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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd is officially taking the Ravens out of the Super Bowl Bubble of contenders going forward after the latest reports about Lamar Jackson’s contract demands and why this will hold them back from their postseason aspirations.
Colin looks at the Chiefs offseason plans to rebuild around Patrick Mahomes after missing the playoffs for the first time since 2014.
Plus, NBA analyst Rachel Nichols joins the show to tell Colin why it’s become clear the Lakers are ready to move off LeBron James and go all in on Luka Doncic as their franchise player.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.2 | Well, the combine starts today in the NFL. |
| 0:07.7 | We are live. |
| 0:08.7 | We are in Chicago, and it's the herd. |
| 0:10.7 | Wherever you may be, and however, you may be listening or watching. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks for making us part of your day. |
| 0:16.9 | One hour from now, I'll be introducing some futuristic new technology that i'm really excited about |
| 0:24.0 | that i first saw about nine 10 11 months ago and it was freak me out and uh now uh you can |
| 0:32.8 | consume it i'll introduce that in one hour so it's Combine Week, and a lot of business deals get done. |
| 0:41.4 | And one of the business deals getting talked about is Lamar Jackson's new contract. |
| 0:47.2 | It's just remarkable to me, and I've always been a huge Ravens fan and a big Lamar supporter. |
| 0:53.7 | But just to give you an idea, I said yesterday, the Ravens are done being a Super Bowl |
| 0:59.5 | bubble team. |
| 1:00.5 | There's no possible way with what they're going to pay him. |
| 1:03.9 | So his current cap hit is $74 million. |
| 1:07.5 | Let me give you an example of what that pays for in Seattle, the Super Bowl champs. |
| 1:13.3 | That would pay for Sam Darnold, J.S.N, Devin Witherspoon, Nick Oman Worry the Safety, |
| 1:20.4 | Gray Zabel, and DeMarcus Lawrence. |
| 1:22.6 | And you'd still have $3 million left over to buy every Seattle Seacca lifetime Starbucks card. |
| 1:29.1 | The Ravens are out of the Super Bowl discussion with this new contract. |
| 1:34.2 | And they have to theoretically, they also have to pay their all-world center, probably the second |
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