Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away.
Speaker 1: All right, let's bring in Chad Pattyson. Okay. Todd Bowles
Speaker 1: made an announcement chet on Monday after the Jets by week,
Speaker 1: like he said he would, he was gonna evaluate how
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick was feeling dealing with that knee sprain, left
Speaker 1: knee sprain, and he went back and watched the film
Speaker 1: of Bryce Petty against the l A. Rams is the
Speaker 1: Jets manufacturer just one touchdown. We're able to move the
Speaker 1: ball at times, but it's a point scoring league in
Speaker 1: the Jets lost. So Todd came out on Monday and said,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick will leave my starter against the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: What was your immediate reaction. I have no problem with
Speaker 1: that decision at all, Eric, And the reason that I
Speaker 1: don't is that, um, you don't sacrifice the overall performance
Speaker 1: of your team, the overall mindset of your team, the
Speaker 1: attitude of your team, and the hard work that everybody
Speaker 1: has put in just for the sake of the the
Speaker 1: development of one guy, especially when the guy that you're
Speaker 1: saying is the starter this week holds a franchise record
Speaker 1: in touchdown in a season, has played well at times,
Speaker 1: has been inconsistent this year, there's no question about it.
Speaker 1: But this isn't like, uh, you know this, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: can't get the job done. And so from coach Bowl's perspective,
Speaker 1: he's trying to generate some positivity in the locker room.
Speaker 1: How do you do that by playing good, solid football
Speaker 1: and winning games? And how do you do that You
Speaker 1: play the best player to give you the best chance
Speaker 1: to win the game. And so right now he's saying
Speaker 1: that Ryan Fitzpatrick gives them the best opportunity to win
Speaker 1: a game because the development piece of it, um, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, is something that's talked about way too much. Yes,
Speaker 1: you have to develop players, Yes there's a time and
Speaker 1: place for that, but you have to be judicious in
Speaker 1: how you do that and when you do that, and
Speaker 1: don't sacrifice the rest of your team just for the
Speaker 1: development of one guy. No uh fits Tye. Bowls are clear.
Speaker 1: I said that in order for somebody to jump ahead
Speaker 1: of them, he has to take the job away. So
Speaker 1: in Bryce Patty's case, what did you see from him
Speaker 1: against the l A Rams that you liked and maybe
Speaker 1: some things that you know, Chad is a former quarterback,
Speaker 1: that this guy has to work on here on the
Speaker 1: practice field before he gets his next opportunity. Well, some
Speaker 1: of the things that I liked. His deep ball to
Speaker 1: Roddy Anderson is fantastic. That was called on the left
Speaker 1: hand sideline on the Ram sideline early in the game.
Speaker 1: The ninety nine yard drive, uh to begin the game
Speaker 1: against the Rams. That is extremely difficult to do, knowing
Speaker 1: how uh talented and efficient the Rams defense has been. UM.
Speaker 1: There were some times where it looked like he was
Speaker 1: going through his reads and trusting him to work and
Speaker 1: getting the ball out of his hands. So there were
Speaker 1: some positives there, but I don't think there was enough
Speaker 1: consistency there for the staff to say, Okay, he's really uh,
Speaker 1: you know, working his reads with his feet. Uh, he's
Speaker 1: making the easy throws. One thing I learned as a
Speaker 1: young quarterback is that you have to hit the easy one,
Speaker 1: the ones that for all intents and purposes are a completion,
Speaker 1: whether it be checked downs or guys that are just
Speaker 1: wide open and nobody within ten yards, you have to hit.
Speaker 1: It's not like college where you get those opportunities back
Speaker 1: and you don't get those opportunities back, and that's very
Speaker 1: difficult to learn as a young corterback. You have to
Speaker 1: hit them, especially when you're trying to generate momentum and
Speaker 1: a spark. And so if I had to critique Brush's
Speaker 1: first performance, he didn't get the easy ones and then um,
Speaker 1: every once in a while, he didn't trust his footwork
Speaker 1: and his feet to get him to where the ball
Speaker 1: needed to go and state on the receiver too long,
Speaker 1: which that's going to happen as as a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: I understand that. But right now, in the situation that
Speaker 1: the Jets are in, you know, right now they're just
Speaker 1: trying to as a staff and generate uh some positivity
Speaker 1: with good football play and winning football games. And to me,
Speaker 1: you can't just sacrifice that just because you're saying you're
Speaker 1: trying to develop a guy. What do you think about
Speaker 1: his fort work and how he went through progressions because
Speaker 1: you can see things watching film that we can't. You've
Speaker 1: been out there on the field going to number one,
Speaker 1: going to number two, going to number three, coming back
Speaker 1: to one, or dumping down or whatnot. And also what
Speaker 1: did you see from him in the pocket, because remember
Speaker 1: this is the guy who made his first NFL start
Speaker 1: yet and as we all know and we know your
Speaker 1: feelings on the college spread is that, uh, it's a
Speaker 1: lot different playing at bler, playing that simple spread and
Speaker 1: looking to the sideline for your call and uh going
Speaker 1: up top all the time, or or not even having
Speaker 1: a zero read just throwing a wide receiver screen out there. Well,
Speaker 1: I saw it for his first time out there and
Speaker 1: coming from a spread and being able to work within
Speaker 1: the Jet system now for a year and a half
Speaker 1: that it was not a losing performance. It wasn't. Was
Speaker 1: it a winning performance. No, it wasn't that either. Um
Speaker 1: is a performance. That was just a performance and uh
Speaker 1: and so you know for him, the way he operated
Speaker 1: in and out of the huddle, things like that, UM
Speaker 1: was smooth. It seemed to be fine. Looking at it
Speaker 1: from afar UM and from a footwork standpoint, I don't
Speaker 1: know the specific footwork that the Jets quarterback that the
Speaker 1: Jets quarterbacks used, but at the same time, I do
Speaker 1: know that when when a quarterback is hanging on a
Speaker 1: receiver too long, I can see that regardless of what
Speaker 1: the footwork footwork is, and that's something and as young
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have to work through and you have to
Speaker 1: really learn how to listen to your feet. A lot
Speaker 1: of times Steven thinks it's the sixth cents that a
Speaker 1: quarterback has as far as we when to get out
Speaker 1: of the pocket win. Most of the time, it's listening
Speaker 1: to your feet. Your footwork tells you, Okay, it's time
Speaker 1: to get rid of this ball, time to move on
Speaker 1: to the next reads, time to throw it away, it's
Speaker 1: time to run. All those things. It's not some type
Speaker 1: of six cents that we have a lot of times,
Speaker 1: it's actually very It's predicated on um specific footwork and
Speaker 1: specific timing, and so you know that's something that that
Speaker 1: will continually have to be worked on. But I don't
Speaker 1: think that you're stunning the growth or development of Bryce
Speaker 1: Petty by him watching um Ryan's Fitzpatrick work, and and
Speaker 1: by the way, you're actually probably helping his development now
Speaker 1: because I would imagine that he is getting some reps
Speaker 1: with the ones now he's not just running the scout
Speaker 1: team with the help of Ryan Fitzpatrick in the state
Speaker 1: of the team, he is working in there, and also
Speaker 1: with Geno Smith being mean injured, he's getting some of
Speaker 1: those reps, which is part of his development and you can.
Speaker 1: It's very delicate. And the problem in in the NFL
Speaker 1: is people are not patient, and people think that these
Speaker 1: players are robots and that you're playing a Madden game
Speaker 1: and you can just switch them in and out like
Speaker 1: pawns in a chess game, and you can't. You're dealing
Speaker 1: with emotions, feelings and all things that make as human
Speaker 1: beings and you have to make sure that you manage
Speaker 1: that correctly. And you also have to look at the
Speaker 1: risk versus the reward, and sometimes the risk can be
Speaker 1: much greater than the reward when you stick in a
Speaker 1: young quarterback in some respects, Do you think this is
Speaker 1: a courageous decision, Maybe that's a wrong choice. Awards about
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, but just tim saying this is what's right
Speaker 1: for my team, or you think it's just a clear
Speaker 1: cut that you go back to Ryan Fitzpatrick because you
Speaker 1: know you played here. I always echo that every time
Speaker 1: we talk, is that you know what the fan base
Speaker 1: is saying. And also, if you listen to anybody in
Speaker 1: the media right now or read some of the articles,
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of talented people out there,
Speaker 1: the overwhelming majority are saying you have to go with
Speaker 1: Bryce Patty. So your take on just Todd bull saying
Speaker 1: sticking to his gun is basically in that situation, Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's a courageous decision because it's going against
Speaker 1: what the status quo is saying. That's where it takes
Speaker 1: a little bit more courage, and it probably takes even
Speaker 1: more courage knowing that you're in the New York media market.
Speaker 1: So I do respect that, and it shows me that
Speaker 1: coach Bowles and his staff are worried about the men
Speaker 1: in their locker room. They're not worried about the outside
Speaker 1: entertainment value. And that's that's where you really have to
Speaker 1: make those tough decisions. And you know, for anyone to say, well,
Speaker 1: that's what people want, well, we're not in this game
Speaker 1: to do what people want. We're in this game as
Speaker 1: coaches and players to perform at the highest level to
Speaker 1: make the best decisions possible. Yes, this game provides the
Speaker 1: lot of entertainment value, but from a player and coaching standpoint,
Speaker 1: if you're focused on the entertainment value, you won't be
Speaker 1: in this league very long. And if decisions were made
Speaker 1: on me when I played based upon entertainment value, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been mentioned once in my career. I would
Speaker 1: have been minced about six times in my career, and so, um,
Speaker 1: thank goodness that didn't happen, and we were able to
Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs four times and reaches it
Speaker 1: is around twice, So um, it hain't happened. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of different times. So that's
Speaker 1: what I respect the most is that this is a
Speaker 1: football decision, and football decisions don't go along with entertainment
Speaker 1: value most of the time. Now, how can you evaluate
Speaker 1: Bryce the rest of the way I know in the
Speaker 1: football world, Like you said, is a football decision. So
Speaker 1: it's week by week, right, So Todd Bull said, bottom line,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick gives us the best chance to win, period.
Speaker 1: That's why he's playing this week. If you get mathematically
Speaker 1: eliminated from postseason contention at some point, does player evaluation
Speaker 1: at the quarterback spot ever come into play? If you
Speaker 1: are eliminated here because the Jets, everybody in the locker room,
Speaker 1: you know this. They want to go on a six
Speaker 1: game winning streak here after the buy and go nine
Speaker 1: and seven and maybe a couple of teams fall apart
Speaker 1: and they have a miraculous run to the postseason, and
Speaker 1: you know what the outsiders are saying is that the
Speaker 1: season is over. You need to evaluate all the young
Speaker 1: talent you have inside the building, including the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: So is there ever a time here, say the Jets
Speaker 1: go out and they play well this week, but they
Speaker 1: lose and their mathematically eliminated from postseason contention, which I
Speaker 1: have no idea if they would be or not. Uh,
Speaker 1: is there ever a time where the player evaluation at
Speaker 1: that quarterback position comes into play more you emphasize it
Speaker 1: more sure there is um By the way, the three
Speaker 1: out of four times that I was able to help
Speaker 1: my team go to the the playoffs, three out of those
Speaker 1: four times people were saying the season's over, we need
Speaker 1: to do something different three out of four. And so
Speaker 1: I don't ever believe the season's over until it truly
Speaker 1: is over from a playoff standpoint. And even from that realm,
Speaker 1: it's not over for those players. I mean, those players
Speaker 1: want to win football games. Regardless if the fan doesn't
Speaker 1: have any entertainment value because his or her team is
Speaker 1: not going to the playoffs, it still means something to
Speaker 1: go out there and work a whole week of work
Speaker 1: and go win a football game and find production. Because
Speaker 1: those players are playing for their their livelihood. They're playing
Speaker 1: for They're not just playing for the Jets right now.
Speaker 1: They're not just playing just to play. They're playing to
Speaker 1: be a I waited by the Jets and the other
Speaker 1: thirty one teams in the league as well. And so
Speaker 1: there's more at stake than what we as fans things
Speaker 1: at stake. And by the way, you can develop in practice,
Speaker 1: these practices aren't like some of the youth practices that
Speaker 1: I see where you go out and you stretch and
Speaker 1: you run a couple of plays and you call it up.
Speaker 1: These practices are designed to develop and to truly um
Speaker 1: look at players from a critical eye. And so it's
Speaker 1: not just about games. And there are plenty of times
Speaker 1: and players know this. There are plenty times where you
Speaker 1: can see a player in practice and say he's not
Speaker 1: ready for a game, so I put him in a
Speaker 1: game if he's not doing those things in practice yet
Speaker 1: and making strides in practice. Just because you're gonna put
Speaker 1: him in a game doesn't mean he's just gonna flip
Speaker 1: the switch and do it completely different. That doesn't necessarily happen.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact that it never really happens, and
Speaker 1: so part of the development process is a sally happened
Speaker 1: in practice, then you moved from practice to the game.
Speaker 1: It's not all about the games. What do you think
Speaker 1: is and fits his mind right now? It's been a
Speaker 1: wild season, obviously a turbulent ride for everybody in that
Speaker 1: locker room. You know that the Jets have started three
Speaker 1: quarterbacks this season. After the Arizona game, they turned to
Speaker 1: Geno Smith against the Baltimore Ravens. Unfortunately he went down
Speaker 1: in the first half, and then Fitzpatrick came on in
Speaker 1: relief and the Jets actually won that ball game. They
Speaker 1: got on a little run, won a couple in a row,
Speaker 1: got the three and five. Then they had that game
Speaker 1: down in Miami, which was extremely winnable. They couldn't close
Speaker 1: the deal as we saw earlier this season, went the
Speaker 1: three and six. Uh and the Fits went down in
Speaker 1: Miami with the spring knee, and uh Petty got to start.
Speaker 1: So now it's back to fit. So take us in
Speaker 1: his mind right now he's saying on the surface, he's
Speaker 1: saying all the right things. So Bright, I a tremendous competitor,
Speaker 1: a guy I think who really embraces every moment he has.
Speaker 1: Thirty three years old, twelfth season in the National Football
Speaker 1: League sixth team. In a few weeks back, we talked
Speaker 1: about it right here on the podcast that hey, he
Speaker 1: didn't know if he'd ever start again for the Jets
Speaker 1: are probably any other NFL team when Genial got the
Speaker 1: call and uh, you know, the injury forced him to
Speaker 1: the sideline against the Rams, he was an emergency emergency quarterback.
Speaker 1: And now here he is again against a New England
Speaker 1: Patriot team that last December, the last time he played him,
Speaker 1: he led the Jets to uh studying victory over the Paths,
Speaker 1: and boy, things have changed so this season he's really
Speaker 1: had to buckle up. But the good thing about it,
Speaker 1: I think is uh fits has experienced a lot of
Speaker 1: highs and lows in the NFL. Yeah, I think for
Speaker 1: him it is, um, here's where he is at least
Speaker 1: here's where I would be right now. I'm just starving
Speaker 1: for a little bit of success and continuity and and
Speaker 1: trying to um, you know, get things you know, in
Speaker 1: in line and trying to have some and trying to
Speaker 1: get that going, you know. So um, I think that
Speaker 1: for him it's all about just positivity, creating some momentum,
Speaker 1: playing well knowing that, hey, I may not be in
Speaker 1: New York next year and that's okay, but I need
Speaker 1: to play well as a professional and put out good
Speaker 1: film and continue to improve. Regardless if you played two
Speaker 1: years or twelve years, you still need to improve. You
Speaker 1: can still need to feel good about the work that
Speaker 1: you're putting in. So for him, I think it's individual
Speaker 1: based number one and trying to do that. And then
Speaker 1: number two from a from a leadership standpoint. As a
Speaker 1: captain of the ship, you gotta keep the ship together
Speaker 1: and you got to make sure that there's no frame
Speaker 1: and there's no divisions going on. Can you do that
Speaker 1: by your leadership? Point blank? How does fits get Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall and Quincy and Noon walk gone? Because if you
Speaker 1: look at the stats this year, I know the NFL
Speaker 1: is more than just stats, but obviously this is about
Speaker 1: a frustrating season for b marsh He was an ends
Speaker 1: on fourteen times last season and two times now after
Speaker 1: ten games without Decker in the lineup, teams are rolling
Speaker 1: even more coverage his way. We all know that. The
Speaker 1: encouraging thing for the Jets that I've seen over the
Speaker 1: last four games offensively, that I'd be stoked about if
Speaker 1: I'm fits, is that you're running for an average of
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty one yards per game. Matt Forte is
Speaker 1: showing something as far as a lot of tread left
Speaker 1: on those tires. He's had some explosions. Explosion runs four
Speaker 1: over twenty yards when you combine the last two games,
Speaker 1: and then Forte and Paul combined for nearly two yards
Speaker 1: last games. So for you as the quarterback, I'm putting
Speaker 1: you in Ryan Fitzpatrick's shoes. How do you get Marshall
Speaker 1: on a noon? What going again? Well? Number one, you've
Speaker 1: gotta stick to your rules and your progressions and not
Speaker 1: force the ball to them and and not have Sometimes
Speaker 1: you can have such a sense of urgency bad at
Speaker 1: backfires on you to where you want it too bad.
Speaker 1: You're you're playing too hard, you're working, you're you're almost
Speaker 1: doing your overloading yourself and trying to because you're starving
Speaker 1: for success. And so I think you gotta take a
Speaker 1: big deep breath. You gotta relax, You gotta the biggest
Speaker 1: challenges is not going in this game going well. We're
Speaker 1: three and seven and Patriots are eight and two, and
Speaker 1: you know, we're not very good and they're really good.
Speaker 1: I think you just gotta take it for what it is.
Speaker 1: It's the Jets versus the Patriots. You have good players,
Speaker 1: they have good players. You have strengths and weaknesses. They
Speaker 1: have strengths and weaknesses, and you're gonna try to work
Speaker 1: towards your strengths and manage those weaknesses and exploit their
Speaker 1: weaknesses and so um. That's that's very hard to do,
Speaker 1: and it's it's easier said than done. But for him,
Speaker 1: it's just to stay within himself. When the players are
Speaker 1: there to be made to his playmakers, make them um,
Speaker 1: and then when they're not there to be made, and
Speaker 1: just make sure that you avoid the disaster and keep
Speaker 1: your team in the game. Here's something writing about right now, buddy.
Speaker 1: The Patriots since Brady came back in Week five, averaging
Speaker 1: thirty two points a game. Over Brady's six games span
Speaker 1: here as starting quarterback, Dave scored less than thirty on
Speaker 1: two occasions. That was in the loss to Seattle, uh
Speaker 1: that while played game by the Seahawks on the road
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and also uh Patriots win
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh with that being said, do you have a
Speaker 1: number in mind that the Jets are gonna have to
Speaker 1: score here this week in order to obtain a victory.
Speaker 1: I know they might not be talking about in the
Speaker 1: locker room, and I don't know how it works. Maybe
Speaker 1: you guys can give us, Maybe you can give us
Speaker 1: some insight because you got in a locker room. You
Speaker 1: go in there saying, hey, we need this kind of
Speaker 1: number this week to win. Well, I think offensively you've
Speaker 1: got to go in saying we've got to score twenty
Speaker 1: eight points. Obviously, defensively, I think you go in saying,
Speaker 1: when they're in scoring territory, they've got to kick field
Speaker 1: goals and it's a testdown versus still go things. And
Speaker 1: so you know, from an overall perspective, obviously in the defense,
Speaker 1: you're not going in going, well, we'll hold the twenty
Speaker 1: seven and we win. No, you don't. You don't think
Speaker 1: of it that way, do you think other Hey, we're
Speaker 1: going in with a game plan. We're gonna get after
Speaker 1: this guy. We've had a recipe for success in getting
Speaker 1: after this guy. We've got to make some plays, we've
Speaker 1: got to create the turnovers, we've got to reak havoc.
Speaker 1: But when they do get into scoring territory, we must
Speaker 1: force them to kick field goals. As an offense, the
Speaker 1: Jets have to say we must score touchdown. We can't
Speaker 1: be one for five and the reds and I'm like
Speaker 1: we were against the Dolphin, but we can't, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: be bad on third down all those different things. We've
Speaker 1: got to be efficient and we have to score points,
Speaker 1: and those things can be done. And that's as simple
Speaker 1: as it is. I mean, let me remind you it
Speaker 1: was third team to ten the fourth quarter against and
Speaker 1: what's the forty niners record? One and nine? Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's don't act like, well, this is such a juggernaut
Speaker 1: and the machine that it can't be stopped and the
Speaker 1: Jets have no chance. Now, statistics and and all of
Speaker 1: that will tell you that the Jets and chances of
Speaker 1: winning are obviously less than the Patriots chance of beating them.
Speaker 1: I get that. But at the same time, from a
Speaker 1: player's mindset, you're looking at it and you see it
Speaker 1: is what it is. They're making plays. Other teams aren't
Speaker 1: making plays. But when teams do make plays, they got
Speaker 1: a chance to lose the game to pay. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: say it every week about the Jets defensive front, that
Speaker 1: they gotta win their battles, that the defensive line obviously
Speaker 1: uh are entering a ballgame chat where they have matchup advantages.
Speaker 1: But if you're Todd Balls and Casey Rodgers this week
Speaker 1: and you're facing a Tom Brady, you just got Dion
Speaker 1: Lewis back who has a Legarrett Blunt in in the
Speaker 1: backfield who we don't now know at the time of
Speaker 1: taping here whether Rob Gronkowski and Chris Hogan will play
Speaker 1: this week, but as possible both could play, or maybe
Speaker 1: both could be down. I'm not sure at the time
Speaker 1: of taping here. But even with that, they got plenty
Speaker 1: Even without those two, they had plenty of weapons. Martellas
Speaker 1: Bennett has been a tremendous addition to that ball club,
Speaker 1: not only from receiving perspective, but what he brings to
Speaker 1: the table as a blocker. Then you have Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: that's Brady's number one target, Danny Amondola. Um. So there
Speaker 1: are a number of guys out there. A guy, a
Speaker 1: rookie receiver by the name of Malcolm Mitchell, Chad guy
Speaker 1: I'd never heard of before he showed up on the
Speaker 1: radar last week against the A four mention in San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty Niners. So if you're bulls Casey Rodgers, are
Speaker 1: there specific guys that you want to take away? Well,
Speaker 1: the first and foremost that the recipe for success against
Speaker 1: the Patriots has always been to make Tom Brady uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: The more comfortable he is, you have no shot. And
Speaker 1: that was always the recipe with the Giants being able
Speaker 1: to generate a pass rush before. Make him uncomfortable, don't
Speaker 1: allow him just to work his footwork and stay in
Speaker 1: that one spot, um, you know. And then from a
Speaker 1: weapon standpoint, I mean it's obviously you if Gronkowski plays,
Speaker 1: you've got to, you know, focus on him. Um, guy
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, you got to, you know, make sure they're
Speaker 1: very speci epic. One thing the Patriots do very well
Speaker 1: is they take advantage of the specific talents of each player,
Speaker 1: and they don't necessarily ask a player to do something
Speaker 1: he's not capable of doing. Malcolm Mitchell, people forget that
Speaker 1: was a heck of a college football receiver from the
Speaker 1: University of Georgia. And just because he's a rookie and
Speaker 1: on the Patriots doesn't mean he's and he hasn't played.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he's necessarily behind or come out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: It's just that he hasn't had his opportunity though how
Speaker 1: talents they are and how they're working him in. But
Speaker 1: a guy has got some talent um, so you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's certainly a full team defensive effort and everyone
Speaker 1: realizing where they fit into the puzzle and trying to
Speaker 1: stop the Patriots and be successful. Do you run more
Speaker 1: for dials Lineman this week? Or you're more traditional three four?
Speaker 1: The Jets they have showed different frauds to pending who
Speaker 1: their planning, who the opponent is very game plan specific.
Speaker 1: We know that do you do you do more four
Speaker 1: three this week? Or more three four? And like you
Speaker 1: mentioned before, the recipe against Brady and what a lot
Speaker 1: of teams have been trying to do lately, of course,
Speaker 1: is rushing for and dropping seven and clogging those lengths.
Speaker 1: I think it's you have to be multiple. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can just line up um and play one
Speaker 1: front or one coverage against somebody like Brady and the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Once they get a beat on what you're doing, you
Speaker 1: will be exposed because there's always weaknesses in every front,
Speaker 1: in every coverage. It's just a matter do you have
Speaker 1: the right place called at the right time, and can
Speaker 1: you make those adjustice to get to those weaknesses. And
Speaker 1: so against the Patriots, you you have to be It's
Speaker 1: similar to how they approached things. They approach things that
Speaker 1: are very game plan specific. They don't want to be
Speaker 1: pigeonholed into one style of offense or one style of
Speaker 1: defense as an organization and team, and I think when
Speaker 1: you play them, certainly want to explore your strength and
Speaker 1: managing weaknesses and put your players in the best positions
Speaker 1: to be possible. But you've also got to work UM
Speaker 1: in a system where you can be multiple and you're
Speaker 1: giving different looks, You're giving different um coverages and making
Speaker 1: sure that it's not the same thing. All right, Saturday,
Speaker 1: Ohio State Michigan, who you got in that onehigh state? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you think obviously on paper evenly matched. Is it because
Speaker 1: they're playing at home or is it because Michigan is
Speaker 1: dealing with some quarterback problems. I think it has to
Speaker 1: do with the quarterback issue, and it looks to me
Speaker 1: like that, you know, Ohio State, even though they've won
Speaker 1: some close games, they're playing just a little bit better
Speaker 1: as a team compared to Michigan right now, just in
Speaker 1: that in that swing of things where they are in
Speaker 1: the season. Washington Washington State at the Apple Cup, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one because I expected Washington State to
Speaker 1: do better this past week. Um, but going to Pullman
Speaker 1: is extremely difficult. Um, I'm gonna say Washington. Okay. So
Speaker 1: if Washington wins that game, they probably just need one
Speaker 1: more and they'd be in the final four. Do you think, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I knew they're packed twelve champs with one one loss.
Speaker 1: I think that they would be the fourth seed. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, And how about my my alma mater here,
Speaker 1: the Florida Gators who upset Alis you on the road
Speaker 1: last week. They're going into tall I asked you to
Speaker 1: play Florida State. Wow, this is a toss up. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness. Um, I know, right, but that was very
Speaker 1: impressive on what they did uh in Baton Rouge to
Speaker 1: be able to do that in face um let ad
Speaker 1: heir steves faced with all the injuries that they have. Uh,
Speaker 1: part of me says go with the Gators because they
Speaker 1: play extremely good defense. They're tough and you've got that
Speaker 1: freshman quarterbacks, a sort of State that has had some
Speaker 1: ups and downs. Then the other part says they're banged
Speaker 1: up and trying to go into Tallahassee against an offense
Speaker 1: that's a little bit more efficient and better than l
Speaker 1: issues offense. I'm gonna go for State. Oh the seminars
Speaker 1: at home, and last college pick of this week is
Speaker 1: there Ball Old Alabama and Auburn. Can anybody stop this
Speaker 1: runaway train that Nick Sabans got going on right now?
Speaker 1: Yes it can be stopped, Oh, no question about that.
Speaker 1: But will it be stopped is the bigger issue, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that will not this week? Okay? And
Speaker 1: then Thanksgiving special here? Uh, who are the top three
Speaker 1: teams in the National Football League? As we turned to
Speaker 1: post Thanksgiving football Chad, because you know it, uh, the
Speaker 1: grizzly veterans of this league always say, don't start talking
Speaker 1: about who's good, and we're separating themselves until after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: So give me the top three teams in football. As
Speaker 1: we turned the page here, I will say, um, I
Speaker 1: will go Patriots one, the Cowboys too, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say the Raiders three. Wow. Wow, Seattle not in Champenny
Speaker 1: to top three, and he's got the Raiders in the
Speaker 1: top three. That's something else. They're definitely making, uh their
Speaker 1: voices heard here, and it could be a three A three, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll watch that. And I know, I know how you
Speaker 1: feel about that ground attack and every quarterback loved an
Speaker 1: offensive line and a great running back and Dallas got
Speaker 1: something going special here right now, I'd have to get
Speaker 1: and I just look at that. When I said the
Speaker 1: Patriots ahead of the Cowboys. The reason I do is
Speaker 1: that if they played head to head, I just think
Speaker 1: it would be that the Patriots would have the advantage.
Speaker 1: But you know, certainly without them playing the head to head,
Speaker 1: is be very easy to put the Cowboys one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd have to go Patriots one, Seattle to Dallas three,
Speaker 1: and then I put the Raiders up there at four.
Speaker 1: Maybe right now, I'm not willing. I've been impressed with
Speaker 1: their car, I really have. I think he's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: done extremely well. I think Jack del Rio has done
Speaker 1: a really good job of providing stability and continuity and
Speaker 1: consistency within that organization. And you can see it. And
Speaker 1: because he looks like you know, I've always known coach
Speaker 1: del Rio to be a coach, especially defensively. You know,
Speaker 1: they the scheme is simple, but they're really good at
Speaker 1: and allows their athletes to really take advantage of what
Speaker 1: they're doing. And so I think that whole mindset is
Speaker 1: across the board with that team, is that they are
Speaker 1: really creating consistent to see continoony. But he was still
Speaker 1: allows all of their extremely talented players to come to
Speaker 1: forefront and make place for him. I know you hate
Speaker 1: this word, but car has some real natural armed talent.
Speaker 1: He makes them throws sometimes where it seems like he's
Speaker 1: just winging it, but he has a great faith in
Speaker 1: that arm. And I know he's a tremendous passer and
Speaker 1: he is a bright kid. We talked to him down
Speaker 1: in Mobile, Alabama senior ball a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and that's one thing that stood out about Cars that
Speaker 1: he was mature beyond his years. Yeah, I've been impressed
Speaker 1: and he's done a really good job. Nice win yesterday,
Speaker 1: had some great comeback wins throughout the season and some
Speaker 1: distal circumstances. Um he's really just he's willing and dealing him.
Speaker 1: He is in his wheelhouse right now and in a
Speaker 1: really good spot at the quarterback Chad Pennington's favorite Thanksgiving food, Oh,
Speaker 1: favorite Thanksgiving food. Um, well, I'm I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: total plate and I'm envisioning my plate. And it's got turkey,
Speaker 1: it's got my potatoes, it's got dressing, it's got a
Speaker 1: role on it, and all of it has gravy on top.
Speaker 1: Everything on the plate has gravy on it. The gravy
Speaker 1: is what makes it. Of course, this guy comes to
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and he's got to identify not
Speaker 1: only the mic linebacker, what he's calling out protections. You
Speaker 1: gotta see everything, and that's how you even approach Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1: Good catch it up, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Speaker 1: Thank you,