Why Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott is an MVP candidate | Colin Cowherd NFL Reaction

Why Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott is an MVP candidate | Colin Cowherd NFL Reaction

Welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Colin Coward podcast. Go on, hit that subscribe button if you’re new so you don’t miss any of our great football content this season. Okay. Um um I’m reticent to talk about the Jets, but Dallas beats the Jets 37 to22. Um I always judge I don’t think it was that close either when I Oh god, no. It felt like 47 to3. It was awful. I mean, it was 23 to3 at half and it wasn’t that close. No. So, um, the best drive of the day for the Jets, I think, was the first one where they settled for a field goal. It was like 11 plays. Um, you know, my takeaway has always been when a coach is hired, what’s his side of the ball like? Their defense is bad and it’s gotten worse every week it feels like. Um, I mean, the second half was a seven on seven drill. It it looked like one of those seven on seven college drills where you take a really good quarterback, you know, in high school or college and he just boom boom boom. Dak was terrific. Dak’s having his best year as a pro because he’s having to carry a team. This isn’t the Zeke top O line in the league. Amari Cooper, that’s not what this is. Without CD Lamb, John, I’m not sure they have a definitive number two. Their tight end’s probably a two to a three on most teams. Their running backs are absolutely twos. The O line still in a semi-rebuild. Tyler Smith’s great, but this is not this is not a an elite head coach. It’s not an elite O line. It’s not an elite roster. I’ve I’ve been blown away by Dak. I I’ve never thought this highly of Dak. I think again like Jaylen Herz, mature, head down, not highly emotional, an adult. Do I want to pay him what I’m paying him? You know what? Right now, Dak’s worth his contract. He’s worth it. Yeah, could be the MVP. You know, I I I think what really puts the Jets into perspective is probably no one u had a bigger question mark next to their name as a coach than Brian Shottenheimer. And you just said how you’re defined as a coach, especially on a team that’s not great. What does your side of the ball look like? Well, he’s the offensive play caller and they’ve been awesome all year long. A and now they’ve lost one of the highest paid and best wide receivers in the league for several games. And like you said, George Pickkins is a two and you know, Ferguson’s solid. I mean, this isn’t Michael Irvin and Emtt Smith walking through the door and the offensive line is definitely a question mark and the offense like it’s Listen, Brian Shottenheimer’s kind of throwing it back to back in the day when he was declining head coaching interviews. Like pretty good offensive coordinator. I kind of know what I’m doing and I I’ve been blown away. Hey, I mean their team, they got very, you know, the Packers got very lucky a week ago that that ball didn’t bounce in the air instead of hit the ground or the Cowboys would be what, uh, three and one right now or I mean they I guess they’re two and two. They would be they’d be three and two like they would be just good. Like there’s be no disputing like they’re just a solid like they could could they win nine games. And also the weather in the Northeast and the North is beautiful. I was in Chicago over the week and Chicago was like 80°. So, it’s a good time to have a good quarterback in this league because you’re not dealing, you know, we’re we’re about four or five weeks out from it getting ugly. Dallas is built for good weather. They’re built for domes. Um, they don’t have a number one receiver without CD, but they’ve got enough guys. You know, it’s funny. I was watching Justin Fields. He’s never seen the field particularly well. And they don’t, this coaching staff hasn’t figured out that listen, just just use his legs. Just run him. Not the sevenstep drops don’t work with him. I mean, multiple and and the Jets pass pro is awful. They can’t pass protect at all. It’s gotten worse. Again, the Jets are getting worse every week. I was reading a couple of the Jets beat reporters and they’re like, “Okay, I’ve covered 300 games. This is rich cotype. I mean, this is how bad this team is.” And we’re at week five. I mean, it’s not like that they’re, you know, everybody’s beat up, but Justin Fields has had three defensive head coaches and he’s just not good enough. you know, if you give him McVey, maybe he would have gotten a second decent contract, but he’s just, you know, he’s the classic athlete, not a quarterback. So, but the fact that he was with Pittsburgh who couldn’t run the ball, struggled with their offensive line, but last year, I think he was, was he 4-2 or he had he had a pretty good record early, and you looked at Justin and you’re like, “Oh, he could get in our contract.” Pittsburgh got rid of him. Pittsburgh went with old Aaron Rogers because if you go back and if you remember Justin’s numbers in Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin replaced him with Russell Wilson. We were all like Justin’s actually extrapolate those numbers out. He’d be like a, you know, 9 10 win quarterback. Well, Pittsburgh move off moves off him. It shows you the difference between a Steeler team last year that struggled offensively and how bad the coaching and the infrastructure is with the Jets cuz Fields looks completely over his skis. Yeah. I mean, I I get that maybe they were bidding against some other I thought giving him two years and $40 million and 30 guaranteed based on his history was pretty insane. Like to me, he felt like a one-year $7 million quarterback just to kind of get you through your year one as a coach. I I I do believe though they came in like I I understood extending Garrett Wilson. Garrett Wilson’s a starter on an A team. You know, we’ve seen good wide receivers on shitty teams. It it’s hard to play when no one gets you the quarterback ask or get you quarterback get you the ball. S Gardner, if you just ask people around the league or just watch football to me is living off a reputation from several years ago. And as a wise man told me in the league said, you know what changed last year, John? Why he had such a bad season? They they started not allowing him to just commit pass interference every play. He is not Deion Sanders or Revas in terms of a foot athlete. He is a long corner like Richard Sherman. Well, Richard Sherman is a physical player like a linebacker. One of the great hitting and tackling corners in league history. S doesn’t want to tackle and has elite ball skills. S does not either. They gave him $100 million, Colin. They they had never even coached him. So, they came in, they had some sexy names, and now you’re kind of stuck with a guy like that. Not making any plays, does nothing for your team. It’s not like he’s a winning player and there’s no quarter like there’s not a savior coming in this draft. It looks like uh you’re an unwatchable team like that. That’s when the Saints they they’ve been bad. I’ve watched the Saints three or four times. They’re they’re actually kind of entertaining. Spencer Rattler kind of getting there. Kell Moore can call some plays. You’re like, “Okay, listen. We’re not that talented. At least our head coach brings something to the table.” Aaron Glenn, I have a lot of respect for what he did last year with the Lions. I I would say this about the Jets and I’d even throw the Raiders in there with my guy Spyitech and Pete Carroll. There are a couple franchises that are just hard to overcome. They’ve been taking down everyone for a long time now. And maybe these guys, you know, Brady and and kind of that crew in in Vegas, it is not an overnight fix. And there is an ethos and just like a culture that is permeated through the building in the walls. And I the Jets and the Raiders, it’s hard to shake because guys leave you, they excel. You bring guys in, they get worse. You bring incredible coaches or young energy, it still looks the same. And I’m watching the Jets and the Raiders and I just go, “God, these teams are just they’re terrible.” I mean, they they they feel like they have no hope. Uh the rosters are bad. Uh yeah, I just I the Cowboys I mean when Dak Prescott’s looking like Tom Brady or Peyton Manning in his prime against you with no CD Lamb. I mean that’s this is a pretty low point. I mean I and and the Giants now feels like they’re not very good again. You know Dark gave him a little hope. It’s like God the New York teams the Yankees are getting killed. This is you better hope Mike Brown coach up the Knicks. you know. Yeah. It’s interesting. The one franchise in New York that isn’t impatient that um doesn’t blow it up is the Yankees. It’s also easily the most successful franchise and all they get is heat from their fans. And you know, Cashbon’s been there 30 years. Um you know, I think eight years for Aaron Boone, but their take is, you know, the upstairs sets the lineup. It’s analytics. The Yankees don’t make moves. They’re patient to a fault. The truth is, if Garrett Cole was healthy, they they’d have a chance to get, you know, to the American League Championship Series. They just I’m not sure they have the pitching. They’ve gotten boxed in back-to-back games by Toronto. Killed. Um Yeah. So, you know, New York is its own animal. [Music]

Colin Cowherd is joined by ‘3 & Out’ host John Middlekauff to react to Week 5 in the NFL. The Cowboys destroyed Justin Fields and the New York Jets, but does that put Dak Prescott in the MVP conversation?

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