WEBVTT - Inside the Jets: Eric Decker and Tommy Bohanon (1.05.2016) 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.320 And it is a hand off the Chris Ivey right 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.040 up the middle as room runs right to the twenty five, 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.560 gets to the thirty. There he goes to the forty 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.080 right side line fifty every down the sideline of the 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.640 forty at the thirty inside all the way down to 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.080 about the bill twenty three before he's run out by 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:20.279 Corey Graham, live from Callandral's Italian village and called well, 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.200 New Jersey. It's Inside the Jets on ninety eight point 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:30.240 seven ESPN. Here's Larry Hardisty and Eric Allen. Happy New Year, everybody. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.519 It's our unfortunately last edition of Inside the Jets. Here 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.960 on nine seven ESPN. He live at Callandra's Italian village 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.200 at the O Becky O Cafe. Here in car World, 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.600 New Jersey. Larry Hardisty and Eric Allen will take your 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.519 phone calls. A little later in the show one a 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.640 hundred nine one nine three, seven seven six will be 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.960 joined by Tommy Bohanan and Eric Decker. Tonight and partner, 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.440 Happy new You're good to see you, Happy New Year. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:57.279 I was really thinking we will be preparing talking about 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:02.000 the Jets wild Card game this week and and unfortunately 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:04.760 it wasn't in the cards for the New York Jets. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:06.440 It was a hall of a season. This team won 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:11.360 four games last year, and eventually I think fans are 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.040 gonna be able to take a step back and say, hey, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.600 what did this team accomplish in two thousand and fifteen 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.920 and won ten games? They go ten and six, but 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.040 they put themselves in position to get to the postseason 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.119 a win in their in scenario going up to Buffalo, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.360 the team felt very confident, had a healthy amount of 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.119 respect larity for the Buffalo Bills before they went there 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:37.560 for the return matchup. But they could not get it done. 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.920 And Uh, it's a tough one. It's a bitter pill 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.480 to swallow for everybody inside that locker room. Uh, Todd 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.000 Bowle said it today. Hey, bottom line is our goal 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.120 is to get to the playoffs and compete for the 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.720 Super Bowl. And he wasn't willing to give himself a grade. 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.360 He said, I can do a lot of things better. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.480 This team can do a lot of things is better. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.760 But ultimately, uh, a lot of disappointment for the New 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.440 York Jets today. But when we take a step back 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:09.800 at the end of the season, we can say, hey, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.720 this was the start of something a first year GM, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.040 a first year head coach, a lot of new players, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:20.000 new systems across the board, and the Jets took a 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.079 step forward this year. They did. And it's listen, it's 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.040 a bit of pill to swallow. It's tough for the players, 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:26.280 is tough for the fans, it is tough for the 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.519 coaching steps, tough for everybody that follows the Jets. And 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.520 we go back to it, Eric, and you look at 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:33.760 it and it's it's that word that we talk about 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:36.520 all year long. It's about the execution. It was about 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.040 and you look at the stats. Stats don't lie. It 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.640 was about execution on third down. Defensively, there were issues. 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.800 They could not get off the field on third down. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.639 They couldn't advance drives on third down. Offensively. I mean 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.239 when you I mean think about this, the time of 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.320 possession was almost two to one. That's that's a situation 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.160 where it's about execution. And you get buffalo credit. They 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.160 made plays. And you look back and you go and 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.760 you say, you know what, you you learn from this, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.560 You look at the film, you come back next year 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.680 and you say, you know what, we were that close. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.480 We put ourselves in position. You take the positives from it, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.720 and you move ahead self inflicted wounds. I mean, you 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.280 look at the Bills. They converted nine a twenty on 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.960 third down. You talk about time of possession. The Bills 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.560 were on the field, it felt like all afternoon, thirty 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:27.200 nine minutes and all Conversely, the Jets offense, especially early 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.560 in that ball game, failed to find a rhythm and 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.040 they were just three of twelve on third down. So 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.880 the Bills kept on getting off the field. And then 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.800 there were some tough breaks to on special teams. A 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.160 short punts set up the bills first touchdown, a miss 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.280 field goal in there as well. You think about some 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.440 penalties early in that ball game, a fourth down call 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.360 where we knew the Bills were gonna do everything. They're 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.520 gonna pull out all the stops and it looked like 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.520 they're gonna go for it, but you know, EJ. Manuel 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.160 draws the Jets off with his cadence. There were just 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.040 too many mistakes and with all that being said, you 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.920 thought the magic was gonna be there once again. Ryan 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.680 Fitzpatrick hits Eric Decker decks back in the end zone. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.160 It's a two point game, the Jets are driving. It's 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.120 nineteen to seventeen, and you're thinking, here's the moment, because 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.120 we've seen it so many times before the late season 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:31.080 magic magic against the New York Giants, against the Dallas Cowboys, 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.160 against the New England Patriots. You thought it was there 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:39.000 one more time and the Jets weren't scoring territory. Fits 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:44.360 tries to hit Decker one more time. Unfortunately Leotis McLevin 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.680 intercepted the football and what happened at that point there 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.080 were still ten minutes left in the fourth quarter, but 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.479 the Bills sustained to drive. They not only turned the 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.800 Jets over, they went down the field, they held the 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:00.960 ball once again and they converted with point and then 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:05.800 the Jets and desperation mode, tried to get that final touchdown. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.279 A pair of turnovers late, and that's something that this 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:13.120 team hasn't been doing over that five game win streak. 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.680 Was Hey, they were not turning the football over and 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.400 they were getting off the field on third down. Sammy 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.040 Watkins had a tremendous day, but the Jets even in defeat. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:30.080 Brandon Marshall fourteen touchdown pat touchdown reception of the year. 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.640 Fits throws for two touchdown passes. He sets a franchise 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.720 record with thirty one touchdowns in a season. Marshall set 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:43.280 the career UH franchise receiving market in terms of the season, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:48.520 where he finishes with fourteen thirty four deck his first 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.000 a thousand yard receiving season as in New York Jet 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.040 Chris Ivory's first a thousand yard rushing season as a Jet. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.600 Darrell Reeves comes up with his ninth. Takeaway. A lot 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.200 of individual accolades, but the bottom line was this team 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.280 was shooting for the postseason, and you know that was 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.800 a tough locker room last night. The finality of the 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.400 NFL season is so cruel, Larry. This team thought they 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.120 were on a special run. And today when you were 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.080 inside the locker room, we're gonna be talking with both 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.640 Tommy Bohanan and Eric Ducker here later on the show. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.600 You know you felt it in the locker room. Brandon 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.120 Marshall said it today. This was a special group and 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.200 every season you start a new so these guys know 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:39.800 they started to build something here. But now things are 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.840 gonna change an offseason. What's gonna happen in free agency? 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:48.280 Who you're keeping, who maybe is gonna depart in free agency? 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:52.159 So changes on the way. No team is this and 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.240 is the same in the National Football League, No year 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.359 is the same. But for year one of what Todd 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.160 Bowles was trying hard to do here and uh GM, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.760 Mike mccagnan, they did a really nice job. I think 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:10.520 judge fans again, when they have a chance to soak 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.400 it all in and take a step back, they'll realize, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.080 you know, there are a a lot of good things happened 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.400 here in two thousand and fifteen. Absolutely, and and and 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.960 that's once you get over that bitter pill. Eric, that's 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.400 what you focus on, and you look at what was accomplished. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.800 As you mentioned, offensively, you've got an offensive tandem here. 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.760 Uh You look at so many years when this was 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.600 a ground and pound offense and people you're like, you look, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.720 I look at other quarterbacks have done at three thousand 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.760 yards of a a year and whatnot, and we're just running 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.360 the ball. Now you have an offensive tandem where you 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.040 can get the ball down the field. And you look 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.400 and you say, okay, we've got we've got the start 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.760 of something. We've got the nucleus here. Now we just 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.200 add some pieces and everybody goes through it. There. Your 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.720 lockingroom changes every year because of free agency, because of 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.120 various things and that that go on with personnel. So 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.000 you know, you you look at the sity situation, say, hey, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.280 we were in there, we had an opportunity. We more 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.200 than doubled our wind total from last year. Now we 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.119 move forward, and now our challenge is to be even 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.239 better next year because everybody's gunning for you. Now everybody 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.240 knows what you're gonna do. Everybody knows how dangerous you are. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.760 You may have stuck up on some people. You heard 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.280 the predictions six months they're going to score all this 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.920 other stuff. So now everybody knows how you're going to score. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.760 Now the challenge for Todd Bowles and Mike mccagnean is 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.520 to take that next step moving towards where you want 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.360 to have, which is sustainable success every season. You know 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.960 what was fascinating to me that today Todd Bowles was 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.760 asked during his news conference, Hey, do you think this 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:44.120 team has to become younger in the future. He said, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.200 I don't know if we have to become younger, but 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.880 what we do have to do is we have to 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:56.719 become faster. Todd bowls. He He's not going to give 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.720 you a ton as fire as He's not gonna be 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.080 expansive with his an there's very direct. He'll tell you 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.240 exactly how he feels. And moving forward, looking at this 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.839 football team, he wants to increase the speed. Uh. You 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.880 mentioned what this team did offensively this season. Uh, total yards. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.920 No Jets team produced the monitotal yards that this team did. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.520 They had a balanced offense at times. What we saw 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.520 down the stretch was when the run game wasn't there, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.160 the Jets were able to figure it out with their 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:34.080 past game. You mentioned dec Key's here today tonight Brandon 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.800 Marshall was just incredible and then other guys stepped up 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.560 as well. What hurt the Jets? And I know a 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.080 lot of people were talking to me about it. You 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.440 talked to folks about it last night. Was Hey, what's 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.199 the deal with Chris Ivory? Well? Why did Stephen rid 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.079 Why was Steven rely so much in the backfield? Well, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.040 Ivory was on the injury port all last week with 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.160 the knee injury. Blah Paul who gave this team a 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.640 tremendous joel late in the season and did not play. 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:05.320 So people were asking me this all night and even 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.480 into today. Larry was, Hey, what was going on with 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.400 Ivory while he was on injury port last week and 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.120 limited in practice, so chan Gaily In preparation for this 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.880 game against the Buffalo Bills, the Jets got Stephen Ridley 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:22.079 ready and he was involved in a lot of packages. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.960 I will say this though Ivory did have more reps 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:31.000 in the backfield then Ridley. Now you look forward, the 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.440 Jets have a number of big name free agents. Chris 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.880 Ivory first a thousand yards season, he potentially could hit 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.119 free agency. Blah, Paul. We think about the defense alignement, 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:47.400 uh Mohammad Wilkerson, who unfortunately suffered a tough brake, broke 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:52.960 his leg last night, fibula. He's gonna have surgery over 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.520 the course of the next week. He's scheduled to be 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.480 free agent. Damon Snacks, Harrison, and of course the quarterback 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.240 as Ryan Fitzpatrick. Todd Bowles was clear about it today. 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.679 Larry said, we want to have Ryan Fitzpatrick back, and 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:12.319 if he is back, he is the starter. But again 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.280 in the financial unfortunately in the National Football League, you 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.920 can't keep everybody, and that's what Bulls said today. Bottom 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.520 line is you're gonna have to make tough decisions. That's 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.480 as part of the business. We live in a salary 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.679 cap era and we'll have to see what the Jets 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.640 off season plan is this year. But I have a 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.440 lot of trust in faith and Mike mccagnan, considering and 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.520 all the guys he hit on in his first year 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.559 as GM. While the Jets did a great job in 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.760 free agency m via the trade route last off season. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:45.800 The short day then, and the tricky thing is to 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.560 make the changes increase your talent, but not messed with 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.199 the chemistry. And you have but so much so it's 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.560 going to be interesting balance and that's what Mike mccagnan 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.160 this challenge with Van Duel. Try one week Fantasy football 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.760 league on FanDuel today. They're home to more winners than 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.640 any other site. Go to FanDuel dot com for your 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.800 free account. 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For more information in the purchase 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.360 Chickens visits I ce E dot E d U slash 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:50.080 Jets start partner. Let's bring in Eric Decker, Jets wide 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:56.000 receiver who's played to rundous football for the Jets and 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.160 signing as a free agent. Uh, A couple of springs 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.400 to go. You guys had a phenomenal season when you 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.800 look at what you were able to accomplish. Take us 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.720 through and we've talked about, but take us through that 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.920 whole ride of learning, uh, learning to work with Fitzpatrick Long, 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.320 how to balance it with Marshal in just that whole 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:15.880 right to get you to where you are. When you 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:17.920 have a moment when you get over this and you 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.240 look back, can you appreciate what you guys came from. Well, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.360 it was an exciting year and I think, um, you know, 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.199 it's it's frustrating, and it's it's tough because we are 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.240 in the situation to go up. It's go to the 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.160 playoffs to win, to get in. I mean, that's all 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.840 you can ask for at that point. Um. You know, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.680 looking back, I think, you know, all of a sudden 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.760 fits Pastier comes week three preseason, and you know we're 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.400 trying to catch up and build some chemistry as an offense, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.360 and you know that that takes time, and we kind 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.760 of evolved over the season. We started out very fast 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.720 and defensive, playing tremendous give us a chance to win. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.800 And then we you know, stumbled a little bit, had 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.800 a rough pass there for a while. I played some good, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.679 good teams. But I think that was, uh the realization 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.600 for us that you know, it made us come together 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.640 and figure out what our identity was, what kind of 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.360 football team wanted to be. And we've got in that 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.240 five game winning streak, and you know, confidence was an 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.880 all time high. I thought we were playing really good 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:19.080 comparing football, um, and we and we had really the belief, 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.320 you know, from the coaching staff, the locker room, everyone 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:25.240 was all in and and uh, you know, then you 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.280 come to a game like yesterday, it's just the weather 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.080 was tough, But I mean you just didn't make enough plays. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.960 You didn't do enough as a team um to put 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.640 ourselves in a winning situation. So it's just it's a 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.680 hard one to swallow. And as you know, I was 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.240 obviously gonna be tough throughout the offseason and hopefully a 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.560 lot of guys can use as motivation to come back 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.520 next to your bigger and stronger. A lot of guys 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.720 talk about what the locker room was like this year, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:56.720 and folks watch you guys on Sunday, But to a man, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.760 it felt like to me, for somebody who's in there 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:05.400 each and every day, that you guys really liked being 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.760 around each other, and then there was some special chemistry 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.440 going on. Can you talk about that and what can 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:17.160 you point to and say why that happened, why that developed? Yeah, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.440 it was, it was. It was so much fun this 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.240 year coming to work every day, and especially when you're 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.880 winning football games, it comes that much more fun. And 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.520 I always look back, you know, to my experience in 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.600 Denver and we went to the Super Bowl. You know, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.840 I felt like we had that the same vibe, that 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.680 same feeling in the locker room that you know, there 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.640 was no big egos, everyone respected one another, everyone kind 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.640 of knew what their role was. We believed and trusted 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.360 in one another, and uh, and that's what it was 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.480 this year. And I think, you know, from the start 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.720 of the season, we slowly figured each other out. And 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.800 I think when you go through some hard times, it really, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.520 you know, it brings up the character the best of you. 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.600 And and guys leaned down one another and we came 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.320 together and may I tell you what, um it's five 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.600 games we want to row. It was something most fun 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.360 I've had playing football. Eric. It's it's interesting to watch 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.840 you guys grow and and and get closer together and 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.760 see that on the field where the quarterback just looks 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.880 you have eye signals and hand signals and you guys 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.840 are just going on one accord like that. How much 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:21.440 fun is that for? You know, that's a lot of fun. 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.080 You know, it's kind of like backyard football. You just 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.880 you're out there playing, you know, and obviously we have 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.200 our philosophy and and uh what coach Gailey you know, calls. 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.040 But at the same time, you know, us as players, 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.680 we see on the field and we can adjust and 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.360 and make those things. And once you get on that 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.760 level where you know it is the hand signals. It 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.800 is just kind of the look, uh you can, you can, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.120 you know, go as far as you want, and um, 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.920 I think that experience we had this year carried over 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.920 uh into next year, is going to help us tremendously. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.400 But at the same time, it's still difficult thinking about 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.160 we're thinking about next year. Brandon Marshall spoke in the 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:03.960 locker room today said mentally, I'm burned out just from 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.439 the season ending right now. And he had such a 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.600 tremendous season as you did it, as fits did in 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.879 a number of guys in that locker room, what's the 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.359 next step for you? Do you have to get away 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.280 from it? Because Brandon was like, physically I feel great, 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.199 I feel like you can play for twenty years. But 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:22.720 I have to get away just for a little bit 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.000 to give my mind to rest. Yeah, I mean I 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:30.400 think over the course of four months that were there, 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:35.600 I mean, you get burnt out physically, emotionally, mentally everything, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.000 and and when you lose a heart record like that, 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.000 when your expectations are, Okay, we're gonna win this one 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.439 and we're gonna give ourselves a chance to be in 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.720 a dance and you know, it doesn't happen that way. Uh, yeah, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.040 you gotta get away from it. You gotta kind of 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.840 remove yourself from football. Obviously I'm still a fan of 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.480 I'm sure I'll watched playoff games, but you know, reading 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.480 every day on my score mobile app or you know, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.840 looking at War Center. I'll probably get away from that, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.119 start watching cartoons with the kids. Um. But yeah, you 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.639 just kind of gotta gotta get away, remove yourself, you know, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.959 kind of flush it out and then you know when 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.400 you're ready again mentally, emotionally, get back into working out 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.720 and get back into you know, swinger things. You've been 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.439 on the team that's going to the Super Bowl, so 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.679 you have that understanding, that feeling, that that knowledge of 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.479 what it takes to get there. Uh do you sense 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.280 the beginnings of that here? You know, to be honest, 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.359 getting the Super Bowl it's a fine line. You know, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.280 every team is so good in this league. I think 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.960 the talent wise, we are definitely there. I think the 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.600 foundation has been set this year, Uh, with the attitude, 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:49.000 with kind of the mentality that Coach Bowls has brought in. Um. Now, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.359 really it comes down to execution. So that's that's on us. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.399 Players of kind of know what our roles are and 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.400 doing our jobs the best of our billion throughout this year. 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.520 There's times when we did a good job, a great 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.840 job with it. There's times where you know, we stumbled 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.159 and we couldn't you know, move the ball or defense 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.800 could stop UH in offense, and you know, just those 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.720 things are gonna happen. But if we want to get 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.920 to a Super Bowl UH contending team, you've got to 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.359 be consistent in execution. And I would say, yes, this 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.040 team is is so close to potential, very very much there. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.840 It's just a matter now of you know, obviously doing 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:27.840 it on Sundays and being consistent with it. You know, 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.080 when you're on there Monday and when you're on their Sundays, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.560 just every day, you gotta you gotta be consistent. Speaking 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:38.080 about being consistent, your head coach has been that way 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.240 ever since he took over. First year, leads you guys 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.000 to ten wins. What was he like today, Deck when 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.520 you guys came in after such a painful loss and 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.840 matt for one final time as a unit, Because you know, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.639 change is so constant in the National Football League that 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:00.239 locker room will never be completely the same. Well, one 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:01.840 thing I'll tell you about him, and he's a realist. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.600 He's gonna he's gonna shoot you straight. He's gonna tell 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.240 you you know how it is. And I respect that 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.880 so much because you know, as a man, that's all 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.199 you can ask for is someone to tell you, you know, 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.360 how they perceive you or uh what you know, how 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.280 it's gonna be. And uh, he stepped in there obviously 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:23.760 very frustrated, probably you know, disappointed, and just said, you know, 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:27.159 we made some strides. Uh this isn't good enough. You know, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.560 don't be comfortable with ten and six or don't be 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.639 comfortable with just being better than last year. You know, 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.000 we we got uh some places to go and that's 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:38.320 being a super Bowl team and you know we kind 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.680 of set our mark here, but you know the expectations 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.000 are gonna be so much greater going into next year. Um, 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.480 obviously this room isn't gonna be the same. We're gonna 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.119 we're gonna make some changes. Free agency happens, um, and 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:52.960 just gotta be ready to roll when you know we 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.480 we meet up in April again. Eric, I'm gonna take 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.320 you off the field for a minute because we heard 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:59.639 they add before you came on. What you're doing with bullying. 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.520 You're up for a Man of the Year representing the Jets. 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.880 Just just take us through that whole thing and how 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.640 important that is for you to bring the well rounded part. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.720 You do a great job, you represent yourself, you represent 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:12.119 the Jets well on the field, but something something that 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.000 you do off the field, just posted this building is 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.240 really really something important to you and your wife. Definitely, 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:19.280 I ain't Giving back in general is just so important, 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:21.480 especially you know when you have an opportunity to be 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.119 a professional athlete in the community, and you know, the 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:27.199 sport uh touches a lot of people. It affects a 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.000