Hour 1: Lions-Chiefs Reactions, Dolphins’ Turmoil, Jets’ Mess

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1:29To Taysom Hill This is the Rich Eisen Show K-Back with his first career touchdown Live from the Rich Eisen Show studios in London, England Daniel Jones to Tyler Warren Touchdown, touchdown to Carolyn Metcalf Today's guests NFL Network insider Mike Garofalo Plus, latest news and more And now, it's Rich Eisen.

2:02Rich Eisen:Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show, Transatlantically. Joining you here on Disney +, the ESPN app everywhere, and ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. I'm your humble host, Rich Eisen, sitting in the ABC News studios in London, England, trying to put on my best Peter Jennings for you to talk about everything that I witnessed with my own two eyes and my bleeding eyes, watching the Jets and the Broncos on NFL Network, and the rest of week number six, hanging out with you for the first hour of this show before Tom Pelissero takes over the rest of the way.

2:36Rich Eisen:Pleased to be here. You should call us at 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. Good to see everybody else back home in Los Angeles, California. Christopher Brockman, along with Mike Del Tufo. Good to see you guys. Hey, hey. Good to chat with you guys. I am hanging in there. And TJ Jefferson, is the candle lit? I can't tell all the way from over here. I can't see you at all, but the candle is lit, so I'm just going to go ahead and get this out the way. Oh, gosh. Hello, everybody. How about them Cowboys? Oh, boy. Well, that's the drop that we play. We play the Stephen A. drop every single time the Cowboys drop one, and they drop one in Carolina.

3:14Rich Eisen:Sorry about that, TJ Jefferson. Are you the... I am. Are you the... Rich. Oh, no. Just let me be polite. What's up, bro? I'm trying to be... How are you? Good to see you. I'm just trying to be polite. Everyone around here is so polite here in London. Your backdrop, it literally looks like you were... It literally looks like you're here. If I didn't know you weren't here, I would think you were still here. It looks like you're here. I am... Again, I'm sitting in the ABC News studios in London, all part and parcel of being part of the Disney family. So I'm here. You're there. And wherever you are.

3:47Rich Eisen:Again, if you're eager to take in the Overreaction Monday podcast, guess what? Chris Brockman and I have already recorded it. It's already up there and out there and in there. Oh, by the way, happy one million followers who are subscribers to everybody out there on our YouTube channel. We went over one million. We went over one million followers over the weekend. And we greatly appreciate every last one of you million folks out there. And a million people should be able to get that YouTube followers. which we appreciate most of them there's a few that are mean every last one of them is going to help us get that plaque for the studios but anyway, Overreaction Monday the podcast is available for everybody to take in the half hour version of it is coming up at 4.30 Eastern Time on ESPN2 the first hour of this program we're recording right now will show up at 5 o 'clock Eastern on ESPN2 after that Good to see you guys.

4:48Rich Eisen:We'll talk about that Denver Jets game coming up later on in this hour. But I do want to start with the Sunday night football game, since it was a matchup between the two teams that I predicted prior to the season would be playing in Super Bowl 60. And I will say this. If the game that we saw on Sunday night showed up on Super Sunday, I think we'll be on the edge of our seats a little bit. Maybe we'd prefer something a little tighter, Maybe something a little cleaner after the game. Maybe Bad Bunny will have to stick around and break up the parties afterwards. Separate them all. But I thought it was an entertaining football game.

5:28Rich Eisen:And in terms of the defending American Football Conference champion, Kansas City Chiefs, the team that has played in the Super Bowl for three straight years and hoping to play in the Super Bowl for a fourth straight year. The only other team, as we know, that did that was the Buffalo Bills back in the day. I proffer to say the team that we saw last night is the type of team that can play in the Super Bowl once again. And I know I did say that they had turned a corner as they headed into Jacksonville, Florida, and then made a ton of mistakes on the road on Monday Night Football, but they did come back on a short week on a Sunday night at home against a team that had won four in a row in the Detroit Lions and was playing the best football in the National Football League, and they fell behind early at 10-6 after Harrison Butker missed one wide left.

6:20Rich Eisen:And they came back, and what they needed to do is exactly what happened, which is, number one, make the other team's mistakes their moment of springboarding themselves into success, taking advantage of your mistakes and hitting you over the head with it. That's the type of team we did not see in the first two weeks of the season and falling 0-2. As a matter of fact, the point I was making after the Eagles came into Arrowhead in Week 2 and beat the Chiefs was the Eagles were now that team to take advantage of mistakes that, say, the Chiefs were making and beat them over the head with it, like, say, Mahomes and Kelsey not hooking up on that pass to the goal line, and it turned into a darn near pick six for the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the game, springboarded them to success off of that mistake.

7:06Rich Eisen:Last night, Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes were connecting to the tune of seven targets, six catches, 78 yards. Best game of the year for Travis Kelsey. The Kansas City Chiefs offense is now looking like the team that we're used to seeing. As a matter of fact, the three-game total that they have had, week four against Baltimore, week five against Jacksonville, and Sunday night. 95 points the Chiefs have now scored over the last three games. That's the most in the three-game span within a season since the final three weeks of the 2021 campaign when they scored 95 points on the way to making the playoffs and hosting an AFC Championship game that they did lose to Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals.

7:52Rich Eisen:The Chiefs committed zero penalties in a game for the first time this year. No mistakes there. As we know, they've committed 13 penalties six nights before in Jacksonville. Patrick Mahomes, his second game of the season, accounting for four offensive touchdowns. He also had four against the Baltimore Ravens in week number four. He had only one such game with four offensive touchdowns in a single contest in the two previous seasons combined. So we're seeing what we're supposed to be seeing, and in terms of taking advantage of mistakes that you're making and beat you over the head with it. The Detroit Lions, in this contest, had a 10-6 lead, had the ball on the Kansas City 44 with two minutes and 46 seconds to go.

8:37Rich Eisen:It's a fourth and two. You knew Dan Campbell was going to go for it, and he did. Jared Goff was rushed by Steve Spagnuolo's marauding pass rushers. We knew that was going to happen. Jared Goff made a nice, accurate throw, which he usually does, to Amon Ross St. Brown. And somehow, someway, the sun god dropped the football. Hit them right in the hands. Tough catch, tough play. But the Detroit Lions gave the ball back to Kansas City on downs. And what did Kansas City do? They scored a touchdown right before halftime. Got the ball to start the second half because the Lions won the toss, took the ball, could not score a touchdown on their first drive, even though Jared Goff got it in the end zone on a touchdown reception, only to be taken away by a procedure penalty.

9:23Rich Eisen:The Chiefs got the ball, thanks to the deferring of the football by the Lions. They got it to start the second half, and what did they do? They scored a touchdown. Two eight-play drives to flip the game. Suddenly down 10-6. They're up 20-10. And when the Lions scored a touchdown to make it a one-score game again, what did they do? A nine-play touchdown drive. That's the Kansas City Chiefs team that we're used to seeing, guys. And I thought, I'll turn it over to you for your two cents. I thought that was a Super Bowl worthy team that we saw on Sunday night against the Lions. Yeah, Rich, I said it on overreaction too.

9:57It felt like a team that we're going to see on Championship Sunday. You know, in the last couple of years, the Chiefs haven't been this high-powered, high-flying offense that we were used to in the early Patrick Mahomes days. You know, if they scored three touchdowns, maybe got to 24 points, that was a good day. And they relied on the defense and the run game. And they just kind of made enough plays to get a win. And the last couple of weeks, though, I think you had the stat on the pod, 95 points in the last three games. That's what we're talking about. Patrick Mahomes looks like the MVP from his coming out party 2018 season.

10:32He's doing everything. Now, look, he's still the leading rusher on the Chiefs, which is obviously not sustainable. But Isaiah Pacheco has looked really good the last couple of weeks where he started the year slow. So that aspect is coming around. Kelsey looks like he's shaking the rust off from obviously a crazy offseason for him. And they look like, you know, the team that's been not only in the Super Bowl, but, you know, hoisting the trophy when it's all said and done. If I'm the rest of the league, I'm kind of scared what Kansas City looks like right now. And, oh, by the way, their best offensive player, you know, skill-wise, Rasheed Rice is coming back next week.

11:08Rich Eisen:That's right. And Hollywood Brown just scored two touchdowns, TJ, right? That helped you in fantasy. I know that. In multiple fantasy leagues. Listen, man, I don't care what their record is. I've been saying this. As long as number 15 is playing football, the Kansas City Chiefs are always in play, right? And this kind of reminded me of, remember the Olympics against France? Steph Curry was off for a little bit, and then Mello started talking to him from the stands, and Steph hit that three, and he ran down the court, and he was like, don't worry about me. Don't worry about me. That's how I feel about the Chiefs.

11:39I'm not worried about them. I know 15 is there. I know Andy Reid's there. I know Jones is there. I know Kelsey's there. I know they can plug and play any number of different wide receivers, Chris, into that offense. A couple backs, Kareem Hunt running people over, looking like Earl Campbell at one point. You know, Pacheco is still a hard runner, and he's going to get into his groove a little bit. I don't know, man. The Chiefs are still a problem. Mahomes is out there running the option play for a touchdown, and then Brian Branch, he got into it after the game, but he looked at Brian Branch and kind of he did the wipe off after, you know, like he wiped and flexed and I'm like, look at him and just laugh at him, he's just toying with everyone like a cat just playing with a mouse.

12:21And that gets it, and you think about it, you don't want to be when you played pickup basketball back in the day when the best player, there's always that guy, right, who was just dominant, right but then when that guy starts yapping at you too, and it's just like, what are you gonna do? You can't do anything, and it makes it even worse, and that's what that was

12:37Rich Eisen:Yeah, wiping and flexing that's uh that's uh that's what you want to see from your from your quarterback and just to just to bring it all full circle tj you mentioned 15 gives the chiefs a chance to win uh well number 15 currently leads the national football league in offensive touchdowns with wait for it 15 of them um and it's the most for mahomes through the team's first six games since he had 17 in his 2022 season that he won the most valuable player so uh he's going to be in the mix for that conversation. Certainly Baker Mayfield, who we'll talk about later in the second segment of this show, is the frontrunner in that department.

13:16Rich Eisen:As for the Lions, let's hit on them for a second. They were my number one ranked team in the power rankings and for good reason, four straight wins. They were destroying opponents. They were destroying their will. And last night, as I mentioned when I was talking about the Chiefs making the most of an opponent's mistakes, man, that drop that that, let's put it this way, incompletion with Jared Goff darting one with the rush in his face on fourth and two with two and change to go in the first half. Amon Ross St. Brown couldn't corral it. Chiefs score on either side of halftime, flip the momentum of the game and the Lions just couldn't somehow get back on track, even though they did make it a three-point game top of the third quarter.

14:02Rich Eisen:It was difficult for them to stop the Kansas City Chiefs. And I'm just going to chalk it up to this. You can't win them all, and you can't win them all on the road. Arrowhead's a tough place to win. So is Lambeau Field. There is no shame in losing in both of those spots. The Lions are used to winning in that spot, and they're used to winning under the spotlight. Their seven-game primetime game win streak and five-game Sunday night football game win streak. That has now snapped. Those were the longest such streaks in the NFL. Kansas City took care of that for the Detroit Lions. My only question that I would have is the way that the game ended and the way that things ended for them after when it's all said and done.

14:45Rich Eisen:I understand that Goff had an issue throwing the football in the second half. The Chiefs' defense, just sometimes you've got to tip the cap. I think Chris Jones had something lit underneath him after he stood like Ashton Gentry waiting for the snap of a football watching Trevor Lawrence stumbling around. looking for the football himself. And that Monday night moment, I think, lit something onto Chris Jones, which is unfortunate for everybody else. And Aiden Hutchinson is as good as they come. He's a Defensive Player of the Year candidate. I'm concerned about the Lions on defense with their health, just like last year.

15:26Rich Eisen:But I'm looking at Detroit's next game against Tampa, and that is a massive one. That's a massive one in terms of an ability for the Lions to win their division. And I know that the Bucs are not in their division, but they are now at 4-2 with the Packers now 3-1-1. They've got a bye week after that. Hopefully they can rest up, have Minnesota at home before some big games at Washington, at Philadelphia, going through the NFC East. We see the big game, obviously, on Thanksgiving to kick off the triple header against the Packers on Week 13. That's just down the road for the Lions with tough visits also in division, finishing up with 3-4 on the road.

16:10Rich Eisen:But none of them appear to be as we could take a look other than Chicago, anywhere cold at Philadelphia might be one in Week 11, middle of November. I'm not concerned about them. I think they can still win this division, and I think they could still win the conference as to whether the games are going to be in Ford Field or elsewhere. where, well, I'll tell you what, those games I was just talking about against Philadelphia, against the Rams, and certainly the one that's coming up next against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, those are the things that would concern me if they've got to go on the road to potentially make the Super Bowl.

16:44Rich Eisen:But I'm not going to sit here and say the Lions are done, or there's a big problem, something's been exposed. I'm just going to chalk it up to can't win them all, certainly can't win them all on the road, and it's tough to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead, certainly multiple times in a row. We know that this whole run that we've been excited about for Lions fans started a couple years ago on a banner-raising night in Arrowhead. I'm just going to chalk it up to can't play them all, can't win them all perfectly, and I'll just say that about the Lions. Before we go to break, I do want to talk about what happened after the game.

17:24Rich Eisen:Because I watched this game back this morning because I'm professional. Because the game kicks off, by the way, at 1.20 in the morning here in London. Which is, you know, by the way, to all the London NFL fans, the London-based NFL fans who stay out and watch these marquee events, like, tip the cap to you. You guys remember when we were in Munich, right? You were watching Thursday Night Football in a bar at 2 in the morning. No, at 4 in the morning, they kicked us out. I cut an Uber at 2.15 in the morning to go meet Brockman and some people at a bar. Bar closed at 4.30. They kicked us out right before the fourth quarter.

18:03Rich Eisen:Right. That was a good night. Well, a brawl. Once I watched it back this morning, once victory formation, once it was all over, I just clicked out of it on the Game Pass. Yeah, of course. And then clicked on threads, and then I began to see what we see on the screen here, which is Brian Branch fighting everybody in a red uniform. He was pissed. Well, I mean, Mahomes went up to go dap him up, and he wanted no piece of that. And Juju Smith-Schuster saw that and went in Branch's face. And Branch then went and threw a hand at Juju Smith-Schuster, who had shoved Brian Branch in the back on a run play as the Chiefs were running this game out in the clock down with three and a half to go.

18:54Rich Eisen:Have you guys seen the play that Branch was upset about? Have you seen that? No. Yeah, so Branch is realizing it's a run. He's on the left side of the play. he's realizing that there's a run to the right and he's trying to somehow someway get involved with the tackle, although he was very far away from it, but he jumped across the line of scrimmage and Juju Smith-Schuster is right behind him and shoved him in the back and shoved him right over. The refs did not see it, didn't call it. Oh, I'm watching it now. I mean, he went straight down and didn't see it coming and obviously was pissed about losing, pissed about getting blocked in the back, pissed about Mahomes scoring and flexing, wiping and flexing, right?

19:38Rich Eisen:He did the wipe. And then flexing. It wasn't him reporting as eligible and also pointing out how he did his bicep work over the day. He did some curls. You can't touch me. Got it. Ah, thank you. For those signing at home. So, after the game, it was a lot of pushing and shoving, and there'll be some fines, and who knows how steep the fines will be. I imagine they shall be, because if this is Sunday Night Football, it was. And the whole audience that watches that is seeing this sort of mess after the game. League will pay some attention, and somebody's going to be getting some FedEx letters. And after the game, we have Brian Branch first.

20:22Rich Eisen:This is Brian Branch explaining what's going on. Here's what happened. I did a little childish thing, but I'm tired of people doing stuff in between the play, and reps don't catch it. Like, they're trying to bully me out there. I don't think... I should have never did it, but it was childish. What happened between the play and the play? What are you referring to? I got locked in the back illegally, and it was running the ref. The ref didn't do anything, and just stuff like that. And that's... I could have got hurt off of that, but I still shouldn't have done that. so uh a contrite uh brian branch and then afterwards um what seems to be a um i say irate but because he's he's not outwardly screaming and yelling but you you could tell dan campbell wasn't pleased i love brian branch but what he did is inexcusable and uh it's not going to be accepted here it's not what we do it's not what we're about i apologize to uh coach reed and and the chiefs and uh you know and schuster that's not okay we that's not what we do here and uh it's not going to be okay he knows it our team knows it and uh so that's that's that's not what we do and uh let's get mahomes here is mahomes on the uh the set two after the game yeah i mean at this point it's kind of is what it is you know you just kind of move on i I mean, we won the football game.

22:00I thought we did a great job and played well, but now we were on to the Raiders.

22:05Rich Eisen:Okay, so him saying – It'll get handled when it gets handled. Well, I mean, he handled it is what his point was. So him saying we're moving on and we won the game, is that wiping and then flexing? Like he's wiping away, like we're moving on. We won the game. You know what I mean? Is that what I'm understanding? Did he do that? Yeah, moving on. He wiped and flexed verbally. That was a verbal wipe and flex is what he did right there. Hey, guys, tell me how massive Super Bowl 60 between these teams would be. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Talking about this moment all week. This moment all week.

22:49Rich Eisen:What happened in the game, you know. Ryan Branch does have a point. He did get blocked in the back. That should have been a flag. He did, but the game's over at that point in time. No, I get it. The other thing is, there were people irate about this. I had a friend who she FaceTimed me wondering if Branch was going to get suspended for the rest of the season. I'm like, you can't expect these men to get in between those lines and be savages and then just turn it off just like that. It's not how it works, man. Okay. Who was that? Was it Nina Delbrev? Who else do you know? Who's FaceTiming you? I don't know.

23:26Rich Eisen:Wow. Is that Ariana Grande? Who was FaceTiming about Brian Branson? It was Demi Lovato. It was Demi Lovato. Was it Demi Lovato? Was she FaceTiming you about Brian Branson again? It was none of those people. Let me tell you, man. Let me tell you, man. We'll be talking about how, oh, the Chiefs held the run game down. Well, the run game, will Sonic and Knuckles be able to come up with a Super Bowl turnaround? You know, Hollywood Brown had to, but Rasheed Rice didn't play, but Jamison Williams did well, and Amon Ross St. Brown dropped the ball. it would be a big time, monster Super Bowl 60. Guys, we haven't even talked about the trick play that got taken away.

24:03Oh, the trick play. If that stands, do you think it's a different game? Could be.

24:08Rich Eisen:I don't know, man. It still was so early on. It's just a four-point difference anyway, and this final score was more than just four points. It was a two-possession victory for them. Yeah, but doesn't that take the air out of your team a little? It would be so big. It would just be so big Super Bowl 60 between these two teams based off of what we just saw on Sunday night, and then on top of it, it would mean that I was right, which I'm hoping for. It would mean that I nailed it. Most importantly. All right, let's take a break. When we come back here from London, we'll talk about Baker Mayfield, what's going on in Miami with Tua letting a lot of dirty laundry sit out there on the fence for everyone to see.

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