Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets podcast, the
Speaker 1: Draft Pick Profile series. Rolling on Here Ethan Greenberg Eric
Speaker 1: Allen breaking down the Jets fifth round pick. That's Virginia
Speaker 1: cornerback Bryce Hall, who e a was perhaps one of
Speaker 1: the best value selection, not only for the Jets, but
Speaker 1: the entire NFL draft. Well, here's a guy who a
Speaker 1: lot of people thought if he came out following the
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen season, when he led the FBS
Speaker 1: in past defenses, that maybe he could have been a
Speaker 1: first round pick. Then in two thousand nineteen, unfortunately, he
Speaker 1: went down while blocking on a punt return as a
Speaker 1: Miami Hurricane player rolled on his leg. He broke his
Speaker 1: fibula and tore his delt toy ligament, dislocated an ankle.
Speaker 1: So Green's he only played six games last season, highly
Speaker 1: productive player, and he was on the field, and he
Speaker 1: lasted until the fifth round. Again, if he was healthy
Speaker 1: for eleven games, you're talking about a player who probably
Speaker 1: doesn't escape the second round. Some people, when they get injured,
Speaker 1: they kind of fall off and they don't they're not
Speaker 1: active with their team. Well, Bryce Hall was the opposite.
Speaker 1: He spent every game on the sideline. He was the
Speaker 1: clipboard holder, the motivational guy. He was a team captain
Speaker 1: and for good reason. For the while who's meticulous in
Speaker 1: his preparation, he's a guy who's determined to learn and grow.
Speaker 1: You mentioned him being a team leader. He became more
Speaker 1: vocal after the injuries, so he very well liked. In
Speaker 1: addition to the tangibles, you're talking about a Bryce Hall
Speaker 1: player who played forty four games in forty four collegiate games.
Speaker 1: He had forty four past defenses, including those twenty two
Speaker 1: breakups in two thousand eighteens. And the Jets rightfully, so
Speaker 1: I believe I think they found great value of Bryce
Speaker 1: Hall in the fifth round. I think that's very fair
Speaker 1: to say. And let's hear from Joe Douglas and his
Speaker 1: staff that includes Rex Hogan and Phil Savage about what
Speaker 1: they like about Bryce Hall. Yeah, unfortunate about the injury
Speaker 1: in October derailed his season this year. But when we're
Speaker 1: talking about Bryce's he's a guy that has unique size,
Speaker 1: length and ball skills. You know, here's a young man
Speaker 1: that can really play the ball when he's in phase
Speaker 1: and find it and that that's an important attribute to
Speaker 1: have when you're playing in in Gregg's defense and with
Speaker 1: the Nord we feel like we have a great coaching
Speaker 1: staff to to really develop this this young player, and
Speaker 1: I know he's excited to get here give role and
Speaker 1: improved to the rest of the league that he should
Speaker 1: have been drafted higher. We trusted the board and and
Speaker 1: having him there in the fifth round and seeing there
Speaker 1: was a good value for us. This is a big
Speaker 1: corner who's played outside throughout his career. He's got a
Speaker 1: good size, He's got a good combination of height, weight
Speaker 1: and speed. Obviously, we didn't get to see him run
Speaker 1: this year in terms of a true testing at the
Speaker 1: Combine because of his recovery, but he shown it on
Speaker 1: tape and he shown ability with his size and length
Speaker 1: outside to to break up passes. He had over twenty
Speaker 1: plus pass breakups in his junior season and was well
Speaker 1: on his way to to a significant senior year as
Speaker 1: well until the injury, which was unfortunate. But we feel
Speaker 1: fortunate about being able to pick him and select him
Speaker 1: in the fifth round and and like his ability moving
Speaker 1: forward for a fit for our defense. Well. I certainly
Speaker 1: think relative to where he would have gone had he
Speaker 1: not had the ankle injury back during the fall. He
Speaker 1: clearly was the first three round type of prospect. I
Speaker 1: mean there were mock drafts literally a year ago that
Speaker 1: had him in the first round. I think realistically he
Speaker 1: was probably a second or third round kind of talent.
Speaker 1: He unfortunately had that that ankle fracture, and then with
Speaker 1: the injury, he's not able to participate, saying the Reese's
Speaker 1: senior boy, He's not able to participate at the combine,
Speaker 1: and then with this pandemic, there was really no way
Speaker 1: to ultimately follow up with him from a medical standpoint
Speaker 1: other than just the combine, And at that point we
Speaker 1: felt like he had made a lot of progress. The
Speaker 1: doctors signed off on it. And I tell you, if
Speaker 1: he returns to full health, which all indications are that
Speaker 1: he will, I mean, this is a potential starter at
Speaker 1: it in the fifth round. He's got long arms, he's
Speaker 1: athletic in terms of being able to have some reaction
Speaker 1: on the football. But what I really liked about him,
Speaker 1: and I think the other guys would say the same thing,
Speaker 1: is that he has a long arm reach and he
Speaker 1: finishes at the football. So he's the kind of player
Speaker 1: that might be given some ground. You think Okay, he's
Speaker 1: gonna get beat here, and then the last ten percent
Speaker 1: of the down he's able to close and knock the
Speaker 1: ball away or in some cases intercepted. So we really
Speaker 1: liked his instincts and his ability to close and finish
Speaker 1: at the reception point. This is sort of a blanket statement,
Speaker 1: but any of the players that were injured during the
Speaker 1: season and then we're not able to fully participate during
Speaker 1: the All Star season or at the combine, and ultimately
Speaker 1: we're only physical at the combine. It there's no doubt
Speaker 1: in my mind that it impacted those guys value to
Speaker 1: an extent because most gyms in the league just are
Speaker 1: not going to be willing to take a player who
Speaker 1: they just cannot quite sign off on, or they've not
Speaker 1: had a final look with one of the thirty visits,
Speaker 1: or you know, going back to the school and getting
Speaker 1: more UH medical insiders, actually seeing the player UH perform
Speaker 1: in his pro day. And Bryce Hall certainly would have
Speaker 1: been one of those players that if he could have
Speaker 1: worked out in April in front of the NFL scouts,
Speaker 1: I think you would have seen him go probably on
Speaker 1: the on the second day of this draft. In regards
Speaker 1: to his future health with the Jets. You know, all
Speaker 1: inner case, all indications are that he should be close
Speaker 1: to being ready for training camp on a normal schedule.
Speaker 1: We'll have to wait and see where he actually is,
Speaker 1: but there was good feedback that he would cover fully
Speaker 1: from this injury and if there's any kind of delay
Speaker 1: at all, honestly, we just we're betting on the future
Speaker 1: with Bryce Hall that if it's not just, but we're
Speaker 1: looking at one and beyond because we think he's a
Speaker 1: good player. He let's talk about Bryce Hall on the field.
Speaker 1: You mentioned he only played six games in two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: Well in two thous eighteen definitely his best collegiate performance,
Speaker 1: second team All American, first Team All A c C
Speaker 1: and maybe more impressive than both of that he led
Speaker 1: the FBS in past defenses. He can find the football.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys have the athletic skill set where
Speaker 1: they can run with people, but defensive backs oftentimes when
Speaker 1: they're coming out of college, they can put up the way.
Speaker 1: They're strong, they can run, but not everybody can find
Speaker 1: the football. So he's got a good knack for the game.
Speaker 1: And you go back to his high school days, here's
Speaker 1: a kid who played wide receiver and defensive back. So
Speaker 1: that's very rare when you're talking about a collegiate player
Speaker 1: who had twenty two pass defenses in just a single
Speaker 1: season at Virginia. He was asked to do a lot
Speaker 1: of different things and all some people have talked about
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall being best suited in zone situations, but he
Speaker 1: did play man at Virginia. They mixed up the defense
Speaker 1: over the time he was there. He was also an
Speaker 1: effective blitzer. You think about that junior campaign where he
Speaker 1: was all over the field getting his hands on the football.
Speaker 1: He also had sixty two tackles, three and a half
Speaker 1: tackles for a loss, a pair of sacks, a pair
Speaker 1: of interceptions in two forced bumbles. So not only did
Speaker 1: he excel as far as breaking up passes, he filled
Speaker 1: up the statuet. Yeah, Bryce Hall. You mentioned this a
Speaker 1: little earlier. He was a receiver coming out of high
Speaker 1: school and basically when he got to Virginia, the coaching
Speaker 1: ads on the offensive defensive sides are basically wrestling for
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall, and Bryce Hall ends up being a defensive
Speaker 1: back and the rest is history. But this is a
Speaker 1: guy who you can clearly see the receiver traits where
Speaker 1: he's long, he's tall. He's five total interceptions over four seasons,
Speaker 1: and I think what Phil Savage said kind of stands
Speaker 1: out to me the most. Bryce Hall is a kind
Speaker 1: of player where a ball can be in the air
Speaker 1: and you might think, oh my god, Bryce Hall is
Speaker 1: gonna get beat on this play. Well, his thirty two
Speaker 1: and a quarter inch arms and a seventy eight and
Speaker 1: a half inch wingspan might disagree with you, even if
Speaker 1: it's the last second. Bryce Hall has a knack for
Speaker 1: getting his hand in there and knocking the ball away
Speaker 1: and basically there's no quit And I think that's something
Speaker 1: that the Jets really like about Bryce Hall. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is another guy where you talk about his background
Speaker 1: and firstile skill set. He was a very good basketball
Speaker 1: player in high school at the AU level and effect
Speaker 1: there were times when he thought that I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: I'm gonna become a basketball player. But let's see where
Speaker 1: he's at medically again, we talk about the pandemic right
Speaker 1: now and what everybody's facing with COVID nineteen, and the
Speaker 1: big thing for all will be when he actually comes
Speaker 1: to the Jets and arrive at one Jets Drive is
Speaker 1: where is he at in terms of his rehab. But
Speaker 1: one thing we can be sure about, one thing that
Speaker 1: we're certain about just by reading his background and talking
Speaker 1: to people who know Bryce Hall. He is a diligent worker.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get after it, and he thinks he's gonna
Speaker 1: be ready to go. And the other thing that Phil
Speaker 1: Savage said about Hall that I really liked is, hey,
Speaker 1: we're betting on Bryce Hall. We think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: no matter what the timeline is. And Bryce Hall fully
Speaker 1: expects to be ready for your training camp. But the
Speaker 1: Jets like his future and the possibilities of what he
Speaker 1: can bring to the table for this team. In a
Speaker 1: typical world, if you get hurt in the sixth game
Speaker 1: of the year and you have the combine, you have
Speaker 1: the medical rechecks, you have top thirty visits, all of
Speaker 1: which didn't exist except for the actual combine. So Bryce Hall,
Speaker 1: in a perfect world, even if he had the injury,
Speaker 1: still could have been a day to selection. But because
Speaker 1: teams couldn't sign off on him a hundred percent without
Speaker 1: having them take their physical with their doctors and going
Speaker 1: back to Indianapolis for the medical rechecks, it feels like
Speaker 1: that's the reason why he slipped and I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: like a fifth round pick for Bryce Hall for a
Speaker 1: day to talent when fully healthy, it just feels like
Speaker 1: it's a good bet to make if you're Joe Douglass
Speaker 1: and the Jets, because a year from now we could
Speaker 1: be talking about Bryce Hall as a potential starter. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people probably were sitting there, if
Speaker 1: you're a Jets fan, at across in your fingers and
Speaker 1: hoping that Joe Douglas takes Bryce Hall there because there's
Speaker 1: an argument to be made that there was outstanding value
Speaker 1: for a guy like Hall in the fourth round, and
Speaker 1: the Jets, of course had the three picks in the
Speaker 1: fourth round, and I think teams with needs at cornerback
Speaker 1: or looking up to looking to shore up the position,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of fans of those respective teams
Speaker 1: who were drafting in the area the Jets were in
Speaker 1: the fifth round, hoping that their club would take a
Speaker 1: flyer per se on a Bryce Hall. But the Jets
Speaker 1: got him, and yeah, he does have the potential to
Speaker 1: be a start in the National Football League. I found
Speaker 1: it interesting there's some people think that Bryce Hall ultimately
Speaker 1: suited to be free safety in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: With that being said, no talk of that from the
Speaker 1: Jets perspective. I think they're going into this thinking full go.
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall is a cornerback and when we get them
Speaker 1: up to speed, that's exactly where he's going to be.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's hear from Olivia Lands, who caught
Speaker 1: up with Mike Barber of the Richmond Times Dispatch, who
Speaker 1: covered Bryce Hall at Virginia. You cover Virginia Tech as
Speaker 1: well as Virginia and Bryce Hall, who was taken in
Speaker 1: the fifth round of the NFL Draft a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty eight overall by the New York Jets. He's an
Speaker 1: individual who back in twineteen originally thought he was going
Speaker 1: to go in the first round of the NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: but opted to go back and play his senior season.
Speaker 1: What kind of growth did you see from him in
Speaker 1: the games that he was able to play before his injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Bryce came back and it's surprised a lot
Speaker 1: of people because he was on that path to be
Speaker 1: first or a second round draft pick. He had led
Speaker 1: the nation and pass breakups, his one on one coverage
Speaker 1: skills were through the roof, and NFL scouts were really
Speaker 1: excited about him, and I think most people I spoke
Speaker 1: to projected that he would leave. He would leave, and
Speaker 1: he would be a high pick. But there were some
Speaker 1: things that that Bryce wanted to improve on personally. One
Speaker 1: of those was his ball skills. Um. He you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, he led the nation and pass breakups.
Speaker 1: He watched video of those plays and thought that, you know,
Speaker 1: three or four or five six of them should have
Speaker 1: been interceptions. Uh So that was a big area of
Speaker 1: emphasis for him. He didn't really play in enough games
Speaker 1: to to show off whether or not he had he
Speaker 1: had improved in that area, And honestly, a lot of
Speaker 1: teams in this past season threw away from Bryce. He's
Speaker 1: that kind of a corner. He's able to play physically
Speaker 1: at the line, he's able to cover off the line,
Speaker 1: and teams were pretty content about not taking a chance
Speaker 1: throwing at Bryce Hall before the injury. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that he got to show all that he had
Speaker 1: worked on and focused on and improved. But another big
Speaker 1: part of his decision to come back was he felt
Speaker 1: that there was some unfin finished business for Virginia. You know,
Speaker 1: this was a team that has been on the is
Speaker 1: under the new coaching staff, Bronco Menden Hall and that crew,
Speaker 1: and Bryce Hall has been a huge part of that.
Speaker 1: And you know, his injury happened playing special teams. He's
Speaker 1: one of those do everything for the team guys, and
Speaker 1: he really wanted to come back and help this team
Speaker 1: win a championship and uh, you know he played part
Speaker 1: of the year then he got hurt. The team did
Speaker 1: go on to win a Coastal Division title and playing
Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl, and uh, those were things that Bryce
Speaker 1: really wanted to be a part of. In the few
Speaker 1: games that he was able to play in the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen season, what did you see from his game that
Speaker 1: stood out to you that, Wow, this is skill set
Speaker 1: that he can take to the next level. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: he's just a guy that can blanket you in terms
Speaker 1: of if you're a defensive coach and you're putting together
Speaker 1: your game plan and where are you gonna help, when
Speaker 1: are you gonna blitz, how are you going to use
Speaker 1: your safeties? All that? If you've got Bryce Hall, he
Speaker 1: to me is uh the epitome of a lockdown corner. Uh,
Speaker 1: certainly he was in the A c C. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that can take away a third of the field
Speaker 1: like coaches like to say. And that really showed up.
Speaker 1: And again it showed up in the way teams chose
Speaker 1: to attack him or not attack him. It showed up
Speaker 1: in the fact that sometimes Bryce Hall would get locked
Speaker 1: on a guy and you could tell that offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: and play callers they were saying to themselves, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not an option. Now, we're not going to throw at Bryce.
Speaker 1: And you know, the best players at that position in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and certainly the New York Jets have had
Speaker 1: a number of them, are guys who teams are essentially
Speaker 1: afraid to throw at. And I think Bryce Hall showed
Speaker 1: that at the college level. He's going to be coming
Speaker 1: to a team with the New York Jets and defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Gray Williams, who makes and he's very vocal about this,
Speaker 1: He makes all of his defensive players learn at the
Speaker 1: very least two different positions. What other ways do you
Speaker 1: think he can be flexible in his game to fit
Speaker 1: into Greg Williams scheme. Yeah, Bryce Hall is the kind
Speaker 1: of guy who won't have any trouble. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we got to know Greg a little bit when the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins and Bryce Hall is a guy who one
Speaker 1: of the things his coaches talk about most with him
Speaker 1: is his time studying film, learning the entire defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's just a guy who's ready to mentally tackle everything
Speaker 1: when it comes to football. He helps other players. Yes,
Speaker 1: he helped the other corners at Virginia, but he helped
Speaker 1: the other safeties. He could work with the linebackers. He
Speaker 1: understood the entire defense. So one, I think Bryce Hall
Speaker 1: is someone who will mentally be able to learn and
Speaker 1: play anywhere in the secondary. I think he has a
Speaker 1: little more physicality maybe than people realize. If you're thinking
Speaker 1: about defending in the slot, could be as a nickel.
Speaker 1: But then you also think about you know, and it
Speaker 1: certainly was sad his injury. His injury came on special
Speaker 1: teams because he's unafraid to play on punt return, punt coverage,
Speaker 1: kick return, kick coverage, and as a young player in
Speaker 1: the NFL, I think he's gonna be willing to do
Speaker 1: all those. So, yes, he's coming from a pedigree of
Speaker 1: being the starting corner and the number one updown guy,
Speaker 1: but he's shown through the college career willingness and an
Speaker 1: ability to contribute in special teams and really all over
Speaker 1: the field. And how ready. Do you think Bryce would
Speaker 1: be come NFL season if his names were called to
Speaker 1: be a starter. Yeah, it's it's a great question. You know,
Speaker 1: a year ago, I would say he's ready to step
Speaker 1: in and start. Now with the injury, you just have
Speaker 1: the physical question. And you know, we've talked to Bryce
Speaker 1: a few times since the injury. We got to see
Speaker 1: him at the Bowl game. I got to speak to
Speaker 1: him just before the draft, and he's not a hundred
Speaker 1: percent yet. Now he's a hundred percent healed, which is great.
Speaker 1: His posis is great, but he hasn't fully gotten back
Speaker 1: to the range of motion and to all the things
Speaker 1: that he was able to do and he needs to
Speaker 1: do physically with that ankle. So I think mentally Bryce
Speaker 1: Hall is ready to step in and and start in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think skill set wise, he's ready to
Speaker 1: step in and start in the NFL. I just haven't
Speaker 1: seen the kid run or cut or do anything physically
Speaker 1: since the injury. So for him, it's about how hard
Speaker 1: has he been working. And you know, my personal experience
Speaker 1: with Bryce's he's not gonna cut corners. Whatever he needed
Speaker 1: to do to be physically ready for camp in the NFL.
Speaker 1: He was going to do it. His expectation when I
Speaker 1: spoke to him was that he would be a pent
Speaker 1: and able to do everything by the time camp started,
Speaker 1: and that meant even rookie mini camp. And obviously we're
Speaker 1: not sure the schedule or when will be but um
Speaker 1: my guess as Bryce Hall is going to come in
Speaker 1: physically and mentally ready. I think it's gonna take a
Speaker 1: little while to get his timing back, but a few
Speaker 1: weeks and if there's a preseason I think he's somebody
Speaker 1: the Jets could turn to much of a chipper on
Speaker 1: his shoulder. Do you think he has if any You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting because Bryce isn't necessarily the kind of kid
Speaker 1: that that needs that negative fuel. He's a very grounded,
Speaker 1: very religious, faith based all of those things. That being said, Olivia,
Speaker 1: think you're right that I think he has something to prove,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that it will come out um
Speaker 1: in some of the ways sometimes we hear in the media.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna say I'm gonna show people
Speaker 1: they made a mistake. I don't think he's gonna say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show people, uh you know that they messed up.
Speaker 1: I think he just wants to show people that the
Speaker 1: New York Jets made a good discis and I think
Speaker 1: he wants to show people that he is the first
Speaker 1: or second round pick that everybody thought he could be
Speaker 1: before the injury. So I think it fuels him. I
Speaker 1: don't think it will fuel him in that really negative
Speaker 1: kind of you know. I don't think there's teams out
Speaker 1: there that passed on him that he particularly wants to
Speaker 1: play well against. I think he wants to play sixteen
Speaker 1: great games to show everybody that the New York Jets
Speaker 1: were right and that he is that caliber player. Mike,
Speaker 1: before I let you go, what is one thing about
Speaker 1: Bryce that may surprise not only the Jets but fans
Speaker 1: when he comes on the field. Well, I think he's
Speaker 1: got a tremendous personality. He has a real joy for
Speaker 1: the game. He's always smiling. You see that off the field.
Speaker 1: You know about his background, his religion, all of those things.
Speaker 1: You know how hardy studies. I don't know that people
Speaker 1: realize just how competitive he is. And you'll see that.
Speaker 1: You'll see that when he gets locked on one on one.
Speaker 1: You'll see it when he's got a jam a receiver
Speaker 1: at the line, like for all the great things about
Speaker 1: his personality and what a great kid he is. He
Speaker 1: is a a nasty, angry, fiery competitor once the ball
Speaker 1: is snapped, and you know, yeah, he switches it off
Speaker 1: between plays and he's great to be around all week
Speaker 1: and he kind of gives off this you know, friendly
Speaker 1: almost teacher kind of vibe, but he wants to win.
Speaker 1: He's incredibly competitive. Um, you know, he was a great
Speaker 1: athlete high school receiver and defend back. So I think
Speaker 1: people are going to be impressed by the competitive streak
Speaker 1: of Bryce Hall as they get to see the other
Speaker 1: side of him, which is kind of laid back, smiley
Speaker 1: and very easy going. He Let's now talk about where
Speaker 1: Ice Hall can fit in on this jet secondary, assuming
Speaker 1: he's fully healthy. This is a crowded cornerbacks room compared
Speaker 1: to even before the draft. So where do you think
Speaker 1: he fits in Off the top, Well, we know off
Speaker 1: the top to Brian pulls your nickel corner that was
Speaker 1: key resigning by Joe Douglas. Then on the outside you
Speaker 1: would figure that pencil and Pierre Dessier at one of
Speaker 1: the starting outside positions again another long cornerback. Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: with his second sixth round pick. He traded that to
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts and got Quincy Wilson, a former second
Speaker 1: round pick as well. And let's not forget about Bless Austin,
Speaker 1: who got valuable time on the outside last year. And
Speaker 1: you've got a former Culton Nate Harriston as well. So
Speaker 1: I think the thing for Bryce Hall will be getting here,
Speaker 1: getting back up to speed a hundred percent physically, and
Speaker 1: then seeing where he fits in. But for the Jets,
Speaker 1: you know it's likely opening day in Buffalo. You have
Speaker 1: Bryan Paul Nicol, you have Pierre to zero at one
Speaker 1: of the outside corners, and then I I kind of
Speaker 1: view it right now as we sit here in May,
Speaker 1: maybe it's a fight for who's gonna be the opposite
Speaker 1: starting quarter And is that a Quincy Wilson? Is that
Speaker 1: a Bless Austin? And what can Bryce Hall give you?
Speaker 1: What can you contribute in year one if it's health
Speaker 1: gets back up to I think one of the more
Speaker 1: overlooked storylines of this offseason has been the revamping of
Speaker 1: the secondary. When you start from the releasing of Trueman
Speaker 1: Johnson to Darryl Roberts to the guys you just mentioned
Speaker 1: now between Pierre tos Ere Quincy Wilson. You bringing a
Speaker 1: guy like Bryce Hall, Bless Austin entering year two, resigning
Speaker 1: Arthur Mallett, then you have Nate Hairston in the mix there.
Speaker 1: It just feels like that the group of corners right
Speaker 1: now is a lot more competitive than where it was
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. And I think that it
Speaker 1: is going to be a battle right now if everyone's
Speaker 1: fully healthy. I agree with you. You're probably looking at
Speaker 1: Brian Pool in the nickel, Pierre to Zer and then
Speaker 1: there's a battle for that for that other spot, and
Speaker 1: I think that it's going to be one of the
Speaker 1: more exciting camp battles to watch. Yeah, listen. And I
Speaker 1: like the size on the outside. We used to mention
Speaker 1: that as Hall as a guy who's what listed it
Speaker 1: as six one two plus pounds, right, yeah, yeah. Quincy
Speaker 1: Wilson is six to nine pounds six too. That's a
Speaker 1: long corner to zero. He's a longer player himself. He's
Speaker 1: six one. We saw Bless Austin. We think about his
Speaker 1: wingspan and his length. He's a six one pounder. It
Speaker 1: has the feel of the Jets are getting bigger at
Speaker 1: the cornerback position, and then you've got the dynamic Brian
Speaker 1: Pool in the middle. I'm glad you mentioned Arthur Palette
Speaker 1: as well, because here's a guy's five non ninety pounds,
Speaker 1: but he plays a lot bigger than that. He's got
Speaker 1: that fighting spirit and he's got experienced playing both outside
Speaker 1: and inside. So again another position where Joe Douglas had
Speaker 1: to make some changes and he's increased the depth there,
Speaker 1: and now you're setting yourself up for uh interesting training
Speaker 1: camp battles will have to see how all those moving
Speaker 1: parts work together because communication is going to be the key.
Speaker 1: Whereas the safety is like Marcus May and Jamal Adams,
Speaker 1: they probably don't even have to talk too much sometimes
Speaker 1: where they know what the other is doing. The cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: the new cornerbacks particularly, are going to have to get
Speaker 1: caught up, so to speak. Yeah, I think that if
Speaker 1: we oftentimes thing about the offensive line needing a form
Speaker 1: of chemistry, well I think it's the same thing with
Speaker 1: the defense really as a whole, because communication is so imperative,
Speaker 1: and in particular the secondary. So we'll see how this
Speaker 1: all shakes out during camp. But the long story short
Speaker 1: here is that Bryce Hall was a fantastic value pick
Speaker 1: for the Jets given the injury that made him slide
Speaker 1: a little bit, but he does have the talent and
Speaker 1: the potential to emerge as a potential starting cornerback for
Speaker 1: the Green and White. And that was another edition of
Speaker 1: the official Jets podcast, the Draft Pick Profile series presented
Speaker 1: by Verizon, continuing on E A and I wrapping up
Speaker 1: the series with the Jets sixth round pick Hunter from
Speaker 1: Texas A and M Braided Man.