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Boomer & Gio

Best of the Jets on WFAN: Geno Smith is back!

14 Mar 2026

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Transcript generated automatically by AI and may contain errors.

Chapter 1: What are the initial reactions to Geno Smith's return?

0.031 - 8.168 Craig Carton

Just what I needed. It's not Geno Smith. You're just not what I needed.

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9.599 - 39.606 Unknown

I didn't need Geno Smith. Just when I think the Jets take three steps in the right direction, they take a giant leap back. What are you doing over there? You supposed to have ice cream on you? Did you spill Ralph's Italian ice on your sweatshirt? Where is it? I can't even see it. Oh, yeah, you get that out. That's like the tiniest speck. You shouldn't have gone in for the jelly ring ices.

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Chapter 2: What concerns do fans have about Geno Smith?

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Hi, SNY. What the hell is SNY joining us for at 340? Two days in a row? What's going on? It's like an awkward time to join a show in progress. They just finished the Mets. Oh, the Mets play. Yeah, they won 6-1. I guess that makes sense. So careful.

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53.644 - 58.89 Evan Roberts

I think the bottom of the cup, it definitely wasn't off the spoon. You can't wear white. You're not a white guy.

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By the way, you don't even see it. When you lean in against the table.

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63.471 - 64.352 Evan Roberts

My wife will see it.

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Ah. So, club soda and a napkin. You're good to go. She's got the stain stick, but I got to tell her about it. She's got to put it on tonight. Are you afraid to tell her? Yeah, because I do this a lot and she yells at me.

Chapter 3: How does Geno Smith compare to other Jets quarterbacks?

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No, she's great, but she does get bothered when I take my nicest. She thinks I. Just put water on it, dude. You'll be fine. I tried. I don't know. You'll be fine. I don't know why you're wearing a hoodie today anyway. I know. It's so nice. You're wearing a hoodie. I'm not wearing a hoodie. Yes, you are. I'm wearing a front zip. That's the same thing as a hoodie. I'm wearing a full zip.

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93.009 - 94.391 Craig Carton

It's a sweatshirt with a hood.

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Oh, yeah. Look at that. I am wearing a hoodie today. Yeah.

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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Geno Smith's signing for the Jets' future?

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I shouldn't have worn it. I'm wearing my Fairey Jalen Brunson hoodie. Rocking out, showing my Knicks support despite a bad loss last night. Yeah. That's what I'm doing. He played well. Yeah, so did Cat, by the way. So did Cat. Cat played great. McHale Bridges is MIA. Yeah, he's just garbage. I'd bench his ass anyway. Hate the way his shot looks always have. In any event, you know how it is.

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It's February. No, it's March.

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122.307 - 122.988 Willie Colon

It's March.

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It's getting serious now. It's just March basketball. No biggie. But here's the deal. They're going to beat Utah. They're going to beat Charlotte. It's going to be a three and two road trip. Come back home to the friendly confines of the Mecca. We'll have 43 wins. You've convinced me. We'll be good to go. You've convinced me. I'm done worrying. I'm really done worrying about them.

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They've played well against the best teams, right? 17-10 now against the top six in both conferences. 7-3 in 10 games against the Western Conference in particular. Pretty much everybody but Detroit they've handled fairly well. So let's just get there and we'll figure it out. This team's going to be judged on managing periods out.

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I can't do this night in and night out worrying about how the Knicks are going to show up. Something could happen that warrants us to talk about it, but last night's not that game. No. They're going to win the next two. They'll be three and two on a five-game road trip.

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And like we said, when the calendar hits May and we're trying to get into June, that's when we're going to make our decision on Mike Brown and the Knicks. So a guy named Sam Block on Twitter did something I find pretty interesting. Maybe you will as well. Geno Smith, his first time here. Okay. What was that? Was that 2013? Yeah, 2013. Geno Smith, okay? Okay.

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I want to give you, this is an exercise in incompetence. Okay. Fair enough? So that's the setup for this, okay? My favorite exercise. All right, Geno Smith. My dear buddy, Matt Sims. Michael Vick. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Bryce Petty, Josh McCown, Sam Darnold, Trevor Simeon, Luke Falk. Remember him? I do. Joe Flacco, Zach Wilson, Mike effing White, Josh Johnson. Remember him? I do.

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Remember Chris Strebler, the special teams guy that became our quarterback? Chris Strebler. Aaron Rodgers, Tim Boyle, Tyrod Taylor, Justin Fields, Brady Cook. And Gino Smith. And Gino Smith. Those are the quarterbacks that have started games for the Jets since we drafted Gino Smith. Yep. To re-signing Gino Smith. Right. 13 years later. Right.

Chapter 5: What are the key reasons for displeasure with Geno Smith's return?

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I've clearly expressed my displeasure with this move. Is it too soon, since it's been almost 24 hours, for me to now give you the Evan Roberts culp? No.

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Chapter 6: How does Evan Roberts' perspective on the Jets' quarterback situation unfold?

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Can I do the Evan Roberts cult? I think it's time for the Evan Roberts cult. Okay. Can I do the Evan Roberts cult? Yes, let's hear it. All right. And I'll do the same storyline with Spence on my knee as I get ready to go to week one against the Raiders at MetLife Stadium. Here's the Evan Roberts cult.

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Chapter 7: What potential storylines emerge around Geno Smith's comeback?

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What a story this would be. What a freaking story this would be. The New York Jets have never found their franchise quarterback since Joe Namath, which in my opinion basically isn't real because it happened so far before I was born. It's just stories that Joe B tells me. What? A story it would be that a guy that we drafted who failed here, he failed here for numerous reasons.

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He failed here because he was immature. He failed here because he got in a fight over 600 bucks and got punched in the face. He failed here because he got kicked off a plane. He failed here because he was just not ready.

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Wouldn't it be amazing if that guy who then took a journey around the NFL, turned his career around, they wrote him off, he didn't write back, his career then goes back into the toilet- The Jets are on like the typical LOL run. Wouldn't it be something if the answer to the trivia question on who saved the New York Jets was actually that guy?

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That Geno Smith, like Vinny Testaverde years earlier, returns to New York and... And leads us somewhere that on March 11th, you could never imagine that in a world in which Sam Donald was a Super Bowl champion. Wouldn't it be something that when it didn't work with Mark Sanchez and it didn't work with Gino Smith the first time and it didn't work with Sam and it didn't work with Zach.

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Wouldn't it be something if the story that we get to finish is that Gino Smith returns and leads us in the most improbable run in NFL history. Much like Super Bowl III to a world championship. Now you're getting delusional.

Chapter 8: How do the Jets' recent signings impact their future strategy?

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And that's the story I'll try to tell myself and my son before this season starts. Do I believe a word of it? Not a second. Why are you going that deep into it? Because you always want to go tiki into a season, not believing cute stuff like we won a few games, but you want to believe the big boy picture. And so that's how I'm going to cope.

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I'm going to try to convince myself that as much as I hate it, Geno Smith is going to be the answer we've been waiting for. Did we do this last year with Russell Wilson, Sean? No, but he wasn't a former Giant. Yeah, but he was a former champion. We didn't do this with Russell Wilson. We felt like we have a young kid. This is after the draft, obviously.

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We have a young kid who we don't know, but he looks like he's cool. He looks like he's got the moxie. He looks like he's got the swagger. Maybe he can be that guy, but Russell Wilson's our guy right now. He's just a bridge until we get to Jackson Dart. We weren't talking about winning a championship in year one with a guy who we know is not capable of winning a championship.

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Why are you even thinking that? Because your dreams are different than my dreams. No, no. What's great about this is Evan stood on his platform and refused to say, I never said with Aaron Rodgers we could win a championship, and here he is 24 hours after Geno Smith put Putting that picture in the head. Because that's what we do as sports fans.

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Why be a sports fan if we can't dream of the impossible? I'm not predicting it. You guys know better than that. I don't like the move. I've made that clear. But what you try to do as a fan is talk yourself into believing. Dude, you're the king of it. So for you to make any negative comments towards me, Sean, is the height of hypocrisy. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm bringing up your hypocrisy.

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I actually like what you're doing because you're right. This is going to go, I guess, one of three ways, but let's go two ways. Either it is this glorious road back, Geno Smith middle finger tour. It was always meant to be this way. Or you sign Geno Smith and you're in the place you probably want to be next year anyway, picking top five in the draft and selecting the next quarterback.

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But, Sean, I can't do that in March and I can't do it in September. No, but why can't you? Look at it. It's a positive either way. Either way, it's a positive. I get it. If they go 0-17 and have the number one overall pick, the Jets are in a great position to turn their franchise around. I don't want to waste another season of my life. I'm doing it in basketball.

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It's the most depressing thing in the world to have seasons that are just wastes. Yeah, but I don't look at it as a waste. I think you're assuming because Geno Smith is now your quarterback that the season is a waste. There are steps to creating a franchise that has a winning pedigree. It is about bringing the right culture.

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It's about having the right players and obviously coaching staff, which Aaron Glenn has now remade. It's all about getting all the ducks in line. And then eventually, whether it's via quarterback or you have an elite defense or whatever the situation may be, you take your shot at it. I think the Jets are necessarily in a positioning position mind frame right now.

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