Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away.
Speaker 1: All right, we're taping here on Cyber Monday. Does Bart
Speaker 1: Scott participate in any Cyber Monday deals? What is oh
Speaker 1: buying stuff online? But I stayed in the city because
Speaker 1: I had to do the Turkey show, so I stayed
Speaker 1: there with the family. And you know, I'm done. I'm done,
Speaker 1: You're done it. I'm done. Really, I mean, I ain't
Speaker 1: nobody other than what my nieces and my nieces may want.
Speaker 1: I just tell their parents go uh find it or
Speaker 1: I'll you know, pay for get certificate toys and Rust
Speaker 1: and then they go at the toys of Rust where
Speaker 1: they're at and they pick up the kids stuff, and
Speaker 1: my kids are done. Y'all started with my daughter, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe in September because I got tired of the whole rust.
Speaker 1: I always say I'm going to go. And then you know, December,
Speaker 1: from Thanksgiving to December goes fast. Once those two weeks
Speaker 1: you met, you think you have time. You look up
Speaker 1: Christmas right around the corner, and I don't feel like
Speaker 1: fighting the people in the lines of stuff and going
Speaker 1: on those crazy crowds. So I went and I got
Speaker 1: I went the Microsoft and I got some stuff. I
Speaker 1: got the virtual reality stuff for my daughter, me for
Speaker 1: my for the kids. Then my son is young, so
Speaker 1: I when he got the f one clip on string wheel,
Speaker 1: the real one that jerks, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: they have like a Xbox when you clip it on,
Speaker 1: but it gives you that torque like when you're sitting
Speaker 1: at the games or the at the at the arcade,
Speaker 1: so you're thinking those racing games. Yeah, But then it's
Speaker 1: good for my son because now I can I can
Speaker 1: put the string with at his height and he can
Speaker 1: actually touch the pedals. What happens is, you know when
Speaker 1: we have arcade game and Nickelodeon one, but it's too
Speaker 1: far because he's only three. But now I can set
Speaker 1: the table as low as I want. He can drive
Speaker 1: and have fun and play all the race card games
Speaker 1: that come on Xbox. So you guys, when you were
Speaker 1: in the city and you taped on Thursday, you were
Speaker 1: on then take me through the day Thursday night with
Speaker 1: the family, Well, well, you know, we just hung out
Speaker 1: this time. I mean, you know, we usually have a
Speaker 1: big thing of the family, but you know, we want
Speaker 1: to just try something different. Let's hang out in the city,
Speaker 1: Let's do some fun stuff, let's go splori the city,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, it was fun. It was different.
Speaker 1: Um you know, next year we may go back, but
Speaker 1: we'd like to, you know, keep it fun, keep it exciting.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes, you know, when you live here, sometimes
Speaker 1: your family, you know, where you're from, kind of gets
Speaker 1: jealous if mom always comes down for Thanksgiving with me
Speaker 1: and always spends with me. So I gave everybody and
Speaker 1: let let the mom spend time with the family this time.
Speaker 1: Next time, if you come back with me, kind of
Speaker 1: alternate holidays and we're trying something different. We're trying to
Speaker 1: really find our new tradition in our family. I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to do like a pre Christmas like invite
Speaker 1: people over, like on, uh, what's the Chevy Chase movie?
Speaker 1: We come over in the Squirrels in the Christmas Street?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Naturally put one of those
Speaker 1: things like let's let's I'm trying to get my Wiley
Speaker 1: in the beat game on do you do? Are you
Speaker 1: one of those guys too? Because you got a nice
Speaker 1: house here Injurorse. We're not gonna tell people where it is,
Speaker 1: But do you decorate uh the outside with crazy amount
Speaker 1: of Christmas. Now, I'm not that guy. Man like, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna get up. I'm too busy. Um, but I
Speaker 1: do go all in with the Christmas tree. The Christmas
Speaker 1: tree is usually a minimum of fourteen feet, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I put every bulb and on there.
Speaker 1: So it's a process, you know, I mean I do that.
Speaker 1: I'll do the inside. I'm a real Christmas tree guy.
Speaker 1: To man, I don't do the fake Christmas tree because
Speaker 1: you know, my mother never got a fake Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: And I love the smell of the fresh Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: And you can imat the fourteen foot Christmas tree, you
Speaker 1: know the aroma that it pushed throughout the house. Just
Speaker 1: put lights on or sometimes sometimes my wife likes to
Speaker 1: white sometimes, so this is what happened a lot of times.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we do the white. We got to like the
Speaker 1: glass bulks, the real glass buffs, not that fake classic
Speaker 1: stuff from home depot. We got like the pure one different,
Speaker 1: like squirrels and animals made out of glass, very delicate.
Speaker 1: So now because I have a three year old, we
Speaker 1: had to start like those a little higher outfite reach.
Speaker 1: So we may start that at like four feet, so
Speaker 1: we got ten feet of glass, and at the bottom
Speaker 1: we do the candy caves. We'll put a couple of
Speaker 1: plastic ones from home deep pole in there just to
Speaker 1: kind of fill it up because he'll come grab it off.
Speaker 1: He wants to grab all the animals. He wants to
Speaker 1: eat all the candy canes off the tree and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. So, you know, we keep it that way.
Speaker 1: But you know, and sometimes the kids love the likes.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't understand moms wants the tree to
Speaker 1: be it's a it's a it's a style thing, moms,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So sometimes we get a
Speaker 1: second Christmas tree and we put in a corner and
Speaker 1: we put all the kids gifts there and we let
Speaker 1: them decorate however they want to do it. And that's
Speaker 1: usually about an eight foot tree. Do you put's on
Speaker 1: the fourte Yeah, it's man hundreds now you get up onder, yes,
Speaker 1: And sometimes putting the star because I don't have a
Speaker 1: I have like a tin foot ladder, you know, so
Speaker 1: then you know, you gotta think the tree is super
Speaker 1: full of fourteen ft tree, so I have to reach
Speaker 1: you know, tin foot you know, I'm my wingspan is
Speaker 1: eight feet, right, but when you up on the top,
Speaker 1: you have to reach forward, so you gotta count for
Speaker 1: that feet because the distance is usually about two ft
Speaker 1: away from the ladder when it's that tall, right, because
Speaker 1: you know you're at the top of the try the
Speaker 1: triangle and you know, I had a couple of close calls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I tell you what. The industrial stand is so
Speaker 1: strong that if I had to jump and grab the tree,
Speaker 1: it will hold me up to like the standards. Ridiculous. Man.
Speaker 1: It's like a heavy duty stand and it has like
Speaker 1: the really thick support beings for the anti flipping that
Speaker 1: you have to like boat on. So like the base
Speaker 1: is super wide already, but then you boat on the
Speaker 1: four like lakes if there's a fourteen foot oh my ceiling,
Speaker 1: yeah by about forty. Wow, you know what we got?
Speaker 1: We got, we got the space. Did you not see
Speaker 1: the tree in the city They do that, They do
Speaker 1: that Wednesday coming up because what I passed Rocks Center
Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, they got it all lit up, but
Speaker 1: they don't do the official lighting of the tree till Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And it was actually which is my wife's birthday, which
Speaker 1: was nice and romantic moment. Yeah. Yeah, Passler's Rocks Center,
Speaker 1: and they were getting all prepared for the tree because
Speaker 1: the tree is there, right. It takes forever. Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course takes forever to do that tree man. You have
Speaker 1: to test it out a couple of times. I actually
Speaker 1: interviewed the Commissioner Gandell the other day because we have
Speaker 1: a Brandon commercial feature that is going to be on
Speaker 1: Jet Life Saturday. He's a busy man. Yeah, um, But
Speaker 1: Roger has gotten close with Brandon over the years. You know. Uh,
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, Brandon was a rookie in the
Speaker 1: National Football League, and keep forgetting that may seem so
Speaker 1: much older than it was. It seems like he's been
Speaker 1: around forever. Man. It seems like, you know, like he
Speaker 1: was in Denver with them ugly socks, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, when he's wearing the throwbacks like forever. And
Speaker 1: that was the Commissioner's first year, two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: so that was before the bear hug, before we start
Speaker 1: hugging everybody. Right, you don't like the bear hug. It's cool,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's it's intimate, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But maybe the last time you want
Speaker 1: to hug the commissioner. Don't you get them? Fine? You
Speaker 1: might want you you lastly want to do with a
Speaker 1: hug if he finds like some of your money. But
Speaker 1: Brandon is a great story, I think for a lot
Speaker 1: of young renaissance young guys because two thousand and eight
Speaker 1: sus finding a lot off the field trouble and two
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven he checked himself in the McLean hospital,
Speaker 1: got the help he needed, dignosed with borderline personality disorder,
Speaker 1: then found his platform, his cause that he wanted to
Speaker 1: help people, and he's championed in in in a tremendous way.
Speaker 1: You know, he's very involved. He's a very articulate, very thoughtful,
Speaker 1: um individual. You see that sometimes when you see the
Speaker 1: inside the NFL, and you know, to be able to
Speaker 1: work on his post career during his career, I think
Speaker 1: he's the first player that ever dared to have that
Speaker 1: conversation to use italize his off his his off day
Speaker 1: to really you know work. And I think that was
Speaker 1: part of the pill of coming here with the New
Speaker 1: York Jets so that he can shoot that show because
Speaker 1: the year before he was flying in and do it
Speaker 1: and um, you know, he's a renaissance man. He talked
Speaker 1: about a guy who has you know, training facilities. You know,
Speaker 1: he tried to start his own agency. I mean, you
Speaker 1: want somebody that's always thinking about the next move. And
Speaker 1: he's definitely a chess player. You know. I respect him
Speaker 1: a lot. I wonder what he was like when he
Speaker 1: was a young guy, because the thing about the thing
Speaker 1: about Brandon though that I don't think people maybe on
Speaker 1: outside realizes that he's like you in the sciense that
Speaker 1: really bright. He understands a lot of things in different
Speaker 1: areas and he gets it and I think sometimes he
Speaker 1: gets it, but sometimes he was having lapses in judgment
Speaker 1: because of the undiagnosed, you know, mental and when people here,
Speaker 1: it's really really taboo in the Black community to really
Speaker 1: admit mental health issues. And it's different degrees of it.
Speaker 1: A lot of us are bipolar. We have no idea
Speaker 1: until we get diagnosed, and sometimes we have these starts.
Speaker 1: It takes a real man to look at itself and say, listen,
Speaker 1: I need help. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm
Speaker 1: I am dedicated to figuring out what's wrong, and not
Speaker 1: only to champion it for yourself, but to make sure
Speaker 1: you make other people aware of your process of what
Speaker 1: you did to liberate them to feel comfortable enough to
Speaker 1: go out. I'm sure he's inspired a lot of people
Speaker 1: that wouldn't have gotten diagnosed and winning. You know, um
Speaker 1: talk to some my body being a therapist anything if
Speaker 1: he hadn't stepped out, or a young player, no matter what.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that can be a lonely feeling, you know, for
Speaker 1: you to be wake up and be depressed and not
Speaker 1: really be understand why or why you make some of
Speaker 1: the decisions you make or why you feel the way
Speaker 1: you feel it. You know, for me it was a
Speaker 1: real issue because my my nieces bipolar. And sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't recognize the people to say, oh, he's just she's
Speaker 1: just bad. It's so dismissed. Of the easiest thing to
Speaker 1: do is just to say or that person is crazy
Speaker 1: without really trying to understand what the issue is. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times it is an issue, but we
Speaker 1: don't want to diagnose it. We want don't want to
Speaker 1: accept that something will be wrong with our child, that
Speaker 1: everything may not be correct, and it's small things that
Speaker 1: we can do to correct it. Be a therapy, be
Speaker 1: it medication, you know, being anything. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: different techniques, but it has to be a lonely feeling
Speaker 1: to have these feelings that people to be dismissive of it,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I I applaud him. I applaud
Speaker 1: him for going out and not only getting it self
Speaker 1: checked out, but liberating others to do the same. Um
Speaker 1: Inside the NFUL, I was flipping through the station's last
Speaker 1: week and you made an appearance on the inside Nful.
Speaker 1: But they called they called in wild Thing because it
Speaker 1: was the bye week, and they was like, listen, let's
Speaker 1: calling wild Thing. We know he's gonna stir the pot,
Speaker 1: you know, but we need a stir to pote Brandon Marshall.
Speaker 1: Because of the bye week, they have practice on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: So I was like, hey, you know, I'll go in.
Speaker 1: I stirred the pot. May feel really uncomfortable, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You know, have some fun and it
Speaker 1: was a great experience. Did you like it? It's something
Speaker 1: that you'll do in the future, you know what I feel.
Speaker 1: I feel like inside the NFL, which I talked to
Speaker 1: Brandon about this. When we were young. I had to
Speaker 1: watch that show because that's the only that is the
Speaker 1: only show where you can get highlights of every game.
Speaker 1: I used to watch with my father either Friday night
Speaker 1: at seven pm or Saturday morning. They had it. I
Speaker 1: am right, Nick, Bonacannie, Len Dawson, Colin's Worth came later,
Speaker 1: but it's Bonacannie and d Awesome. Yeah, man, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, man. And you know, it's a great show.
Speaker 1: It's a legacy show. Is just one of the staples
Speaker 1: of the NFL. When you think about it, you think
Speaker 1: about the voice of the person, you know, talking and
Speaker 1: breaking it down. You know, it's like one of those
Speaker 1: voices like the James Earl Jones and it's classic. You know,
Speaker 1: people look for the voice of God. Yeah, exactly, godfread
Speaker 1: snaughter here are you know, And it was It's funny,
Speaker 1: you know. And I've done a lot of that throughout
Speaker 1: the years, even when I was a player. You know,
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of experience on the inside the NFL.
Speaker 1: Even before I ever got hired by CBS, I've probably
Speaker 1: been on inside the NFL maybe about six or seven times,
Speaker 1: you know. So it was comfortable. And just think it's
Speaker 1: the guys I work with anyway, But no, no, it's not.
Speaker 1: They just they just needed somebody to come in it's
Speaker 1: a totally different producer, and um, you know, I'm always
Speaker 1: I love to be able to get in that environment
Speaker 1: because I'm a little bit less restricted because I could
Speaker 1: it's cable and I could beat myself a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But even I make them uncomfortable. I like rallying in
Speaker 1: the cage, you know, but I don't know if inside
Speaker 1: the NFL is ready for me every week. How would
Speaker 1: challenging you think that? I don't think you could have
Speaker 1: done it when you're a player, like what Brandon's doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was cutting edge and now he he
Speaker 1: kind of sets the blueprint for other players to be
Speaker 1: able to have those conversations. Would you like to see
Speaker 1: more guys? It's listen. It's a very very fine line
Speaker 1: because you're a player, but you're criticizing players at the
Speaker 1: same time and potentially could be criticized your teammates or
Speaker 1: being asked questions with your teammates. But they Pete radovitch
Speaker 1: Is is the producer over there. He does a great
Speaker 1: job and making sure that you watch that walk that
Speaker 1: tight rope. Yeah, we had a chance to go watch him.
Speaker 1: That's the part of the feature that will appear on
Speaker 1: Jet Life will also have some sneak previews on all
Speaker 1: our social platforms, and you'll see it on New York
Speaker 1: Jets dot com and things like that because we spend it.
Speaker 1: Did they did? They check out my David Harris Jets
Speaker 1: dot com and that's going up on New York Just
Speaker 1: not up yet. No, it's not going on New York
Speaker 1: just dot com. You were on the TV this weekend.
Speaker 1: Us said, dude, this is Bart Scott New York Set Thursday. Here,
Speaker 1: here's your rundown. Thursday, you're on Live for Thanksgiving. It's
Speaker 1: Minnesota and Dallas, so you're there pregame, halftime and closing thoughts.
Speaker 1: Then Saturday night you're on Jet Life with your sit
Speaker 1: down interview with your boy, your good friend, David Harris.
Speaker 1: Sunday morning you are with us on um Jet Jets
Speaker 1: Plan doing the video, and then you're back on NFL
Speaker 1: Today on Sunday just trying to catch And then that
Speaker 1: was after a week where we saw you on Inside
Speaker 1: Down the Phone. You're all over the place, and you're
Speaker 1: also gonna find you on the Jets podcast. Not work me.
Speaker 1: This is where we get it, popping it right here
Speaker 1: each and every week. So uh, we're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 1: switches to to like a call in podcast with fans.
Speaker 1: I like that. I mean, we're gonna be open to
Speaker 1: the seven. We gotta we gotta get like a Jacobe
Speaker 1: and Kobe and Jal, and we need to go all that.
Speaker 1: We might need to go in all year. We might
Speaker 1: have to get some special permission from the Jets to
Speaker 1: make sure that we can just make it about everything.
Speaker 1: We might need to get our own podcast where they
Speaker 1: might have to liberate you to be able to do
Speaker 1: your own things like fair time, so we can really
Speaker 1: cut down to the chase, really break everything down from
Speaker 1: hockey to baseball to sports. People calling and we give
Speaker 1: them the business. I like to call in aspect of
Speaker 1: the show. And I do think he's on the toes,
Speaker 1: just like we started way back in the day barking
Speaker 1: with Part. I had you and Marcus. You probably don't
Speaker 1: even remember this. I had you a bag deal and
Speaker 1: Marcus Douglins will come up to do a radio interview
Speaker 1: with us at Cortland. And then I begged you. I said, Part,
Speaker 1: you know, I would really like you to do a
Speaker 1: radio show, and you said, yeah, I think about it.
Speaker 1: I'll think about it. Then we did it, and we
Speaker 1: taped it audio wise, and I said, well, let's just
Speaker 1: make it. Let's just bring out the cameras and make
Speaker 1: this a show. And then barking what Bart was born
Speaker 1: and then and I found Network, which just started out
Speaker 1: at the time, said oh, this is so good. We
Speaker 1: gotta take up. We gotta make a separate segment off
Speaker 1: of this each week. Remember, and it's funny because Drew Kaliski,
Speaker 1: who was my producer now he always says barking with
Speaker 1: Bart because he was working for Inside at Me for
Speaker 1: the NFL Network at that time, barking with part. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So listen, I'm talking to our executive producer, Chris Gargano
Speaker 1: about more TV opportunities for Bart Scott in two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven teen us. Yeah, we're package. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that. Hey, uh, did you watch Michigan State
Speaker 1: and not Michigan State. I'm sorry, Michigan over time? Now?
Speaker 1: Was it a class? I missed a double overtime? But
Speaker 1: it was one of those ones that goes with the rivalry.
Speaker 1: Think about David Boston and Woodson going out of thorn
Speaker 1: open hand punches. You know, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: I wish Michigan would have won, because you know, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of you know friends that coach on
Speaker 1: that coaching staff. But also yeah, yeah, you know um
Speaker 1: B Smith he's there. Yeah, he works when he works there.
Speaker 1: Smith's former Jets assistant for a long time, so he
Speaker 1: got jet Fish right there too. He was the coordinator.
Speaker 1: He was the quarterbacks coach when I was in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You have Greg Madison who was my linebacker coach with
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and then he was the coordinator defense coordinator
Speaker 1: for one year with the Ravens. Then he went back
Speaker 1: to Michigan. He was coordinated from Michigan, but now he's
Speaker 1: the D line coach there. Me and Tyrone Wheeley are friends.
Speaker 1: You got hardball. You know, I'm friends with the Hardball
Speaker 1: family because I played for his right so I was
Speaker 1: always around those guys. His dad, you know, we compete
Speaker 1: against each o. His dad's a long time head coach
Speaker 1: at the D one double A level for the Western
Speaker 1: Kentucky Hilltoppers, who's now like D one now, but he
Speaker 1: was there for that time. So I'm very connected with
Speaker 1: the Michigan program. How come all over the place, man?
Speaker 1: He really? How good of a code. And you told
Speaker 1: us before, so New Yorkers can rest it easy tonight
Speaker 1: that he's never leaving New York. Yeah, I'm here. He
Speaker 1: loves it. He's Detroit born Brad, but he's a New
Speaker 1: Yorker now. Now, um, how good of a coach is
Speaker 1: hardball because when you think about what he did at
Speaker 1: the clear years, not just Michigan though. Yeah, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying right now two years Michigan was a joke
Speaker 1: two years ago, you know, you think about I think
Speaker 1: it was Riguez or something like that, a right rich
Speaker 1: Ryan and last year if it went for a fluky
Speaker 1: uh punch situation from Briscan State, there would have been
Speaker 1: a national championship the first year. Now they're knocking on
Speaker 1: the door. They may find themselves on the outside, you know.
Speaker 1: Now their fifth But he's a rare Guy's done it
Speaker 1: at both levels. San Diego State was the was the first.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even San Diego State, it was like San Diego.
Speaker 1: I think it was the University California, san Diego. San
Speaker 1: Diego State was I looked at up. I think the
Speaker 1: light Lowry came. Larry came from the blue and Yellow team,
Speaker 1: but he was in San Diego State. I think the
Speaker 1: place where Marshall farms. No, no, no, no, it's I
Speaker 1: think it's and then it was Stanford, right then it
Speaker 1: was San Francisco, and now it's Michigan. And listen. It
Speaker 1: takes a very unique coach to be successful on both levels.
Speaker 1: University of San Diego two thousand and four and two
Speaker 1: thousand six. Yeah, yeah, he god can coach man, you know.
Speaker 1: But he's one of those guys. You know, he's perfect
Speaker 1: for college because he can't wear y'at as fast. And
Speaker 1: the dude is like NonStop. He goes goals, goals, um,
Speaker 1: but he can't wear y'all as much there as he can,
Speaker 1: you know in college, because what happens is right when
Speaker 1: you get tired of ready to have some confrontation with him,
Speaker 1: you graduate, you know, I mean sometimes the pros, you know,
Speaker 1: you hear that mess for ten years. He's a very
Speaker 1: demanding coach, you know, and he can wear his assistance.
Speaker 1: I was sometimes he can wear his players out. He
Speaker 1: is amazing and main man, he's crazy. He was crazy
Speaker 1: as a player. He has and he has an energy
Speaker 1: and passion and enthusiasm. But you know who's the craziest.
Speaker 1: The live is one their dad. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to dude. Then he reminds me of the juice Man.
Speaker 1: Remember the juice Man, Like we got the fresh juice,
Speaker 1: Remember he had. It's like his eyebrows always grew. He's
Speaker 1: built all the Informerciyes, he had to jump suit. His
Speaker 1: dad's like the juice Man. Just go sometimes his dad
Speaker 1: used to speak to us, Man, I swear the guy
Speaker 1: that was like, what's the kid? Um? What's the comedian
Speaker 1: that used to smash the the watermelon? No? No, the
Speaker 1: other guy. It was a guy where he was boy head.
Speaker 1: He had the long hair of the big mustache. He's
Speaker 1: just smash. Oh, I know you're talking about been in
Speaker 1: the front row. Listen to his dad talking like that.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get wet because he's gonna be salive all
Speaker 1: over the plate. He's swinging thron punches. Yeah, Gallagher, he's
Speaker 1: you don't get wet up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But you might want to bring your rain coat because
Speaker 1: he's gonna spit on everybody. What's the brother like John? John?
Speaker 1: And John is a little bit more measured, but he's
Speaker 1: just as intense. Uh, he's funny. You know, but you
Speaker 1: know those two guys over the top, he's the comments
Speaker 1: of the two. He's the Colm one. And anybody knows knows, uh, Jim,
Speaker 1: you know, they know that. You know John, you know
Speaker 1: they know that. He's fiery too, the former special team coach,
Speaker 1: so he kind of has that fired passion like that.
Speaker 1: He has appreciation for the bottom of the of the
Speaker 1: roster as well, you know. But he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys too. Man. He's very demanded, don't He's very demanded
Speaker 1: that whole who got a better? Like they're crazy, man,
Speaker 1: But you gotta love it. Gallagher. Gallagher is funny, okay,
Speaker 1: So we'll think about the hard Buss Like Gallagher. I
Speaker 1: all of them are spinners, though, you just got you
Speaker 1: can't sit in the front row. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they got starbursts a mile or what. Man, it's just
Speaker 1: spit everywhere. Hardball and Irban Meyer were born at the
Speaker 1: same hospital. No, I did not. It's amazing, man, the
Speaker 1: six degrees of separation. Now those two guys. That's great
Speaker 1: for that for that conference too. It's great college license. Um.
Speaker 1: And then Hardball had success at the pro level, and
Speaker 1: then what are you thinking about what Saban's doing in Alabama,
Speaker 1: and do you think he'd ever returned to He can't.
Speaker 1: He's not built for that. Some guys aren't built for
Speaker 1: the NFL, and Saban can't. Why can't hardball succeed at
Speaker 1: the NFL? But save me, he couldn't. Well, you want
Speaker 1: that's the easy course because he played, so he can
Speaker 1: connect with the player because he's telling you do something
Speaker 1: he did. He's lived that life, so he has a
Speaker 1: certain amount of respect. Saban can't handle the one thing
Speaker 1: that all college coaches, I mean college coaches to go
Speaker 1: to the pros must handle the why. Yeah, certain guys
Speaker 1: can't handle the y because when you go when you
Speaker 1: talk to a college student, it's just sir, we talked
Speaker 1: to a professional. You want to do it that way.
Speaker 1: But why explain to me why? Because I'm here because
Speaker 1: I've been successful and I'm great at what I do.
Speaker 1: So now we're gonna do something in a certain way.
Speaker 1: You gotta explain to me why. And some coaches can't
Speaker 1: handle that. They want to say because I said so,
Speaker 1: but they don't understand. At the pro level, my success
Speaker 1: and your success are linked. First they may cut me
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna fire you, or the players are
Speaker 1: more empowered in the pros, they may fire you, right Yo,
Speaker 1: Buck ain't getting fired, but gootta will get fired. So
Speaker 1: some coaches can't handle the y. Bobby Petrino couldn't handle
Speaker 1: the y. You know what, let me go down to
Speaker 1: these eighteen year olds that I can hold this nugget
Speaker 1: over their head and say, listen, I'll bet your butt
Speaker 1: and you don't have to drop down and transfer. Can't
Speaker 1: scare a professional like that, right, because that's what my
Speaker 1: career can goes longer than four years. So you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't hold that, or I won't play you, and
Speaker 1: then you gotta transfer. In his heart you to go
Speaker 1: somewhere else to play, and then you will miss out
Speaker 1: of your career, miss your opportunity. Will you ever go back?
Speaker 1: You think, yeah, he ain't ready for that. Life, can't
Speaker 1: handle that, You can't handle it. Will ever take another
Speaker 1: both that? You think you'd ever take another college coaching job?
Speaker 1: You know what I was thinking about, Yeah, he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys that wear out it. He needs a challenge.
Speaker 1: You know what I was thinking about when all this
Speaker 1: stuff was going on with Texas is that if you're
Speaker 1: Texas and you had so much money and you decided
Speaker 1: you're gonna let go with Charlie Strong. Why not keept
Speaker 1: saving a call and say, hey, ten million a year. Well,
Speaker 1: he he has to be too many a year because
Speaker 1: it has to be more than hardball who makes an
Speaker 1: I million a year. But you know, um and Herman's
Speaker 1: it's just very interesting in the way it works with college.
Speaker 1: I think her I think they see the future with Herman, right.
Speaker 1: You know, Nix Haveban had to bring a Kiffen to
Speaker 1: try and monornize their offense, right because he's great defensively,
Speaker 1: but he's kind of out of touch with the trains
Speaker 1: to Chip Kelly. You know, you can't be as you know,
Speaker 1: like Chip Kelly or like Billy, but you want to
Speaker 1: have a system that has some of those elements in it. Right,
Speaker 1: So you think that was a key hire for him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's perfect because for them, Look what he's
Speaker 1: done with Houston. So you get him better athletes doing
Speaker 1: the same philosophy. How quick he was able to turn
Speaker 1: Houston around. Now they're saying, okay, we here's a guy
Speaker 1: that's been in the living rooms in Texas. Parents his
Speaker 1: high schools have that connection because he's been recruiting. You know,
Speaker 1: I was saying about Kiffing, but yeah, Herman is definitely Herman. Hermann.
Speaker 1: Herman is definitely a good fit of Texas. I mean
Speaker 1: that one guy on the interior defensive line, I believe
Speaker 1: his name was at Oliver. He was like a five
Speaker 1: star recruit who went to Houston and no knock on anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can recruit guys to play Houston, you can
Speaker 1: recruit guys to play ut. And he's got the Ohio
Speaker 1: state background, hes coordinator for there as well. I don't
Speaker 1: take him. Won't take them long, you don't think so
Speaker 1: take him two years, two years. It would be the
Speaker 1: same time around, like hardball going there because at offense,
Speaker 1: we know they can get the athletes. Now it's dynamic.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not hard to sell the university that
Speaker 1: kids and parents dreamed about going to. It's hard to
Speaker 1: sell Houston. They're hard to say. Okay, well, Ricky Williams
Speaker 1: win here, Earl Campbell, win here, bench young within here.
Speaker 1: This is blah blah blah blah blah blah. Look at
Speaker 1: the state and look all this money, Look what we got.
Speaker 1: You want to go there? And so you can do
Speaker 1: the hook of horns. From what everybody says is that
Speaker 1: Roster has built the wind now and you can out
Speaker 1: athlete people at ut and things like that. So he's
Speaker 1: coming in inheriting a program that Charlie recruited while and
Speaker 1: just having found a wayduction right. So but holy in
Speaker 1: on his feet. He seems like a good guy, so
Speaker 1: widely respected. For all you hear people talking about Charlie Strong,
Speaker 1: you know, but everybody is tough to be head coaching
Speaker 1: and and too you know, supervise everything. Some guys are
Speaker 1: just you know, you look at Way for Lips. He
Speaker 1: was great. He was decent as a as a head coach,
Speaker 1: but special as a coordinator. All right, So Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: like I said, you'll be back Jets flight Plan thirty
Speaker 1: am and we will be breaking down Darren Lee, who
Speaker 1: I think played very well against the Patriots. It's just
Speaker 1: not about tackles. So I just thought he was very
Speaker 1: active from the linebacker. You need that energy the light
Speaker 1: bulbs on. Yeah, but just give fans a little sneak
Speaker 1: preview of what they can check out on Sunday because
Speaker 1: late in that game, it's the fourth and four and
Speaker 1: we went to the illustrator here and broke it down
Speaker 1: for like a half an hour, different angles, and you
Speaker 1: were you were bringing the light man because from you
Speaker 1: played inside linebacker in the National Football and you know
Speaker 1: exactly what it takes. And you looked at a play
Speaker 1: where Tom Brady lined up and gone fourth and four.
Speaker 1: The Jets got a chance to get off the field
Speaker 1: to get about four and a half yur or five
Speaker 1: as um darrenly got over and made the tackle, just
Speaker 1: not in time. That's about the details, right, It's about interest,
Speaker 1: And it's funny you think about any given sunday, it's
Speaker 1: about interest the game and interest and about twenty interest
Speaker 1: costs Culture Jets opportunity. Right man, It's not about the
Speaker 1: inability to make the play. It's about the technique and awareness.
Speaker 1: This thing is mental. We know he has athleticism and
Speaker 1: row ability, but now we just have to fine tune
Speaker 1: in and polish up that diamond. And that comes with time, yeah,
Speaker 1: and and experience, and sometimes you get that experience in
Speaker 1: the game, get that experience in practice. This is his
Speaker 1: first time going to gets tom Brady. Now he understands
Speaker 1: what he's dealing with, and he understands he has to
Speaker 1: think on the next level. You gotta think, not just react.
Speaker 1: You gotta be proactive, not reactive. I mean. And if
Speaker 1: he wants me to tutor him, if he wants to
Speaker 1: learn from me, you know, I'm always open. I'm a
Speaker 1: jet for life, baby, and up in you know, can
Speaker 1: I can do? I can be a part time coach,
Speaker 1: all right? Job, angles and leverage are so important. And
Speaker 1: being around you more this year than the past a
Speaker 1: couple of years is that. That's one thing that I'm
Speaker 1: repeatedly reminded of each and every week. You get up
Speaker 1: there and say, where's the angle, where's the leverage? Is
Speaker 1: coming inside coming outside? What are you showing? What is
Speaker 1: that tipping off to somebody like a guy like Brady
Speaker 1: pre snap recognition, understanding your own scouting report? What do
Speaker 1: they say you can't do right? And you have to
Speaker 1: understand situational football. And that's something that comes with being
Speaker 1: around tremendous teachers and learning and it's a process. But
Speaker 1: you want to speed that process up so that you
Speaker 1: can improve as a player and so that you can
Speaker 1: help your team win, and that you can elevate your
Speaker 1: status in your respect around the league. You know, I
Speaker 1: never wanted to be. I never cared about being popular
Speaker 1: with fan basis right. I don't care about the popularity contest.
Speaker 1: But what I wanted to do is for my you know,
Speaker 1: my opponents to turn on the film and say, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy is a high percentage decision maker and he's
Speaker 1: a real man. So I don't care what people think
Speaker 1: because I tell people all the time the easiest thing
Speaker 1: to get in life is numbers. But who are you
Speaker 1: willing to sell out to get them? Right? And the
Speaker 1: fans may respect somebody that gets the numbers, but the
Speaker 1: players respect the guy that's willing to sacrifice for his
Speaker 1: brother and do the heavy lifting. Sometimes just is to bing,
Speaker 1: just excited about my teammates success as I am about minds,
Speaker 1: and sometimes we all have to jump on the grenade
Speaker 1: to let our teammates shine. And what some of these
Speaker 1: players understand that, you know, that's when you get a team,
Speaker 1: that's when you get a bond. That's when you can say, hey, David,
Speaker 1: who doesn't talk to anybody, I want to do an
Speaker 1: interview for Jet Life. And he says, no problem, that's earned,
Speaker 1: that's not given respect across this league. Return on the
Speaker 1: film and you see a guy coming down and hitting
Speaker 1: the god squaring the eyes and saying that was good.
Speaker 1: I want some more, or let's do it again. That's
Speaker 1: fun and it's one of those competitive things. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You may not like playing against them,
Speaker 1: but you respect them, like you know what, that's a
Speaker 1: man right. There no moral victories in the National Football
Speaker 1: each other three and eight. But did you like the
Speaker 1: spirit and the energy they play with coming off the boy?
Speaker 1: It's natural and I'm not giving them any They have
Speaker 1: had a lot of energy. They play with a lot
Speaker 1: of passion. They were excited. I mean, this was a
Speaker 1: game that you get up for no matter what. When
Speaker 1: I'd rather I was here or I was in Baltimore
Speaker 1: when it was pittsburgher Patriot Week. It's one of those
Speaker 1: weeks is special, especially when you play somebody all the
Speaker 1: time and it's such a familiarity there that you know,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna come down to play here or
Speaker 1: play there. Sometimes you win, sometimes they win, but it's
Speaker 1: always fun in the process because it is not about
Speaker 1: what place I am in a division. It's about going
Speaker 1: about against somebody that you hate but you respect. Now,
Speaker 1: the key for these guys in the locker room right
Speaker 1: now is they obviously respond to the Todd Bols, and
Speaker 1: I anticipate they're gonna play well down stretch and get
Speaker 1: a couple of wins here. But they got a bottle
Speaker 1: that up. Now play Monday night against the Colts and
Speaker 1: get get an opponent. They don't face a lot and say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: it's Monday night football. It's time. We just gotta get
Speaker 1: a one day night man. Like you're playing in front
Speaker 1: of your peers, like this is where you get their respect. Like, man,
Speaker 1: you see this? Why man, I haven't had a time
Speaker 1: because we play at the same time of really what
Speaker 1: this tool base? He's a stretched out brand. He's a
Speaker 1: stretched out and Kwinboden same arm size, though, Man, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna slice. You know. He may be taller than Twine,
Speaker 1: but no, no, not not, yeah, I'm talking about Yeah,
Speaker 1: the arms are the same. They both got a gun show.
Speaker 1: They both can put on a gun show. And you
Speaker 1: the way you played. Gotta love the way a new
Speaker 1: approaches offensive game because he's so excitable and you can
Speaker 1: feel the stadium and energy gravitate towards him and his teammates.
Speaker 1: When we were breaking down that film when he beat
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler in the first half on on one on one,
Speaker 1: you saw Sheldon Richardson right on the sideline, right there,
Speaker 1: clapping in his face. You you, you always have teammates
Speaker 1: like that, And I was one of those guys man
Speaker 1: that like trying to make everything fun, play with an
Speaker 1: energy and a passion that you know, it was contagious,
Speaker 1: you know. And sometimes energy and passion and go a
Speaker 1: long way, especially on the defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: when it's not so much about the X and knows,
Speaker 1: it's about the effort in the pursuit can cover up
Speaker 1: a lot of sins. And we'll actually Jets play Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: They got a week to prepare for him. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to get too much into the excess and
Speaker 1: knows and that matchup rather what you just talked about
Speaker 1: physical and this dude. This dude has been softened up
Speaker 1: for years. You know, last year he had a last
Speaker 1: rated organ. This year, you know he's out for the concussion.
Speaker 1: You gotta let him know there's gonna be a long day.
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that's resilient, but he has started
Speaker 1: to show kinks in the army. He's taking a lot
Speaker 1: of hits. No quarterback has been hitting more, I believe
Speaker 1: in the last three years. And Andrew look, and they
Speaker 1: got to make sure that this one maybe the all
Speaker 1: time hits record. And ain't about sacks, is about getting
Speaker 1: him off his spot and knocking him down. Can they
Speaker 1: take anything away from the way they played defensively against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, because yes, they gave up the late score,
Speaker 1: but Earl, they were very good on third down throughout
Speaker 1: that ballgame. Part they also got pressure at times. I
Speaker 1: know they didn't have the sack numbers. And people always
Speaker 1: about about hits on the quarterback and their body blows.
Speaker 1: And what they're gonna have to do is make sure
Speaker 1: because they're they're dealing with a different beast. This guy
Speaker 1: is a guy that's mobile. Brady won't take off. This
Speaker 1: guy to take off. So you gotta be disciplined in
Speaker 1: your rush lanes. You can't present short edges or open
Speaker 1: edges or lanes for him to throw through. You gotta
Speaker 1: make sure that you know your your sound and discipline
Speaker 1: in your pass rush. Make sure that you keep them
Speaker 1: and make them have the thought from from a phone bull.
Speaker 1: And then when you get an opportunity, you gotta put
Speaker 1: him on the ground, and you got to soften them
Speaker 1: up some more and hopefully, you know, he starts to
Speaker 1: see the pass rush and not looking so much down
Speaker 1: to field, and then that's when you got him. Once
Speaker 1: he starts to see the pass rush, he's gonna miss
Speaker 1: open guys. So now it takes a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: off your off your coverage units because he's looking. And
Speaker 1: even when you're not coming, you know, with pressure or
Speaker 1: all of blitz or a four man rush, you dropping,
Speaker 1: you're only rushing three. That internal clock in his head
Speaker 1: is telling him I've been hit so many times. He's
Speaker 1: starting to hear the steps even though they may not exist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't just play. A great effort from the Jets,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna win this game and then
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens from there. Uh. Just wanting to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts. Uh. Lastly, Uh, your final four playoff teams,
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen this weekend? By the time we get
Speaker 1: here next week, who are you going to be your
Speaker 1: final four? And that's a because we talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about college football today with Ohio State in Michigan Alabama,
Speaker 1: and regardless of what they do against Florida, and I
Speaker 1: want to Florida, but I don't think the Gators have
Speaker 1: That would be a monster US upset. So Alabama's in.
Speaker 1: Alabama's in Clemsons and oh so Clemson will be a
Speaker 1: tricky game with Virginia Tucker or No, it would be tough.
Speaker 1: But you know, they got experience, and you know they
Speaker 1: don't always win pretty. But you know, I think that
Speaker 1: I think they're in so Clemsons in. It's interesting is
Speaker 1: this Ohio State thing? Man? So, yeah, Ohio State does
Speaker 1: not play this week. They're not in the big time
Speaker 1: title game. That's State wiscons And now we have a
Speaker 1: tough decision. That's going to be interesting what the committee sees.
Speaker 1: You know, because State won, they head to head, they
Speaker 1: win the conference championship, they got the same record. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't they be one of the best teams. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: before we get that Washington beat up on Washington State.
Speaker 1: You're not a listen. I had to do it, and listen,
Speaker 1: I think I was the third team grade. I really
Speaker 1: didn't go to college, so I got no horse in
Speaker 1: the race. You know. But okay, so if Washington beats Colorado,
Speaker 1: are they in? Man? They got a light schedule. Man,
Speaker 1: who's Colorado like Strepord schedule? Like? Who have they beaten?
Speaker 1: I know, but it's the Colorado is gonna enter that game.
Speaker 1: A top ten team putting boys has to be in.
Speaker 1: I mean, hell, last year watching it didn't didn't didn't
Speaker 1: Houston go undefeated last year? Hasn't Bailor going undefeated before?
Speaker 1: No Belers always lost the game. I've always lost the game.
Speaker 1: We've had an undefeated team before. I mean, hell, that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna start talking about Western Michigan. But you
Speaker 1: think Penn State. No, right, that just but it's a
Speaker 1: tough decision because of what are you saying. You say
Speaker 1: you don't value conference championships, you don't value head to head.
Speaker 1: We got the same record, I beat you. Then that
Speaker 1: automatically means that before Penn State has two losses and
Speaker 1: so does Ohio State. State is one. They lost the
Speaker 1: Penn State. Ohio State is one loss. Penn State lost
Speaker 1: the pit and they got beat up by Michigan. Oh
Speaker 1: they didn't. Didn't Pitt beat Ohio State. No, No, Pitt
Speaker 1: two big team teams Pitpie Clemson. Oh, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Not at Pitt loss are the same as bad. No,
Speaker 1: but it's still two losses. So you don't know, yeah,
Speaker 1: do you? I don't know, and I don't get paid
Speaker 1: to know, so I'm not gonna stress myself about it.
Speaker 1: But you almost made me have an aneurysm trying to
Speaker 1: figure this thing out. That's fine, we'll talk about it
Speaker 1: next week. That's part Scott. We'll see. We'll just talk
Speaker 1: about how they messed up no matter what, they can't
Speaker 1: right