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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast, powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Here in the bed MGM studio,

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Speaker 1: Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen, and today we're joined by a linebacker,

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Speaker 1: Blake Cashman, entering his second year with the Jets. Yeah, Cash,

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Speaker 1: I think he came back to camp a little bit bigger,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. And he's is showing some

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Speaker 1: feistiness out there on the practice field. Just feels more comfortable,

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Speaker 1: and that should be the natural progression of things. He

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Speaker 1: come in your rookie year, a lot of unknowns. Now,

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Speaker 1: he knows the defense. He had a full off season

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Speaker 1: to work on his body and focus on somethings mentally,

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Speaker 1: and he's come back and I think he's playing pretty

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Speaker 1: well out there. Yeah. I think that a lot of

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Speaker 1: Jets fans are eager to see what Blake Cashman provides

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Speaker 1: to his defense in his second year, because last year

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Speaker 1: throwing in the fire early and early, I mean like

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Speaker 1: week two he was playing and playing meaningful snaffs for

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Speaker 1: the Jets and he flashed, and then of course the

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Speaker 1: shoulder injury he goes down. So I think a lot

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Speaker 1: of fans are excited to see the progression of Blake Cashman.

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Speaker 1: I think it's natural for any second year player, Like

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Speaker 1: I think if you're a fan, you want to see

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Speaker 1: how a young player can improve their game. And so far,

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Speaker 1: so good for Blake cash The Jets head to count

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Speaker 1: on him early his rookie season, which you just mentioned.

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Speaker 1: He might be playing a lot of ball here early

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and twenty as well, because you got C. J.

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Speaker 1: Mosley opted out because the family reasons, James versions dealing

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Speaker 1: with the lower back right now. Burges finished second on

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Speaker 1: this team in tackles last season. Peanut went out, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Patrick Owasso went out here with the knee injury. Fortunately

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Speaker 1: escaped ligament damage, but what to see how long he's out.

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Speaker 1: So we were talking all off season about the depth

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Speaker 1: that the inside linebacker position. They're dealing with the number

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Speaker 1: of issues I or that are impacting that depth right now.

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Speaker 1: But Cashman is a guy who I think you play

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Speaker 1: base look, but he's your most athletic inside linebacker. Things

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Speaker 1: changed quickly in the NFL, and he just gave a

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Speaker 1: snapshot of what that looks like for the Jets inside linebackers.

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Speaker 1: And let's hear from number fifty three, Blake Cashman Blake,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us here on the podcast. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me Blake. What's this camp? And like so far,

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Speaker 1: I mean, unprecedented in so many different ways. You guys

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Speaker 1: are entering the building, they're testing tents outside, quarters marked

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Speaker 1: off throughout the facility, coaches with the mass. Saturday, you

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Speaker 1: guys had a walk through canceled because the ten falls

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Speaker 1: positive tests. But throughout all I think you guys have

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Speaker 1: maintained a positive vibe and there it's just refreshing that

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Speaker 1: you're playing football right now. Yeah, I think you said

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Speaker 1: it really well. It's definitely been crazy, uh you know,

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Speaker 1: a weird camp, but um, you know, given all the

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Speaker 1: different procedures and guidelines and things that US players and

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Speaker 1: coaches and other personneliti in the building, we have to

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Speaker 1: follow these rules. I think everybody's doing a good job.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone's handling it really well. And um, you know,

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Speaker 1: we haven't taken a step back at all. I think

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Speaker 1: everyone's been very good about participating and being engaged in

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Speaker 1: our virtual meetings. And you know, once we've hit the

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Speaker 1: practice field, it's it's it's dope. We we we were

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Speaker 1: be knowing what they're doing a lot better than uh

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Speaker 1: where we were at last year. So that's really good

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Speaker 1: to see. And um, you know, it's it's really fun

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Speaker 1: to see as we um progress through camp each day

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Speaker 1: and each week, how much better we're getting as a

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Speaker 1: team and how much better players are getting at on

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Speaker 1: the individual performance, Blake, how about you as an individual?

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Speaker 1: What's your second training camp? And like mentally, now that

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Speaker 1: you have another year under Greg Williams's system, Uh, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say it's it's easier, um, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's definitely slowed down more for me. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: given uh what I was going through last year with

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Speaker 1: physicality of playing at the next level, um went from

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Speaker 1: understanding the playbook now, I'm really able to focus on

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Speaker 1: um for our play calling, but I'm able to focus

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Speaker 1: studying different little tips that kind of give away what,

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Speaker 1: Because during the pandemic, man, you must have really got

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Speaker 1: after it while Green's and I are doing body weight workout,

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Speaker 1: because you look like a bigger dude who is more

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Speaker 1: prepared in the second year for the physical terror, the

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Speaker 1: well the physical regiment that you're gonna have to take

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Speaker 1: on to play sixteen games in the NFL. I I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that. Um, you know, I had, ah, I think

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Speaker 1: as you get older and you're playing football, you just

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Speaker 1: put that experience you you learn new ways to train

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Speaker 1: being surrounded by other professional athletes. You know, I have

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Speaker 1: And uh so that was something you know, I was

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Speaker 1: building my my shoulder and back strength just because now

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go through an injury like that.

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Speaker 1: I wanna eliminate as much risk as possible and I

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Speaker 1: want to be healthy and um, you know, play a

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Speaker 1: full full season. Blake, can you talk a little bit

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Speaker 1: Lampley was one of my favorite boxing announcers what happened

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Speaker 1: I might have been to blame for those those two fights.

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Speaker 1: Uh and friends, Uh you know, hey, we're all competitive

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Speaker 1: You said the other day that your strong suit is coverage,

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Speaker 1: prefer lakes two beaches? Uh? I do. I do like

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Speaker 1: the lake life, and I do have a boat. My

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Speaker 1: you mean there's a difference. But you gotta separate boat

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