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Speaker 1: Jets podcast. Ethan Greenberg and Eric Allen here in studio
Speaker 1: in Florham Park as the Jets six game losing skid
Speaker 1: is now officially over. Jets win three in Orchard Park.
Speaker 1: He and I were in attendance. We were a little
Speaker 1: chili it's a little warmer here in studio, which we like. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to know what you thought the most impressive
Speaker 1: part about Sam Donald's performance was because most eyes will
Speaker 1: point to the final two minutes when he drove the
Speaker 1: Jets down the field hit Robby Anderson on a beautiful
Speaker 1: thirty seven yard pass that Anderson said was a perfect ball.
Speaker 1: But what did you think about the way Donald performed
Speaker 1: in his first game action since Week nine. I thought
Speaker 1: he'd performed well. I think the Jets did not have
Speaker 1: a lot of snaps in the first half because the
Speaker 1: Bills control of the ball and the Jets were they
Speaker 1: had to frankly adjust defensively what they were doing against
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, and they were able to do that in
Speaker 1: the second half. But the most impressive thing to me
Speaker 1: Green's was that he was able to shake off the
Speaker 1: third quarter interception where the Jets were in plus territory
Speaker 1: and they were in Jason Meyer's field goal range, because
Speaker 1: Jason Myers anything inside sixty anywhere in the United States,
Speaker 1: that's his range. Uh No, but they were probably about
Speaker 1: two yard field goalf. Donald throws that ball out of bounce,
Speaker 1: but he never flinched after throwing that pick, So that
Speaker 1: was the most impressive thing for uh for me. And
Speaker 1: then you can talk about all the athleticism that he
Speaker 1: displayed on a couple of those plays, especially the touchdown
Speaker 1: pass to Robbie Anderson, But to me, that just speaks
Speaker 1: to the mental makeup of the rookie quarterback who missed
Speaker 1: three games with the strained right foot, is that he
Speaker 1: was able to shake off a costly mistake and come
Speaker 1: back and help his team win. And Donald was almost
Speaker 1: re injured early on in that game. On the third
Speaker 1: play that the Jets had the ball offensively, Sam Donald
Speaker 1: scrambled up the middle. Looked like a broken play definitely
Speaker 1: was a broken well, I didn't want to put anyone
Speaker 1: on blast. It was a broken player. He didn't put
Speaker 1: anything on blast. He looked at he looked at hand,
Speaker 1: the ball hand, the ball off, and no one was there.
Speaker 1: So he scrambled up the middle and he thought he
Speaker 1: re injured his foot, as he told Bob, was using
Speaker 1: and he was a full participant in practice on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: And typically Tuesday's a player's day off, but because the
Speaker 1: Jets play the text numbs on Saturday, everything gets pushed
Speaker 1: up a day. But you mentioned the interception, and I
Speaker 1: think that was the one mistake, really, the only mistake
Speaker 1: that I can think of, about Donald's performance in his
Speaker 1: first came back since week nine. And well, really, what
Speaker 1: you would what you be able to tell anyway, because
Speaker 1: I didn't go back and you probably haven't had time
Speaker 1: since we got back Sunday night to look at the
Speaker 1: film of the game. I don't know if there were
Speaker 1: a couple of times, a couple of occasions where uh,
Speaker 1: maybe he could have looked to another read or maybe
Speaker 1: somebody else. No doubt that, and only Donald wouldn't know
Speaker 1: that at this point. But it was it was the
Speaker 1: only blemish that stuck out, and I will say that
Speaker 1: I think I don't think Sam Donald makes that throw
Speaker 1: next game, next year, or whatever it may be. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was kind of no, again, not to put anyone
Speaker 1: on blast. It looked like kind of a silly throw.
Speaker 1: He tried to force something when he didn't need to,
Speaker 1: especially when you have Jason Myers ready to kick through
Speaker 1: the stadium, any stadium, as he said, anywhere in the
Speaker 1: United States, fifty sixty five yards out. So I'm joking
Speaker 1: around a little bit. But Meyers said his range is
Speaker 1: basically fifty eight yards and then well he said Bowyer
Speaker 1: and Jason Meyer said that he's kicked from sixty five
Speaker 1: and practiced before with a snap in a hold. Did
Speaker 1: you think the interceptions were very similar, because looking back
Speaker 1: at the tape there were carbon copies. Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing that sticks out to me
Speaker 1: is that Alan's was significantly further. Like I thought his
Speaker 1: was a little worse. Maybe I don't know, I think
Speaker 1: that's a little harsh of a word, but I think
Speaker 1: it was a little worse because he was getting shoved
Speaker 1: out of bounds already, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: Donald was running out of bounds, and by no means
Speaker 1: in my favoring Donald's interception over Allan's. I just think
Speaker 1: that both of them should have thrown the ball out
Speaker 1: of bounds. I thought Alan's like, I wasn't expecting Josh
Speaker 1: Allen to launch the ball downfield in the field of play,
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Do you think that Allen
Speaker 1: after watching him a person is trying to do too
Speaker 1: much or try to do too much in that game,
Speaker 1: thinking that he had to do everything for that offense
Speaker 1: a little bit? I mean, I think I think some
Speaker 1: of it. It's probably has come with experience and not
Speaker 1: I'm I don't think the Bills skill players are all
Speaker 1: that great. They utilize them well and the game plan well,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that moving forward, a lot of
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be centerpieces in that offense with
Speaker 1: Josh Allen under center. I will say that I don't
Speaker 1: know what I'm curious to see in Josh Allen's development,
Speaker 1: as if he learns how to throw with touch, because
Speaker 1: he throws rockets right now, and even if it's a
Speaker 1: short pass, it's a rocket. And you saw him kind
Speaker 1: of it looked like he burned a hole in z
Speaker 1: Jones's chest and Daryl Roberts dropped the pass because it
Speaker 1: looked like it came in a little hot. It was
Speaker 1: ended up being a past deflection. But I'm curious to see,
Speaker 1: you know, five years from now, next year, does Josh
Speaker 1: Allen throws a little more touch in the shorts of
Speaker 1: intermediate routes as opposed to the longer routes, because when
Speaker 1: when he sat back there and especially in zone, and
Speaker 1: one of the Bills receivers would sit down in his zone,
Speaker 1: the ball gets to his hands in the blink of
Speaker 1: an eye, if that, you know. And the interesting thing
Speaker 1: in Vick Virci said is I think the Bills are
Speaker 1: very happy with who they ended up with getting at
Speaker 1: number seven. I think the Jets are more than happy
Speaker 1: with who they got a number three overall. And it
Speaker 1: was big way, a big way to start the final
Speaker 1: quarter of the season because his team desperately needed some
Speaker 1: juice after what has been happening over the past few weeks.
Speaker 1: They needed him in the lineup. And not only did
Speaker 1: he come back in the lineup, it makes some nice
Speaker 1: throws in the first half, but he made some monstrous
Speaker 1: pros at critical times. And this is a game Week
Speaker 1: thirteen against the Buffalo Bills in two thousand eighteen, that
Speaker 1: we will ultimately be talking about probably a couple of
Speaker 1: years down the line, maybe five years down the line,
Speaker 1: maybe ten. This is a moment that Sam Donald always
Speaker 1: can draw upon. And another thing Greens is his teammates
Speaker 1: can draw upon that that this guy in the clutch
Speaker 1: can't come he can come through. I've seen it before,
Speaker 1: and I've seen the way he handled himself, hopefully the
Speaker 1: first of many for Sam Donald's game winning drives throughout
Speaker 1: his NFL career in Green and White. I want to
Speaker 1: move to the defensive side of the ball because Darrenly
Speaker 1: suspended by the NFL, heard the news about Thursday or Friday,
Speaker 1: and Neville Hugh would ended up getting the start in
Speaker 1: least place. And I think Nevill Hugh had played pretty
Speaker 1: well considering that he jumped right in there yet seven
Speaker 1: tackles on the day, and he seemed to be flying around.
Speaker 1: I like the energy that he plays with. And I
Speaker 1: know that we talked about him in preseason because if
Speaker 1: we go all the way back to August, it was
Speaker 1: Neville Hewitt, it was Kevin Minter when he was on
Speaker 1: the ninety man roster in training camp and Nevill Hewitt
Speaker 1: in the preseason was a machine and he got the
Speaker 1: start in place of Lee on Sunday, and I think
Speaker 1: he played really well. I love his energy, and we
Speaker 1: talked about that when we were in Richmond, both myself
Speaker 1: and you went down and it seems like yesterday, but
Speaker 1: it seems like a year ago at the same time.
Speaker 1: It's weird. But in training camp, the Jets and the
Speaker 1: Redskins had those practices in the lead up to the
Speaker 1: preseason game, and he would always caught my eye during
Speaker 1: the summer because he plays with great passion and a motor.
Speaker 1: He's excited to be out there and have the opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's been a core special I mean, he's been a
Speaker 1: special teams player, a core special teams player for Brand
Speaker 1: Boyer so far this season. But he gets an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play, and this is big for him because duringly
Speaker 1: suspended for war games, so that's the rest of the
Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen season. So Hewitt might get the ballk Erupts.
Speaker 1: Maybe KPL gets in there sometimes as well, but maybe
Speaker 1: it's Hewitt is the former Miami Dolphin who's getting the
Speaker 1: ballk Erupts and this is a tremendous opportunity for let's
Speaker 1: just say this. I know Jets fans are probably thinking, oh, what,
Speaker 1: what do the Jets have to play for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season whatever, Neville Hewitt has a lot to
Speaker 1: play for if exactly. I know that's not like a
Speaker 1: sexy thing to say, but Neville Hewitt is is playing
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. I mean, you could make
Speaker 1: the statement, or the theory or the case that Neville
Speaker 1: Hewitt is playing for a spot on the twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: Jets if he plays well, yeah, I'd agree with that.
Speaker 1: And and to your point, I mean, you can continue
Speaker 1: up and down the roster. Here's a guy. Yeah I
Speaker 1: know that. But what I'm saying is that I think
Speaker 1: it's clownish for people on the outside to say it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, because it does. I just got out of
Speaker 1: the locker room and talked to Trent and Cannon, the
Speaker 1: rookie from Virginia State, And you should have seen the
Speaker 1: smile on that kid's face when I asked him about
Speaker 1: his first professional touchdown. You think those reps don't matter
Speaker 1: for a guy like Trent and Cannon down the stretch?
Speaker 1: I mean, are you crazy? People? Don't get it, like
Speaker 1: this guy is getting snaps out of the backfield and
Speaker 1: all by the way, he's got tremendous speed. What he's
Speaker 1: done on special teams this year goes under the radar.
Speaker 1: BEA's we're trying to get Jason Myers and Andre Roberts rightfully,
Speaker 1: Soda Orlando, but Cannon has been unbelievable on special teams.
Speaker 1: When we thought he was gonna be the return man,
Speaker 1: he turns out to be an a plus gunner. I
Speaker 1: just want to say this about Trenton Cannon. I watched
Speaker 1: the replay of his first career touchdown and no pun intended.
Speaker 1: He really shot out of a cannon that he got
Speaker 1: to the end zone so quickly, and I don't sometimes
Speaker 1: we think that Cannon looks like he's trying to do
Speaker 1: a little too much, kind of like a wild stallion,
Speaker 1: like he needs to be a little patient. But you
Speaker 1: can tell that the speed is there. I mean he's
Speaker 1: someone that Yeah, of course these reps matter and we'll
Speaker 1: see what the status is with Isaiah crow L who
Speaker 1: got hurt Sunday against the Bills. He was questionable leading
Speaker 1: up to that game and then he exits that game early.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Eli McGuire and Trent Cannon end up
Speaker 1: being the two feature backs for these next three games.
Speaker 1: Reps for Trent and Cannon in particular from a D
Speaker 1: two school, taking a back seat for the majority of
Speaker 1: the year and then finally getting an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: on the field. I mean, I think you're right. I
Speaker 1: think these are absolutely crucial and fans might be thinking
Speaker 1: you talk about this, fans are thinking about the draft
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Well, there's two things here. One, you said
Speaker 1: this in the game review that it doesn't matter for
Speaker 1: the Jets because they have their quarterback, and that's one.
Speaker 1: And two, fans are gonna be there next year. Not
Speaker 1: all the Jets players in the team are gonna be
Speaker 1: there next year, so they're playing for jobs. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: just I just completely encouraged by when a guy like
Speaker 1: Cannon gets those valuable rocks and now he does something offensively.
Speaker 1: Now let's see what he can do against Houston, maybe
Speaker 1: gets a couple more touches. Eli McGuire had a long run.
Speaker 1: That's a guy who missed the first eight games this season.
Speaker 1: He's just in his second year. You want him out there.
Speaker 1: He got long run against the Bills and then uh,
Speaker 1: and he put Micah Hide to the ground in fourth
Speaker 1: and one game on the line. A lot of young
Speaker 1: backs in his place probably don't wait and aren't that
Speaker 1: patient and wait for his blockers and finally extend past
Speaker 1: the goal line on the right hand side, they might
Speaker 1: punch it in there when there wasn't a hole. So
Speaker 1: good eyes by him, great patients, and he's another young
Speaker 1: guy that if you're a Judge fan, if you remember
Speaker 1: this organization, you're thinking, Okay, we got something here and
Speaker 1: can in again. I go back to it's very ironic
Speaker 1: how this whole special teams things has played out in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen because it is when Cannon was drafted.
Speaker 1: Remember what they were saying downstairs, we really like his
Speaker 1: return ability. I think the Jets probably thought Cannon day
Speaker 1: one as our return man. Well, a nine year veteran
Speaker 1: name Andre Roberts, who's thirty years old, looks like he's eighteen.
Speaker 1: He's got eight returns of forty plus yards this season.
Speaker 1: The next closest guy in the National Football League has three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you need to say that one more time
Speaker 1: because that at his staggering and on top of it,
Speaker 1: you think about how the Jets won that game in Buffalo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are multiple there's a multitude of reasons, but I
Speaker 1: point to number one. Special teams. Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: Blocked the field goal. Henry Anderson blocked the field goal.
Speaker 1: The week before he blocked a p A t. Andre
Speaker 1: Roberts was fantastic. He d plus return in a fifty
Speaker 1: plus return. Yeah, I mean he did have the one fumble. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you'll take ten Don Verses three Yeah, absolutely, will
Speaker 1: and Andre Roberts this season. I just would like to
Speaker 1: talk about special teams for a minute because Roberts and
Speaker 1: Jason Myers, we we talked about them here and there,
Speaker 1: but they are really killing it in the league right now.
Speaker 1: And we're not just saying that Andre Roberts is having
Speaker 1: a fantastic return year. First it was punch, Remember it
Speaker 1: was Oh, he's having a decent kick return year and
Speaker 1: the punch were fantastic. The punch return should I say
Speaker 1: that it's switched. The kick returns are fantastic. And Jason
Speaker 1: Meyers has been dynamite since he's came here. Thirty thirty
Speaker 1: two five kicks of at least fifty five yards in
Speaker 1: a single season. That's the first time that has happened
Speaker 1: in NFL history. NFL history, I guess that's the franchise
Speaker 1: record already. I mean, come on, both those guys. I
Speaker 1: tweeted this the other day that we know President Mamal
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams is flying first class door Lando, but these
Speaker 1: guys should be on that same flight. Absolutely no doubt
Speaker 1: they should be in a road together. Jason Meyer is
Speaker 1: probably in the middle because he's the smallest of the bunch,
Speaker 1: but they all just their first class flight story. I
Speaker 1: bet you Adams wouldn't let him sit in the middle.
Speaker 1: He Adams wouldn't let my what what he buy out? Okay,
Speaker 1: well you think Jamal Adams would like to be on
Speaker 1: the aisle, then get more. No, I don't know where now.
Speaker 1: He probably buy up the two He probably have the
Speaker 1: two seats if they're two across. After three across, I
Speaker 1: don't know. If there's three across, you's screwed. No, But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, that was a cool scene in
Speaker 1: the locker room. Be seen a lot of photos now,
Speaker 1: and we've seen a lot of reactions. Jamal kind of
Speaker 1: led the way last week by saying his personal and
Speaker 1: Terence Brooks repeated that on inside the Jets this week
Speaker 1: when we had an opportunity to talk to him, He's like, listen,
Speaker 1: people say you're not playing for anything. He's like, you're
Speaker 1: playing for your fam, you're playing for your legacy, You're
Speaker 1: playing for your teammates. And he went on and on
Speaker 1: and on. I love Terence Brooks. He keeps it real. Ah,
Speaker 1: super smart, good team guy. Well liked. Wow, you're saying
Speaker 1: that about a seminole. Well spoken. Yeah, hey, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta give it to where it's do.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, okay, So what can the Jets take
Speaker 1: from Sunday's performance and apply it this Saturday against the
Speaker 1: Houston Texas. What would you like to see carry over?
Speaker 1: I say, I'm gonna ask you the same thing, So
Speaker 1: I would say that they finished for me. And I
Speaker 1: just talked about this will Live on practice today presented
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Speaker 1: I think to me, it reiterated something we already knew,
Speaker 1: but maybe we had forgotten about. The Jets recipe for
Speaker 1: success in two thousand and eighteen is very good. The
Speaker 1: great special teams to play opportunistic defense and opportunistic defense,
Speaker 1: because the Jets had three takeaways and then timely plays
Speaker 1: by the Row offense, whether it is in the run
Speaker 1: game or the past game. I don't think it really matters.
Speaker 1: I think for me, that's what you want to continue
Speaker 1: to see. I don't know if this offense is going
Speaker 1: to be thrown thirty five points around any time soon
Speaker 1: without getting help from those other areas. But we know Greens.
Speaker 1: I think this team, I think again, what was on
Speaker 1: display there is the fight has been there, especially the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks we saw in Tennesseee. To me,
Speaker 1: it's like, here's your formula. You guys know how to win.
Speaker 1: That's how you'll win. What about you? I like the
Speaker 1: red zone success, especially a week after they just settled.
Speaker 1: I'm putting air quotes settled for five field goals in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Why it's great to see Jason Meyers have success. But
Speaker 1: any time you're on the road, and really anytime you
Speaker 1: can trade seven points for three, I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to do with the Jets in the red zone
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Bills. So to see that number
Speaker 1: switch from what happened in Tennessee, do what happened in
Speaker 1: Buffalo was very encouraging to me, and I think that
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. When the Jets win or played well.
Speaker 1: The Jets run the ball a lot, and there are
Speaker 1: a couple of big runs here. They're like when you
Speaker 1: think about the Denver game, I think about Crowell's Monster
Speaker 1: game last week. You think about Eli McGuire breaking one loose,
Speaker 1: didn't score, but still a big, a big run to
Speaker 1: set the Jets up. And then Sam Donald through twenty
Speaker 1: four passes Sunday against the Bills, and I think that's
Speaker 1: about the right number because I think, yeah, thinking about
Speaker 1: that when you were talking about I'm pretty I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that when the Jets beat the Colts, it was
Speaker 1: about the same. And you think about that game, opportunistic defense,
Speaker 1: Morris Claymore picked off like the second play from scrimmage,
Speaker 1: maybe the first I don't remember. And then didn't Dre
Speaker 1: Roberts have a big return that game too, up the
Speaker 1: sideline up against the Colts. I think so I would
Speaker 1: say yes, I would say true whenever you said Andrew
Speaker 1: Roberts had a big When did Jason Myers go seven
Speaker 1: for seven? There he goes very good to great special
Speaker 1: teams and and a couple of big plays from the offense.
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right, But yeah, that was You're
Speaker 1: right about the sweet spot. You don't want to put
Speaker 1: everything on uh Donald at this point, not saying he's
Speaker 1: not a big boy, because I think he's got big
Speaker 1: shoulders and I love his temperament and how cool he is.
Speaker 1: A nice job with the four yards stroll. It was
Speaker 1: interesting to find out that his pet peeve was people
Speaker 1: not doing what they have said there. I know, I
Speaker 1: thought that was that was pretty cool. I was expecting
Speaker 1: something generic that just speaks to his parents, because to me,
Speaker 1: that just talks about young Sam from an early age.
Speaker 1: It was all about, hey, if you tell somebody you're
Speaker 1: gonna do something, brother, you better follow through. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can definitely see what Sam Donald was like growing up
Speaker 1: a little bit there and how he was raised. But
Speaker 1: one more thing on Sam Donald. He was sixteen of
Speaker 1: twenty four, he completed sixty seven percent of his passes,
Speaker 1: and we talked about twenty four being that sweet spot.
Speaker 1: Had say I'm not throwing the interception, it would have
Speaker 1: been like so I'm just saying that. Granted it would
Speaker 1: have been he probably would have thrown the ball away
Speaker 1: and been sixty seven regardless, but had he completed one
Speaker 1: more pass would have been But Sam Donald had a
Speaker 1: great game for all everything considered, and I know he
Speaker 1: didn't throw for a lot of yards. I would say
Speaker 1: very good. Yeah, I let's say very good, very good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great problem. But I think it's okay to be very
Speaker 1: excited about it, and well, especially how could you not
Speaker 1: be after the way the Jets won that game? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like if the Jets stormed down
Speaker 1: the field and and didn't convert on fourth and one
Speaker 1: or or didn't I can't, honest with you, I could.
Speaker 1: It's been so close lately. I really felt that they
Speaker 1: were gonna be in Tennessee. That Tennessee just did not
Speaker 1: have enough offensively for I can't believe Tennessee put up
Speaker 1: thirty the next like six days later or well. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the interesting point that we were talking about here,
Speaker 1: is that you just mentioned Donald's number sixteen twenty four
Speaker 1: I think for for one seventy six. So the numbers
Speaker 1: aren't startling to you. But the completion percentage is very good.
Speaker 1: And the command, the general command of what was going
Speaker 1: on around him, I thought, is not representative in stats obviously.
Speaker 1: But my point is when you're looking at the league now, uh,
Speaker 1: as we've had a chance to do a little bit
Speaker 1: over the list a couple of days, you've seen some interesting, fascinating,
Speaker 1: dumbfounding results. I guess I mean Minnesota. Kirk Cousins go
Speaker 1: to Seattle and that's a good defense, and you have
Speaker 1: Peak Carroll a lot of credit, but they're held the
Speaker 1: seven points and Kirk Cousins isn't doing anything. I didn't
Speaker 1: know Kirk Cousins was four and twenty four against teams
Speaker 1: over five, and we're not listen, We're not throwing shade
Speaker 1: on him. I'm just saying it's that you would think
Speaker 1: that Minnesota, UM, some of the skilled guys they've they
Speaker 1: have right now that they've been they would have been
Speaker 1: performing a little bit of higher level or New Orleans
Speaker 1: me and you looked up in the press box the
Speaker 1: other day, I'm like, wow, they're not fourteen to three
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and I know Drew Brees didn't have a
Speaker 1: monster day through there. And then you look at Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and what happened to him? Again, great quarterback period,
Speaker 1: but new sentence, Uh, Brady was very on Brady like
Speaker 1: against Miami for what he did leaving points on the
Speaker 1: board in the first half, and then the in then
Speaker 1: the Patriots over all, the way they lost and things
Speaker 1: like that. That's been a couple outcomes out there of
Speaker 1: late where you're like, whoom, what's going on right now?
Speaker 1: I totally agree. Moving on, just quickly on the Texans.
Speaker 1: So my point is, even though the star quarterbacks, the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterbacks, some of these guys, sometimes they
Speaker 1: don't have these monster numbers. So with Donald, to me,
Speaker 1: it's about wins and losses and also the eye test.
Speaker 1: How does he look, how's he going through his progressions,
Speaker 1: how is he commanding things, and stuff like that, And
Speaker 1: obviously it was a step forward for him. I agree
Speaker 1: with that too. But moving forward to the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: really quickly. Here they won nine in a row after
Speaker 1: losing three straight and then lost last week to the
Speaker 1: Colts in Houston. What do you think about the Texans
Speaker 1: overall as a team. I have no idea. I really
Speaker 1: thought one three there was something wrong there because it's
Speaker 1: really hard to get it back on track after starting
Speaker 1: on three. Ye the stats will reveal that that teams
Speaker 1: to start going three in the National Football league very
Speaker 1: rarely didn't make the playoffs, but they're talented. I mean,
Speaker 1: how can you you look at Shawn Watson we're watching
Speaker 1: MC Clemson. I know a lot of people looked at
Speaker 1: him instead. He was system quarterback at Clemson. I think
Speaker 1: he'd do anything. I think he's very accurate pastor uh
Speaker 1: and he's very athletic. We know that DeAndre Hopkins. For
Speaker 1: my money, I might say he's the best receiver in football.
Speaker 1: I really like DeAndre Hopkins a lot. You like, you're
Speaker 1: just liking the Clemson guys. Huh um? Why because I
Speaker 1: it was complimentary towards Sean. Look at what I'm just
Speaker 1: poking fun a look at what he's done the first
Speaker 1: two years that Lamar Miller former Dolphins, so Jets fans
Speaker 1: were very aware of him. The Marrius Thomas is not
Speaker 1: what he used to be, but he still gives them
Speaker 1: another option on the opposite side. And defense, defensively is
Speaker 1: where it really stands out to me. And what I
Speaker 1: want to look back on is we prepare for Saturdays.
Speaker 1: How did the Colts do it? How did the Colts
Speaker 1: did they shut them down? They they stop the rushing
Speaker 1: game first. But I looked at the Texans stats from
Speaker 1: their nine game winning streak, and they on average rushed
Speaker 1: the ball for more yards and they throw the ball,
Speaker 1: which maybe you don't you don't think of because of
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, but you have to account for Watson's rushing capabilities.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned Lamar Miller got hot in that stretch too,
Speaker 1: So I think what the Colts did was shut down
Speaker 1: the run. And then you pick your battles where you can.
Speaker 1: With DeAndre Hopkins and the Cults are all about his
Speaker 1: own scheme, I don't know. And then and another thing
Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the ball. This is a good,
Speaker 1: monstrous test for the Jets offensive line. We always talk
Speaker 1: about this pass rush, this pass rush. J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: is one of the top I don't know where you're
Speaker 1: gonna put them. If you can put them in the
Speaker 1: number one to under in the league or number two,
Speaker 1: number three, He's definitely on the shortlisted for one. And
Speaker 1: Guy's got twelve and a half Sex. He's an interior
Speaker 1: pass rusher, he really is. He's an interior pass rusher.
Speaker 1: You got Ja, Dave and Claren. He coming off the edge,
Speaker 1: he can bring it. Whitney Mercills doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of sexes here, but he's still got to account for him.
Speaker 1: I just look at the front and say, okay, Tyron Matthew,
Speaker 1: forget him in the back hand. Three interceptions and making
Speaker 1: tackles all over the place, very active. UM, I just
Speaker 1: want to say this. Adams calls him the Badge, the badge.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's so, that's what That's what I call
Speaker 1: the l A Chargers kicker, the badge and not really
Speaker 1: um his last name is Badgeley, but regardless, I want
Speaker 1: to imagine this really quickly. I'm very excited to see
Speaker 1: what Trumaine Johnson does on Sunday because he has three
Speaker 1: interceptions in two games, and I assume we'll be locked
Speaker 1: up with DeAndre Hopkins for a decent amount. So I
Speaker 1: think this is really a very good test for true
Speaker 1: Maine Johnson, especially since coming back from injury. I don't
Speaker 1: this is definitely the best receiver he's seen all year,
Speaker 1: and this is definitely one of the best receivers in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. So I am very excited for
Speaker 1: one to see what Drumaine Johnson plays or how he
Speaker 1: plays on Saturday, especially with a little extra juice with
Speaker 1: three picks in two games and not to mention the
Speaker 1: game seiler. Yeah, this is the Truemaine Johnson that I
Speaker 1: think people thought the Jets were getting when they signed him.
Speaker 1: So good for him because he endured injury earlier this
Speaker 1: year with the quad and you know, he wanted to
Speaker 1: be on the field, but he's starting to come along
Speaker 1: here and play his best ball late. But you're right,
Speaker 1: you know, the challenge increases this week with this guy
Speaker 1: Hopkins on the other side, and what a challenge this
Speaker 1: is for the Jets reshuffled offensive line. Jonathan Harrison is
Speaker 1: still doing a nice job at center. Spencer Long doing
Speaker 1: a nice job at left guard now, and uh Harrison
Speaker 1: is guy probably pretty familiar with J. J. Watt and
Speaker 1: company because a couple of years ago used in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure he's seen one at the time or two.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, yeah, let's see what Houston does up front,
Speaker 1: how much they're moving those guys around and things like that.
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles was asked about how different does J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt looks since the injury. He said, he doesn't look different.
Speaker 1: He looks the same to me. Yeah, that sounds about
Speaker 1: all par for J. J. Watt and about all par
Speaker 1: for what Todd Bowles would say about j. J. Watt,
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