Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away,
Speaker 1: Thanks Fitz. Well, the mad Backer is here in studio,
Speaker 1: Bart Scott. How are you today, sir? I'm good. Can
Speaker 1: I say thanks Fits to thanks Fits? Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: of course you can. Thanks Fitz for great performers last week.
Speaker 1: Let's get it done. AFC Offensive Player of the Week, Bart, see,
Speaker 1: now you can't shave the beard because now I was lucky.
Speaker 1: Have you? How many honors did you get from the
Speaker 1: league as far as AFLFC Defensive Player of the Weeks?
Speaker 1: Did you ever get one? I'm sure me, I'm sure
Speaker 1: I did. I just never. I don't. I don't track
Speaker 1: stuff like that. That stuff never like I never cared
Speaker 1: about stuff like that. All right, So the Jets this
Speaker 1: week going to Kansas City, how much with an environment
Speaker 1: in Buffalo that they faced on Thursday Night football help
Speaker 1: them in week three? Because guys, to a man like
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, Nick Mangold, I was talking to Brian Winners
Speaker 1: about it. I said it was in the loudest environments
Speaker 1: they've ever done it. Well there arguably going to the
Speaker 1: loudest stadium in the in the NFL. Arrowhead talk about
Speaker 1: the outdoor stadium that has indoor stadium noise. I think
Speaker 1: they tracked this. That's the loudest stateium in the NFL.
Speaker 1: A lot of people give credit to to Seattle Arrowheads
Speaker 1: the loudest place to play in the NFL. Did you
Speaker 1: like playing in there as a visitor? It was crazy,
Speaker 1: as you know, as unique because they still have a band.
Speaker 1: They have a live band playing under there, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know they get they get excited about about their sports.
Speaker 1: That that is a tremendous It's almost like a college atmosphere.
Speaker 1: And I know we said that about Buffalo, but you
Speaker 1: know this is a larger stadium as well, and the
Speaker 1: construction of it, it seems like they're right on top
Speaker 1: of you. I'm jealous of you guys though, because you've
Speaker 1: got a chance to play in the field. I'm in
Speaker 1: the press box, which is a separate structure, man, And
Speaker 1: that's the closest that's the closest to having our I'll
Speaker 1: ever be. It's way up there in the sky that sture. Man.
Speaker 1: You should mix it, miss anything. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: the night before what you wanna do? You want to
Speaker 1: go down there. You want to find you a nice
Speaker 1: dry rub barbecue spot. You want to enjoy yourself. Make
Speaker 1: sure you don't eat too much because it's instant nap
Speaker 1: after you eat some of that good barbecue spots in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. You know what, I can't I just left
Speaker 1: there because I did a financial literacy program for the
Speaker 1: University of Kansas UM. But I can't remember the name
Speaker 1: of the place. It's a lot of places you can
Speaker 1: go to, so many holes in the walls there. Man,
Speaker 1: it don't matter what's your favorite Kansas City barbecue, though,
Speaker 1: what do you order? It's weird, man. I like the
Speaker 1: dry rub, I like the I like the the pork shoulder,
Speaker 1: the pork tips. You know. They it's like, man, they
Speaker 1: slow roast that stuff. Man, they smoked that stuff for
Speaker 1: like seemed like days. You know, most people they're going,
Speaker 1: they're smoking in the restaurant. They're smoking the inside of
Speaker 1: a a machine, a smoker that looks like a grill,
Speaker 1: but it's not really. They got these outside. They got
Speaker 1: these outside the old barrel drum. Somebody cut a canister
Speaker 1: open and half put two hinges on the back and
Speaker 1: they smoked that thing about fourteen hours. For those Okay,
Speaker 1: Saturday night, I'm definitely gonna get some barbecue and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you about it next week. You've faced Andy Reid
Speaker 1: offenses before, Andy Reid let offenses before. What are the
Speaker 1: Jets have in store for them this week? Well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be physical. They're gonna have to find
Speaker 1: a way to match up with Travis Kelsey. He's a
Speaker 1: matchup nightmare. This will be the first time where the
Speaker 1: heavy lifting is going to be on the safeties in
Speaker 1: the passing game. You know, before we were talking about
Speaker 1: all these receivers and outside threats, you know, a j
Speaker 1: green Um. Last week we were talking we're talking about
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. This week we're talking about Travis Kelsey. They
Speaker 1: do a great job and moving them around. So it's
Speaker 1: tough because they'll be able to identify whether this man
Speaker 1: or zone because they sent him in motion and if
Speaker 1: somebody goes with them, then they know it's man to man.
Speaker 1: And Alex Smith is gonna look for him. You know,
Speaker 1: he's one of these guys that are able to take
Speaker 1: a short pass and and and go long distances. He's
Speaker 1: an athletic tight end. He doesn't want to get involved
Speaker 1: in the path in the in the run game. You know,
Speaker 1: unless he's matched up against uh A safety, he'll he'll
Speaker 1: he'll in space out there, but he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: come to the box and have anything to deal with
Speaker 1: any d n s or outside linebackers. So do you
Speaker 1: think the Jets and evitably gonna be in situations where
Speaker 1: they'll be doubling him, or you play more zone. I
Speaker 1: would bracket him, bracket him, but you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: you you can't sleep on macklin Man. He's sneaky fast
Speaker 1: and he's he's a big play receiver, and so you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to switch up your your your matchups. Um,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to make sure that you you know,
Speaker 1: disguise your coverages and mix them up. You can't get
Speaker 1: into a rhythm. Andy Reid is a West Coast Traditionally
Speaker 1: West Coast offense mean that a lot of horozontal things,
Speaker 1: a lot of routes coming to Alex Smith's face. But
Speaker 1: what happens that you're gonna have to make a one
Speaker 1: dimensional because Sharkndrick West and Spencer wear has filled in,
Speaker 1: you know, great for he might be back this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know that's a three headed monster. So if
Speaker 1: they want to take the out of the game, the
Speaker 1: the you know, the air out of the time out
Speaker 1: of game and time possession and slow the game down
Speaker 1: and limit the possessions, they may get a heavy dose.
Speaker 1: So the three headed monster. You much in time of possession?
Speaker 1: How much do you put into a stat like that,
Speaker 1: because I believe the Jets so far early in the
Speaker 1: season or averaging thirty seven minutes or so with the
Speaker 1: ball with time time possession is important because if it
Speaker 1: freshens your defense up. But also what's important is you
Speaker 1: got to have time of possession and you have to
Speaker 1: get touchdowns not field goals because you gotta have time
Speaker 1: of possession. Had a ball for eight minutes and kick
Speaker 1: a field goal, somebody come down to score play like
Speaker 1: last week, you know they had with the long with
Speaker 1: the long play, um good. You know that can nullify
Speaker 1: a long drive that didn't end, you know, with a
Speaker 1: touchdown hitting pay dirt. You talked about Kelsey, You talked
Speaker 1: about Macklin the Jets so far, Todd Bowls has talked
Speaker 1: about it. He thinks there's spend, miscommunications in the secondary
Speaker 1: and a couple of coverage bus A lot of folks
Speaker 1: at home are concerned right now and say, hey, the
Speaker 1: secondary is giving up five plays of forty plus yards
Speaker 1: in two weeks, how will this change? Well, in until
Speaker 1: you fix it is gonna continue to happen, and teams
Speaker 1: are can continue to design routes to make You have
Speaker 1: to communicate post snap, you know, which is which is
Speaker 1: hard because you know you have to be on the
Speaker 1: same wave link and you have to discuss this stuff
Speaker 1: during the week, and you have to be put in
Speaker 1: the worst case scenario to be able to communicate on
Speaker 1: the fly. And what's important is non verbal communication hand flashes,
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna be able to hear everything. But
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times teams are putting guys
Speaker 1: and and cut splits, meaning that all four the the
Speaker 1: secondary has to communicate and not just one half. Usually
Speaker 1: when teams are spread out, you know, it's safety talking
Speaker 1: to a corner, But when they're going to cut splits
Speaker 1: and they're crossing people, which you know Alex Smith and
Speaker 1: the horizontal passing game of the Kansas City Chiefs like
Speaker 1: to do. You're gonna have to discuss these routes during
Speaker 1: the week, and you're gonna have to discuss these routes
Speaker 1: as you see the game plan as it develops in
Speaker 1: front of you eyes. You're gonna have to be able
Speaker 1: to make in game adjustments. How much do they challenge
Speaker 1: you or put stress on you by what they do
Speaker 1: pre snap? Because I don't see Snetti was one of
Speaker 1: those teams where the guys said, hey, listen, they throw
Speaker 1: a lot of different stuff at you. How about and
Speaker 1: he read any any read, he he'll shift change formation,
Speaker 1: he'll shift her motion. Um, you know he he he
Speaker 1: has a lot of familiarity. You know, with these type
Speaker 1: of defenses, you know, aggressive defenses, You're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of quick screens. Remember when he was in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: You got a lot of screens because they know that
Speaker 1: they can't block, you know, this front of the Jets
Speaker 1: man on man, So instead of leaving the running back in,
Speaker 1: they're gonna release him and force you know, somebody to
Speaker 1: make a tackle in space. With that being said, Darren
Speaker 1: Lye uh rookie linebackers getting his feet what in the
Speaker 1: National Football League tied for the team lead with twelve tackles.
Speaker 1: He got in and on that fourth down stop the
Speaker 1: Sheeney McCoy on that tackle with the Sheldon Richardson, if
Speaker 1: you'll like what you've seen so far unlimited action. Yeah,
Speaker 1: right now he's playing, he's playing with instincts. They're putting
Speaker 1: him in in situations where he can flourish. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to put too much on young player's play.
Speaker 1: You want to develop him so when you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, you know, you get down later in the year,
Speaker 1: you he has more experience because he's gonna have his
Speaker 1: ups and downs. He's going to have bad eyes on
Speaker 1: certain things. And the reason veterans are veterans not because
Speaker 1: they don't make mistakes, because they've made every mistake and
Speaker 1: they've learned from him. And you know, he's had success
Speaker 1: here and it's it's important for him to remain humble,
Speaker 1: make sure that he continues to work, make sure that
Speaker 1: he leans on the guys in that room so that
Speaker 1: he can, you know, learn from other people's mistakes so
Speaker 1: he doesn't have to make his many mistakes on the field.
Speaker 1: Let's make those mistakes and practice. Let's make those mistakes
Speaker 1: and warm ups and let's get them corrected. What does
Speaker 1: this mean to you when Todd Bowl says he has
Speaker 1: to learn to pull the trigger quicker where right now
Speaker 1: mentally is making some mistakes physically, study's give him fine
Speaker 1: effort and he's playing fast and not playing fast, but
Speaker 1: you're playing with speed and athleticism where maybe he's early
Speaker 1: in his career right now, and you can see it
Speaker 1: as a coach, he's playing, he's playing on instincts and
Speaker 1: right now he's not. The game hasn't slowed down for
Speaker 1: it yet, and sometimes it takes years for the game
Speaker 1: and to slow down for players, and sometimes you know
Speaker 1: you want to. You see something, you pull the trigger.
Speaker 1: But you've got to understand the concept that we're teaching.
Speaker 1: If your backside, you have to stay backside, you have
Speaker 1: to stay patient, you have to show patients. And that's
Speaker 1: that's tough because you want to go a hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour. But just like we talked about Matt Forte
Speaker 1: having patients to the whole speed through it. When you
Speaker 1: see it, you pull the trigger. This has to be instant,
Speaker 1: but you have to make sure that your patient until
Speaker 1: it's time to pull the trigger. You know, it's just
Speaker 1: like young running backs as fast and you see him
Speaker 1: running up the backs of their offensive lineman and they're
Speaker 1: not letting the play developed well. On the same side
Speaker 1: as a linebacker, the play has to develop and it
Speaker 1: has to define themselves. If you just take off and
Speaker 1: somebody cuts back, they're reading you as well. Just like
Speaker 1: we talked about Matt Forte, you're setting up that block,
Speaker 1: setting up the linebacker. He's seen him there and he
Speaker 1: pressed the hole to make him step up. When he
Speaker 1: stepped up, he cut back. Well, a lot of the
Speaker 1: running backs are gonna do the same thing to him.
Speaker 1: They're reading him. He's their key, he's their indicator. And
Speaker 1: what happens is he has to understand the decent the defense,
Speaker 1: understand where they're weak and where they're strong, and where
Speaker 1: he can pull the trigger because he's covered up, and
Speaker 1: when he can take chances when he can't take calculated chances.
Speaker 1: You love the match up on the other side of
Speaker 1: the Paul, You've been talking about it with me since
Speaker 1: last week. Center Nick Mangold for the Jets against Don
Speaker 1: Tari Pope. What it's like sumo wrestling right here? Man?
Speaker 1: What makes this guy stand out here? Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: he ran like a four or five coming out. He's
Speaker 1: very athletic. He's short, just like well Mangoes not short,
Speaker 1: but you know, they're both about the same height. You know,
Speaker 1: they're both about the same size. You know, Post probably
Speaker 1: a little heavy. I think he's like three forty. He
Speaker 1: has a lot of will you talk about a guy
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that had ten sacks from
Speaker 1: the nose guard position, But then you're talking about you know,
Speaker 1: arguably I believe right now, borderline Hall of Fame player
Speaker 1: and Nick Mango, you know who just he has a
Speaker 1: knack for being able to neutralize to other teams. You know,
Speaker 1: good nose guard, a great nose guard because of his
Speaker 1: hand placement, his his his his football acumen, his ability
Speaker 1: to anchor, and his ability to outsmart the opponent. You know,
Speaker 1: he's just smart. Man Like I just enjoy the matchup
Speaker 1: between him and Chris Jenkins because it was like two bulls,
Speaker 1: you know, going aufter each other, and man go won
Speaker 1: his fair share, you know, you know, because he was
Speaker 1: able to position himself and our quick quick um Jenkins
Speaker 1: in certain instances. But I watched him do it against
Speaker 1: the Lodi. You know, he's just one of those guys
Speaker 1: that you know, you can always count on him doing
Speaker 1: his job at a high level. Now, Andy Reid, said
Speaker 1: Pope last week, Um had one of his best games
Speaker 1: in years in Houston, so he shouldn't be coming into
Speaker 1: this game with some confidence the Jets catch a break here.
Speaker 1: Justin Houston is still one of the top pass rushers
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, but Tom Balle still a
Speaker 1: solid player on the outside as well. When you think
Speaker 1: about Tom Bali, I want you to think about where
Speaker 1: Demarcuts wearing his career. His better days are behind him,
Speaker 1: but you know him at eight percent of what it
Speaker 1: used to be is still better than what most guys do.
Speaker 1: You know, his his his career numbers against the run.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's great against the run, and he's great,
Speaker 1: he has a knack for winning. And it'll just to be,
Speaker 1: you know, a tremendous matchup because Claydie and Ali know
Speaker 1: each other very well for the matchups in the a
Speaker 1: f C West, you know, so this should be exciting
Speaker 1: to see that these guys prayer up because what happens
Speaker 1: is when you know somebody you know their Tennessee's. You know,
Speaker 1: it's all about who can make the best counters. But
Speaker 1: on the other side, they got d Ford, who who
Speaker 1: was the number one draft pick from Urburn. You know,
Speaker 1: years ago and he's starting to mature and coming to
Speaker 1: us own. He's playing fast as well, you know. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be uh evenly matched matchup. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: who's able to make, you know, the better place, the
Speaker 1: more efficient plays in in the in the game you
Speaker 1: played for Bob Sutton. It is this more of a
Speaker 1: traditional three four. But we just talked about Pulpis that
Speaker 1: no stackle in there? Or Bob is aggressive? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think a little bit of Rex rubbed off on Bob
Speaker 1: before he was more of the three four of the
Speaker 1: New England Pagers where it's more read and react, more
Speaker 1: gap control. But I think Rex showed him that it
Speaker 1: was another way to do it. And he's very active.
Speaker 1: You know. These guys move all over the place. You know,
Speaker 1: they blitch, you know, but they also have, you know,
Speaker 1: a great matchup and noon Wall could be matched up
Speaker 1: with Barry, or he could be matched up with UH
Speaker 1: with Ron Parker, who's a former corner who plays safety
Speaker 1: for them, that does a lot of the pass coverage
Speaker 1: and when they go into their when they go into
Speaker 1: their dying package, Barry actually drops in into the box
Speaker 1: and play the position that I used to play. Where
Speaker 1: do you anticipate, uh, Marcus Peters plan. So when they
Speaker 1: move him around, when they try to match him with
Speaker 1: one barter or well, he's a physical guy. You know.
Speaker 1: You talk about a guy last year that had you know,
Speaker 1: led the League of interception to last week against Houston,
Speaker 1: he gave up some place. But he's a playmaker. He's
Speaker 1: a playmaker Johnny on the spot and he knows when
Speaker 1: he gets the ball in his hands, you know he
Speaker 1: can do damage. He takes the ball to pay dirt. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a physical guy. So I don't think that you know,
Speaker 1: it would be the same as it was last week
Speaker 1: against Darby and Gilmore because he's a he's a bigger kid,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So he can put heavy
Speaker 1: hands on and he won't be as easy to move
Speaker 1: and push off against, you know, in the passing game. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know they're gonna have to sure that you know,
Speaker 1: they're able to attack him as well, because he does
Speaker 1: give up big plays. And you know, you got two
Speaker 1: of the most craftiest veterans in the game and and
Speaker 1: Marshall and Decker, and they'll find a way. You know,
Speaker 1: if he's getting heavy hands on and he's matching up.
Speaker 1: Then watch them to move his man into the slot
Speaker 1: so that they can get a clean release. How concerned
Speaker 1: were you for Brandon Marshall when you see him go
Speaker 1: down against the Buffalo Bills. Uh, I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a dirty player which is trying to reach out
Speaker 1: and try to make a tackle brought him down. Everybody's
Speaker 1: getting punched in the face, but chet's nation health. It's
Speaker 1: collective breath. When they see the number fifteen to the tunnel. Well,
Speaker 1: well I don't. I never get concerned when I see
Speaker 1: a guy get twisted up. But it's a contact issue
Speaker 1: because you rarely tell your a c L by being contacted.
Speaker 1: Usually when you tell your a c L, it's a
Speaker 1: non contact you know issue. When you see somebody walk
Speaker 1: off the field and nobody touched him, you know it's
Speaker 1: one either Achilles or the a c L. You get
Speaker 1: nervous when you see those type of things, like Brandon
Speaker 1: marsh you worried about them and they skis or the
Speaker 1: m c L. So once I saw that he was
Speaker 1: able to get up and he walked off and he
Speaker 1: went to the back, I knew that he would be fine.
Speaker 1: Just you know a matter of time if you didn't
Speaker 1: come back for that game. I knew he wasn't done
Speaker 1: for the year. You were always a guy who h
Speaker 1: was fun in the locker room when you decided to
Speaker 1: give the media the juice per se and and Brandon
Speaker 1: is a guy who you know, he's eloquent, He's an
Speaker 1: eloquent speaker, He's a very thoughtful introspective. This week he
Speaker 1: was kind of fun though he said that U uh,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch out for myself because Quincy is sneaking up.
Speaker 1: You never know when a guy is gonna take your spot.
Speaker 1: As far as hey, listen, if I missed the game here,
Speaker 1: you never know found me. Because well, well I think
Speaker 1: that's a compliment to the work that a noon I
Speaker 1: was put in. You know, I think, you know, he's
Speaker 1: one of his biggest cheerleaders saying that, you know, he
Speaker 1: you know, has made the biggest lead from one you know,
Speaker 1: from one year to the next. And the fact that
Speaker 1: I think that Brandon Marshall a larger, more physical receiver.
Speaker 1: He can he can watching momic to his preparation and
Speaker 1: how he runs routes, and he can pick his ear.
Speaker 1: You know, I think as a as a veteran leader
Speaker 1: and an elite player, is your responsibility to make other
Speaker 1: players around you better. That's always a sign of a
Speaker 1: great leader, of a great player. And I think he's
Speaker 1: raised his level and you got I think you have
Speaker 1: to get some credit to Decker as well because he's
Speaker 1: performed at a high level. He's a larger receiver. You know,
Speaker 1: you think the Jets, We think about the Jets. You
Speaker 1: think about the largest receiving corps in the game. Before
Speaker 1: people were thinking about a Noon why as a tight end,
Speaker 1: you know, and Chan has had this before when he
Speaker 1: had m Reggie Nelson. Yeah, David Nelson, I'm sorry in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have the physical tools, the pure brute
Speaker 1: force and mass that a noon one has. And he's
Speaker 1: going to be a matchup problem going against you know,
Speaker 1: Nichols in the slot if they decided to go that way,
Speaker 1: or if they're matching up with him with their third corner,
Speaker 1: because he's a big person, so like he can just
Speaker 1: box and shield these guys out. And right now with
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and his ability to throw the back show their faith.
Speaker 1: You can't be right. What stands out to you about
Speaker 1: the league so fast for two weeks? Well, you know
Speaker 1: what I've been surprised that, you know, the kicking game
Speaker 1: hasn't you know, usually the kicking game rears his ugly
Speaker 1: head as far as block punts and things like that,
Speaker 1: right long returns. That really hasn't been the you know,
Speaker 1: the case so far. Um But right now I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the cream has a rise to the top.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody hasn't settled in. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be some teams that kind of come back to earth.
Speaker 1: I think this week when Philadelphia goes back, they love
Speaker 1: went He's going into Pittsburgh. I think they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a real sense of really who it is because let's
Speaker 1: be facing He's faced to JV the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: If you're a rookie quarterback coming in the league, you
Speaker 1: would love to go against these two teams. You'll love
Speaker 1: to go against Cleveland. You would love to go against
Speaker 1: you know, the up and down Jake Cutler, you know
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, and you know, you know two defense that
Speaker 1: pretty much played traditional coverages, traditional defenses and not really
Speaker 1: have the personnelity to really you know, put pressure on
Speaker 1: the offense. You just once there's a lot of rookie
Speaker 1: quarterbacks playing right now, you got Dak, Prescott and Dallas,
Speaker 1: so I think it's hand on himself pretty well. All
Speaker 1: these guys. You know, it's funny because him and Brussette,
Speaker 1: you know, or you know, I do a financial literacy
Speaker 1: program with Morgan Stanley, So I've worked with these guys
Speaker 1: and they've hurt my spill for like the last three
Speaker 1: uh two times, you know what I mean. Uh when
Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to go to New England, but when
Speaker 1: the program with New England, Uh Roussette was you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a he's a lively guy man. He loves
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He's happy about it, and um, he's
Speaker 1: gonna tremendous opportunity to learn behind three guys. And you know,
Speaker 1: that's what what I'm saying. You never know, you know,
Speaker 1: you never know, you know when that backup is going
Speaker 1: to be called, when your number is going to be
Speaker 1: called early. And I believe that Prescott is really setting
Speaker 1: itself up to make the Cowboys have to have a
Speaker 1: very tough decision, and one in the next one or
Speaker 1: two years. As you know, he continues to get experienced
Speaker 1: with Tony Romo comes back, and he continues to get
Speaker 1: injured you're talking about a hundred million dollars that you
Speaker 1: can take off the books and you can go apply
Speaker 1: that to other players and don't have to pay your quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's kind of been the recipe. You think about the
Speaker 1: success that the San Francisco forty Niners have a Kaepernick
Speaker 1: because they didn't have to pay them. They were all
Speaker 1: go out and getting the Seahawks as well. You think about,
Speaker 1: you know, the Ravens before they had to pay Flacco,
Speaker 1: the ability to go get key veterans, and then you
Speaker 1: know what happens is when you have to pay that guy,
Speaker 1: then you lose some some some key guys and key veterans.
Speaker 1: You think about a Kwina Bolden, you know, being lost
Speaker 1: to the team at the you know pretty much helped
Speaker 1: carrying that offense, but they had to pay Flacco. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, Dallas is going to have some very tough
Speaker 1: decisions coming forward, you know, a very near future. That's
Speaker 1: a good point. It's an interesting model with these young
Speaker 1: guys like Russell. We just saw him get the big contract,
Speaker 1: but early on they tried it with Andrew Lucker just
Speaker 1: never worked out because they never got any offensive linement.
Speaker 1: Early on. You can have that great talent base and
Speaker 1: spend money elsewhere. Up until that point of the second contract,
Speaker 1: everybody talked about the Jets first six games before the
Speaker 1: years started. If they can get this one, he go
Speaker 1: to two and one, which you think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a huge task in Kansas City. It's just I think
Speaker 1: this is a toss up game. This is a toss
Speaker 1: up game. You can go either way. It's about game plan.
Speaker 1: It's about who's going to make the big plays, who's
Speaker 1: going to not have self inflicted wounds, you know, who's
Speaker 1: not going to have penalties or the the procedure type
Speaker 1: of things. Sloppy game. You know the Jets, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they were gassed up and they were tremendously
Speaker 1: focused on the Buffalo Bills. This is an opponent that
Speaker 1: you don't play very often, so sometimes the people can
Speaker 1: surprise you because you don't know. You don't when you
Speaker 1: play a team all the time. And I'm just looking
Speaker 1: because we still have the Buffalo Bills up on the screen. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what Larry Hughes does well, and you know
Speaker 1: how they try and use them. Well, some of the
Speaker 1: players there, that's not the guys that are the the
Speaker 1: superstars are the guys that you have scotting reports on.
Speaker 1: That's when you get hurt. Like so, you can't you
Speaker 1: can't let a guy like the Anthony Thomas come in
Speaker 1: you don't know what he is and like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: the gadget guy because you don't go against him he
Speaker 1: makes a big play to you know, a big play
Speaker 1: in the game. Or Chris Conney because you don't really
Speaker 1: know what he does. Well, he comes in, he hurts you,
Speaker 1: you know. So those are the type of things that
Speaker 1: so it's monstrous during the week to get your preparation
Speaker 1: and because on a short week against the Bills, there's
Speaker 1: some familiarities you but you played on a bunch you
Speaker 1: kind of know what they're all about. Now with the
Speaker 1: Kansas City team, there's a lot of newness on both sides.
Speaker 1: So that and the Chiefs are gonna have to be
Speaker 1: looking at the Jets the same same way. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: so uh, I want to get your thoughts on college
Speaker 1: football here. Okay, so far during the season is in
Speaker 1: Alabama and everybody else I don't know. Man, Louisville, I
Speaker 1: think is Louisville legit? I mean, come on, man, six
Speaker 1: or three points against Florida, Mike Vick saying this guy
Speaker 1: is better than him. That's saying a lot. And the
Speaker 1: thing is most of those guys like Michael Vick, this
Speaker 1: dude has a cannon for arm as well Jackson and
Speaker 1: and once and once again. You know, I love them
Speaker 1: or hey them. You know, I don't particularly care for
Speaker 1: the guy. But you know, Bobby Petrino man As went
Speaker 1: back home for the second time, and he's doing it again.
Speaker 1: He's getting a tone. And then Clemsons in the mix.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you make of Herbaugh and
Speaker 1: urban Meyer and that dynamic and a big time that
Speaker 1: that's that's that's something that you would pay to see.
Speaker 1: But you can't sleep on D'Antoni man because he's like
Speaker 1: the dark horse in that division. You talk about Michigan
Speaker 1: State and their ability just to play great defense, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're one of these teams that's sneaky. They're always consistent,
Speaker 1: you know, they're always physically defense on the top end.
Speaker 1: I was surprised that they laid SmackDown and Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: I mean Notre Dame made a late run now, but
Speaker 1: it was third. There was thirty six seven at one
Speaker 1: point in the second hand, and they do it physical,
Speaker 1: so you gotta watch out for those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: the Big Ten is getting slept on because traditionally when
Speaker 1: they played against the SEC teams or a SEC teams,
Speaker 1: they couldn't keep up because they had a team speed. Well,
Speaker 1: Hardball has brought speed to to to Michigan and Herbert
Speaker 1: Myers has brought that Florida philosophy to to to Ohio State.
Speaker 1: So now they're not traditionally Big ten teams they stay.
Speaker 1: There's so many more athletes on the field than Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's not a knock at Oklahoma either program.
Speaker 1: Well Oklahoma. To think about Oklahoma is they can't win
Speaker 1: recruiting in their state right because they gotta compete with Texas.
Speaker 1: You know, Texas Tech gets a couple of them as well.
Speaker 1: You know, Texas and them get something. Now, see like
Speaker 1: he's just getting people now exactly. Houston is a sneaky team.
Speaker 1: To Houston plays Louisville, I can't wait that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the matchup. We were hoping that Louisville can make sure
Speaker 1: that they stayed on top so that win. Whoever wins
Speaker 1: that game, it means something. You know, if Louisville, if
Speaker 1: if louis Will still gotta be Climbs in they gotta
Speaker 1: go to Climbs in a couple of weeks. But if Louisville,
Speaker 1: even if they lose a Climpson, they'll still probably be
Speaker 1: a top ten team. So then when they make that matchup,
Speaker 1: if Houston is able to win, you know, because their
Speaker 1: schedule is pretty powder puff, you know, if they have
Speaker 1: those two signature wins, then that can propel them forward.
Speaker 1: That would be something that big five. They can get
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, no doubt out that, no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: That that would be fascinating. All right, man, Um, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna put your in the spot with the prediction,
Speaker 1: you know, No, no with um Jets chiefs. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's that's that's a tough I said. This is
Speaker 1: you know last year, last week I picked the Jets
Speaker 1: because I just thought that the Bills were justn't have
Speaker 1: enough firepower to keep up. I mean, don Terrapol really
Speaker 1: mean the lack of Marshall Darius been in the lineup
Speaker 1: really hurt them. Because now when what happened, this change,
Speaker 1: Gilly forced you to play Nicols. So now you have
Speaker 1: a light box. And when you don't have a player
Speaker 1: like Darius in there, then now he can't take two guys.
Speaker 1: So now you can put a man on the man
Speaker 1: and now push your minutes pressure on the secondary because
Speaker 1: they don't have time to get there. This week, I
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs have the Ontario Postle. This would be
Speaker 1: a little different challenge. You know, it's a challenge that
Speaker 1: the Jets should be up for because they understand how
Speaker 1: important it is. Whenever you have a tough six games,
Speaker 1: it can define you because if you come out on
Speaker 1: a positive side and the other end, everything else fills downhill.
Speaker 1: And then now you have to just make sure you
Speaker 1: don't have any lapses in judgment. You to make sure
Speaker 1: that you don't have any hiccups when you go loose
Speaker 1: to a team you shouldn't lose to them. Yeah, nobody
Speaker 1: in that locker room will be sleeping on the Chiefs
Speaker 1: top bowls. Will make sure that I know people at
Speaker 1: home are saying, wow, this is a good matchup for
Speaker 1: the Jets, and it might be, but this Chiefs team
Speaker 1: has won seven games in a row at home. Yes,
Speaker 1: they spotted seeing diego a big lead, but they came
Speaker 1: back and I think people are we were talking about something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I also think that people took taking an account
Speaker 1: too much what happened to Kansas City in Houston, because
Speaker 1: like you were talking about before we went on air, Houston,
Speaker 1: it's a good football team, especially defensively, and they can
Speaker 1: give a lot of people problems. Yeah, Houston, you'll see
Speaker 1: you'll see New England struggle as well, because you talk
Speaker 1: about a team. J. J. Watt is getting the Sea
Speaker 1: legs underneath him. He was disrupted of two sacks of
Speaker 1: former recovery like he always is. Connie starting to come
Speaker 1: into his own and Um Merciless is a great player
Speaker 1: as well. And what happens if people want to talk
Speaker 1: about the Houston defense, Houston defense hasn't given up. They're
Speaker 1: given up, averaging twelve point five points a game for
Speaker 1: the last ten games. You know, it's a stat that
Speaker 1: is mind boggling that in ten games they haven't They've
Speaker 1: given up an average of twelve point five points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so so it's not who your play is. When
Speaker 1: you play them and you're playing them coming off a loss,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be motivated because they know they can't lose
Speaker 1: to in a roll, especially been a division with the
Speaker 1: defending channel. What's the linebackers And this is one of
Speaker 1: the last one here, what's the linebacker's job when LX
Speaker 1: Smith goes to option? If you're the outside, tell me
Speaker 1: what a good thing? And now is just on film.
Speaker 1: So now the defensive end outside linebacker understands he has
Speaker 1: to slow play flow down. And he's not that he's
Speaker 1: not the quarterback man. He's probably the pitch man, you know.
Speaker 1: So you have to make sure that you play the game.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you take the pitch, sometimes you take the you
Speaker 1: take the you take the quarterback. But you have to
Speaker 1: play the game. You have to discuss it. When you
Speaker 1: get that look, you have to understand that looks gonna
Speaker 1: come with an all set back to the open side.
Speaker 1: If he's not offset to the open side, you really
Speaker 1: can't run the option. So you have to understand and
Speaker 1: pay attention to the little Things's key though neutralized Kelsey, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you better stop Kelsey. Kelsey has a great day that
Speaker 1: it's going to open everything up for everyone else. Everybody
Speaker 1: was seeing that it's