Peter King Talks Retirement and Why He Thinks The Bears Should Trade The Number 1 Pick l THE HERD

THE HERD – Colin Cowherd welcomes in Peter King fresh off of announcing his retirement. Peter comes in and talks about why he thinks the Bears should trade the number one overall pick and build for the future.

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Salute the great Peter King who’s now joining us live man so so are you going to write another like are you done writing period like you’re never going to put pen to paper again is that true I don’t know I don’t know Colin I mean I’m I just

Decided that I was not going to do my column anymore football morning in America I’ve been doing it online now for 27 years and I just felt like it was probably time to step away from that and quite honestly I have no idea what I’m

Going to do I don’t have any plans I have no uh nobody is talking to me about a job I mean at some point I’ll think about it but I think I’m just going to get bored for a little while that’s not a bad idea well I spent

The week in Rhode Island I would suggest go there eat lobster drink some good beers I did it for a week and I had a ball so if you’re if you don’t know what you’re going to do that’s a good place to start I want I want to go to here

Though so I watched when when I flew back I watched I’ve been watching the documentary Dynasty Jeff Benedict’s great book terrific reporting and I got to tell you bruski’s emotional and funny Randy Moss is hysterical Ty Law is a stand-up comedian Brady is raw um episode four is one of the best docs

I’ve ever seen bellich comes off as a little defiant a little defensive Ernie Adams is incredibly likable even Robert Craft is a billionaire comes across as a guy that loves his Patriots apparently bill doesn’t love how he’s being viewed dud and Peter my Takeaway on this entire

Dock is the more he won the less he smiled is that bill was so engaging early and he’s just not now what did I miss was it Spygate what what happened go back to your 20 years ago when you covered him well you know I haven’t talked to

Him since Spygate because I said and reported some stuff he didn’t like and look I think this I think Bill Bell I think we have to remember one thing about you know this project and that is that you know it was it was a project that Jeff Benedict did and he did it

With the full cooperation of the crafts yeah and with Robert and Jonathan and the whole and and the family and I think that it’s clear there have been times and situations where there was no love lost between the crafts and Bill bellich and my feeling is that if someone had

Done this with the entree of Bill bellich and did it all from Bill bellic’s point of view well you’d probably be seeing a different side of the story I just think it’s human nature honestly that and and and I think it’s human nature to look at a situation and

To basically say that look if if Bill bellich who is hard to love in the first place and if he is a not necessarily tangential figure but if he’s a figure who isn’t the main part of the story you’re probably going to get some parts of that that don’t look good for Bill

Bellich yeah you know it it’s that to Andy Reid and I said I didn’t buy the Andy Reid retiring stories because I don’t know what it is about offensive coaches but many of them are play designers and it’s it’s more of an Artful joyful experience where you’re constantly having to evolve defensive

Coaches is a lot about don’t turn it over dominate the clock and field position offensive guys like Shanahan and and Andy reads literally in the offseason sent me plays he’s drawing up oh we’re got to use this one early in September you got to see this and I I

Look at Andy and I think he’s such a educator and teacher it’s it’s not just momes Andy’s aged very gracefully was did Andy ever have a grumpy side or a difficult side when I because I don’t I mean I know Philadelphia but I didn’t follow him

When he was in his 20s 30s what do you make of the arc for Reed ju toose against bellich I first met Andy Reid in 1995 I was working for Sports Illustrated I was in Green Bay doing a story on the Packers and he came up to me and said

And I don’t remember his exact quote but it’s something like I really wanted to do the job that you have right now when I went to college I wanted to write football for Sports Illustrated and so I’ve known him for almost 30 years and the one thing about Andy Reid that

People I think don’t know well enough is how incredibly imaginative he is yeah and he’s got a coach on his staff Matt neie who everybody was down on him with the bears but this guy is really one of the bright play researchers play designers that there is so much so when

They were struggling against New England in December uh a play that Matt Nei brought to Andy Reid and they put in their offense was from the 1942 Colombia Penn game in the ivy league they called it heis and Patrick momes was lined up in a three-point stance for the first

Time in his NFL career not under Center and it was just a real weird play but it jump started their offense and they ended up beating the Patriots that day that is why in my opinion Andy Reids borderline brilliant because he understands that it’s all not going to

Be pretty and in a year when Kansas City was 15th in the NFL in scoring yeah instead of one or two or three they had trouble all year moving the ball so you know what they did they got really weird and cutesy and imaginative and that guy

On the screen right there Andy Reid with Patrick Mahomes they made it work you know it’s interesting when I got into um you I when I was a kid I wanted to be a baseball announcer and my first job out of college I was a baseball announcer I

Do an inning of play-by-play for the Las Vegas Stars Padre’s affiliate Jack mcken was the GM of the Padres a really funny guy and uh it was a dream job and then I don’t know if it I lived in Vegas it was gambling on football but you’ve been in

This sport long enough to know when you started baseball had more of an imprint on the media the fabric and social currency in America I’m looking at the new salary cap numbers exploding for the NFL Peter I could do 80% of NFL football on my show and my ratings would go up I

Monitor it to not become the NFL Network in Europe opinion it can’t just be the scarcity argument because NFL’s had scarcity forever it can’t just be that I do think gambling has been jet fuel people do not turn off bad games anymore they just keep watching Bad Games but in your

Opinion baseball was here football was here and it’s flipped you’ve covered one you love both what do you think it is is there a primary reason I think that football is the ab absolute perfect television sport it fits into a neat three-hour window and for so long until last year when Theo

Epstein grabbed the tiger by the tail and throttled Major League Baseball and said we’re cutting 20 minutes out of every game and I think they’re going to cut more than that baseball became this plotting yeah boring story that’s what happened to baseball and they’re too many uh establishment baseball guys who

Said there’s nothing wrong with baseball right and it took po Epstein to really change things and look maybe it’s too late I don’t know all I know is now Colin when I look at football and you hear people complain about having to pay 599 for a football game here’s the only

Thing I say about that yes they complain and I’m not saying that they love doing this but why was the Miami uh Kansas City game that was on peacock why did that get significantly better numbers even though it was pay-per-view than the game last year Jacksonville and the Chargers in the

Same time slot I’ll tell you why because the NFL did a smart thing they put Mahomes on pay-per-view yeah they put Tua on pay-per-view they had a great game on pay-per-view and all I’m saying is that people might get upset but people are going to go and find and

Watch these games no matter where they are that’s what the NFL has on sporting Society right now um so you know I was we were I’ve talked about this for a while it’s really interesting to me it’s fascinating the Bears are over a hundred years old and have never had a great

Quarterback Green Bay has had if Jordan loves as good as he looked at the end of the year this will be their fourth and he looked really good and I’m it it is crazy it’s like they just do quarterbacks right receivers right it’s Green Bay draft and develop well and I said

Um I would understand if Caleb Williams did a manninger in laway and said this isn’t going to work for me but um yeah if he did that and I’ve been told by his Camp he’s not going to do that he thinks there’s a way to win it’s

Houston but I mean Eber flu could be out if they start poorly he could be out in s weeks do you think um if knowing Chicago’s history a defensive culture they don’t have a great all-time receiver or quarterback it’s just the way poor owners Stadium issues if you were the agent for Caleb

Williams you’ve been in this league forever would you consider an lway Manning move for him I wouldn’t and I’ll tell you why because I understand that a lot of people think oh Chicago’s the place quarterbacks go to die and I understand that you’ve seen a lot of them do that

There in Chicago however and first of all Colin I will just say I’m absolutely opposed to Chicago taking Caleb Willam Williams because in my opinion you could own the next two drafts by trading the first pick in this draft and getting a ransom for it and I would do that and

Build with eight or 10 picks in the first two rounds in the next two years around Justin Fields who definitely is good enough to win with now having said all that if they do make that move and they do go get Caleb Williams and they build around him it’s an eminently

Winnable uh scenario for them because they’re starting to build and they do now have some pieces in place so and can you imagine if you’re Caleb Williams you’re the first great quarterback since Sid Luckman uh you know to walk down Michigan Avenue it’s it would be an amazing thing he would be

The toast of the town he would own Chicago forget the Cubs the Bears own Chicago when they’re great and I think he would have a great chance to do that yeah I I’m not a Justin Fields fan but I I’ve had too many NFL GMS and scouting

Guys just tell me how good they think Caleb Williams is and he’s not Flawless by the way um he does sometimes Veer toward the spectacular and not take the labs which by the way momes early in his career had a little bit of that but Patrick has been so good the last two

Years just taking underneath stuff and layups I always say this about Jordan Michael Jordan twice a night would make a play you’d never seen but mostly he just hit mid-range jumpers mahom I mean that’s what Michael scored 24 of his points on mid-range jumpers he knew take

What they give you Holmes has become that twice a game I can’t believe what I’m watching and then 24 times a game he throws a curl route for nine yards he just makes the play that’s there that’s right it’s it’s a it’s brilliant yeah he’s got the ability to do things you’ve

Never seen before but he’s so good at knowing when to take the underneath stuff yep finally um I like Russell Wilson I don’t think he’s in his prime but I never thought the Denver situation worked Shawn can be bit cynical outspoken raw uh Russell is almost to a fault

Optimistic and hopeful let’s ride can turn people off some people think it’s inauthentic so I didn’t think the personalities worked um I think Denver is going to go get a bow Knicks or somebody out of college and and Sean’s going to mold him to be his guy but

Russell to the Steelers makes sense to me and I’ll tell you I want you to throw back if you disagree with this or agree Steelers Works he doesn’t have to set a culture in Pitts ber Tomlin does that they’ve got young receivers both are a bit in my opinion outspoken and at times

Immature Russell’s the opposite he’s mature he’s committed he’s efficient he’s refined you can’t send a Justin fields to Pittsburgh he hasn’t refined himself yet Russell’s all refined all efficient all accurate all mature married kids grownup I think Russell and Pittsburgh I love the roster I think

He’s perfect I think it works what say you on that com you you I have been saying this for a month it’s perfect what you just said and the reason is think about it the Pittsburgh Steelers can employ Russell Wilson for $1.2 million this year it is a pro It season

For Russell Wilson you know they were down on him uh in in Seattle at the end he goes to Denver it doesn’t work um you know in year one and it really doesn’t work in year two so now everybody’s saying okay is Russell Wilson done or can he be salvaged so Russell Wilson

Goes to Pittsburgh and look it makes no sense for the Steelers to go into this season this coming season uh with the two quarterbacks the two incumbents um you know picket and Rudolph that they have makes no sense whatsoever not in a division with burrow Lamar Jackson and DeShaun Watson it’s

Nonsensical to do that you almost get a free look for a year with Russell Wilson yeah and what if he’s really good what if he’s really good married to Arthur Smith for this year and then they end up keeping him it’s like they got a free quarterback who one day is probably

Going to the Hall of Fame and just I you know to me it makes all the sense in the world and I really hope that it happens all right Peter so you got to sleep in I read your column this morning I thought I got up early 3 in the morning for the

Love of God you you gota you know what no caffeine after 4 in the afternoon I know you love coffee no more late caffeine you need to sleep through the night hydrate hang out with your dogs and your family