Colin Cowherd Podcast - Greg McElroy on Saban Pivot, Conference Realignment, Playoff Expansion
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
First, Colin explains why this NFL preseason is so much more interesting than last year’s.
Then, Always College Football podcast host and national title winning quarterback Greg McElroy joins Colin to discuss Nick Saban and Bama pivoting from defensive to offensive identity, how conference realignment will impact the SEC product, if CFB Playoff expansion will hurt the overall product, and if there will ever be a “Cinderella” national champion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody welcome in to the Wednesday morning podcast. I'm going to have on an old friend |
| 0:16.7 | Greg McElroy is the former quarterback in the NFL and very well known as a national |
| 0:21.5 | championship quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He's now a very popular radio |
| 0:27.0 | show host down in the south. And we're going to bring him on today and shoot the bull for |
| 0:31.6 | about 20 30 minutes about the college football season. I have not been this fired up for college |
| 0:36.2 | football in a long time. Even though my beloved Pac-12 conference is circling the drain, |
| 0:43.4 | that was fairly inevitable and predictable. The Greg McElroy in a few minutes you know |
| 0:47.2 | I was thinking about last year's preseason exhibition season and all the years I've been |
| 0:53.3 | doing talk radio. It was the slowest preseason of all time. Cushion McVay several years ago |
| 0:59.0 | as I've noted multiple times stopped playing starters and all these young coaches followed |
| 1:03.5 | suit. So the only story we had last year in the preseason was Kenny Pickett who you know |
| 1:08.5 | it was a good college quarterback not stupendous. He wasn't a hot Caleb Williams Andrew Luck |
| 1:15.8 | Trevor Lawrence prospect not even a Kyler Murray to Sean Watson Baker Mace field prospect. |
| 1:22.8 | He's a solid guy who had a lot of college starts. And I remember thinking after about |
| 1:27.2 | two weeks of Kenny Pickett discussion, thank God he plays for the Steelers. What if he |
| 1:32.1 | had played for the Jaguars? There was just no story. This year's preseason feels entirely |
| 1:36.5 | different. First of all, there's three first round quarterbacks all could succeed. But |
| 1:40.6 | I do think one of them's fascinating Anthony Richardson for the Colts. Not only because |
| 1:45.0 | it's 6'5", 255. He is Big Ben Cam Newton like Josh Allen like where he will just be |
| 1:51.0 | such a force, a productive force running the football with that new offensive coach Shane |
| 1:56.0 | Steik and a brilliant guy who had Herbert and Jalen Hertz. So I think the Colts are going |
| 1:59.5 | to be a fascinating watch. I don't think they're going to be a great team. But between Jonathan |
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