Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Colin reacts to the Texans firing head coach David Culley after only one season and what this says about the NFL as a whole for head coaches. He looks at the Wild Card match ups to open up the NFL playoffs and why we should except at least one upset. He shares his final Blazing 5 of the season for the NFL playoffs. Plus, 3-time Super Bowl champion Eric Mangini joins the show to explain why the Steelers will take down the Chiefs in the biggest upset of the weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Thanks for listening to The Best of HARD podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday. |
| 0:09.1 | From 12 to 3 Eastern, 9 to noon Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and FS1, find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Herd. |
| 0:20.5 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:29.3 | This is the herd, wherever you may, and however you may be listening. |
| 0:39.4 | It is a Friday, IHeart Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and FS1, one hour from now. |
| 0:45.8 | My final blazing five of the year, it is a wild card weekend. |
| 0:51.6 | There's going to be an upset, but none of you fans have favored teams want to hear that. |
| 0:56.4 | So our final blazing five of the year, we're off back-to-back winning weeks, not one of our better seasons. |
| 1:01.5 | Great year betting college. My best ever, in fact, for college. NFL, not so much. Joy Taylor is joining me. |
| 1:08.5 | This is one of my favorite weekends of the year where you get supposed favorites at home playing underdogs. |
| 1:16.7 | And in the last four years, in the last four years of this weekend, one road team has lost by more than seven. |
| 1:26.1 | It's crazy. |
| 1:31.0 | It's crazy. I think there's a possibility for a couple upsets this weekend. It's been a complete year of parity. Look at week. Look at week 18. It was nonsense. |
| 1:37.5 | Yeah. I don't, this is going to be a spicy weekend. Yes. Badly. Badly. So I want to start |
| 1:43.5 | with this. David Cully got fired yesterday, the Houston |
| 1:46.8 | Texans coach. And a lot of people were very upset. That leaves now one African-American head coach, |
| 1:51.5 | Mike Tomlin, in the entire NFL year when 70% of the players are black. That's not good. That's |
| 1:56.7 | bad. The NFL's got to do a better job. Now here's the good news. There's great candidates this year, many African American. |
| 2:04.2 | But just to show you how unstable being a coach is, if I ask you right now, name an industry |
| 2:11.6 | in America, any industry where a high paying job is less stable, an NFL head coach. |
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