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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast, powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen, and we're

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Speaker 1: joined by Connor Or, the staff writer for Sports Illustrated

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Speaker 1: used to cover the Jets on the beat a couple

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Speaker 1: the early signings and agreements to terms in free agency

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Speaker 1: and before we hear from him e A. I'm curious,

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Speaker 1: what are your first reaction, your first impression of this

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Speaker 1: class that Joe Douglas has brought in. I think the

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Speaker 1: headlines headliners early for me, Green's have definitely been Carl

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Speaker 1: Lawson and Corey Davis. The Jets making that transition defensively

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Speaker 1: from a three four to four three. They need an

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Speaker 1: explosive guy off the edge. We talked about it in

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Speaker 1: the lead up to free agency and loss in in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 1: Twenty sacks and fifty one games, but you gotta look

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Speaker 1: beyond just the sacked numbers, because he was one of

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Speaker 1: the top quarterback disruptors in football over the course of

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Speaker 1: the last two seasons and coming out of Auburn. Remember

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Speaker 1: eight and a half sexs his rookie season, quarterback hits

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Speaker 1: and quarterback prushures that have been part of Carl Lawson's game,

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Speaker 1: and Joe Douglas has always talked about building from what

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Speaker 1: on both sides, the line of script, scrimmage and inside out. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Jets have one of the better interior defensive tackles

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Speaker 1: Now they're bringing in somebody off the edge and Carl Lawson,

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Speaker 1: who's got a lot of good football ahead of him.

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Speaker 1: He's just twenty six years old. Done on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the ball, we knew the Jets were going

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Speaker 1: to have to address receiver across from Denzel Mims for Shot.

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Speaker 1: Perriman entered free agency unrestricted free agent. He ultimately landed

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Speaker 1: with the Detroit Lions. Is gonna play with the Lions

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Speaker 1: as pops former team. But Corey Davis is a guy

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Speaker 1: who had his best season with the Titans. LAS next

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Speaker 1: year and you go back to two thousand and eighteen,

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Speaker 1: he had sixty five receptions, much like two thousand twenty.

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Speaker 1: But in eighteen, Matt Lafleur, the current Green Bay Pecker's

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Speaker 1: head coach, of course, was the offensive coordinator with the

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Speaker 1: Titans Soul. Now with the Jets. Corey Davis is going

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Speaker 1: to be playing for Matt Lafleur's younger a younger brother,

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Speaker 1: Davis has shown the ability to flourish in that before. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that the Jets got younger, they got faster,

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Speaker 1: And with LaMarcus Joyner and Jared Davis, it feels like

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Speaker 1: the narrative around those two guys has been that they

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Speaker 1: weren't properly used in their last system. So with Joyner

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Speaker 1: and the Raiders, Ian rappaport Uh he tweeted something like

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Speaker 1: Marcus Joinder was used primarily in the nickel. He wanted

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Speaker 1: to play safety. He fits the Jimmy Ward play the

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Speaker 1: scheme well, the playing where Jimmy Ward played in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: LaMarcus Joiner can do that with the Jets, and then

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Speaker 1: with Jared Davis. A lot of people thought Jared Davison

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Speaker 1: the three four not a great fit in the four three,

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Speaker 1: he could flourish and really hone in on that talent

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Speaker 1: that is obviously they're considering. He was drafted one overall

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Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen, So those two guys really stand

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Speaker 1: out to me. Davis is an opportunity for a career

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Speaker 1: reset here. Ironically, he was drafted a few picks after

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis in the first round two thousand seventeen, and

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Speaker 1: he was playing with the Lions last year in the

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Speaker 1: three four. So I'll come here and uh playing a

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Speaker 1: hit you. He fits in that Solim mode where he's

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Speaker 1: gonna play one temple and that's a hundred miles pro.

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Speaker 1: And LaMarcus Joiner the Jets needed more in the secondary. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Marcus may of course receiving the franchise tag so the

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Speaker 1: Joiners a guy who's played all over this secondary with

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Speaker 1: quite an addition. How about special teams? I right, justin

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Speaker 1: haven't seen it, I definitely encouraged to watch it. The

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Speaker 1: full press conference on New York Jets dot com at

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Speaker 1: hear from Connor now joined by Connor Or, a staff

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Speaker 1: writer at Sports Illustrated. You've gotta make sure to subscribe

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Speaker 1: to s I. Connor, thanks a lot for joining us

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Speaker 1: here on the Official Jets Podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me, guys,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. So free agency is underway. We're

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Speaker 1: recording this Friday, March nineteen, so It started probably earlier

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Speaker 1: this week. Monday was the negotiating window. Wednesday, free agency

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Speaker 1: officially opened. Generally speaking, Connor, what have you thought of

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Speaker 1: the jets early moves here? I thought they were really smart. Um.

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Speaker 1: think that there's a lot of advantages to that, and

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Speaker 1: what we're looking at maybe a sort of an underdeveloped theme.

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Speaker 1: There is guys who are performing above their circumstances and

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Speaker 1: places where they were right. So you have Lost In

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a really smart, really sort of uh,

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Speaker 1: in this business for a long time. But with that

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Speaker 1: the listeners and viewers when you were a Jet speed

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Speaker 1: their most recent past, because Connor once the last time

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Speaker 1: the Jets had a dominant pass rusher, Well, yeah, when

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Speaker 1: what kind of potential does he have? Because you just

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Speaker 1: So I'm not comparing him to Abraham. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: But that's a position that I think might be, uh,

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Speaker 1: of try to overload on the defensive line a little bit.

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Speaker 1: If you're Joe Douglas, how are you analyzing the Jets

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Speaker 1: famous player, one of the elite players in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League, on somebody else's roster. But Joe Douglas has

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Speaker 1: been forthright that, hey, we are going to study all

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Speaker 1: our options. And while the Jets think Sam Donald's unbelievable

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Speaker 1: talent who ultimately will reach his potential, he said if

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Speaker 1: teams call, he would certainly listen. And the Jets in

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Speaker 1: an advantageous and advantageous position with the number two overall

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Speaker 1: selections in the NFL draft. So what do you think,

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Speaker 1: what kind of advice would you give Joe Douglas over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. He doesn't need my advice,

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Speaker 1: but he uh I think that he's smart in you know,

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Speaker 1: I've heard some people complain about the UM, you know,

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Speaker 1: him being so forthright about saying I'm gonna take any

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Speaker 1: call on my phone's always on. But if you set

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Speaker 1: the precedent from that from day one, if that's who

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Speaker 1: you are and you're honest about that, I think that

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Speaker 1: that's all the players really want. I mean, everybody knows

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Speaker 1: it's a business, and I think the problem is guys

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Speaker 1: who pretend that it's not, and they pretend that they care,

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Speaker 1: and then they're taking the calls, and then it gets

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Speaker 1: out that they're taking the calls, right, And so why

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Speaker 1: my job is to make this team better. My phone's on,

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Speaker 1: people are gonna call, and I'm gonna listen. And I

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Speaker 1: think that that's just the perfectly reasonable way to expect

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Speaker 1: anybody to conduct business. And I think that it's smart.

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Speaker 1: And this this UM, this draft class presents a lot

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Speaker 1: of interesting options. So I think, you know, you take

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Speaker 1: mind that you would like to let him go you

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Speaker 1: every day that you're not dealing him, you're basically costing

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Speaker 1: hit it. Um, it's probably very soon because a lot

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Speaker 1: like I'm thinking, if you're Pittsburgh, if you're San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: if you're in New England, even though they wouldn't trade

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Speaker 1: so Donald could be intriguing if you decided to move on.

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Speaker 1: But so I think he's doing the right thing. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think that anybody complaining about him picking up the phone,

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Speaker 1: you know what general manager is picking up the phone,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe outside of Nick Assario right now in Houston, allegedly.

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Speaker 1: But I even think that maybe he's not picking up

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Speaker 1: the phone, but maybe he's maybe he's on What's app

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Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, someone crypto, How about your projects?

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Speaker 1: What are you working on? I got a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: We have a lot of our analysis, and myself and

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Speaker 1: another former Jets be writer Jenny Rerentis and Albert Brier.

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Speaker 1: We're holding down the fort over at the mmqb UM.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to give away too much, but I'll

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Speaker 1: say that, you know, I have a lot of really

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Speaker 1: exciting stuff coming down the pike. UM on the technology front,

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Speaker 1: sports technology, UM, and of course like all of our

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Speaker 1: draft stuff, you know, we're working hard. We have a

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Speaker 1: lot of draft um, interesting draft profiles, some guys that

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Speaker 1: might end up on the Jets. So yeah, be sure

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Speaker 1: to uh to sign up. We're running a dollar special

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Speaker 1: fan of the dollar special You gotta Connor, thanks a

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Speaker 1: lot for your time. We'd really appreciate it. Yeah, thanks guys.

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Speaker 1: You know one thing we didn't talk about with Connor

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Speaker 1: ore And it's fine because I don't know how many

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Speaker 1: times he spoke with Carl Lawson. But you spoke with

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Speaker 1: Carl Lawson. Don't you think that he's gonna thrive in

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Speaker 1: terms of being a fan favorite and with the New

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Speaker 1: York media. He seems very authentic, but almost in a childish,

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Speaker 1: fun joyful way. I think he's a happy guy. I

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Speaker 1: think that he sure is happy with the money he's

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Speaker 1: going to receive from the New York Jets, but make

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Speaker 1: no mistake about it, he wants to be considered an

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Speaker 1: elite player in the National Football League. And you talked

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Speaker 1: about that childlike personality. We saw it when Kim Jones

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Speaker 1: was asking him a question and he said, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: like your house, but you gotta change the colors up

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Speaker 1: because Kim's background NFL Network, Great Report or her background

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Speaker 1: in the house was purple. He said, you gotta put

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Speaker 1: some green in there. But Lawson, when I talked to him,

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Speaker 1: it was very clear that this is a guy who

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Speaker 1: But also he's just a fan of the game, and

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Speaker 1: those guns for higher are not for hire anymore. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I said to Carl Lawson because he wants

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Speaker 1: to he wants social media and said, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you put that out there after the mangal is elected

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Speaker 1: not to tag him, But he was just wanted to

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Speaker 1: put something out there, he said. And he's a guy

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Speaker 1: who I think he loves life, but he loves football

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Speaker 1: and he wants to be part of a build here.

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Speaker 1: And Lawson is a guy that's a key position, not

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Speaker 1: only in this defense, but in every defense in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. We saw that in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You can impact the game if you get to the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: So I want to put these guys behind us because

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Speaker 1: as we record this free agency is still going on.

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Speaker 1: We're still in the thick of it. Maybe the first

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Speaker 1: wave is coming to a close, but they're still the

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Speaker 1: second and third waves. And the Jets aren't done in

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Speaker 1: free agency. So I'm curious. I just kind of wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about where else you think the Jets could

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Speaker 1: address in free agency. Not necessarily named layers, but if

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Speaker 1: you got a couple of names, throw them out there.

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Speaker 1: But the risk you run the risk that that player

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Speaker 1: could be reportedly agreeing, determined with a separate team by

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Speaker 1: the time that this podcast hits the airwaves or by

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Speaker 1: the time someone listens to it. Okay, so things changed

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Speaker 1: so quickly, you know that it seems like every minute

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Speaker 1: and we'll be scanning and real quick, there you go.

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Speaker 1: But as of this morning, the Jets had approximately thirty

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Speaker 1: four million dollars in cap space. So um, the interior

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Speaker 1: guard position that they did make a play there already.

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Speaker 1: But uh, Nickel corner, right we started free agency? Brian Pool,

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Speaker 1: of course the u f A, what's gonna happen there?

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Speaker 1: Javlyn Gidrey played really well for the Jets last year.

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Speaker 1: You wonder how he fits in their plans and what

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Speaker 1: kind of role he's gonna have. But could the Jets

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Speaker 1: address the nickel corner position in an outside corner? I

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Speaker 1: think Bryce Hall and Bless Austin just the body types

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Speaker 1: good fits for this system. But you still might be

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Speaker 1: looking to add uh in other piece or two it's

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Speaker 1: a cornerback position. And then again we got to underscore

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Speaker 1: the fact that Joe Douglas says, draft and developed. So

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Speaker 1: even if the Jets don't don't do certain things in

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Speaker 1: free agency, it can come back and do it in

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Speaker 1: the draft because ultimately that's where they want to build

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Speaker 1: this thing. And what do you think about the linebacker position.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine they're done there either. Yeah, I can't

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Speaker 1: imagine they're done there. But to your point, does that

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Speaker 1: happen in free agency? Where does that happen in the draft?

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Speaker 1: I think that I think maybe in terms of if

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Speaker 1: the second third rounder, maybe before free agency, you would

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Speaker 1: have said, well, definitely you would expect them to take

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver in the first or second round. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe I think the it's kind of shifted to maybe

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Speaker 1: now it's more of an interior offensive line and cornerback vibe.

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Speaker 1: And I think that you know, could the Jets make

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Speaker 1: of the ones that we mentioned in free agency. Still

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Speaker 1: absolutely is this draft class known for its lineman. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: So you talked about draft and developed. You saw who

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Speaker 1: in the number eleven overall pick was last year for

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Speaker 1: the Jets. Maybe Joe Douglas wants to double up on

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Speaker 1: that in the first or second round, even the third round,

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Speaker 1: to try to create a young core inside that offensive

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Speaker 1: line room. Yeah, and then that's the other thing with

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver position. Keelan Coles is somebody we addressed

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Speaker 1: with Connor or so you know, you have more depth

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Speaker 1: at the receiver position automatically, and that doesn't mean you

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Speaker 1: can't go get somebody in the draft. Um. The tight

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Speaker 1: end position is fascinating because, as you know, Kyle Pitts

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Speaker 1: Some people probably will have him a top there two

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Speaker 1: top two or three overall players on their big board,

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Speaker 1: But after that there's quite a drop off. I think

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Speaker 1: Chris Herndon has some good football left in front of him.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin still on this roster, will have to see

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Speaker 1: how that all pans out. The tight end position. Um.

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Speaker 1: But they've gotten better on the outside at the receiver position,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people have asked about running backs.

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Speaker 1: While you got Ti Johnson here did some good things

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Speaker 1: and it's also a burner um la. Michael p Ryn

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Speaker 1: remember a third round pick of the New York Jets

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Speaker 1: a year ago. And then also Josh Adams resigned as well.

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Speaker 1: So if you watch San Francisco what they've done in

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Speaker 1: day picks or third day picks or even going those

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Speaker 1: undrafted free agents, Yeah, I think that the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: style of running back is just who's hot. You know,

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Speaker 1: yard run. Here you go have at it again. And also,

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Speaker 1: I mean you think of the outside zone. Not necessarily

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Speaker 1: I'm saying this is a perfect marriage, but you think

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Speaker 1: about what the Jets did against the Raiders late in

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Speaker 1: the year running mostly behind McKay Beckton with that outside scheme.

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Speaker 1: Ty Johnson had his first a hundred yard game as

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Speaker 1: a pro. So maybe that that's this system suits him. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But the one thing I do

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Speaker 1: want to mention before we wrap up this podcast. It's

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Speaker 1: a rather lighter note. There are three players on this

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Speaker 1: roster who have warned number eighty four for their entire career.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin currently on the roster, Corey Davis comes to

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Speaker 1: the Jets, and Keeling Cole, who hasn't signed his contract

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Speaker 1: yet as we record this, also wears eighty four. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna see some new numbers here shortly. That's a

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Speaker 1: very good point, uh, you know, by like, I want

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Speaker 1: to see Corey Davis in an eighties number. You know,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if it's eighty four. You don't you

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Speaker 1: like it's time to have an eighties receiver again on

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Speaker 1: the Jets. And I think since Corey Davis has worn

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Speaker 1: eighty four, I think he'd look good at eight eight.

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Speaker 1: He's got the body frame for it. Hey, I said

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Speaker 1: p Ryan was a third round pick? Is that accurate?

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Speaker 1: I think he was a fourth round pick. The I

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Speaker 1: think his buddy Jabbari, another Gator, was a third round pick. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: four Gators currently on the roster right, Yes, sir. And

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Speaker 1: that two thousands seventeen draft class littered with Gators with

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Speaker 1: Jared Davis, Marcus May, who else was that class? Teazed

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Speaker 1: Tabor Quincy Wilson was in that class, I think, and

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Speaker 1: he another former Jet. Yeah. Um yeah, listen, I do

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Speaker 1: think Corey Davis looks good in eighty four. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how this is all gonna shake out. I just

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Speaker 1: think he looks like in eighty four to me. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And of course, if you want to add the sent

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Speaker 1: him into it. Titus Davis, his older brother, wore eighty four,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's why he wears eighty four. So

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Speaker 1: we'll see, you know, maybe Ryan Griffin and Corey Davis

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Speaker 1: can shake something out. Yeah. Well, you know, there's always

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Speaker 1: financial transactions that sometimes to become public. Sometimes they don't,

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Speaker 1: won't have to see what happens. But right now Griff's

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Speaker 1: got the eighty four. You go to Europe just dot

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Speaker 1: com well and we will stay tuned. Not only did that,

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