Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jason McIntyre fills in for Colin and believes reigning MVP Joel Embiid will be the next NBA superstar to demand a trade. He's explains why he's not buying any of the hype around Dolphins and Tua Tagovailoa heading into the upcoming season. He also gives his 5 wild predictions for the 2023 NFL season including a surprise contender in the NFC. Plus, NBA analyst Ric Bucher joins the show in studio to cast some doubt on the Lakers contending for another championship after their free agency moves.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | Thanks for listening to the best of the herd 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 noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.9 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day in 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 Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to the herd. I am your host, Jason McIntyre in for vacationing Colin Cowherd. Happy July 5th, everybody. Wherever you are and however you may be. Is that what he says, Alex Curry? |
| 0:48.0 | You may be listening. Yes, something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Happy. As I tell my kids, happy W to you, Alex Correa. Wentz lay. Yeah, do you ever use that? No, but I think I might now. I'm into that. Sure, some people cringing out there at my attempt to be cool and relate to the kids. I thought you're going to say cringing at the fact that it's the day after 4th of July. It's like National Hangover day, I think July 5th and the first of the year. Yeah, how are you feeling on July? Oh, I'm great. Yeah. I just hung at home with my dogs. I'm also taking care of my girlfriend's Cynthia Freeland's dog right now. So I have like a full crazy dog house. Nice. So just me and the dogs and fireworks. I got off a flight from Balmy Orlando at about 1 a.m. this morning at Orlando. Tough to fly out of, for sure. My son was playing. J.G's? |
| 1:11.1 | Yes. I got off a flight from Balmy Orlando at about 1 a.m. this morning. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, Orlando, tough to fly out of, for sure. |
| 1:30.4 | My son was playing. Jay-G's? |
| 1:31.0 | Yes, indeed. |
| 1:31.9 | Yes. |
| 1:32.2 | My son was at a national volleyball tournament. That's great. That's great. Not bad, but a little bit disappointing. We had fun. Good dad move. Yes. And obviously during the July 4th holiday, I was doing a lot of ruminating about sports. |
| 1:29.2 | And let's just say there's some interesting storylines out there. |
| 1:32.2 | I don't want to... during the July 4th holiday. I was doing a lot of ruminating about sports. |
| 1:47.3 | And let's just say there's some interesting storylines out there. |
| 1:50.7 | I don't want to put too much pressure on Tua, but we'll get to him shortly. |
| 1:51.8 | I do want to start with this. |
| 1:57.6 | You know, ladies and gentlemen, NBA Free Agency was kind of wacky over the holiday break. |
| 2:02.4 | A lot of interesting names out there, moving, new places. And we had a couple trade requests, or should I say demands. A certain gentleman by the name of James Harden has now |
| 2:07.6 | demanded, I think, I've, I think I've lost track here. It might be his third trade demand in four |
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