NFL Check-In on the Rams, Lions, Bears & More | Overreaction Monday w/ Rich & Chris Brockman

June 1st dumped a pile of NFL news onto the table, so Rich and Chris fired up Overreaction Monday to sort the real from the reach. Chris came out swinging with the Rams.

His take: this season is a complete failure if Los Angeles does not win the Super Bowl, now that Myles Garrett has joined the fray. Rich pushed back on the word failure while conceding the premise. Missing the Super Bowl would be a massive disappointment bordering on failure, he said, but the NFC West alone houses the defending champs, and the whole conference is the deepest end of the pool. He left room for the kind of injury luck that sank Denver as a top seed, the difference between disappointment and outright failure. Even Terron Armstead, in studio last week, floated the Rams going 17-0 before backing off when asked to play the actual win-loss game.

On Garrett himself, Chris predicted he retires with the most Defensive Player of the Year trophies and the all-time sack record. Rich laid out the math. Garrett has two DPOYs, with the record at three. He sits at 125 sacks against Bruce Smith's 200. The detail that stuck came from Armstead, who brought an NFL Network research nugget: in Garrett's entire career, he has played only eight games while rushing the passer with a lead of a touchdown or more. With a stacked Rams front and real leads to work with, Rich called Garrett more than halfway home on sacks and reasonably within reach on the DPOY record, no overreaction. Then came the dad joke. "He still has miles to go," which Rich noted is spelled M-I.

The Lions take centered on a Dan Campbell quote that perked up every fantasy manager. Campbell called Jahmyr Gibbs his bellcow, and Chris ran with it: Gibbs breaks Barry Sanders' Lions total-yards record of 2,358 from his 1997 MVP season and finishes as an MVP finalist. With David Montgomery gone, Gibbs has a clear runway, but going from roughly 1,800 yards to 2,358 plus an MVP finish was a bridge too far for Rich, who filed it under overreaction while admitting the Lions are being quietly overlooked after last year's step back.

The Micah Parsons conversation got the most layered treatment. With Parsons out until late October after a knee cleanup reset Green Bay's nine-month timeline, Chris declared Jerry Jones won the trade. Too early, Rich countered, even as he acknowledged Dallas turned the deal into real assets and removed a situation that had become a mockery of a sham. Parsons still has a huge career ahead, and a healthy midseason return could matter plenty for the Packers. Asked who is likelier to win their division, Rich took the Cowboys, whom he has in his too-early top five.

The Bears take leaned superstitious: fans should be 100% worried about Caleb Williams on the Madden cover. Rich does not buy the curse and called it the coldest cover he has ever seen, but he flagged the real concern, which is the franchise eyeing a move to Hammond, Indiana. That, he said, actually changes how the fan base thinks about going to games, and he could not understand why the team cannot just stay put. Fantasy tip buried inside: grab tight end Colston Loveland, who may be Chicago's best pass catcher.

Rich closed by defending the Seahawks, who get their rings this week and still are not getting respect as defending champs heading into 2026, in part because nobody is treating Sam Darnold like a top-five quarterback. Seattle draws the Rams twice late, including a Christmas Day game in Week 16 and the Week 18 finale, dates that could decide the NFC West.