Bills-Texans REACTION: Josh Allen’s prime being WASTED in Buffalo | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

Bills-Texans REACTION: Josh Allen’s prime being WASTED in Buffalo | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

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. Josh Allen once again feels like a 6’6 pinata. Upset time last night. So, four things are happening with Buffalo. None of them good. They become very turnoverprone. Three last night. Houston with no run game ran for over 100 yards. The O line got worked. And oh, by the way, they have no deep threat at all. Other than that, things are great. You know, a lot of times quarterbacks let down a franchise. I feel like the franchise can’t get to playing on time is letting down Josh Allen. I mean, Davis Mills is a pro. I get it. But he engineered two long drives, 77 75 yards. My eyes tell me I watch that game. You watch that game. Texans have better players. There’s seven or eight great rosters in this league. Buffalo’s not one of them. They’re not one of them. I mean, at Dline, wide receiver, and corner, Houston’s much better. It’s not close. I don’t want to hear that Ed Oliver’s hurt. It’s the NFL. Or that Dalton Kincade’s not available. You have two other tight ends. Or that Keon Coleman, the young receivers, is a bit immature. It’s a league full of young guys. The Texans were missing their quarterback. And the Bills are getting into a really bad habit of losing to average quarterbacks. Their last three losses are to Tua, Michael Penn, and Davis Mills. And I know he’s a pro, but Davis Mills should not be beating Josh Allen. I don’t want to see Chef Boy RD out cooking Bobby Fle ever under any circumstances. Period. So now Josh Allen clearly is pressing because he doesn’t have a deep threat. Houston’s got a real defense. He’s been pressing this year, so his turnovers are up. He has three more picks than all of last season. And why? Nobody’s opened down field. You can’t win Super Bowls in this league where every drive is 14 plays. You need a Jir Gibbs to peel a big one off or Justin Jefferson to go over the top or Devonte Adams to beat his man. Buffalo doesn’t have that. Houston had more speed, a little bit more size, more depth. So Buffalo suddenly now can only win one way. Josh Allen has to have three or more touchdowns. And last week he had six. They can win that way. Not sustainable. And he’s only missed four games in his career. But Josh Allen on more than one occasion last night got up slowly. And I don’t care that he’s 66. Go ask Cam Newton and Big Ben, who took a beating because they extended plays, put themselves in the crosshairs. It’s not all the offensive line’s fault. He extends plays. He can run backwards. He did that a couple times last night. But go ask Cam and Big Ben who are 66. It takes years off your prime. So Josh Allen is 30 now and the and he’s going to be out of this prime in a couple years. So Buffalo to me, Brandon being the GM, he doesn’t have enough help offensively. It’s on you. It’s on Shawn McDermott. Can’t get a play in on time. It’s on the O line. It’s on the wide receivers. Yes, Keon Coleman is is a bit immature at this point in his life. You got to do the homework when you draft him. You know, young receivers like that sometimes have red flags. You got to do the homework. That’s part of it, you know. And so, you know, young guy being a bit immature. Welcome to professional sports. I don’t want to hear blaming him. So, I all I know is in this league, we beat up on quarterbacks when they can’t carry a good coach or carry a good roster. I feel like you got the quarterback. You can’t be losing to them and backups and Michael Penn. Can’t can’t happen. Josh Allen is forcing it. Josh Allen’s frustrated. He got clobbered last night. Now again, Houston’s defensive front, I mean, Houston’s defense overall, Bullock’s great in the back end. They’re really good. They’re not that good. Here’s the coach and Josh after when they hit their quarterback 12 times. You know that that’s I don’t like that. I don’t like that stat at all. And it’s not a healthy way to play or a healthy way to keep our our quarterback healthy through the remainder of the season. I got to be better with throwing the ball away um and living to see another down and uh letting letting us play some situational football and pinning them deep and too many times I was going backwards and um I got to be better on that. So, um, for the years I’ve been doing this, whenever, uh, uh, somebody for a team, it could be a player, it could be a GM, it could be a coach, whenever they get really, really annoyed with the media, it’s generally because the media poked them where they’re already a little sore. So, Brandon Bean this off season got very mad with the Buffalo radio show. Uh, and again, Buffalo is a smaller market like Green Bay, pretty supportive of the local team, but the Bills went out in this last draft and they just they just drafted defensive guys. They went and got a tight end out of George in the fifth round who’s a nice number three tight end. Good pick. I like that pick, but it was just all defense. Now, I’ve said before once you It’s an offensive league, so you should pay a star quarterback, a star left tackle, and a weapon or two. I believe outside of a great defensive lineman, you should just draft defense. Keep defense young and twitchy and inexpensive. So, I generally I defend GMs when once they have the quarterback right and the left tackle right and the Bills do draft defense. Just pay Josh and Deion Dawkins and James Cook whatever you got to pay him. Draft defense. Uh Ed Oliver is good. He’s not great, but he is good and they pay him. So, I I I will defend Buffalo’s draft last year, but the fact that he got so worked up when the Buffalo media said, “We need receivers. Why didn’t with the first five picks you take a receiver?” You guys were bitching in 2018 about Josh Allen, you guys wanted Josh Rosen, and now you guys are bitching that we don’t have a receiver. I don’t get it. No one scored more points than the Buffalo Bills, including the Super Bowl champions. How is this group not better than last year’s group? Like I don’t like our job is to score points and win games. Where do we need to get better? Defense. We did that. So I get it. You got to have a show and you got to you got to have something to about. But bitching about wide receiver is one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard. It’s really not because you have to contextualize why they’re scoring points. Josh Allen, try a backup for a week. See how it goes. Baltimore went with Tyler Huntley and scored 30 points against Chicago, a seven and3 team because Baltimore does a lot well. B the Rams a couple years ago won a game Baker Mayfield came in had one practice. Minnesota Josh Dos no practices won a game he threw for 350 yards. The reason you’re number one is because you have probably the single most talented player that’s ever played the position. And in your division, the Jets are a circus. Miami’s a slightly more competent circus. And last year, couple years ago, when you were beating the pants off of New England, they were a disaster. They’re now winning the division. So, I don’t think I mean I I can’t just like your running backs and tight ends. It’s not 1954. No wing t I I need I need to like your receivers. And I’m not saying you have to pay a couple of them, but you got a great slot receiver and that’s kind of it. And yeah, Keon Coleman’s immature. You got to bake that in. A lot of young receivers are. So, it’s not just that the media is trying to stir something. Smaller market media is usually incredibly supportive. You go to Philly, Boston, New York, Dallas, Atlanta, it gets a little loud and they got a lot of options and they got multiple pro and college teams. But um when the Bills have lost this season, they have averaged 16.5 points. You’re losing to Tua and Penn and Davis Mills. Davis Mills engineered two long drives. So I I think it’s fair game to criticize not drafting a receiver. Again, I am for keeping your defense young and cheap. I I think this is an offensive league. I don’t understand what the Steelers are doing year after year after year having the most expensive defense in the league. I don’t get it. I like what the Rams do. I like mostly what the Chiefs do. They pay Chris Jones and then it’s mostly they pay offensive guys. And even they had to move off Joe Tuni. So, um, you don’t have to be the Bengals and have T. Higgins and Jamar Chase, but I think it was a fair criticism. And it’s not just, hey, we we had a great offense. Well, I mean, Philadelphia, I’ll give you an example. Philadelphia won the Super Bowl and keeps winning and all their GM does is tweak tweak trade trade tweak tweak tweak tweak. Philadelphia could be like, “Hey, won the Super Bowl. We don’t need to make any moves at the trade deadline, but Howie Roseman’s like, “Our passing game’s not good enough.” And our offensive line, we’re banged up. So, Philadelphia wins Super Bowls and they’re and they are making move after move after move at the trade deadline. Why? Because you got to stay ahead of it. You got to see problems. What’s the old business saying? Got to see around corners. You got to see the problems before they arise. So, when you went into a season and you’re hoping Keon Coleman becomes a number one receiver, that’s rough. That that that position creates drama and has drama. Today’s show is brought to you by our new presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet. This is that golden time of the year when it’s not just pro football. 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So, whenever you’re listening, just open the app, check out what you’ve got any day of the week, download the Hard Rock Bet app, and make your first deposit. Well, let’s go to Julian Edelman. Three Super Bowl rings, an MVP, 12 years. Uh le let’s let’s talk Shadur. I I don’t expect much. I don’t buy into the conspiracy theories. Um he’s he’s a delightful kid. I I think Max Crosby’s going to be chasing him around. I don’t like the negative plays by him. I do think he throws a good ball. What are your expectations for Shadur Sanders? I mean, are they high, low, middle? Where are you at? I think uh they’re probably middle. I I think the expectation is he’ll be better than last week. He’s playing a team that’s pretty bad but that has a good defense in the Raiders. Max Crosby Max Crosby can ruin a guy’s day. So, uh, anytime a young quarterback has an elite pass rusher that he knows he’s going against, I’m sure he’s going to be thinking about that, speeding up his quarterback clock process, but I do expect him to be better than last week because he’s going to have some reps this week with the ones. He’s going to be the focal point in practice, which uh usually backups aren’t. So, I expect him to be mid better than last week, but not terrible because he does know how to play ball. Six, seven, maybe. Yeah. Um, you I one of the reasons I think the Chiefs are dangerous is because we always want to count out the old athlete, you know, the old Gronk and then he goes and has a great like old Travis Kelce. Oh, what do you know? He has nine catches. I think Kansas City when you don’t want to play the Chiefs is when if they lose they’re out of the playoffs. And I want you to go to your career and maybe a year for New England when people were counting you out. you were facing a very good or hot team. I just think champions are really dangerous when nobody’s buying them, when everybody they hear the media, they listen in your career. I think Kansas City plays great this weekend. Go to your career. Do you remember a moment like that? Yeah, I think we were in 18 uh late in the in the year. We were struggling on offense trying to figure out what we were. We were doing a lot of that 13 personnel, 12 personnel, a lot of tight ends. We were strug struggling to get guys open on the outside, very similar to what the Chiefs are going through. And then, you know, we we were playing against Buffalo when they were young and they were spry and they they had a lot going for them late in the year. We ended up winning that game and that kind of gave us our confidence boost and and we lost a game in uh December that year I believe to the the Steelers which you know that’s kind of the time where you don’t want to start losing games is one of the first times we’ve lost in December where we go on a long run. So I think the confidence booster was when we played that young Buffalo team that was playing very well. Everyone thought we didn’t have the firepower to do it. We found a way to get a win and and it took that right there to let everyone know, hey, we’re still around. We still played in a lot of ball games. We played in more foot more important football games than most of these teams have even played in. We’ve forgotten that many games. And that could be said about the Chiefs. Like these guys didn’t forget how to play football. Yeah, they’re in a little funk right now, but they still have a lot of good football players. And I expect them to turn it on at the back after the season because they know ultimately it’s the most important time to be playing your best football. It starts after Thanksgiving. That’s what we all used to say in our building. The real football season starts after Thanksgiving. You have to put yourself in position to be able to compete after that time, but the real football starts now. And they’re a real football team still. I don’t care what anyone says. you know, you guys in New England, um, you and Grank were the offense in a solid run game, and I could argue that’s what Buffalo is. The difference is your defenses were great, and Buffalo’s has gone into the tank. Um, I do think they could use another deep threat, but in fairness, December, January, deep threats often disappear in Buffalo or New England because of the weather. So, when I watched Buffalo last night, my biggest issue is Josh is forcing stuff. So, the turnovers are spiking. They never did with Tom. And the defense just I mean even Houston ran on them. Houston has no run game. I thought Houston looked like they were deeper and more physical and had more good players. Do you think a lack of a deep threat is the issue? When you watch Buffalo, they’ve now lost to Penn Tua and Davis Mills. What is the problem you see with Buffalo? Because it’s not quarterback. It’s not quarterback and I think it’s a multiple of things. I think it has to do with the lack of winning outside the numbers, the deep threat, that exceiver. They they they really relied on the Coleman kid who who’s really disappointed them. I mean, you know, they spent a second round draft pick on him last year or was he a first, a second? Regardless, a high round draft pick that they needed him to play well for their team to work. And I also think it’s got to do with their defense. I mean, this just that’s not sustainable defense when you can’t stop the run. If you force the Bills to play the way they don’t want to play from ahead, making other offenses one um onedimensional where they have to throw the ball, they they’re decent against the pass. That’s what their defense is designed to do, but they can’t get there right now. So, I I think this going to be tough cuz like you said, whenever we were struggling on offense or or or some of these teams that have had the older or the the quarterback only team or whatever, uh the the Ben Rothllessber, you could always rely on our defense or our special teams to make a play. They got a big team. They got a big play from their special teams last night, but their defense is just not there. So, I think it’s a multiple things. I think it’s the lack of deep threat, which you know, it’s very disappointing that this Coleman kid is doing what he’s doing. Like, I can’t I can’t emphasize that much enough. When a team is relying on you and and you go and especially a team like the Buffalo Bills and what for whatever reason he’s got attitude problems, like that’s a cancer that that they they are relying on him and then the defense. So, I think it they’re a complimentary football team. When they got one thing not going because of how they spend their money as a team, it’s not going to work. So, I think it’s a couple things. So, uh Caleb Williams, Drake May, and Bo Knicks are winning a lot of games. They also have Ben Johnson, Mike Frabel, uh Shawn Payeyton. They have really good coaches. Um that said, you have good sources in New England. Aren’t they even surprised how good Drake May is? They still don’t have a number one receiver. They don’t have a dominant tight end. It’s a good O line. It’s not a great O line. Do you think they’re surprised by how efficient he is? I I’ve talked to a lot of people in there and I wouldn’t say they’re surprised. I I I would just say that they were excited from from day one, you know, talking to one of my main guys there, he kept saying like, you know, this kid retains information. He doesn’t make the same mistakes. He processes. And that’s what I heard a lot and I didn’t see it last year at all, but I’ve been seeing it this year throughout the whole season. One thing he needs to do is he needs to stop taking hits and and and that’s going to come with more time on task in this offense because you see him in his empty personnel like his empty situations. Whenever he’s an empty he looks at his first three and then he ends up taking off and going and he that tells me he doesn’t know the nuances of the offense which means he has a lot more room to grow which is going to be scary once he gets that empty package going because they’re really good with the play action. They got a run game going and he’s got those athletic plays. But the one constant thing I heard from everyone, great attitude, loves to learn, natural leader, and can process. So I never heard surprised, but I heard excited a lot. I don’t think you can um you can’t fool pro athletes. And I mean, you listen, New England had high draft picks and a lot of them on offense could not play. Everybody, every GM misses on draft picks. It’s hard. Um, and I watch JJ McCarthy and I think to myself, everybody in the room knows it’s a problem, but he’s all JJ McCarthy is a kid that loses his confidence on the field pretty quickly. So, the last thing you want to do is press him. Um, what do you do? I mean, what what do you think it’s like to be JJ McCarthy now? I mean, you had a nice slow growth because you were not a first round player. When you’re a first round pick and they give up picks, is there not more pressure to perform immediately? There’s a lot of pressure for everyone in the locker room. Um, and they all have their own different forms of pressure. Guys that are trying to create a role, guys that are trying to be a superstar, guys that are trying to be a Hall of Famer, guys that are trying to make the team. So, pressure is for everyone. Um, with JJ, they got to just deal with this. This is what they picked. uh you had Sam Darnold in the building last year for probably a competitive number where they could have kept him around for a year and let this kid develop, but they didn’t decide to do that. They decided to go with JJ McCarthy. So, these are the growing pains you have to go through with a young quarterback who only has six starts in his NFL career. Uh you know, it’s just he’s on a team that’s probably a quarterback away from being a really good playoff team. So, that’s the only difference. Usually you see these first round draft picks, they come in or these very top overall picks and they’re going into an ecosystem that has a a losing environment, a losing team. Uh and that hasn’t been the case for JJ. He went to a team that’s pretty much ready to go. Let’s go right now. So, I I think they just got to deal with this and they got to they got to be able because the only people that really know are the people in that building because there’s little things and nuances that Kevin Oonnell is teaching JJ McCarthy that none of us outside of that building know. And if he’s seeing progression weekly, then that’s what he’s going to have to deal with. And he’s seeing the growth. That doesn’t mean we don’t we can see it because there could be things that we don’t know what they’re coaching on in there. So, they have to they have to deal with this. Uh this is the hand they chose and and look, he’s in a sixth game of his career. This is not a a a easy thing to pick up, especially in the hardest position in pro sport. So, he’s got to learn and he’s got to learn fast because the games are only going to get harder as the season goes. One more question, and I’ve asked you this before. Uh, this is about the time your Patriot teams took off. Explain to people late November football, December football. How did Bellich check address it? Because you dominated the league for 20 years. Did the discussions change? Did the preparation change? Did the game plans change as it gets cold and windy? By the way, rosters now are depleted due to injuries. Everybody’s missing top guys. How does football change this weekend and on? Well, this weekend there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or going forward after Thanksgiving. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Everyone knows about the seedings. Everyone knows who’s in it. Everyone knows who’s not in it. So, the urgency level in the building goes through the roof. The beginning part of the season is about learning what this team is. The middle part of this season is about executing and trying to get this se this team ready for the last part of the season which is the real part of the season where you put yourself in contention to play your best football. We always talked about playing your best football at the end of the season and a lot of it had to do with health like you you mentioned and also you know the teams knowing what they are their identity and then this is the time where hey we know what we’re good at. We know what we’re bad at. We know where we’re vulnerable. How do we make our team go out, make the least amount of mistakes, have the best week of practice with the highest urgency, and let these guys know that this this this doesn’t come around a lot. So, you have to play your best football. That’s that’s what it was. It was just urgency, preparation. You took a little more time to take care of your body. Like you said, a lot of guys are banged up. Um, but you know, this is the best time of the year because there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. It ain’t a train. Those are the That’s the playoffs. They’re coming. And this is when you start to get that second troll. You know, those the middle of the season, you’re banged up. First part of the season, you’re you’re you’re excited cuz football started. And then you you get beat up and you you’re trying to get the ankle right or the the oblique right or your shoulder right. And then new uh Thanksgiving hits and you get like a shot. you get a shot of adrenaline because you know this is important football time. So if you like football and you like to compete, you’re in the right business because this time of the year is what that is about. Uh his podcast, Games with Names, new episode every Tuesday. Fox NFL kickoff on a Friday. Julian Edelman as always, my friend. Thanks. All right, guys. Take care. All right, Colin. Let’s start with the drama kings. The Philadelphia Eagles, boy, they have been a storyline all week. It’s funny. I mean, they’re h hurtling toward the number one seed in the NFC, yet it’s drama after drama. The latest AJ Brown, Colin, he gave an interview in the locker room yesterday, and I don’t We’re going to have to talk about it afterward. Just listen to this nonsense from AJ Brown. There’s a report that there was some frustration from players on offense. Ask me about Dallas. Thank you, AJ. Do you pay a lot of attention to what other receivers around the league do? Like what makes CD so Uh um why not? Gets me upset. So I stay away from it. There’s some speculation out there that you are not the same player. What would you say to those? I guess Aquan ain’t the same player either. All right. I see maturity. I see what I see a player that’s not going to be induced into a headline. I like that from AJ Brown. So no, no. asked him, “Hey, are you maybe you’re not the same player as you were last year?” And he said, “Well, I guess Saquon Barkley’s not either.” That’s exactly right. That so he’s saying is that’s a ridiculous question. Are you also saying that Saquon because his production down is not the same player. That’s not being that’s not starting a fire. If somebody asked me the same qu well, why are numbers down? Well, Seaquins are down. Is he a bum? That doesn’t bother me at all. That’s like if you want to ask an aggressive question, then I’m going to give you an aggressive answer. And I like that from AJ Brown. So, do you think this is a distraction for the Eagles heading into a huge game against Dallas? I said two years ago I thought there was too much drama between Herz and and AJ Brown. I was on it two years ago. I said they should have traded him at the Super Bowl at the trade deadline, but now that you haven’t, you can’t get upset with that quote. That that can’t bother you. If you’re not going to move him, then you have to He could have easily poured gas on those questions and he’s like, “You’re not going to do it to me.” No, thank you. I mean, after 15 questions from Inkstain Wretches in Philadelphia, he has a right to an opinion. Yeah. Okay. So, it’s interesting. There’s no sound coming out from Saquon Barkley yesterday. There’s no sound coming out from Jaylen Herz yesterday. Nothing really all week. Why is that? Cuz they’re not giving this nonsense to the media. Brown is essentially like, “Hey, you’re not going to throw me the ball. Fine, media, come over here and then I’m going to give you smartass answers to really rank because Sequin isn’t a story this year. He’s not producing. He went from 2,000 yards to like 500. That’s not a story. Well, it’s not. I mean, the Philadelphia media will go to the locker that they feel will provide them the best quotes. So, don’t blame the athlete when they all come around your chair and pepper you with aggressive questions and you say, “That’s a ridiculous. If Saquon’s numbers are down, is is he a bad player? That doesn’t bother me at all. So, you know, all Colin, I’ve defended AJ Brown through much of this. Okay, we need him to win the Super Bowl. You you get to a Super Bowl with him, then you win a Super Bowl with him. AJ Brown is instrumental to this team, but Colin, this is a a division leading 8-2 team. I’ve had enough. I think he’s trying to sabotage the season. He’s very unhappy with what’s going on. A first place team with a best odds to get to the Super Bowl in the NFC. And he’s ruffling up issues, causing drama all the time. Colin, I’m done with him. I believe in the offseason it’s time. The Eagles need to move off AJ Brown. Yes, I would you agree with that? I felt that a year ago, but now I mean I started exploring options, trade, cut, dead money. I’m I’m done. I don’t need this. There are no options until the season is over. You had your moment. Howie Roseman said we’re going to keep him. I said Devonte Smith, tight end Saquon, Jaylen Herz is more than enough to win a Super Bowl because the defense for Philly this year is about seven really high-end players, most in their prime. I think you can win a Super Bowl with that defense and a decent offense. But I they’ll move him in the offseason. I And he’ll have takers. He’s a great player. Yeah, he’ll have takers because they’ll be like, “Oh, this guy’s awesome.” and then six games in he’s going to turn into this I’m just disappointed that Jaylen Herz a real pros pro has to deal with this nonsense. All right, let’s go to uh the Kansas City Chiefs Colin. They have a big uphill climb to the playoffs. Listen, they’re five and five and according to the mathematical calculations, 43% chance to make the playoffs. Now, if they lose Sunday, if they choke as favorites and lose to the Colts, their chances to make the playoffs drop to 27%. Well, now that Buffalo can’t beat Davis Mills. Um, and if they beat the Colts, and by the way, we’ll see what the Chargers do. Big game for the Chargers. So, um, here’s uh, the Are the Char Who are the Chargers? Are the Chargers in a buy? I believe they are in a buy. Okay, my bad. The Chargers want to buy. My bad. According to Matt Nai, there’s nobody better to have at the helm than Andy Reid in these dire situations. He’s the best leader in these moments right now. When you get into that is like, okay, schematically, are we putting our guys in the be best positions possible throughout the game? Um, and then when the when the plays are called and the guys go out there in that moment, are we doing it exactly how it’s supposed to be done with the details? Um, Coach Reed, when you talk about day one with coach Reed and his organization and his team, the number one thing you talk about and you learn as a player and coach is details. That matters. Great game. Uh, I tend to favor high scoring in this game. Chiefs in a highscoring, wildly entertaining game over the Colts. Uh, so I’ll be honest with the audience. I didn’t have the stones, the intestinal fortitude to go against the Chiefs at home. So, they’re not in headlines. But I did find an interesting stat, Colin. This is kind of crazy. The Chiefs defense has given up 81% completions against play action this season. Worst in the league. Do you want to guess how Daniel Jones does in play action with Shane Syikens offense? 70% completions, 9.2 yards per attempt. They I mean, the Chiefs are going to have to pick their poison. Do we want to let Jonathan Taylor run all over us? Or do we want to get burned down the field by Pitman, Warren, and company in the play action? I I want to take the Colts, but I’m being a little bit of a wuss, Colin. I I noticed you wed out as well. Yeah, it’s not one of my picks. Final story, let’s go to the Seahawks. Um, my guy Zack brought me one of the craziest stats. I was not aware of this. Did you know the Seahawks lead the NFL in turnovers? Yes. What? The Seahawks are incredible and they lead the league in turnovers. A lot of that has to do with your boy Sam Darnold, Colin. The interceptions are a problem. Here’s Darnold talking about reigning in the picks. I mean, it’s unacceptable. Um, you know, we understand as an offense we have to be better. Um, I have to be better um protecting the football. Um, and we’re doing everything that we can um in practice um and when the game comes to to try to, you know, um take care of the football a little bit better. So, the other turnover uh leaders are the Vikings, Dolphins, and Bengals. They have something in common. They’re not going to the playoffs. Okay. And the Seahawks somehow lead the league in turnovers and are going to the playoffs and maybe going to the Super Bowl. Sam Darnold, Colin, third in the NFL in interceptions. I I did. They’re playing so well. I didn’t even realize that. Does Darnold have a bit of an issue that he needs to tighten up here? Well, I mean, they’re also of those four teams mentioned, they have the deepest, most talented, athletic speed on offense. So, they’re they’re a team that is a lot. It’s the second youngest offense in the league. They’re growing. Um, yeah. I mean, it’s again, I supported Andrew Luck. I support Sam Darnold, Payton Manning. You can go Joe Nameoth, Pton Manning, Brett Favre. I can live with picks. Brady threw a pick six in a Super Bowl. Are you productive? Are you willing to throw the ball down the field? Do you score touchdowns? Does your team score all that stuff? He checks all those boxes. He is an incredibly dynamic athlete at quarterback. I love the I’m sure the audience picked this up. All those quarterbacks you just rattled off. You were like, “Sam Darnold throws picks. So does Andrew Luck, Tom Brady, all these legends in the NFL.” And Sam Darnold’s names. Crowbar in there. Well done, sir.

Colin Cowherd reacts to the Buffalo Bills’ 23-19 loss to the Houston Texans on Thursday Night Football. Then, he is joined by Julian Edelman and they discuss Shedeur Sanders’ first start for the Cleveland Browns, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs being in danger to miss the playoffs, and more. Finally, Colin and Jason McIntyre react to the latest news around the NFL.

0:00 Texans def Bills
4:48 Bills GM gets defensive
11:08 Julian Edelman interview
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