WEBVTT - A Conversation with Jets Pass Rusher Jermaine Johnson (11/28) 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:07.120 Official Jets Podcast is presented by win Bet Betting is 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:09.959 a team sport bet together went Bett Eric down here 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.040 at one Jets Drive, joined by Jets defensive end or 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:16.680 should I say linebacker because the number changed. 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:19.640 Johnson, Great to see it, Nice to see you man. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.880 What was it like the past weekend because typically at 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.479 this point of the year you're playing on Sundays. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.000 You had center and Sunday off. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:29.080 It was great. Man. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:31.639 I got a lot of family in town, so you know, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.040 I felt kind of bad just always jetting off and 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.360 no handling this stuff, and they're just kind of twilling 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:36.800 as lungs. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.760 But it was all right. They understand that's what I do. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.080 But it was definitely good to get home, you know, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.360 enjoy time with them, enjoy some time with my girl, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.200 you know, just chill out. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.080 When did you have the opportunity to actually celebrate Thanksgiving 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.360 because Thursday was a big workday in preparation of Friday, 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:55.120 you guys actually stated at the team hotel the night 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:55.720 before the game. 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.040 Yeah, so I just told my mom actually the night 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.280 before Thanksgiving, I was like, Okay, we're not gonna do 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:02.840 it tomorrow. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:04.640 Let's just do it Friday night. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.319 After the game, just have the food ready kind of 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.000 we'll do it Friday night after games. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:09.360 So we did. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.679 I got home and then yeah, we started eating. We prayed, 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.840 we ate and played some games and enjoyed each other. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:16.440 It was dope. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:17.800 How many people in town. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.320 I don't have any open bedrooms, I'll say that. Yeah, 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.480 I don't have any open bedrooms anymore. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.120 So north of twenty you would. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:34.480 Say, probably like twelve to sixteen. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:36.520 Okay, now who handled the cooker? 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:38.640 My mom and my sister and my girl. 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.040 Yeah, what do you guys say? What's your favorite Thanksgiving? 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:42.800 Everything? 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.120 Like anything you can think of, bake magan, cheese, greens, 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:53.000 corn bread, curry, shrimp, curry, chicken. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.880 Ham. We did hens. We didn't do turkey. Actually, oh 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.280 really yeah, because. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.000 No one eats the turkey. Yeah, I'm gonna go straight 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.680 for the him and then the other stuff. And then 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.000 it's like you feel bad, so you got to take 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.760 a little slice of turkey, you know what I'm saying. Like, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:10.160 I think turkey like no offense to turkey on Thanksgiving, 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.720 but I feel like I just move around the turkey. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:13.920 I agree. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.040 I think it's overrated because it's not a lot of 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.320 times just sitting at home saying, Hey, what are we 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:19.000 gonna have for dinner? 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:20.800 Let's pull out turkey exactly. 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.320 All right, So Saturday and Sunday, what did you actually 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:24.040 do with the family? 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:24.880 Chill? 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:29.320 Yeah, Jill sat at home watch TV Christmas movie, decorated 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:30.280 my house for Christmas. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:31.639 You got the lights on? 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.360 Got actually they one of those you know there's inflatable, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:37.400 big inflatable things that. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:38.679 Are like usually on the front lawn. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.440 Yeah, well, my mom and my sister decided to put 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:43.800 it in the house. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:45.000 So now I have. 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.640 Just like six foot inflatable thing just floating in the house, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.400 just sitting up in the house. And I was like, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:52.799 I mean, it's room for it, but it's like, why 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.680 is this that's supposed to go on? Anyway, they have 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.160 fun with the because my niece and nephews are in town, 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.720 and you know, they have fun doing all the decorating stuff. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.680 But it's definitely good Man to enjoy the family, enjoy 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:05.960 the people that you know helped you get here and 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.480 you know, just love supporting you so much. You know, 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.799 it feels good to kind of give some time back 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.400 to them and you know, some some make some memories 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:13.680 with them. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:14.080 For sure. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.000 You got a nine month old daughter. Now, how much 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.680 attention she get from the fan. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.120 Oh, my god, a lot. She's she's a centerpiece, one 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.320 hundred percent. I mean, she's she's the best thing that 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.919 ever happened to me. Definitely just gets you on the 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.680 straight and arrow for sure, right because you can you 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.440 can afford kind of like live a little reckless here 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.000 and there when it's just you gotta worry about, right, right. 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.760 But now, so as soon as she came, I was 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.440 not that I was never on a straight arrow. But 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.480 it's just like, I'm not going to ever let myself 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.360 not be on a straight and narrow because you know, 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.200 I got a little girl, and no, even when she's forty, 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.160 she's gonna be my little girl, so right, gotta make 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.240 sure everything's straight for her. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:53.800 For sure. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.680 It's awesome because he's going to see her develop every 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.840 day and something new every day that you're able to celebrate. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:05.080 I mean, she's she's definitely her her daddy's daughter. She's 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.880 she's this is me too, my whole horn a little bit, 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.240 but she's she's like past every milestone. But I mean 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.680 she she's being brought up in an amazing way. But 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.440 she's she's passing every milestone that she's even supposed to hit. Crawling, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.960 She's already crawling eight months. She's she's saying her first words, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.680 like she's just doing everything so fast, and she's just 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.600 so dope, bro, Like it's so cool, so cool. 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.520 It's gonna get better every single day. What's it been 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:31.760 like for you year two? 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.120 Overall? You're with the Jets? 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.440 Man, Like I said, I don't know if it was 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.440 my daughter, you know, or if I got my girl now, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.440 so I don't know what it is, bro. I mean 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.320 give some credit to myself now. I work my butt 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.560 off in the off season, but just locked in and 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:55.240 you know, I hold myself to a super extremely high 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.800 standard like this, you can't critique me and criticize me 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:04.240 more than I do myself. So obviously individually, it's like, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.960 you know, which I can have places back here, place 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.039 back there? As a team obviously, you know, obviously we 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.400 just want to We're not in a position that we 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.320 saw ourselves in and doesn't sit well with me, but 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.400 you know, we got six weeks left. You never know, 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.760 and I know the guys, the character of the guys. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.040 We haven't here. You know, we're gonna bust our tails 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:25.720 and you know, do what we need to do. So 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.479 I'm just excited for the opportunity. I'm excited for the 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.000 adversity that we have to face because at the end 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.320 of the day, you find out who you truly are 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.080 and who's around you. You know, when when things aren't 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.719 looking good in your back's on the wall, right, you 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.159 either got to punch out or curl up. So you know, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.280 I'm very confident these guys are gonna punch out. 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.320 How did you attack your first professional off season? Because 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.320 I don't really think that you have an opportunity to 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.640 have an off season after you get drafted, you know, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.160 you're just kind of like thrown in the next here 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:55.480 we go. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:06:00.000 It's crazy like after as a rookie, cause you're going, okay, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.440 so you're done playing college. If you're just like I say, 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.960 you just did the regular season, you're done around late November. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.640 Right after that, you got maybe that month of December 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.960 to spend with your family for the holidays, whatever have you. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.279 And then as soon as that's over, you're going to 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.039 train for the combine. And then you got the combine 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.320 and then you got your pro day. So that's by 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.120 like March Area and then then you got to like 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.200 travel to all these teams that want to visit with you, 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.440 and then you get drafted, and then you get drafted, 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:28.960 you fly. I actually have to fly here. The night 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.880 I got drafted, I couldn't even celebrate in Vegas with 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.599 my family, and then we got here, I had to 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.800 fly back, pack up my stuff, fly back, come for 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.000 rookie mini camp OTAs like it's just like I couldn't 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.960 catch my breath, and then you know, it's like it 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:43.880 was crazy. So I actually got to do my first 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:48.000 off season, my first real off season. So I just 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.240 told my myself, because if your mind's not right, you're 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.680 not going to be able to get the most of yourself. 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.520 So I gave myself a little time to relax, and 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.080 I was working out lightly here and there. But then 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.640 I want to say, I turned it on, turned it 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.880 on really in June. And then in June it's pretty 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.960 much doing like two workouts to day for four days 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.159 a week up until I had to come. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.480 For camping and kind of got here. In camping, it 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.400 was just like it was a breeze. I was ready. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:17.120 I was like just strong, like throwing everyone out of 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:17.320 the way. 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:18.720 So I was I was like, all right, I did 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.760 something right, because it's kind of reassuring because you don't 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.560 know you like freestyle. It's not like college where you're like, 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.560 you got to come here, you got workouts at six 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.440 in the morning, you gotta do this, you gotta do that. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.440 It was like, all right, you're on your own pretty 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:30.040 much for all. 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.800 These months, and then you know you can only I 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:34.200 didn't know if I was doing it right or if 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:35.960 I was doing it wrong, and obviously when I got 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.400 here for camp, I was like, I must have did 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:39.000 something right. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.320 Who would you train with their off season and what 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.760 specific part you're doing Did you say, hey, listen, this 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:46.800 is what I really want. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:46.960 To hold in. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.840 Most important thing to me was just explosiveness, because if 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.520 you're an explosive If I'm an explosive player at two 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.880 sixty and I'm explosive fast, obviously I have'n't always been 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:01.520 naturally strong. And then technique just pass rushing, because you know, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.320 that's what I could paint to do right. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:04.480 On top of other things. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.360 But now it was just important to me that I 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.680 became extremely explosive and then I got you know, I 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:11.840 got on my technique in terms of pass rushing and 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.480 get off and just optimizing what my body can give 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.559 to me because I'm an athletic individual. But it doesn't 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.640 mean anything if you're not getting that out of your 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.600 body because your technique's not right. So just focus on 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.560 my technique, become explosive, and just be discipline, be diligent 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.720 in my work. Because I knew you know this, I 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.679 wanted to make a statement this year. Yeah, that was 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.400 a you know what you've seen first year. No, I 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.640 appreciate gratitude to myself for getting getting there, but that 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.920 wasn't who I am, And shoot, I challenge myself. I'm 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.200 still not even close to where I want to be, 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.959 so but I mean just taking steps was important and 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:49.520 just busting my butt. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.800 So I had so I had no regrets. You know, 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:52.840 during the season. 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:57.600 As a pass rusher, what's the importance of the get off? 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.559 And like you said, that was something that you stressed. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.560 You emphasize an off season and you can see that 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.880 out on Sundays. What goes into that because you've always 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:14.680 been athletic, but having that first step off the snap. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.360 I mean, definitely the first step off the snap. But 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.839 I think more than anything, especially in today's game. I mean, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.920 guys don't really want to be physical. Yeah they don't. 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.760 They got paid already. So you know, why would I 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.120 grind is like I did in college to get to 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.880 this point. Why would I be physical like that anymore? 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.600 I got paid. That's how I think a lot of 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.600 those guys think. So I was like, Okay, well, I'm 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:36.760 gonna be physical. I don't care. That's that's that's who 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.480 I am. And be physical, I'm explosive. I'm gonna punch 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.800 you in your face until you tap out. And it's 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.400 kind of how I go about it. And then obviously 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.000 I got the speed and the athleticism to do all 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.760 the other stuff too. But nah, I'm coming to punch 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.080 you in your face and you know, check your temperature 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.319 and see how you take it for sure. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.240 Yeah, And that's always been an element of your game, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.760 as far as you stand it up or maybe going 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:02.680 down in your stance. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:03.120 Yeah. 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:04.360 How much freedom do you have? 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.640 All the freedom in the world. Yeah, And let's just 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.880 a tribute to you know, my coaching staff. They trust me. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:16.520 It's pretty much all right, Jermaine, But definitely operating the 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.480 framework of the defense and and. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.320 Do it like that. So I definitely appreciate it. 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.600 And you know, they let me apply my game to 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.360 the defense and not the other way around, which I 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.720 think can put some players in a box. But I 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.280 mean the staff does a great job of taking individual 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.360 players and understanding that they do some things really good 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.720 and you know, playing the scheme of defense to those strengths. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.959 And in this case, it's like standing up, you know, 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:44.720 letting me use my athleticism and kind of like my 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.480 football like you, I can see more. I think I 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.120 can identify things better when I can get up and 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.319 kind of see as a ball snap and stuff like that. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.600 So yeah, they just give me a lot of a 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.560 lot of kind of freedom on that end, but they 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:57.960 trust me to operate within the framework of the defense 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:58.320 for sure. 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.360 I've always liked to added tode you've had as far 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.280 as rushing pass or you said you got to earn 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.280 the right to rush the pass, or can you talk 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:10.200 about the mentality you have against the run, because that's 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.360 something that you've excelled in day one even entered the 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:15.559 National Football League. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:20.240 Right it actually it actually started. I think it was 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.760 after my twenty nineteen season at Georgia. Because I've always 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.719 been physical, obvious thought I played the run pretty good. 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.080 But when I was designing to come out for that 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.520 draft instead of the twenty twenty one draft, I came 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.280 out for it got my fileback because you know, the league, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:36.960 the scouts, whatever, they have a file on you. I 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.280 was reading my file and kind of said, like I 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.360 was a good pass rusher or whatever, but he's not 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.720 physical and he doesn't play the run. Well, I was like, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.439 all right, that was pretty much it. So I went 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.360 to ended up transferring to Florida State, and yeah, you know, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.120 I shut all that down and then came into the 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.880 league my first year, I shut all that down. And 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.640 then it's just I mean, it's part of my pedigree. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.719 Like I said, no, like I'm gonna out physical you. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:04.560 I'm gonna make you quit before I do. And that's 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.080 in the run game, Like I'm gonna hit you in 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:07.520 your face. That's a perfect opportunity. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.400 Thank you. You know what I'm saying. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.120 Like it because the thing about this is it's about 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.719 who gets who gets someone to break first, because we're 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.559 all very gifted athletically. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.240 It's about what's in here and what's in here? 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.920 So what's it like on the pro level dealing with 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.559 the chips. It's just not okay, I'm one on one 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.240 with the tackle that a lot of times, especially the 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.360 more successful you are, the more tension you're gonna get. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.960 Yeah, like you just said, I kind of take it 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.480 as a compliment because all the best pass rushers are 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.400 getting chipped. They're not just gonna, you know, let you 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.959 tee off, right, So I mean, but that's a that's 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.520 a tribute to our whole defensive line. Everybody in there 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.480 is a dog and gets sit a quarterback at a 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.679 high rate. And you know, offenses aren't just gonna let 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.760 us tee off on their offensive line. So yeah, chips come, 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.400 and you take it as a compliment, and then you know, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.600 you figure out to work your way through because nobody cares. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.240 The end of the day, you see a statue and 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.080 you see the New York Jets d line how many 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.080 sacks they had, said, well, they. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.120 Had some chips too, So now I don't nobody care. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.200 So take it as you know, take it as it is, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.120 and you know, figure out to get through it. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.360 Can you talk about how close you guys are. I mean, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.680 you and Bryce are always together in the locker room. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.200 You got JFM. I like to call the gray beard. 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.120 Even though he's in maybe maybe his late twenties, he's 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:26.800 only been in the league for a few years, but 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:28.439 he's the vecher in the megs. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:28.640 You got. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.120 Carl's still there obviously, Will McDonald much like yourself, a 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.480 first round pick who's going through his first steps in 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:36.560 the National Football League. 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.000 It's a family. It makes it makes it really makes 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:42.480 the time. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.000 It makes the experience because I mean before I came 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.520 in the league, I always heard about these rooms that 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.760 weren't great rooms. They call him or you know, it's 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.800 not a good room, and that usually mean all right, 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.160 like you got some some a holes in the room, 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.040 some selfish guys in the room, but you know the 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.240 good players so deal with the kind of thing. But 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.120 we have none of those guys. It's really a family. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:02.960 We're all selfless and we all help each other. We 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.080 all want to see each other win. Like we make 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.600 joke here and they're like, oh no, I got a 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.720 point five of that half that sack. You know, I 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:10.520 got a whole sack. But at the end of the day, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.040 it's all love and nobody's like hating on each other. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:14.959 That's why we're all you know, we're all excited when 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.400 whenever somebody gets a sack, like we're all celebrating within 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.560 each other because there's no there's no like hating or 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.720 anything like, we're all just showing love and we all 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.960 want each other to win, which is you know, I'm 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.240 extremely grateful for because I could have easily, you know, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.760 got drafted to a room and everybody's like, oh, this 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.440 guy got drafted, you know, try to replace me or 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.160 something like I'm not going to help this kid out. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.200 But that wasn't the case. The guys kind of brought 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.000 me under the wing and helped me out, just like we're. 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.680 Doing with Will. Like nobody's like, oh, Will's here, like 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.800 da da D. Don't help it, Like no, we're helping. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.760 Like this's just how we are, and we're all very 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:50.600 kind and loving and you know, we just want to 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.280 see each other win. 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.880 Jets fans, we're in our final push and the clock 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.640 is ticking. Win that is giving you a golden opportunity 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.800 to win VIP prizes for the twenty twenty three season. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.240 The win Bet Green Room is the most exclusive space 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.720 at the stadium, with all inclusive food and beverage, lower 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:14.080 level seats, and appearances by Jets, legends and celebrities. 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The best part, you get an entry for 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.080 every one hundred dollars you wager. 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.520 You guys have different body shapes and you're different players, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.080 but do you see similarities between you and jfam as 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:43.440 far as the pad level and the sheer power. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.800 That you guys bring to the position. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.520 Yeah, for sure. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.280 When I first got here, I was just you know, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.080 John is, like you said at gray Beard, Like he 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.440 says the standards in terms of, you know, kind of 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.960 the physicality and edge set in and stuff like that, 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.560 and it shows on film and in game, like guys 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.640 don't want to run his way because he's just gonna 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.960 punch your tackle in the face and then the run's 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.880 gonna not be worth it worth anything anyway. So one 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.520 hundred percent I kind of was watching that and you know, 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.680 like I said, I'm critical. I'm more critical of myself 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:14.520 than anybody will ever be. So I'm just I was 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.160 kind of watching that and I'm just like it was 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:17.920 compared to my game, Like, yeah, I was good against 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.480 the run, but like you know, I didn't like I 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.800 didn't like instilled kind of fearing the people, Like I 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.160 didn't like hit people that hard, Like I didn't do 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.120 that and I wanted to. So, like I said, I 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.520 just and a lot of it comes from just strength 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:32.960 and explosion. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.440 And JFM is very strong. He's very explosive. 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.320 So that's like it goes in hand in hand and 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.200 why I worked on what I worked on the offseason. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:41.680 I mean when I came in camp, it was just 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.480 like I felt it like I didn't care who was 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:47.200 in front of me, like I'm gonna You're either gonna 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:48.600 be on your back or I'm gonna move you from 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:52.240 in front of me kind of thing. And yeah, like 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.120 I said, it's a tribute to who we have in 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.280 our room. Those guys set a good example and we 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.200 all have a standard, like we all hold each other 0:16:59.240 --> 0:16:59.960 to the same standard. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.560 It's really cool actually. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.840 So like they operate that way and I'm over here, 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.119 like you know, I can't let these guys down, you 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:08.320 know what I'm saying like, if I'm going to be 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.679 on the field, like I have to uphold the same standard, right, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:11.960 Like I have to go out there and it's got 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:13.680