What's happening, everybody? Welcome back to Unleashed here.
Hopefully the lisp is gone. I, I will find out very soon
with a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
I think we're good. Wow.
I mean, this is, this is what you're looking for as a Giants
fan, aren't you? This is what you're looking for.
Now, before I I want to start with an exercise in whether it's
math or or randomness or perception, I want to start with
this, right? First of all, I love John
Horrbaum. He's a terrific coach, but I do
think certain things have been a little bit hijacked here for a
couple of different reasons, which I'll detail in a moment.
First of all, Coach X. All right, let's start with the
variable Coach X. So Coach X is 63 years old.
He's coached for 18 years. He's got a 61% winning
percentage. He's got a Super Bowl, and the
last four years he's coached, he's gone 10/13/12 and eight.
OK, That's what Coach X has done.
Coach Y is a year younger, he's 62 years old, 18 years, 61%
winning percentage, same in the regular season, won Super Bowl
the same and the last four years 12/12/12 and seven wins.
OK. Coach X has also had the luxury
of coaching A2 time Most Valuable Player in Lamar
Jackson. Coach Y has not.
So in case you haven't been able to deduce who's X and who's Y,
let me tell you Coach X is obviously John Horbaugh and
Coach Y is Coach Mike McCarthy. Now, I'm not going to get up
here and say that I think that Mike McCarthy is better than
horribaugh, but I think that there's a conversation to be
had. I just gave you literally
basically encompassing 2 full decades worth of coaching.
They've each won a Super Bowl, They've each won 61% of their
regular season games. And the last four years they've,
you know, they petered out that final year, which is why they
were let go. Horbaugh won eight times this
year and McCarthy two years ago won seven with Dallas.
But it was big double digit win totals 10/13/12 for Horbaugh and
then 12/12/12. And and that that's for
obviously for McCarthy. But the way that you you hear
this being positioned like you would think that the New York
Knicks are bringing in Pat Riley like it's nineteen 19192.
I really like John Harbaugh. John Harbaugh is terrific.
John Harbaugh is an immediate massive upgrade.
The press conference home run gravitas no doubt Giant fans
feeling good in bold in season tickets.
You know every the merch is flying off the racks.
He's got his quarterback. I think if John Harbaugh is the
head coach of the Giants and I think there's a better chance
that he will be that he won't be.
I think it's fantastic. I think the Giants are in great
hands for a while and we'll see where it goes.
But I also think that is a very delicate needle to thread guys,
because think about this, there's a couple of things here
where if the Giants aren't perfect and, and I as much as
the organization, as much as they've been in shambles for a
while now, I do think the Giants will handle this well.
Now, Stefanski was in last night, they had dinner.
Today's the full meeting. So there are a couple of wild
cards here that's going to make the Giants job just a little bit
more difficult to really properly navigate that.
Now some I don't know what's going to happen, but what
happens if what happens if the Bills lay an egg against the
Jaguars? What happens there?
What happens if Philly gets rolled by San Francisco?
Remember, job was the was a coordinator there for 9 or 10
years. What happens if the Steelers
lose a home game to the Houston Texans on Monday night?
I, I, you know, depending upon the optics of some of those
losses, particularly the Bills, like if the Bills were to get
stomped out by the Jaguars, you'd have to think that they
would at least have the conversation.
Because I think they've had previous conversations about
whether or not Mcdermott's kind of hit the end of the road
there. I've got a lot of buddies who
are Bills fans and they're tired of them.
They don't think he's the next level guy.
And when you've got Josh Allen in contract #2 firmly in his
prime, like, you've got to find the guy to get you there.
So I don't know, don't they be thinking up there in Buffalo?
And then you also have to factor this.
Now this is where it gets really interesting.
So whether it's a Miami, whether it's a Tampa, whether it's a
Dallas, maybe a lesser extent, whether it's Cincinnati, if one
of those coaches is fired now as they were, even though you know,
Black Monday is coming God and they are still employed as of
now. Well, now that John Horbaugh was
was fired, that could obviously change some plans here.
I don't know. Does he like the appeal of and
the weather of Miami? Does he want to go coach Joe
Burrow, who I think is better than Lamar?
Does he want to go to Dallas and, and all that comes with the
Dallas branding and you know, the monstrosity of what that
emblem represents? Does he think the Buccaneers
have a better roster? I, I, I don't know the answer to
these questions, but so this man, this, this is just, I mean,
why couldn't my jets be in the middle of this?
But I'm not going to waste your time on that.
What I do have a little something on The Jets after, But
how nice would it be like if The Jets were doing, we're in the
middle of this year where, you know, they moved on from Glenn.
And by the way, I said that they shouldn't fire Glenn, But I also
said that there could be circumstances which would maybe
present itself where I would say, OK, I'm going to take that
back. I'm going to fire Aaron and this
would be one of them. They're not going to do that.
But as they're right now at all probability going through
schemes and going through philosophy and talking with
Kevin Stefanski about what his vision would be for the New York
Giants. Well, you know, you've got
within the 1st 45 minutes of the news breaking that John Harbaugh
was fired, seven teams reached out to his agent.
And I don't think that that's hyperbole.
Like I don't think that that's Scott Boris, you know, doing a
little song and dance nursery rhyme trying to hype up his guy.
I don't think that you need to hype up John Harbaugh because I
think that John Harbaugh is terrific.
But I also think that there are other men that are available
that are comparable. Like I, you know, I had to, I
had to jump in the car for a little bit today and yeah, jump
on the radio. Just got to see what's going
around. Like you, you would think that
Bill Parcells when he came to save the even though The Jets
didn't win the championship, but after the one win season back in
1996 and preceding that was a three win season with go tight.
And then Parcells came to The Jets and they went nine and
seven. Then they went 12 and 8 lost the
AFC championship game to Denver. Like you would think that
Parcells, if it is horrible, is rolling into that building.
And I got to tell you, I, you know, just to add up, just to
strip the emotion away from it, because I've already said that I
think that John will be an amazing upgrade.
And you know, AB plus maybe even an, A minus kind of a coach
here. But you know, you, you can't,
well, you can. I choose not to ignore the fact
that he's coached for almost 2 decades and he's got 1
championship. And there were a lot of moments
where his team came up small, including the other night.
So I just think that it's been a little a little hijacked a
little improperly position like John Horribaugh is a terrific
football coach. And if you have a vacancy or you
think you might have a vacancy, if that should arise based on
what you know what, what could happen this weekend with some of
the teams and some of the situations I just mentioned.
Well, I mean, John Horribaugh is as reliable and as safe and as
as as you know, I I would think the fans would be galvanized.
I think it's on so many levels. It's terrific.
I think everybody would be juiced up over it, but I am
having a rough time and and I am looking this at this completely
objectively, not an ounce of subjectivity.
I don't have a dog in the fight. It's not my team.
It's just honest. And and you know, even with my
teams, I'd, I'd like to think what it's time to really cut the
nut and be objective that I could do that as well as
anybody. But where in the world is the
differentiating factor between John Horribaugh and Mike
McCarthy? Can somebody please explain that
to me? I have yet to hear one logical
point where John Horribaugh is the positively better than Mike
McCarthy. I've get I've I've not heard
that yet and but all I heard because I was saying this when I
was still on the fan. Hey McCarthy.
I like McCarthy. I've always liked McCarthy.
If the giant this was before they fired Dabel.
If the Giants move on from Dabel, you know you might want
to call McCarthy. Guys pretty good and they
literally have the same exact winning percentage in the
regular season. They've literally coached the
same amount of years. They literally have the same
amount of Super Bowl wins. And Oh yeah, by the way, the one
guy who everybody's positioning is like, you know, the the next
coming of, of, of the football Christ here is, you know, is
like he's without flaw. I'm sorry.
The one thing that that I choose to incorporate into my
evaluation and my analysis of this entire thing, like you
don't get points to me for winning a lot of regular season
games and then consistently coming up short when it matters.
When you got a multi time MVP that is actually a strike
against you. That should be a knock against
you. But the amount of people who are
failing to incorporate this, either they don't believe it.
And by the way, that's fine. I'm not saying that what I'm
saying is right for everybody. Clearly based on the reaction so
far today, what I'm saying is kind of counter to what
everybody's saying. I, I just, I just don't get it.
And then you look at somebody like Kevin Stefanski, right?
So we, we did coach X, we did coach Y.
Let me hit you with Coach Z now, who is 46 years old and a lot
long, a lot younger than the other two men because one is 62
and one is 63. He is a two time coach of the
year and twice he won 11 games with the most dysfunctional
franchise this side of The Jets. And that would be Kevin
Stefanski with the Browns. But they're awful, just
disjointed circus of a front office.
So to me, like, if I'm looking at upside here, all right,
Giants have the quarterback. All right, Giants still have
that. I know it's eroded a bit.
We've talked about this, but the Giants still have a cachet that
is that is going to elevate them.
And I've been telling you this for a while where I think the
Giants job is front and center. Don't tell me about Arizona.
You know, I don't want to hear about some of these other
situations with busted cap spaces or no quarterbacks or,
you know, hey, oh, they've got the first pick like the Raiders.
But you don't really know, even though I love Mendoza and and
some of you like Dante more, you don't really know if they're if
they're going to look like Jackson Dart looked as a rookie
without neighbors, without scataboo, without a defense.
Like you just don't know that. So there is a known variable
here with the Giants that I knew was I was going to make them
very appealing. I just, I don't, I don't know
why some people look at the giants job as as less than, you
know, because I, I was separating what they've become
and I was going more macro and, and giving them the benefit of
the doubt of who they've been for most of my most of my
existence as a human being. But if you are 46 and you've had
two amazing seasons and you've done it with one of the worst
franchises in all the sports, OK, and you're thought to be two
or three rungs below or maybe 2, maybe not 32 rungs below
horrible and maybe 2 1/2 behind McCarthy, Well, I could very
easily make the case that you should be elevated past that.
I know they've got the Super Bowl, understood.
But you didn't get a Super Bowl with Lamar Jackson.
You didn't wear enough playoff games with Lamar Jackson.
And and obviously even with McCarthy, who I really like, but
it's far from perfect. Like you could make the case
that projecting and the upside and a more stable franchise and
all the things that the Giants used to be that I believe that
they could get back to being, which I don't believe the Browns
ever could. I could very easily present to
you as I am that I think Stefanski is very much on the
same line here as these other two gentlemen.
Like if we're doing seeds right for the NCAA tournament, you
want to tell him like his John Horbaugh, is he the is he a
vintage Duke team? Is he a vintage Carolina team?
Is he a vintage UConn team? Whether it's Hurley now or Coach
Calhoun back in the day with three championships, Is he a is
he a vintage wooden team with UCLA at the answer or Georgetown
with Ewing or even St. John's with mother?
The answer is no. Like he's a really good two
seed. He might be among the higher
rated 2 seeds. He might even be like the 4th
one seed. But like, let let's not get this
twisted where John Horbaugh is some coaching savior.
There's a lot of disappointments there under his watch.
Now, one thing. Oh, thank God the audio's good.
That's the thank God. Soon as I start, I said, hey,
listen, honey, within 30 seconds, give me thumbs up.
Give me thumbs down. And thank God, I figure, yeah,
by the way, I got to take the L for yesterday.
Yesterday was my fault. What I did was not that you
really care. So this microphone again, a
whole new world, right? This microphone.
I've got a plugged into my laptop.
I'm going through stream yard. I'm getting it back on YouTube
as soon as that's resolved and hopefully that's done today.
I can't control the trust me, if I could would be on, I promise.
So it's all connected through the through the computer,
obviously. And I guess that in my haste
getting ready for the show when clicking on the light over here
and getting everything ready, I forgot to go to the settings
yesterday on my laptop, which would have been able to which,
which would have enabled me to go from, you know, laptop
microphone to real microphone. Hence I sounded like a lisp or I
sounded like one of those old movies where the, you know, the
audio was not synced up with the lips.
So thank God we got that resolved because if I had to
deal with that today with a topic like this, you know, I, I,
I don't know, I mean, what am I going to do?
Really, really have much of A choice, but it would have
absolutely driven me nuts. So we're good to go.
By the way, I, I, I don't want to, I don't want to say this
because I, I don't know for sure, but I really do think
we're inside about the 10 yard line here on the YouTube stuff.
We got to get this back up like the messages and the flow and
the ability to do all the things we were doing for the first
couple of shows on YouTube. It's really disappointing that
it's happened. But again, control what you can
control. All I can do is content right
now, the bells, the whistles, if you new to this, the background,
the producer, the calls, the guest, it's all coming.
It's all right now. All that matters is that you are
listening to somebody that hopefully you enjoy listening to
or watching and you believe that I know what I'm talking about.
Even if you disagree, agree with these assertions about the
coach, that's all that matters. All the other stuff, you know,
making it look fancy, whatever, we'll, we'll get there, I
promise. So I think, I think that part of
that, you might not like this. I think that part of the
differentiating factor between forget about Stefanski for a
moment. I like him.
I don't love him, but I like him.
He's very appealing and very intriguing to me with a lot of
upside, right? Lot of different quarterbacks in
Cleveland, awful ownership as we've talked about two awesome
years, eleven wins, that's the Browns.
I mean, let's let's not minimize that, OK?
So, but I do think because let's face it, a lot of you, and I
guess to an extent myself as well, we have, we are a little
vain with certain things. Now, I don't give a rat's ass
what my football coach looks like.
I don't care if he's £500 wearing a hoodie.
I don't care if he's decked out like Tom Landry.
Even though the NFL doesn't let you do that anymore like a bunch
of idiots. It's a great look.
I don't care what you look like. Can you coach all right, Can you
take a downtrodden team and elevate and then once that
elevation occurs, can you take a middle of the pack team and get
them to a consistent playoff performer?
And once you do that, can you crack through and win a
championship or two? Like that's the floating scale
for me and for most people when it comes to to evaluating
coaches. But I do think, I do think that
some of you, I don't even know, maybe it's the Dallas thing
because he coached there. I think some of you look,
because I've heard some of my buddies say it.
I'm like, wow, wow. I think some of you look at
McCarthy like that. He just, he just doesn't look
look the part. So let me get this straight.
So John Horbaugh is, in the eyes of many, a discernibly better
head coach. When there's nothing there that
backs up that statement, not one single solitary statistic, not a
fact. You can lace it with opinion,
which, by the way, I do with a lot of things.
This medium is fueled largely by opinions.
But when you're talking about something like this, you got to
have your facts lined up. And I feel like there's so many
people who are glossing over the facts, whether it's positive for
Mike or kind of glossing over and maybe minimizing some of the
recent deficiencies for Harbaugh.
Now, one thing that I'm not worried about here, because
every relationship has an expiration.
I don't care if you're a great coach with great principles and
great discipline and great schematics and the ability to
grade out a great, you know, build out a great staff and
you're phenomenal with the media, you can be an A+ across
the board, the guy no matter what, right?
And then if you know what happens after a while, the way
you deliver the message, you know, it gets a little all
right. And instead of everybody sitting
there in the meeting like this, you know, ready, maybe doing a
little little skull, a little RIP it, a little spit, but so
locked in, taking the notes. Yep, we got it.
Believing the messaging, following the messaging, Slowly
but surely you start to get a little bit of this.
Then the eyes start to wander a little bit.
And then during a bad season, you maybe start getting some of
this and then maybe it really falls apart and maybe you get
some of this, which is obviously untenable.
And I don't know if guys were leaning back in their chairs
falling asleep in the meetings in in Baltimore, but I do know
just based on the reports that, you know, it, it, it, it ran its
course that there was friction, whether it was Lamar with the
coach, other veterans with the coach.
That's fine, by the way, that's not a deterrent to me.
That is called the reality of an 18 year relationship.
You know, whether you're married for 18 years, whether you're
working somewhere for 18 years, whether you're managing a group
of people for 18 years, there's just going to be there's like
when, when the familiarity becomes when you know what the
other person's going to say, all right, and you know how the
other person's going to react and things aren't going
incredibly well. Now.
It's like, Madam, I just don't, I don't want to hear this
anymore. Like we're not within seasons,
you know, we're going nowhere and I'm kind of checking out a
little bit. And as you, even if you don't
visually check out like this, you just maybe you're a little
less engaged in your playbook. Maybe you're a little less, you
know, wired into the day-to-day occurrences that that that just
have to happen to get yourself ready to play football at a very
high level. And when you have 53 guys doing
that and you have talent like the Ravens do, you're not going
to miss the playoffs like the Ravens should not have.
They should. They should be a playoff team.
So John Horbaugh underachieved this year, period.
And that's OK because everybody has those years.
You know, even I just mentioned the great Bill Parcells.
So when Parcells came here and The Jets were train wreck and he
elevated them immediately, you know, again, imagine, you know,
you think that you think that Harbaugh has a turn around with
the Giants, who were in basically every game and could
have easily won seven or eight games, maybe even 9.
I mean, if you really think about it, but the the Parcells,
the infusion of Parcells into The Jets.
So the one win, we all know that one in 15 Co Taigon and then the
first game of his first year they won.
I think it was 43 to 6 in Seattle.
I remember watching that game. I'm like, what?
Wow. They not only did they win, they
destroyed them. So like that presence and that
aura and that buttoned up training camp, there could be
immediate results. But even with Parcells and they
went nine wins that first year and then 12:00 and 4:00.
But then the next year was when Vinny got hurt, when Vinny
ruptured his Achilles and even the great Bill Parcells.
And if I've got 1 football game to win, I've always said this.
And the talent's comparable, you know, and there's no real
advantages. It's basically a push.
Bill Parcells is the guy that I want coaching my team.
That's how that's how great I think Bill is.
I think he's better than Belichick.
He doesn't have more wins, doesn't have more championships.
Landry, Chuck Null, any other any other great NFL luminary
name that you want to throw out? I'll take Parcells and I'll take
my chances. But even the great Bill
Parcells. Had a massive miscalculation in
99 when he got hurt because he kept running Rick Meyer out
there and Rick Meyer was doing nothing.
Remember early draft picks, second or third, I think overall
out of Notre Dame and then The Jets picked them up.
Whatever. And our boy, I love him.
I've known him for a long, I haven't seen him in a while, but
I love him. Used to see him a lot.
Ray Lucas is on the bench and you know, I guess Bill didn't
think he could handle the quarterback spot.
Kept rolling Rick out there, Myra, Myra, Myra, lost, lost,
lost. And then he finally inserts Ray
Lucas and guess what happens? The Jets win and they finished
8:00 and 8:00. So that was a massive
miscalculation that if it was made earlier, Jets probably
would have been a wild card team, not that it would have
changed the the the trajectory of The Jets franchise.
I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is every great
coach messes up. So I'm not trying to be
unnecessarily critical or overly critical or unfair to John
Harbaugh. I am just literally pointing out
some of the numbers and it is astounding to me.
It's not surprising. It's 5 levels past that.
It's astounding to me that the narrative within the giant fan
base right now, I don't want McCarthy, I want Harbaugh.
What's the difference? Can somebody point that out?
What is the difference? What is the difference?
He's not younger like Stefanski, right?
It's not like one of them was with an awful franchise like
Stefanski. And you believe with a more
stable franchise, they'll be in an immediate uptick in elevation
meeting Their ceiling could be higher than a horrible or that's
not it. Because let's face it, even
though Jerry Jones is whacked out of his mind, love Jerry, but
he's he's whacked out and Dallas is going nowhere.
I mean, they're not The Jets, they're not the Cardinals.
We know that, you know what I mean?
So they're not the Dolphins. I just I don't understand it.
It's OK to be really, you know, pro horrible.
I just don't get the anti McCarthy stuff.
And I do think that's what I said before.
I think that part of it is the visual part of it.
I mean, listen, I'm going to give you guys enough credits.
I think most of you know the game, understand the game, love
the game. It's your oxygen.
You know, of course we become we're fans and we get hijacked
and we lose a little sensibility.
That happens to everybody, right?
But I think most giant fans are are incredibly well versed in
the game of football, not just the hot take or call it a show
or drop it. Its wee Giant fans are
phenomenal. But the way this has been to me
very improperly positioned is is again, it's astounding to me.
And I think part of it is the visual.
When you see John Horbaugh, you see a square jawed, you know, in
charge kind of guy. He just presents physically his
pure physical attributes differently.
And then you look at McCarthy and he looks a little sloppy and
whatever. And that's fine.
I mean, if you if you want the better looking coach, I don't
care what the hell the coach looks like.
But like if you want the coach that you think it looks better,
then that's fine. And I don't even think that
that's your primary source of like that's not driving you to
that obviously. But I think somewhere, and I
can't prove it, but what I can prove is that a lot of the
McCarthy slander is wrong factually and misguided.
And some of the overhyped Harbaugh stuff is also
statistically off and a little bit hijacked as well.
I, I, I really do believe that. Again, the numbers are the
numbers. I mean, it's not like one guy's
coached 27 years and one guy's coached 13 years.
And I'm sitting here trying to extrapolate these numbers and
make sense of it. It's literally 18 years, 18
years, 61 percent, 61% winning percentage, one Super Bowl, 1
Super Bowl, same age, it's 63 and 62.
Like you cannot. I don't know in the I mean,
maybe I'm a victim of hyperbole here for a moment.
Been known to do that on occasion when I get excited or
mad, but you cannot tell me that there's not a chance.
And and I would have to take a pretty good chance that there
has never been like such an even measurement for one of the one
of the marquee jobs in in our city than we have right now.
And I don't even really think McCarthy's that much in play for
the Giants. Like I think it's obviously
Stefanski's there. But you know, like when the
Knicks have made their moves, it's not like the Knicks were
looking at all right, here's coach X here's coach Y.
They've done basically the same thing.
Who do we hire? I mean, it's like, all right, I
mean, let's take a flyer on Horta SEC or, you know,
whomever, right, Fizdale, How's that for data?
You know, where is this is just it's like looking in the mirror.
Only when you look at the reflection, obviously they
physically look different. That's about it.
But you would you listen to a lot of the energy today and you
would think that Pat Riley's coming to save Patrick Ewing's
career. This is not like there are just
certain coaches. Phil Jackson when he went to the
Lakers, of course not. Not Phil when he came to, when
when he came to the Knicks, not to coach, of course.
Of course the Knicks hire him to do something he's never done.
And that didn't work out well, as we know.
Phil going to the Lakers, Colby and Jack or Pat Riley coming
here or even Pat Riley going to the Heat with that crew, right?
This is not that. It doesn't mean that it can't
equate to a championship. It could.
But like this foregone conclusion, it's just a little,
it's a little too far down the road for me.
Like the Nope, no other options. Gotta be John.
He's the best. Not even close.
Well, I, I just gave you numbers that completely contradicts that
opinion. And if you want to fight math,
if you want to refute that, be my guest.
I mean, I'll debate anything. One thing I'm not arguing is
numbers. I mean, you're either hitting
three or one or you're not. Well, you're hitting with a lot
of bad luck. What's your average dude?
What are you hitting? You know, because over the
course of a full season, that's probably going to be fairly
emblematic of the kind of season and the kind of bats that you
had. So I listen, I, I think that
this is incredibly interesting. I think it's, I think it's
awesome that the Giants are going to wind up either way with
a really good coach. I really do believe that, you
know, but they got to make sure they don't mess this up and say,
well, I do think the Giants will be able to stabilize their
organization, particularly if it's somebody like a horrible or
even or McCarthy or even a Stefanski who I know that they
like. I do think that they'll they're
going to much more closely resemble the Giants that we have
all that respect and affection for.
Then this dysfunction basically turning into The Jets.
Like I, I think that I think that those days are coming to an
end. I do got the quarterback and
then, you know, now the other situation too, like, well, you
got Joe Shane here. Well, all right, then you know
that I don't think Joe Shane should be back, but he is.
So you're not going to fight City Hall because it's already
it's already happening. Now what if John Horbaugh says
I'm not working for Shane? Well, then they've got to make a
decision. And at that point, I mean, who's
the better at who's been better at their job, Shane or Horbaugh?
Well, obviously you would you would acquiesce to Horbaugh.
I don't know if they would. Maybe it's more along the lines
of, hey, it's going to be, I hate that word, but you can get
it worked in contractually where it would favor Harbaugh.
It's a collaborative effort, right?
And then year one for Harbaugh and and of course Shane, year
4-5, whatever it is at that .4. Wait, 123, I guess 4.
I don't even know all those bad seasons at 4-5 where if it
doesn't go well, then show Shane's gone and then it's
written into the contract horrible or McCarthy or
Stefanski or whomever. Now they've got their say in
terms of who comes in as a general manager.
I mean, I would I would think that would be very appealing to
somebody like John and one of these higher level coaches.
Listen, the money's going to be the money's going to be there.
There's no doubt the Giants are cutting the check.
How much you want, dude? 12 million a year, 1314, What's
the number? Whoever they said.
And no, Stefanski's not going to get that because he hasn't
earned that. But if that's what horrible
wants and that's who the Giants want, then that's what he's
going to get. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Tisch, they'll
cut the check. That'll be done.
Business handled. But let me throw this at you,
and I kind of touched on it, but let me give you a worst case
situation just for a moment. I don't think this will happen,
but they've got to be very aware that it does not.
All right, So worst case would be.
Now you've got to you've. Got to factor in the Miami's of
the world, the Bucks of the world, the Dallas of the world
and Cincy. Got to factor those in, put them
to the side for a moment. And I just talked about
McDermott. I like McDermott, like he's my
kind of coach. They're always competitive.
They're really good. You know, maybe he's not quite
that top tier, but and there's an expiration point on that when
you've got a franchise quarterback.
I understand that. So it's easy for me as a Jets
fan or just a football observer to say, I mean, he'd be an asset
for any team that's trying to get competitive and eventually
beyond that. But when you the bills, their
their scope of criticism and expectation is very different
than the bad teams. All right, the Raiders, The
Jets, etcetera, the Browns again, the the Cardinals.
So let if the Bills don't win and like if they lose a tight
one and and and there's no egregious like missed calls or
bad challenges or whatever it might be, I don't think they'd
get rid of McDermott. But if they lose and the Jaguars
are not a team I would want to see right now, that's that's one
of the last teams I want to see right now.
By the way, I think the Jaguars win the game.
I'll make it. I'll make the picks on Friday.
I'd like the Jaguars to send the Bills home.
But if they do and it's sloppy and it's like, I'll just throw
something out for you 3117 and there's an egregious call where
there's a bad challenge or just something's or they're not ready
to play what it whatever it might be, and it reflects poorly
on the coach. I think there's a good chance to
get rid of McDermott. And at that point, you'd
probably be very justified to say, yeah, excuse me, it's
probably time to do that, right? It's probably time.
And I think Bills fans would want that.
You know, maybe some of the Bills players would lament the
move. But I I think that that would be
in play. I think it should be.
And it very well might happen. And if that happens, you don't
think John Horbaugh would rather go coach Josh Allen?
I love Jackson Dart. Who would you rather coach the
next five years? Right now?
I'd rather coach Josh Allen. Right.
So the Bills are a wild card in this equation.
I don't think that, I don't know, maybe I don't know why I
think this. I can't really base it on
anything. Maybe because I just think
Philly, I, I don't know, Philly's just a little
different. But if Philly plays poorly
against San Francisco, you know, the Sirianti train might stop
moving, you know, Choo Choo time to get off.
And he coached there for 9 years back in the day.
So, you know, there's a there's a familiarity, there's, I would
imagine a respect and a trust and a lot of people in that
building, maybe not a lot, but certainly some people of of of
power that would be appealing to reunite from John's point of
view, that's the Eagles situation right now.
These are all just possibilities, but I'm
presenting it for a greater issue here.
All right now, Steelers lose to home.
If the Steelers lose a home game to Houston, and I actually like
Houston in that game as well. I don't think the Steelers are
that good at all. I think the Texans will win
here. I am saying I'll give you the
picks on Friday. I'm basically giving you every
pick. I'll give you the actual point
spreads and that stuff. I'll do that stuff on Friday.
But I do like the Texans to win when they win.
And if they win, well, if it doesn't look good, you know,
aesthetically, because there's been a lot of chirping around
Mike Tomblin for a couple years now, well, then Mike Tomblin
might be fired. And then not that he's going to
take the Steelers job necessarily, although maybe to
stick it to the rabbit, you never know.
You never know, you never know. But I would probably say no to
that. His end.
But now what happens is Mike Tomlin enters the chat and now
the Giants would have to do their due diligence and talk to
him. Otherwise, they're just missing
the mark. Mike Tomlin's free, you talk to
Mike Tomlin, Mike Tomlin wants the same amount of money John
Harbaugh wants. Well, then he gets the same
amount of money you'd be willing to get to John Harbaugh, period.
I mean, you guys to debate that I'm not.
I think I think that they're right on the same plane I do.
They've got some flaws, but they're also, you know, in
totality, outstanding NFL success, successful coaches,
leaders of men, emotionally stable, You know, you know what?
You're getting winners. That's it, right?
So those are situations there. And then again, the Miami, the
Bucks, the Dallas Cincy. So while there are 7 openings
right now, the Raiders are #7 the Ravens aren't going to fire
Harbaugh and then bring Harbaugh back.
So there's six situations that you've got to really look at,
right? That's one thing I got to get
used to in the. Office among several things
here, a little bit of a different desk layout.
Got papers everywhere, so I got to find them.
Now, if you're horrible, let's just roll through it.
You want any you want anything to do with Arizona?
I mean, the answer is no, All right?
It's an awful quarterback situation.
And they've got $21 million in cap space.
That's not good. All right, now, what was it?
Buffering, guys. All right, hold on.
Are we good? All right, refresh.
But there you go. I guess that was more on your
end than my end. OK, so I hope it was on your
end, not my end because if if you hit me with a buffering in
the comments, it's one thing to figure out the mic.
I you know, I'd probably try to do something and refresh it and
I'd lose the stream. So I'm not touching anything.
All right, the Raiders, all right, the Raiders, obviously
Carroll wanted done, got the number one pick, got over $100
million in cap space. They've got 3-4 very high level
players, tight end, running back, one or two others.
Would that be an appealing destination for John Harbaugh?
I could be I mean, Tom Brady, that alignment there.
Now the Browns, obviously he's not going there.
Stefanski gone ownership situation awful.
They're 12 million over the cap. Why in the world would they do
that right? They why would he do that?
He wouldn't the Falcons Morris out now there's real concerns
around Pennix got hurt again. No first round pick from the
trade. When they moved up, they got
Bjean Robinson, you got Drake London, you got Kyle Pitch, got
a good old line, you've got got some stuff there that would be
maybe a little bit. To me, that's one of the top
three jobs. The Falcons maybe more appealing
to him. I don't know how we've used
going to the NFC or that division or living down South, I
don't know. And then you get the Titans.
No. Does he like Cam Ward?
There's no way he can like Cam Ward more.
Jackson Dart. But it's a great city, it's a
great state. Tennessee's Blossom the last
decade big time. And they've got they've got a
lot of money. I think they've got about $100
million in free agent funds here.
And then there's nothing around them.
All right, So in terms of Cam Ward, if you even like Cam Ward.
So I don't think maybe outside of the Raiders maybe and the
Falcons, maybe, I don't think the Giants will have a lot of
competition for horrible for this cycle.
If nothing wacky happens over the weekend, if the Bills don't
whack McDermott, if the Steelers don't fire Tomlin, you know,
Philly, we'll see what happens with Syrian, Syriani.
There's just there's just a lot of things that are still
potentially doable and you've got to remain.
That's why I see you've got to really thread that needle and be
almost perfect here. You've got to remain incredibly
engaged with Stefanski. And then you got to be very.
And I'm sure they already are because they already did their
work back when they fired Abel about the possibility.
And that's a good job by the Giant.
That's something The Jets wouldn't do.
Like The Jets wouldn't have that vision, that foresight.
Luckily for the Giant fans, the Giants had that internal, you
know, they're on the same page. And they they were, they were
able to at least devise a skeleton of a plan.
Hey, what happens if Harbaugh shakes loose?
And he has, and here we are. But let's say that you get a
situation where you remain engaged with Stefanski, who's
there right now. And and I know they like him and
I'm sure he would like the Giants too.
And you're obviously going to have a real serious conversation
and meeting all that stuff with horrible.
But while you're dancing with all these people, you have to
make sure that you're not left without a chair.
Now, if that would happen, I mean, I, I would say the
percentages of that happening happening are incredibly low.
I I would like, I would say like inside of 5%, I would say
almost, almost 0 where we're sitting here in a month coaching
cycle done roughly hirings done. Everybody who's been whacked has
been whacked. All the, all the top level
coaches who were desired by many on the open market.
They've already been signed. They're with their new teams.
They had the press conferences. Can you imagine Can you imagine
the situation where Harbaugh is with the Raiders?
Tomlin either stays there or goes to the Falcons and
Stefanski's like, you know what, I thought they were serious and
I liked them, but they kind of just gave me the Heisman a
little bit while do it while they were doing their due
diligence and some other franchise of the other openings
that I just mentioned, not to mention some other openings that
I also mentioned that could open that made sense.
Then Stefanski could say on a personal level, yeah, man, I I I
I Revere the giants brand and and you know, and and you know
what they meant to the league and I'd love to get my hands on
Jackson dart and work with him and I got some good defenders
and I got some cap space, particularly after not this
year, the next year. They've got a they've got a ton
of money still darts first contract.
Sure, there's many appealing checkpoints there.
But if you don't feel the love like or or I think even more so
if you feel the love early, which I know Stefanski has been
and right now is in the process of still feeling.
And then it shifts and it becomes a little stale as those
wandering eyes, you know, somebody walks in the bar at
somebody new. Who's that?
Excuse me, I'm right back. I have to go get AI have to go
get a drink, you know, and you kind of excuse yourself from the
conversation that you having and you never go back because
somebody more appealing to you walked in the bar.
You know what I mean? And if that happens, well, the
person who's left in the bar, even if you do meander back,
maybe you don't close the deal. Whatever happens, I'd be like,
get lost, not interested in you. So there's a lot of of of human
emotions at play. I know that.
That sounds almost like too deep human emotions.
Come on. We're talking football, we're
talking money, we're talking power, we're talking contracts.
Yeah, but at this level with most of these men against the
fans get ticked below. Horrible for sure.
And McCarthy, in my opinion, and.
And Tomlin, if he's free, there's still the like, the
human nature of it. And nobody wants to feel
ignored, Nobody wants to feel disrespected, and nobody wants
to feel marginalized. And the giants really need to be
careful with that. And I think that they will.
Like, that's the good news, but it's got to be perfect.
We'll see. Oh man, I can't wait till I can
throw out a phone. Number there.
So let me let me tell you one of the things about throwing out a
phone number right. So one thing I never did, it
drives me nuts. It's it is such lazy radio.
Like you start a show and you just throw out the phone number.
What the hell you throwing out the phone number for?
You haven't given me any reason to call.
And we all know the phone number.
You know the popular numbers, right?
We all know the phone numbers. Well, give me something to think
about and give me something like compel me to react and I'll
call. So like I that always, that was
always a lazy thing that bothered me that I always
really, I'm sure I did it early in my career, but really, really
tried to stay away from that. But the one thing, and this is a
little trick of the trade, and I think anybody who does this for
a living is able to do this it because it's an important tool,
especially if you by yourself. Like it's one thing if I got Sal
there, right? And I've got to clear my throat,
I've got to sneeze. I want to have a sip of water, I
want to have a sip of coffee. I want to look at a note.
You know, it's a, it's more of a stream of, of, of unfiltered
consciousness here. Like there's really no time to
wait, which is fine. I mean, I can talk all day, but
it is nice once in awhile to have that little slight
interruption. And The funny thing is when I
get the phone number, which we've already bought and will
enable us to take calls, we've already secured that.
As I've told you. Then when you're it's it's an
amazing art. There's little side turns
amazing art, young, broad, young broadcasters.
You're going to want to learn how to do this right.
Where? All right.
Hey, you know, you know, Shane Dabel, is that you know, you got
you got horrible Tom Lemight get fired.
Then you drop it up triple 8, whatever it might be, right?
And as you're saying the number, because you're saying the
number, you're not even, you don't, you don't have to say to
yourself, what's the number? You know the number because it's
ingrained that you in your broadcasting mind.
As you're saying the number, you're actually simultaneously
collecting your next thought. And I can't do that yet because
I don't have a phone number. Maybe I'll just throw start
throwing out random phone numbers and maybe that'll be a
fun thing. Maybe I'll just come up with a
fake number now. I'll throw it out there and I'll
program myself as I'm throwing out this number that won't
connect to anything yet. I'll be able to, you know, kind
of move on to the next thought. Let me move on to this thought
real quick. I want to read some of these
some of these messages again. I, I, I hate that we're not up
on YouTube that yet. I mean, or, or that it's not
back up the the traction for YouTube has been phenomenal.
And by the way, it's been really good on X as well.
And I appreciate that. I appreciate the support.
Thank you very much. At BT Unleashed YouTube, while
we're not live there now, we were the first five or six
shows. There's a lot of content.
There's Mets stuff, there's Yankee stuff, hot stove stuff
mixed up. There's all stuff up there, my
spot with Tina Cervasio, if you want to see that from Sunday
night a couple of Sundays ago. So the little something on
coaching youth baseball, get your kids ready for their their
first venture into Little League.
That's some content that I'll definitely do a lot.
Maybe not live, but I'll I'll post that for you if you guys
are into it, which many of you are.
But the, the feedback has been awesome and it's, it's been so
rewarding to just like jump into this.
And I, and I'll tell you something else too, as much as I
get frustrated and I admit, like, like with certain things,
I'm a perfectionist, like nobody's perfect.
It's just, it's just obviously, and I'm nowhere near it, but
it's a mindset of, of trying to line things up perfectly.
That's just what you do. If you care about something, you
structure the show. You have, you know, a, a very
clear idea where you're going to go.
Now, if something breaks and it's fresh, you pivot.
You got to be able to do that. But the, the YouTube, the
ability with the messages and all that stuff was going on was
great. And I see messages here and
that's also I'm going to get to some.
But what I what I really appreciate because I, I think it
really resonates with you, which speaks to, I think how you feel
about me. And I don't mean that in a in a
cocky, egotistical way at all. But as I said from day one, I
feel a lot of you behind me. I feel it.
I feel that surge of support. I feel that surge of belief, the
conviction that what we're doing now, which is phase one.
And I'm going to look back and on in five years and hopefully
be not embarrassed by the content.
Unless, of course, Harbaugh comes to the Giants and wins 3
and McCarthy goes somewhere else and does nothing.
I could be embarrassed by a take, but I'm going to look at
some of the early shows and like, wow, I was doing the first
show in my basement. My God, look, I didn't even have
the banner yet behind the studio.
So different. That's all good.
But I do notice one of the themes because I do read the
comments and I do respond a lot. It's a very interactive aspect
of YouTube, which which is great, right?
A lot of you have said dude, and I appreciate this dude, don't
worry about the audio, don't worry about the look, don't
worry about this. Just keep doing what you like.
I think it's very clear to you guys that this is a completely
new platform and it's a completely new endeavor.
And you know what it's, it doesn't have to be perfect
early. It's got to be me.
And I do feel like when we're, when we're doing the sports
stuff, I feel, I mean, I, I may as well be in a radio studio
right now. I feel right at home.
So I did want to thank you guys for that because you know, I'm,
I'm aware of it and certain things happen.
Like you don't think I was embarrassed a little bit
yesterday with that audio. I'm like, sucks.
Like, you know, I had this whole show and I had some some real
things I couldn't wait to get into, you know, and it's it's
not her fault. She's trying to help me.
I got my wife outside thumbs up, thumbs down opening the door
audio this I see my head's going to explode here.
All I'm trying to do is just keep the train moving man and
transition into this. So when I see those comments,
they are sincere and I and I do really humbly accept that
because it it's not going to happen overnight, but it's going
to happen all right, because it already is Jets so.
I thought the press conference was a little.
Interesting at the end of the year press conference to the the
great historic franchise known as the New York Jets.
So I don't really care what Aaron Glenn says at this point.
There's nothing that Aaron Glenn could say that's going to change
my opinion of Aaron Glenn. I thought he was fine.
I mean, you know, he's not hitting a home run.
He's not striking out the bases loaded.
Like there's nothing that he could do where I would have been
like, that's it. He's the guy or you see, you
know, maybe people are right. He should have been fired.
Nothing that would have been said from him yesterday would
have altered my perspective at all.
Jets are a train wreck of a franchise.
They have had no consistency. Their roster was AD for half the
season on. It was atrocious.
Backups of starters, backups to the backups were taxi squad guys
forced into action like one thing.
And I definitely been known to overreact with certain things.
I get it, 'cause I'm passionate. And when you're passionate,
sometimes you get a little misguided with the energy that
you project with a certain topic because you care, all right.
But I'm, I'm actually very proud of myself in a very strange way.
Yeah. I didn't overreact like a lot of
you guys did with the way The Jets were finishing out the
season. What the hell do you expect?
Oh, wow. They're losing 35 to 8 to the
Bills. I'm I'm surprised it's not 60 to
3. They're a little more
competitive than I thought. Or the Patriots game.
Oh, God. You know, May just scored, you
know, 5 or 6 times in a row. What the Hell's going on?
Played against maybe he may as well be be playing against
Indiana in a in a in a bowl game.
That's how bad The Jets defense was.
I didn't overreact to that at all.
So now I'm going to push Aaron Glenn aside for a little bit
here because unless the unless The Jets became incredibly bold
and forward thinking and proactive, and which is not
going to happen, spoiler, they're going to keep them for
next year, which I'm OK with because I want to see one more
year. And not because he played for
The Jets, because I want us. I do believe he's a leader of
men and I believe in those people with those qualities.
I do. And if I'm proven wrong and
they're terrible next year, which they might be, well then
we'll have a different discussion.
Glenn's to the side. I thought the bigger take away
was Mooji because Muji was telling us, you know, and and
he's not wrong with all the assets that they have and you
know, 75 cent, they could even manipulate that further
restructure whatever all that fungible NFL money, which I
mean, does anybody really understand the cap?
I mean, really, I mean, does anybody really truly understand?
And I mean, like from a legal literal point of view, because
I'm raising my hand, I'm straight up telling you I don't,
you know, the dead cap hits and this that, that.
I mean, you have teams that have that are $9 million under the
cap and suddenly they've got a surplus of funds by 9 things
that they did and now they're $37 million under the cap, which
to me makes no sense at all. So I don't even waste my time
trying to understand it. It is annoying.
I do like when I see that my team's got $75 million worth of
money. I mean, anybody can interpret
that as being good. So I'll take that as a win, but
with that money, with all the draft capital, there's obviously
a way for Muji to really hasten their acceleration.
And I believe that he will because of the two men on that
podium at the press conference yesterday, the one man that I
believe in the most is the GM more so than the coach.
Because there were low level moves and nobody wants to get
it. Like I'm not going to get it.
Like nobody cares about some of the lower level moves that The
Jets made. But it showed, it showed a
willingness to be aggressive and proactive.
And coming from Denver that had a similar mindset being around
Sean Payton and having that that modern approach to team building
and roster construction, I really think The Jets actually
got their general manager higher right.
I am incredibly confident in saying that now.
We'll see. I mean, you know, you could
still have the right guy, like they may have had the right guy
with Joe Douglas, but you got the wrong quarterback.
So in turn, you don't have the right guy in terms of the final
grade. I understand that.
That's very, very plausible. But one.
Thing that he said. You know how you know, he he
kind of pushed it forward in a way that I appreciate, but that
it like they're going to be pretty good pretty fast now.
That's good to hear because nobody wants to sit there,
especially when you're a fan of a team that never wins and just
get fed that nonsense every year.
Well, it's going to take a while.
You know, we got to really do this.
And Rome wasn't built in a day and we got a lot of moves to
make. And, you know, we're nowhere
near ready for prime time. We all work.
We know that. So nobody really wants to hear
that because it's a regurgitation of what we've
known our whole lives. All right.
But what I do worry about a little bit, a little bit I want
to, I don't want to hijack this and go nuts, But the tone that
he struck yesterday for the first time, I was a little a
little a little fearful that for job security purposes, he might
try to cut some corners and do some things to get The Jets
competitive next year, which, by the way, might even work.
You know you spend the money. Let's say they don't draft the
quarterback. Here, let's say they can't get
Mendoza don't love more. OK, well, you got to get a
second receiver, preferably somebody who's big and a
mightly, you know, red zone target 5050 balls opposite
Garrett Wilson. He got the online.
Maybe you need one more and if they get the one more right guy
in the online, Jets have a top five online in football.
I'm not here to debate that. They just do period.
So and if you know that you know, if you don't, I don't know
what to tell you. Jets online is going to be
awesome. And if they get that receiver,
one more old lineman, just functional quarterback play and
a safety and a lot. And I know this is law.
Anything else, buddy? What else you need there?
But you know, a linebacker, a corner and they and they could
do this because they've got all the money and all the draft
capital. Well, it's it's not ridiculous
to think even when you look at the schedule with some weak
teams next year, The Jets could go nine and eight, OK, Or I'm
not even say beyond that, nine and eight.
How about this going into the final two or three weeks,
they're still, you know, the producers and the directors at
CBS have the Chiron in the hunt and they've got to actually put
jets up there for once in December, you know, in the late
division leaders, wild cards in the hunt, even if they're the
last team in the hunt, right? At least I do think that there's
a chance that they could actually do that, which will be
great, provided it doesn't come at the expense of of sabotaging
building a championship team. Like I don't want them to bring
in a ton of, you know, B minus players just to become
competitive and win a couple of games.
I want them to really target champion A players and get more
of those. And if you do that and you're
more selective in in in finding those players and if you're not
going to hit on all of them, obviously, and then you
supplement that with free agent money, well, that's different.
Excuse me, that's very different.
That's a way to build a team. And that's something that I
would certainly subscribe to. That's what I want.
But I just fear is not the right word.
Worry is not the right word. I just when I heard that, I'm
like, because he's not a dummy and he heard the noise, so did
Aaron. And that's why Aaron was saying,
hey, thumb chest, not here, not here, thumb chest.
The thumb went to Aaron. Now it had to because he's the
head coach and they were awful. But you don't think that Aaron
Glenn knows, Like if Aaron Glenn sitting around with Muji or
sitting around with one of his buddies that he played with an
A&M or an old Jet or talking to Coach Parcells on the phone,
which he does, and they're having a drink.
You know, they're having an honest conversation.
You don't think that Aaron Glenn in a moment that he knows that
wouldn't be captured by anybody but a great confidant and a a
lifelong friend. You don't think he's going to
say, man, we we just got no players, dude.
We all know that. We know that.
So I, I think that the it's impossible to grade him.
Mooji's easier to grade. And that's why I give you the
more belief in Mooji than Glenn right now.
I just hope there's no shortcuts.
But because as the noise got louder and the vitriol, which is
ever present and present and the level of toxicity with the New
York Jets within the fan base, which I get, I get, and lot of
times I've been a part of not all the time and not now.
I'm not so that there's evidence there.
But obviously I've jumped in face 1st and and been as loud as
anybody over the years. And when that happens, Muji,
who's not from here, but he hears it and he feels it and he
knows it, all right? And who knows if what he's being
like, all right, Hey, Mooj, you know, come on.
Listen, I don't expect to win the Super Bowl next year, but
let's go. We got to get this thing going.
So it's embarrassing. Let's go.
Which is perfectly within bounds for no one to say, by the way,
but the way it's said. And if it's said a little
differently, it could be messaging that Muji says like,
all right, man, that's the first sign.
I better get my act together here.
I better get my ass and gear and start getting some players and
again, that's why I say maybe there's some shortcuts that
could develop that I hope don't and and we'll see, but I wanted
to at least give you that on The Jets.
Let's see here Samson yeah, I've just joined no YouTube again
Yep, not yet. It's it's it's in the process.
There's a whole thing with their team that I can't control the
pace in which they do that, but they are working on it.
So there we go That's I just wanted to give you that update
there. Let's see here, let's see, let's
see, I want to get some by the way, if you guys have a question
here we go. If you can actually hashtag it
with SBT, it's a little bit easier for me to decipher what
it like. I don't want to just be the guy
and trust me, I appreciate it. But great show like I don't just
want to read those. I don't think we I don't feel
the need to read those. I'd rather get something again,
keep them coming. If you actually think it's a
great show or off to the right start here BT unleashed.
But at least, you know, kind of give me some stuffs, some up
here that I can react to. And that's why YouTube's a
little bit easier in that regard.
So I'm kind of going here. This one from Maddie, BNY 63.
What would the OC options be? But that's the question.
Horrible had lesser quarterback talent when he won the title.
True. When he had Lamar, he lost the
Rivers, Mahomes and Allen. I understand that I don't know
who he would bring in the OC as the OC.
This is, let me, let me let you in on this.
This is very important. So and I learned this from Tiki.
I'm going to give Tiki some credit here.
I learned this from Tiki Barber when we first started working
together. Really year one of the national
show, which was a decade and a lot of it was really around The
Jets of the giants, right? Like hiring a coach, I'll just
go out, get this coach. This is the coach to save The
Jets. And he would always say, all
right, I, I, I hear you BT, but how's he going to build the
staff? Who's he bringing in?
And my response, like my reflexive response was, I don't
care. I like this guy's a coach.
Bring him in. He'll figure it out.
Well, you know, I've learned years ago that it's almost as
important who you bring in as as it is who the head coaches.
So I'm not saying that John Horrible could not assemble the
staff. I'm not saying that at all.
But if you ask me, right, I think he could.
But if you ask me who do I think and hire a the, the, the best
staff and I'll throw I'll just go with McCarthy.
I'll go with horribaugh and I'll go with Stefanski.
I think Stefanski would be able to hire a really good staff.
He's young, he's got some connections.
I, I, so I, I don't think that would be an issue for Kevin
Stefanski. I think that McCarthy, because
two different organizations, he's been out of the game for a
year. What smart people do they kind
of repackage themselves. And if you're a coach who gets
fired and you take a year off, your mission is to make sure
that when you're in the next coaching cycle, which he
obviously is and will be for a lot of these teams.
You have already assembled the the vision of what you think
your staff would be. You've already reached out to
people you've already gotten yeses firm no, Maybe.
Hey, we'll see, but I I promise you McCarthy already has that.
All right. Harbaugh does not because he
just got fired. Now that doesn't mean that
Harbaugh can't assemble one. I think you'd have a better
chance to deal with than say Aaron Glenn coming in this year.
Obviously Wilkeshire was a train wreck That was an F so awful.
But I also think that because he's been with one franchise for
so long. What are I'm not saying there's
none, but I'm just having the conversation, making the point.
What league wide connections does John Harbaugh have access
to that are viewed as assets that are also currently
available? I don't know.
Now I could be wildly off based
on this. Not the premise of assembling a
staff, but if you ask me of the three names, who do I think has
the chance to to assemble the best staff?
I would probably say McCarthy 1, Stefanski 2 and Harbaugh 3.
Now that might not matter to you because some of you for some
crazy reason still think that Harbaugh is some, you know,
prodigy and miles better than McCarthy when all the data says
they're they're the same exact guy, same age, same year's
coach, same winning percentage, one Super Bowl, whatever.
And I don't want to reset it. Now if you guys missed it, just
go back and rewatch it. And by the way, this will be
uploaded to the YouTube page. I can do that.
I just can't go live on YouTube, which is frustrating.
That's the that's the issue. I can still upload stuff which I
I uploaded yesterday's show, which was about the Knicks.
So if you missed that, you know, I've been supporting these
Knicks here. I went in on them yesterday.
There's some real issue with the Knicks.
If you missed it, you could go that, you know, BT unleashed,
YouTube, it's there for you. But I, I, I think that part of
the part of the problem for Horribaugh is that he's been
there for 20 years, 2 decades, basically.
Now you're leaving a building and you're going to have to
assemble an entire step. You're going to get names,
you're going to get people that are going to come want to work
for you that are going to want to surround themselves with a
quarterback like Dart and from a defensive quarter, you know,
guys like Burns and I think that they might trade Thibodeau.
I would trade came on Thibodeau, but I don't know what they'll do
with that, but I would but Burns and, and obviously Carter, who
started to really flash the year went on.
You know, you add a safety at a corner, you have Dexter, you
have something better on the third level.
Dexter's better because now there's guys who recovered.
Whatever, it all goes hand in hand.
I do think there'll be a lot of people that would want to go and
work for horrible. The question is, have they done
the job anywhere? I I don't know the answer to
that. I'm just saying it's going to be
a little bit more of a challenge than you think.
All right, let's see. All right, McCarthy had Rogers
for 12 years and Harbaugh had Flacco for 11, that's Robert
Kelly. So that's basically what Roberts
doing is Roberts saying, and I, and I get this, all right, I'll,
I'll dress it again a little bit, but a little differently.
So Roberts say like, because I am on some level, well, first
I'm just acknowledging the, the way their resumes are basically
identical #1 #2 I choose to penalize Harbaugh for never
winning with Lamar and too often losing big games with Lamar.
Two time MVP who's still in his 20s.
It's like he's 36. You know, he, he's so he very
he's, he's at the prime of his powers is what I mean.
And if there's ever a window to win, it was, you'd have to think
it was kind of the window that expired on John Horbaugh, which
is why he's out of a job. So if I'm saying that about
Horbaugh, why would I not say that about McCarthy who had
Aaron Rodgers for 12 years? No, that's fair.
That's fair. I'm not saying that, McCarthy.
I'm not elevating him beyond Harbaugh.
I'm just merely putting him on the same plane.
Now, it all comes down to personal preference.
Little discipline interacts with the media, you know, overall
building philosophies, adaptability, whatever.
How you impress in the interview, Like there are
variables that I think very well might separate John John
Harbaugh from Mike McCarthy, but just based on the track record
and what they've already literally done.
It's not accurate to say. That John Harbaugh is a better
coach than Mike McCarthy. That's all that was.
But that's good. That's that's true.
That's why Mike McCarthy doesn't have a job right now.
Like if Mike McCarthy, even if Davos would have whacked him
after the seven. And by the way, McCarthy first
three years in Dallas, twelve wins, twelve wins, twelve wins,
7 All right and all right, They're not the Browns, not The
Jets, but the level of dysfunction trading guys, the
nonsense, the noise, the attention.
Kind of like the Yankees. Yankees win 94.
Yankees get harpooned, you know, Dallas wins 12 games, doesn't
win the Super Bowl, Giants get horrible.
It's a different standard. So there's a lot of noise there.
And and that's that's one of the other reasons why I like
McCarthy because he's dealt with that.
When you're the coach in Green Bay, I know it's a smaller
market, but when you're the coach of the Packers and when
Lampardi coach there and you've got that fabled venue and you,
you know, Farve was that you've got Rodgers and it's
championship or bust. And those fans, that's their
whole world. Yeah, there's not 8 million
people floating around the area, but they're the energy is
palpable. I would I would actually say
that the noise in Green Bay, I can't prove this, but the noise
in Green Bay when something goes awry for the Packers is like
more concentrated and more uniform than the noise when
something when something goes awry for The Jets or the Giants.
And I'm just going to take a stab and see if this theory is
true. And if it is, that's another
reason why I really like McCarthy.
Now, first of all, you've got 2 football teams.
So in Green Bay, everybody's a Packer fan.
Everyone here, you know, I'll, I'll say, what do you think
guys? 60% Giant fans, 40% Jets.
Maybe you want to tell me 6535 in favor of the Giants?
I, I don't know what the I know it's not 5050, so I'm not going
to be delusional. Of course the Giants have more
fans, but whatever they have, they've got around 35 to 40% of
the people who would react to football not really reacting.
Not that they don't they don't have an opinion, but there's
that the passion and the pressing nature and the vitriol
call in tweeting, texting, booing in the stadium.
If you're a Jets fan and the and the Giants flush away a lead
against Chicago, do you really care?
No, you don't care. Now, maybe you called me and Sal
and you make it a Jets point and maybe you reference something
about the Giants, but that's not your main mission.
Whereas I, and I say because I don't think that you could
escape the noise in Green Bay at all.
Everywhere you go, Packer fan, Packer fan, Packer fan, Packer
fan, Packer fan. You could go here and you know,
you could be on 5th Ave. you could be in certain pockets of
our boroughs that, you know, orange dyed in the wool, the
American football fans. That's, that's one of the great
things about our area. It's an incredible melting pot.
You get everything. And when you have everything,
not everybody cares about the same thing.
So I would actually, while there's fewer people, I would
actually, I do believe that the noise and the evaluation is
harsher and the reaction is harsher there than here because
there's a lot of distractions here, not to mention that
everybody's a Giants fan or Jets fan.
So the fact that McCarthy dealt with that and then went to
Dallas and dealt with the Jerry nonsense and that that brand
recognition, every game is a national game.
You know, it's it's Buck, it's Akman.
If it's, if it's on CBS, it's Troy.
I mean, pardon me, it's it's it's Romo and it's Nance Sunday
night, Monday night, Thursday night, like it's Dallas.
All right, So I think he's fully equipped to deal with this.
I'm not saying that John's not. I just think when I really look
at this and I was sitting at my son's basketball game last night
when and and and most of the dads are giant fans, very few
jet fans and we're in the stands, right.
And I was I was actually I was trying to resolve the YouTube
issue still. So I'm at the stands there
warming up on the layup line, whatever.
And one of my one of my good friends in town, my son's best
friend, his his buddy's grandfather, great guy, great
spice, sit with him in a lot of games, love him.
And he and he knew I was in the middle of something.
He said, hey, not, not not to interrupt.
He said, did you see Harbaugh just got fired?
I'm like, yeah, that's one of the things I'm juggling it.
Yeah. And then I I got to talking to
him with a few others and it was the consensus was got to get
horrible, must get John Harbaugh, must get him for the
Giants, no other option. And all I'm saying is, yeah,
there should be. That's all I'm saying.
And if John Horbaugh is the coach, Giants will have made out
fantastically. If Mike McCarthy is the coach or
Mike Tomlin, I think the Giants will have had a massive, massive
winning day. All right, Even Stefanski.
I really like Stefanski. I do, you know, it just it, it
really comes down to how you present this, right?
And that's why I like certain things You can manipulate, but
you can't manipulate literal numbers, but you can provide a
context within those numbers that could manipulate or at
least maybe reshape the tone and the direction of the
conversation. And what I mean by that is
again, when when you're Stefanski, think about all the
quarterbacks that he had in Cleveland.
Two time coach of the year, 2, not 1-2.
He's 46 years old. These other guys are in their
60s and they each have one Super Bowl and what, 1 coach of the
year? So that that's context where I,
I believe that there could be an elevation.
And I don't think it would be without merit.
I don't think it would be without justification to at
least keep Stefanski in the meat of this conversation.
Like it's not horrible McCarthy and then Stefanski, like, you
know, concession. All right, I, I guess, you know,
horrible, didn't want to come here or whatever.
I don't know, whatever the situation might be.
All right, let's roll out this guy.
We got AC plus coach Stefanski's really good and he's been he's
been really good a couple of times for one of the most trying
pathetic situations in all the sports.
And, and I do think that there there should be, you should be
rewarded for that. And that should be incorporated
rather than just he's won 46% of his games.
And you know, they were awful this year despite having a good
defense and he's not as good as horrible.
I don't, I don't necessarily, I don't necessarily believe that
because I promise you. What do you think Bill Belichick
would have done with Lamar Jackson?
Think it would have done a little more?
I do. I do.
What do you think now? Now, maybe I was going to say,
what do you think Tom Complim would have done with Lamar?
Maybe that style would not have fit the way that Tom Coughlin
won the although Brunel ran a lot around a little bit with
Jacksonville and it was very successful there.
I'm not the two championships that he had with the GMA.
What do you like? But successful for sure.
A real winning coach out there. Really good at Boston College,
great coach, Hall of Famer, Coughlin's great.
But if let's say Coughlin was the same guy, all right, and he
was coaching Lamar these last seven or eight years, whatever
it is, and that guy won two MVPS.
And I'm talking about a a modern version of Coughlin, Tom
Coughlin, you know, not not not the older version now, but still
well principled and disciplined and be on time and all that
stuff that you knew Tom Coughlin made you do without compromise.
But you know, modern in the sense that he grew up with the
way the games evolved at the quarterback position in terms of
letting guys move and more of a free flowing game.
If he had those concepts and smart people would adapt.
So I believe Tom Wood. Are you telling me that Tom
Coughlin wouldn't have had more success with Lamar Jackson and
John Harbaugh? Did I think he would have
Parcells? Yeah, I do.
I really do. I think that, you know, Pete
Carroll, like not not with the Raiders with no chance, but
younger Pete, with Seattle. I think Pete Carroll would have
had more success. I think Mike Tomlin would have
had Mike more success because you can make the case that they
basically had comparable success here, certainly these last
couple of years. And look at who he was rolling
out as his quarterback. You had Fields.
You had Russell Wilson. Yeah.
Mason Rudolph, whatever the hell is that Rudolph made whatever
his name is, he stinks. You know what I mean?
So that's all that. Like the subtext within the big,
big issue. There's a lot to it.
I'm right for me. It doesn't mean that I'm right
for you. It's the beauty of this and I
think either way as this, this is the ultimate point I'm going
to get out of here. The best thing is that the
Giants are going to walk away with a really good qualified
winning coach. And really that's what that
that's what matters here. So I appreciate you guys hopping
in to see some questions. Now if you guys want to just
throw those questions on Twitter, maybe I could get to
that a little bit more, see some stuff on Flores, some more on
Stefanski, some more questions about the OC, more questions
about YouTube. I already addressed that.
Some stuff on Kingsbury. What do we got?
We've gone what, an hour and 10 minutes?
Yeah, we're good. I got it out.
I feel good about what we talked about.
Hit me up on Twitter. Obviously go to YouTube.
We'll get that live stream going as soon as humanly possible.
Please throw me a bone here. I'm trying get this thing fixed
and we'll just continue to roll that out, add to it, I would
think. Now let me just show you this
again. I know I've done this before.
Let me just show you one of the, I don't know if this is the
final background concept. I love it.
It's not a question of liking it, just to be fair.
It is more about being able to match up what's behind me so
that doesn't overwhelm me, which is not something I really
thought about. But why would I?
I never had to build a home studio.
But that's one logo that we're working on.
All right, BT Unleashed and that would that would be behind me
the entire wall. So that would be 1 That's a
little bit of a different version, a little bit of a
different color scheme. I I really like these.
I know a lot of you like these next ones coming up here.
Let's see. And they definitely pop and
they're definitely in play. And I'd have to kind of maybe
tweak one or two things. This is one, right?
Many of you've seen that. I put that out there a lot.
This is 1 where it's a little bit of a different capture.
They're kind of like a night show, whatever, some neon there.
This is the the brick wall, not not coming out of the wall
necessarily not exploding like one of those first concepts I
gave you. And this is more all right,
we've got a little, little more pop there.
And then I'd, I'd have those bookshelves kind of pressed off
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I've got a phone call with with somebody today that I hopefully
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Now the goal is once we get that back up and even now to keep
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able to do this on YouTube yet, but if something happens, the
Bellinger signing, the Mets, the Tucker something that is the
other beautiful thing about this when some now if I'm sitting in
the stands at one of my kids were coaching my daughter in
basketball, you know I'm going to have to come home and do it.
But when something breaks, a big Knick game, something of
significance, Giants actually hire somebody.
Jets make a move. Whatever I'm popping on, we're
going live and that's how we're rolling.
So I appreciate you guys. You definitely know that.
Have an awesome, awesome rest of your Wednesday.
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