While many in the NFL world have been trashing the Kansas City Chiefs after their blowout loss in the Super Bowl, WFAN’s Boomer and Gio show had some different targets Monday.
Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots.
Co-host Gregg Giannotti said that Brady, working his first Super Bowl as an analyst with Fox Sports, had to love watching the Philadelphia Eagles destroy KC’s hopes of winning a record-setting third straight Lombardi Trophy.
“I was just thinking about Tom Brady in that booth,” Giannotti said. “Tom is just completely pre-packaged now, and he’s just a guy who is hawking products and smiling and he’s just all cleaned up, but deep down in that robotic body of his, was a guy that loved seeing what happened last night.
“There is no two ways about it. He was down 28-3 at halftime, he came back and won. Everybody’s talking about the Patrick Mahomes-Andy Reid dynasty could be better than the Patriots. They get their ass kicked with him in the building. That inner Tom Brady competitor that used to be out there on the field prior to becoming this vanilla, Melba toast broadcaster is smiling ear to ear going, ‘Try again guys, try again. Sorry.'”
Esiason pointed out the Fox pregame broadcast had been heavy on former Patriots, featuring Brady and studio analyst Rob Gronkowski. Before the studio show began, former Pats coach Belichick narrated a special highlighting the New Orleans area.
“Part of the pregame show … it was Patriots Central,” Esiason said. “It was like Bill Belichick, Gronkowski, Brady. I mean, it’s over and over and over and over — it was nonstop, and rightfully so — I guess rightfully so.”
“They had the whole thing with Bill Belichick — I mean, this Bill Belichick is everywhere.”
At least Esiason and Giannotti had some fun talking about the Brady, Belichick and Patriots angles in this Super Bowl, because they both agreed everything about the game itself was “horrible.”
“This was a horrible game, everything about this was horrible,” Giannotti said.
“The whole thing was flat. The broadcast was flat. The game was flat. The commercials were terrible,” Esiason said. “This (Super Bowl) will go down as one of the worst.”
