NFL Week 15: Brock Purdy is the MVP and other Overreactions

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Good to see you, Rich. How was Indy? Oh, gosh. Lots to overreact to from that one, but Indianapolis was dynamite. The crowd was late arriving. Really?

Yeah. I thought for a split second that it would be overrun by Stiller fans, the Yinzers who took the quick flight from Pittsburgh or the geographically sound drive from Western PA to Indianapolis. Then the Colts fans all showed up and there's Jeff Saturday jerseys, the Reggie Wayne jerseys, the Dominique Rhodes jerseys.

Honestly, more fans per capita wearing jerseys of old school Colts more than any other fan base in the NFL from what I saw. It was loud. It was great. It was a heck of an atmosphere.

They got a lot to cheer for right now. I know. There's a lot to get to. Shall we? Let's do it. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage. This place sucks.

OVERREACTION? Mondays. Monday. It is getting late early for a bunch, man.

It really is. Week 15. Now it's late, late.

Pretty much. Let's start with your game, Rich. You saw them, the Indianapolis Colts. They're going to win the AFC South. This is an issue for them is that they've lost both times to the Jaguars before the Minshew Magic hit. The Jaguars got the Colts in week one in Indianapolis when it's Anthony Richardson's first career start. Right. And then in week six, just after Anthony Richardson got hurt and they were not really beginning to, they were all wondering what the hell was happening to their season. Yeah. I think if the Colts played the Jaguars now, the Colts would get them.

I kind of think so too. And the only problem here is that also for the Colts is the there's a third team in and it's the Houston Texans that have all sorts of resiliency about them right now. If you had the statement that the Jaguars are currently the third best team in the AFC South, or they're playing like the third best team in the AFC South right now, I would say that's not an overreaction. And you know, obviously a team that was once upon a time, eight and three, now eight and six coming off an injury marred, I mean a mistake marred Sunday night loss at home to the Ravens is definitely the team that's not playing the best football in the division right now. So the Colts, that's not going out on a limb. So the Colts though are playing terrific football and the Texans, I mean, so CJ Stroud goes out, in comes Case Keenum, they're getting their ass kicked by Will Levis and the Titans, they hang around, hang around, hang around, force overtime and in the final possession of overtime, win it.

Boom. And they are as resilient a bunch as there is. So we're assuming Stroud will be back and the Nico Collins will be back and Noah Brown will be staying in there and Singletary is killing it at the running back position and defensively.

D'Amico Ryan's has them buzzing around. They could win this division too, but the Colts do have a lot going for it. The run game, they have a take, a takeaway, happy defense. As I mentioned during the, the, the show on Monday, 19 straight games with at least one takeaway by the defense and they lead spicy. They, they went into Sunday leading the, the, the league and turnover margin, but the, the, the 49ers got a couple themselves. They're now in front on turnover margin, but the culture plus 12 and turnover margin and run the football and they could play, they could play really good defense and the special team seems solid. Minshew's been good.

And so that's a long winded way of saying this is an overreaction. They don't have the tie break against Jacksonville and the three way tie break. You know, right now goes Jacksonville's way. And then Indianapolis is remaining schedule. Let's just linger on the NFC South, AFC South a little bit longer here. The Indianapolis schedule, the rest of the way they're at Atlanta and they could win this one, man. I think they will. I think the Atlanta is going to hit them with the Heinecke, right?

Maybe. And then they have Vegas in their house and then they have Houston in their house. That may be for the division bud because Indianapolis is first win of the season was at Houston. Remember Anthony Richardson showed you.

Okay. He's got some ability, right? They might sweep them.

And then I have no idea how the tie break goes. So to state just, they're going to win the AFC South, I think is an overreaction, but they can, they win it. Absolutely. Hey folks, this bustling holiday season, you might be looking for nutritious, flavorful meals to fuel you on jam packed days and man, are my days jam packed right around this time of year. So I know exactly how you're feeling factor is America's number one, ready to eat meal delivery service, and they can help you eat well for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with chef prepared dietician approved ready to eat meals delivered straight to your door. You'll save time and stay on track with your active lifestyle while tackling all of your holiday to do's cross meal prepping right off your list. This holiday season with factor, skip the meal planning, grocery shopping, chopping, prepping, and cleaning up and get factors, fresh, never frozen meals delivered to your door.

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Learn more at discover.com slash credit card limitations apply. So alright, we're about to set the record for the most time spent on a podcast talking about the AFC South. The Jaguars are going to miss the playoffs because when you see what you saw on Sunday night football, that's not a playoff team.

It's kind of wild how this works because if I'm not mistaken, when they were eight and three, I said they were going to be the one seed and look at us now. A lot has changed in four weeks. And plus this, uh, this, uh, this podcast is not all about being balanced. No, absolutely. I understand. That's why it's called overreaction money. It's not called reaction.

Sometimes I'm not even fair and balanced. I'll say this is an overreaction right now. Jacksonville's remaining scheduled ton of winnable games on it. Jacksonville's next three final three are at Tampa.

How about that for a big football? That's great. The leaders of both South divisions are taking on each other.

I love it. Or at least first place teams in both, both South divisions are taking on each other. Then they're home for, um, then they're home for Carolina and at Tennessee, which may be starting Malik Willis depending on how banged up.

Um, I think I saw on Monday, just an ankle sprain because it looks really bad when it happened. Right. And it could be, I don't know, maybe we'll, Levis has the same tendons as, uh, as Trevor Lawrence and he can come back in there or, or what they really start Ryan Tannehill one more time. I doubt it. I'd have no idea what the contract calls for.

They may have saved. We're not going to pay you another dime. You're not getting hurt week 18. Right. Um, so we're on the hook.

So, um, I, I think Jacksonville still has a path here to say the least. So I'm just getting, but it doesn't look good at all. I mean, I mean the mistakes, the Brandon McManus is suddenly becoming unreliable. Can't make a kick. Trevor Lawrence can't hold onto the football. And then the decision-making at the end of the first half, when all you got to do is spike it and then get one more shot at the end zone instead of taking the one more shot at the end zone and then not throwing it in the end zone. And then that was, and then you run out of time.

Never seen anything like that. So did you think Calvin Ridley was in, do you think that was a touchdown? I didn't think it was as cut and dried as Terry McCauley was making it. Um, in the broadcast, I didn't, I mean, if you froze it in a moment in time, if you could make the case that he did re established control before his right butt cheek, the end zone was left foot that was caught underneath his left butt cheek. Was that already out of bounds?

Yeah. It was too close to, to overturn in my estimation. But Terry McCauley basically comes on, he's taking a look at it.

He talked himself into being resolute, just like, I know what's happening. Touchdown. Okay.

But, uh, so I'll say this is an overreaction as well to start. All right, let's go to some Saturday games. Rich, this dude has been awesome. 318 yards per game in a three game winning streak. And he has Cincinnati back in the playoff mix. Jake Browning will be a starting quarterback in 2024. I don't know.

Uh, I don't think so. Cause if you're the Bengals, do you just let them walk? Honestly, you're just, you're seeing right now, the value of Jake Browning to the Cincinnati Bengals. You're seeing that you have somebody like him. So your season doesn't wind up like the jets.

You have somebody like him. So you not only don't lose your season, it doesn't become a loss season. You have an ability to win football games and win playoff games and, and Jake Browning, let's just say he, he let's just go the ultimate crazy wins it all.

That would be amazing. So now maybe somebody knocks on the Bengals door to give them the proverbial Godfather offer where they're like, yeah, I mean, borough borough doesn't have, doesn't have another lost season in him. He's not injury prone, although, you know, obviously the second time it's been a season ending injury for him, you're betting on, you're, you're giving him all that money. So clearly you're betting on having him for every game. So why do you have somebody like Jake Browning there? If you can get a certain amount of draft capital for him. But, uh, I, I, I think he has proven he can be a starting quarterback in this league over the last three, four weeks for a four week stretch. Honestly, let's see what happens over the final three weeks before we start, you know, breaking out as they say the anointing oil. Okay.

But I don't know. I mean, why would you, if you're the Bengals say, go ahead, find another job because you, you thanks. Thanks for 2023.

Yep. Our gift to you is to let you go somewhere else. You've earned the right to go out and find yourself a job. How, if he's under contract there in Cincinnati, I don't know what his contract situation is, but what don't you feel like maybe they owe it to him? You've been awesome. You let us to 10 wins in a playoff spot. Let me ask you this question. Let me ask you this question in Cincinnati last year, right? In the playoffs, Snoop Huntley should have won that football game. Okay.

If they only was, if there was only a Snoop push, but instead he goes up high instead of going low and a quarterback sneak ball pops loose and it's the rumble in the jungle. Sam Hubbard. He gone. Yeah. Let's say if Snoop Huntley did crease the end zone there and beats the Bengals, do you think the Ravens would have owed it to him to find another home, to be a starting quarterback?

Maybe he would have asked or maybe do me a solid. Let me go see if I can be a starter somewhere. It's a harsh reality. Yeah. Backup quarterbacks are there.

When in case of emergency and glass is broken, you make sure that the window that's broken is also one of opportunity. How does that sound? Okay. So, so that's what you're there for. I don't think because he's so dominant, it's going to be obvious that the Bengals should let him go. You're going to have to come to Cincinnati for third or fourth round pick or something for him. And then that way we go. Honestly, I don't know if this is a walk here for him.

If it is then to salute, this is the greatest thing that can happen. Yeah. But for those who, who may not have heard Jordan Palmer, his throwing coach, the minute he got the opportunity to be the starter days after Joe burrow was done for the year, he came on the show and said, just you watch, he's got it in him. And he struggled the first week. And then the last three weeks, his first week was against the Steelers defense when it was really rolling. Yep. He's going to face the Steelers defense this week without their starting safeties, one suspended in one injured.

He's going to wipe them up. Well, I've got him as my fantasy quarterback. So you do. I do.

And do you, what else? Let's let's move on. Let's talk about those Pittsburgh Steelers.

Your favorite topic, rich. It's time for the Steelers to move on from Mike Tomlin. Well, you're really putting me in this position here, huh?

You can even flip the words. It's time for Mike Tomlin to move on from the Steelers. Just whatever one feels great for you. It just feels like it right now, but I don't know how he feels. I don't know how he feels if he wants to stay there or not. If he does have a sense of wanderlust, if he's looking around this locker room and he's like these young kids that are balling out, aren't listening to me. I don't know if he feels like his time has run its course, or he's just like, screw it.

I'm the same guy. You know, this just didn't work out this year. They all understand the plan. We talk about the plan and the draft room, all the way. All winter long, they understand that there was some time that needs to be this, that, the other thing, certainly with Kenny Pickett. We all understand that Pickett got hurt and what have you. And I don't know if the Rudy's are like, yeah, we hear you, Mike. We know you're the guy.

So just turn off all the outside noise. And I just don't, I don't know what the answer to this is. I understand why it's not an overreaction for a ton of Steeler fans to feel this way in the way that three weeks ago I said that would be a total overreaction. Like if you asked me this three weeks ago, I'd have given the answer that enraged a bunch of Steeler fans to the point where I'm hearing from them every single time.

It's a backfire on offense or defense. It's my fault. It's just like, see rich? I mean, your mentions are RIP.

See rich? I mean, and then calling a game alone, your mentions are RIP because like enough of rooting for the Colts, enough of rooting for the Steelers. Like you care who you love Mike Tomlin too much.

Boy, you're the fault. You're the reason why he's still there is cause you folks in the national media won't call him out. I mean, that's the stuff I'm hearing nonstop. So I, I totally understand why Steeler fans might say enough's enough.

But like I said, he is 100% if free going to get another job somewhere else. Take a look at just how empty the stands were in Carolina. And the former minority owner of the Steelers is now the majority owner of the Panthers. I think he would be all over Mike Tomlin in two seconds flat and said that a couple of weeks ago, like make David Tepper's day.

Correct. If the Washington commanders are going to make the move at coach that I think they are going to make and they feel like Eric B enemy is the guy who has shown the way with Sam Howell and the rest of that offense has come to like him and think that he works there. And if you don't want the enemy to be our head coach, for whatever reason, you could call Mike Tomlin up and say, what if you come here and work with B enemy? Would he be up for that?

I don't know. So I'm not going to sit here and say, absolutely. Certainly when the Steelers have in the past shown a remarkable ability to turn things around in the final three weeks of a season, go on a run, make the playoffs and go on a run. Um, so I can't sit here and call this an overreaction right now, but it's definitely in the ether in a way that I have not seen in Pittsburgh in quite some time from the fan base feeling as resolute as it appears to be to the results on the field, showing a locker room of, of players who understand what it's like to be coached by Mike Tomlin and want to be coached by Mike Tomlin. Like TJ Watts said to the broadcast team when we met with him on Saturday and a bunch of kids that appear to, you know, not want to be coached by Mike Tomlin or understand the value of being coached by him.

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The bills are going to win the AFC. Oh my gosh. You, you always go one step further than you need to. Yeah.

I mean, it's not, it's not the one step I'm supposed to take. I know reaction Monday. I got it.

You know what I mean? So yeah, this is an overreaction and I think they can win it. And I think, you know, the Ravens winning on Sunday night helped nail the door shot on the bills, winning the one seat now that the opportunity to get the one I'm told that the, yeah, yeah, obviously, but nailed down their ability to get it. Right. So that's how far I think the bills may wind up in the overall standings where they currently rest ninth.

They look so good. Okay. They're currently ninth and they were down 12. Okay. Dead in the water. Okay. So I think the one seat is toast, but the two seat is absolutely gonna happen.

Gonna happen. How about that? I'll meet you halfway.

Hey, you're meeting me like three quarters. I think the dolphins will lose one of their next two home for Dallas or at Baltimore. I think that's a tough, the more is a spot where, you know, I believe last year is where they shocked Baltimore.

Yeah. It was really early in the year was kicking their ass. And all of a sudden the McDaniel offense to entire week and waddle.

I think that's where they first showed that they could just shock you and go from zero to one 60 and beat you. So I understand me saying that I think the Ravens could put the bang thing on this team in Baltimore sounds a bit off, but all what I've just described a loss in either of those two, while the bills take on Easton stick or max Duggan. No, he got released. Will Greer. Okay.

Will Greer. Yeah. Right. Okay. Will Greer or, or Easton stick. Oof.

Okay. And then the guy who was on the practice squad in case Bailey Zappi flopped is Will Greer. The genuine article in Bailey Zappi is walking in or they're walking into the, into their house. So week 18 could be for the division bills team. The lowest point of the season was when they lost in new England to Mac Jones. That was their low water mark. I can't believe that happened at Cincinnati was a game where they're taking on borough and the Bengals.

Okay. Right. The low water Mark, you could also say was losing at home, the Denver, because they had too many men on the field and then they lost that game. That's that's when they, they switched offensive coordinators.

They've won three or four cents. They were only lost being an overtime loss at Philadelphia. So, you know, they're going to want to eviscerate new England. And that said, that means if what I have just said happens, they would win the AFC East by winning in Miami, which I think they would do. And then you put up the AFC standings one more time just to finish my point. Okay. Then they would be the two seed because they would have, cause I'm assuming the chiefs would, the chiefs will slip up.

They would have to be 11 and six. And then we need the chiefs to slip up. That's a problem.

So when I was talking myself out of this thing, all of a sudden, you just had it, I just had it. But the problem is, is that the chiefs are one in front of them. And I don't see the division. I could say the Buffalo wins the division. And then I just said they would be the two seed.

Sure. The Kansas city. Now that I'm sounding this all out, like I'm on who wants to be a millionaire. What do they have? They they're home for Vegas on Christmas day. I mean, they just, of course 70 for Cincinnati and Jake Browning. Now we're talking.

And then they're at Eastern sticker. Wilger Jake Browning. So, okay. So Jake Browning beats him.

Jake Browning beats Kansas city. Then the bills would be the two seat. Okay. I mean, these are, these are reasonable paths.

This could really, I said it was weird. See, you have a chief's topic. I don't have a chief. Okay. So then when you hit this, then the chiefs, I just showed you how the chiefs are the two seat after all this. Yeah. After all this craziness, I told you. And so then all you have to have is the bills, win a wild card game, or, you know, even if they don't make it or what have you, let's say the bills don't win the division, but they still make it.

Okay. Then they go or the dolphins or the dolphins. I kicked the dolphins out. The dolphins would go visit Baltimore or the bills would visit Baltimore, knock them out.

And the chief still hosts the AFC championship game. I just, I just laid it all out there for you. You're convinced the chiefs are hosting the AFC championship game, but I'm not sure that the house is burning. And I'm just saying they just smell a little bit of smoke and they, and it's because somebody left a candle on in the kitchen and they blow off the candle and everything's fine. You're like, there was something burning in the toaster. Okay. That's what I'm saying.

Some pizza roll. Everything's fine. Okay. It's my point about the, everything's not fine. I just showed you how the bills could be the two seat or the chiefs of the two seat, or obviously the dolphins can win it all. It's kind of crazy. It's kind of crazy, but that's my point that that initial thing is an overreaction to the winning the AFC.

They are playing terrific football though. I mean, come on, old school 49ers, bill Superbowl. Let's go to the other side of that game in Buffalo.

Rich. I was going to come on here and I was going to call the Cowboys. The F word finished frauds, but you know what? The Cowboys are fine. That was just one game.

Oh, you, you switched it up on me. Cowboys are fine. That was just one game. What's your definition of fine. Just fine.

What's your definition of fine. I'm not sure if you saw the official standings, but did they have the little X next to their name? They made the playoffs. By the way, they did. Do you know how they made the playoffs? Cause the Packers lost the Falcons lost in the lions one. That was, that was, that was the way the ping pong balls.

If you all needed a fall for them to get there, it was just one bad game. They've been on a roll dash and everybody's been cruising. They're fine. They're fine.

What's fun. The sky is not falling. The overreaction is to come on here and be like, they're frauds. They stick on the road. They're going to be one and done in the playoffs. I don't think there'll be one and done in the playoffs. Although I think that if they go to Tampa, they're facing a better Tampa team than they did last year. I think the Cowboys are fine. They're the same team. They are who we thought they were. Dennis Green was right. The Cowboys are who we thought they were. They're fine.

Yesterday, Sunday was just one game. I think this is kind of crazy and just shows you how the rest of the media world treats the Cowboys that you going reasonable is the overreaction. And that's kind of what I was going for. The overreaction is something totally unreasonable, right?

But you going nuanced and gray area is the overreaction and the Cowboys. The only team where you could do that. Truly. I wanted to zag.

I knew you would expect me to come on. I don't even know what this is. But they do a playoff birth on Sunday and they're fine. It was just one game. That's such a zag.

You're an ocean away from the zig. Jeez. It's just one game.

The Cowboys. Yeah, they're fine. It's just one game. It was just one game. Absolutely. They're fine. It was just one game. I know. I'm not going to freak out.

I'm with you. I think they could still win the division. I don't know if CF cause if the Eagles lose to Seattle tonight, they could still win the division. The sports radio talk. I learned more about the bills.

The bills showed me more on Sunday. Okay. There you go.

Cowboys are fine. Are you, do you need a, do you need a break? Do you need like a, some ibuprofen?

Are you hot? I think I need a timeout. My gosh. Let's keep, let's keep it. Let's keep it moving. Let's keep it moving. Okay. We're getting a little long winded on some of these.

We got to keep it moving. That's my fault. Brock. Purdy's right. Christian McCaffrey is the MVP of the national football league.

I mean, it's not an overreaction. He's unbelievable. He truly is unbelievable. And the perfect he's been amazing example. Like, look, I wouldn't argue if Purdy is winding up to the MVP. Purdy is a massive favorite. He's award.

I get it. But Christian McCaffrey is the perfect example of a team identifying a player that they technically didn't really need, but could truly use. That is what we are seeing here. The Niners, could they have been as good this year or had a chance to win the super bowl this year without Christian McCaffrey? I think so. Could they be however, as far ahead and shoulders as it appears above every other team in the NFL without Christian McCaffrey?

No. And that's why you take draft capital that you have left from the draft capital that you've already spent on a quarterback decision that you're wondering if it's correct or not by going to get the guy who can make your offense a completely different machine. And nobody today is talking about the draft capital that they spent on Lance and the draft capital that they spent on McCaffrey to your point. I don't even remember what they gave up from McCaffrey.

It doesn't matter. And that's another reason why he is most valuable because he makes it work in a way that nobody else could make it work to this extent. They didn't need him, but man, could they use him?

And they went ahead and did the use thing and it has been lights out. They have taken the Shanahan system and placed the perfect organism at that position behind or next to a quarterback that appears to be another perfect organism for him, especially in this day and age when you're paying McCaffrey and needing to pay Debo and needing to pay Bosa and you need to pay everyone else. That's Purdie's value as well. So I don't have a problem with Purdie is the guy certainly don't have a problem with Christian McCaffrey winds up being the guy.

All right, Rich, last one. And I know I just said that the bills are going to win the AFC, but Christmas night, we have a super duper matchup, 49ers Ravens. That is going to be the Superbowl matchup this year. I don't think that's an overreaction right now.

I don't think that's an overreaction at all. I mean, they're the two one seeds at present going in and they have defenses that can make a difference championship quality. They've got quarterbacks who are MVP candidates. They have I mean, obviously McCaffrey is the run game for the 49ers and the Ravens, despite Keaton Mitchell going down for the year have a run game in their own right. That is incredibly productive over 200 yards against the Jaguars who are no slouches and stopping the run. Special teams galore. Obviously this is without a doubt a possibility of this being not only a Superbowl matchup, but the winner of this game winds up being the MVP of the league with this win. So yeah, I think the, the Ravens will wind up being division winners in the North in the same way that the Niners already are as of this taping in the West.

Coaches that can really coach them up. I love it. I don't have any problem. You'd sign for that right now in Las Vegas. Wouldn't you?

I think I would too. I'm just thinking about the media night and the lead up a lot of fun storylines. I mean, the storyline would also be two MVP quarterbacks of completely different styles, different styles, different paths to the lead.

Yeah, exactly. One's a Heisman trophy winner. Another one was a four year starter in Iowa state. He was, one was the last pick of the draft.

One was the last pick of the first round in which a lot of people thought he would be higher. Also this would be John Harbaugh, maybe cementing hall of fame status against the team who his brother used to coach and then fired. So it would be a little, it would be a little, instead of it being a horrible, it would be a horrible revenge game. I mean, redemption for the Falcon Superbowl. We've got to hold off because we just blew a whole bunch of narratives. But we front load. That is a front load situation. So I don't, I don't, I wouldn't be surprised if it is.

And I know obviously fan base, both those teams would sign up for it. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Did you have one more and you're just going to save it for Tuesday's show? I have a couple more, but we're going to save them for Tuesday. Okay. We're going to save them for Tuesday. Very good.

Keep them in your pocket. Plus you've already done the work for tomorrow. I understand how you're doing it. Yeah. We'll see what comes out of the Monday night game. We're taking this beforehand, so we'll see. Very good. It's now time for overreaction predictions.

We both missed ours. I thought Jacksonville was going to beat Baltimore and the question would be the Ravens are in trouble. Very, very much not. I mean, look, if they make, if they make those field goals and they don't screw up the end of the half, maybe that's a different game. I mean, if the three field goals are the two missed and then the one that they could have gotten before the end of the half, if they threw the ball into the end zone after spiking, it's to leave time on the clock to give one shot at the end zone.

And if you don't get it, you get a shot. So that's 10, nine at the half. And then that's nine points. The final score they, you know, would have been within reach, right? I'm saying at the half, it would have been, it was 10, nothing at the half, right?

It would have been 10 to nine, maybe going into, I don't know. So what's your prediction this week? You had, you had the bears are going to make the playoffs. The bears are gonna make the playoffs.

And dude, they were up 17, seven winning the game. They literally in the moonies lab. Sorry, Mooney. Uh, okay.

My overreaction for this week is Cowboys dolphins this week coming up, loser of that game. Yes. One and done in the playoffs.

No playoff. Okay. I gotcha. Which I would be, I think is an overreaction cause they're both really good teams, but I understand.

Oh, by the way, that's a reasonable overreaction. It's the, who have they played bowl as cow, right? It's the, who have they played ball?

Yeah. Well it's, it's, it's, it's, it's the road team. Who have they beaten against the team home and away? Who have they beat? Right. So, but it is the, who have they beaten bowl because the Cowboys, who have they beaten on the road and they're on the road against the team at home.

So that hasn't beaten anybody at home or loser one and done in the playoffs. Got it. Got it. Okay. Let me show you how it's done. You're you're good at this. Let me show you how it's done, Chris. I'm not going to show you how it's done. You went right up to the water's edge, but you only dipped in a, Oh, you're going to go all the way.

You shouldn't cannonball. Okay. You're going all the way. Here we go.

All right. My future overreaction prediction is the Cowboys will be one and done again. I'm just going to tell you straight up, Dallas, straight up. Miami's going to beat him. Nobody's talking about today is Mike McDaniel.

I imagine he had something to do with it. Just tell Tyree. You're right. You're not playing.

You're sitting like, let's, let's talk about not playing today. I have no idea because we were seeing it on NFL game day morning and then we showed video of him warming up and we saw an Irv, you know, he was so terrific at it. We, cause I mean, he kind of knows the position and the injury and how to handle it. And he's basically like, it's the starting and the stopping the run in full strength.

He won't feel it. And he can run like the wind full strength. It's the starting and the stopping. Right. It's the rest of playing the position. Yeah. And he's like, um, but I think he's playing today cause he wants the 2000 yards and he's a tough, he's a tough gamer and less than 500. So right. So I believe McDaniel, I don't know.

I'll ascribe it to him. I mean, I could be way off, but that's what this show is all about, right? It was being way off and sounding resolute to back is that, um, Hey, we got these guys without you today. Yeah.

Which turned out to be the case. And it was never close. And we need you against the Cowboys and the Ravens. We got to get your full strength. If we could steal another week here for you, we got to do it.

And we will make sure that you will have the opportunity at 2000 yards anyway. And wouldn't that be better for you that you have one less game. So there's no asterisk with your record, deep level conspiracy, deep level who would have, who would have a deep level approach more than McDaniel.

You know, L you know, th now this removes the asterisk when you do it, it's 16 games, not 17, 16. So let's remove all doubt. Let's get you going.

Let's get you healthy. Even if none of that was true, it was a smart move to now it worked out that way. Got to play the long game, right? So that's my prediction.

I don't know if that's true. Anyway, Tampa is going to beat. That's why it's an overreaction. Tampa is going to beat them. As I said, on the, on the Monday show, this Tampa team this year, better than last year, is that lost to the cow. Right? Because offensive line is healthy.

They're just healthy. Whatever was going on with Brady and the offense isn't going on with Baker in this offense because Mike Evans is showing up and, and Rashad white was just the kid who is finding his way last year. He's come out of it.

He's a, he's a grown ass man. Huggies have dropped now to use the Parcells for he's really good. That wraps it up for this edition of overreaction Monday. Be sure to keep an eye on your RSS feed and all your podcasts feed wherever you get your podcasts for the latest edition of what the football with Suzy Schuster and Amy Trask on Tuesday, this show will come out next Tuesday for those who normally are ready to listen to it or watch it on our YouTube stream on a Monday next Monday is Christmas. So we're all taking the day off to watch the triple header, but you and I are getting together Tuesday morning, Tuesday morning, first thing to put together an addition of overreaction Monday with all of week 16 in the books.

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