Overreaction Tuesday: Rich Eisen Talks Chiefs, Cowboys, Giants, LeBron, Ohtani and More

0:00 That was terrible.

0:01 [music] That was crap.

0:02 That was garbage.

0:03 This play sucks.

0:05 Overreaction Mondays.

0:06 Monday on a Tuesday.

0:09 Hi Christopher.

0:11 What do you got over there?

0:12 what's happening?

0:12 You went deep in your mid-May bag for the podcast.

0:16 Yeah.

0:16 I don't know if you're scraping at the bottom right now.

0:18 It's exhausting.

0:19 There's stuff.

0:19 There's stuff.

0:20 We got a few football and some, you know, it's always a Tuesday,

0:22 so we kind of mix it up a little bit.

0:24 Uh guys, did you see Monday night football week one announced?

0:29 I did.

0:29 Broncos-Chiefs.

0:31 Yes, sir.

0:31 Okay, interesting.

0:33 If Patrick Mahomes is healthy for week one,

0:36 that Monday night opener, AFC title game preview.

0:39 Oh good lord.

0:42 Come on, man.

0:43 Let's say what you're going to say.

0:44 You think the Chiefs are going back to the Super Bowl, so just say it.

0:47 Wow.

0:49 I I You can't sit here and say that's an AFC title game preview.

0:52 You can't.

0:54 Can't even say that about the Broncos.

0:56 Your Patriots, what's going to happen?

0:57 You're not Your Patriots aren't taking a step forward.

0:59 literally in the AFC Championship.

1:02 your Patriots regress.

1:03 I'm not saying that.

1:04 I'm just

1:05 just did.

1:05 I'm I'm teeing you up to say what you want to say anyway.

1:07 No, no, no.

1:08 There's a lot going on in Patriot land right now.

1:10 The Bills The Bills are opening their new stadium in front

1:13 of Al and and the rest of the video game.

1:17 see, how old am I?

1:17 Carry the one, I'm 40.

1:18 I've watched the Bills play for 45 years.

1:21 They're not going to the Super Bowl.

1:22 I'm a dude You don't have to go to [laughter] the Super Bowl.

1:24 You're saying just the AFC Championship game.

1:26 Mike.

1:27 You don't think the Ravens take step forwards.

1:28 You don't think somebody from the AFC South takes step forwards.

1:31 You don't think Jim Harbaugh's taking a step forward.

1:34 There's so many ways that this can be wrong.

1:38 I will call this an overreaction.

1:39 I've watched the Chiefs play how many AFC Championship

1:41 want me to You just want me to cater for the Chiefs,

1:43 which you know I like to do.

1:45 I Yeah.

1:46 What do you do?

1:47 I do.

1:47 Oh, no way.

1:48 Oh, tell me how great last year's AFC Championship game was.

1:51 There was like one two touchdowns scored.

1:54 The snow totally destroyed the whole damn thing.

1:56 I greatly enjoyed

1:57 Nobody We saw a backup quarterback.

1:58 You weren't missing Patrick Mahomes on that day, were you?

2:01 I was listening.

2:01 Now, here's a guy that when he's healthy, people love to love or hate.

2:07 The Chiefs, you love to love them or you love to hate them.

2:10 I don't think he's playing week one, but I'm just saying if he is, it's Chiefs.

2:13 The first gentleman of pop culture's back playing tight end.

2:16 What does that mean?

2:17 Travis Kelce's still playing.

2:19 Yeah, you'll actually be the

2:19 This league is more interesting when the Chiefs perform well than not.

2:25 I was proven correct last year.

2:27 All right.

2:27 You will miss the Chiefs.

2:28 What?

2:28 No.

2:29 Were you?

2:30 Yeah.

2:30 think so.

2:31 That's where I'm going with this one.

2:33 I don't know.

2:33 I was right.

2:34 You're overreacting.

2:36 Wow.

2:37 What else?

2:37 Anti-Chiefs.

2:38 Not at all.

2:39 Anti-Chiefs.

2:40 Not at all.

2:41 I need to see.

2:43 Another game announced.

2:45 TJ, Giants-Cowboys Sunday Night Football Week 1 opener.

2:49 Yeah.

2:50 Oh, yeah.

2:50 That game's going to feature the NFC East champion.

2:54 The NFC East champions in that game, huh?

2:56 Yeah, I agree.

2:57 Oh, so the the Commanders don't get Jayden

2:59 Daniels back and look anything like his rookie season.

3:01 I doubt that.

3:03 Philadelphia Eagles who are like Brett Saberhagen every other year,

3:06 they're terrific, and then the in-between years they're not.

3:10 They're like the Brett Saberhagen of football.

3:12 They're terrific one year, they got the right offensive coordinator,

3:15 Jalen Hurts is balling out,

3:16 the run game looks terrific, Saquon Barkley's running crazy.

3:20 They're climbing light poles.

3:22 Or they're going to Super Bowl, not climbing light poles.

3:24 And then the next year they're looking like crap,

3:26 Sirianni's a the whole team stinks.

3:29 What's happening?

3:30 Philadelphia, they're they're flipping out, they're freaking out.

3:35 This is the other year now.

3:37 Feels like a Giants-Cowboys.

3:38 Okay.

3:39 This isn't overreaction, too.

3:41 Wow.

3:42 You agree with this, TJ?

3:43 Because Giants-Cowboys Week 1 opener feature yet.

3:46 And then and we're in this game?

3:47 And and we

3:49 they What if they make this the Thanksgiving game?

3:50 What if we make this the Thanksgiving game?

3:52 That's a preview of whoever wins the division.

3:54 Look, either you can look at it from any angle you want.

3:57 you want to look at it.

3:58 You don't care the different road maps as long as the destination is the same.

4:01 is the same and all roads lead through Dallas on Sunday night.

4:06 Overreaction.

4:07 Eagles still your team?

4:08 that's a great one.

4:09 You have no idea right now.

4:11 None.

4:11 Zero.

4:13 Wednesday That's me.

4:14 of schedule release week.

4:16 Nobody knows.

4:17 It's Tuesday.

4:17 Nobody knows.

4:18 It's Tuesday.

4:18 Oh, Tuesday.

4:19 Tuesday of schedule [laughter] release week.

4:21 Nobody knows.

4:23 No, I don't even know what day it is.

4:24 Based upon past things that I've seen know this is an overreaction.

4:28 I don't know, Chris.

4:29 I think you might be.

4:30 What else?

4:31 Never too early to think about fantasy.

4:33 T.J., you're doing mock drafts.

4:35 Right now I'm doing That's not an overreaction at all.

4:37 Are you really mock drafting fantasy teams right now?

4:39 At this moment?

4:41 No.

4:41 But in this general vicinity of time?

4:43 Have Have I mock drafted at least 12 times in the last four days?

4:47 Yes.

4:47 I've done a couple.

4:49 Jeez.

4:49 And that's Boy, you need to start playing more ping pong.

4:53 [laughter]

4:53 I got to stay I'm a defending I'm a defending champion.

4:55 I got to stay sharp.

4:56 Literally open the box.

4:57 This guy's going number one.

4:59 Bijan Robinson is going number one.

5:00 All right.

5:01 He is going to threaten the single season rushing yard this mark this year.

5:06 2,105 yards, Eric Dickerson, 1984.

5:10 Bold statement by J.

5:11 He is going to threaten.

5:12 Mhm.

5:14 Maybe even take [music] it down.

5:16 Mhm.

5:16 That's an overreaction.

5:17 It's time.

5:18 That's an overreaction, too.

5:19 That's a long time for someone to have a record.

5:22 Okay.

5:22 I got it.

5:23 We've come close.

5:24 I'm aware of that.

5:24 Saquon had a chance.

5:25 There's a reason for that.

5:26 Even that guy who was just crushing everybody didn't do it.

5:31 There were more games.

5:33 too.

5:33 With a 17th game, too.

5:35 Couldn't do it.

5:36 So, I'll call that an overreaction and ask you to move on then.

5:40 Like music change?

5:41 Oh, wow.

5:42 We're off of football already.

5:44 [laughter]

5:44 I thought it would take even longer.

5:45 It was It was tough to get takes yesterday, Rich.

5:47 Hang in there, Chris.

5:49 You got it.

5:49 It's May.

5:50 Monday's loss to OKC, LeBron's last game as a Laker.

5:56 As a Laker.

5:59 He's not going to go out getting swept.

6:00 That's not an overreaction.

6:01 getting going out going swept, but

6:03 an over That is not an overreaction.

6:04 feel like it.

6:05 you notice he wasn't like waving to the fans or anything like that?

6:08 He didn't like take a moment, give one of those claps to everybody, you know,

6:11 like after they after you just won

6:13 a tennis match and you're leaving or whatever.

6:15 go to center court and kneel down and kiss the Uh you know,

6:18 I don't think he feels that way about the

6:19 else was like waving at him like Ovechkin.

6:22 You know,

6:23 Dion Wait, run up and grab him in a hug like it was going to be the last time.

6:27 Laker fans have never really embraced LeBron.

6:29 Oh, stop it.

6:30 You're out of your minds.

6:32 Uh dude, they love Kobe.

6:34 Do me a favor.

6:35 not embraced LeBron.

6:37 When O'Shea Jackson Jr.

6:38 is here tomorrow, let's talk about it.

6:40 He will side with me on the

6:41 I want I want him here sooner than than than

6:44 I We got to I want more than 5 minutes.

6:46 on this week.

6:47 You got to talk to him about that.

6:48 I will.

6:50 If he'll respond.

6:50 Yeah, you got to get him to respond.

6:52 You're his boss.

6:53 I just don't email him.

6:54 You got to text him.

6:54 I'm not his boss.

6:55 He doesn't have a boss.

6:57 He Who's his boss?

6:58 Yeah.

6:58 He'd be his dad, is right?

7:00 contest employee, he considers you his boss.

7:02 Okay, very good.

7:03 Here's the best way to get a hold of him.

7:05 You you don't email or

7:06 Twitter Twitter, baby.

7:07 You tweet at him.

7:08 Tweet at him.

7:08 You tweet at him.

7:09 You got a far better chance of him to Never.

7:11 He's not going to happen.

7:12 Well, then everything That's that ain't happening.

7:14 The Thunder are a wagon.

7:15 I thought about saying that they're going to go 4-4-4-4,

7:19 but they're not going to lose more than two games the rest of I said two games.

7:23 I don't think that's an overreaction, either.

7:25 Didn't your Celtics only lose twice a couple years ago?

7:29 I think it was 16 and 3 that year.

7:32 Oh.

7:31 Yeah, I don't think this is an overreaction.

7:35 about 4-4-4-4, but the Knicks are playing too well.

7:37 Um I I don't know.

7:40 I I don't know if they're even going to see the Knicks, Chris.

7:43 You never know.

7:44 Uh I I don't think this is an overreaction.

7:47 I don't think it's going to happen, but this is not an overreaction at all.

7:50 They're unbelievable.

7:53 They're unbelievable.

7:54 I honestly, like Let me just read these read this list to you here.

7:59 Um You've got I still don't like watching them play, but they're unbelievable.

8:04 Hold on, but whatever,

8:05 you know Lu Dort [music] RJ AJ Mitchell Um Jaylen Williams,

8:11 Alex Caruso, Isaiah Joe,

8:12 Aaron Willi- Aaron Wiggins, Keyon Wallace, Jared McCain.

8:16 McCain?

8:17 You can even throw Hartenstein in there, who is terrific, but The rebounding?

8:21 You you look at that and you're like, "Oh, that's a championship team.

8:24 Just throw in um an All-Star defensive player

8:28 of the year at center and throw in the MVP,

8:31 and that's an that that's your can't lose back-to-back NBA champions.

8:39 They're they're they are a unit

8:44 [music] in a way that it's so difficult to repeat

8:47 or point to somebody else saying they're the same.

8:49 Yeah.

8:50 What else, Chris?

8:51 All right, a couple more here, little baseball here.

8:53 Uh I'm looking at some numbers and I'm

8:55 watching this guy play and something is off.

8:58 You know what I mean?

8:59 In a four for 38 slump right now Shohei Ohtani,

9:03 the Dodgers, only four wins in the last 12 games.

9:06 Enough with the pitching sideshow.

9:08 Ohtani needs to go back to hitting only

9:11 or the Dodgers not going to make the NLCS.

9:13 So you think he's not hitting well because he's pitching?

9:16 1,000%.

9:16 I don't know how you could dispute that.

9:20 Guy doesn't pitch for 2 years,

9:21 we see 50-50 and the greatest offensive player we've ever seen.

9:25 Now we're back to pitching?

9:26 What is he hitting, 240?

9:28 baseball, man.

9:29 It happens.

9:30 It it just happens.

9:31 know.

9:31 I went to a couple games over the weekend, didn't hit the broadside of a barn.

9:34 I hear you.

9:36 I get it.

9:36 Something's off.

9:37 I know.

9:38 You got Braves mania over there.

9:40 Enough with the pitching.

9:41 No one cares.

9:42 We're there to see we're there Untrue.

9:44 No one cares.

9:44 true.

9:45 We're there to see you hit.

9:46 Untrue.

9:46 We're there to see you hit.

9:47 We're not We're not there to see you do something cool every fifth day.

9:49 We're there to see you do something awesome every day.

9:52 Let's hit.

9:53 Um you don't take somebody that talented

9:55 and remove them from the rotation, ever.

9:58 So, whatever enough They got enough pitching.

10:00 This is This is your worst take of the day.

10:03 Oh, no chance.

10:04 This one is.

10:06 Whatever

10:05 Perfect.

10:05 Else you have, I would suggest you move on to it cuz Last one,

10:08 PGA Championship this week.

10:10 Oh, look at you go.

10:11 I know.

10:11 Look, Philadelphia is down right now, T.J.

10:13 It's down, okay?

10:14 Philly's stink.

10:16 Sixers are ba- about about to be about to be disbanded as a franchise.

10:20 Oh, Nattie G's [laughter] turned that franchise around.

10:23 Okay, we know.

10:23 The Sixers swept.

10:24 Get out of here.

10:26 But, PGA Championship in Philly this week.

10:30 Yes.

10:29 We're going to be halfway to the Rory slam on Monday.

10:31 Rory taking home the PGA All right.

10:34 Not an overreaction.

10:35 I appreciate that.

10:37 Um let me ask you a question.

10:39 Are they making sure that uh no

10:41 one from Northern Ireland's allowed to get tickets?

10:44 Mhm.

10:44 Just trying to see if that's the way Philadelphia's just rolling right now.

10:47 Interesting.

10:47 I see what you mean.

10:48 Yeah, they're just trying to get They're just trying to keep

10:50 out all of all of All of the United Kingdom.

10:53 All of Europe.

10:53 All of them.

10:54 All of Europe.

10:55 Just nobody.

10:55 Only Americans can come.

10:57 That's right.

10:58 You know?

10:58 That's the way things work right now in this country.

11:01 Yeah, uh-huh.

11:02 Yeah.

11:02 Yeah, feel you.

11:03 Good one.

11:04 No no open borders for the PGA Championship.

11:07 We're going to geotag.

11:09 That's right.

11:09 Yeah.

11:10 All right.

11:11 That's not an overreaction.

11:13 And I hope you I hope you like it.

11:14 What a story that would be.

11:16 What a story that would be.

11:16 Certainly going into the Open Championship.

11:18 Yeah.

11:19 Let's go.

11:19 Hey, you made it all the way to the end.

11:21 Thanks for that.

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