Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd discusses the NFC Championship game between the Rams and the Seahawks and why Matthew Stafford is on the verge of entering rarified air among the all-time great QBs in NFL history.
He ranks his top 10 players in the NFC Championship Game and defends Seahawks QB Sam Darnold as a top 5 player.
Plus, 7-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady joins the show to tell Colin what he sees in Patriots QB Drake Maye and previewing both the AFC & NFC Championship Games.
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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 |
| 0:22.4 | fsr this is the best of the herd with colin cowher on fox sports radio here we go it is a |
| 0:33.8 | friday what a weekend plan patriots broncos ram sea hot redefining careers |
| 0:43.3 | live in chicago yeah it's a little frigid it's the herd wherever you may be however you may be |
| 0:50.8 | watching or listening thanks for making us part of your day. |
| 0:56.7 | I don't know if everybody quite realizes |
| 0:59.3 | how big a weekend it is for Matt Stafford. |
| 1:04.5 | Let me read you a stat real quick. |
| 1:06.6 | History of the NFL, history. |
| 1:09.6 | One quarterback ever. This was in week 16 against |
| 1:13.5 | Seattle 400 passing yards three touchdown passes no picks against the team that finished |
| 1:19.9 | with the NFL's number one scoring defense that was stafford week 16 never been done |
| 1:26.2 | and i've said if he wins another Super Bowl, |
| 1:29.1 | I will put him one spot ahead of Aaron Rogers all time, |
| 1:31.9 | and that sounds kooky. |
| 1:33.3 | I think Aaron Rogers, 11th or 12th best quarterback ever, |
| 1:36.7 | I would insert Stafford one spot ahead. |
| 1:39.4 | There are no great movies with choppy endings. |
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