Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Colin Cowherd breaks down why the Los Angeles Lakers defensive flaws could destroy their NBA championship hopes—and why even a vintage 40-year-old LeBron James can't fix this fatal weakness. Colin dives deep into the Lakers defensive efficiency issues, roster construction, and what it means for their playoff chances in the loaded Western Conference
Then, Colin reacts to A.J. Brown's comments calling out the Philadelphia Eagles struggling offense. He explains why this tension isn't new—and why he has been warning you about this broken Brown-Jalen Hurts-Nick Sirianni relationship for almost a year now
Plus, NFL insider Albert Breer joins the show to discuss the Buffalo Bills' coaching situation and why the organization could consider a head coach change to capitalize on Josh Allen's Super Bowl window
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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. |
| 0:23.7 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:32.6 | Here we go. It is a Thursday one hour from now. |
| 0:37.9 | Greg CoSell |
| 0:39.4 | stops by. |
| 0:42.2 | Great to have you in. |
| 0:44.5 | We are live |
| 0:45.6 | from Chicago. |
| 0:48.1 | It's the herd. |
| 0:50.9 | JMAX, sometimes |
| 0:52.6 | you look at the Lakers brand and you think like the Showtime Lakers. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, it was all about Magic Johnson, who was not a great defender. |
| 1:04.0 | But you had Kareem protecting the rim. |
| 1:07.0 | So all five of those title teams, the Showtime Lakers, all five were top 10 defenses. |
| 1:14.8 | People don't think about that because you had the great backstop at the rim and Kareem. |
| 1:21.6 | And so I'm watching the Lakers last night getting gouged defensively by OKC, and this is not a criticism, |
| 1:29.7 | it's instructive. This is why |
| 1:31.5 | eventually you've got to get |
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