Gregg Giannotti is defending his WFAN colleagues Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata after their dustup with Giants legend Carl Banks.
Last week, Licata had their producer hang up on Banks after a 20-minute segment that got heated about second-year Giants pass rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux.
This week, Banks resigned from his weekly spot.
Licata and Tierney addressed the resignation on their program Wednesday, saying both of them had talked to Banks and had cordial conversations, but he just didn’t want to do their show anymore.
Longtime New York sports reporter Gary Myers then tweeted that Banks, a two-time Super Bowl champion, had resigned from the show after being “completely disrespected” in the spot, and it created a whirlwind of reaction.
On WFAN’s morning drive program, “Boomer & Gio”, on Thursday, Giannotti took aim at Banks over the series of events and the general quality of his content.
Giannotti acknowledged that Licata hanging up on Banks was disrespectful, but also noted that Banks had accused Tierney of having a biased opinion on account of being a Jets fan and he was shouting over the hosts when they were trying to speak.
“If you want to say there was disrespect there, there was disrespect on both sides,” Giannotti said.
After ripping how the story was aggregated, Giannotti turned up the volume.
“Carl is still gonna be on the radio station. He’s still gonna do the pregame show. He’s still gonna be calling the games on WFAN. And he did a weekly spot for 20 GODDAMN YEARS HERE THAT WAS BORING AS HELL!” he said.
“So him resigning from WFAN really means nothing to us! And for anyone sitting there going, ‘Man, what a loss for WFAN,’ stop! No one really liked that spot. The only reason it was still on is because there was an [ad] sales play attached to it. That’s it! Nobody wanted it! The hosts didn’t want it! Management didn’t want it! Nobody wanted it!”