Brian Baldinger Reacts LIVE to Sauce Gardner TRADE! Jets Deal Star CB to Colts for Two 1st-Rounders

Brian Baldinger Reacts LIVE to Sauce Gardner TRADE! Jets Deal Star CB to Colts for Two 1st-Rounders

There has been a blockbuster trade here. I could see it now. Ian Rapaort has it as well. BT, hold on to your seat here. Uh, Bogus just came in and tried to alert us to this. I’m looking at it right now. Uh, this has been confirmed, I believe, by multiple people, but I’m seeing it with Ian Rapaort as well. Sauce Gardner is going to the Colts. What? The Jets have traded. Full face truth. I nailed it. There’s one. The Jets have traded. So, you know what? This shows me that they have a clue. I love this, dude. I love this. I mean, guard told you he was overrated. He I wasn’t pushing back. Well, we got into the fight last a couple weeks ago about the Jamar Chase position. Yeah, but that’s a coverage thing. But just to this this is I I really have no problem with this at all. Matter of fact, I like this. What are they getting back? I would like to know that. I think that they foolishly gave him an extension. I mean, and and they lamented that. I’m very surprised he he’s looked the way he’s looked. Wow. You want to talk about a bold move and I agree. This shows a conviction. This shows a direction from Yeah, let’s go. And Muji’s been very good at trades so far. He’s made some, you know, lower level, not not a profile like sauce, but wow. This is a this is a rocker right here. Let’s go, baby. Oh. Oh, we got Baldi here on the line. How dude you’re going to even you’ll love this. This gave me goosebumps. Colts are trading two first round picks to the guys. You got to be kidding me, South. This is fantastic, baby. Let’s go. Hey, give me some Huff, why you hitting me? Easy, Huff. He’s He’s fragile over there. We’re joined by Odyssey NFL insider Brian Baldinger, host of the Best Football Show podcast. Insider calls brought to you by Nationwide for your insurance and financial needs. Nationwide is on your side. Baldi, I didn’t think they had it in him. I’m pleasantly surprised here. Give us your initial reaction to hearing Sauce Gardner traded to the Colts. I mean, I’m surprised. I I really am. I thought he was going to be a core player for a long time with this organization, especially Aaron Glenn being a former corner with the Jets and the relationship you thought has not played great uh you know certainly over the last two seasons. But I just did the Colts game against uh Pittsburgh and I talked to Lanna Rumo on the sideline before the game and I was they had just gotten Jaylen Jones back, you know, and he’d been hurt and he looked at me and he goes, “Yeah, so what?” Like like okay, what am I supposed to do with that? The Colts feel like they can make a legitimate run. I know the offense didn’t play well against Pittsburgh. Um, but I feel like they think they can make a legitimate run through the AFC and if they had a real number one corner that could match up when they got to play some of these teams that uh it would only help them because the front is very good. The linebackers are very good. Okay, no disrespect to the Colts, but I don’t care about the Colts right now. Let’s get to the Jets perspective here. I mean, Baldi is coming out of nowhere. And to get two first round picks here, this at least this shows like a boldness and a direction, like a clear a clear willingness to make a call that’s going to be unpopular in the eyes of some Jet fans, not me. But doesn’t this have to give Jet fans some more confidence that the front office has has a clue and a grip on what they want to do? Well, they just traded away two starting corners, you know, in in the last week now. Michael Carter, you know, to the Eagles and now and so they’re they’re just clear that they’re looking at the future here and they’re going to get as many chips as they can to go whether it’s to get a quarterback or whatever it is, they are thinking long term with this group right here. And that’s what it tells me that we’re willing to trade one of our, you know, key core players to build for what we think can be a better future if we can keep this group together right now. Mhm. What do you think his saws as a player overall, Baldi, watching the film? Do you think he’s overrated or where are you at with Sauce? Well, I mean, he had a he was dynamic his first year. I mean, he he just threw a net over every receiver that he went against and they couldn’t get past him. And he was an allp pro player, but he has not played at that level since then. He doesn’t look like he has a great deal of confidence and when he’s going against elite players um the way you got to play in this league. You know, you got to keep your hands off guys, you got to play the ball in the air. The ball skills are non-existent. I’ve teased him about it. Like he what does he have? One interception in the last two years and then how many for his entire career? I mean, you know, your corners, you want your corners and safeties to be able to take the ball away, whether it’s tips, whether it’s, you know, just the instincts of where the ball’s going to be and beating the the the receiver to the spot. Like, he doesn’t he doesn’t produce in that area the way that I think a lot of teams covet. Now, if you’re just shutting guys down or you’re defending passes like he did his rookie year when he had 20 passes defense, you can live with that. But if guys are getting over the top on you and you’re committing penalties and you’re not taking it away, then you know you’re not an elite player in this business. So, what’s next for him here? I mean, I listen, we like to have you on and get to the film stuff and how players are doing, but I mean, this is this breaking news is a big day. I mean, Bree Hall, would you trade him? And what do you what do you do? You just keep going if you’re the Jets? I think so. I think so. Well, I mean, Bruce Holes had had a fantastic game in the last week. You can see that he still has vision and uh cutting ability and breakaway speed. He’s got all that, but I mean, if you’re tradeway sauce, then then why not? I mean, he just won a game without Garrett Wilson, you know? I mean, that’s supposed to be the best receiver, and it’s the best the quarterback’s ever looked, you know? And so, u you know, I mean, Tyler Johnson looked just fine. And you know, maybe maybe the rookie, you know, Aaron Smith can be okay, but regardless, um I I I don’t think anybody is untouchable at this point. I mean, it’s about it’s clearly about the future. If you’re trading away sauce in the very prime of his career, insider calls are brought to you by Nationwide for your insurance and financial needs. Nationwide is on your side. BT and South talking with Brian Baldinger. Don’t you think, Baldi, that this can expedite the process of bringing in guys to clean up what has been a horrible culture culture for so long when you have Muji, new GM, Aaron Glenn, new head coach, they tried winning some games here, finally you got the win against the Bengals. But the only way to really change the culture is to change the the roster and rid yourself of the players even if they’re good players like S or potentially guard Gary Wilson or Bree Hall. Don’t you think that that expedites the process here? And it’s something to be you can be excited about from a Jets perspective trying to clean house and bring in new players. Well, I mean, we’ve seen the Jets with four first round draft picks. They didn’t change much um at one point in their careers. I mean, it’s been depends on what you’re doing with them and what kind of players you’re bringing in and what you’re looking for. And so that, you know, Darren’s going to get this uh opportunity to bring in his kind of guys. Not that S wasn’t. I’m sure Sauce I mean, every time I’ve been to practice, he’s the first guy on the field. Like he’s always working. Um you know, he’s always preparing. like I don’t think there’s anything wrong with s the person, the culture or anything like that. He just didn’t have massive production at the quarterback position. Uh but yes, they got an opportunity. I mean, I think there’s a lot of guys over there. I mean, it’s not that there’s that many veterans, but I think everybody’s sick of losing over there, you know? I mean, if you if you said I mean, if if uh I don’t know, if Quinnon was on the show with us right now, like he’d tell you he’s sick of losing. sick of, you know, being in the the the the lazy boy at five o’clock after another loss, you know, I mean, so, you know, at at some point you go, you know, I mean, let me go someplace else and and win some games, see what that’s like. What how I mean, I don’t know how how much you can answer this better than us for sure, but like when you get traded in the NFL, it’s obviously different than getting traded in baseball where you just get in the batters box and do your thing, etc. you know, some plays in the NBA, so that that’s a little different. But going from whether it’s Sauce or anybody from one franchise midweek, mid-season to another, that that’s that’s different stuff in the NFL. No, it is. But I mean, Jaylen Phillips just left Miami and that’s a miserable place to be right now and he’s playing for Philadelphia and he looks like the happiest guy on on earth. But, you know, it depends on, you know, if it’s about winning and the culture of winning and that feeling you get from winning, then S’s gonna be in a better place, much better place. They they’ve got a really good team. Really good team. Well, so uh is it difficult? Yeah. Like, you know, in the middle of the week, who’s taking care of the house? You what do I take with me? Uh you know, what’s uh where do I live? Like all the you know, am I in a hotel for the rest of the season? I mean, all those kind of things you got to it’s your day off. You’re you’re going to Indianapolis at some point today. your life just changed. You’re no longer a New Jersey resident. You’re in Indianapolis where you don’t know anything. He’s from Detroit, so maybe he’s been to India a little bit, but yeah, your your life has changed, but sometimes it’s changed for the better. Baldi, how about the Giants here? Um, I thought it was an embarrassing performance against a Niners team that was certainly vulnerable being as banged up as they were. What’ you see on film Giants Niners from Sunday? Defensively, that was awful. Just awful. I mean, you know, to see them run the ball eight times in a row right down their throats. There’s nothing that you want on your resume. There’s you nobody wants that on their resume. Like, you couldn’t get them off the field. Uh they didn’t do anything. They they literally I mean, you you’re paying all these guys this money. Brian Burns got himself, you know, another sack and, you know, Abdul got a fumble recovery there to take him off the field, but like they’re not affecting the game at all. Any of them. I mean, what Deontay Banks did on that Brian Robinson touchdown is it is is just it’s embarrassing and you have to be called out when you when you play like that. But I, you know, they just didn’t do anything defensively and if it’s not for Jackson Dart, they probably don’t score a point, you know? I mean, that guy is everything. He’s the whole offense. Yeah. You know, so like I that guy’s amazing. I I I just feel bad that he’s got very little help around him. I don’t know what happened to Tyrone Tracy. He looked like a good back last year. Like I don’t know what he’s doing right now, but he it’s not like he’s breaking tackles or doing anything like we thought, you know, we were looking at from a year ago. Baldi, what is Dart’s best quality? Uh he has an unbelievable ability to maneuver in a pocket and keep a play alive. And whether he’s running or whether it’s, you know, finding an open receiver, but it’s just it it’s the competitive fire that he has. And sometimes I wish he didn’t have that much. So, like I thought Tatum Bthoon put him to sleep, you know, in the middle of the field on a scramble. Like I it like I was worried the way he got hit. I’m glad they flagged it. But regardless, he’s got to protect himself, but the competitive fire and just the unbelievable awareness in a pocket and where to maneuver, he really he he’s very good at it. Baldi, make a case for the Giants to keep Joe Shane and Brian Dable. Well, you got I don’t know, you got eight or nine games left to play. Um, you know, if you show some level of improvement overall or just competitive fire and win some games, they got to win games. I mean, period. I I don’t care who they beat and how they beat them, but we’re seeing teams that are coming off the mat and playing good football. Like, it’s not they they’ve got to finish way better. That was like to see the 49er fans in that stadium, like that was gut-wrenching if you’re Brian Dable or or Joe Shane right now. And that’s going to happen again. It’s going to happen again to a team that’s coming into that stadium. Y um 49ers travel like crazy, but that will happen again this year. And that that would be gut-wrenching if it’s all the opposing team in that stain. Yeah. And what I was saying what I was saying, Baldi, once they play the lower profile teams at the end of the year that don’t have a national brand that don’t travel, well then they’ll just be empty seats instead of, you know, the the opposing fans and that’s that’s going to make it untenable for ownership. So I think they’re going to have a new coach. And I know it’s a little early for this year, but we’re, you know, throwing names out. I mean, Belich, I mean, do you call them? I mean, is he done? Is it worth it? What What do you do? Well, yeah, I mean, if he’s available, I don’t know where the contract is at North Carolina. If he’s available, uh, you know, he basically got his start in New York with Parcels and started off as assistant special teams. I mean, he knows the history of this organization and the Mara family. I mean, you should at least if he is available, make the call, have the conversation, but you’d kind of like to see this thing build with somebody young and fresh, you know, the way some of these franchise and nobody knew Nick Serriani, you know, when he came to Philly, he was the seventh guy on their uh on their list of guys that they interviewed that year, but you kind of like to see it build with a proven general manager and a young coach that you could grow with. Thank you, Baldi. We appreciate the time as always. Okay, you bet, guys. Thanks, buddy. That was Odyssey NFL insider Brian Baldinger, host of the Best Football Show podcast. Insider calls brought to you by Nationwide for your insurance and financial needs. Nationwide is on your side. Wow, that’s amazing. Saw Gardner on the move for two first round picks, a firstrounder in 2026, a firstrounder in 2027. Uh, I’m shocked and pleasantly shocked. The Jets needed to move on from Sauce. He was overrated. I thought they made a mistake committing to him. That mistake is now gone. and Muji and Glenn have something to work with here, BT. Two first round picks in consecutive years trying to bring in more of their guys to change this culture for the Jets. There’s there’s so much here. I can’t wait to get the reaction from the Jets fans, too. But I like, you know, you can’t help but wonder, and I was thinking about this when we introduced Baldi because the news just broke there, so I’m still processing it at the start of the interview. Like, they just signed him to the extension. I mean, I is it possible that Muji is that next level that the only way he could get this kind of draft capital back for Gardner, who he never had any intention of building around, was to sign him long term to make him more appealing to another team? Think about this. If Gardner’s not signed today at this moment, you’re not getting two first round picks back for him. So, they also got a player back here. Okay, this is now according to Jay Glazer, uh, AD Mitchell, wide receiver AD Mitchell to the Jets as well. Yeah, I mean, there you go. Uh, it just doesn’t seem like why stop now? [Music]

BT & Sal react in real time as the shocking news breaks — the Jets have traded Sauce Gardner to the Colts for two first-round picks and WR Adonai Mitchell. NFL insider Brian Baldinger joins the show moments after the blockbuster deal to break it all down. Did the Jets make the right move? What does this mean for the team’s future — and the culture Aaron Glenn and GM Darren Mougey are trying to build? Plus, Baldy dives into what went wrong for Sauce and what’s next for the Giants after another brutal loss.

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