HOUR 3 –Bears-49ers proves offensive coaches are the future, More coach firings to come?
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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NFL insider Dianna Russini discusses NFL coach openings, potential hires like Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman and who else could potentially be fired before February. Are there reservations about Sean McDermott and his future in Buffalo? Colin discusses Kyle Whitingham taking the Michigan job and how he’s going to fit in with the program.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.5 | This time of the year, their job openings. |
| 0:12.1 | People, I mean, these bad teams, they're working on the draft. |
| 0:15.9 | They're looking at free agency. |
| 0:18.2 | They're mapping out the future. |
| 0:20.4 | The athletic senior NFL insider covered the NFL for a decade. |
| 0:24.4 | Diana Rusini is now joining us live. |
| 0:27.6 | So let's just address the one. |
| 0:29.8 | Marcus Freeman was maybe a long shot, but I do think that Marcus is one of those rare college coaches |
| 0:37.1 | that everybody in the NFL just thinks energy, |
| 0:40.0 | talent. Why, why this more, I'll, okay, I'll tell you the cynical Colin, is that now that |
| 0:47.2 | the Giants can't get Fernando Mendoza, Freeman looks at that and goes, Jackson Darts, three and |
| 0:52.6 | eight, I like Notre Dame. I'm staying in college. |
| 0:55.4 | That's the cynical me. |
| 0:57.2 | Why the timing today that he's staying at Notre Dame? |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, I appreciate that you stay cynical through the entire year here, |
| 1:04.0 | which is a few days left in 2025. |
| 1:06.6 | Look, the New York Giants were not the only team who were interested in Marcus Freeman. |
| 1:10.6 | So I get what you're saying. |
| 1:12.2 | That lines up for why he would perhaps not be interested in New York. |
| 1:15.9 | There were at least four other teams I know poking around on Marcus Freeman. |
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