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Geno Smith to the Jets: “YOU’RE BEING SCAMMED!” | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle

WFAN Daily

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Sports

3.8794 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Is the Geno Smith hype completely out of control?


On The Carton Show, Craig Carton absolutely unloads on Geno Smith and the excitement surrounding the New York Jets signing him. Carton calls the reaction from fans and media a total “scam,” comparing the situation to getting fooled in a strip club or falling for a phone scam.

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0:00.0

Ah, 2 o'clock straight up, Carton Show. Great to have you here for Friday the 13th. Going to be a fantastic afternoon. Big Mac here as well. The phone number to join, as always, 888-808-108-1-9, knee-deep-in-conference tournament play. He got the Johnny's after 5 o'clock tonight at the Garden. Maybe we get the little St. John's Yukon matchup.

0:23.3

All good there.

0:24.0

I'm just not going to talk a lot about that today or maybe anything about that today

0:27.4

because we got tons of football.

0:29.6

We got some baseball.

0:31.1

We got some basketball.

0:32.7

And we have officially the biggest narcissist in the history of organized sports. We'll get to that just a bit. But first, good afternoon, Big Matt. How are you today, kid? Oh, I'm doing well, Craig. How are you doing on this Friday? I was doing pretty, pretty good. Uh-oh. But I've, look, I pride myself on really having my finger on the pulse of all the fan bases here in New York City. I'm not a Giants fan, but I feel like I understand Giants fans, which is why we spent so much time in Evan Neal yesterday, right? But there's something going on in New York that makes me think maybe the mayor is poisoning the water. Maybe there is something going out of New York that I'm completely unaware of. That's going to come out later on as one of the great conspiracy theories that gets proven to be true.

1:16.6

There's a small but loud movement right now of people that I see on Twitter, on Instagram,

1:24.9

listening to my favorite radio station, ours right here,

1:29.4

who have started to convince themselves as if they're part of some type of really crazy cult,

1:37.2

like John Jones, right?

1:40.2

Right.

1:40.7

Was his name, John Jones?

1:42.0

Jim Jones, John Jones.

1:43.0

Jim Jones, John Jones.

1:45.1

Or like those crazy people with the Reeboks out there.

1:48.6

Heaven's Gate, that cult.

1:50.1

Or anybody that graduated Penn State.

1:52.2

That cult, right?

1:53.8

So let me be very clear in saying what I need to say and jump in as well, okay?

1:59.6

Okay.

1:59.9

No matter what you might think, no matter how someone might be presenting a certain

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