OverReaction Monday: Steelers Will Play In The AFC Championship Game

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Chris Brockman, Rich Eisen here with you, fresh back from Munich, Germany. That's why we're coming out with Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. I landed last night. My right eye can't stop twitching, so I'm overreacting to no sleep. It's all good. I might be in a mood. I don't know.

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Hey, great job on the cast and it being a really fun game. Over time. Oh, you got overtime. Yeah.

I forgot how to say it in German. I asked it during the commercial break. You didn't ask Sean Hockuey? Huh?

You didn't ask Sean Hockuey how to pronounce it in German? I think I saw him talking into a device. Uh-huh. I thought that was pretty cool. I don't know if people are clowning him or anything.

I thought that was kind of a cool moment. I saw him talking into a handheld device and I'm wondering if that was like a translator or something. Oh, interesting. Because... Yeah, yeah. I mean, did he practice every penalty? I'm exactly right.

I have no idea. Did he practice false start and you just busted that one out? Yeah.

But, you know, his dad apparently did a call in Spanish when he was officiating a game in Mexico City. That's cool. At any rate, thank you for that. What do you have? What's your first stop? All right, Rich, I want to start with, I thought what the game of the week on Sunday, Steelers commanders. Yes.

Oh, baby, they look great. Steelers are going to be playing in the AFC championship game. I don't think that's an overreaction right now.

I don't think it's one. Joe Thomas, when we were sitting in Munich on our beautiful set out there, was talking about who were the teams that could knock off the Chiefs. And he mentioned the Steelers. And, hey, dude, you've got to give it up to Russ right now. Absolutely, man. I don't think it's an overreaction to say that he is playing his best football since his second to last year in Seattle right now.

Right. I think he is playing his best football in years, in absolute years, five years maybe. And what he's doing is neck up, getting everybody in the right play. He is not breaking down after his first read is covered and starts running for his life. He's not doing anything like that. And his teardrop passes, like the deep ball that he was known for in Seattle, where he throws it in the air so damn high.

And then it just drops down perfectly. And Mike Williams, who probably has only caught about, would you say, two dozen footballs from the guy maybe? Maybe, maybe.

I don't know. I can't imagine he practiced much last week and then he gets out there. And then he catches the game-winning score. And unbelievable, kind of over the shoulder.

Beautiful. It was awesome. An absolute drop it in the bucket and the run game is as good as it's been. Wow, and then George Pickens, like once a week, it seems like he makes a highlight, spectacular catch of the year type move. As we all know, Russ is used to throwing to a number 14 who is a physical beast. And so it's very similar right now to the Russ of the Seattle cooking, which is run game supports, passing game is complimentary. The deep chunk plays are significant. And you have to give it up to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Tomlin for making the move when his quarterback is 4-2 and saying Russ was the guy all along.

And we, we, we trust our instincts here and he's 3-0. And this one, you could say, all right, Sunday night against the Jets, a Monday night against the Giants, both at home. And this one was in Washington, DC. Maybe the biggest commander's game in what, a decade, maybe at least.

And it was one of those slobberknockers and Donnie Brooks. So however you want to put it. And the Steelers came up with the dub. And at this point in time, you know, obviously one week from now, this may turn out to be a complete overreaction. If the Steelers take care of business against this, if the Ravens take care of business against the Steelers, then suddenly the Steelers are now a wildcard team and would have to go on the road and would have to go to maybe Houston. Whoever loses the AFC North will have to visit, I would think, right. They'd have to visit the Texans, whoever wins the AFC South, right?

Because the Bills and the Chiefs are going to be 1-2 and then whoever wins the AFC North will most likely be 2 or 3. So whoever loses the AFC North will be the 5 seed heading to Houston. Yep. That's kind of what happened last year. And so that's where Flacco went into Houston.

Yeah, and got beat. Correct. So I don't think it's an overreaction to say this.

It's not a certainty, but you can't sit here and go, get out of here. I still need to see some more. You're seeing enough defensively.

The more we have to see now. You're seeing enough defensively and you're seeing enough from Russ that this doesn't appear to be a mirage. And barring injury, they're going to be one tough out, man. Certainly a tougher out than the Steelers have proven in previous playoff seasons for them. I think it's unbelievable what they've done this year. That's why Tomlin was your mid-season coach of the year last week. To get the team to this point, what we talked about in the preseason with the backloading of the division schedule, and then to make the move. To say, look, I know we're playing well, I know we're 4-2, but Russ is it.

And now he's being rewarded for it. Hey, listen, we're all assuming the Chiefs are going to be one of those teams in the AFC Championship game and the Bills are looking terrific and the Ravens are going to raise their hands. We'll see if the Texans can start protecting any better. Can the Chargers actually shock anybody in the playoffs? I mean, these are the questions surrounding who would finish in the Final Two in the AFC.

To sit here and say the Steelers are going to be one of them, I can't push back on that and see you're out of your mind. I'm with it. This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. Do you ever find yourself playing the budgeting game, shifting a little money here, a little there, and hoping it all works out? Well, with the Name Your Price tool from Progressive, you can be a better budgeter and potentially lower your insurance bill, too. You tell Progressive what you want to pay for car insurance and they'll help you find options within your budget. Try it today at Progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates. Price and coverage match limited by state law.

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Learn more at AmericanExpress.com slash Amex Business. What else? Rich, this was your sleeper team before the year in the NFC. Arizona.

Pew, pew, pew. I love it. Cardinals are going to win a home playoff game in two months. They do look pretty damn good, man. Tyler Murray's ballin'.

I get it. So they're most like, I mean, they could finish as the three seed, possibly, if Atlanta keeps stubbing its toe in places that you don't expect. I didn't want to say they're just going to win the West, because I think they're going to win the West. I think they're going to win a playoff game and get to Division III.

Well, here's the deal. With Arizona's final remaining schedule, they're on a bye this week, while San Francisco and Seattle beat each other up. The Rams losing last night was a, Monday night was a particularly tough blow for the Rams, but they can overcome that. And the Rams are in New England this coming week, and I think at this point in time, we might have to stop saying New England is somebody's homecoming. So, you look at Arizona's schedule, and they have both games against Seattle remaining, and then their remaining games against the Rams and the Niners, who they've already beaten, with a home date from New England, a visit to Minnesota, and a visit to Carolina, which, by the way, may not be, after having, I tested them, that may not be the homecoming either that you're expecting. That's a tougher game. It's not an automatic win. But, they do have the path to the NFC West. Yeah, I think so. You know, the question is, would they beat whoever finishes second in the NFC East or North?

That's a tall order, pal. Home game? If Washington's coming in. I mean, Philly or Washington going west on a road game?

There'd be a lot of people wearing those colors in there. So, at this point, to say that they're going to be a Final Four team in the NFC right now, I think is more of an overreaction than the Steelers making the AFC Championship game, if I need to balance things out right now. You got more confidence right now in Cardinals or Falcons? I mean, obviously, the Cardinals are on a winning streak, so I'll go Arizona. Yeah.

I mean, same record, they're both six and four. I'm both leaving their division. I'm going to go this is overreaction-ish. Okay. Ish. Okay. Not full. All right.

Ish. All right. What else? Let's see if I can make you go full with this one. The Jets would have had a better record this year with Zach Wilson. Nah, that's... Come on.

Statistically, they're exactly the same. I don't even know why you're bringing this stuff up. Why are you even bringing this stuff up?

What's the point? Because Rogers shouldn't have played this year. He should have retired.

That's why. He looks terrible. He doesn't look like he wants to be out there.

He definitely doesn't want to be hit. And he just doesn't have it. He's taken over this organization, and they've gone to complete garbage. So... Zach Wilson, at least he was a guy who... Dude, Zach Wilson was... You homegrown, and he played well last year in some games. He almost beat the Chiefs. Dude. He did beat the Eagles. An absolute... Statistically points, yards.

Everything is the same as last year at this point. An absolutely unrealistic idea that Zach Wilson was going to come back for the Jets this year, and then they would start him. Honestly, even if Rogers took your advice and said, I'm done.

I'm sorry, New York. I didn't expect to blow out my Achilles just before I'm turning 40. I do just want to go drink my tea and stare at the Egyptian pyramids and go and... And that sounds great. And join the political world and do that sort of stuff. I mean, and he just like, you know what?

Life has taken a turn. Even if they had done all of that, they would not have kept Zach Wilson. That is just an untenable... It just doesn't even make sense.

This is just not even a realistic concept. But if you did a blind taste test of all the stats from this year and all the stats from last year, they're exactly the same. And you don't know which one was Aaron Rodgers and which one was Zach Wilson.

Everyone fell in love with the name Aaron Rodgers without looking the type of player he was in the last few years. On occasion, you see the throws that you need to see. On occasion, you need to see the runs that you need to see. On occasion, you see the catches that you need to see. On occasion, you see the pressure defensively you need to see. And on occasion, you see the plays in the secondary you need to see.

But the problem is those occasions have been fewer and further between. And part of the reason may be, why are you firing your coach after five games? What point does that actually prove? That may be one of the dumbest moves of the whole season. Or are you actually trying to achieve in the middle of all of this, you're handing the team off to somebody who's never done it before. And if you know, I don't know this man, I've heard nothing but great things about Jeff Albrecht. I've heard nothing but great things about what other teams think of him. He was doing a great job running that defense. I understand why the Niners were knocking on the door to say, maybe we can take him. I understand all of that, but nothing rings more hollow than an interim head coach who is completely ineffectual after a loss. Like the one they just suffered in Arizona saying, I'll take responsibility for it. Like, okay. And I understand he's trying to set a standard in the few weeks he has there in his own locker room. But to the fans outside, it's just like that.

And you know, an old Metro card will get me on the four train. Like big gobs, huh? What does it mean? So that's why I'm asking, like, why are you even asking, saying such a thing like this? Who knows?

Zach Wilson was an untenable choice, unfortunately, for the Jets. Nothing is working. I don't know why nothing is working. Something should be working.

Something's missing. And in a quarterback driven league, sure, pin it on the quarterback. But also pin it on the owner. Pin it on the general manager. Pin it on all these players that had a somewhat, you know, healthy Aaron Rodgers coming back.

And it's falling completely apart. And I just find it wild that you want to keep talking about a team that you think we should move on from. I'm just saying, like, the Jets had Super Bowl aspirations. This is not even an overreaction.

And they have the same record as a team that's literally trying to lose every game. This is not even an overreaction. This is just not even in the realm of reality. This is the last time we'll ever talk about the Jets on this podcast.

I have a feeling that's not true. That's an overreaction. Right there. Speaking of teams I don't want to talk about anymore, Rich, the Dallas Cowboys. If Jerry Jones calls this offseason, Bill Belichick should hang up. New phone, who dis? New phone, who dis? Hey, excuse me.

No, no, no. New phone, who dis? What? I don't know. Who else is Bill getting a call from? Sean Kahn's going to call him. Okay.

Both states don't have state income tax, so what else? I think that the McCaskys are going to call him. I don't know about that. I don't think the McCaskys are calling Bill Belichick. They need to clean that house. I think if the McCaskys are calling anybody, they are calling Ben Johnson of Detroit saying- Okay, great.

I don't know. Maybe Ben doesn't want to go there, but I'm just saying. Why wouldn't he want to go there? He should, but- You know what I mean? If you look at what Bill could do- What he Johnson should call, but he's not going to- Please. No, no, Bill- Bill's not going to answer that call either. What I'm saying- Bill might just answer and play along. Just to make him think like it's entirely possible.

Like when you're messing with telemarketers? Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, Bill might just play along and string it out. Oh, cool. Oh, really? How much would you offer me? Oh, yeah. I can have a Hamptons house.

What else can I get? Interesting. And just keep asking for things. Make Woody give them- And then say no. And then say no, but weeks later.

Make him spend the time- And why don't we sleep on it? Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Who else is calling Bill? I don't think he would hang up from Jerry Jones. The thing though that Bill would do, what Bill would bring is the ability for Jerry to just tell the fan base, we're getting the best of the best and everything else organizationally that you think that I've put too much of my two cents into that has curdled the porridge that Bill is now going to be in charge of. And obviously- You don't think Jerry's going to hand over roster and draft? No, but it worked for Parcells. Man, I remember again, when Parcells took over that gig there, NFL Network was just being born. And everybody thought there's no way that's going to work. There's no way that Parcells, Mr. I need to shop for the groceries, was going to come in and let Jerry be the general manager and arbiter of everything.

I can't sit here and say if it worked for Parcells, then obviously it would work for Belichick. I don't think he should hang up. I think that's an overreaction. I totally understand why you're saying that, that it's so bad in Dallas right now.

It's so bad. We're talking about the sun. I know.

And shades. We've been talking about that. We've been talking about that for a long time. It's just the fact that everything is going so poorly for the Cowboys right now. See, we ran out of touchdown. And we have run out of things to talk about with the Dallas Cowboys about how poorly things are going to the point where now we're drilling down to the design flaws of the stadium.

And where it's situated in relation to the sunset. It's always been that way. It happens every Thanksgiving because the Cowboys always play in that window where at some point the sun is an issue.

After we fall back on the time. But the bottom line is Belichick should absolutely answer the phone for the very fact that you want to run up the price everywhere else. This is like the Yankees to someone else's Red Sox. You want the Red Sox or the Yankees in on every single argument. Or the Dodgers now. The Blue Jays are getting the first meeting with Soto. You see that?

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Rich, you just saw this team in London, not in London, in Munich. I did. Overtime. The Panthers are going to finish second in the NFC South.

The only reason why I would push back on this is because, no, no, no, no, hold on a minute. I appreciate you saying that. And I appreciate the Saints winning- They look really good.

They look good. I mean, Bryce Young- Bryce Young is playing so much better. Is absolutely taking steps.

He is 100% improving week to week. He also, you know, it's interesting. Dave Canales said to us in our pre-broadcast meeting, the head coach, and a perfect photograph to put up there, Hoskins, our CP, and Monaco popping out up there, this smile and first down point. I pointed this out during our broadcast. Dave Canales, who's a Pete Carroll acolyte, met him all the way out here in Southern California. He was at El Camino College and Pete was at USC. And Pete took him to Seattle. And as a matter of fact, he was in Munich for that Seattle game against Tampa two years ago as an assistant. But he said that when you keep winning and he knows things are going to be turning a corner when the personalities of the team begin to show up on the field.

And Xavier Legette, which is, he told us that it's not Legette, it's Legette, him riding dollar bill, one of his 15 horses, by the way, and it's about to be 16 because he said he was going to go on this bi-week to go visit Devin White's horse guy to get a 16th horse at any rate. But that moment when Bryce Young smiled and gave the first down point, it was one of those personality moments showing up. I'm like, how many times has Bryce Young felt comfortable enough to do it? Or first of all, come up with a big first down.

And then feel comfortable about stunting, if you will. Probably been since his Alabama days. Exactly. So, so yes, but dude, Tampa's really good. Don't sleep on Tampa.

Struggling, man. Well, I mean, it's not a struggle bus so much, but you know, Tampa had the unfortunate circumstance of playing Kansas City in San Francisco in back to back weeks. And so, so listen, man, and Tampa, once upon a time, you know, Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, San Francisco off the, by they're at the giants at Carolina home for Vegas. They're out here to the chargers. You would think they'd win at Dallas home for Carolina home for new Orleans. They can look at this and say, Evans is coming back and going around here. Correct. So as much as I'd like to see a half full glass for Carolina winning back to back games for the first time in two years and feeling good about themselves and they have every reason to do so.

Finishing second. You're a Hubbard, man. What a monster. I know. And then what a great way for him to have a career day after signing a four year, 33 million dollar deal.

That kid, Jonathan Brooks is coming back. There are reasons to be, you know, happier as a Panther fan, but a second place finish. That's an overreaction. Yeah. What else?

Let's go to the other team you saw in Munich. It's bad. Daniel Jones has started his last game as giants quarterback that may happen. That may happen. It's over.

I think that's an overreaction that they're going to, that, that he's never going to start again for the giants the rest of this year. He just doesn't see the field very well, Chris. I don't know what it is. I'm not going to make a neck joke.

I'm not, I promise dude. I don't know what it is because he's talented. He's got smart guy. He's smart. He's talented. He's fast. I mean, Malik, Malik neighbors was saying like, you know, Kurt asked him, Kurt asked him in a meeting cause they both sat next to each other.

Malik and Daniel Jones. It's very rare to have that happen. I don't know why it happened, but it did. They both walked in the room at the same time. We could talk about this on the, on the, on the flagship show a little bit more later on when we're done recording this on a Tuesday. But Kurt asked each one of them to talk about, you know, a great talent of the other.

Okay. And Malik neighbors said of Daniel Jones, I had no idea it was that fast. He is pretty damn fast. He's a, he's very athletic. He's tall, athletic and smart.

He has everything you want and need in a quarterback except consistent execution. Yeah. There were guys all over the field open number of times in a commercial break, Kurt would be on the, you know, on the top back button to the crew and the truck saying, cut that highlight for later on. Cause they were compiling, which something that they a montage for later on in the game, miscues of, of Daniel Jones, wide open guys. There was a flea flicker, as you know, that worked to perfection. Both guys were wide open down the middle and Jones took a sack.

And I could see on, on the other sideline, as I'm calling it, Brian Day ball going absolute ape. I'll just say, Hey, whoa. Okay. I just said it because we'll just keep it here.

Yeah. He went off. And as you know, he's trying to have a better comportment on the sideline this year. And I think he's done a great job of it.

His inner monologue must be shrieking, dude, shrieking, and then, and then in the, in his press conference back in the States, he was noncommittal for Jones. And while they did the dreaded event, we're evaluating everything, which means it's over, but just, you know, for giants fans, I don't think they really like table and the guys are open. It's not a scheme issue.

It's not and hold the trigger. And I, I would not be surprised. I still think this is an overreaction that he started his last game as a giant, buy this week. And then this is his last year as a giant. I mean, it's $22 million on the cap. And that sounds like a large amount of money, but it saves them 19, right?

You know, done the amount of money that they're going to be paying on the cap pays for about a year and a half of Saquon Barkley. I'm sorry. I don't know why you had to bring that up. You know what? Giants fans were already, you know, although Tyrone Tracy Jr. Looks really good. He does.

He's he's young. And he had that unfortunate fumble in overtime. Yeah. That was a bummer. I felt bad for the kid. He was crying on the sideline. That was terrible.

That was heartbreaking, but he's good. They got talented guys there. That's for sure.

They do. They got it. They got a quarterback issue, obviously. Yeah. And news out of Chicago, Tuesday morning, Shane Waldron is out as offensive coordinator.

Not a surprise. They're going to have a new person calling the plays for Caleb Williams. The bears made a mistake keeping Matt Eberfluss heading into this year. It is gone all wrong basically since the hail Mary in Washington, but you could see it from the beginning. And it's just, it's not been right for the kid.

They're not doing the kid any favors. I don't know who was the one to say, let's, let's hire Shane Waldron. When you had cliff Kingsbury in the house, they had him there. Remember, remember he was there and we were all like, whoa, I'm like great inspired hire.

And then, then he left, they didn't hire him and he winds up in Washington and now we're seeing what's up. You know, in the same way that Mahomes looked as great as he looked right away. And it made Trubisky's performance that much more glaring of an issue if we remember that. And remember, Trubisky made the playoffs and, and the double doing, you know, knocked him out. And I know this is old news, but every time Mahomes does what he does, makes it a glaring omission for, for the bears to have passed on, passed on right after trading. All that's it.

All that's it. The reason why I'm bringing this up is that sure. The struggle bus is real for the bears offensively and embarrassed on Sunday. I'm not saying they chose the wrong quarterback. I'm not either. I'm not. I'm saying that this, the fact that the guy that they had in the building who was actually on the sideline in the senior year of Caleb Williams in the building, they don't hire him.

Now there may be something between Williams and Cliff Kingsbury too, right? Maybe. Maybe we don't know. We have no idea.

We've never heard anything come out. Where it became unhireable. Right. Where he's like, I don't want to coach the kid anymore. Maybe.

Or the kid is like, really? I don't know. Cliff. We don't know that. Right. We do not know that. And we don't know other than the fact that the bears probably don't like just paying somebody to not work for them. There may be one of those organizations.

Maybe. Eber Flus was coaching the hell out of that defensive unit. And if you're sitting there going, hmm, what do we do here? Do we just blow it out? Start fresh. Get rid of him. Get a new defensive coordinator in here.

Start fresh on every single part of it. Or do we just keep this guy, get somebody for the kid offensively and move on. And at four and two, when they left London, it looked pretty damn good. Best game offensively. It looked pretty good. It looked really good. The Hail Mary, I've never seen a team reel from a Hail Mary loss for three weeks quite like what we're seeing right now with the bears.

And they can't block anyone. Nine sacks against a new England team that has also Caleb too. He holds on to a way too long. I totally understand that the bears will change horses midstream right here. And, but that is, that is also the sign of a, of a, of a coach who knows that this is a last move here and it's got to work and it's got to work. So I can't sit here and say they made a mistake keeping this guy just yet, just yet right now at four and five.

It's I'm going to, I'm going to call this an overreaction, but I totally understand why you're saying it. I'm also why you're saying we were talking about this on Monday when you were gone with Kirk Morrison, looking at the bear schedule and how they've looked the last three weeks during this losing streak, the line, they're giving up so many sacks, where is another win coming from coming from this year, dude, it's a problem. Their entire division schedule is coming up and they play San Francisco and they play at San Francisco, right now. Now it's similar to what we said about the Steelers, where we knew from week 11 on their entire division schedules coming up and they better make some hay before it a hundred percent. And the Steelers won the three with Russ before entering the stretch. And the bears have lost the three going into this stretch, which is very problematic.

I would say I'm telling you tells out of school. I will just, I will just say that if this move doesn't work and Caleb doesn't improve, the offense doesn't improve right. Then the bears will, without a doubt, just wait till the lion season is over and throw the entire mint at Ben Johnson and tell him, stay in the division, come to Chicago and see what's up because he will, I'm sure Jacksonville will do the same thing. The jets will do the same thing too. The jets will beg him, beg him and say, we're going to get a new young quarterback and we need you.

We need you. Um, so, but that's for down the road, personally, I think, you know, what he's going to go hire somebody else who wants to, who he can hook up with Rogers, because I think he believes in Aaron still. What else? Chris?

No more jet stock, Mitch. I know. Sorry.

Last one. And this is going to be tough, but I got to say it based on what I saw on Sunday night, we're talking about this guy for MVP. And then now I'm worried Jared Goff is the biggest liability to a possible lion Super bowl.

That is 100% the biggest overreaction of this entire podcast yet today. You're not worried watching Sunday night football at all. He's skipping throws. He has five times happens, bro, dude, dude, I'm doing you and you're doing me. I'm doing your back. We can have a dude off right here.

No, thank you, dude. I am really hard man. Hard pass. I'm worried. Not at all. Hard pass.

I'm worried. Look, you do that against, you do it against Texans. You can come back and win that because Houston is not ready for prime time. If you do that against Kansas city, you're getting smoked. You do that against Buffalo, Baltimore, you are getting, you're not running absolutely boat race. I'm glad that's, I'm glad it's out as a system.

No, that just shows me that it's there and it's a lurking. Remember the super bowl against the Patriots. So what these 14 for 14, 18 for 18, 11 for 11 starts all these great games that he has. Those, those are the outlier. And this is the, this is the real guy.

This is the real guy. The other stuff is not, if the lions don't win the super bowl, it's because of him. Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying. It frequently is about the quarterback if they don't win, but, but I'm asking this question, Chris, don't know if I trust him in a big game. If we're, if we're assigning the dreaded finger of blame, last year's NFC championship game loss, where'd you put it? I put it on the coach. That's right. And his decisions and the, and, and, and the, and the kind of crazy type of decisions that were made before half, you know, third quarter, fourth quarter, you put it on those types of moments.

But of course it's always, who's executing and who's not afterwards. I am not worried about the coaches here Sunday night made me really worried about my Mulligan super bowl pick. I've already written it off. I wrote it off the minute, the minute, the minute that game was over, I wrote it. I wrote it off as the lines should, no doubt will Jared golf.

I am not worried about him. These things happen. They happen now. They don't happen.

They actually don't know. No one throws for five picks in a game and then win the super bowl. Well, uh, we, we may just see it this year. We may just see it this year.

The biggest liability. Are we crossing him off MVP? Now?

You can't have a game like that and win MVP. Um, I, I will downgrade him there. Okay. Yeah. When you're talking about it, you know, I'm really worried, man. You want to know what the biggest, you know, what the biggest liability injured the way he was short arming throws and skipping them made me think maybe he's got a little wing issue. The biggest liability to the lines winning a super bowl this year is what happens, um, to that pass rush. We'll see what happens with the big Z when he gets in there.

Yeah. As you know, playoff sports always highlights the Achilles weaknesses, always, always, always. And if the, if the, if the lions are going to miss a pass rush of significance, because Hutch isn't there, that may be what comes home to roost. But they got to try and chase around Josh Allen Lamar chase around 15 in Kansas city. That's the biggest liability right there.

But this, this is, that's your biggest overreaction of this entire pod. I hope we don't have to play this back later. Hey, before we get to our, uh, future overreactions, I want to talk to you about Omaha stakes a little bit here when the box comes to the house, it's a celebration for all of us. We love Omaha stakes. We just love the consistently awesome steak experience that is delivered the mouthwatering desserts on top of it, the kids dig it.

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Visit Omaha steaks.com for details. All right, Chris, your future overreaction last week was, uh, it's, it's over for Mike McCarthy. Oh yeah. Now, excuse me. Had you really had the foresight, the three-eyed ravenness you would have said it's curtains. If you had only seen that whole business, if you will, everyone else did and mine was CJ Stroud.

Isn't all that. Did you, or did you not just trade him away in fantasy or did I might be overreacting because my ship was sinking because of his lack of fantasy was so open. Why did he wait so long to throw it? Just he's not seeing it, man. He's not seeing it right now.

Hey, really missing Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins. So dude. All right. Did I, did I fall prey to my own overreaction? It's possible. You may have jumped the gun. Okay. All right.

Here's what I got. Uh, Jim Harbaugh is, we love Jim Harbaugh, God bless him. He's turned this, uh, turn this thing around here for the chargers. They're not charging anymore, but who have they really beaten chargers are Fugazi playoff contenders. If you want to just throw up, uh, their schedule real quick, we can talk about the quarterbacks that they've actually beaten this year.

Um, Gardner Minshew, Bryce young, uh, they lost the Justin Fields, uh, Spencer Rattler and Jamis Winston and will Levis not exactly a blowing my socks off. Here comes dude. Here comes Joe Joseph burrow.

That's what I'm talking about. And it might be welcome. Welcome to the big leagues here when a burrow and chase, you're kind of running wild on them at so-fi I'm a little worried about the chargers here because now they have Lamar Jackson and Kirk cousins and, and, and Patrick, my homes and Baker Mayfield and Drake may sell, you know, I'm a little worried about, about the charges.

I, I, I, I hear you. Okay. We'll see if that's, uh, if that's, if that's born out and we might be overreacting to them. Just saying. Oh, okay. All right.

Um, and then on the other side, the game of the week coming up is Kansas city at Buffalo. And here we go. Here we go. Get ready.

What do you got? Get ready. The cheese is going to be, the cheese will stand alone. The cheese will stand alone. I'm not referring to the Packers. I'm talking about that cheese that the, that, uh, at the chiefs are vulnerable and it's going to be, it's going to be in full, it's going to be in full, complete.

I might not pick Buffalo, but it's going to be a, such a sequence where it's going to be in it. Well, they, they had a, they had a blocker field goal. They had to get this thing. They had to get there. They're the luckiest team out there.

They are the luckiest team out there. I mean, you know, the refs are always, you know, caping from a Holmes Holmes is asking the ref to tell him before he's getting hit. Exactly.

All right. That's the future overreaction. Right? Certainly if the bills win it. Oh, they're vulnerable for sure. You know, for sure.

Although it's tough. You want to play that. You want to play the, uh, I don't see a, another loss game. Take a look at the schedule after this, after this week for Kansas city. Oh, so if they, you're saying if they beat Buffalo, they might be Buffalo beats them and the Kansas city is still going to be, um, still going to be tough to catch.

They might be resting the guys in week, week 18 at any rate. That's it for overreaction Monday. Be sure to check out, uh, also later on on Tuesday, what the football Susie Schuster and Amy Trask with the one and only Dan Patrick we'll be joining them.

Talk about that. Uh, the no contest wrestling podcast with O'Shea Jackson, jr. And TJ Jefferson keep an eye out or an ear out for that on Wednesday. And then on Thursday, the Jim Jackson show, all of them can be checked out on the rich eyes and show YouTube channel. And by the way, another way for you to find us is the rich eyes and show relationship with Yahoo! Exclamation sports is officially underway. So check us out, uh, on the Yahoo! Sports platform as well. There's our YouTube channel. We're unavoidable is basically what we're saying for Chris I'm rich that's overreaction Monday. Hey, it's Rich Eisen here.

Join me in my compadre Chris Brockman every Monday on the overreaction Monday podcast. Rich Jamis has taken the brows to the playoffs, dude, why can't they win seven, eight games to finish the year? Why not? I'm not saying it's no, why not? But this is a definitive statement. That's clearly an overreaction and it's perfect fodder for a show like this one. I appreciate you coming out of the gate hot come react or overreact with us overreaction Monday, wherever you listen, it's game over, over, man.