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Hour 2 - Jets' QB Outlook: Boomer Compares Fernando Mendoza to Trevor Lawrence!

Boomer & Gio

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News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Boomer wants the Jets to trade up for a QB, comparing prospect Fernando Mendoza to Trevor Lawrence as the team debates winning-versus-losing for a better pick. The fallout from a controversial Falcons win features an angry Todd Bowles blaming his players, a sad Travis Kelce reflecting on a tough season, and Nick Sirianni firmly answers the idea of benching Jalen Hurts.

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0:00.0

It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN.

0:04.3

Hi, Boomer and Geo coming to you live for the build forward tough studio on the fan and CBS Sports Network.

0:10.4

This time of year, everybody's a feel good football Friday, by the way.

0:13.6

Everybody always talks about tanking this time of year and we always say, listen, the players don't tank, the coaches don't tank, you know,

0:21.0

maybe a general manager make a decision of like throwing a quarterback out there that, you know,

0:25.4

we want to see this guy and see what he looks like and evaluate him. And maybe that's like

0:29.3

the slightest bit of a tank from a general manager. So back in, it was the 2020 season or

0:37.2

was it the 2020 season where i think yeah because it was the

0:39.7

2021 draft that zach wilson was drafted right right so the 2020 season if you remember

0:45.4

nobody was in the stadiums right so if you went and go if you went to go play on the road it

0:50.2

was like you're playing in your backyard that's right or your high school football stadium so theets went out to L.A. to take on the Rams. They were a big underdog. They hadn't won a game yet that year. And they went and beat the Rams on the road. And that was a year that Trevor Lawrence was coming out. And they ended up losing the first overall pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars took Trevor

1:11.4

Lawrence and then Zach Wilson went number two. And I really did feel at that time that

1:15.0

was a, I mean, not that they should have lost on purpose, but it was just unfortunate for

1:19.2

the Jets to win that game. I don't, I'm not there yet with Fernando Mendoza and the Jets. Now,

1:26.6

I think that there's a good chance that they don't win a game the rest of the year,

1:30.5

but they also are going, and I think the Giants are going to win a couple games,

1:33.9

so they're going to have to worry about Cleveland.

1:36.8

They're going to have to worry about Vegas, maybe even more in particular, than Cleveland.

1:42.7

But if the Jets win one of these games or two or whatever,

1:48.7

do you view it as a disaster because they could get Mendoza?

1:54.7

Does Mendoza, really the question is,

1:57.0

do you believe that Fernando Mendoza, as we sit here today,

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