Why Colin Cowherd Believes in the ’25 #Seahawks | Seattle Sports

Why Colin Cowherd Believes in the ’25 #Seahawks | Seattle Sports

We can ask Colin about it. Colin Cow herd joining us right now, of course. Good morning, Colin. How are you? I am uh good. Just off a train in Chicago and ready to roll today. What’s going on? If Seattle were a stock, Colin, a Super Bowl stock, would you buy? Yeah, I mean, you know, Darnold hasn’t proven in those late January games. Um, you know, last year he kind of folded a little bit. Wasn’t all his fault. Um, I think the story of Seattle, and I’m not sure if this answers your question, but you know, Pete and John Snyder were in a bad place a few years ago, a really bad place. And Snyder almost left, I think four years ago, five years ago to run Detroit, came back. John’s always been um along with Brett Beach, Howie Roseman, Jason Light down in Tampa. Job’s one of the great um talent evaluators in the NFL and has been for a long time. But when Paul Allen died, there was a power void upstairs and Pete was popular and he, you know, he won a Super Bowl. And the truth is now it’s John’s team. It’s John’s vision. It’s John’s personnel choices. Well, I’ve said the last two years, and I always worry about saying this on the air because everybody knows I’m from the Northwest. I think the Seahawks have had the best draft the last two years. And when I say that, everybody’s like, “Oh, you’re a homer.” And I’m like, “No, I grew up more Husky fan than Seahawk fan. More Mariner fan than Seahawk fan. Love Jim Zorn, but I was I was a baseball kid and a college football guy. I think Snyder’s brilliant. I think they’re I tell my audience all the time, turn the sound down and just lean into watching them play. It’s the fastest team in the league.” Um, I like everything about it. Um, and I think it’s now John’s blueprint, his coach, his quarterback, and um, I don’t know if they’re a Super Bowl team. I think the Rams are really good. Uh, and I think Philadelphia’s just got a great roster, but they’re better than San Francisco. I think I think I’m going to take them this week against the Rams. Um, I think they’re in a five or six group team that for the next five years is an absolute buy. And I think Sam Darnold is better than maybe any quarterback in this college class except Mendoza. I I I think if Mendoza was available in the first rounds, John Snder may grab that and sit him for a year. But I think Sam’s a really West Coast kid, good kid, coachable, tough. It’s a It’s a great Seahawk fans are lucky. They’ve got it going now. So, what are you learning? You talked about Darnold there. He’s one of a couple of these kind of reclamation project quarterbacks around the league with Baker and Daniel Jones and some others. What are you learning about the NFL from the reclamation quarterbacks? A lot of good offensive coaches that they didn’t used to be. There used to be about four of them in the league and they were all head coaches. Now you hire a CEO and there’s dozens of, you know, Shawn McVeyish kind of guys. There’s one in uh you know the guy in Carolina now, the guy in Jacksonville. There’s a lot of sharp guys and so that gives guys like Baker and it gives guys like Sam, you know, there’s just more great coaches out there. Um and I think that’s a big part of it. Secondly, the quarterbacks have 10,000 snaps by the time they’re sophomores in college. The personal coaching, the seven on seven stuff. So you’re getting I mean just this year it’s like Mendoza and Dante Moore and K Clubnik and I like the kid at South Carolina. I think he’s an interesting pro prospect. I wouldn’t play him immediately but just feels like there’s more good quarterbacks and more good coaches and you know Sam came into the league at 21 meaning and Brock would know this. younger you are and the raw more raw you are, you really need the right leadership. Well, the Jets are the opposite of that. If he’d have landed, if he’d have landed, let’s say like in Seattle, like he was coming out now and he gave in Seattle and he could sit behind Stafford for two years, Sam Darnold would be a Pro Bowler very early in his career. He went to the dysfunctional Jets and it’s just like life as our kids are younger, 15, 16, 17, 18. It’s why having a good strong mom and dad matter. The younger you are, the more guidance you need, the more support you need. I’m old now. I can get a bad boss and burl through it, right? You know, it’s just like, you know, Brady went to Tampa. He didn’t get along with Arens. He still won a Super Bowl. But in Tom’s early years, the Charlie Weisses and, you know, then Josh McDaniel, it really matters. It’s why parents are so important, especially for young boys who have all that testosterone. They make bad decisions. You know, Sam’s 21. He goes to a dysfunctional place. He’s trying to figure out the he had a bad college coach. He’s trying to figure out the sport. It just didn’t work. But the smart guys, Kevin O’Connell, Shanahan, they always liked him. So, where will the Seahawks be on Colin Cowardd’s power rankings this week? One or two. I just uh I’m going to go in in about five minutes and I have all my homework in front of me. be one or two with the Rams. So, I I that’s what they feel like to me. It’s it’s, you know, it’s it’s fun. It’s I think they’re not only good, I think they’re a fun watch. You know, it’s JSN and Sam Darnold and they’re fast and they go get Rasheed Sahed and they just got a lot of speed and they’re aggressive defensively and they got a I mean, it’s so great in the NFL when you can have your quarterback and your head coach and they’re both pretty young. They’re both in their prime. You know, it’s like it’s such a great place to be in the NFL and there’s about seven of those in the whole league. I mean, Andy Reid’s great, but he’s probably got two more years to coach. He’s getting older. You know what I mean? Like, uh, it’s so it it’s the only chance to win a Super Bowl is when you have a coach in his prime and a quarterback in his prime and hopefully you have a really good deal making GM, you know, like Howy Roseman goes out and gets uh Phillips. Um, you watched him last night against the Packers. It’s like, oh yeah, that’s going to work. He’s absolutely going to make them better again. You know, I mean, you I mean, immediately you got to have a dealmaker, and I think Snyder is that. I think he’s I mean, that I thought that deal to get heed, the receiver, was so smart. Reunited with his OC. I thought that was such a smart move. And Seattle’s got it dialed in. I I would be shocked. And again, they’re in a great spot because Darnold, you guys know he’s less of a cap hit than Taesm Hill. I mean, they got a third round pick for Gino. He’s less of a cat pit than Taesm Hill. And and you can stay with Darnold or you can do what John wanted to do years ago with Russell Wilson. He wanted to draft Josh Allen and just sit him for a year. And I think I could see Seattle, but I think Mendoza is going to go number one. But I could see him taking a quarterback in the first couple rounds here and just saying, “Listen, you’re going to sit behind Sam Darnold for two years.” cuz that Brock as you know and Mike that’s ideally what you want to do. Even Mahomes sat for a year. Lamar I mean Josh Allen was a mess his first year. You’d like to sit Carson Palmer sat. You’d like to sit all these guys and just have a really good mentor in front of you like an Alex Smith. That would be ideal. But most teams up the top they need to win now and they need to you know you’ve got this insatiable fan base and talk radio and win now and play the kid and it’s rough. I mean, you you don’t want to play Jackson Dart this early. But the Giants, it’s New York. They just fired a coach in the middle of a season. The Jets did it last year. The Giants do it this year. Just dysfunctional. How are you 61 years old? It just doesn’t even make I just have to look it up because you said you were old. How are you 61? You still sound like the same guy I was listening to driving to work in LA in the early 2000s, 20ome years ago. You sound exactly the same. How are you 61? Um, I don’t know. I’ll be honest with you. We stomped Colin. We found something Colin doesn’t know. It’s amazing. We win. We win. A lot of kids, a lot of smart my staff are young and fun and keep me young and my wife holds me accountable. So I, you know, I just I just texted my best friend in high school lives up in Shahalis. Uh I still think about the Northwest all the time. My buddy Jack Jones, he’s uh he was my star run. He was the best player on our team. I was a terrible high school quarterback. And uh but I don’t know. I think I just I’m very simple creature. Surround myself with a bunch of young people and I just I love what I do. I’m so lucky. I think we all feel that. I mean, I’m just so lucky to do what we do. There’s so many jobs out there that are so hard or they’re political or you’re lifting stuff and I just talk. I mean, come on, give me a break. I talk. That’s all I do. It’s pretty great, Colin. Thank you. Thank you for talking with us for a few minutes. We appreciate it. Always good to hear your voice. And we’ll do it again. Hello, Pacific Northwest. Love you guys anytime and have a great day. All right, there you go. There’s the great Colin Cowardd. He is uh I mean he’s the best as we’ve said every time. Brock, every single kid that ever came to interview here, when you ask them who they want to be like, Colin Coward always the answer.

Fox Sports host of ‘The Herd’ Colin Cowherd joins Brock Huard & Mike Salk (Brock & Salk) to discuss the state of the Seahawks in week 11, why this is John Schneider’s team, and Sam Darnold’s development.

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0:00 – Super Bowl stock in the Seahawks
2:40 – Reclamation quarterbacks
4:20 – Quarterbacks need leadership
5:00 – Where are the Seahawks in Cowherds power rankings
6:20 – “Seattle’s Got it Dialed In”

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