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Because I think we've reached a certain point in time where... We got five weeks after Monday. Yeah. So there's more and more teams that are falling off the table here. Yes. So later on, stay tuned to hear how we're going to start to end the show.
Yes. And we came up with this through some sort of trip to fan haze that occurred over Thanksgiving weekend. Let me write that down.
All right. Trip to fan haze. Trip to fan haze. By the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If it was only purple, Jimi Hendrix would have covered it. Hey, now. Hit it. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap.
That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays. All right, Christopher, what do you have? Hey, Rich. What's up, man?
Ready to rock, okay? I'm combining the two biggest games and the results from Sunday into one. And in doing so, I'm saying this. The road to the Super Bowl goes through Buffalo and Philadelphia. That's an overreaction. Don't forget about the Lions and the Chiefs. Well, what I'm saying is that Buffalo and Philly are going to be the one seeds. Well, that assumes a lot. That assumes a lot. That assumes that they're the best teams in the league. That assumes that the Bills will be one game better than the Chiefs.
Yes. At the end of the day. And again, this is just a different version of the thing you still, after 10-plus years of doing our show, can't wrap your arms around when it comes to paying quarterbacks. It's not about whether the quarterback should or should not get paid the best or the most or a new market-setting contract.
It's just his turn to get it. Which is, again, which is insane. You're saying right now, right now, you could make an outstanding case that is not an overreaction, that the Bills and the Eagles are playing the best football of any teams in either conference, the AFC and the NFC respectively.
You could make an excellent case for that. That'd be a great Super Bowl. Even though the Lions have won more games in a row than the Eagles, the Lions haven't lost since they were one and one.
The Eagles haven't lost since they were two and two. So you could make a case for the Lions and the Chiefs having the roads go through them, not because they're the most deserving to have it. It's just the reality of the situation that they're both the one seeds right now.
I'm front-loading. I'm telling you what's going to happen. All the Bills have to do is be one game better than the Chiefs the rest of the way. Same record, really? Because they have the head-to-head tiebreaker.
That's what I'm saying. They just have to be one game better than the Chiefs the rest of the way. They'll wind up having the same record in that regard. As for the Eagles and the Lions, we're still too far out from understanding what the tiebreaks might be because they don't have that head-to-head going on. It would be conference record and then it would be common opponents and things of that nature. That said, to sit here and say the Bills and the Eagles will have the roads go through them in such a declarative way, I will call that an overreaction because the Lions have the upper hand in terms of the one seed and the Chiefs have the upper hand over the Bills in terms of the one seed right now.
So I will just say that. I think I'm just putting my money on the teams playing well and the ones that don't need unbelievable dumb luck to continually go their way, which is not going to keep happening a little over a month ago in the season. Until it just hits the time where it's winner-go-home time and they'll just flip the switch and they'll be the championship team. You can't count on the switch flipping. No, I'm not saying that you count on it.
You have to count on it, but it just seems to happen all the time. If you're coming on the air and saying Bills and Eagles are going to play in the Super Bowl, okay, that's what you're saying right now. I will always call that an overreaction until we actually know the matchup. If you're saying this is a possible Super Bowl matchup, I would agree with you. They're playing the best football right now in December in either conference. And they also feature the last two remaining short fire, they really have a chance to be MVP candidates. One's got the quarterback and one's got the running back in that regard as well. Both teams playing great. The other teams, you know, the coach doesn't do it and gets fired and then the center snaps it off the guy's face. I understand how the Chiefs have won football games recently.
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Alright, and this is, look, I know what your take is on this, but I'm just putting it out there anyway. All stadiums should be domes. Snow games equals bad football. You sound like Kurt Warner.
Oh, funny you should say that, Rich. You wanna pop on the screen my witness here? Who loves watching tippy toe football in the snow? I gotta say, going back to the Dolphins in Kansas City playoff game last year and watching the Dolphins play on Thanksgiving night. That is a team. They're so talented and they're so fast. I wanna see them play at their optimum all the time. What fun is it to watch these guys, like Kurt said, tippy toe around in the snow and the ice and the wind and the freezing temperatures.
That is not entertaining to me. Visually it looks awesome. That is an amazing photo.
Like Josh Allen laying out for the goal line. That is a cool photo. The heavy snowflakes last week in Cleveland.
That was cool. But in terms of football, there's a reason the Super Bowl is played in a dome in warm weather because we want these teams playing at their best. Christian McCaffrey gets hurt on Sunday night because he's out there in these dumbass temperatures and weather situations.
Chris, you've made your case. Kurt Warner last night texting the entire group watching football on ice, the vomit emoji. No one can play. They can't move.
They just get pushed around like on skates. We see this so differently. And Colleen Wolf responded, Kurt Warner hates mother nature. And I know I'm getting roasted. I'm going to get roasted for this, but I just want it out there. Kurt says, I love the sun, a cool breeze, a nice crisp fall night under the stars. I love most of that mother nature. Listen, I totally understand.
I totally understand. Well, he's a 49er fan and he's sitting in there. He's sitting in his snow seats right now. And it's funny. I was sitting there watching the game last night and I thought it's so great that the National Football League is the only sport. I believe the only team sport. I believe matter. They just play the game where it's there.
It's snowing and we're still playing. Yeah. Unless it's like completely unhealthy and it's totally 100 percent dangerous because you can't see a local law enforcement needs to like dig people out of their home. Right. Right.
You know what I mean? Like that. But in a situation like last night, oh yeah, of course we're playing the game and you got to play in the elements. And I understand that you'd rather see the two teams play under the condition. It's it's funny that the NFL will let teams play in these conditions all the time and and just leave it up to chance of like, hey, it just happens. The home team's in a dome.
So we're not playing in the snow today because there's a roof over the head of the stadium. But when it comes to choosing when it comes to choosing, do you want to have the elements involved or not? Do you want to remove the elements from the equation and let both teams come in with their offenses and defenses and clash without that major variable? Stamping itself on the level of play, the type of play, the execution of the play, the safety of the play.
What would you prefer National Football League? They choose for the Super Bowl to remove it from the elements every time, every time, every time, except for that one dice roll. When they put the game in MetLife in New Jersey and it turned out to be one of the bombiest February days in history, 60 degrees. And the next day when everyone was traveling out is when a major snowstorm hit. And had those situations been reversed, had there been a snow game in the Super Bowl, I think most people would have felt the same way. You're positing this conversation right now.
Also, the result would have been the same. It was not a good Super Bowl. Seattle spank a lifetime. Under the perfect night elements, they had that awful snap whizz past Peyton Manning's head for the first score being a safety, which probably made a ton of people a lot of money. Or a small slice of people who are betting a ton of money.
A ton of money. Long story short is this is an overreaction. This is 100% the beauty of some of these games. You weren't complaining about the snow game as you refer to it with just nothing but nostalgia and warmth in your patriot history. You call it the snow game because you don't want to call it the tuck rule game like everybody else calls it, by the way, on our flagship show. Strolling into our studio about an hour and a half is Charles Woodson talking about another matter today. He knows it's the snow game.
Well, long story long, long story short, this is an overreaction. It is unbelievable. Both teams playing it. I was saying even last night to a friend who was there watching the game with me that technically the 49ers are best equipped of any team west of the Rockies, west of Denver.
To play in an elements game. Because as a matter of fact, the thing you loved through the MVP Rogers years in Green Bay just moments ago is they were not equipped to beat the Niners in that leather in Lambeau Field. As a matter of fact, it would have been beneficial for the Packers to have played in San Francisco as the road team rather than being the home team against Debo and McCaffrey and the running game and how physical they are in the trenches. That team is best equipped to win in those conditions if they were like, you know, kind of healthy and they're not. Aaron Rodgers would agree with that. That's what I'm just saying. You know, I'm trying to, I'm trying to poke holes in here. You think these guys from Florida and the South want to play in Green Bay, Buffalo and all?
No, they don't. They get drafted by those teams and they're like, cool. I'm in the NFL. Man, it's going to be cold at the end of the season. And the famous tweet that you love to always bring up from our dear friend, Michael Irvin is, man, when we played in that cold weather, we was cold. And when Irv was with us for those 12 remarkable years as one of the greatest four people to be put on a set, if I may, in the history of sports studio television in the mold of inside the NBA, Irv would always side with Kurt in this conversation that the best football weather is South Florida weather.
Kurt would always respond. The best football weather is inside a dome. What else? All right.
I made my point. Speaking of a team that plays in a dome, man, I wish they, wish they went differently. Rich, after the draft, what are we talking about after the draft?
After the draft, the biggest story of the draft was the Falcons and what they did at number eight. Yes. They should think about it now. They should at least think about starting Michael Pennix to save their season. Kirk is toast. He is not playing well right now. He can't move.
He's not playing well right now. He looked like week one Kirk cousins against the Steelers. That's a problem when it's week 13. Well, guess who looks like the Steelers?
The Chargers on the defensive side of the football. They've got, they've got it working, man. They have it working. Well, I mean, they're not perfect, but what they, what they do is they're opportunistic. They hit you in the mouth.
They are physical. And I don't know if Kirko performs as well against those teams. Although the Buccaneers are kind of like that too.
And he beat him twice, including a 500 yard game as well. Those interceptions yesterday, the two of them, the pick six was awful. I mean, what are you doing? I mean, you're you're you've been in this league for a dozen years, you know, not to throw it late over the middle when you do all you need to do is throw it away. And you need three points is the type of game that you, this is the type of game you're playing. You're involved in a game where three points means the world coup already missed one, you know? So, so you can't do that one, you know, the throwing late and having a pick six down the sideline. That was also something that you'd say, well, if you're going to see rookie mistakes like that, you might as well play the rookie now, but this is the absolute worst time to uncork.
You know? Yeah. But your season is on the line. I understand that, but you're, you're going to be dealing with rookie mistakes.
You're going to be dealing with rookie mistakes more than likely. Okay. Like, listen, you never know anymore. Like Michael Penn X Jr could go on a run and he'll have a movie made about him because of what he would do in December. But if you were him Morris, you're not going to uncork that right now.
I'm just not going to do it. I understand the thoughts right here. He's there to just sit there and learn. Now, if you want to have a conversation about if it goes so poorly over the next four and a half, five, five weeks for the Falcons, you know, and they're out of it in week 18, then, then you figure that something out.
And then what do you do with the rest? I understand that. I know, but the, just a perfect case in point, Chris, just a perfect case in point to bring it all full circle.
Caleb Williams has now got 12 starts under his belt now. Right. Right. Is he four and eight or four and nine? They're four and eight. They've lost six in a row. Right.
So four and eight or they're at the time four and seven. And you know, Matty Rifluz has a lot to have placed on his plate of blame from what we saw on Thanksgiving, you know, and he should have fired off a timeout. Clearly at some point, those final 30 seconds dripping away, but Caleb Williams needed to understand the down and distance and situation that was going on and 100% get that ball away, get something going on. Did he say he changed the play or something? He had a role in it as well.
Of course. So what I'm saying is the rookie. Right. With 11 starts under his belt. I think Raheem Morris in that situation would have called a timeout.
I'm aware of that as well. I'm saying you don't want to have moments like that, even in a moment of a quarter where Caleb Williams was balling out. You can't afford that when the playoffs are on the line here.
Jobs were on the line in Chicago, which you could say is the ultimate stakes. I'm just using that as a prism to say you can't throw the rookie into these games. And also you do, if I'm Raheem Morris want to use Kirk returning to Minnesota and DC potentially to your advantage, to your advantage. You're not going to put an ear bud in his ear when you're going back to Minnesota and you're going back to DC is two of your road games that you have to win now because the bucks have caught you in the standings.
You're six and six, man. You're circling the drain kind of, I know Denver looked terrible and then the buy, and then they come out and they lose this. They come this out of the buy. They scored 13 points at home. They're still in first place. You breathe in, you exhale and you keep using Kirk cousins, certainly when your next game is going into Minnesota. Come on now. And then you got a game in Vegas for the home date against the giants, some get right games.
And then you go into DC and you see what happens. What else? Okay. Rich at fanatics fast way back then, this was like not our, exactly our season preview, but you know, we were in August, mid August as well. I was throwing out some season preview topics and near the end, I said that Russell Wilson was going to be a top 10 quarterback this year.
And I got basically booed by the crowd. And you said it was a massive overreaction. Well, rich, I'm going to double down and do you one better. Russell Wilson is a top five quarterback since he's been back. Okay. So we're talking obviously Lamar Allen. We're talking Jalen hurts. We're talking, hold on, let's, let's sound it out.
I'm not throwing it out here. No, no, no. I want you to send it out because after those three, I'm trying to think about, you're talking Jalen hurts. You're talking golf. You got to talk Jared golf. Okay.
I know there was a five interception game in there, but he rebounds with a four touchdown game, you know, and, and until Jayden Daniels and McLaurin went off, you know, our other option in our sleeper league with the fantasy footballers, we that were in first place. Yeah, I know exactly. We, we also have golf and Laporta, I know Thanksgiving, I'm texting you, my man, you got the wrong play. And then on Sunday, I'm like, looks like play.
So, so you've got to throw golf in there. You do. I don't know. Russell Wilson is playing so much better than Jared. Hold on a second. This is since he's been back. So this is like the last six weeks, top five, the last six weeks, Russ is five and one, right? Let me talk this out.
This is like millionaire. What is their record? Well, I understand. Okay.
You're talking about a top five quarterback here wins has to matter. I will listen now that I've sounded it out here. Okay. I'm just filling the dead air. I've sounded, there's no dead air. There's no dead air. I'm very well aware of what dead air is. How dare you? That is, by the way, one of the biggest insults you can throw in my direction.
I'm just like filling the space with information. I will call this. I'll say this is not an overreaction.
Let me tell you this. The, the throw he made the play he made on the plus side of the field. I don't know where it started from. It was just either high red zone as people like to use. When did we start outside the red zone?
Okay. Whatever it was. Russ is in a seemingly muddy pocket. And he stepped up to his right. And instead of taking off, he lifted his head and he looked downfield and he fired one, a fryer move for a touchdown.
I thought to myself, that's the Russ from Seattle that was cooking and becoming a hall of fame quarterback. That throw right there, we can talk about the chunk plays deep throws down the field. We can talk about that sort of play action, action that the run game can open up for him.
It's him extending the play. And instead of just extending the play to take off because something's not happened downfield or just he was, he was fleeing rather than fighting. He was fly. He chose the flight option instead of the fight. Right. Okay. And he always used to choose the fight option instead of the flight, or he knew when the flight was a better option than the fight.
Okay. Like that was the rust that was cooking in Seattle that was extending plays and making you feel like you cannot get him down on the ground. You can't get him off the field.
You can't get him down on the ground. And that guy showed up in Cincinnati yesterday. After a snow game that they lost. Okay. And probably a lot of people were going to pick them big in the bag after they beat the Ravens. Okay. Like this is a guy who's going to lead the Steelers to the AFC North title and who knows how deep, certainly if the defense does what it has been doing, I will give it up. And so, yes, I will, I will agree with this. I don't think this is an overreaction, sir.
It's been fun, man. You got to give it up to Tomlin to push that button. You got to give it up to Tomlin.
You got to give it up to him. You got, Hey, listen, if the Steelers do what they're doing, and I know they're not going to be the ones who got it, you got to be coach of the year. You got to give him, you got to give him that proper respect to Dan Campbell and Sean McDermott.
Like he's got to be. And we'll say this, the win that they got on, on Sunday gave him 17th straight year with at least a winning record, which is extending his record to start a coaching career, which is unbelievable that we're talking about any stat involving Tomlin in 2024. That includes the start of a coaching career. Right. Right. Right.
Cause this is what you're 16. Well, the only guy in the AFC more tenured with a team is, is, is John Harbaugh halftime of our overreaction Monday conversation, entering the rest of week 13 into 14 and just seeing these games live, just seeing them on the screen. And I understand what you said about the snow game, whether it's college football to these college environments, the one that we saw on college station between the 109,000. Oh my God.
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All things end badly, otherwise they wouldn't end. Wow. My God. Where'd that fortune cookie come from?
I think that's from the movie Cocktail, actually. And it's coming to an end for an all-time great and a hall of famer. Rogers? The Ravens need to make a kicker change.
Oh, boy. This one is an unexpected O'Henry football-like plot twist. Did not have that on my 2024 NFL bingo card. That Justin Tucker would start costing the Ravens games. So the roof wouldn't have caved in on the Ravens had Tucker made those two kicks? Seven points. They win the game. They win the game. Well, they had a garbage drive at the end to make it a little bit closer.
I understand that. Maybe that drive is to win the game. I think your point, though, is that he's suddenly now a fallible kicker, and he's missing kicks that just are really jarring. And so you'd think that, what, you're going to take somebody off of the couch or somebody else's practice squad?
I don't know. You still got to go with the guy that you know. Like he's not going to have the heart beating out of his chest when you're in the AFC championship game as a kick for the Super Bowl. You'd rather go with just fill in the blank, Greg Zarrillion? You know, G. Reg Zarrillion? The G. Reg Zarrillion of the world? Let me just ask you this.
You know what you're going to do over Justin Tucker? That's my response to you. At the end of the half, he had a 50-yarder. I know. Were you surprised that he made it? Because I kind of was.
No, I was more relieved. If you want my- But that's also a tell. I understand it's a tell. Yeah. It's a tell.
It's also a window into our souls. I'm more glass half full. You're more glass half empty. I was kind of shocked. You're like, I was kind of shocked he made it. I was kind of shocked he made it. I'm like, wow, I was so happy for him he made it. I was relieved.
I was relieved for all my Ravens friends and fans of the Ravens. Yeah, I know. I know. I'll just push back on this and say, I get where you're going.
It's a conversation today, though. But in that conversation, we just had, you know, John Harbaugh, as you know, this is in the same way that Belichick, the CEO coach of the Patriots, you know, had his finger in everybody's meeting room. This is his bailiwick. Special teams, right? You know, this is John Harbaugh.
This is him. And so he is definitely going to be leading this conversation if there is one. And it'll go just like what we just had, like, yeah, boy, Tucker's, you know, I mean, I don't know if they'd be so, you know, saying that he's killing us, but he he's definitely not the same and is going out and getting a completely new person and shocking the system like that. Better for us now, you know, coming out of the buy. Do we need to unveil a new kicker against the Giants to win?
You know, like that's the source of it. You got to go with the guy. What if, though, maybe you work out a couple of guys this week to maybe light a fire? No, you don't need to do that. Not even going to work out, guys?
No, you're not working out, guys. All right. What else?
I don't know. Just to teach the rest of the Ravens a lesson in accountability. Just say, hey, look, we're we're all in this together. We need we need everybody to be a hundred percent when it's all said and done. Wouldn't you want to just say, OK, Tucker's going to flip a switch and get us out of this mess? I would think that he would kind of work through a little funk here, you know, just kind of like a golfer with the shanks and then have this conversation in the offseason with seriousness. Right.
What else? I don't think we're talking about this team enough and we need to because they're kind of following the same script as last year. The Packers are going to make it to the division around again. I don't think that's an overreaction at all. At all. Listen, the Packers aren't being talked about because the division is being ruled by a team that has a massive fan base that loves to, you know, hit the like button.
They do. Loves to comment. They're in my mansion and that they're still feeling the roar being restored. That's the whole thing. When I was going to school there in the late 80s, the restore the roar project, the roar has been restored.
OK, it is officially restored. The question is, is how long will we hear the echoes? Will we hear these echoes forever more because the Lions win the Super Bowl? That's the conversation. Plus, their head coach is a mountain of a man that is unavoidable.
That is half caricature and half like a book judged by its cover at your own peril. OK, so there's many reasons why the Lions are the shiniest object. And they're also on a 10 game win streak. And they also made it to the NFC championship game last year. And they also have a gajillion people on your fantasy team fact, OK, or or on somebody's fantasy team in your league.
You're going against one. There's many reasons to be focused on the Lions and not say a 10 win team that's right behind him in the Vikings or this team, the Packers, who just in every way that I've mentioned to you is overlooked because of everything I said that causes the Lions to be looked at. The Packers have similar, but not as much. You know, like the coaches and as fascinating or a characters is MCDC, as Pat likes to call them and and the receivers. And there's one running back that everyone has.
Everybody's playing that. Let's hope it's the Tucker Craft week in their fantasy league. Let's hope it's the Wicks week or the Dobbs week or the Reed week. I mean, and and so I'm I'm putting this all out there as to why in our world of media and coverage, which this podcast is quite a bit about, of course, why the Packers are being over looked. But that can change this very week on Thursday night.
And they can go into Detroit. And if they can replicate what happened last Thanksgiving, then this conversation is totally different. Yeah.
I almost wanted to say the Packers are going to win the division, but you know, I don't want to disrespect the Vikings. And I just was like, there's too many moving parts to even put that out there. So you know what my answer to that would be honest, of course.
So I want to do this one. I don't think this is an overreaction. Let's talk about this guy right now. They're playing really good football. Okay. Right now that the 60 in the NFC. Yep.
Okay. Which means they are going to visit either the NFC West or the NFC South champion. Why wouldn't they be able to win that road playoff game to start the playoffs? I think they would be probably favored in either of those games. You don't think if they stroll into Seattle right now. I think they'd be favored. Or even to be honest with you, if the Rams win the division, I'm kind of putting my marker on them. I mean, they could come here to Los Angeles and win that game 100%. Well, it'll be a Packer home game. Well, I mean, that's up to you and Del Tufo to actually go to the game. I walked right into that one, Mike. Oh, this is game time tickets.
I understand that maybe, you know, people that can help you interesting, but long story short is I don't think that's an overreaction whatsoever. What else? Chris, this, you might say this is I'm sure. But I watched these teams play on Friday and Sunday, both the chiefs and the Ravens one and done the playoffs. Okay.
We can make short work of this one. I just don't understand. I don't know what you're going to say, but I just don't understand how you watch these teams play this past week. And you know, for a majority of the season and think that they're, I think that they're going to just go into the playoffs and kind of dominate.
Let me ask you a question. You think the Ravens lose in Houston? You think they get one and done in Houston? Yes or no. I think Houston has the offense to beat them. Of course they do. But do you think it happens?
I kind of do actually in Houston. All right. If I had asked you that, if you do it, if we'd had this conversation, you know, on Tuesday, if we recorded this podcast last Tuesday, we're coming off of being the chargers Houston, but they do have the offense to beat the Ravens who are just terrible on D and let's just say also, let's just say, let's put it all together that your bills prophecy is correct to start this pod. Okay.
The one seat. Okay. Okay. And the road to the super bowl goes through.
What happened last year? No, no, no, no, no, no. Stop. No, no, no, no, no.
The chiefs lose to the Denver Broncos in the playoff game. I think they should have beat them already this year. I understand that. That's what I mean. Yes, I kind of do. You think, you think Bo Nix, his first career playoff start goes into Kansas city and one and done them. Yeah.
I think that's, I think that's really possible because he literally just did it like a month ago. Okay. Except, you know, the field goal got blocked, which is a fluke thing. We're turning this segment of overreaction Monday. You're spinning it back on me, which I don't like. Well, this is exactly what I'd like to do is to poke holes in what, what I don't agree with, with things called facts in reality.
So let's turn this, so lucky this year, they really should be seven and five. Let's turn this into another staple. If we ever want to create another podcast, a what's more likely pod. Okay. Let me ask you this question, Chris.
Yes. What's more likely the chiefs and the Ravens make the divisional round by winning their wildcard playoff games and potentially maybe even somehow some way face each other in that divisional round game in Arrowhead to reboot 2.0, what we saw to start the season or what you've got on the screen is likely what's more likely the Texans and the Broncos bounce them and they make the divisional playoff round. What's more likely. I don't like the teams that you've chosen. I think you can't watch these guys play right now and have any confidence in them winning a playoff game. So let's even say the chiefs make the, make the divisional round because they are the one seed. You think, you think what somebody is going to come in one and done them after winning. Like it can't be the Ravens cause you've already knocked them out. So you think the chargers or the Broncos or the Colts or the dolphins or the Texans go into Arrowhead.
They should have lost to the Raiders. Okay. It's regular season in the playoffs. I can't believe you're taking that cheese again. It's the same thing as last year. It's the Taylor's version, 20, 20, four of the cheese version version of 20, 20 Brockman version.
And I'm going to come in here in mid January and tell you I was right. Finish up strong. Chris rich. We got two more, one more. What do you got? We got one more. And then we're going to do our new segment. Okay.
Rich. Do you remember the, I forget what year the all star game was, but it was Cal Ripken's last one and Chanhope park was on the mountain and he went through a cookie, tossed a cookie at him. He was in Seattle. I remember it was 2000.
Yes. It was one of the last all star games ever covered, grooved one to Cal, 2020, 2022. What did he do? What did Cal do with it?
Or 2002? I don't know. He took it out of the park. This is channel park through a cookie. This is my Chanhope park moment to you. The other cookie was a, when stray hand through a far through definitely just fell down for strand. Okay, sir.
That should, that record should be erased by the way. Oh my God. This is a Chanhope moment to you. Okay.
Oh, you're giving me a cookie. Oh yeah. Ohio state should move on from Ryan day and bring back urban Meyer.
Oh God. First of all, first of all, how dare you say that a guy who's 44 and one in big 10 play 47 and one, well, I don't want to show, I saw a 44, 47, 44 and one. How dare you take a guy who's 44 and one in big 10 play against teams, not named Michigan and say he should be fired.
How dare you? How dare you say Ryan day should be bounced. I think everybody out there in Buckeye nation that is so up in arms right now, that feels that Ryan day should be fired, should really check about what you consider as successful. Really, you should start really looking in the mirror and saying, huh, let's just say I'm really good at my job. And I'm great at my job almost all the time. And the times when I slip up are the ones where I need the most help to get through the tough times.
And sometimes I just can't handle it myself. Should you be fired from your job? I say no. I say no. So Ryan day, Oh, sure.
Let's just say again, I mean, I've eaten half my cookie, right? Lifetime contract. No, no, no. Plus you, I want a guy who, when there's a big, huge melee in the middle of the field where law enforcement feels compelled to mace some people on the field and things are going so poorly in this regard. I want a guy who's just standing there away from the fray, watching stellar players like Jack Sawyer, melt down and not do a thing about it. I want that guy. Who's that calm in that storm, that's the guy I want ice water in his veins. I don't know what he's thinking, but all I know is he's thinking about the next game because there's a playoffs to try and go in and match Michigan's national championship season of the year before.
So pump your brakes there last part. Now though, let's just say they do fire Ryan day and bring back urban Meyer and for all the Buckeye fans out there that would say, Oh, please let this happen because urban treats the Ohio state Michigan rivalry in a way that Ryan day does not urban spend his entire life wanting to be the Ohio state football coach and Ryan day just kind of was born into it. Maybe some say on third base, I think that might be 90 feet or 180 feet more than the actual base he was born on, but that said, well, they're all out there thinking let's get urban back. And if that happens miraculously one headaches are gone, but the headaches were also gone when he decided to take the job in Jacksonville and screwed that pooch so bad, the ASPCA almost got involved. Let me tell you, if they get urban Meyer back in the NIL transfer portal era and put that guy with his old school sensibilities in charge of a program with an iron fist, Oh baby, please do that too.
I think we need to be fair to Ryan day first. Did I do what you expected with that cookie? Absolutely. Fantastic. Thank you. Thank you for that.
You could also say you served me up a juicy Omaha steak. Oh yes. I'm going to zone folks.
Michigan beat Ohio state for portrait. I'm stunned. I can't believe that. Oh my God. Oh my God. I can't believe that happened by the way.
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We're going to kind of look back and check our work a little bit, uh, throughout the season. Yeah. Right. And people have been asking us to do that for what's more likely.
That's pretty difficult, but we can do it here on overreacting because sometimes the what's more likely gambit you throw out there, take months to actually pay off. Right. Exactly. Okay. So we decided we came up with a nice round number 10. So we're going to go back 10 weeks over the final few weeks of our show. Right.
Right. So this season, we're going to look back to post week three and I picked one good, one bad, one good overreaction, one good that we kind of got right. And one that was pretty well at way off. Did we get it right?
Or you got it right. Do we know that? I think it was at the Royal. I think it's a Royal way. Okay. More and more. So the topic, the topic was right. The topic was right.
Got it. Okay. So, all right.
So the one we got right. Oh, so you, so you, you, you're, are you a good news first guy? Good news first. You're good. I like the bad news for this first. I want to be pumped up.
So if I come down, maybe I was not at even, maybe I'm still a little up. Okay. Sure. Rich.
I'm a gambler. Yeah. This one is we jumped the gun, anointing the Texans as the AFC team to dethrone the chiefs.
So this was after week three after week, the Texans started with a win at Indianapolis and then they beat up Caleb on a Sunday night. Remember that? Yep.
Then they went to Minnesota. Oh, and they got absolutely spanked. Totally handled. Yeah. So then you come on the air and you're like, we jumped the gun anointing the Texas team. Yeah. Yeah.
And now I look at them and they're seven and five. They struggled to beat Mac Jones and a hold on to be a Mac Jones on Sunday. They don't push the pedal to the metal and Anthony Richardson, who's come back from his sabbatical is kind of a different quarterback in a way.
Yep. It's not like he's, it's pretty for all 60 minutes for him either, but I'll just let my sentence linger off right there because Houston has got that dreadful Christmas day schedule stretch of Saturday, Sunday, Sunday, Saturday, Wednesday, right? Hang on. In the final five weeks, they have two short weeks and they end up playing Miami at home after their buy at Kansas city home for Baltimore and then at Tennessee, I'm just throwing it out there. They, they better start coming back from the bi-week winning games, but you, you were on it. We were on this one. Did I agree with you?
We were on this one. We don't know. I think I probably did. I don't know. I don't know.
It seems like you probably did. What else? I don't know. Here's the one. That's pretty bad.
Okay. Malik neighbors is so good. The giants will end up keeping Daniel Jones beyond 2024. Well, you just thought Malik neighbors was going to be the one to just redeem Daniel Jones there. That's kind of what I thought. But is this really the worst one from 10 weeks ago?
It was because you're half right. I'm having my neighbors is really good, except when they throw him the ball, when they target him, name me. I mean, Marvin Harrison Jr. had a very nice touchdown catch in Minnesota, and hopefully he's going to start coming. Honestly, the best receiver from this draft is Brock Bowers.
And he's a tight end. I'd agree with that. Jets probably wish they'd taken him instead of him. Well, no, all of fashion knew who they took is has he been very good and very, and he's played all over the line too. Well, that's good.
So I'm not going to, I'm not going to push back on that. I don't think, what do you think the jets would be four and eight instead of three and nine? I feel like he would have helped a little bit of that. There's no doubt.
Or he wouldn't be as good as he is. Cause everything that's happening in, in, in, in jet land right now is turning to coal. We almost made happy birthday to Aaron Rogers on this day. Well, I saw that on the jets account this morning. That's some sweet 22 year old saying, Hey, it's Roger's birthday. Let's send something out. Not realizing the coach is thinking about benching.
Actually he already came into a microphone prior to this taping and said, he does give the jets the best chance to win. I guess Jeff Albrecht spent the night watching the film goodness, and that wraps it up for this edition of overreaction Monday. Thanks for the cookie by the way. No problem. I appreciate that. You got it, man. Daniel Jeremiah will be on what the football with Susie and Amy on Tuesday to talk about what's going on with the chargers and Shador Sanders and the rest of the draftable players. That's it for overreaction Monday. However, here for Chris, I'm rich adios.
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