Speaker 1: Welcome back to Colando's Italian village here in West Caldwell,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Joined us on Bloomfield Avenue and gentle over
Speaker 1: to the perfect setting with fun with friends, fine food
Speaker 1: and drink the Madison Hotel, Rod Steakhouse and g k
Speaker 1: Is Red Dog located on Madison Avenue in Morristown. And
Speaker 1: Eric kind of you have a very special guest who
Speaker 1: just made the second moment ago. That's right, Larry. Let's
Speaker 1: let's bring in the agelest one, Kelvin Pace, who just
Speaker 1: reminded me he's in his NFL season. Calvin, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining us, well, thanks for having me. Kelvin. You've played
Speaker 1: against the Patriots so many times in your career and
Speaker 1: you've been part of this rivalry for a long time.
Speaker 1: What stands out from yesterday's ball game? Uh, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: did it again so us. You know, we just the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, he kind of heat it up on us
Speaker 1: and we just uh, we couldn't get up to field
Speaker 1: a couple of times. But it always comes out to
Speaker 1: the same factor, trying to defend him and get for
Speaker 1: showing him. Um find a way to get up the field,
Speaker 1: and that's where it always starts. You know, Calvin, it's
Speaker 1: funny because you talked about it and the guys talked
Speaker 1: about it before. It is so tough to get off
Speaker 1: the field on third down with them, and part of
Speaker 1: it is because of what they do on earlier downs
Speaker 1: that sometimes makes that third down on occasion a little
Speaker 1: more manageable for them. Yeah, yeah, you gotta do. You
Speaker 1: have to do a good job in first and second
Speaker 1: down to make that third down longer than say seven yards.
Speaker 1: Make it tough for him. Um, I think that helps
Speaker 1: us out up front getting to him. Um. He gives
Speaker 1: the guys on the back end a little bit more
Speaker 1: time to uh, to stay on them on their man.
Speaker 1: But again, I mean, you have a Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: quarterback who can squeeze throws and windows who you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about my age with Now he's scrambling.
Speaker 1: He added that to his game. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: back in the day, you know, he just used to
Speaker 1: stand back there, but now he's gonna have to pocket
Speaker 1: a little bit. So he he always finds a way
Speaker 1: to make a play. But it's just that that's the
Speaker 1: challenge to try to find a way to maybe confuse
Speaker 1: him or to get to him. Um, get him off
Speaker 1: the spot. You know, it's it's a game within the game.
Speaker 1: Did they attack you differently in the second half? Obviously
Speaker 1: the offense help you guys in the first half of
Speaker 1: those long drives, the fifteen play the four team play drives.
Speaker 1: And did fatigue be cam become an issue at all
Speaker 1: late for you guys? You know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think fatigue was an issue. I just think that, Um,
Speaker 1: a guy stepped up for and may plays when they counted,
Speaker 1: and Um, it's just a couple instance when we just
Speaker 1: could have got off the field, I think it would
Speaker 1: have been a different outcome. Um. But with that being said,
Speaker 1: I mean we talked about that today. Guys understand they understanding,
Speaker 1: They understood it going into the game. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: you live and you learn. I think it'll it'll help
Speaker 1: us actually moving forward, UM, just to to to build
Speaker 1: off the situation and and go out and play a
Speaker 1: tough open team. Why do you think it will help you?
Speaker 1: And what did you learn about this New York Jets team? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're a fight I know we
Speaker 1: we were not afraid to go on roads win games. Um,
Speaker 1: but it just shows if you have to play four quarters.
Speaker 1: You can't play three great quarters and um, you know,
Speaker 1: lit off the gas on what now you gotta play
Speaker 1: four quarters? And especially with a team like that who's
Speaker 1: done that consistently. We we just have to find a
Speaker 1: way to win that game. Man. It could be special
Speaker 1: team play, it could be uh Chris breaks, a long
Speaker 1: run would have It doesn't matter, but we just had
Speaker 1: to find a way. As you go longer in your career,
Speaker 1: is it easier to put a game like that behind you,
Speaker 1: look at the film and then move on to the
Speaker 1: next team. Yeah, yeah, I mean you know again, you
Speaker 1: gotta spoke on it. I've done it so many times
Speaker 1: against it, against them, so I kind of you already
Speaker 1: know how the story is gonna be scripted. It's gonna
Speaker 1: come down to the last drive for one of the teams. Um,
Speaker 1: but again I've learned to try to take positives, um
Speaker 1: out of woodmen might be looked at as a negative
Speaker 1: as in the loss, and um, you just gotta keep moving.
Speaker 1: I mean, if least come so quick, gotta be able
Speaker 1: to put it behind you. Um, and you can't live
Speaker 1: one loss turning the two losses. She's gotta keep moving forward.
Speaker 1: And how much confidence do you have in the guys
Speaker 1: in that room and your leader, Todd Bowles as far
Speaker 1: as saying, hey, that was yesterday. We corrected mistakes, but
Speaker 1: we've already moved on because the media, as you know,
Speaker 1: is gonna discuss this with you. Yeah, they might even
Speaker 1: bring up the Patriots on one day. But you guys
Speaker 1: going there, you make your corrections today and you're already
Speaker 1: in Oakland. Felt Yeah, it's already been spoken upon. You
Speaker 1: have to move on. But I think coach Bowles did
Speaker 1: a great job just saying this is just game six.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not like the Super Bowl. Um, it's
Speaker 1: it's the most important game because it's the next game.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great way to look at it.
Speaker 1: I think win lose. With draw, he would have had
Speaker 1: the same um reaction. You know, he's pretty even killed.
Speaker 1: So she gotta keep moving even if we were one,
Speaker 1: He's gotta keep moving forward. Confenations, our guests, Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little bit now about the mindset of going to Oakland. Preparation, travel,
Speaker 1: leaving the day early. But what goes into preparing for
Speaker 1: Oakland from a travel stample, Oh not a lot really,
Speaker 1: I mean, you got just pack your bag a day earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, get ready for a little time change. But
Speaker 1: you know, we've got enough guys in the locker room
Speaker 1: who've done it, maybe not the way we do it,
Speaker 1: but they've had experience scoring from east to west. The
Speaker 1: biggest difference is just your rest. Just keep up with
Speaker 1: your rest, stay on point. Um. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: guys will compare the same way as far as film
Speaker 1: and knowing what the game plan is, but that's that's
Speaker 1: probat it just keeping up on rest. And I mean
Speaker 1: the beauty of it is if you get a chance
Speaker 1: to watch college football, um all day because the games
Speaker 1: are earlier, you know, a great time. You big college
Speaker 1: football fan, of course you want to wake forth. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were not doing to uther, but I'm a huge
Speaker 1: college football family. Yeah. And who do you think, uh,
Speaker 1: the top teams this year right now? If you were
Speaker 1: selecting the top four, yeah, the playoff, if you were
Speaker 1: on the committee, who who would you having in it?
Speaker 1: Right now? You gotta go how State. I would have
Speaker 1: said Baylor too, with the quarterbacks out for the year,
Speaker 1: but the freshman is gonna be pretty good. I think, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting. Um, gotta go TCU I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go Clemson and ah, lets you okay, I took I
Speaker 1: took Baylor out because of the quarterback. All right, yeah, Ale,
Speaker 1: you got a big one with Bama in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. Yeah. Uh. Do you agree with the Urban
Speaker 1: Myers troice of starting quarterback? He had to do it.
Speaker 1: He had to do it. I think, Uh, with the
Speaker 1: weapons they had, I think they needed like a true
Speaker 1: quarterback that type of field. I think I like I
Speaker 1: like t Be because he can move the ball in
Speaker 1: the air, but he can run when called upon. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Jones had the bigger upside, but
Speaker 1: they just they just wentn't clicking. Now. Of course you
Speaker 1: want to awake. And you started a career with the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals and then you signed a big free agent
Speaker 1: contract with the New York Jets. Do you remember your
Speaker 1: visit because I remember you coming in like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: The Jets took you up in the helicopter to show
Speaker 1: you the area. Didn't there. Yeah it was. That's the
Speaker 1: best recruiting visit I had, even even to count of
Speaker 1: my college visits. Um. And I made a call that night.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm coming, I'll be I'll be a jet.
Speaker 1: But it was a day, a weekend that that I'll
Speaker 1: never forget. Um. You know a lot of people don't remember,
Speaker 1: don't know this, but Dave Harris was my host, and
Speaker 1: I always make fun of him because he was, uh,
Speaker 1: he was getting a littlenauseous on the plane. Man, I
Speaker 1: don't know nothing like the helicopter. So I had to
Speaker 1: like easy situation. And I'm like, man, if you would
Speaker 1: have vomited, I wouldn't have came. But but were you
Speaker 1: cool with it? I thought you were scared of being
Speaker 1: out there too. Man. I held it together a little
Speaker 1: better day, man, Just you know, I just kind of
Speaker 1: tried not to look out the window. The product was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna tell you guys a little higher. In my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, we don't need to go any higher.
Speaker 1: It was a cool time to take you over Manhattan
Speaker 1: and everything right Manhattan. We went out and saw the
Speaker 1: Statue of Liberty Man. They I mean they it was
Speaker 1: it was a show. It was nice, Um. And then
Speaker 1: we came out to Jersey. Um saw the facility before
Speaker 1: it was built, basically just the frame and some dirt.
Speaker 1: Um flew out from what he's farm and flew back
Speaker 1: to Long Island. Wow, it seems like yesterday you talked
Speaker 1: about how Criticason's going, say, you already played six games
Speaker 1: this we believe how quit this is going? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was flew by. I mean my favorite time of the year,
Speaker 1: you know, training camp ever seemed like that was the
Speaker 1: longest time ever before you know where we're ever in
Speaker 1: week six? So yeah, that's I mean, that's part of
Speaker 1: you know, having that quick memory. You just gotta keep
Speaker 1: moving because before you know, it wouldn't be December. You know,
Speaker 1: you've played money systems throughout your career and you guys
Speaker 1: are always gonna say football's football. But what's the most
Speaker 1: significant different or aspect of this system? Would you say? Um?
Speaker 1: And can comparison with last year? Just everything and everything? Um,
Speaker 1: how would you explain to the Bulls that Casey Rodgers
Speaker 1: approach their system? It's similar. I mean, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just different faces, Um, some different verbiage, but the same.
Speaker 1: It's an attacking based scheme. Um, good front seven rely
Speaker 1: on the back end of covering. Um, It's it's the same.
Speaker 1: I mean, we I just think the additions have helped things. Um,
Speaker 1: we're doing a great job creeing turnovers. It's just like
Speaker 1: it's just I think the guys who dealt with last
Speaker 1: year the ups and the downs carried over to this
Speaker 1: year got better and then we had to addison pieces.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's been working. It has been and
Speaker 1: especially those those young guys like in the secondary of
Speaker 1: Marcus Williams, guys like that coming prior had used that
Speaker 1: experience and now they're even better this year. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: they did a good job of just build them on
Speaker 1: some good things, some bad things. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the shame of it is the best teachers. Some of
Speaker 1: the times, the bad times. You know, things you go through,
Speaker 1: but you you know, you're stick with it. You get better. Um.
Speaker 1: Like you said, they did a good job of just um,
Speaker 1: just learning from good and bad and just carrying it
Speaker 1: over this ship. Speaking of young guys, what are you
Speaker 1: seeing owt the Lorenzo Ball and the Trevor Riley, Because
Speaker 1: I know they're looking up to you as they start
Speaker 1: theround careers. I mean, the guys are workers, They work hard. Um,
Speaker 1: they come out every day and try to get better, um,
Speaker 1: you know, and they do a good job of helping offense,
Speaker 1: giving the looks that they need um and and win
Speaker 1: thrust into the game. I think they do well. It's
Speaker 1: just you know, their roles right now, a little bit
Speaker 1: more special teams, um base. But the guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be two good players. Um and it's crazy just you
Speaker 1: look at them and the Trevor is not really young
Speaker 1: but young any yeah, obviously had the Mormon mension. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know it's it's fun. It's fun going to
Speaker 1: work and being in the room with him because the
Speaker 1: personalities and what they bring on the field. Trevor, he
Speaker 1: really is a character. He's a character. He's a character.
Speaker 1: You never know what you're gonna get out of Trevor
Speaker 1: Riley from day to day. Colvin, listen, thanks for coming by.
Speaker 1: Good luck in opening and for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for Muddy. All right, that's Calvin Pace.