Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away, alright, Chad, uh,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick sprain knee suffered that against the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Bryce Petty came on, played a few snaps, actually helped
Speaker 1: lead the team to a field goal drive on his
Speaker 1: one possession, his first possession in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: But Chad, you're are our quarterback? Uh, Ryan Fitzpatrick said,
Speaker 1: he's very optimistic. He's I don't I could get the
Speaker 1: full quote for you, but he's optimistic that he is
Speaker 1: going to play Sunday against the l A. Rams and
Speaker 1: Todd Bulls said that fits gives our team the best
Speaker 1: chance to win. Right now, your thoughts, That's exactly the
Speaker 1: answer I think. Right now, even though it's easy for
Speaker 1: fans to discard the season and say, well, we need
Speaker 1: to look towards next year, you still have fifty three
Speaker 1: men in that locker room who know that there's still
Speaker 1: a chance to to make the playoffs and and beside
Speaker 1: of the playoffs, be successful and play good football. And
Speaker 1: so at the end of the day, you want to
Speaker 1: put your best eleven out there on offense, defensive, special
Speaker 1: teams to win football games. That's what you're charged to
Speaker 1: do as coaches and players. And so until there's another
Speaker 1: decision maker above coach Bowls to say, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to see this guy play, he's got to put the
Speaker 1: best eleven out there. And obviously, from what he and
Speaker 1: Coach Gailey and the staff has seen, Ryan Fitzpatrick gives
Speaker 1: them the best option and the best opportunity to win
Speaker 1: a football game. And that's the bottom line. There's no
Speaker 1: other discussion other than that. Our churns always a little
Speaker 1: apprehensive maybe to go to the young guy because there's
Speaker 1: a comfort level with the veteran quarterback. In this case,
Speaker 1: we know Ryan Fitzpatrick knows his offense inside and out.
Speaker 1: This is not only second year with Shan Gailey here
Speaker 1: in New York, but he played three seasons with him
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, and the guy used to a man, And
Speaker 1: you know, veterans love this as he knows all the checks,
Speaker 1: all the reads, all the progressions, where everybody's supposed to
Speaker 1: be on every play. And for a veteran there probably
Speaker 1: is whether they confident, embraced party or not. There's always
Speaker 1: that uncertainty level. They're right, Uh, there can be but
Speaker 1: I think that is actually overrated e A. I think
Speaker 1: that I remember when when I stepped in and started
Speaker 1: playing in two thousand and two. I think there was
Speaker 1: a confidence level uh in my teammates that I could
Speaker 1: handle the situation, and I hope there was. I hope
Speaker 1: that I was able to show in three years that
Speaker 1: when my numbers called, I can handle the volume of information,
Speaker 1: I can handle what's going on. Just about what I
Speaker 1: did in practice and in preseason and my teammates being
Speaker 1: around me. Now there was still um an unknown and
Speaker 1: I still had to prove that in game situations on Sunday.
Speaker 1: As far as having a compidence to say Chad can
Speaker 1: do this, we just he just has to show us.
Speaker 1: That's different than saying I don't think he can do it.
Speaker 1: And I think players, even though they do trust veterans,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they want a guy
Speaker 1: behind singer is going to give it the best way,
Speaker 1: the best chance to win, regardless of how he gets
Speaker 1: it done. There's a belief system there, and I still
Speaker 1: think there's a belief system within the team that Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick can help them win football games. Yeah, and Bryce
Speaker 1: Potty might be able to help them uh win football games.
Speaker 1: Uh this year, We don't know that because Todd Bowls
Speaker 1: right now is going with Ryan Fitzpatrick's saying this is
Speaker 1: what gives his team the best chance to win. But
Speaker 1: you brought up a great point about uh me over
Speaker 1: rating something there at the beginning. Because this is Bryce
Speaker 1: potty second year in the system. He did come from
Speaker 1: that simple spread at Baylor where the guys, the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are looking over to the sideline for the check or
Speaker 1: the play before they run something. So this was and
Speaker 1: they didn't even have a playbook at Feller. So he
Speaker 1: had to have a lot of water splashed in his
Speaker 1: face when he entered the National Football League after he
Speaker 1: was entered after he came in as a fourth round pick.
Speaker 1: But now this is his second year in the system.
Speaker 1: He played pretty well in the preseason. I talked to
Speaker 1: a couple of offensive alignment another night chat and they said,
Speaker 1: you know, Bryce came in, said, how don he just
Speaker 1: smile on his face? That that's the kind of personality.
Speaker 1: Has completed a couple of passes and he seems pretty confident.
Speaker 1: So he's got to be chomping at the bit for
Speaker 1: his next opportunity. Well, there's no doubt. As a competitor,
Speaker 1: you're always chumping at the bit to be the guy
Speaker 1: to be able to go out and execute for your
Speaker 1: team and be able to make those plays for your team.
Speaker 1: And I still think though his learning curve is still drafting,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that he has closed the gap for himself,
Speaker 1: just in his own maturation process as a quarterback coming
Speaker 1: from Baylor and what he was asked to do there
Speaker 1: and comparing it to what he's asked to do and
Speaker 1: chan Gailey's offense is night in Bay and there's no
Speaker 1: question that he has made progress there. But to fully
Speaker 1: say that he is completely ready to take on the
Speaker 1: challenge as a starter may still be a stretch. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not in there every day, but I
Speaker 1: do know that there's a lot of information that he's
Speaker 1: had to absorb, and I would say that he is
Speaker 1: still trading water, so to speak, especially when you move
Speaker 1: into regular season and now the game plans are much
Speaker 1: different than they are in the preseason. Does that do
Speaker 1: a little four year confidence though? Just coming into a
Speaker 1: ballgame and getting that out of the way. I know
Speaker 1: he only played a handful of plays, I think four
Speaker 1: and all, and I like what Shane Gailey did with
Speaker 1: him Chad that first play of Petty's NFL career, the
Speaker 1: running back screen to a ballag pile that picked up
Speaker 1: a lot of yardage. And I know people on the
Speaker 1: outside are complaining about, hey, they didn't really uh let
Speaker 1: him go. They kind of conservative with Bryce there, and
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily think that. I think obviously, a guy
Speaker 1: coming off the bench in his first action in the
Speaker 1: third quarter of a tight game, you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: uh running all goes in a seventh step drop. Well,
Speaker 1: that's completely false that they were conservative. Jane Gailey was
Speaker 1: just executing his game plan trying to score against the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and um on that third down conversion. The reason
Speaker 1: that the ball was thrown shore was not called Jane
Speaker 1: Gailey called it that way. It was becalled. Bryce was
Speaker 1: actually hot, there was an unblocked defender, and he threw
Speaker 1: it to his hot receiver and Robbie Anderson to get
Speaker 1: rid of the ball and not taking the sack. So
Speaker 1: Jan was just calling it the way he had been
Speaker 1: calling the game, regardless of who the quarterback was in
Speaker 1: the huddle, and Bryce executed to play the way he
Speaker 1: was supposed to. So It wasn't that there was a
Speaker 1: short pass play called or that they were being conservative.
Speaker 1: He was just calling the game and and it just
Speaker 1: so happened that the Dolphins had a blitz that the
Speaker 1: Jets it could not pick up, and the Dolphins reacted
Speaker 1: and made the tackle. So, uh, you know that that's
Speaker 1: that's false inside the locker room this week. Uh, what's
Speaker 1: got to be gone through prices of mind that maybe
Speaker 1: wasn't before now knowing going into this situation where last
Speaker 1: week we knew Fitzpetrick was gonna start. And while guys
Speaker 1: can get hurt and any time, he wants to play
Speaker 1: this week, but he does have the sprain knee, so
Speaker 1: he could be limited, we don't know yet. Well, there's
Speaker 1: two components, uh, and both components provide a greater sense
Speaker 1: of urgency for Bryce number one. The first component, with
Speaker 1: Ryan being a little bit banged up, to say you're
Speaker 1: only one play away sometimes seems very distant when you're
Speaker 1: talking about a healthy quarterback that's playing well. But now
Speaker 1: a quarterback just banged up, you're definitely one play away
Speaker 1: from having to go in there for the rest of
Speaker 1: the game or maybe spell him for a series or
Speaker 1: a couple of plays depending on how his knee reacts.
Speaker 1: Now he's able to hold up. Secondly, there's another sense
Speaker 1: of urgency, owing that there's pressure on this team to win.
Speaker 1: There's pressure on Ryan to play better, and there's pressure
Speaker 1: from the outside fam We want to see Bryce Petty,
Speaker 1: so he has to certainly change the way he's preparing.
Speaker 1: But his mindset and his sense of urgency and and
Speaker 1: his energy and enthusiasm and and just inside the way
Speaker 1: he feels is certainly different this week compared to previous week.
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall said best and you are always a team guy,
Speaker 1: so you'll like this that he said everybody's gonna throw
Speaker 1: darts at the starting quarterback when the offensive struggles. But
Speaker 1: he said it's on me, it's on fits, it's out
Speaker 1: all of us. Um, can you point to something specifically
Speaker 1: why this team has struggled? Uh finishing inside the red zone,
Speaker 1: specifically one of five last week against Miami thirty one
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, This team last year third
Speaker 1: NINEFL And I know we're all we We're always gonna
Speaker 1: ain to Eric Decker, and that's very real. But you
Speaker 1: say it all the time. Every team, every team in
Speaker 1: the league deals with injuries. So inside the twenty, what
Speaker 1: is happening with fits and the offense? Because Uh, last year,
Speaker 1: uh Decker sent a team record. God, they had such
Speaker 1: chemistry and such synergy. He had ton of his touchdowns
Speaker 1: came inside the red zone, Chad, So obviously they've had
Speaker 1: to adapt there without Decker. But what's happening inside the
Speaker 1: twenty beyond that as they continue to adjust because he's
Speaker 1: been gone for a while and he's not coming back
Speaker 1: this year by and I think there's three reasons. The
Speaker 1: first reason is obvious with air Decker not in the
Speaker 1: line up more Brandon Marshall seas more double coverage and
Speaker 1: now called Decker is not in the lineup, the other
Speaker 1: receivers are beating Kingle coverage consistently as Decker did when
Speaker 1: he received single coverage. Because even with Decker in the
Speaker 1: line up, Brandon would receive double coverage, but Decker would
Speaker 1: be single coverage. That's that's number one. So that's the
Speaker 1: obvious answer. The two answers that that I think are
Speaker 1: uh even more pertinent to our conversation is number one,
Speaker 1: uh ramphis Patrick has not made great decisions in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Is decision making? Um has been um less
Speaker 1: as far as a less effective this year compared to
Speaker 1: last year. Some of that has to do with, you know,
Speaker 1: the type of balls that you're trying to throw, and
Speaker 1: and being in in UH you know, less space. UM
Speaker 1: your room for era is much less and you have
Speaker 1: to be more precise, and then sometimes you just have
Speaker 1: to make sure that you get the three points out
Speaker 1: of it. I think if you take some of the
Speaker 1: red zone turnovers out of this equation, then you feel
Speaker 1: much better about their production. I mean, even look at
Speaker 1: the Miami game this past weekend, and you take that
Speaker 1: turnover away, you probably win the game because not only
Speaker 1: does turnovers in the red zone takeaway points, it deflates
Speaker 1: your team because it takes away the momentum and the
Speaker 1: moment completely swings to the other side because you're right
Speaker 1: there on the verge of getting points, having a kickoff,
Speaker 1: having a TV time out, being able to take a big,
Speaker 1: deep breath and get ready to go, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you have a sudden change where UH
Speaker 1: completely changes the outlook of a game. And then and
Speaker 1: then finally, I think that the running game has not
Speaker 1: come to the forefront for the Jets in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're struggling in the passing game, where you're
Speaker 1: struggling to put points upon the board, the running game
Speaker 1: can be the deciding factor to settle the offense down,
Speaker 1: to create an attitude in the tempo and be able
Speaker 1: to gain some of those hard earned yards in the
Speaker 1: red zone and are so hard to come by because
Speaker 1: of the lack of space. And sometimes when you look
Speaker 1: at the great red zone teams, they're very efficient in
Speaker 1: the running game, and I'm not so sure that the
Speaker 1: Jets have been efficient in the running game in the
Speaker 1: red zone. No, you're right, And it's interesting. It's that
Speaker 1: old adage is that if they're stacking up the box
Speaker 1: and they're challenging it to beat you with the one
Speaker 1: I want coverage, do you go to the passing game
Speaker 1: just spread the field, because maybe you spread the field,
Speaker 1: uh to actually get down to the twenty. But uh,
Speaker 1: from your vantage point, would the Jets be benefited from
Speaker 1: maybe gone to some jumbo more jumbo packages down there
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, listen, you're gonna crowd the box, We're
Speaker 1: gonna run it at you. Because you look at four
Speaker 1: days production, it's been interesting to me that he's seventh
Speaker 1: and nneofil and rushing. I know he's got a lot
Speaker 1: of attempts, but he is a workhorse. The other thing
Speaker 1: is he's got eight total touchdowns now and he scored
Speaker 1: touchdowns in three consecutive games on the ground. That's the
Speaker 1: first time he's done that since his rookie season. And
Speaker 1: he could score if he scores this week against the Rams,
Speaker 1: which we'll be tough, no doubt about it, because we
Speaker 1: know about that front. We'll talk about that in a second.
Speaker 1: That'll be the first time in his career that he
Speaker 1: said four touchdowns that were on the ground. I mean
Speaker 1: four games. He's been he's been impressive, and he's certainly
Speaker 1: been a shining line in the season and improving to
Speaker 1: be a great pick up for the jail. I've been
Speaker 1: really impressed by fourte and what he's been able to do.
Speaker 1: And so you would like to see some of that
Speaker 1: run production turned into touchdowns in the red zone and
Speaker 1: getting those hard yards and those types of things. And
Speaker 1: um so I completely agree with that. Uh fits uh
Speaker 1: where I've turned this ball game. You were in this
Speaker 1: position a couple of times where the team might be
Speaker 1: struggling and start starting to get past the midway point
Speaker 1: of the season, and you know where the fans mindset is.
Speaker 1: What goes through a quarterback's mind when you know that
Speaker 1: the fan is always looking for that next savior. So
Speaker 1: in this case, and and a lot of teams that
Speaker 1: are struggling, where are they looking? They're looking to the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. When is this guy gonna come in? So
Speaker 1: in this specific case, it's Bryce Petty. But for you
Speaker 1: to go into this game at home, how do you
Speaker 1: ignore the noise of what's happening inside Not only the
Speaker 1: fan base, because I think you probably can insult insulate
Speaker 1: yourself from that, but the constant media attention as far
Speaker 1: as hey, uh, the opinions out there. If hey, the
Speaker 1: Jets gotta turn the page, it's time to look at
Speaker 1: Brice buddy. Yeah, this is probably one of the most
Speaker 1: difficult situations as a professional quarterback. And the reason I
Speaker 1: can say that as cause I was in it. Remember
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and seven, our team is one
Speaker 1: of thick uh and we're playing the Buffalo Bills. I'm
Speaker 1: dealing with the high ankle spraining and nothing's going well,
Speaker 1: and so the booze are the loudest I ever heard
Speaker 1: in the meadow lands, and so that this is probably
Speaker 1: gonna be his biggest challenge of his career, especially as
Speaker 1: a jet there's no question. Because what I hope that
Speaker 1: happens is that there's a sparks of energy and momentum
Speaker 1: created by the special teams in defense where it's not
Speaker 1: all put on the quarterback, especially with the you know,
Speaker 1: with a need that's a little bit difficult to play with,
Speaker 1: and because it's going to be one of those games
Speaker 1: where your face in a tough front, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: an ugly game. It's not gonna be pretty because of
Speaker 1: their front and defensively what they've been able to do.
Speaker 1: And so that just all the things that are in
Speaker 1: line for fans to boo and be negative and do
Speaker 1: all these things, they're all right there. They just are
Speaker 1: with the team you're playing, the situation that your own
Speaker 1: team is in. They're all there for it to happen
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And so I hope that the special teams
Speaker 1: in defense are able to create some positive momentum, give
Speaker 1: the offense a short field, get some quick and easy
Speaker 1: points to keep those booze at a minimum, especially early,
Speaker 1: because it's it's like a snowball effect as they continue
Speaker 1: to grow by the third and fourth chorpal quarters. Sometimes
Speaker 1: it can be completely unbearable. You're a human being. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you just mentioned, Uh, we treat you guys like
Speaker 1: robots sometimes, but you definitely can hear it if it's happening.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, you're professional enough that you
Speaker 1: know you gotta take care of business at the same time,
Speaker 1: So it's really gonna help. Uh, it fits in the
Speaker 1: whole team if we see a fast start at home,
Speaker 1: because you know where this fan base is at right now, impatient,
Speaker 1: upset with where the team is at at three and six,
Speaker 1: and they can get after you early. Absolutely, and that's
Speaker 1: why you know I would I would have hoped that
Speaker 1: the game would be away for Fitzpatrick or you're coming
Speaker 1: back from Miami with a win. That makes things a
Speaker 1: little bit better because this team is like two plays
Speaker 1: away from being five and four. Um. Now we can
Speaker 1: say that about multiple teams in this league and understand
Speaker 1: the reality of that pote'stic case and so it's never
Speaker 1: as bad as you think, it's never as good as
Speaker 1: you think think. Um, the problem with this team all
Speaker 1: year compared to last year. Last year, this team found
Speaker 1: ways to win. This year, this team is finding ways
Speaker 1: to lose. And it's all across the board. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: not on one side of the ball or one player.
Speaker 1: Everybody has a hand in this three and six records.
Speaker 1: And Sunday was the epitome of that special teams. Uh
Speaker 1: chipped in and losing this ball game. The offense chipped
Speaker 1: in and losing this ball game. And even though you
Speaker 1: can look at the defense and go to under seventy
Speaker 1: four yards and all the great things they did, they
Speaker 1: still had a hand in losing this ball game. Whether
Speaker 1: it be the last three minutes of a game not
Speaker 1: being able to stop the offense to get the ball
Speaker 1: back to the offense to have a chance to win,
Speaker 1: whether it be a couple of the big plays that
Speaker 1: were given up that nullifies the great play elsewhere. Uh,
Speaker 1: how about the unsportsmanlike penalties and things like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: so all three phases have it in to the three
Speaker 1: and six record, and there's certainly not one person or
Speaker 1: one side you can complete. I don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about officiating too much, And you're right about the flags,
Speaker 1: and Todd Bowls has always taken the right stance there
Speaker 1: if it's a penalty. We got to clean it up
Speaker 1: and ton penalties is way too much. You talk about
Speaker 1: the special teams return that was the game deciding score.
Speaker 1: We talked about the red zone inefficiencies, and with all
Speaker 1: that being said, the Jets have to be so frustrated
Speaker 1: because again, this is another game where you might be
Speaker 1: able to come out of the stadium and say, you
Speaker 1: know what, we were a better team in the trenches,
Speaker 1: and maybe for large portions of that game we were
Speaker 1: the better team, but they just haven't been able to finish.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you about the officiating um
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to get you in trouble, but
Speaker 1: some of that stuff, don't you think it's ticky tack,
Speaker 1: the Jarvis Landry buster screen. It's almost like I know
Speaker 1: they but they You tell this, dear kid, as you're
Speaker 1: coaching now, is that they're always gonna get the last guy.
Speaker 1: But a lot of that stuff after after the whistle
Speaker 1: um early in the game. Isn't that I'm the officials
Speaker 1: to say, hey, listen, next time, you're both getting one.
Speaker 1: And then after that, what you know, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: thrown out of the game or something. So they get
Speaker 1: after it early. I feel like the Jets maybe got
Speaker 1: the short on there early, and listen, they lost the
Speaker 1: ball game because their all miscuse. I'm not blaming the officials,
Speaker 1: but a couple of those plays early, the prior one,
Speaker 1: maybe I gotta watch the replay a couple more times
Speaker 1: from the press box level. I thought he was just
Speaker 1: celebrating a play. I think sometimes we're trying to take
Speaker 1: celebration out of the game. And I know everybody can't
Speaker 1: be Jim Brown. I mean, I like the Jim Brown approach,
Speaker 1: but everybody's got to be different. I don't know. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm having a hard time to deal with it sometimes
Speaker 1: when I watch what's happened on the field, well, and
Speaker 1: I think there's two things here. They're no doubt that
Speaker 1: the buster screen penalty with Tiki tach Um. Both of
Speaker 1: those guys reminded me of Odell Beckham and Josh Norman,
Speaker 1: just not to that degree. Right there, they're cat fighting
Speaker 1: basically and trying to establish um an attitude and a
Speaker 1: will with each other because they're they're going at it
Speaker 1: every down, and that you would hope that as an
Speaker 1: officiating crew, you see that you jump in saying hey, guys,
Speaker 1: knock it off. I get it, but let's know, a
Speaker 1: warning would have been nice. There, Um, there's no question.
Speaker 1: And then some of the other things. I think it's
Speaker 1: a culture change where it's such a meat culture and
Speaker 1: look what I did. I think sometimes the officials are
Speaker 1: caught in the cross airs are going, Okay, where do
Speaker 1: where do you draw the line? Where do you draw
Speaker 1: the line of where somebody's just celebrating himself, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, we play a team game. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but then and then where is it too much? You know?
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that's a subjective call. And so I would say,
Speaker 1: as a player, and this is what being a professional
Speaker 1: is is understanding the environment that you're in, understanding the
Speaker 1: game that you play, and as badly as you want
Speaker 1: to celebrate yourself, you gotta remember there's ten other guys
Speaker 1: and forty three on the sideline. They're right there with you.
Speaker 1: And then secondly that that the official does have the
Speaker 1: opportunity and the potential to call the flag. And so
Speaker 1: if I'm a three and five team, I'm not doing
Speaker 1: anything to take momentum away from us because we're struggling
Speaker 1: as it is, trying to make a play in winning game,
Speaker 1: So that would be my mindset if it were me.
Speaker 1: It's a fair point, and I totally agree with you
Speaker 1: on the on the Buster Jarvis Landry thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I think early in a ballgame you try to set
Speaker 1: the tonos an official, but I don't know if you
Speaker 1: can flag one guy in that situation. On what you
Speaker 1: said about Calvin is a fair point. And uh, you
Speaker 1: saw Tyed Bulls talk to Prior after that, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he heard that message. And I wouldn't anticipate if
Speaker 1: Prior makes a big head this weekend that whole have
Speaker 1: a similar reaction that he did in Miami, because you know,
Speaker 1: ultimately come are as a young guy, he wants to
Speaker 1: help this football team. You'll love his passion for the game.
Speaker 1: You're the one who pointed this out to me last year.
Speaker 1: First before anybody is that this defense was always different
Speaker 1: in two thousand and fifteen when was all over the
Speaker 1: field playing his game. But with that being said, those
Speaker 1: posts whistle, uh, penalties and fractions are really gonna hurt you.
Speaker 1: And I don't anticipate, I really don't after what Todd
Speaker 1: said to him. And Todd's the kind of guy who
Speaker 1: does this stuff behind closed doors. I don't think Alm
Speaker 1: was gonna have a problem with that in the future.
Speaker 1: I don't either. I think he understands it. I think
Speaker 1: you know what happens in a situation like this is
Speaker 1: because guys are pressing so hard to create something positive
Speaker 1: for your team, you just let your emotions get a
Speaker 1: little bit outside the line. And when you're three and five,
Speaker 1: then that really shows its ugly head, whereas if you're
Speaker 1: six and two, you probably don't even think about it.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference in when even losing in this league.
Speaker 1: So I don't think Album is a bad guy. I
Speaker 1: just think you know, you have to understand that there's
Speaker 1: a time and place for everything, not anything, especially in
Speaker 1: this league, and winning and losing dictates a lot of that.
Speaker 1: And so you know, when you're three and time and
Speaker 1: you're just trying to create some positive momentum, you just
Speaker 1: gotta keep your head down and keep grinding, and you
Speaker 1: can't do anything to take the attention off of your
Speaker 1: team and what you're trying to do, because unfortunately, when
Speaker 1: you're losing and you're trying to reverse that, it just
Speaker 1: means more than when you're winning. And finally, you're putting
Speaker 1: a hat on the defense and the special teams because
Speaker 1: you look at this Rams defense, you say they're solid
Speaker 1: across the board. The thing that jumps out of you
Speaker 1: and everybody is Zarin Donald's He might be the finest
Speaker 1: defensive player in the National Football League. I think you
Speaker 1: can make that argument, especially with J. J. Watt out
Speaker 1: this season. Guy's got five sacks from an interior rush position. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's great against the run as well, NonStop motor, very unique. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then you got Quinn on the outside who spent some
Speaker 1: multiple Pro Bowls. Uh. Alec All the Tree is a
Speaker 1: good linebacker. They got guys all over the place in
Speaker 1: that front seven. So Jad Pennington's keys this week, give
Speaker 1: me three well. Number one, I think special teams has
Speaker 1: to provide a spark with a big play to create
Speaker 1: a short field which would then lead to a scoring
Speaker 1: drive um for the offense. Number two, I think the
Speaker 1: defense has to create turnovers. There were no turnovers created
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and when even when you have great performances
Speaker 1: as far as statistics and total yards um, the way
Speaker 1: you change momentum in a game is through turnovers, and
Speaker 1: those turnovers would actually nullify some of the big plays
Speaker 1: that they've been vulnerable to because it's a momentum thing
Speaker 1: in the attitude. Things. I think turnovers created by the
Speaker 1: defensive number two and number three, I think just controlling
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage for the Jet offense to eliminate
Speaker 1: as many negative plays as you can. When you face
Speaker 1: a defense like that and a player like Aaron Donald,
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to go against the three technique. That's
Speaker 1: that good because when you have edge rushers, a quarterback
Speaker 1: always feels comfortable in stepping up underneath that edge rusher.
Speaker 1: But when you have an interior rusher that pushes the
Speaker 1: pocket and really makes that pocket very uncomfortable, but the
Speaker 1: pocket is constantly changing, that is extremely difficult for a
Speaker 1: quarterback to operating, especially if they can play coverage with
Speaker 1: seven defenders behind him. So offensively is to control the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, meaning eliminate negative as many negative plays
Speaker 1: as you can. Even the one yard game is positive
Speaker 1: in a game like this. Alright, Chad is always we
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We look forward to catching up with the
Speaker 1: next week. Okay, hey, thank you