WEBVTT - Jets-Lions Game Preview (9/6) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.800 The game is over New York the world. You baten 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:09.479 to win the day He's got as Jets? What's down? Can't? 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.480 You're listening to the Official New York Jets Podcast, a 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:27.240 Jets three sixty production. What's Off? Everybody? Regular season football 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.520 around the Corner Ethan Greenberg and Eric Allen here in 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.239 studio the Official Jets Podcast e A. I'm throwing off. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.720 It's been nine months since the Jets have taking the field. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.720 I've been thrown off by the days. So I keep 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.480 on repeating myself here, but I think today's Wednesday today, 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.040 And traditionally in the National Football League, the players off 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.440 day is Tuesday. But for the Jets, we are taping 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.760 on a Wednesday and the players are off today, so 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:58.800 it's midweek. Everything has been fast and slow at the 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.600 same time, if that may any kind of sense, because 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:06.040 the Jets won't open up until Monday night. In the 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:11.200 kickoff is what seven seven seven, ten Eastern and actually 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.920 followed by a pretty good game that we're not going 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.880 to talk too much about. But how about the subplots 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.600 with that one with the l A Rams, the Oakland Raiders, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:24.440 Khalil Mack on the move, but uh yeah, Green's I 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.080 jumped in on you because you know, I'm looking around 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.880 our studio here and I'm wondering, well, what day is 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.600 it today? And you're looking around because it looks cleaner. No, 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.080 it does look better. It does look better because we 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:41.479 actually taped Jets Flight Plan in here this week. Bart 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.680 Scott was back and that will be on Sunday Morning 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.919 CBS eleven thirty a m. You can watch Jet Life 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:53.440 One Jets Drive Spectacular, I would say, the best of 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.720 one Jets Drive from the spring in the summer, you're 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:59.800 gonna see that eleven thirty pm Saturday night on c 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.240 b S as well. So a lot of exciting things 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.960 happening right now. But yeah, how about that, Greens. The 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:11.120 Jets open up the season on Monday Night Football. The 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:14.520 New York Jets were the first team to appear on 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.320 Monday Night Football way back in nineteen seventy against Cleveland Brown. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.720 I actually knew that. I'm really excited about Monday Night 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.080 because it's, like I said, it's been nine months since 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.799 the Jets have played a game that counts against their 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.280 record or for their record, however you want to work it, whatever, 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.760 whatever it is, this team, I know every year. Leonard 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.639 Williams says this, every year, every team is very different 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.280 than the year's past, even though you might not think 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.120 that it's all two different on on the surface, is 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.959 this team is very different than last year's team. And 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:51.080 so much has happened since January one, two thousand eighteen, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.280 when the Jets cleared out their lockers in Florham Park 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.200 and front and center. You just look at under center, 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.120 you look at what's going on there is that the 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:05.360 Jets have officially named Sam Donald they're starting quarterback. And 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.040 he's what the youngest since the a f L NFL merger, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:13.240 he will be the youngest since AFL NFL merger in nineties, 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:18.560 seventy years start a season opener. Uh So that is 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.400 some kind of history right there for you. But for 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.400 anybody who followed the Jets throughout the preseason, I don't 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.000 think it's a shock that Donald is in this position. 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.640 He performed well throughout the preseason, starting two games, appearing 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.400 in three thrown two touchdown passes, completing sixty of his passes. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:41.120 Owning the playbook. Everybody said he did not make the 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:46.760 same mistake twice. He showed great footwork as far as 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.400 being instinctive in the pocket and also knowing when to 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.920 tuck the ball ron pick up yards. But also he 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.880 has great vision in terms of he is a knack 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.240 for finding the open receiver. And the thing that stands 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:06.000 uh I would say about Donald number one is he 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.960 is a very instinctive player. And I think to win 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.320 in the National Football League, to become an elite player 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.760 at this position, you have to be instinctive, and he's 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.040 got special qualities. Now we'll see down the line if 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.560 he's an elite player. And this is just the start, 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.560 and buckle your sleepbelts, because you're gonna have some highs, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.040 you're gonna have some lows. Hopefully the Jets experienced some 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.320 highs on Monday night. This is the first of three 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.640 of four on the road to start the two thousand 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.400 and eighteen season. Matt Patricia said that Donald is very 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.960 good at rolling to his left and his right, which 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.360 is very unusual for a quarterback, especially for a rookie. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.279 But don't just take our word for it. Don't take 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.640 Matt Patricia's word for it. Well, you can't take. He's 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.560 actually a pretty good words. So I'm gonna circle back 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.160 on that he's a good word to follow. But he 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.919 and I have been impressed. I think many people have 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.200 been impressed. In fact, I want to CBS Media Day 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:06.440 the other week and many of their analysts were impressed 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.280 as well. This is what they had to say about 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:14.599 the Jets rookie quarterback. Very impressed. Impressed with him on 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.840 a personal level just sitting down and talking with him. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.679 Impressed with his football. I Q there's a certain savv 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.080 nous and presence that you notice with him. But the 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.120 funny part when you're in the meeting room he walks in. 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.640 He's twenty one, and there's no questioning that he's not 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.880 a guy that looks twenty six. He looks one. So 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.400 you do have to remind yourself of that. He has 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.719 to process so much at that position, and then the 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:47.120 expectations that come with doing it in New York with 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.599 a franchise that desperately wants to win and wants to 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:54.320 be consistent. I think you can handle it. I don't 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.000 think the bright lights bother him, and he could throw 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.160 the football. It's his comp is in the pocket. I 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.320 know the sounds a little cliche, but we have to 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.479 keep in mind we're talking about a rookie. You see 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.240 some rookies get thrown out there into the fire and 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.679 they start feeling the heat. Um, it's like a baby 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.640 touch in the stove, start panicking, but not with him, 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.719 and that goes a long way. Um. Even you know 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.080 the certain guys we had on the show, and uh, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.680 they mentioned that when he first got in the huddle, 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.440 he had a command about And some of these guys 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.640 come in the timid voice as if they're going through puberty, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.400 and they don't want to make eye contact, and once 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.080 it gets a little rough, you know, they start to panic. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.960 Not him. So if I could answer that in a 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.520 very short way, it's the composure you know he's gonna 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.080 have if he does start for them. He'll have three 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.920 games in eleven days. That means three different game plans, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.760 three different defensive coordinator's, all sorts of pressure that you 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.960 have to deal with, learning on the fly, learning them 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.560 from the mistakes you made in the previous game, trying 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.600 to make sure that doesn't happen in the next game. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:57.720 But you know, for Jet fans, I just try to 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.560 caution him. There's gonna be offside penalty, is is gonna 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.800 be holding penalties, There's gonna be fumbles, there's gonna be 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.280 all sorts of miscommunication, that's gonna be early timeouts, all 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.640 those things that a rookie quarterback has to fight through. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.160 But I take the Jet fan back two years ago 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.040 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia made the commitment to Carson Wentz. This 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.200 is exactly what the Jets have to do with Sam Donald. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.520 Make the commitment. Now, benefit from it next year and 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:27.640 the year after, and hopefully he becomes as good as Carson. Alright, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.040 so some high praise there from some of CBS's top talent, 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.040 and e a moving forward. Now. I know that a 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.120 lot of Jets fans are like, Okay, well, Donald's been impressive, 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.320 but what what is he looking at now that the 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.120 regular season has come, Because it's a little different than 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.880 preseason and there are a lot of vanilla looks As 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.320 people say, you don't really tip your hand too much 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.880 in the preseason. But if you're a Jets fan, what 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.600 should you be expecting from Sam Donald in Week one, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.240 Monday Night Football under the lights in the Motor City. Men, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.600 Patricia is going to throw some complex looks out there 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:07.440 at Sam Donald Company. I think Jeremy Bates is going 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:13.640 to counter with a plan that features some route combinations, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:18.480 concepts that Donald is comfortable with. And also you've got 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.960 to think about there were times throughout the preseason where 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.920 the Jets would empty the backfield out, and I think 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.600 what that allows the quarterback to do is diagnosed where 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.080 the blitz is coming from. So maybe the Jets go 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.040 empty at times. The other thing that I really like 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.640 what Bates is doing with Donald and overall in this 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:43.040 West Coast system is he runs a lot of boots, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.720 He runs a lot of play action. He gets the 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.680 guy out on the move, and like you mentioned before, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.880 Donald is very comfortable on the move and he's accurate 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.920 inside the pocket outside the pocket, so I don't think 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.679 he's going to be a stationary target out there. And 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.600 also when you're looking at the Misha, he comes at 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.880 it from that New England background, so he's gonna throw 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.160 some different stuff at him. But the Jets are gonna 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.199 counter and who's gonna win that matchup? I actually think 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.840 the key in his game, and I hope I'm not 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.680 stealing our thunder here is how are the Jets gonna 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.719 rush the football against the Detroit lines? Because last year 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.719 the Lions no row rush defense maybe eighteenth of the 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.600 national Football League, But the Jets have to have some balance, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.760 and Todd Bowls loves Bates because he said Jeremy Bates 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.160 is committed to the run, committed to having balance. So 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.920 you didn't steal our thunder. I wouldn't say that that's 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.920 a little far. But we're gonna dive in a little 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.840 more of Jets, Lions and just season preview as a whole. 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.680 But I want to get your opinion on this before 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.640 we throw to some more sound here. Is that you know, 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.120 what do you think that Donald's biggest challenge will be 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.560 entering the regular season as starting quarterbacks for the Green 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.200 and White. I think John mentioned before is that you 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.320 just you only see a small sample size in the 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:08.240 preseason and and a lot of vanilla looks. So now 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.640 you are the guy, and people are gonna game plan 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.640 against you, and the preseason people aren't game planning against you. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.280 So everything Donald is going to see is new. It's 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:25.839 a new experience, and um, you have to. But the 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.520 thing is about this kid, and I say kid, he's 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.800 twenty one years old. Is I think that he's very steady. 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.679 He's got an air about him, which is what the 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.480 guys have said about him. Jermaine curse Um said something 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.760 in the locker room this week that what's interesting. He 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.560 said that he throws guys open. And a lot of 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.680 people talk about college quarterbacks coming out, they say, hey, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.120 they can be accurate with the football, but they throw 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.160 it to a guy when he's open. You rarely hear 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.720 veteran receivers talk about a rookie quarterback who's never played 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.400 it down in the National Football League in terms of 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:09.040 regular season saying he throws guys open. Uh. The key 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.360 for him, Greens is going to be protecting the football. 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.920 He stressed that throughout the off season. We can go 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:20.240 back to our podcasts UH Draft pre Draft podcast when 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.600 we talked to Sam Farmer from Not a Times about Donald, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.800 when we talked to quarterback Guru Jordan Palmer about his 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.480 training with Donald and keeping two hands on football or 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.920 go on left hand only because he just wanted him 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.280 to get in the habit of always keeping your left 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.200 hand on the football In the National Football League. You 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.400 can look at the stats and I don't have percentages 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.360 for you, but if you win the turnover battle, more 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:55.320 than likely you're gonna win games. So Donald had only 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.160 one turnover in the preseason, and I was fine with that. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.160 It was a fourth he said he could have thrown 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.080 maybe uh to Robbie Anderson on a corner route. I 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.000 believe against the Washington Redskins with top both took the 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.240 blame for He said, listen, that was just a bad play. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.480 We had dialed up and it was fourth town. Whatever. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.840 If you don't convert there, you turn it over on downs. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.960 I don't care about that. But against this Lions team, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.800 I think there are fourth in the National Football the 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.640 interceptions last year. So the big thing for Donald is 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.280 protective football number one. Number two is you don't want 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.600 to see pre snap penalties. So make sure you relay 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.640 that call from Bates to your fellows in the huddle 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.079 and get everybody in the line. And I don't have 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.080 the proper amount of time to get the playoff in 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.280 a foreign environment such as for Ford Field. Well, a 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.720 couple of things. There is one you talked about Tremaine 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.240 curR saying Donald throws receivers open. I thought his anecdote 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.280 was fantastic when he said we were it was in Washington. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.960 I'm a little confus used if it's when the Jets 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.439 had joint practices or if it was in the actual game, 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.200 but Jermaine Curs said that there was one play where 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.280 he didn't think Donald was coming to him and he 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.240 just ripped one right to his chest. He said, I 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.719 had no choice but to catch it. So I think 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.800 that that goes back to what we've talked about is 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:22.520 Donald's ball placement, and that it's truly, I think unique 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:24.480 for a rookie to be able to put the ball 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.080 where he wants to be a game or practice, because 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.960 I do wow that you mentioned it, and I heard 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.480 Chris said, but it really didn't register at the time 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.520 because so many things are happening inside a locker room session. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:40.280 I do remember the red zone work, and I remember 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:45.079 Churs running in practice YEA a short route and before 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.400 he turned, the ball was out and when he turned, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:53.680 it was placed between the one and the zero, and 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.640 it probably left an imprint on his chest even though 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:58.560 he is a hands catcher. I was gonna say that's 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.000 probably the play because I went back and watched the 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.560 after he talked about the play, I went back and 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.040 watched the Washington game and I went to see if 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.160 he had any catches, and Jamaine Curs had one catch 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.200 on the sideline and he was just wide open. So 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.160 I assume it's a play that you're talking about, But yeah, 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.280 throwing with the anticipation. Yeah, well, I mean, well, we'll see. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.520 There's obviously many challenges a quarterback, a rookie quarterback will 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.560 face in the NFL. And Sam Donald's the only rookie 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.200 quarterback to start for his team out of the two 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.960 thousand eighteen draft class. How about that? How about that? 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.120 You know, I thought Josh Allen might have an opportunity 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.480 to start for the Buffalo Bills, but that third preseason 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.120 Cincinnati was having a second party, third preseason game up 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.600 there in Western New York. And uh, I know Sean 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.120 McDermott and Buffalo has been impressed with Nathan Peterman. And 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.320 I think externally the media can't get over Peterman's do 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.600 you have yeah, five picks in the first half or 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:56.080 something like that against the Chargers whatever, whatever. Who knows 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.800 what Peterman is gonna bring to the table. Uh, you know, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:00.880 I would imagine the Bill is are gonna be Ryan 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.160 Lashawn McCoy. Why wouldn't you um? In Arizona, I guess 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.600 Rosen will be Behindford to start the season. Same with 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.160 Lamar Jackson behind Flacco, and Baker Mayfield that number one 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:18.200 overall picked behind Todd. I mean, it's it's really pick 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.240 your poison at this Do you think Baker Mayfield will 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.040 be the quarterback for the Cleveland Browns when we three, 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.680 because I know I think it will be I don't 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.400 think so. I think it'll be Taylor. He's the Jets 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.840 to going there and we three. This starts a stretch 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.000 which I don't I don't remember ever having a stretch 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.280 like this the start of season for the Jets. Three 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.160 games in eleven days, So it's a tough stretch, especially 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.880 for rookie quarterback. And before we dive into some Jets 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.240 Lions in particular, e A, this is this is the 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.200 season opener. I mean, this is again nine months in 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:54.120 the making, and before we dive into Monday Night in particular, 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.360 is is there a unit? Is there a player that 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:01.160 you're just kind of excited to see finally against an opponent. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.880 I know it's very difficult to prepare for Week ones 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.720 in general, because typically if you're a National Football League team, 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:15.200 you take the past three or four games and you 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.720 look at tendencies and you look to see the way 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.200 teams attack, and you look to see what their play 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.520 calls are on thurdn shorts or second and longs, or 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.360 what they do in the red zone, all their tendencies. 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.120 The Jets are playing alliance team they don't play on 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.920 a regular basis. Is the start of the run through 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.880 the NFC North right this year, by the way, the 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.160 FC is is gonna have a tough ride because the 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.720 NFC North is legit. You can make the argument that 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:48.240 the Lions are the worst team on paper in NFC North. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.120 That's a team that's a division that features the Minnesota Vikings, 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.000 were in the NFC Championship game last year, the Green 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.800 Bay Packers, who have an all world quarterback in Aaron 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.040 Rodgers and whatever he healthy, they're in the mix. And 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.720 then Chicago, the Chicago Bears and a lot offseason editions 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.439 and they just added Cleio McK oh. The NFC North, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.280 you said loaded is out of the word you. Oh no, 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.760 you said legit. NFC North has loaded, and so that 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.760 just I mean you talked about everyone on in that 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.879 division that's gonna be I said the other day the 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:31.280 NFC North could have four teams over five hundred. I 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:35.600 think that's possible. So you asked me about, uh, yeah, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:41.640 what what a player? What to what to expect? Yeah, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.919 I know, And I was I was going off on 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.800 a little tangent there because I do think it's fascinating 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:53.680 how Bates and Donald and McCown and all those cats 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.639 are gonna be. I mentioned McCom because he's the wildly 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.680 flat but as far as coming up with that game plan, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:04.280 because you're looking at the Lions personnel, but on what 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.440 is Matt Patricia showing you in the preseason. I don't 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.760 think he's gonna be showing you too many schemes, just 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.400 like the Jets fans were all upset about the lack 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.480 of pressure against Eli Manning in the third preseason game. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.399 And well, when I came back and I said, do 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.320 you think Top Bowls and Casey Rogers is going to 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:25.159 reveal all their exotic schemes against the Giants in the 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.800 third preseason game. I never thought that was the case. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.240 But so you go to Patricia and you say, well, 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.280 you gotta look at New England film, don't you. But 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.639 at the same time, you have to look at New 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.040 England film and then imagine how he's gonna work those 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:43.080 pieces with the Lions. And on that defense. But I'm 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.480 gonna go to my guy Blopa longest time in New 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:52.159 York Jet the Detroit Lions, uh last year. Here's a 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.560 step for you. Um. Like I told you before, I 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:59.360 think the Jets offensively gotta have balance. But I will 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.119 flip into the other side of the ball because I 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.400 think Blap could be in line for a big game. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.480 But on the other side of the ball, did you 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.720 know the Droyt lines were last in the NFL and 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.160 Russian two thousand and seventeen. I think they haven't had 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.280 a one thousand yard rushier in like ten years or 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.760 something like that. So they draft to carry on Johnson 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:23.240 at Auburn in the second round. I got Lagarret blonto theoretick. 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.760 He's kind of like the more they're receiving more than 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:31.160 the receiving threat. Um. So can the Jets take away 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:33.600 that run and then get the exotics because they got 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:37.360 to get to Stafford. Stafford will hold on to the football. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.960 He is looking to make the play down the field, 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.000 bombs away at Ford Field, that's what he wants to do. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.160 He wants an aerial assault. So New Jack City comes 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.600 into focus, because you gotta keep the ball in front 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.600 of you, and I'm gonna be talking about that all week. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.840 So you know, if you hear here, hear me on 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.720 the podcast, I'm gonna be shouting about it on Friday 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:03.320 on uh the game preview. Yeah yeah, Friday game preview, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.800 we're gonna be talking about uh, you know, practice today 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.320 and we're gonna be talking about a pregame central. You 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.720 gotta keep the ball in front of you against Matt Stafford, 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.200 so just can't, I mean, can't go over your head, 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.200 cannot go over. So to come full circle here real quick, 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:22.359 is blah Paul is gonna Blapa is gonna be featured 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:27.240 in this offense, So you're not. Yeah, but I also 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.119 want to see this is a great test out of 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:36.200 the gate for this secondary that features Tremaine Johnson. So 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.639 I go blow all and I go the defensive backfield. Okay? 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.200 So is that okay? Yeah, that's fine. I'm cool with that. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:47.080 You're talking about the secondary Tremaine Johnson. Of course, the 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.720 big ticket free agent edition gre signed Morris Clayborne, Jamal 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.400 Adams and his growth. We'll see if Marcus May lines 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.800 up next to Jamal Adams or if it's Doug Middleton. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:59.600 But regardless of this secondary on paper is one of 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.800 these ranks of this team, and a lot of the 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:08.200 CBS guys again have lofty expectations for this unit. So 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.639 this is what they had to say about New Jack City. 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.000 I really like the look of the Jet secondary, and 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:18.600 certainly Tremaine Johnson is a big addition. Now Morris Claiborne 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.800 can settle in at that opposite side, and I think 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.280 that's a better fit for him and the two young 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.560 guys at safety I think are going to be fantastic. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.720 And you look around the league now and and how 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.720 significant the passing game is. You gotta have that secondary. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:36.360 You gotta buy a little time for your edge rushers 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.080 um and your double A gap blitzers to to get 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:41.280 that extra little split second to get to the quarterback. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:43.760 Jaman's likes the Turpil likes to talk a lot, right 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.280 because you don't. Because he's competent and I can't even 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.480 imagine the confidence that he's going to bring in this 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.360 year as compared to this time last year. Those guys 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.359 are sneaky, man, and you know, if he really figures 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:56.280 it out, he'll be like Ed Reid, He'll be like 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.280 Troy Palamalo. And it's not only about tackling, it's about 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.480 getting interset options. You've got the ball hawking safety. You've 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:04.600 got guys who you think can thump back there. You 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.640 think you have starting corners who can hold it down. 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:08.320 If you have to leave one of them on an island, 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:10.800 maybe more than you would even like to, to try 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.320 to get more people attacking the quarterback, then you know, 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.560 I think you're you're willing to do that. When you 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:19.080 have a couple of corners to trust and Tremaine as 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.800 as outstanding, uh, then then you can put them on 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:25.080 island more and take more chances getting after the quarterback. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:26.880 And I know that's what Todd loves to do. When 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.119 we had Patrick Peterson, he was able to use Patrick 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:31.840 and you take this guy and you shut him down 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:34.000 and let the rest of the team handle everything else. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.080 You can do that which remain the goal is for 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.440