Philip Rivers as Bills Head Coach?! + Jets, Giants & Sam Darnold Debate | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Craig Carton and Chris McMonigle react to the wild report that former NFL QB Philip Rivers is the frontrunner to become the Buffalo Bills head coach. Can a quarterback with zero NFL coaching experience really lead Josh Allen and a Super Bowl contender? The guys debate recycled coaches vs thinking outside the box, break down the Sam Darnold narrative and why it’s NOT a Jets story, dive into Giants organizational changes under John Harbaugh, and look ahead to Championship Weekend. Classic Carton Show chaos, arguments, laughs, and strong takes from WFAN.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:02.0 | Two o'clock straight up, Carton show with my main man, Big Mac, Chris Big Monagel, Craig Carton, all the way to 7 o'clock. Phone number to join, as always. 888, 808-1019. Got a great show for you today as we are ready for championship weekend. We got the New England Patriots and the Denver Broncos. We got the Rams. |
| 0:21.3 | We got Seattle. |
| 0:22.7 | And now we have the craziest story, maybe, on this entire off season after quarterbacking, what, four games to the Indianapolis Colts and not winning a single game. |
| 0:32.4 | And then claiming, I want to go back and see my family. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm done with football. |
| 0:37.6 | Philip Rivers is now the favorite to become the Buffalo Bills next head coach. What? Good afternoon, Big Mac. How are you today? What's up, Craig? That's a weird one. Yeah, that's a weird one. I didn't see that one coming at all. They're going to try and do anything they can to take it away from my man, Dave's. Uh, well, he's right there with him. He was one. Philip Rivers comes in. |
| 0:57.3 | He's now won and Dave was one A. It seems like they're the two guys for the job. They're in South Florida right now. Interviewing, I think, Mike McDaniel and Anthony Lynn. And I think Joe Brady's getting an interview as well, the offensive coordinator. But it's the old adage I've always said. |
| 1:13.5 | And I've never seen a single guy that has just proven this adage in sports. |
| 1:18.2 | We've seen a lot of guys that have come along, come and gone, coaches, players, you name it, |
| 1:22.0 | broadcasters, right? |
| 1:23.4 | Who towards the end of their career always give you the line, I want to spend more time with my family. |
| 1:29.8 | Here's the reality. |
| 1:31.3 | They don't. |
| 1:32.7 | Here's another reality. |
| 1:34.4 | Their families don't want them around either. |
| 1:36.7 | They get into a really good comfort zone that daddy and husband are just not around that much. |
| 1:42.7 | And they figure it out. |
| 1:47.0 | And then all of a sudden, he's he's laying on the bed he's on the couch his socks are on the floor he's not helping with the |
| 1:52.5 | dishes of laundry because he never did and then there comes a point a pivotal point in every relationship |
| 1:58.5 | where the wife and the kids say honey honey, daddy, please go back to work. |
| 2:04.4 | And that's what's happening right now. |
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