Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd breaks down why the Pittsburgh Steelers’ path to yet another winning season and potential playoff appearance may actually be holding the franchise back in today’s NFL. Is consistent mediocrity worse than a full rebuild?
Plus, Colin reveals this week’s Herd Hierarchy, ranking the top 10 teams in the NFL, including why the Green Bay Packers fall out of the list and what’s fueling the Chicago Bears’ rise into the top five.
Then, Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to debate the state of the Kansas City Chiefs, explaining why Patrick Mahomes and company remain close to Super Bowl contention despite missing the playoffs for the first time in 11 years.
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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. |
| 0:31.7 | Here we go on a Tuesday herd hierarchy. |
| 0:36.8 | One hour from now, Nick Wright, an hour from now. We are live or in Chicago. |
| 0:43.0 | It's the herd. Steelers do what they usually do on Monday night when they're at home. They win. |
| 0:48.6 | It is great to have you in. Ball me upper 20s in Chicago. I feel like walking around with my shirt off. |
| 0:57.0 | Absolutely fantastic. |
| 0:59.0 | So let's start with positive Uncle Kalman. |
| 1:03.0 | Aaron Rogers comes to Pittsburgh, took a tone deaf and mostly dead offense for the last seven years. |
| 1:11.7 | And he's made it competent. |
| 1:13.4 | Not great, not elite, but they were atrocious in the red zone last year. |
| 1:17.3 | Now they're top three. |
| 1:18.6 | Time of possession, yards per play. |
| 1:21.1 | It's a competent offense. |
| 1:23.4 | But as I'm watching them beat lifeless Miami, |
| 1:26.6 | the downside is they're currently drafting |
| 1:29.1 | 20th and they have a stopgap at quarterback, no long-term solution, and they don't have any |
| 1:35.8 | assets to trade up. |
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