Speaker 1: Ryan, you touched on this briefly yesterday, But what what
Speaker 1: would this means? You're going back to Buffalo for this
Speaker 1: game of it would be the first time that I've
Speaker 1: I've been back there and uh, in a different jersey,
Speaker 1: you know, playing in front of those fans. So um,
Speaker 1: I mean it's got some extra meeting to me just
Speaker 1: because I was there for four years and the fans
Speaker 1: were so great to me and my family. So um,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of extra meeting there. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they're there needs to be with just a
Speaker 1: significance and importance of this game, you know, in terms
Speaker 1: of what's at stake for us. Right when you look
Speaker 1: back at those four years, what was the highlight with it?
Speaker 1: Was the biggest game you played in? Their most memorable
Speaker 1: game you played in with the Bills? Um, I mean
Speaker 1: the most I think the most fun was the the
Speaker 1: start of the twenty eleventh season, and you know, just
Speaker 1: how we got off to a fast start. We we
Speaker 1: were kind of wrote when we had some comeback wins
Speaker 1: early and UM, unfortunately we didn't we didn't win enough
Speaker 1: games while we were there, and especially you know in December,
Speaker 1: UM didn't really play well enough to have meaningful games,
Speaker 1: and so it was probably the beginning of the year
Speaker 1: and in can you have you had a chance to
Speaker 1: dive into something those tape yet and if so, you
Speaker 1: know what thoughts and you know how they look different
Speaker 1: maybe than what you saw in November. I mean some
Speaker 1: of the personnel is a little bit different, just with
Speaker 1: injuries and different guys having to step in and play.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, it's it's just obviously Rex Ryan defense.
Speaker 1: They're going to be aggressive. Um, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different things we'll have to prepare for and um, so
Speaker 1: it'll be a big challenge for us offensively. You know,
Speaker 1: it always is going up against his type of defenses
Speaker 1: and the way that they're coached up and the way
Speaker 1: that they play. So, um, you know, we'll just kind
Speaker 1: of continue to try to get better with what we
Speaker 1: do and how we're doing it, and you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: we can come out with the wind. If it's what's
Speaker 1: your best explanation for your elevated play during the chapel
Speaker 1: on their stuff? Uh, I mean, I just think we've
Speaker 1: been coming together as an offense, uh and really as
Speaker 1: a as a whole team. Um. I think just confidence
Speaker 1: and not just not just confidence for me personally, but
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, as a team, our confidence
Speaker 1: level is higher. And um, you know, I'm just the guy.
Speaker 1: The guys around me had been playing great, you know,
Speaker 1: Brandon and Deck and you know even you know, kimbrell
Speaker 1: and and Quincy and you now, our three running backs.
Speaker 1: The guys have really just been stepping up. And um,
Speaker 1: so we've we've just made more plays. And I think
Speaker 1: that stems from being more confident as a team. So
Speaker 1: much does that first Buffalo game kind of sticking your
Speaker 1: fraud just given you know, you had that opportunity with
Speaker 1: the ball in the Reginald towards the end and couldn't
Speaker 1: get it done. It's tough, you know, I watched the
Speaker 1: game earlier today, just you know, it's tough watching that
Speaker 1: film because some of the I didn't play well in
Speaker 1: that game, and um, you know, some of the missed
Speaker 1: opportunities and things that that we had. Uh, but you
Speaker 1: can't dwell on it, you know, you try to move
Speaker 1: on from it and get better and learned from it.
Speaker 1: I think we have. But um, you know, obviously they
Speaker 1: got us in the first one, and and we've got
Speaker 1: to play a better, better game. You know, I've got
Speaker 1: to play a much better game this time around. Ryan.
Speaker 1: After the Dallas game, Brandon talked about kind of how
Speaker 1: his perceptions were the Jets organization from the outside and
Speaker 1: how different that was since he got here. Just curious.
Speaker 1: You know, you went against the Jets for a lot
Speaker 1: of years in Buffalo. What were you what was your
Speaker 1: thoughts on the team, you know, before you got here,
Speaker 1: and what's been different than than what you expected? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean it was always you know, when we were
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, we didn't have a very good record against him,
Speaker 1: and so the Jets were always, you know, a team
Speaker 1: we knew when we faced them, they'd have, you know,
Speaker 1: a great defense. They were tough, they were physical, and
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of the perception around the league. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, And I was to see things change. Um
Speaker 1: when you when you make changes in the front office
Speaker 1: and changes with the coaching staff and then you know,
Speaker 1: shuffled around players. But um, you know, I've been I've
Speaker 1: been real happy just in being here. The organization is
Speaker 1: top notch. You know. I don't know that I had
Speaker 1: an opinion one way or the other before I got here,
Speaker 1: but the way that the trade players are treated. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just as Brandon said in his little quote,
Speaker 1: everybody in the building just worked so hard and and
Speaker 1: does a great job and so, uh, it's definitely a
Speaker 1: first class organization. Can you take us back to the touchdowns?
Speaker 1: Was he your primary option? Did you notice the single
Speaker 1: coverage coming out of the huddle? Um? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was just man covers a deal over
Speaker 1: on brandonside doubling him, um, you know, which left deck
Speaker 1: one on one, and he just you know, it's a
Speaker 1: great job being patient and running his route and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think credit to just to the the
Speaker 1: coaching staff. That was a play that we had run
Speaker 1: in practice a couple of times versus at exact look,
Speaker 1: and so I had a lot of confidence in and
Speaker 1: where he was headed and the way I needed to
Speaker 1: throw the ball and uh, and so it was nice
Speaker 1: to to get that look in the game and to
Speaker 1: get that completion. Ryan, how much do you regard those
Speaker 1: four years in Buffalo as the time when you kind
Speaker 1: of showed people and I don't know, maybe showed yourself too,
Speaker 1: that you could start to exceed consistently as a starter
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Huh yeah, I mean with with Buffalo.
Speaker 1: That was the first time, you know, I had been
Speaker 1: a a day one starter. I guess, um chance first
Speaker 1: year I didn't start first two games, and then uh
Speaker 1: from then on, you know, for that year, in the
Speaker 1: next two I was the starter of that franchise. And
Speaker 1: so um, that was a big step for me, you know,
Speaker 1: to be able to be in that role and and
Speaker 1: to have some success. And uh, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of that just them from Jan and his confidence in me,
Speaker 1: and you know, the way that we worked together. But
Speaker 1: I look, I look back on those four years, um
Speaker 1: as a great I mean it's a great learning experience
Speaker 1: for me. You know, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: I think I've learned since then. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I loved I love living there, love the city, of
Speaker 1: the fans, the organization, the players, I mean every everything
Speaker 1: there was top notch. And um, so I looked back
Speaker 1: on those four years very very fondly. You feel Ryan,
Speaker 1: why did you feel he worked so well with Dan Gailey? Uh,
Speaker 1: I just think he We've just got a great feel
Speaker 1: for each other. I mean, he knows me so well.
Speaker 1: I think our philosophies line up just in terms of
Speaker 1: the way to attack a defense and um, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he plays to my strength as a player,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, oftentimes now I can kind of
Speaker 1: anticipate what's coming in or what's going to be called,
Speaker 1: and um, you know he'll he'll last my opinion and
Speaker 1: see if I like a player, don't like a play,
Speaker 1: And so I just think, um, you know, we work
Speaker 1: well together because we think alike and we've been in
Speaker 1: these situations a lot together and so um, we've got
Speaker 1: a really good feel for each other. Ryan how I
Speaker 1: is by how how it can simplify things after the
Speaker 1: text MOS game. You know, he's kind of alluded to
Speaker 1: that act. But I guess you know, it's just mostly
Speaker 1: just wrapped combinations. What's the most of things you do? Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's been a lot of different things,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, I think just getting bad. It's
Speaker 1: not necessarily that we're that we were trying to run
Speaker 1: different route combinations, but I think we were just trying
Speaker 1: to we're trying to reinvent the wheel. We're putting people
Speaker 1: in a bunch of different positions and in situations, and
Speaker 1: I think that was hurting me more than helping me,
Speaker 1: just in terms of my decision making. And so I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we're still moving guys around and doing things,
Speaker 1: but more to what I'm comfortable with and so simplifying
Speaker 1: some of that stuff, even though a lot of the
Speaker 1: route combinations are the same and a lot of the
Speaker 1: the plays are the same. Um, you know, just just
Speaker 1: with me in the way that I think about the game.
Speaker 1: I guess pre snap um, getting guys in certain positions
Speaker 1: that I'm comfortable with maybe the best way to put it. Ryan,
Speaker 1: A lot of teams talk about muck twins or the
Speaker 1: playoffs starting early, but not every team responds well to
Speaker 1: those situations. Why do you think the Jets have responded
Speaker 1: well week after week after week here down the stretch
Speaker 1: when you guys have they made no bones about the
Speaker 1: fact that you felt like you had to win out
Speaker 1: and you've called these playoffs games. Um, I just think
Speaker 1: we've got a lot of veteran guys on our team.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of experience. We've got plenty of
Speaker 1: guys that have you know, been to sorry about that.
Speaker 1: We've got plenty of guys that have you know, been
Speaker 1: in big time games in the playoffs. We've got some
Speaker 1: guys that have been to and won the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and then we've got old Cremunctional, the guys that haven't
Speaker 1: been to the playoffs at all. So it's just a
Speaker 1: mixture of of guys that have a ton of experience,
Speaker 1: and everybody still has that dribe and passion to get there.
Speaker 1: And so I think we've um you know, coming at
Speaker 1: it from all different angles, guys that have been there
Speaker 1: and guys that haven't, the guys that have experienced in
Speaker 1: this league, and you know, know that it just doesn't
Speaker 1: happen every year, and we think we've got a special
Speaker 1: team and and so I just think we've been able
Speaker 1: to kind of push through some adversity and and just
Speaker 1: continue to keep our focus one game at a time. Well,
Speaker 1: and I know athletes always talk about, you know that
Speaker 1: you guys, you always believe in yourself, But when is
Speaker 1: the moment for you this year that you felt like,
Speaker 1: because you guys have had such you know, at this point,
Speaker 1: had such a sort of magical ride, when the point
Speaker 1: when when you felt like it really was real that
Speaker 1: you guys could get yourself into the spot that they're
Speaker 1: in now. I honestly, I think it's been like that
Speaker 1: all year, even you know, even when we lost we
Speaker 1: went through that stretch in the middle of the season
Speaker 1: where we lost some games, uh, you know, lost some
Speaker 1: close games, and whatever it was, there was still a
Speaker 1: ton of belief. I just think, you know, and being
Speaker 1: in the league, um, and having the experience that a
Speaker 1: lot of us do have, you can recognize when you
Speaker 1: have a good team. And and so I think the
Speaker 1: belief has always been there, just because we see the
Speaker 1: way that everybody works, you know, week in and week out,
Speaker 1: and we see the talent level on this team. And
Speaker 1: so I think that the belief has been there from
Speaker 1: day one and hasn't wavered. Brian, how how in particular
Speaker 1: are you a different or better quarterbacks than the guy
Speaker 1: who who left Buffalo after that twin twelve season. I
Speaker 1: think I think I'm a much smarter player, uh, just
Speaker 1: again from experience and being on the field, being in
Speaker 1: a couple of different systems, uh, you know, gaining a
Speaker 1: new perspective on things offensively and defensively. I think, I
Speaker 1: you know, I think I understand my game a little
Speaker 1: bit better. I think I'm a much more patient quarterback. Um.
Speaker 1: So there's just been a tremendous amount of growth for me. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, And and It hasn't all been peaches and roses.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's been there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: ups and downs, even since if I left Buffalo. But
Speaker 1: through all those experiences, I've tried to try to learn
Speaker 1: from them, and I just I think they've all helped
Speaker 1: me along the way. We'll take one more question for Ryan. Ryan,
Speaker 1: you guys have talked about the one game and a
Speaker 1: time mentality, you know, all season, but now just one
Speaker 1: game have a lot of meats. Will you think about,
Speaker 1: you know, what the implications of the game are. Will
Speaker 1: you try to get that out of your head and
Speaker 1: just read it like it's a week three or week five.
Speaker 1: I mean that it really is what it's been the
Speaker 1: last five weeks. You know, just when we were sitting
Speaker 1: there at five and five, we knew that we had
Speaker 1: no margin for error. And so that's what it's been
Speaker 1: the last five weeks. And we just got to continue
Speaker 1: to take that mindset and that mentality and roll at
Speaker 1: into this week. And um, that's that's been working for us,
Speaker 1: you know, the one week at a time mentality, It
Speaker 1: really has and um, you know, so hopefully we'll get
Speaker 1: a great game plan in great practice week and we'll
Speaker 1: go out there and we'll show up on Sunday.