NFL's Thrilling Wild Card Weekend, Plus Coaching Carousel Intrigue

The Rich Eisen Show

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 39 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: 1:55 - Caleb Williams will win more Super Bowls in his career than every current NFC North QB combined 6:25 - Kyle Shanahan proved he should be Coach of the Year with the 49ers' win over the Eagles 11:13 - We're getting Bills/Patriots for a 3rd time this season in the AFC Championship Game 15:35 - Both the Packers and Eagles should have new head coaches next season 18:55 - Mike McDaniel will be the OC for one of the losing Wild Card teams next year 21:40 - The Chargers need a new offensive philosophy or risk never winning a playoff game with Justin Herbert 25:45 - The analytics are wrong! These coaches need to kick field goals! 31:30 - John Harbaugh will win more games than the Ravens next season Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.3	Well, that weekend sure put the wild and wild card.
0:39.0	Welcome to this wild card edition of Overreaction Monday. Rich eyes and alongside chris brockman's up buddy my goodness what a weekend we almost went five for five
0:45.3	in one score games tight games so many different metrics that are on my stat in my stat pack right here
0:53.3	in front of me to tell you just how crazy this
0:55.3	past weekend was. I'll just throw a couple out. I mean, I can't wait. I'm all ears. Most games
1:01.7	decided by fewer than five points in a single playoff round in NFL history, the 2025 wildcard
1:07.0	round. And this is before even the Monday night game between the Texans and the Steelers,
1:17.6	set a record with four such games, four of the five wild card games going into the Monday night featured a team win by a team trailing with less than three minutes to go in the fourth
1:23.8	quarter. Wow. Yep. That's correct.
1:27.9	The Colby Parkinson touchdown for the Rams, the DJ Moore touchdown for the Bears,
1:32.5	the one yard Josh Allen, touchdown for the bills, the Christian McCaffrey receiving
1:38.4	touchdown for the 49ers.
1:40.1	That's the most such wins in a single postseason all time.
1:43.5	That's how wild the wildcard weekend was. What was your favorite play of those? Out of all the four of the winners? Yeah, yeah, those game winning touchdowns. Which one was the McCaffrey? I don't, no. Well, the McCaffrey one, this wasn't the one that he caught in the trick play. That wasn't the trick play. No, this was just the one where he, you know, Purdy was given way too much time and McCaffrey's uncoverable inside the five-yard line. I guess it was the Parkinson one. Yeah. That was a set catch. When he grabbed it and pirouetted and scored at the same time. All right. So clearly there's lots to overreact to, and it's time now to hit it. Hit it, please. That was terrible. That was crap.
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