"He has found his mojo" #NFL legend Boomer Esiason joins! #live What did Esiason see/like from Drake Maye against Raiders? Esiason: "It was almost perfect" Was it possible people were too hard on Maye after Jacksonville?
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Esiason: It's hard to explain how he has turned his season around?
Too much pressure on Drake Maye? Did Maye put too much pressure on himself? Was it confidence? Boomer Esiason joins!
Esiason: It's hard to explain how he has turned his season around?
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00:00Morning, Boomer.
00:01Hey, good morning, man.
00:02Another Winter Monday.
00:03And I'm telling you, this is two weeks in a row now
00:06where I don't know what to say about Drake May.
00:10I mean, this team's got so many injuries.
00:13He's throwing the guys I've never even heard of.
00:16And all of a sudden, 26 of 34, 374 yards,
00:21accounts for five different touchdowns.
00:23I mean, these last two performances
00:26are the kid that we saw last year.
00:27So I don't know what happened two weeks ago.
00:30I don't know if they sat down with him
00:31and started talking to him, but somehow he has found his mojo.
00:35Well, if you had your way,
00:36he'd be sitting on the bench right now, Boomer.
00:39I would have done that after the third poor game
00:41where he was making really bad decisions
00:43and throwing interceptions
00:44and giving the ball to the other team
00:46when he should not have been doing that.
00:49But I guess that win in Buffalo
00:51basically turned his season around
00:53because yesterday's performance was amazing, actually.
00:57It was almost perfect.
00:58And, you know, quite frankly,
00:59you look at all the injuries that they have right now, Greg,
01:02I don't know how he did it.
01:04I mean, I don't want to hear now as we move along,
01:07oh, they're injured, they're hurt, they're this or that.
01:09I mean, he's overcome all of that.
01:11Now, I know the Raiders were terrible yesterday,
01:12but still, I mean, that was about as good a performance
01:16as you're going to have as a quarterback in the NFL.
01:18Is it possible that we were too hard on him
01:21and on this football team
01:23when you now look back at those first three weeks
01:25and say, you know, they played the Seahawks,
01:28they were in that with the Seahawks,
01:30they don't do well in September,
01:31they tend not to do well early in the season in Florida,
01:35and maybe we were just too hard on the young guy.
01:40No, I think that, you know,
01:42you're an established professional quarterback
01:44who was runner-up as an MVP last year,
01:48and the thing about the turnovers
01:50that we were talking about those first three weeks
01:52were just where they happened, how they happened,
01:55and the way that it just like it was carefree giveaway time.
02:00And, you know, a lot of these games in the NFL
02:03throughout the season are going to be determined
02:05by who gets the turnovers and who gives up the turnovers.
02:08And those turnovers were just killers,
02:11especially where they happened in the games
02:13in which they were playing and losing.
02:15But, you know, they've won, you know,
02:16three out of their last four.
02:18We kind of forget, you know, that they did beat Pittsburgh,
02:21and that was a pretty good play, you know,
02:22pretty good game, especially from the defense,
02:24and Aaron Rodgers struggled that game.
02:26But these last two games have been, you know,
02:29a complete and utter turnaround for the offense.
02:32Now, defense is going to be good all year long, I think,
02:35but this performance and the one before that,
02:39against Buffalo.
02:40I mean, look, now I expect it every week, don't you?
02:43Yeah, yeah.
02:45Boomer, I think you probably do the best answers.
02:47I don't know if I've even asked you this before.
02:49You were an MVP in the NFL in your career.
02:53That following year,
02:55do you think you maybe put too much pressure on yourself?
02:59Do you think that's something Drake May could be dealing with,
03:01even though he didn't win the MVP being the runoff?
03:03Do you think maybe early he might have put
03:05too much pressure on himself,
03:06and now he's kind of just saying,
03:08let me go out there, relax, and play football?
03:11You're asking me to remember something from 38 years ago?
03:14I mean, I can't remember yesterday,
03:16let alone 38 years ago.
03:18But how did you feel?
03:20I'm trying to think.
03:22I mean, I think we had an 8-8 season.
03:24I think I had an okay offensive season.
03:26I don't remember feeling like I put myself under pressure.
03:30I do remember that, you know, we were the marked team.
03:33The year before, we were coming off of a 4-11 season.
03:37That was the strike-shortened season of 1987.
03:40And I thought we had a great team in 87,
03:42but we fell apart doing large part to the off-field stuff
03:47with the strike.
03:49But now, 88 was really unencumbered.
03:52I felt like we had nothing to lose.
03:54It was great.
03:55And then 89, I thought we had a really good team, too.
03:57I think we went 8-8, but we were marked.
04:00We were a marked team.
04:00Everybody gave us their best shot, I felt like.
04:03It's hard to explain how he has turned his season around
04:08and has done it in such dramatic fashion.
04:12I don't know how to explain it other than somehow
04:15he got his confidence back.
04:16And again, you know, so we also were talking about,
04:20well, I wasn't really.
04:21Most people were talking about that maybe Josh McDaniels,
04:24the game has passed him by.
04:25Do we remember those conversations the first three weeks of the season?
04:28And I was saying, no, that hasn't.
04:30I mean, he knows what he's doing,
04:31and he's the guy that's got to get Drake May right.
04:35And I think something happened before the Buffalo game,
04:38you know, and after the Jacksonville game.
04:40The Jacksonville game was the low point.
04:42That was a 35-6 loss, interceptions all over the place,
04:46the stake-prone football, defense got tore up,
04:48and now all of a sudden they go to Buffalo.
04:50They beat a Buffalo defense that's not very good,
04:53and neither is the Raider defense.
04:55But still, the numbers are staggering over the last two weeks.
05:00Now he's going to have to do it against the Jets,
05:02which I don't think he really should have a problem.
05:05I mean, you know, Jets are not a great defense,
05:07but, you know, I could see another really good game
05:10coming here for him.
05:12Well, then, Boomer, you need to take into consideration
05:14getting back A.J. Brown.
05:15How much does that add to this offense moving forward?
05:18It should be explosive.
05:20I mean, that's why they have him.
05:21That's why Mike Vrabel went and got him.
05:23He had him down in Tennessee.
05:25He saw what a difference he makes.
05:27There's not a guy in the Jets secondary that can cover A.J. Brown.
05:30I can tell you that right now.
05:32So it's going to be interesting to watch exactly what, you know,
05:37the defense of the Jets tries to do here.
05:39If he comes back and he's 100%, you know,
05:42I would expect him to have a huge day,
05:44and I'm sure he's sitting on the sideline,
05:46and he's frustrated, and I'm sure he's now looking forward
05:48to getting back on the field,
05:50especially with the way that the offense has been playing.
05:52Boomer, how do teams not know basic football at the end of games?
05:58I'm sure you were watching that Giants-Commanders game,
06:01and I am just so dumbfounded.
06:04First of all, obviously, the coach needs to tell the quarterback
06:07about the situation, but eight seconds left.
06:10You played football your whole life,
06:12and then when Jaden Daniels is on the ground,
06:14he's, like, lying like he's on the beach.
06:16Like, oh, okay, I'll roll over.
06:18I don't know.
06:18Like, how does that happen in the NFL?
06:21Well, Jermaine knows this.
06:23The quarterback gets in there and says,
06:24hey, guys, we, you know, we have to get up here.
06:26We have to run a ball.
06:27We have to run the play quickly.
06:29I mean, he was told, Jaden Daniels was told,
06:31this is all on the quarterback.
06:32This is none on the coach.
06:34I hate when people say, you know,
06:35Dan Quinn needs to be fired for this.
06:37No, no, no.
06:37The coach basically is protecting his quarterback.
06:41You saw his reaction on the sideline.
06:43He slammed his headset down.
06:45They all were completely aware of what the situation was.
06:49As a matter of fact, one of Jaden Daniels' offensive linemen
06:53did say that they spoke about it in the huddle.
06:55I call this 100% brain lock on the quarterback.
06:59I have no idea.
07:01I can't explain it.
07:01It was a, uh, just a major, uh, screw up by him and nobody else.
07:07He took, now I will say he took responsibility for it after the game,
07:12but Dan Quinn, you know, he's got to stand up there
07:15and he's got to protect his quarterback.
07:16He's never going to say, yeah, you know,
07:17he knew what he was supposed to do and didn't do it.
07:20And this is the frustrating thing about coaching
07:22is that you coach players, you give them all the information.
07:26And then every now and again, somebody is going to have a brain fart.
07:29And this is exactly what this was.
07:31This is not on the coach at all.
07:33This is 100% on the quarterback.
07:35He's supposed to be in control.
07:37And he said, you know, if I'm going to be a franchise quarterback
07:40after the game, and I'm paraphrasing here, that can't happen.
07:43So I don't want to hear about the coach making the mistake.
07:46This is purely on the quarterback and it's his responsibility
07:50to know how much time's left and what they need to win the game.
07:54So it's on him 100%.
07:56Yeah.
07:56If you want to put it on the coach, put on Nick Sirianni
07:58for kicking the ball to the returner with eight seconds left.
08:01When you look at the relationship between Josh McDaniels and Drake May,
08:07how important is it to have that relationship where you and your OC
08:12are on the same page?
08:13It looks like with the charges, you can see the issues maybe between Herbert
08:18and McDaniel not being on the same page.
08:20But talk about what it means to be on the same page as your OC week in
08:24and week out.
08:25Yeah.
08:25So for the first three weeks of the season, we were trying to discuss
08:28what Drake May was doing.
08:30And I was saying then, and I'll say now, it's the most important
08:32relationship, you know, on the field for the quarterback.
08:37That guy knows what he does well.
08:39He knows, you know, where he's at in his game.
08:43He'll try to call plays where he's not going to put the quarterback in
08:46trouble.
08:46And they'll have discussions during the week about, you know, tough,
08:51tough discussions, especially after that Jacksonville game.
08:54It was probably like, you know, listen, you can't throw these balls.
08:57You can't throw these interceptions.
08:58You got to get rid of the ball.
09:00It's got to be quick.
09:01And you got to be able to trust each other.
09:03And obviously they do.
09:04We know that.
09:05I know that.
09:06So it's, it's never about, it hasn't been about Josh McDaniels.
09:10It's been more about the player making bad decisions.
09:12Now there, there could have been a situation in Seattle where I think he
09:17forced the ball to Romeo Dobbs and it was just a tipped interception.
09:21That was, you know, that was picked off by Seattle.
09:24And, and that's something that may have come from the sideline, you know,
09:27give the ball to Romeo Dobbs, give him a chance.
09:29I could see that kind of conversation happening, but the stuff that goes on
09:34during the week, he's the coach is a psychotherapist.
09:38The coach is somebody that has to work through all the issues and problems that
09:41the quarterback has.
09:42And it's obvious they trust each other.
09:44That's why I was saying three weeks ago, it's not Josh McDaniels fault.
09:48It's the player's fault and the player's decision-making, which has
09:50obviously gotten better the last two weeks.
09:53Question of the week for Boomer is brought to you by McFarlane Energy.
09:57Wiggy, cover your ears.
09:59If, if Georgia ends up ranked number one this week, should there be,
10:03should there be an editor's note because of the no call on the pass
10:06interference?
10:07Oh boy, man.
10:08You know, I mean, how many screw-ups have we seen this year?
10:12I mean, in both professional and college football and Georgia is probably
10:16going to end up number one.
10:17And by the way, I would think either Georgia, Texas, or Ohio state, one of
10:22those, or two of those teams are going to end up playing again for the
10:26national championship.
10:27So it's going to be one of those three teams.
10:30I feel bad for Arch Manning, but you know, we've got the Manning on the back
10:33of your, on the back of your Jersey, all everybody's, you know, gunning for
10:37you, but Georgia seems to be a really well-rounded football team.
10:41I mean, their defense is always going to be tough, but I listen, it is what it
10:46is.
10:46And there's a long way to go and a lot of football to be played.
10:48So I do think it's going to be either Ohio state, Texas, or Georgia, two of
10:53those three teams in the national championship.
10:55If I had to guess right now, Boomer, do two teams hate each other this season as
10:59much as the Niners and Seahawks?
11:01Uh, man, how awesome was that game?
11:03That game was tremendous.
11:05And, you know, I just thought it was, it had everything.
11:09It had great defense.
11:10It had great offensive players.
11:12It had special teams.
11:14I mean, it was just an amazing football game.
11:17So, uh, I, I think Seattle's still a really good team, much like I thought the
11:21doing on Patriots are a really good team.
11:23I still think the Patriots are going to win somewhere between 10 and 11 games.
11:26Um, if they can beat the jets this week, there's a very good chance that they may
11:30find themselves in first place in the AFC East after this, uh, Monday night game
11:35between Buffalo and the Rams.
11:37Interesting tonight.
11:38This game tonight is really, I think is going to be an indictment of the Buffalo
11:43defense as to whether or not it is good enough to stop one of the best
11:47quarterbacks in the league.
11:48So keep your eyes open for that.
11:50And I would think that, you know, things are going to look much brighter.
11:53We're here in the next few weeks for the new England Patriots.
11:56Just to go back to Josh McDaniels, uh, how much of a revenge game plan was that for
12:01him going up against the team that fired him and really buried him when he left
12:05Oakland and now Vegas?
12:07You know, I think all these coaches understand that certain things don't work out and
12:12they're all going to get fired at some point.
12:14And then they just try to keep their head down.
12:16And I'm sure that, you know, he's, I'm sure it's very satisfying for him.
12:22Let's put it that way.
12:22And waking up this morning, putting up all those kinds of numbers, but you know, what
12:26he has here that he didn't have in Oakland or at the time, you know, or the Raiders,
12:30it is, it is, he's got a legitimate quarterback and he's got somebody that he can work with
12:35and has worked with the last two years.
12:37And the kid is nine times out of 10 is going to give you a, a winning performance.
12:42So I think he's got the player.
12:45That's, that's the important thing in order to be a successful coach.
12:49Boomer, I think you, before you go, I think you worked with Mike Dick, uh, on a Superbowl
12:55at, at the very least.
12:57Um, and sadly passed away on Friday, got, got your thoughts on him and like what, what
13:03he meant to the game of football.
13:04Yeah, I knew he wasn't doing well.
13:06Um, and, uh, you know, lasted to the age of 86.
13:10Uh, he's an iconic, I mean, iconic from playing, coaching, personality, uh, media, you name
13:17it.
13:18He was such a great guy to be around.
13:20I mean, he was a man's man for sure.
13:22Uh, he was gruff.
13:24Uh, he was opinionated and, uh, I know we're all going to miss him, but man, he left such
13:30a legacy behind and so grateful to be able to know him personally and to be around him.
13:35And, uh, certainly he is going to be missed.
13:38All right.
13:39And I, I heard great things about the hall of fame induction ceremony in your speech.
13:44I don't know about that.
13:46I mean, I, I gotta, I gotta tell you, it was like the last thing that I ever expected to
13:50believe, you know, when, when they told me, uh, you know, what, two months ago that I was
13:54going in, I was like going in where I had no idea.
13:58What's the, what's the radio hall of fame?
14:01Did you get any kind of a bust or a golden microphone or like, what do they, what do you
14:05get for that?
14:06So what I understand they're doing is they're actually building a new hall or built a new
14:10hall of fame.
14:11And, you know, you know, the people in our business really love our business.
14:14We can make fun of it for sure.
14:15But there is an undercurrent of people that have such pride in what we do on a daily basis.
14:21Um, give you a beautiful plaque with your, with your photo.
14:24And they're going to be hanging down on the walls and this, uh, this new hall of fame
14:28in Chicago.
14:29So it's, they're excited.
14:32They're excited about it.
14:33I was excited to be there and very happy to be there, but you know, it's, uh, it's something
14:37that they're really trying to prop up and trying to keep radio alive, which is good for all
14:42of us involved.
14:42It is.
14:43Yes, it is.
14:43All right.
14:44Well, we're proud of you and we'll talk to you again next week, Boomer.
14:47All right, guys.
14:47Thanks so much.
14:48Have a good week.