Mark Schlereth Breaks Down Jaxson Dart and the Giants Future

**Craig Carton** (0:30)
For the Giants game at 1 o'clock, I've never been, well, yeah, that's a lie.
I'm sure back in the day I did wager on preseason football, but the Jets are 6.5 point favorites tonight. Do not expect to see that again this year.
Means nothing, and you should never, ever, ever, ever wager on preseason football, so please don't tonight. It is a guaranteed losing cause if you do. I'm just putting it out there, okay? We'll get Mark Schlereth here in a minute as well. Talk a little football. Justin Pugh is coming in studio in the 5 o'clock hour as well. So looking forward to having him here too. Paul Zinonker is on the fan. Paul, how are you, buddy?

**Paul Zinonker** (1:10)
Hey, Craig. Hi, boys. I got your back. I'm here.

**Craig Carton** (1:14)
Hey, you're good. What's going on today, Cookie?

**Paul Zinonker** (1:17)
All right. The NFL. It's a monster. It's here. I want to just quickly do this. Say goodbye to Steins and Cohen.
Ha-ha-ha! The NFL has just stepped on your head.

**Craig Carton** (1:32)
That's right.

**Paul Zinonker** (1:33)
You got three games left. You got Pete Alonso days. Go away.
If there's baseball in April, I'll see you in April. Goodbye.

**Craig Carton** (1:41)
So you are done with your New York Mets. You have Pete Alonso day, which you'll go to, when they honor Pete, and you'll have this Subway series, of course, which you'll watch also. Outside of that, it's a wrap. You're done.

**Paul Zinonker** (1:54)
That's it. Now for the NFL. Yeah. Thank you, NFL. You're turning Christmas into a happy New Year.
Three football games on Christmas, five basketball games on Christmas. Yes. Okay.
I'm happy. That's incredible.

**Craig Carton** (2:11)
You have an entire day of celebrating religion, watching basketball, and watching football. And it's going to be a fabulous Christmas, isn't it?

**Paul Zinonker** (2:23)
Merry Christmas to one and all. You could now name it Happy New Year. Happy New Year to the NFL.
Thank you, NFL. One more thing. You know which is my favorite games, Craig?

**Craig Carton** (2:38)
Your favorite games in which sport?

**Paul Zinonker** (2:40)
The whole year. No, only the NFL. Who cares about anything else?

**Craig Carton** (2:45)
Your favorite game is Thanksgiving Thursday.

**Paul Zinonker** (2:50)
All the countries, I can't name.

**Craig Carton** (2:54)
Why?

**Paul Zinonker** (2:55)
Because the 9 a.m. starts. And I fly to Vegas to make it 6 a.m. I love 6 a.m. games.

**Craig Carton** (3:07)
You're a glutton for punishment, Paul. I hate them. I hate the European games.

**Mark Schlereth** (3:13)
I hate them at 9 o'clock.

**Craig Carton** (3:14)
I hate them at 10 o'clock. And you bet your ass I would hate them at 6 o'clock, too.

**Paul Zinonker** (3:20)
No. A little cup of coffe, see? Some two-over with bacon. You're sitting. You're watching football. It could be any teams. Who cares?

**Craig Carton** (3:29)
Well, I'm with you on that. It doesn't matter who's playing. We watch football because we love football. And I remember when I lived in Denver for a couple of years, I hated the fact that I had to get up early and start watching football actual games at 11 o'clock in the morning. Because I'm an East Coast guy.
One o'clock, four o'clock, eight o'clock, period stop.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:51)
I like them.

**Craig Carton** (3:52)
Of course you like them. You're a Broncos fan.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:54)
And I'm up watching, you know, soccer at that. No, I watch soccer and then I get in the football.

**Craig Carton** (4:00)
So you watch like an eight o'clock soccer match. And then you go from that right into football.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:07)
And last year, I went out to London for the Broncos Jets game. The weirdest thing was at like nine o'clock.
The one o'clock games are just hitting like halftime there. At night, so I'm over here like I'm not making it to the four o'clock games. But I enjoy the early start.

**Paul Zinonker** (4:21)
I like it, I want more of them.

**Craig Carton** (4:23)
Cause typically, you're a little hungover on Sunday morning. Or you have to go to church or whatever your thing is, obviously. Like noon, I could accept noon.
But I don't like morning football. I hate it. I hate when I have to get up and you gotta like tiptoe around the house cause the kids are sleeping, your wife's sleeping. And then you watch her on the couch by yourself. And your wife isn't awake so she hasn't done her job for the day, which is prepare all the food and drink for the men to eat while they enjoy and drink while they enjoy watching football. It's like you're sitting there like am I really drinking Grand Marnies and Coke at nine o'clock in the morning to watch the European game?