Nick Wright tells Colin Cowherd what Caleb Williams NEEDS to change for Chicago Bears | THE HERD NFL

Nick Wright tells Colin Cowherd what Caleb Williams NEEDS to change for Chicago Bears | THE HERD NFL

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. And with that, Nick Wright joins me First Things First Live as he always does on Tuesday. All right. Um, yeah. What do you mean? Yeah, that’s a pretty solid top 10. Well, listen. I I understand that the one and two Ravens who have made zero of the last six Super Bowls and one of the last seven AFC Championship games deserve a benefit of the doubt over the one and two Chiefs who have made five of the last six Super Bowls and seven of the last seven AFC Championship games uh because of their champion. Because listen, if we know anything about Baltimore, it’s that they play their best in the biggest spots in January and situationally they’re just buttoned up. They would never blow a big lead or seem a little tight in a big game. So that’s how you earn this benefit of the doubt to make the hierarchy at one and two. I would ask you this, however, just not about Baltimore or about Kansas City, just holistically. If you are a team with an all-time great quarterback, of which I think we can still agree Baltimore and Kansas City both are. Yeah. Would you rather your big concern be on the offensive side of the ball where that all-time great quarterback can help fix it or the defensive side of the ball where that all-time great quarterback is sitting on the sideline helpless? I would rather have the issues be on offense because I feel like my quarterback can figure it out. If you’re Baltimore, it is really concerning now that the defense for the first half of last year looked awful, then it tightened up. This year, the defense has looked really bad through two weeks. They got bullied last night. And Lamar can’t fix that for you. So, I think I think the AFC, you know, I’m not worried about them playoffs or anything like that, but I do think that they might have some systemic problems on defense and I obviously don’t trust them, you know, on offense come January, but that’s just because I’ve watched the playoffs for the last decade. So, I think the Ravens are a little overvalued. Okay. I will say in eight weeks, I think the Chiefs would beat the Ravens. I absolutely do. I think without Worthy and Rasheed Rice that I I think your point is uh founded in um absolute truth in eight weeks. I think there are things in the last 20 Super Bowl teams, one lousy defense, Atlanta, and they blew a fourth quarter lead. I’ve said this in baseball can’t win a World Series with a bad bullpen. You don’t even have to have a great staff. The Royals won a World Series without a great staff. You cannot Yep. You cannot have a bad bullpen. You cannot be bad defensively today. this weekend. I think the Ravens probably better in 8 weeks. Riceworthy. They won’t be to your point. Now, would you acknowledge though, you don’t show fear, but you have to be honest, Harbaugh Herbert? Okay. Can you can you acknowledge that the Chargers have seized control of the AFC West for the foreseeable future? For the foreseeable future. By foreseeable future, you mean like the next six or seven weeks? Sure. by the end of the year. Let’s see. Now, there’s a lot to unpack here. One is I apologize. I was getting dressed. Um, so I didn’t see the entirety of your Justin Herbert interview. I’m sure it was great, but did you apologize to him for you losing all faith in this team’s ability to even make the playoffs due to the Rashawn Slater injury? Did that come up at all? that your love of Bo Knicks. By the way, Bo, did Bo Knicks get vetoed from conversation on? He seems like a big preeason topic, not so much regular season. However, we have something much more important to discuss that I am going to surprise you with because I feel you might for the first time in our wonderful relationship owe me an apology. All right? because you are getting a lot of seemingly deserved run, even a little heat for what appears to be a Colin Coward original scorching take about Jim Harbaugh and where he is in the coaching pantheon. Yeah. To which I would say, and this might be jarring to the audience because you’re about to see a shaved head 31year-old Nick Wright. Can we roll the tape of me from August of 2016 on your show filling in for you about Jim Harbaugh 9 years ago? Roll it, please. I think Jim Harbaugh is the best football coach in the world. I would rather have Jim Harbaugh than Bill Bich. I would rather have Jim Harbaugh than Nick Sabin. I would rather have Jim Harbaugh than Urban Meyer. I would rather have Jim Harbaugh than Mike Tomlin. I think he is the best football coach there is. I mean I mean I I mean you’re a decade late, buddy. Everybody’s like, “Oh, call him out on a limb.” I did that in your seat nine years ago. Now that was before Andy Reid became Andy Reid and kind of displaced him in my own brain. But still, we’re in lock step on Harbaugh where you’re not going to get any disagreement from me on that. I think he is has shown his ability to win in any place in any at any level through any style is unique and he is almost one of one in that regard. Yeah, I think you are a little too high on the Chargers as a whole simply because I I think it is very rare in the NFL for you to win all of the big games when you’ve never won any of the big games. So, this feels to me like a super great step in the right direction year, maybe divisional round playoff appearance for the first time in Herbert’s career year. But I’m not ready to say that I think they can go through the AFC, but they look awesome. Herbert’s playing great. The defense is awesome, and Harbaugh’s a legend. So, I I agree with you in that regard. I also think the Chiefs might be able to run him down when it’s all said and done. Yeah. My favorite part of that is you look so um respectful and dignified. Your hair was short, and now all of a sudden the guy gets some ratings, and he looks like uh this is it’s not the ratings. I I honestly I listen I’m not this is going to sound immodest and I don’t mean it to. I just um it it it’s more the money than the ratings. I’ve just I’m just I like it just I just didn’t I didn’t think I could pull off this look uh 10 years ago. Yeah. I I’m a different man. You by the way we don’t want to I don’t this is right when the herd launched on FS1. We don’t want to do a uh you know we both made some interesting hair choices in that era if we all remember. Go ahead. So I was saying this about Jaylen Herz. You and I have been on this for years that size matters for quarterbacks and everybody after Russell Wilson’s like Johnny Manzel and Bryce Young and Kyler and Tua and it’s like guys it matters. But I will say this. I said last week I’m a quarterback traits elitist. I like them tall. I like big arms. I like mobility. I’m an elitist. And I was always with Jaylen Herz, a little small. And I never knew what his great trait was. What’s his superstar trait? He is the strongest quarterback pound-for-pound in league history. He may be the strongest player. And as I watched him in the second half against the Rams, a defense that is giving everybody fits. He is really unique. He’s also, despite his size, a great sideline thrower. He throws the ball off the sideline about as well as Mahomes. I mean, he’s that good on the sidelines, but I was saying I look at Philadelphia and I’ve always been like, h the quarterback. I don’t know. I I think his strength is a superpower. So, I think his intangibles and leadership are probably a superpower. I think the strength obviously helps immensely. Um, not just in what was called the tush push, but now branded early bird because they fall start every time. That’s what their quarterback thinks called. Go ahead and call it early bird, Colin. Get on early on that. Um, neither here. The But no, here is what I find so interesting about Jaylen Herz. Cuz you’re right to the sidelines. He’s a great passer. Kind of the middle intermediate part of the field is maybe where the size hurts him a little bit. But he it seems though like the biggest Jaylen Herz fans believe in him more than his own coaching staff. They the only reason he got an opportunity to throw the ball Sunday was because they had no other choice. Even though he came through in the NFC title game, he came through in the Super Bowl. He had a year a few years ago where he was top three in MVP voting. They were refusing to open up the offense and last year Colin that made sense because they had the best defense in the league and Saquon was averaging 150 a game and you were blowing people out. This year Squan hasn’t yet popped. The defense hasn’t been great and they still don’t want to let Jayen throw. I find that really odd and I think it’s interesting that they don’t that again like Kevin Wilds who loves Jaylen Herz seems to think he’s better than Kevin Patulo the offensive coordinator for the Eagles. That part is weird. What I will say about Philadelphia is this and I’m sorry to invoke the Chiefs but I must. I find it very very interesting how the Eagles are, you know, they they win games blocking a kick, a guy drops a pass, a tipped pick, and it is a sign of a team that just knows how to win. They even maybe get a few beneficial calls, and it’s just, hey, be better. And the Chiefs last year were playing this exact same script, and everyone’s saying, oh, there this has got to be coming to a crashing halt. The Eagles, like the Chiefs last year, know how to win games. And while they might be winless in hypothetical scenarios, if CD caught it, if Travis caught it, if they don’t block the kick, they are undefeated in the actual standings. And I do think winning is a team skill. And the Eagles have found a way each and every week despite not playing their best football yet. And I think that’s really impressive. I want to I want to wrap on Caleb Williams. So, um there are certain things he doesn’t do with consistency. His personality isn’t terribly consistent. He can get very emotional. His accuracy isn’t always consistent. And I my feeling is on Caleb Williams, unlike Brady where you know exactly what you’re getting. Um and and kind of like Jaylen Herz, you kind of know what you get and know what you don’t get. Caleb is a bit of a roller coaster personality accuracy. So, as I watch him eat the Cowboys for lunch, my take is he’s going to come out this week and he’s going to struggle and you just have to come to terms with he has all this horsepower, but what Josh Allen has done to eliminate the reckless, I don’t think he can do. I think they’re different personalities. And as I watch Caleb, I’m like, we just have to get comfortable with the fact that he is going to drive Ben Johnson crazy about every other s. I watched Ben Johnson’s body language. Caleb drove him crazy six times. And maybe that’s just what he is. Well, I listen, it took Josh Allen six years to stop turning the to stop being a roller coaster. A guy who right now I think is in the midst of it is Jordan Love, who when he’s good, he’s great. and when he’s bad, he gives the game away to the Browns, you know. So, that can be a process. I I don’t necessarily agree with you, Colin, that I think this week Caleb’s going to have a down game. Where I do agree with you is he seems like because of the right now, I would say, this sounds too harsh, and I don’t mean it to, but emotional immaturity. Just the fact that he is he kind of lives and dies with each play. Yes. that I think that it is he is the type of player who when he is having a great game it’s going to lead to a greater game and if he misses a few throws it can snowball against him. So I think a lot of it has to do with how a game starts and then does he avoid a pitfall early and then it can be a game like we saw this weekend. So but I also think there is a huge opportunity for the Bears this weekend. They play the Raiders, then they have the buy. Yeah. If they can beat the Raiders and even themselves at two and two, then they have the buy. Then the next week, Colin, is the game against the team that ended their season last year effectively in the Commanders and Jaden Daniels. They’d be coming off a buy. They’d be two and two. So, I think this is a critical spot for Caleb and Ben to beat the Raiders. steady yourself, have two weeks to have that, you know, Caleb vers Jaden, uh, Bears versus Commanders game, and then see where he’s at. But I do think it’s going to be fits and starts. But you’ve seen already through 20 games of the kid’s career, the overall talent level is so high that even if he doesn’t fully tighten up everything else, his floor is going to be relatively high. And if he does tighten up the other stuff, he unequivocally can be the guy that I know coming out of college, you and I both thought he would be, which is one of the very best quarterbacks in the league. Nick, right, first things first. I loved your Harbaugh take. I forgot I was, you know, I was probably on vacay. I only get a couple of Well, definitely. I mean, I was sitting in your seat and back. Listen, in 2016, you might not have gotten 2025 cow herd vacation days, but you still had some. You still you still you still were able to take a few days. Hey, and by the way, it’s because of that that I’m here now. So, I owe it to you, my friend. But yeah, Harbaugh, I was way ahead of you on that. That’s fine. Don’t worry about it. You can I’ I’ve stolen from you plenty, so you can take this one for me. I’ll see you next week, buddy. First things first, my buddy Nick, right? Um.

Colin Cowherd is joined by Nick Wright to react to the NFL’s Week 3 and Colin’s Herd Hierarchy. They start with whether Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers have surpassed Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. Next they react to Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles coming back to beat the Los Angeles Rams. Finally they discuss whether Caleb Williams silenced the critics with the Chicago Bears’ win over the Dallas Cowboys.

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