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Evan & Tiki

Hour 2: Steve Tisch Questions, a Lifeless Super Bowl, and Islanders Chaos

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The crew pivots from the chaos of the morning and jumps into a rapid-fire exercise: stack this year’s Super Bowl (Patriots vs Seahawks) against the last decade and decide, honestly, which matchups had more juice before kickoff. It turns into a full breakdown of storylines, star power, coaching intrigue, and why some teams can be great but still feel bland. They debate whether it’s East Coast bias, fatigue from seeing the same franchises, or simply that the newer versions of these teams are less interesting than the Brady era Patriots and the Legion of Boom era Seahawks. There’s also a Monday vibe prediction that this one could get ugly, plus a quick detour into the coaching carousel, why some jobs are becoming toxic, and what that could mean for teams like the Jets. Then things go full radio: the hypocrisy conversation hits, how fans pick and choose outrage, and why perspective matters more than perception. It wraps with lighter chaos from the weekend, including concert takes, the legendary “Evan seats,” a wild UBS Arena story with Jon Ledecky, and the Islanders using Tommy’s Rangers-sweep rant as hype-video fuel.

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0:00.0

co-owner, Steve Tish, connected in the Jeffrey Epstein emails, as well as Al Dukes. Though it's on a much different level, apparently there was an email involving an Al Dukes tweet that ended up in Jeffrey Epstein's email. It was him promoting the old boomer and carton tournament of babes. And that somehow ended up. We haven't had a Tommy Lugar or Wag Wednesday's one yet, have we? Tommy would be afraid of his own shadow if that happened. So if you missed any of that discussion, you could always rewind on the Odyssey app. So I made this comment to Sean and to Tiki, and I'm going to prove it, that this Super Bowl coming up on Sunday between the Patriots and the Seahawks is the least appealing Super Bowl of my lifetime in terms of just

0:38.5

everything around it.

0:39.9

And the way I'm going to prove it to you real quick is I'm going to go through the last few

0:43.2

Super Bowls and you tell me more appealing or less appealing.

0:46.5

Okay.

0:47.1

And if you're intellectually honest, which I think you are, Tiki, you will prove my point.

0:52.6

All right.

0:52.9

And you've got to think about the pre-game, put your mind space before the game ever happened. Of course. Like what you're thinking going into the game. So what we're thinking going into the game is we have this overrated Patriot team that have the softest schedule on NFL history. They faced a backup quarterback in the AFC title game in a snowstorm. They're in the Super Bowl versus Sam Donald and the Seattle Seahawk.

1:10.9

So that's what Evans thinking, just to be clear.

1:13.3

I'm just saying it.

1:14.1

I'm giving you the facts.

1:15.8

Kansas City Chiefs against the Philadelphia Eagles.

1:18.9

More appealing or less appealing?

1:20.1

Definitely more.

1:20.8

Thank you.

1:21.6

Kansas City Chiefs against the San Francisco 49ers, more appealing or less appealing?

1:25.2

More.

1:25.7

Thank you.

1:26.7

Chiefs against the Eagles. Is that more appealing or less appealing? More. Thank you. Chiefs against the Eagles, is that more appealing or less appealing? More. Okay. Rams against the Bengals, more appealing? Less. Oh, you're full of crap. No way. No way. Yeah. The Bengals finally back in the Super Bowl? Matthew Stafford finally into Super Bowl? Oh, wait. Now thinking in real time, it would have been the Rams because they were seeking their first.

1:45.7

Yes.

1:46.1

Yeah, off the Stafford trade and the Bengals upset the Chiefs. It was a big thing. But now looking at it in retrospect, it's less. Well, it was a good game. I know. But in retrospect, it's less appealing. But I hear what you're saying. All right. In real time, I would have said more.

1:59.2

We're at four in a row or red hot.

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