The Herd | Colin Cowherd reacts Thunders def. Celtics 127-123, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 36 Pts

The Herd | Colin Cowherd reacts Thunders def. Celtics 127-123, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 36 Pts

Got to be good at this and you’ll have a great life that people will do it if you tell people that struggle with weight listen um you got to get thin or you or you you you’re going to expire most people will lose weight you got to stop

Smoking or you’re going to expire most people can stop smoking I’ve known people that have stopped everything alcohol smoking when you give people sort of not necessarily an ultimatum but here are the options you’re fired it goes sideways or you just do this and that’s one of the things about the Green

Bay Packers that are amazing they don’t get free agents they don’t have an owner they have to draft and develop well and they do Favre into Rogers into Jordan love because that’s the only way Green Bay can win they can’t just spend big money and so what does Green Bay do well

Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA are doing this so they beat the Celtics last night they’re 23 and N five-game winning streak best young roster in the league really a fun team to watch really fun I don’t think they’re going to win the championship this year but Sam pry he

Went and got KD Westbrook and Harden right he he he was patient with that group for a long long time then eventually had to move off him and he’s got the best young team and like the Packers you’re not going to get free agents in OKC like the Utah Jazz so you

Have to draft and develop well and SGA is averaging 31 a night and Jaylen Williams Chad hongren Josh giddy uh blue Dort uh that’s an all-time great name isn’t it that’d be a quick signature um but that’s how they have to win and that’s how they’re winning like the

Packers they’re not going to get free agents that’s not what they’re going to do they’re not going to spend the big boy money on that and I think these big markets New York Philadelphia DC Los Angeles Chicago there’s an easy way out just go buy this guy attract this guy

Free so they don’t view themselves as having to draft and develop or they’re all getting fired although in those markets they usually do but if you look at the last decade Oklahoma City’s won 53% of their games the Knicks have won 39% that’s embarrassing how is that possible New

York’s one of the meccas of basketball in America Kobe love playing in New York Michael Love play in New York the players all love playing in New York how are they winning 39% of their games big splashy Amari STM Stefon Marbury the Green Bay ok City This Is How They

Have to succeed by the way Spurs Dynasty overwhelmingly draft and develop Denver currently overwhelmingly draft and develop Golden State’s Dynasty draft and develop I don’t want to hear about KD they won before him during him and after him that’s it that doesn’t mean Miami’s

Been able to go out and get a Shaq or a LeBron but it all starts with dwade and they’ve always drafted and developed at a very high high level in Miami so and what’s amazing about Oklahoma City they have 37 total picks in the next seven

Years now they’re not going to keep all of those they’ll probably move a third of them to get a good player but it’s um if you know what’s funny about this if you take out just one NBA player in the last 15 years just one guy LeBron James

Take him out this buying a championship and buying relevance yeah LeBron W in LA and two in Miami and in Cleveland take him out the dynasties like Boston right now the core is Jaylen and Tatum they’re guys and by the way best team in the East and

Denver draft and develop best team in the west doesn’t mean you can’t go get a Gordon Hayward I love what the Celtics did this offseason but their core they’re two best players they’re guys and so I think o okay see I know a lot of people ow is fear in the NBA small

Markets yes you have to do it differently but watch Oklahoma City play it’s an easy easy team to root for it’s a lot of their dudes it’s uh and and they’re they are good they’re 23 and n on and they’ve beaten some good teams over the course of a season it’s you

Know you you play the bottom of the conferences you can win a lot of games they’ve beaten some good teams beat the Celtics there you go jmck we got a lot of stuff I looked at the NFL playoffs today I have of the of the first six games I have three

Road teams winning I think this year take out Baltimore and San Francisco dude those lines are all two and a half yeah these playoffs are going to be they’re going to be like the college football games so there’s basically be and the quarterback conundrum I think it’s really easy decision to move off

Him but it’s interesting I’ve had two x NFL stars and these guys are connected tell me Chicago is keeping Justin Fields now nobody really knows but players tend to be very very connected and they’re hearing things that Chicago’s keeping them I would not so there’s there’s three things you have

To acknowledge if you’re not a fanboy any reasonable person in the NFL would have to acknowledge when looking at quarterbacks number one the rules now help quarterbacks much more uh number two there’s a higher higher level of offensive coaching high school college and pro pro pro offensive coaching now

Is much better than it was 15 years ago number three quarterbacks are getting more tutoring in high school and college special Camp seven on seven they they have to be better so I judge quarterback differently in the last decade than I have in the previous 50 60 years I hold

Him to a higher standard Thanksgiving of year two I make a decision I made my decision Thanksgiving year two Daniel Jones he’s not the guy I think I’m right um so if You’ never seen Justin Fields play just take the emotion out of it take the amazing YouTube highlights out

Of it if you’ve never seen him play and you just looked at the numbers it’s awful his passer rating through 37 starts is an 82 40 touchdown passes 30 picks 10 and 27 record and people go oh he’s got he’s got 14 rushing touchdowns okay if you’re going to count

Total touchdowns then you have to count total turnovers he’s got more than one a game 41 giveaways in 37 games that’s not the worst part he’s missed 11 starts that’s horrible you can’t miss that many starts in the NFL right if you are Burl Lamar Jackson you got to be

Great I’ll let you miss three starts a year you got to give me greatness when you’re there you can’t be below average and Miss 11 starts in three years that doesn’t work so here’s an uncomfortable truth with Justin Fields the only quarterback in the NFL over the last three seasons that is

Inarguably a worse passer Zack Wilson that’s it I know you like the highlights misses games turnovers doesn’t win don’t listen to these analytic nerds that say winning is not a quarterback stat if you’re great Lamar Jackson is worth 11 points a game I think that’s kind of crucial so bare

Fans and bare media they they’re trying to see something that doesn’t exist there are no wins there’s a lot of injuries there’s a lot of fumbles beating Atlanta a dome team in snowy windy weather last week is not is is not something to Crown yourself over so to

Me it’s really easy I get Caleb who’s a better product uh project Prospect excuse me a more accurate passer and I can restart the clock but I have had two different NFL former stars in this league and there’s a lot of momentum that Justin Fields is the guy I’d move

Him to Atlanta preferably maybe Washington for a second round pick and uh but there is there are a lot of lights flashing that Chicago is is going to listen to the you know you hear this all the time oh the players players love interim coaches they love them substitute teach players love interim

Coaches go look at the history of giving the interim coach The head coaching job go look at the history of that five years later not many EX still coaching that team and players tend to love like great athletes even if they don’t help in winning I mean for

Years and years everybody loved Melo everybody loved Melo wasn’t a winning player everybody loves Westbrook again great athlete be very careful about you know players say this fans say that media says that just follow the data there every Sunday does he not turn the ball over does he win games does he

Put you in positions to win what’s his passer rating first quarter second quarter third quarter fourth quarter what is he leading what is he trailing does he win SHO shootouts if if if your defense gives up 26 points can he win shootouts you know TBO was winning for

Years and I’m like pump the braks every quarterback can win when your defense is allowing 17 points a game you got to get a guy that can win shootouts lowc scoring games in which just manage the game no turnovers be there suit up those happen Eli Manning

Won a few of those manage the game today show up no turnover manage the game two big throws so it’s going to I can’t wait for J mck and I have talked about this I can’t Chicago’s got a big media a big voice Fields is a big talent I can’t

Wait to watch it play out but I think this quarterback class I don’t know you watch I watch I got five guys I think should go in the top 12 you can give me all those draft picks and all those players I want a star quarterback and I

Think Caleb Williams is a that’s what a Star Quarterback looks like USC not a great roster LED college football in offense the last two years without outside of Jordan Addison didn’t have another high-end player one in two years Jordan

The Herd | Colin Cowherd reacts Thunders def. Celtics 127-123, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 36 Pts