WEBVTT - Listen: Inside the Jets with Jonotthan Harrison (12/23) 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.960 Five from vender Bill Sports and Spirits inside the Windham 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:09.960 Hamilton's Park Hotel. It's Inside the Jets, brought to you 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.800 by E Y Building a better working World, and by 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.079 him and T Bank, the official community bank of your 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:21.280 New York Jets. No like Here's Eric Callen and Eric Coleman. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:24.480 Welcome to Inside the Jets. We are broadcasting live from 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.440 Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's Park Hotel. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.919 Eric Ellen alongside Eric Coleman. It is rather quiet in 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.000 here tonight, everybody away with their families, I think, starting 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:44.199 to celebrate the holiday season. Merry Christmas and happy Holidays 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.120 to you and yours. E The Jets are hot here 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.360 in the holiday season. Left for dead one and seven 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.360 at midway point, the Jets have suddenly won five and seven, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.240 have a chance to finish the second half of the 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.760 two thousand n team campaign with the six and two records. 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.760 So what does that say about Adam Gayson company, the 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.319 way they've rebounded and played down a stretch. Well, I mean, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.399 I think it speaks to the great job of coaching 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.840 that they've done. Listen, this is a new program, a 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.800 new way of doing things on offense, on defense, new 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.640 coordinators and things took a while to catch on. You know, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.720 they had fought through a lot of injuries. I think 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.280 they're developing a lot of young talent and it's really showing. Uh, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.480 you know, the camaraderie, the schemes, everything is coming together 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.280 right now. At the end of the inside, the Jets 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:36.040 is supported by selective insurance, be uniquely ensured. Later on 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.760 here we will be joined by Jets center Jonathan Harrison. 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.840 What do you think about the Green and White's latest 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:50.600 victory is sixteen ten, gritty, tough effort against the Pittsbury Steelers. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.880 That game was the outcome hung in the balance until 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.360 the final seconds when you saw Marcus May come up big. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.800 And we're gonna talk about Marcus here momentarily, but what 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.280 do you think overall of that ball game? You're facing 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.800 a team who has playoff aspirations and Steelers they come 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:10.959 into your building, had a lot of fans. We saw 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.679 the terrible tiles and the Jets turned them away. Well, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.520 you know, it was kind of what I expected. We 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.960 talked about it in the pregame show about it being 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.480 a smash mouth football game. You know, a game where 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:23.440 you know you have the Steelers who want to run 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.720 the football against the Jets, who do a great job 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.880 of defending the run. Uh, same thing on the other 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:29.960 side of the ball. I thought the Jets did a 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.320 great job of coming out scoring on the first drive, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.160 kind of you know, first punch down and letting them know, 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.120 and then the defense took off from there. I thought 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:39.800 they did a great job of getting three and ounce, 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.320 forcing turnovers and getting the offensive ball back in great 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.840 field position. I don't know if the Jets would have 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:50.400 been able to overcame what happened earlier in the season, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.840 meaning there in control of that ball game. They got 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:55.799 a ten nothing lead, then all of a sudden, Pittsburgh 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.079 gets a field goal. It's ten three. T J. Watt 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.680 gets in there, strip sack if Sam Donald and before 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:07.040 you know it, there's a touchdown pass for Mason Rudolph 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.240 and it's ten ten at halftime and you're going in 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.000 and a lot of teams would have been deflated after that. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.720 The Jets took it in a stride and they came 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.399 out and they shut out the Steelers in the second half. Yeah, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.040 I was very impressed by the way they went in 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.960 the halftime. Listen that you got tied up. They scored 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.120 with eight seconds left in the first half, which is 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.200 very disappointing. You want to hold him to a field 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.040 goal in that position. But uh, Nonetheless, they came out 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.360 second half fighting, They came out with a lot of energy. 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.040 The defense got better, you know, as the game went on, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.760 and they did show a lot of maturity and finishing 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.480 that game doing a shutout. You know, defense completed a 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.160 shut out in the second half, and I thought it 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.320 was an excellent job by Greg Williams and the defense. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.160 So we've talked often on this show, and rightfully so 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:52.680 about two time Pro bowler now Jamal Adams. What about 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:57.280 his safety partner Marcus May takes points off the board 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.520 there in the first half interception in the end zone 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.920 that late in the game he makes like a cornerback. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.480 There's not many safeties in National Football League we can 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:11.120 make that play the p D that takes a chance 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.880 away of a James Washington touchdown, and that would have 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.640 been a tough loss. Yeah, Marcus May had a fantastic 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.240 game and he's been playing great all year. But the 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.000 problem is when you're when you're free safety doing your job, 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.400 you're not getting a lot of the accolades. You're not 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.239 getting a lot of hoop law. You're preventing plays from happening, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.159 you're preventing touchdowns, which he deserves a lot of the 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.600 credit for the success of the Jets defense. But yesterday 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.000 he was able to get keep points off the board 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.880 by defending it, getting an interception in the red zone. 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.440 And then that play at the end of the game, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.120 the one handed pass breakup. He showed a lot of 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.400 composure on that play. He you know, he high pointed 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.280 the ball. It was patient, he didn't he didn't panic 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.280 at the end. A lot of safeties would would panic 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.599 in that situation, and Marcus May was all over the 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.159 field all game yesterday. You know what, I I don't 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.359 want to take anything away from it, because we're gonna 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:05.400 rightfully sold give Marcus May the praise here. But what 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.440 was the coverage in that situation, because typically you're not 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.680 gonna see in that situation where a receiver is running 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.920 free free safety last line of defense, where you don't 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.120 have somebody else with him. Yeah, you know, you know 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:19.920 what I want to say, It was his own coverage. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.520 I'm I just remember him making the play on the 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.440 ball and just being in position, getting in phase, getting 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.120 his eyes back on the ball, and then shooting through 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.760 the receiver's hands and knocking that pass down. How about 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.640 the back pedal, you know, for those watching the New 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.599 York Just dot Com in the Jets app right now, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:41.560 he's faced this way, then he turns this way going 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.120 back and then uses the left arm to make the 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.680 p D. Yeah. You know, as a defensive back, you know, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.960 especially in the middle of the field, you always want 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.479 to be coming down on the football and sometimes you 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.240 get stuck in a position where you have to kind 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.599 of scramble and panic and go back. But Marcus kept 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.640 his composure. He did a great job of keeping his 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.320 eyes on the ball and fighting through and knocking that 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.440 down and it was a game saving pass break up. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.680 Jamal and Up said after the game that Marcus May 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:11.200 is an underrated ball player and for a person who 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.880 played the position like yourself, do you think that was 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.640 one of the finer plays that Marcus May has had 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.600 so far in his National Football League career? Absolutely? I 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.159 mean you look at you know the circumstances. It was 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.120 down in the red zone, the games on the line 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.200 there up by six. Pittsburgh needs a touchdown and they 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.440 have a receiver open and Marcus to show that range, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.400 you know, to to cover as much ground as he 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.640 did to come knock that ball down. That was a 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.400 fantastic play and it's something that he's been doing all year, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.719 but it just hasn't been in that that situation. You know, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:44.520 Marcus has done a great job of running the defense. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.359 There's been no communications errors on the back end, and 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.320 you got to give that credit to market. How about 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.600 the interception in the first half that we talked about 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.279 a little bit. Listen, they're there inside the red zone. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.560 They're at least gonna get a field goal, that's a 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.080 chip shot field goal, and Devil doc Hodges gets a 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:05.600 little Greedy's trying to pass to Jalen Samuel's is running 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.440 back there in the corner of the end zone. Look 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:12.040 to me, there's Marcus playing that post safety. He's reading 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.080 the quarterback and he makes like a receiver because he 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.920 high pointed the ball there and then got his feet down. Yeah, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:19.840 he did a great job, you know. And when when 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.200 you're that close to the to the to the end 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.520 zone as a free safety, you don't have the backpedal, 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.480 you get enough depth and you just read the eyes 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.480 of the quarterback, and he was playing against a young 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.200 quarterback who was staring down his receiver didn't go through 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.840 his progression. And you know when you have an opportunistic 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.400 safety like Marcus May, he's gonna read those eyes. He's 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.280 gonna show his range and go make that play on 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.200 the sideline and it was great to see him get 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.200 those feet down. You get to get that toe swagwag. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.720 I was in the film room with Bart Scott today, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.440 former Jets linebacker, and he talked about the first takeaway. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.720 The Jets had fire zone. They send five Jamal Adams 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:01.240 coming again and then we see Terrell bash Him take 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.680 a couple of steps forward, drops makes the athletic play 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.600 and the interception again taking advantage of a rookie quarterback. Yeah, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.120 you know, it was a third down intent situation. They 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.480 called a three dep fire zone and Terrell Basham has 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.920 that three receiver hook And when I when I watched 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.360 that again, the whole defense knew that play was coming 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 because Marcus Mays in the center of the field. Of 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.160 course he's going to be helping Terrell Basham. He's covering 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.760 a wide receiver in that situation. But Marcus was in 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.840 the in the post. He was he had his hair 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.840 on fire coming down to try to make that play. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.960 Basham was able to set it up by acting like 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.480 he was gonna rush and then dropping back. Duck Hodges 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.960 never saw him coming from the back side, and the 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.840 big feather went up and made a great catch. What 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.439 do you make of what the Jets did offensively? We 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.160 were wondering what kind of performance that we're gonna get 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.679 out of Levan, But I thought he set the tone 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.040 for the entire game on that first drive that culminated 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.240 on the touchdown pass from Sam Donald and Robby Anderson 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.600 twenty three yards, which was a tremendous catch from Robbie 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.600 and Sam put in a play where only Anderson could 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.480 go up and get the football. But a lot of 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.520 seven yard runs on that first drive from Levian Bell 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.120 and the Jets established themselves that the line of scrimmage. Yeah, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.080 they did. You know, the Jets really did do a 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.440 great job of establishing that that tempo. You know, just 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.400 taking the fight to the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're known as 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.640 a bully defense. You know, they've been getting a lot 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.040 of takeaways. They're intimidating as a defense, but the offensive line, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.520 Levian Bell, they came out and punched him in the mount. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.559 You know, Levian getting seven yard carries, you know, continuing 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.880 that drive and then to go down and finish it 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.959 like they did with a great throw and catch by 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.440 Sam Donald and Robby Anderson. It was a great drive 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.320 and I wish they would have wished they could have 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.760 continued that momentum through You mentioned tempo. Did you like 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.439 the fourth and one where Adam Gaze had him get 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.120 up right up to the line. Levian BELLI gets seven yards, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.360 but there were pair of penalties on the play from 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:58.360 Pittsburgh that you ultimately decline. But with that being said, 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:03.480 the pace guy, Pittsburgh completely on their heels. Yeah, I 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.679 thought that was great. You know, Pittsburgh's the team that 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.320 doesn't send a lot of pressure, and it's hard to 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.720 to blitz and to not show your hand when there's 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.120 a no huddle situation. You know, you have to. You know, 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.439 if I'm a safety, I want to I want to 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.640 sit there and disguise my coverage. I want to you know, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.960 beat ten yards back and you know, maybe I'll show 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.120 a blitz or something. But if you know there's a 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.440 no huddle situation. You have to get to your work 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:26.080 right now, and that really does a great job of 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.880 showing the quarterback what how this defense is attacking you 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.640 so they can play off. I thought one of the 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.400 key drives were one of the Jets had a thirteen 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:37.240 a ten lead there in the fourth quarter, and Donald 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:44.400 had some key completions. Bell again another critical third down conversion. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.520 He told me after the game he wanted to get 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.600 the third and twelve. He only got like ten yards. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.960 But that's set up a field goal in in that case, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.000 in most games, you're thinking, listen, you gotta score a 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:59.840 touchdown here. I think Adam Gaze is playing his card 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.840 right there because he knows what he has defensively. We 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.760 get a six point lead here, They're not scoring a 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.880 touchdown on us. I'm betting on my defense. That's why 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.240 that was such a key field goal. Yeah, you know, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.520 Adam Gates had had a lot of reason to have 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.960 confidence in his defense. You know, Pittsburgh had their third string, 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.880 second string quarterback who weren't having a lot of success. Uh, 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.520 This defense and you, led by Jamal Adams and company 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.199 have been doing a great job all game of setting 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.800 the tone that they eliminated the run game. They were 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.240 eliminating big plays after that first half play, and uh, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:33.840 you know they gave him all the reason to be 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.960 confident in what they could do. All right, So we're 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:40.400 gonna come right back and bringing a Jets center Jonathan Harrison, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:45.520 one of Sunday's heroes. And uh, we're also gonna dive 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.520 into the Jets final game of the season. Who would 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.080 have thought that the two thousand nineteen it's already coming 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.840 to an end, but we're gonna come right back. You're 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:59.080 listening Inside the Jets on ESPN New York. Donald takes 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.200 the snap drops by, looks over the middle, fires went 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.680 up the scene end. So Robby Anderson cons the ladder. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:09.600 Hey's got it down. Who want to throw by Tarnald 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:14.120 a rightful shot up the scene to Robbie Anderson. Inside 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.120 the Jets is presented by e Y Building a Better 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.600 Working World, Eric Allen and Eric Coleman here at Vanderbilt 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.439 Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton Park Hotel or 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.640 Player Guest segment is presented by M ANDT Bank, the 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.680 official community bank of your New York Jets. Let's bring 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.719 in Jonathan Harrison, who's not only the starting center for 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.040 the Green and White, but also the team's nominee for 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:44.520 Walter Payton Man in the Year, Jonathan Hey, Uh, so 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.959 many things to get to, um, but let's start on 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.720 the field. What's spend the difference in the second half 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.000 of the season for this team? I think just um, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.839 you know, everyone realizing that, you know, most of the 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:00.719 league was counting us out. So it was like it 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.920 was like a respect thing. It was like a you know, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.559 we're not gonna quit. We're not just gonna you know, 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.120 fold over. We're gonna keep working, keep burning and uh, 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:09.800 you know, in the season with some wins and then 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.040 move into the off season on a positive note and 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:13.920 then build from there. Yeah, there was a lot of 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.520 There are a lot of questions that people ask me, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.920 like ending the season on a on a good note, 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:20.079 winning a bunch of games, does that carry over to 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.120 the off season? How how do you feel like that 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.640 will help you guys moving into the off season, Because 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.000 that's a building chemistry, that's building team chemistry, and and 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.760 for the players who are fortunate enough to be on 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.560 the team again next year, you know, that's that's already 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.040 like a step that you've you've eliminated. You already have 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.200 the chemistry. You don't even worry about building that chemistry. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.400 And um, of course, you know the you know, coaches 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.520 in front office bringing in new pieces to add to 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.160 to what we have going and then that's just how 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.760 a team builds over time. How have you been able 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:55.240 to sustain or maintain or actually get offensive line chemistry 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.360 ten old line combinations? Jeez, I have not seen a 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:04.439 year like uh man, I'm gonna I'm gonna say. You know, 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.199 we've been joking around and we've been calling it like 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.640 the you know Year of the Yuck just because it's 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.480 been just like it's been yucky in there, you know, 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.439 that guys getting danged up and in and out the 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.959 lineup and whatever it may be. And like we just 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.320 joke about it, but it just you know, it's actually 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.800 bringing us a lot closer, you know, because guys are 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.680 able to plug into any position and and you know 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.600 without skipping a beat. You know, we can continue on 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.200 without skipping a beat. And and the guys are really 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.680 buying in. You know, no one's being selfish. Everyone's being 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.880 completely selfless and just doing whatever they can to help 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.520 the help the offense and How does that help? Yeah, 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:38.760 the team moving forward. Everybody's getting experienced. You know, you 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.560 got guys from practice squad, guys who are who are backups, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.320 getting starting, getting getting major minutes in these games, including defense, offense, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.760 any position. How does that help you guys moving forward? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.480 Is it? Is it gonna? How does it? How does 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.520 that help jell the team? It just, um, it shows 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.680 that you know, show some of the weapons, you know, 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.840 the hidden gems that we have on the team, and 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.960 that you know, guys performing you know, well late in 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.160 the season. That's just giving coaches something else to look at, like, Okay, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.640 you know this guy's coming out of the show. You 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.200 know this guy, this guy's potential whatever it is. So 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:12.840 so you know, it's just one of those things. Um, 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.400 you know, guys, guys have really been busting their tail, 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.760 you know, getting after it and and not quitting. You know, 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.880 it's end this season. It's easy. You know, I'm not 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.800 going to playoffs or whatever. It's easy. It's easy just 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.520 to kind of give up and get lazy. But guys 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.000 have really been competing. I mean at practice we're still 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.040 full tilt. It was still full tilt, like we have 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.160 something to prove. So well, how would you describe this 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.800 year for you? Because in the spring, you're thinking, hey, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:34.880 I want to be the guy. I'm gonna be the 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.840 starting center of this team. Then the Jets go out 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.840 and sign Ryan Klio on August one, Um, he starts 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.520 the first six or seven games, ends up on I 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.600 R And here you are gonna be in the starting 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.560 lineup Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. And I think you're 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.240 gonna match your career high in terms of starts. This 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.000 is You're gonna be your tenth. I believe so. Yeah, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.920 I believe so. I really I really try not to 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.640 pay attention to any of that, but um, yeah, you know, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.800 it's been a it's been an emotional roller coaster for sure. Um. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.480 You know, like like you said, you know entered you know, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.520 entered spring thinking, you know, hey, you know I have 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:12.120 a shot this. You know, this can be my job. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.760 And you know Ryan coming in, you know, Brandon, Ryan 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:18.880 came in and he was he was super cool, super 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.760 respectful about everything. He's like, man, I know this is awkward, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.280 but but hey, like let's let's make the best of it. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:25.640 You know, maybe I can teach you a thing or 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.920 two or whatever. And we end up becoming really cool 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.680 with each other. So, um, you know, I just took 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.040 that as a as a learning, learning experience, and you know, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.360 of course, you know, initially I was super frustrated, Like like, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.600 initially when it happened, I was super frustrated. But then 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.320 I was like, I can't let that, I can't let 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.600 that affect you know, this journey I've been on in 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.400 my career, so you know, it has been the prettiest journey. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.640 But but but I'm always here to work and given 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.600 my all, and um, I'm pretty sure the guys in 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.040 the locker room know that. So it's truly, is truly 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.240 just a blessing to have this much respect for the 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.920 way that you handled yourself in that situation, because it 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.560 sounds like it's an easy situation, but it's tough because 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.200 everyone you know you, you work hard, you have your pride, uh, 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:04.879 you know you you put in this work and then 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.960 all of a sudden, but everything works out in the end. Well, 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.520 there's one word that works the best when describing Jonathan 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:18.920 Harrison as far as you're NFL career professional, consummate professional, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.480 always been able to roll with it and come to 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:29.080 work with the right attitude. You know, no, thank you really. Um, yeah, 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.480 it's it's not always easy. It's not always easy to 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.080 have my good and bad days and everything like that. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.840 But but yeah, you know, you know, many many people, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.399 whether it's coaches, players, mentors, many people have told me, 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.200 you know, if you get you get overly frustrated with 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.600 the things you can't control, then you can drive yourself 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.440 insane and control what you can control. And there's times, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.159 you know what, I may you know, deviate from that 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:50.520 just a little bit, but then I always try to 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.359 bring myself back to that and control what I can control. Yeah, well, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.400 let's get back to Sunday. You know, great winning against 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.879 the Steelers. You guys really came out and took the 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:02.000 fight to that Steelers defense. Was it were you motivated 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.120 by Levan playing against this old team? Were you motivated 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.200 by feeling disrespected? What was the motivation going into that game? 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.760 You know everyone had their little, you know, different motivation. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.200 You know, Um, that's Beaches first team, you know, Beach 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.159 them the first team as well, and Levyan with all 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.440 that of course, and everyone had their different motivations. But um, 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.760 you know, for me personally, for me personally, I was 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.240 just like this. You know, this is a team that 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.480 thinks that they're just gonna, you know, come out here 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.480 and get a win. You know, like like I don't 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.879 think many people outside of the building thought we were 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:35.040 gonna we're gonna win that game outside this organization, and 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.119 you know, it is what it is. So you know, 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:38.960 all we can do is go out there and fight 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.399 and and you know it, it was a it was 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:43.960 a dogfight of a game, dogfight of a game. But 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:45.600 those are the ones you remember, and those are those 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.160 are satisfying victories right there. Yeah, you mentioned the dogfight 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.399 of a game. Just two d fifty nine yards a 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:55.280 total offense, I believe for a fifteen on third down. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:58.000 But you guys found a way you knew it was 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.200 that you knew it was gonna be that in the 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.280 game because the Pittsburgh Steelers bottom line, we got eight 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.400 victories this year and that defense you got a lead 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.480 players at all. Oh yeah, that defense was was stout. 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.520 That's a very good defensive go against. And uh we 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.879 knew that. We knew that entering the weekend. You know, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:18.600 hats off to to all the guys that went out 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.280 there and battled. You know, there's a couple of drives 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.560 that I know we wish we could have finished, but 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.040 you know, at the end of the day, and win 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.399 is a win, and sometimes wins are gonna be you know, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.560 dig scratch claw kind of win, you know, And we 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.720 really fought and it was it was a team effort. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:34.880