The Rich Eisen Top 5: Biggest Storylines from the 1st Half of the NFL Season | The Rich Eisen Show

37 comments

1. Rich, Joe Mixon was also available and should have been mentioned as a high impact free agent.

2. Great analysis, thank you! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

3. Lol where are the Commanders/Jayden Daniels? I mean come on Rich

4. Rich, you talk about Jayden Daniels with such affection and deference week after week. He broke records held by Peyton, Tom, and Drew. I was expecting the 6-2 Commanders in a first campaign with damn near an entirely staff from top to bottom to crack the top 3.

5. Jets suck cowboys suck chiefs rule there all done…

6. Brockman hates on the Chiefs and Mahomes every week lol but suck it Chris they’re 7-0 and Mahomes leads the league in 4th quarter QBR he’s still the best when it matters most.

7. Dog, week 9 is literally the halfway point in an 18-game season…lmao

8. the chiefs will lose at home in the playoffs

9. The Lions look really good this year I would be surprised if they don't make it to the Superbowl.

10. The Jags are still living the curse of the Terrible Towel, the ghost of Myron Cope is living in their head's!

11. We all know when the Chiefs get to the post season they're going to play near perfect football even if the WR crew are a bunch of kids stacked up in red jerseys.

12. The chiefs are not going to three peat unless the Nfl reffs help them. Thats why Patrick crys about it.

13. Weird that Rich thinks the NFL season going from 17 weeks to 18 weeks made it harder to split in half. The halfway point would be between weeks 9 and 10, i.e. after the first 9 weeks and before the second 9 weeks.

14. Illegal formations being called means illegal formations are being done. The offense already has so many advantages, they don't need to be able to sneak a few (illegal) inches too.

    Saying not to call penalties is putting blame in the wrong place. Stop COMMITTING penalties. Give refs crap for bad calls, not for right calls that you find uninteresting.

15. It's easier now. 18 weeks, halfway after 9.

16. Jets joe douglas at 29 and 62 has the 2nd worst gm wr (31%) of all time (min. 5 season)

17. Russell "dangeruss" wilson has 2 sandwiches named after him , does roethlisburger, mahomes, brady?!??! No they dont

18. Remember when you said the Texans would beat the steelers if they played today? Did you mean these current Texans that are losing to the jets lmfao

19. brockmans hat

20. how do you ignore the greatest rookie QB in NFL history??

21. Rich failed to mention the Jets trainwreck with Rodgers. Seriously though, huge story, hilarious, great with popcorn

22. They could always try lining up legally if they want to stop getting all the penalties.

23. Laughable storyline segment. Literally not interested in any of them 😂

24. runing backs are impactfull on teams with a competent coaching staff and an offense line.

25. Haha love you guys for giving that credit to Chris Long’s crew on that Lions stat!

26. Myles Garrett to the Detroit Lions, ….I'm not a lions fan, but I'm rooting for them, or the Jets, their fans have waited long enough…..wanna see that trade soo bad. Give the Chiefs a run for their money

27. Russ over Jaden.. did Skip make this list

28. One thing to the comments about Russ vs the NY teams. People seem to either not know or forget, both NY teams are top 15 defenses, and the Giants lead the league in sacks. Their defenses aren't bad, their Offenses are not good, leaving those poor D's on the field too much. Dont care how good your D is, if they play 40 mins a game, they will tire.

    In my mind there are only 3 teams left that can beat the Chiefs on their schedule. Buffalo being the top 1 imho, followed by Pittsburgh, and Denver places them twice. Denver plays them week 17, and they may be resting Mahomes, but honestly that D in Denver is so good this season, that they could steal one in their first match up.

29. Why is no one talking Chiefs undeafted 3 peat?

30. Illegal formations are not the fault of officials but the fault of either to coaches designing illegal plays (unlikely) or players being lazy or intentionally bending/breaking the rules for an advantage. These penalties are of course not compelling entertainment but I'd much rather see a DE get a sack or QB pressure than watch the left tackle line up 2 yards off the LoS and break out of his stance a half second early every play. At a certain point, players have to play within the rules… that is the game. This is a player problem not a League or Ref problem.

31. Jerry Jones' rationalization for not signing Henry is so transpatently ego driven (and asinine) was beyond ridiculous. We're always wrong about something. But I've never been THAT wrong about ANYTHING.

32. Calling llegal formations. Gambling. 1+1=2.

33. How is Russ beating up on two mediocre teams a bigger story than the Commanders and Jayden Daniels?

34. Chiefs should be 4-3… refs are bailing them out every game so hard…

35. I don't understand the lack of nuance in your discussions about the illegal formations. Weren't we all up in arms last year over how far back some of those linemen like Lane Lohnson were setting up? and the whole Kadarius Toney fiasco and such. Y'all are acting like it wasn't a problem that can and should be fixed. It's much better as a "point of emphasis" or whatever the refs call it than the year they did it when it was roughing the passer.

36. Seeing this the day after Halloween means I wasn't prepared for costumes… imagine my reaction to Brockman channeling his inner Cam Newton with allllll that hat on his head with no Halloween context… damn I need some coffee 😅😆

37. #4. The players Union has dropped the ball for the last 20 plus years. About running backs getting paid in the first 4 or 5 years of their NFL career. Contracts should not apply to running backs the same as qb. Running back's need to get paid up front higher and lower on the back end of the contract. Any team passing on D Henry was blind. In order of ball importance: center, qb, rb,wr, te. Christ even the defense needs the RB to give them a rest…