Tag: Boomer Esiason

Report: Bill Cowher says he has no interest in coaching

Boomer Esiason’s mouth was sacked by his CBS colleague Bill Cowher. Esiason suggested the former Pittsburgh Steelers coach was interested in getting back in the game … as coach of the New York Jets. Cowher shot that down in an interview with ESPN. …

Boomer Esiason’s mouth was sacked by his CBS colleague Bill Cowher.

Esiason suggested the former Pittsburgh Steelers coach was interested in getting back in the game … as coach of the New York Jets.

Cowher shot that down in an interview with ESPN.

“I have no interest in coaching,” Cowher said in a phone interview with ESPN.

“I have too much respect for the coaching profession to talk about a job that isn’t open,” he said. “From that perspective, any job that is open, I have no interest in coaching.”

Cowher will be going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, should the inductions take place next year. His induction was announced earlier in 2020.

He doesn’t want to join Tony La Russa as someone who is a Hall of Famer who returns to work in the sport that put him there.

Report: Bill Cowher has ‘no interest in coaching’ amid Jets speculation

Rumors pegged Hall of Fame coach Bill Cowher as a fit for the Jets, but he isn’t interested.

Rumors swirled this past week about Bill Cowher making a return to the sidelines, specifically with the Jets should they fire Adam Gase. However, it turns out the Hall of Fame coach is happy in retirement.

WFAN’s Boomer Esiason speculated that Cowher hasn’t shut the door on a potential return to coaching and that he finds the Jets job to be an attractive one. However, Cowher told ESPN’s Rich Cimini that he doesn’t plan on making a comeback.

“I have no interest in coaching,” Cowher said.

Pertaining to the Jets job, specifically, Cowher doesn’t want to overstep by talking about a job that’s not open yet. But it doesn’t sound like he would be interested in any open positions, either.

“I have too much respect for the coaching profession to talk about a job that isn’t open,” Cowher said. “From that perspective, any job that is open, I have no interest in coaching.”

The 63-year-old has been out of the game since 2006. He had a 15-year stint as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, amassing a 149-90-1 record. He won a Super Bowl in his second to last season in 2005.

A coach like Cowher would give the Jets increased credibility given his winning pedigree and long list of career accomplishments, but that’s no happening, according to him. It’s unclear what or who exactly the Jets will look for when it comes time to replace Gase, but Cowher seems to be comfortable where he’s at on “The NFL Today.”

Giants’ Phil Simms has record-setting day wasted vs. Bengals in 1985

New York Giants QB Phil Simms set some still-standing franchise records against the Cincinnati Bengals in 1985, but lost the game.

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In 1985, the New York Giants were one of the NFL’s best teams, amending from the doldrums of nearly two decades of losing seasons. Under the stewardship of general manager George Young and head coach Bill Parcells, the Giants were coming off a playoff appearance the year before that saw them lose to the eventual Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs.

The Giants got off to a 3-2 start in ’85 and headed to Cincinnati to play the 1-4 Bengals at Riverfront Stadium. The Bengals were in their second season under head coach Sam Wyche and featured Boomer Esiason at quarterback, who took the reins that season from aging legend One Anderson.

The Giants, two-point favorites in the game, got behind, 21-0, in the first half but rallied back late in the third quarter to narrow the game to 21-20 only to see the Bengals pull away again. The Giants’ fourth quarter rally fell short and they lost, 35-30.

“It was a hot, steamy day in Cincy, I remember that,” Simms told Giants.com. “My uniform was a different color when the game was over because the heat, the turf, whatever. We threw it because we got behind. I threw two picks, if I remember. But physically, it was probably one of my top two or three games ever throwing the ball. We just made so many good throws and catches in the game, it was ridiculous. But we never could get into the end zone.”

The Giants actually dominated the game. They outgained Cincinnati by a mile (470 yards to 199) and finished with more than twice as many first downs (34-16) while outscoring them in the second half by 13 points.

Simms was as hot as he’d ever been in his 15-year career with the Giants, completing 40 of 62 passes for 513 yards, which to this day remains the franchise’s single-game record. But it wasn’t a very clean game by the Giants. Simms was sacked seven times for 70 yards and lost a fumble. Rookie running back George Adams also lost a fumble.

“I don’t remember the sacks being a big part of why we couldn’t get it done,” Simms said. “It was just one of those days where the turnovers, I don’t know what else, maybe the sacks, but we moved the ball, of course, with 500 yards, we moved it well. That’s what I remember.”

By comparison, Esiason was just 15 of 24 passing for 193 yards but threw three touchdowns.

The game was memorable for other reasons. We often see Boomer and Simms together on television either discussing football in the studio or paring up for an advertisement, but this was the first of two meetings between the blonde signal callers — both classic games.

The second game came in 1991 (also at Riverfront) when the 7-5 Giants faced off against the 1-11 Bengals. Simms had another fine outing (26 for 44, 293 yards, three touchdown) but lost, 27-24, after leading 17-7 in the third quarter. Esiason wasn’t a world beater in this game, either, completing 17 of 30 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown.

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Former NFL QB: ‘Jarrett Stidham is going to be the starter’ for New England Patriots

One former NFL quarterback believes Jarrett Stidham will be the starter for the New England Patriots.

The battle between Cam Newton, Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer continues in New England for the starting quarterback job for the Patriots. While Newton has seemingly took the lead, there is one former NFL quarterback who thinks he won’t be the starter.

“They are going to use Cam Newton in some way, shape or form,” Boomer Esiason said on Boomer And Gio. “I could see them coming up with a red zone package of plays just to let him get comfortable in the offense. Stidham is going to be the starter.”

Stidham spent his rookie season in 2019 sitting behind and learning from Tom Brady and, when the six-time Super Bowl winner left this offseason, it seemed like it was his time for Bill Belichick’s team. The Patriots then signed Newton this summer and the battle between the two former Auburn quarterbacks was on.

What gives Stidham the advantage? His year learning the offense.

“You don’t understand how hard it is to learn a new offense,” Esiason said.

Boomer Esiason wants to see Bengals re-do ‘horrific’ uniforms

Cincinnati Bengals fans aren’t the only ones who want new jerseys.

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It seems a forgone conclusion the Cincinnati Bengals will usher in a jersey redesign in the near future as the Joe Burrow era gets underway.

Franchise legend Boomer Esiason is right with fans who want it sooner than later.

Appearing on the “Boomer and Gio” show, Esiason said he’d really like the Bengals to tone it down:

“…too much stuff going on, too much orange, too many things happening on that uniform. … they need to like, I want to say, tone it down. It’s hard to tone down tiger stripes but you can. I just think the jerseys over the last 15 years have not been all that great looking. 

Boomer pointed to orange and black jersey designs such as the ones deployed by Oklahoma State as an example of it done well. And while he likes the current iconic orange helmet, it doesn’t sound like he’d mind a white variant to go with the white color rush jerseys.

It’s hard to disagree with Boomer here. The Bengals could learn a lot from the mistakes the Rams just made during their redesigned jerseys. We’ve long argued dialing it back and going for a more basic look similar to the design of the color rush jerseys is the way to go.

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Boomer Esiason thinks Andy Dalton could pull a Ryan Tannehill with new team

Boomer Esiason sees some Ryan Tannehill in Andy Dalton’s story.

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When in doubt, always check in with what Boomer Esiason has to say.

The Cincinnati Bengals legend had some wise words for the team about Joe Burrow before the draft. He’s also suggested he sees some Patrick Mahomes in Burrow.

Now? Boomer says he thinks recently-released quarterback Andy Dalton could have a similar comeback to that experienced by Ryan Tannehill.

“He can still play well,” Esiason said, according to Geoff Hobson of Bengals.com. “I would love to have seen him go to Chicago to push Mitchell Trubisky. I think he can be a Ryan Tannehill to a Marcus Mariota.”

Tannehill, for those out of the loop, spent 2012-2018 with Miami and had a so-so career before stealing the starting job in Tennessee on a prove-it deal and storming to the AFC title game.

Dalton isn’t much older than Tannehill and if he falls into the right situation, it’s entirely possible he could still win a starting gig and find some success. Given what he meant to the Bengals over the years, fans probably wouldn’t mind.

While Boomer mentions Chicago and the Bears might be out of the Dalton sweepstakes at this point, there are plenty of remaining potential Dalton landing spots based on NFL odds.

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Boomer Esiason has warning for Tom Brady: ‘Grass isn’t always greener’

“He will find out pretty quickly how things are different from one franchise to another.”

Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Boomer Esiason wasn’t exactly optimistic about Tom Brady’s prospects with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Brady elected to leave the New England Patriots after 20 years. In New England, Brady won six Super Bowls, an unprecedented amount of success for a quarterback. But this situation isn’t unprecedented. Brady is following in the footsteps of Joe Montana, Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas, all of whom decided to leave their longstanding team and finish their career elsewhere.

And of course, Esiason spent nine years in Cincinnati before defecting for the New York Jets for three seasons. He returned to the Bengals for his final season. His seasons in New York were, for the most part, less statistically impressive than his time in Cincinnati.

“What I really was, I was disappointed when I heard the news,” Esiason told WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Show” in a recent interview. “I wanted Tom to end (his career) a Patriot and that is probably pretty selfish of me to think that way, but when you think of iconic players, iconic franchises and the greatest of all time, you’d like to see them run it all the way out through the end no matter how long it took, no matter how bad he might have played. Whatever the situation may have been, I would have loved to have seen him finish his career that way.

“Everything that I have heard and listened to and things that have been said by all parties, it just sounded to me like he wanted to go in a different place and go somewhere and maybe not have the intense pressure of the relationship that he and Bill (Belichick) have during the season. I would just always tell him that the grass isn’t always greener elsewhere and he will find out pretty quickly how things are different from one franchise to another.”

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Robby Anderson rips Boomer Esaison’s report on Jets’ contract offer

Former Jets wide receiver Robby Anderson took to Twitter on Thursday to refute the report that New York offered him a four-year contract.

Former Jets wide receiver Robby Anderson is not a fan happy with a report that surfaced following his exit to Carolina.

Hours after Anderson signed with the Panthers on a two-year, $20 million deal on Tuesday, WFAN radio host Boomer Esiason reported that the Jets offered Anderson a four-year contract worth $40 million before he came to terms with Carolina.

“Robby wanted to take less years and wanted to bet on himself and obviously wanted to go play for a coach that he knows, cause the coach obviously down in Carolina was his coach at Temple, and he feels comfortable with that offense that they’re building around Joe Brady, their offensive coordinator down there,” Esiason said on Boomer and Gio in the morning on Wednesday. “So Robby decided to leave and essentially bet on himself cause he wants to be back at the free agent table in two years, and I don’t blame him.

“I don’t know if the Jets would’ve offered him the two-year deal. That I don’t know. But I do know that, according to my sources, that there was a four-year, $40 million deal on the table for Robby Anderson.”

Twenty-four hours after Esiason’s report, Anderson took to social media to refute it.

“False news,” Anderson said in a tweet that has since been deleted. “Y’all need to better jobs reporting and putting out fake news too ppl.”

It is unknown if the Jets ever made an offer to Anderson before he signed with the Panthers. However, it looks like the four-year deal that Esiason reported was never actually on the table.

After it seemed like a foregone conclusion Anderson would depart in free agency with his comments following the Jets’ 2019 season finale, the Temple product indicated that he wanted to return to the team a week before free agency kicked off. The two sides failed to come to terms on a deal, leading Anderson to reunite with his former college coach, Matt Rhule, in Carolina.

New York acted swiftly to replace Anderson, inking Breshad Perriman to a one-year deal worth $8 million in total value and $6 million in guaranteed money.

What is the Cincinnati Bengals’ NFL Draft history at quarterback?

Will Joe Burrow join the list of quarterbacks drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals?

The Bengals have the first pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. LSU’s Joe Burrow appears to be their target. The team has made some forgettable selections at quarterback in its history. A look at the good, bad and ugly.

The late-60s

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Dewey Warren and Gary Davis were the first QBs selected in 1968 by the Bengals at their inception. Warren, a sixth-round pick, started four games in his rookie year and lost them all. They drafted Davis in the third round out of Vanderbilt but he did not pan out. Zero NFL stats. The following season Cincy drafted a quarterback from Cincinnati in the first round, Greg Cook. The local boy started off 3-0 and then … doom. In game three versus Kansas City, Cook felt a pop in his right (throwing) shoulder and missed the next three games. His torn rotator cuff went undiagnosed. He continued to play and finished 1969 4-6-1 as a starter. The rotator cuff began deteriorating after the season; during surgery, it was revealed that Cook also had a partially detached biceps muscle. After three operations proved futile, he retired. A 1973 comeback attempt failed and Cook retired permanently.

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2 of NFL’s 22 lefty QBs have started for the Cardinals

Not many southpaw QBs have played in the NFL. Two — Boomer Esiason and Matt Leinart — have been starters for the Cardinals.

In this year’s NFL draft, a team will select Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. He will be just the 23rd left-handed quarterback in the NFL, according to a list compiled by sister site Touchdown Wire’s Barry Werner.

Obviously, the left-handed quarterback is not common.

However, the Arizona Cardinals have some history with them. Two of the league’s 22 previous southpaw signal-callers have been starters for them.

Boomer Esiason, a four-time Pro Bowler and one-time league MVP, started eight games for the Cardinals in 1996. He holds the team’s single-game passing record of 522 yards. Esiason went 3-5 as a starter.

The other was Matt Leinart, drafted 10th overall in 2006.

Leinart started 17 games over four seasons for the Cardinals, going 7-10, passing for 3,893 yards, 14 touchdowns and 20 interceptions.

Oddly enough, both players wore No. 7 for the Cardinals.

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