How Phil Simms knew CBS run was over: 'Nobody … talked to me'

Phil Simms had a feeling his time with CBS would soon be ending. “It wasn't a great surprise,” Simms said on the “Front Office Sports Today” podcast of his recent dismissal from the network . “I knew there was probably going to be some change or thought there would be. So, I think that makes it a little easier. “Would I have liked to keep the job? Of course. I mean, damn. I didn't like it — I loved it. Get to talk football and hang around and maybe when we go to commercial, you get to really say what you want to the guys that you're working with, but in the meetings, everything. But it was a fun job, great job and you just move on to something else now.” 3 Phil Simms' 26 years with CBS recently