It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Five after eight. It is Willie and Jerry in four boomer in geo, built for a tub studio on a Wednesday. Bob was choosing coming up at nine. Also a reminder, Sal Lekata, live from the Salt Shack in Babylon. He will do the show from there from 10 a.m. to 1230. It's a surfside event. I will then join him. Might even pop on if I get there in time. You never know. But we will hang out with surfside and he will do his show live from Saltchak from 10 to 1230. It is an open event. So come out, watch the show and hang out for the afternoon. All right. So I'm on the football here because I have a question for you in regards to, and this is not to continually talk about Michael Parsons at all, because I'm even nauseated by it. But I did have this thought as we are getting closer and closer to the start of the season, which is now a weekend and day away, Cowboys and Eagles next Thursday, Giants, commanders on Sunday, and of course the Jets and Sealer's next Sunday. By the way, training camp coverage on the fan brought you by Geico, switch and save,

get more with Geico. So if Michael Parsons showed up to camp every day, they call it a hold-in.

Yeah.

And they're claiming back injury. When we all know it's not a back injury we know what's going on

can't you say that on some level the jones family is is dealing in good faith here by not finding

him every single day he does not practice fair it's fair and shows up i know he's watching film and he's

in the meetings but he hasn't done an ounce of anything physical on the field and he is claiming a

back like i would think the trainers would let them know if it's really a back injury or not because

if he's got a back injury how would we even contemplate him playing next th? I don't think they need the trainers to report anything. I think they understand what it is.

So isn't it a little give and take, hey listen, we're not going to find you because I think by now he just missed four weeks of camp and practices. they could have find him a boatload.

Let's get this thing done.

Yeah, listen, I also think there's a situation

they got to be worried about.

Val, you know, like you said, he's there,

but he's not this thing done. Yeah, listen, I also think there's a situation they got to be worried about. Val, you know, like you said, he's there, but he's not participating. If this thing gets done and he shows up week one when things are live and then gets hurt, boom. Yeah. You know, like that's where I'm Jerry and I'm like, that's where the, if I'm Schottenheimer and these guys, I'm like, listen, I don't know how this thing.

Because most head coaches and the coach staff, they stay out of that.

Listen, that's the front office. We do our thing. They do their thing. But if you're shoddy and you know this is your impact player, you want to go to Jerry. like, hey, even if this thing gets done,

I don't know if I'm getting him out there, right?

He needs a little bit of an acclamation period

because if you sign him into this big deal and you expect him to be who he needs to be and he blows his Achilles, which is happening all across sports, that's a year injury. Yeah, gone in the entire season. But why? Because his game is getting off the ball, right? So if he's not in a four-point stand is coming off the edge, like he's accustomed to doing it. He does that week one. I mean, like, that's money down the drain. So there is, I think for me, there has to be some anxiousness to get the job done so we can get him going ready for the start of the season. But I agree with you. Yeah, it's a good faith. It seems like Jerry and the company is like, we're not going to tag him. We know what it is, but it is what it is. Well, they've always gotten it done so far with the other guys that they've dealt with. It was the Marcus Lawrence. I mentioned this the other day was on the Ryan Clark podcast. And he was talking about how um they did tag him and Jones told him we're

going to tag you and if you play well we'll give you the contract and he goes and he stuck to his

word I played well and immediately I got my contract and they can tag mark uh um Mike at yes and

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