Speaker 1: Welcome to another installed went of the Jet Podcast. There
Speaker 1: are a gallon here with my partner, of course, our
Speaker 1: star Chad Pennington. Well, CP, the Jets have done it.
Speaker 1: They have put themselves in position to go to the postseason.
Speaker 1: Who would have thought that a few weeks back, right
Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving after the Jets left Houston. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: think very many people would have given the Jets this
Speaker 1: much of a chance, including ourselves. We felt like right
Speaker 1: there around that time that they were defending and not
Speaker 1: on an up trend. But I think both you and
Speaker 1: I looked at the schedule early in the year and
Speaker 1: felt like they did have a chance to win ten games,
Speaker 1: and they have done that, and on top of that,
Speaker 1: they've got a chance to win in the eleventh game
Speaker 1: and control their own destiny. And so that's really exciting
Speaker 1: for Jet fans. I know, it's excited. Fighting for the
Speaker 1: players has got to be exciting for players like Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and Brandon Marshall who haven't ever played in the postseason.
Speaker 1: The Coast postseason play is certainly special, and so for
Speaker 1: this team to have that chance, UH is a great accomplishment,
Speaker 1: and he would like to see them finish the course
Speaker 1: and stay the course that they've been on and finished
Speaker 1: the deal here by being able to go up to Buffalo,
Speaker 1: which will be a huge game not only the Jets,
Speaker 1: but for Buffalo as well, fighting for record tough game
Speaker 1: playing in Buffalo, So it's going to be an interesting day.
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys chaid this week said we
Speaker 1: felt like there was something special happening or we had
Speaker 1: something special here. Earlier in the year, the veterans talking
Speaker 1: about just looking at the talent in the room and
Speaker 1: also the young talent. Could you see it? And what's
Speaker 1: that feeling like as a player when you know you're
Speaker 1: building towards something and that it just starts picking up. Well,
Speaker 1: there's no feeling like it. I think that's what draws
Speaker 1: us as players and coaches to this game, is when
Speaker 1: you're able to take a collective group of individuals and
Speaker 1: forwards a team and you start to feel the synergy,
Speaker 1: you start to feel the momentum, you feel, uh, the
Speaker 1: ability to play off of one another and to play
Speaker 1: complimentary football and to just be all in. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: a special feeling. I felt that a couple of times
Speaker 1: in my career, and uh, it's something that you really
Speaker 1: can't explain. Sometimes you can't put your finger on it.
Speaker 1: It's just something that has happened that has been a
Speaker 1: product of your hard work, your attitude, UM, your willingness
Speaker 1: to make sacrifices. And once you start to put those
Speaker 1: wins together and develop that momentum and energy, it's very
Speaker 1: hard to stop. Do you think something changed with this
Speaker 1: team with that Giants game twenty to time, They make
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter comeback, eventually finished that out in overtime.
Speaker 1: This Calvin Pace, your former teammate, said that was our springboard.
Speaker 1: He thought, I agree, and and the reason that I agree, um,
Speaker 1: is because of the way they were able to do it.
Speaker 1: There was no situation where the panic button was pushed. Um.
Speaker 1: It was a team that stayed the course and twenty
Speaker 1: to ten with eight minutes left, Um, they stayed the
Speaker 1: course on what they're trying to get accomplished. They didn't
Speaker 1: worry about being down by ten points and looking at
Speaker 1: what such a difficult task it was. They just kept
Speaker 1: chipping away and they get the field goal and then
Speaker 1: they get to stop and then gone down to score
Speaker 1: to tied up. And that was a huge momentum builder,
Speaker 1: not only for that game, but You can talk about
Speaker 1: the results that you want to produce and how you
Speaker 1: go about that, but you also have to have proof
Speaker 1: and a lot of times experience Trump's knowledge. And so
Speaker 1: when you have that experience of your system and the
Speaker 1: way you do things of producing that result, that experienced
Speaker 1: gives you the confidence to go back out and do
Speaker 1: it again. And even though you may have the knowledge
Speaker 1: on how to do it, that experience really puts the
Speaker 1: cap on Okay, this is who we are, this is
Speaker 1: our identity, this is how we're going to win. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what the Jets have been able to
Speaker 1: build over the course of this season and really go
Speaker 1: through this process of establishing who they are as a team.
Speaker 1: So that leads us to last Sunday. They taked out
Speaker 1: in the New England Patriots all over time by a
Speaker 1: twenty six to score. But the Jets had a two
Speaker 1: touchdown advantage in the second half and the Patriots came
Speaker 1: back showing model, showing character. That's what we expect from
Speaker 1: the defending Super Bowl champion. A team was dominated this
Speaker 1: division over the course of the last fifth teen years
Speaker 1: or so. But what will that overtime possession due now
Speaker 1: for the Jets moving forward as they have another moment
Speaker 1: to build off of where Ryan Fitzpatrick gets the ball
Speaker 1: Chad and he goes five place eight yards culminates the
Speaker 1: possession not just with the field goal, but he ends
Speaker 1: it with a touchdown. Derek Decker, Well, I think what
Speaker 1: was most important and most impressive about this game. Typically
Speaker 1: when teams play the Patriots, including the Jet Um, you
Speaker 1: lose before you even take the field because you give
Speaker 1: them too much credit and you look at what they've
Speaker 1: done over the years, you look at the hype around
Speaker 1: their team, their quarterback, their head coach, of the Patriot way,
Speaker 1: and you lose before you even step in between the
Speaker 1: white lines and give yourself a chance to win. And
Speaker 1: this was a team, let's let's look at this game.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt that this was a wounded animal in
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. But with that being said, a
Speaker 1: lot of times teams still lose to the Patriots even
Speaker 1: when they're wounded like this, because they give into the
Speaker 1: Patriot way and thinking that, well, this way is going
Speaker 1: to prevail and we're just not up to that yet,
Speaker 1: and we're not up to that standard. And the Jets
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to give in to that being up
Speaker 1: by two touchdowns, allowing the game to be tied going
Speaker 1: into overtime. Having the quirky decision of kicking instead of receiving,
Speaker 1: the Jets could have fallen into believing, now, oh, this
Speaker 1: is the Patriots, this is how they're going to do it,
Speaker 1: this is their spe for success. We don't have a shot.
Speaker 1: And they didn't do that. Even with the adversity that
Speaker 1: they faced, they didn't do that. And they did exactly
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do with the team that is,
Speaker 1: that has heard, that is injured, that isn't you put
Speaker 1: them away? And that's exactly what they did. They took
Speaker 1: that decision that the Patriots made to kick, and they
Speaker 1: took the ball and then went down to score and
Speaker 1: put the team away with the touch out. And that
Speaker 1: was most impressive for me. Straight up. Do you think
Speaker 1: a lot of people have made too much about New
Speaker 1: England's decisions and not given the Jets enough credit. I
Speaker 1: talked to a few folks on the radio the other night.
Speaker 1: I received a call on Inside the Jets where people
Speaker 1: said it was bizarre the way Belichick coached the game,
Speaker 1: that hey, you know, at the end of the half,
Speaker 1: they didn't go forward at before overtime. After the coin toss,
Speaker 1: obviously they all luck to kick. They had some guys
Speaker 1: out of that ball game. And I said, Jed, who
Speaker 1: am I to question Bill belichicker any of us. That
Speaker 1: guy has won four championships, They've been to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl six times. This guy wants to win everything he does,
Speaker 1: so whatever decision he makes he thinks is best for
Speaker 1: his ball club. The bottom line is the Jets don't
Speaker 1: win that game if they don't execute well. I completely agree.
Speaker 1: And here's what we have to understand. You have to
Speaker 1: go into each game as a coach looking at what
Speaker 1: you have available from a player's standpoint, and then with
Speaker 1: those players that you have available, how do you go
Speaker 1: about winning the game. And typically that doesn't that may
Speaker 1: not go along with how you've won previous games. And
Speaker 1: so the Patriots went into this game knowing they are injured,
Speaker 1: knowing that they had limited playmakers, and so they were
Speaker 1: trying to play this game as close to the best
Speaker 1: as possible, making sure they did not lose the game
Speaker 1: to the Jet number one. And let's see if the
Speaker 1: Jets will lose the game to us, knowing that we're
Speaker 1: wounded and we don't have a lot of firepower, and
Speaker 1: it almost worked. And so really they played the game
Speaker 1: exactly how they wanted to play it, and so you
Speaker 1: can't question uh their decision before half on what they did,
Speaker 1: or their you know, their decision at UH in overtime,
Speaker 1: and I think all of those decisions were specifically done
Speaker 1: for the specific reason of the injuries that they had
Speaker 1: and how they thought they needed to play the game
Speaker 1: to get a win. And so what they did was
Speaker 1: it worked all the way up until over time. They
Speaker 1: made the decision to say, look, we're hurting on offense.
Speaker 1: We need to allow our defense to try to get
Speaker 1: us to feel position and then we can make a
Speaker 1: couple of plays to then allow are one of our
Speaker 1: best players on the team, which is our field goal kicker,
Speaker 1: to kick a field goal and get out of here
Speaker 1: with a win. That's what they tried to do. And
Speaker 1: you have to give the Jets credit and saying, you
Speaker 1: know what, this is the this is the way they
Speaker 1: decided to play. We're not letting that happen. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what happened. The Jets did not fall prey to
Speaker 1: allowing the decisions of the Patriots effect how they were
Speaker 1: going to try to win the game and they did
Speaker 1: not let that happen. How impressed were you by Chan
Speaker 1: Gaily because I'm watching that ballgame and we talked about
Speaker 1: it before. Uh. The second matchup, the return matchup between
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Patriots is, Hey, we know all
Speaker 1: the Patriots are gonna try to take Brandon Marshall away.
Speaker 1: They didn't. Eight receptions, a hundred fifteen yards, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and Brandon is having an unbelievable season. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I thought Chan did a lot of clever things to
Speaker 1: get him some space. Well, I think what's really impressive
Speaker 1: right now and fun to watch from an offensive standpoint,
Speaker 1: is that you see offensive players completely in tune with
Speaker 1: their coordinator. And that's when it's really special. It's when
Speaker 1: you trust the coordinator is going to put your teammates
Speaker 1: and yourself in the position to make plays, and you
Speaker 1: don't question that and you go along with what he's doing.
Speaker 1: And that's what is special right now. It's the Chan Gaily.
Speaker 1: As any coordinator will tell you, play calling is overrated.
Speaker 1: But what we have to do is the staff is
Speaker 1: make sure we're giving our playmakers a chance to make
Speaker 1: place and then the and then the players have to
Speaker 1: go out and execute those plays. The quarterback is executing
Speaker 1: the plays, finding the guys in space, the receivers are
Speaker 1: making sure they're running crisp route and making those plays
Speaker 1: in space. And so it's been really fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I think the screen game it's something that is really
Speaker 1: unique to the Jets offense and how they every week
Speaker 1: find a way to allow these screens to create big
Speaker 1: plays for them, in explosive plays and plays that keep
Speaker 1: drives moving. I mean that is an integral part of
Speaker 1: their offense, as well as their spread system with their
Speaker 1: empty UH formations and their three by one trips formations.
Speaker 1: They're doing a lot of good things there. And so
Speaker 1: as an offense there they have really found their groove.
Speaker 1: And that hasn't just been Sunday. That was four or
Speaker 1: five weeks back. We felt like that their offense started
Speaker 1: to find their groove and find out who they are,
Speaker 1: and it's it's been it's been a collective effort. Look
Speaker 1: at the rushing attack, UH, the Jest didn't have just
Speaker 1: one rusher that carried the load. They had three guys
Speaker 1: that we're extremely productive in the running games to produce
Speaker 1: more than a hundred forty yards rushing, So it's completely
Speaker 1: been a collective effort. Ryan Fitzpatrick three touchdown passes now,
Speaker 1: He's got twenty nine on the season that ties many
Speaker 1: testoverty for the franchise mark. He also has a team
Speaker 1: record eleven multi touchdown pass games. Uh. How would you
Speaker 1: evaluate Ryan as far as a quarterback on the whole,
Speaker 1: because I think people are starting to give him some
Speaker 1: credit out there nationally and the Jets are starting to
Speaker 1: get it and they're not complaining about people sleeping on us.
Speaker 1: That's not the way this team goes about their business.
Speaker 1: There's goal and work and foul uh Todd Bowls each
Speaker 1: and every day. But fits Where would you put him
Speaker 1: as far as not like a quarterback ranking, but just
Speaker 1: how well is he playing as the Jets have made
Speaker 1: this postseason push right now? Well, I think from what
Speaker 1: I've seen in my experience being around him and he
Speaker 1: during his career, I think this is his most productive,
Speaker 1: most efficient and consistent season as a pro. And it's
Speaker 1: been fun to watch. Uh. He's enjoyed playing, you can
Speaker 1: tell it. Uh. He has a level of confidence about him.
Speaker 1: Um that exudes from him in his body language. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's completely in tune with his coordinator and what he's
Speaker 1: doing the best is that he is just creating plays
Speaker 1: and some of the plays may not stick out in
Speaker 1: the stat but he has been making plays with his feet, uh,
Speaker 1: making plays by how he's delivered the football. He made
Speaker 1: a couple of throws on Sunday side arm finding different
Speaker 1: ways to deliver the football to his playmakers. Uh. Finding
Speaker 1: other times where he just puts the ball up because
Speaker 1: he trusts the Brandon Marshall to go up and make
Speaker 1: a play. So there's a level of trust there that
Speaker 1: he's playing with a level of confidence that he's playing well. Um.
Speaker 1: That is really fun to watch. And I think this
Speaker 1: has been his most productive, inefficient season as a professional quarterback.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned it before the offense firing at all cylinders,
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the contributions they got from three backs.
Speaker 1: Stephen Redley, a former Patriot, played very well. But how
Speaker 1: about the contributions on the outside Quincy and noon one
Speaker 1: now two weeks where he's made pivotal plays for this offense.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people say, well, Quincy is
Speaker 1: just a blocker. Well, no, he can be effective in
Speaker 1: the past game as a receiver as well. And then
Speaker 1: Kenbral Tompkins I think has stepped up. He made some plays,
Speaker 1: played with his hair on fire against the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots as well. So now we're starting to see balance
Speaker 1: throughout this offense. We talked about it earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: We wanted to see who the receivers would be outside
Speaker 1: of Marshall and Becker to make plays, and we talked
Speaker 1: about how that is really important to the success of
Speaker 1: the offense, just to create a little bit of breathing
Speaker 1: room for your typical playmakers. And you've got to have
Speaker 1: those one or two plays by those third and fourth
Speaker 1: receivers that kind of just extend drives. They give you
Speaker 1: a little breathing room, they create some energy, they create
Speaker 1: a spark. Yes they're not to go to guy, but
Speaker 1: they're very pivotal in the overall success of the Jets offense.
Speaker 1: And you have seen that. We start to see Devin
Speaker 1: Smith do a little bit of that. Curly did some
Speaker 1: of that earlier in the year, and now you're seeing
Speaker 1: Tompkins and the Noon Law do the same thing. And
Speaker 1: it's been impressive. And that's what you have to see.
Speaker 1: When I saw those plays being made early by Tompkins.
Speaker 1: I started to feel good about the Jets attack for
Speaker 1: the rest of the game because that creates another issue
Speaker 1: for defense to worry about. And I think with the
Speaker 1: noon Law, what we've been able to see is his
Speaker 1: ability to run after the catch. He's an impressive runner
Speaker 1: once he gets the ball in his hand. He's not
Speaker 1: only physical, but he's fast, and so that creates another
Speaker 1: element that the Jets can use to their advantage. Twenty
Speaker 1: seven points a game, four hundred twenty three yards per
Speaker 1: game during this five game winning streak. On the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball, You'll take it anytime you give
Speaker 1: up thirteen points. What did you like most from the
Speaker 1: Jets defensive effort against the Patriots? The thing that stood
Speaker 1: out to meet Chad was this team is fantastic on
Speaker 1: third down. Right now, they just held Tom Brady. I
Speaker 1: don't care who he was playing with. He's dangerous. He
Speaker 1: was one a tenant on third down against the Jets. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the most impressive part of it was that,
Speaker 1: other than the fourth of nine completion to Gronkowski, Uh,
Speaker 1: you didn't see very many explosive plays and pivotal explosive plays. Um.
Speaker 1: They limited those explosive plays and they were able to
Speaker 1: get the Tom Brady get hit the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hand quickly, um, and just keep him uncomfortable all day.
Speaker 1: And so obviously we we saw an offense that is
Speaker 1: certainly struggling because of the injury factor and they don't
Speaker 1: have their typical playmakers at their disposal. But with that
Speaker 1: being said, the Jets did not allow that to happen
Speaker 1: as well, and they still made Tom Brady uncomfortable. They
Speaker 1: used a mix of coverages this game. I saw more
Speaker 1: seven and eight man zone defenses and schemes and I've
Speaker 1: seen all year. And I think that was a great
Speaker 1: adjustment by the Jets staff um to you know, allow
Speaker 1: our the Jets defenders to cover in zones, not put
Speaker 1: Gronkowski in one on one situations and that and they
Speaker 1: were able to still get pass us for three and
Speaker 1: four defenders, which was impressive. So they mixed it up
Speaker 1: as a defense, they made place when they had to
Speaker 1: and and it was a really good solid performance by
Speaker 1: the defense. All right. So very simply, what do they
Speaker 1: have to do to beat the Bills? You mentioned before
Speaker 1: that the Bills are gonna have professional pride seven and eight.
Speaker 1: Of course, they'd like to finish the season out on
Speaker 1: a winning note. They're banged up, though, Chad, you look
Speaker 1: at that lineup right now, it's a lot different than
Speaker 1: the lineup who came here to MetLife Stadium. They're missing
Speaker 1: Gilmore in the secondary. He's a fantastic corner cornerback. Rookie
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby has had an incredible year. He might be
Speaker 1: out as well. Offensively, Sheney McCoy might be out. Charles
Speaker 1: Clay is definitely out, Kyle Kyle Williams has been out
Speaker 1: for a long time. Marcel Darius is questionable. They're hurting.
Speaker 1: This is a banged up ball club. What do the
Speaker 1: Jets have to do as they travel to Western New
Speaker 1: York and try to stamp their ticket? Well, I think
Speaker 1: I think the mentality has to be the same mentality
Speaker 1: that we would have when I played for the Jets
Speaker 1: when we would play the Miami Dolphins. We felt like
Speaker 1: that if we went and when we played the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: if we did not give their defense opportunities to create
Speaker 1: explosive play through turnovers and tacks and negative plays, and
Speaker 1: we played it close to the vest, and we were
Speaker 1: very detailed and how we took care of the ball
Speaker 1: and we understood bil position that we would always come
Speaker 1: out on top and eight tries. We were seven and
Speaker 1: one against the Dolphins with that mentality, and so I
Speaker 1: think that's the mentality that that the Jets take the
Speaker 1: Buffalo knowing that the Buffalo Bills will be energetic, they
Speaker 1: will be emotional, the crowd will be into it. Uh,
Speaker 1: you should have decent weather around thirty degrees or so,
Speaker 1: but no craziness with wind and rain and snow and
Speaker 1: those types of things. So you should be okay with weather. Um,
Speaker 1: But the Jets go into this game going the only
Speaker 1: way that the Bills can beat us is if we
Speaker 1: lose to them to turnovers and penalties and mental eras.
Speaker 1: If we play that we were supposed to play and
Speaker 1: not turn them all over and not give up the
Speaker 1: big exposed to play on defense, the Jets will win
Speaker 1: this game. And I think that's the mentality that they
Speaker 1: have to have. Yeah, they should have a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence going in this ball game. Now, Shady McCoy did
Speaker 1: rush for over a hundred yards against this defense, and
Speaker 1: again we don't know if he's gonna play this week,
Speaker 1: but this is the number one ranked rushing defense in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and I gotta imagine Chad defensively,
Speaker 1: you just want to keep ty Rod in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He's an athlete, he can hurt you, and I think
Speaker 1: he's made stops as far as progress this year, but
Speaker 1: still you want him in the pocket as your big
Speaker 1: guys hopefully set the edge and then on the outside.
Speaker 1: His favorite target is Samuel Watkins once a guy he's
Speaker 1: missing Charles Clay and Watkins is a big time receiver.
Speaker 1: But I imagine, uh, you know, Durrell Reeves is gonna
Speaker 1: be with him most of the day. Well, I think,
Speaker 1: um implementing some zone coverages where you don't have those
Speaker 1: one on one matches because he still does a really
Speaker 1: good job and he made some plays in that first
Speaker 1: game one on one. Um that you want to incorporate
Speaker 1: some zone coverages where you have multiple defenders around him.
Speaker 1: You also may look at when you do have main coverage,
Speaker 1: you may bracket uh, Sammy Watkins with the safety in
Speaker 1: your second corner and let Drill take the second receiver
Speaker 1: instead of the first option. UM that that's that's an issue.
Speaker 1: And then when your pass rush, you definitely want to
Speaker 1: be disciplined in the pass rush. It's not necessarily how
Speaker 1: do we get to him as fast, but how do
Speaker 1: we corral him in the pocket force him to be
Speaker 1: a pocket passer. I think that his weakness right now,
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, would be his accuracy from the pocket on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. And so you wanted to force him
Speaker 1: to beat you if if they are going to with
Speaker 1: his arm and being accurate down in and down out
Speaker 1: on a consistent basis, which he has not been able
Speaker 1: to prove that he can do that yet. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned it before. On the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: it's just don't make mistakes and do what you do
Speaker 1: because they're in such a great rhythm right now. Whereas
Speaker 1: the Bells. If you really want to point to a
Speaker 1: problem they've had this year, it's been the defense. It
Speaker 1: hasn't been the offense. They've been able to run the football, uh,
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor has been able to get some explosive passing games,
Speaker 1: but defensively where they played good play very well on
Speaker 1: a couple of games. I think about that New England
Speaker 1: Monday Night game that the Bills lost a narrow contest,
Speaker 1: and then coming here they played awfully while against the
Speaker 1: Jets offense but by and large, this defense hasn't met
Speaker 1: their own expectations in Buffalo and it could be hurting
Speaker 1: in the secondary and along that defensive line. So for
Speaker 1: the Jets, they just got to do what they do
Speaker 1: and don't turn it over because this Bill's team has
Speaker 1: not been getting to the quarterback and they might have
Speaker 1: a problem matching up with the Jets weapons right now.
Speaker 1: I think two things are are key for the Jets offense.
Speaker 1: Number One, I think uh it is keeping Fitzpatrick clean
Speaker 1: in the pocket. That's something that we didn't talk about
Speaker 1: in the New England game on Sunday. The pocket was
Speaker 1: extremely clean throughout the whole game. Fitzpatrick was able to
Speaker 1: step up, make his reads, didn't have to move off
Speaker 1: of his spot very much. The pocket was extremely clean.
Speaker 1: The Patriots didn't get to him very much other than
Speaker 1: the one fumble. Other than that, he had a clean
Speaker 1: pocket to work from. That's that's the key number one
Speaker 1: against the Bill. Number two, I think it's key. I
Speaker 1: think the Jets struggled with getting off of the jam
Speaker 1: and press against the Bills. The Bills did a really
Speaker 1: good job of that, especially in the red zone, of
Speaker 1: disrupting the route, timing and the route combinations by jaming
Speaker 1: at the lint of scrimmage in that first five yards
Speaker 1: and so working on your releases this week, making sure
Speaker 1: that you're able to get off of those jam and
Speaker 1: press type of coverage is I think will be important
Speaker 1: for the Jets passing game. That's outstanding analysis. But that
Speaker 1: cloes to my point too, is that you know, Gilmore
Speaker 1: and Darby are one of the finer cornerback tandems in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. They might be missing both of them,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Hey, we will have plenty
Speaker 1: of time to talk about the postseason next week, but
Speaker 1: let me just ask you this one before we get there.
Speaker 1: How dangerous can this Jets team be if they in
Speaker 1: and they're in when you look at the FC landscape, well,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be extremely dangerous. Number One, they can
Speaker 1: stop the run defensively, uh. That that is key in
Speaker 1: the postseason. Uh, and then too offensively. They have proven
Speaker 1: that they can win multiple ways. They can win with
Speaker 1: their running games, they can win with their downfield passing games.
Speaker 1: They can also win with their short screen game. They
Speaker 1: have multiple players that have proven they can make plays
Speaker 1: when their number is called. You can't just focus on
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall. You can't just focus on Chris Ivory. There
Speaker 1: have been multiple players to step up and make plays
Speaker 1: and create yards for them as an offense. So, uh,
Speaker 1: they're dangerous and they're capable of going on the road
Speaker 1: and winning on the road and being successful that way.
Speaker 1: So I think when you look at the a f
Speaker 1: C landscape, the Jets have just as good of chance
Speaker 1: as anybody, uh to make a deep run into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and well, that would be something. And they plan on
Speaker 1: taking care of business here Sunday. Uh, As you know,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles told those guys, Hey, we're gonna keep our
Speaker 1: head head down and then we'll see where we are
Speaker 1: and we'll pick our head up at the down of
Speaker 1: the season. And I've always thought, Yead that eleven and
Speaker 1: five would get you there, and indeed it will get
Speaker 1: the Jets there. Who would have thought the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: would have won on the road and lost to the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. But anything can happen in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: The Jets just gotta be on point one more time
Speaker 1: and they'll extend their season into January and then it's
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. UH this we're taping right now here
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. On Thursday, the College Football Playoff commences with
Speaker 1: two games, Oklahoma playing Clemson. This is actually a rematch
Speaker 1: of a bowl game last year at Clemson ran rough
Speaker 1: shot all over Boomer Sooner. What do you think about
Speaker 1: this match up? Well, I think it's interesting and and
Speaker 1: the reason I think it's interesting now is with the
Speaker 1: uh suspension of the three players. Even though Devo Swaine
Speaker 1: he wants to say that their backups. You look at
Speaker 1: the receiver that had had to go home early. He's
Speaker 1: been very productive over the last five or six games
Speaker 1: for the Clempson offense. And so I think it's a
Speaker 1: huge detriment, not necessarily, but it certainly causes a distraction.
Speaker 1: And UH as a team, you're trying to eliminate those
Speaker 1: distractions when you go into these playoffs type games. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with that.
Speaker 1: I think that Oklahoma doesn't get blown out. UM. I
Speaker 1: think with their quarterback being an X factor and how
Speaker 1: they've been playing in the latter part of the season,
Speaker 1: they're going to be right there in the mix. But
Speaker 1: I think the X factor here is the Clemson quarterback
Speaker 1: um able to yep and Watson being able to make
Speaker 1: plays not only with his feet but with his arm,
Speaker 1: and he's the X factor, and I think that Oklahoma
Speaker 1: won't be able to overcome the ultimate X factor in Watson. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm going on the other side of the ball. I
Speaker 1: think Oklahoma is. People are sleeping on Oklahoma a little
Speaker 1: bit because they lost early in the year in the
Speaker 1: Red River War to Texas. I think obviously they have
Speaker 1: good team speed. They haven't faced a quarterback like Watson before,
Speaker 1: and he might be the most dynamic player in college football.
Speaker 1: But if you can take away Clemson's tight end easier
Speaker 1: said than done, and try to contain him, I think
Speaker 1: Clemson is gonna have all sorts of problems defensively against
Speaker 1: this Oklahoma offense because they can run the football and
Speaker 1: you mentioned Baker Mayfield before, they can spread you out
Speaker 1: and throw the ball all day. I like Oklahoma in
Speaker 1: a high scoring game. It will be fun though. And finally,
Speaker 1: Alabama Michigan State, Mark D'Antonio Nick Saban have known each
Speaker 1: other for very years. I saw somebody print today that, hey,
Speaker 1: it's Michigan State's three star recruits against Alabama's five star recruits.
Speaker 1: But d'An tonio. You know this, he loves playing that
Speaker 1: underdog role. I mean, this is a fascinating matchup, It
Speaker 1: really is. I think it's two teams that probably mirror
Speaker 1: each other and in their approach as a program as
Speaker 1: well as how they like to play on the field.
Speaker 1: When I look at it, I think from Michigan State, Uh,
Speaker 1: the X factor has to be Connor Cook. I think
Speaker 1: they're built similar to say in L s U or
Speaker 1: one of those teams. But Michigan State has a better
Speaker 1: quarterback and so his ability to make plays with his
Speaker 1: arm is going to be really really important. The ability
Speaker 1: of the Michigan State receivers too, to beat the Alabama
Speaker 1: defenders in the secondary is the key. Uh. If if
Speaker 1: they're able to do that, they'll have a chance to win.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. I think that Alabama will
Speaker 1: be able to create pressure with their front floor, play
Speaker 1: coverage behind the front floor, control of the line of scrimmage. Uh.
Speaker 1: They went a close one by you know, three to
Speaker 1: five point margin. All right, Well, we wish you and
Speaker 1: your family a happy New year. Exciting times here with
Speaker 1: the Jets. We've enjoyed the podcast and hopefully next week
Speaker 1: we're gonna have our own playoff installment. Is the Jets
Speaker 1: look to prepare for a wild card weekend showdown somewhere
Speaker 1: in Houston, Kansas City, Denver, or Cincinnati. Thanks you, thank
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