Bills' Next Steps after McDemott, and NFL Divisional Round Mayhem

The Rich Eisen Show

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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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: 1:20 - The Buffalo Bills' first call needs to be to Mike Tomlin to make sure he's really taking next year off 7:00 - Josh Allen should force a trade to the Rams if Matthew Stafford retires after this season 10:25 - Bears HC Ben Johnson should have gone for two to end the Rams game in regulation 14:55 - The Seattle Seahawks are winning the Super Bowl 18:50 - The Patriots' defense is giving early dynasty vibes and is the reason New England is in the AFC Championship game 21:50 - The Texans should wait before giving CJ Stroud a max contract extension 29:10 - The Rams' big-game experience gives them the edge over all remaining teams in the playoffs 32:00 - Teams take the wrong strategy and playoff overtime-- take the ball and score!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this edition of Overreaction Monday.
0:05.5	The divisional playoff weekend is in the books.
0:10.1	Rich Eisenlong with Chris Brockman and oh my goodness is there everything to talk about.
0:16.8	And just about an hour before we sit down for overreaction Monday, the Buffalo Bills fire Sean McDermott.
0:26.8	And suddenly that simultaneous catch, that wasn't a simultaneous catch, that wasn't a catch, but was an interception that I think everybody thought would be the main
0:39.7	topic of conversation when it happened to come out of the first divisional
0:44.7	playoff game of the weekend suddenly became the third most talked about subject behind
0:52.2	Bo Nix. Oh, by the way, breaking his ankle after that.
0:56.6	Say what, no?
0:57.4	And now Sean McDermott being fired.
1:00.1	So I think we need to get to overreaction Monday.
1:02.8	Okay, great.
1:03.2	Yeah, yeah.
1:03.8	Lest we suddenly have to overreact to something we had no thought at all
1:09.6	that we'd have to overreact to. Oh, by the way, that Caleb Williams throw. Holy crap. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap. That was garbage. That's why it sucks. Overreaction. Mondays. Monday. All right, Christopher, you've got the floor. Holy smokes. Okay, I guess got to start with the breaking news Monday morning. I want to say that I did write this on Sunday night. Okay. And I was just kind of ahead of it. The bill's first call needs to be to Mike Tomlin to see if he's really taking next year off. I don't even know if that's the answer. How does that sound? Really?
1:44.5	How about this?
1:45.7	Yeah.
1:46.5	How about this?
1:47.4	Because, I mean, if you're firing Sean McDermott over results, not getting to a certain level of the playoffs,
1:58.3	which is what this appears to be.
2:00.2	Like, hey, we keep hitting our ceiling before the Super Bowl.
2:03.6	We need to get to the Super Bowl.
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