Speaker 1: And here it is the two thousand seventeen regular season schedule.
Speaker 1: Ethan Greenberg. Eric Allen here with you breaking down weeks
Speaker 1: one through seventeen. We're live on Facebook. That means you
Speaker 1: can comment below with your questions. Will be taking them
Speaker 1: at the end of the show. Eric, First off, what
Speaker 1: pops out with you from this schedule? Well, number one
Speaker 1: is the Jets will open on the road at Buffalo
Speaker 1: in Week one, but they're gonna stay on the road
Speaker 1: for the first two weeks of the season, Ethan, for
Speaker 1: the first time since. After the Jets go and play
Speaker 1: the Bills in Western New York, they'll come home, get
Speaker 1: in a week of practice, off to the West Coast
Speaker 1: where they'll face the Oakland Raiders. And I'm one of
Speaker 1: the most talented rosters and all football. You look at
Speaker 1: a guy like Derek Carr playing quarterback, and then on
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, Khalil Mack of course.
Speaker 1: And then in week three, Ethan, the Jets will have
Speaker 1: their home opener against the Miami Dolphins. So they all
Speaker 1: when Raiders, very talented team, as you mentioned before twelve
Speaker 1: and four a season ago. Now earlier today, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: sat down with Bob was Shusan An analyzed weeks one
Speaker 1: through seventeen. You are looking at the Jets two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen schedule. The NFL officially just released it moments ago.
Speaker 1: We're here with the Voice of the Jets, Bob was
Speaker 1: Susan Your initial impressions as you've digested this pretty quickly, Um, interesting? Uh,
Speaker 1: front loaded with a couple of road games. Three of
Speaker 1: the last four weeks on the road, so a tough
Speaker 1: start and a tough finish the middle of the schedule, though,
Speaker 1: You've got on eleven weeks stretch where they're on the
Speaker 1: road three times and all short trips trip to Ohio,
Speaker 1: two trips to Florida. So this is not a taxing
Speaker 1: schedule like last year. Remember when the schedule came, everybody
Speaker 1: was talking about the first six, first six games, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is just a murderers row. Well, three of their
Speaker 1: first five games this year against teams that didn't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year, and then they play on a
Speaker 1: eleven week stretch where they've got seven home games on
Speaker 1: a bye and three games on the road, So who
Speaker 1: knows what they will still, if anything, be playing for
Speaker 1: that last month of the season. That's where it gets tough,
Speaker 1: and you look at you gotta go out west, you
Speaker 1: gotta go to Denver, Um, gotta finish the season against
Speaker 1: the Patriots. A trip to New Orleans is not easy.
Speaker 1: So it's hard at the end, and obviously a west
Speaker 1: coast trip at the start of the season with Oakland
Speaker 1: as well. But if you are looking for a schedule
Speaker 1: where you could, potentially, if you got through the first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, maybe split those first two, have a
Speaker 1: chance because you've got some home games. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: have your team on short rest. Is one night game,
Speaker 1: a lot of one o'clock games. Your team's in a routine.
Speaker 1: I mean that this is not what last year's schedule was.
Speaker 1: Last year's schedule was taxing. This is not a taxing schedule.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the Patriots game in week seventeen. YEP. It's
Speaker 1: interesting the way the divisional contests layout in two thousand seventeen,
Speaker 1: because the Jets will be done with divisional play for
Speaker 1: the most part after that Thursday night game on November second,
Speaker 1: all the way until the end. That's right, So U
Speaker 1: five five divisional games relatively early in your finishing with
Speaker 1: a lot of opponents. You just mentioned the Broncos well
Speaker 1: even and you can see in the last six weeks
Speaker 1: of the season they've got two NFC opponents. Normally, they
Speaker 1: try and backload the schedule with divisional games and conference games,
Speaker 1: knowing that those will carry greater implications because of a
Speaker 1: division title or tiebreakers, that type of thing. And you've
Speaker 1: got some of those out of conference games played either
Speaker 1: dead in the middle of schedule or at the beginning
Speaker 1: where you're setting up whatever the consequences might be. Not
Speaker 1: so this year. And I haven't taken a look at
Speaker 1: everyone else's schedule in the league, so I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to see if that's a trend across the league. But
Speaker 1: just as far as the Jets are concerned, to play
Speaker 1: five of your six divisional games basically before you hit
Speaker 1: like the halfway point, or right at the halfway point,
Speaker 1: you're done with the majority of your divisional play until
Speaker 1: you get to your finale is is different. We're used
Speaker 1: to opening at home at Mattlife Stadium. This year, the
Speaker 1: Jets start with the Bills in Week one and then
Speaker 1: then then a West Coast trip after that, the West
Speaker 1: Coast trip early, which if I'm the team my favorite,
Speaker 1: I'd rather get that out of the way early, and
Speaker 1: then he come home. Miami is your home opener a
Speaker 1: week three, file by a game with Jacksonville, and then
Speaker 1: you're in Cleveland in week five. So maybe you get
Speaker 1: split early or something like that on the road and
Speaker 1: come back home and see where you're at. And no
Speaker 1: one is expecting this team to have a big season.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at every over under for
Speaker 1: the Jets, you approached the season, no one is thinking
Speaker 1: the Jets are gonna be a playoff team. But if
Speaker 1: there was a schedule that would give the fans hope
Speaker 1: that at the start of the season they could make
Speaker 1: a little bit of noise pull off maybe one of
Speaker 1: those road wins to start off the year, and then
Speaker 1: you get three teams in a row at home that
Speaker 1: everyone is going to think, at least, are you know,
Speaker 1: our three teams the next three weeks that are beatable
Speaker 1: and maybe you could be above five hundred five six
Speaker 1: weeks into the season. Well, any team that's above five
Speaker 1: hundred five or six weeks into the season is in it.
Speaker 1: You know, the NFL is different than any other sport psychologically.
Speaker 1: The impacts of what happens to you early in the
Speaker 1: season are greater in the NFL. Then, you know, if
Speaker 1: you play a hundred and sixty regular season games or
Speaker 1: eighty regular season games and you get off to a
Speaker 1: slow start. There's a mentality in the NBA, NHL, Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, those marathon sports where we we got plenty
Speaker 1: of time, We're gonna play plenty of games. We'll get
Speaker 1: ourselves out of this hole. In the NFL, you play
Speaker 1: sixteen of these games, every game is armageddon. So when
Speaker 1: you get off to the start they got off to
Speaker 1: last year, all of a sudden, the sky is falling.
Speaker 1: This year, maybe they get off to a decent start.
Speaker 1: You have a totally different mentality. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see how those first few games play out. That
Speaker 1: would they then go into week five, six, and seven
Speaker 1: of the season with the competition obviously steps up a
Speaker 1: little bit. You're you get a three week stretch where
Speaker 1: you're playing the two teams that were in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in a three week stretch. After you get through
Speaker 1: the first five games, what is your record after those
Speaker 1: first five games? What's your mentality going into those games?
Speaker 1: You know, if you're one and four and now you're
Speaker 1: looking at the Falcons and the Patriots two out of
Speaker 1: three weeks. I mean, then the sky is falling. But
Speaker 1: if you can get through the first five games three
Speaker 1: and two, well, now a loss to one of those
Speaker 1: teams doesn't wreck your year. It doesn't bury you deeper
Speaker 1: in a hole you can't get out of. Now it's
Speaker 1: a loss you can deal with because hey, alright, we're
Speaker 1: three and three. Now we start fresh. We're in this thing.
Speaker 1: So they have an opportunity with some of the teams
Speaker 1: they play early on to at least have a chance
Speaker 1: in September to maybe give the Fansom hope that they
Speaker 1: could have a season. So thirteen one o'clock games in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen to four o'clock games and a
Speaker 1: four mentioned Thursday night games re rememb there are flex
Speaker 1: schemes as well. Maybe the Jets can be flex in
Speaker 1: sur primetime action down the line. But as always, Shooes,
Speaker 1: we appreciate your instant analysis. As always, Big Game Bob,
Speaker 1: Bob was choosing the voice of the New York Jets
Speaker 1: with great analysis. Eric. One of the biggest points is
Speaker 1: the New York Jets played divisional opponents in five of
Speaker 1: the first nine weeks of the season, so let's take
Speaker 1: a look at the schedule here, start out in Buffalo
Speaker 1: and then you move on to Miami. As you mentioned
Speaker 1: the home opener in week three. Yeah, I mean in
Speaker 1: between week one in week nine, you're playing five of
Speaker 1: your six divisional games. Actually, this season for the Jets
Speaker 1: will end week seventeen for the first time in franchise history.
Speaker 1: They'll close this season against the New England Patriots on
Speaker 1: the road as a road opponent in New England, of course,
Speaker 1: in week seventeen. But yeah, early on to the season,
Speaker 1: very divisional heavy. You got Buffalo in week one, you
Speaker 1: got the home opener with the Dolphins in week three.
Speaker 1: That in week six, Ethan, you take on the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots at home, where the Jets have consistently played
Speaker 1: the Patriots tough. They fell in a tough ball game
Speaker 1: last year, very close, nip and tuck. Hopefully they'll be
Speaker 1: able to turn that around this season. On Week seven
Speaker 1: you go to Miami and then a week nine, it's
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football against the Buffalo Bills for the third
Speaker 1: consecutive year, Ethan. And yes, it is our color rush
Speaker 1: game here it is fans. The Jets will be an
Speaker 1: all green color rush Thursday, Week nine. When the good
Speaker 1: thing about that Week nine match up against the Bills,
Speaker 1: it's a short week for the Jets. They're not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Week gate, you host the Atlanta Falcons, then you get
Speaker 1: a couple of days to prepare. You host the Bills
Speaker 1: color Rush game. A little unfortunate that the Jets won't
Speaker 1: wear the white face masks again. But and so here's
Speaker 1: the little fun factory you see here. The Jets play
Speaker 1: the Dolphins week three in week seven in two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen a season ago, the Jets and Dolphins didn't meet
Speaker 1: until Week nine of last season. So a reversal there
Speaker 1: for the divisional opponents. And before we move on, we
Speaker 1: want to take a Facebook question here. Jason d asks,
Speaker 1: what is the toughest month of the schedule. Well, that's
Speaker 1: that is a tough one, Jason based. Traditionally, I break
Speaker 1: the season down by quarters and not by months. You
Speaker 1: look at October right here. You open up with Jacksonville home,
Speaker 1: and then you're at Cleveland in week five. And if
Speaker 1: Josh McCown is the Jets starting quarterback, hold no. A
Speaker 1: lot of familiar faces on the defensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball of Cleveland Browns. Of course, McCown was in Cleveland
Speaker 1: the past couple of seasons. But the thing that jumps
Speaker 1: out at me in October is Week six and then
Speaker 1: week eight. Week six against the New England Patriots, defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions. They dominated the division over the past
Speaker 1: fifteen years or so. And then we gave Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and that high flying offense with Julio Jones and company
Speaker 1: will come to MetLife Stadium. So two of those three
Speaker 1: weeks right there in October, you're playing against both Super
Speaker 1: Bowl participants from last year Ethan and then you know,
Speaker 1: so October jumps out at me. And then that closed
Speaker 1: that Bob was Shusen was just talking about as we
Speaker 1: took a look at the schedule that you you come
Speaker 1: out in December, you host a Kansas City team, a
Speaker 1: perennial playoff team on December three. Then you're gonna go
Speaker 1: out west and play the Denver Broncos and Von Miller
Speaker 1: and company that tenacious defense on December ten. Then you
Speaker 1: have another road game where you're gonna face Drew Brees
Speaker 1: in the New Orleans Saints. John Morton, the new Jets
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, will probably give some intel to the Jets
Speaker 1: defense that we can, he'll be pumped to go back
Speaker 1: to New Orleans and play at the Super Dome. Uh
Speaker 1: So those three games and that stretch in December stand
Speaker 1: out to me, and of course that close against New England.
Speaker 1: Uh defend the Super Bowl champions. Enough said right there.
Speaker 1: So here's a little nugget for October. In December, October
Speaker 1: and December. So here's a little fun fact for your
Speaker 1: week sixteen. The Los Angeles Chargers still getting used to
Speaker 1: saying that, but they played the New York Jets at
Speaker 1: home since the first time since nineteen sixty was at
Speaker 1: the Polo Grounds, so that'll be an interesting matchup. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: we'll take one more and seth f ask. Is the
Speaker 1: schedule easier or harder than last year? It's tough to say.
Speaker 1: You know what we do in April is everybody analyzes
Speaker 1: the schedule and says, okay, here's a win here, here's
Speaker 1: a loss here, and we try to go through each
Speaker 1: game and have a complete breakdown. The bottom line is
Speaker 1: last year, Ethan, when we looked at the schedule, the
Speaker 1: first thing that jumped out at you were the Jets
Speaker 1: for six or seven games, And he said, wow, that's
Speaker 1: good enough be there could be a tough goal if
Speaker 1: you don't get out of the blocks early because you
Speaker 1: had a lot of playoff teams on your schedule, and
Speaker 1: the Jets did indeed stumble out of the gate. This year,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. You don't take away anything
Speaker 1: about from the opposition, but when you look at the
Speaker 1: opponents this year, I would say focus in on weeks
Speaker 1: one through five. Can you come out of that in
Speaker 1: good shape? You go to Buffalo, you go to Oakland,
Speaker 1: like Shoes and I were talking about, maybe you get
Speaker 1: split there, maybe win a pair of games, who knows.
Speaker 1: Then you host the Miami Dolphins at home, your first
Speaker 1: home game, Jacksonville comes here. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people have um high expectations for Jacksonville this year. They
Speaker 1: got a new coach and Doug Moron, Tom Coughlin coming
Speaker 1: back to MetLife stating. And then Week five and the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, So you know, can the Let's do some
Speaker 1: damage early in the season. This first five weeks stand
Speaker 1: out to me because then it really toughens off. I
Speaker 1: think week six you got the Patriots, then a road
Speaker 1: date with the Dolphins in Atlanta comes to town and
Speaker 1: then the second half and we'll get into this more later.
Speaker 1: This final stretch could be awfully difficult for anything. So
Speaker 1: not only did e a catch up with Bob was using,
Speaker 1: he also caught up with NFL Networks Brian Baldinger. We
Speaker 1: just received the jets two thousand seventeen schedule and we're
Speaker 1: now joined by NFL Network's Brian Baldinger. Baldi, what pops
Speaker 1: out at you when you look at what the Jets
Speaker 1: have ahead of themselves in two thousand seventeen, Well, I mean, anytime,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the schedule and the first
Speaker 1: thing you see is two road games to start to schedule,
Speaker 1: you always go kind of whoa, because that's not happening
Speaker 1: in very many places. So, you know, for them to
Speaker 1: go to a division opponent Buffalo, you know, week one
Speaker 1: on September ten, and have to turn around and take
Speaker 1: that long flight to Oakland the very next week, and
Speaker 1: we all know the type of problems that the Jets
Speaker 1: have had playing Oakland over the years. That's a tough
Speaker 1: start to any schedule being on the road, especially taking
Speaker 1: on that that Oakland team that looks like they got
Speaker 1: a whole lot of firepower and offense, what about that
Speaker 1: first five game stretch. You mentioned that the two roads
Speaker 1: to start, but then the Jets opened up at home
Speaker 1: in Week three against the Miami Dolphins, and week four
Speaker 1: they stay at home play Jacksonville. A lot of people
Speaker 1: have high hopes for this year, and then a week
Speaker 1: five they go to Cleveland. So in that first five
Speaker 1: game mix pall the three of those teams non playoff
Speaker 1: UH participants last year. Yeah, I mean, look at it
Speaker 1: does get a little bit better. I mean, you know, look,
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins started turning things around last year, had
Speaker 1: a winning record, made the playoffs. Adam Gates looks like,
Speaker 1: you know, they've they've done a good job filling out
Speaker 1: that roster right now. But the Jets certainly, no, it
Speaker 1: won't be at all intimidator or out talented, I don't
Speaker 1: think by the Mammi Dolphins. So look, you get a
Speaker 1: game against Jacksonville here. I mean, it's a new coach
Speaker 1: Coughland coming back into you know, that stadium that is
Speaker 1: so familiar with and Doug Marone, who certainly knows, you know,
Speaker 1: the Jets from being an offensive line coach there. To me,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a real winnable game and you go
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. So look, there's some wins there in the
Speaker 1: first five games where you can kind of really build
Speaker 1: them some things. Well, this bald Between September when the
Speaker 1: Jets host the Dolphins at home and December three, when
Speaker 1: the Jets host the Kansas City Chiefs, they will play
Speaker 1: ten games, seven of those at home at Mattlife Stadium. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in that stretch that you're talking about, Eric, on
Speaker 1: October twenty night, they play the Falcons, which obviously is
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough game against that offense. But you
Speaker 1: stay home on a Thursday night game to play the Bills,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to travel that week at all,
Speaker 1: so you get you know, I mean, it's always a
Speaker 1: tough stretch when you're playing on a Sunday Thursday, but
Speaker 1: at least there's no travel involved. You're right there. Most
Speaker 1: teams that played Thursday night games, there's travel involved, whether
Speaker 1: you're going to that Thursday game or coming back on
Speaker 1: the Sunday prior to it. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: good stretch right there. And then of course you played
Speaker 1: that Thursday and then you got ten days to get
Speaker 1: ready to go to it to Tampa on that November twelve.
Speaker 1: So that's not a bad stretching there as far as
Speaker 1: you know, being home, getting some rest, uh and getting
Speaker 1: ready in ten days to go on the road to
Speaker 1: play Tampa. I'll tell you a what to Baldy. This
Speaker 1: team is going to know where it stands in the
Speaker 1: division quite early this year because up until that home
Speaker 1: game against the Buffalo Bills that Thursday night or on
Speaker 1: November two, that will conclude a portion of their schedule
Speaker 1: where they play five divisional games, and then that back
Speaker 1: half between November second when they host the Bills and
Speaker 1: they will not play another divisional game until December thirty one,
Speaker 1: when they conclude the season against the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: You might know a whole lot better, Eric, but I
Speaker 1: can't remember the last time the Jets finished the season
Speaker 1: with the Patriots, especially in Foxborough, so they you know,
Speaker 1: they played the playoff games that finished the season. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh, they've got a tough stretcher after the Pie
Speaker 1: week November nine, they do get two tough teams in
Speaker 1: Carolina Kansas City at home, and then they got you know,
Speaker 1: two tough road games at Denver in that New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So but they'll have a bye week to get ready,
Speaker 1: to get healthy and all those kind of things. I
Speaker 1: think nobody wants that early season by to get a
Speaker 1: bye I think you know right around uh, you know
Speaker 1: that that goes up to almost Thanksgiving a week. That's
Speaker 1: that's not a bad time to get that. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for taking time out of your day to
Speaker 1: help us break down in two thousand seventeens that schedule,
Speaker 1: My pleasure. That's luck to you man, good talking to you.
Speaker 1: That was NFL Networks, Brian Baalzinger And if you're just
Speaker 1: joining us now, Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen breaking down here,
Speaker 1: it is the two thousand and seventeen regular seasons schedule.
Speaker 1: We're on Facebook, we're live. Please comment with your questions.
Speaker 1: We'll try to get to as many as we can.
Speaker 1: And Eric, the biggest point that I took of from
Speaker 1: Baldy was that the starting in Week three, the New
Speaker 1: York Jets seven out of ten at home at MetLife Stadium,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You open up on the road,
Speaker 1: two games swing against Buffalo and then Oakland. Then you
Speaker 1: come home. You'll be at the friendly confines of MetLife Stadium.
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium for seven out of ten games and then
Speaker 1: you have your buy in there and the Jets are
Speaker 1: not gonna go too far even when they do move
Speaker 1: away from MetLife Stadium, because you're going to You're going
Speaker 1: to Cleveland here, Miami and Tampa. That's it. So that's
Speaker 1: why I point to early in the season. If you
Speaker 1: can make some headway here, then you can set yourself
Speaker 1: up for possibly to be in good position around week
Speaker 1: eleven when or week fourteen when you start hitting the
Speaker 1: road for three of four road dates to close the season.
Speaker 1: That's what the thing that jumped out at me. The
Speaker 1: first thing I saw on the schedule is you open
Speaker 1: up two on the road and then you finish three
Speaker 1: or four on the road. So that means the bulk
Speaker 1: of the middle of your schedule is going to be
Speaker 1: at home. And wouldn't it be something be terrific for
Speaker 1: to Bowls and company if they get some home field
Speaker 1: advantage this year by starting off on the right foot
Speaker 1: against the Miami Dolphins at home September, feel good about
Speaker 1: yourselves a little bit. Then Jacksonville comes to town the
Speaker 1: next week, and then those next two home games are
Speaker 1: gonna be tough ones. New England Patriots, Atlanta Falcons. So
Speaker 1: you talked about this before thirteen one o'clock games, the
Speaker 1: majority of them in that time span where the Jets
Speaker 1: will be at home, great time to come out. And
Speaker 1: you talked about the week eleven by, second season in
Speaker 1: a row that the Jets have had a week eleven
Speaker 1: by and ironically, Phil ms, is that a goodbye or
Speaker 1: a bad bye? Well, it depends, Phil, how are the
Speaker 1: Jets are gonna play? What from weeks one through week ten?
Speaker 1: Because you know, you ask any team throughout the year,
Speaker 1: and we're in a locker room throughout the season, and
Speaker 1: most guys will tell you it's always a good time
Speaker 1: for the boy if you're riding high. Though heading into
Speaker 1: an off week, most people say, hey, listen, I'd rather
Speaker 1: stay and keep on playing because we got some more months.
Speaker 1: I'm going. But the bottom line is, I don't look
Speaker 1: too much into it, but it gives you a chance
Speaker 1: to rest up when guys potentially are banged up after
Speaker 1: going through ten games, and then you get a six
Speaker 1: week stretch to the end of the season. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you can look at it on both sides of the coin.
Speaker 1: I like a bye probably pretty much right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. And the Jets get it here
Speaker 1: in week eleven. So you talked about before we answered
Speaker 1: the Facebook question again Facebook Live, please comment your questions.
Speaker 1: We talked about the most difficult month. Do you think
Speaker 1: that there's a particular stretch in and throughout the season
Speaker 1: that you see as particularly favorable or a little a
Speaker 1: little challenge well favorable. You know you're analyzing it here
Speaker 1: and you always look to see it. Where are some
Speaker 1: opportunities where you do have extended time at home? So
Speaker 1: weeks three, weeks four you're at home against the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins and then Jacksonville, and then week five you play
Speaker 1: at Cleveland, a team who was also building Hugh Jackson,
Speaker 1: a fantastic coach. It's gonna be interesting to see if
Speaker 1: they take Miles Garrett number one overall and if he'll
Speaker 1: be facing Josh McCown in that matchup in Cleveland. But
Speaker 1: you look at that three games stretch and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be pivotal, pivotal I think for the Jets early in
Speaker 1: the season to do some damage here this three game
Speaker 1: stretch because that will set them up nicely. As the
Speaker 1: schedule toughens up a little bit, you go and host
Speaker 1: New England, as I keep on in Atlanta, weeke eight
Speaker 1: and these teams all down in the line here on
Speaker 1: this half of the slate. Tough ball clubs Tampa, Jamis, Winston,
Speaker 1: NFC South. They could be the favorites there. Carolina, they
Speaker 1: were in a Super Bowl two years ago. Cam Newton
Speaker 1: a tremendous defense. I love their interior linebackers, Thomas Davis,
Speaker 1: Luke Kickley, Andy Reid has the Kansas City Chiefs winning
Speaker 1: ten games are more each and every year, and usually
Speaker 1: they're peeking by this time. Denver von Miller and company.
Speaker 1: Ferocious defense, and they love to play there at mile High,
Speaker 1: so you gotta adjusted to the altitude. And then New
Speaker 1: Orleans got a future Hall of Fame quarterback and Drew
Speaker 1: Brees and company. So um, you know, I look at
Speaker 1: that early stretch weeks three through five, and you can
Speaker 1: even include the Bills in there weeks one through weeks five,
Speaker 1: and say, hey, can we get off on the right
Speaker 1: foot here. Jets are a young team, They've made a
Speaker 1: lot of changes. It'd be great to go onto Buffalo
Speaker 1: like they did last season a week two. Totally different
Speaker 1: our roster right now for the Jets and for the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bells and they have a new head coach and
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. That's gonna be a tough matchup, but you
Speaker 1: know you're going to Buffalo, gets the momentum, take your
Speaker 1: swing there against the Raiders in Oakland. But I'm looking
Speaker 1: at weeks one through weeks five because what happened last year,
Speaker 1: as we talked about with Bob was schusing, is the
Speaker 1: Jets got off on the wrong foot and they never
Speaker 1: could recover kay snowball effect. Kinda Well, you can turn
Speaker 1: that thing around, and Uh, for me, what the schedule
Speaker 1: vindicates is we're getting close to the football season and
Speaker 1: next week very important for this team as we go
Speaker 1: forward because it's the NFL Draft. So the Jets play
Speaker 1: the a f C West the NFC South. You mentioned it,
Speaker 1: two very difficult divisions. You wanted to look at these
Speaker 1: five questions these five weeks. Excuse me, and Kyle ash
Speaker 1: asked of these weeks, what is the most what's the
Speaker 1: biggest measuring stick for this Jets team. Oh, you gotta
Speaker 1: look at the Oakland Raiders right early in the season. Uh,
Speaker 1: you gotta look at the Raiders because this is a
Speaker 1: team that potentially could challenge the New England Patriots for
Speaker 1: a FC supremacy. Derek Carr, Khalil Mack the black hole.
Speaker 1: This is could be potentially the last time the Jets
Speaker 1: will ever play the Raiders in Oakland. We know the
Speaker 1: Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, so I know a
Speaker 1: lot of folks love that old AFL matchup. Um, the
Speaker 1: Jets go out there, uh, and they're really gonna get
Speaker 1: tested by a Raiders team because they have a lot
Speaker 1: of firepower on offense and like I said, Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: is one of the best defenders in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: The Raiders were primed to go on a playoff run,
Speaker 1: of course, before Derek Carr went down with an injury
Speaker 1: and focusing on the Raiders again, we're Facebook Live. Please
Speaker 1: comment with your questions and Gary Kay, based on this
Speaker 1: Raiders matchup, wants to know the battle in the trend
Speaker 1: just the Jets clearly have a good defensive line. The
Speaker 1: Raiders have a great offensive line. Who's gonna win the
Speaker 1: battle in the trench. I don't know. You're gonna give
Speaker 1: me some time there, but defensive line. You just said it.
Speaker 1: When you're facing a Raiders team, it's like an old
Speaker 1: old L. Davis team right now because they can throw
Speaker 1: the long ball and they can pound it. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: run those toss sweeps and their offensive line. Those guys
Speaker 1: are monstrous mammoth. But the Jets have high hopes for
Speaker 1: Mohammed Wokerson this year coming back. He's got a year
Speaker 1: under his feet after suffering that injury. Tought it out
Speaker 1: last year, got it out, That's what Todd Bowle said. Uh.
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams continues to come into his own. Ethan just
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl and I have high hopes for
Speaker 1: him in year three. Still got Sheldon Richardson here, Steve
Speaker 1: mcclennan did some nice things for this team. And then
Speaker 1: you have some depth there as well, with guys like
Speaker 1: Dion Simon and company. So to me, it's that match
Speaker 1: up up front. It's gonna be fascinating because what you
Speaker 1: gotta do with a guy like car is you have
Speaker 1: to get after him at what do quarterbacks, Hey, they
Speaker 1: don't want any pressure up the middle, So potentially maybe
Speaker 1: the Jets can get some pressure up the middle and
Speaker 1: the gate that run game and take their chances. But
Speaker 1: that's a hull of the ball club they'll be facing
Speaker 1: and It'll be interesting, uh, to see how the Jets fair.
Speaker 1: But right now you gotta focus on Week one. That's
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and the Jets swept the Bills last year.
Speaker 1: There you have a Jets fans, the two thousand and
Speaker 1: seventeen regular season schedule, Week one at Buffalo, wrapping up
Speaker 1: Week seventeen in New England for the first time in
Speaker 1: Jets franchise history. Again, thanks so much for tuning in.
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