Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Colin unveils his predictions for the 2025 NFL season and explains why the league is becoming more predictable with fewer “new” playoff teams year after year. He makes the argument the Lakers should look to put the ball in Luka Doncic’s hands over LeBron James for the first time in his storied career. Plus, he talks to Nick Wright from First Things First who defends Caleb Williams from criticisms about his rookie season and slow start to training camp
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Heard podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern 9 a.m. to |
| 0:12.8 | noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.9 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox SportsRedio.com or stream us live every day on the |
| 0:19.6 | 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. |
| 0:31.4 | Here we go. It is a Tuesday. Ready to roll. Joel Clatt, Nick Wrightight it's the herd wherever you may be however |
| 0:40.3 | you may be listening thanks for making us jemak and i part of your day you know jemak i was |
| 0:46.6 | thinking about something this morning an overarching theme to start the show for the first 10 to 12 |
| 0:51.4 | minutes and i eat basically the same breakfast. |
| 0:55.7 | I have the same routine every day. |
| 0:58.4 | I get up, I have a strong coffee, I'll get in the treadmill, may have an English muffin, |
| 1:03.7 | have a smoothie before the show. |
| 1:05.8 | And I live, as much as everybody's searching for new stuff if I for instance want to watch sports on |
| 1:12.9 | TV I go to NBC Fox CBS I know where to go I don't go to Netflix I don't go to |
| 1:19.6 | Hulu I go to the standard places where I've always watched sports and I have this theory about |
| 1:26.2 | the NFL that we think you never know who's going to |
| 1:31.3 | win these games. But I believe for two reasons, the NFL is going to get starting three years |
| 1:37.6 | ago you're seeing a trend much more predictable. And that's my jumping off point today is this. |
| 1:43.7 | So when I make NFL predictions, now I have two more tweaks to my predictions. |
| 1:48.1 | I'm always looking for new teams to make the playoffs. |
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