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WFAN anchor and Sports Bash Media host PETER SCHWARTZ joins the show! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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host and the greater Long Island writer, the one and only Peter
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Schwartz. Peter, what's up?
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Hey, how you guys doing? Thanks for having me.
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Well, we're very happy to have you on.
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You're doing so many great things here on Long Island.
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I the last time I saw you, I saw you at Preston's induction as he
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is. He was going and he decided to
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go to Georgia. We're very happy to see Preston
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decide to go. Wanted to one of the best
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schools in the country and has a chance to be something special.
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Long Islanders are excited to see this kid really developed
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and and possibly to an NFL style of player.
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But we're not here to talk about that.
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We're here to talk about what's going on in New York sports.
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You've been a part of New York sports.
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I see you're wearing Islanders hat.
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So let's go into The Jets and the giants this weekend and the
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New York Jets to me before Sunday Night Football was really
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the more fun game to watch out of all the weekend games that I
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saw that was the best game. It was close.
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It was back and forth. Aaron Rodgers returns to the to
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to New York Jets world with the fans screaming and booing him.
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He had his thoughts and his his his stuff to the media after the
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game. But four touchdowns over 200
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yards? Your thoughts to the New York
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Jets at the end of the game, once again choking against Aaron
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Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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As a Jets fan, I'm disgusted. It's just, I mean it.
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What what's amazing to me is the amount of jet fans, jet media
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and just people around the NFL that are that are throwing roses
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at The Jets for this game yesterday and makes no sense to
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me. I mean, it was just it was
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another loss. It was the same stuff it was it
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was stupid penalties, it was mistakes.
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It was a turnover. It just, again, I don't, I
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understand it was an exciting game and I understand they
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should have won, but they didn't.
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So I'm not buying into this whole moral victory thing all
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it's different than it was before they played good against
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a good defense makes no difference to me.
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I think both New York teams came up extremely disappointing
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yesterday, but both in different ways.
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So Speaking of not moral victories, Aaron Glenn was
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saying the same thing after after the game.
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He doesn't believe in them either.
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What is your thoughts to Aaron Glenn as a head coach and do you
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think he's a good culture guy from what you've seen the last
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couple months? Well, I, I think he is so far
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from what we've seen in training camp and through the preseason
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in the first game, he's saying all the right things.
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But now, you know, let's see if he's true to his word, if he's
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going to say to people, well, if you're if you're going to turn
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the ball over, you're going to make mistakes and you're going
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to cost us games, you're not going to be here.
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So let's see by Wednesday if Xavier Gibson is still on this
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team. He had the huge, you know,
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fumble on the kickoff and that was maybe 1 of the biggest
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reasons that they they lost that game yesterday.
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So let's see what happens. Let's see if there's really
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accountability this time. I know it's only one game, but
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you only get 17 of them. You can't afford to continue to
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let game slip away if you want to play meaningful football in
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November and December. So to me, I think the jury is
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still out. I believe and Aaron Glenn, I
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believe in the new regime. I just don't believe we're at
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that point yet where things have changed much from last year.
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Yeah, go. I mean for what they for what
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both teams have done, do you think they're in the right?
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I mean, I know it's tough with just one week, but do you think
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they're headed in the right direction or you're not buying
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any of it? You need to see more.
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Well, I, I, I think in certain areas, I think they are in the
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right direction. I mean, they've got some pieces
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to have a successful team down the road.
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I'll do the one, the one actually, there were two things
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that were were were good out of the game yesterday.
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One was Justin Fields because 1 of the time The Jets signed him,
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everybody was was mocking the decision.
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He can't throw, look like he could throw yesterday and he
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obviously can run. So to me, he was the bright spot
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that came out of the game. The other bright spot of the
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five guys in front of him, the offensive line, I thought for
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the most part did a really good job protecting him, giving him
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lanes to run. So I I think in that respect,
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yes, offensively it's definitely a step in the right direction,
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but we're still just seeing, you know, we we've heard for, you
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know, years now how great this jets defense is with all these
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great players. And I still haven't seen it yet
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to the secondary is still soft after Sauce Gardner.
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They've got some holes to fill there.
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I you know, you know, Quincy Williams is a good player, but
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he makes a critical penalty yesterday on the hit out of
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bounds. So for me, from a Jets
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standpoint, there are there are signs of them going in the right
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direction, but until you start racking up wins, I don't know
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how you can really throw roses at that.
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I'm not throwing roses. And by the way, we are talking
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to WFAN anchor Sports Bash Media, as always, host and
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greater Long Island writer Peter Schwartz.
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He's been doing so many great things all over Long Island in
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New York. He's a great writer, great voice
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all over the social media world. And, and, and here's the thing,
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I, I'll go back to the New York Jets because I am a Jet fan.
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I also root on the Eagles. Everybody that listens to the
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show knows all about that because over the years, Donovan
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McNabb was my favorite player. But The Jets to me, they there
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were a lot of mistakes, especially in the secondary, but
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there were a lot of things that I liked.
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Quinn Williams look lighter. He was the best player on the
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field. All, all game long.
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Everybody keeps talking about how great TJ Watt is and he's
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sensational. Quinton Williams was the best
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defensive player on both sides of both teams.
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He was sensational. Will McDonald, everybody was
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complaining that Joe Douglas went after him at 15.
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He had two sacks, almost had three sacks in a game.
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This is this is again going into a new season showing you 15 lbs
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put on 15 lbs. He's playing three downs now and
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he's stopping the run. I saw a couple of times he was
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stopping the run. Jermaine Johnson's back.
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There was a lot of bright spots. Sherwood look good.
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I mean, there was a lot of things that you could like about
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this front 7 and his defense is just a secondary Stevens.
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I don't know why The Jets brought him in from Baltimore.
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He was brutal. Michael Carter, I mean, what the
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hell was he? Was he even in the game?
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Was his head in the in the game Sauce.
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He made some mistakes against DK Metcalf, but Metcalf did not
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look as good as Aaron Glenn was saying that he was during the
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you know, during the post game. So in the media talk.
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So I I didn't think anything of it.
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I think you're right. Justin Fields really stood out
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to me and obviously the front five, if they could play like
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down here, if Elijah Vertaka comes back next year, the the
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talent that they have an outline with Membu and then Fashano, who
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was sensational. I I thought it was fun to watch.
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But what stood out to me on the other side was Aaron Rodgers.
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Now Aaron Rodgers had four touchdowns.
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He had over 240 yards and he was sitting there, he was talking to
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the media. And Peter, you've been there,
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you've been in those media rooms before and you've asked
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questions to guys like Aaron Rodgers and this guy, no matter
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what he, his cockiness, his personality and, and I, I like
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Aaron Rodgers. I stick up for him.
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I stuck up, stuck up for him for years over there in Green Bay
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because I think he's his 10 year stint is probably the best I've
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ever seen on any team and any quarterback.
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But when he went out there and attacked the executives and and
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the The Jets brass and saying that The Jets didn't make the
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right decision and that The Jets disrespected him.
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And meanwhile The Jets, he says he wanted to do things face to
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face. The Jets invited him to speak to
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them face to face because they didn't pay for his airfare.
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And then he he sat in the room with the new GM and Aaron Glenn
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and ownership and they said they don't need him anymore.
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He's butt, he's butt hurt. I don't get it.
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I don't know why he's attacking him.
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Just play the goddamn game. Am I right or wrong here?
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Well, I, I think you'll look at it both ways.
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First of all, you go back a little bit.
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I, I, I wanted The Jets to bring Aaron Rodgers back.
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I thought it would be the smart decision.
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If you look back at his numbers last year and some people look
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at me like I have 5 heads when I say this, but if you look at
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Aaron Rodgers body of work last year, he had one of the best
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statistical seasons by a quarterback in Jets history.
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And I know that that bar is not set very high when it comes to
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quarterbacks in Jets history. But look at his numbers from
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last year. He played all 17 games.
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He put up good numbers. I would have brought him back.
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I would have drafted a quarterback and let him tutor
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the quarterback for a year. But The Jets decided they wanted
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to go in a different direction, a different culture.
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And here's the thing too, I, I understand he was, his feelings
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were hurt that he, he wanted to come back.
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The new regime didn't want him, but you have to understand
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something, too. The Jets let him do whatever he
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wanted to do. They brought in all his buddies.
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They brought in probably the worst offensive coordinator in
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the history of the NFL in Nathaniel Hackett.
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They they let him bring that guy in and he was an utter disaster.
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So it's not like The Jets for two plus years, you know,
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treated him poorly. They they basically let him run
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the asylum. But I look, if you're a
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competitor and you're a professional, I get it.
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You went back in there. You just, you know, wipe the
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floor with, you know, with as far as your statistics were
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concerned with, with the team that didn't want you back.
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So I can understand where he's coming, but I think some of it's
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a little off base because The Jets did basically give him the
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the keys to the Kingdom land. Here's the problem.
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Alan Lazard, who was healthy, was a healthy scratch.
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That just tells you right there The Jets are paying this man not
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to be on a football field. So.
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I don't know why he's still on the roster.
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I mean, if he's not going to play, just just, you know, let
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him go and listen, I know you're going to probably have to spend
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some money to let him go, but if he's not going to be part of
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your roster and not be part of your team, and I would just, I
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would just let him go. It was embarrassing to me.
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And, and again, Aaron Rodgers is, is a person I, I again, look
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up to. I think he's a sensational
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talent. He came out in the offseasons
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talking about him getting married to a woman named
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Brittany. Nobody's seen her.
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I made a joke that he probably married his hand and said that
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he named her Brittany. I mean, this is something that
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Aaron Rodgers likes to do. He likes to, you know, spit out
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crazy crap. And he said it was a couple
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months. It wasn't just like it happened,
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it was like a couple months. Nobody's seen this, this woman,
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nobody's nobody even seen pictures of this woman.
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But he's married and he's. Got.
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I have no idea. I have no idea.
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Nobody's seen any woman. I even some of the jet players
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that I know that I've spoken to of air says that nobody's met.
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Nobody's met this woman that he's married to.
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Nobody was invited to this wedding.
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And he said he never married. It was in front of a justice of
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the peace. So where was this marriage and
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who's this this, this question mark?
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Who's this woman? That's what I want to know.
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That's my interest here. Who the hell is she?
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Josh Allen gets married to a movie star.
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He was married. He was dating Danica Patrick.
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And Danica Patrick dropped a hammer on him on a podcast.
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I mean, seriously, it's been, it's embarrassing.
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Most athletes, when they get married, you kind of know who
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the other, the significant other is.
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And generally speaking, it's it's somebody else who's famous
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as well. But yeah, listen, that's Aaron
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Rodgers. Look, that's what The Jets
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signed up for. When, when, when he came here a
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couple years ago. So you can't I, I, I can't have
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any pity for The Jets because of what happened, because look, he
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he chose to be here. I got that's why I wanted him
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back. Like he he gave up more money
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elsewhere at the come play for The Jets.
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So this whole idea of of booing him and and holding this grudge
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against him, I, I don't get it. But from from from that
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standpoint, I can understand how he felt after that game
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yesterday. So shifting to the Giants, we
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talked about it before you came on, Brian Dabel and Malik
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Neighbors getting involved in a sideline scuffle.
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Brian Dabel obviously wins Coach of the year's first year in the
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last three years has really been a downfall, maybe kind of
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turning into Matt Nagy with the Bears, which is a bad side.
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What are your thoughts of that whole sideline outburst with the
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two of them? Yeah, it's obviously it's it's
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not a good luck And, and, and the Giants are kind of a mess
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right now. And I I think the only thing
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that really will salvage the season for them, And I think as
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far as Joe Shane and Brian Dabel are concerned, that the only
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thing that may give them a shot at sticking around after this
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year is that they have to go to Jackson Dart as their
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quarterback. I mean, they are getting there
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is nothing to be gained by letting Russell Wilson make
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another start or even take another snap for them.
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Would you see how bad that offense was looking yesterday?
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And I know you know, the preseason is the preseason, you
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can't put too much stock in it. But when you watch Jackson dart
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play in the preseason, you kind of get the feeling that he's got
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it and he knows what he's doing. And at this point, I I know you
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wanted to try to be optimistic and let Russell Wilson play for
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a few weeks and, and, and give Jackson dart a chance to watch.
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But from what I saw yesterday, and if you're Brian Dabel and
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your future is in doubt, you drafted this guy to be your
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quarterback. I think he's got a place sooner
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rather than later. And maybe it's not this week,
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but it's got to be within the first five weeks of the season
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because otherwise I think the Giants are going to go in
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another direction on the sideline again.
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Well, that's we were talking about that earlier and I was
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like Errol said five to six weeks and.
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Week 5 I was like do. You think it's going to be
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sooner or they're going to let it and and you kind of went with
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the five one. Why do you think it's going to
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be at least five? And Errol, you can chime in on
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this too, but you don't go to him really.
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Errol kind of was like, yeah, you don't throw him in the fire
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right away to let him burn. But if this is going to be the
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way that rush shows it, do you not go to him earlier?
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I mean I I would, but that's what the hell do I know.
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Well, I think the idea is that you want to try and win a couple
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of games. I think the Giants as an
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organization want to try at least, you know, show that they
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can win a couple of games. But from what you saw during,
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you know, training camp and what you saw yesterday from Russell
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Wilson, I just don't know if you'll have a chance to to win
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any games. It's it's not a great schedule.
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And at some point it's got to click in.
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Listen, we're not going to be successful.
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Russell Wilson is not, he's not doing right now what Kurt Warner
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did for the Giants when they brought him in to Tudor.
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Eli Manning, obviously, the Giants had a winning record when
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they made the switch that year. In 2004, Eli Manning came in,
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the Giants lost a couple of games in a row, but they still
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had a winning season in In this case, I just don't see where
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Russell Wilson is going to be any kind of a factor in helping
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the Giants win a couple of games.
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So I don't know if they want to wait till after this week or
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next week, but somewhere here you've got at least give the
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fans, you know, something to watch.
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You've got to at least give, give your head coach, his staff,
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the general manager of the front office, give them a chance to
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show that they made the right decision in Jackson Dart.
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And maybe he's the guy that can lead them down the road.
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And maybe that's what brings this regime back next year.
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Otherwise, they're going to have to blow this up again after
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this. Year.
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No. Jameis Winston.
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I I'd rather see Jameis Winston. I'm just kidding.
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I should. Trade him now too.
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They should just trade him. Yeah, trade him at ESPN because
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that's. You can use a bat.
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He's going to back. I, I think they, they should
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wait a little bit. I, I think that to me right now,
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the Giants put this kid in a position to fail.
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He will fail. I I think give him what the
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Giants did. They were, they had a winning
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record with Kurt Warner and they decided to push away from Kurt
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Warner and go with Eli Manning. I think you give him, give
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Russell Wilson at least five weeks, let him.
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Let's settle that, get this team settled down to settle down and
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then go to the young quarterback and see what you have with the
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young quarter. I think he's going to be great.
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I love what I saw during the preseason, but again, that's not
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a regular season game. You're playing against
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everybody's number one. So we'll see what Jackson darts
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going to do when he's running for dear life when his offensive
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line can't block for you because it it looked really, really bad
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against the Commanders. Really bad.
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Yeah, I I just think he's got some moxie.
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I just think he looks like someone that can come in and
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give this team a spark. Maybe he can create some instant
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chemistry with Malik Neighbors. And you know, a lot of times
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when you bring the rookie quarterback in, you know the the
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defense and you know, the the offensive line will play a
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little bit better in front of you because Oh my God, we got a
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rookie quarterback. So that's what I I think it's
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got to be sooner rather than later, but I don't think it's
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going to be this week. We are talking to WFAN Anchor
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Sports Bash media host and the greater Long Island writer Peter
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Schwartz. Peter, let's get to the Yankees
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because the Yankees needed to go into the off, I'm sorry,
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offseason during the weekend and play very, very well against the
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Blue Jays. And they did that.
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They showed up against the Blue Jays and and played well.
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They're top pitchers. Freeze played well.
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Everybody that needed to play well, they played well.
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What do you think has been the problem all season long for the
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New York Yankees? Why have the Yankees been up and
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down all season long? It's not really injury.
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We all know what Volpe is. He's been an absolute bust.
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But why do you think they've been up and down all season
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long? I, I don't think there's any one
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thing you can put your finger on.
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I think it's, it's a lot of things.
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I think it's that lineup, especially before they made some
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of the moves, the lineup was very inconsistent.
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You know, there would be a game they'd score ten runs in the
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next game. You know, they could probably
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go, you know, five games without scoring.
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So there was that problem. It was some inconsistency in the
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starting rotation. The biggest problem to me was
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the bullpen. The bullpen was kind of a, a
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disaster and, and, and, and to a certain extent, there's still
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some holes in it. I don't know if if, if Yankee
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fans completely trust Devin Williams in a big spot at this
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point, but they seem to have gotten it together a little bit,
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especially in the last two games against Toronto.
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But there are a number of things.
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Look, I don't, I I've tried to defend Aaron Boone for the last
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few years because in my opinion, you know, he's obviously, you
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know, you know, hearing things from the analytics department
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because that that's the only way to explain some of the moves
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that have been made, you know, is in game decisions.
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But you know, you can question some of those moves that have
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that have made the line up. You know, as a guy who's red hot
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five straight games has a hit now you're sitting him in the in
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the sixth game. So there been some things that
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have happened that just you scratch your head at.
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But it certainly looks like in the last couple of weeks, you
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know, the Friday night game against Toronto aside that they
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they're starting, they're starting to get it here and
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obviously they're pushing Toronto here a little bit now
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down to two games. If the Yankees didn't win that
19:41
series over the weekend, I think you could have probably kissed
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their chances of winning the division goodbye.
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But now they're right there. You know, they're playing well.
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They're they're, they're down to games.
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They've, they've created a little bit of a cushion for the
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first wild card. At worst case scenario, you'll,
19:56
you'll, you'll host all three games of the wild card round.
19:58
But I, I think the Yankees see their see the prize right now in
20:01
front of them and their two games.
20:03
They're within the earshot of Toronto.
20:05
And I think you're going to see them go balls to the wall.
20:07
The last couple of weeks of the season here and make a real big
20:10
push because Toronto's definitely really Toronto's on
20:13
their heels, right? Yeah.
20:14
Yeah, so the MVP debate, Aaron Judge and Cal rally.
20:17
Aaron Judge hasn't played great since he's come back, but he
20:19
tied to, he tied Yogi Berra's record just recently.
20:22
Where do you stand on that? Oh, look, you know, it's he
20:26
obviously missed a lot of time this year because of the injury
20:29
and it's it's kind of scary to see him go back in the outfield
20:33
because the last thing you want to do is get his back back and
20:35
then have them get hurt in in the field.
20:38
I I think it's I don't know how you guys, you know, feel about
20:41
it, but I think it's got to be inevitable that Aaron Judge has
20:44
got to learn how to play first base because I think you want to
20:47
try and keep his bat in the lineup as much as possible.
20:50
You know, and Stanton, obviously you want to try and have some
20:53
flexibility, put him in the outfield, have him DHA little
20:56
bit. You want Judge the DHA little
20:58
bit, but I, I think, you know, going forward here, I think the
21:02
Yankees, maybe not this year, but maybe in the offseason, they
21:05
have to start thinking about, you know, having Aaron Judge get
21:08
some games at first base just just so he doesn't have to run
21:11
so much in the outfield and and and ruin getting hurt because
21:14
risk getting hurt because you need his bat in the lineup.
21:16
And he's obviously had some some major injuries so far in his
21:20
career. I think if the Yankees want to
21:22
get as many good years as possible out of this contract,
21:26
they have to try and protect him a little bit and and keep him
21:28
out of the outfield. Yeah, I've been, I've been
21:32
saying that for probably a year or two.
21:34
Yeah, he's a great athlete, don't get me wrong, but he, he's
21:36
not the smallest of individuals either.
21:38
So, and we've seen kind of his his injury track record, but
21:42
it's for me, it's like exactly what you said.
21:46
It's like, at least get him a couple games, give him a little
21:48
break, but still be in there. And because some guys just
21:51
can't, they're not great DHS. And if you look at his numbers
21:53
like as ADA, because he's so used to playing every day that
21:56
it takes, it takes a rare bird to be a great DH.
21:58
And they're all the really good ones that have come out and said
22:01
that. But it for me, there's there's a
22:04
lot, there's a lot of hole. I don't know what the hell you
22:06
do at Volpe. I mean, if you look at his
22:08
numbers, he's literally last in the league and everything.
22:12
Well, you got to make Caballero the shortstop.
22:14
You have, you have, they have. They have to do that.
22:18
I mean, I just, I don't know, do you make that move now going
22:22
into what it is you're so close and mind you, you play with the
22:24
holes that you got because it's gotten you to where you are.
22:27
And is it going to are you going to have that late, I guess with
22:32
Caballero be able to do the things that that he can do And
22:36
then, OK, something happens And now you got to bring in.
22:39
I just they're in a tough spot with him because of how they
22:43
praised him and the fact that he just did win a Gold Glove two
22:46
years ago. And now it's just you got every
22:48
armchair quarterback and you know, guru that knows how to
22:51
throw and his mechanics and he's not putting his body weight and
22:54
this that and another thing. And it's just it's entertaining
22:56
to to read and it keeps me entertained.
22:59
Usually when you know I'm on the crapper, it's about the only
23:02
time that it makes sense to me. You better wash your hands.
23:06
Oh yeah. Always, always.
23:07
Yeah, I got the bubble gum. But yeah, sometimes watching the
23:11
Yankees, I'd take shit. But the only one you can really
23:17
count on in the back in the bullpen, Cruz and his splitter.
23:21
I don't know if he knows what it's doing.
23:23
I actually was talking about that the other day with a bunch
23:25
of people. I don't think.
23:26
I think he just throws it and it just kind of does whatever he
23:28
wants. He's he's been really good.
23:29
And obviously Bednar with what he's done, but other than that,
23:32
it's I mean, you got a an iffy Luke Weaver and you can't throw
23:37
Devin Williams out there in big situations anymore.
23:39
It's just and then, you know, he's like, I was making good
23:42
pitches and they were borderline calls that this was like last
23:45
week when he was complaining. But he's going to have to and
23:49
there's not enough time for him to to get back, you know, high
23:52
leverage situations. Is he going to be forced into
23:54
him sometimes? Yes, he's going to have to be
23:56
just because Boone, he's going to rely on those guys that he
23:59
can count on. And I just, there's a lot of
24:01
holes. I know I've, I've said this,
24:04
you, you gain traction at the right time of the year, taking
24:06
momentum into it. And they're doing that right
24:09
now, obviously in a four and two with, with the last two teams in
24:12
the Astros and the Blue Jays, which is huge.
24:15
But now it's after we've seen that they are they, they are
24:18
great at having 2 great series and then just go absolutely lay
24:21
an egg in their next one. So I, I think this next one is,
24:24
is, is just as big as these other ones to, to make sure that
24:27
they can keep the momentum going in because they, they can see
24:30
they're only two back and have separated themselves in the wild
24:33
card to, to be able to host. So I think this one is big going
24:36
into the second-half of September.
24:38
And I think the biggest thing also right now for the Yankees
24:40
is it looks like they're they're starting rotation is coming into
24:44
shape here. Obviously, Max Fried slumped a
24:46
little bit and now he's he's back on track.
24:48
And we we've seen Rodon come up with some some good performances
24:52
until Friday night. You know, Cam Schlittler has
24:54
been, you know, outstanding. And look, it's going to happen.
24:57
He's a young pitcher and he just couldn't put the Blue Jays away
25:00
with two strikes on Friday night.
25:02
He'll get it. He'll figure it out.
25:03
But I I think from a starting standpoint, I think the Yankees
25:06
are in good shape going into the playoffs.
25:08
You probably can then take Will Warren and move them into a long
25:11
release situation. It'll strengthen the bullpen in
25:14
the playoffs going to three starters, so I think there's
25:17
really some good signs for the Yankees going into the playoffs.
25:19
We are talking to WF, an Anchor Sports Bash Media host, and the
25:23
Greater Long Island writer, Peter Schwartz.
25:26
You know, Peter, the New York Mets, they've had problems
25:30
pitching all season long, back and forth.
25:32
But since Nolan McLean, who just lost his first game as a starter
25:36
here in the majors today, and Tong and some of the young
25:39
starters that they have, I think the Mets can start to feel their
25:43
rotation when the playoffs start.
25:44
I'm not going to, I'm not going to trust any of these pitchers.
25:48
David Peterson probably has been their best starter all season
25:51
long besides some of the youngsters.
25:53
Where do you see the Mets going when they get into the players?
25:56
Do you see McClain being their number one guy, then David
25:59
Peterson, then Tong? Do you go with the younger guys
26:02
or do you You bet on Sanga, you bet on one of these other guys
26:05
which has not been successful all season long.
26:09
Well, I don't know how much in the picture saying is going to
26:11
be since he accepted that the motion to the minor leagues.
26:14
We'll see if he can get his his act straightened out.
26:17
But right now if you're the Mets, I mean your most reliable
26:20
pitcher right now, you know, tonight aside has been McClain.
26:23
He's been outstanding. He showed some great boys.
26:26
I was with my family at the game last week when he when he
26:30
pitched that, that great game against the Phillies.
26:32
So he's, he's looked like a he's looked like an ace so far.
26:36
And the Mets young pitchers have looked really good.
26:38
Even yesterday, Brandon Sproed, you took a no hitter into the
26:41
6th inning yesterday. So I think the Mets just like
26:43
the Yankees, I think the Mets may have that starting situation
26:47
figured out. It's a it's a question now of
26:49
how much, how much, how deep those pitchers can go and how
26:53
much they can rely on some of those arms in the bullpen.
26:55
You know, Senga comes back. There may not be a spot for him
26:59
in the postseason rotation. They may have to use him out of
27:02
the bullpen if he can get that, you know, that that forkball
27:05
straightened out down in Syracuse.
27:06
So I, I, I think the Mets offensively a lot better
27:10
obviously in the last few weeks since Vientos started hitting.
27:13
I think the rotation is, is better.
27:15
Now the big question, and I know Java can relate to this, but
27:19
that bullpens got to comment, you know, you know, into a
27:24
better situation right now for the Mets to have success in the
27:26
playoffs. So before they get to the last
27:28
two questions, I want to go over what we were talking about
27:30
yesterday. Peter with Errol and I are very
27:32
close with Gerald Fulardi. Obviously with the New York
27:35
Dragons, you were discussing something happened with them.
27:38
So just breakdown what happened with them.
27:40
It was a very unfortunate situation that we've seen with a
27:43
lot of these different leagues. Yeah.
27:45
Well, I mean, just so the back story to that is I was the radio
27:50
play by play announcer for the original New York Dragons in the
27:53
Arena League from 2001 to 2008. And then when the league shut
27:58
down for a year and came back, the Dragons did not.
28:02
So I had waited 17 years. So that was the best job I ever
28:06
had, was doing play by play for the Dragons.
28:08
I got to travel. I got to call football games.
28:12
I got to meet a whole lot of great people.
28:14
I got married during those eight years had we had our first child
28:17
during those eight years. So that to me was the best job
28:20
I've ever had. I waited 17 years for that team
28:23
to come back. And in December, you know, I get
28:25
approached by this, you know, representative of a new league
28:28
and, you know, I go to work for them doing some consulting.
28:31
And then they offered me the GM job for the Long Island team.
28:34
And that Long Island team subsequently becomes the New
28:37
York Dragons. I'm like, here it was, you know,
28:39
the best time of my life professionally years ago and now
28:42
I'm running the team that I was the play by play announcer for.
28:46
So I was I was pretty excited about it and hired a great front
28:51
office, hired coach Filardi to be our head coach.
28:53
And you know, everything was going in the right direction.
28:55
We were doing great with ticket sales and and sponsorships.
29:00
We were doing really good and we created a really good buzz all
29:04
over Long Island. We had, we had good coverage
29:06
from Newsday and News 12 and, you know, greater Long Island,
29:10
who I, who I write for and even Boomer and Gio on FAN would give
29:14
me a lot of props every now and then for everything that was
29:17
going on. But there was a point where
29:19
things started to get a little bit sketchy.
29:22
We were never able to get into our offices at Nassau Coliseum
29:25
because the league didn't have insurance.
29:28
We were not able to get, you know, certain things to to to
29:33
proceed with a season. There was a point where they
29:36
missed deadlines on equipment and the field and and other
29:42
things. And it was a point where the
29:43
owner of the league, this is unbelievable.
29:46
The owner of the league actually came to us and said, do you
29:50
think you can call a local high school and ask them if we can
29:53
borrow their helmets? And I'm like, a square was a
29:58
true story. They, they and I and there's
30:03
just no, there's no way. I mean, where this is
30:05
professional football and they said they bought a used field
30:11
for us for the Coliseum. It was, it was utilized by this
30:16
team in Beaumont, TX. And I said, well, what?
30:20
And they're playing in a league that was playing a season before
30:23
our season was supposed to start.
30:25
And I'm looking online, I'm like, Beaumont is like 8 and
30:28
one. They're going to make the
30:30
playoffs, they're going to host playoff game.
30:32
So I asked somebody with the league, I'm like, we're we're
30:35
supposed to get this field. They're going to have a home
30:37
playoff game. I called them last week.
30:39
They they're going to have a home playoff game.
30:41
I don't know. We're picking up that field next
30:43
week. I'm like, how you picking up
30:45
their field if their season is still going on?
30:47
I was like, all these things were just going on.
30:49
And then the final straw was middle of May, call it the
30:52
Mother's Day massacre. Now my, my wife and my younger
30:57
son and I would go out shopping that morning and I, I, my phone
31:02
the whole ride out from where we live in, in Wanta out to the
31:06
tanker outlets, my phone in my pocket is buzzing, buzzing,
31:10
buzing, buzzing, buzzing. I'm like, how many people are
31:12
calling that? I'm not a mother.
31:14
Like why are people calling me on Mother's Day?
31:16
We get, we get to Deer Park in the tanker outlets and I, I pick
31:20
up my phone and it's a series of imbecilic e-mail sent out by the
31:25
owner. And I don't know how they just
31:27
came through, but they were sent out in the middle of the night.
31:29
And he was questioning all these things we were doing.
31:32
And it was just it, it, it sounded like he was a little
31:35
off. So at that point that day, the
31:37
three of us in the front office all were under the opinion that
31:41
this was never going to happen. So we kind of mapped out our
31:45
exit on June 2nd. We all resigned at the exact
31:47
same time. We hit send on our e-mail at the
31:49
exact same time to resign because we figured there was no
31:53
way this was going to happen. We didn't have a field, we
31:55
didn't have uniforms we didn't have, we didn't have down
32:00
markers. We we didn't have any kind of
32:03
funding to be able to get programs made.
32:06
We couldn't. We had no, we had no merch to
32:09
sell the fans like there was. We had nothing and we just knew
32:14
it was not going in the right direction and sure enough, it
32:18
didn't and people are still trying to get their money back.
32:23
Holy. It just I'm kind of what like
32:28
they're trying to get their money back.
32:29
Did they not prepare for like did it didn't just sneak up on
32:32
them? I'm like I was trying to come
32:35
back with a follow up but I'm like I mean or why?
32:39
The issue then became was that like if you bought season
32:41
tickets and you bought a sponsorship, you, you deserve to
32:46
get your money back. And the guy hasn't given his
32:48
money back yet. And then they actually, and this
32:51
is the other thing too. Our home opener at the Coliseum
32:54
was supposed to be on on Saturday, June 14th.
32:59
They never actually canceled the season.
33:03
They never actually informed anybody that there was not going
33:06
to be a season. And unless you read the article,
33:09
like the day that we resigned, I did an interview with Newsday, I
33:13
did an interview with the Post, I went on Boomer and Geo the
33:15
next morning. I think the Patch did something
33:18
with me. But unless you read any of those
33:22
articles, unless you heard me on Boomer and Geo, unless you
33:25
follow me on social media, you have no idea that we all
33:29
resigned. And I, and I remember saying to
33:31
my wife, I'm like, people live in a bubble.
33:33
Not everybody listens to WFAN. Not everybody reads Newsday.
33:37
People do live in a bubble in their everyday life.
33:40
And my younger son Jared said, hey Dad, June 14th we were going
33:45
to be in Arena Football anyway. And there's the other league,
33:47
the Arena Football one. They have a team in Albany and I
33:50
know the guy who runs that team and they wound up winning the
33:53
championship of that league this year.
33:56
And my son says, why don't we just go to Albany that day and
33:58
go see the game? And we did.
34:00
And we drive there. We check into our hotel and
34:03
before we leave to go back to the arena.
34:05
And I remember saying to my wife, I'm like, I am going to
34:07
get text messages and I'm going to get phone calls from people
34:10
who think there's a game at Nassau Coliseum tonight.
34:12
And sure enough, 5:00, this guy calls my phone and I recognize
34:16
the name because he was a season ticket holder.
34:18
I sold him his season tickets. And I'm like, I let it go to
34:21
voicemail. He texts me about 5 minutes
34:23
later and says, hey, Pete, we're standing outside.
34:27
There's about 60 or 70 of us outside the Nassau Coliseum.
34:31
We're trying to get in for the game, and it looks like the
34:33
place is closed. And I'm like, I'm like, I knew
34:37
this was going to happen. There are people, literally the
34:40
people were tailgating outside the Coliseum thinking they were
34:43
going in to go see a football game.
34:45
And I had this because I knew it was going to happen.
34:49
People were going to inquire about what happened.
34:50
I created this little screenshot.
34:53
Hey, I don't work for the Entertainment Football
34:55
Association or the New York Dragons anymore.
34:57
Please contact this person who was the owner of the league.
35:00
And just to me, you know, very, very John Spano, like how this
35:05
guy ran. I don't think there was ever any
35:06
intent of them to actually play one down.
35:10
You know, people are calling to get their season ticket money
35:13
back and he's claiming that, oh, I don't see any payment of
35:17
yours. So he's like, it was a big giant
35:21
mess and it was a giant waste of five months of my time.
35:24
I want to apologize because I know you were excited.
35:28
I know Felardi was excited. Gerald's a good friend of ours.
35:31
And, and, and, and we, we spoke off air and I said, what the
35:35
hell is going on, man? He was trying to explain it to
35:37
me. I was like, what?
35:38
I mean this this this story does this does look like this sounds
35:41
like a spano and and it should be a 30 for 30 story.
35:45
And you know, well, first of all, listen, I am, I'm by the
35:48
way, if anybody wants to produce the 30 for 30 or the Netflix
35:51
special, I'm hoping for negotiation on it because I'd
35:54
be, there is, there is some pending litigation going on.
35:58
So there's not a lot of other things I can go into, but
36:01
there's going to be a, some, something written about this.
36:04
And I, I felt, I felt bad because they brought two people
36:09
into the front office who I become very, very good friends
36:12
with. So if there was any kind of
36:13
silver lining in the whole thing, I created 2 great
36:16
friendships. And even the third one with
36:17
Coach Felardi, I really didn't have a relationship with him.
36:21
Actually was a mutual friend of ours that connected us during
36:24
the interview process, right? And I was on the phone with him
36:26
for an hour and I knew he was going to be my head coach.
36:30
And I felt so freaking pissed that the two that we did not get
36:37
to see this through because we had two open tryouts.
36:40
We thought we brought in some really good football players
36:44
that we thought were going to make Long Island proud.
36:46
Our intent going into this whole thing, had it been real, was to
36:50
try and create a very, very local team with local players.
36:53
I hired a local coach. The three of us in the front
36:56
office were all Long Island people.
36:58
And this comes off of the New York Riptide lacrosse team
37:02
leaving the Coliseum last year and their last year in the
37:05
Coliseum. They played four years the last
37:08
year in the Coliseum. You think about how big lacrosse
37:10
is here on Long Island. The Riptide had 0 Long Island
37:14
players on the roster their last year as they played at the
37:17
Coliseum. And when I got the GM job, I'm
37:21
like we have to do stuff to get people to come to the games.
37:24
You have to create local interest.
37:27
A lot of people on Long Island want to see their own.
37:29
If if your kid played high school football or college
37:32
football on Long Island, like that's what you want to go to
37:34
see. And, and Coach Velardi bought
37:36
into that. But had it been real?
37:39
We were going in that direction. We had some really good players
37:42
signed up that were ready to go to training camp.
37:44
Oh, by the way, we couldn't get the money to pay the deposit for
37:47
SUNY Farmingdale to get their feel for training.
37:49
Camp. I just like how you say it.
37:51
Had it been real? Well, you know what?
37:54
That's I say that half joking, but like the biggest.
38:01
Monopoly money. Monopoly money.
38:06
They want, they wanted us to barter for everything, like,
38:10
like what we needed. I, I, I'll give you an example.
38:15
So you, you know, you go to these like street fairs and
38:17
stuff like that and you see the local teams, like the Islanders
38:21
always have a tent at these St. fairs, at the, at the train
38:24
stations at, at feel, you know, whatever it might be.
38:27
Like I wanted to get like all that crap that you would, you
38:30
would come home with in a bag, like the back of the phone.
38:33
You'd hold your credit cards in the back of the phone and, and
38:35
the pens and, and little notebooks and, and, and T-shirts
38:39
and everything like that. And the guy wouldn't let us buy
38:41
anything. He said try to trade for it.
38:43
I'm like, dude, this is Long Island.
38:45
I mean, I mean, things are expensive here, you know, like
38:47
you can't. And I and I and I, you know
38:49
what, I gave it a shot because I was, I was, I was working for
38:52
the guy. And I said, let me call around.
38:55
I call people with the Long Island ducks.
38:56
I call people with the Islanders.
38:58
I call people with The Jets and the Giants, who I know, like, do
39:00
you guys barter for your promotional items?
39:03
No, we paid for them. Like we might be able to barter
39:08
to get like a little bit off of it, but you have to pay for it.
39:11
Like they literally wanted me to, to to barter for everything.
39:17
And, and to to top that off, I bartered a radio deal.
39:21
Our games were going to be broadcast on Nassau community
39:24
colleges radio station, which if, if you were to pay them for
39:29
the air time for our eight home games, our eight games and two
39:34
playoff games. So for 10 games it it would have
39:37
cost us like $11,000 if we just need for the airtime, right?
39:43
I parted it with them down to nothing because the students
39:46
were going to do the games, we were going to give them tickets,
39:48
we were going to give them advertising on the dashboards
39:51
and the programs. It was a complete watch.
39:53
It was exactly what this guy wanted.
39:55
I got this great deal for nothing and that was one of the
40:00
imbecilic emails that I got on Mother's Day morning.
40:03
Hey, I got a problem with this radio deal that you did what?
40:06
We're not making any money on it.
40:07
I'm like you told me to barter everything.
40:09
I just borrowed you an $11,000 radio deal and you got a
40:12
problem. Well, I don't care what you did.
40:14
I want my attorney to look at it and it was this whole thing went
40:17
on and on and on and what what my ultimate take away from this
40:21
whole thing of the five months from the end of December to.
40:25
June 2nd when we resigned the five months, whatever it was
40:28
that I spent on this job, I was selling and promoting a product
40:34
that wasn't real. It was never real.
40:37
And that's, and that's I, I know why you're laughing and there
40:40
is, there is a certain amount of of comedy to this whole thing,
40:44
but like, it's it, it literally was like a real life music man.
40:48
Did you ever see the the movie, The Music Man or the Broadway
40:50
show? I'm just a headache.
40:51
There was no. School band, like, you know,
40:53
like the whole thing at the end was nonsense.
40:56
So I was literally selling a product that wasn't real.
41:00
And I feel awful for the people who bought season tickets, who
41:04
bought sponsorships, fans that that, you know, the media
41:07
outlets that gave us coverage. I want all those people to get.
41:12
Their money back. Restitution, of course.
41:14
I want them to get their money back there.
41:15
There was a sponsor that bought a spot.
41:18
They invited me to lunch. I met them at a Chamber of
41:21
Commerce meeting near the beginning of this whole process
41:24
like back in February. And they wanted to be a part of
41:27
it. They wanted to be a sponsor with
41:30
the guy had the guy went to games with his with his kids
41:32
when years ago the original Dragons and they Take Me Out to
41:36
lunch and they said we want to make a $10,000 investment in the
41:39
team. And so they got a suite and they
41:41
got tickets and they got a program and they got a dasher
41:44
board. They I gave them everything for
41:46
10 grand. I gave them whatever they
41:47
wanted. Later on, right before we
41:50
resigned, the owner of the league goes behind my back and
41:54
calls the owner of that company and and basically screws him for
41:58
$50,000 more to get him to invest in the whole league.
42:03
So now this company is out $60,000 to this madman.
42:10
Was this? Dude pocketing the money or
42:11
what? He's got it.
42:12
He's doing that. He's doing something with the
42:14
money. He's out.
42:16
He paid the original 10,000 that I sold him on and then the
42:20
owner. And the reason why I say he went
42:22
behind my back because I had it in my contract that I got a
42:25
Commission if I brought an investor into the league.
42:28
So he went behind my back to my client, got them to pay $50,000
42:33
investment in the league. I get screwed out of the
42:36
Commission. But it was I, I wish that owner
42:39
of that company would have called me.
42:40
And at that point I knew we were gone.
42:42
At that point, I knew it wasn't going to happen.
42:44
So I just wish the guy had said to me, if Peter, the owner
42:47
called me and said, Hey, would you like we, you know, would you
42:50
like to be an investor in a league?
42:51
I would have said run for the hills.
42:54
Well, Peter, I want to apologize, but.
42:57
You. You.
42:59
You. You.
43:00
Pretty much squared everything away.
43:02
I mean, everything. Anybody that wants to know about
43:05
what happened with the Dragon story, well, ladies and
43:07
gentlemen, Peter Schwartz just gave us 30 minutes of his time
43:11
on explaining every single thing that happened with this owner,
43:16
this league and this debacle. But listen, we love you man, and
43:21
and you're doing such a great job right now.
43:23
I remember listening to a WFN, we kind of interacted over the
43:27
years and you're doing such a great job right now with Sports
43:30
Bash Media and Greater Long Island and.
43:33
Job is going to be on my show tomorrow.
43:35
Yes he is. He told me he spoke to.
43:38
Me what happened where you're a guest on somebody's podcast at
43:41
night and then that guy is a guest on your podcast the next
43:44
day? I don't think so.
43:46
I've never heard of anything like.
43:47
That I don't think I've done that, no.
43:50
Well, and by the way, Jabba, we'll talk about this tomorrow,
43:53
too. I'm still pissed at the way the
43:55
Yankees handled you. No, you and 10 million other.
43:59
People and Jabba, which Jabba mentions every single show so.
44:04
I. Just I it'll be, it'll be in my
44:06
book. It'll be in my book.
44:08
It'll be in his book. I was, I was all, we were all as
44:12
a Yankee fan base. We were all pumped up because we
44:14
heard and you guys know you guys do the show with him.
44:17
You know the story like it was like the Yankees went out of
44:20
their way to warn that warn people to to alert people that
44:24
they were going to bring job up and he was going to be a huge
44:27
part of the bullpen and he was he was unbelievable.
44:30
He was lights out and then back and forth to the starter, to the
44:34
bullpen. I'm like, we had a great thing
44:36
in you as a relief pitcher. You were awesome in the World
44:38
Series in 2009. I don't know what the Yankees
44:41
were thinking with that, but we'll talk more about.
44:43
It you know what, Jeff Nelson's been on a show and Jeff Nelson's
44:47
thought he would be a better starter than a bullpen guy.
44:49
They should have just started him, but that's a whole nother
44:52
story. You can get into it with Jabba.
44:54
Jabba's looking good. He's looking fit.
44:56
He's the fittest he's ever been, even even when he was a player.
44:59
So Jabba lost some weight, so he got.
45:01
He's got. Get somebody out.
45:03
Well, you get somebody out. Jabba got a workout plan.
45:05
Maybe he's. Planning to do some.
45:07
I still play long toss with my son so maybe not as long and it
45:11
takes me a little bit longer to get going but no, it's still
45:14
there. Okay.
45:16
Well, we got a bet, so we're going to be working on this bet.
45:19
He maybe he'll talk about that on your show.
45:21
But one of these days it's going to happen.
45:23
He he's shaking his head. He's he's licking his lips.
45:26
So anyways can we? Can we interest you in the Long
45:29
Island Ducks? Maybe for an inning.
45:32
Oh yeah, I might have to do that.
45:35
I think one of our other guys I think didn't Nick.
45:36
Goody, Nick. Goody.
45:38
Iconic. I'm I'm one of their backup PA
45:42
announcers. I'm doing their game tomorrow
45:43
night. I was like nothing better than
45:45
to introduce you coming out of the bullpen.
45:47
Hey, but can this this not be like your last deal?
45:50
Can I actually get paid to do it?
45:53
For 25 years. OK.
45:57
They're one of the most successful independent minor
46:00
league franchises. In the yeah, trust me, I I know.
46:03
I've I've heard of them. I know who they are.
46:05
I'm just saying if I'm going to do it, I don't do it for free.
46:07
No, listen, I'll give to Frank Boltons phone number.
46:11
You give him a call like hates Jabba.
46:13
They'll say, like, when can you be here?
46:15
Perfect. They employed the good one, how
46:17
could you not think? That's true.
46:19
Actually, Goody was telling me when we were driving, when we
46:22
were on our trip, he told me that he was paying two pitch.
46:26
So when he was on the Ducks, he was like, it was like I was
46:30
paying a pitch. It was like it was like I wasn't
46:33
making any money. I was just enjoying the the
46:35
opportunity to pitch for the Ducks.
46:38
They. They've had they've had major
46:39
leaguer after major. Leaguer.
46:41
Through that whole league, you know, whether they're on the end
46:44
at the end of their careers trying to get back or they just
46:47
wanted to hang on and play a little bit more, it's been
46:50
outstanding to watch that team play for 25 years.
46:53
The goodie. Anyways, Peter, we really
46:55
appreciate you. Keep up the good work.
46:57
We'll get you on the show again soon.
47:00
We really appreciate the time. After hopefully by that point
47:03
the lead that the Dragon League owner is wearing an orange
47:06
jumpsuit at that. Point.
47:09
But we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll stone him.
47:11
We'll, we'll, we'll set him up in the back of the wall and
47:12
we'll start throwing stuff. We'll have Jabba stone him.
47:15
There you go, he's in as long. Attacked by midges.
47:21
As long as as long as he gets paid for.
47:23
It rather throw balls at him, yes as.
47:25
You go as long as he gets paid for it.
47:27
Now, Peter, he's got to get paid, yes.
47:29
I'll take care of it, I promise. Anyways, Peter, we really
47:34
appreciate the time, buddy. Yeah.
47:35
That was it was this was fun. Thanks.
47:36
Our job. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
47:38
Yeah, we'll see you tomorrow. Peter Schwartz, ladies and
47:41
gentlemen, WFEN anchor, sports Bash media and great Long Island
47:46
writer, great interview gave us his take on the Long Island
47:49
Dragons and boy, oh boy, it was just an absolute world.
47:54
I, I can't believe that I, I, I definitely, if I could reach out
47:59
right now for 30 for 30 in ESPN, I would definitely link them up.
48:02
That is a story that made absolutely no sense.
48:06
It was a whirlwind. And I know Gerald, Gerald
48:08
Filardi and he was telling, telling me the story.
48:10
I was like, Gerald, I, I don't get this, but explain the story
48:13
to me. And he was explaining it and now
48:15
he explained it very, very well. What was going on.
48:18
This guy was just full of, you know what, that's what he was.
48:22
And he was just trying to barter and get everything for free to
48:25
open up a league so he can take businesses, money to build
48:29
whatever he was building an empire behind it.
48:31
It was a Spano. It was absolutely what Spano did
48:35
with the New York Islanders. But the way, yeah, the way Peter
48:38
said it is basically just one of the one of those things where
48:40
he's like, let me take their money.
48:41
And he had no plans on doing anything with it.
48:44
Like, and think about all the time that people probably spent
48:48
and like, you know, wasn't getting paid out of that.
48:51
Yeah, that, like when he said it, I wanted to come in and say
48:55
something other than the dog was barking.
48:57
I wanted to pun him, but just kidding.
49:03
That's a joke, people, that that doesn't happen.
49:07
You could send. You could send the dog after.
49:09
Anchorman. Yeah, he punted Baxter.
49:13
I'm going to class Case of emotion.
49:18
You know who you know who would just felt like they got punted
49:21
was JJ McCarthy just threw a pixel.
49:23
He is not doing well. I think Justin Jefferson has
49:26
four yards on one catch tonight. Not a great.
49:30
Not a great start. All right, we'll see.
49:33
It's still early. I mean, Danny Dimes, you know,
49:36
through a wonderful football game.
49:38
So, yeah, you never know, ladies and gentlemen.
49:40
All right, ladies and gentlemen, save your tears.
49:43
Mom, what's one thing? That you can't talk to me about.
49:47
My sexual fantasies say your sorry.
49:51
It is not ideal, but if it's what?
49:53
It is not ideal. But if it is not ideal, but if
49:56
it is, what? You get trouble stabbing.
49:59
You can't treble stamp with double stamp, boy.
50:00
You can't treble stamp with double stamp but but you.
50:05
Guys, now it's time for save your tears a lot of hot ladies.
50:12
All right, guys, we're here for the results.
50:15
Suck my indo. Of Save Your Tears, you see the
50:18
board we were picking from three different games from Week 1.
50:22
Again, the winner of the game gets compliments in the
50:26
compliment chorus from the rest of the competitors.
50:30
Only the gold medalist and look who it is, Speedy PD with the
50:34
slimmest of margins over Tommy poops in silver 69.52 to 69.42.
50:43
Arrow marks coming in the show at 64.28.
50:47
We got to stick to the points system here.
50:49
So the points system I was going to say is 5 for first, 3 for
50:53
second, one for 3rd, nothing for anything else.
50:57
So speedy, you can keep a little tally of that.
50:59
I'm sure he will. 4th now doesn't matter at then Jabba and
51:02
Nathan with not a great showing. Every single player Nathan had
51:06
was under 7.82 points. So Nathan gets.
51:12
He's going to have to give you some compliments speedy when we
51:14
get around to it, but other than that we'll go in reverse order.
51:18
Here it is, Jabba for Speedy's compliment chorus.
51:24
Speedy. Fantastic.
51:27
It's just you continue to surprise me, but you don't
51:30
surprise me because I should just start following you and,
51:34
you know, be a be a good follower because you're a great
51:37
leader. When you pick, save your tears
51:39
and we should do like we should get like a medal or or a
51:42
necklace and and just give it to you because the way you pick is
51:46
just absolutely fantastic. Wow, that was a great job,
51:52
Speedy. How does that got to lead it off
51:53
really, really good? They're very emotional.
51:56
OK, very emotional. I tried to.
51:58
I couldn't get tears though. Oh.
52:01
Yeah, I'm sure you you just didn't need to see some like
52:03
litter go in the in the you. Sure it wasn't your dog, Chama?
52:09
Speedy, I got to tell you there was a reason I didn't wear a hat
52:13
tonight. Because my thinking cap is gone.
52:17
Yours. The one that is very wrinkly and
52:21
disheveled and flat brimmed and old logoed.
52:26
The one you're wearing must be bringing you the brightness, the
52:32
genius, the statistician, analytical savvy that it takes
52:41
to win the first week of Sacred tears.
52:44
Speedy, you the man. You dumb man.
52:49
Dumb man. I didn't expect to attempt to.
52:52
I'm lost Jamaican dialect. That was not Jamaican.
52:56
You dumb on. I'm a little lost.
53:02
You did a little lose. You came in 3rd and yes, you're.
53:05
Next. Yeah, well, I I have a lot of
53:08
negative things to say because over the last percent.
53:11
Positive has to. Be 50. 1% positive.
53:13
Listen, we all know that this is all about luck, but hey, you
53:17
know, you have to understand how to play these games, fantasy and
53:21
understanding who you picking and what team is playing what.
53:25
And Speedy's one of the best at doing that.
53:27
That's what he's great at is understanding what teams are
53:30
matched up against, what player is matched up against, what
53:33
defense and offense. So he's one of the best at that.
53:36
If you would ask me who I would go to when it comes to certain
53:40
players and who they're playing and and where they're playing, I
53:44
would go to him because he knows that more than anybody does.
53:46
So that would be my my thought to that.
53:49
So he's one of the best at that as far as I'm concerned.
53:51
So that's my compliment right there.
53:53
I'm going to sell that. And I went with Dak beef.
53:55
Take that. There you go.
53:56
You did. You went with Dak.
53:57
So did I. And it was a big mistake, by the
53:59
way, that that you want to be not because.
54:05
Of them, hey, it takes CJ Stroud.
54:07
That's true, Tommy. Tommy, are you always the
54:10
bridesmaid in this one? Am I always the bridesmaid?
54:14
Yeah, well. I.
54:15
Feel like you've been this close before as.
54:17
Well, yeah. Well, honestly, I think this is
54:19
about like the 4th, 5th time that I've been like second.
54:23
So it's it's it's you got to get used to, can't you got to save
54:26
your. Time.
54:27
Because right now all it is is the spotlights on Speedy.
54:31
Because Speedy, like Fish said, you done, man.
54:34
Yeah. I mean, listen, are we
54:36
surprised? I mean, are we really supposed
54:38
to be surprised or the man, the myth, the legend?
54:40
And a lot of times, you know, having the privilege to drop you
54:43
off after the show, what not, and have a conversation with you
54:46
about some good old football. Speedy will look at certain
54:49
things, look at certain ways that people have ran in the
54:51
past, certain coaching schemes that have worked farewell for
54:55
teams in the past against a certain team or a certain
54:58
player. I don't know how you dissect it
54:59
the way you do Speedy, but man, it is one site to be.
55:03
I'm not cleaning his underwear. Well, if that's the trick, I
55:05
might have to. I might have to let it crust as
55:07
well. Wearing his dirty underwear on
55:09
his head that. Was Britney's underwear, I swear
55:12
my head, not mine. Well then I was clean because
55:16
she doesn't ever have dirty underwear.
55:20
Oops, I do. I do appreciate the couple that
55:22
I do. I do have to describe her one
55:23
thing. Nathan is the legend though.
55:25
That's true. He's definitely a.
55:27
Legend. He owes you a compliment,
55:28
Speedy. Make sure you get that from him.
55:31
We'll be back on Wednesday to make our picks for week. 2 thank
55:34
you to all the fans that are following us on Spotify and
55:36
Apple on the video and and the audio and we really appreciate
55:40
you guys. Thank you to TikTok fans.
55:42
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55:45
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55:54
and guys go to our website at www.worldwidesportsradio.com.
56:00
Speedy, who do we have on Wednesday?
56:01
Shout out to Nathan for getting this guy Jordan Ronin.
56:04
He's the ESPN National NFL Nation reporter national
56:07
reporter for the New York Football Giants.
56:09
There you go and I know OU giant fans are going to love his takes
56:13
about the giants. I know official, you know,
56:15
probably you know what in his pants, but anyways, it's.
56:19
Going to be terrible. He's going to say the team
56:20
sucks. You know that's what's going to
56:22
happen. Is he wrong?
56:25
No. You you'll probably give them
56:27
some credit with their defense. I mean, Abdul Carter's good.
56:30
And then it ends right there they're.
56:32
Great. Listen, you have some kind of
56:35
future. You have Abdul Carter, you have
56:36
Burns and you have Dexter Lawrence.
56:39
Mr. Sexy Dexy, who, by the way, when he came into the league, I
56:43
will never get credit for it. I'm the one who gave him that
56:46
nickname. I called him Sexy Dexy so, and
56:49
that was before he came from Clemson and everything that I
56:52
called him Sexy Dexy. I'm telling you, Job is shaking
56:54
his head. I was the one that gave him that
56:56
nickname. I was the one that gave him that
56:58
nickname. I need evidence.
57:00
We'll go back. We'll go back to one of our
57:02
shows because I have every one of our shows.
57:04
Yes, I was the one that gave him the nickname.
57:07
He was playing in the national championship Speedy and I called
57:11
him Sexy Dexy and I said he I, I thought he was going to be a
57:15
good player going to the NFL when the Giants drafted him too,
57:17
because I watched him. He dominated in the national
57:20
championship game. So I remember that's all I'm
57:23
going to say. And the guy that drafted it was
57:26
the Raiders that drafted him. I didn't think he was going to
57:28
be good. Who was the guy who was the pass
57:30
rush at the Raiders? Well, Ferrell.
57:32
Ferrell yeah, I didn't think. He was the strange 4th overall
57:35
pick. Like I thought he was going to
57:36
be good, but not top five good. Yeah, I didn't.
57:39
Think he was going to be good. I thought Dexter Lawrence had a
57:41
really good national championship.
57:43
That was the first of many. Mike Mayock, yes.
57:47
Proving. Maybe he didn't know what he was
57:48
talking. About well, he actually kind of,
57:49
it actually kind of washed because in the fifth round they
57:51
drafted Max Crosby, yes. He did.
57:53
Yeah, but that's getting lucky. Yeah, just drafted Jacobs here
57:57
too. That's right.
57:58
Being bad at drafting and all the other.
57:59
Rounds. Yeah, he did.
58:00
I mean, there he wasn't. Did not a lot of slam dunk.
58:03
No no 20/20/20 was the worst though.
58:05
They drafted Henry Ruggs first, then they drafted Damon Arnett
58:08
who was like a fourth round prospect in the first round that
58:10
had all field issues. Yeah, it didn't make any sense.
58:12
Anyways, we'll be back on Wednesday.
58:15
Until then, this is Errol Jabba, Speedy Fish and the Poop Man
58:19
saying good night. We'll talk to you then.
58:20
Good night everybody. It's the worldwide sports radio
58:24
network.