Email Reactions: Terrible NFL Injuries, Mets Friction, Yankees' Inaction

The Mike Francesa Podcast

BetRivers Network

Sports, Football, Baseball

4.6 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mike Francesa discusses the impact of major NFL injuries to stars like Patrick Mahomes and Micah Parsons. He also fields listener questions on the Giants, Jets, and Yankees. Plus, is friction within the Mets roster limiting the team's potential? 00:00 NFL injuries devastating star players 04:40 Difficult news week 06:40 Email reactions: Giants draft & Dart 08:40 Mendoza a terrible Heisman winner? 12:49 NBA Cup important? 14:10 How do Mets save offseason? 19:05 Lindor and Soto were never "buddy-buddy" 23:20 Yankee's quiet offseason 28:55 How will Alonso do in Baltimore? 30:45 Worst Jets season?

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0:00.0	It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.
0:05.0	Hello, good everybody.
0:06.1	Welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the BetRivers Network.
0:09.3	An email show today, a big football Friday show with big games abounding, Saturday games this week.
0:19.9	Plus, remember, you have the college playoffs. Forget the
0:23.1	bowls. The bowls have been just completely obliterated. There's like two bowl games that you
0:29.4	could even care about. But you do have the playoff games, the first round of that. You have
0:36.6	Saturday football now the next couple of weeks,
0:39.3	wall to wall.
0:40.2	The NFL really lost a lot of its Christmas Day impact with what happened.
0:44.6	The Cowboys are out of it so that Dallas-Washington game has no meaning.
0:49.5	And then you have the Kansas City game against Denver,
0:52.4	which Denver will be an enormous favorite
0:55.3	now against them. And Denver obviously playing for the one seed, wanting that one seed desperately.
1:03.1	One all the roads to go through there as Sean starts to think about that this team can
1:08.1	actually get to a Super Bowl this year. and I think he really believes it can.
1:12.6	So clearly a very different year in the NFL. And the injuries have played an enormous part of this season.
1:22.6	They're always a part of every NFL season. We always talk of the war of attrition. But this year,
1:30.0	there have been so many devastating injuries to keep performers, so many ACL injuries. And then,
1:36.9	of course, the Mahomes injury. And let's be honest, that's an enormous impact on the playoffs.
1:44.1	This is one of the people don't realize it yet because it's real time.
1:48.7	This is one of the greatest players in the history of the league.
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