Boomer Esaias

Hey, how's it going, guys?

What's up, man?

Yeah, that's what I kind of assumed, Jamie, that there would be people out there that are so down on the organization and they feel like some of these guys that come through here, as Boomer mentioned, they're victims of the Jets organization as opposed to making their own bed.

And some of that's true, some of it isn't.

But with Sam Darnold, there's no doubt that he walked into a situation where he could not succeed early on in his career.

Yeah.

I played under a different owner, so I was under Leon Hess, and Leon was towards the end of his ownership before he was getting ready to sell it to Woody Johnson, and he became very impatient.

Very impatient.

And in the middle of all of the time that I was here, our general manager, his name was Dick Steinberg, very well thought of, a very highly thought of, highly respected general manager in the league, unfortunately passed away of cancer right in the middle of my time here when Pete Carroll was the coach.

So...

Bruce Coslick gets fired, so they don't want to lose Pete Carroll because Pete Carroll is the up-and-coming, young, fresh, defensive guy.

Everybody loved Pete.

Everybody loved his personality.

So they fire Pete.

They bring in – I mean, they fire Bruce, and they bring in Pete.

And Pete's there for a year, and we lose our last four games that season.

And then, of course, without a direction of a general manager like Dick Steinberg, had he been still alive, he probably would have been able to say to the owner, let's just calm down.

We wanted to keep this coach.

We've got to give him another year.

Let him kind of get a hold of the franchise.