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Colin Cowherd & Nick Wright DEBATE NFL playoff predictions, Drake Maye, Mike Tomlin | THE HERD

2025-12-02 Sports
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Chiefs Playoff Hopes, Tomlin Future, and QB Accuracy Debates

Analyze the current plight of the Kansas City Chiefs and debate whether established coaches like Mike Tomlin need refreshing for organizational stagnation.

Short Summary

  • Assess the Chiefs balancing act: Win out for deep playoff run potential, or face an early exit due to defensive slippage.
  • Evaluate if Dak Prescott’s MVP-level regular season performance warrants a Hall of Fame conversation despite past playoff shortcomings.
  • Determine the shelf life of Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh, viewing him as a high-floor coach whose ceiling no longer serves a franchise aiming higher.
  • Review Texas's playoff case, emphasizing performance in marquee matchups over record padding against weaker schedules.
  • Analyze Caleb Williams' concerning rookie accuracy compared to peers like Drake Maye, questioning his immediate ceiling.

This discussion tackles high-stakes NFL standings, quarterback evaluation benchmarks, and the critical nature of scheduling strength in college football playoff seeding. Expect direct opinions on major program trajectory shifts, including Lane Kiffin's move.

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Colin Cowherd is joined by Nick Wright to react to the biggest storylines in sports. They start by reacting to Colin’s top 10 NFL teams. Next, they debate whether Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs will make the playoffs, is Dak Prescott playing at a Hall of Fame level with the Dallas Cowboys, will the Pittsburgh Steelers move off Mike Tomlin, and did Lane Kiffin leave Ole Miss for LSU too early? Next, Colin discusses whether Texas football should make the College Football Playoff, previews the AFC and NFC playoff picture, and the New England Patriots. Finally, Colin discusses Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears. 0:00 Nick Wright 17:58 Texas Football 25:48 NFL Playoffs All lines provided by @hardrockbet Subscribe to The Colin Cowherd Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ColinCowherdPodcast #kansascitychiefs #newenglandpatriots #lanekiffin

Top Comments (10)

@josesomoza3949 2025-12-02

This man blamed the defense but not mahomes going 3 and out 3 straight times near the end of the game. Defense has been bailing them out for years and never got credit but get all the blame.

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@mikeshrader1965 2025-12-02

Nick on the chiefs is like Skip on the cowboys 🤮🤮🤮🤮

95 7 replies
@WMyths 2025-12-02

Nick loves to talk about (insert qb here) can't get it done against Mahomes as if the qbs are facing the same defense. Now that Mahomes doesn't get it done he concedes that defense contributes to the game.

92 2 replies
@rookiebee8628 2025-12-02

He just won't stop talking about the chiefs.... He is the new Skip Bayless

52 12 replies
@ranm1ac 2025-12-02

He couldn’t say anything about the Broncos after he said at the beginning of the year they wouldn’t go to the playoffs and might win 5 games. 😂

50 7 replies
@shezpherd 2025-12-02

Getting less Colin x Nick on the volume so these weekly segments are my favorite watch

38 2 replies
@FMLArtVlog 2025-12-02

Nick makes everything about the chiefs

23 1 replies
@michael141998 2025-12-02

Chiefs aren't even in the hierarchy and Nick still was able to bring them up for 10 minutes

18 2 replies
@patrickrochel9827 2025-12-03

My god the amount of time NFL media spends talking about the Chiefs is just exhausting

16 2 replies
@dredhead117 2025-12-03

Colin: What do you think of Bryce Young beating Matthew Stafford? Nick: *The Chiefs should not have lost the Jaguars game and here's why...*

8 1 replies

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