Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of The Herd, Colin Cowherd breaks down why the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ fifth loss in six games reinforces his long-standing belief about offensive head coaches vs. defensive head coaches -- and how that philosophy directly impacts quarterbacks in today’s NFL.Colin drops his Blazing 5 NFL Picks for Week 15, featuring marquee matchups with massive playoff implications:
- Ravens at Bengals
- Lions at Rams
- Panthers at Saints
- Packers at Broncos
- Colts at Seahawks
Then, 3-time Pro Bowl QB Carson Palmer joins the show to deliver expert insight on:
- Caleb Williams’ Year 2 development and contention in the NFC.
- The Kansas City Chiefs on the verge of playoff elimination — what’s real, what’s fixable, and what it means for Patrick Mahomes’ dynasty window
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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. |
| 0:23.8 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:32.7 | All right, it is a Friday. |
| 0:35.3 | Let's wrap up the week with a strong one. |
| 0:38.5 | The Blazing Five off another winning week in one hour from now. |
| 0:44.5 | Like the numbers, J. Mack likes the dogs this week. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm going with some flavor favorite. |
| 0:51.7 | Great to be here. |
| 1:00.0 | So, I mean, I know the Bucks and the Falcons, not that fascinating. But there's a bigger picture here that I'm watching all over. I saw it at Michigan, |
| 1:05.0 | and I'm seeing it all over the NFL. So I love the fact, first of all, that Todd Bowles ripped the players after the game. |
| 1:12.4 | Sometimes it's the player's fault. You can't lose a game when the other team has 19 penalties |
| 1:16.8 | like Atlanta did, and you lost. Brutal. Now, I'm not sure Todd Bowles is a great head coach. |
| 1:23.9 | He's a great defensive coordinator. So got fired with the Jets. They've lost five of six. |
| 1:29.4 | Third straight season in Tampa where they start strong and they fade fast. I don't know if he's a |
| 1:34.4 | great coach. But the Baker mayfield component here is interesting. So Baker lost two great |
| 1:40.1 | offensive coordinators last couple of years. Liam Cohen, he's in first place with the Jags, and Dave Canales, first place with the Panthers. |
| 1:48.6 | So Baker's always been a great comeback story, but Baker Mayfield is one in nine in primetime games. |
| 1:54.3 | He's not Mahomes, Allen, he's not Stafford, he's not that kind of talent. |
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