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Geoff Schwartz From The NY Giants
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Though he enjoys exploring New York City's limitless food options, more often than not, he finds himself whipping something up on his own, cooking for his wife and his son. And that imagination of his keeps him moving forward. We are unplugged and totally uncut with Jeff Schwartz. Man, you're keepin' busy these days, sir. Oh yeah, I'm all over the place. You like that though, don't ya? What? You like that though, don't ya? Yeah, I can't sit around my house. Well, you know, it's like, that's what I love about NFL players is that always active, always doing something in the community or doing something with broadcasting. Yeah, a lot of us just can't sit still. Have you always been that way? Yeah, so I've never, I've always not been able to just sit and relax. I've seen the reel on what you do on television with the commentating and stuff. Dude, you've got a future in broadcasting. Thank you. What is it that you're doing as you grow in that direction? Are you preparing for it and just making sure that when you're playing the actual game itself, you're playing it out as well? Well, the broadcasting stuff, you just have to practice. So you just, anytime you get a chance to practice, you just take it. That's what I've done. Whereabouts in the career did you decide that, you know, I want to be that guy. That's going to be on the screen so I can help educate the NFL of viewer. I don't know what I decided to actually go for it, probably in 2013. So I always thought I would do it and then I kind of started, I went for it then and I really got into it when I got to New York because that's the best, I mean, that's the best market to do then. To be that giant, I mean, this nation loves the Giants. What is that like for you when you get to play on that team as well as do the things that you're doing with broadcasting? Well, Giants are just an exceptional organization. I mean, everything you do from top to bottom is first class. And when you win in New York, which unfortunately haven't done for the last few years, opened up a lot of doors. It's a huge, medium market and there's a lot of guys that have started in New York, whether for the Giants or for the Jets that are now doing the broadcasting. And like you said, it's a lot of reps in practice. I have a weekly TV show that I do in New York and it really helps. It's almost like the New York Giants trained champions not only on the field, but they also trained champions in everyday life. Well, yeah, and that's a lot I have to do with coach pop runners. Unfortunately, I'm not coaching you more, but that just starts from him. I mean, exceptional, exceptional team and team makes sure that we do things the right way. And that's the organizational thing as well. I mean, they want guys that are going to be doing hundreds of minutes. Their fathers are going to be active in the community. And it's one thing I love about being a giant. What is it like for you though, when you're in that studio in front of that camera, and all of a sudden they turn to you, and now you've got to talk about a football team that you've competed against, but you have to be able to make sure that you're there for the fan of that team as well. Yeah, you have to talk when you have to talk about your own team. I'm not, I don't really, other teams I can talk about all day. I mean, I can talk about the egos of the Cowboys without offending them like yes, or just I just tell like it is. But it's when you talk about your own team, you have to be a little careful. You can't just, you know, there's obviously things that you keep to yourself and things that you're up to say. And that's where you run into the issues is being able to convey what you want to say, and also not offend anybody. Yeah, because, I mean, with all the plays and stuff like that, and if somebody on the screen asked me a question, it would be, to me, I can't keep a secret. I mean, you've got to keep your guard up and stuff. Oh, you have to, because obviously my job is my job. I love my job. It pays very well. I enjoy football. I enjoy all of it. And I'm going to deproise that for saying something ridiculous, you know, in a radio interview or on TV. And, you know, it's also a good practice to make sure that you don't, that you're able to say convey messages differently. You know, you don't say the same thing every time. So it makes you think about different ways to put stories and to say, to twist things and make it sound like you want it to sound. So just another way to practice. Is it just TV that you would like to do, or would you get into, like, sports radio? Well, I'll do radio. I'm about to go on a little bit later with another radio station in Charlotte. So I don't mind either. I have a much better face for radio. Hey, did you think it was fair the way that Hollywood came at the NFL this year with concussion? And then now we've got this new book out, Johnny Anonymous, with NFL Confidential. It's almost like the NFL has come under fire this year. I didn't even, I didn't know about that book. You know, I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, the incidents that we had a couple years ago with domestic violence, and which is, you know, shined a spotlight negatively in the NFL, and then it's a concussion lawsuit. And, you know, obviously, compressions are, you know, a big deal. And, you know, we know now what the sex of football are on the body, and there's no excuse to not know that. But it really seems that we really lost a little bit of our way, because there's, you know, 99% of NFL players are great guys. And then we lose that a little bit when we talk about all the negative things that happened to the NFL. Obviously, you know, not with saying that CT can touch it, just a separate of that. You know, there's plenty of great stories in the NFL, plenty of guys who donate their time and donate their money. And we really helped out in this meeting, and that doesn't really get talked about, because they themselves sell it all. I mean, you know, I think that people want to hear all the negative things that happen. And you're so right about how the NFL players and stuff get actively involved. I mean, even with Eli, or even here with the Richardson family and stuff like that, everybody is so committed, committed to the community. Well, yeah, I think that when you're invested in the community, especially like, Mr. Richardson is, or even guys like Thomas Davis that have been here forever, you know, you're getting invested in the community and you want to get back to the Houston so good to you. I understand why guys do that. I understand why it should be, it should be done. And I think I think it's very, it's very great to see it happen. Is it what you thought the NFL was going to be like when you were growing up? I mean, it was like everybody's got that dream. Has it played out the way that you wanted it to? I mean, I've played eight years now. I've had my ups and downs with injuries, which is, you know, disappointing. It's kind of sour in my experience a little bit, but the thing I've learned is that it's way more of a business than you can even imagine when you're younger. I mean, you just have no idea you come into your, your naive about it. And it's, it's a business, you know, people are, people are here to take your job as soon as they can take your job. You know, the team moves on to you. And this is the way it is. And you learned that early on the first time that you cut it, the first time anything negative happens to you, you learn that if the business is no hard feeling, it's not like staff, you know, letting you go because they don't like you as a person. I mean, I'm sure that happens sometimes by just a business. That's the way it is. I can still relate with you because radio is the same way. I mean, I wanted to be that guy that got on the air, had a great time, shared stories with the listeners, and then about three quarters of the way through the career they go, we're going to do something else with you. You're going to learn the business side of radio. What? And all of a sudden you start realizing that people's lives are affected. Oh, yeah. And that's so, you know, everyone, it's funny that you tweet all the time about, you know, that people say, Hey, we should actually cut you or this and that, or they talk to you, you know, I'm rather, but it's just our livelihood. It's our life. I mean, you don't want anyone to take your job for you. It's like, I don't like to see anyone who gets caught or losing their job. I mean, that's, that's our livelihood. And you end up having, you know, a lot of time you do what your boss tells you, just the way it works. How do you deal with that kind of a relationship where you live here in Charlotte, but you have to go up to New York? Is that, is that like living two different lives? A little bit. I have a place up in Jersey, so it's not that bad. You can, you know, go to a house and when I come home, I'm so far away from New Jersey. So I don't really feel like part of the community. And then I go back and I just step right in where I left off. I'm a big deal. It's a lot easier to come home to Charlotte because we have family here and, and you know, we're building a house here and this is what we're going to live. So I really enjoy coming home back to Charlotte. He's got that, he's got that vibe about it. There's just something about the soil here in the Carolinas. I just, you just feel like you're welcome. Oh, I love it here. It's the community is great. People are nice. The traffic's good. The property taxes are low. It's, it's very, it's just easy living out here. But you also get the big city. If you want to go into our town, you know, you get to concerts, you get to sports, you get, you know, the shows, you just don't get it on the New York scale, but you get everything just, not with doing all the traffic, you know, and that. I can go to a hornet's game. I'll be on the parking complex right next to that. And then just ask the game and leave, but there's no, there's no issue getting in and out. It's awesome. So you get to be a real guy and go to a hornet's game then. I do. Yeah. I'm not so much a basketball fan. I'm a Lakers fan. And then I'm really good. They were here a couple of weeks. Actually didn't even know they were playing. I wouldn't go on. Coordinates games just don't do it for me. Right. I grew up going to Lakers games in the form and a little bit of a civil center. But this one, the atmosphere is just not really my thing. I can wear it since. Yeah. It's just one of those things that Charlotte went through when it was at the old Coliseum over on Tyvola Road. I mean, oh, dude, it was, it was a celebration every night. Yeah, I just spoke to atmospheres. They have to try to hype it up to get going. I don't really like that. So you know, you as a player, you can identify that. Do you ever look out there on the on the football field when you're playing going for the heck? Yeah. I noticed when the when the crowds went into it or you know, you go to the way game and there's no one there. I don't think it really affects you, but it is more fun to play in front of a sold out crowd at home or even going somewhere and having a hostile crowd. You're a Seattle. It's way more. It's just your blog going a little bit. What's up with that Seattle team? I think they're a dirty team. Do you think they're a dirty team? How about dirty? Dirty meaning that man, when like when they're jumping over the players who blog the kicks, I swear that's the first time I was like, what the heck? They've got Superman on their team. I mean, I think that would say the Bengals are dirtier than Seahawks. Yes. I feel like you have to play defensive in the ball. I guess the football used to be played and you know, this weekend game was going to be a good battle because they both teams do both of those very well, but you know, the Panthers are at home and they now help them. You've been on that Panther field. Can you can you hear the energy from those fans? I remember 2008, you know, that playing with the Cardinals obviously didn't throw the wave. We wanted to, but that place was rocking. You could feel the energy and actually talk to them. Line Cleo yesterday. It's a little bit of your buddy of mine still and he was telling me out that this year, you know, previous two or three years through the stadiums, you really, the atmosphere has really changed for the better compared to, you know, the bad years in 2009 and 10 and 11. So, you know, he definitely can notice the difference and it's more fun to play than an amateur, obviously. I had a sports announcer tell me one time, Jerry Valencordi said, "You're not going to get a real fan in Charlotte until we start losing games because it's from the pain that you have victory." Yeah, it's possible. I just think that it's now been 20 years. The Panthers have been there, what, 20 years now. And you have now you have the kids that became Panther fans and they were a little five, six, seven, eight. They're now the ones that the games and that makes a big difference. I mean, when you go to the Panthers first game here, the season ticket holders were all fans of other teams and they're not dropping that team to roots for the Panthers. Just like that, you know, when the Rams went out of LA now, it's not like the Niner fans in LA are going to drop the Niner's roots for the Rams because they're kids on the roots of the Rams. So, the kids roots the Panthers and now, obviously, now those kids have now grown up and they're the ones that are going through the games. And that's where you get the fans, the die hard fans, you know, that's where they come from. You think LA's going to have the die hard fans returning now that the Rams are going home? Well, Land fans, I just don't think that, you know, I think when you have a team like a Niner show up, you're going to have the stadium will be full of Niner fans. I grew up at the Niner Center from Los Angeles. You know, there's some Rams fans around. I actually think the Raiders were done better in LA, but that was never happening. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, but it's, the industry itself is just always growing and that's what I, that's what I love about the NFL and it just, it just makes it so fun to watch and, and you get to participate with it because you're not only on the field, but you're, you're on your way into becoming part of that studio. Yeah, I love that experience on this. It's one of a kind and there's no adrenaline rush. So I get pointy run out of the tunnel. There's nothing that can, that can pop back up when you win. I mean, when you win, that's the best zone effort because you put in all that work all week and your job is basically to win or lose. That's where it comes out here. When you win, it's, you know, it's pretty incredible feeling. No, no, when you go into your broadcast meetings, and it's just broadcaster to broadcaster, do they sit down with you and say, now remember, Jeff, that we have women that are watching too. So you're going to, you're going to, not, you need to talk to them as well, not, not to dumb it down, but to talk to them because girls know football as well. I mean, do they, do you have those kind of meetings when it's building up the audience? Not really. You know, they, when I go like, I was on the Sports Center a couple weeks ago, they sent me what they wanted me, you know, what, what the topics were, what I was going to say, what I was comfortable with. And none of that was geared towards, you know, you just speak your mind, give your information. You know, I don't think that people really enjoy tactical parts of breaking down games and players and stuff. I don't think it matters what, what sex you are. You know, if you like football, you like football talk. How has fantasy football played with the NFL? Is it, are people doing it because they love the game or are they trying to just because they want to win their, the earnings and stuff off the game? It's a little bit of both, but it's really changed the way fans watch the game. Fans just think the game is just stats now. Who can give me the most stats? Who can do this? Who can do that? And it's not like that. It's made it tough for players who get tweets all the time now. You didn't get enough points. You didn't do that. You know, it's different than what it used to be. And it's very stats based and I play fantasy football and, you know, it's, I enjoy it. It's fun. I don't play for money or anything like that, but I have a good time doing it. Maybe we should start up a league fantasy bowling and then professional bowlers can do some stuff. Yeah. Who do you think is going to win this weekend? Chiefs or Patriots? Patriots. Yep. I'm with you on that. Packers, Cardinals, Cardinals. Cardinals, yeah. I think all before. I think all four teams win. Really good for you to do some Denver too then, huh? Yeah. I see. I grew up in Montana. The Broncos are forever in my heart. Yeah. I just, I don't think that Pittsburgh just could beat up. Keep in touch with Jeff Schwartz on Twitter at Jeff Schwartz and on Facebook. Breaking news and this one is almost unbelievable. Yeah. It's all about new customers at Bet365 because they get $150 in bonus bets when they bet $5 and even better bonus bets can be used on the spread, totals and player props. There you have it. Bet $5 to get $150 in bonus bets and see why it's never ordinary at Bet365. Gambling problem? Color text 1-800-Gambler, 21 plus only. Must be physically located in Colorado. Terms and conditions apply. Get the Honda of your dreams during Happy Honda days with a sporty new Civic, a cord, HRV or CRV. 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Geoff Schwartz
#74 G6' 6", 340 lbsNew York Giants
BornJul 11, 1986 in Los Angeles, CA (Age: 29)
Drafted 2008: 7th Rnd, 241st by CAR
Experience7th season
CollegeOregon
#74 G6' 6", 340 lbsNew York Giants
BornJul 11, 1986 in Los Angeles, CA (Age: 29)
Drafted 2008: 7th Rnd, 241st by CAR
Experience7th season
CollegeOregon