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Evan & Tiki

Hour 3: Joe B Torches the Jets and the NFL Coaching Carousel Explodes

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Joe Benigno joins Evan and Tiki and delivers a scorched-earth review of the Jets’ season, calling the last five weeks unwatchable and questioning how the head coach could possibly return. Joe blasts the historic lack of forced turnovers, the lifeless offense, and the embarrassing mistakes that made the Jets feel closer to a college team than an NFL franchise. From there, the conversation turns to what comes next: the value of the No. 2 pick, whether a quarterback is mandatory, and how the Jets avoid repeating the same rookie QB failures with a real veteran bridge. Joe weighs in on coaching candidates, why certain names would take the job, and what kind of coordinator hires are non-negotiable if the current regime stays. The hour closes with the Black Monday carousel, the most appealing openings, and a quick detour into Mets frustration before the show pivots back to a fanbase stuck between draft hope and total exhaustion.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Joe Beningo. Joe, good to talk to you, man. Happy New Year, pal. Happy New Year, guys. Yeah.

0:05.4

Look, I want to thank the Giants for winning yesterday. Let me just say this. And I'm very down right now because it is absolutely disaster of a head coach we have who's coming back next year.

0:17.8

But before I get into that, okay, I want to thank the Giants, first time in

0:22.1

my life that I was rooting for the Giants to win and the Jets to lose. And it worked out perfectly.

0:27.1

The Colts lost two. So we picked up a couple slots on that as well. I think we got the 16th

0:32.2

pick from Indianapolis. With that said, how the hell is this coach coming back?

0:39.0

I mean, let me let me say this is the worst jet team ever.

0:42.5

I mean, you could talk about the Richie Cotty's one-win team, Adam Gaze's two-win team.

0:48.2

This was not a professional professional football team for the last five weeks.

0:55.0

Any of the top, all the teams playing this weekend in college football on Thursday and Friday

0:59.8

would beat the Jets.

1:01.3

That team we saw yesterday.

1:02.8

That was a disgrace.

1:04.8

That was a joke.

1:06.1

And I know they're tanking.

1:07.4

I get it.

1:08.1

I get it.

1:09.7

Brady Cook is not an NFL quarterback, but I mean,

1:13.4

come on. No interceptions all year. Four turnovers, four force turnovers all year, both NFL records.

1:20.7

You got beat your average of like 26 points a game over the last five games of the year.

1:26.6

And you're bringing this guy back. Yeah. You got to be kidding me. Joe, this is tough because I want to bring him back. And as I give you my points, I have to admit, I have no football reason because this season was a freaking disaster. And everything you said is true. And I was talking to our old producer Ernie about this last night as well, because he wants him gone too. And I fully understand. I know. I've been talking about it. I totally get it. I am just deathly afraid of this franchise going one and done and basically being toxic to any coach that would actually want to come here. And I'd almost rather take the risk that this guy can figure it out in year two with more talent, because I do trust the general manager. I think you do too. Yeah, the general manager I do try. I almost rather risk that than just blowing the whole thing up and honestly hiring another first time coach, he's not going to get a veteran to take this freaking job. Well, yeah, I think you have to think of it this way. So Brian Callahan was fired after a year and a half, basically, right? So he was essentially kind of won and doneish. You knew, right? You knew so you moved on. Pete Carroll gets fired after a year, a year. He's won and done. This is a great Pete Carroll, potentially All of Fame head coach, fired after a year because

2:34.8

you just knew.

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