Dallas Cowboys made SMART MOVE with Quinnen Williams trade from Jets | THE HERD NFL w/ Colin Cowherd

Dallas Cowboys made SMART MOVE with Quinnen Williams trade from Jets | 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. And I’ll say this, I’ve been very critical of the D Cowboys for a long time, but I am in total disagreement. I watched a little of shows yesterday. I’m in total disagreement with virtually every other media member on what the Cowboys did with Micah and these moves to get Quinnon Williams. So, one of the things I liked about the Micah move, it created liquidation and and flexibility and diversification. They were going to be too topheavy. And Jerry Jones is a dealmaker. And if they signed Luca between CD Lamb and Dak, they just have no flexibility, no diversification. They’d be topheavy. So, I think one of the things that’s being overlooked that the Cowboys did in this deal to get Quinnon Williams, they retained, they kept both number one picks in this coming draft in April. That’s a big deal. They gave up a first the draft after because this draft has two things that benefit the Cowboys. Tons of good edge rushers. Now, with Kenny Clark and Quinn and Williams, interior linemen that are way above average, one of them’s a star, they’ll go get an edge rusher to add to that. The second thing they have is a quarterback in a quarterback rich draft where eight teams are desperate for one. So, those picks they give up to the Jets, they can get those back with the flexibility and diversification of two first round picks and what you can do with it. And so the draft has an edge rusher replace Micah and quarterbacks don’t need move down that pick. So that’s what I love. The second thing is Dallas is saying and I totally agree with them by acquiring Quinnon Williams and Kenny Clark. What they’re telling you is they view interior defensive linemen as more valuable than edge rushers. And I’m here to tell you I totally agree. The New England Patriots this year spent money on interior defensive line. Number one rush defense in the NFL. You know who else has a really good interior defensive line, spends money on it? The Colts. Top five run defense. Here are the teams that have excellent interior defensive linemen. Tampa, Seattle, Denver Colts, Patriots, Rams, Eagles. That’s a different body type. Edge rushers are like wide receivers. You can find tall guys, great athletes, 6’4 and a half, 65 and a half that can catch the football or rush a passer. It is incredibly rare to find somebody who’s 6’2, 320 with good feet. That’s what Quinnon Williams has. Okay, so Kenny Clark and Quinnon Williams give you like I mean what’s the strength of Philadelphia this year? Why can’t the Rams beat Philadelphia? Because they can’t block Davis and the kid out of Georgia. They can’t block those two interior uh uh Carter. They can’t block them. That’s why they lost this year against Philly. That’s why they lost in the playoffs last year. They’re struggling to block those guys. So Dallas has said, “We love Micah, but we’ll take flexibility and interior Dline over an expensive edge rusher.” Julian Edelman was on my show on Tuesday and he talked about this during the Patriots dynasty. Brady gets credit, Grank gets credit, Bellich gets credit. He said it’s the interior Dline. We wouldn’t have been the New England Patriots if it wasn’t for Seymour or Willfork. like we had and there and there’s a bunch of other guys branch and and there’s a bunch of guys but the interior part if you got a guy that can take away two gaps that’s tough on the run game and once you start to make a team on one dimensional and they can’t run the football then you can dial up better you know coverage for your secondary and you can get more creative yeah and I everybody’s like oh Dallas is making bad moves what they did is they said we don’t want to be topheavy with salaries We want more flexibility. Go ask any great business person what they want. It’s not just assets. It’s the ability to acquire them or move off them. They want flexibility. Dallas couldn’t afford a running back. Derrick Henry for $8 million two years ago. Jerry’s a entrepreneur. Jerry’s a businessman. His hands were tied. He didn’t he he wanted flexibility, the ability to diversify. And then they move their importance on defense from the edge inside. Every executive I talk to, they always talk about rare skills, rare body types. Seattle, the GM, John Snider, just went and got a deep threat receiver for Sam Darnold’s. Why? How many people on the planet run a 42840, a 43240? Not many. So Quinnon Williams is a unique body type. Chris Jones. I’m not saying Miles Garrett isn’t a great edge rusher, but you can move Chris Jones all over the defensive line, and I’m not saying Max Crosby’s not amazing. But when you can get that great left tackle, that that receiver that runs a 429, that interior defensive lineman with good feet, it’s just more valuable than an edge rusher. So, I like what Dallas has done. The one thing where proathletes their lives are like our lives is that workplace matters. And for Sas, there’s this general consensus that the Colts and the Cowboys, they just paid too much. They gave up too much to get Sgardner and Quinn Williams. And when I see Sgardner and Quinn Williams, I see excellent players who are in a bad work environment. And now these employees are going to go to very, you know, better situations. I mean, the Colts were missing a corner. They’re that’s going to be a division winning team. Really talented guy in a bad workplace in New York to a better workplace in Indianapolis. And Quinnon Williams from a bad workplace to a place he plays next to Kenny Clark. So, I I look at it and that’s the one thing pro aletes and our lives are very similar. You can only do so much with a bad boss. Anybody that’s ever had a bad boss or currently has one should sympathize with Quinnon Williams and Sauce Gardner. Nothing works in New York. It’s just a bad place to work. It, you know, I I I I was looking this morning. Quinnon Williams 6 and a half years with the Jets. He got drafted by one GM. He got paid by another and he got traded by another. Is that the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard? Well, the Jets got a bunch of draft picks. So what? That’s like giving your loser brother money. He doesn’t have any financial ability. What What’s I mean, seriously, giving the Jets draft picks is giving somebody with no financial literacy a bunch of money. So what? They don’t know what to do with it. I mean, we all got that person in the family that, you know, you don’t want to be executive of the will, right? They’re fun. They’re party time. You know, their name’s Doug. You know, they’re always got the funny sweater on Christmas. You don’t want to give them any money. You don’t want to lend them any cash. So, I don’t care about draft picks. Who’s the Jets coach, the GM, the quarterback? Who knows? Um, I Here’s Quinnon Williams on becoming a Dallas Cowboy. I can’t wait to get to work. Uh because I feel like action should speak louder than words and the this organization taking a chance on me and trading for me. Um give me give me the honor to come in and help this team win football games and um do the do the best I can do to to do my job. I mean I don’t mean to sound harsh, but you can give people with no financial literacy a bunch of money that don’t know what to do with it. You can give the Jets draft picks. They don’t I I was looking at all the teams that have had multiple first round draft picks the last several years. There’s a lot of Raiders on that list. There’s a lot of Carolina on that list. Cleveland, Jets, uh the Rams have two first round picks next year. My my guess is they know what they’re doing. They’ll move down. You know, they’ll end up getting a third and a fifth along with their two ones. You know, it sounds harsh, but it’s the truth. during the trade deadline. Um, you know, the Jets was a flea market. They were selling everything. Uh, Dallas comes in, the Colts come in. Buffalo didn’t do anything. And, uh, their GM, uh, Brandon Bean said, you know, I I went home as mad as everybody else. Pump the brakes on criticizing Buffalo. If you look at the AFC playoff standings, just just take a look at the teams they could possibly play. They could play the Indianapolis Colts, whose quarterback nobody really believes in. The number two seed is New England, where Drake May has not played two complete seasons. The number three seed is Denver, who appears to only play one way, dominating the fourth quarter. Number four is Aaron Rodgers, a 41-year-old quarterback. Number six is Justin Herbert, missing both offensive tackles the rest of the way. Number seven’s the Jags. Nobody trusts. So there’s a real there’s a real First of all, the AFC Championship over the last six, seven years has been played at Arrowhead. That’s not happening. So th this is easily at this point in a season the most favorable route for Josh Allen. I think their bigger issue is that Keon Coleman, the wide receiver, shocker, another wide receiver, is really immature. He’s shown up late. He’s not been dependable. So, you know, it’s year two for him. You hope he matures, but you know, their tight end group is excellent. Best running back Josh has had. O line’s better than average. Josh is in his prime. Uh I I don’t think it’s the end of the world that they didn’t make a big move. Just go look at the AFC right now. It’s average quarterbacks. It’s quarterbacks you don’t trust. It’s a lot of guys. So I, you know, a lot of times the barrier to a championship isn’t you, it’s your rival. I mean, Phil Mickelson wasn’t Phil Mickelson’s worst enemy. He had to go through Tiger in his prime, right? That that was always Utah Jazz were good enough to be a championship team. It was Jordan and Pippen. So, I look at Buffalo. Buffalo has lost close games to the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead in the postseason. They may lose again. It’s not going to be at Arrowhead. I I mean, there’s no Burrow this year. Lamar right now is not a playoff quarterback. So, if you were a Bills fan and everybody’s freaking out that didn’t make a trade at the trade deadline, well, don’t don’t throw around bad money. It’s It’s right now if you looked at who’s in the playoffs, I would take the Bills to win. And I didn’t say that last year. Well, maybe I said it last year. I didn’t say it the year before. Look at who they’re playing. You trust the Colts, the Young Patriots, Bo Knicks in Denver, old Aaron, Herbert with no tackles. Who trusts the Jaguars ever? So, I think they’re fine. Uh, all right. Let’s get started with the Philadelphia Eagles. Colin, come on. and they are coming off a buy and have a huge game against the Packers Monday night. Uh Packers not in the herd hierarchy yet favored over the number one Eagles. Everybody likes Green Bay in this spot, right? Everybody does, including me. Um let’s talk about Jaylen Herz, though. He was interestingly tied for first in the NFL with six completions of 40 yards and second of Mahomes with 11 completions of 30 plus air yards. Here’s OC Kevin Patulo talking about Herz’s beautiful deep ball accuracy. He’s unbelievable at it. Like he does a tremendous job of un understanding where to place the ball, seeing the coverage, knowing how to put it in a spot to where it’s, you know, our guy or nobody. Um and and he really works at it. You know, if you watch I know you guys aren’t out there the whole time, but you watch practice. I mean, he works at it in between periods, during the period, like constantly he’s talking to the guys. Here’s where it’s going to be. Here’s what I’m going to do. So, I think it’s those little extra things. Yeah, Packers and Eagles is really interesting. Top top three game of the weekend. Niners Rams is phenomenal. But, uh, to Jaylen Herz deep ball accuracy. So, you know, because he wasn’t a first round pick cuz he’s not 6’5 and strapping um cuz he had to transfer in college. He doesn’t get the respect I think that he deserves and all he does every year is check off another box of hey, you say I can’t do this. Okay, here we go. Colin, he’s one of the best deep ball throwers in the league this season, period. I know he may not throw the best ball, but the numbers say, man, he’s hella he adds things. Um, there are things throwing over the middle he’s not great at, but he adds there are certain virtues he has with his strength, his mobility, his toughness, his maturity. I’ve said this before, Philadelphia is a loud sports city and there is value in having an adult be your quarterback, right? You’ve got to be able to deal with talk radio and the anger and they got their security guy and serrianis. I I’ve said this about he reminds me of Philadelphia’s version of Dak is that you have to deal with Jerry and an aggressive Dallas media and you’re the centerpiece of the league. The things that Jaylen doesn’t do have not hurt him much so far in his career. He he I don’t think he throws the ball over the middle like Matt Stafford does or Momes does, but his strength, his kind of dexterity as an athlete and his maturity are the intangibles that I think make him sort of Dak. I mean, if if I say if you’re building like a perfect quarterback and you’re taking parts from all these quarterbacks, I don’t see why just Jaylen Herz wouldn’t be like almost ideally the perfect quarterback. He’s got the strong legs, but but think he has thrown for under 200 yards four times this year. They’ve won all four games. So, it’s not a criticism to say he is not Josh Allen. He doesn’t have that size or skill set. What he does though, he is a great fit on a physical power running team. When he throws under 200, if I told you, yeah, Mahomes throws for under 200, you’re like, oh, Kansas City’s in trouble. If I told you Philadelphia hurts, you’d be like, “Perfect. That’s how they should play.” So, that’s telling you what the talent disparity. He does have one thing over Josh Allen. He has a victory over the Chiefs in the postseason. Allen has not been able to pull that off. Obviously, the Super Bowl win. All right, let’s move on. Detroit Lions, Colin, I’m still smarting from that loss to the Vikings. One of the bigger surprises in recent weeks. U they play a beat up Commanders team, but I don’t know if you’ve seen the injury report. Lions themselves walking wounded. Here’s Jared Goff saying Detroit will have a little extra motivation after last season’s divisional round loss to Washington. That’s definitely part of it. Absolutely. I think, you know, more than that, we want to, you know, get off of a losing streak here and get a W. And um certainly you’re you’re thinking about that, but um I think you know it’s how many games ago? Nine games ago now. So you we’re trying to get a win this year and um maybe use that as a little added motivation if we need it. So, three starters uh on the offensive line did not practice yesterday. Um their tackles are both banged up. Well, that was Wednesday. It’s Wednesday. It’s early. We’ll see what happens. Uh but the line has come down. This was eight and a half uh in South 7 and a half. Colin. Uh I know Washington stinks. Dan Campbell 12-0 against the spread after a loss. I I cannot take Washington here, can you? No. I The Lions are one of my favorite plays. I hope the line keeps coming down. So, I also think the Lions lost a home game where they rarely lose. So, you’re going to get a great week of practice. Meanwhile, Washington, all the trade deadline rumors. I think it’s a Is there a whiff of quit here? I don’t know if it’s quit, but not all locker rooms are the same by November. Like, there’s a lot. I mean, like right now, the Jets, you know, that that it’s hard to motivate a team when the ownership and the front office doesn’t appear to care about this season. So, I think you know the Jaden Daniels thing, Marcus Mariota can have stretches, but it feels like Detroit’s the play here. Yeah, I I I’m kind of with you outdoors. I need to check the weather, make sure it’s not sloppy. But then again, Washington can’t stop the run anyway. Uh they’re just not good. Final story, let’s go to your Chicago Bears coming off that win over the Bengals and now hosting the Giants Sunday. Creeping up a little bit. Uh Caleb Williams had a solid game against the Bengals. I mean, hell, everyone does. Uh Caleb threw for 280 and three touchdowns. Here’s Ben Johnson gassing up his quarterback. Some weeks are better than others, which which we knew, but um he’s a lot better place now with his process than he was to start the season. Um you know, that whole the week isn’t necessarily smooth sailing all always all ways, but uh I think that’s to be expected with year one in in a new system. So he’s learning and he’s spent a lot of time at it. So, I’m very pleased with his approach and um I I think we’ve got the right group of guys around him to help support him and so I I think we’re going to continue to see him take off here second half of the season. What I am hearing off the air when I text people around the league, everybody loves Ben Johnson. Yeah. Everybody thinks the Bears got the next great young coach. There’s still a lot of doubt despite leading the NFL in big plays offensively. There are still a lot of doubts with Caleb. people, old school NFL guys, older executives just don’t think it looks as tight as it should look. And and my take I I talked about Cam Newton. I think he’s a there’s a lot of Cam Newton. Cam Newton’s mechanics would drive you crazy. Cam playing in structure would drive you crazy. Cam’s inconsistency. He never had back-to-back winning seasons, but you couldn’t deny Cam’s talent. You can’t deny Caleb’s talent. And I actually think that win Sunday, that throw, you know, he had a couple of plays that I just don’t think I think 90% of the league doesn’t make. So, I don’t know. I I it’s not going to look like a lot of other guys look, but I also think there’s a confidence with his teammates. I I really like Chicago’s coaching, their personnel, and I think, not that Caleb’s along for a ride, but he’s not going to play like a lot of guys playing. You just have to come to terms with it. It is only eight games with Ben Johnson. Um I’m I was just looking up. So Cam Newton had basically the same head coach, Ron Rivera, for like almost his entire tenure in Carolina. Yeah. Caleb, year two, new coach, new system, new everything. I mean, so I I’m giving him some time. I I’m with you. I don’t think he’s looked amazing, but who cares? They’re winning. And it has a lot to do with the run game, you know? Uh I gotta say his name eventually. Kyle Manangi. Um he’s a little banged up. DeAndre Swift banged up. DJ Moore mispractice. Adun mispractice. So, I’m a little concerned. Again, it’s only today, Thursday. But I I think I like the Bears here. Agree.

Colin Cowherd reacts to the latest in the NFL. First he discusses the Dallas Cowboys’ trade deadline deal for Quinnen Williams and explains why he likes the move for Dallas. Then he explains why he expects Sauce Gardner and Williams to succeed after being traded away from the New York Jets. Next, Colin talks about why he still likes Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills’ chances in the AFC, despite their lack of moves at the trade deadline. Finally, Colin and Jason McIntyre react to the latest news in the NFL.

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