Chris Carlin is on the point of soar off the Jets bandwagon — and it’s all Mike Greenberg’s fault.
That’s the purpose Carlin made Thursday when he appeared on Greenberg’s radio present and battled the ESPN anchor in regards to the Jets’ prospects with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback.
Greenberg, certainly one of ESPN’s most outstanding personalities, often makes use of “First Take” to profess his love for the Jets, which has been buoyed by Rodgers’ arrival following the offseason commerce with the Packers.
After all, Rodgers giving Greenberg a Jets jersey has solely enhanced that green-eyed fandom.
However Greenberg is properly conscious of his fame and joked that earlier than Thursday’s present, Carlin mentioned, “I have to cease you. It’s worthwhile to be stopped.”
The 56-year-old Greenberg was greater than keen to offer Carlin, 50, a while to make his case.
“If we’re actually gonna get into this, let’s get into this as a result of each time anyone says something remotely adverse in regards to the Jets, you stroll over to that wall, you seize the Rodgers jersey and also you sit there and also you make them maintain it,” Carlin mentioned, earlier than taking it up a notch.
“You’re changing into a totalitarian dictator and it’s getting harder and harder. … I don’t wish to hate the New York Jets! You’re making me hate the New York Jets!”
Amongst these getting a superb chortle out of the forwards and backwards was Chris Canty, the ex-Giants defensive lineman and co-host of ESPN Radio’s “Canty & Carlin,” who joined Carlin for Thursday’s look with Greenberg.
Greenberg defended his ardour for Gang Inexperienced and supplied himself up as a sacrificial lamb.
“Nicely look the final time we had been good everybody hated us,” Greenberg mentioned.
“They hated Rex Ryan, we had been on ‘Arduous Knocks.’ Everyone hated him. Look, hate me all you need. … Persons are hating the New York Jets. Hate me.”
The haters get an opportunity to hate on Saturday when Rodgers makes his Jets debut within the staff’s preseason finale towards the Giants at MetLife Stadium.
Rodgers and Jets head coach Robert Saleh got here to an settlement on letting the quarterback make his first preseason look since 2018.
Saleh expects Rodgers to take the sphere for a number of drives to offer the 39-year-old some dwell reps with the first-team offense.
