1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Well, Jets fans, we welcome you to the Official Jets Podcast, 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: powered by Amazon Web Service. In these strange times, to 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: say the least, this is not normally the off season 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,480 Speaker 1: tearful reunion that myself, Babo Shusan and Marty Lyons would have. 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: But Marty, this is our chance to see each other virtually, because, um, 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: we're all right now trying to deal with a brand 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: new normal. How are you holding up? You know above, 8 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Every morning I get up, I have 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: a conference call with the people over Atlantech. We're all 10 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: working remotely from home, and uh, you know, we still 11 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: have our guys out there on the field. But you know, 12 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: you just have to be patient and be understanding that. 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: You know, it's not just your life you're worried about. 14 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: You're worried about your loved ones and even the strangers 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: that you meet along the way. You know you don't 16 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,879 Speaker 1: want to infect them with a virus or get infected 17 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: and then bringing it at home. So you're exactly right, 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: this is is not the normal. But hopefully sooner or 19 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: later we'll be to it. How are all the kids 20 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: holding up? Everyone's doing well, Bob. You know, I've had 21 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: two boys that are doctors. A matter of fact, Rocky 22 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: just got out of quarantine down in Alabama. Uh, he 23 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: actually diagnosed somebody down there with coronavirus, so he tested negative. 24 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: Jesse's working hard down in um South Carolina. Megan is 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: she's kind of removed because she's a school teacher. And 26 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: Luke is still going to work every day at lockeed Martin, 27 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: So Knockholm would everybody's healthy, and you know you thank 28 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: God for another day of an opportunity to make something 29 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: out of your life. Yeah, I mean we're doing the same, 30 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: holding up as best we can. Hear. Uh, five kids 31 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: all in the house, trapped house, arrests together, maximum family togetherness. 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: Right now with the way I keep describing it to 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: people is, um, I've broken up a few I guess 34 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: what you would call like misdemeanor assaults now when has 35 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 1: committed a felony as of yet? But um, we're only 36 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: about days into what could be a long quarantine. So 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: uh we'll see one one note and hopefully jet fans 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 1: can appreciate this. Uh. My wife as we speak is 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: at a local college head to toe basically in a 40 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: hazmat suit. She of course a registered nurse. We have 41 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:18,799 Speaker 1: a friend around the corner, really good friend of ours 42 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 1: that's also a registered nurse, and the two of them 43 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 1: were basically feeling guilty, you know, like kind of tending 44 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: to their own families. But so many the of people 45 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: that they know that have regular nursing jobs, certainly in hotel, 46 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: in a in the hospitals and in you know, emergency rooms, 47 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: were being called upon to deal with this day by day, 48 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: night by night. And so they called up another friend 49 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: of ours in the local prosecutor's office and how can 50 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 1: we help, And she immediately put the two of them 51 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: in touch with a local contact, and they are volunteering 52 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: at one of the new Jersey drive up testing sites, 53 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: so you know, for free, they're gonna go there as 54 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: many times as they're asked and put on all that 55 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: protective gear and risk whatever health you know they may have, 56 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: and who knows what they might bring home. But it's 57 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: certainly worth it trying to help so many people that 58 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: right now just trying to get tested. It really is, Bob. 59 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: I think everybody can do their part, you know, whether 60 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: it's what Julie's doing or what you and I are 61 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: doing just by staying at home, everybody has to do 62 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: their part. And as frustrating as it is, you know, 63 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: we're actually saving lives and if we can flatten that 64 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: curve and find an answer to what's happening out there, 65 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a better result for all of us. 66 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: But everybody has to be patient, they have to be understanding, 67 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: and uh, you just have to realize that you can 68 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: make a difference. And to make a difference, all you 69 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: have to do is care. And you know, all you 70 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: have to do is stay at home, stay at home 71 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: and do your work and go out as little as 72 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: possible and have as little as contact with other people 73 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: as possible. And like everybody says, we'll make it through it. 74 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: We made it through We've made it through hurricanes, we 75 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: made it through other difficult times in this nation. This 76 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: definitely is one that you know, we'll be able to 77 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: tell our grandchildren about. Yeah, somebody actually posted something funny, 78 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: you know, kind of one last note on this before 79 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: we move on to football and maybe get people a distraction. 80 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: But someone posted something funny to me the other day 81 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: that you know, fifteen twenty years from now, our kids 82 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: will have kids and it will be maybe a sunny 83 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon and the kids, their kids will be inside going, 84 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so bored. I want to go 85 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: out like I don't have nothing to do, and our 86 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: kids will turn to them and be like, let me 87 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: tell you about the time I was trapped in my 88 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: house for eight weeks with my family. You get your 89 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: butt outside and it's you know, like this will be 90 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 1: their moment, as it was described, This is like there, 91 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk uphill both ways and two feet of 92 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: snow moment. You know where they're gonna You can almost 93 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,239 Speaker 1: hear them as cranky parents someday yelling at their kids 94 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 1: about what they're going through right now. Well, you can 95 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: take you that way by me, or you can take 96 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: it as quality time. I know you're on the road 97 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: quite a bit during this part of the year, or 98 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: just finishing up basketball season. Basketball was canceled, so you 99 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: got to spend some quality time with the kids playing 100 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: hide and goat seek, and you get to see every 101 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 1: day that Julie has to put up with. So I'm 102 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,919 Speaker 1: sure it over a little bit. Yeah, you know, I 103 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: think I'm describing it as best I can as quality time. 104 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: I don't think they're describing it that way, That's the 105 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: way I'll describe it. Yeah, if we can spend it 106 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: to football, because you know, certainly if you're a Jet fan, 107 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: this this should be something that distracts you and people 108 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 1: keep texting me and asking me what do you think 109 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: so far? So I'll just throw it at you kind 110 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: of wide angle lens and we can kind of go 111 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,360 Speaker 1: through everything the Jets have done and what they still 112 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: have to do. But what's your overall take on the 113 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: way Joe Douglass has approached the off season so far? Well, 114 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: you know what Bobby, I like what he's doing. I 115 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: think he's rebuilding that offensive line. He's gonna bring in 116 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 1: probably five new starters. When you look at the performance 117 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: of that offensive line last year, they struggle, and they 118 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: struggled because of injuries. Eleven times out of sixteen games 119 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: they had different different lineups. And so you have to 120 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: build the chemistry, you have to have the good luck 121 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,840 Speaker 1: on your side where you don't get injured. But when 122 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: you look at an offense, it only produced seventeen point 123 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: three points per game. That's thirty one in the NFL. 124 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: You're not gonna win many games. The other stat that 125 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: sticks out to you is they allowed fifty two sacks. 126 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: That's way too many in a sixteen games schedule. And 127 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: when your defenses out there trying to shut down the 128 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: opposing offense and they're giving up twenty two points uh 129 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: per game. That's why you're seven and nine. So I 130 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: think number one, you got to build that offensive line. 131 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: You got to build the chemistry, got to build that continuity. 132 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: And these guys have got to play in practice together 133 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: so they get a sense of, Okay, how long do 134 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: we have to hold our blocks for Levyan Bell? You know, 135 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: you look at Levian Belt fifteen games last year. He 136 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 1: only had some seven nine yards. That's not a typical 137 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: Levian Bell year. But the problem was, and you and 138 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 1: I talked about it many times, you would see the 139 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: whole open and then because of his style of running 140 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: making a jump cut in the backfield, by time he 141 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: got to the whole, the whole was closed. So I 142 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: like what Joe is doing billing it with the offensive line. 143 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: Now he's gonna have to go out and find some 144 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: skilled players who help Sam Darnald YEP. What I also 145 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: like though, is he is still approaching this for the 146 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 1: long term. He has not given anybody in this free 147 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: agent market. I think what anybody would consider an exorbitant contract, 148 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: most of the financial commitments can be just re racked 149 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 1: and start over next year. So he has rebuilt the 150 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: offensive line, and I still think the biggest acquisition that 151 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: they'll make will be in the draft. I don't think 152 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: they're done building the offensive line. I don't think the 153 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:50,880 Speaker 1: group they've got right now is going to be the group. 154 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: I personally would be very surprised if one of those 155 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: tackles is there at eleven that they don't take them. 156 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: And I still think that they have clearly left ole 157 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: at starting tackle. UM where you know, if if you 158 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: were gonna tell me right now, predict who their starters 159 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 1: will be. I think Van Roten and Alex Lewis will 160 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: be the starting guards. I think George Fant will probably 161 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: be at one tackle. I think Connor McGovern is gonna 162 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: be the starting center. And I think their draft choice, 163 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 1: whichever of those tackles in the first round that they take, 164 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: will be the other starting tackle. So if you count 165 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: Lewis as a new player, is that somebody that Joe 166 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: Douglass brought in last year. UM he played twelve games 167 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: I think last season, So He's certainly got a chunk 168 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: of time on the offensive line this year, but if 169 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: you count him as a pseudo new player because he's 170 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: someone Joe Douglass brought in, that will be a completely 171 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: remade offensive line by Joe Douglass in one year. And 172 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 1: I think he's doing exactly what he said he was 173 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: every time I've talked to him, and I know you've 174 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: had some conversations with with Joe as well, he's made 175 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: several points. He's a former offensive lineman, so he really 176 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: believes that the game is still one and lost at 177 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. He was going to remake the 178 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,839 Speaker 1: offensive line, but he was never going to look at 179 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: free agency as the quick fix. He was never going 180 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 1: to go out and be a free spender. He was 181 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: gonna be someone that was going to set a value 182 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: to a player. If the player could be had at 183 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: the value they think is worth it, they would get 184 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 1: that player. If the player exceeds the value, then they're 185 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 1: not going to overpay. And I think that's what we 186 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: saw with Robbie Henderson as well. They were gonna be disciplined, 187 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: they were going to offer the contract they felt was fair. 188 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: That didn't work out they move on to the next 189 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: guy and the second wave of free agency, which is 190 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: where they made most of their acquisitions. That's normally where 191 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: you get bargain players, and that's what they got. But 192 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: the fact that he has not overspent in free agency 193 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: is building the offensive line. But I think really still 194 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: believes that the draft is how you truly build your 195 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: team back up. I mean, every everything that he's done 196 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: is I think, exactly the way he said he was 197 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 1: going to do it. All of the times that I've 198 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to him, you probably feel 199 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: the same way. I know you've had a chance to 200 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 1: spend some time chatting with him before games. Also, yeah, 201 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,400 Speaker 1: you know what, Bobby, I like Joe Douglas. I think 202 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,840 Speaker 1: coming off that tree of Ozzie knows something. He had 203 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: learned a lot by staying down there in Baltimore and 204 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: then going out to Chicago and then to Denver and 205 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 1: then you know what he built down there for the Eagles. 206 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:27,960 Speaker 1: He's just done a tremendous job. Excuse me, but I 207 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: think the big difference is now that there's a line 208 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 1: of communication open between your GM and your coaches and 209 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: Adam Gaze, the you know, the head coach and you're 210 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: you're scouting department. You just don't have a GM behind 211 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: closed doors making decisions without the input of the coaching staff. 212 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 1: And I think puts everybody on the same page. Yeah, 213 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question. And um, you know 214 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: he has even gone out and gotten a couple of 215 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: guys defensively adding a losser of the linebacker um this 216 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: week as well. That I think he's doing whatever he 217 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 1: can to get players that he thinks can be whether 218 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: it's kind of a quote unquote the way Bill Parcels 219 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: used to describe them, hold the Ford guys or guys 220 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 1: like he did with Pierre to see the corner that was, uh, 221 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: let go by Indie. You know, bring a guy in 222 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: and show me, show me you're worth more than what 223 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: we're going to give you for one year. You're gonna 224 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: have a lot of very motivated players that are on 225 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,559 Speaker 1: either literally one year contracts or pseudo one year contracts 226 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: because they can be let go next year without the 227 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: Jets really owing them anything. You're gonna have a draft 228 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,200 Speaker 1: class that's going to compete with some of these guys. 229 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: And I think that you know, Joe Douglas is looking 230 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: at this. I've said this before. Jet fans want to 231 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: hear the word rebuild, and they want to hear the 232 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: word patience. The way that like a four year old 233 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: wants to see broccoli on their dinner plate. They don't 234 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: want to see it. It doesn't taste good. They'd rather 235 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: have brownies and ice cream. But the broccoli is good 236 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 1: for them and you have to eat it, and even 237 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: if you don't like it, it's kind of the way 238 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,320 Speaker 1: it goes. This is what these are the vitamins that 239 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: you have to have in your body to become, you know, 240 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: a bigger, stronger person. Kind of the way the draft 241 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,559 Speaker 1: has to be the broccoli You've got to eat that. 242 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: You've got to have that kind of infuse a football 243 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: team with young players that now become your foundation. And 244 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: you can tell with what Joe Douglas is doing right 245 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:25,200 Speaker 1: now in the first year of personally for him, a 246 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: six year contract, he is sending the message to Jet 247 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: fans that just because John Issick's rebuild and Mike mccagnan's 248 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 1: rebuild didn't work, doesn't A become his fault and B 249 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: doesn't change the fact that they have to rebuild that 250 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 1: over the last six or seven years that the draft 251 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: hasn't produced more than a handful of legitimate players for 252 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: the Jets. And you know, nine times out of ten 253 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 1: a team that either competes for a championship or even 254 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: is you know, a regular participant in the play offs. 255 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:03,440 Speaker 1: The foundation of all of that comes from the draft. 256 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: That comes from drafting those players and developing them on 257 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: your roster. And he's still, I think, is being very 258 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: disciplined and taking that longer view. Well, you know one thing, 259 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: I know, Bob, you've been home too long and around 260 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: the kids too often, you know, because now you're you're 261 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 1: looking at free agency. Like broccoli. I tried, my wife 262 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: tried to feed me broccoli for the last three days. 263 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,960 Speaker 1: I can eat it once. That's it. I don't want 264 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 1: it two nights in a row. Maybe it's good for me. No, 265 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: I don't want broccoli two weeks and two nights in 266 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: a row. But you know, I think Joe Douglas is 267 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: he's got a handle on it. And for what the 268 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: team did in the second part of the season, they 269 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: can started off one and seven, and you know, you 270 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: lose Sam Donald and then you lose C. J. Moseley, 271 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: and of course during the preseason. You lose Avery Williamson, 272 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: you know, you lost so much on that defensive side 273 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: of the ball. And think about the job that Greg 274 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: Williams did as the defense coordinator. The big number that's 275 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: it's uh sits with me, Bobby is only thirty five 276 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,280 Speaker 1: sacks and only a third of those coming from the 277 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: defensive line. They've got to find a way to get 278 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 1: those guys up front to get to the quarterback. Nobody's 279 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: gonna be as fortunate as a team that I played on. 280 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 1: When you had Mark Gastner on one side Joe Cleck 281 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: on the other, they both come up with twenty sacks. 282 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: You can't double team on boat, so ab Do and 283 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: I what we had to do is tie up the 284 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: middle and we got our share of sacks. But somehow 285 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to find a defensive lineman or two 286 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 1: that can beat beat the guy in front of him 287 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: one on one. Uh. You have a guy within Greg 288 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: Williams that's gonna take the best personnel and he's gonna 289 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: play him. He doesn't care who you are. He's gonna 290 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: take the good players and make them great, the great 291 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: players and make them superstars. Look what he did for 292 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: with Jamal Adams last year, putting them up on the 293 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, comes away with six and a half. 294 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: Sacks had the best year of his career. But Greg 295 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: has that tendency if you're not going to play, if 296 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: you're not going to compete, guess what you're not gonna play. 297 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: Popa shows and Marty lyons on the Official Jets podcast, 298 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,400 Speaker 1: and obviously you can, you know, join us on the 299 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,720 Speaker 1: Official Jets Podcast wherever you download your podcasts, and you 300 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 1: know it's it's also really interesting, I think wondering what 301 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: all of this should and ought to mean for Sam Donald. 302 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: You know, there's such a trickle down effect of if 303 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 1: the offensive line is better, that makes the running game 304 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: that much more effective for Levian Bell. If the running 305 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 1: game is that much more effective for Levian Bell, how 306 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: much more effective Sam Donald can be. He's so good 307 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: play action, misdirection, moving him out of the pocket, all 308 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: of the different things you can do when it when 309 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: a defense is afraid of the run game. And if 310 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: he just has some health around him as well. I mean, 311 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: I think of the two tight ends the Jets should 312 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: start the year next year with. If Chris Herndon can 313 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,000 Speaker 1: come back and be a healthy player. And the other 314 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: thing I think the Jets will do. Um, you know 315 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:01,080 Speaker 1: that we've been talking of out some of these you know, 316 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 1: kind of low impact one year commitment. Prove it to 317 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,320 Speaker 1: me contracts that they've signed Shot Perriman, who comes in 318 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: at receiver in thirty or so less targets than Robbie 319 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: Anderson last year and still produced basically the same numbers 320 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: that Robby Anderson put up. He comes in in a 321 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: one year contract. I fully expect the Jets with the 322 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: eleventh pick to take a tackle. But I also fully 323 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 1: expect that with their second round pick and maybe one 324 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: of the third round picks, I think they're gonna look 325 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: at those spots at wide receiver as well, because this 326 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: is a draft where wide receiver maybe as deep as 327 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 1: it's ever been. I mean that this is a transformational 328 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: group and wide receiver where you're gonna get a first 329 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: round talent in the second or third round. Um. You know, 330 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: you think about in totality what all of this could 331 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: mean for Sam Donald um in in his third year, 332 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: and you know that this should be a year where 333 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: he a has to stay healthy and play sixteen games. 334 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: I haven't seen that yet, but be should take us 335 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: step to a different level than we've seen him play 336 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: it so far. Yo, Bobby, I think he has to 337 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: take that step. People only played in thirteen games last year, 338 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: nineteen touchdowns, thirteen interceptions, and when you look at the 339 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: timing of some of those interceptions, you just kind of 340 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: hold your head and go, no, why did you throw that? 341 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: But he's gonna learn. I think that he's got the 342 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,679 Speaker 1: command of the huddle, he's got the respect of these teammates, 343 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,159 Speaker 1: and I really think he's stepping up in the locker 344 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: room to become a voice and be one of those leaders. 345 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: But you know, this is not one of those years 346 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: where we say, hey, Sam, you got to do it. 347 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: You know what, it's your third season. You were a 348 00:17:38,880 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 1: number one draft choice. You kind to go out there 349 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: and play. Big thing is if you're not healthy. You 350 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: know what, you only played thirteen games last year. You know, 351 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 1: when you come down with mono after the first game, 352 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: you have a sixteen point lead against Buffalo in the 353 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, all of a sudden, you start to get 354 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 1: a little bit more fatigued than you felt, you know, 355 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,959 Speaker 1: in the third quarter. Then you get banged up and 356 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 1: then you don't play for a couple of weeks. You 357 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:07,320 Speaker 1: know that happens. So I think you can't look in 358 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: the past. We just got to look into Ford. I think, uh, 359 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,640 Speaker 1: everybody should be excited about this year. It all depends 360 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: to Bobby about how quick they can get into camp, 361 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 1: how quick that they can start working together. Get everybody 362 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,440 Speaker 1: on that same page. I don't like the collective bargaining. 363 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:27,679 Speaker 1: I don't like the way the Jets have going into 364 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: the preseason games and how they approached it with a 365 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,359 Speaker 1: lot of guys not playing, not getting built in that chemistry, 366 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden Week one, you're supposed 367 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 1: to throw it in there like a light switch, turn 368 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: it on. You need to get in playing shape, whether 369 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,800 Speaker 1: it's one quarter or two quarter and playing the first 370 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: three preseason games, then you want to sit out in 371 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: the fourth. Okay, but you've gotta get playing time, especially 372 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 1: when you have so many new faces. Yeah, and I 373 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: think the point you made about the offensive line specifically, like, 374 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: to me, that's gonna be a huge Don't know how 375 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: you would approach this if you were coaching the offensive line. 376 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: But if I gave you five new guys and I said, 377 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: all right, not only have you guys never played collectively before. 378 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,440 Speaker 1: But we're gonna collapse the off season and we're gonna 379 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: give you instead of X number of practices, take that 380 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,120 Speaker 1: and cut it in half or instead of I mean, 381 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: who knows how deep into the off season we're going 382 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: to go before we're all told you can go back 383 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: to normal. You guys can all be around each other. 384 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: You can play a contact sport. It's safe. So, just 385 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: for the sake of argument, if this drags into summer 386 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: and training camp gets cut in half, or maybe the 387 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: preseason gets cut in half, how would you approach that 388 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: with the offensive line knowing that those five guys have 389 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: to have chemistry that's different than anybody probably any other 390 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 1: position group on the field. Well, first of all, I 391 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: get them in their playbooks right now, so that they 392 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:54,199 Speaker 1: know the terminology, they know the plays, and all you 393 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: have to do is, eventually, you know, walk your way 394 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,400 Speaker 1: through the playbook so that you understand the different terminal bology, 395 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: You understand what you're supposed to be doing on a 396 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: certain play is called. You can never have a game 397 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,560 Speaker 1: situation at practice. They just don't practice that way anymore. 398 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: You know. It's I don't want to say it's two 399 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: hand touch, but there's no really you know, you've got 400 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,439 Speaker 1: the guys up front trying to make a hit, and 401 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: then you've got a running back running through a hole 402 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: and then he keeps running. Well, those days of of 403 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: hard nosed practices are are are done. So I don't 404 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: know how you learn how to run and how you 405 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: learn how to tackle unless you practice it. And unfortunately 406 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: that's when you start a season. You see a lot 407 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: of mistackles, you see a lot of broken plays. But 408 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: to win in the NFL, you've got to start fast, 409 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 1: and you've got to finish strong. And you know, we're 410 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: going into our nineteenth gear together, Bobby, and you know 411 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 1: one and seven. At the halfway point, you kind of say, well, 412 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: we're playing this year out, you know, because even if 413 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: you go eight, No. Nine and seven is not gonna 414 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: do much in the a f C, and especially in 415 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: the a f C East. Now that Tom Brady's gone, 416 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: you know, that opens the door to everybody else saying, well, 417 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 1: Tom Brady was New England Patriots, that's why they kept winning. 418 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: He's not there anymore. There's no more excuses. Maybe it's 419 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's system, but you have an opportunity to go 420 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: out there and perform and to be at the top 421 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,639 Speaker 1: of the a f C East. But right now, I 422 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,359 Speaker 1: think Buffalo is might be that team that you we 423 00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: should all be worried about. Nineteen years and we still 424 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,400 Speaker 1: like each other. Yeah, that's right. I remember nineteen years 425 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: ago when we did our first game down in Baltimore. 426 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 1: It was a preseason game, and you know it was Uh, 427 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: I didn't know you. I had listened to you when 428 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: you were on the fan, and you know, now, to 429 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,640 Speaker 1: see us together nineteen years later, to see the families 430 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:50,239 Speaker 1: be able to come close and see the kids grow up, 431 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: I mean that is something special. And I think that's 432 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:58,159 Speaker 1: what the game brings to each individual they It brings memories, 433 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:02,679 Speaker 1: it brings, uh, you know, that camaraderie around with one another, 434 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 1: you know, in the locker room. And I think that's 435 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: what everybody misses right now, is being around, you know, teammates, 436 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: because there's no better teammate than to sit around and 437 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: to tell stories and you start to talk about families 438 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,520 Speaker 1: and you start to talk about, wow, nineteen years already, 439 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 1: where did it all go? Yeah, And and we all 440 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,880 Speaker 1: just want sports to come back, not just football, but 441 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 1: I mean sports, you know, after nine eleven, I think 442 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: was so important to the healing of the city. Um, 443 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 1: during the crash in two thousand and two thousand nine, 444 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 1: sports gave you a distraction every day and every night, 445 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 1: kind of get away from you know, uh, you know, 446 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: you didn't have to look at your four oh one 447 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 1: K every day because you had a game to watch 448 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: and I would distract you for a little while. And 449 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: right now, ay, we are all going through this collectively, 450 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,240 Speaker 1: but be all of our distractions have even been taken 451 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 1: away from us, and I'm sure sports will probably be 452 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: the last thing to come back. I don't I don't know, 453 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 1: you know, I would think that we are probably headed 454 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: at at some point towards a baseball season, maybe at 455 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 1: some point towards the resumption of the hockey and basketball seasons. 456 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 1: And I think we'll have a football season, But in 457 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: what form? Will it all be abbreviated? Will we will 458 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: we be playing in empty stadiums for a while. That 459 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: is possible as well. I just you know, I I 460 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: don't know, and I think none of us do. And 461 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,119 Speaker 1: that's obviously, um, you know, that's on the back burner. 462 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 1: I mean, right now, we have to beat this virus. 463 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 1: We have to keep as many people healthy and out 464 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: of the healthcare system as possible, and hopefully everyone is 465 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: doing what they're supposed to do and socially distancing and 466 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:36,199 Speaker 1: being responsible and and taking this thing as seriously as 467 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: we should. But in our world, I'm looking forward to 468 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 1: when we're gonna get games back, and I can't wait 469 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,639 Speaker 1: for the football season. It's March. We only out of 470 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: the draft yet, but because we have nothing else to 471 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: pay attention to sports spots right now, I'm ready for 472 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 1: the football season to start. Well, I have to agree 473 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 1: with you, Bobo, and everything you just said. I think 474 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: that we all miss sports. You know, you put on 475 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: the ESPN and you're seeing reruns. I I I was 476 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 1: fortunately hit ESPN the other day and I saw the 477 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: Chicago Bears thirty thirty show and it ended up with 478 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 1: Buddy Ryan sending out a letter to all of his 479 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,120 Speaker 1: UH players and his last line was, Hey, you guys 480 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: are my heroes. And we all know how that ended 481 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: for Buddy Ryan. But you know what, we missed the 482 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: stories coming out of the NFL. We missed the stories 483 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: coming out of the world of sports. So many people 484 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: from the world of sports are trying to touch people 485 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: and give them the right direction in life, and and 486 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 1: we're missing that right now because there is a bigger 487 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,639 Speaker 1: issue that all of us can make a contribution to. 488 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: And the biggest way that we can is stay at home. 489 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: Stay at home every now and then, you know, pick 490 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: up the phone when you when you want to tell 491 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: somebody how important they are in your life, or you 492 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: just want to check in on them, pick up the 493 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: phone and just say, hey, you know what I was 494 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: thinking about you today, how you feeling. That's it, you know, 495 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 1: goes a long way, all right. That's Marty Lyons. I'm 496 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,680 Speaker 1: Babo Shusan. Thanks for joining us the Official Jets Podcast 497 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: powered by Amazon Web Services and uh Jet fans, Stay healthy, 498 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: stay safe. We will talk to you soon.