Colin Cowherd Podcast - INSTANT REACTION: Pete Carroll Fired, Nick Saban Retires
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Colin’s instant reaction to the breaking news of Pete Carroll being fired by the Seahawks and Nick Saban retiring from coaching at Alabama!
He explains that despite Pete Carroll being a great coach, the game has changed to favor offense and the ground had shifted under Pete’s feet (2:00). He looks ahead to what’s next for Seattle and predicts that Pete will coach again (5:30).
Just minutes after the announcement was made, Colin reacts to Nick Saban’s retirement. Colin makes a prediction on what’s next for Saban (11:00), why the transfer portal may have factored into his decision (12:30) and congratulates him on being the greatest college football coach of all time (14:00)!
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| 0:00.0 | The volume. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, saying it wasn't his decision. |
| 0:14.3 | Pete Carroll, classy as he stood at the podium, |
| 0:18.0 | energized, saying there are waves to surf. |
| 0:21.6 | Pete's had a house in Hawaii for some time, very active guy, Manhattan Beach, Hawaii, |
| 0:29.2 | he's a very young 72 years old. I don't think energy intelligence stamina are the questions for |
| 0:35.3 | Pete Carroll. I think he's somebody that could interview for the charger's job. If |
| 0:39.2 | Lincoln Riley left tomorrow USC would talk to him. That not the question I do think there's a |
| 0:44.9 | question that defensive coaches just do not want to confront when Pete Carroll's |
| 0:49.8 | telling me that Gino Smith is the answer. I don't know. |
| 0:53.4 | Sean McVeigh moved off golf. |
| 0:55.8 | Goffs a lot better than Geno Smith. |
| 0:58.8 | Kyle Shanahan moved off Jimmy Garopolo, |
| 1:01.7 | who I think is better than Genino Smith. And both of those |
| 1:04.6 | quarterbacks got to a Super Bowl. But when I hear Ron Rivera say, |
| 1:08.4 | Sam Hal, we're good at quarterback or Pete say aGino Smith, Drew Lock. |
| 1:13.0 | Come on guys, the culture is changing beneath your feet. |
| 1:17.0 | Come on guys, that's not good enough. |
| 1:19.0 | Pete Carroll has an NCAA championship and a Super Bowl. |
| 1:22.0 | Who are the quarterbacks? Two elite quarterbacks. NCAA Championship and a Super Bowl. |
| 1:22.6 | Who are the quarterbacks? |
| 1:23.6 | Two elite quarterbacks, Matt Leiner |
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