WEBVTT - Drive Time: Jets Perspective with Antwan Staley 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:11.080 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:13.960 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.320 there is a real possibility this is the last time 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.079 you hear me before the twenty twenty four season is over. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.439 We'll have the recap for you guys on Sunday night, 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.720 but today we're talking to Antoine Staley. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:26.840 He covers the New York Jets for the New York Daily. 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.080 We'll have the week eighteen picks and probably ruin my 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.800 record because who the hell knows who's going to win 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:35.959 half these games this week. We also might stop by 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:37.839 the Dolphins locker room to talk to some of the 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.000 guys about Week eight team playing for the playoffs. All 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.280 of that and more from the Baptist Hill Studios inside 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:43.680 the Baptist Hill Training Complex. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:44.280 This is. 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:47.080 The Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:48.160 Aye gaff. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:51.600 I would like to address something right off the top, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.400 because well, this really annoys me and I don't even 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.520 think I'm going to push back on the person that 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.440 wrote this review. On Apple pop cast Reviews, someone said 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.600 that the actually, let's go ahead and read the entire thing. 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.440 Why not be completest about it? The review says, getting 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.320 lazy have followed you since Lockdown Dolphins, Travis, but your 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.320 post game shows are so uncreative. You're basically reading the 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.880 play by play from ESPN's gamecast plus seven minutes of 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.840 Mike McDaniel talking in circles sprinkled in to get you 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.720 to a thirty minute threshold. We all watched the football game, 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.520 Please give us some different insights. I agree on the 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.560 take on the Cleveland game, because that Cleveland game was 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.080 boring as hell. That was a preseason game you watched, right. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.240 Dtr is not an NFL quarterback. He is probably playing 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.360 for the Memphis Express next year or in two years. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.560 And Tyler Huntley played decent, but the Dolphins operation was 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.120 not very good. Twenty to three in that type of system, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.760 in that type of atmosphere and situation was not a 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.280 game that I felt really deserved a whole lot of critiquing. Now, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.640 maybe maybe I'll revamp the the way I do those 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.800 shows in the future, But man, like I don't know, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.240 I feel like I gave some pretty good critical els 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.240 have for the Houston game, in the San Francisco game 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.640 and the Jets game. Even like I don't know, I 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.160 don't agree with that on the granular level. But in 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.280 that particular game, I just want to tell you that 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.440 I didn't really know what to talk about because they 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.200 couldn't run the ball. The passing game was you know, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:18.120 it was basically unimaginative, like one route reads, and there 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.639 wasn't a lot to break down. Defensively, what are you 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.400 gonna break down the opposing quarterback can't complete a forward pass. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.000 So I just want to acknowledge that we're gonna revamp 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.280 the way we do those next season. But for that 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:30.400 particular game, yeah, that was a tough one. I'm gonna 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.120 be honest with you guys. Doing two hours of postgame 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.720 radio on that game and then coming back with a podcast, 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.680 it wasn't to get to a thirty minute threshold. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:37.720 I have no rules on that. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.560 As you can tell. I've done podcasts that have been 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.480 twenty five minutes. I've done podcasts that have been forty 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.400 five minutes. That's not what I was doing there. I 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.400 was trying to give you words on the Tua injury 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.480 from McDaniel because he knows better than I do. So 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.160 that's what we're doing there. All right, that's enough clarification 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.720 off the top of the show. Let's go ahead and 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.280 get to my guest here, Antwine Staley, to break down 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.079 this Dolphins and Jets matchup from week eighteen from Metlive Stadium. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.280 Here's my chat with Antoine. 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.480 He's a call and beat writer for the New York 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.079 Daily News, friend of the show, friend of the host 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:04.520 as well. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:05.080 Antwine. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.440 Stay, Antoine, welcome back in and man, I was on 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.960 your ex page getting all your bona fides lined up 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.280 here before I introduced you on the show, and I 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.480 got to ask you this, man, what am I looking 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.200 at at that header atop your page on X Is 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.000 that like a preemptive shark attack? 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:20.799 I'm looking at there. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.880 I don't know what this is. It is. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:25.960 It is pretty funny though. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:26.200 Yeah. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.280 It was when I was in Puerto Rico. So that's 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.840 just like a rock there in the middle of the ocean. 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.040 But yeah, it's kind of weird because the beach is 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.600 a little bit rockier than most of the beaches in 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:37.480 the Atlantic Ocean. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.760 Okay, good, it's a rock. It's not a creature about 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:40.480 to swallow you up. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.200 No, no, no, otherwise I wouldn't be talking to you right now. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:44.520 Yeah. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.080 Man, I was at Daytona Beach this summer with my 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.280 family and a shoot one of those big things just 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:56.040 float around. The Amanite bumped my leg and Antoine, the 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.040 feeling I had for one point seven seconds when I 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.280 didn't know what it was was one of abject hair 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.480 that everyone experience my life ever again. 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.720 Yeah, it's just like your heart drop. I guess that's 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.680 probably that's that's how I felt like. I've been in 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.240 the ocean with sharks and I'm like, oh, God, like 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.640 you just like if I make it out of here, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:15.600 I'm not getting out again. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.400 And then you go back in. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:19.599 And then the last time I did it, I'm like, 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.720 you know what, I'm just gonna, you know, sit at 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.719 the bottom of the ocean or the tip of it 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.520 and then just put my feet in and I'm good. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.800 Like it's a smart man, especially how warm the Atlantic 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.200 is like anything in. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.160 There, that's right. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.280 Yeah, those are they're low odds that you would ever 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.279 get attacked by something. But you're a man that's not 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.640 playing those odds because you're a smart man, unlike a 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.560 lot of us that do go in the ocean around here. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.680 So we didn't have you want to talk about ocean activities, 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.400 Let's go ahead and start here, Antoine, because I want 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:46.960 to go a big picture with you on the Jets 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.880 here in just one second. And again, my listeners know 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.000 that this is my least favorite team and all of 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.839 professional sports. And you know, I gotta be honest, I 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:58.000 quite revel in a four win season. But to ensure 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.599 they don't make it a five win season, we need 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.760 the Dolphins to take care of business on Sunday and 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.200 hopefully get some help as well. And with that, can 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.000 you just give me the lay of the land in 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.120 terms of who might be available, who might be held 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.440 out from this game. I know injuries are obviously unique 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.360 this time of year in terms of who pushes to go, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.000 but are the Jets going to be playing everybody who's 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:18.000 healthy and ready to play? 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.320 If if they have some nix and pain, then I 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.440 imagine they don't play in this one. And then you 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.000 know it's some big names that could potentially miss this game. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.080 I mean, he got Sauce Gardner, who's been battling a 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.440 hamstring injury the last three weeks. Uh tried to play 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.800 being Buffalo. He did for about a half and then 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.240 end up going right back out. So I would my 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.680 guess would be he does not play. Jeff Albrigs said 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.480 he was one of the names that he were kind 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.560 of concerned about this week. So Salce is a guy 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.200 that look for. Quentin Williams also been dealing with a 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.200 hamstring injury. He did play against Buffalo, but you know 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.200 those hamstring injuries can you know, flare back up from 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.360 week to week, so you never know, so they probably 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.119 need some time to heal. I don't know if Quinton 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:00.520 is going to play. I don't know if he should 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.920 play in a game like this, especially when the heads 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:04.960 hamstring has also been nagging him for a little while. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:05.800 And more than. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.200 Moses, who just been a warrior always saying along, been 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.599 dealing with a knee injury really since Week three against 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.520 the Patriots, and he's played through it may have to 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.440 have some kind of procedure at the end of the year. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.880 So yeah, you got really three big names there. And 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.520 not to mention ol Fashion Dowd for Penn State, the 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.560 Jets draft pick. It's also out for the season and 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.920 two as well with a foot injury, So they already 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.160 have some injuries they're dealing with there, and now you 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:33.440 got three major guys that could potentially miss the game 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.840 two as well, So and I'll also throw into larger 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.479 Verry Tucker, their right guard has been dealing with an 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.919 ankle injury the last few weeks too. It's also another 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:41.800 name to keep out. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.520 For Okay, So that's some information I wasn't privy to 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.680 because I knew about Sauce and I imagine you know 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.240 that was what he missed the game down here with 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.920 was the hamstring injury, and with Quinn Williams too. Like 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.320 that makes a lot of sense because I mean, if 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:54.920 you go into a game and you dress a guy 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.800 that has an injury like that. To your point about 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.080 Sauce last week, they could easily exit that game and 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.039 all of a sudden, you're sure a body in that room. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.160 So I imagine they would probably be careful with that. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.400 But the offensive line ones I wasn't really privy to, 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:06.600 and I want to follow up with you on that 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.640 because you know, you mentioned, you know, Tyrone Smith Ssarfs 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:10.640 obviously down for the year. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.240 You mentioned Olufashanu being out for the year as well. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.040 So they're with Max Mitchell right now, and then Morgan 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.320 Moses a tackle who would be the replacement for Morgan 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.000 Moses because that's a guy that I think is probably 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.120 the best tackle on the roster right now, but going 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.960 up against Chop Robinson, that's a tough matchup. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:25.600 Who would be the guy that would take his place? 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.200 Well, it would be Carter Warren. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.960 That's why I thought that's the only tackle that unless 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.080 they bring somebody up, which they may have to for 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.200 this particular game. But yeah, Carter Warren, somebody they drafted 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.560 in twenty twenty three out of pit there had some 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.720 expirits on both the left and right side. So yeah, 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:44.920 Morgan can't go. I would imagine it would be Carter Warren. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.200 It gets to start too, and Morgan actually exited the 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.720 game briefly against Buffalo there until he came back, and 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.080 just you know what he's been doing all year. He's 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.800 been dealing with a ton of injuries, so I would 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.280 think they would shut him down. I think they should 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.000 in a case like this, but they need bodies on 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.640 the offensive line, and if you play Carder Warrenton, you're 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.200 definitely gonna have somebody that's behind him too, just in 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:08.200 case something would happen. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.720 And not to mention the quarterback who you know, I 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.720 want to get to that real quick. But man, just 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 these week eighteen games Don't get me wrong. At first, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.400 I was hesitant to expanded playoffs and expanded season, but 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.520 it's just more football, So why would I complain about that? 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.320 But when you do get to this point of the year, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.200 you know, I'm making my picks on the show after 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.680 we say goodbye to you, Like, these picks are so 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.720 hard to make because there's so many games that just 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.280 don't have playoff implications attached to them. So you're going 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.800 to be seeing a bunch of guys that are kind 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.400 of any evaluation mode for next year. But with that 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.160 in mind, for the New York Jets, if they do 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.360 opt to go without Morgan Moses and without Elijah Vera Tucker, like, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.440 you know, one of my biggest things in the preview 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.839 podcast Antwine was how when Rogers kind of takes some 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.000 hits early, I feel like it impacts the way he 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:50.240 plays the rest of the game. And there's obviously a 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.800 lot of you know, I don't want to say toxicity there, 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.800 but maybe that's the right word. For a guy that's 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.720 kind of possibly on the outs, playing maybe his last 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.600 game there, why the heck would he want to play 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.640 behind him offensive line that has multiple backups and backups 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:04.360 to the backups. Mike crazy for thinking that, or is 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:05.199 it Rogers all the way? 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.760 Yeah, it's definitely gonna be Rogers. I mean, I think 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.320 it's two folds why I think he wants to play One. 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.400 I mean, his goal was coming into the season to 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.600 play all seventeen games, especially coming off the Achilles injury 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.520 that he suffered in twenty three. And you know, it's 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.640 a bit of a win for him, although you know 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.599 it's definitely hasn't been the season anybody imagined. So I 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.640 think just playing seventeen games is very important to him, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.000 and considering his uncertainty, you know, whether he plays with 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.400 the Jets or anybody next year. I mean, this really 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.960 could be last his final game. We could be seeing 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.240 one of the best quarterbacks of all time players playing 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.640 his final game ever. And two, he's trying to get 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.640 his five hundred coreer. Now that's also the other thing 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.880 as well. We spoke to him on Wednesday. He said 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.640 he could live with, you know, being at four ninety nine, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.880 but you could tell he really wants it. He's really 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.880 been pushing it the last few weeks. There wasn't able 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.120 to get it last week against Buffalo there tried to 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.880 you know, get some past Devonte Adams and as you 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.319 alluded to, the offensive if it's not healthy and it 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:03.640 hasn't been for a little while, then it's gonna be 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.719 hard for him to you know, get that time in 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.240 the pocket. And he's not completely healthy either. He's been 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.520 dealing with a MCL the last couple of weeks to 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.480 dating back to the Rams game. So I think when 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.480 he played Dolphins the last time he started to get 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.240 a little bit healthy. He was moving around in the 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.000 pocket sort of what we're used to customer seeing with 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.319 Rogers and then Buffalo. Yeah, you can just tell he's 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.040 still not, you know, one hundred percent healthy. And you 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:29.480 know he's forty one years old. I mean when you 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.040 get that age, you mean you start having these you know, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.959 knits and pains just out of nowhere. And not to mention, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.439 you're playing at a physical game like the NFL, So 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.360 that's also something to keep in mind too. When he's 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.679 not one hundred percent healthy and then you have the 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.520 offensive line very shorthanded due to injury, could be bad 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.920 state of affairs for the Jets once again offensively if 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.640 the Dolphins can get consistent. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:50.920 Pressure on him. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.199 Yeah, I'm far from a professional athlete. But if I 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.400 sleep the wrong way age thirty seven, that wake up 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:56.360 feeling sore for a week. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.800 So I feel that for sure as far as. 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.000 Aaron Rodgers goes, yeah, we're in that same boat man, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:03.520 and yeah to that point, like I was hoping Rogers 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.560 would get one touchdown pass last week, becau, I feel 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.319 like that's the big motivation for him here is that 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.199 five hundred touchdown pass. But moving on to the other 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:11.959 side of the football, and I wanted to ask you 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.680 about this Tyler dunpiece. He writes the Go Long Blog, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.959 which is a really good, just really good independent journalism 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.400 taking a look at multiple teams across the league. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:21.760 And he writes these in depth stories. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.439 And you know, since he wrote the article on the 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.640 Bills last year, that was kind of like, you know, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.280 it was almost like fan fiction for Dolphins fans to 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.640 see all these potential, you know, concerns behind the doors 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.319 in Buffalo and Orchard Park there. But since that article, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.760 they're like nineteen and four or something. So hopefully he 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.839 didn't reverse curse the Jets as well. But he wrote 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.160 a story from postgame up in Buffalo last Sunday, and 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.680 he had a quote in there from DJ Reid about 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.319 looking forward to testing free agency, and you know, you 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.360 mentioned Sauce and you mentioned Quinn Williams. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.080 Those guys have injuries. But I'm so curious about his position. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.360 Going into this game because I feel like that's a 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.719 situation where, hey, if you're not with us in this 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.480 final game, where there could potentially be business decisions and 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.920 guy checking out, Like you're good man, go ahead and 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:06.959 go to freegency right now. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.920 But I don't know how the Jets will play that. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:09.880 What's your whole take. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:10.160 On that thing? 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.360 Well, it's all started a few weeks ago when Aaron 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.280 Rodgers I believe this was after the I want to 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.079 say this before the Rams game, so it was after 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.679 when they played. I think it was after the Dolphins, actually, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.480 excuse me. So he was asked about, you know, just 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.280 the team and just everything moving forward and how players 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.840 can you know, be motivated late in the season, especially 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.400 when the Dolphins eliminated them, and he basically said that 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.080 he felt like players have already started to check out, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.240 and that was kind of stunning in and then I 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.880 think from there then you've heard earlier players that said this. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:47.360 Also said something after the game against the Buffalo Buffalo 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.199 last week that you know, he felt like some players 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.480 had already checked out, they're looking forward to free agency 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.880 or the old season or things of that nature too. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.439 And then also on top of it, we asked a 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.880 few of the players, you would think, you know, division, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.160 if you're the Jets, like you would feel some kind 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:05.439 of motivation to want to keep them out, And a 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:08.080 lot of players didn't. They really take the bite. I mean, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.000 they really take de bait at all. They just basically 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:11.520 I think some of the players are just ready for 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.360 the season to be over with. It's been a long year. Obviously, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.079 the Jets have had a lot of changes, whether it 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.280 be head coach or general manager, and it's been a 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.160 really a nightmare. So I don't know what kind of 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:26.360 Jets team we're gonna get against the Dolphins on Sunday, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.040 and it's gonna be blistery code there. So I imagine 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.480 some players will be motivated to play well when in 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.400 the season on a positive note there, but it's also 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.040 probably gonna be other players that, you know, I don't 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.240 know if check I don't know if they're gonna quit 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.680 is the word. I don't know if that's the word 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.360 that I would use, but I would just say that 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.199 there they want, they want to win. But at the 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.120 same time, I think a lot of players just want 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.000 this nightmare to be over with. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:50.800 That's a fair approach. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:52.839 But I gotta say, man, that's just the modern day 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.599 league where these these teams don't hate each other like 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.880 they used to hate. Like I always talked to Oj McDuffie, 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.839 my my co host on the postgame radio show, and 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:03.080 he loves it. He lows the jersey swaps and all 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.040 that stuff the other games because Oj did not like 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.720 anybody on the opposing four teams in the AFC East 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:08.160 back then. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.760 And that's my guy. That's why he's Oj McDuffie. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.520 Let's go ahead and pivot here real quick to the 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.480 matchup and a couple of questions before we take a break, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.000 and then come back and have you on for some 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:16.880 big picture stuff. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.280 What do you expect from this matchup? 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:18.480 Man? 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.840 Like we saw the Jets passing game click, and you 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:22.560 made the point about Rogers. I thought that was his 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.280 best game, dealing with pressure and extending that he had 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.160 the entire year. And I haven't watched all the games 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.120 on tape, but enough of them to have that opinion. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.760 I think why was it so smooth in that game 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.560 compared to what else has happened, especially since that Dolphins 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:35.560 game down here in Miami. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.400 I think they protected Rodgers well. I think they open 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.640 it up very well to DeVante Adams and both Garrett 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.880 Wilson were just having really good days there, and they were, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:47.200 you know, without Breste Hall in that particular game too, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.600 so it was really it was the Isaiah Davis and 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.600 Brelan Allen Show against Miami, and they would just chuck 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.960 had been able to chuck the ball around and data. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.160 I think that was Honestly, I think that was their 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.600 best offensive game the season, albeit coming in a loss, 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.240 but I definitely think they had everything going offensively, and 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.560 they played what the offensive side played well enough to 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.480 win the game. It was just really special teams and 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.000 defense they kind of did them in late in that game. 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.680 Obviously the Johnny Smith's game win a touchdown in overtime, 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.360 But yeah, I think I think what I expect from 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.160 this game. I think it's gonna be very low scoring. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.400 In the Middle Lands, bet life, whatever you want to 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.200 call it. The wins type of typically swirl this time 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.520 of the year there, it's gonna be buschery code. The 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.520 highest gonna be thirty on Sunday, and then, by the way, 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.040 it's a four to twenty five kickoff, so the temperature 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.400 is gonna continue to steadily decrease as time goes on 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.760 as well. So I think both teams are gonna have 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.240 to deal with, you know, the weather in that fashion. 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.200 It's not supposed to rain, but it's just supposed to 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:45.480 be a lot of win and it's supposed to be 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.640 really cold, and I think both teams are really gonna 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.800 have to run the football effectively they get the job 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.880 done there. It's gonna come down to turnovers as it 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.080 always does. If the Dolphins can, you know, get some 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:57.000 pressure on Rogers, especially considering the short they're gonna probably 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.920 likely be shorthanded on the offensive line, I think, you know, 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.040 they're gonna have a really good chance to win this game. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.360 And if they can't get the pressure on Rogers, then 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.440 I think he'll be able to sport some particular matchups 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.480 too as well. And then you look on the flip side, 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:12.960 you know, the Jets have either been boom of busts 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.520 as far as getting pressure. I think Will McDonald's had 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.480 a really good season there at Quentin. If he can't 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.720 play the then it really hurts their front line because 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.320 all you really have is a consistent pass rushers Will 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.360