Hour 5: Chris McMonigle on Geno Smith Legal News and Jets QB Outlook

**Chris McMonigle** (0:00)
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We got the American League vs. the National League. I don't know if you're aware of that. Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice will be in the lineup for the American League. They actually have Cody Bellinger hitting ahead of Ben Rice, which I don't understand. And then of course, you got Juan Soto of Your New York Mets, who made a little bit of news yesterday. We'll get into that in just a second, I guess. And of course, earlier today, Spain took down the favorite France in the semifinals of the World Cup. They will take on the winner of tomorrow's match between England and Argentina for the final, which will take place at New York New Jersey Stadium, apparently, Sunday the 19th. And the fan focus is brought to you by Townfair Tire. Nobody beats Townfair Tire. Nobody. Let's take a quick call here before we get into some other things. I do still have some baseball thoughts. I know today was mainly football. And I do think there's reason for optimism around both teams. As we get ready to start camp, Giants start camp next week, a week from Sunday, I do think there's optimism. Just at the idea of the coach and the quarterback. I think that's a duo we haven't had, that the Giants fans haven't had a chance to embrace. And I think Jaxson Dart has an opportunity to be someone special. And we know what the coach is. And yes, you could tell me till you blew in the face until, you know, he had Lamar Jaxson and couldn't win a championship with him. He was a two-time MVP and we've seen that, sure.
But I mean, it is consistent winning. He is a culture builder. And I know that term gets thrown around a lot. But he is a culture builder and he's a team builder. And his teams don't lose. And you can tell me that they had the quarterback and that is true. But they also didn't have the quarterback for a lot of the season last year. And their defense was the worst in the NFL. And yet at the end of the season, they were playing a football game to win the division.
And that's year in and year out. And that is stability the Giants haven't come close to. We gave it to you. Let's be totally honest. Even in the Coughlin Eli years, which now seem like glory days and clearly they won two championships. But even during that time, sustained winning was not part of that. That's not real winning.
Two incredible runs that I wouldn't diminish or take away for anything. I'm more than happy with the Eli Manning years. It's okay to not be stable if you're going to win two championships. I'm all on board. May the next 10 years look like those 10 years with only a handful of 10 win seasons. If you give me two Super Bowls, I don't care how many games you win. I'm with you. But at the same time, you have to look at it and say, even with that quarterback coach dynamic, sustained winning was hard to find.
And that's the hope. Because I know that sustained winning hasn't been good enough for Yankee fans, but you can't, it's hard to win championships. It's hard to have the pop up championships the way the Giants had for those two seasons. If you don't have sustained winning year in and year out, and especially in the NFL, it's about the quarterback position and the Giants fans have every right and every reason to be optimistic about their quarterback. Let's go to Mike in Eaton Town, New Jersey. What's up, Mike?

**SPEAKER_2** (3:52)
Hey, how you doing?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:52)
Good, how are you, buddy?

**SPEAKER_2** (3:54)
Not bad. So I hear all the time on the show, they're calling you Big Mac, they're calling you C Mac, they're, you know, they, all the different names and, it seems like one name is not bad.

**Chris McMonigle** (4:04)
Well, how many of those are the two? But yeah, go ahead.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:07)
But one hasn't stuck. And I kind of feel like, you know, Craig's got the double C, Craig Carton, you got, you know, the big names Janet Jackson, Mickey Mantle, the double, the double, you know, Okay. MCC. So what I was thinking is, Mic Mac.