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Mike Francesa: Jets’ Woody Johnson ‘not smart enough’ to fire Robert Saleh in-season

"That organization doesn't know how to do anything right."

"He's now prancing around the globe with one of the most famous people in the world, his life is a photo opp."

"They’ve turned him into a stooge. Does he want that? I don’t know. That’s what he’s become."

"You can tell that he's up to here with all of it. And he knows he's looking down the barrels at a long season."

As it turns out, the Mets may have turned around their season thanks to Haliey Welch, and she wants Mike Francesa to know about it.

"Hey, everybody's always gonna ask me, 'cause they think I'm the sports guy. They're gonna ask me every question."

"Sooner or later, you’ve got to let somebody else work! It’s just the way it is. I just think it’s wrong."

“It was a hard call. … It was a very tough call."

"It’s like a family thing, I feel very much for the people there."

“They’re inserting guys in the lineup who can’t play dead."

"If he took a gun and shot himself in the shoulder it would’ve been less painful. That’s how bad it was."

"It was really bad."

Francesa called Saleh a "puppet" who has "abdicated his own power" to the quarterback.

"We are going into these Finals with no momentum. None."

"The sleep one, it's funny, that followed me."

"I think there’s a unique quality that you have to bring that allows you as an analyst to see the game, see the game quickly."

"This is more coverage than the Stanley Cup Playoffs would get annually on 'Mike and the Mad Dog.'"

Barkley called Chris Russo "Mike" at least four times during the interview.

"Our BetRivers audience will now be able to see and hear Mike every weekday!"

"John Sterling was the soundtrack of my summers. John was the big moment."

"We're in the sandbox of life, and we should be able to go have fun doing that."

A picnic on Totowa?

"I’m sure Rodgers is going to want to get Bacteria involved."

"Mike can be a little cynical about somebody who yells a lot. Stephen A. kind of loves that."