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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Official Jets Podcast powered by Amazon Web Services.

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Speaker 1: On today's episode, e A and Joe Douglas one on one,

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Speaker 1: an exclusive interview with the Jets general manager leading up

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Speaker 1: to the draft. Of course, the draft is Thursday. It

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Speaker 1: is Monday, right about three o'clock to fifty seven to

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Speaker 1: be exact. The sun is shining here. Ea, how you

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Speaker 1: doing of Greg Green's Listen is draft week, so obviously, uh,

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Speaker 1: the excitement is going to continue to build as we

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Speaker 1: get to Thursday. But at the start of the week, listen,

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Speaker 1: if you're a Jets fan, right now, this is what

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Speaker 1: it's all about, organizational building, and Joe Douglas is first

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Speaker 1: draft as general manager. We've been talking about it for months.

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Speaker 1: Eight draft picks in all that number eleven overall selection

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Speaker 1: and of course the four in the top eighty overall.

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Speaker 1: But listen, this extend past the draft, Greens, because you're

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Speaker 1: gonna be active on Saturday. As soon as that draft ends,

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Speaker 1: Joe and his guys to be on the phone trying

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Speaker 1: to get some priority undrafted free agents in green and White.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how the virtual draft, and really the virtual

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Speaker 1: pre draft process, how that will affect the undrafted free

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Speaker 1: agent process, if there will be better talent compared to

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Speaker 1: years past. I'm just curious how it all breakdown. But

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Speaker 1: you spoke to Joe Douglas after Joe Douglass spoke to

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Speaker 1: the media, and one of the things that Joe Douglas

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Speaker 1: spoke to the media about was the status of Jamal

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams probably not going to participate in the virtual

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Speaker 1: off season program, which Joe Douglas emphasized our voluntary. But

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Speaker 1: then he also said that the plan is still for

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Speaker 1: Jamal Adams to be a Jet for life. Yeah, you're right, Greens,

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Speaker 1: if you really think about it. There was nothing new

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Speaker 1: on the Jamal Adams Adams front from Joe Douglas today.

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Speaker 1: He reiterated that his plan is to keep Jamal Adams

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Speaker 1: a Jet for a long time. He did say that

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Speaker 1: he hopes to connect with Adams after the draft, so

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Speaker 1: we'll have to wait a little bit for any potential

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Speaker 1: news on that front. I know you took this away

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Speaker 1: as well. He said, my attent is not to move

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Speaker 1: any players. But Joe Douglas has said it for months

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Speaker 1: now that if a team calls, he will listen. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the essence of being a general manager.

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Speaker 1: Somebody calls and wants to make a deal for one

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Speaker 1: of your players, You pick up the phone, you listen,

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Speaker 1: you evaluate, and you go from there. And it feels

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Speaker 1: like a similar chain of events to what happened around

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline in October. You think about Jomal Adams

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Speaker 1: name was in the public then saying with Levy on Bell,

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Speaker 1: but Joe Douglas made it clear that he wasn't shopping

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Speaker 1: those guys. He was just listening to calls. In terms

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Speaker 1: of the draft, some players will get dealt, not necessarily Jets,

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Speaker 1: but across the league. You think about guys that are

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Speaker 1: potentially on the trade block per se, or guys that

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Speaker 1: haven't even been discussed, And I think that Joe Douglass

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Speaker 1: point remain is the same. He's not looking to move

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Speaker 1: any of these guys. And the other part of this

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Speaker 1: whole thing to me is maybe he hasn't spoken to

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Speaker 1: to the media. Well, this is draft season. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: put on the backburner per se until after the draft,

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Speaker 1: when the draft is finally over. Because this is really

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Speaker 1: such a long process from last mayor June to present

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Speaker 1: that it doesn't feel like it's the right time to

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Speaker 1: points here that I'd like to stress. Number one is

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Speaker 1: the off season program for the Jets, since they don't

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Speaker 1: have a new coach, begins April, so the virtual off

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Speaker 1: season program has not begun. That's my first point. The

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Speaker 1: second one is Joe Douglas said if he believes he

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Speaker 1: is a franchise quarterback, that is the one player on

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Speaker 1: his roster that is off limits. He has talked about

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald bean a franchise quarterback, so Sam Donald is

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Speaker 1: off limits. Finally, to Green's, are we talking samantics here?

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're talking samantics because to me, shopping

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Speaker 1: a player means Joe Douglas getting on the phone after

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Speaker 1: his conference call today and calling twenty teams and saying, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to part with this guy. What are you

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Speaker 1: and if they bring up a player, of course you

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Speaker 1: always assess the value because otherwise, to your point, you're

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Speaker 1: not doing your job as a general manager. I totally

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Speaker 1: agree with that. And Joe Douglas said to you that

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Speaker 1: he learned a lot under Ozzy Knewsom, who, of course

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Speaker 1: he believes should be a Hall of Fame general manager

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. And we'll talk about it after

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Speaker 1: your interview right now with Joe Douglas. What Joe learned

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Speaker 1: from Ozzy Newsom. Here he is Joe Douglas one on one. Joe,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about the opportunity at hand for you and this

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Speaker 1: organization draft weekend? Oh, great opportunity. Eric eight picks four

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Speaker 1: in the top seventy nine. It's a chance to really

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Speaker 1: bring in guys that were excited about, guys that we

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Speaker 1: we thinking come in here and make an impact. Fortify

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Speaker 1: this roster really adds to it. We've had great meetings

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Speaker 1: coaching staff and scouts have done a great job collaborating

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Speaker 1: navigating through the technology. I feel like our meetings is

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Speaker 1: no different than having him in the facility at Flora Park,

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Speaker 1: So really excited about this week. How much did the

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Speaker 1: past ten or eleven months give you an advantage as

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Speaker 1: you head to the draft because you were able to

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Speaker 1: look at this roster from a thirty thousand foot forty

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Speaker 1: foot level and see exactly what you have before you

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Speaker 1: get your draft plan in place, no question, Eric being

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Speaker 1: able to be here throughout training camp, throughout the season,

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Speaker 1: really evaluating on a day to day basis, getting another staff,

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Speaker 1: being around the scheme offense, defense, special teams, building rapport

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Speaker 1: guys and see how they evaluate, see how what lens

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Speaker 1: they're looking through players, and it's really helped. I feel

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Speaker 1: like it helped with our free agency process and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna help us this week. Speaking of your free agency process,

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Speaker 1: what are similarities and then talk about the differences as

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Speaker 1: far as entering free agency compared to the draft when

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Speaker 1: you're looking at players. Yeah, I think our our process

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Speaker 1: up our free agent board versus how we go up

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Speaker 1: go through similar meetings, format, similar discussions with coaches, and

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Speaker 1: so it's a good forum for personnel and scouts and

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Speaker 1: coaches to get together and just discuss each player's individual

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Speaker 1: fit for this roster, this team, the scheme. It really

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Speaker 1: helps us develop a consensus after after going through the

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Speaker 1: What is Joe d like in those meetings with your

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Speaker 1: I think once we go through each coach of scouts

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Speaker 1: individual opinion on the player, Okay, no holds barred. How

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Speaker 1: final days and hours like, because you just said our

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Speaker 1: draft board is not set until Thursday night. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: going through players. We're having strategy meetings and making phone calls,

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Speaker 1: were gathering information partilary eleventh hour on these players. And

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Speaker 1: I think we have a great group. We have great

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Speaker 1: any questions that we need answered, you know, we've got

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Speaker 1: He started a professional career, of course, with the Baltimore

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Speaker 1: over the years, Ozzy was the calm and the storm,

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Speaker 1: you know, in Ozzie's mind once today, it was in

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Speaker 1: You know, Ozzie was always always the calm in the

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Speaker 1: every day and every year in the draft. That was

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Speaker 1: always unique for me to see to see Ozzy operate.

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Speaker 1: So I think for us, I think it's important that

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Speaker 1: and we're going to stick to that decision. Obviously, Joe,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask you about specifics here, but what's

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Speaker 1: your trading philosophy, because speaking of Ozzy, he had quite

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's gonna be a lot of meat

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Speaker 1: set ourselves up. How about the undrafted free agent process

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Speaker 1: So you're talking about the late round free agent guys,

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Speaker 1: really good post draft free agency protocol that we're gonna follow.

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Speaker 1: Undraft of free agency is just a great opportunity to

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Speaker 1: really take your take your draft from good to great. Joe,

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Speaker 1: would you say you guys go into this weekend with

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Speaker 1: a quiet confidence knowing that you put in the work,

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Speaker 1: You had healthy discussions, you had guys on the ground

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