Dolphins NEED Lane Kiffin, TIME’S UP for Tua Tagovailoa & McDaniel | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

Dolphins NEED Lane Kiffin, TIME’S UP for Tua Tagovailoa & McDaniel | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

Welcome to the Herd’s 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. This morning, the Dolphins started the rebuild. This is smart. It’s a three-step process. Number one, they just fired Chris Greer, the GM. Smart. They also announced they’re going to keep Mike McDaniel, for the rest of the year. Very smart. Don’t put an interim guy in who reels off four or five wins and everybody goes, “I’ll hire the interim.” Okay, don’t do that. You know what Miamiy’s got to do next? Go hire Lane Kein. Everything about Miami is empty calories. Last night, time of possession, yards, first downs. Miami as many as Baltimore and they got blown out. They got no alpha. They got no culture. Mike McDaniel’s a great offensive coach. Ah, come on. I’ll get to two later. Here’s why you go hire Lane Keifin. Number one offense in college football last several years. Half the SEC quarterbacks this year, all that first round draft quarterbacks. Everybody’s talking about what a great quarterback draft it’s going to be for the eight best quarterbacks are from the SEC. Lane recruited them. Lane faced them. Lane’s looked at film of them. Nobody knows the SEC quarterbacks better than the current best offensive coach. So, you get all the Mike McDaniel innovation, but you get an alpha. He played the position. He’s a guy’s guy. He’s got an attitude. That’s what Miami lacks. They got a smart guy in the building. They got no culture. They got nothing. They’re flimsy. It’s empty calories. Last night, you look at the yards, you you look at a lot of the box score, you’re like, “That must have been a close game.” and nah, just all empty calories. And by the way, for college coaches now, it used to be college looked one way, the NFL looked another way. But now, college coaches like Kein, they have free agency. It’s called the transfer portal. They pay the players. So Lane Kein and Miss doesn’t have a great football program. They’re good with Kein. They’ve led college football and offense. The NFL is an offensive league. He has been a CEO because in the NFL you want your coach to be a CEO. Everybody’s always like, “Get the GM first, then the coach.” Ah, nonsense. Chargers got Harbaugh first. A week later they hire the GM. Go get Lane Kein. At the end of the year, Kein can keep bouncing around. Florida, LSU, Miss, it’s college football. Take a big swing, Lane Kein. Take a big swing. College coaches like Harbaugh, they are CEOs. They they got they the transfer portal, the NIL, it’s all different now. It used to be college coach. He went to high schools. Bellichic now coaches college. You just write a check to get guys. So college and NFL is much more similar in style. This isn’t about Tua. And that ship has sailed. They got a clean house. I would I would move off Tua. I would move off the coach. I would move off the GM. Do not put an interim coach in there. do not do it cuz the guy reels off five out of six wins and everybody in Miami is like, “Oh my god, that’s how the Raiders, you know, Antonio Pierce, you get hot, you win a couple games, it’s the substitute teacher rule. Everybody’s great to the substitute teacher.” That’s not what you do. So, you want the innovation. What does Miami have? Innovation. Don’t lose the innovation. With Lane Keifin, you keep the innovation. And the other thing is I don’t this idea that the GM selects the coach and the GM selects the quarterback. I got news for you. Lane Kein knows the quarterbacks in the SEC better than any GM. Season ends. Write a check. Get Kein. Let Kein make sure he likes the GM. I’d have Kein pick the quarterback. Then have the GM pick everybody else. Remember folks, I know a lot of these GMs. I think they’re really good. I think they’re nice guys. They’re smart. Half of them, like two of more than Justin Herbert. Half of them. I mean, when when Justin Herbert walks into a room, 66, goodlooking, strapping guy, 42, biology major, howitzer for an arm. Tua walks into a room, it’s like, are you working accounting? Certain guys look like pro athletes. Half the GMs wanted two of them in the AFC where the best teams are like, you know, Baltimore, Kansas City when Burl’s healthy, Cincinnati, it’s going to be New England. Tua in the AFC. What are we doing? So, I think I think this is the way to do it. Now, Mike McDaniel after getting blown out. This was not about Baltimore last night. I told you yesterday they’re going to win. They’re going to win comfortably. Lamar Jackson’s back. They’re going to reel off six straight wins or thereabouts. We knew they were going to win that game. This is about Miami GM’s out. They’re going to keep smartly keep the coach to the end. And I got nothing against Mike McDaniel. I think he’s smart. I’d hire him in a New York minute to be my coordinator. He’s not a head coach. Here he is after. Listen, the bottom line is you have to um cross your tees and dot your eyes in the in the National Football League or or you get made pay. So, um there’s it’s uh very very um disappointing. These are the things that um will constantly um occur in the National Football League. You won’t like the results. Well, no presence. Absolut Dan Campbell hits you like a strong drink. Mike Vrabel intimidating. You know, like the Shawn McVey walks to the podium. He’s He looks and feels like he’s 6’8. Horrib presence. Presence. I said this about Kein. Kein can be snarky. He can be a smart alec. Oh, you offend the donors. You offend the athletic director. Get out of that world. I love college football. Get out of that space. Just deal with one owner. You, you know, you got to deal sometime. You know, Miami actually isn’t that impulsive. Miami, you know, they gave Mike McDaniel a long runway. I mean, they gave Chris Greer a decade plus to be a GM, and I don’t think he’s very good. I got nothing against him, but if you have two as a quarterback, you have to have a good backup quarterback and a great O line. They have neither. So, a lot of these GMs, you don’t major at GM in college. You’re a scout, you work your way up. I mean, I I First step, GM’s out. Second step, Keith McDaniel. Third step, get Lane Keifin. let him choose the GM cuz these quarterbacks in the SEC, the eight best quarterbacks going into the draft, four Kevin’s either recruited him, faced him, watched film on him. So, I was never a big two a fan. Uh I think he’s fine. Uh I thought the Drew Brees comp, come on. You know, that’s that’s an insane comp. It’s like giving Brady is a comp. Um alltime guys aren’t comps, they’re icons. All right. So, LA last night there’s a play at the end of the half and this sums it up. He basically quits on a play and because he can’t do anything. He has no escapability. He doesn’t have a big arm. He has acknowledged he can’t see over the line. So, at the end of the half, uh, you can roll the tape. He goes back here. You think Josh Allen would have ended the half like this? No. Heave the ball down the field of Mahomes. He surrenders. I mean, that that and that’s because he has to. I mean, that that’s kind of what it is. He’s a small quarterback without a big arm with no escapability and that’s what he does. That play doesn’t look like that if Lamar Josh or Mahomes are the quarterback or Matt Stafford who doesn’t have mobility. So a couple of weeks ago against Cleveland, it was rainy and windy. It wasn’t that cold but it was ugly weather. Rainy and windy in Cleveland and I saw two different times he had zero touchdowns, three picks, 100 passing yards. But what I noticed during the game is he didn’t want to get hit. He did not want to get hit. He was letting go of that ball. He just get Look at that. Get me out of here. It was like a little kid playing with big brothers. I don’t have any interest getting hit. And I’m sorry, but that’s the kind of weather wet rainy Cleveland. That’s AFC weather. You got to be a big tough alpha in the AFC. That’s why Joe Flacco ages so well in the AFC. Why big tough alpha presence? And this season, if you look at two of his numbers, they have regressed badly. And I think part of it is psychological. He doesn’t trust the staff. He doesn’t trust the O line. I wouldn’t either. And he doesn’t want to get hit. So, and it’s not a shock. He was from Hawaii. He played at Bama. Now he’s in Miami. He doesn’t like the cold weather. So, trust your eyes. Listen, Denver showed you you can move off a quarterback and have all sorts of dead cap money. The key is get the quarterback right in the first round of the draft like Denver did with Bo Knicks and a dead cap money doesn’t have that. I mean, look at Denver’s roster right now. They’re still paying Russell Wilson. Denver’s got a top four or five roster and they’re still paying Russell Wilson. So, um, listen, if you look at slightly uncomfortable weather under 60 degrees, two is 4 and 13. So 59 I you know I used to joke about Brock Pury it’s overcast I don’t know like in the NFL especially the AFC big strong tough that’s that’s what you need you’re going and playing Baltimore now New England’s good again so now I got to go to Foxboro in January with one of Mike Vrabel’s alpha teams and physical teams so now New England’s back to being great Baltimore’s great Buffalo’s great Kansas City’s Great. And if if if Burrow stays healthy, Cincinnati is great. I mean, yeah. I mean, even Denver late in the season, Mile High City, snow’s up there. I was saying earlier there, I think the Chicago Bears have been fascinating with Caleb Williams. So, when these young quarterbacks come into the NFL, um, you can see some that are immediately don’t work. You know, Jammarcus Russell when he came into the league, like that doesn’t work. um you know, Zach Wilson, it’s like I don’t think that’s going to work. And then there are those that immediately you’re like, “Oh, that works.” Like Jaden Daniels last year, um Joe Burrow, I mean, I think Cam Newton’s first year, you’re like, “You’re going to you’re going to win some games with Cam Newton.” And then you get into these relationships where it’s like Caleb Williams where you’re like, “Okay, all new coaching staff, uh second year, something’s good. It it’s hard.” Here’s where I think Caleb Williams is at. I don’t think he is at the place where he can handle a ton of discomfort. I think when he faces the Cowboys defense or this weekend the Bengals defense, he’s got more comfort, an extra beat to throw, an extra beat to make a decision. He can be highly effective. He probably needs another 15 starts to get to the point where he could face the Chiefs defense and be comfortable. Now, some guys never get comfortable. Justin Fields has never gotten comfortable against elite defenses, but Justin Fields will give you these starts against bad defenses. You’re like, “Oh, whoa.” But he’s never been able to pivot to the quarterback that can do it against great defenses. So, I think Caleb is in that you give him the Cowboys or the Bengals. I like the Bears this weekend and it’s going to look different. last week. Ravens are healthy on the road. You don’t get the time. Little more pressure, little better safety play and it unravels. Eric Manini earlier on what he’s seen from the Ben Johnson Caleb Williams relationship. It’s interesting. Last year when they they were uh right before the Washington game or leading up to the Washington game, uh they were 4-2 and and then they had that terrible terrible loss and Caleb had three games in a row where he’s below 80 in a quarterback rating. Here we are a year later, they have the terrible loss of the Ravens and he’s in a three-game stretch of of below 80 quarterback rating. A year removed with a totally different head coach, a different team, different situation. So you’re I I I’m disappointed that that that’s where we are a a year later. Yeah. I I listen the a lot of guys, you know, instantly not going to work. And there’s a very small handful of guys immediately, you know, that’s going to work. The majority of young quarterbacks, it’s the other 75%. You see stuff, but is it ever going to sync up? Um like I think officially Bo Nicks works. Jaden Daniels works. Drake May works. I think Caleb Williams and Penn are in the, you know, I need I need another 10 stars. But the good news for Caleb, he’s got Ben Johnson. Michael Penn has a defensive coach and I think that stuff matters. So, as we look at the NFL schedule this weekend, I like I like the Bears against Dallas. I like the Bears again. I think Caleb will have time, just an extra beat. We showed you yesterday the quickest release time in the NFL is Patrick Palms at 2.6 seconds. The slowest is Caleb at 3.1. It’s just a beat. It’s just a 1,00 that’s it. It’s just an extra beat, an extra step for the receiver to get open. So, the games I’m really interested to watch. I want to see if JJ McCarthy plays at Detroit. I want to see what it looks like. Everybody loves Detroit. I’m staying away. Everybody loves Green Bay. I’m staying away. A couple weeks ago, we had this where the Chargers were going to the Giants and the Bills were playing the Saints and everybody loaded up on the big favorites. I like small favorites this weekend. And one of the small favorites I like, I like the NerS and I like the Bears both as slight road favorites. Okay, big update here from NFL reporters. Bryce Young, his ankle is fine. No injury designation. and he will start in Lambo against the Packers. Now, I haven’t shifted over to the line to see if it’s moved, but that does something for you. I see you grinning over there. Almost like you’re giddy to jump on the Bryce Young bandwag also Brock Bowers is now healthy for the Raiders. Keep your eye on the Raiders upsetting the Jags and keep your eye on the Carolina Panthers making it very uncomfortable for three and a half quarters against the Packers. So, I I don’t hate that except for the fact that uh I’ll talk about it next hour. Um I I just the the last time the Packers had success, remember they win their first two games over the Lions and Washington and everybody crowned them. Oh, they’re going to be in the Super Bowl and then they just started sputtering. They couldn’t cover the spread. They’re not putting teams away. They don’t have that knockout punch. And I wonder after that big win on Sunday night football over Tomlin, you know, are they going to go back to being the old Packers or did they unlock something? Because in second half, Colin, they killed Pittsburgh. I guarantee I think it was like 28 nothing run or something. If you ask Matt Laflu privately, I think he’s terrified of this game. He know he know huge favorite at home. Coaches hate this spot. He’d rather go to Carolina and play because the players would get more dialed in. This is a tough keep your eye Packer Nation Urban Meyer 17 years as a college football head coach. Three natties SEC Big 10 Fox Sports football analyst is joining us live. Ohio State uh plays almost you you’d call it like a wounded animal. Penn State football’s got all sorts of NFL bodies and players. They’re a bit beat up right now. Those are dangerous teams to play. You know, I got to ask you um you know LSU, you got the governor involved. Yikes. You got Florida, you got Penn State. Um, like I thought Brian Kelly was a Midwest personality and it just never felt like a fit. Of those three jobs, and I’m talking from donors, athletic department expectations, LSU, Florida, Penn State. Is there one that jumps out to you today is the best job? I I would They’re all three blueb blood programs. They’re all three that have national championship expectation. But to answer your question, the one that stands out to me, and you can say I’m somewhat biased, is Florida. Uh I just think that’s uh you know, Florida and LSU to me are are right there and it’s all about recruiting base. You know, the problem with Penn State, Penn State’s got the same problem Notre Dame does. You have to go recruit the world. You can’t you can’t put a little footprint. LSU, you can fill a team with, you know, with a short plane ride from Baton Rouge, uh the Gator, you can certainly fill a a roster with a 3, four hour radius around your school. So, I would put one of those two. It’s just the whole dynamics. What’s happened with LSU is the reason I have them behind Florida is I don’t really understand what’s going on there with a governor. Now, there’s no AD. And and I’ll tell you, I had Jeremy Foley, Jean Smith, Chris Hill, and Paul Krebs. And you have got to be like this with that AD. And if you don’t have one, and if you’re reporting to the governor or the board of supervisors, whatever, to me, that’s just you’d have to really research that one. What? Um I mean I always had a theory on Brian Kelly. I just don’t you know listen I think he’s a really good coach. I I think he went down there and sometimes it happens in life when you took jobs from Utah to Bowling Green to Florida to Ohio State. You could have taken another job but it wouldn’t have been authentic because you were kind of worn out from it. You done it. You had your mark on college football. I think Brian and I do not blame him. I think it happens to a lot of men get into their 60s and they go to their family and they’re like listen we just got offered a boatload of money. we can get a second house now in West Palm Beach. I think I’m going to roll up my sleeves. And I just don’t think quite he understood the intensity of LSU. When when I I don’t know these coaching buyouts, I don’t like firing guys in week six or seven. What do you make of the buyouts? Are you surprised by it? I am, but it’s all market value. It’s It’s something that I It really started towards the last half of my career when you saw all these zeros showing up on your contract. And I’d never been a big money guy and fight for this and fight for that. They would offer me a contract. I’d have someone look at it and I normally just signed it right then because I they treated me fairly. But I can see that if you’re going to start getting fired after winning 70% of your games and you see James Franklin was, you know, you got to protect yourself and your family because the, you know, what you’re putting yourself through and is it worth that kind of money? There’s a lot of argument maybe it’s not, but it is what it is. And I think more than ever now, Colin, when you saw those three coaches get fired, you know, coach Napier, it was a losing record. The other two, the other two 25 years ago, those guys are coaching forever. So, I I I think you’re I heard the governor say they were not going to do that anymore of Louisiana. That’s the market value, man. That’s that’s what’s happening. Um, I want to ask you about Lane Keifin. I do believe coaching in college now with a transfer portal, it’s like free agency and the NIL is like a salary cap that it does give you some experience in college now that you didn’t have 10 years ago and there’s a little NFL feel to it. Lane’s also an offensive coach. The NFL is an offensive league and um it’s a big year for quarterbacks and he’s seen half of these guys. We the draft quarterback prospects according to Mel Kyper. I got a bunch. I got a Bama guy, a South Carolina guy, Oklahoma guy, Garrett Nusmeer. I got a bunch of guys, SEC guys. Lane’s recruited him. Lane’s seen him. Lane’s coached against him. He’s looked at film. What do you think about Lane Kein doing the NFL? Lane Keifin, uh, we’ve actually become pretty good friends. We talk a lot and text a lot and I think he has matured. I think he’s one of the top coaches obviously in the game. He also, he’s got something I’m jealous of. He also enjoys himself. You know, I when I was coached, I was a nut job. You know, it’s hard for me to get a good night’s sleep and he I see him and I admire that how he’s first he’s matured. Seems like everything’s in order and obviously he’s a hell of an offensive football coach and a hell of a coach. So, I I I thought could be su successful at every level. Remember, he went to the Raiders as a very young guy. Yeah. But let let me let me throw this about the SEC quarterbacks. We talked about this a minute ago and Todd McShet is a guy that I respect as well as including GMs. Yeah. his opinions. Those quarterbacks in the SEC, I’m not sure, and neither is Todd that are those guys the first round guys that you take and say you’re my quarterback and I’m going to rest my career or not. We’re not, you know, I agreed with Todd. He said most of those guys could probably get one more year before they can and go back go to the NFL. Yeah, I think I think Mendoza at Indiana and I think Dante Moore feel like first round picks. I also think late first round, if you’re the Rams and have Stafford and don’t need a starter today, Lenor Sellers at South Carolina is a guy I could take 25th, sit him for a year, learn from a great pro. That That’s what I would do. But I I think Dante Morren Mendoza to me, I’m like, okay, there’s some juice there. I don’t see a lot of juice with Tai Simpson. I think he’s fine. It feels late second. Um, you know, there you go. Here’s what I worry about with Ohio State. Ohio State’s better, but Penn State’s got a lot of guys and you know, they’re a little wounded as a program and Ohio State kids, they can watch the games and they can go, “Guys, hey, I’m going to I’m going to have 10 catches in this one.” Do you worry about Ohio State, the worst kind of teams to play, you’re a big favorite, but they got a bunch of talent and would make their season beating you. Does Penn State worry you if you’re the Buckeyes? Of course they do because the one thing that’s not in question is talent. I’m going to do this on big noon tomorrow that you have Texas has more fars than Ohio State. Penn State has as many four five stars. I think it’s like a 67 to 65 or something like that. So it’s basically the same roster and then all of a sudden you Penn State was three points away from playing a national title last year. The majority of that team came back. They were seven points ahead in overtime against Oregon and then it fell apart. So the question is not if talent is there. Now they lost their quarterback, but here’s the issue. You get exposed sometimes when things go bad and and Ohio State last year they it went real bad against Wolverines. What happened? They got exposed and it got better. I worry a little bit about Penn State. They got exposed when they lost that game and they fell off the map and lost three games. So uh talent is there. What I would do if I was Ryan Day, I would show them the UCLA film and say this is the same team that lost to New Mexico by 25 points. So, don’t don’t start questioning talent that you’re going to see across the the line of scrimmage from you. Okay. So, I think um I think USC is going to beat Nebraska because I do I want to ask you a question. I do feel like players feed off a coach, his psychology. And I think Lane I think Lincoln knows it’s one thing to lose. You know, you you can go lose to some big dogs. You can go lose at Notre Dame. You can lose at Oregon. You you can’t at USC in year four lose to Nebraska. And I that is a you better not lose it game because I think I always say wake up Saturday night at 9:00 if USC is lost to Nebraska. I mean you got phone Jen Cohen’s going to be taking calls. So I tend to think the players will feed off the urgency of Lincoln. Lincoln knows how big this is. You have any feel on that game? I saw I I you know USC to me is a team A. I’ve said this before about a couple teams team team A and team B. I witnessed a team A and I witnessed a team B. I saw the team B and live in a in person against Illinois. That was not a great team and then I saw them just beat the mess out of the Wolverines and they looked like they had it all. The line of scrimmage, they had the skill, the quarterback was playing great, played good defense. If team A shows up, they’re better than Nebraska. They’re they’re just a better team. Uh Nebraska is a really good team, but P uh USC, if team A shows up, uh that’s a that’s a wrap. If team B shows up, we got a problem. And I agree with you. You lose your fourth year in uh to Nebraska, I’m not sure what’s going to happen. I don’t know all that, but that’s that’s not obviously not good. Uh Columbus, if you’re in Columbus, I’ve only been there three times. Now, since you’re the you know, you’re the guy there, are you taking the crew out? Is there a place you go every time? You got a little haunt there in Columbus? Oh yeah, we got the Urban Meyer Pine House last night. We had our podcast there and then we’re going to Jeff Ruby Steakhouse tonight. So you only been here three times? Listen, I only go places. Let’s go, man. It’s a mecca here of college football. I I I only go where I’m invited, coach. You know, I’ve only gotten a couple invitations there. I’m gonna talk to Fox about this. That’s right. All right. Urban Meyer, the great Urban Meyer. See you, coach. All right. Nice brothers.

Colin Cowherd reacts to the latest in the NFL. First, he discusses the breaking news out of Miami with the Dolphins firing GM Chris Grier and why he thinks the Dolphins should hire Lane Kiffin away from Ole Miss to be their next head coach to replace Mike McDaniel. Then, he talks about why Tua Tagovailoa’s time may be up in Miami. Next, he discusses Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams’ second-year struggles before looking at the NFL’s Week 9 slate with Jason McIntyre. Then, Colin is joined by Urban Meyer to discuss the latest in college football including the matchup between the Ohio State Buckeyes vs. the Penn State Nittany Lions and the head coach openings at LSU, Penn State, and Florida.

0:00 The Dolphins need Lane Kiffin
6:56 Tua time is up
10:09 Caleb Williams’ 2nd year struggles
13:46 NFL Week 9 Preview
15:44 Urban Meyer interview

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