Can you hear me? Hear me hear?
Me, I got to tell you, I've been doing this for a long time and I
got on the air in 1999. Back in 1999, Tim Couch was the
first overall pick in the NFL draft, Carlos Beltran, who just
made the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and rightfully so,
was the Rookie of the Year. And the Spurs won the first of
their five championships. They beat the Knicks.
This is back in 1999 when I started doing this, my first
radio job. And over all those years, I
mean, I have covered some wild shit.
I have seen some absolutely nutty stuff.
I mean, Bill Pauline's got to take a walk and Bill Pauline's
got to leave his credentials at the door and Bill Pauline's just
got to leave the building. Because see, I want to be very
clear, this is by I would never do this because my dad's the
same exact age. And even if he wasn't, I would
never do this to anybody. I'm not here to aid shame
anybody, but if you can't remember who you voted for, then
you're no longer competent to be one of the main arbiters of NFL
history. So Bill Polian says yesterday,
oh, I voted for Bill Belichick. And then he's asked later on in
the day. Well, you know, I, I really
can't recall if I voted for, for Bill Belichick.
Bill, go get a hot cup of tea. Go sit on a hammock.
And and I'm, by the way, Bill Poli, not Belichick.
And just remove yourself from any meaningful conversation to
anything that now pertains to the NFL.
What a what a what an like this is really the wildest stuff that
I've ever seen. And wait till I get to The Jets.
Like, I'm in a mood today. I'm just going to tell you right
off the bat, I'm in a mood today.
Bill Belichick is not a first ballot Hall of Famer.
Are you insane? Now, this isn't one of those
things where, you know, one person abstain from voting for
him. Yeah, you see this a lot in
baseball, right? So some knucklehead, well, you
know, Jeter didn't get 100%, which is ridiculous, right?
So some clown doesn't vote for Jeter.
And then invariably, what that cloud is looking for is a little
bit of shine. Oh, let's do some digging.
Who didn't vote for Jeter? Oh, let's get him on the radio
show, find out. And then guess what?
He maybe gets a couple of more Father Wars, and that's
basically the motivation to stand out from his peers.
This isn't necessarily the case here.
This is this is Bill Polian leading a coup against Bill
Belichick. You need 40 out of 50 votes to
get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, right?
And he didn't get 40. I don't even know if he got 39.
Who the hell knows what happened in that room.
Oh, my God, what it is. It is time for voter reform.
It really is like, and and this is this is really, this bothers
me because we see it in baseball all the time.
And you've got people who really, and I said it before,
become the arbiters of history, like their biases, their
relationships, their opinions shape how we view history.
Now, Bill Belichick's going to ultimately get in that.
That's that's not, that's not the point here.
The point is, is that it's a clown show.
And the point is, when I was growing up, there was reference
with the Hall of Fame, like you just knew, coach, player,
executive, Hall of Fame or not. Now it's all shrouded in secrecy
and debate and wackiness that really, it's on my last nerve.
I don't give a rat's ass if they close the doors to every Hall of
Fame at this point because it's really become largely
meaningless. But think about this guy's.
Think about how much football we've watched.
Bill Belichick is not a Pro Football Hall of Fame.
We're on the 1st ballot, and it's because of Bill Polian.
See, that's the problem here, because his boy Robert Kraft is
on the same ballot. Oh, I got to make sure Bobby's
not uncomfortable. Let's get Bobby in there so that
when everybody goes to Canton, it's not awkward.
And yeah, we could stick it to Belichick a little bit because
I'm boys with craft the fuck out of here.
Give me a break. What an absolute disgrace.
This is Bill Belichick, not a Hall of Famer.
I mean, wow. So I want to, I want, I want to
understand this. If you're going to hold that
same standard, right, and you're going to be God, you're going to
play God. I am God.
And I do not believe that Bill Belichick should be in the Hall
of Fame. As I speak from the mountaintop
next to Moses, I descend upon you.
My football opinion. I mean, whoa.
So if that's the case, right, is Tom Brady going to get in?
Because Tom Brady was the one who was deflating the balls,
right? And if Robert, which I don't
even care about, if Robert Kraft gets in, well, Robert Kraft is
the owner of the team. And by extension, Robert Kraft
should be deemed responsible for anything that goes under his
jurisdiction. Give me a break.
Bill Pulley and that loser, get the hell out of here.
Take a walk. Yeah, Yeah.
I'm on my last nerve with this stuff.
I am really, really I I actually thought it was a joke.
I actually thought that this was a joke when I saw this, because
he's a, he was a rival, if you could call it a a rival, because
Bill basically always beat your brains in the Bills, the Colts,
right. And, and this is this the
kicker, and I said this before. First he says, yeah, I voted for
Bill. And then he's like, I, I don't
remember if I voted for Bill. Well, no disrespect, but if you
can't remember, maybe you should be in a nursery home instead of
running the Pro Football Hall of Fame voting check in.
You got the money. Go to the best one.
And I'm not trying to be insensitive, but when you yield
that power and you're that irresponsible and you're that
petty, I'm not going to pull any punches.
Bill Pullian, Come on, man. I mean, you talking about
Lombardi with five titles, you're talking about not all
Super Bowls, obviously, just NFL titles, right?
Landry's got a couple, Knowles got 4, Shula's got two.
You are talking about a gentleman who was an 8 time
Super Bowl champion, six of which came as the head coach of
the New England Patriots, 2 came as the defensive coordinator.
Four of the best defenses I've ever seen.
Now I know that parcel, you know?
You know, You know, you know my affinity for Bill Parcells.
I've got one game to win. I've got one week or two weeks
of practices to get ready for a big game.
Bill Parcells, the guy that I want coach my team.
I've always said that I'm never, ever going to deviate from that
because the the psychological games that he'll play and the
level of preparation and how he'll have the whole building on
alert and not to mention having a good staff and all, you know,
being buttoned up on game day. I'm always going with Bill
Belichick, right? Pardon me, Bill Parcells, but
with Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick was running that
defense and and that that those Giants teams, much like the two
with Eli, even though Eli made a ton of big throws, those Giant
teams won because of defense. I mean, one Super Bowl was Phil
who was amazing. And then the other Super Bowl,
it was a backup hostet who stepped in that defense.
That defense was the engine. That defense was the machine and
the brain power behind that was Bill Belichick.
Unbelievable. Just a just a travesty. 333
wins, second most in the NFL, 31 playoff wins, most in the NFL.
And this guy is not in the what? What?
Oh my God, these guys, They, they, they honestly, what should
happen? I should be in charge of every
Hall of Fame. I really should.
Because at least I'll be fair. I will be fair.
And I will say, you know what? Enough of the nonsense, steroid
guys, come on in. Not salsa.
Because he needed that stuff to become a superstar.
Alex, Big Mac, you know, Clemens, come on in, join the
party. Doors open.
No asterisks, no different wing Hall of Fame.
Whether you're next to Ted Williams or Ty Cobb, it doesn't
matter. You're in.
Bill Belichick, you're in. What an absolute sham.
Like, I'm not sure I was thinking about this before I
start with the show today. And I know I said that to start
the show, but think about this. I was trying to connect some
dots. I'm like, all right, man, this
really is some of the wildest shit I've ever heard.
And you know when you're doing this for 25 years, as I've been
doing, my first job was in 1999. That's why I gave you those 3
references just to like, you know, we all know calendars up
99. It's a long time ago.
But when you actually hear some of the things that were going on
in 99, like Tim Couch was the first overall pick by the Browns
in the NFL draft in 99. John Elway was the MVP in 1999.
Carlos Beltran was the rookie of the year for the Royals in 1999.
You know, Tim Duncan won his first championship in 1999, beat
the Knicks first to five. It's a long time ago.
Lot of stuff has happened, and I have not seen anything so stupid
and so irresponsible and so cavalier and really, because of
the way it went down, so unacceptably, egregiously unfair
than what I saw yesterday. You got this dope basically
begging people not to vote for Bill Belichick.
Who the hell do you think you are?
Who's done more for football, Bill Polian or Bill Belichick?
Man, oh man, just to think, to be in that room.
And not one, not 2, not 5, not 7, not 8, not 9, not ten, at
least 11 people, 11. So that means 11 idiots coming
to the determination. Let's see.
Pro Football Hall of Fame. Elsie Greenwood.
We'll check the craft. Belching.
Nah, Nah, he's got. I don't know.
I'm not going to think about that for another year or two.
Give me a break. A bunch of morons.
You know, the people I told you I was fired up today, The people
who run the Hall of Fame. The biggest issue is that
they've got too much power, like #1 we need some more
transparency and #2 we just need more of an equitable
distribution of power. Like, you know, you can say,
yes, you know, I don't know that it's really written here into
the bylaws of of voting, but yes, I will check all my biases
at the door and blah, blah, blah.
I will not allow personal relationships to interfere with
what I believe is the best, the best vote, you know, the best
result for the game of football, for the integrity of the game.
I don't know why I was going to the old coach voice when I threw
that. It's like a 1950s coach, you
know, the integrity of the game. But like, that's what I hear
when I, when I think about these old guys talking about football
and, and, and truly dictating the path of NFL history or
sporting history. It's just that I mean, they just
they, you got to take the hammer away from these clowns.
It's not used properly. It's it's really it's it's one
thing if it's clearly subjective and all right, like take
somebody. Like take somebody a Beltran
wasn't really subjective. Take somebody.
I'm going to go to baseball for a moment because there's more,
there's more numbers to crunch in baseball, but just a power
level for a moment. Take Andrew Jones, right?
So I believe that he's rightfully is a Hall of Famer,
one of the best defensive center fielders I've ever seen.
He's got like 10 or 11 gold Gloves.
He was on some, even though they should have won more.
He was on phenomenal teams, right?
And if you look at the first X amount of years of his career,
he was bang. He was a banger.
He was hitting home runs, he was stealing bases, and he was
basically Willie May's, Ken Griffey, junior Devon White, any
other great defensive center fielder all rolled into what?
He was that good, OK And it wasn't like he was mired in
obscurity playing for some awful team.
He was always in the playoffs, right?
But but at least there, like as you evaluate Andrew Jones's
career, the conversation could be had like, well, man, look at
this precipitous dive in in his like he really fell off, man, he
was, he was XY and Z to start. But I can see at least an
intelligent, rationally based, objective conversation.
Like, all right, if we're going to hold them to the highest
standards, the highest, not the highest, the highest standards
of the Hall of Fame, you know, damn right.
Should we make him wait a little bit more or, you know, is he
really a Hall of Fame? Or look at how we petered out.
And when you contrast that to other outfield, there's other
guys who, you know, whether it's contemporaries of his or some of
the great, great figures and luminaries of the game, does he
really truly stack up now? My answer is in totality, yes.
But I also understand, you know, he was bouncing around a little
bit at the end and not nearly having the offensive impact.
And then obviously, you know, he's lost a little juice in
terms of athleticism and his defensive prowess began to decay
over time as well. So I can understand that, like,
intellectually, I can wrap my mind around that conversation.
I can engage in that conversation.
I could see the pros. I could see the cons.
I could see everything in between.
Now, if I'm casting a vote, eventually there'd be more pros
than cons. But I'm not going to look at
somebody, you know, like they got one eye like Cyclops, if
they say, you know, Andrew Jones, you shouldn't be a Hall
of Famer. But all right, I respectfully
disagree. But I, I, I get it.
I, I can look at the data, understanding where you're
coming from. What is the basis for Belichick
except personal grudge? And that's the problem.
That is the unacceptable reality of the sham that all of these
Hall of Fame have become. It's an absolute joke.
You've got people voting on this right who never saw certain
players play. You've got people weighing in
who have real personal grudges and biases and agendas against
others. And then conversely, you've got
people weighing in who, for whatever reason, based on
favorable relationships and positive biases, they now
falsely elevate somebody to a place that they really shouldn't
be. Joke.
Absolute joke. Wow.
But The funny thing, that wasn't the biggest joke of the day.
No, that is reserved for our New York Jets, JETS, Jets, Jets,
Jets. I mean, it's keeps getting
worse. It keeps getting worse.
The Jets, Jesus, I just, I just, I can't stand them.
I can't tell you how much I loathe, how much I detest, how
much I abhor being a Jets fan. I hate it with every fiber of
my, of every ounce of intellect and passion and common sense
that God gave me. The problem is, I'm also the
kind of person that can't tap out, so I'm here for the long
run. You got me.
Yes, thank you. May I have another whack?
Thank you, man, Whack. Just keep whacking away.
Just keep beating us down. So the very interesting news, I
don't know what time it was. Who even cares at this point?
Does it really matter? Time means nothing to the New
York Jets because, let's face it, time only matters when you
are expecting something to happen or you have to be
somewhere. I expect nothing good to happen
with The Jets, and that'll got to be anywhere until later on
Saint John's. So I got all day.
Oh, God. Woody Johnson, Woody, Woody,
here's the play, man. Woody, Woody, can you please
just look in the mirror? It's a pretty easy thing to do.
Like, I do it all the time. Like I look in the mirror and
I'm like, man, you know, All right, yeah, you got a little
wrinkle there. Whatever.
You're not, you know? You know, you don't look like
you look like when you were 30. I don't care.
But that's what I see when I look in the mirror.
I still see a reasonably decent looking person, but not like I
did back in the day. To be honest with yourself,
Woody, you're a loser. You're the worst owner in
football. You're the worst owner in
sports. You are an unmitigated failure.
You're that bad, all right? And so is your brother
Christopher. So if you could ever find a
mirror and Lord knows you should probably have about 77 in your
palatial mansion. I don't care what room it's in.
Find one, look at it, stare at it and understand it and and see
the eyes or the window to the soul.
And Bill Parcells remember the the poem the man in the mirror,
man in the mirror don't lie. So if Woody could just do was
one favor and find a mirror, whether it's imported from Italy
or China or, I don't know, Belgium or Germany, go find that
$197,000 mirror that you have somewhere in your home and look
at it and understand that you are awful and that you are an
embarrassment and that nobody wants you to own this team.
Nobody believes in you. We're not even rooting for you
at this point because it's, it's it's a waste of time.
Root for what? Root for the same stuff.
Root for you. I mean, yo, so let me, let me,
let me, let me, let me get this straight.
I minded my own business yesterday watching a a 5th and
6th grade rec basketball game. Whoa, oh man, not travel.
This is wreck. And by the way, in that game I
saw a more effective posts up post UPS than some of the like
some of the kids on the court were posting up better than Karl
Anthony Towns was trying to post up Westbrook last night.
How how embarrassing was that? You can't you are 6, whatever
the hell you are 200 and whatever the hell you were £75.
You can't post up a six three guard.
You can't put Westbrook in your back pocket and devour him.
You are. Listen, I told you I'm in a mood
today. I know the Knicks won, but that
was just. And then he's fumbling around.
God, just trade him, get rid of him.
So I'm minding my own business, watching the game, you know,
travels, double dribbles, travels, not cold fouls, air
balls. Yikes.
And you know, now I'm obviously start to immerse myself in a
little bit of work when I'm getting a little bored watching
this game, and I see the story about Jon Gruden.
The Jets. The Jets reach out to Jon
Gruden. Yeah, Jon Gruden.
So maybe, maybe tonight The Jets can reach out to Bill Belichick
and see if he wants to be an assistant to the quality control
guy. Maybe tonight The Jets can reach
out to Bill Parcells and see if he wants to be a paid intern.
How about that? Maybe tonight or maybe today, or
maybe they already have, The Jets can reach out to, I don't
know, Bill Cower and see if he wants to be an assistant to the
assistant who cuts up film. You have the audacity to reach
out to Jon Gruden? And and I'm not even a big
Gruden fit like I like, I think he's funny.
I think he's good with Barstool. I always find him interesting.
I also think he's a highly overrated coach, But that's
besides the point. You've got the audacity to reach
out to a guy who's won a Super Bowl and is despite the stupid
emails and that that other stuff.
And I'm not excusing it. I'm just crossing the bridge to
keep the conversation moving, right.
The guy is a respected football person.
You reach out to him and ask him if he wants to be an assistant.
An assistant, meaning that Aaron Glenn is his boss.
Are you out of your mind? This is what The Jets actually
did yesterday. This is what they did.
I wish I was getting ball sacked here.
I'm I'm at the game and I'm like, some fucking way that this
is true. What I I, you know, they just
suck it all out of you. They just suck the life out of
you. They suck the life out of you
because just when you start to think, wow, they got two first
round picks this year, they got 3 next year.
You know, Mooji, who I like, I believe in Mooji probably won't
matter because Woody and Chris are there and ruin everything.
But at least at his core, much like at his core, Sam Darnold
was pretty good, you know, and they didn't provide anything
around him. And we know what Sam's getting
ready to do. Get ready to beat the crap out
of them and win the Super Bowl and probably win the MVP, as
most quarterbacks do. And if he plays like last week,
he's definitely going to win the MVP.
So in their in their unrelenting brilliance that has no
boundaries, like the brilliance of The Jets, it's limitless.
Pardon me. Their stupidity is limitless.
Just when you think that they've crafted their dumbest plan yet,
they come out and they hit you with this.
I think it was Zach Rosenblatt who had the report.
I want to make sure I give proper, you know, whatever two,
who the hell came up with that? And now after the season ends,
one Week, 2 weeks, three weeks, while all the other teams that
have a clue what they're doing, they're looking at coaches,
they're looking at Staffs. The Jets are like, now we're
going to keep Tanner Angstrom. We can keep them around.
All right. I actually didn't think he was
that bad. I thought the quarterbacks were
that bad. I actually think that Tanner
Angstrom has some value. I mean, trust me, I, I don't
know why I watched every snap. Basically maybe at the fourth
quarter or two minutes to go, you shut up.
But I don't know why I watch every snap of of The Jets this
year. But I did and I do and I always
will. And I saw many times where there
was a pretty intelligently designed play, somebody's wide
open and don't throw in the ball.
That's not Tanner, Tanner and Strand's fault.
So I actually think the Tanner and Strand is OK not saying he's
the next coming. You know, let's say he's some
offensive genius, some innovator that's going to flip the NFL on
its ear and just, you know, be known as some transformative NFL
offensive figure. I think the guy's competent.
I think that he showed more than the coach this past year.
So as they're dragging their feet and all the other teams are
putting their acts in motion, right, Jets are laying out doing
nothing, letting certain people twist in the wind.
Yeah, we're going to bring it back and bring it back and bring
it back. Then you hear the first story,
but we're going to bring him back.
But you know, he's I see I don't know if he's going to still have
the offensive coordinator title might not call the plays Tanner
Inch red sitting there saying what are you kidding me?
I'm done. So the way I think it went down
is Tanner's like screw you, fire me.
I got what couple of years to go on my contract.
Get Me Out of this circus. Get Me Out of here.
I don't want to be here. So this is where they are.
See what they should do it just it just it just drains you.
It drains you to the point where there's nothing left inside,
almost like there's almost nothing to give.
You know, You know the scene of Dumb and Dumber when Jim Carrey
finds out that his buddy was with Lauren Holly.
She was awesome in that movie. God, I was a massive fan.
Anyway, he finds out he's he's going on dates with her and like
he can't even speak and he's I think they're in the desert or
they're driving somewhere wherever they're trying to go.
And he's like, like, he can't even force a syllable out of his
mouth because his buddy doing, you know what he did going out
with Lauren Holly? It just it just stripped any
sort of, you know, whatever was left inside was gone.
That's us. That's us.
Except Jim Carrey's not standing next to us at Michael Mara.
What up, Mike, at this point, why don't The Jets fire Glenn
and go after McDermott? Well, I was getting there.
I would fire him now. I just had to lay out all the
stuff here. And this is not me, you know,
flip flopping. It's it's changing my opinion
based on the evidence presented to me.
See, there is a fallacy out there.
You know, when when you're especially when you're on the
air for four hours, as I was, you know, at WFAN, when you're
on the air that long, you're going to say a lot of stuff.
And you know, the key is to try to be a little more right than
wrong. And I believe that I was with
overall. But you're going to miss a
million things, right? And when you miss it, you got to
own it. You got to man up.
And it's OK to change your opinion based on new evidence
that's presented to you. Now, the Johnsons being
incompetent, It's not new evidence.
That's the oldest evidence in the world.
We know that right? Show up the timeline, the
chronology here, the like that, the out of nowhere like hastily
put together plans like alright, this isn't working.
Call Jon Gruden, see if we can get him off barstool.
Do we keep Tanner? I don't know.
What do we do? Well let's keep him, but he's
not going to be the OC but keep him around.
I don't know what do we do? What?
Let's fire 9 people and try to put the staff together while
basically basically every other desirable job that's that is
that you know, that was that was vacant coming into the the
offseason is already filled head coaches, most of the Staffs
getting filled out. Good luck.
And this is the New York Jets. This is them.
No plan, no purpose, no clue, no hope.
Good job well done, losers. You know, we joke around and
like, we'll we'll say it kind of flippantly.
And so sometimes we mean it and sometimes we don't.
Like I've said, and I do mean this a little bit, but I don't
want to be disrespectful because I think it it entails so much
more than just, you know, making baseball moves, right.
In some of my rants about the Yankees over the years, I've sit
on the air. I should be the champ of the
Yankees. I would do better job than
Cashman. Now, again, that kind of having
fun, entertaining in the middle of a rant, whatever.
Now, part of me does believe that, as as crazy as that
sounds, but I also understand like, you know, there's certain
rules, the 40 man rosters and the rule 5.
That's easy. But the rule fives and you know,
the just I do simplify it when I say that when I say I could do a
better job than Cashman, what I really mean by that is like, all
right, I would have brought this dude in or I wouldn't have
extended this guy or I would have bought this guy.
I would have gone to hell and banged down his door and said,
hey, we got to get rid of Hicks a year ago or with Stanton, we
got to get rid of him. I know he's got a no trade.
We got to convince them we got to pay a few bucks Marlins
paying 10. We got to get rid.
We got to get more athletic, whatever, whatever it might be
right That I believe I could do. But there is not a doubt in my
mind that I can walk into Florham Park today dressed like
this. I'm wearing shorts and I'm
wearing a Callaway golf whatever the zip up, right, All right, I
won't even get dressed up. I won't suit up, all right, I
will walk into that building and literally within 3 minutes, like
if I owned the team, they would be better off.
Like imagine if somehow I had the money.
Hey, listen, we, we keep getting these super chats.
Maybe I'll be able to buy The Jets someday, right?
In this mythical wacky world of me having enough money to ever
be able to be at the table to potentially buy The Jets.
And then Woody understanding that he's horrible enough where
it's time to sell The Jets. So two things that will never
happen. But again, in this wacky world,
imagining that it did, I would walk in there and I would
literally, I would walk in and I would say you, you, you, you,
you pack your bags, get out, you're fired next.
Then I would go in a room with Muji, who I do trust, and I
would craft a plan that I promise you would be a whole
hell of a lot better than this circus and this slop that is
happening. Like, it's one thing, this is
the worst part about being a Jets fan.
It's one thing to, you know, go through lean seasons.
That's bad enough. You know what, 15 straight years
without the playoffs, longest drought in North American team
sports. That includes hockey, that
includes everything Major League Baseball, NBANFLNHLI mean jeez,
you know, and you everything all right, So that's bad enough.
That is a burden that we have to carry based on the ineptitude of
our team and and the just the very black and white results of
what The Jets do every week in the NFL.
They lose and they lose more than anybody historically.
It's it's proven based on the stat that I just referenced,
right? That's one thing.
That is one thing, the thing that I just can't reconcile and
I don't even try anymore. All right.
Is that the the lack of of clarity in terms of what they're
even trying to do? How can you be so stupid?
How can you be so dumb? How can you be so devoid of a
plan? Planless?
Some might say that you can't even stumble trip upon success.
Oh look, I fell into success. That can't even happen.
That doesn't happen. So again, there's a lot of teams
that lose. You know, some owners that don't
spend all the sports, right, don't win.
But, you know, are are the Pirates the laughing stock of
baseball? No, I mean, they spend no money.
They've got no revenues. Excuse me, They've got no
revenue stream. They're going to have to get rid
of schemes at some point. Who's one of the best pitchers
we've ever seen because they can't afford them.
So, but that's an economic restraint.
That's it. That's a financial limitation
based on the market. Now, I also say if you don't
want to reinvest in your team, then you shouldn't own the teams
that that. I don't want to even get off in
that. But like, I'm not trying to let
the Pirates off the hook. But we don't walk around
cracking jokes about the Pittsburgh Pirates.
We just don't do that. You know, we don't even really
do that about the Arizona Cardinals, but we do that about
The Jets. We do that.
The Jets are the biggest punchline in all the sports, and
I don't care if I haven't owned A-Team, been AGM or been a coach
or been a player in the NFL for a single solitary second.
There is nobody on this planet that can convince me that I
wouldn't do a better job. And by the way, I'm not alone.
All of you guys watching you too.
How can you not do a better job? Like, I get it, guys, usually
success is cyclical, right? You know, you, you have a good
core, you know, you're financially solvent in terms of
like in the NFL, like if you have a young quarterback and he
hasn't hit that second big contract yet still on his rookie
deal. Now you can disperse the money
around the rest of the team and now you've got a chance, you
know, 3-4 year win, though, to be really truly Super Bowl
viable, right? And then invariably what
happens, you know, like a Mahomes, like an Allen, like a
Burrow, you get that bank and rightfully so, you get that
second contract. The first one expires.
And now all of a sudden, you know that that nickel corner
that you really coveted, that was really good.
Maybe you didn't even know his name unless you were a fan of
that team. But he was good at his job and
he was valued around the NFL. Well, now you got to cut that
corner. You got to go with a rookie or,
you know, somebody making $1.3 million instead of seven or
eight because you can't afford them.
And you know that second safety who you love, right?
Well, now somebody who swoops in a free agent, you can't really
pay him. You got the high-priced wide
receiver, you got the high-priced defensive end, you
got the high-priced quarterback, you've got the high-priced
corner. If you're lucky, those are the
main spots. Maybe a linebacker that can move
North and South and do some damage, right?
So you've got the components. But Julie, you, you lose some of
the margins there. And that's why I say it's
cyclical because that is not really sustainable because
eventually you get too many pieces of the pie chopped off
and there's really not much more to eat anymore.
So I don't listen when that happens.
That's called attrition. That's the natural cycle of the
NFL. Same thing.
Like, you know, when Jeter started getting older and Posada
started getting older and burning and MO and petting those
guys, now baseball's different, more longevity, no salary caps,
not apples to apples. I get that, but that is
understandable. That's it's unforgivable that
the Yankees haven't won since 2009.
But like, you know, there, there's got to be a middle
ground of understanding of being able to compartmentalize like
this wild rash of success and understanding why there's a bit
of a downturn here. It's just called the evolution
of sport, the evolution of rosters.
All right, again, natural athletic attrition, but this
that has swallowed up the New York Jets for almost 2 decades
with Woody, I mean, because we can go back before that.
Leon has rest in peace. Like I I'm not going to do an
entire referendum on The Jets history.
Let somebody else do that. We know it, we lived it.
It's awful there. There's the short version.
So there is a correlation to poor ownership and poor results.
When you have poor ownership, any success?
I believe that's why I did the tripping and the stumbling
analogy. Not that you can't win for a
year or two. Have a decent year.
Like they won 10 games with Todd Bowles his first year.
And then of course, they got punk then in Buffalo the last
week with Fitzpatrick throwing the pick in the end zone.
But if they would have won that game, they would have been a
playoff team. All right, Sporadus like they
stumbled upon it. They signed Becker, they got
Marshall, they threw a flyer on Fitzpatrick.
They stumbled upon, even though they didn't make it a fun ten
win productive season. What's happened since then?
You know what's happened since then?
The longest drought and even that year was a drought too in
North American team sport. And contrast this to the New
York Giants, who have been swimming upstream and against
the current for almost as long as The Jets have.
The difference, though, when it was time to finally say enough
is enough, I've had it. I can't take this anymore.
Planes flying overhead. Fire this guy, lose that guy.
Empty seats. Cowboy fans, Commander fans, you
know, obviously Eagle fans infiltrating my stadium.
Enough. That's it.
And that's what the Giants did. And they said, you know what, we
got the money, we got the will, we got the want.
We have a plan, we got connections.
We're getting Harbaugh and the coalition, like the way they
coalesce. There is a team, and I've talked
about this as an organization, not even it's an organization.
Everybody's chipping in the hiring of John Harbaugh.
The amount of fingerprints on that particular move, it's it's
incredibly impressive. And I laud and I'm jealous.
I'm jealous, I admit that. But I do love the Giants for
being able to say enough of the the shackles that are around me
right now. Bang, I'm out of them.
I'm ripping out of them these chains, I'm throwing them on the
floor and I'm going to remember how to beat the Giants.
And John Merry got his act together and Chris Merry got his
act together and Tish got his act together.
And then all the luminaries start circling.
I'll help you out. Eli Coughlin, even Brian Dabel,
who you fired, left such a great impression with John Horbaugh,
right. What do The Jets do?
I just laid it out. It's the complete antithesis.
It could not be more opposite. And one of the correlations that
I've always, especially with Woody, it's too easy to say bad
ownership equals bad results. I get that.
But I want to dig a little deeper here because this is
important. Why?
Why are The Jets so inept? Like it's, it's a very simple,
straightforward question. It's a fairly complex answer
unless you really know the answer.
And I'm going to tell it to you that about all they draft the
wrong guy. All they don't develop their all
they don't have an old line, they don't have their own
stadium. The Jets are so inept because
their owner has no connections around the NFL.
He's got no juice. That's why every time The Jets
are getting ready to make a hire, let's call Peyton Manning
like Peyton Manning gives a shit about The Jets.
Let's call Peyton Manning get his opinion on Adam Gase.
Oh, wow. Peyton.
Oh, really? Peyton?
Huh. Why?
Why we say always that good of an offensive.
So, all right, Adam, you want the job because of Peyton
Manning? Charlie Casserly, who's got no
connection to The Jets, has his has advised them over the years.
Right when you don't have football people in the building,
you are going to drown because you can't rely on your own
instincts. And the infrastructure is weak
and flimsy. Nobody that's good wants to be
be a part of it. And anybody that is good is
plucked away and they they look back to like, thank God I'm out
of there. Wow.
I was able to succeed despite the impediments that The Jets
always throw my way. And I'll tell you what, I'll
give you another good example. Now it's going to be a little
different because Brady's there. The Raiders.
Davis has no juice. Davis is a clown.
Look at him. Just look at him.
He actually said this is, this is hysterical.
I mean, look at the guy, look at his haircut.
I mean, how the hell, I'm sorry, but how do you walk around as a
grown man with a haircut like that?
How I remember getting the Caesar cut when I was, Lord
knows I, I think it started getting popular in college.
I was getting in the mid 90s. I was rocking the Caesar.
You know, this guy's rocking in 2026 anyway.
I'm. I'm yeah.
I'm not here to just bang on his looks.
I really don't care at the end of the day.
But it is ridiculous. Like the symbolism of their
ineptitude in the haircut. It does kind of marry itself and
kind of write its own jokes. Anyway, Davis is not respected
in NFL circles. He.
So when it's time to make a hire, who does he lean on?
Who does he trust he brings in? You know, former college draft
analysts like, and I think Mike, I've got great respect for Mike
Mack. I'm not, I'm not knocking Mike
Mack. I would have taken the job as
well, but because he doesn't have any connections around the
league and hasn't cultivated the system where, you know, younger,
younger people in the Raiders organization work their way up,
work their way up, work their way up.
And then as they kind of spread their tentacles and go
throughout the rest of the NFL. There's a liaison there.
Even like if I run the Raiders and I if I run The Jets and I've
got and I've got respect and I've got even if we don't win
the Super Bowl. But I'll, you know, couple of
offensive minds that are, you know, now on stabs, like there
may be ones in Kansas City, maybe ones with McVeigh in LA,
maybe somebody won a Super Bowl. Not even as an as as a
coordinator, just on the staff working as his way up.
Won a Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles or you've
been with the Steelers or the Ravens.
You know, like a real franchise, the Miners, a respected
franchise, one of those ones that we wish we had.
Well, I can at least now when it's time for me to make a real
important decision. Number one, I could bring you
back as you've gotten more seasoning from somewhere else,
but I can call you up and I can I can use you as a sounding
board and I can get information from you and there's trust and
there's transparency, you know, and it's not a one way
conversation because I'm listening to what you're saying
because I value what you have to say.
Instead, like I just said, The Jets are calling up people they
don't even know. Yo, Peyton, what do you think
about this? Hey, Charlie, what do you think
about this? Hey, come on, you see what I
mean? So that in and when anybody asks
you how many? So how many?
How many actually? Why are The Jets so inept?
Right, It's only 6 words. Why are The Jets so 6 words?
Very simple, basic question. Why are The Jets so inept?
There's your answer. It's not because Woody is, you
know, doesn't want The Jets to win or doesn't spend money.
It's because Woody doesn't have a modicum of a speck of dust or
the little teeny tiny limp that's in my pocket knowledge of
football, and because nobody else in the building does.
He is relying on people, people that haven't gotten it done at
that level to make big decisions and whoever's decision it was to
let. You know, these coaches languish
for three weeks and then whack them and then fire basically
nine people, which represents, I don't know, 50% of this, a
little less than that, but 3540% of the staff three weeks after
the coaching cycle began, That's responsible.
Talk about a dearth of options. I mean, it's already tough
enough to get somebody to say, yeah, I want to go to I I want
to go work for The Jets. But now when you further dilute
that pool, who are you going to get?
And when, when and when that reality hits, which it did,
that's when you start throwing Hail Marys.
Hey, see if we can get Gruden in the building.
Yeah, he's going to come work for Aaron Glenn.
Give me a break. A three win coach whose team in
December and I was OK with bringing Aaron back.
I'm not trying to hide from that.
I've said that. That's what I was starting to
say before where you know, if you're off on.
So if you have an erroneous take, you got a man up and say
my bad, I'd fire him right now. I would fire him today and I
would hire McDermott. But here's the other problem.
To do that, you've got to know if McDermott would take the job,
all right, because if you fire Glenn and Mcdermott's like I
want, no, no, I'm good. I'll collect some money that
Buffalo and I'll do TV and then I'll come back next year for a
real job. Well, you have to have contacts,
which is why I said Davis with the Raiders, maybe a little
different with Brady now, but Davis there, obviously The Jets.
And you just see information is power.
It's power, and The Jets don't collect their own information.
They rely on the information of others to tell them what's going
on. That's not how you run a
business. It's not how you run anything.
Paul L-84 drummer Rick Spielman's a legit football guy
in the building. The question is, does what do
you give a belief? Well, I don't know why I see a
belief there, but I get I know what you don't want to do
gratuitously. Like when I say this because I'm
worked up about what good football guys have to say, I
don't know. I don't know.
Yes, Spielman's a good football guy.
I mean, hasn't done anything yet for The Jets, but yeah, he's a
good football guy. But if he is the football guy,
and he's certainly one of the main ones there, then this
circus that is unraveling in front of us, I got to drop it.
His at his doorstep. Yeah.
Good player. All right.
Good background, good resume. Great.
What's he doing here? 3 ring circus again.
Again, man. So see, we're all chasing
results. We're all chasing results here.
God, I want The Jets to get good God, I want to be a playoff
team. God, I, I, I just, I long for
the days when I could sit down on a Sunday and I got Nance and
Romo and hopefully Romo's not a clown that day, you know, being
all wacky anyway. And I've got a big game on CBS.
And I got my roast beef with mozzarella and I got my ginger
ale and I got a couple of rice balls, my cucumber salad.
You know, I got my Jets hoodie on big game.
Jets are six and two. Jets are 8 and three.
Jets are nine and four. Jets are five and one.
I mean, I long for that day. I don't even remember what it's
like. I don't even know what it's like
anymore. So it's almost apathetic.
It's almost like I'm angry today because of yesterday's report.
But largely my Sundays are just apathetic.
The only thing I'm like, all right, have my fantasy team do
all right. Did I win a couple of bets?
Whatever. It's not about the result of The
Jets. Like, there's nothing to get
angry about because they're so far away from being good.
And the reason they're that far away is because of the
incompetence at the highest level.
And that is Woody, Woody. I mean, just go back to London.
Just do anything. I don't care what you do and I
don't care where you do it. But the dudes just never going
to win. They just never going to win,
you know, and the reason why the Mets got bad, I would never wish
this on somebody. So that's why I paused.
Let's not get nuts here. But like the distress
financially that the Wilpons had right?
I wouldn't wish that with the with the whole Madoff scheme.
I wouldn't wish that on anybody. And I don't dislike Woody.
I just loathe what he represents as the owner of one of my
favorite teams, right. But the reason why the Mets were
say that, listen, we need to see if they can still win a
championship. We can sit here and say, you
know, Cohen this and Cohen that. And and I love what the Mets
have done this offseason. You guys know that.
But you still got to win a championship.
It's been 40 years. Like, like I joke around the
last time the Mets won, Run DMC was playing, you know, my
Adidas. It's been a long time, 86.
But the hope is obviously there. The belief is there.
You know, the vision is there. It's there.
It's it feels different. Cohen's done things, whether
it's retired numbers or alumni games or getting away from the
Brooklyn Dodgers vibe. When you enter the, you know,
the entrance to the to Citi Field.
I love going to Citi Field. It's great stadium and you know,
so there's it's it's met fans feeling good.
They were feeling down a month ago, but now they're revitalized
to get in. Look at the owner spending a ton
of money, right? So they were saved.
It's not like Wilpon woke up and said, I don't know, man, I don't
know if this is for me anymore. I'm going to get out of here.
I'm not going to, I'm not, I'm not going to, I don't think I
should own the team. Let me just sell it.
It was out of sheer financial desperation that they needed to.
All right. And, and I don't, I don't wish
that upon Woody. I'm, I'm just, I'm not that kind
of person, no matter how warped I might sound with certain
stuff. I'm not in the business of
wishing harm financially, certainly from a health point of
view on anybody. That's never when I start doing
that, then it's time to say goodbye.
That's just not me. It's not how I was raised.
It's not my character, but man, I really do wish there was an
awakening within that man where he just realizes he sucks and he
is awful and we can't stand him as an owner and we want him out.
And, you know, maybe, like, see, when you're a prideful person
who tells Woody no, when you got that kind of money, who's saying
no, Woody can't do this. No, Woody can't buy that.
All this property. No, you can't afford it.
Oh, you know, this $700,000 car. Sure you want to customize.
What do you want? Nobody says no to Woody and when
nobody says no to Woody, and when you're somebody who nobody
says no to, not that I could relate to that, but when you are
that kind of person, right, Hold on, keep that up there.
I'm going to read that in a minute, James, where when you're
that kind of person, you are you almost digging deeper because
you think you're above everything because you can't
relate to the common person financially or your place in the
world because everything is on a pedestal, just your existence.
Everything's a charter jet, a Learjet, you know, the most
lavish hotels, bank accounts up the wazoo, whatever you want.
You know, relationships with presidents and other statesman
of other countries and all over the world.
You can't, you can't relate to us.
So when people like us, you know, come at you, you're like
this mere peasant's going to tell me to sell the team, screw
them. And you dig in deeper and you
grab it tighter and you're more reluctant and less willing to
either change and certainly sell the team.
That's the problem. It's a whole psychology, James.
Only way to get out of this mess is to stop going to games,
forced to sell the team. Easier said than done, but it's
the only way, you know, James, that that's a common thing.
Thanks a lot for that buddy. I appreciate it, man.
If you guys want to get some more chats up there, get them
up. I'll read some.
I'm going to start reading a bunch here, Jared, just good one
good thought provoking ones. J Rod, I want some good stuff.
And by the way, guys, tell me where you're coming in from.
I want to know where you're checking in from.
Are you local? Are you somewhere
internationally, which, which I've seen, you know, based on
the analytics, the, the YouTube imprint that I have access to,
you know, we've got, we've got some people around the world
following the show, which is phenomenal.
Anyway, it's got to be good. I don't want any nonsense.
Like I want some good questions, some good points, really
coherent stuff. I want to keep this thing
moving. So Jay, just use your editorial
sense as best as you can. I know you will, you know, that
is, that's something that I find really interesting.
Where OK. And it's a common refrain.
The only thing that's going to get an owner to change or react
is empty seats. I mean, MetLife is empty.
It's been empty for years. Nothing's changed.
I mean, it's unrealistic guys. And I I understand at its core
that point like that principle, if nobody shows up, you know,
it's going to have to probably make a change here, right.
But when you're in, we're not in Jacksonville, we're not in
Tampa, we're not in smaller markets, right.
You know, so when you are in a tri-state area, it is just,
it's, it's not realistic to think there's going to be
literally 60,000 empty seats of the game.
I don't care if it's raining. I don't care if it's snowing.
I don't care if The Jets are playing the Browns, which by the
way, I went to that game and it was raining and you know, there
were 40,000, maybe 50,000 other idiots like me who were at the
game. So I mean, if you go to that
game in the IT was literally raining and it rained almost the
whole game. Jets won, special teams were
actually pretty good. It was kind of a fun game, but
my goodness, I don't think it's realistic based on the sheer
volume of people. And listen, the other thing too,
and that's why I, I really do try to stay in my lane with this
stuff. Like, I'm never going to tell
you guys that I've never been this guy.
I'm never going to tell you what to think.
I'm going to tell you what I think and hopefully I'm going to
give you something to think about.
If we disagree, you might eventually come to my
conclusion. I might eventually, if we go
back and forth enough and you know, you presented in a very
compelling way. I'm open minded enough to maybe
tweak and and change some of my thoughts, right?
So that has happened. But one thing I stay away from
is telling you guys how to spend your money.
It's not my money and it's not my place to do it.
And the also the other thing that I really do recognize,
because I've done this before when I've had tickets, you know,
this stuff is out of the world, out of this world expensive,
right? So if you are, let's say if you
were a policeman, I don't even know what this, I don't even
know what the starting salary is.
Now, if I had to guess, maybe after five years, maybe it bumps
up to about 60 or so, something like that.
And then obviously you get some overtime whatever teacher, I
mean amazing professions that we couldn't function without and
they all should be paid firemen should be paid a whole hell of a
lot more than they are, right. Think about the imbalance in the
world. You got some dope singing these
stupid songs making literally 75102 three $400 billion in a
year and people protect who protect us or are trying to make
rent or or a mortgage. What Anyway I have given though,
I've given tickets, you know, great seats, whether it's behind
the dish at the stadium or pretty good jet tickets as well.
Saint John's tickets as well. The garden to which are not
cheap to people who you know, just that sometimes I give it to
my buddies who have a lot of money.
It's just a good friend. I want to take you something to
the game, whatever. But I try to get those tickets
in the hands of people who maybe can't afford it.
And if you're one of those people, you expect them to say
no to their or, you know, not do it for their young children.
Like that's it's unrealistic. And with 8 million people, I
think it's around 8 million still roughly in the tri-state
area. You got people, people coming in
from Connecticut, people in New Jersey, people out east of Long
Island, people over 5 boroughs. Like you're going to get 50,000
people even if The Jets are over 9.
You might even get 60 if you have a good team.
You might get more if you have a good team coming in.
Niners fans will lead up tickets.
Steelers, Dallas, Patriots, Bills, Dolphin fans will lead
them up. You know, Vikings fans will come
in, Seattle fans might grab a few Raider fans will jump.
And even though they're terrible, they travel well, you
know, so it's not it's not realistic to think that that's
going to happen. I hear you.
I'm not saying it's a bad thought and I'm not even saying
that it wouldn't work. I just don't think it's
practical because to think that there's going to be and it's not
just like like say we save The Jets had a game this weekend,
non playoff game, 17 inches of snow.
They play the game. You're going to have a large
swath of seats open and available, right.
But if if the and I get that that's just based on the
inclement weather here, but you're not going to have that
enough that where it would register.
And I think I really believe this be enough of an impetus for
an owner Woody to say, you know, if this isn't working out
anymore, I'm going to have to sell the team.
It sounds good. It's a little cathartic when you
say it. I get that it's just not going
to do much. It's really not.
All right, let me get J Rod up here.
J Rod pump. Pump yourself up there, buddy.
What's? Happening. yo-yo, what's up?
How we doing? No, I'm good.
So you've been hot. You've been hot today.
Yes, yes, we have been hot today.
What do you think about this mess?
I mean, you know, I know. Wild based.
On anything with The Jets, but I am, by all means go.
For it, it's wild, disrespectful and embarrassing.
I feel like on a lot of fronts for The Jets, I mean, listen,
I'm not even the most like tapped into this Jet situation,
but it's like a weird in between of like it's it's both
disrespectful to Gruden, obviously because of like his,
you know, stature as a football coach, as a football legend.
But then it's also kind of like, I don't know, question marks for
The Jets as well because it's like, OK, this guy hasn't
coached in five years or something like that.
You know, is this really the direction you want to go in?
No. I don't know.
I feel like you don't rebuild younger a little, maybe it with
the coaching staff or something like that.
Not really. You know, take it back to a
legend who hasn't coached in five years and you don't really
know what the end products going to be.
Yeah, and it's like good job there, Jay.
I don't, I don't even think to me, like, it's not even about
like, you know, Gruden is a coach and debating the merits.
Like first, it's just it's the lack of a plan.
It's the abrupt nature out of nowhere.
Let's call Gruden to be an assistant.
Like that's what I mean. That's the bigger issue.
It's less about Gruden's resume. I think Jon's overrated.
I love the guy told you. I love his personality.
I think he's funny. I love listening to Jon Gruden.
So how do you not love listening to Jon Gruden talk football?
All right. But it's not even about that.
It's about the, the lack of any sort of intelligent foundation
of what to do next. It always seems like they're
scurrying and, you know, haphazardly trying to throw
something together. Now, this is interesting.
Appreciate that. Jay, at James 9988.
All right, so it's not about the prices here.
Even more of a reason to boycott.
Why would you pay astronomic prices to watch an awful
product? Well, first of all, you know,
astronomic is relative. And I, and I get that what might
be astronomic to you might not be astronomic to somebody else
#1 #2 like going to football games for generations has been a
part of people's fall and how they spend their fall, even if
it's not season tickets. But you know, you jump on a
secondary ticket market and at that point it's a team's bad and
you wait long enough and you're willing to play the game, then
they're not astronomical. But what, whatever.
But when I went, I went to two jet games this year, paid 100
bucks to park. I, I was actually stunned.
And I'm not cheap. I am not cheap, you know, I've
never been actually. People who are cheap driving
inside can't. And I'm not talking about people
who don't have it. But if you, if you like, if you
have the money and you were just reluctant to reach for that
wallet, Oh man, I can't stand that.
The guy with the alligator arms when the check comes.
I'm not saying, you know, you got to buy a $500 bottle of
wine, but I mean, I, you know, I got, I got, I mean, I got
buddies. You know, sometimes I play golf
with like the cart girl comes got the last round.
Can he can he grab a beer? It's insane how cheap some
people are. I'm not talking about about
that. I'm talking about the, the, the
desire to have a little bit of fun.
Jay, you can get that off the screen.
I I don't know where it is, but if you can find thank you
Attaboy Jay. The desire to just go out and
decompress and get away from the commute and the rigors of life
and work and financial stress and everything and just go and
congregate in a big parking lot with the smell of the grill,
couple of cold beers, flipping the, you know, flipping the
burgers, flipping the sausages and, you know, having fun and
where where to Jersey and throwing the football around.
And you know, that's part of Americana.
So what, because The Jets are awful.
People are supposed to stop having fun.
Like, even though it rained that day, I still had a good time.
So both of my kids, my wife, my, my, my mother and father-in-law
were in from Dallas that weekend.
My father-in-law is from Ohio. Not even now.
He's kind of a Cowboys fan, but he grew up a devout Browns fan.
And you know, the Browns were coming in.
It was their anniversary and they were coming in to, you
know, spend a couple of days, see the grandkids hang out with
us. And, and I, I just got the
tickets. It's funny, I got the tickets
and I didn't really want to go because it's The Jets, but like,
you know, let me do this for them.
They do a lot for us. And and I went on my own
proactively and I got the tickets and it's funny, like
later on, later on that day, hand to hand to, I'll give you
the right hand to God. My wife text me.
She's like, she's like, I know you probably don't want to do
this. Any chance you want to, you
know, maybe look into getting jet tickets for the Browns.
My dad's a brown. I'm like already got it.
Talk about when it's getting some points there.
Yeah, that was that was good. Got a lot of points that they
stuck a few points in the bank there.
So you know when I. With these new hours, when I
played three straight rounds of golf, I'll hear no chirping,
which I don't hear anyway. But the point is the, you know,
to me, I, I did have a good time.
And you know, once you get through the nonsense of, of
paying 100 bucks and it, but I do remember paying up or driving
up to pay and I, I, I hadn't gone to sometimes when I, I
mean, I went last year too, but I get whatever I, I do get
hooked up with certain stuff. I'm not trying to misrepresent
that, you know, I don't have some hookups.
I I do and I've earned them with certain things, right.
But I didn't have one for parking that day.
That's fine. So I didn't know exactly how
much it was. This is a true story.
When I drive up, the woman who was taking, I gave her a credit
card. When she said $100.
You should have heard the tone, like how embarrassed she was.
Not her fault. Lovely, lovely older woman.
How embarrassed she was that she had to ask for $100.
And I'm like, that's not you. I get it.
It's fine. And she's like, the Giants only
charge this and I'm like, it's good.
We're good. Like she was, she was explaining
and like giving me context to why she felt so badly about
this. I'm like, you're just doing your
job, man. That's all good pay.
The 100 bucks rolled up the window.
I look at my wife, I looked at my father-in-law.
I'm like 100 bucks for this nonsense.
You get at me like. And again, it's not being cheap.
It's just being like, what? It's not being congruent with
the product that you're putting out.
So I don't know, man. But when I actually got in
there, despite the rain, we had an awesome time.
But I used to have season tickets back with Parcells when
I would go like a young drunken lunatic in my early 20s and have
an absolute blast. It's fun going.
So I'm never going to tell people don't go at Avery Summit.
Jets not getting a young quarterback this year.
So you see, this is the football stuff, which I've got no problem
talking about. But this today is not really
football stuff, but I'll address it.
This is bigger, more macro stuff.
Let Glenn's dysfunction get you the 2027 first pick at Arch and
bring Tomlin in to make that pick and finally have a coach
and quarterback aligned. OK #1 So there's a few things.
Let me just jot that down. You got Arch, you've got the
Tomlin thing, and you've got obviously lose out, which is a
subset for Arch. All right, now think about this
rationally. It's not a bad plan.
It's just not going to happen. So Aaron Glenn won three games
and I think Muji, as I've said a million times, shows real
problems to be a really good general manager.
But still, Year 1, he won three games.
OK, Now don't you think they have a little bit of pressure
going into the season? They do.
So I think as I said yesterday, it came up like if Aaron Glenn
loses 37 to 10 Week 1, that night fire Glenn is going to be
the it's, it's the refrain now and it was the refrain from
many, not me because I I want a little continuity.
I want to give a chance. But this is the end.
I would fire him today. I would this is the end of the
road. This plan is is just not going
anywhere, but they know that they have to win.
So they've got $75 million in free agents in cap space.
They've got a left tackle was really good, a right tackle was
really good, a sent through was pretty good, a stud wide
receiver, a good young tight end.
They've got the first second pick.
They've got the, what are they, 16th with the Colts?
And then of course, they got a couple of second rounders.
They can always mess around with next year's through, make a move
this year, which they won't. They want to save them for the
quarterback next year, but they're going to have an
upgraded quarterback. Malik Willis.
I don't trade for Mac Jones, whatever it might be, and I like
will this more than Jones. That's who I actually want.
But it's not going to matter anyway.
Some way. But anyway, the point is The
Jets will be better next year so they will not have the 1st
overall pick. The Jets will not go 2 and 15
next year. The Jets will not go 1 and 16 or
3 and 14 or even 4 and 12 or even 5 and 11.
I actually think The Jets will be more six or seven wins ish
depending upon if they really crush free agency.
Maybe an 8 win team and then it's going to take mountains to
move from wherever they would pick with seven or eight wins to
get to #1 so, so to really debunk that, they're not going
to be in a position to get Arch Manning unless it means giving
up everything. All right?
And, and, and that is the value of having three first round
picks. So I'm not saying it's
impossible, but I don't think it's the real prudent path to go
myself. All right, number one, then he's
about Mike Tomlin. So let's align Mike Tomlin with
a young quarterback. Now's Mike Tomlin done without
Big Ben. That's another overrated coach.
You know, like he's a great culture guy and he's inspiring
and I love Mike Tomlin. I love Mike Tomlin to coach The
Jets. But if you think that you're
going to draft arch or whomever it might be, Dante Moore comes.
Oh, he has to come out next year.
Dante Moore's a Jet next year and he's he's got 15 more starts
and he's more appealing and he put on instead of weighing 205
lbs, he's very thin. You know, he's up to like 212,
two, 15216. And now instead of making X
amount of starts that all the data provides us with failures
over recent NFL history, you know, now he's like, OK, this is
more acceptable. And based on this data, guys
with this amount of, you know, experience generally do better.
All those things can line up favorably.
Where's the evidence Mike Tomlin's going to be coaching
that like that? Mike Tomlin's the right coach
for a young quarterback. Where's the evidence?
There is none. So he won.
He won with Big Ben, right, He went with defense, all right,
and he he made the playoffs with Aaron Rodgers.
And how many times did you and they put the stat up during the
game? How many times did the Steelers
have no points in the first quarter?
I think they let the NFL like the Steelers offense was
horrendous this year. So it's one thing to say you
want Mike Tomlin to come and be in charge of the building big
boy time. I I love Mike Revere, Mike
Tomlin. I've got profound respect for
Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin holding the hand of
the young quarterback and elevating that young quarterback
to greatness is not exactly something that I would hang my
hat on because there's no evidence.
So when we throw this stuff out, guys, we've got to at least be a
little bit more. And I'm not, I'm not knocking
that, that text there, but there's a lot of things that I
don't think made a lot of lot of sense there.
And I think we've got to be a little bit more, a little bit
more in tune there. Hey J Rod, did the Browns tire?
There's a breaking news of and The Jets made a higher and the
Browns made a higher. So the Browns hired Todd Monken
as their head coach, and The Jets hired Brian Duker as their
defensive coordinator. Who?
Brian Duker, He's the former Dolphins pass game coordinator.
Not sure. Waste my time getting that, you
know, OK. I mean, so you couldn't figure
it out with Wink, you know, and by the way, I said yesterday
they met, you know, like at this point now four days ago, when
there's that kind of a stalemate, when it's 1-2, and I
don't mean like with horrible where you knew eventually they
would dot the IS was just about power and high level contract
stuff. When there's that kind of, well,
you know, we had a meeting with them and it's one day and it's 2
days and it's 3 days and there's no contractual resolution
generally a sign that that person's not coming.
So I am not surprised they didn't get Wink.
They did not get Jim Leonard, who was somebody else that I
wanted. What's this dude's name again?
Duker. Brian Duker, former Dolphins
pass coordinator. I mean former pass coordinator
and he's the defensive coordinator or the offensive.
Defensive coordinator. What?
So he was, I'm sorry, I know I sound like a like an absolute
idiot, right? I just got to make sure I have
this right. He was with Miami.
He was the passing game coordinator for the offense or
for the defense for the offense, and The Jets are hiring him as
the defensive coordinator. Exactly.
Yeah, people on Twitter are kind of saying the same thing.
They're like, what are you? Yeah, it says one guy is just
like Duker jumps from offense to lead the defense.
Sure. So I guess yeah, they're they're
taking that bet. I mean, you know what, I'm going
to, I'm going to take this thing and I'm just going to hang
myself at this point. I, I, it's what I just oh God
Almighty, I'm losing it over here and I can't even see that
little, little stupid hole. I got to put this thing back and
hang on. Get in.
What an absolute joke. This is just asinine man.
I mean, I didn't have a good joke to crack.
I wish I did. So losers man.
They are just an absolute train wreck joke.
You know, just to bring it full circle, I hate them.
I hate The Jets. I loathe The Jets.
I detest The Jets. I abhor The Jets.
What else is there? What?
I mean, it's you. You just can't make this up.
I'm trying to make sure I got this straight.
That a guy who was on a shit team this year, The Jets looked
at him and valued him and the job that he was doing for a bad
team was on the offensive side of the ball.
So it seems he was a this man. It seems he was a defensive pass
game coordinator all. Right.
That that's what they're saying yeah OK the Twitter the first
tweet said offensive now people are correct in a defensive pass
game coordinator I still. Hate it.
I mean, I wanted Wink or I wanted Leonard.
This wasn't even a name that I took seriously.
Like then I can hire that guy. They hired him.
Wow, The good old Jets. JETS, Jets, Jets, Jets.
Come on in. It's the circus here.
We've got the New York Jets and 10, everybody.
Hey, won't you meet the sword swallower right over there?
How about the trapeze artist? There's the there's the lions.
Amber, don't get hurt. That lion's known to be a little
ferocious. Get the popcorn here.
Get your tickets here. Come on in.
It's the New York Jets. The big top circus.
Oh, man. Yeah.
Listen, dude, I'm tapped out with this nonsense.
Dude, let me throw one more thing on the table here.
The Did you see the report yesterday?
Last night, I think I saw it, that the Yankees have expressed
interest in CJ Abrams, the shortstop for the Nets.
I'm trying to figure out why. What a negative show.
I mean, there's nothing. I haven't said one positive
thing, but it's not like I want to slant negatively.
It's literally me just reacting to Bill polling the clueless
dope who kept Bill Belichick out of the Hall of Fame by by
coordinating A coup against him so his boy craft could have his
moment. That's number one if he just
tuning in the brief reset #2 this Jets mess.
I even inserted Carl Anthony Towns not being able to post up
Russell Westbrook last night, not double teamed one-on-one in
the post against somebody that he's got a weigh at least £75
more than and 6-7 inches taller than Fumble and bumbled around
like he's on skates. I mean, the Rangers think they
should. I mean, that's, that's what the
Rangers look like trying to skate Karl Anthony Towns.
And now, now I will be fair. I'm not going to just rifle like
the energy with the CJ Abrams stuff.
It's not quite as you know, it's not like that number one, it
hasn't happened #2 like he's not a horrible player.
The problem is he's a horrible defender.
So the report was. And by the way, if you don't
know his profile, he is a lefty hitter.
He's got pop. He does run.
There's a thought, you know, get him in the Yankees Stadium
wherever you heard this before 3030 guy.
OK, I did a not even a deep dive.
I did the most rudimentary dive last night, analytic.
And I knew this because I watched him against the Mets
whenever the Mets played the Mets.
And I watch baseball and I know he stinks at shortstop.
He is he is consistently graded among the lowest in terms of arm
strength, range and errors. And he's a shortstop.
So now he does have a higher average, does have a better on
base, not great, but better certainly than Volpe higher OPS.
I think his OPS last year was about 7:50.
I'm not saying like offensively, like if the Yankees were, if the
Yankees were the exact opposite of what they are now instead of
being lefty laden And they, you know, they and, and, and Abrams
was a was a righty. Well, actually, you know what,
as they are left the oriented right now, let's say Abrams was
a righty. You can say, all right, you
know, if the Nats are willing to do it, you know, he's in his mid
20s. He's a really good athlete.
He's got some pop in his bat. You know, maybe we kick him over
to 2nd or or whatever. We put Jazz in the, I don't
know, whatever. I can say, all right, maybe he
is a horrendous shortstop. He's horrendous.
He I think he's in the 8th percentile for arm strength.
Like he's he throws a lollipop rainbows over there from short.
You know, if Volpe's arm was bad, this guy's arm is worse.
So I don't get that. And if you were going to get him
and with with with the thought of moving him like the Mets did
with Bichette, moving him to third base, there's no way.
And and Bichette doesn't even have a great arm.
But I mean, Abrams is worse. So it's not going to 3rd.
And if you want to move him to 2nd, which I would be OK with,
well, what are you going to do with Jazz?
And like, what are you giving up to get this guy?
It's just a weird interest. I understand due diligence.
And hey, nobody checks in on more players than Brian Cashman.
Nobody does their homework on more players than Cash.
Nobody does due diligence more than Brian Cashman.
And by the way, I mean, I'm kind of mocking it a little bit
because we always hear it. Yankees have checked in on Carl
Tucker. Yankees have they watch, they'll
check in on school when he's a free agent.
Won't get them. You know, now the Yankees have
checked in. They're kick of the tires on
Bouchette just in case. Didn't get them and I wanted
them. So the Yankees check in with
everybody. I'd like to see him check in
with the World Series again. That will be nice.
That will be the ultimate check in.
But I don't I'm just not feeling the CJ Abrams thing.
Now if you tell me that the Yankees are going to trade and
Cashman does make some good trades, so I'm not going to go
nuts here. But if it was like some sort of
package where you can trade Volpe will Warren, you know, one
of those other arms, whatever I've talked about those arms
that they like younger arms that and not Cam maybe even Louise
heal. And there's something that that
I just have it uncovered that is big.
You know, whether it's you know, whether it's a a legit, I don't
know. First, I I don't know.
I don't know what they could be thinking because I've looked at
all the different configurations and there's really nobody of
great interest on the Nationals roster.
You know, that that I that I have right now pertaining to the
immediacy of any plan for the Yankees.
So I saw that and I was like, yeah, CJ Abrams, he's a lefty.
No, but they fall in love with these profiles.
Good, good power, you know, middle of the infield, good
wheels. I don't want him.
And if it if listen, if if he's here and it's for a nominal fee
and there's a greater plan. OK, that's fine.
Look at this. Look at this guy.
I mean, I just see this. I have to laugh at that.
That name is way too long. But I'll give you the 712 at the
end there. Who the bleep is Duker?
I don't know. I honestly, I don't know is from
Miami and we thankfully have gained clarity that he was not
on the offensive side of the ball.
He was indeed and in fact on the defensive side of the ball.
So at least The Jets hired somebody, I guess with a
defensive background to, I don't know, to being the defensive
coordinator for The Jets, but man, oh man, it just think,
think about how desperate they look here.
Think about how how how just minor lead The Jets look at jet
fanatic one BT why bother bringing Wink for a second
interview only to tell him that you want that you want to call
the place? I don't know.
I really don't know. I don't understand.
Now, to be fair, nobody's really knocking down wings door now.
I mean, does Wink have a job? So the fact that Wink was
interested in in being The Jets, DC and The Jets at least on some
level had surface interest in bring him in to what extent, you
know, play calling, whatever they were flushing through that,
you know, it's not like people are just banging his door down.
Oh, we need Wink. We need Wink, we need Wink.
You know, Wink's in college. Wink's been spent a couple of
years in college. So I don't know, but I don't
have any answer for you there. I could try to make up
something. Who the hell knows, man?
What is what is this here? What does this say, Willie or
Will Willow, Willow Verde, 1664. How many somebody.
How come so many people moved to Texas from Ohio?
Half the people I know from my time in Dallas are from Ohio
originally. Is that is that backed up?
I mean, obviously your experiences, you could back that
up. I'd have to look at a deeper
demographic. I don't really necessarily know
that to be true. I don't know.
I'm not sure. I don't have an answer for you.
I know in the case of my father-in-law, he's a former
fighter pilot and a former captain for a major airline.
So when he was working his way up, he was moving around.
So they, like some of my wife's siblings were born in different
states, like her brother was born in Wisconsin.
So yeah, they live there for a minute.
You know, I, I, I don't, I don't know.
It wasn't like this direct route.
Like, OK, we're in Ohio as a family and let's go to Dallas.
It was just really the basis of of the job and Dallas being a
hub for some airlines. And, you know, it's an easier
lifestyle. I mean, try to drive to JFK or
LaGuardia or Newark here if you're a pilot.
I know there's a little traffic out there in Dallas, but trying
to get out the DFW is not the same as trying to get out to one
of these airports. It's just not.
It's different. So it's different lifestyle.
You know, I play golf all year. Different taxes.
Yeah. What is the chick stir have to
say here? What up chick stir 52?
Unfortunately, sports has become very expensive for the busy for
the busy product they are were for the for the busy product.
I think maybe that's a typo. It happens.
All good, I guess maybe for the bad product they're putting on
the fields. They're cost an arm and a leg
that really does, you know, nobody wants to hear tales of
back in the day. Remember when, but I'm going to
hit you with one at least for a minute.
Now it is all relative. Like to sit here in the year
2026 and for me to go back to the mid 80s and say, well, when
my dad would bring me to Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium, which
he would actually bring me to Shea Moore.
Number one, he was, you know, he's kind of as he said when he
called into the fan, he's become a Yankee fan, a bit of a front
runner here because of Aaron Judge, but old Brooklyn Dodger
fan from Brooklyn, gravitated to the Mets, used to go to the Mets
dream camps and all that stuff. The big Mets fan and became a
Yankees. Either way, exactly the kind of
caller that I would eviscerate on WFAN and eventually a call
there. I will eviscerate here on BT
Unleash when we get those phones hooked up.
And by the way, J Rod, not yet. I'm going to pull you in a
minute. I want you without giving too
much away, I want you as succinctly as possible to
explain to everybody because I want people to know that this is
a real thing with the ability to take calls.
Don't get too technical. You don't need to give away
state secrets. I'm going to pop you in a
minute. I want to, I want to, I want to
pick your brand on that that for a little bit here.
But the going to Shea or Yankee Stadium back in the day was was
nothing. I remember the Yankees had this
thing called the Pinstrike Pub where we'd go and get like a
corned beef sandwich. And what was the Mets one?
The Mets had one too. What was their restaurant?
God, I used to lie. Man, I thought it's such a big
deal going to those restaurants, you know, getting roast beef,
like stacked like this corn, corn beef pastrami, right?
Park out five bucks. Ticket and then at that point,
if nobody ushers, you give him a couple of bucks and I don't even
think ushers wipe the seats down anymore.
But you know, give him a few bucks.
Hey, you know, move up a little bit here.
Now you try to move up. You think it's the end of the
world. You think it's the end of the
world. Nope, can't have it.
Sir. These are the exclusive seats.
So there's a pecking order. And yes, it has long ago.
It's outpriced, the average fan, the common person, and it sucks.
And I don't know exactly when it started, but it started a long
time ago. It's never going to change.
It's only going to get worse. I mean, try going to a Knick
game. One of my buddies went to a
Knick game and they were sitting, you know, in the second
like in the two hundreds, but it was the last row in the two
hundreds. 290 bucks a ticket, 290 and it took the entire
family 369, twelve, 1200 bucks to get into the garden, right?
Lord knows what you spend when you get in there.
Are you telling me that the average person, I don't care if
you're doing really well, you know you're going to go and drop
25 to parking, merch, food, 1200 for tickets, if not more.
If you get a better seat, you're going to spend 3330430500 to go
watch Carl Anthony Towns flop up and down the court or stumble
his way or Mikhail Bridges shy away from contact.
I'm good. I'll watch him on MSG.
He's crazy. It it is.
Yes. The the pricing has been.
It's really it's out of whack. It's sad.
It really is. Looks like Duker served it.
Yeah. Defensive assistant safeties
coach, defensive backs coach. Oh, in Detroit under Glenn.
All right, well, all right. So their defense sucked in
Detroit as well. That is that.
Is that supposed to make me feel good?
So let me get this straight and and I again, I was good with the
Glenn higher and not because he was a former jet, but Parcells
guy winning culture in Detroit, even though the offense was much
better than the defense and he was in charge of the defense.
Campbell Parcells Peyton with the Saints old school.
I just you know, I I still think he's he's a leader of men.
I do. I absolutely do believe that
about Aaron. But you're telling me because
we're at this point now where nobody of any value wants to go
and coach there because of The Jets win three games, Glenn's
fired and then the new coach comes in and they're going to
fire the people that Glenn's hiring right now, including
Duker. So, so let's say, let's say
that, you know, let's say Glenn's fired after next year.
Let's say miraculously, Mike Tomlin for some reason wants to
come and save The Jets. Like we should only be so lucky.
Tomlin gets the job. Duker gone.
Clean out your office. I'll bring in my people.
Thank you. So you're you're you're now
choosing from a very diminished pool of prospects in terms of
like viable, highly sought at their coaches.
That doesn't mean they're all destined to fail, but it means
the chances of success are lower because they haven't succeeded
yet to the degree that others have that have already been
hired. So it really drives me nuts.
So Aaron Glenn was the DC for at times a bad Detroit Lions
defense. And you're bringing in the
assistant who was underneath one of the assistants, underneath
the DC of a defense that got lit up too often, including in the
playoffs against the Commanders. And that's the guy that we're
bringing in here. And that's the guy that I'm
supposed to say is going to do a good job.
Now, one thing that I will never do, I will not blindly say he's
going to fail. I might be beside myself when I
first process the news. I might crack a joke.
That's that's all part of the deal.
But I'm not going to put a limitation on somebody that I
don't know. I don't.
I don't I'm not going to do that.
I think it's unfair. I think it's actually patently
offensive. Like if I don't know you, who
the hell am I to say that you can't succeed at your job?
Now, I can say that The Jets misery will swallow you up and
probably prevent you from doing a good job.
But I don't know your brain power.
I don't know your work ethic. I don't know your character.
I don't know your ability to rally an entire room of grown
men to do something In Sync. Like maybe, you know, last year
some of the coaches couldn't do for The Jets apparently.
Maybe you've got that innate skill and you're going to be an
asset. So I'll certainly leave the door
open for success. But what are the odds?
You know, Speaking of odds, Charlie, F6675, what up Charles?
What are the odds? Grood?
Whatever. Take The Jets head coaching job
when they fire Glenn next year. Charlie from Bensonhurst.
Bensonhurst in the house. Thank you, Charlie.
I don't know. I mean, I don't know the fact
that think about this, there's I don't know to what extent Gruden
still consider to be a pariah in the NFL or untouchable.
And it's easier to bring him in in relative obscurity when he's
not the, you know, front and center head coach.
But if The Jets were willing to allow Glenn to offer him and
Muji to offer him a job is the funny part.
Working under Aaron Glenn, Wow. Well, then they're OK with
hiring him. And any PR hit that might come
with one new cycle and then eventually dissipate and on to
the next one. So I mean, yeah, I would have to
think if they're willing to do that, that they'd certainly be
willing to hire Jon Gruden, I would think, is the head coach.
Not that I would necessarily want that because I didn't
really want that this year, you know, when they were going
through the cycle. Let me get a couple of more here
breaking. News too.
Garden, jump in again. No, no, jump in please.
Giannis No. No, hold on put.
Yourself on screen, go for it. What do you got?
Giannis? He Giannis and the Bucks are now
open to looking for trades. That's going to the February 5th
trade deadline. Let's go.
So he said, open for the offseason, but the trade
deadline is certainly the goal. He's going to be traded.
He's going to be traded and he's going to be a nick because the
Knicks are broke. He's going to be a nick.
He the Knicks are broken. Cat wants out.
Cat has again. Even they said it let was it was
I think it was Clyde doing the yeah, where again more and more
you're seeing Karl Anthony Towns not even get back on defense and
Clyde's like where's cat? I don't know.
His lazy ass is 75 feet behind everybody.
So he's not being used right. He's not showing any energy.
Mike Brown and and the other. I think there's a real
disconnect there. They know that they're winning
nothing with Karl Anthony Towns. They know that so and there's
also think about the smoke. Now let's connect to smoke.
So you got a little little what's the word flume or what's
that little what's the word like the?
Plume of smoke. Yeah.
Hey, Plume, you get the pluma smoke here and the pluma smoke
here. So the pluma smoke today is that
they are now amenable to trading, facilitating a trade by
the deadline. No kidding.
All right, But at least it's good to get that validation,
right? Boom #1 The other plume, which
was yesterday and really going back about a day and a half,
maybe even 2 days ago, is that the Knicks are now engaging
Portland with Drew Holiday, whose boys with Giannis.
Get him in here. You want bridges, Take him, he's
Mr. Softy. Get lost, right?
So you have a backcourt hopefully.
I mean, is it inconceivable that in what's today, the 2028 that
within jeez, a week or so, basically that the backcourt
starting backcourt is Brunson and Drew Holiday and that the
starting front court is is is Giannis is Mitchell Robinson at
the five and OG? I don't know be at the other
spot. I believe that is highly
plausible. Anything involving Giannis, the
Knicks will be front and center. This is where it helps to have
somebody like Leon Rose and these power brokers that know
how to do these things under the table that have hook up like The
Jets don't the Knicks actually do.
Now, I'm not guaranteeing that he's going to be a Knick, but I
do believe he's going to be dealt and I feel really good
about their chances to get him to the guard.
I feel really good about it. That's.
Good. I mean, I would say, I would say
if that holiday deal could even get done, Yanis deal gets done.
I would say this that puts the Knicks in a pretty clear, if not
the favorite for the Finals, a very close like right here.
I mean, I, I, you know, just as a Celtics fan, last season, I
thought Drew Holiday was like pretty underwhelming for our
team. But this season, you know,
looking at the numbers, what's 16, five and seven or something
like that? I mean, it's ridiculous.
So yeah, that Drew Holiday thing to get done.
Be just as big as the young. I love it, it does so much here.
Number one's a great defender #2 he's a big shot maker, he's
played in big games, he's highly respected, and it allows Jalen
Brunson to play off the ball a little bit more.
So you kind of alleviate some of that.
You know where he's going to get worn down, where teams now this
started, you know, last year where teams will kind of pick up
Jalen Brunson, even if it's token pressure.
Just make them work a little bit, get the ball over midcourt,
tire them out a little bit. You got Drew Holiday being able
to take it up here and there, play Jalen off the ball, get
those open shots, and now all of a sudden, what's the biggest
weakness of the Knicks? Some might say Mike Brown, All
right, he's not a championship coach.
He's never actually won as a head coach.
So so I I can't say he's that guy, but I also do think he's
fine if he's got the right crop of players.
But the biggest problem with them is that 40% of their
starting 5 is among the worst defensive basketball players in
in the NBA. So if you delete Cat and put
Mitchell out there, provided Mitch could play more minutes at
night tonight and all that stuff, well, now you go from a
hard defender to a great defender.
And now you've got somebody in Drew Holiday who can cover up a
lot of the deficiencies that Jalen Brunson so clearly has.
So all right, a little good news to wrap up.
There they go. Yep, Little.
Positivity. Come on up some some sunshine
through the clouds. Yeah.
Here we go, all. Right, man.
Oh, can you tell everybody? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, very
quickly. You know, again, you don't have
to get too much into the technical stuff, but what what
you think the time frame will be and and the ability for us to
eventually take calls on BT Unleashed.
Yeah, absolutely. So I mean, I was just kind of
figuring this out, deducing it the other day.
Deducing. He's doing some deducing.
But I'd say very similar to like how Collins would go typical
radio. What we'll do, we'll have a
number line set up just, you know, own phone number beach.
Which we have already, which we have, which I bought.
So you'll call that number and then basically, you know, I'll
talk to you for a second, figure out your questions.
You know, I guess what's the word?
See if this is an appropriate caller.
Whatever, I don't care. Yeah, I guess that does.
Yeah, I guess here's doesn't matter anymore.
It's like the least less appropriate, maybe the better,
and then we'll basically throw you into the call, kind of like
how we're doing it here where the audios just go in and you're
talking to them and then, yeah, we'll run it like that.
So it'll be pretty seamless. Awesome, That is awesome.
How about this at Aspen 73681? I follow you from Malaysia.
How about that? Shout out to Malaysia.
Australia's been in the house, Malaysia's been in the it's 12
hour time difference. And follow you for all my New
York sports teams, especially the Giants, Yankees and Knicks.
That is absolutely appreciated. Yeah, I can't thank you enough.
What an honor. Wow.
That is showing the broad SCRO, broad scope and the growing
powers of certainly of YouTube and BT Unleashed.
I know we hit 15,000 Subs officially today, which is
great. We were slowed down a little
bit. You know, I want to get to 20
now I've I've actually got all my wall.
I'm looking at it in increments of thousands.
First it was one, well really one, then five, then 10, then
15, then 20 then. And every time we hit it, I
actually literally cross it out. So now I will cross out the 15
today and the next target is 20,000 Subs.
My guy is coming Jay, my guy is coming tomorrow.
See the one thing let me let me give you guys a quick little
update here on the studio redesigned.
By the way, I think the studio studio looks fine, but it's
going to look sick, man. Now with the logo, here's where
we're at all right, It's already there there.
The not the problem, but what we have to navigate is like if I
was to pan up here, you can obviously see the Yankee jersey
and you could see look at that envy.
Who won that envy? I did.
You can see some other stuff here right?
Whatever. So I what we've got to do is
because it's it's the logo, it's the BT, the unleashed logo
because of that. And for those of you who are new
to the show, let me give you a little sneak pop right here and
let you know what it's all about because it looks absolutely
awesome. Awesome, awesome.
Who did I text it to? Yeah, somebody last night.
OK, so there it is, right. So that it's going to look like
that behind me. So instead of the Yankee
pinstripes, instead of that fantasy football trophy that I
won for, you know, first place years ago and it basically been
in last place since, this whole thing will basically encompass
the entire wall behind me. Now, the tricky thing is, is
it's got to be set in a spot that's not obscured, you know
what I mean? So I see, you know what I mean.
So there's been two different designs, one that's a little
lighter than that and the one that I just showed you with the
signature that and he's coming tomorrow.
It's my it's my buddy, a really good friend of mine.
He's coming tomorrow and he's going to, you know, I'm going to
have to move some stuff around and we're going to put it behind
me. I'm going to sit down.
We're going to reposition it. We're going to measure it.
His guys will measure it, and then once that measurement's
made, it will be printed and it'll take a day to print and
then it will be professionally installed and then that will be
the studio. So it's coming.
Yeah, man. Very excited.
I mean, going to look great. Going to be.
Super sick and I mean even like once you get that studio set up,
if you ever want to like shoot content in it with like a real
camera, not even on stream yard kind of deal.
I'm sure that would look really cool too.
What do you mean that's for another A?
Real camera. What are you doing?
I just figured this camera out. I got another camera.
Yeah, that's what I. Mean this might be for another
day, this might be for, you know, this might be bringing in
a staff in kind of deal, but that's great.
Dude, we could, you know, it took us, you know, a week to
figure out how much we could pay you.
I'm going to start paying the camera guy now.
The anticipation once we get to a certain point, maybe that is
something in the future, but let me one day at a time, bro.
As I say, brick by brick, click by click, click, clickety,
clack. All right, man, let me bounce.
Let me bounce here, J Rod. Good day today, man.
Good job out of you today. I appreciate all the all the
text there. I will load times about 11/30,
11:40 or so. Saint John's playing at 7:00
tonight. They've won seven straight.
They are, I want to say, 10 1/2, eleven point favorites over
Butler. They should handle Butler very
easily tonight. So I'll be with Mink at the
Garden. Johnny's trying to stay hot.
Look forward to that. Jets got their coordinator,
Duker, whoever the hell that is. Yay.
Obviously, the Yanis stuff is now front and center from a
basketball point of view. Now, the Knicks won't be the
only one at the table with we've seen, you know, one thing you
got to worry about. I probably should have said this
before. Pat Riley, Slippery down there
in South Beach. You know, as much as Buss has
run the Lakers into the ground, you always got to worry about
the Laker. You just never know, you know,
what is going to be an appealing package there to, you know, to
the Bucks there. But I think I do think at some
point the leverage that Giannis has is that I'm not going there
like, you know, like he's going to, if he really plays hardball
and he'll do it behind the scenes.
He's too classy to flex in front of the camera, but he will put
stress on the bucks to get him where he wants to go.
And we've always known New York's been at the top of the
list. Is there somebody else below
that? I don't know the depth of that
interest on Giannis's part, but I know, and we know the Knicks
are on the list. So that's a real story.
It's a real follow. You know, I don't, I don't think
anything really happens with the CJ Abrams stuff, with the
Yankees tepid interest, making calls, whatever.
But I do think the Yankees make a trade before they get down to
Tampa. I think the Mets might do one
other interesting thing. I love the offseason the Mets
have had, so we got a lot of things cooking here I'll see you
at the garden tonight catch you tomorrow, 10 AM right here BT
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