Overreaction Monday: Rich Eisen on Giants, Rams, Bills, Bengals, Chargers
Eisen's weekly NFL take segment weighed in on Daniel Jones and the Giants, Rams rookie Puka Nacua, and Josh Allen's Bills after Week 2 of the 2023 season.
Rich Eisen used his weekly "Overreaction Monday" segment on The Rich Eisen Show to weigh in on Daniel Jones and the New York Giants, Los Angeles Rams rookie Puka Nacua, and Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills, in an episode published September 18, 2023, following that week's NFL games.
The segment also addressed the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Chargers, according to the episode's title and description as indexed by multiple outlets including Yahoo Sports and YouTube listings of the show. Overreaction Monday is a recurring weekly feature that has run on The Rich Eisen Show since 2018, per reporting on the show's format, in which Eisen and co-host Chris Brockman debate which reactions to the prior week's NFL results are overblown and which are justified.
Reporting reviewed for this account did not include a full transcript of Eisen's specific verdicts on each team discussed, only the topics covered in the episode.
The teams under discussion
Nacua, the Rams' rookie wide receiver, was highlighted as a breakout performer, described in coverage as a "rookie sensation." Nacua's Week 2 line was itself record-setting: 15 receptions for 147 yards in a 30-23 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, according to Deseret News and Bleacher Report, which set the single-game rookie receptions record with a 17-yard catch in the final 20 seconds of the game. Across his first two career games, Nacua's 25 total catches set an NFL record for a rookie, and he became the first player in NFL history with 10-plus receptions and 100-plus receiving yards in each of his first two games, per NFL.com's reporting.
The Bills' win was characterized in coverage as a "beatdown" of the Las Vegas Raiders, with Allen at quarterback; the Bills won that Week 2 game 38-10, according to the team's own recap and PFF's game report, with Allen throwing for 274 yards and three touchdowns without an interception.
The Giants' Week 2 game, per the team's own site and Sports Illustrated's recap, was a 31-28 comeback win over the Arizona Cardinals: New York trailed 20-0 at halftime and by 21 points in the third quarter before Jones threw for 321 yards and two touchdowns and Graham Gano's 34-yard field goal with 19 seconds left sealed the win. The Bengals, meanwhile, lost 27-24 to the Baltimore Ravens that same week, according to ESPN's game recap. A specific Week 2 result for the Chargers was not confirmed in the sources reviewed for this account.
The format
Overreaction Monday has since expanded into an extended standalone podcast, with Eisen and Brockman debating the latest NFL storylines beyond the confines of the television segment, according to podcast listings for the show.
What it signals
The segment's recurring, weekly nature means its value lies less in any single verdict and more in tracking which storylines -- a rookie receiver's early performance, a quarterback's turnaround start -- get flagged as overreactions in real time, a distinction the available reporting did not fully unpack for this particular week's episode.
US In News compiled this archived account from contemporaneous coverage referencing The Rich Eisen Show. It restores a story originally published on this site in September 2023; figures are as reported at the time.