Tiki’s Giants OC Wishlist, and the Jets Hire a DC

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

With Todd Monken officially off the board, Tiki drops a fresh “Top 5” list of preferred Giants offensive coordinator candidates, ranging from familiar names like Matt Nagy and Kliff Kingsbury to intriguing newer options tied to successful coaching trees. The conversation hits what the Giants job actually offers, why play-calling matters, and why the safest endorsement might simply be “whoever John Harbaugh picks.” Then the show gets sideswiped by breaking Jets news that somehow feels even more Jets than usual: New York hires Brian Duker as defensive coordinator after a virtual interview just 21 hours earlier, with the clear implication that Aaron Glenn is essentially taking over the defense himself. The reaction is immediate, equal parts disbelief and dread, as callers torch Woody Johnson, question how any of this qualifies as a plan, and argue the only person who could survive this level of dysfunction is a full power “CEO coach” like Jon Gruden. The segment closes with the larger fear hovering over everything: the Jets’ reputation is so bad that even elite quarterback prospects may steer clear, which turns “hope” into something darker, rooting for the No. 1 pick and praying the next coaching hire finally resets the franchise.

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0:00.0	A brand new list, the Tiki Top 5, if you will. It's not a Cinco. It's not officially a Cinco, but your list of preferred OCs. Yeah. Now that Todd Monkitt is not going to be the guy. This is in no particular order. But there is a connection, obviously, with Matt Nagy. Not directly, but because he was on Andy Reid's staff, they moved on from him, I guess. I don't really know the circumstances of that.
0:22.4	But Eric Bietami is now back as the offensive coordinator in Kansas City, so Matt
0:26.3	Nagy.
0:27.1	Matt Nagy wanted to be a play caller, he told Andy Reid.
0:29.4	Right.
0:29.9	And so there's your answer.
0:32.1	And so I think there's an opportunity because as I mentioned this before when we were
0:36.8	talking about head coaches for the
0:38.7	Giants before John Harbaugh was available, why has Matt Nagy been in purgatory for so long?
0:43.2	He had some pretty good seasons with Mitch Trubitsky as a quarterback.
0:46.9	He deserves a second shot.
0:47.7	And got fired because they drafted Justin Fields and they won seven games or whatever it was,
0:53.4	which is a miracle given what Justin Fields
0:55.8	has kind of become. He had a level of success that other first timers who ultimately failed
0:59.9	had, where they deserve a second shot. It's just a matter of where. Like, Matt Nagy had more
1:03.7	success than Robert Salo. Yeah. And Robert Salo, here he is. Right. Cliff Kingsbury, he is out there
1:09.4	only because of his work with quarterbacks.
1:12.9	And I just worry that he might put Jackson Dart in harm's way,
1:18.0	like Jane Daniels down in Washington.
1:23.0	Dave Ragon. He was previously an offensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons. He has been the
1:28.4	Rams quarterback coach over the last couple of seasons. And simply because of being in the
1:32.9	McVeigh orbit, but also working with Matt Stafford is interesting. Davis Webb, who we mentioned
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