Rams-Lions reaction: Goff gets revenge vs. McVay, Matt Stafford best QB in NFC | Colin Cowherd NFL

welcome to the official YouTube channel for the Colin coward podcast go on hit the Subscribe button there you go right down there if you want to be among the first to hear my weekly takes NFL college football more right [Music] there all right let's start with the Rams Lions these Standalone NFL games are insane I mean you had over 700 100 yards of offense tonight over 500 passing yards Between the Lions and the Rams Matt Stafford and Jared gof uh about five and a half yards a play if you average the two teams let's see 46 first downs and no fumbles each quarterback threw a pick a time of possession was even first of all Shawn McVey and Matt Stafford and Cooper cup no puka neua he got hurt both your offensive tackles are out makeshift offensive line to go into Detroit Sunday night football against the Super Bowl level team in Detroit and really I thought they had the game one in regulation what a performance by Stafford Cooper cup and Shawn McVey who's a rock star um in the end though I felt like Detroit when it went to overtime I'm like okay now it's Detroit's game the rams look tired sometimes and Chris Collinsworth made a great Point you're not really built in week one to go to overtime in a game that's a track meet it's just only so much you I don't know who I don't have the betting lines next week but I mean the Rams and the Lions if they if they were a little off next week you'd understand it but I my first take is the Rams I mean I wrote These numbers down at one point they had a 28 to 12 first down Advantage uh on the road 400 yards 300 passing yards dominating time of possession and a 78 to 45 total play Advantage at one point in this game but credit a very deep now experienced Lions team like they're they're not New Kids on the Block Green Bay is still young Rams are actually pretty young San Francisco's older but the Detroit's got a veteran Club here and now a veteran coaching staff with Ben Johnson and Dan Campbell so I think it was just a team like the Rams gave it everything they had but they're they they looked really shot in overtime and to the Lions credit they just ran the ball right at him they didn't F around at all they went right at the Rams uh interior dline and it worked um you know I think one of the things I'm I'm always taken by is how good Matt Stafford is and we all know he's good but I've said this before if Matt Stafford and the Rams and remember what you saw from the Rams tonight's impressive puka AA will be back um they'll have both their offensive tackles uh their guard will go back to playing Center they'll be a better team plus they're incredibly Young on the defensive side I mean they got two rookies starting on that defensive front give those guys 12 15 games this Ram team by the end of the year you don't want any part of this is a really good team the difference is the lions are supposed to be good now and they got outplayed for big chunks of this football game um one of the things I worry about with the Lions is they don't have a ton of wide receiver depth so they got to keep amaran St Brown um healthy um they don't have a lot of depth there and the Rams did pick them apart even though I think they're a better team in the back end Rams and maybe it's just the Rams Cooper cup can do that Rams kind of picked him apart for long stretches in that football game again the Rams had a 78 to 45 play Advantage at one point and were dominating time of possession so it's one of those things Detroit I didn't think played particularly well in the second half and they won the game I thought the Rams were brilliant a heartbreaking loss when you really outplayed A Team on the road a great team on Sunday Night Football you lose that's a long flight back to LA but I think what you're looking at is two excellent teams two teams that can meet again in the NFC Championship wouldn't be surprised in the least would not be surprised in the least um you know the other thing I think is is fair to say what we saw in week one week one's crazy I mean I I thought I had the right side in the Titans game and will Lis good hell was that a bad pick um week one's crazy again Dallas looked sensational um Cincinnati looked awful uh you don't take too much from it but I do feel like tonight watching that game I'm watching two Super Bowl level teams once the Rams get their offensive line healthy in everybody's back watch out they draft and develop so well they got so many good young players on that team they're really really young not Green Bay young but really really young and I guess my overall take now San Francisco plays the Jets tomorrow but my overall take on Sunday Thursday and Friday um is you know outside of Cincinnati uh the teams we think are going to be pretty good or good and the teams that we think are going to be bad like the New York Giants are pretty bad um we'll get into New England later I don't know what to make of it I mean you don't have a lot of the Weaponry for Cincinnati so you know you just don't you know it's hard to make make a big sweeping judgment but I feel like tonight um in a weird way I look at what the Rams did without their tackles and their makeshift on line against that Detroit team starting two rookies up front defensively that that's the most impressive loss I mean Baltimore losing on Thursday is an impressive loss that's that Ram lost tonight that's a pretty good loss right you can lose like Cleveland lost or like Carolina lost or like the Giants lost or Washington lost but this tonight I mean you go back and look at film you did a lot right against an excellent Lions team the fact you could block that front at all with backups everywhere is a testament to how well coached uh the Rams are man that was fun the Thursday Standalone the Friday Standalone this and then tomorrow we get Aaron Rogers against the ners you want to know why this league is King you watched it tonight NFL week one is here and a new season means new ways to get in on the 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watching Stafford tonight he went 34 for 49 for 3177 yards and a touchdown a pass rush in his face in the second half he went 18 of 23 for 200 yards and again he's under duress Jared gof had a much cleaner pocket and I'm sitting there watching Matt Stafford and I'm thinking if you're the Rams for the next couple of years in the draft why draft a quarterback just stack the roster who are you going to get in the draft that's as good as this guy I know he's older but when I watched them tonight on the road pass rush I mean it's it's basically Cooper cup he didn't have Tyler higgy his top tight end he's banged up he didn't have puka AA he didn't have his tackles he's putting on a clinic you're not going to face many pass rushes certainly tonight you're not going to face many environments in this league harder than that and this guy's 18 for 23 in the second half so you know I was sitting as I watch the game and I'm thinking what I mean move he's never been a big mover he moves well enough in the pocket his arm's great I mean he's clearly going a thousand miles an hour cognitively upstairs he's got an incredible relationship with um Cooper cup and pukaa now they got Jordan winning this other receiver they bring in Tyler Johnson who I thought was kind of a cast off I think he was in Tamp at one point he had a huge play tonight and I'm just think I'm looking at this team and I'm thinking the defense is Young Stafford's the old guy but I don't know if I draft a quarterback if I'm the Rams I would definitely draft a tackle Robin havenstein didn't play tonight right tackle he's getting up there and I would get another wide receiver but I mean last year five of their six top picks are defense so there's no reason you know they are very close um I think they could get to the Super Bowl I don't know if they're as good as Kansas City I don't know if they're as good as Baltimore I don't know but they're certainly in a group of four or five teams that could get there five or six teams maybe so I I just you're watching Stafford I'm watching Stafford that guy doesn't look close to retirement he doesn't look close everybody loves Aaron Rogers he's off a major surgery Kurt cousin's off a major surgery Stafford's gotten his hand banged on the hel hel his shoulders been banged up but I'm just looking at these numbers tonight in that pass rush on the road in that environment I'm just loading the roster up I'm I'm I'm do I'm I'm redoing his contract you gonna pay you g pay daak $60 million a year I'm writing checks for staff for the next two years seriously I'm not drafting another quarterback I'm not wasting my time on a draft pick at the top I'm I'll get him another tackle another receiver another Edge rusher he does look close to being over I think there's a I think there's a real argument he's the best quarterback in the NFC I I'm trying to think I mean you watched him with Goff tonight Stafford's better Brock prie give me a break Dak no Stafford's more talented better armed Talent Jaylen Herz Stafford I mean just you know you you tell me I think he's the best quarterback in the NFC oh by the way with mcy which is I mean if you're if you're if you're taking everything in consideration on if you're going to move off a quarterback and you say well he does have maybe the smartest offensive coach I think that can ex that can extend it another year or two if you told me that Matt Stafford's starting upright in three years he's not 40 I don't know I you're watching tonight I don't think he's close to over FM picks go get him pel don't draft a quarterback [Music]