The Herd with Colin Cowherd

Colin Cowherd officially declares the Cowboys the winners of the controversial Micah Parsons trade from a year ago. After Dallas signed 4-time Pro Bowler Quinnen Williams to a contract extension, Colin explains why the new look Cowboys defense is better off today without Parsons.
More proof that LeBron James still runs the NBA
He shares his first series of NFL predictions for the upcoming series laying who will be the top 2 teams for each of the divisions
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Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to tell Colin why the NBA is sending a clear message that LeBron James still remains the face of the league.
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Colin discusses Kyler Murray being named the starting QB for the Vikings and what this means for JJ McCarthy
Joel Klatt stops by The Herd to talk about the BIG10 dominance over the SEC, the expectations for the Texas Longhorns, and more.
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Colin Cowherd officially declares the Cowboys the winners of the controversial Micah Parsons trade from a year ago. After Dallas signed 4-time Pro Bowler Quinnen Williams to a contract extension, Colin explains why the new look Cowboys defense is better off today without Parsons.
He shares his first series of NFL predictions for the upcoming series laying who will be the top 2 teams for each of the divisions.
Plus, Nick Wright from First Things First joins the show to tell Colin why the NBA is sending a clear message that LeBron James still remains the face of the league.
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On this episode of 3 & Out, John is back from the road, coming to you live from a Marriott couch and he starts by giving Jerry Jones credit, which he acknowledges is not a sentence people are used to hearing. With the Cowboys extending Quinnen Williams (00:56), John walks through the full accounting of the Micah Parsons trade: Dallas wasn't one player away, they were three or four guys away, and once Dak and CeeDee were paid, signing Parsons would have made them a four-man team on a 53-man roster. Add up Williams' guarantees plus the two rookies they drafted with the return — Caleb Downs and Malachai Lawrence — and it lands within a rounding error of Parsons' own deal. Then he gets to Jeff Hafley and the Miami Dolphins tackling to the ground in camp (07:45), which in 2026 is about as jarring as seeing a guy light a cigarette. Miami can't manufacture a December trip to Buffalo in 84-degree sunshine, so the only lever a staff has is mandated physicality — and John connects it to his own father drawing a line in the sand and putting him on a Sacramento-area ranch every summer from ninth grade on. He also finds the one sliver of optimism in losing a top-ten left tackle (16:07): at least it happened in August, when you still have a month to canvass the league. Then the Bills' new stadium backlash (19:00) and why internet comment sections are a separate reality from the real world, and Dad Diaries (22:19) — a Friday night of tequila in Newport Beach that coincided, unfortunately, with the worst night of sleep his wife has ever had.
Then it's a full mailbag (27:34). Was the Cousins–Crosby fallout actually coordinated between the players and Klint Kubiak (27:34)? Could Anthony Richardson be a reclamation project in Baltimore — and how did the Colts let his trade value hit zero (30:22)? Should recovery peptides be legal in the NFL, and where's the line between recovery and steroids (33:32)? Bill Barnwell's all-decade team and why John thinks it's Mahomes over Josh Allen, plus why building an all-decade team halfway through the decade is a fool's errand (35:47). A high school sports administrator asks about transfer and eligibility rules, which sends John into holding eighth graders back for athletics and the Danny Almonte energy creeping into youth sports (40:47). Whether Odell Beckham Jr. can stick on a roster without playing special teams (46:11), a defense of Saquon Barkley's hands (47:59), the Chiefs' wide receiver room and whether a training camp trade is coming (49:10), his actual gambling philosophy and the two parlays that keep him coming back (52:10), and finally Ja'Lynn Polk retiring two years after going 37th overall — and why the Patriots' draft record at receiver is a reminder that you're evaluating humans, not widgets (56:44).
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