Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
After former Steeler Joery Porter calls out Ben Roethlisberger for being a bad teammate, Colin Cowherd explains why this reveals the reason the Steelers haven’t won a playoff game in 9 straight seasons.
Colin doubles down on his defense of Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza and why he’s clearly a franchise caliber QB in this year’s draft.
NFL Network Analyst Daniel Jeremiah joins the show to back up Colin on Mendoza and why Sam Darnold was always going to succeed in the NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Heard podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.8 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeart radio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. |
| 0:23.9 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:32.0 | Ah, here we go on a Thursday. A lot more stuff to talk about than I thought we'd have to talk about but all sorts of things |
| 0:40.5 | happening the combustibility rating the combustibility factor in pittsburg we got a controversy with |
| 0:47.9 | the steelers so nice to have you in today. |
| 1:07.8 | So I can argue over the last, you know, 15, 20 years, the greatest Pittsburgh Steeler is Big Ben, Rothelsberger, and James Harrison's on a short list of the second best player. |
| 1:09.5 | Great players. |
| 1:15.5 | Well, they have podcasts, and they've gone on those podcasts over the last year or two and been critical to Mike Tomlin and the Steelers. |
| 1:18.4 | And by the way, their message is pretty smart. |
| 1:24.6 | Their message, to me, was spot on. |
| 1:33.0 | But according to Joey Porter, Sr., whose son plays for the Steelers. |
| 1:34.4 | So, you know, he gets very emotional. |
| 1:43.7 | Joey Porter, Sr. says Big Ben, who he calls number seven. And James Harrison broke the brotherhood. |
| 1:46.7 | He used his brotherhood in the Arctic line reading like seven times. |
| 1:47.8 | So just remember that word. |
| 1:53.9 | Here is Joey Porter, Senior, mad at James Harrison and number seven Big Ben. |
| 1:58.2 | Seven definitely broke the brotherhood because like... That's the one I don't understand. |
| 1:59.1 | The seven do that did that we don't talk about |
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