Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast, continuing
Speaker 1: our Draft Calfdown series presented by Verizon. On today's episode,
Speaker 1: e A and I recently caught up with mm qub's
Speaker 1: Albert Brier, talked about the Jets Draft Ahead, looked back
Speaker 1: a little bit to free agency, and also Albert had
Speaker 1: some great things to say about what Sam Donald is
Speaker 1: doing right now during this quarantine time in California. E A,
Speaker 1: another week of the pod. How you doing out there,
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Greens. Yeah, Breer is so dialed in
Speaker 1: with so many things happened in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and I think Jets fans are really gonna like this
Speaker 1: one because you haven't heard too much about Sam Donald
Speaker 1: this offseason, and rightfully so, a lot of things going
Speaker 1: on and Sam back home in California, but he is
Speaker 1: still working on his game. Greens. Yeah, we really covered
Speaker 1: the full gamut here with Brier, and we had them
Speaker 1: for about twenty minutes and without further ado, here's Albert Brier.
Speaker 1: How do you view what Joe Douglas did free agency
Speaker 1: and not only that, but how did that then set
Speaker 1: him up for the Draft Ahead? Yeah? You know, I
Speaker 1: think one of the nice things about what Joe did
Speaker 1: is that he didn't tie himself down to too many guys.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think that there's an inefficiency to
Speaker 1: the free agent market where you know, in a lot
Speaker 1: of cases, um, if you're really really aggressive with the
Speaker 1: first wave, you wind up overspending and signing guys to
Speaker 1: deals that don't look so good too and three years
Speaker 1: down the line. So I think doing deals with some guys,
Speaker 1: you know, taking swings at guys like Brashad Perriman or
Speaker 1: Pierre d Seer who have had flashes in the past
Speaker 1: who might be a little bit more um than than
Speaker 1: than what we've seen to this point in their NFL careers,
Speaker 1: I think those are worthy risks. They plug holes, and
Speaker 1: I think the idea is, you know, you get a
Speaker 1: receiver like that, you get a you know, you get
Speaker 1: you get a corner like that, and then you sign
Speaker 1: the amount of offensive line And they signed cover Connor
Speaker 1: mcgovernor George Fan obviously the top of the list. And
Speaker 1: you know, to me, it's just it allows you to
Speaker 1: go into the draft without having to press one kneed
Speaker 1: or the other two hard Albert, he's definitely rapping his
Speaker 1: arms around Sam Darnold, he said. In fact, last preseason
Speaker 1: he told his parents, I'm gonna I'm gonna protect this guy.
Speaker 1: And he's one out and done that. In free agency,
Speaker 1: Ronney Anderson departs to Carolina, brings in Perryman, a guy
Speaker 1: flourished down the stretch last year in Tampa. But I
Speaker 1: wanted to further the conversation about Donald here. What can
Speaker 1: you tell us about QB Quarantine School in California under
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer. Yeah, well, well Sam's still out there because
Speaker 1: he has a house out there. But yeah, it was
Speaker 1: an interesting circumstance where, um, you know, three guys and
Speaker 1: these guys all trained for the draft together with Jordan Palmer,
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, Josh Allen and uh and Sam Donald. Um
Speaker 1: we're out there when you know the situation that we're
Speaker 1: all facing this country worseen and so really, um it
Speaker 1: was I mean, for the most part, I think it
Speaker 1: was an eight person, seven person quarantine and so it
Speaker 1: was Josh Allen his girlfriend, it was Kyle Allen his girlfriend,
Speaker 1: it was Sam, Sam's buddy from USC who was working
Speaker 1: out with them, and then Jordan Palmer. So that's my
Speaker 1: masks not great, but I think that's seven people and
Speaker 1: they were all sort of kind of quarantined out there,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have a place to throw, they didn't
Speaker 1: have a place to work out. So instead of being
Speaker 1: on local parks or local fields which were all shut down,
Speaker 1: they were throwing on the beach. And instead of going
Speaker 1: to a gym, they were working out of the garage
Speaker 1: of a buddy of their trainer who had like a
Speaker 1: little makeshift forty square foot area to work out in.
Speaker 1: So they definitely did their best to make the most
Speaker 1: out of the situation they were each in. I know
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen's gone back to Arizona. I know Josh Allen
Speaker 1: was looking at either going home to Fresno or actually
Speaker 1: maybe going all the way back to Buffalo. Obviously, all
Speaker 1: that's a little difficult now. Um. I think Sam, as
Speaker 1: far as I know, is still out there in Orange County.
Speaker 1: But I guess there are worse places to be if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be quarantined, right, I mean, right there on
Speaker 1: the beach in California. Yeah, And it makes total sense
Speaker 1: considering he's from San Clementi, so home for Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: But e a mentioned Joe Douglas wrapping his arms around Donald.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to ask you, what can you tell
Speaker 1: us about somebody that the Jets have reportedly agreed to
Speaker 1: turn with And you mentioned him to George Fan because
Speaker 1: he played on the opposite side of the country. Feels
Speaker 1: like Jets fans don't know a lot about him other
Speaker 1: than he's an athletic freak. Yeah, I mean, he's an
Speaker 1: interesting player, obviously college basketball player. I'm sure you guys
Speaker 1: are familiar with this backstory. And um, at one point
Speaker 1: the Seahawks thought he was gonna be, you know, or
Speaker 1: had a shot at least to be their long term
Speaker 1: left tackle that obviously didn't work out. They wind up
Speaker 1: pulling off the trade for Dwayne Brown a few years ago,
Speaker 1: but at the very least like a valuable depth piece,
Speaker 1: the guy who can be a swing tackle for And
Speaker 1: I think that was sort of the idea here. And
Speaker 1: you look at what what Joe Douglas has done, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and I know he was saying this to
Speaker 1: to other people in the league over the course of
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, um in and around the combine.
Speaker 1: You know, he wouldn't be he he went with it,
Speaker 1: went with the idea that he was going to be
Speaker 1: working with almost a totally blank slate on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and so, um, you know, I think there was this
Speaker 1: feeling we're gonna have to start over a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think everybody who was looking for offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Things changed a little bit early on when you know,
Speaker 1: you saw Joe Tuoney got tagged and Brandon Sheriff got tagged,
Speaker 1: and I think both those guys would have been of
Speaker 1: interest to the Jets. Um. You know, so you know,
Speaker 1: you sort of reset a little bit, and I think
Speaker 1: going in on these low risk deals with some guys
Speaker 1: made sense for them. Again, George Fan at the very
Speaker 1: least is your backup swing tackle Connor McGovern. You know
Speaker 1: you're probably your starting center now. Um, so you at
Speaker 1: least go into the draft with you know, a few
Speaker 1: more pieces where if what you hope plays out, which
Speaker 1: I think would be one of the tackles falling to
Speaker 1: them at eleven. Um, you're not completely up a creek.
Speaker 1: You're Monday Morning Quarterback column is a must read. And
Speaker 1: also check out Albert's podcast because that's a good listen
Speaker 1: as well, because you did have they fore mentioned Jordan
Speaker 1: Palmer on recently. Um, you are stationed there right outside Boston,
Speaker 1: So what Can you tell us about your take on
Speaker 1: the changing landscape of the FC East with Tom Brady
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay buccaneer. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely weird. I mean,
Speaker 1: I I grew up here, so I have, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of an understanding of where the Patriots were before
Speaker 1: all of this and sort of how their place in
Speaker 1: the landscape up here has changed. And um, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's definitely gonna be interesting. I think it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: The idea we've always had that question, is it more Brady,
Speaker 1: is it more Belichick? Well, you know we won't get
Speaker 1: the full answer to that here because you know, Belichick's
Speaker 1: dealing with three work roster and Brady is is forty
Speaker 1: two years old. But um, I think at least getting
Speaker 1: like an idea of what that's gonna look like, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really really interesting. And so the Patriots look
Speaker 1: like the last couple of years they got very old,
Speaker 1: They've got cap issues, and so I think twenties very
Speaker 1: much a retooling year. They signed a couple of guys
Speaker 1: who are really programmed guys for them, and Devin mccordy
Speaker 1: and Matt Slater to sort of carry the message on
Speaker 1: but I think is very much gonna be a year
Speaker 1: about a year, you know, dedicated to getting a little
Speaker 1: bit younger. I think they're gonna give Jared's to them
Speaker 1: a shot at the quarterback position. I would not rule
Speaker 1: out them drafting another player at the position in April,
Speaker 1: and so I think that, you know, that sort of
Speaker 1: opens things up a little bit. And it's interesting too,
Speaker 1: because they were in this position before in two Thousan
Speaker 1: Brady created so much margin for air for them that
Speaker 1: nobody really realized how much roster turnover they underwent at
Speaker 1: that time. They were able to successfully do it with
Speaker 1: Brady on the Roster's gonna be much more difficult without
Speaker 1: Brady on the roster, and that opens up, that opens
Speaker 1: the door for for everyone else. And I think in
Speaker 1: particular the Buffalo Bills who were in the playoffs last year,
Speaker 1: that made the playoffs two out of three years of
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. I mean to me, it almost puts pressure
Speaker 1: on the build where, um, they've they've had three years
Speaker 1: to build. Now they've been in the playoffs, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: two out of three years, they've got a young quarterback
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen going into year three. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's a fair amount of press from the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills to get it done. I think the people they
Speaker 1: would telling you it's good pressure, but it's pressure on
Speaker 1: the last you know, for the draft in a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks here. Obviously, big storyline in terms of the
Speaker 1: Jets is the offensive tackles and the big four with
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas, McCay backed and Jeddrick Wills and Tristan Worths.
Speaker 1: I understand EA and I were talking about this too.
Speaker 1: There's a belief and that none of those guys might
Speaker 1: be on the board by the time the Jets pick
Speaker 1: at eleven. So if you were wearing Joe Douglass shoes
Speaker 1: in that standpoint, would you be a fan of trading
Speaker 1: bat or would you just take a different position at eleven?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting because I think what you have
Speaker 1: so like the way I look at it is if
Speaker 1: the three quarterbacks go, um, then you know, beyond the
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks I'm talking about Burrow to uh And and
Speaker 1: Herbert of course, um, then you got the four elite tackles,
Speaker 1: the guys you mentioned, Worth's, Wills, Beckton and Thomas, and
Speaker 1: then you got four elite defensive players in my mind,
Speaker 1: and that's Derek Brown, Jeff Ocuda, Chase Young, and Isaiah Simmons.
Speaker 1: And so the three quarterbacks go and neither one of
Speaker 1: the elite defensive players or one of the tackles is
Speaker 1: going to make it to you. And so if I'm
Speaker 1: Joe Douglass, I'm looking at it and I'm saying to myself,
Speaker 1: I'm sort of on the fringe right here where I
Speaker 1: might not get that tackle, but do I want that
Speaker 1: defensive player, Like if Derek Brown were to fall to me,
Speaker 1: and I don't think Derrick Brown makes it there, Derry
Speaker 1: Brown and fault would fall were to fall to me,
Speaker 1: then you know, maybe I snap him up. Here's the
Speaker 1: other piece of it. All Right, Let's say the four
Speaker 1: tackles and the four defensive players all go on the
Speaker 1: top ten. Well, that means then one of the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: has slipt to you. So then are you a spot
Speaker 1: where somebody wants to trade up and get one of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. And so I think ideally Joe Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: would love to have one of those tackles fall to him,
Speaker 1: um and get a guy that they can kind of
Speaker 1: put in place at the left tackle position ideally for
Speaker 1: the next ten years. But failing that, I mean, you
Speaker 1: either wind up with maybe an elite defensive player or
Speaker 1: you're in a position to trade down and pick up
Speaker 1: a lot of draft capital. But we live in an
Speaker 1: unprecedented time right now, and you talked about some scouts
Speaker 1: having the belief that, hey, this might be a big
Speaker 1: guy draft. I mean, it's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: safer to go in that direction as opposed to maybe
Speaker 1: some of the skills guys in You said, Albert that
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be surprised at all to see Josh Jones
Speaker 1: from Houston and Austin Jackson from USC be part of
Speaker 1: that tech class in the first round. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: mean even like a Lloyd Cushionberry or or Caesar Louise
Speaker 1: the l s U Center of the Michigan Center. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe those guys sneak in the bottom of the round.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I know this like that some
Speaker 1: of the teams that I talked to over the last
Speaker 1: few days. You know, we're saying that the bigger guys
Speaker 1: are a little bit of an easier projection for most teams,
Speaker 1: you know, And so you know, if you haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to sit down the receiver, if you haven't
Speaker 1: had a chance to work him out and see how
Speaker 1: you rent run certain routes. If you haven't had a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to a defensive back or a linebacker
Speaker 1: about the scheme they played in college and how they
Speaker 1: might fit, what they want, what what what the team
Speaker 1: wants to do at the next level. If you're projecting
Speaker 1: a little bit more and you haven't had the chance
Speaker 1: to go through the pro day circuit, you haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to go through with thirty visits and all
Speaker 1: of that sort of stuff, it is a little safer
Speaker 1: to pick the big guys, right like it is a
Speaker 1: little safer to go ahead and say, you know, this
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, maybe I look at him as as a
Speaker 1: high second round prospect, but we're at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the first round and I feel more comfortable about taking
Speaker 1: him here, then maybe I would be about taking a
Speaker 1: corner or receiver. So that's sort of the logic there.
Speaker 1: That's why I think, you know, someone like Javon Kimlaw
Speaker 1: could wind up going in that elite group that I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. You could see him go like ninth to
Speaker 1: Jacksonville because he's a safe pick in this circumstance, and
Speaker 1: so I do think sort of the circumstance that our
Speaker 1: entire countries in right now that's created a different draft
Speaker 1: cycle for all thirty two teams, will make this a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a risk averse draft. That will
Speaker 1: mean maybe less risks on character guys, less risks on
Speaker 1: injured guys, and of course you know the lowest risk
Speaker 1: guys and a lot of these scouts and UH and
Speaker 1: coaches minds are the big guys. You written about this
Speaker 1: in the past to the recent success of second round receivers,
Speaker 1: and when you look at the receiver landscape right now,
Speaker 1: you think about Jerry, Judy, Ceedee Lamb, and Henry Rugged
Speaker 1: at the top of this nest. But do you almost
Speaker 1: is there a situation where those guys even slipped to
Speaker 1: where they're projected to go based on what you just
Speaker 1: said and the recent success and how rich of this
Speaker 1: receiver classes. Yeah, you know, I think it's probably's two things.
Speaker 1: It's the depth of the class, and I think it's
Speaker 1: also the reality that there's no Julio in this year's class.
Speaker 1: There's no ag agreeing in this year's classs nothing against Judy,
Speaker 1: who I've heard comparisons um to Margaret Harrison on there's
Speaker 1: no nothing against Ceedee Lamb, who I've heard compared to
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. So you know, those are two really good
Speaker 1: players and guys who can be number one receivers and
Speaker 1: probably gonna be the first two receivers off the board.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean a lot of these teams are
Speaker 1: looking at the depth of the class and saying, there
Speaker 1: are gonna be really good receivers available in the second round.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be really good receivers available in the third round,
Speaker 1: and maybe we should just sit here and take our tackle,
Speaker 1: or take our pass rusher, or take our corner and
Speaker 1: wait and get a receiver in the second or third round.
Speaker 1: And like you said with bolsters, that is a success
Speaker 1: of second year, second round receivers over the last few years.
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, D J. Charcot, the tool of miss Kids
Speaker 1: last year, d DK Metcalf and A. J. Brown. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a really, really good draft track record right now
Speaker 1: for second round receivers, and so I think some teams
Speaker 1: will look at that and say, you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: we should wait for say Brandon Aiyuk or Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of those guys falls to us in the
Speaker 1: second round, and maybe that's a better play for us
Speaker 1: than going and getting a Jerry Judy or c. D
Speaker 1: Lam in the first round when there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more scarcity at some other positions like tackle on corner.
Speaker 1: Earlier you mentioned desire. Obviously we can pencil them in
Speaker 1: as one of your boundary corners. The Jets also resigned
Speaker 1: valuable nickel corner Brian Pool. But across the way a
Speaker 1: question mark is we head to the draft, you think
Speaker 1: that the corners maybe are flying under the radar here
Speaker 1: and there might be some value in the second round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I was sort of surprised to hear about
Speaker 1: this because I I'd always you know, and it's sort
Speaker 1: of forever seemed like it was like Jeff o'cuda and
Speaker 1: everybody else. And you know, so as I'm going through
Speaker 1: some of my calls the last few days, like one
Speaker 1: of the things that came up is like, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a corner class that's like, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: you're not gonna find somebody in the fifth round, but
Speaker 1: there are six or seven really good players, you know,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, so Kuda is the best of them,
Speaker 1: and Okuda probably goes in the first six or seven picks, right,
Speaker 1: So Kuda's off the board for most people. But Um,
Speaker 1: Christian Fulton, C. J. Anderson, Jeff Gladney, Damon Arnett. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's like they're they're going to be good
Speaker 1: corners available in the second round. And you know, to
Speaker 1: your point, I'm sure this is sort of what you
Speaker 1: guys are getting at. If you're Joe Douglas and you're
Speaker 1: sort of gaming this a little bit, maybe you look
Speaker 1: at it and you say, Okay, if we want to
Speaker 1: get a tackle, if we want to get a corner,
Speaker 1: if we want to get a receiver out of this
Speaker 1: year's group, how do we do it. Well, the tackles
Speaker 1: might all be gone by the time we get the
Speaker 1: second round, so let's take a tack on the first round,
Speaker 1: and maybe we get a good corner at the top
Speaker 1: of the second round, but there won't be one available
Speaker 1: in the third round, so let's take our corner there,
Speaker 1: and then in the third round you get your receiver.
Speaker 1: So I think just the idea of looking at it
Speaker 1: global and looking at the class overall kind of gives
Speaker 1: you a picture for how some teams might game all
Speaker 1: of this. Let me ask you this as we start
Speaker 1: to wrap things up here. Not not related to the
Speaker 1: draft at all, more and related to Sam Donald. I
Speaker 1: just want to know your opinion on because I don't
Speaker 1: think we've talked with you about this since the end
Speaker 1: of the season. What can you expect from Sam Donald
Speaker 1: if you're a Jets fan entering his second year under
Speaker 1: the same system for the first time in his career.
Speaker 1: And not to mention, he's twenty two years old. He's
Speaker 1: six months younger than's Joe Burrow, who's projected to be
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick and the longest tenure quarterback
Speaker 1: in the a f C. East. Well, I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer and and look like I I think that this
Speaker 1: is a huge part of it that goes overlooked a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot like like when quarterbacks are young, they're sort
Speaker 1: of at the mercy of what's around them. And that's
Speaker 1: not saying that there's no one who can rise above it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, look like, you know, we've talked about
Speaker 1: the guys who've had like m v P type seasons
Speaker 1: the last few years at the quarterback position, right, Like,
Speaker 1: let's look at some commonalities. Okay, So Carson Wentz in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: you had a really good offensive line of premier left
Speaker 1: tackle and Jason Peters a like like a fantastic UH
Speaker 1: quarterback situation from a coaching standpoint, Doug Peterson, Frank Reich
Speaker 1: and John d. Filippo. The year after that, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: great tackles there, Eric Fisher and Mit Schwartz, a legendary
Speaker 1: quarterback guru, and Andy Reid. And then last year Lamar Jackson. Well,
Speaker 1: what do we have. We got a left tackle and
Speaker 1: Ronnie Stanley who was a top ten pick. We have
Speaker 1: a head coach in John Harbaugh who's run a fantastic
Speaker 1: program for over a decade, and we had an offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator and Greg Roman who was perfect for what Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson brought to the table. And so I think a
Speaker 1: lot of cases, and look, that's not taking any credit
Speaker 1: away from Carson Wentz or Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: what they've accomplished, but a lot of times you can
Speaker 1: trace early success for a lot of these guys, and
Speaker 1: this can go all the way back to guys like
Speaker 1: Brady and Manning the situations they've been put in, and
Speaker 1: so I think that sort of puts the pressure on
Speaker 1: Adam Gates and Joe Douglas to create the right scheme
Speaker 1: situation for him, create the right situation around him. He's
Speaker 1: working on technical stuff out in California. There's been little
Speaker 1: things that they've given him mechanically to clean up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. He wants to get better throwing the
Speaker 1: deep ball. They've worked on that a little bit. I
Speaker 1: think right now, so much of what he becomes in
Speaker 1: twenties gonna be based on what's around him. And of course,
Speaker 1: because you're in that window where you've got him on
Speaker 1: a rookie deal, that puts a fair amount of pressure
Speaker 1: on Adam Gaze and Joe Douglas to create the right
Speaker 1: environment for him. Final one for me, Um, Albert and
Speaker 1: you've been so generous with your time, and we're wishing
Speaker 1: you and your family. Well, you've written about your wife
Speaker 1: who's a nurse there and I know she is on
Speaker 1: the front line. So um, you know we're sending money,
Speaker 1: blessings your way and your family's way. Um. But the
Speaker 1: final thing is what is the two thousand twenty draft
Speaker 1: actually going to look like from a fan's perspective, Because
Speaker 1: we're sitting here two and a half weeks away and
Speaker 1: we've never seen we've never lived through a time like this,
Speaker 1: and we're talking about a virtual draft. What does that mean? Well,
Speaker 1: the memo went out to NFL teams last week and
Speaker 1: it basically, you know, I think was and this was,
Speaker 1: look the teams that are in states that are a
Speaker 1: little more restricted, and you guys obviously are one of them.
Speaker 1: Uh really pushed for this and said it should either
Speaker 1: be everybody gets to go into their facility and work
Speaker 1: from their facility, or everyone has to stay at home
Speaker 1: like like one or the other. It camp be in between. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously that was to try to strike
Speaker 1: competitive balance. I don't I'm not a doctor. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not. You know, I'm not. I'm not in government.
Speaker 1: But I find it pretty hard to believe that within
Speaker 1: the next two and a half weeks that every one
Speaker 1: of these team facilities is going to be open. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a pretty fair bet that
Speaker 1: when we get to the end of April, everybody's been
Speaker 1: running the draft from home. And it's interesting, guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: like the I T part of this, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: like that there are teams that are very, very concerned
Speaker 1: about that that's sort of flown under the radar. But
Speaker 1: you think about like the sort of band what you
Speaker 1: need in your house to run the Internet to run
Speaker 1: you know, like the cell phone service, all the different
Speaker 1: stuff that goes into communicating and working during the draft
Speaker 1: that you would have in a team facility that's wired
Speaker 1: and connected with business great Internet. Not having that's going
Speaker 1: to be a problem. And it's funny because when I
Speaker 1: wrote about that last week, I actually had a number
Speaker 1: of various scouts reach out to me. One of them, uh,
Speaker 1: national scout for one of these teams said to me, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that's that's good. Now. I guess the the office cats
Speaker 1: understand how all of us feral cats out there on
Speaker 1: the road have to work. And he mentioned to me,
Speaker 1: and I think this was really interesting, he said that
Speaker 1: just to run the software that's on his computer right
Speaker 1: like he like, because he's a road scout, he doesn't live.
Speaker 1: He works for a team and one place and lives
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Um. He basically explained to me that like
Speaker 1: to to to to do his job, the Internet isn't
Speaker 1: strong enough in his house and support the stuff that
Speaker 1: they have video wise and everything else on the computer.
Speaker 1: So he actually when he's at home has to work
Speaker 1: out of a local Starbucks because they've got a stronger
Speaker 1: internet connection there. So think about that. That's a single scout, right,
Speaker 1: Like that's one scout. Now, think about that. Think about
Speaker 1: that multiplied by however many people are out there, Like
Speaker 1: if you have five people in your house trying to
Speaker 1: run this equipment at once, whatever it is. There's a
Speaker 1: huge challenge out there, and so I think the NFL
Speaker 1: is gonna try to do a lot of creative stuff,
Speaker 1: but they've got a lot to work from the next
Speaker 1: two and a half weeks as far as how this
Speaker 1: is functionally going to run. For the guys who are
Speaker 1: making these multimillion dollar decisions, it will definitely be fascinating,
Speaker 1: no doubt about April NFL draft. Albert Brier, m m QB,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us here on New
Speaker 1: York Jets dot com. Awesome, thanks, guys, appreciate it. Very
Speaker 1: interesting dynamic. What did you say e A with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and Sam Donald. Obviously, like Albert Brier said, Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald and Kyle Allen have been training together since
Speaker 1: before the draft in two thousand eighteen, and actually Kyle
Speaker 1: Allen went to Dallas not to be selected there, but
Speaker 1: as a guest of either Alan or Donald. I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but I remember seeing something that said when Donald and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen trained together. Of course, both being in the
Speaker 1: same division, they can't necessarily call out their plays because
Speaker 1: they don't want to tip their hand to one another,
Speaker 1: even though they're really good friends. That's interesting. They're both
Speaker 1: the great competitors, very different players. You know, Donald of
Speaker 1: course the more accurate quarterback. Alan is a bigger guy
Speaker 1: and he's more apt to tuck the ball and roun.
Speaker 1: They've had varying levels uh varying levels of success so
Speaker 1: far in the National Football League. Of course, Allen can
Speaker 1: look at Donald and say, hey, I got the playoffs
Speaker 1: last year for the first time leading my team. But
Speaker 1: Donald was seven and six as a starter last year.
Speaker 1: A friendly competitors, no doubt about that. Knees are the
Speaker 1: two guys who could be dominating, dominating the f C
Speaker 1: East for maybe the next ten years. Miami might be
Speaker 1: looking at a quarterback to their stable here in the
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty draft and want to see what
Speaker 1: happens with the Patriots. But when you're thinking about the
Speaker 1: FC East and when you think about quarterbacks, you're thinking
Speaker 1: about Sam Donald and Josh Allen. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: future of the a f C East at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: especially between those two guys, very exciting. And we've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. Sam Donald just twenty two years old,
Speaker 1: six months younger than Joe Burrow that projected number one
Speaker 1: overall pick here in a couple of weeks, and Sam
Speaker 1: Donald is the longest tenured to a f C East
Speaker 1: quarterback by probably like a single game, because Josh Allen
Speaker 1: did not start in Week one of his rookie year.
Speaker 1: That was actually Nathan Peterman and then Josh Allen got
Speaker 1: the keys to the offense. And I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Sam Donald both healthy, both playing in
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty. I mean, you think about Week one.
Speaker 1: They squared off against each other in two thousand nineteen,
Speaker 1: but you know, Sam Donald has said this before, it
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily feel a hundred and he goes down with
Speaker 1: mono and in Week seventeen they didn't play against each
Speaker 1: other because Josh Allen was basically resting for his playoff
Speaker 1: game against the Houston Texans. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what these two quarterbacks can do toe to toe in
Speaker 1: the future. Josh Allen's got a new toy in Stefandegs.
Speaker 1: The Bills went out and got him a number one receivers.
Speaker 1: So the Bills do quietly have a very impressive list
Speaker 1: of skill position talent around their young quarterback. We talked
Speaker 1: about John Brown before Cole Beasley. Motor single terry, the
Speaker 1: rookie last season was very impressive from a running back position.
Speaker 1: But the Jets, listen. I think people are kind of
Speaker 1: sleeping on what's around Sam Donald. You know, Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: has went to work on that offensive line and he
Speaker 1: certainly is not done there. But Jamison Crowder, you like
Speaker 1: him at the slot position, no doubt about that. Levian Bell, Yes,
Speaker 1: he averaged a career low three point two yards per
Speaker 1: carry last season, but he also pitched in on the
Speaker 1: receiving side. He was second behind Crowder in receptions and
Speaker 1: he is a dynamic blocker for his young quarterback. And
Speaker 1: if the Jets have this offensive line going in the
Speaker 1: right direction, expect Levian Bell to have better numbers, because
Speaker 1: I don't think the numbers did him justice last year.
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson gone to Carolina, but Brichard Perry Andan comes
Speaker 1: in and let's see if he can build off those
Speaker 1: last five games when he really flourished for the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Who's gonna be playing across the way. Who
Speaker 1: knows at this point, but the tight end position for
Speaker 1: the New York Jets is stocked. So I think the
Speaker 1: Jets aren't that far away when you think about their
Speaker 1: skill position to but they're certainly gonna look to add
Speaker 1: to those positions, and Douglas can add either to the
Speaker 1: old line, to receiver, even a running back in the
Speaker 1: draft under two weeks away now or a week at
Speaker 1: plus away April the first round. And that was another
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