Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. And we're coming to you live from the Bill Ford Tough Studio. Boomer Esiason, Greg Giannotti. It's Boomer and Geo on the fan. Simulcast across the country on CBS Sports Network and wherever you are on the free Odyssey app. Good Wednesday morning. Exciting news for Mets fans overnight. Late last night, Luis Robert Jr. is your new center fielder.
A name that was talked about at the trade deadline last year. Instead, they got Cedric Mullins, who was a total bust. But Luis Angel Acuna goes to the White Sox. Another prospect out to the White Sox. And Luis... Robert Jr., an elite defender and a man who has at least one spectacular offensive season under his belt, is going to be the center fielder. So that's exciting. David Stearns continues.
And John Harbaugh yesterday at press conference was everything you expected it to be. It was awesome. It was exciting.
Chapter 2: What exciting news do the Mets fans receive about Luis Robert Jr.?
You saw him in all his Harbaugh-ness. which is exactly what we knew we were going to get. I saw Evan Tiki and Sean's interview with him afterwards. Sean, what they could not, he just smiled ear to ear the entire time. And I'm imagining that most Giant fans were doing the same thing. Good morning, Boomer.
How are you? Yeah, I'm doing all right, G. And you're right. It was exactly what we thought it was going to be. I mean, I thought Joe Shane was a little out of breath.
Yeah, it was a very strange thing there. I felt like he was nervous. You're right. He was nervous, and that's probably what was going on.
But what I don't understand is he's been in a lot of situations where he would be more likely to be nervous, where it's like these middle-of-the-season, into-the-bi-week press conferences where his job is on the line, or end-of-the-year, it's another four wins, and everybody's asking him why he's nervous. You should still be the general manager while Brian Dable got fired.
And this is like the exciting one. You got it done. You're here. You're the man. You stay in. And then that's why he was out of breath. It was weird.
It was very strange. It was kind of strange. And then, of course, because this is New York and because everybody has to know everything and everybody has to kind of understand the pecking order over there at the Quest Diagnostic Center. You know, the questions now start, you know, who's got the final say? Who's got this? Who's got that?
I mean, this is like John Harbaugh probably doesn't realize it, but now he does realize it, that this is New York, that everybody's going to question everything that you're doing, how you're doing it, who reports to the owner, who doesn't report to the owner. In the building over there, it really doesn't matter much as long as they collaborate.
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Chapter 3: How does Joe Schoen introduce John Harbaugh at the press conference?
But one thing I will say, for John Harbaugh to sign a five-year, $100 million deal, he's the one wielding all the power if you care about that kind of thing.
Sure. And John Maris says, listen, everybody's going to collaborate, but he is the most important cog in the wheel, if that answers your question.
Yeah, and John Mara is at the office every single day. Now, given his current health status, that may be a little bit different, and maybe Chris Mara is going to be much more present to help John out and to help these guys make decisions, but they're going to collaborate. That's what they should do. That's the job. Now, it's interesting because that's not what's going on up in Buffalo.
The opposite is going on in Buffalo right now. And you can say whatever you want about the Buffalo Bills and the decisions that they've made, but where they stand right now, Brandon Bean is the president of football operations. He actually got a raise after he was brought to Buffalo by Sean McDermott. So every team is a little bit different.
I personally like it when the general manager is the guy that's hiring the coach and he's the guy that is dealing with the coach on a daily basis. But this is completely different. This is a legendary coach. This is a coach that has won a Super Bowl. This is a coach that's coached in this league for 18 years as a head coach. So now you have to have more flexibility when you hire a guy like this.
If you hire somebody like Jesse Minter or Chris Shula or Clint Kubiak, completely different set of circumstances. This and the way it's set up is the way it should be set up because you are bringing all of this credibility. Everything that John Harbaugh projected to you as a giant fan yesterday is exactly what the New York Giants needed to start off their offseason.
Because now the business side is really ramping up. The ticket side is going to be ramping up. And you could just feel the genuine excitement. by Giant fans for the guy that they hired yesterday.
Yeah, and the turnaround being something that can happen quickly in the NFL is another reason why everybody is so excited because we have seen it. We saw it this year. We've seen it in years past. Almost every single year there's a worst-to-first team. And John Arbaugh talked about how his dad was watching film. His dad said, look at the Giants, look at the things.
There's foundational things that they're doing. He could step in. We know all the blown leads in the close games that the Giants had. Jackson Dart already being in place, the No. 5 overall pick, getting Malik Nabors back, getting Cam Scadaboo back. You have Tyrone Tracy coming off the back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. They want to run the ball. I mean, it's all right there.
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Chapter 4: What are the reactions to John Harbaugh's press conference?
Things have to change. Things have to move on. I mean, I don't believe that's what's happening up in Buffalo. Something else happened up in Buffalo, and I'm not really sure what it is. because Sean McDermott is still young. He's won all these AFC East titles. He's won twice as many games than he's lost. He's won five AFC titles.
He's done everything you possibly could, and they basically pulled a rug right out from under him. And I just don't get that. But anyway, so with Tom Coughlin leaving here and the awkwardness of all of that, but for him to – be calling Chris Mara, telling him to get down and go see John Harbaugh. And Chris listening to John and doing that, they built the boats.
And they sent Chris Mara down there. And like I was saying earlier last week, I give Chris a lot of credit for going down there. I didn't realize that it was at the behest of Tom Coughlin.
Yeah, I don't think anybody did until yesterday when Chris Mara told the story.
By the way, Chris didn't have to tell that story. No.
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Chapter 5: What questions arise about the Giants' management structure after Harbaugh's hiring?
No, I mean, like, he didn't have to tell that story. Because he was getting all the credit. But again, like, in Mara-esque fashion, you know, I don't need all the credit. You know, here's a guy who I listened to, believed in, and I took his advice, and his advice has turned into what we have today.
Yeah, and that's what you love about this team. And some of the questions going into this coaching search was, with all the recent ineptitude of the New York Giants, is that job still looked at as the New York Giants?
And the answer was a resounding yes yesterday with John Harbaugh, the way he talked about ownership and the history and the New York football Giants and all of these things that meant something to him.
That's why last Friday's report out of the NFL Network was asinine. It was all asinine. The whole thing was asinine because there's no way that the Harbaugh family – you've got to remember, I mean, their dad is a longtime coach at Western Kentucky. I mean, like this is coaching – like this is – I can't explain it. The fabric of coaching is within and woven in the Harbaugh family.
The fabric of the NFL is woven through the Mara family because of how it all started and what went on way back when at the beginning of this great league that we all love. And there was no way that Harbaugh was going to go down this path with the Mara. and not have it come together like it did yesterday.
Once you meet and then all of a sudden there's more meetings, then you go out to dinner over there and you're sitting around and you're talking and John Maris is going through what he's going through and you have to sit there and you're talking to him knowing what he's going through. There's no way that John Harbaugh is ever backing out of anything.
Yeah, I agree. It was interesting, though, because no one asked him about that in the assembled media session. But Evan asked him when they had him on here on the fan. And he basically just said, yeah, I don't know about any of that. When he said, were you close to doing something else? Were you close to this thing? And John Harbaugh was like, I don't know anything about that.
And it sort of moved on.
Good, good. There's no reason to discuss it.
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Chapter 6: How do the Giants plan to rebuild under John Harbaugh?
Love ball. That's it. It's all about... And that's why the buzzwords are coming out at the Combine. This is what Jackson Dart was saying last year when he was the pudgy clapper with John Gruden. That's right. I love ball. You know, the whole thing. Love ball. That's right. Well, let's see how you love ball. And this guy... You know, he wants to win out of the gate.
That's why they did so well in preseason. It's going to be really interesting to see how the Giants do this preseason. I don't think there's going to be any messing around. I think it's going to be about winning and winning and more winning. And that's music to fans here, and it's certainly music to ownerships here.
Yeah, and speaking of ownership, Steve Bishotti, who had that press conference where everybody was talking about it afterwards, because he doesn't talk a lot, and when he does, he's just an open book. So Evan did ask him about Steve Bishotti saying that I told him where he should go. and people assume that that meant you should go to a particular team. So Evan asked that.
He goes, what did Steve Bishotti, where did Steve Bishotti say you should go? He goes, he didn't tell me anywhere. He didn't mention any specific teams at all. He's like, I don't know where he's getting that from. What he told me was that he'd be more than happy for me to take a year off and give me a paid vacation. That's what he said. Yeah, because he had an extra year in his deal, yeah.
Right, but I found that interesting because Bishotti said that. He said, I told him where he should go, and then John Elmer's like, I don't know.
John Harbaugh's probably sitting there going, why are you guys asking me these questions? But then again, that's what happens here.
Yeah, I mean, Morris, I felt good for him, but he was also, you know, he was definitely more fan than media yesterday. He's got his suit on and everything, and he's just, the way he was looking at John Harbaugh is like a way you look at, like, you're first born.
The only time I thought I'd ever see Sean Morris looking like that would be, like, at a funeral.
Funeral, yeah. Thought the same thing.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does John Harbaugh face in his new role with the Giants?
Your father. I love my father. And my father raised me on Giants. I don't know if you saw a couple years ago TMZ Sports. I pooped my pants on the DA show.
It was great. The picture of them is great. And Evan made sure that Sean was the one that was right next to him. And then when Evan introduces Sean, and he says, because I watch this on YouTube, when he introduces Sean, he's like, this is Sean. He's a big Giants fan. John Harbaugh looked at him and nodded like, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
It was like, yeah, all right, we're here. We got it. Big Giant fan. You know what's going on. It was great to watch. I mean, I would have said, hey, John, don't worry about it. They don't all look like this. Yeah, just amazing stuff yesterday for the Giants fans. All right, we got CeeLo here today. We got a lot more to get to, including the Mets trading for Luis Robert Jr.
They've got their center fielder. It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. All right, but we're in Geo on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Jerry coming back with Rutgers, and he'll be here tomorrow. But we got CeeLo today. He's got his Baiting Hollow club shirt on. Love that. Love Baiting Hollow. Love CeeLo. Good to see you, CeeLo. What's up this morning?
Good to be seen, good to be back. Sponsored by Chef IQ, precision cooking, effortless results, chefiq.com. So we're going to start with the Joe Sheen, I'll call them brief remarks, as he introduced John Harbaugh yesterday at the press conference. It's basically an 80-second intro. It wasn't a long-winded situation.
And it really started fine, but along the way he did sound out of breath and seemed to kind of lose his train of thought or maybe his place in his script a few times. Here's a sampling of that.
13 playoff wins. and a Super Bowl championship. John has built a foundation of culture, player development, and toughness throughout each of his programs that he's been a part of. He's a proven winner. And when we set out to do this, we knew that John was going to be the perfect person for the New York Giants.
Pretty much, you know, welcomed him up to the stage and that was it. It was very, very bizarre.
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