Boomer & Gio
Hour 3 - Jets Hire Seth Ryan, Pats Calls From Game, Plus Knicks, St. John's Wins
09 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Seth Ryan, son of former head coach Rex Ryan, is now on the staff of the Jets. He's It's going to be their passing game coordinator came over from the Lions. Obviously, I've told you many times, even prior to this whole thing with Frank Reich being hired here by the Jets, how much Frank admired Ben Johnson and the offense that he ran.
He thought he was one of the best play callers and best play designers in the NFL. Tanner Engstrom was exposed to that, and of course Seth Ryan was exposed to that out in Detroit. But it goes deeper than that for Frank and Seth Ryan because when Frank was the offensive coordinator out in San Diego for the Chargers, on his staff was Nick Sirianni and Shane Steichen.
And then, of course, Nick Sirianni and Shane Steichen, you know, went together to Philadelphia. And I believe that's where they met Seth Ryan. When you do your due diligence and you hire people – so Aaron Glenn is a part of all of this too, by the way, because he obviously knows Seth and knows Rex and everybody else.
But what happens is that you want to find people that you're familiar with or people that you are familiar with. You want to listen to what they say about somebody. Is the guy a grinder? Is he going to be on time? Is he going to be an alpha male?
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Jets hiring Seth Ryan?
Is he going to be this? Is he going to be that? What kind of coaches are you looking for? And when I did talk to Frank over the weekend, who's in his office right now as we speak. He did tell me, he goes, yeah, we really wanted this guy. And because of the recommendation from Nick Sirianni and Shane Steichen, talk to those two guys and tell me about Seth. I don't really know him.
I know he's exposed to the Ben Johnson system, which Frank obviously really likes. So there's a dual connection there, if you will. And I think they're trying to build out an offensive staff at least from what I can tell from Aaron Glenn's words and everything else, that he wants a staff that's going to be kind of like –
a rough and tough alpha male staff that's going to make this team tougher than what it was. And I feel like they're on the way of doing that. They still have to figure out who the quarterback's going to be, which will be discussed ad nauseum for the next four to eight weeks before they decide exactly who they're going to sign as a veteran or maybe two.
And then if they draft one, if they feel comfortable taking somebody with – Either they trade back up in the first round or they go second or third round pick. But that second or third round pick is not your starting quarterback. No, better not be.
No, your starting quarterback is going to be somebody that is available, that can still play, get the team in and out of the huddle, and basically be a leader.
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Chapter 3: How does Frank Reich's connection influence the Jets' coaching staff?
They want a leader. They want a leader personality. I know we make a lot of comparisons to the Lions because Aaron Glenn was there and it got off to a rough start with Dan Campbell. But if you go back and you watch that hard knocks with Dan Campbell and that staff and the rough and tumble staff, you're going to see Dan doing the up-downs with the team.
You see Aaron Glenn and Deuce Daly screaming at each other in practice. I mean, that's, I think, what Aaron Glenn's trying to build. I think he's trying to build competition. He wants competition amongst the players. I think he wants competition amongst the coaching staff too, which is a good thing. You want offense, defense going after each other, guys.
That's how you get to where the Seahawks and the Patriots got to last night. I mean, that Patriot defense played great last night.
They did. Yeah.
But when you have three turnovers that end up in 17 points and one of them is a defensive score, you're not going to win the game. You alluded to something in the break and then you stopped yourself and you said you were going to tell me on the air about walking into a restaurant or something. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's already started in my life, my life.
I told you, when Frank got this job, I'm like, forget it. This is going to impact me in ways that people can't even see. So Friday after doing kickoff with Mike Valenti and everything, I get in the car, I drive out to Bridgehampton, and I stop in at Bobby Vance for a little lunch, sit at the bar, have a nice little lunch, have a beer. It's been a long week, and I just want to kind of relax.
And there's about 10 guys in there. Great guys. I don't know what they were doing. I don't know if they worked for one of the building companies out there. Maybe they were working for one of the golf courses out there. I'm not really sure. Dudes having lunch. Just dudes having lunch at the bar at like 1.30 or 2 o'clock. Doing man stuff on a Friday. I love that. I'm doing man stuff too.
So I come walking in. Hey, Boom. How you doing? Great to see you. Great show. Everybody's really nice. And then one guy had to come over and say, you know, what do you think? Where are they going at quarterback? I'm like, with the Jets? He's like, yeah. And as I'm walking out, they're yelling, Ty Simpson, Alabama, get him. And I'm like, I have no influence on any of that. Well, tell Frank.
Tell Frank to get Ty Simpson.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Jets' quarterback situation?
And all the while, it's up in the corner, Milan, Cortina. Milan, Cortina. Yes. Yeah. Let's go to Tony in Staten Island. What's going on, Tony? Hey, good morning, guys. What's up, man?
Hey, game last night, you know, Josh McDaniels failed. I mean, as far as pressure on the quarterback, they always rush with four. And he, you know, primarily throughout the season, he blitzed the crowd. You know, he really blitzed them up. And they weren't ready for it. And, you know, I just want to speak to that point. I know you spoke about Josh and McDaniels. The game plan wasn't there.
And I do want to talk about another topic on player concussions and stuff like that. Yeah. So, Boomer, so, you know, these are shells that they wear for the helmets. If it's determined that they're going to provide better protection, you know, it's not required that they wear them, right? And then, you know, the other thing is this.
When these games get important in the postseason and during the playoffs, you know, as a coach, would you mandate your players that they have to wear them? And I speak about this.
um like uh jackson smith the jig is injured i mean you have a chance where you're going to lose a player you know you know why would you go why would you open yourself up to that and then it's all very contradictory uh where they're saying that well they're providing better protection we want to prevent concussions these shells provide better protection yet it's voluntarily that the player should wear them and it's just it's just two sides of their mouth boomer and
And that's why I just wanted your opinion. And if you were a coach, would you mandate your players? I would not. No, I see. Yeah. But by the way, you know, I hate the word mandate that, that I don't even compute with that word. You know, I don't want to tell anybody to do anything. As a matter of fact, players are taking less pads off of themselves or more pads off of themselves.
So they offer less protection, except when it comes to the helmet and the helmets, by the way, have been redesigned a thousand different times, and every player has an opportunity to basically pick the type of helmet that he wants. And if he wants to wear the Guardian cap, he can. But I would never mandate a player to wear a Guardian cap.
Yeah, I haven't heard a lot of players talk about trying it and then not liking it and the way that it feels and it changes the way they play. They wear it in practice.
this yeah well i know but still like a guy like you don't see a lot of wide receivers wearing it you see more of the you know the defensive lineman the offensive lineman yeah sometimes you'll see a safety or two the reason they don't want i i believe the reason why those wide receivers don't want to wear it they want to be as quick as they possibly can they don't want anything dragging them you know a half a second slower or a millisecond whatever they just want speed and they want quickness
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Chapter 5: What happened during the Patriots game and what were the highlights?
He has a thing over his face too. Shackles. Looked like a prison garb deal. He had a red outfit on. Is it an ode to Aaron Hernandez or something? Oh, man, don't say that. What am I supposed to think? Honestly. He's a patriot dressed up as a prisoner. Do you see it? I'm looking at it now, yeah.
It says, while the jersey was a nod, it could have also hinted at the 1979 cult favorite movie, The Warriors. Okay. Because I know... I know that... Yeah, I have no idea, man. I don't know. He's definitely an eccentric dude. That's for sure. Yeah. I wish I hadn't seen this now.
Why?
Because now I've got to figure out what it's about. I don't want to. And I feel like I have to. Was it a pioneer? What? I'm looking at his ears. I'm wondering, was it a pioneer costume? What's a pioneer costume?
Oh.
He was wearing handcuffs as well, I believe.
Well, handcuffs and cuffs around his ankles. And he came walking.
He had a mask on. He had a mask on.
Does that have to do with Hannibal Lecter, maybe? I don't know. That's what I said. He's also wearing like what a prisoner would wear, but not like orange, but burgundy kind of.
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