WEBVTT - Jets-Falcons Game Preview (10/26) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.800 Like gab on the world, you played to win the 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:18.320 game as a Jet touchdown. You're listening to the official 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:25.200 Jets podcast, Jets three sixty production, Jets Nation. What's going on? 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.280 Ethan Greenberg here alongside Eric Allen bringing you the game 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.680 preview on the Official Jets Podcast. Of course, this Sunday, 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.560 Jets Falcons at the midway point of the regular season, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.000 the Jets trying to climb to five D, trying to 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.960 snap a two game slide here at Mattlife Stadium. E A. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.360 We have a great show today. We're gonna bring in 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.360 d Orlando ladban are also known as d let Down 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.320 from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. And then of course Chad 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.560 Pennington has always e A the Falcons. Okay, everyone knows 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.360 last year NFC champions, very powerful of fens. Three and 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.600 three so far this year, ironically all in three against 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.600 the a f C East, and the Falcons are playing 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.640 each team in the a f C East in consecutive 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.840 war so the last four weeks will come against AFC 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.160 East opponents after this Sunday. So last week against Miami, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.720 one of the big teams as penalties right, twelve penalties 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:24.080 against the offense. We all know what happened, how did 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.440 the Jets go about fixing it? And how significant our 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.000 penalties against this offense that is top ten in the 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.600 league right now. Well, Todd Bowles talked about it that 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.160 they've already been doing some stuff at practice. I think 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:43.000 they'ing a conference calls earlier this week. Leonard Williams said, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.320 I gonna do if I run Gasters or something like that, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.120 and you know want to uh, you know, hey, un PC, 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.840 So it makes us really party should not get penalt league, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.000 and you know that lead to the game. And then 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.600 Todd Bowles is asked about it. He's not gonna be 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.400 too specific about it, but this is something I will 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.400 actually write in my storylines piece this week, is that 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:08.000 the yellow has Todd Bowles seen red. That's one thing 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.799 that he's not gonna put up with from his team 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.040 that over a hundred yards and penalties against the Dolphins. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:21.040 They now lead the NFL as far as penalty yardage 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.440 marked against them. So they're gonna be doing different things 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.919 that practice this week. They already have officials out there 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.320 as you know greens. That's something saw throughout the spring 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.200 and training camp. But I would anticipate the Jets being 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.840 a much more disciplined crew this week against Atlanta. To 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.320 your question, yeah, listen, you can't give this Atlanta offense 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.800 that is his hit kind of a bump in the road. 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.080 They did not play very well against New England, move 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.799 the ball at times, couldn't finish. You can't give them 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.040 extra opportunities. That's what penalties ultimately do, is they give 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.560 free yardage and they give extra opportunities. Matt Ryan, while 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.000 he's not of the numbers he had last season, he's 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.919 still a terrific quarterback. We think about Julio Jones and 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:12.119 Mohammed Sannu. I love the running Backstamante Freeman and Tavin Coleman. Conversely, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:14.200 I really like a lot of the things the Jets 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:15.840 are doing on both sides of the ball, and I 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.440 thought they were fantastic against the run against j Ji 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.840 last week. He's talked about Matt Ryan and that he's 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.840 not putting up similar numbers to last year when he 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.400 was the m v P of the NFL. Last year, 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.880 he threw seven picks in the entire season through seven weeks. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.280 Eight weeks, he's thrown six picks, so clearly not on 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.320 the same page. Maybe it's attributed to the new offense 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.440 with Steve Sarkisian because of course Kyle Shanahan now head 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.720 coach of the San Francisco forty Niners, and bringing in 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.400 one more theme from this Miami game looking forward is 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.720 the killer instinct, and Coach Bowls immediately after the game says, 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.640 at some point we got developed from what does that 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.560 mean to you? And how do you think the Jets 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 go about fixing it? Just me is finishing it means. 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.840 So if you're an offense and you've got to lead 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.240 in the fourth quarter, and you played really well throughout 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:10.000 the game, and you're John Morton, who has been phenomenal 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.680 for this team, you know, the one thing that he's 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.040 gonna be disappointed about in his unit is that they 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:17.760 weren't able to get any first downs. They had one 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.839 first down on the fourth quarter with the lead mad 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:24.320 fote in Elevin yard Broun. Conversely, defensively, we can go 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.080 back and look at some of the penalties. Uh you know, 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.400 there were some penalties on those drives and they were 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:34.480 giving up uh short possessions that lead to touchdowns. But 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.840 as Damario Davis said, hey listen, yeah, sometimes they're gonna 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.080 be in scoring territory, but you have to prevent touchdowns. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.600 You make them kick field goals, and then you'll be 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.359 able to hold on to a fourteen point lead or 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.760 build upon it. I think ultimately, green's when you're up fourteen, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.760 that's not thinking how do we get out here and 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.160 start the bus. It's more along the lines of how 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.440 do we put another touchdown on the board before we 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.040 check in a d lead. We can't leave this our 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.160 taste in the mouth of Jets fans, so let me 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.320 ask you, this is what did you like from Sunday's game? 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.080 Because there was a lot of good to pick Oh 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.560 my god, there was so much to like. Again, I talked, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.680 we talked about more in each and every week. The 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:22.040 screen game was fantastic. Um. The Jets capitalized on takeaways. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.480 They two takeaways. They finished with fourteen points. Yes, I know, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.279 the one drive was one yard or two yards. But 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.560 then you got to give the defense a lot of 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.520 credit because they stopped the run. I thought they were 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:38.640 better getting after the quarterback and they came up with 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.120 the takeaways. How about Jamal Ams with the blitz the 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.839 deflection and Mohammad Wilkerson with the interception. I thought that 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.480 was more Wilke's best game in two thousand seventeen. So 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:52.960 that's another another encourage on his birthday. On his birthday birthday, 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:59.000 Marcus May was he was excellent. He's all playing in 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.240 the run. He had the reception, he might have had 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.560 another one. There's a lot of things you can look at, 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:08.920 but you know, right now the Jets are about cleaning 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.240 up the stakes looking ahead to Atlanta, and I anticipate 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.680 they'll have a better performance for sixty minutes this week 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.200 at My Life Stadium and whatever the Jets take, whatever 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.320 they eat the morning before they play, J J I. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:25.080 It's phenomenal because Gi got stuffed this game. He had 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.000 twenty three carries for under fifty yards. That's an average 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.720 of had just over fifty yards, right, so, and then 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.359 he had that first game was eleven carries, sixteen yards. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.359 JG I. He's gonna be happy he doesn't have to 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.960 see the Jets again this year. All right, Greens, let's 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.839 bring in d Orlando Lead better better known is d 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.000 Lead down there in the a t L. He covers 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.400 the Falcons for the Atlanta Journal Constitution for a long 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.760 time during his illustrious career. Uh d lad You wrote 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.560 the other day that the Falcons had a team meeting 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.719 following a loss to the New England Patriots, their third 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:04.640 CONTs secutive loss. What kind of issues were aired out 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:10.520 between the players? Well, you know, just the they're playing hard. Uh, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.160 there's no there's no issues there with regards to the 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.480 effort that's being put out on the field. But they're 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:21.040 not executing in uh, you know, an elite way. They're 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.080 not playing like they did last year. Uh. You know 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.640 there were some uh issues with regards to you know, 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.920 play calling, but you know they don't care about what's called. 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.600 They want to execute. You know, the you gotta block 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.760 field goal, you gotta miss still go you got uh 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.000 you know you're moving the bar between the thirties and 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.280 not scoring in the red dog. You know, they got 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.559 a lot of issues so that they had to clear 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.640 the air, uh try to get this season turned around. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.960 De led what do you from your advantage point, what 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.840 do you think is the biggest difference between last year 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.080 and this year? Because when you look at this Falcons team, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.680 they started three and oh and then the last three 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.880 games they've lost three of them, ironically, all three against 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.440 AFC East opponents. Yeah, no question about it. I think 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.840 they started off okay up um, you know, uh could 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.120 have lost Chicago and Detroit games could really be one 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.240 in five right here. Uh. But you know what I 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.480 don't think they were ready for was the fact that 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.040 every team, even if they had been playing in Cleveland Browns, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.520 every team was gonna come at them hard. By getting 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.040 to Super Bowl, they had the attention of every team 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:35.080 in the league, and they, you know, have gotten everybody's 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.880 best shot. And so they've had to be on top 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.319 of their game here early. And it's pretty clearly that 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:45.280 they're struggling offensively, uh, to score points and in the 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.280 red zone, and the defense is struggling to get off 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.240 the fielding third downs. They didn't have any clue on 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:55.360 how hard it was gonna be with everybody coming at you, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.640 you know, with their guns blazing. Kyle Shanahan did a 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:03.160 phenomenal job there, obviously earned his new position with the 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:09.559 San Francisco forty Niners. Steve Sarkisian is now the offensive coordinator. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:13.800 What's been the biggest difference that you see with the 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:18.800 new play caller? The biggest differences he didn't learn from 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.160 the mistakes of Shanahan. You know, he thought he could 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.280 just put the same thing back in place and go 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.600 with it. And uh, you know, they didn't run the 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.079 ball in the Super Bowl and third and one because 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.480 they didn't believe they could power the Patriots. And they're 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:36.080 still throwing the ball on third and short and trying 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.520 to finesse thing. Third and one against Buffalo, they throw 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:44.760 a path four from one. They throw a path against 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.880 the against the uh Patriots last week they try to 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.839 just sweep on the one yard four from doll. That's 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.960 just ridiculous. So, uh, you know, some of these players 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.080 might have worked in college, but not in the NFL. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.960 Sometimes you gotta load it up and go at people 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.280 and the shortyard the situation is walking down the offense 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.680 in the red zone. Do you think when you look 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.880 at this offense and you've been covering this team for 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.800 a long time, I see a talented backfield with DeVante 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.480 Freeman and Tevin Coleman, do you think they need more 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.960 balance going forward? Oh yeah, no question about it. Because 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:27.240 they have the ability to exploit linebacker. They have the 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.240 ability to get out in space and make the kitch 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.079 make a move and then that's gonna open up things 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.280 for Julio Jones and Taylor Gabriel if people have to 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.520 come up and guard them, but you know they didn't. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.560 They've gotten away from that in the last two games 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.400 for some reason. I haven't been able to get their 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:50.600 backs isolated on the on the linebackers. And uh, you 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.920 know the runnings there, the numbers look good there. Do 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.480 they need to run it more? Perhaps on the defensive 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.840 side of the ball. What sticks out to me is 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.960 the speed on the Falcons defense. So if you're the Jets, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.680 what area of the defense do you think they should 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:11.560 be trying to attack the Sunday Well, the last two teams, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.040 Buffalo and New England ran the ball right up between 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.920 the A and the B gap. They didn't even bother 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.920 getting outside, uh, because they were able to just go 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.640 downhill and get the guards up to the smallest linebackers 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.880 and create gaping holes. The Falcolms gave up a hundred 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.520 sixty two to to New England, a hundred seventeen to 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.679 the Jets. Uh, we're not a hundred thirty eight to 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.800 Miami and hundred seventeen of Buffalo. So the last three 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.600 teams of rush rover a hundred yards against them that 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.559 does two things. That keeps the Balcon's offense off the 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.839 field and that wears down that Balcon deepfense that looked 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.120 to be like a formula to beat the Falcons with, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.079 you know, more Porte and Balao pile all those guys 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.800 that should be ready to go. This week, we're talking 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.240 to d Orlando Leadbetter, who covers the Falcon for the 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.960 Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can follow him at d or 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:10.280 at d Orlando a j C. H. D. Lead On 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.880 the other side of the ball, how we have teams 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:20.160 gone about trying to uh contain the Falcons offense? Because 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.080 we were flying back from Miami. I looked at the 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.080 score of that New England game and I was surprised 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.520 that they weren't able to put more points on the board. Um, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:34.320 we talked about the play calling, but how I have 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:39.200 teams tried to attack this Falcon's offense because they haven't 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:44.000 been putting up the numbers that were accustomed to. Yeah, 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.800 no doubt. It all starts with taking away Julio Jones 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.200 and uh a lot of teams have done done that 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.880 or tried to do that. He had his first touchdown 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.840 last week at garbage time. So the Bathings haven't done 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.200 a good job of trying to move him around out 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.160 and get him, you know, into different spots and places 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.960 for for for uh, some targets. He did get a 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.240 lot last week, but like I said, that the game 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:12.600 was you know, decided by then you can get him going, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.480 then you know you slip it to the running backs 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.760 underneath that and uh, you know a lot of the 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:23.079 stretch runs and the outside zone runs that Kyle Shanahan 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.800 built the offense on, Sarkisian hasn't been running those because 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.000 he gets you know, if he doesn't get one, you know, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.480 you gotta stay with it. You gotta stay with those 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.240 outside zone runs until you pop one and then you bam. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.440 You come back around with the uh, with the rollouts 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.800 and the bootlegs and and bring who you across the film, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.120 try to hit him deeper tight ends underneath. He hasn't 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.719 stuck with this rollout plans and his outside zones like 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.640 Kyle would. You know, he wouldn't. He he didn't care 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.720 if you stopped to make times He's gonna run to 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:58.640 Freeman Bus the ninth one and Uh, Sarkisian's giving up 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.560 a little too early on those outside zone runs. That 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.720 you know, wear down defenses and get the defensive lineman tired. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.600 So maybe we'll see that here on Sunday when they 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:14.040 played a Jet Dlatt. I think everyone knows about Julio Jones, 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:17.479 but what do you think of the supporting cast around him, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.400 like Mohammed san New, Taylor Gabriel and Austin Hooper. What 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.360 have you seen from those guys this year and what 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.920 do they need to do to help out this Falcon's offense. Yeah, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.040 well Mohammed's and knew you know, he came here with 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.320 the reputation of you know, dropping too many pauses Cincinnati 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.320 and then last year he caught everything that came in away, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.840 so he needs to get back to that. Hooper is 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.280 the second year guy who you know, showing some signs 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.280 that this might be a little too big for him. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.720 You know, Hea had a drop against Miami and they 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.160 didn't want to talk to the media about it. You know, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.640 powdered like a kid for a couple of days. So hopefully, uh, 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.520 you know, he did graduate early from college, so I Hopeully. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.920 I'm not being too hard on him, but he needs 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.800 to grow up. Taylor Gabriel had a Lord Legg and 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.240 you're he's a smartish slot receiver guy. He's never gonna 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:06.680 carry you anywhere, but you know when when you throw 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.520 it to him, you want him to make some plays 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.560 in space. So I like the group. It isn't changed 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.680 from It's the same group they wrote to the Super 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.800 Bowl with last year. And uh, you know, just the 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.880 functionality of it seems to be a little bit off 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.200 off pace defensively, What players have you liked here early 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.840 this season on that Atlanta defense Greens and you talked 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.560 about the speed before. Who's popping out at you defensively? 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.760 And who's gonna have to play well against this Jets 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.960 offense that is, you know, getting into game study right now. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.480 They feature a number of different players. It's not like 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.200 they have a traditional number one, number two option. Josh 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:50.240 mccollins through the seven receivers last week and they're using uh, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.240 three running backs in the backfield right now. Yeah, and 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.960 the Falcings know about but Uh and Curly and Kurts. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.200 They know about Curts in the Seattle connections. But yeah, 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.960 the guy really like on the Beckers defense, I think 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.120 they need to build two more things around him as 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.760 the but Andre Campbell, the second year strong side backer 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.000 from Minnesota. Saw him come off the blitz the last 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.200 two weeks and light up Brady and uh he had 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:20.760 to pull off a cutler. But he's doing well. Beasley's 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.280 rounding back in the form he's been playing with a hamstring. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.320 He should be ready to go and attack the pastor 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.560 this week. Dion Jones can have been a kind of 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.400 disappointment for me. But the middle linebacker, I really thought 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.320 they built the defense for him to shine. But now 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:40.680 that they're running, people are running the ball on him. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.880 You know, I'm a little bit Uh, I want to 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.760 see him step that thing up. He had eleven tackles 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.040 the last two weeks. But uh, you know the run defense, 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.080 stopping a run defense for me starts with that middle linebacker, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.600 and uh, you know they were getting away with planning 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:59.080 two hundred thirty pile middle linebacker and uh teams, Eventually 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:02.120 we're gonna test, and we're seeing that test and going 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:04.480 on right now. It's way too early to call this 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.119 a must win game, but for Atlanta to get to 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.320 where they want to go? How critical is this ballgame? 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.720 Coming up? After a three and all start, Now they're 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.159 in a three game slide. They're coming to uh to 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:21.080 a Jets team that has played while at home. I 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.480 know a lot of external pundits didn't think much of 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.439 the Jets before the season, but we know they've become 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.520 a tough out. But as far as this Atlanta team 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:34.000 is concerned, d lad Um, how critical is this one 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.320 on Sunday? Yeah, it's very critical. And you know, Todd 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.240 Bows must be commended for getting this team uh to 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.440 play so hard when they let all of their veterans 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.560 go and so forth. But we know about that. But 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:52.040 Atlanta is very critical because you know, Carolina sit up next, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.680 then you got Dallas, uh, you know, so so they 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.160 two teams that are you know, supposed to be fighting 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:02.080 for the playoffs in the NFC. So whenever you're on 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.320 the slide like this, you need to get a stop. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.639 You're good feeling back in that locker room, get things 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.560 turned around, moving in the right direction, and you know 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.800 they're gonna have to do the one game at a time, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.920 march here to uh, you know, be whatever they're gonna 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:17.479 be this year. They're gonna be the A and eight 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.960 falcon you know, be to be that uh be disappointing 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.040 for the folks around here. After last season. UH, and 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.159 I'm sure that would being going some changes, but a 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.200 few of the leven and five Falcons get there in 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.880 some kind of way, and UH needs to start this week. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.199 They found out how tough is um, how tough it 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.960 is to be a champion, even in the conference champion, 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.280 and UH, if they're going to UH get back to 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.159 the playoffs, they're gonna have to elevate their playoff across 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.800 the boot. You can follow him at d Orlando ah 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.640 j C at d Orlando Leadbetter, who covers the Falcons 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.520 for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, have a great trip ups 0:18:56.520 --> 0:19:00.159 here over the weekend, and UH we'll see uh in 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.919 the MetLife Stadium press box on Sunday. Alright, guys, thanks 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.640 for having me, and we'll see you attended. Alright, Green. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.719 So it's an interesting situation down there in Atlanta. You know, 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.359 this team is going to be looking forward to getting 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.040 back on the field and in the win column, and 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.840 they're gonna face the feisty Jets team. When you look 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.359 at their offense, as d led said, a lot of weapons, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.760 but they're still trying to get into a groove, into 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:32.439 a rhythm with Steve Sarkisian and Julio Jones, you know, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.640 debatably the best receiver in the NFL. Spart Scott said 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.560 this week he's the best receiver now, all right, so 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.800 let's say he's the best receiver in the NFL, per 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:44.960 Bart Scott, Julio Jones only has one touchdown catch on 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.560 the year, and that was last week against the Patriots, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:51.200 which was a phenomenal catch, by the way, Yeah yeah, 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.040 but it was still a phenomenal catch. And so I 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:56.720 know Julio has been nicked up. Mohammed Sanu, the former 0:19:56.760 --> 0:19:59.120 Cincinnati Bengal, he was nicked up. He missed a game 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.480 or two with an string injury. And the thing that 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.879 stuck out to me is that de Lad said the 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:09.120 Falcons could really be one in five and against the Lions. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:14.199 Close victories over the Lions in Chicago too, and and 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.679 that that's just I know, probably a lot of people 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.640 will point to the Super Bowl hangover, you're up three, 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.720 you lose it, But I don't think that's the theme here. 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.640 I think it's and we'll touch on this with Chad Pennington. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.159 I think it's just more of a connection on this offense. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.840 Maybe Kyle Shanahan meant a little more to the offense 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.480 and the then the public eye seems to have noticed. Yeah, 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.720 you know, here's something I didn't recognize or realize until 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.360 doing some pregame study this week. Is Atlanta started four 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.520 and three last year. That's something I did not know. 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.520 And obviously they got hot. So this is a team 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.840 that can get hot. I like playing them outside in 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.160 your building. I know it's unseasonably warm right now up here, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.879 but I'll take my shot up here at Montlife Stadium 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.760 in front of the green and White crazies, um, you know, 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.720 because they're gonna make it more difficult for Matt Ryan. 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:10.960 I think that is a different offense, a different team 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.840 inside the dome. I think the Jets. I think the 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:18.600 Jets have to get into a lead situation this week 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.720 because then you can do anything, because Atlanta's defense is 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.080 built on speed and get into the quarterback and the 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:29.840 old Indianapolis Indianapolis model, right with Peyton Manning. You play inside, 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.359 you play fast, you get a lead, and then and 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.360 then you let those edge pass rushers get after the quarterback. 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:39.360 All right, Greens, let's bring in an art quarterback Jeff Pennington. 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:44.879 Chad Jets coming off heartbreaking loss in Miami where they 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:49.120 had fourteen lead, couldn't hold on to it. The Dolphins 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:52.920 come all the way back for win. When you were 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.320 looking at the film with the fourth quarter, can you 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:59.960 pinpoint the problems on both sides of the ball, Eric, 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.560 I think defensively throughout the whole game, I think the 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.520 Jets secondary lost those man demand one on one matchup battles. 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:10.960 I think that's where the game was one for Miami, 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:16.480 was that there perimeter players, meaning their secondary I mean 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:20.160 their provide receivers and running backs and tight ends won 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.040 those one on one matchups where the Jets defensive lost 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:26.520 those matchups. That's I really believe that um and I 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.760 think that's that's what ultimately determined the game, where those 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.080 one on one matchups. And you hear coaches talk about 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:35.159 that all the time, and so when you play a 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.680 lot of man and pressure like the Jets were doing 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:40.880 in that game, you've got to be able to win 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:43.080 those one on one matchups and and that that's what 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:46.320