Hour 4: McMonigle: The Jets Must Draft a Quarterback in 2025 No Matter What

**Chris McMonigle** (0:00)
Alright, The Carton Show, Big Mac and Gallo. Hoff is here as well.
Let's get to your calls on the Jets, on the Yankees. We'll get to the Giants as well as, you're starting to get a, and we'll play some, maybe we'll play some of the clips from the coach and the GM, talking about the expectations for the team. They're not coming out straight and saying, it's not the playoffs necessarily, but they're starting to talk about how it's different, and the expectations are to, Shane never says anything, and Shane was, well, the expectations to compete and win games. He didn't give a number of games or whatever, but even that's a stretch for him. The coach came out and said, the mission statement is to be the best team in the NFL and prove it, and then even talked about how the Marra's are feeling more confident than ever. Like, so.

**Craig Carton** (0:51)
Marra said, it's not hope, it's expectations.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:53)
Yeah, not hope, it's expectations.

**Craig Carton** (0:54)
I don't know what his role is, but whatever level of ownership. Yeah, Chris Marra, right?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:58)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (0:59)
That's a big, like that's, any owner says something like that.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:04)
Yeah.

**Craig Carton** (1:04)
That adds to the pressure.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:06)
Yeah, no, there's no doubt.

**Craig Carton** (1:07)
Which is good pressure. This is a good thing. You wanna be in this position.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:09)
They're real, I know we just did a segment, because I'm just fascinated on why the backup quarterback, and I am fascinated.
I'm a tank guy, I'll be the first to admit it. This is my line always during football season. Hi, my name is Chris McMonigle, I'm a tanker. Because I just believe that if you're not gonna win, you're better off losing, especially if you don't have the quarterback. Now that the Giants have Jackson Dart, I'm much less inclined to focus on losing games once the season's dead.

**Craig Carton** (1:37)
I hate it. I hate tanking.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:39)
I think it's...

**Craig Carton** (1:41)
And it's not like a...

**Chris McMonigle** (1:41)
Change the rules.

**Craig Carton** (1:43)
Change the rules. No, I'm not saying that. If you want to tank, that's a strategy. I just hate the strategy of tanking. I think it's a losing strategy. I just do.
I think... We forget that there's ten other guys on the offense and eleven other guys on the other side of the field that need to develop. And it's...

**Chris McMonigle** (2:00)
They can develop. Well, I'm not saying don't play your best on the field. I'm saying...

**Craig Carton** (2:04)
I think there's a fairly few...

**Chris McMonigle** (2:04)
They're better off losing. It's frustrating when they win games after having a season of losing. That's what bothers me. It's like, how could you be upset they won? I'm upset they won because... Well, I shouldn't say it. I'm not upset they won. I'm upset they lost 11 of the first 13
That's what I'm upset by.

**Craig Carton** (2:18)
That's different.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:19)
And so now I'm upset you're winning the 15th game when all it does is hurt you. And as much as I don't like Trevor Lawrence, he'd look better in a jet uniform than what they ended up with.

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
That's fair. There is a difference between winning seven games and winning three games. There's not a difference between winning three and four games.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:35)
No, that's what I'm saying.

**Craig Carton** (2:36)
But there's Jeff fans out there like, oh, for seven games, what does that mean? It means you're building something. You have to get to seven to get to nine to get to ten and on and on.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:45)
I guess, but then Geno Smith's not gonna be there for nine.

**Craig Carton** (2:48)
He's gonna be there for seven.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:49)
So how do you find out who comes in to play for nine?

**Craig Carton** (2:51)
You have three first round picks. You have a first round pick the next year. You have all the cap space in the world. You control, it doesn't matter.
All right, you don't get the number one overall pick. You're going to get a quarterback and you're going to control the quarterback market. After that, if you're not getting the number one pick. Also, if a team that doesn't need a quarterback lands at number one, you're now in the best position to trade up for number one. If, let's say...

**Chris McMonigle** (3:17)
That's so unlikely.

**Craig Carton** (3:19)
It's not though, we've seen it before. We've seen teams have a young quarterback they believe in.