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Colin Cowherd Picks The Ravens To Go 16-0
“Cowherd adds that there are big question marks surrounding the teams in Baltimore’s division.”
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Jacob ConleyIt is not uncommon for sports’ pundits to make bold predictions of how a team will finish before a season starts, but it is rare that they prognosticate a team, particularly in the NFL, will go undefeated. That’s exactly what Colin Cowherd did, however, on Wednesday’s edition of The Herd, when he predicted that the Baltimore Ravens could finish a perfect 16-0 this season.
“I always do my NFL predictions and I never make anybody undefeated or have them go 0-16,” Cowherd said. “But the more I think about it the more I realize it’s not ridiculous that they (the Ravens) go 16-0.”
Cowherd then outlines his reasons for such a bold prediction.
“First of all, they have everybody back (from a 14-2 team), and they have upgraded their secondary. They now have the best secondary,” he said. “They have the best running game in the NFL and their toughest game is at Philadelphia. They can take a bus there. They don’t have to go out West. They only have to travel 6,000 miles all season. Teams like Seattle have to travel over 30,000.”
Cowherd adds that there are big question marks surrounding the teams in Baltimore’s division.
“They are in a division where Cincinnati has a rookie quarterback, Cleveland has a rookie coach and Pittsburg has an old quarterback coming off an injury who looks like he hasn’t shaved in years,” he said. “I don’t know what to make of the Steelers. I do know what to make of Cincinnati. They are bad and as far as Cleveland, they have a rookie head coach, a new system in a year with a pandemic, no OTAs and an abridged pre-season.”
Cowherd admits that there are two teams that could ruin his prediction of perfection.
“There are two teams on the schedule that have equal talent with Baltimore and that’s Cleveland and Kansas City,” he said. “They host Kansas City on a Monday night and they play at Cleveland to open the season. Cleveland shocked them last year, so Baltimore will be playing with a chip on their shoulder. Baltimore is a rare team for me. I think it is entirely possible that they steamroll Cleveland early and they start rolling and don’t slow down. As good as Kansas City is, they will have three or four missteps. As great as those New England teams were, I never thought they would go undefeated. Predicting an undefeated team just doesn’t make sense, but when you looking at the continuity this Baltimore team has, even with no OTAs, and the fact that they have a great quarterback that appears to be getting better, I don’t think it’s crazy to say we may be looking at a 16-0 football team.”
Jacob Conley writes about news/talk radio BNM. He can be found on Twitter @GWUJake or reach him by email at [email protected].
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FOX Sports Radio Host Doug Gottlieb to be the New Head Basketball Coach at UW-Green Bay
“I think I fit how college basketball is now more so than previously.”
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43 mins agoon
May 14, 2024By
BSM StaffA report from Jeff Goodman, co-founder of The Field of 68, says FOX Sports Radio host and former Notre Dame and Oklahoma State point guard Doug Gottlieb will be named the next head men’s basketball coach at The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Gottlieb’s father, Bob, was a coach at UW-Milwaukee from 1975-1980.
Goodman’s report says Gottlieb is expected to continue doing his radio show for FOX Sports Radio. The show airs each weekday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET.
Gottlieb, 48, was considered a candidate for the Green Bay job last offseason when it went to Sundance Wicks who has now left after one season to take the same position with Wyoming. Gottlieb was also in the mix at Oklahoma State the last two times that job has come open.
“I think I fit how college basketball is now more so than previously,” Gottlieb said in March when his name came up as an option for the opening at Oklahoma State.
Gottlieb has openly talked about wanting to be a college head coach while also maintaining his national presence on radio. It looks like he will now get that opportunity despite having almost no coaching experience.
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Rich Shertenlieb to Debut New Show on May 20
Shertenlieb has been off the air since not accepting a new contract offered by Beasley Media Group in November 2023.
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May 14, 2024By
BSM StaffRich Shertenlieb is getting set for this return to the airwaves. Via his X account, Shertenlieb announced his new show on Boston Classic Rock station 100.7 WZLX will debut on Monday May 20.
Shertenlieb has been off the air since not accepting a new contract offered by Beasley Media Group in November 2023. Just over six months later, the general length of a non-compete clause in media, Shertenlieb will make his long awaited return.
Shertenlieb left what was considered by many one of the top sports radio shows in the country. He and Fred Toucher teamed up for 17 years together including 14 years on 98.5 The Sports Hub.
Shertenlieb announced his move to the iHeartMedia station last week which ended months of speculation about where he would next be heard. A lot of noise was made in March when two different people, the Boston Globe’s Chad Finn and Barstool’s Kirk Minihane had reported Shertenlieb was headed to Sports Hub rival WEEI. Minihane went as far as saying it was “going to be Andy Gresh and Rich Shertenlieb in afternoons” on WEEI but turns out neither had the right information.
“Boy oh boy are there a lot of things we need to talk about the least of which including how non-competes are the worst and should be totally illegal but also about how much I’ve missed you and how I’ve worked every day over the last several months to put together this show and great group of co-hosts well not every day because there were some days when I went to the movies by myself because no one in my family wanted to see ‘Dune 2’ which was a quality film, but I prefer the David Lynch version with Sting and the guy with pus boils all over his face hey how about them Celtics,” Shertenlieb wrote in a video posted on X.
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Daryle Johnson: ‘Whatever Figure It Is, If You Meet It, You Can Get the NFL’
“Football – and I get it the end of the year all depending on when Christmas or New Year’s Day [are], you get the Friday or Saturday games, but to just come out and do that to the kids, I just don’t like it man.”
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May 14, 2024By
BSM StaffAs the NFL prepares to reveal its 2024 schedule on Wednesday night, there has been discussion pertaining to the prime-time football game it will play to begin the season on Friday night. The Week 1 matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles will take place from Corinthians Arena in São Paulo, Brazil broadcast exclusively on Peacock on Friday, Sept. 6 at 8:20 p.m. EST. Much to the chagrin of Daryle “The Guru” Johnson though, the matchup is taking place on a Friday rather than another day of the week.
The Packers-Eagles matchup represents the first NFL game to be played on a Friday during the league’s opening week in 54 years. It will follow an opening night matchup on NBC and Peacock featuring the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs hosting the Baltimore Ravens. The NFL has played just 12 games on a Friday since merging with the AFL ahead of the 1970 season, the most recent of which is the Black Friday Football matchup that was presented on Amazon Prime Video.
Under the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, antitrust immunity is withdrawn for any professional football telecast if a high school or college football game is being played within 75 miles on a Friday night (after 6 p.m.) or Saturday from the second weekend in September until the second weekend in December.
“That’s for high schoolers; that’s for Happy Hour. Football – and I get it the end of the year all depending on when Christmas or New Year’s Day [are], you get the Friday or Saturday games, but to just come out and do that to the kids, I just don’t like it man,” Johnson said on Monday’s edition of Steiney and Guru on 95.7 The Game. “[Roger] Goodell, just whatever figure it is, if you meet it, you can get the NFL.”
With the rest of the schedule being released on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. EST, the program thought about how many prime time games the San Francisco 49ers should be granted. The team has a plethora of star players, including quarterback Brock Purdy, running back Christian McCaffrey and defensive end Nick Bosa, and has won two NFC Championships in the last five seasons. Last season, the schedule release tabbed the 49ers for five games in prime-time television, which was in a tie for second place in the NFL. The Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys led the way with six prime-time games each at the time of the schedule release. Last year, the NFL attained an average of 17.9 million viewers across its regular-season slate of games, an increase of 7% from the 2022 season.
“I’m going seven,” Johnson said. “I think they’re going to be a fixture on Thanksgiving night – that night game, I think they get that.”
“I would like that,” Evan Giddings replied, filling in for Matt Steinmetz. “Honestly I just want to see the Niners in the spotlight as much as possible. We’re going to watch the games obviously – maybe get down to one or two depending – but the Niners deserve, I think, just as many prime time games as the Chiefs even though they lost to them.”.