Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd reacts to Sam Darnold and the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl in dominant fashion over the Patriots. He celebrates Darnold's comeback story from "draft bust" to Super Bowl champion.
He shares this week's Where Colin Was Right, Where Colin Was Wrong - why he was always right about Darnold from Day 1 and why he was wrong about the Patriots defense.
Plus, 3-time Super Bowl Champion Matt Hasselbeck joins the show to breakdown what went wrong for the Patriots offense and what makes Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald so special.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart 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 | Here we go on a Monday. |
| 0:35.8 | Don't tell me it was boring. |
| 0:37.4 | It's the greatest football game I've ever seen |
| 0:40.2 | to the very last snap. I don't know about the rest of you, but I had a dream last night. Sam |
| 0:47.5 | Donald making a speech in Canton, Ohio. It was so lifelike, so much more lifelike than it was 24 hours earlier. Welcome in. We're in Los Angeles. It's the herd wherever you may be. However you may be listening, thank you for making us part of your day. Yeah, I'm feeling good today. It's a good one for me. I get one occasionally. |
| 1:14.9 | The scary part about Seattle is sixth most cap space in the league next year. Their coach is 38 |
| 1:21.6 | moving into his coaching prime. Sam Darnold, two more years of a team-friendly deal. And they may have |
| 1:27.0 | seven or eight players who are ascending. |
| 1:29.6 | Young guys only getting better. |
| 1:31.3 | And go ahead, say it wasn't about Sam Darnold. |
| 1:33.5 | Go ahead and say that, but it was in the postseason against the superior NFC and eventually Vrable's defense, no turnovers for Sam. |
| 1:47.4 | Smart enough, mature enough, and coachable enough to know what was needed. And against New England, he knew what was needed, |
| 1:53.6 | a couple of big throws, make the right decision. Since 1990, four quarterbacks have won a Super Bowl with no turnovers. Maybe you've |
| 2:04.6 | heard of them. Troy Aikman, Steve Young, Drew Brees, and Sam Darnold. They all had great coaches, |
| 2:12.4 | and they all had stacked rosters. They knew what the assignment was. That's all this playoff run was about for Sam |
| 2:21.1 | Darnold. Against the Rams, he needed to be a game changer. Darnold had to make big throws because |
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