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Speaker 1: Eight hundred nine one three seven seven six E. The
Speaker 1: Jets find themselves that wanted to after a tough defeat
Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Browns to seventeen. I was there in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: That place was going crazy in the second half. The
Speaker 1: Jets put themselves in position and win the ball game.
Speaker 1: Had a fourteen point lead there early, but weren't able
Speaker 1: to grab ahold of that one. From your vantage point,
Speaker 1: where did the game change, Well, you know, definitely, it
Speaker 1: definitely changed once Sam, excuse me, once Baker Mayfield entered
Speaker 1: the game. You know, the the Jets came in, they
Speaker 1: fell into a groove of getting after Tyrod Taylor. They
Speaker 1: were pressuring him, they were stopping the run, getting off
Speaker 1: the field, doing a great job offensively. But when Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield came into the game, the it energized the crowd
Speaker 1: and he came off the bench. He came off the
Speaker 1: bench with nothing to lose. You know, if he threw
Speaker 1: a couple of interceptions, it was no big deal. That's expected.
Speaker 1: He's a rookie quarterback, so he was able to just
Speaker 1: let it rip and he was getting the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands. He was accurate. He made a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays, got the crowd involved, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that the Jets adjusted after that. Those plays happened, Well,
Speaker 1: what happened in the second half because the Jets were
Speaker 1: all all over Teller early. They had four sacks and
Speaker 1: then if you go back to the Miami game the
Speaker 1: week before is the Jets had six sacks over a
Speaker 1: span of six quarters. Then, like you mentioned, Baker comes out,
Speaker 1: their offense looks different and the Jets defense looked a
Speaker 1: little different. Well, you know, you know what happens when
Speaker 1: you're getting those positions as you start pressing and everybody
Speaker 1: on defense starts trying to make a play instead of
Speaker 1: just playing within the scheme of the defense, you start
Speaker 1: trying to make it happen on your own. And that's
Speaker 1: not how it works. You have to play within the
Speaker 1: scheme of the defense when you're one on one matchups,
Speaker 1: and that's where you see those sacks come along. That's
Speaker 1: where you see the big plays that the Jets had
Speaker 1: produced in the past. And I think that in that
Speaker 1: second half they started to press trying to make too
Speaker 1: many big plays. What do you make of this team?
Speaker 1: After three weeks in the National Football League season, seventeen
Speaker 1: victors Monday Night football in Detroit, and then they come
Speaker 1: home the home opener against the Miami Dolphins, got behind
Speaker 1: uh twenty point. I sit there and try to make
Speaker 1: that second half run and was not to be. And
Speaker 1: then finally we see that mixed bag in Cleveland where
Speaker 1: they start off, they put themselves in position and win
Speaker 1: the game. There they were unable to close. But it's
Speaker 1: so early in the season. Yeah, I'm still excited. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm just as excited as I was before the season started.
Speaker 1: You know, this team has a ton of talent. They
Speaker 1: work hard, they bring in every week. That the thing
Speaker 1: that they have to do is control themselves. You know,
Speaker 1: if they if they don't make the mental mistakes, if
Speaker 1: they don't make the penalties that extend drives, if they
Speaker 1: take care of their business, this team could be uh
Speaker 1: eight win team. You know, they can control their own
Speaker 1: destiny if they take care of their business, which I'm
Speaker 1: fully I expect them to do. You know, they continue
Speaker 1: to play well, learn from their mistakes, and to continue
Speaker 1: to grow. Todd Bowl said, the team lost their composure
Speaker 1: in that second half, and you just talked about it before.
Speaker 1: Can players pressed because they wanted to do too much? Absolutely? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: When when you start losing, when things aren't going right,
Speaker 1: you want to be the one that makes the play.
Speaker 1: You want to be the teammate that everyone relies on.
Speaker 1: And when that happens, you know, you start making mistakes,
Speaker 1: You start compounding mistakes, and if you just stick to
Speaker 1: your job, stick to your fundamentals, and do what the
Speaker 1: coaches have asked you to do and play within the scheme.
Speaker 1: Then a lot of things work out for you. What
Speaker 1: do you think about the FC so far? The Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins three and all everybody else inside the division wanted to,
Speaker 1: including the New England Patriots. They went to Detroit last
Speaker 1: night on nationally in the nationally televised game themselves, and
Speaker 1: they had a different result than the Jets. They weren't
Speaker 1: able to get anything gone. They come out of that
Speaker 1: ball game with ton points and defensively, Detroit moved the
Speaker 1: ball up and down the field. Yeah, I mean, I'd
Speaker 1: be lying if I said I wasn't surprised by by
Speaker 1: what's happening in the a f C East. You know,
Speaker 1: you have New England, a team who you know, everybody
Speaker 1: just expects to be there, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you start to see that they have some chinks in
Speaker 1: their armor. There's some weaknesses on this team and they're
Speaker 1: starting to get posed. Uh. As far as Miami goes,
Speaker 1: you know, it's great to see them, you know, playing
Speaker 1: good football. I don't know how much it's gonna last,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't trust them, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I think the Jets are gonna put
Speaker 1: things together. They're gonna right the wrongs. And you know,
Speaker 1: with this young team, when you have a young team
Speaker 1: with so much fight, they're gonna start winning some games
Speaker 1: and things are gonna start going their way and they're
Speaker 1: gonna start winning games. And then you move over to Buffalo. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think they surprised a lot of people beating Minnesota
Speaker 1: the way they did last night. All right, yesterday, you know,
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen running at quarterback, I think people thought
Speaker 1: that Minnesota is gonna be one of those teams in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl contention. And they still might be, but
Speaker 1: they definitely didn't play well yesterday. Is it a good
Speaker 1: time for this team to have that many by where
Speaker 1: the players had the weekend off. Now they come back
Speaker 1: to work and they get a chance to prepare for
Speaker 1: Jacksonville had that full week as opposed to last week.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here after the Miami game. They got two weeks,
Speaker 1: I mean two days of preparation. You're off to Cleveland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is definitely tough, you know, playing those games. I
Speaker 1: don't think any team in NFL history has played three
Speaker 1: games in eleven days the way they did, and I
Speaker 1: can't imagine, Yeah, I can't imagine what they're going through
Speaker 1: physically and mentally, you know, because it's training, going through
Speaker 1: all the different game plans, you know, having to make
Speaker 1: the adjustments and deal with the issues from your body.
Speaker 1: So once you have that Thursday night game, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a relief if you can get through it, because
Speaker 1: you can go get your mind away from football a
Speaker 1: little bit. You can you know, separate, you know, go
Speaker 1: hang out with your family, Uh, take care of your
Speaker 1: body a little bit, and you get a jump on
Speaker 1: the next opponent. So you get a couple more days.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the Jets have been doing,
Speaker 1: and hopefully they come back refreshing, ready to play against Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: Eric Coleman. We're gonna be joined momentarily by Josh McCown
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be followed by rookie quarterback Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: The guy let the vet go first. Yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta take you gotta take care of McCown. He's
Speaker 1: been in this league sixteen season and uh, Sam Donald's
Speaker 1: ben in this league about sixteen weeks. Well, you've gotta
Speaker 1: gotta make sure that McCown is up here first betting
Speaker 1: lead off tonight. But the challenge I had with Jacksonville
Speaker 1: what makes them such a tough team because and they're
Speaker 1: not gonna be a good mood this weekend after losing
Speaker 1: a divisional game at home against the Tennessee Titans, the
Speaker 1: nine to six dog fight, the Jets got to be
Speaker 1: prepared for another battle. Well, you know Jacksonville, you know obviously,
Speaker 1: uh you look at their defense and they control the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage on on that defensive line, you know
Speaker 1: Marcel Darius Um. They have some speedy linebackers who can
Speaker 1: run with you know, any tight end, any running back
Speaker 1: in the league. And then outside, they have some some
Speaker 1: very good corners. You know, Jalen Ramsey is one of
Speaker 1: the best in the league. You could argue that they
Speaker 1: have the best cornerback tandem of football. Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people will say that they have the best tandem,
Speaker 1: and and they've been backing it up. You know, they've
Speaker 1: been talking a lot of trash outside, you know, off
Speaker 1: the field, but they go onto the field and handle
Speaker 1: their business. So they have a lot of speed on
Speaker 1: their defense. Um often toe Blake Borders is playing good football.
Speaker 1: He's got some some playmakers. They're running the ball well.
Speaker 1: So you know, this is a team that Tom Coughlin
Speaker 1: has created that is a hard nosed football team. They
Speaker 1: have a lot of speed and a ton of talent.
Speaker 1: All right, So we got plenty of time to talk
Speaker 1: about Jacksonville here, Earla, and on the show you can
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Speaker 1: We went to Cleveland last week and I'll never forget
Speaker 1: it when I went to owners meetings after you had
Speaker 1: signed here. I was in Arizona and I ran into
Speaker 1: Mary Kay Cabot of Cleveland dot Com, and I said,
Speaker 1: what kind of guy are we getting to Josh McCown
Speaker 1: And she said, he is one of the nicest guys
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. We all love them here.
Speaker 1: We're very upset that he's gone. And now here you
Speaker 1: are in your second year with the Jets. How much
Speaker 1: have you enjoyed your time because your roles have been
Speaker 1: quite different here in your short time with the Green
Speaker 1: and White. You started thirteen games at a career year
Speaker 1: last year and now you're transitioning to a backup role
Speaker 1: and more of a mentorship role. Yeah, it's been great. Um,
Speaker 1: I've just enjoyed being with the organization and and uh
Speaker 1: so many good people and and uh get to know
Speaker 1: this team, you know, and to another year and some
Speaker 1: of the new guys that we brought on. It's been
Speaker 1: it's been awesome. Um, enjoyed last year and and then uh,
Speaker 1: every year's fun and new and different and how you're
Speaker 1: gonna attack that year and and you know, find ways
Speaker 1: to you know, as an offense, move to football and
Speaker 1: and uh and you know, play winning football. So I've
Speaker 1: enjoyed my time here. It's been great and then look
Speaker 1: forward to, you know, another great week of preparation. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of that that week of preparation, you guys have
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars coming up. Can you talk about some
Speaker 1: of the problems that they posed to to the New
Speaker 1: York Jets and and some of the big players on
Speaker 1: their team. Yeah, they're they're, um, you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: obviously a great defense. We've they came in, you know,
Speaker 1: into Madlife last year and and uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: they flew around. They they play with a lot of speed. Uh.
Speaker 1: You guys startlier about the corners. Both Bullyer and and
Speaker 1: Ramsey are good players. Uh. Sean Gibson in the back end,
Speaker 1: uh is a is a great player as well. We
Speaker 1: played in Cleveland together. And then their backers, um can
Speaker 1: fly around so uh and then that doesn't even get
Speaker 1: to the probably the best part, which is their front.
Speaker 1: And so this is this is a good group. They're defensively,
Speaker 1: they're strong. But at the same time, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and we'll trust that the coaches will put it together
Speaker 1: a great grain plan and we'll be ready to go.
Speaker 1: And uh, like I said, we'll draw on some of
Speaker 1: the things that we did last year and and some
Speaker 1: of the experiences that we had that you know, they
Speaker 1: were they were flying high when they came in here
Speaker 1: last year and and um, and we were able to
Speaker 1: you know, get a win and get them so, UM,
Speaker 1: we know we'll have our hands full and be a good,
Speaker 1: good matchup. We're gonna talk to Sam Donald later. And
Speaker 1: you all have talked about how he is a flatliner
Speaker 1: with that being sad, and he's kind of absorbed everything
Speaker 1: that has come his way. How difficult of a stretches
Speaker 1: that to start your NFIL career with three games in
Speaker 1: eleven days, right, Yeah, it's it's obviously it's not ideal. Um.
Speaker 1: We we make no excuses, um, but but it's it's
Speaker 1: not you know, to to try to get in a
Speaker 1: long season when when you're talking about you know, seventeen
Speaker 1: weeks and sixteen games, routine is critical. And so to
Speaker 1: be able to establish that routine of how you're gonna
Speaker 1: go about a Monday, how you're gonna buy Tuesday preparation wise,
Speaker 1: and then Wednesday and so on. Uh, it's critical to
Speaker 1: have a Sunday to Sunday game and and so when
Speaker 1: you when you roll through that the first few weeks
Speaker 1: of the season and you don't you're not you know,
Speaker 1: you don't really have that because of scheduling, it's hard
Speaker 1: to find that routine. And uh, and so I'm really
Speaker 1: looking forward to that, you know, with Sam. These next
Speaker 1: few weeks are really you know, nailing down that routine
Speaker 1: because I believe wholeheartedly that the routine is what guide you.
Speaker 1: It's what saves you, um, weekend and week out your preparations,
Speaker 1: what's gonna allow you to play good football and and
Speaker 1: uh and so um, so we'll get that done this week.
Speaker 1: It'll be fun and I look forward to that being,
Speaker 1: you know, something that we're gonna utilize to help us
Speaker 1: play even better. John, what are some of the things
Speaker 1: that you know, you guys going to the film room
Speaker 1: together obviously make adjustments on, you know, the correction from
Speaker 1: the game. What are some of the things that you're
Speaker 1: seeing out of Sam that that you like about his
Speaker 1: game so far in the three game season. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the main thing is he's just getting exposed to
Speaker 1: so much football and you know it just at a
Speaker 1: new level and all that stuff and and so there's
Speaker 1: things that happened. There's you know, there's uh different reads
Speaker 1: and different things that happened, coverages on on plays that
Speaker 1: maybe haven't seen before. And and the best thing about
Speaker 1: Sam is that you know when he experiences of play
Speaker 1: and and something happens unfolds and he's able to internalize
Speaker 1: whatever that outcome was good or bad and and utilize
Speaker 1: it for the next rep. And that's huge. And playing
Speaker 1: this position because it allows for growth to happen quicker.
Speaker 1: So um so that's been I think the biggest thing
Speaker 1: I've noticed from him in the in the film Mons
Speaker 1: is just going Okay, that's awesome. This a new play
Speaker 1: from me. I see this, this happened on that. Now
Speaker 1: I'll know next time and then when he gets another
Speaker 1: chance at it, it's always better. So uh So I
Speaker 1: think that's you know, exciting because you just know that
Speaker 1: with experience and time is gonna be even better. It
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Speaker 1: inside the Jets you can call an eight hundred nine
Speaker 1: one nine three seven seven six. What do you think
Speaker 1: about his instincts at the position, And also Uh. He
Speaker 1: seems to see the game very well. Uh, despite a
Speaker 1: lot of things that are going on around him. He
Speaker 1: is a knack for finding the open man. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's a that's an upside for him.
Speaker 1: And uh and something that obviously the more he plays,
Speaker 1: the more comfortable, you know, and and the more we'll
Speaker 1: see that probably you know, unfolded even more so. Uh.
Speaker 1: So that's a good thing for us. Uh. He has
Speaker 1: you know, an aed ability you know, especially when he's
Speaker 1: outside the pocket throwing on the move. Um, very accurate
Speaker 1: and uh and something that you know, we can see
Speaker 1: it on the college state when he was coming out,
Speaker 1: he saw in different games he played in college, when
Speaker 1: I was watching him last year, and and then you know,
Speaker 1: see you see it now. Um. And so again, the
Speaker 1: more comfortable he gets playing the position, um, those things
Speaker 1: will come out and I think we'll see even more
Speaker 1: and and uh and you know, you look at the
Speaker 1: league and the number of plays every Sunday that you watch,
Speaker 1: especially down in the red zone, plays that are off schedule,
Speaker 1: plays that are made by quarterbacks outside of the pocket.
Speaker 1: And what an asset that can be, you know, if
Speaker 1: you have that tool. And Sam certainly has that, and
Speaker 1: so I think it's gonna be good for us. What
Speaker 1: was it like for you, Josh, coming out of sam
Speaker 1: Houston State the first month that you're on a career.
Speaker 1: Do you remember it? Yeah, it was it like for me.
Speaker 1: Uh but yeah, back when, yeah, it was it was
Speaker 1: you know, it was crazy. I mean I think just
Speaker 1: just trying to get a grasp of the of the game,
Speaker 1: you know, the college game. Back then there was a
Speaker 1: little bit more similarities between the college and the program.
Speaker 1: It's it's changed so much now, I think in college,
Speaker 1: but uh, but just still uh. We were starting to
Speaker 1: play in the in the shotgun more and spread it
Speaker 1: out in college, and so getting under center was like
Speaker 1: all the all the kind of the little things that
Speaker 1: I think a casual NFL fan would watching and maybe
Speaker 1: take for granted. Um, because when if you all you
Speaker 1: watch the NFL football, and you know you we take
Speaker 1: for granted how easy it is for a quarterback to
Speaker 1: get in the center. If you've been watching a veteran
Speaker 1: for a while, when these young guys get here, man,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a taking a snap and getting back
Speaker 1: like that's a different deal. When you you stood in
Speaker 1: the gun your whole you know, four years of college.
Speaker 1: So um, so I think those are some of the
Speaker 1: things that there's just like, you know, people expect a lot,
Speaker 1: they have high expectations for you, and you're you know,
Speaker 1: in your mind, you're just going, man, I just hope
Speaker 1: I can get to snap, you know. So those are
Speaker 1: one of the things that I think I look back
Speaker 1: on and those are like things that maybe stressed me out.
Speaker 1: So so when you talk about this team, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a very young team. There's a lot of youth. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of ebbs and flows through an NFL season.
Speaker 1: How important is it for you? How much have you
Speaker 1: been using and have to talk to the guys about
Speaker 1: staying even keel, continuing to to believe in the trend
Speaker 1: and and and continue to work no doubt, I mean,
Speaker 1: you hit it. That's that's exactly the thing. And obviously
Speaker 1: we were sitting here at one and two, and nobody
Speaker 1: wants to be one and two. Everybody wants to be
Speaker 1: three and over. There's a lot of one and two
Speaker 1: teams two and one. You know, it's early and uh,
Speaker 1: and that is the mindset that you have to approach,
Speaker 1: is that we're gonna attack this week and have the
Speaker 1: best week of preparation we've ever had and then go
Speaker 1: into Jackson gonna play good football. And um, you have
Speaker 1: to have that because it's such a long season and
Speaker 1: you can't you can't dip when when when things don't
Speaker 1: go well, you come up on the wall end, you know,
Speaker 1: one Sunday and then and then vice versa. You know,
Speaker 1: you go to Detroit and you have a big win.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to kind of process that within
Speaker 1: twenty four hours and then get back to your routine.
Speaker 1: Like I was speaking on earlier, get back to your
Speaker 1: routine and let that be what guide you and and
Speaker 1: just get into preparation mode and then go out and
Speaker 1: and ramp up to that Sunday and and and play
Speaker 1: good football. So uh So that's got to be the
Speaker 1: the idea, um and just to to bounce back and
Speaker 1: and attack this week just like we did week one.
Speaker 1: And uh, I expect our guys to do that. Coach
Speaker 1: Bowls are sending that message today with us and and
Speaker 1: uh and I think that'll be that'll be the case. Well,
Speaker 1: you're an extremely likable guy, Josh. But with that being said,
Speaker 1: there's probably some guys in national football union to come
Speaker 1: across and you're like, yeah, you know, I don't really
Speaker 1: have a good feel for that guy. How much easier
Speaker 1: does it make in this situation that you and Sam,
Speaker 1: despite the age gap, it really seemed to get along
Speaker 1: off the field and not just necessarily talking ball because
Speaker 1: you guys love to talk ball. Yeah. Absolutely, I think
Speaker 1: I think it does make it, uh even better because
Speaker 1: trust is the main thing, you know, when when when
Speaker 1: if you're asking me how to read a play, or
Speaker 1: you're talking through something and I tell you something, you
Speaker 1: want to be able to trust and believe that. And
Speaker 1: and I think that's built over shared experience and shared
Speaker 1: experiences just doing life together, you know, whether it's in
Speaker 1: in in the football atmosphere or outside of that. And
Speaker 1: so um so for us, we spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time together, and uh and despite the age gap, we
Speaker 1: we do find some you know, some some common ground
Speaker 1: every now and then. And more than anything, he's he's
Speaker 1: you know, uh, low key, pretty funny dude, and uh
Speaker 1: he makes me laugh every now and then. But I
Speaker 1: think it's been good and and and you know, I've
Speaker 1: just enjoyed being around him, and I really believe, you know,
Speaker 1: and where he's headed. And uh, and you know the
Speaker 1: work that we're putting in right now. You're not only
Speaker 1: monitoring Sam Donalds. But how about your son, Owen. You
Speaker 1: had you had a weekend off, so you go back
Speaker 1: home to North Carolina. Can you tell us about Owen's
Speaker 1: career where he's at as far as his age is concerned.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and he's slinging in a little bit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I have two boys that are both playing ball.
Speaker 1: Ones in ninth grade and one in eighth grade, and
Speaker 1: they're they're playing quarterbacks for their team. And and uh,
Speaker 1: but my son dresses. He plays on the JV and
Speaker 1: then he'll dress on the bar seam. So last week
Speaker 1: he got some he guy his first varsity snaps. So
Speaker 1: that was fun. He got in there and ran around
Speaker 1: a little bit and and throw a couple of balls
Speaker 1: and you got, I was there for that, and I
Speaker 1: was that was the best. So um so there's you know,
Speaker 1: I tell these guys all the time, and it's it's
Speaker 1: playing this game is fun. Throwing touchdowns and do all that.
Speaker 1: That's fun stuff. But when your kids doing there's not
Speaker 1: like it. And and uh and man that it was
Speaker 1: also to be there to the night and be a
Speaker 1: part of that. But we saw one Jets drive. You
Speaker 1: can be tough on those kids too. Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta imagine you. You're a good dad. We know
Speaker 1: how involved you are, but you've played at the highest level.
Speaker 1: What's it like for them and how do you coach
Speaker 1: them up? Well, I think it's just within any group
Speaker 1: of you know, a team that you're on, you just
Speaker 1: you know, in that coaching role, and when you step
Speaker 1: into a high school it's it's just trying to get
Speaker 1: them to understand, uh, how important their voices are, you know,
Speaker 1: because in high school there used to just a coach
Speaker 1: just kind of pull them along wherever and and so
Speaker 1: really kind of getting everybody, but especially juniors and seniors
Speaker 1: and older kids to understand how much ownership they can
Speaker 1: take in a team and uh and kind of make
Speaker 1: that team how they wanted to be, by the standards
Speaker 1: that they said. And that's really at every level of
Speaker 1: college in and pro. But um, but trying to get
Speaker 1: done you know high school kids is is a is
Speaker 1: a tough task, but it's a fun challenge. So do
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Do your kids play multiple
Speaker 1: sports or they just focus on one? Oh? Yeah, no, no no, no,
Speaker 1: we're multiple sports. Can you talk about the importance of
Speaker 1: that playing. I think it's huge. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's hard because uh, you know, people
Speaker 1: get so you know, dialed into one thing and then
Speaker 1: they go all in with that thing, and then it
Speaker 1: puts pressure on the multiple sport people to like pick one.
Speaker 1: And uh, I just I love them all. Um played
Speaker 1: football and basketball in high school. My boys are big
Speaker 1: basketball players as well, and um, we just enjoy it.
Speaker 1: We and we enjoy everything. Um, you know, but it's
Speaker 1: hard to kind of do them all because of time.
Speaker 1: But but as many as you can do and and
Speaker 1: you know, be a part of a team and be
Speaker 1: good at it, I think it's healthy for you. And
Speaker 1: and uh and it only I don't think it deterrors
Speaker 1: from the other sport. I think it only makes you better.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean we're looking, you know, look at
Speaker 1: our you know, young quarterbacks in the league. Pat Pat
Speaker 1: Mahomes is lighted up right now. He's a big baseball player,
Speaker 1: you know, and and so um, I just think it's
Speaker 1: it's it can only help you. Uh. Last year, you
Speaker 1: guys got out of the gate a little bit slow.
Speaker 1: Lose a couple, but about this point in two thousand
Speaker 1: of seventeen took off and went three games in a row.
Speaker 1: When you look at the league, does anything surprise you?
Speaker 1: At this point the Buffalo Bell seventeen point underdog against
Speaker 1: the Minnesota and they going there and they hammered. That
Speaker 1: was she lackin um. And we saw what you guys
Speaker 1: did in Detroit. And then New England's going through some
Speaker 1: early season difficulties. What what happens here early in the
Speaker 1: year and how long does it take four team to
Speaker 1: forge the identity? Well, it's you're always building. And I think,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, if you if you come in
Speaker 1: and you stay focused on your routine and the little
Speaker 1: things that you're gonna do every day, and and the
Speaker 1: details and the standards that you set for your team
Speaker 1: and and for your offense and for yourself personally, you
Speaker 1: you tighten that up every day you come in and
Speaker 1: be about that all the time. You look up and
Speaker 1: be on the right side of that school board, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the same thing, the same thought
Speaker 1: as a season. Every week. You come in every week,
Speaker 1: every week, and these games will start turning and going
Speaker 1: your way and um and in the teams that understand
Speaker 1: that and play the long game, those are the ones
Speaker 1: that look up in the December, are playing meeting for football.
Speaker 1: You know. It's the it's the emotional ones that get
Speaker 1: up and down up, and that you can't play that way.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sustain. At some point when you when you
Speaker 1: need to make a run, you'll just fall flat because
Speaker 1: you have been too emotionally one out. So I think
Speaker 1: for for us, the key is just it's the long game.
Speaker 1: I think you said it with those games this weekend.
Speaker 1: It should be encouraging to everybody that you look around
Speaker 1: the league and you go, man, nobody's got this thing
Speaker 1: nailed down. You know, it's it's it's gonna be wide open.
Speaker 1: And so if we just keep putting in the work,
Speaker 1: keep doing the things that coach bowl is asking us
Speaker 1: to do, uh, we'll look up and and and we'll
Speaker 1: be in the hunt and then that's all you can
Speaker 1: ask for. And then and ascending and playing your best
Speaker 1: ball later in the year. You know, nobody wants to
Speaker 1: play their best ball right now and then fall off
Speaker 1: and what good is that? So I think that's the key.
Speaker 1: And obviously with the young quarterback we want to maintain
Speaker 1: that and and that trajectory anyway, and uh, and I
Speaker 1: think we will. I think, you know, Sam's best football
Speaker 1: will always be ahead of him, you know. And uh,
Speaker 1: and so that's exciting for us. You have some Chap
Speaker 1: Pennington and yeah, as far as that being so involved
Speaker 1: in the family, also the coaching aspect of it. I
Speaker 1: get asked all the time about Chad would he ever
Speaker 1: want to coach professionally? Have you thought down the line, Uh,
Speaker 1: as far as what level you want to coach? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, I'll say this, I'll never say never,
Speaker 1: you know. And and I've just have had a great
Speaker 1: fortune of being exposed to a lot of football, especially
Speaker 1: at this level. Um, I've changed the coordinators every year
Speaker 1: of my career for seventeen years. So I've if there's
Speaker 1: an offense out there, I've I've runned or been part
Speaker 1: of it. And so um so it would be cool
Speaker 1: to take some of those you know, experiences and and
Speaker 1: and and put them to use inside this realm Um
Speaker 1: certainly enjoy you know, giving back to the high school
Speaker 1: kids too. Um. So we'll see. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just focused on this week and then um, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully down the road we'll see what happens. But but
Speaker 1: I love the game, love being a part of it,
Speaker 1: and and uh certainly see myself in the future, you know,
Speaker 1: being a part of it in some capacity that you
Speaker 1: will call him JA be the interaction on the sideline
Speaker 1: with Jeremy Bates, You're playing a pivotal world right now. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's just trying to you know,
Speaker 1: JB saminized conversations sometimes extend past past the facility, so
Speaker 1: I may pick up something that you know, Sam may
Speaker 1: mentioned something at dinner about a play or about it.
Speaker 1: You know, there's just different things and throughout the course
Speaker 1: of it's just it's great for us to be able
Speaker 1: to all communicate and make sure that oh yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: I think he likes this play. I remember we talked
Speaker 1: about that, you know, so on and so forth, and
Speaker 1: and we're all open about that. And Sam's great communicating
Speaker 1: that with JB. And so you know, it's critical and
Speaker 1: it's a it's a credited to Jeremy about you know,
Speaker 1: just uh, you know, some guys there, some play callers
Speaker 1: are all different and some guys can be more closed
Speaker 1: off and just then hey, leave me alone. This is
Speaker 1: how I am. And some guys, you know, it's all
Speaker 1: about the team and what's best and what makes guys
Speaker 1: feel comfortable. And and JB's that way, he's you know,
Speaker 1: what what can what can we do to be better?
Speaker 1: How can we you know, we're all in this together,
Speaker 1: and and uh and so I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: right mindset. And it's going. We've been official for Sam.
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Speaker 1: your New York Jets. Uh. We just had Josh mccowny
Speaker 1: out here off for a segment. Tremendous as always, could
Speaker 1: talk to him for hours. He and now we bring
Speaker 1: in Jets rookie quarterbacks Sam darn Up. Si, how you
Speaker 1: doing so? You got the crowd very excited tonight. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you. You had a chance to decompress and
Speaker 1: maybe get away from football just for a little bit.
Speaker 1: You went into this city. Can you tell us some
Speaker 1: of the things you might have done? Um? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I was able to go into the city, have a
Speaker 1: nice dinner with some people. Uh. Actually got to see
Speaker 1: Ed Shearing at MetLife pying a great show. Uh so,
Speaker 1: you know, I had some fun, was able to relax
Speaker 1: for a few days, which we didn't get to do
Speaker 1: it all in the last you know, thirteen or twelve
Speaker 1: or however many it was, I think eleven, so uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a crazy you know, three weeks of football. Um.
Speaker 1: Finally got to decompress a little bit this weekend, which
Speaker 1: was really nice. What's it like for you when you're
Speaker 1: in the city. A lot of Jets fans stopping your
Speaker 1: You're wearing a baseball camp and keeping I wear hat wear.
Speaker 1: Uh no, it's not too bad. I mean, uh it's
Speaker 1: funny because you know, New York is full of a
Speaker 1: lot of different people. Um, a lot of them sometimes
Speaker 1: don't even watch football. Uh so you know, sometimes I
Speaker 1: can recognize sometimes as I don't, you know, I prefer
Speaker 1: the ladder. But um, if they do recognize me, and
Speaker 1: it is what it is, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: say what's up, and uh, you know, just kind of
Speaker 1: go about our day. Usually ask for a selfie or something.
Speaker 1: Uh that's usually the thing now instead of an autograph,
Speaker 1: because it's apparently a lot easier. So uh, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's been really fun to be able to kind
Speaker 1: of be in Jersey and be in the city and
Speaker 1: and hang out with some of the fans when I can.
Speaker 1: So Sam, you went to see I went to Washington State.
Speaker 1: I talked about it before. You guys beat up on
Speaker 1: us a little bit. Uh, this weekend's close. How much
Speaker 1: how much you keep in touch with your with your
Speaker 1: teammates from USC, you know, with the with the craziness
Speaker 1: of of the NFL season. Yeah, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: not as much as I'd like to, Um, just because
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot going on here that I
Speaker 1: gotta be worried about. UM, But I definitely I stay
Speaker 1: in touch, you know, with Um, with with all my teammates, hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, with as much as them as I can.
Speaker 1: Stay in touch. With camp Smith I talked to on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis. Um, the the inside linebacker there, Um Senior.
Speaker 1: You know, it was one of my best friends, still
Speaker 1: is one of my best friends, but on the team,
Speaker 1: one of my best friends, and UM, you know, I
Speaker 1: try to talk to him, you know, try to feel
Speaker 1: out what the what the team is going through, and
Speaker 1: um all that because you know, some of those guys were,
Speaker 1: you know, like I just said, some of my best friends.
Speaker 1: So um, every every weekend watching them and checking in
Speaker 1: on on them, so checking in how to see how
Speaker 1: they're doing. So, UM, I think I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: you know, get rolling here a little bit, um, hopefully
Speaker 1: in the near future. And you know j T had
Speaker 1: a had a pretty solid game against Wazoo. Um. J
Speaker 1: T Daniels a freshman quarterback, so supposed to be a
Speaker 1: senior in high school. Still right, Yeah, So I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna you know, start rolling a little bit. He's
Speaker 1: he's looking pretty confident out there. So I'm excited to,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully watch them have some success and and
Speaker 1: you know the weeks to come. During a conference call today,
Speaker 1: you told reporters I know how to be tough. I
Speaker 1: was raised that way. What can you say about your dad, Mike,
Speaker 1: he's a formant a gas company and also your mom,
Speaker 1: Uh Chris of course, middle school Uh, physical education teacher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys have done your homework. Uh yeah, No, they're
Speaker 1: they're amazing people. I mean just you know, so blessed
Speaker 1: to be able to be raised by amazing parents and um,
Speaker 1: just the lessons and the values that they taught me
Speaker 1: throughout my whole life. UM. I can't thank them enough
Speaker 1: for what they did. And UM, you know, they didn't
Speaker 1: hold me back either when I was little, and you know,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't let me do everything that I wanted to,
Speaker 1: but they would let me play any sport that I
Speaker 1: wanted to play. They let me. You know, I've got
Speaker 1: into a skateboarding phase early on in my life and
Speaker 1: they let me do that until I felt too much, uh,
Speaker 1: and then you know, after that it was just kind
Speaker 1: of do what you want, but you know, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna let you do everything, but you know, go have fun.
Speaker 1: And that was kind of how they raised me. And
Speaker 1: at the same time, once I start something, whether it
Speaker 1: was a season, um, whether it was football, basketball, baseball,
Speaker 1: they weren't gonna let me quit um. And I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of part of the part of the toughness
Speaker 1: that I was able to uh kind of developed. And
Speaker 1: how are they how they were able to raise me
Speaker 1: a little bit nice? Can you talk about what it's
Speaker 1: been like these first three weeks. I mean, obviously three
Speaker 1: games in eleven days. What has it been like for
Speaker 1: you mentally going through this this short span of the
Speaker 1: NFL season. Yeah, you know, it's it's been a lot.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's been really fun. It's
Speaker 1: been fun just all ball all the time. As they say,
Speaker 1: it's different than college for sure. Um, you know, because everyone,
Speaker 1: not just us, but you know, the other teams don't
Speaker 1: don't have anything else going on either. You know, it's
Speaker 1: their job to to beat us on you know, Monday, Thursday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: whenever the day it was. You know, sometimes you get
Speaker 1: the days confused when when you got a crazy schedule.
Speaker 1: But um, now it's every Sunday. We get to play
Speaker 1: week week to week and I start to kind of
Speaker 1: develop my routine that I would have in a normal season,
Speaker 1: which is really nice, and um, I'm just excited, you know,
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a rhythm going um with
Speaker 1: the team and with the way that we practice, and
Speaker 1: kind of get my routine, like I just said, which
Speaker 1: I think will be really uh really nice, it said.
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Speaker 1: inside to Windham Hamilton Park Hotel. Eric Allen and Eric
Speaker 1: Coleman are joined here by Sam Donald. Um. You talked
Speaker 1: about recently Thursday, we're in the postgame news conferences. You
Speaker 1: also stressed it today. You want to let the game
Speaker 1: come to you. What do you mean by that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think for me, it's uh, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like I just talked about. Actually, you know,
Speaker 1: with baseball and basketball, it was kind of the same
Speaker 1: way for me. It was not trying to do too
Speaker 1: much on any given play in any given series. It
Speaker 1: was just letting the game come to me. You know, basketball,
Speaker 1: get a couple of layups before I start shooting. Um. Baseball,
Speaker 1: just you know, watch a couple of pitches go by
Speaker 1: until you know, I find you know, the rhythm and
Speaker 1: what the picture is doing. So it's kind of the
Speaker 1: same thing. Just find completions, find my checkdowns and and
Speaker 1: know exactly where everyone is and then when the shots
Speaker 1: are there, take them. Um. That's kind of been my mindset.
Speaker 1: And UM, again, I can't think Josh enough for what
Speaker 1: he's been able to do, how he's been able to
Speaker 1: teach me. And you know, coach Jeremy Bates mc lombardy
Speaker 1: and also Davis UM and then you know, also, um,
Speaker 1: I gotta mention Teddy Bridgewater. Um, the amount that he's
Speaker 1: been able, the amount of time that he was able
Speaker 1: to spend with me, and um, how much that he
Speaker 1: helped me also along this whole process. Obviously he's not
Speaker 1: with us anymore, but um, he's gonna be a great
Speaker 1: player in this league for a long time. And UM,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't thank him enough for for what
Speaker 1: he was able to do for me. I loved what
Speaker 1: you said about Bridgewater after he's traded. He said one
Speaker 1: of the best uh phrases of advice you got was, hey,
Speaker 1: just be yourself from but you don't have any problem
Speaker 1: being that way. A lot of people, I think they
Speaker 1: might get onto the bright lights of New York and
Speaker 1: be hey, um, the youngest quarterback that started a team
Speaker 1: season opener since the merger in nineteen seventy, the youngest
Speaker 1: guy to throw for more than three hundred yards uh
Speaker 1: passing in the game, and it would be too big
Speaker 1: for them. But with you, you are the flat line. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well again, going back to you know, kind of my parents,
Speaker 1: it's kind of all due to them, uh, just the
Speaker 1: way that they were able to kind of raise me,
Speaker 1: and also the community that I was raised in. Very
Speaker 1: relaxed area, and um, you know, I think that has
Speaker 1: a partner it. But just going back to what Teddy said,
Speaker 1: I think just um I knew that, you know, I
Speaker 1: was gonna be myself, But when I first got in
Speaker 1: the locker room, UM, I kind of had that feeling of, oh,
Speaker 1: do I need to you know, say anything to these guys.
Speaker 1: Do I need to be anything other than what I'm
Speaker 1: doing right now? And Teddy was just like bro settled down, Like,
Speaker 1: calm down, you're good man. Just just be yourself. And um,
Speaker 1: once you start performing on the field, guys, guys in
Speaker 1: respect you're in, you'll earn your respect and you'll just
Speaker 1: develop a normal relationship with everyone. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: the way that he talked about it, and that's also
Speaker 1: how Josh talks about as well. So I'm just going
Speaker 1: to continue to to play, hopefully play well, play consistent
Speaker 1: football and and kind of earn respect along the way,
Speaker 1: but also you know, not demanded. Just continue to play
Speaker 1: football and have fun with you know, the fellows that
Speaker 1: we've been grinding with for a while. No how difficult
Speaker 1: has it been week to week, facing a different secondary
Speaker 1: of a different defense that gives you so many different looks.
Speaker 1: They may disguise one coverage, they may be you know,
Speaker 1: a different coverage. How how difficult has it been for
Speaker 1: you as a quarterback to to make those changes every
Speaker 1: week and throughout the game. Yeah, I mean it's well,
Speaker 1: we've put in so much time and effort into into this,
Speaker 1: and um, the receivers, the running backs, the old line,
Speaker 1: We've all we've all put so much time into it,
Speaker 1: whether it was O T A s um mini camp,
Speaker 1: you know, training camp. We put in so much time
Speaker 1: and um, you know, once we get on the football field,
Speaker 1: no matter who it is, I feel really comfortable. Um,
Speaker 1: no matter what the personnel, doesn't matter who's out on
Speaker 1: the field, I know that they're gonna be in the
Speaker 1: right spot, you know, at the right time. And I'm
Speaker 1: really confident in that. You seem like you have a
Speaker 1: great chemistry gone early with eighty one, Quincy and Noon.
Speaker 1: What do you think a couple of those connections late
Speaker 1: to curse your main curse in the Cleveland game can
Speaker 1: help you guys moving forward? Yeah, I mean Jermaine obviously
Speaker 1: Week one was was banged up a little bit and
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to play, and um, the Miami game.
Speaker 1: I was still kind of starting to film out a
Speaker 1: little bit, and then Cleveland, you know, I felt like
Speaker 1: he was, you know, his his normal self in the
Speaker 1: presence that I was able to see and watch film
Speaker 1: of of last year. Um, so you know, hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: get we'll get him rolling a little bit too. And
Speaker 1: you know, we have a really exciting um receiving corps
Speaker 1: that I think a lot of people gotta watch out for. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That that was my next question. How do you manage
Speaker 1: and getting everyone touches? You know, because I'm sure Robbie
Speaker 1: comes up to you like, you know, throw the ball
Speaker 1: to my lockers, right in between Quincy and Jermaine. So
Speaker 1: so you hear it all I hear it all day.
Speaker 1: How do you manage that during the game, Like, oh man,
Speaker 1: he hasn't got any touches today, let me make sure
Speaker 1: he gets him love. Yeah, I mean, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's not a big deal with those guys. Honestly. Um,
Speaker 1: I always joke about, you know, me being in between
Speaker 1: Quincy and Jermaine, But um, those those two are awesome
Speaker 1: in themselves, but all the other receivers are amazing as well.
Speaker 1: You know, none of them are selfish in anyway. Um,
Speaker 1: they know what it's like to Um. Maybe they've played
Speaker 1: quarterback before, but most of them know exactly what it's
Speaker 1: like to be in my shoes and know how much
Speaker 1: is going on on a given play, And um, I
Speaker 1: just gotta find the open guy and you know, make
Speaker 1: the offense work, drive it down the field, put ourselves
Speaker 1: in good positions to score points. And you know, as
Speaker 1: long as I'm doing that, you know, the receivers, the line,
Speaker 1: the running backs, or anyone for that matter, isn't I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going to complain how much you enjoying this.
Speaker 1: You've always said from day one. I interviewed after the
Speaker 1: draft said I love ball, I love talking ball. I
Speaker 1: love that opportunity to play. I uh, how much do
Speaker 1: you like one of the facility? Monday? It starts the week?
Speaker 1: And now you've got a real true NFL week because geez,
Speaker 1: three days, three games in eleven days. That's a little
Speaker 1: bit different for anybody, much less a guy coming out
Speaker 1: out of school. And now how you have the whole
Speaker 1: process working your way up to Sunday in Jacksonville. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Um, Like I, like I said before, I
Speaker 1: mean just being able to build that routine, um for
Speaker 1: the next you know, thirteen weeks or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just really excited to finally start something and
Speaker 1: to be able to find a routine and hopefully continue
Speaker 1: to stack wins after wins. And UM, I'm just really
Speaker 1: excited about the opportunity that we have in Jacksonville, UM,
Speaker 1: against a great defense, great offense as well, just a
Speaker 1: really great team in general. UM, and I think you know,
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to go down there and make
Speaker 1: something happen. So UM, I'm really excited about what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And yeah, to your point earlier, I mean, every single
Speaker 1: day it's I love going to work, I love football,
Speaker 1: but I love going into that locker room with those
Speaker 1: guys and um, just being with them every single day.
Speaker 1: It's it's special and we got a special thing going
Speaker 1: on there. But well, you're off to a good start,
Speaker 1: and I just finally just wanted to ask you what
Speaker 1: do you think about Jets Nation? We got the season
Speaker 1: ticket holders here and tonight our chance your name before
Speaker 1: and after you guys play Jacksonville. You're coming home for
Speaker 1: a three game homestand oh yeah, no, I'm pumped about
Speaker 1: that Uh, these fans have been you know, nothing short
Speaker 1: of amazing. Uh, I mean the whole time. I mean
Speaker 1: I mentioned it earlier, but in Detroit. I mean just
Speaker 1: you know, the way that we won that game and
Speaker 1: that all the fans came down afterwards, you know, J E. T. F.
Speaker 1: It was just it was awesome to be able to
Speaker 1: to feel the energy that all the fans have. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know about this place and and about you know
Speaker 1: what we're doing here. Uh, it's something special and it's
Speaker 1: something that you know, I think every Jets fans should
Speaker 1: be really excited about. It's just to start for Sam
Speaker 1: Donald and uh, this is your first appearance on Inside
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Speaker 1: back Inside the Jets, Eric Ellen and Eric Coleman. Here
Speaker 1: a banner builts uh tremendous our. Josh mccow started off
Speaker 1: than Sam Donald um fouled. Listen, every time I'm around
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, I'm more impressed. He has it. He's got it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna experience bumps along the way. He's three games
Speaker 1: into his NFL career. But if you're a Jet fit,
Speaker 1: you have to be very excited by what you see.
Speaker 1: His demeanor, the way he views that locker room, what
Speaker 1: he talked about tonight about his teammates, the way he's
Speaker 1: absorbed the playbook, his instinctive qualities, his toughness, his mental fortitude.
Speaker 1: I think he's a keeper. He's gonna be one to
Speaker 1: watch for many years to come. For this franchise. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you have to be excited if you're a
Speaker 1: Jets fan. I mean, this kid is He's only twenty
Speaker 1: one years old. He hasn't seen you know, half, he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen too much, you know as a court back,
Speaker 1: you know, and to have Josh McCown helping him through
Speaker 1: the lumps, helping him through the rough phases, it's it's
Speaker 1: a pleasure for for for Josh, you know. I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy who makes a mistake and corrects it.
Speaker 1: He works hard, he cares about it, and he's a
Speaker 1: great teammates. All right, So we got time for a
Speaker 1: couple of calls here and and said the Jets let's
Speaker 1: go to uh Cole's. But on hold for a while.
Speaker 1: What's up call? How are you doing? Great? Quick quick question? Um,
Speaker 1: do you think Sam Donald's in the best position as
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback? Having jo McCown meantor him because if
Speaker 1: you look at the other rookies, they don't have a
Speaker 1: season best like McCown help, help mentor that. Yeah, thanks
Speaker 1: for the call. I would say yes if you're you know,
Speaker 1: and we've had these conversations with people before. If you
Speaker 1: were selecting a mentor quarterback in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: Josh McCown, Josh McCown will be number one overall on
Speaker 1: that draft. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he does have a
Speaker 1: great mentor. And Josh said it when when he was here.
Speaker 1: He's been through what's seventeen different coordinators, so he's seen
Speaker 1: a lot of football. Um, you know, he's played a
Speaker 1: lot of great football at a high level. And what
Speaker 1: better person do you want to to mentor a young
Speaker 1: kid into this league as a guy who's done it
Speaker 1: at a high level. Before Let's go to IRA and
Speaker 1: Staten Island. What's up by Hey, what's happening? Good guest tonight?
Speaker 1: I could tell you you know, you know, it's interesting
Speaker 1: going into the Jacksonville game. Listen, You're going there, you
Speaker 1: give it your best swing and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day you will see where the cause bull are you?
Speaker 1: So what to build it? And you mentioned Eric or
Speaker 1: something about Sam. You know these three games that need
Speaker 1: a loving days. Listen. You know what Greg William Stewart
Speaker 1: him last everyday night. That's about probably the most complex
Speaker 1: defense he's gonna see, scheme wise. So I think experiencing
Speaker 1: those three games, even though he's facing the Jags this week,
Speaker 1: I think a good learning experience and I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna see that he's gonna eat you will have a
Speaker 1: much better game against the Jaguars and a more talented
Speaker 1: in the Browns, specifically, of course, what he experienced last
Speaker 1: Curious what you guys think, Thanks for the call. I
Speaker 1: I agree. I think that Donald will play better this week.
Speaker 1: Uh what. I would also say that I think that
Speaker 1: Jacksonville's defense you can make the argument that this is
Speaker 1: the top unit of the National Football League. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: was pretty good, arguably the best defense in the league
Speaker 1: coming up this week. But listen, it's all about ebbs
Speaker 1: and flows and staying even kill and Sam is the
Speaker 1: perfect example of a guy who is gonna not get
Speaker 1: too high when he when he does well, but at
Speaker 1: this at the same time, when he doesn't have success,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna beat himself up. He's gonna just gonna
Speaker 1: continue to get better, continue to grow. And that's what
Speaker 1: I think fans they have to keep in mind. You know,
Speaker 1: with Baker Mayfield, is gonna be the same thing when
Speaker 1: you look over at the Browns. Yes, he came in hot,
Speaker 1: throwing the ball, great, it was great. He had one
Speaker 1: great game. But now he's gonna start seeing teams are
Speaker 1: gonna scheme him. Things are gonna change up, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna slow down for him. Sam is a guy who's
Speaker 1: gonna stay that even kill. He's gonna continue to grow
Speaker 1: and progress as the season real quickly. We got about
Speaker 1: forty five seconds left. When I look at this matchup,
Speaker 1: I think the Jets defense can have a lot of
Speaker 1: success against that Jacksonville offense. Conversely, on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball, is going to be imperative to establish
Speaker 1: balance for for this offense right now. Maybe take a
Speaker 1: couple of shots down the field to keep him honest.
Speaker 1: And don't turn the football over. They live off the
Speaker 1: turnover there, Yeah, a big thing offensively, don't beat yourself
Speaker 1: before the snap, no false start penalties. Try to stay
Speaker 1: out of third and long situations because that's where Jacksonville
Speaker 1: can really hurt you as a defense. So if they
Speaker 1: can control, stay, stay ahead of the sticks, they'll have
Speaker 1: a lot of success. Thanks to all the Jets season
Speaker 1: take it allders who came out tonight, a really wonderful
Speaker 1: UH program and Josh McCown and Sam Donald they brought
Speaker 1: it as well. We will see you next week on instide.
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