Jul 23, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
Mike Tannenbaum joins Wilde & Tausch on the Yuengling Guest Hotline to explain why he's still one of Jordan Love's biggest believers! The former Jets GM also weighs in on why Green Bay should ignore…
Mike TannenbaumGuest
Mark TauscherHostJesse NelsonHost
Well, I would just say that when you go out to dinner with the same people over and over again, you've got to just ask thought-provoking, differentiated questions, and this way people just don't, you know, hey, how are you, how was your day, blah, blah, blah.
So you try to get a little bit more interesting and take people a little bit out of their comfort zone.
Mike, has there been a time that you asked a question at one of those that really struck a nerve with somebody? Because it does create great conversation, but also you don't know which way to go, especially if it's somebody you don't know that well.
You know, this all started with behavioral-based interviewing at the Combine.
For years and years and years, you'd ask players, hey, like, why'd you fail this drug test, or what happened, why'd you get arrested, whatever bad news they had.
They always gave, like, the same canned answer about, like, I was young, it'll never happen again, which, by the way, could be true.
And, you know, we got into much more interesting questions, like, give us an example of you being a good teammate, or what's something you've worked hard at in your playing career that you were unable to accomplish, you know, things that show selflessness or some awareness of how they need to get better.
So, Mike, was there ever a time that you did one of those and you were really high on the player, but the way they answered or the way you kind of analyzed it, that you took them off your board?
A couple times with quarterbacks, we would show their interceptions, and basically we would ask them to take us through the play, like what happened.
And if the quarterback would blame others, like, oh, that was a really bad play call, or – the receiver ran the wrong route, invariably we would either take him off our board or knock him down.
And the reason for it, guys, is if you're going to pay somebody millions and millions of dollars to be, as Coach Parcells would say, your battlefield commander, you want somebody that's always taking the blame and always giving the credit.
So it was a big indice of a quarterback's ability to be selfless when they would describe bad plays to us.
All right, Mike, last one on this because, you know, it's been 20-some-odd years since I took the Wunderlich and did the New York Giants test was ridiculous.
I don't know if you guys would get all of that if you weren't with the Giants, how that all worked.
But what is the correct answer if you're a dog or a cat guy? I never understood that.
Mark, I'm not sure, but maybe the Giants had some issues with how you played, so maybe it was on both sides.
Well, I would just say that when you go out to dinner with the same people over and over again, you've got to just ask thought-provoking, differentiated questions, and this way people just don't, you know, hey, how are you, how was your day, blah, blah, blah.
So you try to get a little bit more interesting and take people a little bit out of their comfort zone.
Mike, has there been a time that you asked a question at one of those that really struck a nerve with somebody? Because it does create great conversation, but also you don't know which way to go, especially if it's somebody you don't know that well.
You know, this all started with behavioral-based interviewing at the Combine.
For years and years and years, you'd ask players, hey, like, why'd you fail this drug test, or what happened, why'd you get arrested, whatever bad news they had.
They always gave, like, the same canned answer about, like, I was young, it'll never happen again, which, by the way, could be true.
And, you know, we got into much more interesting questions, like, give us an example of you being a good teammate, or what's something you've worked hard at in your playing career that you were unable to accomplish, you know, things that show selflessness or some awareness of how they need to get better.
So, Mike, was there ever a time that you did one of those and you were really high on the player, but the way they answered or the way you kind of analyzed it, that you took them off your board?
A couple times with quarterbacks, we would show their interceptions, and basically we would ask them to take us through the play, like what happened.
And if the quarterback would blame others, like, oh, that was a really bad play call, or – the receiver ran the wrong route, invariably we would either take him off our board or knock him down.
And the reason for it, guys, is if you're going to pay somebody millions and millions of dollars to be, as Coach Parcells would say, your battlefield commander, you want somebody that's always taking the blame and always giving the credit.
So it was a big indice of a quarterback's ability to be selfless when they would describe bad plays to us.
All right, Mike, last one on this because, you know, it's been 20-some-odd years since I took the Wunderlich and did the New York Giants test was ridiculous.
I don't know if you guys would get all of that if you weren't with the Giants, how that all worked.
But what is the correct answer if you're a dog or a cat guy? I never understood that.
Mark, I'm not sure, but maybe the Giants had some issues with how you played, so maybe it was on both sides.
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