For the last two decades, Jay Glazer has been the insider for FOX NFL Sunday and delivers news surrounding the players, personnel and teams in the league. Establishing a reputation as a trusted and reliable source of information, he has established relationships with those in the sport and keeps most of his reports exclusive for the Sunday pregame show or other FOX Sports properties. For example, he divulged that the New York Jets had decided to move on from quarterback Aaron Rodgers shortly before Super Bowl LIX, an insight that elicited reaction and advances to the story.
On the latest edition of WFAN’s Boomer & Gio, Glazer was a topic of discussion following a different report surrounding the reported strife between Jordan Schultz and Ian Rapoport from the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Ind. WFAN host Gregg Giannotti explained that the Barstool Sports Pardon My Take podcast conveyed that Rapoport accused Schultz of offering stocks in Uber in exchange for scoops. Although Schultz denies these accusations, Boomer Esiason expressed that there was maybe some truth to it while also adding that it was “the weirdest thing” he had ever heard.
“There really is only one NFL or MLB insider who could beat up the rest of them,” Giannotti ascertained. “It’s obvious who this is, and that’s Jay Glazer. Guy’s an MMA guy. He’d take out everybody.”
Esiason remembered working alongside Glazer during his stint at CBS Sports and attending his first MMA fight at Bayonne High School. Before the event started, Glazer informed Esiason that his opponent was someone more used to wrestling and that his strategy was staying away from him. Thirty seconds into the match, Esiason recalled that Glazer got the wind knocked out of him and was subsequently knocked out. Reflecting on the situation, he gave Glazer credit in sticking with it for all of these years.
“He’s not as involved on social media as it comes to the posting stuff and the scoops that way,” Giannotti explained. “These other guys are always putting the stuff out there first, but then when he pops up and he has something on FOX, you always believe it.”
Esiason concurred with this perspective, adding that Glazer has always been dependable in having something for the show on Sunday. It is something towards which he is adept dating back to his time with CBS Sports, during which he also joined the staff with the CBS SportsLine website by breaking various original stories.
“He got a lot of phone calls from a lot of players after games, and that’s the one thing I can say,” Esiason explained. “I saw him getting calls and talking to players.”
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