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Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away,

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Speaker 1: all right, thanks Fitts speaking Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm gonna bring

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Speaker 1: on the e A Podcast. So what do you make

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Speaker 1: a quarterback situation here with the Jets? As Todd Bowles

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Speaker 1: Jets will turn back to Fitzpatrick four week gate action

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Speaker 1: against the Cleveland Browns. Well, when you look at the

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Speaker 1: situation as a whole, Eric, Um, you've got to feel

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Speaker 1: and and it's unfortunate that, you know, did you get

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Speaker 1: a chance to show what he was capable of of

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Speaker 1: doing here the last part of the season. But for

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Speaker 1: the Jets have a good shot at really bringing this

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Speaker 1: What kind of advice would you give Geno Smith now

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Speaker 1: is Todd Bull said this week during the conference call,

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Speaker 1: a guy has really suffered too bad breaks in consecutive years. Well,

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Speaker 1: this is that adversity piece that you hear football players

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Speaker 1: I think the most important thing is his mental psyche

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Speaker 1: to start over and work his way back. He no

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Speaker 1: longer the drafted quarterback that was looking to help the franchise,

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Speaker 1: see none of that. He's another guy thrown into the pot,

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Speaker 1: and he has to now prove himself based upon circumstances

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Speaker 1: that we're seeing my out of his control. Now there

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Speaker 1: is film on him, and teams and general managers know

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Speaker 1: back from surgery. Yeah, I was impressed with Geno after

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Speaker 1: that game. He said, We're gonna be fine. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fine either way. The most important thing is for

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Speaker 1: So to me, that showed level of maturation from Geno

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Speaker 1: and that was impressive because he could have been really

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Speaker 1: down considering he had waited for his opportunity. Ryan Fitzpatrick,

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Speaker 1: of course, started sixteen games last year through a franchise

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Speaker 1: the last two years has certainly been extremely challenging for him,

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Speaker 1: a matter of time as alls he continues to work

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Speaker 1: hard and present the opportunity, he'll have another opportunity, we hope,

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Speaker 1: So whether that's in New York or somewhere else, and

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Speaker 1: that's what you have to do as a player. You

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Speaker 1: you have to look at it from an individual perspective,

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Speaker 1: realizing that there's always a need for good quarterback play.

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Speaker 1: And whether or not you're in the fold or in

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Speaker 1: And that's important. So it's important how you handle your business,

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Speaker 1: how you treat people, and how you play. Ryan Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: very honest and forthright after the game, saying basically, he

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Speaker 1: Is maybe a ticked off underdog using this in parentheses

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Speaker 1: your take on all that? Well, I would take is

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Speaker 1: Ryan understands that, and so right now the talkings over feelings,

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Speaker 1: opportunity to re establish himself, to play better football, to

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Speaker 1: turned around. It's a week to week league. You know

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Speaker 1: because this is a difficult to do, um, to start

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Speaker 1: no doubt, um, that they can be three and five

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Speaker 1: Obviously there's a lot of work to do. When I

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, you have the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: do you have any World Series pick for us? As

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Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs uh attempts to get their first title

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Speaker 1: on over a hundred years. I guess I don't I've

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Speaker 1: been following too much with the New York teams out

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Speaker 1: of it, but I know there's a lot of crazy

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Speaker 1: cub fans out there. And then the Cleveland Indians, the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland's suddenly becoming tight town. Lebron James gets a championship

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Speaker 1: for the Cavaliers for his hometown, and now the Indians

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Speaker 1: are trying to secure a World Series. So you got

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Speaker 1: any picked there. No, I think it's exciting for for

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Speaker 1: baseball that, uh, you have two teams that haven't had

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Speaker 1: a championship in a while, and and so I think

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Speaker 1: that always that's good for baseball because you know, in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, I think we are spoiled in having enough

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Speaker 1: parody in our league, where um, as a fan, you

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Speaker 1: don't know who's going to rise to the occasion and

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Speaker 1: have a chance to play for championship. Historically in baseball

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Speaker 1: it's been you know, just you perennial powers because it's

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Speaker 1: all about the money thing. But recently it's nice to

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Speaker 1: see you know, these other teams being able to come

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Speaker 1: up and start to buy for championships and use their

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Speaker 1: farm system and not just have to go buy their

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Speaker 1: players all the time. So I think that's good, okay,

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Speaker 1: And I promised i'd get to it, So you saide,

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Speaker 1: the Jets have a lot of things they still left

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Speaker 1: the work. Eut, give me three before we get out

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Speaker 1: of here. As the Jets head to Cleveland and Lake

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Speaker 1: Erie and weak Gate. What are three things that they

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Speaker 1: got to take care of, uh this week to keep

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Speaker 1: things going in the right direction. Well, I think two

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Speaker 1: of them are are still things that we've talked about.

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Speaker 1: Number one, defensively, continue to eliminate the big play. That's

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Speaker 1: the only way an offense right now when they attack

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Speaker 1: the Jets defense, I think offenses say, hey, just keep

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Speaker 1: grinding and we'll get a couple of big plays to

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Speaker 1: give us some breathing room. Other than that, offenses can

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Speaker 1: look at his defense and go, well, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a big day. That's the only weakness I see right now.

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Speaker 1: As far as the big play potential um Offensively, I

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Speaker 1: think um turnovers stay still haven't proven that they can

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Speaker 1: eliminate those turnovers. That's that's that's number one. And then

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Speaker 1: number two, just making simple plays, uh, you know, whether

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Speaker 1: it's be a simple completion and a throw from a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: a simple catch from a receiver pulling onto the ball

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Speaker 1: in the red zone, all these different things. Just make

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Speaker 1: the plays that are there. You don't have to press

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Speaker 1: and try to force anything or trying to make a

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Speaker 1: play that's not there. Just make the plays that are there.

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Speaker 1: If you make those plays, the harder ones and the

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Speaker 1: more challenging ones will start coming your way. But when

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Speaker 1: you don't make the plays that are there, that are

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Speaker 1: just give me plays, you have no shot, and you

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Speaker 1: don't have a shot to establish rhythm, established momentum, and

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Speaker 1: to be more consistent. And so that's what I see

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Speaker 1: in the passing game, in the run game. Just make

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Speaker 1: the plays that are there, and if you do that,

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Speaker 1: you'll you'll have a chance to be successful. Wow, the

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Speaker 1: coach just came out and you're right there when you

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Speaker 1: talked about that third point. So defensively, eliminate the big plays,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. Make them drive eighty yards and

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Speaker 1: go one to three yards at a time. And it's

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Speaker 1: third and seven, you can tee off get Todd Bowles

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Speaker 1: and Casey Rodgers after these quarterbacks with some exotic Blitz

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Speaker 1: is no doubt about that. The second thing um you

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Speaker 1: just mentioned uh offensively was the turnovers, and the Jets

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Speaker 1: did not turn the ball over. Uh well forte at

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Speaker 1: a farm ball inside the red zone. That could have

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Speaker 1: been a killer, but Brandon Marshall made up for it.

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Speaker 1: You can't have the special teams breakdown like you did

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Speaker 1: last week. Lockland Edwards uh helped put the Jets in

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Speaker 1: a hole, unfortunately, and the Jets rookie punter has done

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Speaker 1: a tremendous job. But the third point really struck out

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Speaker 1: to me. When you just said make the simple plays.

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Speaker 1: You can feel it. You can feel your stomach turnover

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Speaker 1: when you're saying that. An emphasis in your voice is

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Speaker 1: that don't make it too hard on yourself. Make the

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Speaker 1: easy play, and then you guys should be fine, because

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Speaker 1: if you don't do that, then you start forcing plays

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Speaker 1: and bad things will happen. Well exactly. And so when

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Speaker 1: I look at the game, I don't I don't feel

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Speaker 1: real good about, you know, how how they Jets played

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Speaker 1: as a team. I feel good about certain parts of

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Speaker 1: the game, but when you're talking about winning football and

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Speaker 1: good football, it still wasn't there. Um. And so although

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Speaker 1: you know you'll say, hey, we'll take a win. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody takes a win, and you'll you'd rather learn from

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Speaker 1: a win than a loss. But I think you've got

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Speaker 1: to really examine that win and say, Okay, we're still

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Speaker 1: not playing winning football. We have sparks of winning football

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Speaker 1: and examples of winning football, but we don't have a

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Speaker 1: full game of winning football. And that's what it's going

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Speaker 1: to take moving into this latter part of the season

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Speaker 1: if they want to get back into contention to be

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Speaker 1: able to get back in the playoffs. So um, that's

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Speaker 1: that's what I see, just with a critical eye, and

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Speaker 1: I think if they're honest with themselves, they would agree, well,

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Speaker 1: side ch An, we'll afford it that number two