Speaker 1: The game is over, and then you're on the World captain.
Speaker 1: You play to win the game. Case gotta that's a
Speaker 1: Jet touchdown. Can't wait your Listen to the Official Jets podcast,
Speaker 1: a Jets three sixty production. All Right, we're back in studio.
Speaker 1: It's been a minute. Huh, it's been more than a
Speaker 1: Minute's been a few weeks. Do you know that's a
Speaker 1: it's a millennial saying it's been a minute. I mean
Speaker 1: it's been a long time. So so that's the old
Speaker 1: people saying it's been a few weeks. Yes, yep, that's fun.
Speaker 1: It's been a little too long since E. A and I,
Speaker 1: Eric Allen and Ethan Greenberg have been in studio. We
Speaker 1: won't be here. We won't be here for long because
Speaker 1: this is a combined preview, and by the time most
Speaker 1: people listening to this, we will be in America's heartland.
Speaker 1: I am taking you to Indianapolis for your first scouting column.
Speaker 1: I've never been to Indianapolis. I'm I'm excited. Well, that's
Speaker 1: a great city. You probably won't be outdoors too much.
Speaker 1: The great thing about Indianapolis this is a convention destination city.
Speaker 1: So if it is freezing, you can stay inside, walk
Speaker 1: to Lucas Oil, stay underground the whole time, not stay
Speaker 1: under ground, but stay indoors the whole time. And all
Speaker 1: the hotels are connected, and even when you walk to
Speaker 1: the restaurants, you don't have to go outside too much.
Speaker 1: All right, e said it, But this is the combine preview.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week and last week, Mel Kuiper of ESPN
Speaker 1: and Mike Mayock both had their conference calls. We're gonna
Speaker 1: touch on a couple of different topics of what they said.
Speaker 1: We have a somewhat loaded show, and make sure to
Speaker 1: follow e A on Twitter at el and Jets and
Speaker 1: me Ethan Greenberg got Ethan Breenberg. I had to put
Speaker 1: the B because Ethan Greenberg was a little too generic,
Speaker 1: so I had to separate. But nonetheless, all right, what
Speaker 1: about Instagram? Man, you're talking about millennials, but we can't
Speaker 1: mention Instagram. Yeah, follow e A on Instagram at ellen Jet.
Speaker 1: That's an easy one. What about you are private? I
Speaker 1: am private? I am? I am? I have my Instagram.
Speaker 1: Is is separate from my Twitter. Twitter is Twitter's you know,
Speaker 1: National fund and games. I don't put a lot of
Speaker 1: information on on Instagram. It's more me and my friends.
Speaker 1: There's nothing. There's nothing crazy. When you have a professional
Speaker 1: Instagram in your future, potentially I'm I'm maybe I'll open
Speaker 1: up my Instagram one days. Uh start a little apprehensive
Speaker 1: about it when you're saying your Instagram is private, So
Speaker 1: I'm wondering in the lock, I'll show you what's behind
Speaker 1: the lock. It's not too exciting, but all right, I
Speaker 1: tell you, Mark and the trading period begin. But this
Speaker 1: week in Indianapolis will be talking about everything because the
Speaker 1: draft is not too far away. And then free agency,
Speaker 1: the Jets have a lot of money to spend, financial flexibility, Uh,
Speaker 1: big names out there in free agency. And then Mike
Speaker 1: mcagna has reiterated Greens that he wants to build this
Speaker 1: thing through the draft and this is just a piece
Speaker 1: of the process. I don't know at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, and we're gonna talk to some of our
Speaker 1: scouts about it during the week how much they actually
Speaker 1: weigh the combine into the draft equation because it is
Speaker 1: important because you're getting medicals, you're doing interviews, and then ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think what you you're looking at from an on
Speaker 1: the field perspective is just that what you see on
Speaker 1: tape is confirmed, right. I think that what you said
Speaker 1: is I think often overlooked in that the combine is
Speaker 1: much more than just a series of drills. A lot
Speaker 1: happens after they do the drills and off the field
Speaker 1: that exclude the media, when that includes formal interviews a
Speaker 1: lot of them, and the medicals, know, are very important
Speaker 1: throughout the league in the eye of the scout and
Speaker 1: the eye of general managers and the medical guys as well.
Speaker 1: So there are a couple of guys of course every
Speaker 1: year that the medicals are very important for. I mean
Speaker 1: thinking about last year, and this is a guy that's
Speaker 1: been in the news lately unfortunately for a pair of arrest,
Speaker 1: but Ruben Foster, there was a lot of questions about
Speaker 1: his shoulder and the medical there, which is eventually why
Speaker 1: a lot of people think that he ended up falling
Speaker 1: all the way to the end of the first round.
Speaker 1: But this is the situation for the Jets right now.
Speaker 1: Is you touched on is that the Jets have a
Speaker 1: lot of financial flexibility. March fourteenth is around the corner
Speaker 1: the most camp room greens, not only for now two eighteen,
Speaker 1: but in terms of two thousand nineteen as well. There
Speaker 1: you go, I did not know that, but now and
Speaker 1: then and then not only that, but the Jets have
Speaker 1: the number six overall pick, and I know that all
Speaker 1: eyes right now are on the draft because of the
Speaker 1: combine coming up. But first things first is that free
Speaker 1: agency is first up on the docket, and a lot
Speaker 1: of what happens in free agency will determine what happens
Speaker 1: atop the draft, which will that in turn effects who's
Speaker 1: on the board when the Jets are like that number six. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you are writing about the mock drafts left and right
Speaker 1: in Greenberg mock draft dot com. No, I'm just kidding,
Speaker 1: But on New York Just dot com you're seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of um, you're taking aggregates out there of what
Speaker 1: people are projecting for the Jets at six. My thing is,
Speaker 1: that's a tough job because the Jets landscape, what this
Speaker 1: organization looks like, is probably gonna look at least a
Speaker 1: little bit differently. It will look a little bit different,
Speaker 1: It could look dramatically different once I think, uh, right now,
Speaker 1: when you kind of look at the actor get of
Speaker 1: mock drafts that have been coming out, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks, especially because that's not just for the Jets.
Speaker 1: That's for the teams in front of them that are
Speaker 1: also in the market or thought to be in the
Speaker 1: market for a signal caller. Because of course, free agency
Speaker 1: hasn't happened yet, so those guys can't predict what happens
Speaker 1: on the market, but a lot of guys have. The
Speaker 1: Jets taking some combination of Baker Mayfield, Josh Allen, and
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen. Sam Donald is the only one that really
Speaker 1: hasn't fallen to six in the mock draft. But not
Speaker 1: only that. If you go outside of quarterback, is how
Speaker 1: about a guy like Quentin Nelson, And he is debatedly
Speaker 1: the best prospect in this draft, the cleannest prospect, and
Speaker 1: he is by far and away in the eye of
Speaker 1: the draft pundits, and that includes Mel Kiper and Mike Mayock,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks, the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: He is by far and away the best aligneman in
Speaker 1: this draft class and he's an interior alignment. But this
Speaker 1: guy is an absolute freaky I mean, he's six five,
Speaker 1: three thirty. He sheds people left and right, he throws
Speaker 1: people down. And there's this one video that if you
Speaker 1: have not seen it, you gotta go to Todd mcshay's
Speaker 1: Twitter and he posted this cliff and he was breaking
Speaker 1: down Twitter private. No, okay, I'll check it out. Yeah
Speaker 1: all right, all right, yeah, be sure to do that
Speaker 1: and moved and moved the sticks. That's Daniel Jeremiah, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: When did you say McShay? What? Quentin Nelson is lining
Speaker 1: up at left guard like he did all season, and
Speaker 1: the ball gets snapped. He doesn't really see anyone coming
Speaker 1: at him rushing him, so he looks around and sure
Speaker 1: enough there's a Georgia bulldog coming free and he pummels him.
Speaker 1: He's a tremendous player. Mike Mack actually was asked about
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson on the recent conference. Came weren't they They were?
Speaker 1: I think it's uh. I think we should take a
Speaker 1: listen right now. Our next question comes from Corneen Kane
Speaker 1: with Chicago. Vin your line is now open, But Mike,
Speaker 1: what's sever Quinn Nelson from the other offensive lineman in
Speaker 1: this draft? Good question? Um. The first is DNA. You know,
Speaker 1: he's two hundred three thirty pounds. He's got a nasty demeanor,
Speaker 1: he finishes with an edge. He's probably the best run
Speaker 1: blocking interior offensive lineman i've seen in years plus. In
Speaker 1: today's NFL, you've got to protect your quarterback, and every
Speaker 1: quarterback I've talked to in the NFL saying what bothers
Speaker 1: from the most is immediate pressure up the middle. So
Speaker 1: you've got a guy to can set a physical edge
Speaker 1: in the middle of your line up front and allow
Speaker 1: your quarterback to step up. That's a big deal. So
Speaker 1: he's great in the run game. He's very good in
Speaker 1: the past game. He was coached by Harry Eastands, who
Speaker 1: I think one of the best offensive line coach because
Speaker 1: I've ever been around, who's now with the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: So he's got talent, he's got coaching, and at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, he loves football. I know this kid.
Speaker 1: He's got a passion for the game. He's got a
Speaker 1: passion to be the best he can be. So when
Speaker 1: you add all those things up, unless he's injured, unless
Speaker 1: he gets a bad injury, I love the fact that
Speaker 1: he can come in day one and be a high
Speaker 1: level NFL player. Right. So, I know that Quintin Nelson
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily the sexiest picked, but if you're a Jets
Speaker 1: fan and you get a guy that a lot of
Speaker 1: people project as a first or second year pro bowler
Speaker 1: and All Pro and he's a part of your team
Speaker 1: for the next decade or so. You've got to be
Speaker 1: excited about that. And the last time correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong with the last time alignment went that high
Speaker 1: for the Jets with what Nick Mangol back in the day, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because they both were taking in the first round. So
Speaker 1: that was the year where you got the brickshaw Ferguson
Speaker 1: left tack Louder Virginia four. I think Mangold from Ohio
Speaker 1: State twenty nine speaking Ohio State centers. Other guys gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of pub this week is Billy Price,
Speaker 1: the highest rated center by uh most draft pundits out there.
Speaker 1: So he could be a late first round or maybe
Speaker 1: in the early second round, or that's what people are
Speaker 1: saying right now. But you know, the thing that's fascinating
Speaker 1: to me about Quinton Nelson is that's not a glamour
Speaker 1: position offensive line, the guard spot. Typically when you're talking
Speaker 1: about taking somebody dead early, maybe a top six, top
Speaker 1: seven pick, you're thinking tackle. The only problem is that
Speaker 1: the tackles are not rated that highly. This year and
Speaker 1: one of the first two guys. There's kind of a
Speaker 1: mix up top with Mike McGlinchey who played next to
Speaker 1: Quinton Nelson. Then you get Connor Williams out of Texas
Speaker 1: and Orlando Brown who protected Baker Mayfield's blindside for the
Speaker 1: majority of his career. There, so there's a group there,
Speaker 1: and maybe e a one of those guys. His performances
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis will kind of separate them from the cluster air,
Speaker 1: but we'll see what happens. But another guy at number six. Also,
Speaker 1: for the record, if the Jets pick Quenton Nelson or
Speaker 1: any offensive player at number six overall, that's the first
Speaker 1: time in nine years that they do so right. It
Speaker 1: will be the first time in ten picks. The last
Speaker 1: pick is the last offensive player. The Jets selected Mark
Speaker 1: Sanchez quarterback, usc they have it, and let's let's flip.
Speaker 1: Let's flip the ball here to defense because from a
Speaker 1: defensive perspective here, there's only a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: I think most pundits would have the Jets selecting, one
Speaker 1: of them being mink Of Fitzpatrick, who's an interesting hybrid
Speaker 1: player because he's lined up at corner. He's lined up
Speaker 1: as safety, he's lined up as a nickel, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people, well, the Jets don't need a safety,
Speaker 1: you know, is that they're set at safety for years
Speaker 1: to come with a tremendously talented duo and Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: the six overall pick last year, and then obviously Marcus
Speaker 1: May the second round pick of my mcagnet in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen. With that being said, the thing that
Speaker 1: I find the most interesting about Fitzpatrick is you called
Speaker 1: him a chess piece, and you're right. If he is
Speaker 1: a slot defender, is he at top ten? Pick two
Speaker 1: other guys that you're hearing a lot of people get
Speaker 1: some love to our Denzel Award Ohio State. And then
Speaker 1: guy who Kleiper absolutely loves his Josh Jackson cornerback Iowa.
Speaker 1: You know, if you look at the guy that you've
Speaker 1: moved down, the guy who I think would fit that
Speaker 1: movie be Josh Jackson from Iowa. But he's projected into
Speaker 1: the twenties, so I think he's maybe the eleventh best player,
Speaker 1: and he don't take the eleventh best player with a
Speaker 1: sixth pick. You want to get a guy inside your
Speaker 1: top five where you want to trade down so I
Speaker 1: think that would be a kind of a quandary for
Speaker 1: the chest at that point. Josh Jackson is an interesting
Speaker 1: case because he came to Iowa as a receiver, so
Speaker 1: he has tremendous hands, used more of a ball hawk
Speaker 1: than someone like Denzel Award. But Josh Jackson, to me,
Speaker 1: he had a great senior year or last year, but
Speaker 1: he he was never really on the college radar beforehand
Speaker 1: with someone like Delziel. Ward did knock on him is
Speaker 1: his height. And this is also wart season, I know,
Speaker 1: his mock draft season. It's wart season because all these
Speaker 1: guys are under a microscope, so you kind of forget
Speaker 1: how good these guys are. And that goes for all
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and all the top players is oh, well
Speaker 1: can he do this? Can he do that? Well? No
Speaker 1: player is perfect, but these are the top players in
Speaker 1: this year's draft, and someone like Mickey Fitzpatrick is I
Speaker 1: think best suited as However, he'd be used in that
Speaker 1: if you move him around a little bit and he
Speaker 1: does a little bit of this, it does a little
Speaker 1: bit of that. If he were to come here, I
Speaker 1: would assume Todd Bowles would know exactly how he would
Speaker 1: want to deploy him. Listen, you know, I get back
Speaker 1: to what we touched on the onset here Green's is set.
Speaker 1: All options are on the table for the Jets at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. So the number one thing that you
Speaker 1: want answered from the organization in an offseason is what
Speaker 1: direction were you going at in regards to the quarterback? Uh?
Speaker 1: It's expected that Kirk Cousins has that explaining contract, that
Speaker 1: he will be a coveted free agent by multiple suitors
Speaker 1: out there. What are the Vikings going to do with
Speaker 1: their threesome of quarterbacks? It's been reported earlier this week
Speaker 1: that case Keenum is not going to get the franchise tag,
Speaker 1: so he's an expiring contract. Teddy Bridgewater, Sam Bradford, A
Speaker 1: J McCarron. He won his battle with the National Football
Speaker 1: League with Cincinnati Bengals, I should say, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a guy out there. It's expected, So, well, how
Speaker 1: are the Dominos going to fall in free agency? And
Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I didn't mention Josh McConnell
Speaker 1: in a career year last year with Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: the Jets new offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates being his quarterbacks coach.
Speaker 1: Josh mcconnen wants to play, and he wants to play
Speaker 1: for the Jets, So the Jets good re signment, cown
Speaker 1: and or take a look at a number of these
Speaker 1: guys who are floating out there, and there could be
Speaker 1: some other moves made over the next week or two
Speaker 1: before we get to free agency. And then we moved
Speaker 1: to the draft, and he said, people are wondering the
Speaker 1: para McCown up with potentially whoever you have in house
Speaker 1: right now, Brayce Petty, Christian Hackenburg under contract, and add
Speaker 1: a quarterback with that sixth overall selection. The guys that
Speaker 1: people are talking about predominantly at the top of the
Speaker 1: draft at the quarterback spot, Sam Donald, Josh Allen, Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. It seems like to me Green's and You're
Speaker 1: following this just as much as me right now that
Speaker 1: those four have separated themselves from the pack. With that
Speaker 1: being said, a guy that I'm fascinated by is Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson because he was an electrifying college player. He won
Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy and then people kind of got all
Speaker 1: of him this year and I don't know what to
Speaker 1: make of him as uh, potentially on the pro level.
Speaker 1: But Lamar Jackson is a dynamic athlete, and he was
Speaker 1: a superstar at the collegiate level, so I'm intrigued by
Speaker 1: where he winds up. I know some people said, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we make him as a wide receiver. I view
Speaker 1: him as a quarterback. I think Lamar Jackson often in
Speaker 1: the college football season was overlooked, but now everyone's coming
Speaker 1: out and complimenting him. I mean, Michael Vick said, Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is better than I was at that point in
Speaker 1: his career. Mike Mayock thinks he's the most electrifying player
Speaker 1: not in the NFL. WHOA, whoa as a draft prospect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get to that sound right now. The one way
Speaker 1: outside the box conversation with Lamar Jackson, who I think
Speaker 1: is the most electrifying player in this draft. And I
Speaker 1: think somebody's gonna take him and commit their offense the
Speaker 1: philosophy to him. And I would tell you that the
Speaker 1: most nervous thirty one people in the league would be
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinators that would have to play against them. Well,
Speaker 1: I think with Lamar you see accuracy throwing the football
Speaker 1: and finished his career round fifty seven percent, so you
Speaker 1: know you can throw path with Bolt, you know, with
Speaker 1: wide open receivers and uh and in the call him
Speaker 1: in the area throws in college, you can't get away
Speaker 1: with that in the NFL. But he's got talent and
Speaker 1: he's like I remember Rich Gannon when he came out
Speaker 1: of Delaware. It was a similar entity. They said, great athlete,
Speaker 1: we can make him a dB or a receiver, and
Speaker 1: he developed into a hack of a quarterback. So if
Speaker 1: you give a Lamar Jackson time as a second round pick,
Speaker 1: I think there's a champ he could be in an
Speaker 1: effective starter down the road. You always had that fallback
Speaker 1: plan though with Lamar Jackson because of his athleticism that
Speaker 1: maybe be a wide receiver. Well, we don't know if
Speaker 1: he can do that. We know if he wants to
Speaker 1: do that. So if you drest him like you don't
Speaker 1: have to drest him as a quarterback and he's like
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, would be a fallback plan. And then
Speaker 1: adding on to Mike Mayock is Bucky Brooks actually has
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson ahead of Josh Allen. So I think it'll
Speaker 1: be fascinating these see these guys on the field that
Speaker 1: Lucas Oil Stadium. Because one we haven't seen him throw
Speaker 1: in a while. Yes they're in shorts, Yes they don't
Speaker 1: have I would imagine all these guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: decent days. You think so, yes, and a theoretical setting,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a very controlled atmosphere and you're
Speaker 1: thrown against their Josh Rosen is probably the most accurate
Speaker 1: pastor of the lot when you're talking about the purest pastor.
Speaker 1: But you know, we can go up and down and say, well,
Speaker 1: this guy's pros and this many cons against him. When
Speaker 1: you think about Donald is that he's more mobile, he's bigger,
Speaker 1: he seems to make some place when things break down
Speaker 1: around him, and he's got some horky jerky nous to him.
Speaker 1: But he's also got a lot of intangibles. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think he's gonna be then over one overall,
Speaker 1: pick Rosen, purest pastor in the draft, most accurate pastor
Speaker 1: in the draft. Has been banged up at times at
Speaker 1: u c L a very strong personality. Josh sam One
Speaker 1: Mayock said he's got the strongest army scene since JaMarcus Russell.
Speaker 1: And he wasn't trying to say that Josh Allen is
Speaker 1: gonna have any kind of with JaMarcus Russell. But he's
Speaker 1: saying that that's what kind of arm strength the kid has.
Speaker 1: Obviously Allen had completion. Did you see the issues at Wyoming?
Speaker 1: Did you see the video of Josh Allen on both
Speaker 1: knees at midfield throwing the ball and hitting the crossbar? No,
Speaker 1: but that gives you strength. But how many times in
Speaker 1: the NFL have you seen a guy well, you mean
Speaker 1: you've never seen that? No, I haven't seen that. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So then he got he got Baker Mayfield, who's tremendously
Speaker 1: competitive and athletic, and he he can move and I
Speaker 1: think he's an accurate pastor, and he's very competitive and
Speaker 1: a lot of people, as some pundits would say, is
Speaker 1: that is he your cup of tea? Because he's a
Speaker 1: different kind of guy. Well, you had said earlier today,
Speaker 1: you had told me each of the different quarterbacks is like,
Speaker 1: he's kind of ice cream flavors. What, Yeah, you have
Speaker 1: been chocolate chip guy, either that or some form of
Speaker 1: cookies and cream. Okay, what about you? So those are
Speaker 1: traditional flavors. I guess I like something with peanut butter
Speaker 1: in it or cookie doll. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like cookie dough and I do like peanut butter.
Speaker 1: You like cookie dough out of raw cookie dough like
Speaker 1: out of the hey you're asking ice cream? Yeah no,
Speaker 1: but I I got I got off track there, that's
Speaker 1: all right. E a over there. Follow him on Twitter
Speaker 1: at ye all and jets me Ethan Greenberg, Ethan B.
Speaker 1: Greenberg not be just the letter B. This is the
Speaker 1: official JEZZ Podcast. Okay, so you mentioned guys who weren't quarterbacks. Well,
Speaker 1: let's Quentin alson making Fitzpatrick thens our Ward we talked about,
Speaker 1: and then let's go to the pass rushers. How about
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, Marcus Davenford, a guy that you are very
Speaker 1: familiar with because you were on hand and mobile watching
Speaker 1: him practice at the Senior Bowl. And then l s
Speaker 1: U has a pass rusher to who's considered maybe that
Speaker 1: top three group. But to me, the flash point of
Speaker 1: the draft. I was about to bring this up, the
Speaker 1: flash point, the flash point, the early flash point of
Speaker 1: this draft is going to be number three in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: and what are they going to do? Right? But what
Speaker 1: for you? What makes them the flash point compared to
Speaker 1: let's say I think, well, I think Cleveland takes a
Speaker 1: quarterback at one. You know, I think, as we sit
Speaker 1: here today, I think that's gonna be Sam Donald. The
Speaker 1: Giants could go in a lot of different directions, but
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of salary cap space. They
Speaker 1: want Eli Manning to return. All signs indicate that he's
Speaker 1: going to be returning. One is the the next time
Speaker 1: you're gonna be up here this high in the draft.
Speaker 1: Giants dealt with a lot of injuries last year. I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if you're the Giants, your play right now is probably
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Indianapolis, why is it a flashpoint? Because they
Speaker 1: have a quarterback and Andrew luck is saying his shoulders
Speaker 1: feeling better. So what do they do there? They go
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, they go to this generational talent maybe at
Speaker 1: running back and say Kwon Barkley, or do they trade out.
Speaker 1: I think the Giants are very interesting. Nothing is because
Speaker 1: I go back to Indianapolis and say they have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: The Giants could take a quarterback. I think Indianapolis is
Speaker 1: more likely to move out since they do have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's why I say it's a flash The Giants are
Speaker 1: sitting there at too would they move back. Sure, all
Speaker 1: those teams up in the top five, top six, Mike
Speaker 1: mccagnan is gonna say that he's gonna listen to teams
Speaker 1: that want to come up. He's gonna call all the
Speaker 1: teams in front of him. He's gonna do his due diligence.
Speaker 1: I'm saying Indianapolis is different because if they have no
Speaker 1: concerns about or limited concerns I should say about Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck's health, they have a quarterback and they would have
Speaker 1: more impetus to tray out. Could you I mean, I
Speaker 1: know this is very very unlikely, but could you imagine
Speaker 1: don't we have some sound? Can we get to the sound? Yeah? Yeah, fine, fine.
Speaker 1: I think there are at least four different difference makers
Speaker 1: at the top end that they are also clean off
Speaker 1: the field, and it would all fit Indianapolis. And if
Speaker 1: you discount the idea of trading down, which I think
Speaker 1: they have to be aware of. Secondly, given the quarterback
Speaker 1: rush this year, so I think you have a you
Speaker 1: have to be aware of trading down and then be
Speaker 1: after that job is definitely worth a pick. Ka Kawon
Speaker 1: Barkley is a transformational back and I would put him
Speaker 1: in The same category is for Net Girly and Zeke Elliott,
Speaker 1: all of whom have been top ten picks and made
Speaker 1: the teams better immediately. Um, I would throw Quinton Nelson,
Speaker 1: the guard from Notre Dame in there, and make up
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick the safety slash corner from Alabama and for some
Speaker 1: teams vita Ya de Backle. So to me, they are
Speaker 1: kind of like the Five Guys where you go, wow,
Speaker 1: you can plug and play. But I'd also be aware
Speaker 1: in Indian apples of the potential trade down. I just
Speaker 1: want to say, I know this isn't gonna happen, or
Speaker 1: I assume it's not gonna happen, because in the draft
Speaker 1: you really just don't know at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: But could you imagine what kind of ripple effect it
Speaker 1: would have you A if the Colts actually selected a quarterback. Oh,
Speaker 1: that'd be fascinating. It's not gonna happen. I didn't say.
Speaker 1: I didn't say it would. I don't think it will.
Speaker 1: I just think that would beus. This is not the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Land podcast. Okay, so that's not gonna happen. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: So the Giants, yes, they could take see Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1: So I still think the Giants. Is Josh Allen the
Speaker 1: guy for them? I don't know. Maybe, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: so too. That's been the what's gonna happen? And my
Speaker 1: other thing is Cleveland all So holds a lot of cards.
Speaker 1: Obviously you got two picks in the top four because
Speaker 1: you take that quarterback one or do they address the
Speaker 1: quarterback much like the Jets are in a similar situation
Speaker 1: that they have a lot of money to spend. Do
Speaker 1: they try to go out and get a veteran and
Speaker 1: then take a quarterback at maybe not one, but four. Well,
Speaker 1: remember this is a J. McCarron's a free agent. A J.
Speaker 1: McCarron was, you know, probably the closest thing to a
Speaker 1: Brown in the off season. However, since they have a
Speaker 1: new GM. So I'm we're at the This is where
Speaker 1: we are right now as it stands, right before the Colby.
Speaker 1: We're at the point where you start to see snowfall
Speaker 1: from the top of the mountain. And then once the
Speaker 1: league year turns on March fourteenth at four PM or
Speaker 1: whatever the whole that the mountains coming down, the avalanche starting,
Speaker 1: the dominoes go into effect. How whatever analogy you want
Speaker 1: to use. I think everyone's scooting up to the edge
Speaker 1: of their seat waiting, just waiting to see what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: because their rumors left and right about this guy and
Speaker 1: that guy, and it's just I'm excited. It's about damn time. Wow,
Speaker 1: as Lebron James would say, so wow, We're not We're
Speaker 1: not there yet, Young Pop So Free Ncy starts March fourteenth,
Speaker 1: but March twelve, teams will be able to negotiate with
Speaker 1: players with who have expiring contracts. Drew Brees, you, I
Speaker 1: expect them to be a saint, he said that. He
Speaker 1: said as much leaving on Bow. A lot of people
Speaker 1: anticipate he'll get the franchise tag from the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, a pass rusher at fourteen and a half
Speaker 1: sacks last year with the Cowboys. He probably gets the tag.
Speaker 1: Ziggy Anza in Detroit, could he get the tag? If
Speaker 1: he goes on the market, He's gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of suitors. And then from there, you know, through a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting names. Andrew Norwell, a guard from the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Sammy Watkins, a former first round pick. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you then we tell you to speak about the
Speaker 1: cornerback position because we're talking about ens Award and we're
Speaker 1: talking about Makeupitspetra, what about Malcolm Butler and Tremaine Johnson. Um.
Speaker 1: You know. So it's gonna be a really interesting couple
Speaker 1: of weeks because there's gonna be a lot of surprises
Speaker 1: and a lot of curb balls. That's what I anticipate.
Speaker 1: And my thing with the combine is it's a league
Speaker 1: get together. It's a league event, and people talk during
Speaker 1: this event. So Wednesday will be Jets Day. Mike mcagnan
Speaker 1: and Todd Bowls. Don't expect them to reveal too much,
Speaker 1: as they shouldn't. Before you go into battle, you don't
Speaker 1: reveal your plans. Um. With that being said, maybe we
Speaker 1: hear something. As far as guys, they have been able
Speaker 1: to negotiate with the Morris Clayborns of the world, Josh mccowns,
Speaker 1: the Austin Safari and Jenkins and of course to Mario Davis.
Speaker 1: Those are the foreign, strict, restrictive free agents that headline
Speaker 1: the Jets class right now, and those are the guys
Speaker 1: that can negotiate with now before we get to March twelfth,
Speaker 1: and then March fourteen. The market is open and the
Speaker 1: combine is just a piece of the draft process. Um,
Speaker 1: you just have a lot of people in the NFL,
Speaker 1: a lot of reporters, a lot of scouts, a lot
Speaker 1: of coaches, a lot of g ms. Everybody is there
Speaker 1: and about a couple of square miles So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talking, a lot of communication going on there.
Speaker 1: This is what's beautiful about the NFL. There's there is
Speaker 1: an off season, but there is no offseason because there's
Speaker 1: something constantly that pulls the fans in. Yeah. I just
Speaker 1: think that this is an awfully exciting time for Jets fans.
Speaker 1: And one thing that I want to be clear about
Speaker 1: is I think Mike mccagnet, Todd, Bowls and company have
Speaker 1: go in this with a number of different options. I
Speaker 1: don't think all eggs are going to be in one basket.
Speaker 1: You get that sense out there sometimes because the quarterback
Speaker 1: position is in so much demand across the national football
Speaker 1: that you gotta get this guy, you gotta get this guy.
Speaker 1: Let's see their plans on full because with the league
Speaker 1: in the way it works, especially in free agency, is
Speaker 1: that maybe you have something set for Option A, but
Speaker 1: you're gonna have option B, Option C, and maybe they
Speaker 1: We're gonna look at it that way. It's one A,
Speaker 1: one B, one C. You don't know. That's the That's
Speaker 1: I think that's the best part about this whole process
Speaker 1: and the draft and free agency. You just don't know.
Speaker 1: It's an adrenaline rush when it happens, and that's all
Speaker 1: we have. On this week's episode of the Official Jets
Speaker 1: podcast that was a combine preview. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about going into the combine? Are you excited? I feel
Speaker 1: fine about working out the other day the other I
Speaker 1: saw you had a forty eight hour set on your
Speaker 1: stof no listen. I ran six miles on Sunday. Four
Speaker 1: miles I did it and just over twenty eight minutes,
Speaker 1: so that was really good for me. And then six
Speaker 1: miles I did and under eight minutes a mile, so
Speaker 1: I was happy about that. And my lifting program is
Speaker 1: bun on point. So I am ready for the convoy.
Speaker 1: I run from my couch to my kitchen and then
Speaker 1: I make some food. No kid pap