REShow: Carl Banks, Overreaction Monday - Hour 2

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844-204 Rich, number to dial here on the program. Brockman got what he wanted yesterday. We all got what we wanted. Your Patriots lost, that's what you want. Okay, your Cowboys, TJ Jefferson, won significantly. I mean, just absolutely destroyed the Rams. That was, that game was 26-3. That game, the Rams were in it.

It was 10-3. They had a chance to get the ball down the field and tie the game and pick six and then a safety and the roof just caved in. Matthew Stafford's throwing thumb gets stuck it seemed for a split second in the face guard of one of the offensive linemen, a defensive lineman that was coming to rush him on a two-point conversion. And then the Rams, knowing this, call a two-point conversion, throwing the ball to him. He's a terrific athletic play on his part to grab the ball and then reach a Dez Bryant-like over the goal line.

And as the ball hits the ground with, you know, his right thumb takes, I guess, the brunt of it and he was done. The game started off so bad for the Cowboys. I think Dak got sat three times in the first. Well, and it was just, there was, take that first like two, I was just like, are you joking? Well, let's just be straight up because the Cowboys were the better team and they crushed it and Dak did exactly the type of stuff that Dak needs to do, right?

Which is find C.D. Lamb, stop screwing around, you know, and and play fast and play well. But there was an awful, awful illegal contact penalty on the Rams that allowed the Cowboys to stay on the field in that first drive. And then the Rams had to settle for three after Cooper Cup absolutely got hooked over the middle. No call there. And then, then the roof caved in. So if you want to talk about how things didn't start well for the Cowboys, it started well enough.

You got a nice penalty that they came back and scored with that benefit. I'm just saying three sacks to start the game. Well, Aaron Donald showed up, you know, 99 showed up and then and then and then nine gets knocked out of the game. And now we're wondering what's going on with the Rams.

They're three and five. And the Cowboys look terrific. They look terrific again. And it is perfect timing for Dallas now to go to Philadelphia and show everybody, OK, the team that showed up in San Francisco a few weeks ago is gone. We have turned that page after we got curb stomped by San Francisco. We went to the home of the Chargers and won there. We came back from our bye week and beat the co-tenants or the, I guess, true owners, if you will, of the building. And so five, the Rams in their house, they took care of Los Angeles. They swept L.A. And now they got to go to Philadelphia.

And let's see that. And Michael Irvin on game day morning yesterday talked about how well positioned the Cowboys are to take control of this division and their conference, because if they beat Philadelphia or even lose to them, let's just say they even lose to them, that would make them five and three. Then they're home for the Giants at Carolina, home for Washington, home for Seattle before facing Philadelphia again. Keep that in your mind's eye again.

Home for the Giants at Carolina, home for Washington, home for Seattle, home for Philadelphia. Again. Right. Let's just say what you want to put them four and one, they split with Philly. Okay.

All right. And then you say that those are all winnable games with the Washington commanders being the throw out the records type stuff. Just keep that in your mind's eye. Now put up the Philadelphia Eagles schedule, if you don't mind, who are that seven and one right now. They are seven and one right now.

Keep that in your mind's eye. Even if they go eight and one to have a two game, two and a half game lead over the five and three Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles, while the Cowboys are doing what they're going to be doing over the next month, they have a bye. They're at Kansas city, home for Buffalo, home for San Francisco before Dallas comes back. Then they're at Seattle before finishing nice and soft two games against the Giants and a game against Arizona.

We're assuming it's Kyla Murray at that point in time. That's Michael Irvin's two cents about how the Cowboys can make some hay right now, but they got to play like that team, not like the one that showed up in San Francisco or Arizona. Yeah. They got to play like that team.

The Ron Bland's got to continue to be that. The margin for error is over. If they want to win this division and have now with San Francisco doing what they're doing and we'll see what the and we'll see what the lines look like tonight. Okay.

That's it right there. Who just did that? The bills just okay. And the bills just made a move and we'll talk about that in a second. But the Dallas Cowboys it's right there. The Niners have tripped up. If you believe the Lions are beatable and you believe the Seahawks are beatable and you believe the NFC South champions are not all that, whoever it's going to be. If you believe all that, then go beat the Eagles or at least split with them and then take all the other so-called winnable games.

Don't have your punch down, come back and rebound and hit yourself in the chin. Let's see it. But we saw it yesterday. Meanwhile, I mentioned the other, you know, in our, at the end of our previous segment, how the Jets and the Giants, it was a rainy day in New Jersey, but paint was still able to dry and football's clock still got turned back based on what we saw. Not great. Zach Rosenfield, publicist to the stars, texted me the New York headline should be Jets versus Giants, both lose, but Jets win. That's what it was a one and two record yesterday. Very rough.

Okay. So, joining us now from New York is Carl. Is that, is this, is this truly Carl Banks?

Let me hear, cause I was listening to him and Bob Papa call it on the way home. You there Carl? Yes, it is.

It is, it is Carl Banks. How are you? What's going on?

Oh, it's been about a week to say the least. Okay. What's going on? You there?

Did I? Okay. You there Carl? I'm here. I'm here. I'm actually calling you from IKEA. I got in the car cause I had to take a drive after what I had to sit through, not only yesterday, but all week with a couple of hosts on WFAN who want, want to read numbers all day and don't see the tea leaves.

So what are your two cents, Carl? Again, you had two ways to go yesterday. Uh, from a special team standpoint, you had penetration up the middle. So your kicker is on the sideline screaming after the first miss that, that obviously gotten it or you go the other route on fourth and short, D either A scrum up the middle, which is in your playbook. And you've been successful on that in the Brian Dable era, you're 10 of 11 or B do you run Barkley? And again, the third option is to take a safety, which by running backwards 80 yards, bleep, comes off the clock and see that's all, that's all there for you. And you could even throw the ball into the back of the end zone and take five more seconds off the clock. So there were ways to do that, but again, there were seven things that had to go wrong and all seven of them did.

They did indeed. And again, I was listening to this, uh, you know, on my, on my, uh, Sirius XM on the way home, you and, uh, Bob, Papa calling it Carl Banks here on the Rich Eisen Show, a couple more minutes left here, you know, so what do you like, what do you think the giants should do here? I mean, Daniel Jones has cleared for contact. They ran Barkley 30 something times. Do you think they should trade Barkley, Carl?

I don't, I think, um, and this is a kid with a lot of heart and this is a kid that has done everything you've, you've, you've asked of him and sure. He's been on the shelf at times. Uh, he picks his spots behind scrimmage, a complaint of his, but when you need to get a guy between the numbers and you've got a, uh, you know, a group in front of you that many times can't get a hat on a hat and you've got to improvise. Well, I think he's done more than enough for a franchise who went out of their way to make it known that they were going to pick him. And still here, um, a running back can be found in the bread aisle of the grocery store and you've got to draft. Well, how did it work out drafting three offensive linemen in the first two rounds?

How's that worked out? Uh, and again, some of that is still unknown, but you've just got to play, you've just got to play football. I think we're losing Carl's number. You'll be out in Las Vegas. The league around you has come back to you a bit as far as the wildcard goes, but even before that, there's an opportunity. Yeah, these have been non-conference losses, but on your schedule, you've got the Rams, the saints, uh, and another one of those teams. Whereas you win those games and your conference is what you, and there is no way you give up on a season. There is just too many games left this extra game. Now, uh, you saw Kirk cousins is out now for Minnesota.

Who knows how they finish? So there is just too much football left to just abandon a season on the Monday after a loss. Carl, I appreciate you chiming in here. Let's, uh, let's, let's do this more often.

You know, I've always enjoyed watching you play with the Parcells there and listening to you, uh, with Bob Poppe. Yes, sir. Uh, you know, there's no secrets as what the great Ted George Alice said, you know, yesterday is a canceled check.

Tomorrow is a promissory note. Um, you know, again, these things are on film. These things are on film for other coaches to see.

So until you get it right, other teams will take advantage of it. Thanks, Carl. Appreciate the call. That's Carl Banks, everybody. That was, uh, love it off the wall a little bit there.

How about that? That's Carl, man. I, and I appreciate his optimism. I'm the giants. I'm like, who, who wants what? Yeah. And I know that the giants fan base, you know, would, would, would rather have that and understand that last year was, um, showing you how some of their players gelling together for a coach that's selling stuff that they buy works and that some of them are, are still on this team.

But, uh, I, I, I don't know how you just sit there. I mean, well, well intentioned that there's still enough games there, uh, on the docket. One other thing to talk about here. If you were the Minnesota Vikings general manager, if you're a Quesadofo Mensah right now, what in the world are you thinking for a team that is four and four now, once upon a time, oh, and three now, four and four, and the defense has been playing very well. And you have drafted a talented kid in Jordan Addison, and he is filling in very well in the number one role. While Justin Jefferson, we're assuming is ready to come back from that hamstring injury after his four game injured reserve absence that you're already halfway through. But Kirk Cousins goes down with an Achilles injury and is done for the season. What do you do? Do you decide to say, well, that's the end of that.

This was kind of a reset year. Anyway, there's a lot of dead cap stuff that I can clear. I can try and get some picks right now. And let's see what people want for Daniel Hunter, or I don't think you're trading Justin Jefferson. You're just not doing that. You're not trading Hawkinson. You're not trading Jordan Addison. You're just not doing it. But who else?

Who wants what? Right? Or do you say, you know what, screw it. We're just going to stay put. I drafted this kid, Jaron Hall. He was Puka Nakua's quarterback at BYU.

That's funny. Okay. He's a fifth round rookie.

Okay. And we're going to go for it with him. It's going to be rough, but we're going to go for it with him. And yeah, he didn't, he looked overwhelmed yesterday, but that's what happens when all of a sudden you're thrown into the mix in Lambeau Field. But let's coach him up. If Tyson Bajan can do it, my guy from BYU can do it. If you thought Puka Nakua was great, guess who threw it to him? This kid.

And let's see what he looks like. Crazier things have happened, right? Or do you say, we're not standing pad. We have a team that is, once upon a time, 0-3, now 4-4. We can win this division. We are playing well. We were going to take that win yesterday and just reset and go into another season. That if we go 7-2 in, we can win the division again.

And in a reset year, we can do it. We're currently the 7th seed right now. We're taking on Atlanta, which might be down at Taylor Heineke right now.

That's who's next for us. And then we're home for New Orleans. We're at Denver on a Sunday night. Then we've got Chicago at home on a Monday night before our bye week.

Yeah, hell yeah. At Vegas. Sure, the game against Cincinnati in Cincinnati is on a Saturday, potentially on NFL Network.

I might be calling that one. Before we take on Detroit twice, wrapped around a possible sweep of Green Bay on a Sunday night that might get flexed out of. But hey, guess what? Those are winnable games.

And they're quite winnable with, say, someone like Trey Lance. Are you calling up Dallas right now and saying a Jerry? Okay, you flip to five. Let's improve that one. Give me a two. Let's improve that one. Give me a two.

We'll improve it. Guess where he's from? Oh. City, Minnesota. Guess which team he probably grew up loving? The Vikings. How about calling up the Dallas Cowboys and saying, what do you need Trey Lance for? Yeah, Cooper Rush. You're already halfway through your season. I know the Giants were down to quarterback number three, and these things happen, but what do you need him for? Come on, Jerry, you know you're repaying Dak. Look at what Dak's doing. You love Dak, don't you? Jerry does love Dak. Do you call up the Dallas Cowboys and say, Jerry, you gave up a five.

We'll give you three. And then you bring Trey Lance in right now. You do what you need to do with Jaron Hall. And then you get this kid, and you give this kid the opportunity to finish the season and see what he's got, right? Or do you just say, screw it? And call up the Arizona Cardinals and ask them, so Connor Murray's got no injury designation, huh?

And you didn't play him, and you already announced from the podium after the loss to Baltimore, you don't intend to play him next week either. What's up with that? Now you're talking my language. That seems like a bat signal from Arizona saying, who wants number one? Who's going to give us a godfather offer for number one?

Who indeed? How about Kyler Murray? How do you think Justin Jefferson would like that? Jordan Addison would like that.

All of your skilled players would like that. I mean, talk about options that are on the table to discuss over a 24-hour period that you weren't even thinking in a million years would be options you had to consider. Just 24 hours ago, just 24 hours ago. Less than that, because Cousins didn't blow out his Achilles until right around the middle of the second half yesterday. Less than 24 hours ago, Vikings weren't sitting there thinking, well, we got to find a quarterback. No, no. As a matter of fact, you're saying, thank goodness we didn't trade ours to New York or ask him to blow out his trade deadline before he blew out his Achilles.

I mean, it's crazy how things can change in the NFL. What do you do? What do you do?

What do you do? Vikings are the seventh seed right now. Right. They're a playoff team. They can make the playoffs.

Correct. I think you got to try to win this year, man. But do you want to sign Colt McCoy off the street? No. Do you want to bring Case Keenum back? No. You got to go make a splash, man.

Go for it. Yeah, the Minnesota miracle days are over. What could you get Kyler Murray for realistically? Too much. That's why I'd go for Lance. But you don't know if he's ready to play. He's ready to play. More so than...

Isn't it crazy? I love your confidence, but I have no idea if he's ready to go. He's more so, one would think, than Jaron Hall. How many reps do you think that kid out of BYU has gotten?

0.0, like full blue tarski? Honestly. It's kind of crazy.

And I think I'd like to have a conversation a little bit more on tomorrow's show when we have a lot more real estate without reacting to stuff from the day before. But the NFL has an issue in getting quarterbacks ready. The NFL has an issue in growing quarterbacks and nurturing quarterbacks big time. You know, wide receivers can just come out of the box. And running backs can just come out of the box. You can name a ton.

It's so rare for quarterbacks to just come out of the box, man. And so, I don't know. They know their personnel. They know what the kids looked like in training camp. They know it.

And they might sit there and go, we're ready. In the same way the Bears were like that way with Bajan. You know, who you might say turned into a bit of a pumpkin last night, although they didn't target D.J. Moore. And again, they were down by a million points, but that's for another day.

I don't know. Lance is the short-term maneuver that costs you just one maybe Friday night draft choice in Detroit next year. And isn't it funny? He loses the job to Darnold because Darnold had 61 career starts. The reason why I know that number off the top of my head is because when we were preparing yesterday's NFL Game Day morning 20th anniversary show, I got a bunch of stats from Ben McWilliams of NFL Network Research. When we came on the air for the first time on NFL Network 20 years ago next week, Tom Brady had four fewer career touchdown passes than Sam Darnold currently has. So, Darnold beats out Lance because he's more because he's more veteran. He's got more experience. Lance beats out Hall here because he does have more experience and he plays for Shanahan and whose system might he fit than somebody off that tree in Kevin O'Connell.

What do you do? We will ask this of Daniel Jeremiah in hour number three when he joins us. What do the Titans do?

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Become a DashPass member today. Two bits of breaking news. We'll get to what the Buffalo Bills have done. The other piece of breaking news you may not have heard this. TJ Jefferson left his house last night.

That was a stunner to me. I mean, don't be shocked. You left your house to go see Victor Wambunyama. There was a unicorn in town. I had to go spy it.

Well, the Dallas Cowboys were in town a couple weeks ago. You said no to that. Well, getting in and out of SoFi is a nightmare.

Getting in and out of crypto or Staples is a lot more pleasant. Is that what it is? Is that the difference? Or you're just more of a Clipper fan than a Cowboy fan? Oh, I'm more of a basketball fan than a football fan. There you go. If you want the truth. There's your answer.

Wow. Football for me is better to watch at home. You can replay, you know, rewind. You can like watch, play basketball. It's so spread out.

Basketball is right there. It's fast, but it's easier to follow. I like it in person more. How did Wambunyama look with an actual person?

Okay, I'll be honest with you. It was probably saying a lot. Probably his worst pro game. Oh, I know that, but I'm just saying just to see, just like to see him. He looked big from as you enter the arena.

He's standing out and you're so far from him. And he did so two plays where the entire crowd just looked like we were like, what was that? What was that? There was a play. He just someone lobbed it up. He just put his arm up and tapped it in over his head without even looking at the rim.

And everyone in our section was like, whoa, what was that? Like he did two or three things where you were like, and then Paul George went to shoot a three. He altered the three. Like I said last week, Chris, he jumped from maybe the key and made Paul George alter his jump shot.

He's so much long, but it's just unreal. My favorite moment was Russell Westbrook getting up to try and block a shot. Did you see that one? And then he then he switched arms to avoid it. And then Westbrook got called for the foul because his leg hit him. And we were like, there's no foul. I know he didn't hit him with his upper body. Their legs contacted. That's what the call was in the arena. That's what it was. A knee on his thigh or something like that.

But the fact that Russ tried was impressive. Back on the Rich Eisen Show, sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk on the Rich Eisen Show radio network. The desk is furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.

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He's a Buffalo Bill. Wow. I kind of dig it. I dig it.

Now, I don't know. I mean, the difference maker to me was Derrick Henry. We will see if Lombardi Lenny shows up with fresh legs and does Lombardi Lenny things.

I kind of like it. I believe this means less Latavious Murray in the situations in which we've seen him. Does this mean Damien Harris might be significantly injured? But he's signing with the Bills and it does appear should be ready to roll against the Cincinnati Bengals just in time.

Ready to roll. And Len's playoff experience, Lombardi experience. And let's not forget, one of the best college running backs we've seen in the last 20 years. And had some nice run in Jacksonville and then started to mature in Tampa. And now showing up in Buffalo, we will see. Just anybody else who can kind of take care of business in the red zone. To me, these are improvements. You got that going on.

Dalton Kincaid showed up the last time. I just want to see, again, everyone's going the other direction. Like, don't do too much with Josh Allen. I just, screw it. Just take the governor off of him.

And I know, you know, that's crazy talk. I just want to see him leaping people. I'm going full Ryan Fitzpatrick. I want to see him leaping people.

I want to see him trucking people. But I don't think that's what's happening with this shoulder injury. So, smart move. You want to keep them clean. You want to keep them, you know, doing less and not doing too much than get them some help in that red zone. And a running back spot. And if Lombardi Lenny shows up, this is a nice improvement. My one take on this is two things.

Does that mean, or one thing with two questions. Does that mean Derrick Henry's too expensive? Or does that mean Derrick Henry's not available? Did the win by Tennessee with Will Levis showing up the way that he showed up to make them three and four, despite sending Kevin Byard to Philadelphia.

It's not like they sent him for nothing. They got Terrell Edmonds back and some picks. But did Will Levis showing up the way that Will Levis showed up and suddenly DeAndre Hopkins, zero touchdowns, suddenly has three. And it was all manners of de-hop touchdowns, including one in which he physically mugged the defender that was on him with no call and then was wide open in the most physical manner. But also interestingly enough, when we were in London and talking to DeAndre Hopkins in the broadcast meeting prior to the game against Baltimore, he was saying his GPS numbers, he's running as fast as he's ever run. How fast did he look yesterday?

He was running away from some people, wasn't he? But Will Levis, you saw the photograph up moments ago, if you want to pop that one up again of him hugging his family, these are the people who he spent a very long night with in Kansas City. And for him to do what he did yesterday, four touchdown passes, found DeAndre Hopkins three times, shows you he's a smart kid. Smart kid, you got DeAndre Hopkins, go follow him, go find him.

I told Chris that on Friday, Rich. I wonder if de-hop said, look, Will, see me, throw me the ball. And then he does it in the old Houston Oilers uniform. He looked like Dan Pastorini, you know what I mean? He got it done, right?

And he threw it all over the lawn. He looked terrific, and this was Will Levis after the game. I always hope and dream for an NFL debut like this, but do you find yourself, look back at the numbers and so forth going, wow.

I mean, this is a dream come true for sure, but I mean, we have, what time is it right now? Yeah, I got 12 minutes to celebrate it before we're on to Pittsburgh, as Vrabel said. So, but I mean, like you said, I've been dreaming of this moment as a kid my entire life, even just to touch the field in the NFL game, let alone get a win, is incredible. Good for him, man. Good for him. A long night in Kansas City, Titans draft him, and now he's pulling like Marcus Mariota type stuff for that uniform in that franchise, right? Four touchdowns in his first game.

And how about this? There's only two rookie quarterbacks that won their first career start this year, and it ain't the guys who were drafted before. It's him and Tyson Pageant. That's it.

Wow. We'll see if Jaron Hall might match that later on this week for Minnesota, but Will Leviss, how about that? That night, he doesn't get drafted. He goes home to get drafted, and it wasn't CJ Stroud or Bryce Young who just got his first career win against CJ Stroud yesterday, and it's not Anthony Richardson who lost that opener to Jacksonville before getting injured, and now he's out for the season.

It's Tyson Pageant undrafted and the kid who went undrafted in the first night, and Will Leviss well done. So, I'm just wondering if this has caused the Titans to say, we're not going to trade Derrick Henry, even though, you know how much Derrick Henry it would cost you on your salary cap if you acquire him right now? Five million bucks and change. That's it, because he's halfway through his salary this year.

Five million and change. That's all it would cost for Derrick Henry and whatever you'd have to give up to Rand Cartham, the general manager of the Titans, to go get him. Man, if I'm your Dallas Cowboys, I'd do that right now. But they won't, Rich. That's the thing. All these other teams make deals, and they won't.

Watch, the Eagles are going to make it or something. I would take... Can you imagine? Here's what I would do. I would call up Minnesota and say, what do you want for Trey Lance? You upgrade that draft choice and then maybe flip it to Tennessee with a little bit more, you know, and then you maybe get Derrick Henry.

I'm playing just, you know, armchair general manager here. Or do the Titans basically say because of this acquisition by the bills of Leonard Fournette means we're not going to try for Derrick Henry or it was too expensive for Derrick Henry or the Titans have said no. We're going to keep them just to maybe put them in that uniform again to give us one all last glimpse and show this generation what Earl Campbell once upon a time looked like. When I honestly, I'm like, that's as close to Earl Campbell in that uniform as you'll ever see anybody in that uniform again.

That was amazing, those unis. But that's an interesting acquisition by the bills. What does it mean for the Titans? Because if you're Tennessee, that's like, okay, Rick Dalton jiff, there it is right there. That's what the offense can look like with all due respect to Ryan Tannehill. Maybe he's available. Maybe you flip Ryan Tannehill to the Vikings.

Oh, didn't think of that. Okay, you flip Tannehill to the Vikings and you stay put with Levis and go to work. Rich, getting back to what we said to start the show and I said something you said we'll get back to it. This is it for Tannehill, you think he's not? I don't know. I don't know.

How do you not? How do you basically say let's go back to Ryan Tannehill right now when he's clearly at the end of his tenure there and will Levis just look like that? You got to see what's next, don't you? Even though it's a short week in Pittsburgh. Oh yeah, you talk about an assignment, but ride the momentum.

Do it. Number 10 with the dreadlocks. There it is. Titans fans have got to be like, there it is. That's Will Levis, you know, and, and the six and seven seed in the AFC is there. It's, it's four and three Pittsburgh. It's four and three Cleveland right now, Cincinnati, the jets right there. You're a game back. You're in the mix. You're sniffing it.

So there's no reason to be sellers. Now that throw you, he threw to Westbrook Aquini too. It was a beautiful throw. It wasn't just all to Hopkins.

What did we hear the whole, the whole evaluation period? Guy's got a cannon. He was showing it off.

He was showing it off and the Titans are three and four. So how do you pull the plug on Henry and everything else? You can't do it. You're not looking for able in the face.

Can't do it. Right. So you got to figure, you got to figure the Raiders lose tonight.

So they're going to fall off. And I'll tell you what, I had a nice chat with Rand Carthon, you know, the general manager off to the side at the walkthrough in London, in Tennessee. He is full of energy and he loved both Willis and Levis saying that they're there. He liked them both. And I don't think that was just him, you know, blathering in my ear. We're not seeing any Malik Willis this year now.

I don't think so. Hey man, that was, remember the idea was like, we're going to see both of them. They immediately brought in Willis. He fumbled and he was out.

And it was, we never saw him again. And Levis is truly worthy of a second look. So I don't know what that means for Tannehill. And if he's worthy of a second look and you want to go through the ups and downs to get your lumps in now, you can get Tannehill to Minnesota where he can try and win something now.

You're kind of doing him a favor in that regard. You know, just professionally, send him to Minnesota, let him do that thing. Let's see what you got from Levis. Hold on to Derrick Henry and see what's what.

Which is a way to evaluate Levis with DeAndre and Henry. What a great evaluation. Let's take a break. Overreaction Monday when we come back.

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Depends on what day it is. Well, you know what the Saints are. If I'm not mistaken, the Saints are a first place football team. Well, that is four. Derek Carr.

Where's my daughter calls him? Derek Carr. Makes it sort of this interesting. I don't know. They're technically not a first place team. And I went as a tie break. Oh, okay. That's win percentage in division games. I got it. Yeah. Yeah.

Division better division record. Oh, four and four. Derek Carr, 300 yard games in a row. That's three in a row. I believe for him. Boy, it's just a lot of dump off passes out in Camaro, right?

That's the issue. Apologies to you too, Rich. Chris and I have a fantasy football team that we do and we're on the group chat and you wanted to draft Camaro. And I was like, Camaro, he did nothing for me the last two years. I never won him again. And then you pushed on it and we got him.

And what's our record in the sleeper league right now with fantasy footballers? Six and two. Well, Eckler. Just saying, hold on a second. Hold on.

Sorry. No, it's for us. It's a moment for us.

Just let me throw this back to back. We have him. Yeah. Right.

Nico Collins, Garrett Wilson, Jalen Waddle, George Kittle. Yep. Jared Goff tonight. Nice squad. Oh, yeah. We're already one.

And Goff is just going to be adding points to us. Just saying hello to all the fantasy footballers out there. What's up, guys?

Well, you know, I know they've got like a number one pod and all that sort of stuff. It's just just a little old Rich Eisen show. What up, geez? That's all we're doing. Three of us, you know.

Six and two. Just hanging out. What more can we do? What more? Seriously, what more can we do? Well, we've got to win the title now. We've got to win the title. Well, certainly if I'm talking like this. We've got to win the title.

But look, Mike Del Tufa keeps a checkbook on him, so that's fine. Okay. Also, the people on our bench, I think, would have won this week. I know. Cowboys, Kincaid, Dotson, Cooks, Henderson. Pretty good shape.

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Are you kidding me? It's the end of the world. Overreaction Mondays. All right, Christopher, what do you have over there, sir? Hey, guys. What's happening? Good weekend? What up, Chris? Yes, sir. All right. Had a great weekend. Lots to overreact to. Being rich in fantasy basketball is awesome.

You know how to great weekend? Nobody cares about your fantasy team. That's a lie. Two is going to win the MVP. At this point in time, hold on a minute. Two is going to win the MVP. Is this an overreaction or not? I will say no, it is not an overreaction. Is it arguable?

Absolutely it's arguable, but it's not out of the realm crazy where you're overreacting. He is the quarterback of him as the MVP. He is the quarterback. He is the quarterback of a six and two football team.

Now, a lot of folks might say he's a product of his system, and we've already heard Mike McDaniel push back on that. And Tyreek Hill has got to catch the ball from somebody. How many times could he be open and then the quarterback airmails him or the quarterback that we were all making fun of when Tyreek Hill just first showed up to wait for some fluttering passes in organized team activities, right? But I don't know about you, it's looked like money from Tua to Tyreek and Waddle, and then the running game and all of these plays that require motion to work to perfection. We finally saw one where it was a poor exchange between Tua and Raheem Mostert.

It took eight weeks for us to see that with all this stuff. So it's a wide open MVP race. You could make a case for Mahomes at six and two. You could make a case for Travis ETN, by the way. You could make a case for AJ Brown. You can make a case for Jalen Hurts. You could make a case for Trevor Lawrence. You could make a case for Lamar Jackson.

Tua's got all the numbers. Number one in passing yards. He's number two in yards per temp. Number one in yards per game. Tied with Kirk Cousins for the lead in touchdowns. He leads the league in passer rating. He's one of three quarterbacks with 70% completion percentage. He is doing it all. So this is not an overreaction.

What else do you have over there? You just mentioned a great idea for the Vikings. I think the Vikings should trade for Kyler Murray. I think that is an overreaction.

Go for it. I think it's an overreaction. Guys coming off of a knee injury, you know, and we're talking about this for anybody who might be watching this later on or listening to it on our podcast later on. This is happening just as the Vikings have confirmed it is an Achilles injury and Kirk Cousins is out for the season as we all suspected it would be. He's coming off of a knee injury.

It will. It still takes time for a quarterback to get used to a new system and new receivers, which everybody is, you know, and that's why I think, and he's expensive, not just in dollars and in cents, but it's also in terms of whatever you'd have to pay the Cardinals to give up on Murray. That's why I say Trey Lance or even maybe Tannehill is a much less expensive monetarily and also for sure in draft capital.

So I'll say that's an overreaction and call it a day on that one. What else is a free agent? Just you got your guys already under contract. I get it. I get it.

It might be apples to apples on, on your, your, your, um, salary cap sheet when it all comes down to it. But to save this season right now, Hey, Connor, you come in. That's a new facility here. That's a new receiver there. That's a new system here.

Trey Lance comes from the Shanahan system, which we all know is highly related to the McVeigh system, which is what kind of an O'Connell is from put Trey Lance in there. At least you're in, you're in the realm of, of getting him up to speed fast enough. And it's not that expensive. It won't cost you a ton of stuff that you're sitting on your hands in Detroit for the draft next year. What else, Chris? It's bad in San Francisco right now. Right guys. It's bad.

The 49ers are not going to win a playoff game this year. All right. That's come on.

I guess that's what this segment's all about. Okay. Let's see what happens. The playoff started today.

Yes. I know. Niners of the six seed. They're in Detroit. Lions win tonight. They're jumped at number two. They'd have to go to Seattle. Not a great place to play in the playoffs.

Okay. This is an overreaction pound truly and completely Trent Williams comes back. Deebo comes back.

Are they coming back off of the buy? We will see them in Jacksonville. What a game that is, but to sit here and say a three game losing streak in weeks six through eight means they will not win a single game from week 18 on, um, or is, is ridiculous. So, um, I will just call that an overreaction for the moment. I mean, the show and signs that aren't, uh, translating to playoff wins. I understand that, but the, the, the, the, the segment, uh, is called overreaction Monday. The podcast version of it that we're going to be doing as soon as this show is over for everybody out there who listens to that podcast version, it's a half hour of this sort of stuff. Three weeks ago, you on that show, the topic was the Niners would beat a team comprised of all stars from all the 31 others.

So that just shows you how quickly things can change. This is just week eight week to week league. What else you have over there? Week to week league, rich. And it's a week to week league for the Rams with Matthew Stafford injured. The Rams should be sellers at the trade deadline. Who are they? I mean, who are they selling?

I mean, they have one of the youngest rosters in the league. Who are they selling? Not, not Nakua, not cup, not, not all. It calls the chief's call for Cooper cup. What are they going to say?

New phone? Who it is? Are you kidding me? The Eagles call for Aaron Donald. Godfather offer Steelers.

Why not? Nope. The Eagles. Donald would be the only one, but Donald only wants to go to Pittsburgh. Hey, go Steelers. Boom. They're still in the, no, no.

Send them home. Who needs wide receivers? No, no, but I think your premise is that when Stafford injured the Rams season, as we thought it might turn into a, they looked like a playoff team. Cinderella run is in jeopardy. I think you're spot on there.

That's not an overreaction to say that the Ram season is in jeopardy of being something other than, um, a get right on the cap and, you know, try and try and win as many games as possible season. Um, yeah, uh, I I'll buy that, but not, not, not, not what you're saying right there. Cop and Donald. No. What else, Chris?

Well, you're going to love this one then. Okay. The chiefs won't be the one seed in the AFC come January. I think that is not an overreaction.

And I know here I go again with chief's nation. I'm not saying you're losing the division. All right, simmer down now folks.

But yeah, I can, I, I can see that this is not an overreaction. Can the dolphins even win on Sunday when I'm calling that game on NFL network? I can't say that by the way, you know, and the Jaguars can absolutely be the one seed in the NFL in this conference and the Ravens might be the team that has the best chance of all of them to be the one seed in this division. Cause they don't play the chiefs. Jaguars have already lost to the chiefs. That's a problem for maybe having the one seed as a tie break. If they have the same record and you know, there's also a game coming up on Sunday that will be important between the chiefs and the dolphins Ravens don't play.

Bengals do coming up. So entirely possible. So that's not an overreaction at all right now. What else, Chris? Two more TJ, this is for you. Okay. This is the best the Cowboys have looked offensively under Mike McCarthy. All right. I mean, okay. By, by that as the play caller, not Kellen Moore, not in his administration.

That's a play caller. Okay. Oh, okay.

As a play caller. Sure. Okay. I'll buy it.

I'll buy it. Yeah. And like I said, they're playing great. They're playing great. They've got to put it out there in Philadelphia next week, then beat a ton of teams that they're supposedly better than before facing Philadelphia again, while Philadelphia takes on Buffalo, takes on Kansas city.

Okay. They, they, they have a time and Cincinnati too. If I'm not mistaken, Philadelphia's next games are Kansas city, Buffalo, and then San Francisco, not Kansas city. I mean, not Cincinnati. So yeah, Dallas has got to keep doing what it's doing.

You got one more over there, Chris. The diamond backs are a team of destiny. They're going to win the world series. It's not an overreaction either.

Could be up to, Oh, if it wasn't for a Delis Garcia, not Corey Seeger and overreaction at all bored is Cooper love watching this team play the diamond backs play. Not just because I think he just loves the way that they're, they're Moxie Marte and Carol and the rest of those guys. But I think he just loves more than anything else. The concept of people winning free tacos with every stolen base. He loves that boy, whoever came up with that concept. Genius.

My son loves every single time. Is this stolen brace dad? That's a taco.

That's a taco genius. So that's not an overreaction at all right there. No game three coming up tonight by the way, only game rest of the calendar year, where there's an NHL NBA major league baseball and NFL game on the same day.

Well, no. So enjoy tonight everybody. It's good thing. We've got a Tuesday show as well. That was overreaction Monday presented by Dave and busters. Watch football like a pro at DNB with 40 foot TVs, cocktails, beer, and all you can eat wings on Mondays and Thursdays. It is the ultimate watch experience. That's overreaction Monday presented by Dave and busters hour two coming up. So rich, I was, I was driving to watch the Clippers Spurs yesterday and one of my best friends, Matt Mazzant calls me, he goes, Hey, because I'm listening to your boy Brockman do a read right now for pride.

It was out there. Chris, Chris, I'm everywhere. What can you do? Well, it's my job to put you in ever in places to succeed. What can't I do?

I don't know. Well, like what not be happy when the Patriots win a football game. That's number one. Be just happy in general. What else? What else? So I'll be happy if Samuel Porter goes off tonight.

Oh, is that what you need? Well, I did a little DFS contest over the weekend and if Porter goes off, I'm going to win this guy. How much action, how much action can somebody need? Never too much for him.

That ain't good. Never stop. Never stopping.

I'm so glad I'm not in that world. Fantasy is enough for me. I'm sitting there upset.

De'Aaron Fox turns his ankle and I can't get enough points to beat you in fantasy. Like I am locked in on a Sunday night. I'm exhausted. I got to be going to sleep, man.

And I'm just locked in and watching an overtime of game three of the Kings Laker season over fantasy. I cannot have met. Thank God. I don't gamble. Thank God. I don't gamble. I wake up Saturday morning.

I look at her site, Rich was up at, cause he had to go to work. I know making fantasy moves. I got a four hour show on game day morning, but I needed to make sure I got Dylan Brooks. What did I do to the Falcons? I wanted Daniel Jeremiah coming up. Yeah, no.

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