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Giovanni (Gio)

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
218 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

Analytics, you name it.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

And there's going to be scouts that he's going to bring over that he's comfortable with, I guarantee you.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

I mean, it's the price you pay for hiring a guy with his resume and his reputation.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

And anybody that's worth anything that believes in what they do, then that's why you're paying them $20 million a year.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

And there's going to be collateral damage, unfortunately, but that's just the business that professional sports is.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

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.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

Very impatient.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

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, very highly thought of, highly respected general manager in the league.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

Unfortunately, he passed away of cancer right in the middle of my time here when Pete Carroll was the coach.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

So...

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

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.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

Everybody loved Pete.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

Everybody loved his personality.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

So they fire Pete.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

They bring in โ€“ I mean, they fire Bruce, and they bring in Pete.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

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

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

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.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

We wanted to keep this coach.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

We've got to give him another year.

Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Mendoza Regrets For Jets, Payton Gets Help With Stidham

Let him kind of get a hold of the franchise.