Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Phil Simms | Former New York Giants Quarterback Previews 2026 Giants
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm a die on a giant man. I want the
- 0:01Speaker 1: Giants to do well. I'm getting tired.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Of the bad seasons of mediocrity. I've just really am
- 0:08Speaker 2: and I love Bill Sims. Bill is for me. This
- 0:12Speaker 2: is just for me. I know ELI want two super Bowls.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Phil is better. Thill should be in the Hall of Fame.
- 0:16Speaker 1: One super Bowl win in eighty six over El Waing
- 0:19Speaker 1: and the Broncos and the hosteler win. Sims had that
- 0:22Speaker 1: team at ten and one before you get hurt against
- 0:25Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. And on top of that, what an
- 0:27Speaker 1: NFL career since CBS Showtime doing giant stuff right now,
- 0:33Speaker 1: He's a lifer and he's.
- 0:35Speaker 2: A great guy. I legitimately love him.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Number eleven, Bill Sims, Phil, welcome back, buddy, how are you?
- 0:42Speaker 3: I'm joing well, Sid that was very nice. If you
- 0:44Speaker 3: say all those things, I appreciate it. But I love
- 0:46Speaker 3: listening to the show because I learned a lot. We
- 0:48Speaker 3: talked about explosive diarrhea. I think it's a Brillian important
- 0:52Speaker 3: and then you know, word of Philly is in Kentucky
- 0:54Speaker 3: Taco Bell. No, it's not Pride. We don't need any Kentucky.
- 0:58Speaker 3: So Taco Bell, one of.
- 0:59Speaker 1: The You know, it's funny you say that because I
- 1:02Speaker 1: once had this discussion with Bernie Coachar.
- 1:04Speaker 2: I swear to god.
- 1:05Speaker 1: He goes, it's the third quarter they're playing Pittsburgh and
- 1:10Speaker 1: he had to make duty like diarrhea, and he's out
- 1:13Speaker 1: there in the middle of the field and he goes,
- 1:15Speaker 1: I'm under the center and I'm literally thinking about do
- 1:19Speaker 1: I run to the locker room if I fumble or
- 1:22Speaker 1: throw a pick and just go to the bathroom, or
- 1:24Speaker 1: if somebody hits me, am, I gonna crop my pants,
- 1:27Speaker 1: like you guys got to worry about that.
- 1:29Speaker 2: On the field.
- 1:29Speaker 1: One time, Larry is over the Domphins actually took a
- 1:32Speaker 1: crap right on the sideline.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Did you know that? No?
- 1:36Speaker 3: I didn't, And I'm not really I really care about
- 1:38Speaker 3: it or whatever. So you know, Bernie Kolzar is playing
- 1:43Speaker 3: the game and you're talking about what he had to
- 1:45Speaker 3: do and all that. The fans will probably going ahead.
- 1:48Speaker 3: You're playing like it anyway, Let's move off.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Poor Bernie. He was a great quarterback. I know you
- 1:53Speaker 2: love him. He's a great guy.
- 1:54Speaker 3: He's hard football. I really could throw the ball better
- 1:59Speaker 3: than you know, anybody probably gave him credit for so yeah,
- 2:03Speaker 3: and a good dude. You know, he's had a set
- 2:05Speaker 3: of tough life, but he's coming he's coming through with it.
- 2:08Speaker 3: So good for Bernie.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm well rooting for Bernie. So you know, I
- 2:11Speaker 2: heard I watched you on Step Man of Sarah and
- 2:14Speaker 2: you're always great.
- 2:15Speaker 1: You know, you've forgotten more about football in the last
- 2:17Speaker 1: ten minutes than although my whole life. I admit that,
- 2:20Speaker 1: But I'm looking for a reason to be as optimistic.
- 2:23Speaker 2: I loved Art I do and I love John Harbor.
- 2:26Speaker 2: I'm excited. This is this is big stuff.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Okay, but again, my best wide receiver may not be
- 2:32Speaker 1: Ready Scotti, but we talk about Scotta bool like he's
- 2:34Speaker 1: had five one thousand yard seasons.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Take it easy. Yeah, it was three yards to carry
- 2:38Speaker 2: last year.
- 2:39Speaker 1: You know, my upfensive line looks great to get from Miami,
- 2:42Speaker 1: but they're young. The depensive linebacking corps was not very
- 2:45Speaker 1: good last year, and ol Roll they weren't very good.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Good names if you have to reach in the Pros round.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Caught her in the Pros round. But to go from
- 2:52Speaker 1: four wins to ten or eleven, I'm a little hesitant
- 2:57Speaker 1: to think that maybe I'm just you know, because I've
- 3:01Speaker 1: watched so many years of bad football.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Maybe not the case.
- 3:04Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think you know, we threw out
- 3:08Speaker 3: these numbers like it's easy to get to you win
- 3:10Speaker 3: eleven games in the NFL. Man, you are kicking, but right,
- 3:14Speaker 3: it's just every week. I don't care who they're playing
- 3:18Speaker 3: and what they've done before. You know, it's it's just tough.
- 3:22Speaker 3: It's so mental and physical. Course, it's everything you want
- 3:25Speaker 3: to say. It's not only about the players. It's about
- 3:28Speaker 3: the coaches. Do they give the players with play calls
- 3:32Speaker 3: and designs and all that to let them really show
- 3:36Speaker 3: off their talent? That's That's one thing. Am I worried
- 3:38Speaker 3: about Jackson Dart? You know, No, I'm not. I would
- 3:42Speaker 3: say I probably said this to you last year. I've
- 3:45Speaker 3: studied him many times in college because I knew the
- 3:49Speaker 3: Giants really loved them, and I went, I don't know,
- 3:52Speaker 3: I don't know, and I and all of a sudden,
- 3:54Speaker 3: I don't know what it was a week or two
- 3:55Speaker 3: before the draft, I'm watching them and going, Wow, what
- 3:58Speaker 3: the hell was I looking at this guy? I can
- 4:00Speaker 3: really play and he's a very good runner. It should
- 4:04Speaker 3: be honestly easy for him to avoid those big hits.
- 4:09Speaker 3: But he runs the ball better, it seems like, in
- 4:11Speaker 3: the pros than he did in college. And his passing,
- 4:14Speaker 3: come on, man, he is He's dead eye. Ye you
- 4:18Speaker 3: watch him play and very seldom does he ever missed
- 4:21Speaker 3: the throw that should be made. So I'm a big
- 4:25Speaker 3: believer in him, his personality, how the players, what they
- 4:28Speaker 3: think of him. The coaches say to me, you know,
- 4:32Speaker 3: they believe deeply in Jackson Guard. So we'll see how
- 4:35Speaker 3: it goes in the second season.
- 4:36Speaker 2: So I love him too. I love him.
- 4:37Speaker 1: I've never been happier, trust me. And you know this
- 4:39Speaker 1: is the third different starting quarterback in three years. Two
- 4:42Speaker 1: years ago, Daniel Jones opened up week one. Last year
- 4:45Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Now, we got the kid, but I worry
- 4:47Speaker 1: about the look. I know you won super Bowls with
- 4:50Speaker 1: you know, not exactly Jerry Rice. No disrespect to Lion
- 4:53Speaker 1: o'manuel and Stephen Baker. He did have Bavarro, a tight
- 4:56Speaker 1: end who was an amazing player, and we've got very
- 4:58Speaker 1: good pass tight ends again this year. I love the kid,
- 5:02Speaker 1: likely who came over from Baltimore with Harball Mooney's pretty good.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Had a thousand yard season in Chicago, you know, put
- 5:08Speaker 1: up some numbers in Atlanta.
- 5:10Speaker 2: Beckham is one hundred years old.
- 5:12Speaker 1: So the question is if Maleak Neighbors is not healthy
- 5:17Speaker 1: and can't give the Giants big production as good as
- 5:20Speaker 1: thought is, who's your throwing the football to?
- 5:23Speaker 3: Well, you know, I'm not gonna narrow down to just
- 5:25Speaker 3: that one little thing because what they've done, there's no
- 5:29Speaker 3: doubt in my mind the offensive line will be better
- 5:32Speaker 3: this year. Yes, it has to be a hide. Not
- 5:36Speaker 3: that it was terrible last year, but it wasn't good enough.
- 5:39Speaker 3: But what they're doing. Greg Rowman is part of this
- 5:42Speaker 3: new coordinator job they got with the Giants from Matt
- 5:45Speaker 3: Maggie and Greg Roman. Greg Roman is a great play
- 5:49Speaker 3: designer and the run game and play action and that'll
- 5:52Speaker 3: show up. And what did they do? So they've already
- 5:55Speaker 3: kind of told you we got the running back cam
- 5:57Speaker 3: scatter movie. Hope he's gonna be what we all think
- 6:00Speaker 3: he will be if he says healthy. But the tight
- 6:02Speaker 3: end situation tells you that they're going to use multiple
- 6:06Speaker 3: tight ends and run the football and be a little
- 6:09Speaker 3: different and make no doubt about it. The head coach
- 6:13Speaker 3: is a guy that will have his finger on everything
- 6:16Speaker 3: to do with the team, and the team will be
- 6:19Speaker 3: tough because that's what the head coach is.
- 6:21Speaker 2: He's tough to no he is.
- 6:23Speaker 1: And I'm glad you mentioned Roman and Nagy because the
- 6:26Speaker 1: Giants now have a bunch of really smart offensive minds
- 6:30Speaker 1: running this football team. I tell you to Phil, I
- 6:32Speaker 1: like the kid Tracy, the running back. He's got to
- 6:34Speaker 1: hold on to the football. But go about Scotti bou
- 6:37Speaker 1: who kind of just runs right into you, right, He's
- 6:40Speaker 1: just he's a battering ram.
- 6:42Speaker 2: This guy Tyrone Tracy's a pretty good running back.
- 6:44Speaker 3: Well, you know, they got this guy that will be
- 6:47Speaker 3: leading some of those plays this year. And he's a ball.
- 6:49Speaker 3: I don't know what he is, a fullback, a tight end,
- 6:52Speaker 3: a tackle. But Patrick Ricard who they brought in from Baltimore,
- 6:56Speaker 3: who Greg Roman of course loves, you know, the three
- 6:58Speaker 3: hundred and ten pounds full back. Not many teams have it,
- 7:02Speaker 3: and he can run. He walked by me at the
- 7:04Speaker 3: complex and I had never talked to him. It didn't
- 7:07Speaker 3: get to then he walked by me. I go, who
- 7:09Speaker 3: is that? Oh my god?
- 7:13Speaker 2: Yeah, they had you know, they had a guy like that.
- 7:15Speaker 2: They had a guy like that.
- 7:15Speaker 1: During the Conflin Eli Manning era, this guy Heinowsky was
- 7:19Speaker 1: like that, right, big guy.
- 7:21Speaker 3: Yes, it's along. I can't remember what I ate for
- 7:24Speaker 3: lunch yesterday, so I don't know, but yeah, but he
- 7:27Speaker 3: looked like a character that should be in a movie.
- 7:31Speaker 3: I mean, an unbelievable shape, the size, all that. So
- 7:35Speaker 3: it just tells you a little bit about what they're doing.
- 7:38Speaker 3: And yeah, to the indeed elite neighbors, absolutely that will help.
- 7:42Speaker 3: But when you're what I'm just saying to you. Now,
- 7:44Speaker 3: if they do what I'm saying and it works to
- 7:47Speaker 3: some degree, that's okay or good. It's going to help
- 7:50Speaker 3: the wide receivers because teams are not going to be
- 7:53Speaker 3: able to do as many things they want against this
- 7:56Speaker 3: wide receiver group. Because I think the Giant's running game
- 7:58Speaker 3: is gonna be pretty good.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Calvin Austin's also wide receiver. They bring back Darius Slaton,
- 8:03Speaker 1: they got some weapons. I just I'm with you though.
- 8:06Speaker 1: They could run the ball well, and the tight ends
- 8:08Speaker 1: will make big plays. Isaiah Likely again is a big
- 8:12Speaker 1: time tight end. He proved that in Baltimore and Theo
- 8:14Speaker 1: Johnson is a damn good tight end. So The Giants
- 8:17Speaker 1: have a couple of big players there. Let's get to
- 8:19Speaker 1: the defense. You know, Abdul Carter was at number one.
- 8:22Speaker 1: He pissed me off this offseason with Trump, and.
- 8:24Speaker 2: I move past that for now. For now, he better
- 8:27Speaker 2: make plays, I'll tell you that.
- 8:28Speaker 1: But he's there. He's a first round jam choice. You
- 8:31Speaker 1: got Reese who had took in the first round this
- 8:33Speaker 1: year out of Ohio State. They got some big pedigree
- 8:36Speaker 1: here right, Ohio State first rounders, Penn State first rounders.
- 8:40Speaker 1: On paper phill. They're young, they're fast, and they're talented.
- 8:45Speaker 1: What do you expect from the Giants defense?
- 8:48Speaker 3: Greatness? You do the group you're talking about, I expect
- 8:52Speaker 3: for sure greatness there. And you know, even Darius Alexander,
- 8:56Speaker 3: who was a high picked last year defensive lineman, I
- 9:00Speaker 3: really like him. Second year, he's going to be better.
- 9:03Speaker 3: But Brian Burns, he's done everything the Giants wanted when
- 9:07Speaker 3: they would out paid him all that money. And I'm
- 9:09Speaker 3: telling you, Carolina Panthers are going. Do you think we
- 9:13Speaker 3: made a mistake there? And I said to the guy, yeah, yeah,
- 9:16Speaker 3: you made a mistake. So you got him. Arbille reed.
- 9:20Speaker 3: I can't wait to see him. How fast and what
- 9:23Speaker 3: he shows on the field. But a dual carter Cavon
- 9:27Speaker 3: Pibodo is going to be a reserve. I mean, man,
- 9:29Speaker 3: when you've got a high first round draft pick who
- 9:32Speaker 3: came on a little bit last year, really, I think
- 9:36Speaker 3: the expectations are really like, now, okay, your first rounder
- 9:39Speaker 3: showed us that that talent every single week. I think
- 9:43Speaker 3: he's capable of it.
- 9:43Speaker 2: We'll see.
- 9:44Speaker 3: But man, the Giants are going to be fast on
- 9:47Speaker 3: defense and they're going to be able to get to
- 9:49Speaker 3: the quarterback. So those are two good things.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Two minutes ago, I want to talk about the coach
- 9:53Speaker 1: because I remember a very young Pill Simms and Scott
- 9:56Speaker 1: Brunner and Ray Perkins and all that stuff, and then
- 9:59Speaker 1: here comes Bill and you guys went a lot together
- 10:02Speaker 1: a lot, and he wasn't all that nice to you.
- 10:05Speaker 2: A lot of times. I could hear him yelling sim Sims.
- 10:09Speaker 1: But you you kind of reveled in that that that
- 10:11Speaker 1: I think that little fire under your ass that made
- 10:13Speaker 1: you even better, even though you were great to begin with.
- 10:16Speaker 1: Hard about that, but oh yeah, oh one hundred listen,
- 10:19Speaker 1: you're gonna tell me that there wasn't a couple of
- 10:22Speaker 1: times where Pacell's pissed you off so much that you
- 10:26Speaker 1: want to prove to him how good you were?
- 10:29Speaker 3: Well, you know, it was just he knew he could
- 10:31Speaker 3: say anything he wanted to me, so I gave him that.
- 10:34Speaker 3: You know, I took it. Uh. If I have reacted
- 10:37Speaker 3: to it and kind of moaned about it, he might
- 10:40Speaker 3: have stopped.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Hold on, I saw you react to it once in
- 10:43Speaker 2: a while, did you not listen?
- 10:45Speaker 3: Yeah? I definitely. Sometimes he would be kind of talking
- 10:49Speaker 3: to me and I would turn to him and just go, hey,
- 10:52Speaker 3: I am so sick of you just moaning it throwing
- 10:56Speaker 3: and oh, I sid some curse words in there. Really
- 10:59Speaker 3: what he does? So this is him. He turned it
- 11:02Speaker 3: right around on me. And how he goes ooh everybody
- 11:05Speaker 3: sim says mad at me, ooh, I'm so scared? Or
- 11:08Speaker 3: do you want to hit the sims? And you know,
- 11:10Speaker 3: and I go, oh man, And then all I can
- 11:12Speaker 3: do is throw my hand in him like because he
- 11:15Speaker 3: turned it on me. And that was one of his
- 11:17Speaker 3: great skills. He knew who to pick on. He picked
- 11:20Speaker 3: on Lawrence Taylor. Maybe not as much as me, right,
- 11:22Speaker 3: but he picked on Lawrence Taylor a lot. He did,
- 11:26Speaker 3: because you pick on him. That is the message what
- 11:30Speaker 3: I can pick on anybody I want on this team.
- 11:32Speaker 3: So even Lawrence took it and kind of had some
- 11:35Speaker 3: words with him, and you know, of course Lawrence Tay
- 11:37Speaker 3: would just laugh at him.
- 11:38Speaker 2: No, he didn't care. But it worked for him. So
- 11:42Speaker 2: what what is the coaching style for John Hobball?
- 11:46Speaker 3: Hey, here, here's what it is. He's gonna have his
- 11:49Speaker 3: finger on everything, I think, and just really trying to
- 11:53Speaker 3: manage the game. He doesn't have to call plays on
- 11:55Speaker 3: either side of the ball. But I just know this,
- 11:58Speaker 3: when that all those players sitting in that theater which
- 12:01Speaker 3: all these teams now have at their facilities, and he
- 12:04Speaker 3: comes from the side door and walks up the steps,
- 12:06Speaker 3: everybody in that team is going to sit up and
- 12:09Speaker 3: go the man is here, because they know that's what
- 12:14Speaker 3: it is. He puts a little he's not good. He's
- 12:17Speaker 3: gonna make it trying to make it friendly, but you
- 12:19Speaker 3: just know always that he is the man in charge.
- 12:22Speaker 3: And I listen, I did many Baltimore Raven games down there,
- 12:27Speaker 3: and I always came away with that attitude in that
- 12:30Speaker 3: thought process, which I think is really good. You know,
- 12:33Speaker 3: the players, hey, they're all good, they're professional, football players,
- 12:37Speaker 3: But do you have the energy and the makeup to
- 12:41Speaker 3: be tough and to do all these things every single day.
- 12:43Speaker 3: He's going to bring that and make them be that,
- 12:46Speaker 3: or they'll move on and get somebody else.
- 12:48Speaker 1: So in the final sixty seconds, I'm gonna feel the
- 12:50Speaker 1: old Phil. But when George Young called join number out
- 12:53Speaker 1: of Morehead State in Kentucky, that was forty seven years ago.
- 12:58Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and.
- 12:58Speaker 1: I remember like it was yes, say go, who the
- 13:00Speaker 1: hell is this guy?
- 13:01Speaker 2: Morehead State? Phil Simms?
- 13:03Speaker 1: And then of course I fell in love with you,
- 13:05Speaker 1: and you're my favorite giant quarterback ever, a favorite player,
- 13:07Speaker 1: you and Lawrence still to this date.
- 13:09Speaker 3: That's very nice. I don't know if George John is
- 13:12Speaker 3: the one that made that pick. It might have been
- 13:14Speaker 3: Ray Perkins.
- 13:15Speaker 2: It probably was Perkins, right, not even Georgia George.
- 13:17Speaker 3: He wants to go let's just get a big guy
- 13:19Speaker 3: and play it safe.
- 13:20Speaker 2: Right right? It was Ray Perkins, for sure it was.
- 13:23Speaker 1: But with that said, forty seven years Franklin, New Jersey
- 13:27Speaker 1: one of us. Right, you could be Kentucky, go back
- 13:29Speaker 1: all you want, but you're one of us. Is it
- 13:31Speaker 1: fair to say they're still doing giant games?
- 13:34Speaker 2: Is it?
- 13:34Speaker 1: Fair to say you're more excited about this team's potential
- 13:38Speaker 1: than you've been for any Giant team in quite some time.
- 13:43Speaker 3: Well, you mean when you say any Giant team, does
- 13:45Speaker 3: that include the teams I played?
- 13:47Speaker 2: No, I mean in the recent past.
- 13:49Speaker 1: I know Daniel Jones won a playoff game the year
- 13:52Speaker 1: after we thought we got something special, we found out
- 13:55Speaker 1: very quickly we didn't.
- 13:56Speaker 3: In the recent time, I would say absolutely comes down
- 14:00Speaker 3: to this because I do believe in the head coach
- 14:02Speaker 3: and all that, and what he shows to the public.
- 14:05Speaker 3: You know, you think, oh, he's just a nice guy.
- 14:07Speaker 3: You know, when those cameras are gone, then we find
- 14:10Speaker 3: out who he really is. But what makes you excited
- 14:13Speaker 3: about the team is you got the quarterback. You think
- 14:16Speaker 3: you got the coach, We got the coordinators, and we
- 14:19Speaker 3: got speed. And you know, that's one thing I don't
- 14:22Speaker 3: think the Giants have really been noted for. It's always usually,
- 14:26Speaker 3: let's gather a bunch of big dudes, which they do.
- 14:28Speaker 3: They're a big football team, no doubt. But yeah, there's
- 14:33Speaker 3: the speed, the playmakers on both sides of the ball.
- 14:39Speaker 3: If you're a Giant fan, you should feel positive about
- 14:42Speaker 3: what's going to go on this year, and hopefully it
- 14:44Speaker 3: works out and we see great improvement by the whole team.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Sims.
- 14:48Speaker 1: The quote partselves, You're a friend of mine for a
- 14:51Speaker 1: long time decades now. You're always great team and I
- 14:53Speaker 1: love you, I really do. And you're great at this year.
- 14:55Speaker 1: You've always been great at this so it's an honor
- 14:57Speaker 1: to have you on before this season. Thank you so much,
- 14:59Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll throughout the season. Bill Simms, thank.
- 15:02Speaker 2: You, buddy. All Right, Bud, you're the best you will Yeah,
- 15:05Speaker 2: what a great guy.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Number eleven, Bill Simms, New York Giant fans still, in
- 15:10Speaker 1: my opinion, the best quarterback for the Giants ever are
- 15:12Speaker 1: and a tough guy and a sweet guy too. He's
- 15:14Speaker 1: both tough and sweet.
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