WEBVTT - EA Podcast: Episode 20 with Chad Pennington 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.960 the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:11.840 All right, let's bring in Chad Pattyson. Okay. Todd Bowles 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.240 made an announcement chet on Monday after the Jets by week, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.200 like he said he would, he was gonna evaluate how 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:24.119 Ryan Fitzpatrick was feeling dealing with that knee sprain, left 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.400 knee sprain, and he went back and watched the film 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.440 of Bryce Petty against the l A. Rams is the 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.280 Jets manufacturer just one touchdown. We're able to move the 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.879 ball at times, but it's a point scoring league in 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:41.400 the Jets lost. So Todd came out on Monday and said, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.880 Ryan Fitzpatrick will leave my starter against the New England Patriots. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:52.000 What was your immediate reaction. I have no problem with 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.360 that decision at all, Eric, And the reason that I 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:02.680 don't is that, um, you don't sacrifice the overall performance 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.080 of your team, the overall mindset of your team, the 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.360 attitude of your team, and the hard work that everybody 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.240 has put in just for the sake of the the 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.959 development of one guy, especially when the guy that you're 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.279 saying is the starter this week holds a franchise record 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:24.560 in touchdown in a season, has played well at times, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.120 has been inconsistent this year, there's no question about it. 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.080 But this isn't like, uh, you know this, Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.399 can't get the job done. And so from coach Bowl's perspective, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.280 he's trying to generate some positivity in the locker room. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.640 How do you do that by playing good, solid football 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.000 and winning games? And how do you do that You 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.000 play the best player to give you the best chance 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.720 to win the game. And so right now he's saying 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.360 that Ryan Fitzpatrick gives them the best opportunity to win 0:01:55.560 --> 0:02:00.840 a game because the development piece of it, um, in 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.800 my opinion, is something that's talked about way too much. Yes, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.440 you have to develop players, Yes there's a time and 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.600 place for that, but you have to be judicious in 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.560 how you do that and when you do that, and 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.360 don't sacrifice the rest of your team just for the 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:21.360 development of one guy. No uh fits Tye. Bowls are clear. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:26.200 I said that in order for somebody to jump ahead 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.919 of them, he has to take the job away. So 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.440 in Bryce Patty's case, what did you see from him 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.840 against the l A Rams that you liked and maybe 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.840 some things that you know, Chad is a former quarterback, 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.320 that this guy has to work on here on the 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:49.880 practice field before he gets his next opportunity. Well, some 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.760 of the things that I liked. His deep ball to 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.000 Roddy Anderson is fantastic. That was called on the left 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.320 hand sideline on the Ram sideline early in the game. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.519 The ninety nine yard drive, uh to begin the game 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.600 against the Rams. That is extremely difficult to do, knowing 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:10.799 how uh talented and efficient the Rams defense has been. UM. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.600 There were some times where it looked like he was 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.040 going through his reads and trusting him to work and 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.880 getting the ball out of his hands. So there were 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.880 some positives there, but I don't think there was enough 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.200 consistency there for the staff to say, Okay, he's really uh, 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.080 you know, working his reads with his feet. Uh, he's 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.400 making the easy throws. One thing I learned as a 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.320 young quarterback is that you have to hit the easy one, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.880 the ones that for all intents and purposes are a completion, 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.440 whether it be checked downs or guys that are just 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.640 wide open and nobody within ten yards, you have to hit. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.920 It's not like college where you get those opportunities back 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.640 and you don't get those opportunities back, and that's very 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.000 difficult to learn as a young corterback. You have to 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.520 hit them, especially when you're trying to generate momentum and 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.920 a spark. And so if I had to critique Brush's 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:03.920 first performance, he didn't get the easy ones and then um, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.680 every once in a while, he didn't trust his footwork 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.400 and his feet to get him to where the ball 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.800 needed to go and state on the receiver too long, 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.920 which that's going to happen as as a young quarterback. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.760 I understand that. But right now, in the situation that 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.159 the Jets are in, you know, right now they're just 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.719 trying to as a staff and generate uh some positivity 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.159 with good football play and winning football games. And to me, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.800 you can't just sacrifice that just because you're saying you're 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.839 trying to develop a guy. What do you think about 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.640 his fort work and how he went through progressions because 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.400 you can see things watching film that we can't. You've 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.280 been out there on the field going to number one, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.720 going to number two, going to number three, coming back 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.240 to one, or dumping down or whatnot. And also what 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.719 did you see from him in the pocket, because remember 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.520 this is the guy who made his first NFL start 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.000 yet and as we all know and we know your 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.080 feelings on the college spread is that, uh, it's a 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.480 lot different playing at bler, playing that simple spread and 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.599 looking to the sideline for your call and uh going 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.800 up top all the time, or or not even having 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:13.960 a zero read just throwing a wide receiver screen out there. Well, 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.039 I saw it for his first time out there and 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.400 coming from a spread and being able to work within 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.679 the Jet system now for a year and a half 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.359 that it was not a losing performance. It wasn't. Was 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.360 it a winning performance. No, it wasn't that either. Um 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.560 is a performance. That was just a performance and uh 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.960 and so you know for him, the way he operated 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.919 in and out of the huddle, things like that, UM 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.400 was smooth. It seemed to be fine. Looking at it 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.920 from afar UM and from a footwork standpoint, I don't 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.040 know the specific footwork that the Jets quarterback that the 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.839 Jets quarterbacks used, but at the same time, I do 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.560 know that when when a quarterback is hanging on a 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.719 receiver too long, I can see that regardless of what 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.600 the footwork footwork is, and that's something and as young 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.919 quarterbacks that have to work through and you have to 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.360 really learn how to listen to your feet. A lot 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.240 of times Steven thinks it's the sixth cents that a 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:08.920 quarterback has as far as we when to get out 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.160 of the pocket win. Most of the time, it's listening 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.039 to your feet. Your footwork tells you, Okay, it's time 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:15.760 to get rid of this ball, time to move on 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.960 to the next reads, time to throw it away, it's 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.799 time to run. All those things. It's not some type 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.560 of six cents that we have a lot of times, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:28.880 it's actually very It's predicated on um specific footwork and 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.080 specific timing, and so you know that's something that that 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.200 will continually have to be worked on. But I don't 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.119 think that you're stunning the growth or development of Bryce 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:42.279 Petty by him watching um Ryan's Fitzpatrick work, and and 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.240 by the way, you're actually probably helping his development now 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.520 because I would imagine that he is getting some reps 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.680 with the ones now he's not just running the scout 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.520 team with the help of Ryan Fitzpatrick in the state 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.800 of the team, he is working in there, and also 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.400 with Geno Smith being mean injured, he's getting some of 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.279 those reps, which is part of his development and you can. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.520 It's very delicate. And the problem in in the NFL 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.920 is people are not patient, and people think that these 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.440 players are robots and that you're playing a Madden game 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.280 and you can just switch them in and out like 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.400 pawns in a chess game, and you can't. You're dealing 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.679 with emotions, feelings and all things that make as human 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.160 beings and you have to make sure that you manage 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.800 that correctly. And you also have to look at the 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.560 risk versus the reward, and sometimes the risk can be 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.520 much greater than the reward when you stick in a 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.840 young quarterback in some respects, Do you think this is 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:40.080 a courageous decision, Maybe that's a wrong choice. Awards about 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.000 Todd Bowles, but just tim saying this is what's right 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.520 for my team, or you think it's just a clear 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.160 cut that you go back to Ryan Fitzpatrick because you 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:53.560 know you played here. I always echo that every time 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.120 we talk, is that you know what the fan base 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.520 is saying. And also, if you listen to anybody in 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.720 the media right now or read some of the articles, 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.520 and there are a lot of talented people out there, 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.440 the overwhelming majority are saying you have to go with 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.760 Bryce Patty. So your take on just Todd bull saying 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.520 sticking to his gun is basically in that situation, Well, 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.760 I think it's a courageous decision because it's going against 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.600 what the status quo is saying. That's where it takes 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.600 a little bit more courage, and it probably takes even 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.960 more courage knowing that you're in the New York media market. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.480 So I do respect that, and it shows me that 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.360 coach Bowles and his staff are worried about the men 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.000 in their locker room. They're not worried about the outside 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.840 entertainment value. And that's that's where you really have to 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.400 make those tough decisions. And you know, for anyone to say, well, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.600 that's what people want, well, we're not in this game 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:52.760 to do what people want. We're in this game as 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.959 coaches and players to perform at the highest level to 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.920 make the best decisions possible. Yes, this game provides the 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.760 lot of entertainment value, but from a player and coaching standpoint, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.720 if you're focused on the entertainment value, you won't be 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.240 in this league very long. And if decisions were made 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.520 on me when I played based upon entertainment value, I 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.600 wouldn't have been mentioned once in my career. I would 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:20.120 have been minced about six times in my career, and so, um, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:22.400 thank goodness that didn't happen, and we were able to 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.480 make it to the playoffs four times and reaches it 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.240 is around twice, So um, it hain't happened. You know 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.840 a lot of a lot of different times. So that's 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.319 what I respect the most is that this is a 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.280 football decision, and football decisions don't go along with entertainment 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.920 value most of the time. Now, how can you evaluate 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.440 Bryce the rest of the way I know in the 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.720 football world, Like you said, is a football decision. So 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.640 it's week by week, right, So Todd Bull said, bottom line, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.880 Ryan Fitzpatrick gives us the best chance to win, period. 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:02.040 That's why he's playing this week. If you get mathematically 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:07.640 eliminated from postseason contention at some point, does player evaluation 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:14.880 at the quarterback spot ever come into play? If you 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:19.679 are eliminated here because the Jets, everybody in the locker room, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.000 you know this. They want to go on a six 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.960 game winning streak here after the buy and go nine 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.439 and seven and maybe a couple of teams fall apart 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.040 and they have a miraculous run to the postseason, and 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.959 you know what the outsiders are saying is that the 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.840 season is over. You need to evaluate all the young 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.240 talent you have inside the building, including the quarterback position. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.200 So is there ever a time here, say the Jets 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.079 go out and they play well this week, but they 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.240 lose and their mathematically eliminated from postseason contention, which I 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.600 have no idea if they would be or not. Uh, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.160 is there ever a time where the player evaluation at 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.640 that quarterback position comes into play more you emphasize it 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:04.600 more sure there is um By the way, the three 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.800 out of four times that I was able to help 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:10.840 my team go to the the playoffs, three out of those 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.679 four times people were saying the season's over, we need 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:19.800 to do something different three out of four. And so 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.199 I don't ever believe the season's over until it truly 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:29.520 is over from a playoff standpoint. And even from that realm, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.160 it's not over for those players. I mean, those players 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.280 want to win football games. Regardless if the fan doesn't 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.280 have any entertainment value because his or her team is 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.080 not going to the playoffs, it still means something to 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.240 go out there and work a whole week of work 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:49.480 and go win a football game and find production. Because 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.680 those players are playing for their their livelihood. They're playing 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.520 for They're not just playing for the Jets right now. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.600 They're not just playing just to play. They're playing to 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.960 be a I waited by the Jets and the other 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.880 thirty one teams in the league as well. And so 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.400 there's more at stake than what we as fans things 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.439 at stake. And by the way, you can develop in practice, 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:15.560 these practices aren't like some of the youth practices that 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.320 I see where you go out and you stretch and 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.120 you run a couple of plays and you call it up. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:27.359 These practices are designed to develop and to truly um 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:31.120 look at players from a critical eye. And so it's 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.400 not just about games. And there are plenty of times 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.760 and players know this. There are plenty times where you 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.720 can see a player in practice and say he's not 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.520 ready for a game, so I put him in a 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.679 game if he's not doing those things in practice yet 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.400 and making strides in practice. Just because you're gonna put 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.280 him in a game doesn't mean he's just gonna flip 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.480 the switch and do it completely different. That doesn't necessarily happen. 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.360 A matter of fact that it never really happens, and 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.079 so part of the development process is a sally happened 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.760 in practice, then you moved from practice to the game. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.520 It's not all about the games. What do you think 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.080 is and fits his mind right now? It's been a 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.080 wild season, obviously a turbulent ride for everybody in that 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.800 locker room. You know that the Jets have started three 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.920 quarterbacks this season. After the Arizona game, they turned to 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:25.160 Geno Smith against the Baltimore Ravens. Unfortunately he went down 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.000 in the first half, and then Fitzpatrick came on in 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.360 relief and the Jets actually won that ball game. They 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.800 got on a little run, won a couple in a row, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.360 got the three and five. Then they had that game 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:40.600 down in Miami, which was extremely winnable. They couldn't close 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.520 the deal as we saw earlier this season, went the 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.040 three and six. Uh and the Fits went down in 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.880 Miami with the spring knee, and uh Petty got to start. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:55.240 So now it's back to fit. So take us in 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.320 his mind right now he's saying on the surface, he's 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.920 saying all the right things. So Bright, I a tremendous competitor, 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.760 a guy I think who really embraces every moment he has. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:10.840 Thirty three years old, twelfth season in the National Football 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.000 League sixth team. In a few weeks back, we talked 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.360 about it right here on the podcast that hey, he 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.760 didn't know if he'd ever start again for the Jets 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.720 are probably any other NFL team when Genial got the 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.120 call and uh, you know, the injury forced him to 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.600 the sideline against the Rams, he was an emergency emergency quarterback. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.840 And now here he is again against a New England 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.240 Patriot team that last December, the last time he played him, 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:41.320 he led the Jets to uh studying victory over the Paths, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:45.600 and boy, things have changed so this season he's really 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.760 had to buckle up. But the good thing about it, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.600 I think is uh fits has experienced a lot of 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:54.560 highs and lows in the NFL. Yeah, I think for 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:59.080 him it is, um, here's where he is at least 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.480 here's where I would be right now. I'm just starving 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.080 for a little bit of success and continuity and and 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:10.200 trying to um, you know, get things you know, in 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:16.120 in line and trying to have some and trying to 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:20.040 get that going, you know. So um, I think that 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:25.880 for him it's all about just positivity, creating some momentum, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.720 playing well knowing that, hey, I may not be in 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:32.560 New York next year and that's okay, but I need 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.080 to play well as a professional and put out good 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.400 film and continue to improve. Regardless if you played two 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.000 years or twelve years, you still need to improve. You 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.880 can still need to feel good about the work that 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.479 you're putting in. So for him, I think it's individual 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.840 based number one and trying to do that. And then 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:55.200 number two from a from a leadership standpoint. As a 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.800 captain of the ship, you gotta keep the ship together 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:01.840 and you got to make sure that there's no frame 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.800 and there's no divisions going on. Can you do that 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:09.080 by your leadership? Point blank? How does fits get Brandon 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.680 Marshall and Quincy and Noon walk gone? Because if you 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.640 look at the stats this year, I know the NFL 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.400 is more than just stats, but obviously this is about 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.320 a frustrating season for b marsh He was an ends 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.880 on fourteen times last season and two times now after 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:31.240 ten games without Decker in the lineup, teams are rolling 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:34.640 even more coverage his way. We all know that. The 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.160 encouraging thing for the Jets that I've seen over the 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.680 last four games offensively, that I'd be stoked about if 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.880 I'm fits, is that you're running for an average of 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:48.480 a hundred fifty one yards per game. Matt Forte is 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.040 showing something as far as a lot of tread left 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.760 on those tires. He's had some explosions. Explosion runs four 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.480 over twenty yards when you combine the last two games, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.600 and then Forte and Paul combined for nearly two yards 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.080 last games. So for you as the quarterback, I'm putting 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:13.160 you in Ryan Fitzpatrick's shoes. How do you get Marshall 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:18.440 on a noon? What going again? Well? Number one, you've 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.040 gotta stick to your rules and your progressions and not 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.480 force the ball to them and and not have Sometimes 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.520 you can have such a sense of urgency bad at 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:32.120 backfires on you to where you want it too bad. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.679 You're you're playing too hard, you're working, you're you're almost 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.639 doing your overloading yourself and trying to because you're starving 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.879 for success. And so I think you gotta take a 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.959 big deep breath. You gotta relax, You gotta the biggest 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.080 challenges is not going in this game going well. We're 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.200 three and seven and Patriots are eight and two, and 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.639 you know, we're not very good and they're really good. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.359 I think you just gotta take it for what it is. 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.520 It's the Jets versus the Patriots. You have good players, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.600 they have good players. You have strengths and weaknesses. They 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.359 have strengths and weaknesses, and you're gonna try to work 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.360 towards your strengths and manage those weaknesses and exploit their 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.439 weaknesses and so um. That's that's very hard to do, 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.760 and it's it's easier said than done. But for him, 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.960 it's just to stay within himself. When the players are 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:22.320 there to be made to his playmakers, make them um, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.240 and then when they're not there to be made, and 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.040 just make sure that you avoid the disaster and keep 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.480 your team in the game. Here's something writing about right now, buddy. 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.879 The Patriots since Brady came back in Week five, averaging 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:40.159 thirty two points a game. Over Brady's six games span 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.760 here as starting quarterback, Dave scored less than thirty on 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:50.000 two occasions. That was in the loss to Seattle, uh 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.200 that while played game by the Seahawks on the road 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:56.240 a couple of weeks ago, and also uh Patriots win 0:18:56.400 --> 0:19:00.200 in Pittsburgh with that being said, do you have a 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.919 number in mind that the Jets are gonna have to 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:07.320 score here this week in order to obtain a victory. 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.119 I know they might not be talking about in the 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.040 locker room, and I don't know how it works. Maybe 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.040 you guys can give us, Maybe you can give us 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.879 some insight because you got in a locker room. You 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.600 go in there saying, hey, we need this kind of 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.280 number this week to win. Well, I think offensively you've 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.000 got to go in saying we've got to score twenty 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.639 eight points. Obviously, defensively, I think you go in saying, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.840 when they're in scoring territory, they've got to kick field 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.480 goals and it's a testdown versus still go things. And 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.679 so you know, from an overall perspective, obviously in the defense, 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.600 you're not going in going, well, we'll hold the twenty 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.880 seven and we win. No, you don't. You don't think 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.240 of it that way, do you think other Hey, we're 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.200 going in with a game plan. We're gonna get after 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.440 this guy. We've had a recipe for success in getting 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.120 after this guy. We've got to make some plays, we've 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.439 got to create the turnovers, we've got to reak havoc. 0:19:57.280 --> 0:20:00.480 But when they do get into scoring territory, we must 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:04.919 force them to kick field goals. As an offense, the 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.200 Jets have to say we must score touchdown. We can't 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:09.679 be one for five and the reds and I'm like 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.239 we were against the Dolphin, but we can't, uh, you know, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.840 be bad on third down all those different things. We've 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.560 got to be efficient and we have to score points, 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.960 and those things can be done. And that's as simple 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.080 as it is. I mean, let me remind you it 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.600 was third team to ten the fourth quarter against and 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.400 what's the forty niners record? One and nine? Okay, so 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.320 let's don't act like, well, this is such a juggernaut 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.919 and the machine that it can't be stopped and the 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.919 Jets have no chance. Now, statistics and and all of 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.040 that will tell you that the Jets and chances of 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:47.280 winning are obviously less than the Patriots chance of beating them. 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.000 I get that. But at the same time, from a 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:52.840 player's mindset, you're looking at it and you see it 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:55.120 is what it is. They're making plays. Other teams aren't 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.600 making plays. But when teams do make plays, they got 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.639 a chance to lose the game to pay. Yeah, we 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.560 say it every week about the Jets defensive front, that 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:11.000 they gotta win their battles, that the defensive line obviously 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:15.760 uh are entering a ballgame chat where they have matchup advantages. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.840 But if you're Todd Balls and Casey Rodgers this week 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.280 and you're facing a Tom Brady, you just got Dion 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.919 Lewis back who has a Legarrett Blunt in in the 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.159 backfield who we don't now know at the time of 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.160 taping here whether Rob Gronkowski and Chris Hogan will play 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.160 this week, but as possible both could play, or maybe 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:37.920 both could be down. I'm not sure at the time 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.040 of taping here. But even with that, they got plenty 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.320 Even without those two, they had plenty of weapons. Martellas 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.119 Bennett has been a tremendous addition to that ball club, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.280 not only from receiving perspective, but what he brings to 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.479 the table as a blocker. Then you have Julian Edelman, 0:21:55.800 --> 0:22:01.880 that's Brady's number one target, Danny Amondola. Um. So there 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:04.040 are a number of guys out there. A guy, a 0:22:04.160 --> 0:22:07.400 rookie receiver by the name of Malcolm Mitchell, Chad guy 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.840 I'd never heard of before he showed up on the 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.000 radar last week against the A four mention in San 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.000 Francisco forty Niners. So if you're bulls Casey Rodgers, are 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:23.920 there specific guys that you want to take away? Well, 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.439 the first and foremost that the recipe for success against 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:31.320 the Patriots has always been to make Tom Brady uncomfortable. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:36.680 The more comfortable he is, you have no shot. And 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.600 that was always the recipe with the Giants being able 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:43.760