy.

Yeah, Joic is the best player in the league. We a much better defensive player. I don't I don't think you Luca is I think Luca's dropped down to like six or seven.

Wow. Um All right. So, hey, real quick on I know you're big on this is how a championship team looks. You're right. So, do you know want to know the last time the Spurs won a playoff series?

Oh, eight years ago. 2017. Okay. They have been garbage for the last eight or nine years. Two playoff appearances and then nothing. That's how you're able to be good now. And you've got a lot of young guys because you keep drafting high. They got Harper who was a top early pick. They got Castle. They got Weyama. Like that's that's what it takes. You missed the playoffs for nine years.

And and that's what Adam Silver wants. That is the new CBA. But the Lakers the Lakers aren't close. And the Lakers the Lakers have tried to transactionally trade for AD, trade for Luca, and you can get those players, but that's not what the league is anymore. And so is Los Angeles going to be patient with the new Dodgers owners for years? And I don't think Los Angeles is built to be that. Like in baseball, you can just go buy guys. In the NFL, you can go awful the great overnight. The NBA now, and this is the Adam Silver NBA, everybody's shooting threes, nobody wins backsto backs, and the one way to build is draft and develop. Well, the problem is the NFL draft gives you 23 year old. The NBA draft gives you 19 year old. So, they're not even ready to go to the hotel bar.

So, is are Los Angeles Lakers fans ready, move off LeBron, get some draft capital and a player for Austin Reeves and get more athletic and wait for about four years to get back into that OKC San Antonio mold.

Well, I think patient, you use the right word. That's the word. That's the key word. The Lakers had the young guys, D'Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram, all those early picks, Lonzo Ball. We don't have the patience for this. Let's bring in LeBron James. Let's bring in AD. But get the title.

The league was less punitive to that. That wasn't necessarily bad GMing. That is bad GMing now.

Well, now you're right. It's tough. And that's what's going to make this Luca thing tricky because the league has this stu these stupid new rules that kind of want to restrict player movement. Colin, riddle me this. Why did Adam Silver want that? The best this league has been post Jordan was the last decade where everybody's moving around the Warriors super team. LeBron's creating

Well, we talked about the NBA more during KD Warriors and the Heels. And I believe it's because David Stern, the late great commissioner, took over a league that nobody cared about. So, he understood the value of New York and Chicago and the Celtics and the Lakers big brands being great. Adam Silver inherited a different league from David Stern, one that was topheavy where a where 70% of the owners were unhappy that you could create super teams. So Adam Silver is like, "Ah, let's have a league with ultimate parody."

Uh, dynasties are popular. Go back to the 10 most popular NBA teams in my lifetime. Magic's Lakers, Birds Celtics, the Bad Boy Pistons, the Heedles. Now, now that doesn't mean every dynasty Duncan Spurs are beloved or fascinating, right?

But there is a history in basketball. Ask yourself this, the top 10 AAOU teams in the country. They always, you know, Atlanta Metro, Detroit Metro, basketball's Yukon basketball, Duke basketball, Yukon women's basketball. Basketball has always lent itself to dynasties. Why? Because you only have five starters and eight rotational players. If you get two great players together, you can have 10 great players in the NFL. If you got a crappy coach, you're done. So, basketball's always lent itself. It's the It's the reality of the structure, the construct of basketball. You're going to have dynasties. Girls teams, boys team, doesn't matter. And so, Adam's pushing back on a reality of the sport. Get out of the way. If people want to play together, Magic love playing with Kareem and Worthy and and and Michael Cooper. Like, if if you're going to have stars, stars want to play with stars. Kobe wanted Gasol and Shaq.

He didn't want that two-year period when they didn't have another star. And you know who's going to be hurt the most by this, Colin? Is Steph Curry, who's stuck on a putrid Warriors team. Where's he going to go? Not Not even a playoff team. and LeBron who is averaging 226 and six or whatever and he's looking at like he might just have to take a major pay cut or retire. Like it's real. I I don't like what Adam Silver did. I think they butchered this and um I I'm not optimistic about the next year.

You can go to eighth grade basketball where it's boys and girls and then it becomes high school basketball and then it becomes college basketball then it becomes pro basketball. On every level basketball is about dynasties. You go to any state in this country, there's one basketball program in high school that dominates, maybe two. And I'm talking about you got, you know, outside of maybe California, even big states. So, I just think you just let the water flow where it goes naturally. Great players want to play with great players.

Yeah. All right, let's move on to the NFL. And the uh New England Patriots suffered a big L in the Super Bowl. it. It's curious whether or not they'll get back there, but in his final press conference of the season Tuesday, Mike Vrabbo broke down a message he gave his team following the loss.

Talked about a disappointing finish to a phenomenal, exciting, enjoyable year. You know, it's unfortunate. Talked to him about the, you know, foundation I think that we've built much like a like a home. you know, you build a home and then run out of things to do and so you continue to add on to it. You finish the basement, you make additions to it and we'll try to do that to this football team and I like the foundation of it and uh we'll try to improve on it.

Yep. Attack the offensive line, get another tight end and wide receiver. The defense is good enough. It just needs more depth. They'll be very good next year. The downside is the entire AFC had a hiccup this year. Like I mean it it really was Kansas City and Baltimore and Burrow and and the Chargers lost both their tackles. The problem for New England isn't their roster, it's their competition. The AFC had a down year. This was the year with a Patriot schedule to sneak through. I think they'll be a better roster next year and yet won't get to the AFC Championship with a better roster.

Yeah. So the schedule, by the way, the first place schedule is going to be brutal, Colin. It's uh like last year was a joke. Uh I'm looking at the schedule. Jags, Seahawks, Chargers, Chiefs, Lions, Bears. I'm not making this up. These are the away games. I mean, the the in the division, they'll beat the Jets and the Dolphins. That's fine. They got to go to the Bears, the Lions.

I don't think you're Let's Again, everybody can get excited about Drake May and Vel. There's a world where this team misses the playoffs next year. It's not a lock. the the biggest advantage the NFL has over college football and you and I love college football is that the better you get the league stacks the rosters against you. You know in college football the better Sabbin's teams got the more power Nick had with the schedule and the softer out of conference schedule. They wouldn't go on the road out of conference against anybody right neutral field or in Tuscaloosa. The great thing about the NFL where it really separates, you get more high quality games, you get a New England schedule for a year, take advantage of it, the following year you are going to face a gauntlet of great teams. And that is why it creates all these great games. Think about this. We got about 14 games a weekend in the NFL.

Nine are compelling. Like what's the hit rate in college football? You got 70 games a week and there's six good ones. You have so many lopsided games. So, I I love that the Patriots took advantage of this, but next year's true serum and and they'll be better, but they won't have as good a record. Not even close.

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