Overreaction Tuesday: Rich Talks Seahawks, Bills Stadium, Tarik Skubal and More

Overreaction Monday arrived on a Tuesday, and Chris opened with a take so reasonable it got disqualified.

His position: three preseason games is the perfect regular season appetizer, and the coming 18th game should not cost the league one of them. Rich agreed, which is a problem for the segment. Four is too many, two is too few, three is the magic number.

Coaches may not care, Rich noted, because joint practices give them more. Tuesday's evidence was mixed. Tampa and the Jets produced two fights, three interceptions of Geno Smith and an ambulance for a player everyone is now hoping is fine.

Then Chris got to Buffalo. New stadiums are usually awesome, he argued. Los Angeles is one of the greatest things anyone has seen. Nashville's renderings look terrific. Vegas is awesome. Kansas City's plans are incredible. Buffalo seems like a miss, and he stacked it with alternate jerseys that look like a Diet Pepsi can, obstructed seats and Josh Allen becoming a father, then called the pile a bad omen for the 2026 Bills.

Rich rejected the premise and most of its parts, and wishful thinking from a Patriots fan is his working theory for where it came from. Fatherhood as a performance drag got the strongest pushback. "I think I'm a better professional because of the better human," he said.

The seats, though, got him. The photographs are disturbing, and the worst is not the wall or the plexiglass. It is the one where somebody routed a staircase directly in front of paying customers.

"How many people are just going to stop and look for their seats or look for their friends or stand right in front of you?" Rich said. He hopes smart people fix it, up to blocking those seats off. What he would not accept is the leap from bad sightlines to bad season. "You know what's not obstructed? Josh Allen heading to the end zone."

The next one stuck. One team is the champs, and nobody talks about them. The Seahawks are flying under the radar as NFC contenders.

Rich half conceded and half refused. Seattle is welcome anytime, Cooper Kupp was on a month ago, he loves the GM, the coach and the 12s, and the team is on Hard Knocks. So how under the radar can they be? The honest answer landed a beat later. Seattle was a quiet Super Bowl team, with no Myles Garrett-sized arrival to generate noise and no segment on this show about a returning legend.

The adjustment Rich made was the useful one. Seattle is not under the radar as a contender. It is under the radar as a team that could repeat, which is hard and which it is built to do. The Seahawks will also be 1-0 after the first Wednesday of the season, the real grievance here.

One more, and it came with a sigh. Tarik Skubal got beat up at Dodger Stadium.

"Tarik Skubal is a liability in this Dodgers rotation," Chris declared, noting the trade was supposed to be the canary in the coal mine for what is wrong with baseball.

Rich's counter is the counter to every August panic. All it cost was three prospects and the rest of the contract, and every other team could have paid it. Skubal lost his first start as a Dodger and now his first home start, and Los Angeles has dropped eight of nine.

"But October's a different month," Rich said. "Is it not?"

Elsewhere, the Red Sox lost a third straight and the Yankees are two up in the loss column.