What Colin Cowherd got RIGHT & WRONG: Daniel Jones, Bears, Packers, Vikings, Caleb | THE HERD NFL

What Colin Cowherd got RIGHT & WRONG: Daniel Jones, Bears, Packers, Vikings, Caleb | THE HERD NFL

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. Oh yeah. So, on a Monday, Colin right, Colin wrong. And here we go. Where Colin was right. Jim Harbaugh, world’s best football coach, 3-0, pulling away in the AFC West. The Chargers were on a short week. They fumbled the opening kickoff. They lost Naji Harris, Khalil Max not playing, but Harbaugh has in his career found ways to win ugly games. And you got to give this team credit. Quinton Johnson looked like a bust at wide receiver. Harbaugh’s like, “Nope, we’re going to feed him the ball. We’re going to throw it to him half a dozen times deep.” And the Chargers win a game because they have the greatest football coach of all time. where Colin was wrong. The Packers led 10- nothing in the fourth and still lost to Cleveland. They were my number one team in the league. What was weird is they had extra time to prep cuz they played on Thursday night football and the offense was still disjointed. Jordan Love got hit hard too many times. Uh they just they didn’t have a lot of energy. They came out flat and it’s the National Football League. Um Jordan Love didn’t have a lot of time. They didn’t get a touchdown until the late third quarter. I thought this was a team without a major flaw. And maybe it’s just energy because they lacked it against Cleveland on the road. Where Colin was right. I’ve said this about Kyle Shanahan. I predicted the Niners would have a lot of injuries. And I’ve said before, Kyle is the great quarterback whisperer. M. Jones is not only 2 and 0, they’re asking him to throw as much as Justin Herbert. The dude has 80 pass attempts in two starts with a wide receiver core that’s all banged up. George KD banged up. You can say what you want about Kyle Shanahan hasn’t won the big game. Shanahan with quarterbacks. The league had given up on M. Jones had given up and that guy’s out there spinning it and 2 and 0. Credit to Shanahan where Colin was wrong. I have defended uh CJ Strad for two years. He’s 29th in passer rating dating back to last year. Now, I know the offensive line’s not great. But right now, either either is the Chargers. Uh I picked the Texans to win the AFC South. They can’t pick up first downs. They can’t run it. Protection’s not great. Um right now CJ’s got more um picks than touchdowns, averaging 200 yards a game. and Demo Ryan. I worry about this because I’ve said this for years. There’s something about defensive head coaches and bad O lines. Last two years they can’t get the O line right. I keep defending him and I am wrong. Where Colin was right. I said Friday Carson Wentz today now is better than JJ McCarthy. He may not be in six weeks. Yes, the Vikings defense was great, but I said on Friday’s show, oh, he’ll win and he’ll be great. JJ McCarthy looked overwhelmed. Carson Wentz has a 130 passer rating yesterday, 70% completion rate in total control. The reason I like Carson Wentz is look at the coaches who like him. Kevin Oonnell liked him. Shawn McVey liked him. He keeps bouncing around to smart offensive coaches. Carson Wentz was reckless, got banged up, but I will defend him. I think he’s honestly one of the most talented backup quarterbacks. In fact, easily in the National Football League and yesterday, you can win a bunch of games with Carson Wentz and that staff, those weapons, and Brian Flores. Where Colin was wrong. I gave up on Daniel Jones. Forget Danny Dimes. He’s Danny Dollars. He is dealing it, baby. Now, he’s got a good old line and nice weapons, but he made plays yesterday. Is he the next Baker? Is he the next Sam Darnold? I said, “Give me a break.” He’s throwing the ball downfield. This is not Dink and Dunk. Danny Dollars was 6 and N 10 plus yards down the field. This isn’t a mirage. He’s not fooling anybody. He’s making big boy NFL throws. Indie had their first punt all season. So, I mean, he’s playing with confidence. Well, he’s got Shane Stiken out. Shane Stiken ain’t making the throws. He is making big boy downfield throws. And I’m wrong. Where Colin was right. Jaden Mayava, USC. Is anybody paying attention? nine TDs, no picks, 71% completion percentage. I don’t want to hear about their schedule. For all the people that doubt Lincoln Riley, this kid last year was reckless and out of control. He looks unbelievable. They were missing their first or second best wide receiver. They lead the nation in yards per play. Um they’re a touchdown favorite at Illinois. This kid has cleaned up his entire game. Again, last year he was young. He was reckless. He kind of played out of control. I didn’t think he was very good between the hash marks. He is making big time throws and great decisions. Where Colin was wrong. Coming out of Ohio State, I thought Marvin Harrison was can’t miss. More like can’t catch. Is he a bust? I honestly I don’t know what’s happened. I I He’s not separating. They don’t target him. 10 catches, three games. I I don’t know what it was. I thought he was a guaranteed stud. I just thought physically he would be a mismatch, but lost confidence. They don’t target him. I mean, he was he was drafted above like Roman Dun and Neighbors. And I don’t see it like at all. Where Colin was wrong. Cade Clubnick, Ken Clemson quarterback. What happened? And Clemson’s got NFL guys. They’re 113th in FCS in scoring offense. I thought he could be a top two or three quarterback drafted. Clemson’s 0 and2 in the ACC and they haven’t played Miami yet. They’re 1 and3 overall. Fell into a deep hole against Syracuse. I watched this entire game. I don’t know what the problem is. Maybe they should have gone to the transfer portal. Clemson refuses to do the NIL holding the ball too long. I I mean I I have no idea. It’s total regression. Lower completion percentage, more interceptions, fewer yards per game. Nothing looks right. I had a lot of wrongs this week. I got to own them. I had a lot of wrongs yesterday. And with that, Matt Hasselbeck stops by. 18 years in the NFL. Man, I was wrong a lot. Oh, I was wrong. I I like when you admit when you were wrong. It’s just u I love the humility. Oh, well, there I don’t have it often, but boy, I’m bringing my fastball today. Um, I will say this. Um, listen, I know it’s the Bears, uh, uh, the Dallas defense, but here’s what I did like. They’ve got a lot, there’s a lot of people that need to eat there. They’ve got a Luther Burton and Roman Dunay and DJ Moore and two tight ends and and I did think there was a rhythm, Matt, to the offense. I thought they had a couple drives where it was like the screen game, the run game, they played the clock well. I did sense a rhythm. Or is that just Dallas’s bad defense? It’s both, but it was clearly, yeah, rhythm, timing, accuracy, uh, no sacks is huge. Yeah, good pass protection. This was easily Caleb Williams best game as a pro. Easily. It was fun to watch. If you’re a Bears fan, you’re like, “Oh, shoot. This is sick.” Like, this is what we could be. Uh, Ben Johnson, I mean, he is like, you see why he was so good in this division going up against guys like Matt Eberloose. Like, he knew the division. I think there is something nice about game planning people that you actually know. like you know them as well as they know themselves. You know what they’re never going to change where they’re never going to change. But I just thought it was incredible, you know, and and you know, just you know, Caleb obviously deserves his credit. He did a really nice job, but guy it really wasn’t a lot of contested touchdowns. Like guys were wide open. Like I don’t have like a nextgen stats kind of thing on it, but like usually touchdown passes are hard to come by. Um you know, usually guys end up on the ground a lot of times. These were stand up uh nobody near me type touchdowns. It was an impressive impressive win uh for for Chicago and and equally as embarrassing for Dallas. Like if you’re Dallas, you’re feeling pretty good last week and now you’re kind of like who the heck are we? Like this is this is embarrassing. I I I want to know though um do players look at it and think the Bears I mean like the Bear players today, is it self-belief in that locker room or is there a sense Dallas is bad? Like were you ever on a team that what you were struggling to find your footing, you beat a really bad team? How does that usually translate the following week? Because they have the very average Raiders coming up. Yeah, it’s two things. Number one, never apologize for a win. Never. Like we would say that in every locker room ever. Like it would just be like never apologize. I don’t care how bad they were, how much disarray they’re in. It’s a It’s really hard to get a win. Like we put our heart and soul into this thing. We’re going to celebrate it on a Sunday. But now here’s the thing. Win or lose, that game plan, that celebration, all of that, that has to just kind of evaporate and go away. It’s like it never happened. You know, maybe there’s a feel-good feeling. I think the hard thing after a win is you got to correct the things that need to be corrected. Sometimes in a loss, you know, you look at everything under a magnifying glass and you’re like, “Okay, we got to get a little bit better in the details here.” After a win, sometimes you sweep things under the rug in terms of like technique or, “Hey, we got our way with one here.” and you don’t necessarily improve as the season’s going on going on. So, uh, I think they’ll be fine. Ben Johnson seems like a little bit of a workaholic and I don’t think I don’t think he’s gonna let them off the hook that way, but I think a game like that for Chicago with the scrutiny that their quarterback has been under is going to give some confidence to a team that needs a little bit of confidence. One of the things that um I I don’t think we talk about in the media enough and I don’t think fans realize it is that even practice is hard in football. You know, basketball practice, you get a good sweat. Baseball practice, you’re in the cage. Football practice, you tackle and get hurt and the weather’s often awful. So, in the NFL, just even when you don’t get sacked, but you get hit and you get hit like Justin Herbert 14 times and pressured 55 times. I’m watching Herbert yesterday and I’m like, I hope people realize what it is like to play in a game, forget just the sacks, where you’re getting hammered 14 or 15 time. I think if if Harbaugh could go to a lab and build a quarterback, it would be Justin Herbert. I mean, I when I watched them yesterday, I’m like, do people understand how often he’s getting hit? Yeah. And I think he would build Andrew Luck. And I think Justin Herbert has all those qualities that Andrew Luck had. You know, you I think when I think of Harbaugh, I think of what he did at Stanford. And it wasn’t a pass first offense there either. You know, it was a it was a hard-nosed physical inside the tackles running team. And that’s I think the identity that he came in with last year and everyone said, “Oh, you’re not using Justin Herbert enough. He’s not throwing the ball enough.” And he and Arba basically said, “Listen, I’m going to get the best of Justin Herbert by having this philosophy.” And now you’re seeing it this year. You’re seeing Justin Herbert put the team on his back, playing like an MVP, making all world throws in the pocket, feeling healthy enough to do it. I mean, listen, I’m old enough to remember when this dude was playing with like broken fingers and all the broken ribs and all these types of things, down two scores in the fourth quarter, still in the game. That’s not a recipe for a long career. It’s not a recipe for playing great in the playoffs. I think Harbaugh has the vision for what Herbert can be. And everyone’s buying in. Everyone’s buying in. I think the opponent is starting to buy in a little bit, too. Like, oh shoot, man. This guy is one of the elite quarterbacks. uh you know, even when we call the perfect play defensively, he goes above the X’s and O’s and makes stuff happen. And and I think that you know, protecting him a little bit is a way to unleash him and I think Harbaugh’s done a great job of it. Um you know, I don’t know what happened at halftime because you guys only have 15 minutes and a couple of those minutes are burned off. I think it’s 13. Yeah, it’s 13 minutes depending on the stadium. Okay. So, so Philadelphia trails 26-7. They have minus one yards passing. They go in for their 13 quick minutes as they’re drinking Gatorade and having orange slices. They come out and the offense is totally reborn. What did Philadelphia, in your opinion, do at halftime to literally rework the entire game plan? Yeah, one of the biggest things you do at halftime is you use the bathroom. Sometimes you got to hold it and like get tough. You feel a lot better in the second half. That’s a fun fact in case in case you wanted to know. But I think the other thing that can happen is you get a consensus. You have a short meeting. It’s very quick and sometimes it can be you got that big like, you know, Waffle House call sheet looking like thing and you say, “Hey, we got to get AJ the ball.” They’re leaving AJ one-on-one backside of three by one formations, meaning three eligible receivers on one side, our ex receiver, our AJ Brown is by himself backside. We got to give him opportunities. That’s what I saw. I saw a team that came in at halftime and said, “Hey, AJ needs to be a part of this.” And, you know, we’ve seen kind of DVO receivers like flip out on the sidelines and that kind of thing over the years. I don’t think that’s what we’ve seen out of AJ this year. He’s had a he’s kind of had a good been in a good mental state. He’s been doing a great job blocking and I think that’s the better way to handle it as a talented receiver coming in at halftime be like, “Hey, I got my guy. These guys cannot hold me one-on-one.” And I that’s what I saw. And at that when you when AJ Brown is cooking, when AJ Brown’s getting opportunities, the Philly offense unlocks and you know the poise and the demeanor of Jaylen Herz is awesome, but AJ Brown to me is the is the difference maker in a big way for that for that scheme. So, I picked the Seahawks to be one of my surprise teams. I like I love the NFL draft. I thought they had their third straight excellent draft, but I also love how they’re using Sam Darnold. Um, you know, everybody’s like, “Is JSN a number one?” I’m like, “Yeah, it looks like to me.” And they got this kid, this fifth round kid out of Colorado State, he looks like he’s a big- time player. But I don’t know. I just I watched the speed. I watched the velocity. I mean, that first half yesterday against the Saints, Matt, it looked like a pro team and a really good college team. Like, it was You don’t see that in the NFL very much where Seattle had the ball seven minutes and led 38-6. I think the Seattle thing, I mean, they blew the Steelers out in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh’s now got a winning record. What do you make of how they’re using Darnold? Well, I think it was a swing and a miss week one. You know, week one they played the Niners and they got away from what they wanted to be. They became this like drop back shotgun team without a fullback. And I think Mike McDonald did a good job of kind of um correcting the market a little bit going into week two. Like, no, no, no, no. That’s not the vision. Here’s the vision. I want to be a downhill playaction team. I want to be under center more. I want to move the pocket. I want to have a fullback in the game. That’s what I want to be. And here’s how it fits with our offense and our special teams and our defense. And I think message was heard loud and clear. This is one of the best offenses the last two weeks. Yesterday was like you said, it was uh it was big brother little brother scoring on special teams. But you know, really when you look at the pass protection around Sam Darnold, I think that’s the key for him. And JSN is one of the game’s best receivers that people don’t talk about, don’t know about. He kind of had a little bit of a flu game yesterday where he came out and, you know, looked like Michael Jordan at times, but when offensive linemen get to fire out and play run action, uh, at least half the time, it helps everything. And I think that’s the thing that some people do well, some people talk about it, but don’t do it as well. Seattle, I would say week two and week three, they’ve figured that out. And so, you know, if you can continue that, I think that Sam Darnold can have the kind of year that he had last year without Kevin O’Connell, without Justin Jefferson, he’s playing really, really good football right now. So, I I do think Worthy and Rasheed Rice would help. But I tend to believe offenses are about the play designer, the quarterback, and the offensive line. And an offensive line can take an average back and make him a B+ back. I look at Kansas City and I don’t care if the receivers come back. They can’t run the ball. The pass protection. I don’t think Mahomes always trusts it. I think we have to be honest about what Kansas City is right now. Offensively, I mean, they’re like 22nd in time of possession. I don’t think they’re going to be a very good offense. I think they’ll get slightly better, but I mean, with Mahomes and Reed, they they can’t pick up first downs. I I mean, I do you think the two new receivers or the two receivers coming back will make a huge difference? Yeah, I think it’d be a big difference. But, you know, Kansas City almost feels like this this team to me that they’re almost like just like bored right now. It’s almost like, yeah, we’re just going to kind of like like an NBA team that’s just like, “Yeah, we’ll wait till the playoffs to play our best football.” Um, you know, you know, like that’s almost the mindset. Not that they’re not trying. I know that they’re trying, but they just seem out of sync. I think they’re not like we talked about all those things earlier about playing on rhythm and spreading the ball around and like put helping out the guys around you in terms of offensive line. They’re just doing what they always did and they’re less talented than they used to be. You know, injuries are a thing, age is a thing. Uh, you know, maybe some some of uh maybe like people have like figured them out and studied them a little bit, so they maybe need to get a little refresher. And sometimes they can be their own worst enemy, like just getting too cute at times. Um, but no, I think this is a team that’ll be relevant at the end of the year. They just might not get to play it at Arrowhead, that’s all. You know, they might be a road team the entire playoffs. And again, I think they’re they’re just one of those teams that they would be fine with it. They’re resilient that way. And uh I also would not be surprised to see them being active at the trade deadline. Yeah. No, I think there’s a I think the Rams need a corner if they want to be, you know, I mean, I think there are some teams that just need things and you can’t solve them in in your own camp. Finally, I want there there’s a Yeah. There there’s a you know that I’m watching the Tyreek Hill situation very closely because if that team gets really bad, you know, would would that make sense? Would Tyreek Hill going back to Kansas City ever be a thing? I’m I’m curious about that. That would change what that offense would look like right away. Finally, I want to go back to Josh Allen. I said this uh last week that I always thought there were things you could change about a quarterback. You can’t change their size, but you can you can’t change certain traits. And I always said, man, you find these reckless quarterbacks, reckless early, reckless late. Like that’s DNA. That’s that’s some guys are just they just play with a chip. They play a little loose. Like Jay Cutler was like always to me like big-time talent. Just he was going to throw bad picks. Philip Rivers did that. And Josh Allen has literally eliminated like his flaw. And I don’t know who to give credit for, but the fact that in his last 12 games he’s got 30 touchdowns and one pick. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that. What do you make of it? He’s incredible. I mean, every single year at the end of the year, you could point to this is the thing that he’s improved on. I think that he deserves a lot of credit, but I think the coaches as well, like he was reckless with his body and reckless with the ball at the beginning of his career. Then he became just reckless with his body and less reckless with the ball. Now I don’t think he’s reckless at all hardly. And I think what they’ve done is they’ve said, “Okay, you want to be crazy, you know, uh, with your scrambles and all this kind of stuff. Let’s do some design quarterback runs. Let’s run, you know, like we’re faking it to the running back, but you’re actually reading it. And then let’s run counter pulling the guard, pulling the tackle, and it’s quarterback run game. It’s a lot of college run game, but it’s almost like they’re saying, “Hey, you get your six, seven, eight yards and get down.” uh or at least like as a quarterback, I know this from from personal experience, when you know the hit’s coming, it’s not nearly as bad. It’s it’s when you don’t know that it’s coming that that’s kind of where injuries can happen. So, I think there’s like a little bit more design and a little bit more structure to him as a as sort of like being reckless, quote unquote. Like it’s almost like the illusion of reckless, but it’s really within the play design. And I I just think he’s been he’s been awesome. Teammates love him. the stadium loves him. You know, all those things. I think the opponent fears him. I think it’s really cool to see um you know, he is definitely on the Mount Rushmore, on the podium, whatever you want to say with the top quarterbacks in the game right now. Good stuff as always. Matt Hasselbeck, my friend. Thanks on a Monday for stopping by. See you, Colin.

Colin Cowherd reacts to the NFL’s Week 3. He starts with what he got RIGHT and what he got WRONG this week including about the Green Bay Packers, Daniel Jones, Indianapolis Colts, Mac Jones, Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers, Carson Wentz, J.J. McCarthy, Minnesota Vikings, Jayden Maiava, USC football, Marvin Harrison Jr., and more takes. Next he is joined by Matt Hasselbeck to react to the Chicago Bears beating the Dallas Cowboys, the Los Angeles Chargers beating the Denver Broncos, the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Los Angeles Rams, the Seattle Seahawks beating the New Orleans Saints, and the Kansas City Chiefs beating the New York Giants. Are Caleb Wiliams and Ben Johnson finally finding success in Chicago? Are Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs coming back to form? Is Josh Allen the best QB in the league with the Buffalo Bills?

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