Kurt Warner on Impressive Philip Rivers; Why Texans or Bills Could Win the AFC | The Rich Eisen Show

I’m gonna ask you a question I haven’t asked you for about five years. >> What’d you see on film from Phillet Rivers, Kurt? >> Uh, yeah. Yeah, it has been a while. Um, I tell you what, um, yeah, I I know we were all going into this thing, you know, holding our breath a little bit in Seattle against a really good defense. Five years off. Oh my gosh, what what are we getting here? Like we we just hope this goes somewhat well for Phillip. Um, and you know, and it was mostly managing the game. uh you know getting into run plays and keeping them on schedule. But but Philip made uh you know some key throws in the game including you know the touchdown throw the the the late you kind of back shoulder throw that set them up for the field goal. Um you know a couple other anticipatory throws in the game. U so I thought it was a a great start. I don’t know if you could have asked for much more than than what we got. um you know the the physical part of it. Uh you hope as he practices a little bit more that comes along, you know, a little more velocity or or snap on the football, those kinds of things. Um but extremely impressed with uh how this thing played out, how he kept him in the game, how he made some critical throws when he needed to and uh thought Shane Stiken and the team managed it really really well to give themselves a a real chance to win that game and knock off Seattle. unfortunate it didn’t pay off that way, but um but more than impressed. Um you know, I I coming back off of five years and we talked about it on the show, I I don’t even know what I could have expected um you know, in that kind of scenario. And so after watching it, I’m like, man, that’s that’s about as good as I could have expected for for a situation like that. >> Kurt Warner here on the Rich Eisen Show looking at the standings right now. I want to focus on the six and seven seeds in each conference just to give you the uh the uh mind’s eye of it. You got the Bills at six, the Texans at seven in the AFC. In the NFC, you’ve got the NerS at six, the Packers at seven. I don’t recall entering the final three weeks of a season seeing a six and seven uh of both conferences. You could say absolutely they could win it. And there’s the Chargers at five with Justin Herbert taking as many sacks as he has in the last two games and 11 sacks in the last two games with that broken left hand as he’s ever taken in his entire career. Kurt, over a twoame span. >> So you put your marker on which one to maybe pop through and go on a run, Kurt, what do you got? >> Which one to pop through and go on a run? Um man, yeah, it makes that number one seed um you know, so important, right? You don’t you don’t want to play one of those teams. >> You don’t want a piece >> in round one. You you want to sit at home and and hope they beat each other up. >> Heck yeah. >> Um >> man, that that’s a great question. I think any of those teams obviously um could knock you off >> for sure. Um >> and I I want to say the Texans uh just because of how good their defense is. And I feel like their offense and CJ has been better since he came off of this key kind of concussion protocol and had those few weeks off that their offense has been better. Um it’s hard for me to go against Josh Allen just because we know what he’s capable of. Uh in the fact that with a ball in his hands and the ball in the quarterback’s hands, 60 snaps, um he can beat anybody and he can he can, you know, put on the cape as we always talk about. And so I think the best team in that scenario for me would be the Texans. Uh but I won’t go against number 17 right there and Josh Allen and say, “Man, nobody would want to play him in the first round uh with a higher seed going.” Really? We we got a higher seed for this? Um yeah, I don’t I don’t think you want that scenario either. >> Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

NFL Network analyst/Pro Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner tells Rich Eisen why he was “extremely impressed” with Philip Rivers in his first NFL game in 5 years, and explains why the Houston Texans and Buffalo Bills could be the two most dangerous teams in the AFC playoffs field.

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4 comments

  3. Stop trying to make the Texans a thing.

    Their coach is mid at best and their overrated defense has gotten fat off an easy schedule.

    Every single AFC playoff teams would sign up to play Houston and that high school offense.

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