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This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio.

What is up, everybody? It's me. Jason McIre in for colin cowherd on a uh a busy Thursday in the sports world

i've been enjoying the time off this week i don't know about the rest of my staff here we got

uh gregg and ryan the band is back together we're going to chop up some stuff and uh i know

cowherd is listening this morning.

He's going to be very upset with some of these takes, folks. A lot of stuff happening.

College football tonight, Dion Sanders. We're going to talk about him. Boy, Dion Sanders, what a disaster

right now when he's talking to the media. Oof, gross. Speaking of disasters, how about the 49ers?

Not great. But I'm going to start here with the New England Patriots. And before you say, Jay, you're a homer. You're picking on the Patriots. Stop it. You love the Jets. No, no, no, no, no. Guys, there's some embarrassing stuff going on in New England. And listen, you never want to pick on a rookie coach, right?

Gerard Mayo seems like a nice guy. You know, it was a great college football linebacker, drafted by the Patriots, spends his entire career with the Patriots, retires, takes like four years off where there's a little gap where he's, I don't know what he's doing, maybe enjoying life with his family. and then he starts coaching with Belichick at the end, coached for four years, and now he's the big boss. And Gerard Mayo is basically turning into a train wreck at the microphone. Folks, he's had the worst week of any head coach in the NFL. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. So this morning he announced, Jacoby Brissette's going to be our starting quarterback. And everybody kind of looks at him like,

okay. And then he didn't want to talk to the media about it. Okay? I'm going to go through the last four days of Gerard Mayo. And this honestly is some clownish stuff. It's amateur hour.

It makes you long for Bill Belichick getting on the microphone and saying, no, I'm not going

to talk about that.

We're on to Cincinnati.

And like giving nothing.

That was funny.

Gerard Mayo talks and you're just shaking your head like, what are you even talking about,

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