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OverReaction Monday: A Rookie Will Make it to Championship Weekend

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OverReaction Monday: A Rookie Will Make it to Championship Weekend

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A weekly staple on ‘The Rich Eisen Show’ since 2018, ‘Overreaction Monday’ is now also an extended podcast with Rich and Chris Brockman debating the latest in the NFL. Today’s topics:

 

1:45 -   The NFC North will combine for less playoff wins that teams who made it

5:30 -   Steelers should start Justin Fields if they want any chance to upset Ravens

9:45 -   Bo Nix or Jayden Daniels will go on a run to Championship Weekend

14:00 - Panthers will be the team to beat in the NFC South next season

19:30 - Titans should 1-and-done Callahan, hire Deion and draft Shedeur Sanders 1st overall

24:30 - Baker Mayfield will finish 3rd in NFL MVP voting

27:45 - The Giants are making a mistake not cleaning house after a 4-win season

33:00 - Revisiting overreactions from NFL Week 8

 

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Pardon me, Super Wildcard Weekend team. Good to see you. How are you, sir?

Great to see you, man. Exhausted. What a season. It's over. Can't believe it. Yeah, Sunday night, kind of a letdown, but we're going to talk about that in a minute.

All right, then let's get right to it. So much to overreact to. As of this recording, Gerard Mayo had already been fired as the one and done head coach of the New England Patriots. Doug Peterson let go after three years on the job in Jacksonville. Obviously, stay tuned to our flagship show for any and all of the latest, but for the moment, hit it.

All right, Christopher, you have the floor first. Let's do it. Let's start in the NFC North underwhelmed last night watching the Vikings and Lions play. I don't know how that's going to bode for their playoff futures.

I'm going to say not good. The NFC North will combine for less playoff wins than teams who made it. Teams who made it is, is you're talking about three, three.

Okay. They're going to combine for less than three playoff wins. I'll say that's an overreaction.

I'll call that an overreaction. I think the Vikings and Packers go one and done. And I don't love what I saw out of the lions last night.

I disagree. I think what I saw out of the lions is the grit that would require them to actually go to the Superbowl and they get the bi-week that they need. I, with Alex Anzalone coming back, you could see a different sort of defensive mindset. Zadarius Smith is providing the pass rush. And I think that maybe some more and more lines are going to come back, including David Montgomery on offense.

You know, Sonic provided the knuckles on Sunday night and I think Sonic is going to get knuckles back based on what I'm hearing. And I think that what you saw last night was a, a 12th man, sorry, Seattle and Texas A&M fans. What you saw was the exact reason why the lions could use that home field advantage despite being the only undefeated road team in the NFL this year is that it helps the defense. And I think that what we saw last night was the true grit and the smarts.

Dan Orlovsky is on our flagship show on Monday. I saw his initial breakdown of how they high load Justin Jefferson and they bracketed Jordan Addison that they have the smarts and they have the personnel somehow, some way to actually win this conference. The Eagles would concern me, but I think the Packers can one and done them. I think they can absolutely do something like that.

And I would disagree with this. I think this is an overreaction in the fact that one team vanquished the other in such a significant way on Sunday night football that you think the Vikings could be one and done possible that that happens for the Rams. Cause this interesting fact as well, the two losses that the Vikings had going into last night, they had two losses in a five day span, as you know, it was against Detroit and then coming out here to Los Angeles, correct? They lose in Detroit last night. They're coming out here to Los Angeles.

It's the same scenario that's set up. And if the lions make the super bowl, that's, that's that's two playoff wins right there. So I think all the questions you had all season long about, is this for real for Sam Darnold? They came to bear last night. You saw the issues in the red zone. He missed Justin Jefferson on back-to-back drives open in the end zone for touchdowns. I would have gave them a commanding lead in this game.

And I think it's right to be concerned about them. And Jared Goff was throwing it up for grabs last night. I love the way the defense played, despite all the injuries that they've had Aaron Glen can really coach him up.

He's going to get a head coaching job this cycle. It feels like, but I think it's fair to be concerned about all of these teams. Green Bay didn't look good on Sunday.

This conference that has dominated all season long kind of beat each other up down the stretch. And I'm a little worried. I don't, I don't blame you.

I think this is a reasonable launching off point for this podcast, but I'll just still call it an overreaction. All right, let's really gear up then. Let's talk TurboTax people. You might be sitting there going, wait a minute, Rich.

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That's true. The Steelers should start Justin Fields if they want any chance to upset the Ravens. No way.

No thanks. Russ is cooked, bro. I don't know if Russ is cooked as much as George Pickens is letting him down.

I mean, you know, your best availability is availability, and then he was unavailable for the first part of this four-game losing streak. By the way, the Steelers become the third team in the history of the NFL playoffs to enter the postseason on a four-game losing streak. The last team to do it were the 99 Lions, who are one and done, and then before that, it was the famed Joe Musko. Joe Walton coached New York Jets of 1986, who started 10 and one, causing all of us in Jets fandom to think this is finally the year.

Then they lose five in a row, still make the playoffs at 10 and six, won their wildcard round, lost in the divisional round. That's it. That's all the information you can glean from history to tell you what could be prologue. I didn't know any of that.

That's great. That is a fact, but you have to go in to the playoffs with your veteran hand. And for instance, Russ's last throw of the night on Saturday night hit Pat Fryermuth in the hands. I know, but what about the previous throw that Pickens was open on, on a third down, when you're thinking to yourself, how the hell did the Ravens let Pickens get behind him? That was one of those where Pickens had no idea where he was going. I was talking about this with Kurt Warner on Sunday, because we started the show with that highlight of game day morning on Sunday. And he, over the highlights, said, I don't know if that, cause I said it looked like Pickens slowed his route down.

Like he stopped running and he goes, I don't even know if it was a slow, you know, slower dot. So I asked him, I'm like, what, what, what was that on that play? And he just thinks that Pickens was just freelancing because Russ was out of the pocket. He had no, he shouldn't have been where he was to begin with. Russ thought he would just continue going to the sideline and he turned it up the field. And that's, that's the way things always go. And it looks like it's the quarterback's fault.

Now Russ has definitely begun to see the field less in the way that he did when he first started to go from four and take the team from four and two to 10 and three. So if I'm the Steelers, I'm thinking I've got to go with my veteran hand. I cannot hand it off to Justin Fields right now.

I simply cannot do that. And one of the reasons why I have this information here in front of me, do you know who the last rookie quarterback now Justin Fields, isn't a rookie, but this would be his first career playoff start, right? Okay. Do you know who the last rookie quarterback to win his first ever playoff game on the road? I'll tell you the answer. His name is Russell Wilson, 2012.

Okay. The last seven attempts by rookie quarterbacks. And this is food for thought for Bengals fans and commanders fans whose rookie quarterbacks are going on the road, Broncos fans and commanders fans. We're going to talk. We're going to talk about them next. They're going on the road to start the playoffs with their rookies.

Keep that in mind that that streak is still going and they'd like to end it. No way, no way. You got it.

You have to go. Let me ask you this in Baltimore on a Saturday night, you know, and come on now it's going to be cold. It's going to be give them something they haven't seen. What about Russell Wilson's play over the last month to six weeks has given you any confidence. He's going to go into Baltimore and win this game.

Nothing. So you want to maybe put a package in shore, but you Justin Fields has to play in this game. If they want any chance, I'm not, look, I think they should start him and just play him, but you got to have a Fields package. I call that an overreaction.

The other part about having a Fields package is not okay. Let's talk rookie quarterbacks. Okay. I love the rookie quarterbacks in the playoffs. How great was Bo Nix on Sunday? Bo Nix is awesome. Bo Nix in a redraft might be third overall. If we did it all over again, it would go, it would go in that mind, in your mind, it would go Jaden Drake, may Bo Nix.

He might be second overall now that you just said it out loud. Okay. Sure.

Okay. One of these rookie quarterbacks is going on a run to championship weekend. I'll still call that an overreaction as well. Just going back to what I just said moments ago, that the last rookie quarterbacks to start their playoff career on the road, as Bo Nix will do in Western New York with the train whistles and the folding tables and the jumping off of the top of RVs in the parking lot and Jaden Daniels starting his playoff career, going to Tampa, which, you know, based on the way that we saw Tampa close the season, I would feel much better about that than them having potentially wound up going to Los Angeles to start or going to Philadelphia to start their road playoff career. Again, the last seven rookies to start on the road seven rookies to start on the road for their first career playoff game of lost.

I'm genuinely concerned about that. That has nothing to do with these guys. It's a trend, but it's also, these are also older quarterbacks. These guys played a lot of college football. That's true.

They came in with a lot of experience into the NFL, but they've really played awesome going, going into the, going into Alabama to take on Nick Saban in the iron bowl or going into that might be harder than going to Buffalo. I will push back on that. I will push back on that. And that's the most polite way I can say it. So yes, I I'm concerned about that.

And I do appreciate your enthusiasm for it. If I had to choose which one could do it, I'd go with Jayden Daniels. I think with all due respect to our friends in Tampa, with the cannons firing, I would think it's a much easier assignment for the lack of a better word to go into Tampa and win that game against a Buck's team. That is more tested, more tested. I understand in terms of playoffs, just last year and veterans who have won it and have rings on their fingers, that they are a more tested group than Washington, but going into Buffalo is your first career playoff game.

That, that is just so very difficult. And just to bring it all full circle, you know, the last Broncos quarterback to win in Buffalo was Russell Wilson. That happened a couple of years ago. Remember that Monday night or they kind of stunned the bills last year, last year.

So a couple of seasons ago now, we just finished a playing season here. Our man Bo Nix just threw the second most touchdowns by a rookie in NFL history. He was stupendous. He put the Broncos and their fan base in a rocking chair from the first snap. He was 100% the better quarterback than Carson Wentz, who is no doubt using this moment as a chance to put on tape for everyone to see, give me a chance.

Well, that was the exact opposite of that result. That was a stupendous must have performance by Bo Nix going into Buffalo to try and knock off the bills after what we just saw. Rookie quarterback against MVP quarterback, which is what I believe Josh Allen is going to wind up being with all due respect to everybody else.

That's a tall order. And this is an overreaction. Just the momentum going into the playoffs and Broncos coming off a win. The bill's coming off a loss. Just saying, right.

All right. Last one before halftime, rich, man, you know, who's playing awesome football heading into the off season. I do not.

I do, but I know who you're talking about. Bryce young, the Panthers are going to be the team to beat in the NFC South in 2020. That's another overreaction.

Come on. I'm very happy for Carolina Panthers on Sunday. I'm very happy for him as well. Bryce young again, when I saw him in Munich, it was just the second start of his reboot, or as I referred to it in our broadcast meeting, a sabbatical, which brought a big, huge smile to his face and an audible laugh. And him saying, I've never heard that phrase used before for, you know, what I, what just happened. And I'm like, feel free to take it.

And he goes, I will. He loved that it was called a sabbatical. And, and sure enough, that's what it turned out to be of all the storylines this year that were a complete opposite of what the national sports talk media was referring to it in first blush moments, whatever turned out to be the polar opposite of what everybody in our business in first blush moments called it to be. This one is one of the biggest reversals I've seen in years, because when he got benched, it was, he'll never succeed.

He'll certainly never succeed in Carolina. He should leave. Dave Canales is getting curb stomped by an owner who just refuses to take his thumb off the scale. And when he puts his thumb on the scale, all it does is just screw it up even worse than the way that the owner was screwing it up before that was the 100.

I can't, I don't know of another person in our business, Chris, who called it another way saying let's just see what happens. We were wondering mid season, what teams should trade for Bryce young? Like, should he go to Miami or why would anybody trade for him? Because he's too small.

He'll never make it. He hasn't shown a spark. There hasn't been a single moment for him that you can hang your hat on. You know, even when he beat CJ Stroud for his first career win in the midst of CJ Stroud's Jayden Daniels, like meteoric rise as the offensive rookie of the year last year, it wasn't even one of those special performances where you could say, there it is.

There was no Rick Dalton jiff for him ever. And, and he was still when we were in the broadcast meeting, somewhat sheepish and, and Dave canal has said, I know we will be on the right track and succeeding when I see our players personalities come out on the field. And that's all we've seen from Bryce young kind of since that day in Munich, when they beat the giants in overtime. And he has been superb, superb finishing the season with three consecutive, two touchdown, no interception performances.

The last quarterback to do that for Carolina was Cam Newton. So he has been particularly terrific and Carolina has that possibility every year. You take a look at a team that finishes strong and how they can turn a page. You know, I'm not saying they're this, but our current Detroit lions did that three years ago, where they finished the season strong. And then all of a sudden, three seasons ago, they finished the season strong. If you remember, they, they sent a Brett Farve into the, into the, I mean, they sent Aaron Rogers into his Brett Farve, type second act. So I understand your optimism, but to say that they're, they're going to be the team to beat when Atlanta clearly has found panics and the bucks have roosted on this division. Now from Brady to Baker, I, I, I, I can't say they're going to be the team to beat in the NFC South, but I can certainly say that they're going to be competitive and may turn into that. But for us to be competitive, I can't say that they're going to say it right now.

I think is an overreaction. And that's how we do it. Let's talk about game time tickets.

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And it's the Titans that have the first, is that what happens? Is that according to reports? These are facts.

They're not reports. I thought I saw Tom Pellicero tweet that I was very angry with the Titans should one and done Brian Callahan hire Dion and draft should do our first overall, get some excitement back in your franchise. You're boring.

No one cares about you. You want to shake it up, get some headlines, do this total overreaction. First of all, Dion's not going anywhere. That's number one. Secondly, um, I, I will say this, it was a tough year for, for Tennessee. I pegged them as my sleeper team of the AFC and I don't even think they're still sleeping. Well, I will say that I don't think they're wound up being a sleeper team in the AFC because nobody was sleeping on the chargers.

Okay. The chargers plussed up six, right? I said, Jim was going to plus them up seven, but I think a lot of people were saying they're going to be improved because Harbaugh is coming.

No one was sleeping on the charge. Denver could have been your sleeper team. You thought they were going to win 10 games and make the playoffs.

I guess so. You could have chosen Denver as that, but my sleeper team never woke up. And, and other teams did fall asleep, including Cincinnati, despite coming back and finishing above 500 and firing their defensive coordinator, Lou Anna Ruma, before he came on the air here on our pod, um, this is just a long winded way of setting it up and saying, I do think Brian Callahan is, um, is the guy. And I, I think having his dad there as well for an offensive line coach guru. And I think Brian comes from the Zach Taylor, Sean McVay tree, which is exactly if I, if I'm owning a team, owning a team, I I'd want somebody from that tree coaching my team.

I kind of liked his full-throated response in, uh, when somebody was calling his team soft. Yeah, that's true. This, this team did add a few big name free agents, but I'm, I'm not particularly keen on building a team that way, thinking that you're going to turn it around immediately.

It's still a quarterback driven league and sport. You're a number one overall. Chidor, you know, at some point, I think Chidor is going to have to say as well, like, I'm not the guy I am because I'm the son that I am. I I'm not as good as I am and have as much buzz around me as I am because I'm Dion's son. I can create my own buzz with my own play and who I am. And at some point, even in his life, he's going to have to be coached by somebody else.

And this is the perfect opportunity to do it. End of story to one and done the guy just to say, let's get Dion in here as a package deal with, with, with our, with his son. I don't think it's a sustainable way of conducting your business in, in a professional sport.

So I will push back on that and call this an overreaction. I am interested to see the lead up to the draft though, when it comes to Chidor Sanders, you know, so many statements reports out there, you know, they see him as a middle of the second round player. Is he a middle of the first round player? Can he be the first overall pick? Can he be the leader?

Is he mature enough, et cetera, et cetera. I am excited to see that. I just wanted to Any coach who does not have a quarterback that is performing well, will always look worse than he would if he had a quarterback that's performing well. I think we're going to find out that the Titans believe he is not because they're not going to just, they're not, first of all, they're not going to do like what the bears did right with Justin Fields, which is initially trade away the pig to somebody else, only to miraculously get it back and then replace them anyway.

So I don't think that's going to be the plan. They're going to be like, we're going to draft somebody and, and that kid's going to go. And, and the question is, who is it? Is it going to be Chidor? Is it going to be Cam Ward? The one thing that I know is it's not going to be the Patriots sitting there and getting a King's ransom for it now, because somebody falls in love with Chidor, Cam Ward. You're going to be lucky to get Travis Hunter. We're not going to get him.

We'll talk about that on the flagship show. What else you got over there? One of the worst days of the season yesterday. Rich, let's talk about your boy. Who's my boy? Your boy, Baker Mayfield.

He's going to finish third in the MVP voting. I don't think, like what, what planet are you on right now? And I love my boy.

What, what, what, what planet are you on right now? I understand, I know what his numbers are. I know what his numbers are. Division winner, 10 wins. How about a division winner? Second and yard, second touchdown.

How about a division? How about a division winner with 15 wins and thousands upon thousands of yards and, and multiple, multiple touchdown games. How does, if you're talking about third in the MVP voting, Lamar, I'm assuming you're saying Lamar and Josh Allen are first and second in whatever, what are you prefer?

Correct. Sam Donald had a shot to be third. That didn't happen. Saquon Barkley should be third. He just won't because he's a running back. He should win it, but he won't. He'll be, he'll be in the top five and Baker deserves some votes, but Baker won 10 games and Baker needed, you know, to pull something out of his orifice in the final week of the season. Baker has a lot less help than Jared Goff has.

No, I don't know. Mike Evans has, has been, it's been a tremendous help. There were times, listen, in the post Godwin loss for the year and Mike Evans rehabbing his hamstring, that, that was a heck of a, I can't believe I'm sitting here.

I can't believe you're talking yourself out of this, but for third in the MVP voting and you're like, you're going to, you're going to overlook the quarterback of the 15 when first seated Detroit lines. Is that what we're going to do here? Really?

Yeah, I think so. No, no. I mean, cause, cause golf has golf.

I don't have the, the stats here in front of me. I could literally get up and go to a printer. If it's finally printed out in our studio has a hundred more yards in Baker golf golf is going to be third. I I'm with you. I'll just push back and say, this is an overreaction and say, it's going to be golf.

Golf should be, should be third. I mean, I, I know Detroit fans are listening to this conversation saying, how is he not first? It's because, you know Lamar also had 800 yards plus rushing with his 4,000 yards passing.

He's gotten over what he did. You have 35 passing touchdowns this year. Now 41, 41, right? So, I mean, his numbers are, are through the roof.

Lamar 10 to one touchdown interception ratio. You might see burrow get into third place over golf because there might be something. I mean, but you don't think the final let's, let's just quickly here. Guess who the final five are.

Okay. Saquon should be and golf and Alan and Lamar. And then Baker fifth. I don't know. I think borrow is going to sneak in there. I think so, man. You never know.

I think it may feel this awesome. The list of voters for the MVP award do not include me. So take, obviously I have an opinion on all of that.

All right, last one. Before we look back, I love Baker Baker was awesome this year and happy for Mike Evans. That was a really cool moment.

That was great. The giants announced Monday morning. They're keeping everybody.

I told you. They're making a big mistake, not cleaning house after a three win year. What are we doing? I, I don't think that is an overreaction. And after we watched on hard knocks, like completely fumbling the bag. I don't think that is an overreaction in many ways, other than the fact that the giants know that the teams that churn their coaching staffs and front office staffs are the ones that are perennially in the dumpster.

And I know they have been perennially in the dumpster for the last 15 years, with the exception of peeking out from the top of the dumpster looking around and one and Dunning the Vikings three playoffs ago or finding a super bowl ring. Okay. Right. And well, that's one way for you to say that, but a Patriot fan.

Yes. And, and I guess the, the Odell and the rest of the team goes to Miami before getting smoked by the green Bay Packers version of the giant since the boat fit photo. So I understand the giants are looking at it and saying, on one hand, this isn't working. And we, we have though, a coach that we know has a plan and we know can coordinate offenses. Brian Day ball would have a gig being your offensive coordinator in a heartbeat.

Like if I know I was kind of looking forward to that. The next coach of the Patriots isn't for able and doesn't bring Josh McDaniels. And as somebody who said, we're going to bring Brian Day ball in here to be the OC you'd have been genuinely excited to put Drake may in the hands of Brian Day ball would have genuinely excited you, which is why the giants probably offered everything under the sun to new England last year to make that actually happen. And the Patriots wisely said no. And it just shows how deeply awful it must've been inside one Patriot place for them to blow out the coaching staff that did bring Drake may along nicely enough.

One would think, and the giants not getting Drake may. And you knew, we all knew that if they weren't going to get a quarterback in the draft, how brutal the season it would be. We all knew it to the point where that's why Joe Shane's like, we're not going to pay a running back all that money when we're going to be less than like, we're not going to build around the running back, let somebody else take the running back and be the last piece.

And they deep down in their bones knew it was the Eagles. I'm not saying letting Saquon walk was the right move. The wrong move, as you all know, we all know it was when they couldn't get it done with Saquon two negotiations ago and wound up franchise tagging him and signing Daniel Jones to a longer term deal that set everything in motion to this very day. So the giants knew at the time that this was not the optimal outcome. They hope for the best. And what came out was positively one of the worst and they like table.

And Joe Shane has this Saquon stuff on his resume forever. And I think Mara and Tish got together and said, we could change it again and go back into this market again and, and start from scratch. And that's the way we get further away when we're keeping it the same.

And we're hopefully a step closer and let's get this coach a fricking quarterback and go to work. Well, what are they going to do at three? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

Great question. Like hope Cleveland doesn't take a quarterback. No, no. Or they, they go into a more veteran free agent market there and bring Travis Hunter to New York and start playing that way. Is that a Kirk cousin spot? I don't know. Could be a Sam Donald spot. Could be, that would be smart.

I don't know. I mean, there's, there's different ways to go about it, but the one way that the giants clearly wanted to go about it was not churning. We'll see if it works. Do you think they did this because the jets did turn? Oh, I think if you want to bring in the jets, no, I think the jets affected things more in new England than anything else. I think so. The jets interviewing Mike Vrabel on Friday, when it comes out that it went very, very well.

I think one, I think if you want to peg any team that reacted to something, the jets are doing 1 billion percent. What else? All right. Let's look back, rich. That's a, that's overreaction for heading into wildcard weekend.

Let's look back. Looking back at the super, super, yes. Looking back as we were getting ready for week eight, I pegged this we're heading for another Bill's chiefs AFC championship game. And they are the one in two seeds in the AFC. Yes, because Kansas city had yet to lose.

They had just come off their buy and they smoked San Francisco. Yep. And, and then they, they won in Vegas and the bills had just rebounded from that two week stretch where they went from three and old or three and two after getting beaten by Baltimore and at Houston. And they had rebounded against the jets in Tennessee and then went into Seattle.

If this was post week eight, that was the one where, if you remember, they went into Seattle and Gino Smith was complaining about how loud it was for them on offense because of all the bills fans that showed up. Yep. Yeah. It makes sense. And by the way, kind of on track kind of on track one and two, if it goes chop, there you have it.

Also this one too. I said the Eagles are the second best team in the NFC. I was early on the Eagles second best team in the NFC behind the lines at the time. And they are the two seed and they are the two seed behind the lines right now. This one did not go so well.

Okay. Kirk cousins will be come back player of the year and an MVP finalist. Dude, that aged like bad left out on the counter overnight. Cheese pell. Was that after the 500 yard game? When was that? If you're, if you're including week eight, going into week nine, they had just beaten Tampa Bay and swept him.

Okay. That was when the cousins best games were against Tampa. They were week five, that Thursday night game where he threw for 500 yards, winning overtime. And then he went into Tampa and beat him again. And he looked terrific again. My Kirk is back.

Let's go. I know. And they were, they were at that point in time, five and three, and they were going about to go into Dallas and become six and three. And then it all changed. Yikes.

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