Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd has serious questions about the direction the Lakers are headed with superstar Luka Doncic and why the results might not live up to the hype.
He looks at the top prospects enter the upcoming NFL draft and the clear trend showing the BIG 10 has surpassed the SEC as the premier college football conference with the best players.
Plus, Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold joins the show! Colin talks to him about his career turnaround, winning a Super Bowl and playing with star WR Jaxson Smith-Njigba.
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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. |
| 0:32.1 | Here we go. |
| 0:33.1 | It is a Tuesday, Sam Darnold stopping by the show. |
| 0:36.0 | My guy Sammy Slinging Sammy D. |
| 0:38.5 | Coming up in a couple of hours on the show. We're live. We're in Chicago. It's the herd. |
| 0:42.9 | Man, the weather forecast. I'm not sure if I'm in Nassau, in the Bahamas or Chicago. It's getting warm. |
| 0:48.0 | It's heating up. I'm going to get my, do some tank top shopping, board short shopping. |
| 0:53.0 | It's great to have you in on a Tuesday. |
| 0:57.2 | So I always have this kind of belief that if something's truly going to work, you know, |
| 1:05.2 | I met my wife. I remember the restaurant. I was like seven, eight minutes in. I'm like, |
| 1:08.9 | oh, this is great. This is going to work. She's great. It's funny. She was smart. I was like seven, eight minutes in. I'm like, oh, this is great. This is going to work. |
| 1:11.6 | She's great. It's funny. She was smart. She was great sense of humor. And I was like, oh, and it's the same in sports. |
| 1:20.6 | Like Christian McCaffrey got traded to the Niners midseason. He had 13 touchdowns for the Niners |
| 1:27.4 | alone and led him to the NFC championship. |
| 1:29.8 | When KD went to the Warriors, first 18 games, they're 16 and 2. Messy, inner Miami worked |
| 1:38.1 | instantly. The Heedles took 15 games. Randy Moss goes to the Patriots, seven touchdowns in the first four games with Tom Brady. |
| 1:46.4 | Stuff, if it's going to work, relationships, business sports, it can't take forever. It can't be |
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