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Speaker 1: Welcome to another installed went of the Jet Podcast. There

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Speaker 1: are a gallon here with my partner, of course, our

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Speaker 1: star Chad Pennington. Well, CP, the Jets have done it.

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Speaker 1: They have put themselves in position to go to the postseason.

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Speaker 1: Who would have thought that a few weeks back, right

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving after the Jets left Houston. Well, I don't

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Speaker 1: think very many people would have given the Jets this

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Speaker 1: much of a chance, including ourselves. We felt like right

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Speaker 1: there around that time that they were defending and not

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Speaker 1: on an up trend. But I think both you and

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Speaker 1: I looked at the schedule early in the year and

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Speaker 1: felt like they did have a chance to win ten games,

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Speaker 1: and they have done that, and on top of that,

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Speaker 1: they've got a chance to win in the eleventh game

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Speaker 1: and control their own destiny. And so that's really exciting

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Speaker 1: for Jet fans. I know, it's excited. Fighting for the

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Speaker 1: players has got to be exciting for players like Ryan

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Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and Brandon Marshall who haven't ever played in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: The Coast postseason play is certainly special, and so for

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Speaker 1: this team to have that chance, UH is a great accomplishment,

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Speaker 1: and he would like to see them finish the course

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Speaker 1: and stay the course that they've been on and finished

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Speaker 1: the deal here by being able to go up to Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: which will be a huge game not only the Jets,

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Speaker 1: but for Buffalo as well, fighting for record tough game

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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys chaid this week said we

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Speaker 1: felt like there was something special happening or we had

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Speaker 1: something special here. Earlier in the year, the veterans talking

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Speaker 1: about just looking at the talent in the room and

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Speaker 1: also the young talent. Could you see it? And what's

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Speaker 1: that feeling like as a player when you know you're

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Speaker 1: building towards something and that it just starts picking up. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's no feeling like it. I think that's what draws

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Speaker 1: us as players and coaches to this game, is when

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Speaker 1: you're able to take a collective group of individuals and

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Speaker 1: you start to feel the momentum, you feel, uh, the

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Speaker 1: ability to play off of one another and to play

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Speaker 1: complimentary football and to just be all in. Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: a special feeling. I felt that a couple of times

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Speaker 1: can't explain. Sometimes you can't put your finger on it.

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Speaker 1: It's just something that has happened that has been a

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Speaker 1: product of your hard work, your attitude, UM, your willingness

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Speaker 1: to make sacrifices. And once you start to put those

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Speaker 1: hard to stop. Do you think something changed with this

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Speaker 1: team with that Giants game twenty to time, They make

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter comeback, eventually finished that out in overtime.

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Speaker 1: This Calvin Pace, your former teammate, said that was our springboard.

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Speaker 1: He thought, I agree, and and the reason that I agree, um,

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Speaker 1: is because of the way they were able to do it.

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Speaker 1: There was no situation where the panic button was pushed. Um.

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Speaker 1: It was a team that stayed the course and twenty

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Speaker 1: what such a difficult task it was. They just kept

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Speaker 1: to tied up. And that was a huge momentum builder,

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Speaker 1: not only for that game, but You can talk about

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Speaker 1: go about that, but you also have to have proof

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Speaker 1: and a lot of times experience Trump's knowledge. And so

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Speaker 1: when you have that experience of your system and the

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Speaker 1: cap on Okay, this is who we are, this is

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Speaker 1: our identity, this is how we're going to win. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's what the Jets have been able to

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Speaker 1: through this process of establishing who they are as a team.

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Speaker 1: So that leads us to last Sunday. They taked out

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Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champion. A team was dominated this

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Speaker 1: or so. But what will that overtime possession due now

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Speaker 1: their team, their quarterback, their head coach, of the Patriot way,

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Speaker 1: this was a team, let's let's look at this game.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt that this was a wounded animal in

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. But with that being said, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times teams still lose to the Patriots even

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Speaker 1: to prevail and we're just not up to that yet,

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Speaker 1: and we're not up to that standard. And the Jets

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Speaker 1: the Jets could have fallen into believing, now, oh, this

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Speaker 1: is the Patriots, this is how they're going to do it,

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Speaker 1: And they didn't do that. Even with the adversity that

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Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do with the team that is,

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Speaker 1: them away? And that's exactly what they did. They took

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Speaker 1: that decision that the Patriots made to kick, and they

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Speaker 1: a lot of people have made too much about New

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Speaker 1: England's decisions and not given the Jets enough credit. I

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Speaker 1: I received a call on Inside the Jets where people

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Speaker 1: said it was bizarre the way Belichick coached the game,

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Speaker 1: that hey, you know, at the end of the half,

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Speaker 1: they didn't go forward at before overtime. After the coin toss,

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Speaker 1: win that game if they don't execute well. I completely agree.

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Speaker 1: And here's what we have to understand. You have to

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Speaker 1: so the Patriots went into this game knowing they are injured,

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Speaker 1: can't question uh their decision before half on what they did,

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Speaker 1: it worked all the way up until over time. They

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Speaker 1: made the decision to say, look, we're hurting on offense.

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Speaker 1: with a win. That's what they tried to do. And

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Speaker 1: decided to play. We're not letting that happen. And that's

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Speaker 1: exactly what happened. The Jets did not fall prey to

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Speaker 1: not let that happen. How impressed were you by Chan

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Speaker 1: Gaily because I'm watching that ballgame and we talked about

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Speaker 1: it before. Uh. The second matchup, the return matchup between

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Speaker 1: They didn't. Eight receptions, a hundred fifteen yards, two touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: And that's what is special right now. It's the Chan Gaily.

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Speaker 1: As any coordinator will tell you, play calling is overrated.

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Speaker 1: But what we have to do is the staff is

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Speaker 1: go out and execute those plays. The quarterback is executing

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Speaker 1: I think the screen game it's something that is really

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Speaker 1: And that hasn't just been Sunday. That was four or

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Speaker 1: and it's it's been it's been a collective effort. Look

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Speaker 1: been a collective effort. Ryan Fitzpatrick three touchdown passes now,

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Speaker 1: record eleven multi touchdown pass games. Uh. How would you

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Speaker 1: So I think when you look at the a f

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Speaker 1: and well, that would be something. And they plan on

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Speaker 1: and they'll extend their season into January and then it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fun. UH this we're taping right now here

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. On Thursday, the College Football Playoff commences with

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Speaker 1: two games, Oklahoma playing Clemson. This is actually a rematch

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with that.

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Speaker 1: I think that Oklahoma doesn't get blown out. UM. I

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Speaker 1: and he's the X factor, and I think that Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: won't be able to overcome the ultimate X factor in Watson. Wow,

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Speaker 1: But if you can take away Clemson's tight end easier

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Speaker 1: a high scoring game. It will be fun though. And finally,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they will. I think that Alabama will

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Speaker 1: They went a close one by you know, three to

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Speaker 1: five point margin. All right, Well, we wish you and

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Speaker 1: your family a happy New year. Exciting times here with

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Speaker 1: the Jets. We've enjoyed the podcast and hopefully next week

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have our own playoff installment. Is the Jets

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Speaker 1: look to prepare for a wild card weekend showdown somewhere

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Speaker 1: in Houston, Kansas City, Denver, or Cincinnati. Thanks you, thank

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Speaker 1: you here