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The Season with Peter Schrager: Joe Douglas Firing Reaction and the Return of Tommy DeVito's Agent, Sean Stellato · Best of the NFL Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome to the season with Peter Schreger.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Peter Schrager. I host Good Morning Football and NFL
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  Speaker 1: Network five days a week. Every morning can find us
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  Speaker 1: eight to ten am. Then we re air about a
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  Speaker 1: million times an NFL network all day in the airport
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  Speaker 1: wherever you are, you can see our mugs talking football.
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  Speaker 1: I also am on the Fox NFL Kickoff pregame show
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  Speaker 1: Sundays eleven to twelve Eastern and I live in New
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  Speaker 1: York City, which means I come in with a certain
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  Speaker 1: vantage point or disadvantage point when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: football squads. It's been a brutal year for New York
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  Speaker 1: football Giants, entire offseason on Hard Knocks, every decision scene
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  Speaker 1: as it's being made, and then watching the season play out.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has been benched. Tommy DeVito is going to
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  Speaker 1: start this weekend against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Our guest
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  Speaker 1: today is Tommy DeVito's agent, the very colorful, the very charismatic,
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  Speaker 1: the very very good podcast guest Sean Stellato. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get the Stillato in a second, because I want to
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  Speaker 1: start with the other team in town, the New York Jets.
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  Speaker 1: They fired Joe Douglas. Joe was on a rare six
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  Speaker 1: year contract and this was the end of that deal
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  Speaker 1: and he was going to get either let go or
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  Speaker 1: he would have walked away at the end of the thing.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't getting reupped anyway at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: season the way it was going. But they decided to
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  Speaker 1: rip the band aid off in week eleven of the
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  Speaker 1: NFL season, as opposed to riding it out. We don't
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  Speaker 1: usually see gms lose their jobs before the end of
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  Speaker 1: the season. In this case, it was done. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that they're doing this to
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  Speaker 1: get a head start on things. I head start on
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be the next faces and leadership of
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  Speaker 1: this organization. A lot of people killing Woody and Christopher
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  Speaker 1: Johnson and the ownership. That's to me, that's low hanging fruit.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people saying, well, they've got a
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  Speaker 1: fire or the owner. That's not how it works. Jed
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  Speaker 1: York after they fired Chip Kelly, after Jim tom Sulla
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  Speaker 1: and Jim Harbough on consecutive years, Jed York was like
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  Speaker 1: thirty eight years old and stepped up to a microphone.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, why do you think you should be doing
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know what world you live in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the owner. I will not unless the team is
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  Speaker 1: forcibly taken away from me. I'm not selling. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere like I want to win to That's how
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  Speaker 1: I feel with the Jets ownership. And to say just
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  Speaker 1: what he needs to go is it almost eliminates your
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  Speaker 1: your rational thinking as a as a person who's ever
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  Speaker 1: dealt with real life, you know, economics or the way
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  Speaker 1: that businesses work. He is a owner of the team
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  Speaker 1: and short of anything off the field that would cause
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  Speaker 1: him to lose the team that he's not gonna just
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  Speaker 1: give away the squad or sell it. If this is
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  Speaker 1: something he truly loves, and in Woody's case, he does
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  Speaker 1: truly love it is brother Christopher does as well. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's where it gets interesting. Although it hasn't been announced
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  Speaker 1: yet and it hasn't been decided yet. The last time
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump took office, what he Johnson was the ambassador
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  Speaker 1: of the United Kingdom. Now a lot of people thought
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  Speaker 1: that job was going to go to Linda McMahon. She
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  Speaker 1: has already been appointed to something else in the Education Office,
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  Speaker 1: so that job is still open. And when wood he
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  Speaker 1: last left, he left for four years and his younger brother,
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  Speaker 1: Christopher took over, and seemingly things went far better for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a time period where they did
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  Speaker 1: bring in Joe Douglas, who was a hot GM higher,
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  Speaker 1: they did bring in Robert Sala, who was a hot
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  Speaker 1: coaching candidate. And then when wood He got back, obviously
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  Speaker 1: he didn't hire either one of those guys, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure if he was ever on board with either
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys. So it goes the way it
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  Speaker 1: goes this season, and I wear it as much as
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  Speaker 1: anybody I've talked about this time and time again. It's unfortunate,
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  Speaker 1: but I came out and put my reputation on the
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  Speaker 1: line and said they're going to be a number one
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  Speaker 1: seed in the AFC and Aaron Rodgers gonna be the MVP.
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  Speaker 1: It could not have been more wrong. So I wear it.
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  Speaker 1: I wear it like a weatherman who comes out and
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  Speaker 1: says the weather's going to be awesome tomorrow and there's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, terrible weather, or I wear it like one
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  Speaker 1: of these political pundits who said it's going to go
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  Speaker 1: this way, but then it goes another way, I'll wear it.
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong. I thought it was going to go
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  Speaker 1: one way. I forecasted my numbers and it was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: That said, I don't know if I would advise them
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  Speaker 1: to do it any differently. This year they went all in.
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  Speaker 1: They went all in, and they went all in on
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and they went all in on Mike Williams,
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  Speaker 1: and they went all in on Tyron Smith, and they
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  Speaker 1: went all in on DeVante Adams, and then they went
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  Speaker 1: all in on all the different moves they made to
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  Speaker 1: take big swings. But when the actual product was revealed,
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  Speaker 1: and it was very evident Week one, this was not
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl contender. And it was very evident after
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos lost where they lost ten to nine in
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  Speaker 1: the pouring rain at home, that this was not a
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  Speaker 1: team that was going to compete in the AFC with
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Bills and the Ravens. Now. I
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  Speaker 1: could argue, if Greg's herline makes a couple chippy kicks
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  Speaker 1: against the Bills, if greg'szerline makes a makeable kick against
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos, if they don't have a slew of you know,
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  Speaker 1: terrible interceptions against the Vikings out of the gate in London.
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  Speaker 1: This might be a team that's in the playoffs, but
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  Speaker 1: the last two weeks have been inexplicable. And if firing
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  Speaker 1: Sola wasn't enough, they're going to fire Joe Douglas and
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  Speaker 1: now they'll move on. So you could read all the
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  Speaker 1: articles you want. Some of them have good stuff, some
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  Speaker 1: of them don't. And you could look at all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but the second someone says like get rid of the owner,
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  Speaker 1: I just dismissed that person because it's not the reality
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  Speaker 1: of the NFL. Owners don't come and go. Owners hold
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  Speaker 1: on to these things. They're the most profitable businesses in
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  Speaker 1: the world. The margin on their returns are insane. And
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  Speaker 1: there's only thirty two owners in the NFL thirty one
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  Speaker 1: if you include the Packers not having a true owner.
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  Speaker 1: And there's real prestige and there's a real place at
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  Speaker 1: the table for those owners. So Johnson family is not
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  Speaker 1: giving this team away. They're not selling this team. What
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  Speaker 1: they can do though, is try to hire the right
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  Speaker 1: people to write the ship. So who's next. Well, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to go through a process here. Now we haven't
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  Speaker 1: even seen or gottenn information yet because it's been so
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  Speaker 1: fresh but do they hire an outside firm to run
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  Speaker 1: this search, which has been the case for other teams
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  Speaker 1: in the past. I remember the Buccaneers after Lovey Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Dirk Cutter were like, what do we do next?
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  Speaker 1: They hired I want to say, Jed Hughes, who is
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  Speaker 1: an outside firm, and they went out and they hired
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Arians, who had recently left Arizona and taken the
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  Speaker 1: year on TV and was in CBS, and it was like,
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  Speaker 1: what are we going to do next? They went out
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  Speaker 1: hired Bruce Arians, Bruce Arians right at the ship. They
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  Speaker 1: eventually get Tom Brady and on we go. A team
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  Speaker 1: that had been terrible for fifteen years goes on to
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  Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. These outside search firms, they have
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  Speaker 1: contacts with everybody that could be the way you go.
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  Speaker 1: Do they hire a I would almost say, a face
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  Speaker 1: of the football operation? And what does that mean? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Detroit went and hired Chris Spielman as a face of
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions franchise as a liaison between the front office,
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  Speaker 1: which was eventually Brad Holmes and several other really talented
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  Speaker 1: guys up there in Detroit and the owner, which is
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  Speaker 1: the Ford family, and of course that has worked out perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hire a president that overlooks both the business
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  Speaker 1: and then the hind thing that The La Rams are
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  Speaker 1: the model franchise to me, Stan Kronki is the owner.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Kronki is the Sun. They are owners. We do
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  Speaker 1: not touch football decisions. Now, they'll weigh in on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things that they might prefer and they'll obviously have a
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  Speaker 1: say and whether a team, whether their team goes big
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  Speaker 1: on a huge swing and a coaching higher and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: But Kevin Demoffo we've had on as the as a
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  Speaker 1: guest on this show, is the team president. He actually
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  Speaker 1: is now the team president of all the kranky sports
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  Speaker 1: teams in the US, including the Avalanche, including the Rapids,
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  Speaker 1: and including the Denver Nuggets. But Kevin is sort of
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  Speaker 1: the point person up top from a business standpoint, but
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  Speaker 1: less Snead, Tony past Stores and Sean McVay sort of
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  Speaker 1: handle the football. So you've got a business operation where
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  Speaker 1: it's the owners, yes, but they hire people who can
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  Speaker 1: run the business side of it and then the football
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  Speaker 1: side of it, and then the actual coaching is done differently.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets right now, well, they've got a president Jimi
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  Speaker 1: El high who is very capable of his job, but
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  Speaker 1: isn't necessarily making football decisions. They have an owner, Woody Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: they have Woody's brother, Christopher. Those guys both they want
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  Speaker 1: the best for the team. And if you've read a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the stuff, it's as if wood he's pulled
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  Speaker 1: all the levers. I don't think that's true. I think
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  Speaker 1: Joe Douglas did have a lot of autonomy here. I
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  Speaker 1: think Joe Douglas did have the opportunity to make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of decisions. How much medaling was done is going
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  Speaker 1: to be for the articles that we write for you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the forty eight hours afterwards. But Joe Douglas
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  Speaker 1: was given five and a half years to field an
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  Speaker 1: NFL team, and he also was in charge of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the business stuff. Do you put a more
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  Speaker 1: football president in there? And is that Curtis Martin who
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  Speaker 1: Gary Myers has suggested, is is that do you hire
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  Speaker 1: someone who does the GM job and is more of
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  Speaker 1: like a football president of operations, who who perhaps comes
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  Speaker 1: from another franchise, Like do you higher? I don't even
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  Speaker 1: you want to go down the list of different luminaries,
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  Speaker 1: but like, was that a job that maybe you look
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  Speaker 1: towards give me a name of a former player that
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  Speaker 1: is still involved in football here, a Chris Bielman type
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  Speaker 1: of course, but like a John Lynch, but like more
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  Speaker 1: than GM. Like you give someone that role where you're like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be a part of it, but you're
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  Speaker 1: also going to be our front and centering face. Now
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  Speaker 1: the Jets in their history, Chad Pennington would be a
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  Speaker 1: name I would suggest, just had success, smart business guy,
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  Speaker 1: but hasn't really been in the NFL as much as
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  Speaker 1: like the alumni stuff that he does. Curtis Martin's a
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  Speaker 1: name obviously, but he's he's not in the day to
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  Speaker 1: day football stuff. I would look towards that to just
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  Speaker 1: have that voice maybe and someone that Woody Johnson trusts
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  Speaker 1: that he can talk to and say, okay, I just
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: need your voice here to be the go between between
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  Speaker 1: the GM and the coach and us. Maybe that's a position,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, coach is what
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  Speaker 1: matters to me. And this is not dismissing the GM position.
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  Speaker 1: For me. If you find a great football coach, it
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  Speaker 1: can heal all wounds. And in Denver they were sputtering
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: George Payton's a really talented GM. They were sputtering with
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  Speaker 1: head coaches left and right. They went to Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: and said, here's twenty million dollars, fix this and go
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  Speaker 1: make things right now. I'm not saying you need to
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  Speaker 1: spend twenty million dollars or go find a former Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champion, but I do think a powerful and promising
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  Speaker 1: head coach is the way to go. And that could
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  Speaker 1: be a quiet guy like Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: of the Lions. You just pay through the nose and say,
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  Speaker 1: give me the best offensive guy. It could be a
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  Speaker 1: former head coach a Mike Vrabel. It could be a
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  Speaker 1: former head coach a Cliff Kingsbury. It could come from
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different directions. But I would like to
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  Speaker 1: think coach is the most important hire here, and GM
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  Speaker 1: as important as it is. The Jets had a really
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  Speaker 1: good scouting staff, a really good personnel. They've got players
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  Speaker 1: on that roster. What they need is the next coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff to come in and revite that thing. You tick off.
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  Speaker 1: The questions after that is Rogers coming back. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I honestly don't. They don't owe him anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Guaranteed money after this year. So do you just say, hey, Aerin,
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  Speaker 1: it's been real, thank you, it was worth the shot.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: We appreciate your service, move on, or does Aaron himself
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  Speaker 1: say I'm good, I'm not sticking around for this rebuild.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out. That's a key decision. After that, you say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: Salah was a defensive coach. Do we now go offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. And if we do go offensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball, do we draft a quarterback with
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: one of these top ten picks? If you were to
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: draft a quarterback, well, you had a top ten pick
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  Speaker 1: last year, the eleventh pick. You took an offensive tackle
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  Speaker 1: when there was a quarterback rich draft, and you didn't
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  Speaker 1: do it last year. Do you kick yourself and say,
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  Speaker 1: all right, now, we didn't get bon Nicks, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get Michael Pennix. We didn't get JJ McCarthy because we
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  Speaker 1: had Aaron Rodgers at forty years old, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to upset the apple cart. We wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: him somebody else. Well sign he didn't draft Rock Bowers either,
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  Speaker 1: who's on the board, And he didn't accept the trade
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  Speaker 1: that was offered for other teams to move up to
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  Speaker 1: get Brock Bauers, and you went and you drafted a
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  Speaker 1: sixth offensive tackle who may or may not be the
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: next Walter Jones, but Olu Fashanu better be pretty good
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  Speaker 1: if you took him over all those guys. I say
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  Speaker 1: all this to say that the Jets they're back at
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  Speaker 1: square one. They're back at the ground level. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not preaching to anybody because I have none of the answers.
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  Speaker 1: I have suggestions of who I would talk to. I
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  Speaker 1: think Mikey Greenberg in Tampa Bay, who's the number two there?
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  Speaker 1: A guy who managed a salary cap and kind of
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  Speaker 1: managed to bring back all those veterans even after Brady left.
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  Speaker 1: With Jason Light the GM. As a name, I would circle.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Merrick, New York native, grew up a Jets fan.
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  Speaker 1: Might as well bring him in talk to him as
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  Speaker 1: a GM. But coaches what matters most to me. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. They have a head start here
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see who they use, who do they utilize.
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  Speaker 1: But hit rock bottom for the Jets, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad for the Giants too. They got a new
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  Speaker 1: quarterback and I got his agent on We're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: to Sean Stillado after this all Right. Our guest this
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  Speaker 1: week is a personal favorite of mine, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: guy that the rest of the country got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to get to know a little bit last year during
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  Speaker 1: the Tommy DeVito craze and the rise to stardom in
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  Speaker 1: New York. He's been a power for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: I really enjoy him and we love having him on
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  Speaker 1: as a guest. Mister Sean Stillado, Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: season with Peter Schreger.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta chip my hat to that one. Peter, great
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  Speaker 2: to see you, my man. Excited to be back.
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  Speaker 1: You are back, and Tommy's back, and it's like it's
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  Speaker 1: almost like we would like, all right, for the first
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  Speaker 1: twelve weeks of the season, we haven't seen much or
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  Speaker 1: heard much about Tommy DeVito, but he's been in the background.
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  Speaker 1: We see him on the sidelines and he's announced as
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  Speaker 1: the starter on Monday, and I immediately hit you up
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta have you on just because
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  Speaker 1: it's like we're revisiting an old friend. You were a
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  Speaker 1: big part of our lives last year and the whole
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: DeVito craze took over the Tri State area. But it's
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  Speaker 1: been almost on ice and it's it's now back. So
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  Speaker 1: take us through the last twelve months, since all the
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  Speaker 1: marketing deals, since all the big Tommy DeVito commercials, to
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  Speaker 1: now like, Hey, I'm just a quarterback playing football and
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a chance to stick around in
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  Speaker 1: this league and maybe win some games to the New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Tommy's middle names is resiliency.
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  Speaker 2: That's something he learned from the game and whoever's played
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  Speaker 2: it to be resilient. And he had a great offseason
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  Speaker 2: and it's a testament to his work ethic, to who
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  Speaker 2: he surrounds himself with is in a circle.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just excited.
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  Speaker 2: He's you know, very obviously, got a lot of love
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  Speaker 2: for Giants Nation, got a lot of love for the franchise,
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  Speaker 2: his teammates, and let's face it, whether he's an underdog
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  Speaker 2: or he's just you know, a talented football player, he
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  Speaker 2: resonates with a lot of people, and he gives a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people hope. And I think we're in a
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  Speaker 2: very you know, a lot of people can form in society,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Tommy shows that he's resilient, passionate, and
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  Speaker 2: he's really locked into you know what he's trying to accomplish,
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  Speaker 2: and he wants to win. Man, He's really focused on
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  Speaker 2: this Sunday, and I'm happy for the young man, happy
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  Speaker 2: for his family, and blessed to have a minuscule percentage
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  Speaker 2: of all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think people appreciate you as his agent
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  Speaker 1: because you talk about conforming. There's a lot of agents
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  Speaker 1: and not in a lot of them are as personable
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  Speaker 1: or colorful as what you brought to the table with
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  Speaker 1: this the veto run. But you're represent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: clients and you've always had your own personal touch to it.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't seen you on the screen for a while.
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  Speaker 1: What have you been up to and what has the
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: last year been with a little bit more of a
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  Speaker 1: national spotlight than he ever had before.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very blessed, very humbled by everything that's happened, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously being able to use that you know,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: small segment of stardom or exposure of viralness to segue
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: opportunities for other clients has been phenomenal. You know, after
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: that viral moment getting inducted into the National Italian American
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Sports All Famous, which was insane because going in there
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: there was you know, two hundred people in a line.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: You know, hey, can we get a picture signed something?
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: It was just like it was. It was weird, but
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: that was cool. But that was actually the day I
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: got to shrine was my grandfather's death date December fifteenth
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: for squally, so it was almost like a moment. But
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I really got to kind of scale back there and
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: then made a run through the playoffs with a Fatu
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Melifano who had a great a lions.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: They almost caught to the chip and he really had
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: a hell of a year.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Then I got to play in that flag football game
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: NFL Honors.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Was fun.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: You know, continue to work for my guys and obviously
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: the draft guys. Last year my Elias Neil signed that
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: made the fifty three undrafted with the Rams, which was
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: quite the surprise. I got flown out for the final
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: four weekend for Hoop. I got to come out of
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: retirement to play with some street ballers RG three t O,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: and then I got my jersey retired at my prep school,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: which was the Gunnery, which happens to be a twenty
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: seven years before John Tish and his brother both graduated
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: from there. First time I met John was minutes before
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the viral moment, which I feel like he deserves credit
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: for that. Kentucky Derby the first time was pretty special.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: And then obviously the Pope was just like.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the Pope, all right. So Sean Stillatto,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: you're the agent for Tommy DeVito and then all these
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: things lead to you meeting the Pope. Can you just
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: tell the story?
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I obviously on the red carpet NFL Honors, a young
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: girl asked me in an interview if I could change
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: closets for the day, who would I want to change
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: it with?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: And I said the Pope and she was blown away.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: She says, that's a good one.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I said, well, you know, I love to be able
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: to bless people and bring people together and.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Just help people those in need. And it kind of transpired.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Then a friend over in Italy I was you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: connected to, and I think it was a concoction of
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: those two.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Moments, uh, you know.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: And then there I am in Saint Peter's Square, get
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: out of here, literally pinching myself. Tommy had the invite
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to but he was, you know, Tommy was locked in,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: he's working here, and he did and I was proud
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: of him for that. He said, Hey, we're gonna we're
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: gonna take a rain check, and we're going to do
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: it in twenty five. He said, well, let me go
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: over there and break bread with the Pope. I got
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to give him a ragallo. So I gifted him a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: custom football okay yep by Willson painted with the Vatican
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: coat of arms.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: And it was just one of those moments.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: And honestly, Peter, as an agent, you're always tired to
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: be in the moment because you're always working, always grinding,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: you're texting, calling, and I really just got to sit
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: in his presence and have that moment and uh, you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: know the photo we took that you know, Adam Schefter post.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: It was just like it was incredible to be the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: closest to the holiness to God. And uh, my grandmother
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: was just such an instrumental, instrumental part of my faith,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: and then my wife, my two older daughters teach Sunday school.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: It was just something I can't even put into words,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: but I really felt like and he said in a
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: you know, Italian, thank you for bringing honor and glory
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: to God through your work as an agent, which I
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: thought was pretty special. So he had met he had
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: me at Hello.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had you hat Hello at the Vatican. Uh.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: And then this year, you know, you and I are
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: texting and you're like, hey, pretty cool. Thing was humbled
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: again this this year your college at home. Take us
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: through marriage, which I knew. I want to write it
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Bison Rick Smith's The Duncan Dutchman Maris. Take me through
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: your connection to Maris and how they paid it forward
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to you this year.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: That was in just one of those moments. You know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of things happened at Maris.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: They're my career career. I played Division one football and basketball.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: You know, really I've met my wife, you know, who
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: was my girlfriend at the time. A lot of dreams
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: came true there. You know, got to be a Division
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: one athlete, which was a goal first time flying was,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: you know, playing Pepperdine and college basketball.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: They end up reaching out and they were like, listen,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: we'd love to honor you and do something really unique.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: And boy did they ever. Uh.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: If I could step on a screen for a second,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I can actually show you the Dora.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Let's see it. Let's see if all right for the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: listeners at home. Sean is stepping out in his home
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: office to grab a custom for Dora that I believe
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the first thousand fans at Maris's homecoming were gifted on
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Sean Stillado Day this year, and it is a custom
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: fedra of Marist College that is red with a white ribbon. Sean,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: take us through it. What was it like?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: It was one of those things where you know, look,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of things happened to me when I was there,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: But then fast forward a you know, nine to eleven,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I was there playing college football, flying ten days after
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the attack, I had just so much got married on campus?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Did just get married on campus?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: I did?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I did it and and it was a private, beautiful
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: in a bust to Hutson they called Hobbin on the
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Hudson President Wyman, you know, Tim Murray, the ad. Really
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: they've been doing remarkable jobs there. But walking through there, Peter,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it was it was a nostalgic moment because I really
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: feel like that chapter in my life is so imperative
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to where I am right now. The level of faith
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that I developed there, just some of my closest friends,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and then to pay it forward with a fedora, A
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: thousand folks you know, at fans, and I'm taking selfies
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and signing for doors for kids, and then the coin toss,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: which I was over one, and a coin toss Elver Milan.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Granny King told me straight out two times Super Bowl champion.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: He said, Sean, that was the worst coin toss I've
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: ever seen in my life. I said, Damn, Brandon, I've
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: never even done a coin toss. Yeah, I got it
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: done this time, and Maris got the ball. And then
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: they did my jersey at halftime twenty number number twenty two.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And you know why I wore at War twenty two.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: No Doug Flutie.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yes the hell, Larry was eighty three. I'm gonna get
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: here eighty four. So I'm assuming you were a kid
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: up in Boston when that went down.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I was, I believe in first grade or kindergarten, and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I'm in Wayloo's Salem.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Way Loose was like the mecca of a I know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: It was an Italian restaurant and I'm sitting in the bar.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: My dad had me by the hand and he says, wait,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: let's watch this, and I look up. Sure enough, he
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: rolls right, throws unleash his sixty plus yard bomb, failing catch,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: basket catch, and I looked at my dad, I said, Dad,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I want to be a quarterback. And sure enough, the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: next day, what does he do? Buys me a football,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: gives it to me, says Sean. This is going to
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: be a compass. Yes, it's going to bring you places
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: you only dreamly go on. But you got to work
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: hard and be honorable. And the crazy thing about that, Peter,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: as I wore twenty two, Doug actually did a testimonial
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: video for my high school jersey retirement of prep school.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: But fast forward forward it to twenty and fourteen's charity
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: celebrity flag football game. I get the naught to play.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Who's that quarterback? That Doug Flutie. Who's a receiver right here?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I'm catching that caught touchdowns that day.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Dougl he just Dane.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I love Doug Flutie, everything he stands for.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: We are the same height. I have to disclose this.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: So one thing about Doug he got about an inch
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: on each finger.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah big all miss, let's go back to the Vito
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: because this is like last year. It was such a
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: sensation and then fans are like, all right, that was fun.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: But now Daniel Jones is healthy and it hasn't worked out,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and the Vito was kind of hovering because they signed
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Drew Locke for a big deal five million dollars to
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: be the backup, and yet they're going to Tommy. I'm
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: not asking you to break any Giants news or getting
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to the decision making, but what was Tommy's psyche like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: when it wasn't just hey, you're not going to have
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a chance to compete here Daniel Jones guy, And then
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: we're also bringing in a guy who's a veteran backup
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that's likely going to be the number two. And Tommy,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: who had this spotlight and had this moment and had
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the commercials and had three straight wins, including one over
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the Packers last year, it's kind of being told you're
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be number three. How did he handle that?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: You know, he handled it honestly great and testament to Tommy.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: He's wired just you know, just a very unique individual.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: And with his he knew he was going to have
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: to go back to the drawing board and he worked
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: very very hard Pete this offseason. And let's face it,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it's the most complex position on the football field, the quarterback.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: But The one thing is Peter, what were the odds
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of being a practice squad guy to getting elevated to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: becoming the starter and then winning three games like that
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: as a rookie. So you know, he just that's the
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: beauty of this game as you just never know. I mean,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Drew Bledsoe gets injured, Tom Brady gets an opportunity. I
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: mean he might Tom Drew doesn't get injured, Tom might
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: not play for a while, right, So I think he
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: just he trusted process and you know, coaching Joe have
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: been very transparent ever since we you know, decided to
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: go there instead of taking a big guarantee.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: And you know it's crazy, is you know one of.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: The things I missed to say was the SP's the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: SP's You know, we had brought us out there a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: great time, but you know people are partying out there.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: You know, Tommy DeVito at six a m. Was on
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the football field and guess who was receivers were myself
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: and his brother Rax. And honestly, my hands are still sore.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: This gets throwing two hundred balls a day. He's working out,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I mean he's in the gym. I mean that's you know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: you got a trip like that guy's on doing that.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: But it's the little things. Look at he knows he's
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: not a rookie anymore, and he's uh, he's excited for
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to look at you. That's a very close
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: quarterback room, uh in New York. And it gets along
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: great with Daniel and Drew. And but it's look at
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: all you can control is, as we know it might
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: sound a little cliche, is the man in the mirror, right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't personnel decisions. All you can do
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: is you got to make the most out of your opportunities.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: And I think he's ready for that challenge. And he's
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: so walked in on Tampa Bay.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I have to think it was like the perfect storm
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: in that right player, Tommy with the right demeanor who
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: it's never been about him, It's never been about you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: know what he could do. Right market North Jersey where
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: there is a huge Italian American fan base, but also
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the Sopranos as a television show in the background, having
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: its roots in that market, and then the primetime games
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and the opportunities to actually shine that this became a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: not only football story, but a cultural zeitgeist moment. And
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: then there's the come down from that. How has Tommy
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: handled that in that you know, the spotlight was there,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: but when you're not the number one quarterback, it's not
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like it's kind of hard to say, hey, I still
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: want that table at that restaurant, or I still want
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: the court side seats of the Knicks. You'll get them,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: but it's not as natural or smooth a transition when
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: you're not that guy. I would be so fascinated to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: hear how he handled that as a young guy, because
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that could be hard to.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, And what I think one of the
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: key components of that Peters Tommy has a high level
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: of faith, and he's got a really tight Knitch family.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: And Tommy and I have always shared the vision ever
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: since we first met, of looking at the glass half full.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So many blessings and opportunities come as a rookie, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: he was able to develop and learn, and you know,
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I really believe he's you know, he's a starting quarterback
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: in this league. I do, you know, And I know
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: he's got an opportunity Sunday, but he handled it with
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: class and grace, and he trusts the process. He believes
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: in that franchise. He believes in his coach, he believes
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: in his OC believes in the front office, and he
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: believes in the team around him. That you know, we're
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: all in it for one reason, to see him succeed,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: impact lives and look at the jersey thing.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: It's it is cool.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know all that backstory, the Italian heritage is
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the root of all our dreams.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: And and just to that to happen in that market.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the odds of the probability of
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the statistics happening, but none believe that divine intervention and
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: how everything's worked over the last twelve months. We're right
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: right near where he needs, where he deserves to be,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: where he wants to be, and where we are and
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: trying to embrace that because you know, through this you
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: watch so many great players. They hit speed bumps along
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the way, they have adverse moments, and I think that
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: makes the script that much better.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: What is what is Tommy's contract status? Is he a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: free agent at the end of the season.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'd become a so pretty much he's an exclusive
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: rights after this his two years and RFA, so I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: guess you got a tender so that they would technically.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Have inside his fate.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, yep, so he's.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Got a chance to do it. I would ask you,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: as an agent, did you see your business uptick and
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: have you used the veto spotlight to maybe advance yourselves
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: with these college coaches to try to say, hey, I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: can represent even more players from different positions. And you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: already had a find career as an agent, but this
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was a sensation last year, and did you feel like
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: you maximized that for the next coming crops of draft classes?
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: You know what, It's funny when the viral moment happened.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: That happened kind of on the ladder end of recruiting
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: middle of December, so a lot of guys kind of
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: were situated, but from a visibility standpoint, and I think
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: this year's recruiting process has been night and day since
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: last year. You know, I look at it, I feel
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: like I do a good job. But at the end
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: of the day, I know talent and you know, look
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: at the first second round guys.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: They're unique dudes. Guys have been doing a long time.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Extremely competitive industry, a lot of talented agents out there.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: But I think in terms of my niche and what
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I've been able to build up the relationships I have.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of that, and I believe I know talent, Peter,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I know guys that have the traits to play in
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: this league and play for a long time. I've got
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: great undrafted guys in year ten and eleven that you
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: know that have walked the glass mounted barefooted, and then
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: having guys that second and third round picks that have
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: that have hit some speed bumps along the way, and uh,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: gonna be fine, but it's the nature of the beast.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: But uh, it has been interesting, you know, going out
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: in New York and going to some stadiums, a lot
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: of a lot of beautiful reception. You know, I'm very
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: just grateful for it. And when I see a little
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: kid come up to me and shows me a pitcher
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of him wearing a fedora, or hey, I'm undersized, but
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: you know when I'm gonna play football, and you know,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: just the notes in that of inspiration has been for
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: obviously for Tommy, he's the superstar, but then for my
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: you know, even myself on a on a lower level.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: It's it's cool.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: It's just because hey, a lot of people out there
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: got big goals, big dreams. Sometimes you know, you know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: high school sports very political. College sports can be very political.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Tom And that's the one thing I love about Tommy DeVito.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: He never pointed the finger at Syracuse and said, hey,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: he just you know, it was part of the journey,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: part of the process. He's grown from it, he's better
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: from it. And you know he's grown a lot in
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the twelve last year. And I'm yeah, I mean, I
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: think now it's using his experience from you know, what
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: he did last year to just continue to be better.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Right, I wrote down walked the Glass Mountain barefoot? That
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: is an incredible, incredible axiom. Is that a Shaun Stellato original?
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Or have you heard that from someone else before?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: I honestly've never heard that from anyone else before. I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: probably I know, I know someone's gonna have a T shirt.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: You know, they're gonna they're gonna have a T shirt. Hopefully,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: if they're gonna do a T shirt, they at least
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: throw my, uh, Tommy or my face on it or something.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Walk to the Glass Mountain barefoot it says so much.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It's an impossible hill to get up, and now make
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it out of glass, and now go barefoot and go
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: figure it out and guys.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Do it, they do, they do, and Tommy has done it.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: I believe he will continue to do it be you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: those are the that's kind of the you know, the landscape,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the course I believe I have walked, uh and so.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Many of my guys.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want it anything other way, Peter, to be
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: honest with you, I'm uh, I'm just grateful to be
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: in the moment, you know, obviously, but look at a
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: lot of a lot of work to be done still
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: on both sides of the fence.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: But I don't know, it's uh, maybe that's the Sicilian
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: and him of the Calibrazi and mea uh, you know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: just want to be better, you know, are you better
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: than when you were yesterday? And he's definitely Uh, he's
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: on a mission and he's locked in. And I'm proud
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: of him. Uh, you know, for how he's handed himself
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: the fame, uh, the the ups and downs of the
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: business of the sport.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: But he's also done a lot of great for a
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: lot of people. You know, a lot of is inspired,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: a lot of charitable work. We did, you know, children
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: of the City. He was there raising a lot of
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: money for the unfortunate. He's going to do something next month.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: So did the Turkey thing last ye. We're going to
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: do something during Christmas for kids. And that's the beauty
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: of a Peter to be honest with you. Having this platform,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: well you can really, you can really change the trajectory
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: on a lot of people's lives, especially kids. And he
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: did his first annual camp, knocked it out of the park.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, when was that summertime?
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was so I I believe it was July
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: twelve in Jersey.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: He did up in Massachusey.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did his Jersey and then mine was the
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: next day in mass Mine. I've been doing a long time.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Mine was year sixteen. But I got to see my
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: little my little first grade winter.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: She was moving. But yeah, it was cool.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, and he came back from the SP's literally
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: got in the I think the morning, late night him
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: next morning he was out there his Instagram. If you
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: look at it, the pin photo of him with like
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: his face naily to a little kid's face sums it out.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Love it. Hey, I hate to do stereotypical Italian American stuff,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: but I live in New York City. I have a
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: lot of thoughts on Italian food. Your star player is
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, New York based. When you are in New
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: York City with Tommy or without, do you have a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: go to Italian restaurant that you prefer?
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I think Tommy has a few. We did a collaboration
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: with Yes Network. We're over at Patsy's where Frank Sinatra's
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: favorite spot, which was kind of cool, which I thought.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: They did a really killer chicken cutlet with Walker sauce.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: And you know, El Tolino's is another spot. I know
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: he likes car bones. I've kind of I'm embracing it all,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: but he's definitely. Tommy is a big foodie.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: He really is, and I am.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I'm honestly a big foody too. I love feed pill
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I but I'm a little different. I six days a week,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I die it hard.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: You got a rock solid body, my friend. I don't
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: think in the road, the rolls in the that I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: am every night.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: You know, Peter, I am six days regimented, but that
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: day seven I eat, like.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Where's your cheap thing? Is it Sunday Saturday? And you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: do a book Sunday dinner?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: You know, a big Sunday dinner. Usually my wife makes Uh.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: My daughter has Sili Act disease. We wrote a actual
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: picture book which is underneath here, which is kind of cool. Uh,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and that's to raise awareness to kids with Silly Act
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: disease autoimmune diseases. Uh, why bring that up? Is uh
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: gluten free, you know, which is a little challenging. But
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: my wife's a phenomenal cook, very fortunately. Yeah, she's Italian
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and Sicilian, so she's got it down. But I do
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: like my my thin pizza.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Do you do pizza? Have you had okay, have you
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: had Luke Colli in Brooklyn? Have you had all yet?
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Have you heard about it? I haven't. I'm gonna write
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: this down right now.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Well, you might need help getting get in there. You
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: might need to show that commedy DeVito.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, bring one of these in.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think that's right. Uh Lukali l u c
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: A l I l you would say, ye lu a
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: l i in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: The guy's name is Mark, who owns it, and it
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: is I think it's the best pizza in the world.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: L u c A l I l I Okay, followed closely,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give another pop to another Brooklyn spot. Feenie pizza.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Have you had Feenie pizza? F I N I F
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I N I have not finn Williamsburg. But if we're
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: going Jersey, I'm a Jersey guy. Freehold, New Jersey. Federici's
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Pizza Ta, I think Federici two Ce's Federici's. I think
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: it's the best pizza in the world.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Pizza, New Jersey. Where you said, free.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Freehold Center, Central Jersey. Have him do an autograph signing
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: at the Freehold Mall, make about five to ten k
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: there and then spend it all on pizza.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: That's that's good. That's a unique night.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I got, you know, and I can see this thing.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: You can throw me a slice.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Hey, I love you gotta.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, man, we're fans of yours and we appreciate
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: all the love last year. That would be pretty special.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: I do have a Fedora that's gonna drop line uh
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: in the next probably week.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, you might wanna. I want to get it out
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: before Sunday. Let's get the buzz going here.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna have to. Uh,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: you don't worry, You're gonna I'm gonna have.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: To get you one because I'll be wearing it, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I'll wear it on Good Morning Football, and I'll give
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you love I always do. And I think if you
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: if you listen to this podcast and you see Sewan
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: on the Monday night football kissing Tommy's dad and the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: whole thing, you think one thing. And then I talked
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: to you, and like, I think you have the biggest
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: heart in the world. I just love you, dude. I
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: appreciate you coming.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: On TIPEA that family as mutual, and I appreciate all
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: the support for my guys, for Tommy and myself and uh,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: best to your family.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: I hope to see you, my man.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: You're the best, dude. Good luck and enjoy this weekend.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: You know, these quarterback starts, they don't come off. And
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: when you get the opportunity, make the most of it.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: And Tommy's got another chance. I'm happy for him.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I got M and M seized a moment in my
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: head playing every day.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: That's it, your opportunity to blow. Don't don't don't don't, uh,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: don't throw it up like Mom's spaghetti.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Now, Okay, everybody's family's excited and Tommy's locked in, and yes,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: should be fun.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Weather looks good and uh yeah, we'll be ready to go.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: All right, dude, Thank you as always, pal My pleasure.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Aaron wan Coffin, my producer. I take special joy in
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: having Sean Stillado on. It's not a publicity stunt for him,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: it's not a grab for clicks for me. I actually
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: enjoy talking to him. I think he's like a ray
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: of light in a.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Dark, dark world, and he's coming up with great catchphrases
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: or slogans or whatever you want to call us.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: What did he say climbing barefoot up a mountain of glass?
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is Don't you feel like you're doing
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: that every day? Trying to make it in the world? Right, Yeah,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: this is us. Look, I don't know if Tommy DeVito
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: lasts a half three quarters a week, two weeks, three weeks.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: And it's very controversial that they're going to him over
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Drew Locke, who they signed for a lot of money.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: But I enjoy the Tommy DeVito experience. I enjoy Sean
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Stillado and it's it's not just off the field and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the goofiness of like the memes and all that stuff.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I think Tommy could play. And I interviewed him last
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: year for Christmas Day's game on Fox between the Eagles
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and the Giants, and like, I was in the building
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: just that day, and maybe I've learned my lesson after
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: my several days in the Jets building and thinking they're
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: going to be the seventy six Steelers. But I was
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: in the building that they the players like the veto
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: a lot, like they love the veto. And he's he's
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: a you heard the story. He goes to the SP's
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: at six am. He's probably at a high school field,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: thrown to his agent, Like, I don't know, Tommy's cool,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: see how it goes. It's hard for me to see
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: them beating Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers, but the Bucks
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: have lost four games in a row and we'll see
• 40:14
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• 40:28
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• 40:32
  Speaker 1: had zero interceptions against the Falcons, team that's likely going
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs. Bon Nicks was the sixth quarterback taken
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft, the sixth guy taken,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and yet the Broncos are right there in the thick
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: of the playoff chase. They would be a playoff team
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: at the playoffs for today and bo Nix is getting
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: better every single week. What I liked about bon Nicks
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: They lose in this crazy fashion to the Chiefs on
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the blocked extra point and it's like, how do you
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: our blockfield goal? And they're like, how do you recover
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: from that? Goes and has a career day and lights
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• 41:16
  Speaker 1: watch Jake Paul Mike Tyson?
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: No.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: I had had dinner with some friends and we went
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: to the bar. We're gonna watch it, and we were like,
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: what time does it start? Eight o'clock.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: We get there at eight o'clock and it was like, wait,
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: there are three or four fights before this. It doesn't
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: start until eleven, So I didn't watch it.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I read about it. The next day.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: I watched a couple things. It seemed like I watched
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: more conspiracy theories. Then there was actual real discussion on
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: it the day after.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, it was a horrible fight, that's what I heard.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Mike Tyson didn't even take a punt. I can't even
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: attempt to win this match. He was in there and whatever.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's the first cultural zeitgeist sporting event that's
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: been non football that I can remember in some time.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: And that's my takeaway on it. Now, the textuff it
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: didn't work for a lot of people. You saw the
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: immediate articles how the NFL is probably freaking out. I
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's true. I watched it from the
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: women's fight on to the end of the Jake Paul
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Tyson fight, so I watched for about two and a
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: half hours on my phone.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: And I heard the women's one before. It was incredible,
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: was I heard?
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: This was great? Awesome, And I look, if I'm going
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: to be sports media critic, I didn't need Rosie Perez
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: as the announcer. I didn't need Cedric the entertainer. But
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I wanted instead. Like I don't know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: you know, and it felt sort of it felt a
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: little bit like stunt type stuff. But all things considered,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: when Mike Tyson's coming out of the tunnel and he's
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: got no one walking with him and it's just him
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: in his shorts and he's like, let's go, Like I
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: had a rush and some nostalgia, and I had about
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: thirty different group text chains talking about this fight, thirty
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: different Like we're talking NFL people talking friends from high school,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: friends from friends from New York City, like, and it's
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: one in the morning on a Friday night. So I
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: guess my takeaway is that like platform matters. I don't
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: think that's the case if that's on Amazon or Hulu
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: or behind a paywall on ESPN Plus. Like the very
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: next night, you had the UFC, similar hours, similar appeal,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: and there was a lot of buzz around that and
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Trump being there with Elon and RFK and the whole
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: thing like became the cultural zeitgeist moment. But I didn't
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: feel like everyone was rushing their phones to watch or
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: talk about John Jones in that fight. It was more
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: about the stuff surrounding it, but the fight itself, Like
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and it opens up doors. I was with Gronk on
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Sunday and Shaq, I don't know what he was going for,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: but he's like, I'm gonna fight Gronk. Basketball was football,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: and like I had several people be like, is Gronk
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: fighting Shack? Because I would watch that. And I talked
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to Gronk the next day because he flew into LA
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, and I'm like, are you fighting Shack? He's
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: like no, Like I had no idea where he was going.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Then we had fun with them, like would you fight Shack?
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: He's like maybe if the payday was like appropriate, But
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm in on that, Like I would watch
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Shack versus grom could I don't know. I don't know.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I think Netflix as for as much crap they got
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: for like buffering issues, I thought it was a major
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: win like big, big viewers and kind of captured the
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: cultural zeitgeist in a world where everything is so fragmented
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: and I.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, I said, I had a couple of friends
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: that we we went and had dinner beforehand. We went
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: to Speedy Romeo's and other great great pizza Brooklyn Pizza place,
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: and then we went and tried to watch it I
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: don't think in my six seven years of living in
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: New York, I've ever had someone reach out to me
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: like do you want to.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: Watch and watch? Do you want to watch a game?
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Like yeah, I mean like I'll go watch football games,
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: basketball game.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: But that's like yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: So the fact that it was even a thing people
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: were interested in, that's a big deal.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: And I didn't even know there was a UFC fight
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: the next night, so clearly that.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Didn't the same, no doubt. Okay, so let's see Netflix
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: is the Christmas Day games? We had Annie Boson last
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: week talking about them to major games, Steelers versus Chiefs,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: followed by Texans versus Ravens. I think all four of
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: those teams are going to the playoffs. A lot of
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: memes about buffering issues, but I bet bet you this,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: bet you everyone's watching.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: They'll have it figured out by then, for sure, Like
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: anything we'll.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: See across our fingers. Yeah. And if they don't, they don't, Yeah,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Like all right, the game will still be played. Aaron
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: wan Kaufman, great stuff, Sean Stillado, thank you. Another monologue
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: about the Jets, a three and eight team. I didn't
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: even talk about my Eagles and Rams matchup that I'm
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: going to Sunday night. I cannot wait to be there.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I though that's a fun game. I'll be there in
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Thanks for listening, everybody. Let's keep it rolling
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the season with Peter Schreger