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Evan & Tiki

Evan and Tiki Short: Optimism is Building for Aaron Glenn

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Tiki Barber moves from middays to afternoons, joining Evan Roberts in afternoon drive! Sparks will fly as unabashed Jets and Mets fan Evan talks turkey with ex-Giant and staunch Yankees supporter Tiki!

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0:00.0

But I want to tell you honestly, Tiki, that over the years of the Jets and the Mets and any team I root for hiring a new coach or manager, I usually have what I like to call is tepid optimism.

0:10.8

Okay.

0:11.1

Like when they hired Robert Sala a few years ago, I said, yeah, there's a hope for a new beginning, but I wasn't really sure.

0:16.9

So it's optimism, but it's tepid.

0:18.9

It's the, all right, we'll say, I don't know what it is.

0:23.4

I'm not exactly sure.

0:24.7

I've been trying to pinpoint it over the last 24 hours.

0:27.7

I am a rationally giddy about this hire.

0:32.3

Aaron Glenn feels like the guy we've been waiting for.

0:36.3

And I am not one to just turn the mic on and say, yay, we're the match, we're going to win,

0:42.9

yay, we're the Jets.

0:44.0

Usually, even if I'm optimism, there's that strain of, we'll see.

0:48.8

I don't know what it is.

0:51.0

I don't know if it's some jet fans being so negative, some people around here being

0:55.7

so negative, I don't know if it's that I liked him as a player, I don't know if it's the clips

1:01.1

I see of him, I don't know what it is. But there's something about Aaron Glenn that is making

1:06.8

me truly honestly believe we have finally gotten the culture changer that the Jet

1:12.9

fan has waited for for decades.

1:14.5

I would guess it's a combination of a lot of those things, but primarily it's familiarity.

1:20.9

You feel like you know, well, you do know Aaron Dunn.

1:23.4

I was going to say you feel like you know him because he's been here and he was a player

1:26.8

here, but that was as a player, not as a coach, but it still makes you feel like you know him because he's been here and he was a player here,

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