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Boomer & Gio

Best of WFAN Interviews: Joe Benigno, Fran Tarkenton and More

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Hear from Joe Benigno on the Jets; SNY NFL reporter Connor Hughes with Evan & Tiki; Brian Baldinger on the Giants with BT & Sal; NFL talk with Nick Kostos from You Better You Bet, and Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton joins Boomer & Gio in studio.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is a Monday after Thanksgiving.

0:04.8

The long NFL week is almost over.

0:07.6

There were three games on Thursday, a game on Friday, a whole slate on Sunday, and it finally

0:12.3

ends tonight with Giants, Patriots, a game you'll hear right here on the fan.

0:15.7

More on that as we get closer to game time, and also a show feature announcement coming

0:20.2

up at 4.3030 and we'll talk some

0:21.9

bets as well so a lot to get to but joe b's monday call in with evan tiki is brought to you by approved

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0:38.0

Joe, hopefully you had a great Thanksgiving and guess what? We have a Jets victory. How are you? Yeah, yeah. No, I'm good. I mean, it was, you know, it was nice. It's always nice to win, bro. You know, what else can I say? It looked like a professional team yesterday. Let's start with this. Let's start. I'm going to start with this. Okay.

1:00.6

This is about the best that I have felt about the direction of this franchise in a long time.

1:08.0

I really, you know, and the coach, look, the bottom line on the coach is they're playing for him.

1:09.7

They definitely play for him.

1:10.8

There's no question. Got to cut out some of these nonsense penalties like the guy doing the Watusi on the ground. The Crary ball, yeah. Whatever the hell he was doing there. And you can't have two false starts on the potential game-winning drive at the end of the game. Okay, when we could get into that. But they're playing for him. There's no doubt. They should have, Tyrod Taylor should have been playing long ago. If Tyraud Taylor would have been playing, you know, most of the year. You know, let's see, like, but a third game of the year, if he was playing, they'd be in the hunt now. They'd probably have a couple more wins than they do. But it was nice to

1:45.1

see. And I'll tell you, bro, how about this? Does anybody in the NFL have better special teams than a Jets team? That's incredible. They got a great punter. They got a great kicker. They should have never let Nick Folk go. He's the best kicker the Jets have ever had as far as I'm concerned. right they should have never let him go

2:00.5

the return game is unbelievable

2:03.1

this isaiah williams the Jets have ever had as far as I'm concerned. Right? They should have never let him go. The return game is unbelievable. This Isaiah Williams, they cut it. You know, Glenn cut him. He had a big fumble in Miami. Remember you had that fair catch on the two-yard line, whatever it was. Yep. This guy has been on, but he's been instrumental in every game they won. He had the big 80-something yard return yesterday.. He had a big return, too, to set up the game-winning field goal drive. He got it to about the 45-yard line. You know, you had the fumbled punt. We actually got a turnover, fumble punt, to get a give-mey touchdown out of that. And look, Tyrod Taylor was, I thought, look, I don't want to say he was great, but he did what he had to do to win. I mean, he made some big plays, the big pass to Mitchell. Scramble. The scramble. Right. A couple of what is the touchdown scramble. And in the one on the game winning drive, where he got a first out and ran, you know, for 14 yards, got out of bounce. That was a big play. He really played well, I thought.

2:52.2

No turnover.

2:53.1

He didn't turn the ball over. Solid, solid win. And I'm going to tell you this, okay? And look, they're not going anywhere this year. I think they're going to win more games. I don't think, I think they're going to win at least a couple more games. forget the first, the second pick of the draft's not happening.

3:07.1

You know, don't, you know, if you're a jet fan, stop, you know, wanting them to lose. This team needs to learn how to win. This is a new regime, and it's about, you know, it's not a coach on his way out. They need to learn how to win, and they need to win games. Yeah, I think the, yeah, Joe, I think the biggest thing, this is, we can get to the players and everything

3:28.0

that's going on in the field, but you mentioned Aaron Glenn.

3:30.6

I think he's learning and growing into this role.

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