Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.3 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd reacts to all the week 18 action from the NFL and establishing the playoff match ups. He explains why the Steelers win over the Ravens was the most impressive performance from Aaron Rodgers in years
He shares this week’s Where Colin Was Right, Where Colin Was Wrong – He was spot on about Bears head coach Ben Johnson but he missed on the Cowboys
Plus, 3-time Pro Bowl QB Matt Hasselbeck joins the show to tell Colin why the Bills are still a dangerous team in the playoffs with Josh Allen
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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. |
| 0:31.6 | Here we go, the second season, the NFL playoffs. |
| 0:37.1 | We're down to a final four in college football, one hour |
| 0:41.1 | from now, Colin Wright, Colin wrong, plenty of both. We're live, we're in Los Angeles, |
| 0:49.1 | sunny Los Angeles, pretty warm Los Angeles. It's the herd, wherever you may be, however you may be listening. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks for making us part of your day. So I want to start. There was a wild game last night. |
| 1:02.4 | A fitting conclusion. Two teams I don't think are going to win a playoff game, regardless of who won last night. |
| 1:08.6 | But all year long on Pittsburgh. |
| 1:15.1 | I kept going back to this well. I kept saying they don't do anything I like, |
| 1:22.2 | except Aaron Rogers. At 42 years old, was the one thing every Sunday I was like, |
| 1:27.0 | yeah, I trust Aaron. He hasn't thrown a pick since, what, November? |
| 1:29.9 | And the Steelers have a lead. |
| 1:31.5 | They blow two coverages. |
| 1:37.9 | Zay Flowers is wide open multiple times, allowing seven and a half yards of play. |
| 1:40.5 | Lamar Jackson, fourth quarter up and down the field. |
| 1:43.1 | And the other thing is, nobody gets open with the Steelers. |
| 1:43.8 | You notice this? |
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