WEBVTT - The Laces In Podcast - 2017 Schedule Breakdown 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.640 And here it is the two thousand seventeen regular season schedule. 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.399 Ethan Greenberg. Eric Allen here with you breaking down weeks 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:11.200 one through seventeen. We're live on Facebook. That means you 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:14.120 can comment below with your questions. Will be taking them 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.159 at the end of the show. Eric, First off, what 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.720 pops out with you from this schedule? Well, number one 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.880 is the Jets will open on the road at Buffalo 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.720 in Week one, but they're gonna stay on the road 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.920 for the first two weeks of the season, Ethan, for 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:35.520 the first time since. After the Jets go and play 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.440 the Bills in Western New York, they'll come home, get 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.280 in a week of practice, off to the West Coast 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.479 where they'll face the Oakland Raiders. And I'm one of 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.080 the most talented rosters and all football. You look at 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.720 a guy like Derek Carr playing quarterback, and then on 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.640 the defensive side of the ball, Khalil Mack of course. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.880 And then in week three, Ethan, the Jets will have 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.880 their home opener against the Miami Dolphins. So they all 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.600 when Raiders, very talented team, as you mentioned before twelve 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.800 and four a season ago. Now earlier today, Yeah, you 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.440 sat down with Bob was Shusan An analyzed weeks one 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:14.040 through seventeen. You are looking at the Jets two thousand 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:18.559 seventeen schedule. The NFL officially just released it moments ago. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:20.520 We're here with the Voice of the Jets, Bob was 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:27.479 Susan Your initial impressions as you've digested this pretty quickly, Um, interesting? Uh, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.240 front loaded with a couple of road games. Three of 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.959 the last four weeks on the road, so a tough 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.240 start and a tough finish the middle of the schedule, though, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.160 You've got on eleven weeks stretch where they're on the 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:42.640 road three times and all short trips trip to Ohio, 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.880 two trips to Florida. So this is not a taxing 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.200 schedule like last year. Remember when the schedule came, everybody 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.840 was talking about the first six, first six games, I mean, 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.880 this is just a murderers row. Well, three of their 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.280 first five games this year against teams that didn't make 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.840 the playoffs last year, and then they play on a 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.320 eleven week stretch where they've got seven home games on 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.800 a bye and three games on the road, So who 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.320 knows what they will still, if anything, be playing for 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.239 that last month of the season. That's where it gets tough, 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:13.040 and you look at you gotta go out west, you 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.800 gotta go to Denver, Um, gotta finish the season against 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.680 the Patriots. A trip to New Orleans is not easy. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.560 So it's hard at the end, and obviously a west 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.520 coast trip at the start of the season with Oakland 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:27.160 as well. But if you are looking for a schedule 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.000 where you could, potentially, if you got through the first 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.800 couple of weeks, maybe split those first two, have a 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.200 chance because you've got some home games. You're not gonna 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.320 have your team on short rest. Is one night game, 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.360 a lot of one o'clock games. Your team's in a routine. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.600 I mean that this is not what last year's schedule was. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.200 Last year's schedule was taxing. This is not a taxing schedule. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.399 You mentioned the Patriots game in week seventeen. YEP. It's 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:56.680 interesting the way the divisional contests layout in two thousand seventeen, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.640 because the Jets will be done with divisional play for 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:05.080 the most part after that Thursday night game on November second, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.679 all the way until the end. That's right, So U 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.800 five five divisional games relatively early in your finishing with 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.720 a lot of opponents. You just mentioned the Broncos well 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.600 even and you can see in the last six weeks 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.320 of the season they've got two NFC opponents. Normally, they 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.240 try and backload the schedule with divisional games and conference games, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.280 knowing that those will carry greater implications because of a 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.639 division title or tiebreakers, that type of thing. And you've 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.680 got some of those out of conference games played either 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.600 dead in the middle of schedule or at the beginning 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.960 where you're setting up whatever the consequences might be. Not 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.800 so this year. And I haven't taken a look at 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.080 everyone else's schedule in the league, so I'll be curious 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.920 to see if that's a trend across the league. But 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.400 just as far as the Jets are concerned, to play 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:57.120 five of your six divisional games basically before you hit 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.800 like the halfway point, or right at the halfway point, 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.920 you're done with the majority of your divisional play until 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.680 you get to your finale is is different. We're used 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.120 to opening at home at Mattlife Stadium. This year, the 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.520 Jets start with the Bills in Week one and then 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.800 then then a West Coast trip after that, the West 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:19.520 Coast trip early, which if I'm the team my favorite, 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.640 I'd rather get that out of the way early, and 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.800 then he come home. Miami is your home opener a 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.040 week three, file by a game with Jacksonville, and then 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.280 you're in Cleveland in week five. So maybe you get 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.479 split early or something like that on the road and 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.279 come back home and see where you're at. And no 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.440 one is expecting this team to have a big season. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.800 I mean, if you look at every over under for 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.919 the Jets, you approached the season, no one is thinking 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.120 the Jets are gonna be a playoff team. But if 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.159 there was a schedule that would give the fans hope 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.280 that at the start of the season they could make 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.400 a little bit of noise pull off maybe one of 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.880 those road wins to start off the year, and then 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.599 you get three teams in a row at home that 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.120 everyone is going to think, at least, are you know, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.000 our three teams the next three weeks that are beatable 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.080 and maybe you could be above five hundred five six 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.880 weeks into the season. Well, any team that's above five 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.040 hundred five or six weeks into the season is in it. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:18.039 You know, the NFL is different than any other sport psychologically. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.240 The impacts of what happens to you early in the 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.640 season are greater in the NFL. Then, you know, if 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.200 you play a hundred and sixty regular season games or 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.479 eighty regular season games and you get off to a 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.880 slow start. There's a mentality in the NBA, NHL, Major 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.599 League Baseball, those marathon sports where we we got plenty 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.360 of time, We're gonna play plenty of games. We'll get 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.200 ourselves out of this hole. In the NFL, you play 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.120 sixteen of these games, every game is armageddon. So when 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:45.479 you get off to the start they got off to 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.839 last year, all of a sudden, the sky is falling. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.880 This year, maybe they get off to a decent start. 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:54.719 You have a totally different mentality. So it'll be interesting 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.880 to see how those first few games play out. That 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.839 would they then go into week five, six, and seven 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.960 of the season with the competition obviously steps up a 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.800 little bit. You're you get a three week stretch where 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.680 you're playing the two teams that were in the Super 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.880 Bowl in a three week stretch. After you get through 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.480 the first five games, what is your record after those 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.520 first five games? What's your mentality going into those games? 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.040 You know, if you're one and four and now you're 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.359 looking at the Falcons and the Patriots two out of 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.960 three weeks. I mean, then the sky is falling. But 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.400 if you can get through the first five games three 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.560 and two, well, now a loss to one of those 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.960 teams doesn't wreck your year. It doesn't bury you deeper 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.159 in a hole you can't get out of. Now it's 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:36.960 a loss you can deal with because hey, alright, we're 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.680 three and three. Now we start fresh. We're in this thing. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.479 So they have an opportunity with some of the teams 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.040 they play early on to at least have a chance 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.120 in September to maybe give the Fansom hope that they 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.400 could have a season. So thirteen one o'clock games in 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.200 two thousand and seventeen to four o'clock games and a 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.400 four mentioned Thursday night games re rememb there are flex 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.160 schemes as well. Maybe the Jets can be flex in 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.719 sur primetime action down the line. But as always, Shooes, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:09.520 we appreciate your instant analysis. As always, Big Game Bob, 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:11.559 Bob was choosing the voice of the New York Jets 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.240 with great analysis. Eric. One of the biggest points is 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.600 the New York Jets played divisional opponents in five of 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.160 the first nine weeks of the season, so let's take 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.840 a look at the schedule here, start out in Buffalo 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.200 and then you move on to Miami. As you mentioned 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.480 the home opener in week three. Yeah, I mean in 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:33.200 between week one in week nine, you're playing five of 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.239 your six divisional games. Actually, this season for the Jets 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.800 will end week seventeen for the first time in franchise history. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.680 They'll close this season against the New England Patriots on 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.080 the road as a road opponent in New England, of course, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.840 in week seventeen. But yeah, early on to the season, 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.560 very divisional heavy. You got Buffalo in week one, you 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.520 got the home opener with the Dolphins in week three. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.240 That in week six, Ethan, you take on the New 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:08.520 England Patriots at home, where the Jets have consistently played 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.440 the Patriots tough. They fell in a tough ball game 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.560 last year, very close, nip and tuck. Hopefully they'll be 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.040 able to turn that around this season. On Week seven 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.920 you go to Miami and then a week nine, it's 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.520 Thursday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills for the third 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.760 consecutive year, Ethan. And yes, it is our color rush 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.920 game here it is fans. The Jets will be an 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:36.760 all green color rush Thursday, Week nine. When the good 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.200 thing about that Week nine match up against the Bills, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:44.320 it's a short week for the Jets. They're not going anywhere. 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.760 Week gate, you host the Atlanta Falcons, then you get 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.319 a couple of days to prepare. You host the Bills 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.679 color Rush game. A little unfortunate that the Jets won't 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:59.880 wear the white face masks again. But and so here's 0:08:59.920 --> 0:09:01.960 the little fun factory you see here. The Jets play 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.439 the Dolphins week three in week seven in two thousand 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.800 seventeen a season ago, the Jets and Dolphins didn't meet 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.839 until Week nine of last season. So a reversal there 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.440 for the divisional opponents. And before we move on, we 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.200 want to take a Facebook question here. Jason d asks, 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.120 what is the toughest month of the schedule. Well, that's 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.199 that is a tough one, Jason based. Traditionally, I break 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.840 the season down by quarters and not by months. You 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:32.480 look at October right here. You open up with Jacksonville home, 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.000 and then you're at Cleveland in week five. And if 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.800 Josh McCown is the Jets starting quarterback, hold no. A 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.040 lot of familiar faces on the defensive side of the 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:46.080 ball of Cleveland Browns. Of course, McCown was in Cleveland 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.679 the past couple of seasons. But the thing that jumps 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.480 out at me in October is Week six and then 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.120 week eight. Week six against the New England Patriots, defending 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.920 Super Bowl champions. They dominated the division over the past 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.319 fifteen years or so. And then we gave Matt Ryan 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:08.000 and that high flying offense with Julio Jones and company 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.600 will come to MetLife Stadium. So two of those three 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.880 weeks right there in October, you're playing against both Super 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:20.840 Bowl participants from last year Ethan and then you know, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.280 so October jumps out at me. And then that closed 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.319 that Bob was Shusen was just talking about as we 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.319 took a look at the schedule that you you come 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.600 out in December, you host a Kansas City team, a 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.160 perennial playoff team on December three. Then you're gonna go 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.320 out west and play the Denver Broncos and Von Miller 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:47.640 and company that tenacious defense on December ten. Then you 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:51.560 have another road game where you're gonna face Drew Brees 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:55.040 in the New Orleans Saints. John Morton, the new Jets 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.960 offensive coordinator, will probably give some intel to the Jets 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.080 defense that we can, he'll be pumped to go back 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.760 to New Orleans and play at the Super Dome. Uh 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.760 So those three games and that stretch in December stand 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.360 out to me, and of course that close against New England. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.199 Uh defend the Super Bowl champions. Enough said right there. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.120 So here's a little nugget for October. In December, October 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:21.520 and December. So here's a little fun fact for your 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.520 week sixteen. The Los Angeles Chargers still getting used to 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.760 saying that, but they played the New York Jets at 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.040 home since the first time since nineteen sixty was at 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.079 the Polo Grounds, so that'll be an interesting matchup. Nonetheless, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.839 we'll take one more and seth f ask. Is the 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:40.240 schedule easier or harder than last year? It's tough to say. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.719 You know what we do in April is everybody analyzes 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.120 the schedule and says, okay, here's a win here, here's 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.440 a loss here, and we try to go through each 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.600 game and have a complete breakdown. The bottom line is 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.720 last year, Ethan, when we looked at the schedule, the 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.120 first thing that jumped out at you were the Jets 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:05.680 for six or seven games, And he said, wow, that's 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.120 good enough be there could be a tough goal if 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.640 you don't get out of the blocks early because you 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.320 had a lot of playoff teams on your schedule, and 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.960 the Jets did indeed stumble out of the gate. This year, 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.880 it's a little bit different. You don't take away anything 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.319 about from the opposition, but when you look at the 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:29.280 opponents this year, I would say focus in on weeks 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.480 one through five. Can you come out of that in 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:37.119 good shape? You go to Buffalo, you go to Oakland, 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.319 like Shoes and I were talking about, maybe you get 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.520 split there, maybe win a pair of games, who knows. 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.000 Then you host the Miami Dolphins at home, your first 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.280 home game, Jacksonville comes here. I know a lot of 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.920 people have um high expectations for Jacksonville this year. They 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.560 got a new coach and Doug Moron, Tom Coughlin coming 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.719 back to MetLife stating. And then Week five and the 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.640 Cleveland Browns, So you know, can the Let's do some 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:05.520 damage early in the season. This first five weeks stand 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:09.840 out to me because then it really toughens off. I 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.680 think week six you got the Patriots, then a road 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:17.120 date with the Dolphins in Atlanta comes to town and 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.760 then the second half and we'll get into this more later. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:26.040 This final stretch could be awfully difficult for anything. So 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.319 not only did e a catch up with Bob was using, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.760 he also caught up with NFL Networks Brian Baldinger. We 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.319 just received the jets two thousand seventeen schedule and we're 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:41.000 now joined by NFL Network's Brian Baldinger. Baldi, what pops 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.400 out at you when you look at what the Jets 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.120 have ahead of themselves in two thousand seventeen, Well, I mean, anytime, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.080 you know, you look at the schedule and the first 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.240 thing you see is two road games to start to schedule, 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.920 you always go kind of whoa, because that's not happening 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.880 in very many places. So, you know, for them to 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.840 go to a division opponent Buffalo, you know, week one 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.800 on September ten, and have to turn around and take 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.760 that long flight to Oakland the very next week, and 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.840 we all know the type of problems that the Jets 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.560 have had playing Oakland over the years. That's a tough 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.600 start to any schedule being on the road, especially taking 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.160 on that that Oakland team that looks like they got 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.480 a whole lot of firepower and offense, what about that 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.600 first five game stretch. You mentioned that the two roads 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.680 to start, but then the Jets opened up at home 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.720 in Week three against the Miami Dolphins, and week four 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:31.240 they stay at home play Jacksonville. A lot of people 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.800 have high hopes for this year, and then a week 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:38.960 five they go to Cleveland. So in that first five 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.640 game mix pall the three of those teams non playoff 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.680 UH participants last year. Yeah, I mean, look at it 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.400 does get a little bit better. I mean, you know, look, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.640 the Miami Dolphins started turning things around last year, had 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.440 a winning record, made the playoffs. Adam Gates looks like, 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.800 you know, they've they've done a good job filling out 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.560 that roster right now. But the Jets certainly, no, it 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.360 won't be at all intimidator or out talented, I don't 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.480 think by the Mammi Dolphins. So look, you get a 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.600 game against Jacksonville here. I mean, it's a new coach 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.840 Coughland coming back into you know, that stadium that is 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.320 so familiar with and Doug Marone, who certainly knows, you know, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.320 the Jets from being an offensive line coach there. To me, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:17.840 it's a it's a real winnable game and you go 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.640 to Cleveland. So look, there's some wins there in the 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.840 first five games where you can kind of really build 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:27.760 them some things. Well, this bald Between September when the 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.480 Jets host the Dolphins at home and December three, when 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.520 the Jets host the Kansas City Chiefs, they will play 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:40.320 ten games, seven of those at home at Mattlife Stadium. Yeah, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.520 and in that stretch that you're talking about, Eric, on 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.880 October twenty night, they play the Falcons, which obviously is 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.840 gonna be a tough game against that offense. But you 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.040 stay home on a Thursday night game to play the Bills, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:51.680 so you don't have to travel that week at all, 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:53.760 so you get you know, I mean, it's always a 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.000 tough stretch when you're playing on a Sunday Thursday, but 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.200 at least there's no travel involved. You're right there. Most 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.800 teams that played Thursday night games, there's travel involved, whether 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.680 you're going to that Thursday game or coming back on 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.080 the Sunday prior to it. So I think that's a 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.840 good stretch right there. And then of course you played 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.000 that Thursday and then you got ten days to get 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.080 ready to go to it to Tampa on that November twelve. 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.160 So that's not a bad stretching there as far as 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.760 you know, being home, getting some rest, uh and getting 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.440 ready in ten days to go on the road to 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.560 play Tampa. I'll tell you a what to Baldy. This 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.080 team is going to know where it stands in the 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:31.040 division quite early this year because up until that home 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.360 game against the Buffalo Bills that Thursday night or on 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.440 November two, that will conclude a portion of their schedule 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.520 where they play five divisional games, and then that back 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:45.480 half between November second when they host the Bills and 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.680 they will not play another divisional game until December thirty one, 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.120 when they conclude the season against the New England Patriots. 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.400 You might know a whole lot better, Eric, but I 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.400 can't remember the last time the Jets finished the season 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.480 with the Patriots, especially in Foxborough, so they you know, 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.480 they played the playoff games that finished the season. But yeah, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.560 that's uh, they've got a tough stretcher after the Pie 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:08.520 week November nine, they do get two tough teams in 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.600 Carolina Kansas City at home, and then they got you know, 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.359 two tough road games at Denver in that New Orleans. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.320 So but they'll have a bye week to get ready, 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:17.879 to get healthy and all those kind of things. I 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.680 think nobody wants that early season by to get a 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.480 bye I think you know right around uh, you know 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.640 that that goes up to almost Thanksgiving a week. That's 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.600 that's not a bad time to get that. Thank you 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.520 so much for taking time out of your day to 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:34.160 help us break down in two thousand seventeens that schedule, 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:36.879 My pleasure. That's luck to you man, good talking to you. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.479 That was NFL Networks, Brian Baalzinger And if you're just 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.280 joining us now, Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen breaking down here, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.880 it is the two thousand and seventeen regular seasons schedule. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.040 We're on Facebook, we're live. Please comment with your questions. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.680 We'll try to get to as many as we can. 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.000 And Eric, the biggest point that I took of from 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.600 Baldy was that the starting in Week three, the New 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.960 York Jets seven out of ten at home at MetLife Stadium, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.359 no doubt about it. You open up on the road, 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.760 two games swing against Buffalo and then Oakland. Then you 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.880 come home. You'll be at the friendly confines of MetLife Stadium. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.880 MetLife Stadium for seven out of ten games and then 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.440 you have your buy in there and the Jets are 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:24.160 not gonna go too far even when they do move 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.040 away from MetLife Stadium, because you're going to You're going 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:34.359 to Cleveland here, Miami and Tampa. That's it. So that's 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.960 why I point to early in the season. If you 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.639 can make some headway here, then you can set yourself 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:45.280 up for possibly to be in good position around week 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.200 eleven when or week fourteen when you start hitting the 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:54.440 road for three of four road dates to close the season. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:55.960 That's what the thing that jumped out at me. The 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.000 first thing I saw on the schedule is you open 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.720 up two on the road and then you finish three 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.760 or four on the road. So that means the bulk 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.440 of the middle of your schedule is going to be 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.160 at home. And wouldn't it be something be terrific for 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.639 to Bowls and company if they get some home field 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.520 advantage this year by starting off on the right foot 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:22.680 against the Miami Dolphins at home September, feel good about 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.719 yourselves a little bit. Then Jacksonville comes to town the 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.720 next week, and then those next two home games are 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.520 gonna be tough ones. New England Patriots, Atlanta Falcons. So 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.720 you talked about this before thirteen one o'clock games, the 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.240 majority of them in that time span where the Jets 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.480 will be at home, great time to come out. And 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.240 you talked about the week eleven by, second season in 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.760 a row that the Jets have had a week eleven 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:49.040 by and ironically, Phil ms, is that a goodbye or 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.600 a bad bye? Well, it depends, Phil, how are the 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:56.040 Jets are gonna play? What from weeks one through week ten? 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.280 Because you know, you ask any team throughout the year, 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.760 and we're in a locker room throughout the season, and 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.280 most guys will tell you it's always a good time 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.359 for the boy if you're riding high. Though heading into 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:11.800 an off week, most people say, hey, listen, I'd rather 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.080 stay and keep on playing because we got some more months. 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:18.680 I'm going. But the bottom line is, I don't look 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.840 too much into it, but it gives you a chance 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:25.320 to rest up when guys potentially are banged up after 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:29.200 going through ten games, and then you get a six 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.000 week stretch to the end of the season. So I mean, 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:35.920 you can look at it on both sides of the coin. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.440 I like a bye probably pretty much right in the 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.520 middle of the season. And the Jets get it here 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:45.480 in week eleven. So you talked about before we answered 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.240 the Facebook question again Facebook Live, please comment your questions. 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:51.600 We talked about the most difficult month. Do you think 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:56.080 that there's a particular stretch in and throughout the season 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.840 that you see as particularly favorable or a little a 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:07.080 little challenge well favorable. You know you're analyzing it here 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.520 and you always look to see it. Where are some 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:15.240 opportunities where you do have extended time at home? So 0:21:15.680 --> 0:21:19.840 weeks three, weeks four you're at home against the Miami 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.800 Dolphins and then Jacksonville, and then week five you play 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:29.040 at Cleveland, a team who was also building Hugh Jackson, 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.879