Hour 1: Jets QB “Golden Ticket” at 16 + NFL Combine Week Buzz + Jets Fans Split on Waiting for 2027

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Evan Roberts is out, so the crew dives headfirst into the chaos of NFL Combine week and why it matters way more than the televised drills. With Aaron Glenn and Darren McGee speaking soon, the focus turns to the real Combine story: quarterbacks, leverage, and job security. The big debate: should the Jets follow the “Giants model” by taking a premium non QB early, then swinging on a quarterback with pick 16 as a built-in “golden ticket” for the regime? Ty Simpson becomes the lightning rod, with arguments flying about upside, mobility, injury context, and whether a “Tony Romo ceiling” is worth a first round investment. Plus, the show tackles the alternative path: waiting for the supposedly stronger 2027 QB class, grabbing a later round value like Garrett Nussmeier, and how optics and draft slot can shape a quarterback’s runway. Jets fans call in with strong takes on spending premium picks, the scars of the Zach Wilson era, and whether this franchise can develop any quarterback at all.

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0:00.0	He pulled himself from the lineup, a little load management here, but Evan Roberts out. So, plenty of football to get to. Plenty of football to get to. The combine's here throughout the course of the show. I know it'll be a little bit later on in the show, Aaron Glenn, John Harbaugh, and Darren Mooghue will all speak, I think in the 1 o'clock hour. We should maybe have some quotes coming out from Joe Shane early this hour, but a lot of football in the mind. and this is a big NFL week, Tiki,
0:23.7	even if the combine itself and the events that get televised, if anybody chooses to sit down and watch it, they find it extremely boring. Right. It's still a week with a lot of NFL news. Oh, there's a ton of NFL news that's going to come out of this week because the GMs are getting together and
0:37.5	conversations about free agency are going to start happening and obviously we'll talk about
0:43.7	the draft, what prospects look good and whatnot. It's really interesting though to compare and
0:48.0	contrast over the last 30 or so years with this NFL combine is and has become because give credit to the NFL. They've made it
0:57.0	into a television event. They've made it into something that you as a football consumer feel like
1:02.1	you need to watch when trust me, you don't because there's nothing that's going to come out of that
1:07.0	other than this kid is a good kid, which you could probably find out anyways.
1:11.1	You don't need to go to the combine to know the intel on Ty Simpson, what kind of
1:16.6	or what kind of person he is.
1:18.7	Obviously, you're going to see it on tape.
1:20.0	And by and large, it feels like a lot of these top guys, they don't want to even do
1:27.1	anything at the NFL ComBuy.
1:28.8	Mendoza's not throwing.
1:30.0	Mendoza's not throwing.
1:31.4	Some eyes don't even want to get measured.
1:33.1	Yeah.
1:33.3	They don't want to, hey, my thing says I'm 6'1, and they're actually 511.
1:38.3	And so it's changed so much.
1:40.7	I remember going there feeling intimidated.
1:43.2	This is back, obviously obviously years ago in 1997,
1:46.8	but I felt intimidated going to the combine. Like, man, these guys are judging me. And I got to do
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