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 for the build for Top Studio. Boomer Esiason, Greg Giannotti. It's Boomer and Geo on the fan. Sinalcast across the country on CBS Sports Network and wherever you are on the free Odyssey app. Good Tuesday morning. What a busy day in sports yesterday and last night. A national champion crowned in the college football playoff.
Indiana what an unbelievable story this is one of those teams that you're just never going to forget because it's Indiana because of Kurt Cignetti's story and of course Fernando Mendoza the type of kid he is the shots to his mother and his family in the crowd that touchdown run that he had so just an unbelievable Heisman Trophy award-winning season and I wish that this man was coming to the Jets like John Harbaugh is going to the Giants and we had a future there with the Jets but
But the Jets have the number two overall pick. Speaking of Jets and former Jets, Rob Salas going to the Tennessee Titans. How about that? One year away, back as a defensive coordinator, and now he's down in Tennessee. Does Brian Dayball get a job right away as well? Jeff Halfley to the Miami Dolphins. So yesterday was nuts.
We also have some negativity we'll get to later with the New York Knicks and what they're going to do at the trade deadline.
Good morning, Boomer. How are you? Yeah, good. Good morning, G. I am exhausted from watching this game last night and then peeked in on the Rangers who lost another game to their old friend Jacob Truber and Chris Kreider. I would say that, you know, and I think you brought it up, just the shots of Fernando Mendoza's mom and his dad. I mean, if that doesn't move you, I don't know what does.
I mean, that was an awesome, awesome season by Fernando and Mendoza. That was a great way to finish it off.
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Chapter 2: What was the significance of Indiana's National Championship victory?
He didn't have numbers off the chart because Miami's defense is really good and really fast, and Miami's got some really good players on that team. That kid Malachi Toney is going to be a first-rounder when he comes out. He's 18 years old, so he's got another year, I think, that he's got to go through before he can come and play in the NFL. But, man, I'll tell you what. He is a tough kid.
He is a strong kid. They hit him hard early in the game, busted his lip up. That was a cheap shot, by the way, I thought, and should have been called. But he stood in there. He took it. He handled it. And then on the most important play of the game, they decided to have him run a quarterback draw. And he does the old John Elway kind of diving into the end zone. And, I mean, this kid is 6'5".
He's taking guys on. He's laying his body on the line.
When he knows he's going to be the first overall pick.
Right. And, by the way, Tom Brady's on the sideline. Mark Davis is in the building. And they're saying, that's our quarterback. And there's no doubt now. Well, there wasn't any doubt for me. About 10 weeks ago, there was no doubt because they had us playing Fernando.
Yep.
By Abba here for the Jet fan.
Yeah, hoping that he would end up in a Jets uniform. It's not going to happen. It just stinks because we've talked about the type of personality that a head coach needs to be here. I think there's two types of personalities to be the quarterback here. One is the one that Jackson Dart has, and two would be this Fernando Mendoza who's all positivity.
And I know he's a little goofy, and I know he's a little corny and all that stuff, but of all the jerks that are out there and the people who don't take it seriously and are doing dumb off-the-field stuff and everything else that we see, I mean, this guy is a breath of fresh air.
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Chapter 3: How did Fernando Mendoza perform during the championship game?
Put everything out there on that run. He just was not going to be denied. And that right there, I mean, that is a championship play if I've ever seen it.
Chapter 4: What coaching changes are happening in the NFL?
It is. And it really reflects his entire season. It reflects his family story. It reflects the fact that he came from that area, literally a mile from the building where they were playing last night. Yeah. And here you go. They end up winning a national championship. And nobody would have ever thought that Indiana would have won that national championship.
But Kurt Cignetti, their coach, has figured out how to do this. And he's using older players. This is a very old team compared to what college teams used to be. And they're somewhat like... early onset men playing teenagers that are rising into, you know, whoever they are as players. And you could see it on the field and you could see that, you know, Kurt Cignetti has it figured out.
So good for him, good for them, good for the Big Ten for that matter. And all I can tell you is that, you know, there is a – It's just amazing watching a school like Indiana do this last night because that gives hope to guys like me that went to Maryland. I don't know if it gives anybody hope that went to Rutgers.
Chapter 5: Who are the new head coaches announced in the NFL?
I'm not sure. Or maybe Syracuse or Boston College. But the fact that Indiana went undefeated and won a national championship in college, I mean, nobody would have ever thought that possible.
Yeah, I mean I think there's three factors that got Indiana there. One, they hired the right coach. Two, they found the right quarterback. And probably the biggest one is they paid a lot of money for that roster. Mark Cuban put some money into that place, man. So if there is someone backing your program in a big way, you can skip the line.
And that's not something that everybody could do prior to the nil days, but now they can. And it is good to see, and I know there's lots of issues with college football these days, but in an impure college football environment, it felt like the purest team could win, even though they ponied up and spent a lot of money, but within the rules. But to have a guy like Kirk Cignetti who comes from
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, then goes to James Madison, then has a press conference when he takes over one of the most losing programs in Division I history and says, I win, I'm a winner, Google me. And then a couple years later, he's standing there winning a national championship? I mean, at 60-something years old? How great is that?
Yeah, it's crazy, man. It really is. And he basically, you know, when asked the question this past week whether or not he would entertain the Steelers job because he's from Pittsburgh. That's right. He said, I am a college coach. I decided this many years ago. I'm staying in college. And there was probably music to the ears. of Indiana. The fact is that he's older. I think he stays there.
I don't think another SEC team or Big 12 team will offer him whatever he wants. I just can't see him ever leaving Indiana.
He's a football coach, man. He is the direct opposite of Lane Kiffin, right? Right, exactly. He's a football coach. He's happy there. If he ended up jumping someplace, I would be shocked. I just think that he is fantastic.
thrilled to be in a place like that had support and he won a national championship there he's going to be a legend there for the rest of time i mean why would you go anywhere well and they paid him they gave him a big huge contract this uh this past year and i'm sure that there's certain terms in there in terms of buyouts and things like that that would not lead to him leaving but you know this is a moment in time where nobody would have ever guessed
that this school would be able to do what it did through the Big Ten, through the college football playoff, with a Heisman-winning quarterback. And then that Heisman-winning quarterback essentially almost playing perfect throughout the college football playoffs. I mean, coming into the game, he had more touchdowns than he had interceptions. And then he ran into the toughest defense.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Sean McDermott's firing for the Bills?
Who they fired. Right, who they ended up firing. I'm not going to sit here and say that Aaron Rodgers disrespected or didn't respect Rob Saul. I think he did. I just think, you know, giving all that what happened, the two years that Aaron was here, it just didn't go well, especially when you fire the coach five games into the second season.
Like when you're coming, you know, it's the amazing thing. When I got traded to the Jets, I never thought in my wildest dream that I was going to have three coaches in three years. You know, and what happened to me could happen to Josh Allen if they're not careful. So they fire Sam Weiss, the guy who knows me the best.
And they bring in – well, they elevated our wide receiver coach, David Shula.
Chapter 7: How are the Knicks handling their recent losing streak?
David Shula is Chris Shula's dad. Yeah. So David Shula was our wide receiver coach. And I don't think he was ready to be a head coach at that point in time. I think he was probably 38 or 39, maybe a little bit younger than that. So it just – and plus our team in Cincinnati was going through a total rebuild and we were losing a lot of plan B free agents.
Yeah.
And it was not a good mix, me and him, and that's why they drafted David Klingler in the first round. And then I said, look, I want to get out of here. And they traded me to the Jets, and I was very thankful for that because Bruce Kozlet was my offensive coordinator. After that first year, we go 8-8.
Bruce is fired because they don't want to lose their defense coordinator, Pete Carroll, the young hot guy.
Chapter 8: What are the latest rumors surrounding Robert Saleh's coaching future?
Yeah. So Pete Carroll gets hired. And, you know, I love playing for Pete because he was an extension of Bruce. And we kept our same offense and everything else. And then the next thing you know, they fire Pete and they bring in Richie Kotite and all hell breaks loose. So, like, you have a great – you have the best player in the NFL right now up in Buffalo.
Yeah.
Why you fired this head coach is beyond me. It's beyond me. I understand, you know, the tough people out there want to talk about, you know, oh, he can't get over the hump. He can't do this. He can't do that. You know, that's all BS as far as I'm concerned.
The amount of injuries he's had to deal with over the years, the lack of, you know, explosive playmakers with the exception of the quarterback and the running back, the way that they've, you know, won all these games. I would take that a thousand times over.
Yeah, and by the way, the more confusing thing is promoting Brandon Bean, who was the architect of a roster that was lacking in many, many areas. I mean, how many times have we said, even before the injuries, for the Bills to win, Josh Allen's got to do absolutely everything because he's got nothing around him. I mean, the defense was a bottom third defense.
The weapons, they were never able to replace Stephon Diggs' production and have the wide receivers around him. The offensive line is, I guess the tackles are pretty good, but the interior, everybody says, needed to be improved. I mean, it's just not a good roster.
I know something. The moment he got fired yesterday, I'm thinking, okay, where, where, where, where, where, where? And I know it doesn't fit what they've done in the past. I'm like the Pittsburgh Steelers. Put them on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let them coach that team. I mean, if he wants to stay – he says he wants to stay in coaching and wants to continue to coach.
I just don't want to see him go out to Arizona. You know, that's – somebody's going to go out there and three years from now we'll be talking about that team again.
Yeah, I mean, if Brian Dayball ends up with the Bills head coaching job, I mean, we're going to be – we just went through with Dayball and Sala some of the worst football we've ever seen with these two teams. Loss after loss after loss. Two horrendous records.
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