Speaker 1: The game is over and New York the world you
Speaker 1: play to win the game. He's got a touchdown. You're
Speaker 1: listening to the Official New York Jets Podcast, a Jets
Speaker 1: three sixty production. What's up, everybody, Thanks for tuning in
Speaker 1: the Official Jets Podcast Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen. We got
Speaker 1: a very good show in store for you today. We
Speaker 1: brought in Brian Baldinger O NFL Network. I'm sure you've
Speaker 1: seen this stuff. I've seen this stuff hashtag Baldy's breakdown
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I've actually seen a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: over the years. Well, good thing. I was talking to
Speaker 1: the audience and now you okay, that's fine. And Baldi
Speaker 1: came out and braved the elements Sunday at Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: Come on pre game Central. It looked extremely windy on
Speaker 1: pregame Central, didn't it. It was we gotta get that
Speaker 1: table nailed. But yeah, a couple of my papers blew away.
Speaker 1: But fortunately no game plan notes on there for the
Speaker 1: Bears to take a look at. But hey, always great
Speaker 1: catching up with Baldy. He breaks it down like no
Speaker 1: other and we'll talk to him. He had great things
Speaker 1: to say about Sam Donald, really cool inside about what
Speaker 1: goes behind his breakdowns and talked a little bit about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, a little bit about mid season m v
Speaker 1: p s because we're at the midway point of the
Speaker 1: NFL season, which is crazy to think about. And Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams said this the other week and it kind of
Speaker 1: stuck with me. Is after the Vikings game, he said,
Speaker 1: there's kind of sort of not really a lot of
Speaker 1: time left, but there still is a lot of time
Speaker 1: left in the NFL season because when you think about it,
Speaker 1: it's November at this point, and make sure you get
Speaker 1: out vote and thank you for that. And halfway through
Speaker 1: the NFL season. There is still a lot of time left.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, there's not a lot of time.
Speaker 1: So it's like a very interesting dynamics. Well before you
Speaker 1: know it for the Jets, they're gonna be at their
Speaker 1: by their week eleve and by and then you got,
Speaker 1: you know, six games down the stretch. But Game nine
Speaker 1: is very important for this team against the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and Morris clay Borne uh set the tone I think
Speaker 1: for the week, and a couple other guys actually said
Speaker 1: that said this in the post game locker room at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field after the Jets lost twenty four to ten
Speaker 1: to the Bears that this is a must win for
Speaker 1: the Jets. What do you think about that, Young Greens?
Speaker 1: The man who said the Colts game was the most
Speaker 1: important game of the season for the Jets, Well, at
Speaker 1: the time, it was, okay, what do you think about
Speaker 1: this game against Miami Dolphins? Though it's obviously very important.
Speaker 1: I want to I want to clarify here because you
Speaker 1: keep you keep saying if you're a first time listener.
Speaker 1: I didn't just say the Jets. I would hope you're
Speaker 1: not a first time listener, but if you are, tell
Speaker 1: your friends, tell your family, yeah, tell it, tweet whatever.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is that going back then, and
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying that the Jets Colts game was the
Speaker 1: most important game of the season in the sixteen games.
Speaker 1: Either I didn't pluck it out of a hat or anything.
Speaker 1: I didn't market down on the calendar, but at the
Speaker 1: time I felt that it was. It was one of
Speaker 1: those games where I felt like it would show and
Speaker 1: entering week six that the Jets would have taken a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction as a team if they
Speaker 1: would have beaten that Colts team, and they did well
Speaker 1: and this team is in desperate need of a step
Speaker 1: in the right direction. And Todd Bowles said Monday during
Speaker 1: a conference call with reporters, we had dug ourselves a hole.
Speaker 1: We have to dig ourselves out of it. I like that,
Speaker 1: and I think that it's true. And if you remember
Speaker 1: last year in Miami, the Jets lost, I don't think
Speaker 1: they won the year before in Miami either, So oh
Speaker 1: and two in Miami in the past two years and
Speaker 1: then a fourth quarter lead last year that was a
Speaker 1: bitter defeat. Yes it was so, I'm sure. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins one in Week two at My Life Stadium the
Speaker 1: Jets season an opener twelve contest once Sam Doornold passed
Speaker 1: for three thirty four yards, becoming the youngest player in
Speaker 1: NFL history to throw from more than three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Okay. On a side note here is just
Speaker 1: remember last year's game was extremely muddy and the and
Speaker 1: the field was all chalked up and charred up because
Speaker 1: the University of Miami had played there the night before
Speaker 1: in that mud bowl. Yes, the same thing is going
Speaker 1: to happen this week. Was Miami past sounds as it
Speaker 1: stands now, Duke plays the You at hard Rock Stadium
Speaker 1: the night I think it's the night before or maybe
Speaker 1: the afternoon afternoon. I can't imagine if I put that
Speaker 1: game at night regardless, So Duke Miami. Actually Miami played
Speaker 1: I think Syracuse last year. It was the Saturday game
Speaker 1: and it took care of business. But congratulations to you.
Speaker 1: You're anto are now in the top twenty five. I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of celebrations going on there because
Speaker 1: probably there's just two seasons. What is it basketball season
Speaker 1: and winter? Okay, that's true. It's basketball season and there's winter.
Speaker 1: That's it. The Queues, they continue to play basketball every week.
Speaker 1: I love Dino Baber's offense that we're in a highly
Speaker 1: entertaining affair against the c State and the wolf peck
Speaker 1: went down. But we're not gonna I digress on that matter,
Speaker 1: and let's get back to the Jets. At the midway point.
Speaker 1: If I asked you who is the team MVP, just
Speaker 1: the team MVP, who would you go with? The tough question? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a tough question. The team m v P.
Speaker 1: I think you could go in a lot of different directions,
Speaker 1: but for me, all of them land on defense. Right now.
Speaker 1: I think you can make a case for Jamal Adams.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think taking a step in the
Speaker 1: right direction. I think you can make a case for
Speaker 1: Morris Clayborne, who's playing his best ball of his career.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with a bit of an X factor.
Speaker 1: Derenly high three interceptions. Yeah, he's first among linebackers tied
Speaker 1: for the interception lead. He I think that he was
Speaker 1: someone that coming into this year, a lot of fans
Speaker 1: and a lot of external media had questions about Darren
Speaker 1: Lee because he hadn't seen a lot of the production
Speaker 1: from him the first two years, but you saw growth
Speaker 1: and this year, I think he's taken a real step
Speaker 1: forward for this Jets team. So, I mean it may
Speaker 1: not be the sexiest name out there, but I think
Speaker 1: Darren Lee's played. He's played well anytime you're talking about
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, has got three interceptions in the season, and
Speaker 1: who's been pretty good in coverage and also has helped
Speaker 1: this the team in terms of the run game. I
Speaker 1: definitely think he's taken some steps forward. I'd be thinking,
Speaker 1: I think you gotta be hard pressed to go against
Speaker 1: Adams at this point eight games in the season, because
Speaker 1: while he only has the one interception and the Jets
Speaker 1: walk him down in that box a lot. He makes
Speaker 1: a lot of tackles towards the line of scrimmage, He's
Speaker 1: made a number stops behind the line of scrimmage. He's
Speaker 1: been in on some other takeaways, and I think he
Speaker 1: stepped up vocally as well. Just through eight games. I
Speaker 1: think you'd have to go with Adams, which actually leads
Speaker 1: us to a nice transition to our special guest today.
Speaker 1: Because Brian Baldinger is one of the biggest Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: fans there are. You hit the nail on the head
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger. He loves Jamal Adams. So without further ado,
Speaker 1: here's our chat with Baldi. Aready A, let's bring in
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger. You can follow him on Twitter at Baldy NFL.
Speaker 1: Baldi gives tremendous breakdowns. You gotta watch. So I have
Speaker 1: to know how much time does that take you and
Speaker 1: when do you start and when do you end? Well, um,
Speaker 1: I got home late Monday Sunday night after that game
Speaker 1: at Soldier Field Jets in Chicago, and I got the
Speaker 1: NFL films about eleven o'clock, so I got some done
Speaker 1: Sunday night, and then all day yesterday and today, I
Speaker 1: do two versions of it. E A U. I do
Speaker 1: all these breakdowns for the NFL, and this week they
Speaker 1: had me break down the Coach of the Year, Rookie
Speaker 1: of the year, defensive player of the year, all these
Speaker 1: different categories and I did all that and then I
Speaker 1: do do uh other feeds for on Twitter for fans,
Speaker 1: and the NFL uses my content to put it on
Speaker 1: different platforms. But I just see things that uh stand out,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's stand out performances or unacceptable play
Speaker 1: or or great technique, you know. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: comb these games. I watched as many as I can
Speaker 1: as long as I can, and um, I go game
Speaker 1: by game and I just kind of see watching the
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers and how North Turners evolving in his offense
Speaker 1: right there, and you know, some of the good stuff
Speaker 1: and some of the bad stuff that I saw a
Speaker 1: week and I just I put it out there and
Speaker 1: the fans seem to really enjoy it and get that
Speaker 1: kind of level of analysis. Yeah, you're doing a fantastic
Speaker 1: job your social media dynamo, in addition to doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing on radio and television. But you were in
Speaker 1: Chicago on Sunday and you did appear on Pregame Central
Speaker 1: presented by PEPSI. Not a nice spot there from your buddy.
Speaker 1: But what do you know about this New York Jets
Speaker 1: team at the midway point of the two thousand eighteen season.
Speaker 1: This is the third consecutive year they've had a three
Speaker 1: and five mark at the midway point. Well, offensively, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously was really they really struggled all day and a
Speaker 1: lot of it was just you know, pre snap penalties,
Speaker 1: just getting themselves behind the chains. I mean, they were
Speaker 1: constantly first and fifteen, second and fifteen, and you know,
Speaker 1: minus the talent that wasn't out there, Robbie Anderson, Quincy
Speaker 1: and Nanwa, the injury to blow Power mean, the injury
Speaker 1: di Spenser Long. I mean, they're just not good enough,
Speaker 1: you know, in those positions to lose those key people.
Speaker 1: And then you know a rookie and Sam Donald who's
Speaker 1: learning and learning quickly, but still he's a rookie. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just tough. It was tough to move the football,
Speaker 1: you know, a swirling, blustery wind, all those conditions, and
Speaker 1: and then the penalty is on top of it. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a tough day offensively for how challenging do
Speaker 1: you think this is for Jeremy Bates right now? You
Speaker 1: just mentioned those injuries. The Jets are dealing with a
Speaker 1: noon while still has the ankle injury. We'll have to
Speaker 1: see about Robbie Anderson, this team's vertical threat. If he
Speaker 1: can play Sunday in Miami, they're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: do without two nine blah Paul for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. And you mentioned it before. You got a
Speaker 1: twenty one year old quarterback who you expected to have
Speaker 1: ups and downs. Uh, how much of a challenge is
Speaker 1: this for Jeremy Bates right now? Well, it's tough. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, it's as tough as it guess,
Speaker 1: but it's a no mercy league. He's feeling sorry for
Speaker 1: the Jets. Everybody's just trying to, you know, eke out
Speaker 1: another win and trying to stack them and see if
Speaker 1: they can put something together. So you know, other people
Speaker 1: have got to pick up, you know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how many throwaways Sam Donald had because he
Speaker 1: was under pressure. I mean, you know, he completed half
Speaker 1: his passes, but I mean of those half, I mean
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, I saw drops, I saw him
Speaker 1: throw the ball away. I saw him. You're just trying
Speaker 1: to save the play and go to the next down,
Speaker 1: not taking a negative play. I mean, they just can't.
Speaker 1: There's just no margin for error in the football team
Speaker 1: right now that anywhere with the injuries and so, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams have them. Some people are better
Speaker 1: at overcoming him because they're really you know, they either
Speaker 1: have depth, or they've developed some good players, or they
Speaker 1: have players that make up for it. So it's just
Speaker 1: the way the league is right now. What do you
Speaker 1: like about Jamal Adams so much? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: every every Monday or Tuesday, I'm seeing you post a
Speaker 1: Twitter video about Jamal Adams coming around the end and
Speaker 1: making a run play and making an impact for this
Speaker 1: Jets team. I mean, going into last week, you know,
Speaker 1: he led the team and he was leading the team
Speaker 1: and tackles and tackle for losses, so many different categories.
Speaker 1: He just the way that he played the game, the
Speaker 1: level of intensity, the way that he hits, the way
Speaker 1: that he you know, basically rules the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, I like all those, all those things. He
Speaker 1: didn't make very many plays against Chicago on on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if there's gonna be a Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams breakdown this week. I like to do it when
Speaker 1: he's really good, but I just love the way that
Speaker 1: he plays the game and I know how important it
Speaker 1: is to him, And just talking to certain coaches on
Speaker 1: that Jet staff, they wish they could have quite a
Speaker 1: few more of Jamal Adams sprinkled amongst the team that
Speaker 1: they probably be able to overcome a lot of the
Speaker 1: issues right now if they had more of that type
Speaker 1: of spirit. Baldi, how much pressure does it put on
Speaker 1: this defense where the offense is at right now? You
Speaker 1: just talked about their struggles and defensively, I thought they
Speaker 1: played very well in Chicago for thirty minutes of football
Speaker 1: minus one play where Tarik Cohen got free on a
Speaker 1: screenplay for seventy yards, but the Jets didn't make that
Speaker 1: stop down the stretch when they were actually still in
Speaker 1: a ballgame at seventeen to ten um. Do you think
Speaker 1: what's happened offensively cand of have an impact on this
Speaker 1: defense right now? Yeah? I mean it can wear you
Speaker 1: can wear down, you can be out there too long
Speaker 1: and all those kind of things and certainly in the
Speaker 1: second half. They they really struggled to stop him on
Speaker 1: you know, basically the whole second half. I mean, they
Speaker 1: really struggled to stop him. I mean Chicago was just
Speaker 1: able to continue to convert. They had a hard time
Speaker 1: as I thought they would. They had a hard time
Speaker 1: containing Mr. Trobiscuit. And he's he is an elite runner
Speaker 1: with the football. He's second amongst all quarterbacks rushing to football,
Speaker 1: and he extends drives. He did on Sunday. He didn't
Speaker 1: run for a lot of I mean fifty one yards
Speaker 1: he ran for I think, but you know those were
Speaker 1: important runs. They extend drives and you gotta account for him,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots didn't and the Jets didn't, and you
Speaker 1: know they it just keeps your defense out there, and
Speaker 1: plus you're chasing that guy. Where's people out So they
Speaker 1: had a hard time with him in the second half,
Speaker 1: and um, it didn't help their cause. But you know, look,
Speaker 1: I mean the defense has gotta take the ball away,
Speaker 1: and you know they weren't able to do that the
Speaker 1: other day. They didn't knock the ball loose, they didn't
Speaker 1: force a fumble, they didn't didn't do anything like that.
Speaker 1: So I mean, the defense has gotta they've gotta be
Speaker 1: able to help to change the game. They've invested a
Speaker 1: lot of resources outside of the ball. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of number one draft picks, a lot of high
Speaker 1: price free agents on that side of the ball. Uh.
Speaker 1: Those guys, you know, they're getting paid and being drafted
Speaker 1: to change the game, and they gotta step up and
Speaker 1: do that. Morris Clay Warren said after the game, ball
Speaker 1: that is in the locker room was listening to his
Speaker 1: post the game UH media briefing. He said, it's a
Speaker 1: must win against the Miami Dolphins. When you look at
Speaker 1: the Jets schedule here they are three and five. They're
Speaker 1: starting an FC East portion, going down to South Florida
Speaker 1: playing the Dolphins, then they come home and play the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And you gotta buy before you face New England.
Speaker 1: You can't even think about the pages right now. But
Speaker 1: with them being on a two game losing street right now,
Speaker 1: do you buying into that? You played the game, man,
Speaker 1: and you've been covering it forever. Do you think this
Speaker 1: is a must for the Jets to win this weekend? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. Um, Look, there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: Jet fans down there in Miami there always is. It's
Speaker 1: almost a home game for him. Um, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: support down there, a lot of transplanted New Yorkers, and
Speaker 1: so the Miami Dolphins are. They're struggling the same way.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are four and four right now. They've
Speaker 1: come off two straight losses after a great win against
Speaker 1: Chicago and so they've had ten days to get ready
Speaker 1: after just an awful loss to Houston. So I I'm
Speaker 1: with Maurice Clayborne on this. I mean, they're three and five,
Speaker 1: and you go to three and six, you lose another
Speaker 1: division game. I mean it's you're looking up till the
Speaker 1: whole second half of the season. You win this game
Speaker 1: and you get your fourth win, you get a game
Speaker 1: against Buffalo that you know by all means, you know,
Speaker 1: we saw how they're struggling. I mean, who knows if
Speaker 1: you can get to five and five in a buy
Speaker 1: and you you know, get some guys healthy and the quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more confidence. I mean, who knows
Speaker 1: was against the Patriots what you can do? Donald? Has
Speaker 1: he met your expectations? Is this what you thought of
Speaker 1: going into his rookie season. Obviously you can't account for injuries,
Speaker 1: but you know better than anybody. Injuries is gonna happen
Speaker 1: on any team. It just seems like it's really hit
Speaker 1: the Jets of late. But uh deal like by and large,
Speaker 1: what you've seen of him so far. I'll say this,
Speaker 1: e A. I spoke with Tony Romo before the game
Speaker 1: up in the booth and we were talking about quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and specifically Sam Donald, and Tony Romo loves him. He
Speaker 1: said this, and I'll quote, he has a chance to
Speaker 1: be the best quarterback in the NFL. So, I mean
Speaker 1: that's coming from a guy that does this every single
Speaker 1: week and he knows the position. And he told me why.
Speaker 1: Just his decision making, the speed, the way that he
Speaker 1: gets the ball out, there's a lot to work with.
Speaker 1: I I don't care about any rookie statistics. I told
Speaker 1: Eliman our Peyton Manning throw thirty interceptions is rookie year.
Speaker 1: He was the best quarterback we've all watched in our lifetime,
Speaker 1: him and Tom Brady together. So the rookie year is
Speaker 1: the rookie year. I mean, the whole purpose of drafting
Speaker 1: Sam Donald at number three e A is to now
Speaker 1: identify him as the franchise quarterback and just do nothing
Speaker 1: but build around him. Depth on the offensive line, more weapons,
Speaker 1: just give him more and more and more, like they
Speaker 1: did Trabisky, like they have Carson Wentz, like they have
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, and you build around that guy, and that's
Speaker 1: the formula. So I like everything about the kid, everything,
Speaker 1: and so nothing seems to phase him. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that he's not happy being where he's a record wise,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna be He's gonna do everything the
Speaker 1: right way. And so I think the Jets are fortunate
Speaker 1: only just from a macro level. Is going back to
Speaker 1: the film breakdowns, is what can you tell for people
Speaker 1: that know what for people that don't know? Is what
Speaker 1: can you tell people the differences between watching film and
Speaker 1: watching the game broadcast? Well, you know, if you just
Speaker 1: watch the game broadcast, you don't have the ability just
Speaker 1: to slow it down and freeze it and rewind it
Speaker 1: and go over and over and over again. You can't
Speaker 1: see all twenty two players. I mean if you're watching
Speaker 1: the TV broadcast, I mean you know the the the
Speaker 1: card camera that the game camera is going to file
Speaker 1: the quarterback. So as soon as the quarterback drops back
Speaker 1: you immediately lose the entire secondary and what happens. You
Speaker 1: don't know the route combinations, You don't know the coverage.
Speaker 1: You don't know if somebody made a mistake. You don't
Speaker 1: know how the route combination beat the cover. You don't
Speaker 1: know anything that happens at that part of the field.
Speaker 1: You don't see the breakdowns inside on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: why it play works, why it doesn't work. So if
Speaker 1: you're watching the coaches broadcast, you can watch this in
Speaker 1: slow motion. You can freeze it, rewind it, uh, and
Speaker 1: you can play it over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: and you can see the whole design of the play,
Speaker 1: the mistakes of the play, why it worked, why it
Speaker 1: didn't work, effort, I mean, all that stuff you see
Speaker 1: when you can sit in a film room and study it.
Speaker 1: The game is impossible to really digest in real time.
Speaker 1: You have to slow it down in coman to really
Speaker 1: see what happens on every play. Who's your mid season
Speaker 1: m v P said, you're going three year awards. Right now,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes beat out Todd Gurley by you know, just
Speaker 1: about just a hair uh. And right now, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: he's throwing twenty six touchdown passes. I mean he's chasing
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning's record of two thousand, thirteen fifty five. I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody would break that. I mean he's averaging.
Speaker 1: I mean every single category he's off the charge good
Speaker 1: and uh, it's just so much fun to watch him.
Speaker 1: I mean, and they've got a dynamic. They've got the
Speaker 1: number one offensive football right now. But Patrick Mahomes for me,
Speaker 1: right now is the league m v P halfway through
Speaker 1: the season. I know they played up at Gillette Stadium
Speaker 1: and the Patriots won that game forty It was highly
Speaker 1: entertaining affair. Would you say New England is still a
Speaker 1: favorite in a f C or would you actually point
Speaker 1: to Kansas City and say, you know what, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have so many offensive weapons. If they're able to secure
Speaker 1: home field advantage, which is a big f a lot
Speaker 1: of football left to be played, that Kansas City should
Speaker 1: be considered the top team in the conference. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: hard to say right now. I mean, Kansas City had
Speaker 1: a home playoff game last year against Tennessee and they
Speaker 1: got beat. Um. Look, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: teams that can make noise to the Houston Texans have
Speaker 1: quietly won five in a row. Um, that defense is
Speaker 1: is not fun to play against right now. They do
Speaker 1: just about everything. Well, uh, I wouldn't. You will see
Speaker 1: what Pittsburgh does in Baltimore this weekend. But Pittsburgh looks
Speaker 1: like they're turning it around. Um, I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some teams that are gonna be able to compete
Speaker 1: with both the Patriots and the Chiefs. Before it's all over,
Speaker 1: let's go over the NFC. The Rams are the only
Speaker 1: undefeated team in the National Football League. They're playing in
Speaker 1: New Orleans this weekend. Have the Rams and maybe the
Speaker 1: Saints separated themselves from a few of those other teams
Speaker 1: like the Vikings. The Eagles are gone through their early
Speaker 1: season struggles right now, but they're definitely not out of
Speaker 1: the mix. Washington, the top DOWNFC East kind of you
Speaker 1: give me a glimpse of what you see when you
Speaker 1: look at that US see right now. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: when New Orleans went to Minnesota and beat him last week,
Speaker 1: I mean that was a big statement win, you know
Speaker 1: for the NFC. They reversed the loss in the playoff
Speaker 1: game from a year ago, so that was a big statement.
Speaker 1: They've won five in a row They're a good football
Speaker 1: team in all areas. They're there number one pick Marcus
Speaker 1: Davenport just keeps getting better every week. Uh. They just
Speaker 1: picked up Eric Apple. They can now play their man
Speaker 1: coverage that they want to play and get after the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna get better defensively. They were awful
Speaker 1: to start the season by getting mark Ingram back. And
Speaker 1: I mean they're just a really sound football team. They
Speaker 1: will give the Rams a fit. Uh, that'll be a
Speaker 1: great game to kind of judge, you know, who's the best.
Speaker 1: But look, Carolina right now, out is turning it around.
Speaker 1: Their offense is really coming together. They had a big
Speaker 1: win against Philadelphia and Baltimore and back to back weeks. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you you you just can't sleep
Speaker 1: right now. Seattle is playing really good football. I think
Speaker 1: there's you know, and I although the Eagles are four
Speaker 1: and four, Carson Wentz is playing fantastic football. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good football to be played in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: So I think there's it's gonna be a real tough
Speaker 1: tournament this year in the NFC once the playoffs begin.
Speaker 1: With the financial flexibility in the spring that they have,
Speaker 1: do you think there are pieces here where the Jets
Speaker 1: are going to be able to turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: I think there's pieces, you know, you'd love to see,
Speaker 1: you know. I think Chris Herndon is a young guy
Speaker 1: obviously the touchdown catch last week, but he's a guy
Speaker 1: I think that they can build with. I think they
Speaker 1: still need another elite tight end. We gotta see what
Speaker 1: blood power looks like, you know, after this surgery, I
Speaker 1: means it serious injury, you got to see. But he's
Speaker 1: certainly has been a good compliment with Crow, so maybe
Speaker 1: they upgrade down. Mean just you just gotta look at
Speaker 1: a piece by piece and look at the whole thing,
Speaker 1: look at you know. I mean I think that when
Speaker 1: you look at Sam Donald, he's you know, first in
Speaker 1: the building, last to leave studies the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got to get like minded people in there. You
Speaker 1: win with a great locker room. And so that means character, work, ethic, um,
Speaker 1: bonding together. Like you gotta look at all these different components,
Speaker 1: just not about talent skill, and so I think Mike
Speaker 1: mccagnan here, uh, if him and the staff are fortunate
Speaker 1: enough to you know, stick around for another year and
Speaker 1: more years to come, those are kind of people that
Speaker 1: you gotta win. With the Eagles one with not the
Speaker 1: most talented group last year, but they had probably the
Speaker 1: best team and they showed it overcoming all the injuries.
Speaker 1: And so that's how you do it. You do it
Speaker 1: with team and you do it with developing younger players.
Speaker 1: And so I think everything is on the table and
Speaker 1: everything should be under the microscope because I do believe
Speaker 1: that it starts with the quarterback, and I think they
Speaker 1: have that guy in the building. Before I'd like to
Speaker 1: go here, last question for me is what then Jets
Speaker 1: fans expect from the Dolphins this week? What have you
Speaker 1: seen from them on film? Well, the best game I
Speaker 1: saw him play was two weeks ago against Chicago Bears,
Speaker 1: and in that game, brock Oswilder wasn't sacked and they
Speaker 1: ran the ball really well. Frank Gore is having a
Speaker 1: almost like a renaissance of a season. I mean he's
Speaker 1: averaging better than what he's averaged in his career. I
Speaker 1: think he's the third or fourth leading rusher of all time.
Speaker 1: And Kenyan Drake was a good compliment. I mean they
Speaker 1: could run the football and it's gonna start start with that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know who's gonna play,
Speaker 1: whether it's Tannehill or Osswilder this week. But they want
Speaker 1: to try to run the football, and they have done
Speaker 1: that at times this year. Um and then there was
Speaker 1: at times, you know against Houston where there are a
Speaker 1: really good run defense, they weren't very good at it
Speaker 1: and they turned the ball over. So that's if I
Speaker 1: was a Jets fan, I'm gonna be there at Dolphin Stadium.
Speaker 1: I'm watching this game on TV. I mean, I'd watch
Speaker 1: both those backs, Score and Drake and how they run
Speaker 1: the ball because when they're running a pretty well, that
Speaker 1: offense isn't bad. That's Brian Baldinger of NFL Network. Be
Speaker 1: sure to follow him on Twitter at Ball the NFL. Baldi,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on the Official Jets Podcast. Great jobs always, brother, Okay,
Speaker 1: my pleasure, guys. I'll talk to you down the road, man.
Speaker 1: Take care. Great stuff from Baldy is always. But what
Speaker 1: really stood out there was what Baldy and Tony Romo
Speaker 1: both believe Sam Donald is going to be. I mean,
Speaker 1: you heard it. Baldy said that, Tony Romo said he
Speaker 1: has a chance to be the best quarterback in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and Olivia land Is caught up with Tony Romo Saturday,
Speaker 1: I believe the day before the Bears game. He had
Speaker 1: great things to say. Tony Romo has had great things
Speaker 1: to say about Sam Donald since the pre draft process.
Speaker 1: Sam is, he gonna be outstanding, And I still think
Speaker 1: that his ceiling is very, very high, and I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a monster leap even as the end
Speaker 1: of the season comes in. But really, when next year starts,
Speaker 1: that second year for players that I think are going
Speaker 1: to be at the level that I think he'll be at,
Speaker 1: one day they make a big, big leap and the
Speaker 1: game will get very slow for him, you know, through
Speaker 1: O t as and training camp. So I think you
Speaker 1: should just enjoy right now, you know, the the ups
Speaker 1: and downs him learning every play, and then you just
Speaker 1: see him to take off pretty soon. Here. UM completely
Speaker 1: impressed with Donald's tomperament. And he was raised so right
Speaker 1: by his parents. You gotta give them a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that because he's a young kid.
Speaker 1: It's just that he is a way about him. And
Speaker 1: you grew up in Manhattan Green, so you bet around
Speaker 1: this media circuits since you were born. You understand what
Speaker 1: the headlines look like in the New York Post and
Speaker 1: the New York Daily News every day, and the scrutiny
Speaker 1: here in New York, and the the great players in
Speaker 1: New York over time, I think have a temperament that
Speaker 1: is there's the steady. They're unwavering in their belief in
Speaker 1: themselves and they will do anything to help their team.
Speaker 1: I think Donald has that. I think Romo has put
Speaker 1: unbelievable expectations on them by coming out and saying I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be the best quarterback in the league.
Speaker 1: That could happen Greens, But from from from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it's like, WHOA, Let's just let this guy come in
Speaker 1: here and do his deal. But I'm I'm like Baldy,
Speaker 1: I'm not so caught up in his stats. Let's just
Speaker 1: watch what he does each and every week. He doesn't
Speaker 1: look out a place on a football field, and right
Speaker 1: now he's dealing with a lot. I mean, that is tough.
Speaker 1: You look at the Jets weapons. He would go into
Speaker 1: the season saying, yeah, they'll be able to manufacture some points,
Speaker 1: but you know, there's not a lot of stars on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, and you're taking big
Speaker 1: time pieces out there when you're talking about a noon one,
Speaker 1: blau Paul, I've always You've heard me say this numerous times.
Speaker 1: I call those guys energizer bunnies for the for this team,
Speaker 1: and they're gone right now, and we'll have to see
Speaker 1: when a noon what comes back. And then Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: can take the top off the defense. He's out of
Speaker 1: the lineup. So when you're going into Chicago and Deante Burnett,
Speaker 1: give him credit because he's just promoted from the practice
Speaker 1: squad and he played with Donald at USC but he
Speaker 1: leaves a team and yards receiving and had that nice
Speaker 1: catch down the sideline against the Bears. Andre Roberts wasn't
Speaker 1: taking ropsid receiver for the most part earliness season. I
Speaker 1: know he's a veteran, he can do it, but he's
Speaker 1: getting out there a lot. You got your main curse.
Speaker 1: Richard Matthews was just signed off the street a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago. He's got a lot on his shoulders.
Speaker 1: And Baldy mentioned it too, pre snap penalties, man. You
Speaker 1: can't have pre snap penalties when you have all these
Speaker 1: things going around you in terms of mixing and matching
Speaker 1: guys in and out Jeff gotta help him a little
Speaker 1: bit more. I'm very happy that you mentioned what Baldi
Speaker 1: said about the rookie stats, because I think that that's
Speaker 1: very important. All of this is that you can't get
Speaker 1: caught up in Sam donald stats, and you have to
Speaker 1: look at what e A said and what Baldi said,
Speaker 1: and what Tony Romo and pretty much everyone has said.
Speaker 1: Is that Sam Donald. Is he looking the part, is
Speaker 1: he doing the little things right? Is he going through
Speaker 1: his progressions, is he making the right read? Is he
Speaker 1: making the right decision as you're looking off the safety.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a thousand things that go into playing quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I think that Sam Donald is doing those things right,
Speaker 1: even though the record and his stats may not show yet.
Speaker 1: And Baldi mentioned it, but Peyton Manning led the league
Speaker 1: in interceptions his rookie year. He had like thirty, so
Speaker 1: he clearly had a tremendous career here. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that high interceptions least a success, but it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that it will hinder your progress and you won't be
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. Well, he didn't turn a football over
Speaker 1: against the Bears, and I know the Jets had a
Speaker 1: ton of three and ounce and oftentimes he was under
Speaker 1: du Russ. But conversely, you can say after he throws
Speaker 1: the ball to Herndon and they have a scoring connection
Speaker 1: for the third consecutive game. And remember these guys are rookies.
Speaker 1: Jets are in the game at seventeen ten, and it
Speaker 1: in that contest. They were widely outplayed for large portions,
Speaker 1: but he still had them in position where it's a
Speaker 1: one possession game, and you gotta give the defense credit.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying he didn't have he didn't have
Speaker 1: an ain killer mistakes and the Jets caught a break. Listen,
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna feel bad for you about the injuries and
Speaker 1: Jets did catch a break themselves and Kleil Mack out
Speaker 1: of the line up, Alan Robinson too. But before we
Speaker 1: wrap up here, yeah, I know it's crazy, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to just do a quick little Halloween bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't dress up as anything. Did you want any
Speaker 1: Halloween parties this year? You didn't know? Are you I'm
Speaker 1: hearing around the office or Halle Halloween or Team Halloween?
Speaker 1: You said hollow yellow? Yeah? Okay, see I've said Halloween
Speaker 1: my whole life, and only the past couple of years
Speaker 1: have I started to begin to hear people say Halloween.
Speaker 1: I think that's crazy. I think it's fun for people
Speaker 1: to dress up. I still think this is a holiday
Speaker 1: that should be celebrated by kids. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: it is for the most part. It's an excuse to
Speaker 1: get candy from your kids. Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was never the or thirty year old guy wearing
Speaker 1: a costume anywhere. I'm not either. In fact, Halloween, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna catch slack for this at me on Twitter. Overrated.
Speaker 1: If you're not a child, or you're not the parent
Speaker 1: of a child, it is overrated. Um, because if you're
Speaker 1: dressing up and you're in you're in college or whatever,
Speaker 1: it's an excuse to drink, excuse to be it looks stupid.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't need an excuse to drink when your college.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's an excuse to
Speaker 1: dress up and and just look stupid, an excuse to drink.
Speaker 1: It's like a different occasion, so it's just like a
Speaker 1: theme party whatever. It's overrated to me, And maybe it's
Speaker 1: because I'm not good at thinking of Halloween costumes that
Speaker 1: could entirely be it. That kind of surprises me because
Speaker 1: you're on air personality. You're a guy tries different things,
Speaker 1: whether it's burgers with sponsor long or or having a
Speaker 1: snake or reptile on your shoulder with Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: think of a costume. It's like, because I thought, actually,
Speaker 1: you proposed this to me, that they're gonna do some
Speaker 1: Halloween thing this year. Was that true or not? I
Speaker 1: thought you actually we were going to go out. We
Speaker 1: were trying to. Okay, so you're actually going to do that,
Speaker 1: But I wasn't gonna dress up. Oh you weren't. No,
Speaker 1: it's going to be through a haunted house. Haunted house,
Speaker 1: which is entirely different dressing haunted house. How about the
Speaker 1: haunted hey rides? Now you go for that take her
Speaker 1: but out of the city once in a while. I
Speaker 1: have you? Have you ever gone to the Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1: I've been a couple of times. The first time I
Speaker 1: went was when I was in college. Whose Syracuse had
Speaker 1: this week? Oh, Dino should be getting another one. Have
Speaker 1: a nice bowl game, man, I hope So, I hope
Speaker 1: it's a pinch chrifall, because that would be it would
Speaker 1: be in our backyard. I could go, well, you're gonna
Speaker 1: go to the Syracuse Notre Dame game, and he decided, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have not decided yet, but that during the bye week.
Speaker 1: So the stars do align, all right. So what do
Speaker 1: you think about this matchup Jets Dolphins? Second time around?
Speaker 1: You got any feel for you yet? No, I feel
Speaker 1: I don't think I have a feel for it yet.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we'll have to see what the status
Speaker 1: is with Kenny Stills and Ryan Tannehill, if they're able
Speaker 1: to play Monte Parker he got off, yes he did.
Speaker 1: What is going on with their defense and a five
Speaker 1: touchdown passes? The Shawn Watson and guys were just springing
Speaker 1: loose everywhere. I feel like Thursday Night just always a crapshoot. Well,
Speaker 1: you just don't really know what's gonna happen because to me,
Speaker 1: it's either super low scoring or super high school. I mean,
Speaker 1: you saw Rams Vikings and that you know that was
Speaker 1: a shootout. Well, both those defenses, I mean, both those
Speaker 1: offenses are very right. But I'm just saying, like I
Speaker 1: think that there's not a lot of players I think
Speaker 1: like the Thursday night game because it's less, it's more
Speaker 1: taxing on your body. You don't have enough time to
Speaker 1: study or as much time to study. It's like cramming
Speaker 1: for a test. So I think it's a monstrous game
Speaker 1: for both teams. And I'm not saying either team is
Speaker 1: making the playoffs. I'm not saying that. But the Dolphine
Speaker 1: started three and all. They've lost four or five. The
Speaker 1: Jets are three and five for third consecutive year, and
Speaker 1: they were three and three a couple of weeks ago. Um,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have another three game losing streak.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be three and six. And the
Speaker 1: Dolphins the Wheels could be coming off. They lose another
Speaker 1: one here, it would be five out of six. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would anticipate both teams coming out with some desperation.
Speaker 1: I agree with that and try to sweep teams to greens.
Speaker 1: It is hard to sweep team. And I think the
Speaker 1: Jets do have a sour taste in their mouth from
Speaker 1: week two and I'm no doubt about it from last year,
Speaker 1: but you can't really look back that far. But I
Speaker 1: think that there is a bit of a sour taste
Speaker 1: from week two, and when you factor in the way
Speaker 1: the Jets performed, and I think that they'll will come
Speaker 1: out pretty hot against the Dolphins in Miami. Both team
Speaker 1: and both these teams are trying to find themselves this
Speaker 1: way I look at it. No, I haven't watched Miami
Speaker 1: sixty minutes, uh, left and right each game breaking on
Speaker 1: game film or anything like that, but just what you read,
Speaker 1: I think. I think both teams are right in the
Speaker 1: middle of Okay. I think the Jets know what they
Speaker 1: want to be. Uh. Injuries have certainly impacted that because
Speaker 1: the run game hasn't been there. You're you're using different
Speaker 1: guys on the outside, you had a different guy as
Speaker 1: center last week week. I mean, these are all things
Speaker 1: that impacted. You're getting healthier and defense, and I think
Speaker 1: that's encouraging. And Jermaine Johnson maybe he's back in the
Speaker 1: lineup this week, and he got everybody back in that secondary,
Speaker 1: so that could be something. But this is this is
Speaker 1: a very intriguing game. I think both these teams are
Speaker 1: desperate need of a victory. All right, that's all we
Speaker 1: have here on this week's edition of the Official Jets Podcast.
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. We'll be sure to catch you
Speaker 1: next week again. Jets Dolphins, hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
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