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

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen here for

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Speaker 1: the first episode of the off season. We're not stopping

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Speaker 1: here on the Official Jets Pod. The Jets now looking

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Speaker 1: for a new head coach. Adam Gates no longer the

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Speaker 1: head coach of the New York Jets. General manager Joe

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Speaker 1: should I say on Tuesday? CEO Christopher Johnson spoke to

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Speaker 1: the media on Monday, and you really got the sense

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Speaker 1: that this full this head coaching search is about to

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Speaker 1: be in full swing over the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: It certainly is happy New Year to all our listeners

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Speaker 1: out there. Things move quickly in the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: It seems like seven months ago that the Jets had

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Speaker 1: a fourteen seven lead over the Patriots in Weeks seventeen

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Speaker 1: to fourteen. On Sunday night, Christopher Johnson informed Adam Gates

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Speaker 1: that he would not be back in two thousand twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Then Christopher Johnson spoke to the media on Monday. Joe

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Speaker 1: Douglas spoke to the media on Tuesday, and Douglas already

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Speaker 1: has told reporters that they put in multiple requests throughout

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Speaker 1: the National Football League to speak to some coaches. So

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Speaker 1: the searches on in earnest because the National Football League

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Speaker 1: right now there are six head coaching vacancies, and Christopher

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Speaker 1: Johnson said that it's gonna be a deep search and

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Speaker 1: broad but time will be of the essence. And as

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Speaker 1: we're recording this Monday or not Monday morning, Wednesday morning,

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Speaker 1: the days are kind of metching together for me right now.

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Speaker 1: So that's my bad, but it's Wednesday morning. It's forgivable, man,

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Speaker 1: all thank you. I appreciate that. So the Jets have

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Speaker 1: not officially interviewed any head coach. And when you look

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Speaker 1: at the timeline the coaches that you know, you see

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Speaker 1: the reports out there who the Jets are looking to

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Speaker 1: interview so far, a lot of them are coordinators and

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Speaker 1: a lot of them are going to coach this weekend

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Speaker 1: in post season play. And so for the Jets that

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Speaker 1: can't interview those guys until after their game this weekend,

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Speaker 1: that could be as early as Sunday. But for someone

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Speaker 1: like one name, for example, Eric b Enemy, the Chief's

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Speaker 1: Jets can interview him this week, so we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned a broad search. I just wanna throw

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Speaker 1: this out there that Joe Douglas said that the head

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Speaker 1: coach that's to be named the twenty head coach of

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Speaker 1: the Green and White does not need to have prior

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Speaker 1: NFL head coaching experience. If it's a college coach that

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Speaker 1: fits the criteria, that's great. And when Joe Douglas was

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Speaker 1: talking about different qualities that he's looking for, and uh,

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Speaker 1: and a head coach, I mean the awards that came up, communication, leadership,

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Speaker 1: achieve that vision, and really the identity. And I think

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Speaker 1: that he got the sentence and he said, this is

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Speaker 1: not gonna be offensive, it's not gonna be defensive. You know,

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Speaker 1: that would eliminate half of the pool. He said, So really,

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Speaker 1: I think they're looking for the right guy. And I

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Speaker 1: thought it was interesting that he said it's not like

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting that Kim Jones from NFL Network asked

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Speaker 1: Christopher Johnson about, Hey, are you the New York Jets

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Speaker 1: organization looking for a CEO type and Chris said, I

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Speaker 1: don't love that term, but yes, they want a head

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Speaker 1: they're not going to emphasize the offensive side of the

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Speaker 1: Joe Douglas is approaching this with an open mind. He

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Speaker 1: just wants the best candidate and the best partner. And

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Speaker 1: he also said, hey, we're not making major decisions as

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Speaker 1: vision and make no mistake about it, whether the Jets

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Speaker 1: before the Jets brought in Joe Douglas, and the Jets

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Speaker 1: the words that Joe Douglas said was bring the Jet

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Speaker 1: the map essentially. And I think after listening to Joe Douglass,

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Speaker 1: Joe Douglass even though he's been on the job for

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Speaker 1: what almost two years? How long? Like almost two years?

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Speaker 1: To be honest with you, it's two seasons. But he's

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Speaker 1: that's one of the enticing parts of this job. I

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Speaker 1: that the Jets have great draft capital and they have

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Speaker 1: The Jets are very excited about. So if you're a

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Speaker 1: look at his who is a developer of talent Because

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Speaker 1: Christopher Johnson was right when he said the Jets are

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Speaker 1: they are. And the draft capital is huge. Two first

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Speaker 1: I mean it even goes back, it pre dates Joe

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Speaker 1: He now, his first draft, by the way, as general

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Speaker 1: get the head coaching higher right and when in terms

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Speaker 1: of this search, I don't think that we've seen maybe

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Speaker 1: we dive into every every character profile of every player

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Speaker 1: important to do that. Uh, we're gonna we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: the same page for the blueprint. You know that that

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Speaker 1: he's looking looking to build with this team and make

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Speaker 1: sure that we lock arms and do this together. The

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Speaker 1: draft capital is huge, there's no doubt about that. But

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Speaker 1: I think you're gonna say that the development is just

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Speaker 1: you gotta be thinking, hey, who's going to help develop

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Speaker 1: a lot of this young core? Because Christopher said us

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Speaker 1: the other day that you guys are a young team,

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna get even younger, right right is that's

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Speaker 1: a great point, Eric, and that that's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: big part of that coach's vision and plan. Not only

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Speaker 1: what what does he want the identity of this this

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Speaker 1: to get to that get to that identity, but what

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Speaker 1: is your plan to develop these young players? Because like

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Speaker 1: you said, we we had so many young players, whether

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Speaker 1: they are draft picks, undrafted free agents, We have. We

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Speaker 1: have uh, just as many picks. So we're we're gonna

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a big influx of young and hungry talent,

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Speaker 1: and we were gonna need the right teachers, the right

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Speaker 1: motivators to get them ready and turn them into good

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Speaker 1: professional football players. Is it fair to say you can't

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Speaker 1: buy success in the national football You talked about the

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Speaker 1: cap flexibility. I don't know that you're encouraged by that,

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Speaker 1: and that's definitely an asset as you move forward. But

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Speaker 1: you've constantly talked about, hey, listen, we have to draft

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Speaker 1: and develop guys in house and free agency. Yes, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get pieces on the outside from time to time,

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Speaker 1: but you're not gonna buy yourself into a built right

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Speaker 1: I think, like I said earlier, we're we're in pretty

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Speaker 1: good financial health right now in terms of cap space

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Speaker 1: cap space, and the goal is to stay in in

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Speaker 1: good financial health moving forward. But um, you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm of the belief that you for for us to

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Speaker 1: get to where we need we need to go, UM

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Speaker 1: for us to excuse me, sustain the success moving forward,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be about drafting and developing players and then

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Speaker 1: to use that cap space to retain those players. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's a long term plan and long term

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Speaker 1: goal of what we're trying to do. And Uh, last

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Speaker 1: year's draft, this, this upcoming year's draft, and then the

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Speaker 1: draft after that are going to be huge for us.

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Speaker 1: Where do you think Sam Donald was that after year three?

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Speaker 1: And then how do you view overall the quarterback position

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Speaker 1: on this team? Yeah, you know, I think Sam faced

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Speaker 1: a lot of obstacles this year, um, some of some

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Speaker 1: of which you can control, some of which he couldn't control.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that for him, I think not

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Speaker 1: not having different offensive linemen in front of him quite

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Speaker 1: often during the season, not having his top three wide

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Speaker 1: receivers until week nine of the season, not being able

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Speaker 1: to to build that chemistry, um that you need for

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Speaker 1: for sustained success throughout a year. UM, I think I

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Speaker 1: think that was that was certainly less than ideal. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, so, but I still feel that Sam is

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Speaker 1: a quality player in this league. And we're still talking

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Speaker 1: about three year old, uh, young man, that's going into

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Speaker 1: his third head coach Um again another lesson ideal situation,

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Speaker 1: so he's faced a lot of obstacles. I do think

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Speaker 1: that he has a good quarterback. I think there's many

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Speaker 1: chapters left in Sam Donald's book that are left to

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Speaker 1: be written, and I think that he's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: good quarterback in this league. I think the overall quarterback room,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're we're excited about Um, James Morgan. I

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Speaker 1: think we're excited about Mike White. Those are two young

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Speaker 1: guys that we didn't get to see in the preseason

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Speaker 1: because there was no preseason game games, but guys that developed.

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Speaker 1: You know, Mike White we acquired uh and was a

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Speaker 1: practice wild player for US last year. That's really developed

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Speaker 1: over the last year and a half. And James made

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Speaker 1: made really good straight strides throughout the year. Really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to getting those two guys in a in a

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Speaker 1: great competition next next preseason and hopefully get him out

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Speaker 1: on the field and live game games in preseason games. Finally, Joe,

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Speaker 1: you've been so gracious with your time. Is always what

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Speaker 1: kind of message do you have for this fan base

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Speaker 1: as you enter this critical stage where you're looking for

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Speaker 1: a partner like you talked about a new head coach

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Speaker 1: as the Jets uh enter this two thousand twenty one

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Speaker 1: off season. Yeah, I think I think I would echo

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Speaker 1: what Christopher said yesterday when you talked to the media.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're we're tired of we're tired of losing. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know we um we we know we need to

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Speaker 1: be better and are our most important goal right now

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Speaker 1: is to find the right person and the right leader

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Speaker 1: that can lead this football team to where it needs

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Speaker 1: to be. And so um that that's our message, is

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Speaker 1: that we know we need to be better and we

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Speaker 1: are going to be better. Uh. And it starts with

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Speaker 1: with this decision moving forward, and we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of decisions after that that we have to get right.

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Speaker 1: But we're focused on this one break stuff from Joe

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Speaker 1: Douglas has always and throughout this whole head coaching search,

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Speaker 1: E and I will be bringing you all the information

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Speaker 1: on each head coaching candidate that completes an interview with

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Speaker 1: the Jets, and then of course whoever the Jets do

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Speaker 1: in fact higher And it doesn't stop there. We go

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Speaker 1: the entire offseason. We got draft coverage. Do not stop

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