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Speaker 1: to you and yours. E The Jets are hot here
Speaker 1: in the holiday season. Left for dead one and seven
Speaker 1: at midway point, the Jets have suddenly won five and seven,
Speaker 1: have a chance to finish the second half of the
Speaker 1: two thousand n team campaign with the six and two records.
Speaker 1: So what does that say about Adam Gayson company, the
Speaker 1: way they've rebounded and played down a stretch. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it speaks to the great job of coaching
Speaker 1: that they've done. Listen, this is a new program, a
Speaker 1: new way of doing things on offense, on defense, new
Speaker 1: coordinators and things took a while to catch on. You know,
Speaker 1: they had fought through a lot of injuries. I think
Speaker 1: they're developing a lot of young talent and it's really showing. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the camaraderie, the schemes, everything is coming together
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Speaker 1: here we will be joined by Jets center Jonathan Harrison.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the Green and White's latest
Speaker 1: victory is sixteen ten, gritty, tough effort against the Pittsbury Steelers.
Speaker 1: That game was the outcome hung in the balance until
Speaker 1: the final seconds when you saw Marcus May come up big.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about Marcus here momentarily, but what
Speaker 1: do you think overall of that ball game? You're facing
Speaker 1: a team who has playoff aspirations and Steelers they come
Speaker 1: into your building, had a lot of fans. We saw
Speaker 1: the terrible tiles and the Jets turned them away. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of what I expected. We
Speaker 1: talked about it in the pregame show about it being
Speaker 1: a smash mouth football game. You know, a game where
Speaker 1: you know you have the Steelers who want to run
Speaker 1: the football against the Jets, who do a great job
Speaker 1: of defending the run. Uh, same thing on the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I thought the Jets did a
Speaker 1: great job of coming out scoring on the first drive,
Speaker 1: kind of you know, first punch down and letting them know,
Speaker 1: and then the defense took off from there. I thought
Speaker 1: they did a great job of getting three and ounce,
Speaker 1: forcing turnovers and getting the offensive ball back in great
Speaker 1: field position. I don't know if the Jets would have
Speaker 1: been able to overcame what happened earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: meaning there in control of that ball game. They got
Speaker 1: a ten nothing lead, then all of a sudden, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: gets a field goal. It's ten three. T J. Watt
Speaker 1: gets in there, strip sack if Sam Donald and before
Speaker 1: you know it, there's a touchdown pass for Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: and it's ten ten at halftime and you're going in
Speaker 1: and a lot of teams would have been deflated after that.
Speaker 1: The Jets took it in a stride and they came
Speaker 1: out and they shut out the Steelers in the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was very impressed by the way they went in
Speaker 1: the halftime. Listen that you got tied up. They scored
Speaker 1: with eight seconds left in the first half, which is
Speaker 1: very disappointing. You want to hold him to a field
Speaker 1: goal in that position. But uh, Nonetheless, they came out
Speaker 1: second half fighting, They came out with a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: The defense got better, you know, as the game went on,
Speaker 1: and they did show a lot of maturity and finishing
Speaker 1: that game doing a shutout. You know, defense completed a
Speaker 1: shut out in the second half, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was an excellent job by Greg Williams and the defense.
Speaker 1: So we've talked often on this show, and rightfully so
Speaker 1: about two time Pro bowler now Jamal Adams. What about
Speaker 1: his safety partner Marcus May takes points off the board
Speaker 1: there in the first half interception in the end zone
Speaker 1: that late in the game he makes like a cornerback.
Speaker 1: There's not many safeties in National Football League we can
Speaker 1: make that play the p D that takes a chance
Speaker 1: away of a James Washington touchdown, and that would have
Speaker 1: been a tough loss. Yeah, Marcus May had a fantastic
Speaker 1: game and he's been playing great all year. But the
Speaker 1: problem is when you're when you're free safety doing your job,
Speaker 1: you're not getting a lot of the accolades. You're not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of hoop law. You're preventing plays from happening,
Speaker 1: you're preventing touchdowns, which he deserves a lot of the
Speaker 1: credit for the success of the Jets defense. But yesterday
Speaker 1: he was able to get keep points off the board
Speaker 1: by defending it, getting an interception in the red zone.
Speaker 1: And then that play at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: the one handed pass breakup. He showed a lot of
Speaker 1: composure on that play. He you know, he high pointed
Speaker 1: the ball. It was patient, he didn't he didn't panic
Speaker 1: at the end. A lot of safeties would would panic
Speaker 1: in that situation, and Marcus May was all over the
Speaker 1: field all game yesterday. You know what, I I don't
Speaker 1: want to take anything away from it, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: rightfully sold give Marcus May the praise here. But what
Speaker 1: was the coverage in that situation, because typically you're not
Speaker 1: gonna see in that situation where a receiver is running
Speaker 1: free free safety last line of defense, where you don't
Speaker 1: have somebody else with him. Yeah, you know, you know
Speaker 1: what I want to say, It was his own coverage.
Speaker 1: I'm I just remember him making the play on the
Speaker 1: ball and just being in position, getting in phase, getting
Speaker 1: his eyes back on the ball, and then shooting through
Speaker 1: the receiver's hands and knocking that pass down. How about
Speaker 1: the back pedal, you know, for those watching the New
Speaker 1: York Just dot Com in the Jets app right now,
Speaker 1: he's faced this way, then he turns this way going
Speaker 1: back and then uses the left arm to make the
Speaker 1: p D. Yeah. You know, as a defensive back, you know,
Speaker 1: especially in the middle of the field, you always want
Speaker 1: to be coming down on the football and sometimes you
Speaker 1: get stuck in a position where you have to kind
Speaker 1: of scramble and panic and go back. But Marcus kept
Speaker 1: his composure. He did a great job of keeping his
Speaker 1: eyes on the ball and fighting through and knocking that
Speaker 1: down and it was a game saving pass break up.
Speaker 1: Jamal and Up said after the game that Marcus May
Speaker 1: is an underrated ball player and for a person who
Speaker 1: played the position like yourself, do you think that was
Speaker 1: one of the finer plays that Marcus May has had
Speaker 1: so far in his National Football League career? Absolutely? I
Speaker 1: mean you look at you know the circumstances. It was
Speaker 1: down in the red zone, the games on the line
Speaker 1: there up by six. Pittsburgh needs a touchdown and they
Speaker 1: have a receiver open and Marcus to show that range,
Speaker 1: you know, to to cover as much ground as he
Speaker 1: did to come knock that ball down. That was a
Speaker 1: fantastic play and it's something that he's been doing all year,
Speaker 1: but it just hasn't been in that that situation. You know,
Speaker 1: Marcus has done a great job of running the defense.
Speaker 1: There's been no communications errors on the back end, and
Speaker 1: you got to give that credit to market. How about
Speaker 1: the interception in the first half that we talked about
Speaker 1: a little bit. Listen, they're there inside the red zone.
Speaker 1: They're at least gonna get a field goal, that's a
Speaker 1: chip shot field goal, and Devil doc Hodges gets a
Speaker 1: little Greedy's trying to pass to Jalen Samuel's is running
Speaker 1: back there in the corner of the end zone. Look
Speaker 1: to me, there's Marcus playing that post safety. He's reading
Speaker 1: the quarterback and he makes like a receiver because he
Speaker 1: high pointed the ball there and then got his feet down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did a great job, you know. And when when
Speaker 1: you're that close to the to the to the end
Speaker 1: zone as a free safety, you don't have the backpedal,
Speaker 1: you get enough depth and you just read the eyes
Speaker 1: of the quarterback, and he was playing against a young
Speaker 1: quarterback who was staring down his receiver didn't go through
Speaker 1: his progression. And you know when you have an opportunistic
Speaker 1: safety like Marcus May, he's gonna read those eyes. He's
Speaker 1: gonna show his range and go make that play on
Speaker 1: the sideline and it was great to see him get
Speaker 1: those feet down. You get to get that toe swagwag.
Speaker 1: I was in the film room with Bart Scott today,
Speaker 1: former Jets linebacker, and he talked about the first takeaway.
Speaker 1: The Jets had fire zone. They send five Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: coming again and then we see Terrell bash Him take
Speaker 1: a couple of steps forward, drops makes the athletic play
Speaker 1: and the interception again taking advantage of a rookie quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a third down intent situation. They
Speaker 1: called a three dep fire zone and Terrell Basham has
Speaker 1: that three receiver hook And when I when I watched
Speaker 1: that again, the whole defense knew that play was coming
Speaker 1: because Marcus Mays in the center of the field. Of
Speaker 1: course he's going to be helping Terrell Basham. He's covering
Speaker 1: a wide receiver in that situation. But Marcus was in
Speaker 1: the in the post. He was he had his hair
Speaker 1: on fire coming down to try to make that play.
Speaker 1: Basham was able to set it up by acting like
Speaker 1: he was gonna rush and then dropping back. Duck Hodges
Speaker 1: never saw him coming from the back side, and the
Speaker 1: big feather went up and made a great catch. What
Speaker 1: do you make of what the Jets did offensively? We
Speaker 1: were wondering what kind of performance that we're gonna get
Speaker 1: out of Levan, But I thought he set the tone
Speaker 1: for the entire game on that first drive that culminated
Speaker 1: on the touchdown pass from Sam Donald and Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: twenty three yards, which was a tremendous catch from Robbie
Speaker 1: and Sam put in a play where only Anderson could
Speaker 1: go up and get the football. But a lot of
Speaker 1: seven yard runs on that first drive from Levian Bell
Speaker 1: and the Jets established themselves that the line of scrimmage. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did. You know, the Jets really did do a
Speaker 1: great job of establishing that that tempo. You know, just
Speaker 1: taking the fight to the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're known as
Speaker 1: a bully defense. You know, they've been getting a lot
Speaker 1: of takeaways. They're intimidating as a defense, but the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Levian Bell, they came out and punched him in the mount.
Speaker 1: You know, Levian getting seven yard carries, you know, continuing
Speaker 1: that drive and then to go down and finish it
Speaker 1: like they did with a great throw and catch by
Speaker 1: Sam Donald and Robby Anderson. It was a great drive
Speaker 1: and I wish they would have wished they could have
Speaker 1: continued that momentum through You mentioned tempo. Did you like
Speaker 1: the fourth and one where Adam Gaze had him get
Speaker 1: up right up to the line. Levian BELLI gets seven yards,
Speaker 1: but there were pair of penalties on the play from
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh that you ultimately decline. But with that being said,
Speaker 1: the pace guy, Pittsburgh completely on their heels. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought that was great. You know, Pittsburgh's the team that
Speaker 1: doesn't send a lot of pressure, and it's hard to
Speaker 1: to blitz and to not show your hand when there's
Speaker 1: a no huddle situation. You know, you have to. You know,
Speaker 1: if I'm a safety, I want to I want to
Speaker 1: sit there and disguise my coverage. I want to you know,
Speaker 1: beat ten yards back and you know, maybe I'll show
Speaker 1: a blitz or something. But if you know there's a
Speaker 1: no huddle situation. You have to get to your work
Speaker 1: right now, and that really does a great job of
Speaker 1: showing the quarterback what how this defense is attacking you
Speaker 1: so they can play off. I thought one of the
Speaker 1: key drives were one of the Jets had a thirteen
Speaker 1: a ten lead there in the fourth quarter, and Donald
Speaker 1: had some key completions. Bell again another critical third down conversion.
Speaker 1: He told me after the game he wanted to get
Speaker 1: the third and twelve. He only got like ten yards.
Speaker 1: But that's set up a field goal in in that case,
Speaker 1: in most games, you're thinking, listen, you gotta score a
Speaker 1: touchdown here. I think Adam Gaze is playing his card
Speaker 1: right there because he knows what he has defensively. We
Speaker 1: get a six point lead here, They're not scoring a
Speaker 1: touchdown on us. I'm betting on my defense. That's why
Speaker 1: that was such a key field goal. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Adam Gates had had a lot of reason to have
Speaker 1: confidence in his defense. You know, Pittsburgh had their third string,
Speaker 1: second string quarterback who weren't having a lot of success. Uh,
Speaker 1: This defense and you, led by Jamal Adams and company
Speaker 1: have been doing a great job all game of setting
Speaker 1: the tone that they eliminated the run game. They were
Speaker 1: eliminating big plays after that first half play, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know they gave him all the reason to be
Speaker 1: confident in what they could do. All right, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna come right back and bringing a Jets center Jonathan Harrison,
Speaker 1: one of Sunday's heroes. And uh, we're also gonna dive
Speaker 1: into the Jets final game of the season. Who would
Speaker 1: have thought that the two thousand nineteen it's already coming
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Speaker 1: the Green and White, but also the team's nominee for
Speaker 1: Walter Payton Man in the Year, Jonathan Hey, Uh, so
Speaker 1: many things to get to, um, but let's start on
Speaker 1: the field. What's spend the difference in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season for this team? I think just um,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone realizing that, you know, most of the
Speaker 1: league was counting us out. So it was like it
Speaker 1: was like a respect thing. It was like a you know,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna quit. We're not just gonna you know,
Speaker 1: fold over. We're gonna keep working, keep burning and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, in the season with some wins and then
Speaker 1: move into the off season on a positive note and
Speaker 1: then build from there. Yeah, there was a lot of
Speaker 1: There are a lot of questions that people ask me,
Speaker 1: like ending the season on a on a good note,
Speaker 1: winning a bunch of games, does that carry over to
Speaker 1: the off season? How how do you feel like that
Speaker 1: will help you guys moving into the off season, Because
Speaker 1: that's a building chemistry, that's building team chemistry, and and
Speaker 1: for the players who are fortunate enough to be on
Speaker 1: the team again next year, you know, that's that's already
Speaker 1: like a step that you've you've eliminated. You already have
Speaker 1: the chemistry. You don't even worry about building that chemistry.
Speaker 1: And um, of course, you know the you know, coaches
Speaker 1: in front office bringing in new pieces to add to
Speaker 1: to what we have going and then that's just how
Speaker 1: a team builds over time. How have you been able
Speaker 1: to sustain or maintain or actually get offensive line chemistry
Speaker 1: ten old line combinations? Jeez, I have not seen a
Speaker 1: year like uh man, I'm gonna I'm gonna say. You know,
Speaker 1: we've been joking around and we've been calling it like
Speaker 1: the you know Year of the Yuck just because it's
Speaker 1: been just like it's been yucky in there, you know,
Speaker 1: that guys getting danged up and in and out the
Speaker 1: lineup and whatever it may be. And like we just
Speaker 1: joke about it, but it just you know, it's actually
Speaker 1: bringing us a lot closer, you know, because guys are
Speaker 1: able to plug into any position and and you know
Speaker 1: without skipping a beat. You know, we can continue on
Speaker 1: without skipping a beat. And and the guys are really
Speaker 1: buying in. You know, no one's being selfish. Everyone's being
Speaker 1: completely selfless and just doing whatever they can to help
Speaker 1: the help the offense and How does that help? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the team moving forward. Everybody's getting experienced. You know, you
Speaker 1: got guys from practice squad, guys who are who are backups,
Speaker 1: getting starting, getting getting major minutes in these games, including defense, offense,
Speaker 1: any position. How does that help you guys moving forward?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it gonna? How does it? How does
Speaker 1: that help jell the team? It just, um, it shows
Speaker 1: that you know, show some of the weapons, you know,
Speaker 1: the hidden gems that we have on the team, and
Speaker 1: that you know, guys performing you know, well late in
Speaker 1: the season. That's just giving coaches something else to look at, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you know this guy's coming out of the show. You
Speaker 1: know this guy, this guy's potential whatever it is. So
Speaker 1: so you know, it's just one of those things. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, guys, guys have really been busting their tail,
Speaker 1: you know, getting after it and and not quitting. You know,
Speaker 1: it's end this season. It's easy. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to playoffs or whatever. It's easy. It's easy just
Speaker 1: to kind of give up and get lazy. But guys
Speaker 1: have really been competing. I mean at practice we're still
Speaker 1: full tilt. It was still full tilt, like we have
Speaker 1: something to prove. So well, how would you describe this
Speaker 1: year for you? Because in the spring, you're thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to be the guy. I'm gonna be the
Speaker 1: starting center of this team. Then the Jets go out
Speaker 1: and sign Ryan Klio on August one, Um, he starts
Speaker 1: the first six or seven games, ends up on I
Speaker 1: R And here you are gonna be in the starting
Speaker 1: lineup Sunday against the Buffalo Bills. And I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna match your career high in terms of starts. This
Speaker 1: is You're gonna be your tenth. I believe so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe so. I really I really try not to
Speaker 1: pay attention to any of that, but um, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been a it's been an emotional roller coaster for sure. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, like like you said, you know entered you know,
Speaker 1: entered spring thinking, you know, hey, you know I have
Speaker 1: a shot this. You know, this can be my job.
Speaker 1: And you know Ryan coming in, you know, Brandon, Ryan
Speaker 1: came in and he was he was super cool, super
Speaker 1: respectful about everything. He's like, man, I know this is awkward,
Speaker 1: but but hey, like let's let's make the best of it.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe I can teach you a thing or
Speaker 1: two or whatever. And we end up becoming really cool
Speaker 1: with each other. So, um, you know, I just took
Speaker 1: that as a as a learning, learning experience, and you know,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, initially I was super frustrated, Like like,
Speaker 1: initially when it happened, I was super frustrated. But then
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't let that, I can't let
Speaker 1: that affect you know, this journey I've been on in
Speaker 1: my career, so you know, it has been the prettiest journey.
Speaker 1: But but but I'm always here to work and given
Speaker 1: my all, and um, I'm pretty sure the guys in
Speaker 1: the locker room know that. So it's truly, is truly
Speaker 1: just a blessing to have this much respect for the
Speaker 1: way that you handled yourself in that situation, because it
Speaker 1: sounds like it's an easy situation, but it's tough because
Speaker 1: everyone you know you, you work hard, you have your pride, uh,
Speaker 1: you know you you put in this work and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, but everything works out in the end. Well,
Speaker 1: there's one word that works the best when describing Jonathan
Speaker 1: Harrison as far as you're NFL career professional, consummate professional,
Speaker 1: always been able to roll with it and come to
Speaker 1: work with the right attitude. You know, no, thank you really. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's not always easy. It's not always easy to
Speaker 1: have my good and bad days and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, you know, you know, many many people,
Speaker 1: whether it's coaches, players, mentors, many people have told me,
Speaker 1: you know, if you get you get overly frustrated with
Speaker 1: the things you can't control, then you can drive yourself
Speaker 1: insane and control what you can control. And there's times,
Speaker 1: you know what, I may you know, deviate from that
Speaker 1: just a little bit, but then I always try to
Speaker 1: bring myself back to that and control what I can control. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: let's get back to Sunday. You know, great winning against
Speaker 1: the Steelers. You guys really came out and took the
Speaker 1: fight to that Steelers defense. Was it were you motivated
Speaker 1: by Levan playing against this old team? Were you motivated
Speaker 1: by feeling disrespected? What was the motivation going into that game?
Speaker 1: You know everyone had their little, you know, different motivation.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, that's Beaches first team, you know, Beach
Speaker 1: them the first team as well, and Levyan with all
Speaker 1: that of course, and everyone had their different motivations. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, for me personally, for me personally, I was
Speaker 1: just like this. You know, this is a team that
Speaker 1: thinks that they're just gonna, you know, come out here
Speaker 1: and get a win. You know, like like I don't
Speaker 1: think many people outside of the building thought we were
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna win that game outside this organization, and
Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. So you know,
Speaker 1: all we can do is go out there and fight
Speaker 1: and and you know it, it was a it was
Speaker 1: a dogfight of a game, dogfight of a game. But
Speaker 1: those are the ones you remember, and those are those
Speaker 1: are satisfying victories right there. Yeah, you mentioned the dogfight
Speaker 1: of a game. Just two d fifty nine yards a
Speaker 1: total offense, I believe for a fifteen on third down.
Speaker 1: But you guys found a way you knew it was
Speaker 1: that you knew it was gonna be that in the
Speaker 1: game because the Pittsburgh Steelers bottom line, we got eight
Speaker 1: victories this year and that defense you got a lead
Speaker 1: players at all. Oh yeah, that defense was was stout.
Speaker 1: That's a very good defensive go against. And uh we
Speaker 1: knew that. We knew that entering the weekend. You know,
Speaker 1: hats off to to all the guys that went out
Speaker 1: there and battled. You know, there's a couple of drives
Speaker 1: that I know we wish we could have finished, but
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the day, and win
Speaker 1: is a win, and sometimes wins are gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: dig scratch claw kind of win, you know, And we
Speaker 1: really fought and it was it was a team effort.
Speaker 1: All three phases performed there and great team win for sure.
Speaker 1: Is there something about playing at home? You know, five
Speaker 1: and three at home? You know, even though there was
Speaker 1: a ton of Steelers fans at that stadium, what is
Speaker 1: it about playing at MetLife Stadium that motivates you as
Speaker 1: a team. Uh, you know, it's just it's your home.
Speaker 1: It's your home crowd. You know. You see Jetman up
Speaker 1: in the stands, you know, getting after it and see
Speaker 1: all the green everywhere. And yes, there were a lot
Speaker 1: of Steelers fans. Our fans are our die hard fans,
Speaker 1: were they and they were showing all the love and support.
Speaker 1: Um DJ was letting the tunes go this time around,
Speaker 1: like you're just letting the music plays. All of us
Speaker 1: were extra hyight before the game, and uh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just something about you know, having some of your friends
Speaker 1: and family there, you knowing that they're they're changing on
Speaker 1: and everything, and that's just what home field advantage is,
Speaker 1: and that's what you know. I'm glad that we were
Speaker 1: able to end, you know, on a on a winning note,
Speaker 1: on a good note, because you want to be able
Speaker 1: to protect your house. You want to have a winning regular. Listen,
Speaker 1: you're talking about four in a row at home, five
Speaker 1: and three overall, like you just mentioned, but five or
Speaker 1: six overall because you lost your first two games. They're
Speaker 1: when you endured so much adversity here earlier this season.
Speaker 1: So what's going on out of the gate man? Because
Speaker 1: I'm almost disappointed if you guys don't scoring that first drive.
Speaker 1: You've had so much success on these first drives this year,
Speaker 1: which is great moving forward when you look ahead and
Speaker 1: beyond and hopefully that takes place in Buffalo, But what
Speaker 1: does that say about the preparation? And then also, why
Speaker 1: have you been able to find an early groove that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen often in the National Football League? You know,
Speaker 1: it's just guys buying into buying into the game plan.
Speaker 1: You know, Um, you know, Gays is like, hey, I
Speaker 1: just trust me, you know, just trust me this week
Speaker 1: and you know I got you just you know he'll
Speaker 1: break it. Down to us why he's doing this, and
Speaker 1: and then it's our job to go out there and execute.
Speaker 1: And then you know, when we go out there as
Speaker 1: an offense and we fire on all cylinders, were able
Speaker 1: to execute, We're able to score on that first drive,
Speaker 1: and I know that as an offense we're trying to
Speaker 1: make that are are like signature almost, you know, like
Speaker 1: we're coming out, we're swinging that that long sustain first
Speaker 1: drive and scoring at the end of it. And it
Speaker 1: was disappointing when we don't get it, but you know,
Speaker 1: all the guys are working their tails off to try
Speaker 1: and make that. So what do you think about that
Speaker 1: replay when you saw it on the board, because obviously
Speaker 1: you're taking care of your blocking responsibilities. But there's Donald
Speaker 1: thrown a rope to Robby Anderson, it goes up and
Speaker 1: gets it, gets his feet down, and then afterwards celebrates
Speaker 1: with a hug with fireman at boy has hands, many
Speaker 1: has hands, and Sam has a hell of a arm.
Speaker 1: And it's ridiculous. I had no clue what was going on,
Speaker 1: like you said, I really didn't. I just heard the
Speaker 1: crowd grow crazy, and I look like when you know
Speaker 1: what's going down down there, so I started jogging down
Speaker 1: see the replay, and then yeah, I just got so excited,
Speaker 1: you know, Robbie with the inspector gadget arms and snagging
Speaker 1: that ball, and you know, that was really exciting. Is
Speaker 1: it always like that for you as offensive lineman? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're handling your responsibility, a play breaks free and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden is a touchdown that most of
Speaker 1: the time do you not know what happened. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of times you have no idea what happened. You know,
Speaker 1: if it's like a big run play, you'll hear the crowd,
Speaker 1: but you're trying to finish your block or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Pass pro you're shielding your guy off and you just
Speaker 1: go off the crowd. Like every once in a while
Speaker 1: you catch a touchdown, like you actually see it every
Speaker 1: once in a while, but a lot of times, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I never thought about it from that perspective. Do you think,
Speaker 1: first off, this is your six year in the league
Speaker 1: by so fast? Yeah, don't remind me. That's great getting
Speaker 1: paychecked for six years now but undrafted on the University
Speaker 1: of Florida. Three years with the Colts, now three years
Speaker 1: with the Jets. Already why are we seeing the best
Speaker 1: Jonathan Harrison right now? Because if you watch your play, Um,
Speaker 1: I know people are talking about and Joe Douglas is
Speaker 1: definitely gonna dress off. It's a line in the off season.
Speaker 1: You know that. With that being said, you are putting
Speaker 1: your best foot forward right now at that center position.
Speaker 1: That's all I can do. That's all I can do.
Speaker 1: You know, I was giving an opportunity and and you know,
Speaker 1: I just have to make the best of it. And
Speaker 1: you know, I just always told myself, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: next time I get that opportunity, like really try and
Speaker 1: take advantage of it. And there's been times in my
Speaker 1: career where you know, I didn't take full advantage of it,
Speaker 1: and of course I regret that. But what you know,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't focus on that. Can only just
Speaker 1: focus on the next you know, the next day. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a health of an opportunity and
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give them all each time, and you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully it pays off in the long run. But how
Speaker 1: different are you in terms of even maybe stepping into
Speaker 1: the door at one jets Drive a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago in terms of what you brought to the game
Speaker 1: as far as being a technician and also that athleticism
Speaker 1: and the nastiness and you put it all together. You know,
Speaker 1: that's just that's just you know, Um, the best way
Speaker 1: to explained, that's just that you know the style of play.
Speaker 1: You know that that that I that I offer and
Speaker 1: you know, um, if you need something more athletic, I
Speaker 1: got that. Um. You know, I may seem a little
Speaker 1: bit smaller than typical linement, by makeup for it in
Speaker 1: strength and and you know I'm scrappy. You know I'm
Speaker 1: willing to get after a little bit like that. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, never perfect, nobody's ever perfect. I'm not perfect.
Speaker 1: But but I work, you know, work, and I love
Speaker 1: to compete. That's one thing I love to compete. And
Speaker 1: that's one thing about that room. All the guys in
Speaker 1: there love to compete and and has brought us that
Speaker 1: much closer. So do you like it that your general
Speaker 1: manager is a former offensive lineman, Joe Douglas? And when
Speaker 1: you have conversations with them, what what it's been? What
Speaker 1: has it been like? Because the other thing that I
Speaker 1: appreciate about Joe is he said he talked to you
Speaker 1: when they were gonna sign Khalil, so he didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that, but that speaks to who he is.
Speaker 1: But also he's a always raved about you as well.
Speaker 1: So what's it like having a GM with a former
Speaker 1: offensive lineman who knows the position because again, not a
Speaker 1: lot of gms and that in the NFL, we're offensive line. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's great because you know you just naturally have that
Speaker 1: that kind of connection with him being a former offensive
Speaker 1: linement because they always say in the locker room offensive
Speaker 1: line or a different breed, completely different breed, and we're
Speaker 1: like a pack. You know, we always rolled together. But
Speaker 1: you know it's great. You know it's great because communication wise,
Speaker 1: he understands it's easier to communicate with him, and uh,
Speaker 1: and he can see what like you know, a statue sheet,
Speaker 1: you know can't see. You know, he's able to look
Speaker 1: at this play and be like, all right, well you know, X,
Speaker 1: Y and Z aren't matching up. You know, Okay, his
Speaker 1: hands might not be you forty or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: but you got another segment. I can do a little bit,
Speaker 1: I can do a little bit. Okay, great, Uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come right back with some more. Jonathan Harrison on
Speaker 1: ESPN New York, third and ten at the Jet forty
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Speaker 1: Park Hotel. Jonathan Harrison, who was so good we kept
Speaker 1: him on for another segment. Jets nominee for Walter Peyton
Speaker 1: Man of the Year. Uh, you have tackled the only
Speaker 1: in crisis had on congratulations on honor and why and
Speaker 1: we talked about it multiple times before. But for people
Speaker 1: listening on ESPN New York or watching New York Touch
Speaker 1: dot com or the Jets app. Right now, why was
Speaker 1: this so important to you? And what has your interaction
Speaker 1: been like with kids continually during these school visits. You know,
Speaker 1: this is it's really important to me because growing up,
Speaker 1: I was you know, I was bullied. I was bully
Speaker 1: growing up, and it wasn't fun. It wasn't fun. And
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, the more I can endure, eventually
Speaker 1: everyone would like become my friends all that stuff, and
Speaker 1: then it ends up just you know, you know, having
Speaker 1: to suffer through that for for many crucial years of
Speaker 1: you know, my my own breaking. So you know, you know,
Speaker 1: being able to play football has kind of been an outlet.
Speaker 1: You know. I joke around saying, no, I'm able to
Speaker 1: like legally bully people on the field. And and you know,
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I was giving an opportunity
Speaker 1: to you know, kind of share my story, share a
Speaker 1: part of my story with a local school, and um,
Speaker 1: I did it. In the first time, I was super
Speaker 1: nervous doing it, but afterwards I was like, man, like,
Speaker 1: I need to do this again, you know, like I
Speaker 1: need to it more involved. And that's kind of how
Speaker 1: like my you know, involvement was not about bullying, uh
Speaker 1: kicked off and uh, you know, every every couple of
Speaker 1: weeks or so, uh, you know, I may go to
Speaker 1: a school and and I talk to you know, do
Speaker 1: like an assembly, talk to a couple of hundred kids
Speaker 1: and telling my story and kind of share ways that
Speaker 1: they can help look out for their friends or if
Speaker 1: they're being bullied, the way the way that they can
Speaker 1: address it and um. And then every once in a while,
Speaker 1: there might be like a student that you know, a teacher,
Speaker 1: the guyan's counselor may feel you know, could use a
Speaker 1: little special extra attention. And then we'll try to to
Speaker 1: meet with that that student, bring him his favorite lunch,
Speaker 1: you know, and have lunch with him, and you know,
Speaker 1: just or him or her sorry, and you know, just
Speaker 1: spend time with them and kind of make them feel
Speaker 1: special and give them something to build a little confidence
Speaker 1: that they can talk about with their peers and and
Speaker 1: you know hopefully that would like lessen you know, the
Speaker 1: stuff that they're going through and you just kind of
Speaker 1: put smile on their face. So so when people think
Speaker 1: about kids getting bullied, they don't They look at you
Speaker 1: and they're like, man, you're the biggest man I've probably
Speaker 1: ever seen. What is it like getting bullied? I understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't matter how big you are. You know,
Speaker 1: how do you how do you without diving too deep
Speaker 1: into your story, what was your experience like getting bullied?
Speaker 1: I was just you know, I was different. I didn't
Speaker 1: really fit in, you know, I was bigger than everyone
Speaker 1: and I was in like a real small country town
Speaker 1: growing up. So it was just I was different, and
Speaker 1: uh and you know, people thought it was funny and
Speaker 1: I was I was an easy target, you know, and
Speaker 1: then I wasn't. I wasn't violent, trying not to fight
Speaker 1: back or anything like that. And you know, my mom
Speaker 1: was like, no, you know, we don't promote violence in
Speaker 1: the household, and just made me for an easy target.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I was just one of those things,
Speaker 1: one of those things that that you know, I thought
Speaker 1: would never end, but of course eventually ended. And now
Speaker 1: that I look back, you know, it's terrible that that,
Speaker 1: you know, I actually went through all that, And how
Speaker 1: were you able to live with that? Maybe in a
Speaker 1: positive manner, where Damn, I'm going through some things right now,
Speaker 1: But this is how I'm gonna overcome it when you
Speaker 1: were going to high school, when you were in grade school,
Speaker 1: when you were in middle school. So what what do
Speaker 1: you tell the kids today? I tell them that, you know,
Speaker 1: this is only temporary and it will end. You know,
Speaker 1: the people are doing that just aren't aren't nice people?
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's not cool. Everyone in the world's
Speaker 1: entitled to do what they do as they please as
Speaker 1: long as it's not offending anybody else. And and you
Speaker 1: know everyone, everyone has the right to their opinion and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But it's yeah, it's only it's only temporary.
Speaker 1: It's only temporary. And and just know that one day
Speaker 1: you'll look back and you'll kind of chuckle at it.
Speaker 1: To east point. Does it help the kids, you think, Jonathan,
Speaker 1: that they can look at you and say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: if this guy was bothered, now he's in the national
Speaker 1: football I know I'm gonna be all right. Oh no,
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. And and I also like, like,
Speaker 1: I try not to use the whole, you know, football thing,
Speaker 1: just because they're like, not everyone is, you know, whatever
Speaker 1: three pounds, you know, So I'm just like, whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you enjoy, whatever it is that that's
Speaker 1: your forte just be fully confident in that. So you
Speaker 1: may be a musician, you know, you know, go be
Speaker 1: go be an amazing guitarist you know, or a pianist,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, and make that your confidence so
Speaker 1: whenever whenever anyone has something negative to say about you,
Speaker 1: like hey, look, can you can you play this song
Speaker 1: you know on piano whatever it may be, And and
Speaker 1: just find find that inner confidence through something that you're
Speaker 1: good at. I mean, I commend you on what you've done.
Speaker 1: And I especially especially think it's cool that you know,
Speaker 1: as an NFL player, you go back because kids, you know,
Speaker 1: the teachers, the parents that can tell them whatever they want.
Speaker 1: When the NFL player walks in, I'm sure you have
Speaker 1: everyone's attention when you walk. What do you think about
Speaker 1: social media? Social media, that's that's one of the that's
Speaker 1: the biggest outlet to bullying right now. It's every bullying.
Speaker 1: And I can't imagine going to school with social media. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I got a couple of years after say I'm gonna say, like,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm younger than YouTube, but I didn't even
Speaker 1: have social media growing up. That's the thing, Like, I
Speaker 1: I don't get like my Space until those I think
Speaker 1: like the in the high school is when my Space
Speaker 1: started become the thing. So growing up elementary, middle school,
Speaker 1: like all these kids have Instagrams, now, all of them
Speaker 1: have Twitters. Now they can see whatever they need to
Speaker 1: on social media. Like there's no restricting what they can
Speaker 1: explore and see on social media. So there's so much
Speaker 1: more access and then there's so much more opportunity for
Speaker 1: people to to reach out and say what they want
Speaker 1: or comment how they want from you know, from the
Speaker 1: safety of their home. You know, they're they're they're behind
Speaker 1: the keyboard, they're on their phone, laying in bed, like
Speaker 1: making someone feel terrible about themselves. And that's that's miserable
Speaker 1: that people have to endure that nowadays, it truly is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get into this world to suck. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know how to best explain it, but people get
Speaker 1: so negative sometimes and you gotta do your best to
Speaker 1: avoid that because the bottom line is and that can happen,
Speaker 1: can infiltrate kids, schools and things like that. And we
Speaker 1: see that social media where I say it is allowed
Speaker 1: minority because sometimes you question what's happening with the world
Speaker 1: right now, and then you have to you you got
Speaker 1: to take into account. Okay, not everybody is like this.
Speaker 1: This is this is allowed minority and we need more
Speaker 1: positive people. Yes you have. You guys, come up with
Speaker 1: any kind of solution for uh dealing with social media
Speaker 1: as a young kid. Is it to stay often into
Speaker 1: your a certain age? You know what are you know?
Speaker 1: I have young kids, so social media scares the heck
Speaker 1: out of me having my my eleven year old have
Speaker 1: to face those problems. What is the best kind of
Speaker 1: situation for it for a young kid is honestly just
Speaker 1: there's so much access, So like trying to say no,
Speaker 1: you can't get on social media is almost worse because
Speaker 1: all of your kids peers are gonna be on social media.
Speaker 1: But the best thing you can do is just explain
Speaker 1: to them like, hey, look this, this and this may happen.
Speaker 1: You know, someone may reach out or all make comment
Speaker 1: on your pictures, say something you don't like. Just know
Speaker 1: that that's them being mean and you have to ignore that,
Speaker 1: deleteed block that person, and move on. Like it's it's
Speaker 1: easier said than done, and it makes people feel bad
Speaker 1: about themselves. But at the end of the day, you
Speaker 1: know you're always going to have a critic so that's
Speaker 1: all you can do and just keep moving on and
Speaker 1: know that, like if this person isn't of any importance
Speaker 1: to you, just let it go and look at you now.
Speaker 1: The Jets nominee for Walter Payton Man and the Year,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Harrison, well deserved. I gotta ask you about your quarterback?
Speaker 1: Well about him? What about him? So Jets fans getting
Speaker 1: excited starting to think about long term. He's twenty two,
Speaker 1: he's got he's got a great relationship with the center.
Speaker 1: Uh what have you seen from him in terms or progress?
Speaker 1: And why is he the guy's going to take this
Speaker 1: team and promised land week to week you just see
Speaker 1: you see growth, You see growth, and and he's a
Speaker 1: he's a natural competitor, natural competitor, and quarterback is easy
Speaker 1: to him, you know. And and you know, transitioning from
Speaker 1: college to the NFL, of course of speed is gonna
Speaker 1: be different. That takes a little time to adjust. And
Speaker 1: then once he figured that out, then he started taking
Speaker 1: your next steps and you know, becoming you know, you know,
Speaker 1: a better quarterback, to to becoming more and more productive
Speaker 1: you know, in the backfield. And it's just impressive, you know,
Speaker 1: it's impressive. The work he puts into it, the the
Speaker 1: extra time he puts into it, and he can tell
Speaker 1: that he wants it. How how good is he with
Speaker 1: you guys in the room, because I think he's got
Speaker 1: natural leadership ability. No, definitely, definitely, he's great with us
Speaker 1: in the room. And and the thing is that we
Speaker 1: have is is we're able to you know, we're able
Speaker 1: to have a conversation about it. Like he won't ever
Speaker 1: come in the room and be like, hey, you guys
Speaker 1: are doing X, Y and Z. You know, Like no,
Speaker 1: he's like, hey, what what do you guys think about this?
Speaker 1: Like how can we address this? Or you know what
Speaker 1: calls me make for this will come to like a
Speaker 1: group you know, you know, consensus and go from there.
Speaker 1: So that's how you know, that's how you know a
Speaker 1: wealth functioning offense works. You know, it's communication rather than
Speaker 1: just commands. And so what is it like with with
Speaker 1: coach Gays? You know, obviously he's calling the plays on offense,
Speaker 1: he's a big part of the game planning and everything
Speaker 1: like that. And obviously he and Sam have a great relationship.
Speaker 1: What does that relationship like with you as the offensive lineman? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's great, it's great. You know between gays, you know,
Speaker 1: Sam and the offensive line. You know, all of us
Speaker 1: communicate all the time. Um Gates will always check with us,
Speaker 1: you know, check with us. He'll check with uh, with
Speaker 1: beach of our captain and he's like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about this game plan? He's like,
Speaker 1: you know, what what do you think about you know
Speaker 1: this runner? You know whatever, Like well, you know if
Speaker 1: we get in this formation that we don't like it, Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's switch it up, you know. And and it's just
Speaker 1: real open open communication, very open communication. And then it's
Speaker 1: great ways. It makes for a great work atmosphere and
Speaker 1: you can tell, like later on like we've trying of
Speaker 1: gotten in this flow, you know and winning some ballgames.
Speaker 1: And that's all because of this open communication. That's that's
Speaker 1: always been you know, as a player. For me, it's
Speaker 1: always been great to to play for a coach that
Speaker 1: understands and will take your input, you know, as a player,
Speaker 1: because you play for some coaches where we're gonna do
Speaker 1: it like this and this is how it's done. And
Speaker 1: then you're out there you're getting beat and you're like, coach,
Speaker 1: we need to adjust this, and they don't want to
Speaker 1: hear it, and it doesn't lead to a lot of
Speaker 1: success or confidence in It's great to hear that Adam
Speaker 1: Gateses is listening and taking your input as a player.
Speaker 1: What do you finally, what do you think about this
Speaker 1: matchup this weekend? He started the year out against the
Speaker 1: Bills and now you're ending the year against Buffalo and
Speaker 1: Western New York. They're locked into the number five seed.
Speaker 1: Who knows who's playing because they got to look ahead
Speaker 1: to the following week. But this game means a lot
Speaker 1: to you guys, right, definitely means a lot to us. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, despite you know the circumstance of our season. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it is still a divisional opponent, and um,
Speaker 1: you know it is Buffalo. You know, these are guys
Speaker 1: that we see twice a year. So it's our last game,
Speaker 1: it's Buffalo. Let's you know, it's end it with the bang,
Speaker 1: sending with the bang, and you know, we know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, tough conditions. We're we're up in
Speaker 1: their territory and a lot colder than down here. And hey,
Speaker 1: all we can do is you'll strap up and go
Speaker 1: out there and go go battle. A great job by
Speaker 1: you tonight on for a couple of segments. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's what we expect from Florida Gator around here.
Speaker 1: It's always great to get oats. That's right, Jonathan, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for stopping by. Good luck this weekend,
Speaker 1: and we'll be talking you soon. We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Uh E great to hear from Jonathan Harrison. Here's a
Speaker 1: guy kept his hat up. Joe Douglas signed Ryan Khalil
Speaker 1: in August August first, I believe, and Harrison could have
Speaker 1: put his head down, said that was my chance, man.
Speaker 1: I could have been the starter, uh to open the season.
Speaker 1: But he kept that head up, kept grinding. Khalil went
Speaker 1: out unfortunately, and Harrison has picked up. And I think
Speaker 1: he's done a fine job at the center position. I
Speaker 1: know everybody talking about Joe Douglas, he's got to improve
Speaker 1: the offensive line position. He's going to improve the offensive
Speaker 1: line position, that's not even a question. But I think
Speaker 1: Harrison has really taken advantage of his opportunity. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean you talked about earlier and you said one word
Speaker 1: and professional. You know, he really has handled his business.
Speaker 1: He came into this this this season as a starter,
Speaker 1: and then they signed Ryan Khalil. He's a backup now.
Speaker 1: But then obviously he got that opportunity and he was
Speaker 1: ready for it. You know, he stayed ready so he
Speaker 1: didn't have to get ready. And he's done a great
Speaker 1: job of leading an offensive line that they've had a
Speaker 1: terrific run at the end of the season, and I
Speaker 1: think he's really making a statement and letting these coaches
Speaker 1: know that I am your center for the future and
Speaker 1: not the biggest guy. And he's talked about it before,
Speaker 1: but he'll get nasty. He's also athletic. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is he's got a very good relationship with the quarterback,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. A lot of respect on both ends there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's very important for them to have that relationship,
Speaker 1: that trust, that chemistry between the center and the and
Speaker 1: the quarterback. They touched the ball every single play and
Speaker 1: they need to be on the same page. So it's
Speaker 1: important that they grow together. And I think that he's
Speaker 1: a guy that that can be around here for a
Speaker 1: very long time. Okay, So Jamal Adams got uh nominated
Speaker 1: or sent to is uh second Pro Bowl last week.
Speaker 1: We found that out of course, and he came back
Speaker 1: into the lineup after two games off, played very well
Speaker 1: at the tackles couple stops behind the line. After the
Speaker 1: Jets took down the Pittsburgh Steelers, he said, we're not
Speaker 1: that far away. Sam Donald said, I think we're not
Speaker 1: too far away. Leavan Bell added, it's going to take
Speaker 1: time to get the ships selling in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Now we're starting to see the ship turn a little
Speaker 1: bit your thoughts. I agree with them. You know that
Speaker 1: they're not far away. They're they're getting things pointed in
Speaker 1: the right direction. And yes, it did take a little
Speaker 1: longer than we wanted to, but if you look at it,
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets are in a position to win
Speaker 1: seven games at the end of this season. At the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, we talked about this, how many
Speaker 1: games do you expected Jets to win? It was six,
Speaker 1: seven games and if they can steal one and probably
Speaker 1: eight and that's just being realistic, is not being said.
Speaker 1: I sat in between seven and ten. I thought, okay, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean I expected, you know, seven wins, seven eight wins.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what I expected from this team. But
Speaker 1: with it being a new coaching staff, young quarterback, young team.
Speaker 1: But with all the injuries being you know that that
Speaker 1: occurred to this team, it's amazing that they fought through
Speaker 1: and played so well at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: And they really do have a lot to learn, achieve
Speaker 1: me a lot to build off of going into the
Speaker 1: off season. How much, if any carry over is there,
Speaker 1: You're gonna finish strong to this year no matter what
Speaker 1: happens in Buffalo. Let's say, even if you lose the game,
Speaker 1: you're five and three in the season second half. Henry
Speaker 1: Anderson said it today that listen, I think I don't
Speaker 1: know how much you can carry over, but you want
Speaker 1: to have momentum, positive feeling of positivity headed into the
Speaker 1: off season. Yeah. I mean it's different when you're just
Speaker 1: a losing team and you go into the off season
Speaker 1: and you know, you come back from offseason workouts and
Speaker 1: you're like, man, what is it gonna be? Like? Are
Speaker 1: they gonna crush us? But it's different when you're winning.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're in the season on a high note.
Speaker 1: You know, six seven wins, that's nothing that that's not
Speaker 1: anything to push over. And the NFL, everyone's confident. They
Speaker 1: come into the season under coming too the off season
Speaker 1: understanding that we're gonna put in some work. We were
Speaker 1: a couple of plays away from being a successful playoff
Speaker 1: team and then that's all gonna take. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: discuss this next week here on inside the Jets. But
Speaker 1: I know fans are gonna be looking at it. I
Speaker 1: just wrote this down as you're talking. Cincinnati Miami Jacksonville
Speaker 1: sixteen point lead over the Buffalo Bills Week one, So
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna be at that end of the season.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan, you're looking back at those games
Speaker 1: and say, man, if we had to do over because
Speaker 1: because the Jets are a better team than Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: and they are a better team than Miami Dolphins, they
Speaker 1: are a better team than the Jacksonville Jaguars at this point.
Speaker 1: It just they had to go through a lot of
Speaker 1: bumps early this season. Yeah, I mean, that's part of maturing.
Speaker 1: That's a part that's part of maturing as a as
Speaker 1: a program. You know, they're gonna be games that you
Speaker 1: should win, that you that you leave out there. But
Speaker 1: when you're a successful team, when you understand that, when
Speaker 1: you have a veteran presence, you win those games. And
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you have ten wins at
Speaker 1: the end of the year. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: step that they're gonna take next year. They got a
Speaker 1: lot of young guys who gained a ton of experience
Speaker 1: out there on the field, and you have a lot
Speaker 1: to depth. Uh, you know, some some players who they
Speaker 1: didn't really expect to blossom really got the opportunity this
Speaker 1: year and did And we're gonna make a big impact
Speaker 1: next year when all these guys are helping. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch Joe Douglas attacked offseason because I
Speaker 1: don't expect him necessarily to go out there and sign
Speaker 1: the number one free agent on the market. I think
Speaker 1: that he is going to attack this with a calculated approach.
Speaker 1: He's got hot spend some money. But they're gonna try
Speaker 1: to build this thing through the draft and you have
Speaker 1: to plug multiple holes where maybe in the past the
Speaker 1: Jets were going at the top of the top and
Speaker 1: maybe that there's different philosophies as far as building a roster. So, uh,
Speaker 1: we can get into all that next week. But about
Speaker 1: forty seconds left, Jets Bills, what do you expect from
Speaker 1: Buffalo and how does that into um, how does that
Speaker 1: impact your operation here for the Jets? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think if you're the Jets, you're you're always just
Speaker 1: concerned about yourself. You're worried about your game plan, the
Speaker 1: way that you come out here and set the tone,
Speaker 1: and I don't think that they will play a lot
Speaker 1: of their starters. I think the Jets have a great
Speaker 1: opportunity to in the season on a positive note and
Speaker 1: to beat a division opponent. Well, said thanks so much
Speaker 1: to Justin for helping us out. Kayrie back in the studio.
Speaker 1: H Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays. Remember Inside the Jets season
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