Speaker 1: We proved last year that we're a seven and ten
Speaker 1: football team with a really good defense and a mediocre
Speaker 1: Offense's that's about what we proved. Flip that we don't
Speaker 1: get any more second chances.
Speaker 2: From the Chris Westling podcast studio. It is The Hard
Speaker 2: Knocks Podcast, Episode two recap. I am Dan hansis joined
Speaker 2: by and happy to have you in studios, Colleen Wolf.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: Hey, Oh my gosh, this is wonderful.
Speaker 4: We're both wearing our cruise shirts are Hard Knocks Jets
Speaker 4: official NFL Films cruise shirts. We had nothing to do
Speaker 4: with the actual making of the episode, but we like
Speaker 4: to think that we are part of the crew.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are some questions that need to be asked.
Speaker 2: Does it make us look like shills? Are we too
Speaker 2: close to the operation? We already work for the NFL.
Speaker 2: But I'm just gonna blow through the those morning signs
Speaker 2: and hope the audience understands that when we go into
Speaker 2: watching these episodes, we do it with an open mind
Speaker 2: and a critical mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a clean slate and we're here to judge
Speaker 4: and let you know all of our takes from this episode.
Speaker 4: I'm also just so impressed that this shirt was in
Speaker 4: my size. It's usually I get these shirts and they
Speaker 4: kind of fit like a dress, right, but.
Speaker 3: It actually fits like a shirt. It's wonderful. I love it.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, So shout out, reallyfl films are hooking us up
Speaker 2: with the swag. Yes episode two. I think Episode two Connie.
Speaker 2: My overall thoughts on the theme. Episode one was about
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers first and foremost, and it had to be.
Speaker 2: If it wasn't about Aaron Rodgers, then the producers of
Speaker 2: that show would have been trying too hard, because that's
Speaker 2: what this is. It's going on around the Jets. I
Speaker 2: thought it was a good job. While Rogers remains a
Speaker 2: major part of episode two, as he should, the focus
Speaker 2: was on the defense in a lot of ways in
Speaker 2: episode two, which I think is so important because as
Speaker 2: good as the Jets offense could be, if Rogers is
Speaker 2: the Rogers of old and not Old Rogers, it's the
Speaker 2: defense that was special last year and kind of got
Speaker 2: screwed over by Zach Wilson and an offense that totally imploded.
Speaker 2: And what you heard there at the top of the
Speaker 2: show was after Connie, the first joint practice that they
Speaker 2: had it turned out to be the only joint practice
Speaker 2: with the Panthers because of weather. In day two, sala
Speaker 2: Is annoyed and he the offense got kind of pushed around.
Speaker 2: First time Aaron Rodgers and the offense had been against
Speaker 2: some actual opponents. And here's a little sound from Aaron
Speaker 2: Rodgers who was even annoyed about a play that had
Speaker 2: gone awry. But we'll learn that plays that play sucks
Speaker 2: from that formation.
Speaker 5: Maybe we're gonna learn that after that rep.
Speaker 2: And you know that that led to you. You saw
Speaker 2: news stories middle of last week about Aaron Rodgers upset
Speaker 2: for the first time, and there it is.
Speaker 3: And that's one of the great things about hard knocks.
Speaker 2: But they figured it out and it culminated with a
Speaker 2: look at what happened in the preseason game where the
Speaker 2: Jets defense kick butt right.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers was not happy with his offensive line that day,
Speaker 4: and we saw the Jets defense really shine in this.
Speaker 4: I think at one point in the episode, Dan you
Speaker 4: said that this is like defensive porn watching, Like the
Speaker 4: montages that they put together were really, really special. I
Speaker 4: absolutely love their defensive coordinator, Jeff Olbrick.
Speaker 3: He's so fun to listen to.
Speaker 4: Like I wish that I could pay him for a
Speaker 4: pep talk, Like maybe there's like maybe he should get
Speaker 4: on cameo pull like a Scott Hansen and just start
Speaker 4: doing all sorts of pep talks for everyone because he
Speaker 4: has a gift. And it's like even when he's telling
Speaker 4: Zach Wilson to smile at one point and he's fawning
Speaker 4: all over Rogers and I love that he had some
Speaker 4: really great quotes in this entire episode, but he just
Speaker 4: has this like swag about him, and so does this
Speaker 4: entire defensive line. You saw Quentnin Williams be a star
Speaker 4: in this episode, and we obviously watched it in that
Speaker 4: game against the Panthers because Bryce Young had no time
Speaker 4: that entire game.
Speaker 3: So this defense is very special.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were trying to like clock it as and
Speaker 2: it was fun to be able to watch it with you.
Speaker 3: Connie and our pretty had a little watch party behind
Speaker 3: the glass.
Speaker 2: Randy Chavez in for Eric Roberts this week. We're trying
Speaker 2: to like place Olbrick. He's kind of got this vibe
Speaker 2: the way he was rolling certain words.
Speaker 3: He kind of had a little white boy swag thing
Speaker 3: going on.
Speaker 2: It's like, who does he remind me of who does
Speaker 2: he sound like, and it was Travis Kelseyah the way,
Speaker 2: if you know how Travis Kelcey enunciates and speaks, you
Speaker 2: know what Olbricks sounds like. And I thought it was
Speaker 2: a big focus of the episode of his defense. Quinn
Speaker 2: Williams got a lot of screen time, and I thought
Speaker 2: it was telling to hear Olbrick speaking hushed tones about
Speaker 2: Williams almost in the same way he kind of was
Speaker 2: losing it over the greatness of an Aaron Rodgers throw
Speaker 2: the previous week on Hard Knocks, which I thought was
Speaker 2: a really interesting moment in that episode. Here is Olbrick's
Speaker 2: to the team and a defensive meeting about Williams getting
Speaker 2: to the quarterback. Q.
Speaker 5: You dumped up because every damn rep today was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Damn, that's a big man running.
Speaker 2: That is awesome.
Speaker 3: Damn, that is awesome.
Speaker 2: That was the exact words.
Speaker 3: What was that, Jeff, Damn? I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it, I love it, I love it.
Speaker 2: That was all. That's what he said about Rogers last week. Anyway,
Speaker 2: But Quentin Williams is an unsung hero of that defense
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, even though he just got
Speaker 2: the big new contract. I think he's been off the
Speaker 2: radar a little bit in terms of national coverage, so
Speaker 2: this is a good show for him. You also got
Speaker 2: a lot of love from Will McDonald's got a lot
Speaker 2: of screen time. The rookie uh taken in the first
Speaker 2: round in the most recent draft, and it's like you
Speaker 2: watch this, Connie, and you're watching spin move and you're saying,
Speaker 2: is this the defensive rookie of the year potentially?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Like that's exactly what I said. I
Speaker 4: turned to you and we were watching it. It's like
Speaker 4: back to back years, will they end up having the
Speaker 4: defensive rookie of the year. And like just watching Robert
Speaker 4: Sala his the smile on his face when they were
Speaker 4: leaving that game because of the way that his defense played,
Speaker 4: he was beaming ear to ear smile like that was
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think it's really funny that Robert
Speaker 4: Sala talks about the silent tape in this episode a lot.
Speaker 4: I didn't really I wasn't keening on that before.
Speaker 2: He just like is in a room and there's no
Speaker 2: other that's what he said audio to it. It just
Speaker 2: him in a dark room.
Speaker 4: The dark room silent and he watches it to see
Speaker 4: how the players represent themselves and the units that they
Speaker 4: play on, and that he had said that the defense
Speaker 4: obviously was great in the silent tape that he had watched,
Speaker 4: but the offense just wasn't there.
Speaker 3: There was nothing great about what was happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's part of the story of the Jets.
Speaker 2: If your following the team is them figure out with
Speaker 2: a new offensive coordinator, new quarterback, trying to get this
Speaker 2: offensive line healthy and cohesive. You're seeing some bumps along
Speaker 2: the way, but it's it's the defense that if this
Speaker 2: team is gonna finally get back to the super Bowl
Speaker 2: for the first time in fifty five years, that's that's
Speaker 2: gonna lead it. During that joint practice with the Panthers,
Speaker 2: we see Frank Reich and Sala together, you know, making
Speaker 2: that small talk that all head coaches do when you
Speaker 2: watch these NFL films productions.
Speaker 3: And I love to see what the dynamic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always fun. And Sala says to Reich the
Speaker 2: d line, they're our baby, and then Reich says, it's
Speaker 2: always your baby, and Reich is alluding to Sala's previous
Speaker 2: tenure with the Niners when he built up a murderer's
Speaker 2: row up front when he was there their d C.
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, when there's so much there's so much
Speaker 2: promise there and and the we and we talk about
Speaker 2: the defense of this episode, you barrow see Sauce Gardner,
Speaker 2: Who's right, who's arguably the best player on their defense.
Speaker 2: He's a cornerback obviously. And and this is the week
Speaker 2: when Dalvin Book joins the Fray. We don't see him
Speaker 2: in this episode, but he signed with the team officially
Speaker 2: this week. It reinforces the reality that this team has
Speaker 2: so much talent on it and as a Jets fan,
Speaker 2: it excites me.
Speaker 3: But it's scary.
Speaker 2: At what could go wrong. Let's tell about some fun stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: So that was kind of like the big picture I thought,
Speaker 2: in terms of what what what Hard Knocks is going
Speaker 2: for in this episode, showing both sides of the ball
Speaker 2: after Rogers got so much pub in episode one.
Speaker 3: But we got to start at the beginning of the episode.
Speaker 3: It was so good, It was so funny.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Oz Pearlman, mentalist, I looked him up. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me just read a little bit because everybody needs
Speaker 2: to know about Oz Pearlin. Oz is a world class
Speaker 2: entertainer damn right me, hit me with it yeah, and
Speaker 2: one of the busiest mentalists in the country. But having
Speaker 2: dazzled audiences with his unique mind reading ability for over
Speaker 2: a decade, Oz's client list reads like a who's who
Speaker 2: of politicians, professional athletes, a list celebrities, and fortune five
Speaker 2: hundred companies.
Speaker 3: His natural charisma, hit it damn.
Speaker 2: And charm d damn make him the perfect choice for
Speaker 2: corporate events and private parties alike. Oz's unique blend of
Speaker 2: mentalism and mind reading create an interactive experience that is
Speaker 2: redefining the very nature of a magic show, one that
Speaker 2: truly needs to be seen to be believed. Colleen, Oh,
Speaker 2: all the players are losing it.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was losing it too, because as soon as
Speaker 4: I see this guy come out, I'm like, Okay, what
Speaker 4: is this going to be? What kind of shtick does
Speaker 4: this guy do? And at one point he says while
Speaker 4: he's doing some type of card trick, he says, I
Speaker 4: don't deal with cards, I deal with thoughts.
Speaker 2: I was like, in my mind, was like, yo, yo, Oz,
Speaker 2: my wife watches this show.
Speaker 3: Can you just relax? Oh my god, this guy has
Speaker 3: a gift.
Speaker 4: Like when I saw Mentalist, I wasn't really sure what
Speaker 4: to expect.
Speaker 3: Is he going to be a magician? Is he going
Speaker 3: to be a motivational speaker? What is he? Is?
Speaker 2: A CBS program called The Mentalist. I thought it was boring,
Speaker 2: just by the nature of all CBS programming.
Speaker 3: Not Oz Pearlman.
Speaker 4: No, he should have been starring in that because this
Speaker 4: was anything but boring. Michael Carter his reaction at one
Speaker 4: point too. I guess it was like number ten was predicted.
Speaker 4: He had picked out of any number what his like
Speaker 4: jersey number would be, and they got They finally got
Speaker 4: around to it, and Oz Pearlman was like you were
Speaker 4: thinking of?
Speaker 3: What were you thinking of?
Speaker 4: And had ten written down already. Michael Carter's reaction is
Speaker 4: the perfect GIF, Like I need it, I will use
Speaker 4: it. It was watching mccol hardman watching all of the pars.
Speaker 2: I wish I knew who it was. It was a
Speaker 2: defensive lineman or maybe an old lineman.
Speaker 3: Wearing a black Champion sweatshirt.
Speaker 2: Black Champion sweatshirt and he jumped up. You saw two
Speaker 2: reactions from it. He jumped up like he had just
Speaker 2: seen a witch perform a spell. Yeah, and he just
Speaker 2: really he realized that monsters are real and magic is real,
Speaker 2: and I I gotta say the Aaron. When he does
Speaker 2: the trick with Aaron Rodgers, uh huh, Rogers has a
Speaker 2: look on his face. He's always got that resting Rogers
Speaker 2: face where he's like, I'm the smartest guy in the room.
Speaker 2: If there's one person who's not gonna get.
Speaker 3: Taken here, you will not out smart me me.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm Aaron Rodgers. Part of the reason, like people
Speaker 2: don't like him, but like I like him.
Speaker 3: I'm back. I am so back on well it's I
Speaker 3: feel like we're in a lot of trouble. We're in
Speaker 3: a lot of trouble this season.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Rogers has this look on my face like
Speaker 2: you're not getting me, pearlman mentalist. And he gets him,
Speaker 2: He gets him, He got he gets the card right,
Speaker 2: he gets the the goldfish in the hand.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And I'm just like, is magic real? Like, what's to
Speaker 2: get down for me?
Speaker 4: Did you see the looks on everyone's faces in that
Speaker 4: room watching the players watch Aaron Rodgers during that trick,
Speaker 4: When Rogers was like, yeah, okay, mm hmm, go ahead,
Speaker 4: what's next?
Speaker 3: What what do you got for me?
Speaker 4: And then seeing his expression change to like absolute like
Speaker 4: just disbelief.
Speaker 3: Really, I don't know how he does it? How intuitive
Speaker 3: do you have to be?
Speaker 4: He nailed all three different I don't even know if
Speaker 4: you would call them tricks. But whatever he's doing, it's working.
Speaker 2: He's a world class entertainer and one of the busiest
Speaker 2: mentalists in the country. Yeah, Like, if there's a better
Speaker 2: mentalist than.
Speaker 3: Oz Pearlman, then what are we doing?
Speaker 2: We get Oz Peerlman on the show? What can we do?
Speaker 2: I need to be closer in his orbit because like
Speaker 2: I am the guy in the champion sweatshirt, Like I'm
Speaker 2: I'm wondering now, like if this is something that's another
Speaker 2: human being can do, Hu, how are you not using
Speaker 2: this to secure world peace?
Speaker 3: Exactly? Why aren't we leveraging Oz's or.
Speaker 2: You know, like not to go full Oppenheimer here or
Speaker 2: to win wars? Like if we have this sky in
Speaker 2: our back pocket?
Speaker 3: What a tool?
Speaker 4: It's a secret weapon? Is Oz Pearlman? You guys gotta
Speaker 4: look him up. This was the most riveting part of
Speaker 4: the show. I still am shook from it.
Speaker 2: I just I can't I can't do Michael.
Speaker 4: Hartman predicting that the Jets would beat the Niners thirty
Speaker 4: one twenty one in the Super Bowl, and Oz already.
Speaker 3: Had it written on a.
Speaker 2: Board it might how like, how is that not what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen?
Speaker 3: Now? Oh? If that happens, and if it does happen,
Speaker 3: what does that mean for society and the world.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what it means that we need Oz,
Speaker 4: Perlman and Mark Sessler in a room together.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, can you imagine.
Speaker 2: A lot of energy, a lot of dark energy?
Speaker 3: Dame damn damn.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Aaron Rodgers. While that trick's being done, he's
Speaker 2: wearing a hat that says Cherish the Little Things. It's
Speaker 2: like the most Colleen hat.
Speaker 3: I want. I want it so bad, I'm already googling it.
Speaker 3: I need it. I'm a baseball hat girl. Let's look
Speaker 3: into that.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's see where one could find a Cherish the
Speaker 2: Little Things hat.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll wear it all season long, through airports, through shows.
Speaker 4: Whatever I got you. I will credit whoever needs to
Speaker 4: be credited. I will pay whatever I need to pay.
Speaker 2: All right, jeez, we're just getting warmed up here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you want to do some.
Speaker 3: M v P talk. I love MVP talk. Yeah, all right, let's.
Speaker 2: Take a break and when we're back we will hit
Speaker 2: m vps and then straight thoughts from episode two of
Speaker 2: Hard Knocks. H m hmm, all right, we're back. Let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here, all right, TONI, because we hit on
Speaker 2: the Mentalist and I have to.
Speaker 3: Say, I don't have Oz Perlan in in my I
Speaker 3: wish I did.
Speaker 2: I just where I don't. But uh but I would
Speaker 2: if if I could, if you could promise me that
Speaker 2: he would have shown up again. But I would imagine
Speaker 2: they can't make this the Oz Pearlman Show. But HBO
Speaker 2: Paige riction he needs a show.
Speaker 3: I did think about putting him in the MVP rankings,
Speaker 3: but we can't do it. Yeah, won't do it.
Speaker 2: We do a vector scoring system. Longtime listeners know what
Speaker 2: that means. We were not entirely, We don't really, but
Speaker 2: it's a point system. It's cumulative. At the end of
Speaker 2: the season, we will share with you the Hard Knocks MVP.
Speaker 2: Basically who gets the most points kind of will start
Speaker 2: with your third place vote. Episode two, MVP.
Speaker 4: Third place goes to c Ball Quinn Williams. He was
Speaker 4: all over this episode, smiling chirping. At one point, he's
Speaker 4: talking about we don't hope or believe, we know love
Speaker 4: that feel like you could slap that on a hat
Speaker 4: as well, talking about how he had ten sacks today
Speaker 4: alone against the Panthers.
Speaker 2: On My Life, I got ten sacks today, Oh.
Speaker 4: By myself, telling Rogers, telling Sala and then I loved
Speaker 4: that Rogers was keeping score of them too.
Speaker 3: When he got eleven, He's like, eleve it eleven, So
Speaker 3: it's just he was.
Speaker 4: He was so genuine in his press conference too, after
Speaker 4: getting paid, talking about how money just makes you more
Speaker 4: of the person that you actually are. If you're a
Speaker 4: good person, it will amplify it. If you're a bad person,
Speaker 4: even worse.
Speaker 3: I like that take out that's heard that one.
Speaker 4: I firmly believe in that take and he's totally right.
Speaker 4: And you can just tell what a great person he
Speaker 4: is based on the reaction from all of his teammates,
Speaker 4: how much everyone loves him, how confident he is, and
Speaker 4: how much he's really grown into this team, because even
Speaker 4: though he's young and he has his baby face, it
Speaker 4: almost seems like he's one of the.
Speaker 3: Leaders in the room.
Speaker 4: He's want to thelloud his voices and everyone sort of
Speaker 4: is drawn to him as well. I loved at one
Speaker 4: point Nathaniel Hackett yelling for him across the field like
Speaker 4: q Q and then he just flips them off, like
Speaker 4: you could just tell that this team has such a
Speaker 4: fun vibe around that.
Speaker 2: By the way, that's officially a thing because Hackett was
Speaker 2: flipping off Aaron Rodgers. I believe for a play working.
Speaker 3: Last week, so I can't wait to do that to
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 2: I always welcome. I also had q Q ball as
Speaker 2: my third place vote. I just I dig his vibe.
Speaker 2: Like you said, he's kind of happy, go lucky, and
Speaker 2: then he's this dominant force on the defensive line. He
Speaker 2: didn't realize when he's telling Rogers, I got ten sacks
Speaker 2: today is against the Panthers in the joint practice, not
Speaker 2: realizing and he should have known. I mean, geez, it's
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers that he was miked up, and he gets
Speaker 2: a little like sheep. It's like, oh, it's gonna make
Speaker 2: me look like but it's like something my over excited
Speaker 2: nine year old would say to me, like I got
Speaker 2: I got ten practice, I got ten sacks today on
Speaker 2: my life, I got ten sacks today, It's like, all right,
Speaker 2: he's like a kid.
Speaker 3: He's like a big kid exactly.
Speaker 2: So I really I really enjoyed him, and like we
Speaker 2: played earlier Olbrick reminding us, wow, that's a special talent
Speaker 2: on that line. Uh, leading into number my second plays.
Speaker 2: Vote okay Aaron Rodgers. Oh, I thought like in an
Speaker 2: episode where he wasn't truly the focal he kind of
Speaker 2: still is. I mean like that's just the nature of
Speaker 2: the Jets. He is the son that everything orbits around.
Speaker 2: And I just even with less of him, which I
Speaker 2: think is a good idea because I think if if
Speaker 2: NFL films A Hard Knocks just said, you know what,
Speaker 2: everyone knows what this is, this right, Aaron Rodgers's show,
Speaker 2: So this is gonna be Hard Knocks Aaron Rodgers, I
Speaker 2: think everybody would have gotten a little burned out on it.
Speaker 2: So I think it's smart to have him a little
Speaker 2: bit in the background. But again, like this is a
Speaker 2: guy that's a polarizing individual, you know, like, and I.
Speaker 4: Feel like he's becoming less polarizing though. Well that's like
Speaker 4: this is this is great for him. This show has
Speaker 4: been awesome for his whole image.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm too close to it with the
Speaker 2: Rogers stuff he goes on around the NFL. I've gotten
Speaker 2: after Rogers for stuff he's done off the field, things
Speaker 2: he's said, whether it's comments about COVID or you know,
Speaker 2: various things were you know, the whole thing with a
Speaker 2: darkness retreat. And sometimes it was just like, why doesn't
Speaker 2: this guy just keep something to himself?
Speaker 3: Well that would be bad for business for us too
Speaker 3: to day.
Speaker 2: Right, Well that's fair, damn fair and damn And now
Speaker 2: I can't now come to you and say Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: is amazing just because he's on the Jets, because again,
Speaker 2: I'd feel like a big fat hypocrite. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, it's hard not to see him as a likable,
Speaker 2: like elder statesman guy who loves the game and loves
Speaker 2: being part of a team. And you see that throughout
Speaker 2: this episode. I mean the way he kind of interacts
Speaker 2: not just with his own team but with the Panthers,
Speaker 2: whether he's a former coach that he's busting his chops
Speaker 2: about being over two hundred and seventy pounds to going
Speaker 2: up to you know, Bryce Young and giving him encouragement.
Speaker 4: I was thinking about that just being the calm voice
Speaker 4: of reason too. He's kind of grown into that role
Speaker 4: even with the chippy practices. You saw him talking to
Speaker 4: defensive lineman Al Woods and he's like, have you been
Speaker 4: in those fights before? Like it kind of fell almost
Speaker 4: like a therapist a little bit like how do you
Speaker 4: feel when you when these things happen?
Speaker 3: Like have you done this in the past?
Speaker 4: Like, and then when he was talking to one of
Speaker 4: the other guys that was in the middle of the scrum,
Speaker 4: he's like.
Speaker 3: You didn't worry about your hand at all, right, like
Speaker 3: punching out, like, dude, be smart, come on.
Speaker 4: But the way that he approached it, the calmness that
Speaker 4: he had, and then kind of wapping up all of
Speaker 4: the Panthers talking to Brian Burns, congratulating him on the
Speaker 4: deal that he got in the way that he was
Speaker 4: with Bryce Young talking about Andy Dalton, like, hey, has
Speaker 4: this guy been helping you?
Speaker 3: Like it just seems like he's now.
Speaker 4: In this part of his life where he's like becoming
Speaker 4: a coach almost.
Speaker 2: You could tell that he knows how much it means
Speaker 2: to all these people for him to give them those
Speaker 2: little moments. Yeah, because he's viewed as like this living legend,
Speaker 2: and I thought the interaction from a Jets fan perspective
Speaker 2: that was the most interesting and the one I imagine
Speaker 2: the beat reporters will kind of dig into a little bit.
Speaker 2: Is Makai Beckton, the twenty one twenty first pick tackle
Speaker 2: who's had a very up and down, mostly down in
Speaker 2: the last two years career with the Jets, and they
Speaker 2: really need Becton to be a thing on either left
Speaker 2: or right tackle to give them some upside on the
Speaker 2: only position group that's a red flag. And late in
Speaker 2: that game, a game in which Beckton played the most
Speaker 2: snaps he's played in a couple of years, even though
Speaker 2: his knee is still not right, you see him kind
Speaker 2: of come up next to Becton, and Becton's huge, one
Speaker 2: of the biggest football players on earth, and kind of
Speaker 2: put his arm around him and congratulate him on working
Speaker 2: through and say let's get together and have some lunch
Speaker 2: this week and talk. And it's just like, oh wow, So,
Speaker 2: I mean this is you see the way he still
Speaker 2: looks great on the field, but when he's this invested, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, he's transformed, transformed everything. And that's why he
Speaker 2: gets my second place for it.
Speaker 4: He knows how important it is to foster those relationships
Speaker 4: and to be a people person and to have that
Speaker 4: chemistry on the team, because we saw it last week
Speaker 4: when he was talking about Hackett and Hackett's involvement with
Speaker 4: the players in Green Bay when the offensive lineman wasn't
Speaker 4: taking part in like the celebrations after a touchdown. He
Speaker 4: sees how important that is for a team's success. Also,
Speaker 4: I loved that we learned a little bit more about
Speaker 4: that relationship between the quarterback and the center.
Speaker 2: Anger.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I'm in there.
Speaker 1: I'm in there a little bit.
Speaker 3: Guys, so they are. They're just they're really close.
Speaker 2: I'm in there deeper.
Speaker 3: Than some of the other guys. Yeah, guy, he did.
Speaker 3: He did say that.
Speaker 2: So it makes him different than previous uh partners at
Speaker 2: the centers have had.
Speaker 3: That's interesting, right.
Speaker 4: But to that point though, I think that this episode,
Speaker 4: as you mentioned, it was largely about the defense, but
Speaker 4: specifically I think about the defensive line and also the
Speaker 4: offensive line when you take a step back, because the
Speaker 4: offensive line their struggles were weaved kind of subtly throughout
Speaker 4: it too, So just both those lines up front kind
Speaker 4: of for me took center stage. So okay that that
Speaker 4: was your number two second.
Speaker 2: Place for MVP.
Speaker 4: Mine goes to Will McDonald. He gets my second place here.
Speaker 3: He really captured my heart when he went on this excursion.
Speaker 5: So I wanted to get like a pis had here.
Speaker 5: But yeah, fellow, so I want to get my eyebrows
Speaker 5: and then whatever else I decid I want, I'm gonna just.
Speaker 4: Get whatever else I decide I want, I'm gonna get.
Speaker 3: Okay, So he is a man after my own heart.
Speaker 4: Because, as you know, Dan, I all last season just
Speaker 4: like kept getting different piercings in my ear.
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to get serned.
Speaker 2: About you at a certain point whether you'd be able
Speaker 2: to hear, Like what point does it affect your ability to.
Speaker 4: It's called a constellation piercing, Dan, you should look into it.
Speaker 2: And it is too late for the old zeuser to
Speaker 2: get an earing. It was maybe not a midlife crisis
Speaker 2: of the highest lie.
Speaker 3: Is that what it's signaling for me?
Speaker 2: No, it's different. You're you're a stylish young woman. But
Speaker 2: if I showed up with like a hoop earring, you
Speaker 2: know that I'm living like in Recita by myself and
Speaker 2: have a red sports car.
Speaker 3: You know my dad when he turned fifty, he bought
Speaker 3: a red Corvette.
Speaker 2: I'm sure your mom was thrilled about that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that was That was a really interesting
Speaker 3: drawing up the divorce papers. Pretty much, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: There were a lot of other things that needed money
Speaker 3: at that point. Not that.
Speaker 4: But Will McDonald, he just like he was wearing this
Speaker 4: fun blue earring when we saw him on the side
Speaker 4: of the field. He was talking about how he doesn't
Speaker 4: want to be normal and that you only get one life.
Speaker 4: Don't think too much about it, do what you want.
Speaker 4: Also like a low key gymnast, maybe because he was
Speaker 4: super acrobatic. The way that he got up it was
Speaker 4: a little extra, But I kind of like that from him.
Speaker 4: He's got personality and he seems to absolutely not care
Speaker 4: at all what anyone thinks about him.
Speaker 3: He just kind of like does does his own thing.
Speaker 2: This is why Hard Knocks is great, because I'm a
Speaker 2: diehard Jets fan. I didn't realize he was such a
Speaker 2: character and a personality and someone that kind of stands
Speaker 2: out from the crowd. It's funny. There's our old buddy.
Speaker 2: Dave Damashek had a great take that whenever someone is
Speaker 2: described as it might have been a Corolla take, but
Speaker 2: Dave used to share it. If someone destroys like oh
Speaker 2: Will McDonald, Oh Will's will?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Will's Will, it's usually code for like he
Speaker 2: sucks or like he's you know, a guy that's kind
Speaker 2: of annoying to deal with. I'm not saying people were
Speaker 2: saying Will's Will in this episode, but when he did say,
Speaker 2: I always thought another one, like an addendum to that,
Speaker 2: someone is like a little bit problematic and some other behavior,
Speaker 2: a little bit borish, and like, yeah, but you know what, Will,
Speaker 2: if he'd give you the shirt off of his back,
Speaker 2: if it's the last one he had, it was like,
Speaker 2: why are you trying so hard to make it seem
Speaker 2: like he's actually a good guy?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: His life motto that he shared in this you only
Speaker 2: get one life, Uh huh, don't think about it too much.
Speaker 2: Do whatever you want to do. Yeah. Every person I've
Speaker 2: ever known in my life that goes by that kind
Speaker 2: of motto usually is terrible, and I'm hoping that Will
Speaker 2: is an outlier. Usually as like a selfish person who's
Speaker 2: kind of in their own world and planing I'm not gonna.
Speaker 3: Lie, that's kind of the motto of Summer of Connie
Speaker 3: a bit, but.
Speaker 2: You can get away from it for a season, right, yeah, right,
Speaker 2: And the off season of the NFL is different. But
Speaker 2: if you were in Summer of Connie mode three sixty five,
Speaker 2: including the football season, some people would start.
Speaker 3: To be like, you know, is she okay?
Speaker 2: How about not just is she okay? How about you
Speaker 2: work with this Connie? We were trying to be professional
Speaker 2: over here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm like bringing in six packs, like doing whatever.
Speaker 4: You can't do that all the time. I also like
Speaker 4: that he said he doesn't really have a style. His
Speaker 4: style is just unpredictable.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm just saying. I'm just saying I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 2: There's some red flags no way that I want see. Listen,
Speaker 2: the NFL they want can formity. So I am in
Speaker 2: no way saying I don't want Will to be on
Speaker 2: his own little island. I like Will Island. I just
Speaker 2: hope this we're not talking in a couple of years
Speaker 2: about like, oh you kind of nailed this.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: For me, it's all green flags, no red flags. I
Speaker 4: love Will McDonald. I don't want him to change, And
Speaker 4: I mean I almost feel like I should move him
Speaker 4: up to number one in my rankings for MVP, but
Speaker 4: I won't.
Speaker 3: I won't do that, all right, Who is number one
Speaker 3: for you? For me? It's Aaron Rodgers?
Speaker 4: And we covered him a little bit a lot of
Speaker 4: bit because it's Aaron Rodgers. But I did enjoy the
Speaker 4: whole thing about him picking up the grass, like why
Speaker 4: like why is he always picking up the grass?
Speaker 3: What's the deal with that?
Speaker 4: And him talking about it started in Green Bay kind
Speaker 4: of get a better grip on the ball, checking the wind.
Speaker 4: But really essentially it's just a tick that he has
Speaker 4: at this point that now I don't think he can stop.
Speaker 4: He says that it's his way of meditating with the field,
Speaker 4: maybe being one with everything that's out there, and the
Speaker 4: receivers are kind of like, yeah, like knock yourself out,
Speaker 4: do whatever you gotta do, as long as you're throwing
Speaker 4: me the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think that's well said, and I think
Speaker 2: he's some type of It was to test the wind,
Speaker 2: but also what was.
Speaker 3: The grip like he said to what he used.
Speaker 2: The interesting way I don't remember anymore, but it was
Speaker 2: like dexterity or something like that was very it was
Speaker 2: very Aaron Rodgers. I think, yeah, any you could obviously
Speaker 2: say Rogers is the MP of this episode two he
Speaker 2: placed for me, but I went with somebody that I
Speaker 2: should have. I was mad at myself last week for
Speaker 2: not giving him, not placing him.
Speaker 3: Oh this is a good one. I know where you're going.
Speaker 2: Defensive coordinator Jeff Albrick, And I should have brought it
Speaker 2: up last week. That I loved last week obviously his
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers conversation he had. And then I loved one
Speaker 2: thing I didn't mention when he got after the do
Speaker 2: your Job complex, which started in Green in New England,
Speaker 2: of course, and it's a it's a patriot thing, and
Speaker 2: he said, uh, do my job? Is that good enough? No,
Speaker 2: that's the rest of the NFL. Isn't it do your job?
Speaker 2: That do your job? Then? Now what if we all
Speaker 2: do our job a little bit more. That's twenty two
Speaker 2: players playing, you guys feel it. Think about this. That's
Speaker 2: twenty twos on the field. So then the question goes
Speaker 2: to the offense. Now what he was just kind of
Speaker 2: going off and and as Greg Rosenthal pointed out on
Speaker 2: atn the I don't know why I said his last name.
Speaker 2: That's definitely gonna be on Belichick's radar, and I just
Speaker 2: like it kind of go after the Patriots who are
Speaker 2: still maybe not bullies for the rest of the league,
Speaker 2: but still to the Jets.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then and then he has this great line, uh
Speaker 2: to Quinn Williams before the joint practice with the Panthers.
Speaker 5: Hey hew, Hey, sometimes you just gotta lift your leg
Speaker 5: and mark your territory.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Yep, we're in there. We're
Speaker 3: in their.
Speaker 2: Backyard, going to piss on the corner, on the on
Speaker 2: the on the tree, on the poor, on the kids toys.
Speaker 6: No, not the keys, toys, not the keys.
Speaker 3: You can piss on the toys.
Speaker 2: It's not the Jeff, Jeff walking back a little, where
Speaker 2: are we going with this, Jeff? And again Quinn Williams
Speaker 2: shout out he's too much of a nice.
Speaker 3: Guy, like he'll sack you eleven times.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm not gonna urinate on the children's outdoor
Speaker 2: like playthings. I mean, let's let's not the kids so good.
Speaker 2: He like he walked all the way up with Jeff
Speaker 2: to that point, and then he's like, I gotta I
Speaker 2: gotta leave you there, Jeff. At that point, but.
Speaker 4: Ulrick and Hackett are the two coordinators in the league
Speaker 4: that I would like to have a beer with. Yes,
Speaker 4: that seems like the most fun coaching staff.
Speaker 2: And we talked about leading into the season. Is it
Speaker 2: Hackett who's going to be the coach on the staff
Speaker 2: that really jumps out the way like Doce Staley last
Speaker 2: year with the Lion's hard knock season. Right now, Olbrick
Speaker 2: to me is the clear leader and a real dark
Speaker 2: horse to take this whole thing, this MVP.
Speaker 4: Do you think we like Kim because we're from the
Speaker 4: Northeast and that he kind of just reminds us of
Speaker 4: our family and our friends and everyone that we grew
Speaker 4: up around. Because when I hear him talk, it just
Speaker 4: makes me feel like I'm home, Which.
Speaker 3: Is funny because he was born in San Jose. What. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a California guy. That's that's not on brand. I
Speaker 3: feel like he is born and bred North.
Speaker 2: You'll get him in two thousand and two. According to
Speaker 2: his Wikipedia.
Speaker 3: Page, Well, you guys could look this up. He looks
Speaker 3: much different.
Speaker 2: We're all getting older. He played for ten years in
Speaker 2: the league. Wow. San Jose kid who played nine years
Speaker 2: for the Niners. Ten years of the Niners.
Speaker 3: Really and now what position did he play?
Speaker 2: Jeff Oldbrick was real deep dive on Olbrich. I know,
Speaker 2: third round pick in the two thousand draft, former linebacker.
Speaker 3: Okay, huh, play more you know.
Speaker 2: Hawaii and like I said, ten year career anyway, Okay, Seattle.
Speaker 2: Here Salo was. Then they hooked up again. I would assume, say,
Speaker 2: San Francisco, you know how this goes.
Speaker 3: I know it. I know it well.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Vector voting system. Randy Chavez, the
Speaker 2: funk Master himself, will tabulate that and connect with Eric Roberts.
Speaker 2: At the end of the season of Hard Knocks, we
Speaker 2: will crown the MVP.
Speaker 3: Big reveal. Should we send them something? Whoever wins. That's
Speaker 3: a great idea, all right, we'll figure out what it is.
Speaker 3: It's a great idea. Quote of the Week we hit
Speaker 3: the quote a week has to be. I think Rogers
Speaker 3: talking to his center. We could have got in a
Speaker 3: lot of directions, but that's right.
Speaker 2: Let's give it quote of the week. Let's hit some
Speaker 2: straight thoughts. We are in the credits. We did it.
Speaker 3: We did it. We made it. Mom, Dad, I know
Speaker 3: you're proud.
Speaker 2: What a moment for the Hard Knocks Podcast. What a
Speaker 2: moment for around the NFL. What a moment for Connie
Speaker 2: and Dan tugboat like we are at the last. The
Speaker 2: last credit at the end of the episode says, listen
Speaker 2: to the Hard Knocks podcast from around the NFA.
Speaker 3: Very exciting, very cool.
Speaker 2: The the next the next goal is to get Leev Schreiber,
Speaker 2: saying that speaking of Leah Schreiber, he has scored some
Speaker 2: here's the industry term that I want to share with
Speaker 2: Chiron love.
Speaker 3: Oh you want to hear your big Chiron guy now?
Speaker 2: And I wasn't sure. I was like, what is it?
Speaker 2: Because for the first time ever this season you see
Speaker 2: narrated by Leev Schreiber in the opening theme for the show.
Speaker 2: And I touch base with NFL Films puba Ken Rogers, Ye,
Speaker 2: who you know is leading the charge for Hard Knocks
Speaker 2: forever and we love Ken Love Ken. Shout out to
Speaker 2: Ken and he confirmed that that was the first time
Speaker 2: Liv's been in the opening credits. In terms of really
Speaker 2: next on the screen, they added some minor flourishes to
Speaker 2: help build the cinematic flavor of the show, and I
Speaker 2: say well done. And speaking of Liev Schreiber, we would love.
Speaker 2: We have a thing here. We always share the Leev
Speaker 2: Schreiber line of the week. But according to.
Speaker 3: Law ye like federal love the land.
Speaker 2: We are unable to actually use Leev Shreiber his voice.
Speaker 3: So we have a work around.
Speaker 2: We have a work around. It is our good friend,
Speaker 2: voice artist, voice of God for around the NFL, Jason Zumwalt,
Speaker 2: who will now share with you the Leev Schreiber line
Speaker 2: of the week.
Speaker 6: The man they call cueball has a habit of keeping
Speaker 6: offense on the eight ball, even his own.
Speaker 2: I think he got that wrong.
Speaker 7: That's definitely not it behind the eight ball. It's like,
Speaker 7: wait's what is he doing talking about an eight ball?
Speaker 2: See if I got that wrong? Or if he got
Speaker 2: that wrong?
Speaker 3: Okay, does it stay in? He got it wrong?
Speaker 4: Ooh, And I was just about to pay him such
Speaker 4: a compliment about his rich voice.
Speaker 2: There was three takes.
Speaker 6: Let me see, the man they call cueball has a
Speaker 6: habit of keeping offense on the eight ball.
Speaker 1: Is that.
Speaker 3: Okay? Okay, what happened?
Speaker 2: Wait a few more takes?
Speaker 6: Okay, the man they call c ball has a habit
Speaker 6: of keeping offense on the eight ball, even his own.
Speaker 2: And the take after that's the one that I chose
Speaker 2: because I thought it's not the best, right, but.
Speaker 3: It's not the quote and the quote the quote is the.
Speaker 2: Man they call Cuball has a habit of putting offense
Speaker 2: behind the eight ball, even his own.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well there's some some keywords there, all right, next week, Joe,
Speaker 3: it's like he's behind the eight ball, Cuball.
Speaker 2: Of course, being Quentnin Williams correct, Hey, what else you gotta?
Speaker 4: The Rookie Show couldn't have been more of a mess,
Speaker 4: a spectacular disaster.
Speaker 3: They should have brought back Oz Pearlman.
Speaker 4: Like the I don't know, they needed him in a
Speaker 4: big spot there he did not deliver. Nicole Hartman was
Speaker 4: hilarious first of all, wearing these mirror shades inside in
Speaker 4: the dark watching the Rookie Show, heckling them, saying, I
Speaker 4: thought I.
Speaker 3: Was gonna be laughing. Is this a dance off? What
Speaker 3: is this?
Speaker 4: And you hear everyone booing, everyone throwing stuff at these
Speaker 4: poor guys, like what is it supposed to be? And
Speaker 4: it was like a test of some sort where I
Speaker 4: got they were trying to rag on guys on the team,
Speaker 4: but like all the players had to be on their
Speaker 4: phones and submitting answers and there was no multiple choice.
Speaker 3: It was great.
Speaker 2: It was, by far, as someone who's watched every season
Speaker 2: of Hard Knocks since two thousand and one, the most
Speaker 2: disastrous rookie show all time. But I have to say
Speaker 2: in defense of the Jets' rookies, it's not for lack
Speaker 2: of effort, like it was just overly ambitious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had big concepts.
Speaker 2: I mean, Christ, they had interactive elements that they were
Speaker 2: trying to get the veterans to like use their phones
Speaker 2: to like key in choices, you.
Speaker 3: Can make the veterans work. It's like, no, like that's
Speaker 3: just the number one.
Speaker 2: And I think it was the tight end who went
Speaker 2: on to make a touchdown cat against the Panthers even
Speaker 2: though he ran the wrong I think I think Koons
Speaker 2: might have been the ring leader on it. And it's
Speaker 2: so bad that CJ. Moseley, the veteran linebacker, sent him
Speaker 2: to summer school and said, this is not the rookie show.
Speaker 2: You guys have to redo this and do it right.
Speaker 2: And can you imagine how stressful it must have for
Speaker 2: rookies in the NFL And now they have.
Speaker 3: This hanging over them when Hard.
Speaker 2: Knocks is there.
Speaker 3: No, I hate it for them. My heart was breaking
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 4: They looked so devastated because I think they thought that
Speaker 4: it would be a hit, and they clearly had put
Speaker 4: so much work into it. So now we get to
Speaker 4: see what they'll well, do you know what, Just keep
Speaker 4: it simple, play the hits, sing some songs, show your talents.
Speaker 3: It's the rookie talent show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a tough one. Let's see, let's see.
Speaker 3: The fun game with the quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: I like that when they were in the meeting room
Speaker 4: and they had all the quarterbacks in there and they
Speaker 4: were showing up on the screen a freeze frame and
Speaker 4: asking is run play or a pass play? And everyone
Speaker 4: was going around guessing, and then like Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 4: Zach Wilson were giving each other heat about it.
Speaker 3: That was awesome.
Speaker 2: I love that was good, and I love this journey
Speaker 2: that we're on with Zach Wilson. Everyone including old Brick
Speaker 2: is say hey, man, just have fun now there's no
Speaker 2: pressure on you. There was that nice moment on the
Speaker 2: field with Adam Thielen. Yeah, Wilson aside and said, you know,
Speaker 2: basically saying, hey, this is a fresh start, and make
Speaker 2: the most of it and be ready. It's it's again.
Speaker 3: We taught.
Speaker 2: We don't know if they hit it hearts we hit
Speaker 2: in episode one. But it's very unique Wilson being on
Speaker 2: this show and his backstory and the fact that he
Speaker 2: is the number two quarterback and he's getting all this
Speaker 2: time in the preseason games. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 3: I was sweet.
Speaker 4: I thought that thelan being like, don't let anyone tell
Speaker 4: you who you are.
Speaker 3: You dictate that.
Speaker 2: And Felan and Rodgers are examples of veterans that do
Speaker 2: it the right way. That's how it's supposed it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be. They say, it's a brotherhood. That's what you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do when you're like a decorated guy that's
Speaker 2: been in the league for a while.
Speaker 3: Acronym check yes, big deal, big deal in the.
Speaker 2: Jets building acronym so I know. I think the number
Speaker 2: one is ag NB huh all gas No break. That's
Speaker 2: Sala's slogan. There was another one though that I could
Speaker 2: I did not know, DRL. That was I think on
Speaker 2: a wall maybe in the meeting room.
Speaker 4: What is DRL do write longer? Apparently it was on
Speaker 4: a bunch of shirts. It's one of Sala's favorite mottos.
Speaker 2: It was tied into do your job.
Speaker 4: Oh, so do your job longer and better.
Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of what he said. He said, don't
Speaker 2: just do your job, do your job and then more. Okay,
Speaker 2: almost another little zing. I like that Patriot way love it.
Speaker 3: When do they first play each other? I'm pretty soon.
Speaker 2: Actually, the Jets have a really tough opening schedule and
Speaker 2: the soft spot, the soft spot is Patriots, I believe
Speaker 2: in week three, Oh damn who they haven't beaten in
Speaker 2: years and years and years.
Speaker 4: Well, and speaking of which, the Patriots you flagged this.
Speaker 4: Both of us looked at each other at the same
Speaker 4: time when we saw the Cairn on the viral the
Speaker 4: screen Scarnakia as an assistant coach, and we both were like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, is that Dante's son.
Speaker 2: Dante Scarnakia, famed offensive line coach, forever offensive line coach,
Speaker 2: now retired of the Patriots, who has been often credited
Speaker 2: as being kind of a glue guy for that coaching
Speaker 2: staff during their glory run up in New England. And
Speaker 2: as is so often the case, like as soon as
Speaker 2: we saw Steve Scarnakia is like, oh is that his son? Yeah,
Speaker 2: just the way. This league is not his uncle, you know,
Speaker 2: not a distant nephew. No, it's his son, Steve Scarnakia.
Speaker 2: He's the chief of staff.
Speaker 3: Of the Jets.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is, but it sounds like
Speaker 2: vital role.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sounds like a good job if he can get it.
Speaker 3: Soundtrack check in Oh yeah, Shaggy, thought we heard Shaggy, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: you called that.
Speaker 2: But then I always I always check the credits at
Speaker 2: the end, and there he was not credited. No, no,
Speaker 2: but that was unmistake unmistakably Shaggy.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, because I looked it up and the song
Speaker 4: is called Oh Carolina, and that was for them going
Speaker 4: down to the Panthers. So it sounded like him. It
Speaker 4: was like this nice, fun kind of like reggae.
Speaker 2: Ye Shaggy, Yeah, Shaggy, that's that's the third good Shaggy song.
Speaker 4: Shaggy still got it the trilogy. And then we got
Speaker 4: the I Can't Stand the Rain the og from the seventies.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was nice.
Speaker 2: Yep, missy Elliot turned it to a huge hit in
Speaker 2: the nineties, but it had its start I guess as
Speaker 2: a seventies song.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 2: I also want to throw out there I gotta say,
Speaker 2: and this is my last one, okay, because it was
Speaker 2: It's important to me. A formative A formative film in
Speaker 2: my life is Naked Gun.
Speaker 3: Oh Yeah.
Speaker 2: From the files of Police Squad nineteen eighty eight, Leslie
Speaker 2: Nielsen George Kennedy, a movie that I've watched, honestly, and
Speaker 2: I'm not even joking a thousand times. It's it's probably
Speaker 2: whether you like my personality or not or my sense
Speaker 2: of humor.
Speaker 3: Thirty one percent on the sense of humor and personality
Speaker 3: was based off watching that movie from age nine to present.
Speaker 2: So to see and this is my special notice for
Speaker 2: MVP to see. Passing Game coordinator Todd Downing set up
Speaker 2: an entire quarterbacks room meeting around Leslie Nielsen and his works.
Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Leslie. Here's what he had to say.
Speaker 2: We've been trying our best to get you guys educated
Speaker 2: on everything football, right. The biggest problem I have, Aaron,
Speaker 2: is we have not done a good job about teaching
Speaker 2: them about movies. Welcome to Cinema Sunday, educating an underprivileged
Speaker 2: generation in the art of moving pictures. You guys need
Speaker 2: to know who Leslie Nielsen is, and yes, and that's
Speaker 2: True Airplane, Naked Gut One, Naked Good two and a half,
Speaker 2: The Smell of Fear, and Making Gun thirty three and
Speaker 2: a third, The Final Insult.
Speaker 4: Watch them All Airplane, Airplane. For me, that's like one
Speaker 4: of the top movies ever. I love it so much.
Speaker 4: And you know what, it's just like they're having all
Speaker 4: of these teaching moments for the Jets, and it's better
Speaker 4: for these players to be well rounded, and I love
Speaker 4: that this is part of the curriculum.
Speaker 2: Isn't it weird when it happens like this where something
Speaker 2: you love in pop culture swerves even closer to you
Speaker 2: and you're like, it almost feels like it's talking to you.
Speaker 3: Watching the Jets felt personal on Hard Knocks and then.
Speaker 2: Having a coach going to a deep dive on Leslie
Speaker 2: Nielsen was like, what is happening here?
Speaker 3: How are you doing right now? Are you still reeling?
Speaker 2: I'm flying, Yeah you are. I'm happy about this team.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about this team, and I think season I
Speaker 2: don't know seventeen of Hard Knocks is off to a
Speaker 2: great start.
Speaker 3: Two good episodes already. I can't wait for the third.
Speaker 2: All right, we will be back a week from tonight.
Speaker 2: As we always are. As soon as the airing of
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Speaker 3: What you don't like, what should you like? I mean,
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Speaker 2: There you go, until next week.
Speaker 3: Heed the call.
Speaker 6: The man they call cue Ball has a habit of
Speaker 6: keeping offence behind the eight ball, even his own