Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd defends Rams head coach Sean McVay and LA’s surprising draft choice to take Alabama QB Ty Simpson after Matthew Stafford’s MVP season by pointing out the key detail people are overlooking.
Colin shares his Herd Hierarchy ranking the top 10 NFL teams following free agency and the draft: he makes the case the Chiefs are back in as Super Bowl contenders.
Plus, Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to celebrate LeBron James as a top 10 player in the playoffs right now at 41 years old.
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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. |
| 0:23.9 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:32.6 | Oh, it's going to be a great show. |
| 0:34.6 | Sean McVeigh-Rams coach stopping by. |
| 0:36.6 | We're live at Chicago. |
| 0:38.0 | It's the herd wherever you may be and however you may be listening. |
| 0:42.0 | Thanks for making us part of your day. |
| 0:45.4 | Man, we got a lot going on. |
| 0:47.3 | Okay, the coaches are hired, the free agents are in, the draft is over one hour from now. |
| 0:56.6 | What I perceive is the top 10 teams heard hierarchy first edition post draft couple more before the season starts |
| 1:02.3 | that's in one hour from now okay so years and years ago in my business you |
| 1:08.3 | have to hire somebody that represents you during contract talks. It sounds boosy. It's not. Everybody's got one. Everybody's got one. Everybody at the network's got one. Everybody at ESPN, NBC. You've got to have an eight. They call them agents, right? And I was very lucky years ago. I got the best guy in the business. His name was Nick Conn. Nick Con now runs theWE and one of the highest EQIQ combos I've ever met in a guy. And he told me something years and years ago. I remember literally sitting at the peninsula in New York. It was a hotel. And he told me something. He said, listen, when companies make decisions, everybody's shocked. |
| 1:46.7 | Those decisions were made nine months ago. |
| 1:49.9 | The people inside a building, like Sean McVeigh and Les Need of the Rams, |
| 1:57.0 | they weren't spitballing. |
| 2:00.4 | So when Sean McVeigh, I would not buy into this narrative, I wouldn't buy into it. |
| 2:05.4 | That Sean McVeigh, did you see his body language? |
| 2:08.7 | He was furious with the pick. |
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