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Speaker 1: inside the wind of Hamilton's Park. The band is back together.
Speaker 1: Parts Scott our table is back to go. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. We gotta pick crowd tonight too. So so
Speaker 1: the Jets must have one. We called it victory Monday.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. They're back on the band wagon. It
Speaker 1: is a victory Monday. The Jets are Yes the beer.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of beers going on going around right now.
Speaker 1: A couple of cold waters as well for the youngsters.
Speaker 1: The Jets are five and seven thirty eight thirty one
Speaker 1: victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. First order of business
Speaker 1: is you made a wager before the year started with
Speaker 1: ESPN personality and former New York Giant Chris Kenny book
Speaker 1: Come On, cars were on the line. Bart Scott said
Speaker 1: the Jets would win five games and four more. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. Come on, I didn't just happen at five, man,
Speaker 1: I'll be hating. So five games in two thousand seventeen,
Speaker 1: while the Jets just beat the Chiefs. So the Jets
Speaker 1: have You've won the You've won the butt, and the
Speaker 1: bet was a Ferrari versus a Bentley, correctly. So what's
Speaker 1: happening now is Chris Canny owning up on the bet? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what. A couple of weeks ago, me and
Speaker 1: Chris share the same age, and it was his birthday.
Speaker 1: I left it up to the fans, and the fans
Speaker 1: thought I should show mercy, and I gave him a
Speaker 1: buyout package for sixty grand, forty cash and twenty thousand
Speaker 1: for my charity. You know, so it's Christmas time, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use that my need to get back. I
Speaker 1: didn't know if I had enough time to sell a
Speaker 1: Bentley or put it on Craigslist or anything like that
Speaker 1: or eBay. So Chris Canny still has the bent Line,
Speaker 1: he still has to Bailey, he still has to Bailey.
Speaker 1: But I got sixty thousand, so parts Scott puts the
Speaker 1: merciful part, Scott, the merciful part. Scott puts forty thou
Speaker 1: in his pocket and twenty thousand the charity following on
Speaker 1: the budget, man, you just let me know, if you
Speaker 1: can get a hall pass, man, we go out on
Speaker 1: this town and tad up. Oh yeah, I definitely get
Speaker 1: a hall pass. I want to go out with you
Speaker 1: and spend some of that fort K. Bottom line is
Speaker 1: what did you see from the Jets in the summer
Speaker 1: to make your prediction and eventually your dream or your
Speaker 1: um desirable outcome came true. Well, I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: I've been in this situation before. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was a member of the Baltimore Ravens in two thousand
Speaker 1: two after they lost you know, Rod Woodson, Shannon Sharp,
Speaker 1: Sarah Goose To, Sam Adams, Uh, Jamie Sharper, you know,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Starts, you know all the you know the great players.
Speaker 1: And I know sometimes you can unders made young talent
Speaker 1: because you don't know who they are. Um, but every
Speaker 1: athlete that's in the NFL is here because they're bet
Speaker 1: They bet on their selves and they used that as motivation.
Speaker 1: And I knew that team would come in and underestimate
Speaker 1: them and they would play above you know, their weight,
Speaker 1: and they're punching above their weight and it's because they're
Speaker 1: they're getting chemistry. And what happens is where you don't
Speaker 1: have the Royal reevers where you don't have a David Harris.
Speaker 1: When you don't have a Nick Man, what happens is
Speaker 1: now it's on everybody and you don't depend Sometimes we
Speaker 1: depend too much on our superstars. And what happens is
Speaker 1: when it is no superstars or superstars that are in
Speaker 1: the making, then everybody, you know, carries their fair share
Speaker 1: of weight and they don't lean and wait for, you know,
Speaker 1: for somebody to make a play, because they know everybody
Speaker 1: has to make a play. Nobody talks about it yesterday
Speaker 1: in the winning locker room, and I didn't hear it
Speaker 1: from many Jets fans, but the Jets equal their win
Speaker 1: total from a year ago. You just mentioned a number
Speaker 1: of players who were on the New York Jets in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. The Jets won't five and eleven
Speaker 1: last year. Right now, they're sitting at five and seven,
Speaker 1: uh four games to go. Nothing to celebrate. If you
Speaker 1: asked Todd Balls and the players in the locker room
Speaker 1: man here in a few moments will be joined by
Speaker 1: defensive lineman Xavier Cooper and also wide receiver slash kick
Speaker 1: returner Joe Joe natson Um. If you ask anybody love
Speaker 1: named like Joejoe, that's that's sweet. That rolls off the tongue. Man.
Speaker 1: All right, So we're gonna talk to Joe in a
Speaker 1: few moments. But the guys in the locker room will
Speaker 1: tell you we should be sitting here about seven to
Speaker 1: five or eight and four. Think about the games against
Speaker 1: Miami when you need a fourteen point lead in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, or Atlanta when you had a lead at home,
Speaker 1: or Carolina when you had a lead at home. So
Speaker 1: the Jets are just a couple of plays away from
Speaker 1: being in a good spot as far as playoff contention
Speaker 1: is concerned. Well, you know it's called it's called a
Speaker 1: growth cycle. And um, you know they've they've learned from
Speaker 1: their mistakes and yesterday was proof of that. And that's
Speaker 1: what you wanna do. You want to be able to
Speaker 1: get that experience. I tell people that veterans are veterans
Speaker 1: not because they've never made mistakes, is because they made
Speaker 1: those mistakes and they've learned from them. It's not a
Speaker 1: sin to make a mistake, it's a sin to make
Speaker 1: the same mistake and not learn from other people on
Speaker 1: on your on your squad making mistakes. What happens is
Speaker 1: you get that experience and some of these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: they want to be part of the future. You're going forward.
Speaker 1: Next year is gonna be shake up. They're gonna bring
Speaker 1: in more players. So what happens is now you're gonna have,
Speaker 1: you know, tremendous depth because the young guys that maybe
Speaker 1: started this year, everybody may not start next year. But
Speaker 1: what happens is now you have confidence and a guy
Speaker 1: when you gotta call somebody's number, because you've seen them
Speaker 1: do it before and they've been in those situations inside
Speaker 1: the chests is presented by e Y building a better
Speaker 1: working world. While that was an entertaining ballgame at less
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium started off bad though. I was nervous well
Speaker 1: before most people sat down and had their cold beverage
Speaker 1: and maybe a popcorn or two. It was fourteen nothing Chiefs,
Speaker 1: but I was heating on my wings. Man, it was
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. I was like, what happened? Boom boom boom?
Speaker 1: That t bows the hell of a thing. Man had
Speaker 1: to go to tebow. See what happened? Man? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, but the Jets did not panicked that. I
Speaker 1: like what I saw from them. They absorbed a punch
Speaker 1: and then they countered europe boxing fan And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what the Jets did. They actually took a lead and
Speaker 1: a halftime a seventeen you know, to to quote the
Speaker 1: great Rocky Bell Bowl, it ain't about hag you hit,
Speaker 1: It's about how hard you can get hit and keep
Speaker 1: moving forward. That done. Hey, what do you think about
Speaker 1: the offensive balance against the Chiefs? Nearly five hundred yards
Speaker 1: a total offense for this team and forty nine rush attempts,
Speaker 1: So the Jets dominated time of possession and they did
Speaker 1: a great job up front, specifically on a guy like
Speaker 1: Justin Houston, a guy who's been rushing the passer at
Speaker 1: an elite level for many years in the National Football League. Well, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about I mean, did they run
Speaker 1: a thousand plays? It seems like they read a thousand
Speaker 1: play I know what they and twelve from like the
Speaker 1: one inch line, you know what I mean? Yeah, that
Speaker 1: last drive, well it just talks about that just speaks
Speaker 1: to h Josh and and and the offense ability to
Speaker 1: convert third downs you I mean you talk about on
Speaker 1: third down they were thirteen Absolutely, so whenever you're above
Speaker 1: forty five fifty percent. You know, you're gonna be You're
Speaker 1: gonna be efficient, and you're going to continue to keep
Speaker 1: the change moving. And if you don't score point, you're
Speaker 1: gonna flip the field and make them have to go um,
Speaker 1: you know, eighty ninety seventy yards and that's always a
Speaker 1: good thing. So I was very proud of how they battled.
Speaker 1: They battled, they fought, and they grind and winning in
Speaker 1: this league is never easy, and and and they just
Speaker 1: you know, they just kept pulling the rope. What do
Speaker 1: you think about Josh mccount. Now, he's got five touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the ground this season. That of the Jets eleven
Speaker 1: rush touchdowns, but he had like a fifteen. He had
Speaker 1: at least five quarterbacks sneaks. You know absolutely, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. You know, he's still in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: You know, I wouldn't make a living of diving forward,
Speaker 1: you know, because God's defenders. As a defender, whenever I
Speaker 1: see a quarterback, you know, do the quarterback sneak? I know,
Speaker 1: his head is his his head is eligible and guys
Speaker 1: that takes shots at the head. But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: he has one of the best heads of hair in
Speaker 1: the game. You know what I mean. So the blind bomber,
Speaker 1: you know, got that nice thick coat. You know, he
Speaker 1: protects him from all good concussions and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the way McCown it's so
Speaker 1: adept in the pocket he feels the rush and sometimes
Speaker 1: he'll talk it if it's third time and he sees
Speaker 1: a lot of green and from in front of him,
Speaker 1: he'll pick up eleven. But the thing that I've been
Speaker 1: so impressed with is that he slides and he finds
Speaker 1: himself space and finds himself throwing lengths. Well, when you
Speaker 1: think about young quarterbacks, the first thing they do when
Speaker 1: they feel the precious they retreat, which is the worst
Speaker 1: thing to do. It's it's kind of like being in
Speaker 1: the eye of the of the hurricane. It's safe in
Speaker 1: the center. So you know, great veteran quarterbacks understand they
Speaker 1: need to step up and step left and right. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to retreat because what happens is, you know,
Speaker 1: they continue to come. When you retreat back, what you're
Speaker 1: not in a position to see the field and also
Speaker 1: to deliver the ball. And a lot of young guys
Speaker 1: look down, don't that they see the rush you have
Speaker 1: to fill the Russian. You know, give some credit to
Speaker 1: this offensive line. I think they've started to get a
Speaker 1: lot of chemistry together, and they've been healthy for the
Speaker 1: most part, and guys have come in and filled in
Speaker 1: when guys went down abably, and you know, you have
Speaker 1: to tip your hat to them because they provided him
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Josh mcconnor is a veteran quarterback. Whenever he
Speaker 1: reads man and man coverage, he understands that everybody's back.
Speaker 1: If he beats the wave of the of the defensive line,
Speaker 1: he understands that everybody's back his turn and he can
Speaker 1: get those yards. And that's what I talked about when
Speaker 1: I mentioned that he was a professional quarterback. Early in
Speaker 1: the year, when everybody was saying, hey, maybe they should,
Speaker 1: you know, evaluate the young guys. Josh McCown gives you
Speaker 1: an opportunity to evaluate the entire football team. And everybody
Speaker 1: is flourished and everybody is starting to develop and get better.
Speaker 1: And talk about the chemistry between those two receivers right now,
Speaker 1: talk about for the first time since how long you
Speaker 1: got to go back to the t sixties when the
Speaker 1: Jets had a pair of receivers named George Sower and
Speaker 1: Do Maynard black and white TV. So just the first
Speaker 1: time Jet fans have seen it in color. To two
Speaker 1: receivers go over a hundred yards and back to back.
Speaker 1: He could set back to back, get back to back,
Speaker 1: back to back. All right, So what's cleaned up for me?
Speaker 1: What I appreciate? Hey, buddy, what is the ceiling on
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson? Because I'm tweeting during the game and a
Speaker 1: lot of folks are saying, you know, yeah, Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: and he only could be a two or three. I
Speaker 1: don't know if we know what his ceiling is right now.
Speaker 1: If you look at his stats over the course of
Speaker 1: the sixteen game season, he's on pace for eleven hundred yards.
Speaker 1: And it's not just eleven hundred yards. He's getting into
Speaker 1: the end zone as well. They keep following. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how teams keep falling for the banana and tailpipe.
Speaker 1: Dude is fast. I know he looks like with Khalifila,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's dangly and doesn't look fast.
Speaker 1: But listen, get back. I don't understand why, guys. You know,
Speaker 1: that's guy's own pride thinking though he can't be that fast,
Speaker 1: and they're looking at tape until they see it in
Speaker 1: real life. And he gets on top of you, and
Speaker 1: he's making great plays, and he's learning how to high
Speaker 1: point the ball, and he's starting to to really eliminate
Speaker 1: those drops that he had earlier in the career. And
Speaker 1: he's learning to run the route tree, the entire route tree,
Speaker 1: so guys can't fall off. He's starting to ask some
Speaker 1: more routes to his repertoire, and I think Curse has
Speaker 1: been a tremendous asset for him as he's doing all
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. You could get Robbie Anderson cheap.
Speaker 1: You're getting Robbie Anderson cheap no more because these guys
Speaker 1: are getting it done on the outside. And how about
Speaker 1: how about McCown Because he's thrown for eight teen touchdowns,
Speaker 1: he rushed for five touchdowns. I mean it's amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's having a career year and that just showed you.
Speaker 1: You know, you never know what you're gonna get, man,
Speaker 1: And that's why we played the game. You know, people
Speaker 1: want to, you know, assume that they understand the narrative
Speaker 1: and and and put people in the boxes. And he's
Speaker 1: breaking out of a box. He's shattering that box all right. Inside.
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Speaker 1: and we'll be right back with the pair of New
Speaker 1: York Jets defensive lineman Xavier Cooper and also a wide
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Speaker 1: Community Back of your New York Jets. I brought up
Speaker 1: a pair of younger Jets for your part, Scott, right now, Joe,
Speaker 1: Joe Nansen, Nick Xavier Cooper, Thank you so much guys
Speaker 1: for joining us. You do this, Oh well, man, it's
Speaker 1: such a program. I'm learning from this dude every days.
Speaker 1: Right there. Yeah, well you might great transitions, man, you
Speaker 1: might have to use a couple of transitions and uh
Speaker 1: your next shot. But we're not going to talk about
Speaker 1: that right now. Running wrong for that. Man. Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: how good did it feel to pick up a W yesterday? Man?
Speaker 1: Felt great? All the hardware you know, it pays off.
Speaker 1: That's that's what we practiced for. That's what we you know,
Speaker 1: watch film for, is to get that win. So it
Speaker 1: was a good feeling. Like man, it was. It felt good,
Speaker 1: you know, to get back get a W. Know they
Speaker 1: always say winning killers, you know everything. Yeah, that felt good.
Speaker 1: What was what was the mood like on the sideline
Speaker 1: when you went down fourteen? Oh, when they came out
Speaker 1: and and Kelsey came out and with the old banana
Speaker 1: to tell pipe Will, what was the what was the
Speaker 1: mood like on the sideline? I think you know, I
Speaker 1: expected the same mood if you was up fourteen, you know, Um,
Speaker 1: I think guys were staying together and guys knew it's
Speaker 1: a long game. A lot of players be made, and
Speaker 1: you know, we came back and you know, handled our
Speaker 1: business and we got to win. Xavier, Uh, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about while we have both of you guys
Speaker 1: up here right now. Your path to the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: You played at Washington State University. Then you were a
Speaker 1: third round pick of the Cleveland Browns in two thousand
Speaker 1: and fifteen. Can you tell us about your time in Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Might you want to make this man we live a nightmare?
Speaker 1: Come on, Cooper talk. My path was unique. You know,
Speaker 1: I was drafted in third round ninety six overall, played
Speaker 1: with Cleveland for two years, and um, you know, was
Speaker 1: on three teams this year. Started off in training camp
Speaker 1: with the Browns, then was with San Francisco for seven games,
Speaker 1: and then came to the Jets. So it's you know,
Speaker 1: bart to tell you, man in this league and nothing guaranteed.
Speaker 1: You gotta work for us an interview every day, So
Speaker 1: I'm learning that. But what about connections, Xavier, Because in
Speaker 1: Cleveland you had a defensive line coach, right and Robert
Speaker 1: Nunn who got to know you awfully well, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he had a hand in bringing you here to
Speaker 1: the Jets. Yeah, coach was there last year. We're a
Speaker 1: super young group. Uh, none is a technician, So every
Speaker 1: day you gotta work your craft and get better at
Speaker 1: your craft and you know, I like working with him
Speaker 1: because you know, he helps me be a better D lineman.
Speaker 1: And of course I played with Josh too, uh with
Speaker 1: the Browns two. So you know, I'm happy Josh is
Speaker 1: getting all his success. And we'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a second. Joe, Joe Natsen, you played the Utah State.
Speaker 1: You transferred to Akron undrafted. Oh that's what's up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pa shamp too. Yeah, part of the fraternity up here.
Speaker 1: He got that big sign talk he'll know what he's like.
Speaker 1: He know, he'll know what his life. I also was undrafted,
Speaker 1: So you gotta feel good so that all three of
Speaker 1: these guys undrafted got the same sign about Joe Joe. Um,
Speaker 1: can you tell us about your time in Indianapolis this
Speaker 1: summer and then coming over here to the Jets. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know I want undrafted it. Um. I was blessed,
Speaker 1: you know, to get an opportunity with the coaches. Um.
Speaker 1: I did really well. I felt like I did really
Speaker 1: well in the preseason. You know, you know things didn't
Speaker 1: work work out over there. You should have been there. Hey,
Speaker 1: you picked up that you picked up the nicknames the
Speaker 1: aunt Man and the Fleet in Indianapolis. Did any of
Speaker 1: those stack or did you like any of those? I
Speaker 1: mean that I thought it was gonna stick if if
Speaker 1: I was around, if I stayed around, I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna stick. Right. But yeah, they kind of they
Speaker 1: kind of gave me that nickname, you know, being you know,
Speaker 1: one of the smaller guys on the team. So you know,
Speaker 1: but it's all good. It's a pound yeah always um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was like I said, the journey over
Speaker 1: those uh and you know, god, you know less we
Speaker 1: gonna come through another path over here in New York.
Speaker 1: So we're just a good time being. There's a much
Speaker 1: better city. Yeah, indianaps is not a bad city, not bad.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I love New York and India is
Speaker 1: not bad for conventions and stuff. Yeah convention yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's all Okay, that's because they always got space available.
Speaker 1: That's why the all's got convintion. Now, this guy over here,
Speaker 1: Joe Joe Natson seven what but hud Now I'm on
Speaker 1: a good day about once won six day on a
Speaker 1: good day. Yeah, So part this it's a message to
Speaker 1: everybody out there watching New York, just dot com, watching
Speaker 1: on Facebook, listening on the ESPN radio, all the youngsters
Speaker 1: growing up. It's not the size of the man, it's
Speaker 1: the size of the heart. Well that's that's that's why
Speaker 1: I love That's why I love football because you know,
Speaker 1: Mike Singletary, who's you know, my linebacker coach in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You should tell me that greatness comes in all shapes
Speaker 1: and sizes and if you can play, it's a position
Speaker 1: for you in football. It's not like basketball where you
Speaker 1: gotta be you know, six six, six seven. You know,
Speaker 1: you got you got guys like Isaiah Thomas, you know,
Speaker 1: but that's about it. You know, you have greater examples
Speaker 1: of guys that are under six feet. You talk about
Speaker 1: Dante Hall, you know who who are some of the
Speaker 1: smaller guys that you looked up to? It as you
Speaker 1: were trying to say, Hey, I'm gonna there to be great,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and make it to the NFL. Who
Speaker 1: was somebody some people that influence you, Uh, darn S
Speaker 1: Frods was like one of my you know, the biggest
Speaker 1: you know, says that I looked up to, you know,
Speaker 1: being saying Hi, I mean he's a little thicker, but
Speaker 1: you know he kind of like paid the way from
Speaker 1: them showing that I can do it. Then, you know,
Speaker 1: I just start with my dream. You know, I've always
Speaker 1: been against all the odds, so I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just you know, got motivation from you know, those people,
Speaker 1: the saying I can't do it. So I just kept
Speaker 1: I kept going. Eric Allen here with part Scott and Joe,
Speaker 1: Joe Natsen and Xavier Cooper. Xavier, what's it been like
Speaker 1: inside that the funtal line room? You coming in after
Speaker 1: being with the forty niners. You gotta acclimate to the
Speaker 1: new surroundings, pick up a new system and then hit
Speaker 1: the ground running. Yeah. Well the system uh that we're
Speaker 1: playing it now, the defense that we're in now, it's
Speaker 1: kind of similar to what I played in last year.
Speaker 1: Um with Ray Horton, he was a d C for
Speaker 1: EST last year and none. You know, it's the same
Speaker 1: cause you know, usually Barton knows. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of this stuff is carried over from team the team.
Speaker 1: It's a copycat league, as you know, so you know
Speaker 1: it was it was pretty good. Um uh, you know,
Speaker 1: getting in there and learning the guys, learning how the
Speaker 1: guys operate. But it was an easy transition for me.
Speaker 1: Everybody's super humble, you know, cool to tough to them.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a tough thing coming in just
Speaker 1: mid season basically what both both of you guys have done,
Speaker 1: because not only are you picking off packing moving saying okay,
Speaker 1: I got a new working environment, but you have to
Speaker 1: Both of you guys are in positions where you have
Speaker 1: to prove it on the practice field because if you
Speaker 1: come in and you don't prove it on the practice field,
Speaker 1: you're not getting playing time or you're not here and
Speaker 1: you're looking for a new address. And it's tough. You
Speaker 1: just tough because you have to earn the trust of
Speaker 1: your coaching staff and teammates. But you have limited opportunities.
Speaker 1: A lot of times when your backup, you know, you're
Speaker 1: you're running the scout team. You know play, so you
Speaker 1: know you you have very few opportunities to run the
Speaker 1: offensive prove that you you know, absorbed the offense. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I commend both of these guys. It's tough
Speaker 1: coming in. And you know, that's what people don't understand
Speaker 1: when they talk about you know, they say, hey, we
Speaker 1: are millionaires and your life is easy, but you'll talk
Speaker 1: about moving from San Francisco to New York. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can go any farther, you know, and picking
Speaker 1: up and leaving your belongings and living out of a hotel,
Speaker 1: living out of a suitcase. You know, you have to
Speaker 1: be persistent, you know, to to to stick. And it's
Speaker 1: tough because you have to ask somebody that's willing to
Speaker 1: stand on the table for you get your opportunities. And
Speaker 1: that's the that's the hard part. Especially been a third
Speaker 1: round draft pick, especially being an undrafted free agent, opportunities
Speaker 1: are limited and far between. Exavier, you're playing at Washington State.
Speaker 1: The head coach at the time was that Mike Leach.
Speaker 1: Now here's the guy before you. You like, Lease never
Speaker 1: made you sleep in the closet then you here. I
Speaker 1: don't think that would have worked out. You would have
Speaker 1: did that. I never Understill, there's no way this man
Speaker 1: with Maybe you got a clause either, man, I think
Speaker 1: I think handle explain to the listeners I'm speaking of.
Speaker 1: When I'm talking about, I think you're talking about Mike
Speaker 1: Leach and uh his days coaching Texas Tech. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: there were some disciplinarian issues, I guess with a couple
Speaker 1: of players, But where do he put them? Um? I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna cross this fence. Man, we go, we
Speaker 1: go right to the line. We're gonna go over it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go right to the line. He put a
Speaker 1: couple of players made him sitting in closing in the
Speaker 1: dark room because they had concussions. And you know, since then,
Speaker 1: he's he's changed. Don't worry. I said the same thing
Speaker 1: that Mike Leach when he came to the to the facility.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it. If I got your back,
Speaker 1: you know, he was was almost just signed up by
Speaker 1: Tennessee almost. I'm happy you didn't go in to closet.
Speaker 1: But Xavier playing for a guy like Leach at Washington State,
Speaker 1: everybody is thinking offense, offense, offense. Did you feel like
Speaker 1: you were getting to love there? Because the first thing
Speaker 1: you think about it about that program is the Mad Scientists,
Speaker 1: the pirate least Um. Yeah, I mean the amount of
Speaker 1: revs that the offense took, you know, on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: I thought I was playing offense, can tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: But you know, he really never um came over to
Speaker 1: that side. He kind of just let the d C
Speaker 1: be the d C. But it was cool just watching
Speaker 1: how many routes they run and how sophisticated the offense was.
Speaker 1: So it was a good experience. And where are the
Speaker 1: Jets working you predominantly now on that front? Um, I'm
Speaker 1: just a reserve defensive linement for now, and I'm just
Speaker 1: playing all multiple positions wherever they need me, you know,
Speaker 1: when the guys need to come out for rest, I'm
Speaker 1: just jumping in there. You know, where do you fail?
Speaker 1: Your natural position is? My natural position is at the
Speaker 1: three technique being able to rush inside and penetrate inside.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm just trying to, you know, find
Speaker 1: my home here. And you know, asked was you know,
Speaker 1: whatever they asked for me to do, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do it. And you know, just play hard. Bart Scott
Speaker 1: and I do a weekly film review on Jets Flight
Speaker 1: playing eleven thirty Sunday morning on CBS UH and he'll
Speaker 1: go in to the definitions of football terms. But why
Speaker 1: didn't you explain to folks at home watching right now
Speaker 1: or listening on ESPN radio the three technique the three technique?
Speaker 1: So really the three technique is shaded on the guard.
Speaker 1: The guard is located right next to the center, and
Speaker 1: usually the three technique gets to you know, one on
Speaker 1: one matchup. You know his his main objective is to
Speaker 1: control the B gap, you know, penetrate that B gap,
Speaker 1: knocked back the B gap, you know, hold up double
Speaker 1: teams periodically for the winebackers, so guys like Martin come
Speaker 1: in and you know, get that money too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's the position of the three techniques. Always always
Speaker 1: treated my three techniques very well. Watches food, steaks, whatever
Speaker 1: you want. I like my dude, nice and fat, whatever,
Speaker 1: you won't you got it what you really at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. Absolutely, yeah, I'm very rather. You know,
Speaker 1: before these I pass came out. I know, I know
Speaker 1: you guys, this is all you know. But we had
Speaker 1: our courses, our curses. Was kind of like the first
Speaker 1: iPad that Apple stole the technology from. I always make
Speaker 1: sure they had everything they needed, man, because what happens
Speaker 1: is it's not a glorious position. Man. Half the time
Speaker 1: you're sitting there and sitting on double teams, and you know,
Speaker 1: God comes like me come down. Always make sure whenever
Speaker 1: I was a linebacker, I got downhill fast so then
Speaker 1: they can split the double team and then I can
Speaker 1: do my part as well. But but that's what people
Speaker 1: liked about you when you played UH during your days
Speaker 1: with the Jets, is this guy loved to take on
Speaker 1: guards and if another linebacker was getting the tackle, you
Speaker 1: were fine with that. So a good man. This is long.
Speaker 1: As long as long as you teammates know you have
Speaker 1: the respect from your teammates, that's all you care about.
Speaker 1: You don't care all about all the individual accolades because
Speaker 1: you know, the easiest thing to get in football is stats, right,
Speaker 1: But but to get the stats, who are willing to
Speaker 1: screw it? You know, I can go and brush the
Speaker 1: pass and get a million sacks, But how many yards
Speaker 1: am I gonna get give up by getting up field
Speaker 1: and creating a harder gap for my linebacker to have
Speaker 1: to field. But and that's where you get the real
Speaker 1: respect from is your peerers. Joe Joe, Joe Gez not
Speaker 1: only are your receiver, but you are the Jets primary
Speaker 1: return man. Right now, what is the mentality of a returner?
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, my mentality, man, I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to bring a spark to the team
Speaker 1: in the best wa he's possible on you know, can't
Speaker 1: return part returns my UH blocking unit. You know they
Speaker 1: do a good job from me every week and you know,
Speaker 1: just earning the coaches trust on the team. My team
Speaker 1: made his trust. So any way possible I can make
Speaker 1: a spark for the team, That's what I'm trying to do.
Speaker 1: So you gotta be a little crazy to volunteer for
Speaker 1: that because people don't realize, you know, I mean it's
Speaker 1: hard to block these gunners in the league. And you
Speaker 1: got guys that's you know, right in your face. They're
Speaker 1: running you know, forty miles meant yards and the collisions.
Speaker 1: You know, who who who inspired you? Who are something
Speaker 1: to you? Who's the best returner to ever doing? I
Speaker 1: gotta go with I gotta go with d Heston, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean you're watching what he did just throughout his
Speaker 1: career and just you know inspired me. They you know,
Speaker 1: we're trying try to, you know, follow his path. Do
Speaker 1: you think you're close. There's been a couple of times
Speaker 1: I've watched you after they got you down and you're
Speaker 1: hopping to the sidelines like, oh if I just broke
Speaker 1: that tackle, made one stuff this way, I'm to the house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I'm closed. Uh, Like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to you know, take each week, one
Speaker 1: week at a time, you know, just build my confidence up,
Speaker 1: and you know, because I feel like that's all it
Speaker 1: is for me right now, just you know, trying to
Speaker 1: build my confidence up and then you know that big
Speaker 1: one that's gonna come. So my coach telling me to
Speaker 1: be patient and you know it's gonna come. And what
Speaker 1: about your Joe um offensively, you're getting a little bit
Speaker 1: of working and practice as well or right now predominantly uh,
Speaker 1: special teams right now, I mean it's predominant special teams.
Speaker 1: But I'm getting a little work each week coach, working
Speaker 1: in the practice. You know, I came in late. You know,
Speaker 1: I could leaving the coach, so I wasn't kind of
Speaker 1: I want all the way caught up with the guys
Speaker 1: on as far as the playbook. But you know, as
Speaker 1: week's been going by, I've been getting better in a
Speaker 1: in my playbook. And you know, Coach, he's you know,
Speaker 1: trying to put me in the midst a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'll go into the to the suggestion boxing get you
Speaker 1: on that jet suite, you know what I mean, storage
Speaker 1: storage story couldn't been that corner quite yesterday. Well get
Speaker 1: you a shot at it. Exavier what's it been like
Speaker 1: for you to work with a guy, A consummate professional,
Speaker 1: Steve mcleanden, who came over here from the Pittsburgh Steeler.
Speaker 1: He's been here a number of years. I think he's
Speaker 1: kind of an unhar old guy along that defensive line,
Speaker 1: a good run stuffer. He's really helped this team out
Speaker 1: um fortify the middle this year. I think. Yeah, Steve
Speaker 1: brings that event savness to the d line. Um Ever
Speaker 1: since I got here. Uh, you know, Steve's welcome me in.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been able to teach me some things
Speaker 1: I didn't know, because you know, you gotta stay a
Speaker 1: student in this game, because this game will bring you
Speaker 1: to your knees. Every everybody knows that that's played it.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I just asked Steve, you know,
Speaker 1: different things about taking on doubles, playing different uh blocks,
Speaker 1: going against different offensive schemes, and he's been really helpful.
Speaker 1: He's he's got like a philosopher way about him, doesn't
Speaker 1: he figus? Uh? He always looks at the big picture
Speaker 1: and is able to grab hold of it and then
Speaker 1: and then articulated in a fine way. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Stephen de Mario great leaders on the defense. You know,
Speaker 1: like I said, I played, I played with the Mario
Speaker 1: and Cleveland as well, and him and Steve. You know,
Speaker 1: bring that vet saving us and guys that you know
Speaker 1: can get you up it if you're filling down or
Speaker 1: something's going on in your life. You know, when you
Speaker 1: test the field with those guys, you want to bring it.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm just I'm just reminded when you say tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded because you gotta think I got him when
Speaker 1: he was young and he hit us with the wheelbarrow story.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a rookie and he come in he
Speaker 1: tells his story about getting in the wheelbarrow. We're all
Speaker 1: looking like rookie if you don't shut the hell up
Speaker 1: and go get my doughnuts, man, get down out of here.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's listen. I'm listen. I'm problem. I tell you,
Speaker 1: I'm like a problem. I'm like a proud paper man
Speaker 1: because I've watched you know, the Mario mature and you
Speaker 1: know we talked about at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he struggled him and Darren with
Speaker 1: the chemistry, you know, but I don't think I think
Speaker 1: he's playing top five linebacker in his league since you
Speaker 1: know Week three alright, so uh, he's Savory Cooper. Keep
Speaker 1: up the hard work, Joe Joe. Now sin, I think
Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time because base good things
Speaker 1: happened the folks who visit us on inside the Jets.
Speaker 1: So that's some fantasy advice for you. Maybe pick up
Speaker 1: Joe Joe Nansen down the stretch. He's ready to take
Speaker 1: one to the house. Thanks so much for joining us. Guys,
Speaker 1: may be right back. I'm inside the Jets. Thanks. We're
Speaker 1: back here at Vandabilet Sports and Spirits at the Windham
Speaker 1: Hamilton's Park Hotel. Nice job defense the lineman Xavier Cooper
Speaker 1: also a wide receiver, kick returner Jojoe Natson, and I
Speaker 1: wish we were on live during the break. We might
Speaker 1: have to start doing that, uh for folks on Facebook
Speaker 1: or watching our livestream on New York tes dot Com ESPN.
Speaker 1: We gotta pay the commercials. But you just had some
Speaker 1: words of wisdom for both of these guys. It may
Speaker 1: get too real for him off off the area. Yeah no, no,
Speaker 1: I've just explained to them. Listen, I've been in the
Speaker 1: in the in the situation that they've been in I've
Speaker 1: been undrafted free agent, you know, just waiting for that
Speaker 1: one opportunity. And I was telling him, listen, you may
Speaker 1: only get one opportunity. If you get to you're lucky
Speaker 1: and to maximize those opportunities, you know, because I've been there,
Speaker 1: and I explained to them what my first start was,
Speaker 1: the situation, um that that that it came under. And
Speaker 1: you know, you would have never heard of me if
Speaker 1: I hadn't performed when I had that opportunity. So yeah, well,
Speaker 1: let's to be transparent with the people out there. But
Speaker 1: my first start, after three years of waiting, after being
Speaker 1: a special team's demon, after working your way up during practice,
Speaker 1: you get a start. Not a Sunday afternoon, not against
Speaker 1: any any old team, but it's a Monday night game
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. Still. Yeah, absolutely, it was Halloween night, Monday
Speaker 1: night football, right night for Bart Scott Man backer, Jerome Benness,
Speaker 1: Willie Parker, No Ray Lewis, Lewis Hamstring got the week before,
Speaker 1: and everybody was like, hey, you know, Pittsburgh was Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: at that time, and you know, at that time it
Speaker 1: was really about running the ball and and and being physical.
Speaker 1: And here I am this two thirty five pound linebacker,
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody thought, okay, it was a foregoing
Speaker 1: conclusion that the Stellers were gonna run the pump and
Speaker 1: I and I took those lights and I signed them
Speaker 1: directly on me, and I dared to be great. And
Speaker 1: then I said, hey, man, if I'm if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go down, I'm going down swinging. You know, I'm going
Speaker 1: down on my back. They're gonna have to carry me
Speaker 1: out of here. And I was willing to die at night. Literally,
Speaker 1: I was willing to die. I willing do whatever I
Speaker 1: had to do to make sure that I got an
Speaker 1: opportunity and I got a second chance. And I had
Speaker 1: a decent night. I believe I had two sacks and
Speaker 1: eleven tackles, you know, a couple of p b U s,
Speaker 1: and you know, took Big band down a couple of
Speaker 1: times and showed bussy ball. I was a driver that night.
Speaker 1: And the rest is history for Bart Scott. Uh Jets
Speaker 1: defensively against Kansas City gave up way too many big
Speaker 1: plays for their own liking. Kansas City didn't really rush
Speaker 1: the football. Yes, Elx Smith got free for seventy yard
Speaker 1: or you never want to see that I seen them
Speaker 1: pulling away from Guy's man. I gotta check some some
Speaker 1: forty on that defense. So this year though the Jets
Speaker 1: have not given up a lot of big plays defensively,
Speaker 1: What did you see? Why did it happen Sunday? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's tough to be on the island
Speaker 1: with with Tyreek Hill. I mean, you talk about Robby Anderson,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is more compact. Uh, He's faster in and
Speaker 1: out of his brakes. He is the fastest man in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I mean you talk about I mean
Speaker 1: you can't get enough cushion, and you know been on
Speaker 1: one on one and you know, talk about the last
Speaker 1: play and man and man coverage. You know, the Jets
Speaker 1: tried to show that too deep shell. But Alex Smith
Speaker 1: has been there, done that. He's seen all these type
Speaker 1: of looks before. You know, the safety can only hold
Speaker 1: it for so long. And running the bang eight and
Speaker 1: when you have outside leverage, which is you're trying to
Speaker 1: play to whatever help you can get. When you said
Speaker 1: bang eight, bangade is like a post. So imagine running
Speaker 1: straight in that fifteen twenty yards you're going to. It's
Speaker 1: going straight to the goal post. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's tough when you have outside leverage because you can't
Speaker 1: get too high on him because if you get in
Speaker 1: front of him and give up the post, you have
Speaker 1: absolutely no help. You have a small chance to have help.
Speaker 1: If it's a dig or something like that. You can
Speaker 1: get either your whole player or your rat player. When
Speaker 1: I say a whole player of rat player, it's the
Speaker 1: un it's the free defender. He can choose to help
Speaker 1: whoever he wants to help in between the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. But he made that help may go to
Speaker 1: somebody else, so you know, you don't know. And and
Speaker 1: you know Tyreek Hill got it got loose. But what
Speaker 1: I was impressed with is they never blinked, you know,
Speaker 1: whenever whenever Kansas City answered, they had a response. And
Speaker 1: you know, that's what you talk about it saying any
Speaker 1: means necessary. It's not gonna always be pretty, you know,
Speaker 1: but the the ultimate goal is to get the victory.
Speaker 1: And that's what they did. And they did it because
Speaker 1: they showed a lot of grit, they showed a lot
Speaker 1: of character, and they showed that you know that they
Speaker 1: can that they can be in a tight game and
Speaker 1: fighting scrap against an elite quarterback. Listen, good teams find
Speaker 1: different ways to win. And if you had told me
Speaker 1: before Sunday and the Jets were going to be in
Speaker 1: a you in the shootout with the Kansas City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: I would have thought, Hey, maybe this is something you
Speaker 1: don't want to be in. But they found themselves in
Speaker 1: that and they found a way to win. In the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, different guys stepped up. I mean you talk
Speaker 1: about you know, the points they put up. I think
Speaker 1: there's more points than the Giants put up all year combined. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I said it. Yes, said it's been a horrible year.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm kind of enjoying that a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: a basking and glory from a former player's perspective. Uh.
Speaker 1: Something that Todd Bowles did uh before this game was
Speaker 1: he made Darrenly inactive and he also uh benched Mohammed
Speaker 1: Wilkerson for the first quarter. Now, Todd Bowles is a
Speaker 1: kind of guy, and I know you have trun to
Speaker 1: run amount of respect for him. He does not take
Speaker 1: any issue publicly. If he's got to say anything to
Speaker 1: a player, he's gonna say it behind closed doors. What
Speaker 1: he said to the media was coach's decision we handled
Speaker 1: in the house. I mean you you you got and
Speaker 1: and and that's what you You don't want to publicly
Speaker 1: embarrassed um athlete unless you have to, unless they make you,
Speaker 1: you know. And and Ty keeps everything in the house.
Speaker 1: And I think you know, you don't see any leaks
Speaker 1: this year. You don't hear anybody speaking out. Everybody kind
Speaker 1: of hounds their business professionally. And you know, but what
Speaker 1: that does is send a message. That sends a message
Speaker 1: to your team that nobody is bigger than this team. Right,
Speaker 1: No victory is important, you know. And and I'm not
Speaker 1: picking on the giants, but if they would a nip
Speaker 1: the O'Dell stuff in the butt earlier, I don't think
Speaker 1: Macaw doing These guys you know, get get fired today,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's because you have to. You treat
Speaker 1: everybody fairly. You can't treat everybody the same, but there's
Speaker 1: certain things that you just have to put your foot down.
Speaker 1: And when if you break team rules, nobody is above
Speaker 1: the team rules. Nobody is bigger than the team. That
Speaker 1: that is the message that Todd Bowles ascending. And look
Speaker 1: at the way the guys on the field, Sunday responded,
Speaker 1: next man up. And you know, every but every Sunday,
Speaker 1: something we talk about is that the Jets this year
Speaker 1: are playing good football. Yes, the record is not where
Speaker 1: they wanted to be, but at five and seven every
Speaker 1: week they come with juice, passion, energy. Last year, at times,
Speaker 1: we watch a lot of veterans struggle through moments basically
Speaker 1: late in their career, and the Jets were getting blown
Speaker 1: out of games. You go and each week thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: this team is gonna give everything they have and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance at victory in the fourth quarter. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean in this league, you can get by with
Speaker 1: enthusiasm and passion and emotion and sometimes teams for some
Speaker 1: certain reasons and I don't bring the passion. And it's
Speaker 1: harder when you're a veteran and you've you know, have
Speaker 1: been there, done that. All these guys play like they're
Speaker 1: excited to have an opportunity to play football for a living.
Speaker 1: And that's something that you know should be commended that
Speaker 1: these guys bring it every every week. And that's what
Speaker 1: happens is you know, guys don't bring it in What
Speaker 1: happens is a lot of effort and past can get
Speaker 1: you get you through you know, you're not gonna every place,
Speaker 1: is not gonna always be the perfect play. But it's
Speaker 1: a lot to be said about hustle and grits. De
Speaker 1: Mario didn't have to run Alex Smith down if you
Speaker 1: hesitate just for a second, right those on the two
Speaker 1: yards where he where he goes in. But when you
Speaker 1: see that guy, you know, brat Lucy, you decided to
Speaker 1: pull the triggers, then you know that's impulsi, that's that's practice,
Speaker 1: that's that's trading a culture. You're watching inside the Jets.
Speaker 1: We're here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits, Eric count and
Speaker 1: part Scott. We're gonna come right back and talk about
Speaker 1: the Jets going to the Mile High City and facing
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. All right, we're back here at the
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's
Speaker 1: Park um Part Jets Broncos Sunday in Colorado. Jets so
Speaker 1: far the season, just one road victory. This is a
Speaker 1: on team who has every right to be feeling good
Speaker 1: about themselves, but they only have one road victory this year.
Speaker 1: That was in Cleveland. That was a struggle. How did
Speaker 1: they take this performance against Kansas City and going to
Speaker 1: Denver and take care of business against a team that
Speaker 1: has lost eight consecutive games and it's now three and nine.
Speaker 1: But they gotta realize they can't overlook anybody. They haven't
Speaker 1: earned the right to overlook anybody. And if you've never
Speaker 1: played in Mile High before, they're in for a route
Speaker 1: rakening because the altitude is something that can be an issue.
Speaker 1: So you want to make sure that you're efficient on
Speaker 1: getting off the field on third down, and you're you're
Speaker 1: efficient and converting third down. You know, I remember playing
Speaker 1: in the Mile High Stadium when I was with the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, and you know, we told people every every
Speaker 1: day that, okay, listen, the air is thin up there
Speaker 1: is gonna be different, right And until you start really running,
Speaker 1: you don't understand. First of all, you have to worry
Speaker 1: about altitude takenal so I'll be I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: the Jets decided to travel as well, because well, how
Speaker 1: did you used to do that? As well? You can
Speaker 1: do it one or two ways. You can go out
Speaker 1: there a day early, give your body an opportunity to
Speaker 1: acclimate to the to the altitude, or you fly in
Speaker 1: late It takes like twenty four hours for you to
Speaker 1: feel the effects of altitude sickness because you can get
Speaker 1: migraines at night sleeping as the error spin. And also
Speaker 1: you have to adjust because when you start running you
Speaker 1: can get headaches. So it's gonna be important that you
Speaker 1: prepare for. It didn't really impact me on the field,
Speaker 1: and it didn't impact me because I was in great
Speaker 1: shape and I was too young and stupid to know
Speaker 1: that I was supposed to be tired. But I did
Speaker 1: see I won't name his name, but I didn't see
Speaker 1: a linement faker injury because he was so tired during
Speaker 1: two minute drill and he couldn't breathe, so he faked
Speaker 1: his own injury. We had a calls of time out.
Speaker 1: This dude laid on the ground for about twenty minutes
Speaker 1: and then got up and spread it off the field.
Speaker 1: We look like, what are you doing about at enough
Speaker 1: air to spread up the film exactly. He couldn't breathe,
Speaker 1: so he laid down here for about five minutes. But
Speaker 1: he made us way the time out during two minute
Speaker 1: drill while we were trying to get a score. So
Speaker 1: it can be an issue, especially for the bigger players,
Speaker 1: and you talk about dbs and it's something that you
Speaker 1: have to just too. But you know, the biggest problem
Speaker 1: could be the no flies on because it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a huge challenge for curse uh And and Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: as they have to deal with Chris Harrison a key
Speaker 1: to leave if he's off suspensions. I believe he's all suspension.
Speaker 1: I believe it's just I believe I believe the team
Speaker 1: should suspend him another game. What he did was bush league,
Speaker 1: but that's a whole another story. They've been struggling as well,
Speaker 1: and it should be a matchup where you know, it
Speaker 1: should be a defensive struggle because you know, when you
Speaker 1: have three quarterbacks, you have none. You talk about Trevor Simeon,
Speaker 1: Paxson Lynch and Oswalder, I mean talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: not really knowing who your leader is, and that could
Speaker 1: be a problem. But they have very capable weapons on
Speaker 1: the outside. I don't know. I think of Maauel Sanders
Speaker 1: is playing, the Marris Thomas is playing. So they can
Speaker 1: get loose. You can't allow c J. Anderson to get
Speaker 1: rolling because when they've had success this year, it's been
Speaker 1: because c J. Anderson has pulled that safety into the
Speaker 1: box and gave those one on one opportunities on outside.
Speaker 1: How important will early in this ballgame be? Considering Denver
Speaker 1: started three and one, everybody in the National Football League thought, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a playoff team. They might win
Speaker 1: the division, but they'll definitely be in the playoffs. Now
Speaker 1: there is no chance for them to be in the
Speaker 1: postseason under our first year and head coach Fans Joseph.
Speaker 1: They're really struggling. They're scuffling. You've been on teams that
Speaker 1: have struggled before, but I mean eight in a row.
Speaker 1: This is this is something where this is gonna impact
Speaker 1: your mindset. And if the Jets can go in there
Speaker 1: jump on him early against an offense that really can't
Speaker 1: get out of its own way, you gotta figure the
Speaker 1: Jets have a great chance of winning this game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you talk about the best pass rusher in the game,
Speaker 1: when you're talking about Bond Milling, you can't. You have
Speaker 1: to count for him as well. They are good enough
Speaker 1: defensively to win the game on their own. You know,
Speaker 1: if you if you turn the football, absolutely, because they
Speaker 1: got ball hawks who if they catch the ball, can
Speaker 1: turn those into points. As well. I think one of
Speaker 1: the most underrated losses this year was the fact that
Speaker 1: they decided to move on from Wade Phillips. It's a
Speaker 1: totally different defense. It's not as aggressive, it's not as creative,
Speaker 1: it's not the three four, and I think they're struggling
Speaker 1: for that. So the Jets are gonna have to make
Speaker 1: sure that they get out early and that they're they're
Speaker 1: they're willing to use all fifty three on the roster
Speaker 1: because you're gonna need them, especially if these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: because they're young, so to be the first time you
Speaker 1: talk about emotional players, you know, you talk about may,
Speaker 1: you talk about lead, you talk about Adams. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you may have to keep your composure because I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, if you get on one of these two minutes,
Speaker 1: with these two minutes, and you shoot your wire early
Speaker 1: and you get tired early on in the game, it
Speaker 1: could be a long day. Alright. So the Jets, let's
Speaker 1: break the season in the quarters. They're approaching the final
Speaker 1: quarter of the season at then for this week and
Speaker 1: at New Orleans. The team who has really changed its
Speaker 1: identity uh playing pretty good defense, but they're rushing of
Speaker 1: football Alvin Kamaras taking the NFL by storm. Then a
Speaker 1: home game again on Christmas Eve against the l A Chargers,
Speaker 1: who are hard to say, who are competing for the
Speaker 1: a f C West title, and then you finish up
Speaker 1: with New yuh New England on New Year's Eve. What
Speaker 1: do you see quickly in thirty seconds as far as
Speaker 1: the final quarter to schedule, Well, it's it's always tough
Speaker 1: to play against the wing. But you don't you don't
Speaker 1: know if New England's playing for for um number one
Speaker 1: over our record for home for the bandage um going
Speaker 1: against Drew Brees. You know you talk about ingram as well,
Speaker 1: you know that one two punch is really you know,
Speaker 1: running the football is. It's gonna be tough, but you
Speaker 1: know this team is capable of beating anybody if they're
Speaker 1: willing able to put together four quarters of team football
Speaker 1: and make sure they don't turn over the ball. All right,
Speaker 1: come join us next week. That's all other victory Monday