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Sep 9, 2014

Podcast: Ed Valentine

The Giants were embarrassed on Monday night in Detroit and this season looks like it might be headed the same way last season went.

Entering Monday night, it had been 41 weeks since the Giants last played a meaningful game back in Week 12 against Dallas with the NFC East on the line, and after waiting over nine months for Giants football, I wish the season still hadn’t started. The Giants turned in an embarrassing effort in their 35-14 loss to the Lions and it felt like a continuation of the 2013 season as if the 41 weeks never happened and Monday night in Detroit was just Week 18 of last season.

Ed Valentine of Big Blue View joined me to talk about the performance of Eli Manning and his receivers against the Lions, what will happen with Ben McAdoo’s offense and if this season is going to play out the same way last season did.

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Sep 5, 2014

Podcast: Tim Duff

Jets fans are used to losing and you can’t blame them for being worried about the team this season, but there’s one fan who is overly optimistic about the Jets.

A second Jets-related podcast in two days? Yes. But I have a good reason and a good guest. My friend, Tim Duff, is a lifetime Jets season ticket holder and wears Jets blinders at all costs. If Rex Ryan and Nick Mangold broke into his apartment, took everything in it, drained his bank accounts, maxed out his credit cards, stole his car and left it on some Brooklyn street corner after pouring gasoline on it and lighting it on fire, he would shrug his shoulders and probably think it was awesome that Ryan and Mangold ruined his life and everything to his name. No matter what the roster or personnel looks like in a given year, Duff thinks the Jets are at least a 10-win team and that’s once again the case in 2014.

We talked about the Jets’ decision to hold a contest to replace Fireman Ed, how the Jets are going to handle the six-week gauntlet from Weeks 2 through 7, if Jets fans will turn on Geno Smith in favor Michael Vick and what he thinks might happen to him when he goes to Lambeau Field wearing a Sheldon Richardson jersey.

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Sep 4, 2014

Podcast: Chris Lopresti

Chris Lopresti of WFAN joins me talk about a potential quarterback controversy with the Jets and the plateau Rex Ryan needs to reach to remain head coach.

It’s rare that I have something Jets-related on the site because I’m a Giants fan and also because the Jets haven’t been relevant since the moment before Victor Cruz’s 99-yard touchdown on Christmas Eve 2011. But things are looking up (at least a little) for the Jets and because of that, I decided to at lea

WFAN Jets beat reporter Chris Lopresti joined me talk about a potential quarterback controversy with the Jets, the plateau Rex Ryan needs to reach to remain head coach, the perception of the job John Idzik has done now in his second season with the team and we even talked a little Yankees and Rangers.

Podcasts • Yankees

Aug 19, 2014

Podcast: Ben Kabak

Ben Kabak of River Ave. Blues joins me to talk about the Yankees’ chances of making the postseason and the bullpen decisions Joe Girardi has made while fighting for a playoff spot.

Forty games to go. The Yankees begin their homestand on Tuesday night 7 1/2 games back in the division and 3 games back for the second wild card. It’s likely going to take somewhere between 25 and 27 wins for the Yankees to make the playoffs (or playoff in the case) and that would mean a 25-15 (.625), 26-14 (.650) or 27-13 (.675) finish. There hasn’t been anything to make anyone believe the Yankees at 63-59 (.516) are capable of going on a miracle run over the next six weeks, but if they are going to, it starts with a five- or six-win homestand.

Ben Kabak of River Ave. Blues joined me to talk about the Yankees’ chances of making the postseason, the bullpen decisions Joe Girardi has made while fighting for a playoff spot and what the Yankees are looking at when it comes to free agents for 2015, including their general manager.

Podcasts • Yankees

Aug 15, 2014

Podcast: John Jastremski

John Jastremski of WFAN joins me to talk about Joe Girardi’s recent bullpen management and what will happen to Brian Cashman if the Yankees miss the playoffs again.

The Yankees’ trip to Baltimore didn’t exactly go as I had hoped or planned. After the rainout gave the Yankees a needed off day to regroup after three straight losses, I thought the postponement of Tuesday’s game would only help the team for Wednesday. When the Yankees jumped out to a 2-0 lead and with Michael Pineda dealing in his return from the disabled list, I thought I would be right. But then in the eighth inning, the game unraveled and here we are one week removed from the Yankees’ last win.

WFAN host John Jastremski joined me to talk about Joe Girardi’s recent bullpen management, the emotions starting to build as we near the end of Derek Jeter’s career and what will happen to Brian Cashman if the Yankees miss the playoffs again.