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Speaker 1: One Jets Drive, joined by a Jets legend, the Jets

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Speaker 1: Legend number twelve, Joe.

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Speaker 2: Name it Joe. So great to see you.

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Speaker 3: Eric.

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Speaker 4: It's good to see you, man, and these are exciting times.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about those exciting times.

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Speaker 1: When you first heard that the Jets had interest in

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, what was your initial reaction.

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Speaker 4: Well, I could only hope it was true, and I

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Speaker 4: could only hope that it would work out. And like

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Speaker 4: most they're all Jet fans, man, I'm fired up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We were just talking to your daughter about it before.

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Speaker 1: She said she was jumping for joy. Monday, when the

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Speaker 1: report came out from Adam Schefter that the teams had

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Speaker 1: agreed to term on a deal the Jets and the

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Speaker 1: Packers that would bring Aaron Rodgers to New York. Your

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Speaker 1: thoughts when it finally was completed as far as the

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Speaker 1: deal that have been talked about for so long. For

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Speaker 1: a few months, it seemed like every day Jets fans

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Speaker 1: continue to refresh their social media platforms to see when

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Speaker 1: was this happening?

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Speaker 2: Was it really gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, my thoughts, certainly, man, I had a lot

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Speaker 4: of them running through my head. I could see mister

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Speaker 4: Johnson and Christopher and Christopher Wood he both fired up

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Speaker 4: and deservingly so they're pulling first to win more than anybody.

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Speaker 3: Man. Our fans are gotta be thrilled.

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Speaker 4: And I know what coach Salah has done and some

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Speaker 4: of the players that Joe's brought in our team, as

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Speaker 4: the team is so improved, they're right on the edge

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Speaker 4: of what Heck, they played like a playoff team last

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Speaker 4: year a lot of the time, but they're going to

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Speaker 4: be better this season, especially with Aaron.

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Speaker 3: And I know Jet Nation is fired up, buddy.

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Speaker 2: They certainly are, Joe.

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Speaker 1: So when you're watching the news conference and you're taking

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Speaker 1: it all in, Aaron Rodgers there in a Jets polo

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Speaker 1: and he talks about, Hey, listen, I'm coming here to

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Speaker 1: win a championship. And when I walked in and I

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Speaker 1: saw that Super Bowl three trophy, it looks a little

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Speaker 1: bit lonely.

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Speaker 2: What's going through your mind?

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Speaker 4: Hope again, Hope, Man, he has been a wonderful player

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Speaker 4: to watch play throughout his career. You know, I love

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Speaker 4: football and I watched that position of watch all the

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Speaker 4: position positions I can man, and I appreciate the talent

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Speaker 4: and the effort that's given out there, and it's hard

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Speaker 4: for me to fathom a cat playing eighteen seasons already

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Speaker 4: and looking like he does, feeling like he does, having

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Speaker 4: watched him perform on the field in ways that I

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Speaker 4: haven't seen other guys have the same kind of movement

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Speaker 4: and success that he's had. Abilities that he has both

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Speaker 4: physically and mentally.

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Speaker 3: He's going to lift the team. The team, the players,

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Speaker 3: they know.

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Speaker 4: That they have the opportunity to do something big here

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Speaker 4: and the goal is has been for a long time

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Speaker 4: to bring another one of those trophies back to New York,

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Speaker 4: New Jersey, man a championship, making the playoffs. That would

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Speaker 4: be the first step. Hey, The first step is opening day,

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Speaker 4: you know, opening day of training, cab. They got to

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Speaker 4: get ready and they will be the way again. That

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Speaker 4: coach Sol and that staff has got these guys going.

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Speaker 4: It's the right.

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Speaker 1: Direction changes in that locker room when a guy like

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Speaker 1: Rogers walks in here. It is a day after not

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Speaker 1: even twenty four hours removed from that news conference. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you right now, Rogers was out on the field

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Speaker 1: thrown with the guys today here as far as the

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Speaker 1: workouts are concerned.

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Speaker 2: But what changes because Joe.

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Speaker 1: Douglas has talked about as standard that Aaron is going

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Speaker 1: to demand of himself, and of course those guys in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know, a guy comes in with the reputation.

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Speaker 4: I mean the ballplayers, they follow the sport, whether it's

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Speaker 4: in with a positive reputation. The first one jumps into

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Speaker 4: my head was John Reggins when he hit our locker room. Man,

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Speaker 4: we knew we had something special there. We saw him before.

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Speaker 4: Now we didn't win a championship, But when you see

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Speaker 4: a lot of things out there. And then Aaron, Aaron's case,

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Speaker 4: certainly has accomplished a lot of things. It gives you

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Speaker 4: you bounce it in there a little bit more. You're

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Speaker 4: a little more fired up, ready to go practice.

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Speaker 1: I know the games changed over the past few decades,

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Speaker 1: but you talked about what Aaron brings to the field

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Speaker 1: physically as a man who played that position, who was

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Speaker 1: the original gunslinger. What sets him apart even now at

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Speaker 1: thirty nine, in terms of what he brings to the

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Speaker 1: game physically, Well, I've.

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Speaker 4: Watched a lot of football that Aaron has played, and

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Speaker 4: I marveled at him.

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Speaker 3: Even last season. I marveled at him. I mean, man, he.

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Speaker 4: Can anticipate things because of the repetition, because of the

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Speaker 4: way his brain works throughout the years, the way he

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Speaker 4: buys and the way he moves around, the way he

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Speaker 4: throws the football. We can't see what he's thinking as

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Speaker 4: it develops, but we know that process is excellent. The

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Speaker 4: way he's able to control his body and throw to pass,

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Speaker 4: throw the ball.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: You know, there are a lot of good quarterbacks out

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Speaker 4: there and PROB ball, there are terrific quarterbacks. But the

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Speaker 4: way he changes the speed on the ball, the way

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Speaker 4: he drops it in in different places, the way he

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Speaker 4: throws it releases the ball, the trajectory, the arm motion,

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Speaker 4: the way it needs to be done.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen anybody do that.

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Speaker 4: He's a one of a kind and it's all good.

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Speaker 1: What about his ball protection, the ball security, The number

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Speaker 1: has stood out to me when you study Rogers over

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Speaker 1: the course of his career, not just watching him on film,

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Speaker 1: but the best touchdown interception ratio of anyone who's ever played.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he was the first guy to three hundred

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes, first guy to four hundred touchdown passes. But

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Speaker 1: he protects the ball and puts points on the board.

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Speaker 4: You see, Eric, I didn't know that, and that doesn't

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Speaker 4: surprise me. Right, that doesn't surprise me. That shows those

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Speaker 4: numbers do show a quality that he has above and

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Speaker 1: You're a guy who's still to this day when everybody

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Speaker 1: when Joe walks into the room, people raise up and

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Speaker 1: they have your attention. I think Rogers is the same way.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about him coming to this market? Obviously,

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Speaker 1: when you came to New York, you're coming out of Alabama,

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Speaker 1: you're still a young pupp Now he's thirty nine, gonna

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Speaker 1: What do you think about him coming to the metropolis

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's gonna be terrific because we're gonna

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Speaker 4: be winning for sure. You know, a loss, sometimes you

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Speaker 4: don't have your best days. Sometimes you don't even have

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Speaker 4: a good day, but he's gonna keep things interesting. Lady

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Speaker 4: good fortune and lady luck can sometimes frown on you.

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Speaker 4: What we've got to do is hope that our team

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Speaker 4: stay as healthy as it can possibly stay, because it

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Speaker 4: still is a team effort. You're gotta have those cats

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Speaker 4: if the offensive line plays reasonably well, he's gonna give us.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna give us some major chance, and Aeron will

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Speaker 4: give us some major chance to win. But New York fans,

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Speaker 4: Jersey fans, they've been watching, they've been watching air and play.

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Speaker 4: They know what's coming in. And we've got a shot,

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Speaker 4: you know, the shot to approve. And he's gonna lift

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Speaker 4: now as we're talking. Man, you know, So he'll handle

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Speaker 4: what's going on off the field. He's a smart man,

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Speaker 4: and as you say, after eighteen seasons, he has seen.

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Speaker 3: A lot and dealt with a lot.

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Speaker 1: What does it say about the Jets organization that he

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Speaker 1: wanted to come here? He talked during his news conference

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Speaker 1: glowingly about both Robert Sala and Joe Douglas. And of

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Speaker 1: course he's got that connection with Nathaniel Hackett, a guy

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Speaker 1: he excelled with in Green Bay one.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it starts both with Ruddy Andre and

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Speaker 4: the time. And besides our ownership, you mentioned our offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 3: Aaron's checked all of that out. You see. He's looked

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Speaker 4: He's looked at the personnel and all, and he knows

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Speaker 3: He likes the way the fans working.

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Speaker 4: As he pointed out, man, they just went in their

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Speaker 3: Season and won right right. See.

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Speaker 4: So he studied that film. He studied well filmed. We

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Speaker 4: He studied that after the game. You know, he knew

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Speaker 4: all positive, certainly all positive at this stage.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, you've always referred back to Lady Luck.

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Speaker 2: And of course it's a seventeen game season.

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Speaker 1: A lot of things can change over the course of time,

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Speaker 1: and you need a lot of things to bounce your

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Speaker 1: way if ultimately you're going to become a champion. With

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Speaker 1: that being said, what do you make of the second

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Speaker 1: and year one and wins the championship.

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Speaker 2: Peyton Manning at.

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Speaker 1: The end of his career, after a marvelous run with

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Speaker 1: the Colts, he goes to Denver wins the championship. Matt

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Speaker 1: Stafford isn't on the level of those guys, but he

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Speaker 1: played well, put up good numbers in Detroit. First year

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Speaker 1: precedents here where Okay, this can happen, and this can

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Speaker 4: We're expecting get to happen, all right, We are expecting

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Speaker 4: You don't go out on the field expect and the

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Speaker 1: I promise you well, we can safely say that nobody's

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Speaker 1: Are you excited to come up not only just watch.

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Speaker 3: Loyalty to the Green and White and to the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Joe, how much would it mean to you for Rodgers

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Speaker 4: When the Jets win, it's as a fan. As a fan,

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Speaker 3: You don't do it by yourself. You don't do it

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Jets family, I'd be remiss if I didn't

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Speaker 4: And I don't even know who they were. I'm making

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Speaker 1: They're going to take part in those ceremonies. The Jets

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Speaker 3: They're all good. I got goosebumps right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting goosebumps just listening to you right now talk

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Speaker 1: but what I'm saying is that this is a momentous

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Speaker 4: No, I think he's thinking about getting better physically and

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Speaker 4: I think he's looking so much forward to going in

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Speaker 2: Well, straight ahead, straight ahead.

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Speaker 1: The new number eight of the New York Jets, Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, man, jay t s je jetge Jet's keep up

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Speaker 3: Just getting to the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Our first goal is to start out with the enthusiasm

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Speaker 3: They know that and fans.

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Speaker 4: You know, those guys that are on the field, on

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Speaker 4: I hope you do it.

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Speaker 2: Great seeing you jump.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Eric, It's always a treat, buddy,