Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd breaks down a pivotal Thursday Night Football match up as the Detroit Lions bounce back with a massive win over the Dallas Cowboys to stay alive in the NFC playoff race
Then, it’s time for Colin’s Blazing 5 — his best bets and sharpest NFL picks for Week 14, featuring deep dives into Bengals vs. Bills, Texans vs. Chiefs, and more marquee matchups
Plus, former Chicago Bears head coach Dave Wannstedt joins the show to break down the Bears’ surprising rise to the best record in the NFC and how head coach Ben Johnson is maximizing rookie QB Caleb Williams on their path toward championship contention
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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 |
| 0:22.4 | fsr this is the best of the herd with colin cowher on fox sports radio here we go |
| 0:34.2 | capping off the week with a Friday before a huge college football weekend. |
| 0:39.3 | The weirdest blazing five in the history of blazing fives in one hour from now. |
| 0:45.3 | Detroit, delivered. |
| 0:50.3 | And it was a wild shootout, 3730 with two minutes, 30 seconds left. |
| 0:55.0 | The track meet by the Detroit line. |
| 0:58.5 | So let's talk about that. |
| 0:59.7 | I liked Dallas last night. |
| 1:01.6 | But it was pretty clear by the middle of the second quarter that Detroit found their rhythm. |
| 1:07.4 | This felt like the Ben Johnson offensive coordinator for the Lions. |
| 1:13.7 | Lion, 7.2 yards of play. They have crazy offensive talent. They have two running backs I like, |
| 1:20.8 | two wide receivers that are stars. They always get an offensive line push, and it's a well-constructed |
| 1:26.3 | roster. David Montgomery, the bruiser, Jemir Gibbs, the home run hit push, and it's a well-constructed roster. David Montgomery, |
| 1:27.9 | the bruiser, Jemir Gibbs, the home run hitter, Amaran St. Brown, the volume receiver, |
| 1:34.1 | Jameson Williams, acceleration guy, speed guy. They can be physical or finesse. They can score slowly |
| 1:41.2 | and eat up the clock, or they can score quickly. They had a. They had a three-play drive, 53-yard touchdown. |
| 1:47.6 | That took up 90 seconds. |
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