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Colin Cowherd shares concerning report on Mac Jones’ attitude

This Colin Cowherd report isn’t a good look for Mac Jones.

A recent report by Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer suggested that Mac Jones “infuriated” people within the New England Patriots’ organization. Now, FOX Sports’ Colin Cowherd is speaking out about hearing similar rumblings about the third-year quarterback.

“Let me give you some inside sourcing,” Cowherd said on FS1’s “The Herd” on Thursday, via NESN’s Adam London. “There has been frustration for over a year that he doesn’t take to coaching and especially doesn’t take to hard coaching. [Tom] Brady took to hard coaching. Cam Newton, when he came in the building, was willing to be hard-coached. I have been told [for] over a year now [Jones] has lost some players in the room, the coaching staff. He’s bratty, he does not take too hard coaching.

“Well, that’s what [Bill] Belichick does. That’s generally what stars do. They like to be hard-coached. And that’s a real problem. So, when Albert Breer says that about coaching, that’s what I have heard. I’ve heard it over and over. Now, [Breer] is saying that. There’s real frustration in the building. They can’t get after him.”

This has been another frustrating year for Jones, who currently has 1,861 passing yards, 10 touchdowns and eight interceptions on the season.

The struggles date back to last season, when reports emerged that he sought outside help to fix the Patriots offense. Things don’t seem to be getting better for Jones, as New England currently sits at the bottom of the AFC with a 2-7 record.

These reports obviously don’t paint Jones in a positive light. However, the entire organization is unstable at the moment. There is a report that Bill Belichick might get fired if the Patriots lose to the Colts on Sunday. Couple that report with J.C. Jackson being sent home, and it’s clear that it’s been a busy week in the headlines for the organization.

There is still a fair amount of the season left to be played, but will Jones even make it that far as the starter? More importantly, one has to wonder if he will even be back at all in New England in 2024.

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Colin Cowherd admits he was wrong about Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson

Colin Cowherd admits he was wrong about Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson

One of the more polarizing figures in sports media is the Pacific Northwest’s own Colin Cowherd. Born and raised in rural coastal Washington, and later becoming an Eastern Eagle, Cowherd has had a rather rocky relationship with the Seattle Seahawks.

One would think he’d be a homer, and at times he has been more than complimentary of the Seahawks. But in recent years, Cowherd became rather critical of head coach Pete Carroll and a vocal supporter of quarterback Russell Wilson. To Cowherd, Carroll was the issue in Seattle in the “Let Russ Cook” debate.

But after a year and a half of seeing how Carroll’s Seahawks and Wilson’s Broncos have fared apart from each other, Cowherd has made a course correction. Earlier this week, the FS1 host went on the Brock and Salk show to make his “apology”:

“I thought it was too hard on him,” Cowherd said of his previous comments about Carroll when asked Tuesday by Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk about his apology. “… With Pete, what I said was I thought he was stunting Russell’s growth. And in the end, he saw what we didn’t.”

Cowherd admitted this at the beginning of the month on his show The Herd.

To Cowherd’s credit, no one in sports media is better at admitting when they’re wrong than him. He openly makes it a Monday segment “Where Colin Was Right/Wrong” and it buys him credibility.

The 12th Man is certainly happy to hear Cowherd continue to admit he was wrong about their team and coach.

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Colin Cowherd changes his tune on Brent Venables, Oklahoma Sooners

During a segment on his FS1 show, Colin Cowherd discussed why he was wrong about the Oklahoma Sooners.

The coaching change heard around the world at the end of the 2021 season is beginning to bear fruit. While 2022 didn’t go well for the Oklahoma Sooners, it was only the beginning. The recruiting classes, the meetings and the offseason strength and conditioning work laid the foundation for what Oklahoma football would look like under Brent Venables.

FS1’s Colin Cowherd has been one of the most ardent supporters of USC’s hire of Lincoln Riley and what it would mean for the Oklahoma Sooners. Essentially, Cowherd believed the Sooners would descend into mediocrity like Nebraska did.

This is from June:

Well, on his daily show for FS1, Cowherd admits Venables and the Sooners have changed his tune.

Forget about USC, Oklahoma is rated sixth in the latest AP poll. Brett Venables, not Lincoln Riley has developed a culture in a year and a half based on substance, defense. They’ve improved. Last year, I said, ‘I don’t know.’ I’ve never seen an Oklahoma team that look that disorganized. Now. They haven’t played a great schedule but they did beat Texas and they looked like the better coach team, than Texas. Lots of substance. Not a ton of flash. Right now, Brent Venables is right. – Cowherd, FS1

It’s only been a year and a half since the coaching change, but it looks as if the two programs are in vastly different situations. Granted the schedule isn’t the same, but in their toughest matchups of the season, the Sooners were prepared both mentally and physically for the challenge of a top-five Texas team. The USC Trojans were not, getting taken to the woodshed, 48-20, by Notre Dame.

The Oklahoma Sooners are still working to become the program Venables envisions, but they’ve made great strides in his first 22 months. It’s not every day you see a sports media personality admit he was wrong about something.

That’s further evidence the Sooners are building something pretty special in Norman.

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Colin Cowherd: Bills’ Josh Allen, Stefon Diggs are NFL’s sixth-best duo

Colin Cowherd: #Bills’ Josh Allen, Stefon Diggs are NFL’s sixth-best duo:

The Buffalo Bills’ hoped that they would strengthen their offense to championship winning levels when they paired Josh Allen with Stefon Diggs in 2020. Over the last three years, the duo has had a lot of success on the field with 30 touchdowns in regular and postseason play.

Media personality Colin Cowherd ranked the duo as his sixth-best in the NFL in his top 10 QB-WR duos in the NFL today:

While some of the duos have not played a snap of regular season football with offseason moves such as Aaron Rodgers to the Jets and Derek Carr to the Saints, the podcast host ranked those QBs and their corresponding Jets’ and Saints’ QB-WR duos above the Bills electric passing and catching duo.

And yes, the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce is officially listed as a tight end.

Nevertheless, the Bills’ deadly duo received high praise from the media personality and should combine for more touchdowns this year.

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Colin Cowherd predicts Seahawks to win NFC West

Cowherd’s tune on Seattle appears to be changing

Despite being raised in rural coastal Washington, and routinely referencing his affinity for Seattle sports, FOX Sports host Colin Cowherd has often been critical of the Seahawks in recent years. Cowherd had been especially critical of head coach Pete Carroll and the perceived handling of quarterback Russell Wilson. Since then, Cowherd has been rather neutral, if not perhaps a bit dismissive of Seattle’s chances.

However, his tune appears to be changing. On Thursday, Cowherd discussed who he felt the eight division winners were going to be. He changed his qualifiers to which team had the most productive quarterback last year AND will be bringing their head coach back. When looking at these particular metrics, there is an obvious answer in the NFC West.

Perhaps Cowherd’s logic and optimism could rub off on his co-host Jason McIntyre, who appears to still be bearish on the Seahawks – despite not learning his lesson about doubting Seattle.

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Colin Cowherd rains on Patriots parade with tough Ezekiel Elliott take

Are the Patriots being too cheap? Colin Cowherd thinks so.

Reactions are pouring in with the New England Patriots signing running back Ezekiel Elliott on Monday. Many of the reactions so far have been positive, including one from Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum.

Others that have weighed in, however, have not been as impressed.

That includes FS1’s Colin Cowherd. When giving his thoughts on the recent signing, he accused Bill Belichick and New England of being cheap.

It’s worth noting that Cowherd has been critical of the Patriots over the past couple weeks. At the same time, it can’t be ignored that the Patriots are generally stingy when it comes to spending on the offensive side of the football. The talk show host elaborated on his point Tuesday.

“The Patriots could have had Davin Cook,” said Cowherd. “Instead, it was about value. It’s always about value for Belichick. Nice stuff costs money. …Zeke is cheaper for a reason. The Patriots are 29th in the NFL in offensive spending. Zeke Elliott, JuJu Smith-Schuster, Devante Parker, you get what you pay for.”

While this may be a fair stance, it seems like a rather opportunistic take for Cowherd. Time will tell as to how Elliott will perform on the field for the Patriots.

If there is one certainty, it’s that the combination of Elliott and Cook will make for some fun storylines within the AFC East division.

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Colin Cowherd picks a Big Ten and an SEC team to play for the national championship

Colin Cowherd picks a Big Ten team and one from the SEC to make the College Football Playoff championship game.

Colin Cowherd has order being restored in the college football this year, the Fox Sports host picking a Big Ten team to face an SEC team in the national championship.

In a recent appearance on Greg McElroy’s ‘Always College Football,‘ Cowherd picked Michigan to return to the College Football Playoff. That is a realistic and likely projection from Cowherd and one that certainly follows conventional wisdom.

But then Cowherd goes outside the box with his thinking, telling McElroy that he has LSU not just making the playoff but also making the championship game.

Last year in its first season under Brian Kelly, LSU went 10-4 and finished No. 17 in the final College Football Playoff rankings.

“I think Brian Kelly, first year kind of got the offense figured out. Now he is going to get the defense figured out. So I have Michigan facing LSU in the championship,” Cowherd said.

“I don’t think LSU is the best SEC team, I don’t think they’re the deepest. But I love the coach, I love the quarterback. I looked at the schedule and I’m like it’s going to be a lot of people knocking each other off. I like LSU a lot.”

Michigan won the Big Ten Championship Game before falling 51-45 to Texas Christian in the playoff. The Wolverines finished the season 13-1.

 

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Colin Cowherd picks LSU to play for a national championship in 2023

Colin Cowherd picked LSU to face Michigan in the national championship this season.

LSU enters the 2023 season with more expectations than they had last fall.

After overachieving in Year 1 and winning the SEC West, many think this team can vie for a College Football Playoff spot. However, Colin Cowherd, host of The Herd, went even further.

Cowherd thinks that LSU will go all the way to the national championship game in 2023, where he has the Tigers facing off against Michigan.

“I have Michigan facing LSU in the championship,” Cowherd told Greg McElroy in an appearance on Always College Football, per On3. “I don’t think LSU is the best SEC team, I don’t think they’re the deepest. But I love the coach, I love the quarterback, and I looked at their schedule and I think LSU? It’s going to be a lot of people knocking each other off. I like LSU a lot.

“I think it would be a real story because [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] was at Notre Dame and Notre Dame has resonance (in Los Angeles). And I think if they beat a Michigan and it was a competitive game? It’d be a win for college football. The SEC winning is not bad. The SEC beating Michigan State in the playoff by 40 is bad. So if it’s LSU 35-33? I’ve got no problem with that.”

Even with the raised expectations, this would be exceeding them for LSU. Still, the ultimate goal for Kelly’s program is to win a national title, as each of his three predecessors did.

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Colin Cowherd believes C.J. Stroud has most likely chance to fail of the three first round QB draft picks

Interesting take here by Colin Cowherd to say the least. #GoBucks

Colin Cowherd believes CJ Stroud, the former Ohio State and current Houston Texans quarterback, is the most likely to fail among the three first-round NFL draft picks under center.

And there is more to it than the Buckeyes’ inability to produce quarterbacks at the game’s highest level.

It’s a tired narrative: Ohio State doesn’t produce NFL quarterbacks. There’s some truth to it, of course. But there aren’t too many programs that have more than one or two great signal callers that start for a long period of time on Sundays.

Cowherd has some pretty stale takes on why OSU hasn’t produced a star quarterback in the league (though Justin Fields may be loading), and he believes Stroud will not be able to overcome all of the built-in disadvantages of playing in Houston.

It has a little to do with the situation and a little to do with quarterbacks not being prepared for the next level at Ohio State because of too much talent surrounding them says Cowherd. Weird, seeing how that’s the case for any big-time program that has had a talented starter at the NFL level.

Bottom line: Cowherd doesn’t think Stroud’s talent can overcome everything working against him within the Texans franchise.

“CJ Stroud is just not talented enough to overcome the Houston Texans’ nonsense,” said Cowherd. “But if you told me today, on August 8, Tuesday — Tuesday, August 8, that I had to pick one (rookie first-round QB) that would miss, I would probably pick CJ Stroud from all the things I’ve heard in camp.”

You can listen to the segment below and pick it apart for yourself.

Of course, everyone is entitled to their opinion and nobody likes to give it more than Cowherd. He might be right; who knows? But I’ll tell you this: From what we know of Stroud, I wouldn’t bet on him not being a flop of an NFL quarterback.

Yes, there are things beyond his control that have everything to do with the situation he is put in, but he’s been proving people wrong all of his life, and I like his chances in the National Football League as well.

Show ’em CJ

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Colin Cowherd insensitively named the late Dwayne Haskins a QB who can’t win Super Bowl in 2023

This was so classless and offensive.

Just as Colin Cowherd whiffed on the fact that MLB teams can’t trade draft picks, the host completely struck out — and this time, it was worse.

During a recent episode of Cowherd’s radio show on FOX Sports 1, the host rattled off a segment about current NFL quarterbacks who can’t win Super Bowl 58 this February. At face value, it’s pretty standard fare for August, trying to fill the gaps between the dog days of summer and the NFL season.

There was just one major problem: Cowherd listed the late Dwayne Haskins, who died in April 2022 after a car tragically hit him. Even worse, at no point did Cowherd correct this error. He did, however, correct the list’s “can win a Super Bowl” typo. Because that’s apparently what was most important.

Otherwise, it was business as usual.

The Haskins error is by far the most egregious, but it’s not the only one on the list. For example, why does it feature guys like Blake Bortles, Johnny Manziel, E.J. Manuel, Paxton Lynch, and Josh Rosen? None of those quarterbacks are still in the NFL. Some of them haven’t taken a snap in years. By the very definition, they can’t win the Super Bowl, and they’re not even worth discussing in this context in 2023.

It’s almost as if both the graphic and Cowherd’s entire segment were recycled, save for some new additions because he had nothing else interesting to talk about this time of year.

And that might be the most charitable interpretation.