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NPDS - Tiki Barber joins to talk New York Giants football! More on the UFC/Paramount deal, and government role in ending blackouts (Episode 1334 Hour 2)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Tiki Barber is with us today! Let’s talk about the Giants! Can they make it back to the postseason? Is Russell Wilson the guy? How is Malik Naber’s foot? Is the defense any better? We know that defensive line is ELITE! (30:00) We need to revisit that UFC deal. More and more details have come out about this deal. Let’s break it all down. (41:00) Is the end of blackouts coming in sports? Can we finally watch everything? No. Not yet. But the government is now getting involved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you. Welcome back to our two of nothing personal on this Tuesday, August 12, 2025.

0:40.5

You're familiar with what we do now since June 2nd.

0:43.4

It's two hours every day.

0:45.2

And hour two on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we actually get to bring in a guest.

0:49.7

And I couldn't be happier or luckier to have Tiki Barber as the guests. I want to bring them right in.

0:55.4

Hello, Tiki and good morning. What's happening, David? I'm glad that other people get a chance

0:59.9

to talk on your show than just you. I think you're tired of listening to you all day. I mean, I get

1:05.0

tired. Coker certainly does. But listen, the opportunity when we saw each other in Cooperstown,

1:10.4

it became very clear to me that having you on this show, and I've been lucky enough to have been on your show before, but having you on the show would be so important, especially given the announcements that were made about you. I want to talk about that, but I want to start with the Giants, your former team, because it occurs to me that the Giants are my team.

1:29.2

I grew up actually not a baseball fan shockingly.

1:31.8

It was Knicks and Giants for the loves of my life.

1:34.3

It was not really about the Yankees or Mets at all, ironically given my career.

1:39.6

And it's been eight years and the Giants have one playoff appearance.

2:06.3

That's like, that's almost Marlins like. It's almost like I'm running the Giants. Wow. Stop. Don't self-deprecate yourself that badly. I know. It's so terrible. Look, the Giants have, they just haven't had stability for a long time. And I'm talking about in the front office, I'm talking about from the head coaching standpoint, and obviously from a player standpoint, and until you get that solved in any sport,

2:12.3

in any organization, whether it be outside of sports or not, you're not going to find success. It's too randomness. You're almost just hoping for things to go right, as opposed to having a plan for how things are going to go right.

2:19.7

And I think for the first time in a while, this offseason feels like there's a direction towards a plan.

2:27.5

And that's important because I think John Mara and the Tisch family're getting a little fed up with the inconsistency.

2:36.5

So it feels different, but it only is going to matter once we get to the regular seasons

2:41.9

and we either win games or we lose them.

2:44.5

I'm interested in what you're saying about a direction toward a plan.

2:48.7

Having run a team, I never wanted to just be in the direction of a plan.

2:52.7

I wanted to be in the plan. Yes. And so in football, you say stability, and I'm thinking of a 25 or

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