all right it is time for another edition of overreaction monday rich eyes and long with chris brockman good to see you christopher we say hello to everybody who's watching us on our youtube channel youtube.com slash rich eyes and show or the cut down version hello on espn2 or listening to us however you get your podcasts and week eight almost completely in the books Man, oh, man. Recording this before the Monday nighter between the Chiefs and the Commanders. Almost halfway through. I don't think I'm overreacting to say that's a bummer. Yeah, season's flying, man.
I don't like it. Although for half of my fantasy teams, can't end soon enough. Agreed. Hit it. Hit it.
Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage. This place sucks.
Overreaction. Mondays. Monday. All right, Christopher, let's start us off. What do you have?
Rich, let's start in Baltimore. AFC North. The Ravens saved their season on Sunday. Can I guess what you're going to say? Sure.
Can I guess? Sure. Ravens are going to win the AFC North. They are going to win the AFC North, Rich. What have I been telling you?
You know what? What have I been telling you? You have been saying it for a while, and I didn't want to believe it because, you know, they've looked terrible. Yes. And then, you know, Snoop Huntley's going to go, and the Bears have won four straight.
But the Bears are fugazi, and the Ravens are back. I don't know about if the Bears are.
Well, the Bears are... We'll talk about the Bears later. I don't know if you're talking about Bears being Fugazi in terms of winning their division. I think the clear class of the division is Green Bay and Detroit. Totally agree.
But let's not stray off the subject matter. No, let's stick to Baltimore. Having spent the last couple of weeks pointing out... Just pounding the table. ...that if Lamar Jackson comes back healthy, they can go on a nice run because nobody else is running away with the division.
Now, that said, I did mention how Jake Browning was going to keep the season afloat for the Cincinnati Bengals, only to have Joe Flacco be acquired and seemingly have him be the one to keep the season afloat, only to lose to the Jets at home after leading by 15 points entering the fourth quarter. But again, I stray. I stray because I can't help but raise my hand and say, of course, I'm not perfect.
Well, I'll, you know, put a pin in that. Yes, Christopher, this is not an overreaction. You know what I have been saying. I know what you've been saying. Snoop Huntley came up big.
I don't know how they won that game. Snoop Huntley came up big. You have to be wondering if somewhere, the entire front office is kicking themselves for hiring Cooper Rush, who has hardly a single piece of connective tissue in the offense to Lamar Jackson rather than Snoop Huntley, who's as closer to Lamar Jackson than Cooper Rush could ever be. And Snoop comes up big in a way that Cooper Rush did not. That said, yes, Chris, this team at two and five right now, okay, only two games behind the Steelers who they have yet to play, yet to play.
and Lamar's coming back for week nine against the Dolphins, which is not a homecoming now all of a sudden. Right.
Well, I don't know. This is all, hey, overreaction Monday is all about recency bias, sir. True. But even with me trying to be as even keeled as possible, I think the Ravens are going to go on a nice run. Do we have their schedule?
Yeah, their schedule lines up so perfectly over the next six weeks for them to be in first place here. Starting with that Thursday nighter to kick off week nine at Miami. They visit Minnesota again. We'll see how my guy J.J. McCarthy does.
They're at Cleveland. Three in a row on the road. Your Patriots just pulled off a 3-0 road trip, including, you know, some games against some opponents that they're supposed to beat. Like these are in front of you. Home for the Jets.
Home for the Bengals. Two left with the Bengals. two left with Pittsburgh brother that one against New England um I don't know what the week 16 game is on NBC but I'm wondering if that would be a flex game good call because your pats are on fire but at any rate um they save their season yes they save their season yes and uh winning the AFC North I'll give it to you I think more importantly yeah yeah Pittsburgh you know we're going to talk about Sunday night in a second you know they don't look like world beaters the defense really can't stop anyone. They're horrible against the pass. And, you know, Rogers is kind of game managing along.
Look at you being one and O to start this edition of overreaction. All right. Let's see how you feel because I want to talk about Sunday night football next, but I want to talk about a very specific part of it late in the game. Aaron Rogers, maybe he throws a touchdown replay assist comes in. I don't like it.
It's time to ditch coaches challenge system. All replay assist all the time. They really bailed out the Steelers because in that situation, Pittsburgh should have challenged, but they were out of timeouts. They were out of timeouts.
So it just seemed like we're picking and choosing which teams we're helping with when we chime in on replay assist. No, no, no. Yes, that's how it seems. That is how it seems. That's an overreaction maybe to what's going on in the NBA as well.
Okay? It's not like they're picking and choosing, oh, wait a minute, the Steelers have been in the league forever. But you're opening up that criticism. And we love the Roonies, so let's challenge right now. You're opening up that Pandora's box to give that impression.
I understand what you're opening up. Because when do they chime in? It's not the same across the board. Oh, so Pittsburgh's out of timeouts. Oh, replay assist.
That's a touchdown. But Chris, now it would be under that mindset. The fact that sometimes replay assist doesn't chime in soon enough because they don't humanly have the ability to get the angle that they need before the next team before the next snap by the team that's trying to avoid a review and suddenly now replay assist didn't chime in there so they must be playing favorites there it's just another different version of what you're um i guess slapping onto replay assist for being biased terry mccauley explained it to the best that he could the rules official of sunday night football to say when it is clear and obvious and they have the ability to see it they will chime in period end of story under under the uh rules about what they can chime in about can't chime in about a penalty uh if it isn't something to do with a 15 yarder or roughing or anything like that or uh they they can deal with a 12 men on the field sort of situation although i don't know if they'll ever chime in to they can't chime in to put a flag on the field either so um that's the issue is what is reviewable by replay assist and when can they chime in or do they chime in that's still a gray area with the fan base and that's why you know the league always prior prior to the season has meetings with folks who call games or folks who talk about games right and says to them this is the way it works can you please be the individuals who get it right when you have to explain it in real time to fans who might think there's something up that's not on the up and up we have the technology we have the ability to do it take the coach's challenge system away and just have replay assist chime in all the time when there's a wonky looking play i i again what happened two weeks ago with the lions and the bucks where something was uh uh where there was a line to gain issue and a catch issue at the same time with kate out and reaching out for the ball to try and find that first down it's ruled a first down lines challenge whether he could actually catch was it a catch or not because of the way that he reached out and could he did he maybe not maintain control throughout sort of a des caught it situation and uh under review when you open something up for review everything that's possibly reviewable becomes reviewable so it comes back oh by the way yeah it's a it's it's a catch but guess what not a first down because we were able to now review it didn't have the angles to do it using replay assist but now we had the extra time because the coach threw a challenge flag to actually get it right and that is ultimately what we want getting it right and last night with roman wilson from team 144 national champion it was the right call that it was a catch replay assist came in because they could they had the opportunity to see it it was real clear and obvious to call it they were able to see it fast and come in and make the call even though under the prior to replay assist existing rules that Steelers didn't have any timeouts left and they would have been SOL and I understand what you're saying but this is the way it is right now and it sure isn't used because one team is liked more than another by the league office. You leave that door open to those thoughts, you know, floating around. Us up to folks like us to get it right.
I'm just telling you what the people are saying. I understand what the people are saying, but you're one of the people, so get it right, Chris. Overreaction. Think the Bengals would have got that call?
Okay, very good. Overreaction. Rich, Indianapolis, absolute wagon. I love watching this team play, and I didn't think I would be saying that two months ago. They cannot be stopped on offense, and the Big reason is 2-8.
Jonathan Taylor is the MVP of the NFL through eight weeks. That's correct. I didn't stutter. That's correct. This dude is awesome That correct That is not an overreaction sir And I have some numbers to back it up Oh my God I mean first of all Daniel Jones is playing very very very well Very well.
Okay. He's the only players with 100 or more passer rating in each of their first eight games of the season in the history of the NFL are Brady and Rodgers. They won MVP in their years. They did it of 07 and 2011. Jones has seven games now with 100 or more passer ratings.
That's already a career high for a season for him. He's got two or more passing touchdowns in four straight games. That's the longest of his career. Aaron Rodgers did 100 or more passer rating in seven of the first eight games of his season in 2020. He won the MVP that year.
So those are some MVP. That's an MVP stat in favor of Daniel Jones.
Now that I've paid him his respect and I have delivered the flowers to him, Let me tell you why you're right. And this is not an overreaction with Jonathan Taylor. Three or more touchdowns in four of the first eight games of this season. That's ridiculous. That is correct.
The only players with more of an entire season. An entire season. With Daniel Tomlinson. That's correct, with six. Sean Alexander?
No, Marshall Falk with five. And Chuck Foreman with five. Oh, yeah, of course. Falk and Tomlinson won MVP in their respective seasons. Foreman's the only one on this list who didn't.
Because Jim Brown did it in four games of a season, and Sean Alexander did it in four games of a season, just like Jonathan Taylor has through eight. Wow. And they, in 1965, Jim Brown and Alexander in 05, respectively, won the MVP of the National Football League season. And the only one who's done what Jonathan Taylor has done, which three or more touchdowns in four of the first eight games of the season, is an individual who, Gene Choo Choo Roberts? Yeah.
Are you a big fan of his? Big fan. Poster on the wall growing up. For the 1949 New York Giants. Wow.
His 80-yard touchdown run, a career long for him. Tenth career rushing touchdown of 40 more yards for Taylor, most by any player prior to turning 27 ever. And here's one as well, just to give you a career awesome level for Jonathan Taylor. It was his 63rd rushing touchdown of his career. That's tied with Hall of Famer Lenny Moore for the second most in the history of the Colts franchise.
One behind Hall of Famer Edron James. he's going to own the franchise record by a wide ass margin. He's incredible. Incredible. I can't believe I told you when he lasted to the second round, I'm like, what is the rest of this league thinking?
Cause I'm a Michigan guy. He's one of, I mean, if I had a top five list of players that I just wanted out of the big 10 to go pro, he's one of them. Saquon's another one. Garrett Wilson wasn't one of them. Zeke was one of them.
I mean, good Lord. He's on a pace for 1,800 yards this year. I mean, 2,000 is a possibility. Listen, the Colts have the best record in the NFL, and they have the best player on offense in the NFL. Normally, that's an Offensive Player of the Year award for a running back because that's the MVP award for running backs.
Yeah, the odds he's running away with that. But I agree with you. If I had to vote for the MVP right now halfway through the season, it'd be him. Yeah, he needs to be talked about. What else you got over there?
Speaking of MVPs. Yes, sir. I've seen what's going on in Boston. Oh, rich Drake may and the Patriots. Oh, that's, it's fantastic.
I'm not going to bore you with more. More Drake may talk, even though I called that weeks ago, the Patriots aren't going away as serious AFC contenders. I agree. You are what you are. As Bill Parcells, former Patriots coach once said, you are what you are.
And what they are, are, um, is a first place team that is destroying the opponents that they're supposed to beat. Um, right now, just chewing them up and spit them out. Yeah, the schedule's bad. Look, I get it. Who have they beaten?
I totally understand. No, you still have to beat the teams that are in front of you. You still have to beat them. And that's a world-class Cleveland defense that they tore apart in the second half. Perfect example.
The Bengals coming off of that hot win against the Steelers on a Thursday night. They're up 31-16 on the Jets who haven't won a single game all season long, whose owner is calling out the quarterback, and they lose.
so if if you're like boy the bengal screwed that up you can't sit there and say to the patriots who have you really beaten uh i'm sure there are are many who will and you take a look at their schedule moving forward um next up is home for atlanta which suddenly now looks terrible gosh they're all right now here's the next one at tampa because you go because tampa's going to be coming off their buy and hopefully for them be be a little healthier bucky irving maybe he's going to be back for that game um and and so on and so forth that's that's that's a real significant test right there no doubt um division games are ahead and you might shrug your shoulders you know with the jets coming in but clearly they haven't given up on their season there's no u-haul backing up um so you know there's that one against buffalo at home and then at baltimore so new england's going to have some tests but you see the rest of them right there even if they split their remaining games, which would be kind of surprising. You're talking about a 10-11 win team right now. Right.
So that's definitely good enough to maybe win their division, depending on what happens with Buffalo. And certainly have a shot to go deep into the playoffs by having one, if not two, home games in Gillette.
So, yeah, certainly. But even if they're the five or 16, you want to see Drake May come into your house? Listen, and just wild card weekend.
Well, I don't know if he's going to go into anyone's house wild card weekend. You might go into his, but that win in Buffalo is the one that they're going to be hanging their hat on. Certainly if, you know, because Buffalo doesn't look like they're as dominant as anyone else. And I understand they just destroyed Carolina. But we'll see if they can return to what they looked like the last several years.
And if this is a harbinger for them. It seems like they need to make a move, get a receiver. But real quick here, because I know we need to move on. Drake May is doing things week by week that the last person to have done it is Brady, or he's doing things even Brady didn't do. And in that respect, having three or more passing touchdowns and no incompletions in a single half, which is what he did in the second half, eight for eight, 114 pass yards, perfect passer rating, three touchdowns, no interceptions against the Browns.
Okay. With Miles Garrett just dominating all over the place. He had five sacks.
So it's not like he was just sitting back there in a lawn chair. Right.
Okay. You know, have a sandwich. Drake May is the first Patriots quarterback to do that this century. And we know who that includes. Doug Flutie.
It's the 14th such instance league-wide this century, including playoffs of somebody having a perfect second half. That also includes three passing touchdowns and no incompletions.
So there's that. Yeah, he leads the NFL in passer rating. He's got the 200 yards, 100 passer rating now in seven straight games. It's unbelievable. Not an overreaction.
And the deep ball hit again, as Kurt Warner said. Those are handoffs. Yeah, I mean, in that respect, according to the old next-gen stats, he has more passing, deep passes, 20 or more air yards. Drake May has more passing touchdowns, five, than incompletions, four, all season.
So not an overreaction. All right, let's move on and go to the team that they played on Sunday. You know, we've been waiting for it, I guess, since the draft. I think it's time. It's time to see what Shador Sanders looks like for the Cleveland Browns.
Listen, they need something. They need a spark. Dylan Gabriel. The offense is not. Dylan, it's very rare to see a safety taken by a quarterback standing in the middle of his end zone, checking it down to nobody.
That's what happened. And when you see something like that, it's like, can't do much worse than that. Where it's like the rule is you're in the pocket, you're standing in the middle of your end zone, and you're checking it down to nobody. And you don't even get it past the line of scrimmage. But, you know, that said, you know how I feel about Shadour, and I understand this is the old low-hanging fruit.
I think it's only a matter of time where they must do their due diligence now to get it done. And I understand, you know, you've got a rest of the team that you need to buy in to the rest of the season being more than just a laboratory for the future. Certainly, if they're thinking the coach might not be there or the general manager might not be there. Certainly if all the uncertainty about the future is front and center. And I know that one of those veterans that you'd have to get to buy in on this front is somebody who just had five sacks of an individual in a blowout loss anyway in Miles Garrett.
But I'm just wondering if the front office will say, well, guess what? You know what merits your buy is us buying your services The million When you were saying you never wanted to play another down for us And we gave you the bag and you took it And, you know, Miles Garrett had to know that. That had to be in the back of his head going through his temples as he's sitting wherever he sat to sign the contract that caused him to stay in Cleveland. And I'm just wondering if at any point in time, And Miles Garrett is sitting around and saying to himself, certainly if he's watching Sunday night football in week eight, watching Micah Parsons do his thing for a team that's five, one and one atop the NFC right now in the green Bay Packers that he as, you know, as we saw was positioned just like Micah, I want out, not playing for you anymore. And he got the exit visas.
and he's doing his thing with a real shot at the Super Bowl and Miles Garrett has to sit there and go, all right, do you want to change quarterbacks for a second time this year? You want to start the fifth-round rookie, regardless of his last name? All right, I got to buy in. And I'm wondering if that's what's going on in Cleveland. But sure, whether it's this week or not, the Browns are kind of mandated to see what they can get out of Shadour Sanders.
Yeah, I think so. Certainly since some fans wouldn't mind seeing it, and you'd love to get some buy-in from the fans. That is for sure at this point in time. What else you got over there? Rich, I'm looking at, I'm already thinking about playoffs.
We're almost halfway through the season. And you look at which divisions are going to get multiple teams and who's only going to get the one team. I think the NFC and AFC South, one playoff team each. Yeah. Some teams are falling by the wayside.
I've been telling you about one in the NFC South. for a while now. Yeah, but it did look like Pettix had something going there. And it's still time. Carolina had something going where they could get in the mix.
But after this week, we could go glass half full for the Falcons right now. But, you know, and I know they didn't have Drake London yesterday either. But for Kirk Cousins to just lay a big fat golden egg or the offense lay a big fat golden egg with Kirk Cousins at the controls was highly disappointing. Certainly because the reason why you didn't trade Cousins and you're keeping him around is because he's the best option, A, that you had, and B, maybe if we went into the season, okay, if we went into the season ranking, power ranking the backup quarterbacks, Kirk Cousins would be number one. For sure.
Okay, right? And then he gets a shot, and they have their worst offensive game of the year. Looks completely washed. They're not just the worst offensive game of the year. their worst offensive game in, in, in many a moon.
I think I have a statistic on that front. I'm sure you do. I bet basically I'm like, well, let's go let glass half full. And then I'm going the glass half empty here. It's their largest home loss in four years.
And they, they, they have three games at 10 or fewer points in this year.
So it, what it's just part and parcel of what they've been struggling on offense on occasion. And this was supposed to be better. and and B. John had a season low 48 scrimmage yards fewer scrimmage yards in a game for him in two years and so you know it's supposed to be better but well this should have been a homecoming game Dolphins coming in absolutely reeling with quarterback head coach issues their defense couldn't stop anything I mean B. John if you look at you know some of the fantasy projections was you know it's gonna be a 200 yard you know total yard day for him and like you said he didn't even get to 50.
All right. Still there. Three and four. Atlanta's got to go up to New England next week. Good luck.
They better put pressure. I was suggesting here is they better put pressure on Drake May, but somebody sacked him five times yesterday and they still blew him out. That's going to be a tough one at my house. That's true. That's true.
I hear you. And then there's that game in Berlin against the Colts.
So that's not looking great. That's not looking great. And they've already lost their home game in week one to Tampa. Their Our next game at Tampa is a Thursday night short week in week 15. After a month where they're home for Carolina after the Berlin game at New Orleans at the Jets home for Seattle.
It doesn't look great. And Carolina is way too up and down to catch Tampa. I think Tampa's got that division. And then the AFC South. I mean, Jacksonville would just, you know, hopefully they've fixed their penalty taking problem.
23 penalties in the two losses before their buy, including the one that I saw in London against the Rams. I don't think they're going to catch Indianapolis. And then on top of it, you've got the AFC West going to get multiple teams. AFC East going to get multiple teams. Looks like it now.
That looks like it. I mean, so not an overreaction. What else you got over there, Christopher? Rich, looking at the, let's keep talking about playoffs. When I look at the NFC and I look at the standings, this is the seven we're going to get.
The NFC playoffs are locked. These are the seven teams we're going to see in January. All right. Well, I have to put them up. I can have it right here in front of, Oh, there we go.
It's a playoff picture. Eagles, Bucks, Seahawks. Is this their first playoff picture graphic? Lions, Rams, 49ers. It is.
Yeah. These are the seven we're getting. Packers, Eagles, Bucks, Seahawks, Lions, Rams, 49ers. Lock it. And the sniffing it category, that's what we got to say here, okay?
Yeah, we, yeah, yeah. It's not in the hunt. Right, we're sniffing it. We're sniffing it. They're sniffing it.
Bears, Panthers, Cowboys, Falcons, Vikings, Commanders, which one of them is going to jump up and knock one of these seven out? Man, this is a good one, Chris. You just got to figure the odds are that somebody's going to hop up and take somebody out of the top seven here. Who's it going to be? But if you look at all the sniffing at teams, they all have major issues.
They don't play consistently enough. Right.
Or complimentary football, which is the phrase that you use to say when offense and defense are clicking at the same level. But if you look at the Cowboys. Yeah, exactly. Quarterback play in the best offense, that's Dallas, but they can't stop a cold. How about this one?
How about this one? I'll give you one to come out of the mist. I'll give you the Vikings. Is that just because you want to believe in J.J. McCarthy?
even though he's shown you one out of eight quarters? Not an overreaction. But it's also the biggest mystery. For sure.
Right? For sure.
It's also the biggest mystery where someone can catch fire. You know, maybe Panix comes back, the Falcons pull it together and look like the team. But are they going to jump San Francisco? I don't know. I mean, the problem for them is they've already lost there.
So that's a tie-break issue for them in a wild-card situation. you know could they be the team that that jumps up and shows up like the team that beat buffalo you know um you know they they they beat the commanders in in at home yeah but i don't see seattle falling off defense is too good sam darnold's you know so yeah i mean atlanta atlanta could maybe do it because washington has got too many losses against teams that they're going to have to catch in Washington's already lost to green Bay. They lost to Atlanta and lost to Chicago lost to Dallas already. Yeah. So I can't choose Washington, even though Daniels is going to come back and maybe they can put it together.
I, I guess those are the two that I choose, but other than this, I don't think this is an overreaction right now. What's happening right now. We're agreeing. I don't know. We're agreeing too much.
I like the pods where we don't agree. All right. Well, let's finish strong three left.
Okay. What do you got? Really disappointing showing from the bears in Baltimore. I thought they had a real opportunity to kind of keep this thing going. Yes.
Keep the playoff push going. And I think at this point it's fair to question. It's unclear whether Caleb is the bears quarterback of the future. No, I'm still not there yet. It's still the first year.
He's been bad for the last like three weeks. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not going to go there yet. It's still, it's this one. i'll disagree with you uh it's still there's still time there's still time the problem is last year was the time where some of these ups and downs struggles he needed to go through that last year so this year he looks like drake may instead he just looks like a slightly better version of last year um and let's just see give it some time it's still you know first of all The Bears, if you want to put up their schedule as well, you know, the Bears are still above 500 through the first seven games of their season, which I think they would assign for going in. Certainly after they started 0-2, you know, they absolutely would assign for that.
But a one-point win barely against Vegas and a one-point win barely against Washington. They're at Cincinnati where the Jets just ran for 240-something yards against them. Yeah, DeAndre Swift should eat, but that's not because of Caleb. home for the giants. Let's give it some time here.
It's only just seven games that he's played with his new quarterback, whisperer coach, give Ben, Ben Johnson some time. I get it. But here's the issue that, that Caleb is facing. And it just goes back to how great the quarterback class is.
Okay. You got Jane Daniels last year goes to the NFC championship game. Drake may this year. Looks like an MVP. Bo Nix looks like, I know, you know, the second coming of, you know, an athletic drew breed, like everything there.
He's going to be compared to these other guys who are, have really excelled and have, you know, won a lot of games in this league. True. No and so I will just say this Bo Nix I said this to him in London I like do you realize how lucky you are that you got drafted into this league and are hooked up with a coach that A, isn't going anywhere, and B, is Sean Payton?
Okay. Like, are you aware of how he didn't stutter? He goes, of course. Of course he does. And, you know, J.J.
McCarthy gets hurt. Michael Penix doesn't start right away and he doesn't have some sort of quarterback whisperer. He doesn't have a head coach who is an offensive guy, whether that matters or not. It doesn't, well, is a thing of, you know, whether you feel as if it's important for your head coach to be an offensive-minded guy. Right.
Sort of like what Knicks has. And that's what Caleb now has. Didn't have that last year. it's not the issue of what everyone else is looking like in year two it's the fact that year one for him was a toilet flush other than the fact that he just learned how to get his ass beat and not say anything about it that's about it now you got a new you got a guy who's come in and just had seven games of them and they're four and three let's just let's not throw and also take a look at the rest of the league where I understand Darnold and golf and Baker had to leave to find their spots. I'm worried.
This is another worried yet in terms of first year toilet flush next year. And then it just doesn't get there. I'm worried. This is another Trevor Lawrence situation brewing with Caleb Williams noted for the moment overreaction. What else you got?
Two more. Speaking of quarterbacks who had to go somewhere else and are now having a little bit of success. Justin Fields had a week last week. Yes. The owner, the comments from Woody Johnson, and then, you know, hear him talk after the game about how he was, you know, alone in his closet, you know, all emotional about what he was going through.
Right.
He said it had nothing to do with football, though. I get it, but I don't know how it could have not at least seeped in there a little bit. I got you. I hear you. Justin Fields is going to be the Jets starting quarterback in 2026.
All right. Now that's an overreaction. That's just an overreaction. It's an overreaction. although i will say this okay um he's the only qualified quarterback meaning games played as many games that he's played seven and the attempts that he's had right only such quarterback in the nfl to have zero interceptions at present only one he hasn't thrown an interception yet um he wasn't sacked this week for the first time all season he'd been sacked 22 times going um into this game but i will just say this about justin fields as that's one tough son of a gun to hear what he's what he heard um secondhand as you know because he did tell us prior to our broadcast in london against the broncos that he has in fact removed all social media apps from his phone and he's happier for it smart man um but when you hear what you heard from the man who signs the checks to be able to, and also having your starting status question and basically getting the start this past week, apparently by default, because Terod Taylor was hurt.
You have to wonder would he even have started if Terod Taylor was available, and you know what your best ability is, right? Right.
So his availability to flush everything, to use the phrase that we've used a lot during this podcast and this show this week for him to be able to just flush it all and show up and be down 15 and help lead a comeback not turn it over again that's a very important thing that i was talking about right here no interceptions because it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if you're running the football like the jets did to the tune of 240 plus yards. Yeah, Brees Hall, eight.
Okay. It doesn't matter if you're running as well as you're running the football. And if you're going to, your quarterback's going to then throw an interception and turn it over or you're, you're running it great and you fumble it. That's the way their Monday night loss in Miami happened. Right.
Where they look, fumble it on the one yard line.
So kudos to him, a gutsy performance under the circumstances to come up with that win. And it's well-deserved because they're trying their asses off, you can see. And congrats to Aaron Glenn getting his first win. But for the moment, the owner, I think, has already formed his opinion. And unless Justin Fields just plays lights out and the Jets aren't in the top five of the draft because they've won so much and that you see just a significant uptick, certainly he did it without Garrett Wilson and Josh Reynolds, the top two targeted wide receivers on his roster.
The owner, I think, has made his up his mind. You could hear, and he puts on his thumb on a scale on occasion. I don't think you can guarantee he's going to be the starter next year just because he won one game under the circumstances under which you want it. That's an overreaction. Let's finish up strong.
All right, last one. And this is an Eagles topic, even though it's going to be about the division. they look far and away the best team in the NFC East. There's something about the drama and the chaos that unites them in an interesting way. And AJ Brown did not play, but Jalen hurts had his best.
You could say his best game of the year. And the NFC East is only getting one playoff team and it's the Philadelphia Eagles. I don't think that's an overreaction either. I mean, you take a look at the sniffing it category and the NFC standards. You want to put it up one more time.
We don't even have the Giants on the screen there. And there's the Cowboys and Commanders at 10 and 13 overall. That Cowboys lost in the way they lost it. I was mentioning over and over again throughout, you know, on flagship show is that if they win this one, if they could win in Denver and go to four, three, and one, and then go home and take on Arizona on a Monday night in week nine by week 10, Monday night or in Vegas week 11, and they'd welcome in the Eagles in week 12 as potentially a 6-14 because the Eagles now on a bye, while the Cowboys have the Cardinals on a Monday nighter, they then come out of their bye at Green Bay and then home for Detroit before visiting Dallas. They could be 6-4.
Let's say Dallas goes to 5-4-1. I mean, that's the best-case scenario for Dallas right now to go into week 12. Right.
or go into week 13 potentially leading the division. But Dallas just plays two up and down, man. Defensively, they just have trouble stopping people. And I don't know what trade deadline deal the Cowboys are going to do to pull anything off to change that game for them. I don't know what they could do.
I just gave you the scenario in which this would not be – That this would be not an overreaction, right? Or an overreaction. I just gave you the way that Dallas could climb back here. But they play too inconsistent. And the way the Eagles can play, if Saquon is alive.
Well, that's the Saquon we've been waiting for. If the 2024 Saquon has now arrived in 2025, they could go into Green Bay and win that one. And they certainly can beat Detroit at home.
So we'll see. but right now it sure looks like the eagle is going to be the only nfc east team and you're going to get three out of the west seattle rams and the niners you're going to get one out of the south and two out of the north and that's your playoff field right there those are your three wild card teams two from the west one from the north and straight up east and south division winners this kind of dovetails with the previous statement that the seven that's are currently in for the nfc playoffs are the ones that you're going to yeah i wanted to talk about the eagles in this show do you think they are the one seed or do you think green bay still has enough um green bay looked really good on sunday night well again that's what makes this game against the eagles when the eagles come off their bye week that big that's what makes that game so big Even though the tie that the Packers have separates them in a way, with just the one loss, they could just use that tie to their advantage.
So I don't know yet. You know the way I feel that the Lions could be the one seed anyway. Those two games, man, against the Lions and the Packers for the Eagles are big and will tell a lot.
So I will just put a pin in it for the moment and say, good show, sir. Good show by you. Right back at you.
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No doubt. And on the flagship show, we've got a great week. On Wednesday, Keegan-Michael Key stops by in studio. That's always fun. Nice.
Then on Friday's show, certainly tune in to hour three of that one. Back-to-back guests, Shaquille O'Neal, Morgan Freeman. And we're going to be dressed up. Oh, is that right? It's Halloween.
I will not be dressed up. I'll be dressed up as a host that's hoping nothing serious breaks while you look like a fool. But thank you. You're welcome. That's Chris Brockman.
I'm Rich saying peace out from Overreaction Monday.
