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Sugar Lane Studios. Here's Pain and Pendergast. All right. Pain and Pendergast. B. Scott. B. Scott is paying today and Monday and Tuesday. Yeah, he is. He's in for Seth. Seth's on vacation. So we played this audio yesterday, but it's too good not to play again.
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It's so bad. It's good.
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It's so bad. It's good. And when people pointed out the voice doppelganger for John Harbaugh being Joe Biden.
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Can't unsee it.
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You can't unsee nor unhear it. And I got texts from multiple people yesterday saying, I drove off the road when you guys pointed this out, that he sounds just like Joe Biden does, man. That's secondary to the fact that this was John Harbaugh's first kind of speech. At least it would appear that way to the. To his Giants team. Or at the very least, the rookies are a constituency of the team and coaches are in the room as well. And it's on an internal Giants. This is like a teaser video for what I'm guessing is like an internal, like, docu series on the first training camp of John Harbaugh. That kind of thing.
B
Yeah. This is not leaked. This is carefully edited and produced.
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Right.
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Like. Like produced on purpose and released on purpose.
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Put out there to entice Giant fans to go watch this series. Certainly not put out there to pour cold water on their super bowl hopes, which it feels like it did. So without further ado, here is John Harbaugh trying to hype up, it would seem, get his Giants team excited about the coming year.
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Welcome, man. Good to see everybody here excited.
B
Yes, sir.
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Little nervous?
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Nope.
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No. Nervous. Nervous, man. Excited. Nervous. You know, Nervous like you're full of dame. Almost. Mason. Get this thing. Kick off. Standing up here in front of the New York Giants. The New York Giants. It's a New York Giants sitting in this room. The New York Giants. Wow. It's an honor. It's an honor to stand in front of this room right now. I know those coaches back here feel the same way. Right? Coaches certainly are. It's an honor, man.
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We've been working, haven't we?
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We've been working early. Get real late getting ready for today. Today. Sitting in this chair in his seat. Getting to work. Getting started. Our beginning. Because this is where it all begins together.
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Okay.
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Where does the start begin?
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It starts at the beginning.
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And how does the beginning start?
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With the beginning.
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What team are they? Are they the Giants?
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I don't know if you Heard they're the New York Giants.
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Oh, okay. He wasn't clear about that. Actually.
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They were sitting in chairs which are also known as seats.
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Yeah. Today, Today at the beginning.
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Today, the start today.
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Yeah, yeah, right now.
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So you, you brought up this point yesterday. Is it. He felt like somebody who misplaced his notes and or was trying was going to go from memory and just couldn't remember what he was saying. He's just buying himself time. Yeah.
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Because I, I just cannot allow myself to believe that Harbaugh, any of the Harbaughs have made it this far in life.
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Being that ill prepared, seeming that unprepared.
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There's no way. Right. There's no way he's that successful of a guy and doesn't prepare at all. Just goes off the cuff. And if he, if he does. And he's would be better at it. You would think so. Come on.
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That feels like this, this is the biggest insult I can give him. That feels like a Nick Sirianni pep talk. Yeah. The head coach of the Eagles. That felt like something Sirianni would do where he would just stand up there, scream Philadelphia Eagles a couple times and then just meander. Talking about the beginning being the place that you start. Yes. Remember, he was the one that said the first thing about being smart is knowing what to do.
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Being prepared is knowing what to do.
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Yep, yep. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so this is Chris Canty who used to play for the Giants. He's. He does morning radio on ESPN Radio nationally. Now, this was his take on the whole thing.
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Former New York Giants defensive lineman joining us now. And you're laughing at as you're watching that John Harbaugh clip. He's getting crushed on social media this morning. Some people saying it's cringe. What do you make of that, Courtney?
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I hate to answer a question with a question, but number one, is he repeating the New York Giants to remind himself he's not in Baltimore? And number two is why did the Giants put this out there on social media for public consumption?
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That's not painting the best light. That's the question right there. That's the question right there. What the hell they put that out for?
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I have no idea. There must be some Brian Dabo loyalists in the building.
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Some Brian, Yeah, obviously Brian Dab all the previous head coach. So those loyalists, theoretically, according to Canty, would be trying to make the new guy look bad.
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That's not the worst theory because, I mean, because you're doing this on purpose and so is the joke on purpose.
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That's A more. That's a more plausible theory than whoever saw that video thinking, oh, yeah, this will pop. You know what I mean?
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No one saw that and thought it was good.
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No.
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No chance.
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No.
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Or that it wasn't. That it wouldn't be embarrassing for Harbaugh. So I actually like Kenti's theory as a conspiracy theory.
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It was a very Michael Scott kind of speech. A texter says, that's the second. Maybe it's the same texter that someone said that yesterday when we played it too. Is there a way that we can. There's gotta be a way we can AI that speech into a video of Michael Scott talking to.
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Look into that.
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Yeah, we gotta look into.
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Ah, man, I hate that I didn't do that already. There's a weekend project.
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Yeah.
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None of you out there do that. That's our idea.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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And if you do, make sure you send it to us.
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Don't do it for yourself to distribute. Okay.
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Do it as a contributor to the show.
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I'm gonna get a patent on that idea in the next two hours.
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Come on now.
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Okay. So the speech that I had a lot of people bringing up when we played that Harbaugh speech was Jonathan Gannon's first speech to his Arizona Cardinals team.
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Yeah.
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Where? Similar thing. The Cardinals had an internal docu series they were doing on Jonathan Gannon's first year as a head coach. Jonathan Gannon, who also. And Byron, I know you don't have all the hotkeys in there. You don't have the hotkey of Jonathan Gannon walking up to Rondale Moore saying, pew, pew, pew, pew.
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That's right. Yeah.
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Like Jonathan Gannon, who was. Already had kind of a corny vibe to him to begin with.
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Yeah.
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When he first got hired as. Don't worry about it, Byron. It's all good. He already had sort of that thing like John Harbaugh. I did not expect that at all. Jonathan Gannon. I expected a video to pop up of his first speech and have my. Have me roll my eyes.
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Well, because the first thing we saw of him was in the war room. Right. Like being like, oh, my God, this is how they make moves.
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Draft war.
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Amazed at Monty Asenford pulling off a trade that gave the Texans Will Anderson Jr. A trade that turned out to be a horrible trade for the Arizona Cardinals. But this was Jonathan Gannon's first speech. Similar thing. Standing up in front of the team in the amphitheater.
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Welcome back. Who drove over here? Quick, let me see your hands. Who took the bus? Did you have fire in your gut? Did you?
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We're here for a reason.
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Don't get that twisted, okay? We're here for a reason to win games. So if you didn't have that fire in your gut, you better light the fire pretty fast. Be who you are. Just understand I'm looking for killers.
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I checked. The Cardinals picked third in the draft this year.
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Yeah, look. No, they. They ended up being terrible under Jonathan Gannon. That was a better speech.
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That was a better speech than Harbaugh.
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That was much better.
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Yep.
B
Yeah, no, that was better.
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I don't know where he was going with.
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Did you have fire? You good?
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No. The very beginning. Hey, Byron, play the beginning one more time real quick.
B
Did you drive over here?
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Welcome back. Who drove over here? Quick, let me see your hands. Who took the bus? You have fire in your gut.
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Okay, okay. We're good. We're good.
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Yeah. What's.
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What's the difference?
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Is there something about Arizona Transit that we don't understand?
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Is there something.
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Something about the. The bus system in.
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Was there something maybe like, if you took the bus, you're a little bit more blue collar and hardcore, you know, than driving your Bentley or whatever?
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I don't think that that's true, though.
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I don't know where he was going with that. Yeah, help me out, texters. Help. Help me and be Scott out. Where was he going with the mode of transportation thing?
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Yeah.
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What does it have to do with a fire in the gut? Yeah.
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Yeah. Because, I mean, I've done both.
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Yeah. I don't.
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I don't feel like the only time I've been on the bus or people who go on the bus is usually they just don't have a car. It's not. Cause they have more fire in the room.
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Right, right.
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You know what I mean? It's just they don't have wheels. They don't have their own wheels.
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Sitting next to fire. Sitting next to this receptionist on the bus today. Boy, did she have a fire in her gut.
B
Imagine how disruptive the buses would be all if everybody on there had a fire in the belly.
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Yeah. We'd get a lot more viral videos, I would say.
B
Oh. But it would take down the transit system.
A
Yeah, that's true.
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Bus drivers. You remember what it's like being a kid and the bus driver couldn't keep everybody wrapped out, like. But it's not that way on an adult bus.
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Stop this bus. Yeah.
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At the right job. Tell your parents.
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Oh, my God.
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That man.
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All right. Payne and Pender. Gas B. Scott in for Seth Payne. All right, I have a question. This stems from our Kyle Tucker discussion yesterday. Kyle Tucker's having a terrible year for the Dodgers, especially at the sticker, the big time sticker price they paid for him. It got me thinking about guys who've left the Astros mostly in free agency. Is there a is there a curse, is there a former is there a departed Astros curse going on right now? I think Astro fans are going to feel better about some of the decisions that ownership has made after the.
Episode: Who had the worst Pep talk out of these two Head Coaches
Date: July 24, 2026
Hosts: Sean Pendergast & B. Scott (in for Seth Payne)
Main Theme: Analyzing hilariously awkward head coach pep talks—John Harbaugh (New York Giants) vs. Jonathan Gannon (Arizona Cardinals)—and debating which was the worst.
Sean Pendergast and guest B. Scott lampoon two infamous NFL head coach pep talks: John Harbaugh's debut speech for the New York Giants and Jonathan Gannon's internal speech to the Arizona Cardinals. The discussion blends sharp analysis, humor, and listener feedback, with both hosts highlighting the unintended comedy and questionable motivational tactics in these highly produced yet cringe-worthy moments released by each team.
[00:00–01:16]
Notable Quote:
“When people pointed out the voice doppelganger for John Harbaugh being Joe Biden … you can’t unsee nor unhear it.”
— Sean [00:20]
[01:16–03:38]
Memorable Moment:
“Where does the start begin?”
“It starts at the beginning.”
“And how does the beginning start?”
“With the beginning.”
— Sean & B. Scott bantering [02:32–02:37]
[04:01–05:15]
Notable Quote:
“Is he repeating the New York Giants to remind himself he’s not in Baltimore? ... Why did the Giants put this out there?”
— Chris Canty [04:13]
“No one saw that and thought it was good. No chance.”
— B. Scott [05:03]
[05:47–07:44]
Jonathan Gannon’s Speech Clip:
“Welcome back. Who drove over here? Quick, let me see your hands. Who took the bus? Did you have fire in your gut? Did you?”
— Jonathan Gannon [06:59]
Hosts’ Breakdown:
“That was a better speech ... that was much better.”
— Both [07:40–07:44]
[07:44–08:44]
Notable Quote:
“I don’t feel like ... people who go on the bus ... have more fire in the room. It’s just they don’t have wheels.”
— B. Scott [08:33]
[08:44–09:16]
“It’s an honor to stand in front of this room right now ... the New York Giants. Wow.”
— John Harbaugh (speech clip) [01:35–02:14]
“That feels like ... a Nick Sirianni pep talk.”
— Sean [03:26]
“Is he repeating the New York Giants to remind himself he’s not in Baltimore?”
— Chris Canty [04:13]
“No one saw that and thought it was good.”
— B. Scott [05:03]
“Who drove over here? ... Who took the bus? Did you have fire in your gut?”
— Jonathan Gannon (speech clip) [06:59]
“I don’t feel like ... people who go on the bus ... have more fire in the room. It’s just they don’t have wheels.”
— B. Scott [08:33]
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