Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Hi, Boomer and Geo coming to you live from the Bill Ford Tough Studio on the fan and CBS Sports Network. Want to get some calls in this segment at 888-808-1019. That's the Red Pocket Mobile fan line as brought to you by your new ultimate cell carrier, Red Pocket Mobile. Give me the spread for the Rockets Knicks tonight. Okay. I'm not feeling it, man.
You're not feeling it? You asked me two weeks if the wins of a championship were behind this team. I don't know, man. I really don't know right now. I am opening up my FanDuel Sportsbook app, and the Rockets are plus one. Plus one, that's it? Hosting the Knicks tonight, yeah. That's right. Plus one, hosting the Knicks. One point underdog to the New York Knicks.
I wonder if there's anybody missing for Houston tonight. Houston.
Chapter 2: What are the Knicks/Rockets game predictions?
Houston. You know, the guy who does the PA for that arena has gotten a large TikTok following because he does TikTok lives while he's doing the PA from there. Nice. And he is so good. I got wrapped up. There's just some random Rockets games, like Rockets Grizzlies, and it came up as I was scrolling. I just watched him do the announcements for like five to ten minutes. It's great.
Kevin Durant go off tonight? I don't think so. I don't think so. Yeah, but we've gone around and around and around with the Knicks and good teams, bad teams, everything else. They played a hell of a lot better in the postseason last year than I expected them to play. And that's what we're going to have to get from them this postseason as well.
Because talk about wins of a championship and all that stuff. Yeah, it doesn't feel like that right now. It feels like they could easily lose to, if Cade Cunningham is back and healthy, the Pistons easily lose to a Celtics team. Other than that, I feel pretty good about them facing anybody else in the Eastern Conference. But yeah, I don't.
I don't love everything about them right now, but I still think they're one of the best teams in the league. The thing that worries me is that they got shocked by Charlotte, and then obviously SGA had his way with them, and now comes Kevin Durant. This is three games in a row against teams with good records, and I don't know, man.
This is a game where I'd like to see them win it, and I'd like to see them win it convincingly to kind of get me a little bit more confident about where they are. But, man, I'll tell you, they were like a half a game ahead of the Celtics, and now they're two games behind the Celtics. Yeah, and I'm not as worried about that.
Of course, you'd rather have Game 7 in your building if you had the choice, but I don't think that's going to be the be-all, end-all that ends this team. The flaws that we have talked about with this team will be the thing that ends this team. It's not going to be home court advantage in a series against Boston.
So speaking of basketball, you sent me something last night that I had either seen and forgotten about or hadn't seen before. So we all know that Danny Hurley is a maniac. We knew that he was a maniac. But the levels of maniac that he is now reaching are things I don't think I've ever seen, like honestly. So the getting in the face of the official now, I guess it was, what's his face?
Seth Davis, who has been covering college basketball for a million years. I think you're friends with Seth Davis, right? Yeah. So he put out that Danny Hurley and this referee have had a long relationship, whatever, so he wasn't really mocking him. He was just being Danny Hurley and just being like, I don't know, celebrating in a weird way. You didn't see the video.
Danny Hurley's jacket is hanging off his shoulder, and he gets into the face of this official and just is like... You know, after the game-winning shot against Duke. And then he wipes his face with a towel for 45 seconds. Now, you think, oh, that doesn't sound like a long time, 45 seconds.
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Chapter 3: What is Dan Hurley's controversial behavior?
1 receiver. You've got a No. 2 receiver. I'm sure they'll add another receiver or a couple receivers. Whether it be via trade or via free agency or via the draft. There's plenty of wide receivers in this draft where they can pluck one if they want with one of their higher picks. Let's go to Paul in Queens. He wants to talk some football with us. What's going on, Paul?
What's going on, guys? I love the show. First time caller. Well, first time caller on this show. I just want to talk about the Odell situation, man. When I was in 2016 when Odell was at the top of his game, I loved him so much. But
you know, right now, I mean, what's the harm in bringing him in at like a fourth or fifth receiver, you know, not a big contributor, like a similar role he played with the Ravens. I think it's good vibe signing and it's, you know, for next to nothing when it comes to contract. I don't think it stops them from drafting a wide receiver either. I think it's just, you know, somebody that can come in.
We have a lot of, we always get injuries with the wide receiver. So, I think we could do a lot worse than bringing in OBJ as a receiver on the bench.
Yeah, and Paul, I mean, that's a reasonable thought process. But to me, it's just completely unnecessary. Here's the deal. You got your number one receiver. It's Malik Nabors. You want him to be the leader of your receiver's room. You want to look forward. You don't want to look back. If you are John Harbaugh, it's about moving forward. It's about...
Bringing in new guys, it's about supporting Jackson Dart, it's about rebuilding a defense, and it's about looking ahead, not backward. That's the reason why I would think that it's unlikely that this would even be a chance. Yeah, I mean, and it's no real knock on Odell as a man today. I don't think it has anything to do with... the immature player that he was the first time around.
It's just unnecessary. He hasn't played football. He's got a history with this team, too. That's the other part of it. There's a whole storyline that comes with it. If he goes to the Arizona Cardinals, there isn't. There'll be some talk about it because it's Odell and he's been a superstar. But with the Giants, all these conversations come back up. It's just unnecessary.
And you also have to make sure that... Wherever he signs, if he does sign, is he happy with his role in the offense? Yeah. I can't speak to that because I don't know how he sees himself. Sure. You're going to tell me that John Harbaugh is going to say, we're going to sign you for a million five and you're going to be our fifth wide receiver? Is he going to be happy with that?
Well, the other thing is, too, fifth wide receivers usually play special teams. Is Odell going to go out there and make tackles on kickoffs? Yeah, so I don't. The only thing is it's about looking forward.
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Chapter 4: What updates do we have on Frank Reich and Woody Johnson?
He says, don't need to go nuts, though, on what we're doing all over the place.
You don't want to go to the buffet table hungry, right? I think we're in a good position where we don't. We don't have to chase any specific need, but at the same time, we understand we still have needs. So that's going to be a factor. It's definitely going to be a factor in what we do.
Did that tell you they'll draft for need or best player available? I always like to think best player available unless you have, like, in other words, if you were the Philadelphia Eagles and you weren't going to be trading A.J. Brown and there's a top-end wide receiver there, would you take that top-end wide receiver knowing that you have two top-end wide receivers?
Then maybe you would go and try to reach for a need player, maybe a defensive back. Right. I don't necessarily know the Giants are in that situation right now. I don't see them drafting a left tackle, you know, so – I think it's got to be best player available. Well, that's what he's saying with that statement.
But then again, we see it all the time with teams that are trying to fill out their roster that maybe missed out on somebody in free agency. It's like, all right, we have a need at this position. They end up taking the copy. I always think of the Ravens as taking defensive players for some reason, like offensive linemen, like a center. If they're later in the first round,
Hell, they drafted Tyler Lindabrom, right? So he just left and went to the Raiders as a free agent, the highest paid center in the league. So, you know, I believe he's probably going to go defense. That's what I would think. But you never know who's going to be sitting there at that moment. Or let's say they are sitting there and Jeremiah Love is sitting there.
Do we go and go get another tremendous athlete or do we trade out of that so somebody else can come up and get Jeremiah Love and then they add more picks? That'd be great. That's another thing they can do. He certainly made it very clear they love the player. We shall see. You guys also talked about his comments about Odell Beckham Jr. So are you interested?
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Chapter 5: What is Joe Schoen's perspective on the Giants' future?
The obvious pat answer would be look at every option, right? And if Odell's an option, then we'll be looking at him for sure. And he and I do talk and we do text and we've maintained a really great relationship. He's one of my very favorite people in the world.
In the world. That's pretty good. Here's one more on Beckham.
We'll just have to see where it all goes, what's best for him, what's best for the Giants. That's the number one thing. It is what's best for our team.
So right now a free agent is Beckham. We shall see where he ends up. And then one other one from these meetings, Darren Muji. So a lot of Jet fans have been curious what they're going to do with Brees Hall. Here was Muji with the media, this again courtesy of SNY, giving an update on where everything stands with Hall and maybe the relationship.
Good. Things are in a good place, and I'm hopeful with Brees, obviously. We'll get through this draft process and after the draft, kind of shift my focus back there and hopefully get something done with Brees.
So if you're Brees Hall, right, that's what you want to hear? No? Sounds good, unless they move around the board, move up, move down, move around, take Jeremiah Love, and then trade Brees Hall. You never know. Fair point. I mean, these guys are being asked pointy questions, and I think they're answering them about as honestly as they possibly can without giving you a real specific answer.
Brees Hall doesn't want any part of the Jets. But if they pay him, it'll be a little bit better. But he's made it clear he does not want to be here. They paid Garrett Wilson and they paid Sauce Gardner to kind of buy their loyalty. You're right, but it's such a weird way to put it. Here, shut up. Those guys, they didn't have to give them the contracts last year, but they did.
And I think they wanted to get them on board and they wanted them to support their head coach. All true. All right, on the ice, the Islanders had a big game that fell kind of flat as they wound up losing big to the Penguins. Here's Crosby, takes the pass from Letang in the slot. Rust, he scores! And now they're just pouring it on. Brian Russ goes upstairs. It's 8-3 Pittsburgh. Statement made.
As they move ahead of the Islanders in the standings, and I believe they have an extra game to play, too. They do. Yeah, so... They have less wins, and they also have less losses. You know what I mean? Yeah. But more points. Yeah, one more point. Yep. Here was Patrick Wall. What happened on this night?
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