Speaker 1: This is Eric Decker and you're listening to the laces
Speaker 1: In podcast with Eric Gownberg. What's up, Jets Nation? Welcome
Speaker 1: inside the Flooring Park studios for episode number five of
Speaker 1: laces In. I'm your host. Ethan Greenberg joined alongside Alex
Speaker 1: Jaimo and Eric Allen. Now, today we got a nice
Speaker 1: little show for you. We got some Pittsburgh Steelers, we
Speaker 1: got some suicide picks. Unfortunately one of us got kicked
Speaker 1: out from last week. We'll touch on that later. But first,
Speaker 1: dad to be because Alex, yeah, I know a spoiler
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, it was myself. I actually picked the Bengals,
Speaker 1: which Eric and Alex picked in my act in my
Speaker 1: money suicide pool outside of this podcast, so I'm still
Speaker 1: alive in real life in the show. In the show,
Speaker 1: I got knocked out, so I picked the Cardinals who
Speaker 1: suffered a loss to the division arrival l a Rams.
Speaker 1: But first is uh, yeah, you gotta got a haircut.
Speaker 1: Yeah it looks good, thanks man, faded action. I try
Speaker 1: to keep it clean. And this is my typical about
Speaker 1: five every five six weeks, so right around five to
Speaker 1: six weeks. It's pretty long time, isn't it. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: hair doesn't grow as fast as it used to. About that,
Speaker 1: Are you taking a dig at yourself? No? I think
Speaker 1: I still got relatively full head of hair. Now. Bottom
Speaker 1: line is your hair. Your hairline moves back when you
Speaker 1: get older. You'll experience that. But I'm not going bald
Speaker 1: by any means. Well, all right, and something to look
Speaker 1: forward to. People can check out the videos on New
Speaker 1: York just that I'm not a bald man, and they're
Speaker 1: not done anything wrong with being balled my head before
Speaker 1: I really had before. Wait, you've shaved your head? Oh sure,
Speaker 1: I would love to see a photo of you with
Speaker 1: a shaved head. Oh yeah. When I was playing hockey
Speaker 1: at the University of Maryland at one night, uh shave
Speaker 1: shaved the head picked It actually scared a couple of
Speaker 1: roommates coming home because it was a scary sight, you know.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, too bad, We don't have a
Speaker 1: too bad. No one can see that photo. But I
Speaker 1: do want to see. I've done it in a couple
Speaker 1: of times, the big action, like the big action with
Speaker 1: the beard as well, the big action with the beard,
Speaker 1: that must be a site to see. We're just talking
Speaker 1: about the beard comes back when after Thanksgiving around Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Around Thanksgiving, all right, something it's not no shave November
Speaker 1: or it is, well for some people it is. I'm
Speaker 1: all in for you personal I'm all into charity causes
Speaker 1: bottom line, but I'm not a mustache guy. All right,
Speaker 1: were quick, you probably could grow a mustache. You got
Speaker 1: some darkness. I don't think it would fill out pretty nice.
Speaker 1: I think my dad used to have a massive beard
Speaker 1: in college. People people actually thought he looked like Charles
Speaker 1: Manson unfortunately, which is like I would say, shave the beard,
Speaker 1: Mr Greenberg. Yeah, I mean it's gone now, oh my god.
Speaker 1: But I'll show you know that and now after the show.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking about this the other day. By
Speaker 1: the way, I like your office again. Today. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, if you got the nice work, these are
Speaker 1: just shirt blue pants. They're not smurf pants with the
Speaker 1: black shoes. I wouldn't know what to do with the
Speaker 1: black shoes, either black or brown, right, I think there's
Speaker 1: pretty normal purple socks on as as No, they're great
Speaker 1: they shirt, Um, oh my god, we're moving Horde pants.
Speaker 1: I can't catch a break. You know. I think you
Speaker 1: could go with either, or you're going to do brown
Speaker 1: shoes with that too. I think I'm just going to
Speaker 1: black pants. I'm wearing black pants and a white shirt
Speaker 1: every day now because I can't walk in this office.
Speaker 1: I think you look good. You look good like you
Speaker 1: just came out of Starbucks at a Starbucks. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to dunkin Donnas today. Okay, great, funking spices back,
Speaker 1: We're going. We're going to the rails right now, We're
Speaker 1: going to Pittsburgh. I don't know what is here. I'm
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? Talk about facial hair? I
Speaker 1: can't grow a beard. Sorry, I don't think that would
Speaker 1: do much. Think let's move on to Pittsburgh. Here again,
Speaker 1: the Jets one o'clock this Sunday, hines Field looking to
Speaker 1: go two and three now on the season and e A.
Speaker 1: All eyes are on the New York Jets right now.
Speaker 1: You know, media capital in the world, New York, big market.
Speaker 1: All eyes in this matchup tend to point to Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown in the New York Jets secondary. But throughout this week,
Speaker 1: the Jets have seemed extremely confident. From the headman up
Speaker 1: top Todd Bowls throughout the locker room. What do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you think of this? What do you take
Speaker 1: this last year? Obviously the Jets had a bit of
Speaker 1: a rough stretch, but they ended up tennis. Do you
Speaker 1: write about that? Right? So there were one in four
Speaker 1: between weeks seven and eleven. They were left for dead
Speaker 1: after the Houston game. I mentioned this multiple times this week.
Speaker 1: There were five and five. Then they went on a
Speaker 1: five game winning streak that actually began with the win
Speaker 1: over the Miami Dolphins at MetLife Stadium. We knew the
Speaker 1: schedule was gonna be tough before the year started. I
Speaker 1: think Kansas City was an anomaly in the sense that
Speaker 1: the Jets are not going to turn the ball over
Speaker 1: eight times again in a game. Okay, Now, if we
Speaker 1: were betting people, which we are not, I would say
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen again. Todd Bowles did say that
Speaker 1: the Jets took some strides last week, and I would
Speaker 1: agree with that. They didn't get the victory, but they
Speaker 1: did a lot of good things against the Seahawks. Have
Speaker 1: no moral victories in this league. Bottom line. They had
Speaker 1: a chance to get back in that game in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Unfortunately, turn the ball over three times. Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson was tremendous, but when you look at this matchup Ethan,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be on the offense as far
Speaker 1: as they got to find a way to produce some
Speaker 1: points and get the defense some help. Conversely, we know
Speaker 1: the defense has to stop the big place. Yes, we've
Speaker 1: heard that ad nauseum. I talked to Marcus Gilcristal about it.
Speaker 1: Here's a little plug Jet spotlight this week with the
Speaker 1: Jets quarterback of the secondary, Marcus gilcrist The other thing
Speaker 1: the defense can do is give it get a takeaway
Speaker 1: or to to set the offense off and play some
Speaker 1: more complimentary football. But I don't think the Jets are
Speaker 1: too far away. And don't get alarmed by the fact
Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh went off on Kansas City every week. As
Speaker 1: you both are learning, is a new season and even
Speaker 1: on the fans see the Jets struggling team was lost
Speaker 1: two in a row and the world is ending. That's
Speaker 1: not the way it is in the locker room. And
Speaker 1: you both have been in the locker room, right and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll piggyback on that. We were in the Ethan and myself.
Speaker 1: We're in the locker room. I didn't see you yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think you had a came in there like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you were sitting down with um Gilly. But we were
Speaker 1: all in the locker room yesterday and those guys were
Speaker 1: been It was bumping the energy. It was so great.
Speaker 1: They were laughing, they were joking around and they said,
Speaker 1: I said, what's going on you guys, And they said,
Speaker 1: we had a good practice. We had a good practice.
Speaker 1: And I believe Brandon Marshall was that. Brandon Marshall, he said,
Speaker 1: it's been the best practice they've had all seasons. So
Speaker 1: those guys are not down. They don't think this season
Speaker 1: is over. They're confident they can turn this around. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and hopefully they turned around on Sunday in Pittsburgh. UM.
Speaker 1: Back to the fits thing, like, all those interceptions are
Speaker 1: not on him. A lot of the balls were tipped. Um.
Speaker 1: He tried to force a lot of things to spark
Speaker 1: the offense. So you know, Brandon Marshall said he had
Speaker 1: his quarterbacks back. He said, you know, it's not all unfits.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think they can turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: They should take the lead Ethan and Alex. They should
Speaker 1: take the lead from Brandon and guys like Steve McLendon,
Speaker 1: a veterans going back to Pittsburgh this week and their rattitudes,
Speaker 1: and I think this team isn't the right frame of
Speaker 1: mind no matter what's happening outside. I think Todd Bowles
Speaker 1: has I'm prepared for this week. I would agree with you.
Speaker 1: And just just being in the locker room yesterday, you
Speaker 1: can kind of sense that spirits obviously weren't down. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a rather loud locker room yesterday. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's not a Jets nation like you guys are in
Speaker 1: the locker room every day. You don't see this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But take a deep breath. You know, e
Speaker 1: A just said it last week or last year. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: The Jets were five and five at a tough stretch
Speaker 1: weeks seven to eleven, brink of the playoffs, one game
Speaker 1: away from the playoffs. It's it is a long season. Granted,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little it's a sour taste right now
Speaker 1: because it's the beginning of the season. It's an early season.
Speaker 1: Well there's no doubt about it, but early season hole.
Speaker 1: It's not a monstrous hole by any means. Again, I
Speaker 1: talked about this on the radio show Inside the Jets
Speaker 1: seven o'clock at Calandra's they had a good They always
Speaker 1: have good food. Come on buy, I'll buy. I'll purchase
Speaker 1: you the mill free though, isn't the food free um
Speaker 1: for Jets and boys? It's free? Oh it is, Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Always a lot of people go
Speaker 1: get their free me I always pump more money into
Speaker 1: the economy. If you all want to stop up your
Speaker 1: support for the I always listened to you. I actually
Speaker 1: listened to you on the radio, but on the way home.
Speaker 1: What I'd say it too, is that you know Kansas
Speaker 1: City started one and five a year ago, Jets. I
Speaker 1: was here in two thousand two when the Jets started
Speaker 1: two and five and Hermandward said, what do you play for?
Speaker 1: You play to win the game. Listen, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of season left to your faults. Didn't they go one
Speaker 1: and four during a stretch last year and then they
Speaker 1: came back from that, So it's possible. People, So everyone
Speaker 1: take a deep breath. It's okay. I understand the concern
Speaker 1: that Pittsburgh has talent, because every I mean every team
Speaker 1: has talent. Let's be real. And and Tonio Brown and
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger have wh who said it that it was
Speaker 1: the best chemistry they've ever seen in the locker room
Speaker 1: that I was not in yesterday, but I was there
Speaker 1: for Calvin Pryor did say that you were sitting down
Speaker 1: in the size that it's the best chemistry they've seen.
Speaker 1: But and you know this kinmistry has ever seen between
Speaker 1: a quarterback and a wide receiver. Came back in a
Speaker 1: big way. Oh my god, yards and only one carries,
Speaker 1: so it's not like he ran them all thirty times.
Speaker 1: Great challenge ahead to to flip to flip the script here,
Speaker 1: let's go fits against the Pittsburgh defense here. I know
Speaker 1: Alex and Alex we were talking about this a little
Speaker 1: bit before. You you see some potential. Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: the thirty ranked passing defense, so they can potentially take
Speaker 1: advantage of this. Hopefully. I'm gonna I'm gonna put you
Speaker 1: on the spot here. Who's someone that you expect to
Speaker 1: break out for this Jets offense or you're looking that
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna be. I'm hoping Port gets back
Speaker 1: on track. Um and again, I hope he gets a lot.
Speaker 1: I feel like I want them bull to be intertwined
Speaker 1: at the same time, like it's either one or yeah,
Speaker 1: So I want the ball to be working at the
Speaker 1: same time. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, you have anybody
Speaker 1: that you that you have your eyes on. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a few things. That's what's happening up front with
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Uh is Winner's back this week? I
Speaker 1: can't remember what the injury report was on Wednesday. You know,
Speaker 1: he suffered a head injury against the Seahawks. So that
Speaker 1: Brent Quality, who've been alternating at right tech. What about
Speaker 1: Eye Gilanna, he came in, he started playing right guard
Speaker 1: next Hi Jolanna and at the wide receiver position. We
Speaker 1: know that Deck's got partially torn rotator Coffee did not
Speaker 1: practice Wednesday. If he's not able to go, the young
Speaker 1: kids have to continue to take steps forward, and that's
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, Toron peaked, Tron peek out and then the
Speaker 1: last week and a fortuitous at two yard uh fumble
Speaker 1: recovery and to paydirt. But the bottom line is Steelers
Speaker 1: are gonna do everything they can to try to take
Speaker 1: away fifteen. Take away Brandon Marshalls. So you're gonna need
Speaker 1: contributions elsewhere. And Elx made a good point about the
Speaker 1: running backs. Sometimes it's not necessarily where you gotta run
Speaker 1: the ball first, and then the passing game is gonna come.
Speaker 1: Maybe the passing games sets up running lanes for Forte
Speaker 1: Blah Paula. Bla. Paula has had twelve combined receptions the
Speaker 1: past two games. The Jestska moved the ball on the
Speaker 1: Steelers again. It's finishing inside the red zone and it's
Speaker 1: bowl security. But my eyes are on Robbie Anderson, who
Speaker 1: split up to the number three spot against Seattle, almost
Speaker 1: had that deep ball on the home sideline against Deshaan
Speaker 1: Shed of the Seattle Seahawks. And I think that throughout
Speaker 1: his short career here Robbie Anderson. I wrote about this
Speaker 1: yesterday and on New York Chats dot com, But I
Speaker 1: think Robby Anderson, whatever the challenges, he seems to rise
Speaker 1: to the occasion with every step. First it was his
Speaker 1: consistency in practice. Then he led the NFL in preseason
Speaker 1: receiving yards. And now he has an opportunity to really
Speaker 1: make an impact on the biggest level to date in
Speaker 1: that in a regular season matchup for the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: And this is really where it will count more so
Speaker 1: than preseason and training camp for obvious reasons, because direct
Speaker 1: it deeply affects the record and your chance of making
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I actually think Robby Anderson is going
Speaker 1: to connect for with a one forty plus yard play.
Speaker 1: That's my big prediction. He just likes and he always
Speaker 1: is one step ahead of the guy. He just needs
Speaker 1: to hold onto that ball when he's taking a hit.
Speaker 1: He has, he has a knack for somehow keep He
Speaker 1: keeps pushing and he keeps creating things. He paid off
Speaker 1: so far, and I have high hopes for him, and
Speaker 1: I think that well he get a forty plus yarder
Speaker 1: against the comfort level should be better. And also these
Speaker 1: practice erupts people at home don't I cannot account I
Speaker 1: think sometimes how important practice reps are. Deck went out
Speaker 1: last week, so they basically had a week where Robby
Speaker 1: Anderson shifts from five to three. Tron peak is active.
Speaker 1: So those guys got three days of practice. They're out
Speaker 1: there on Sunday. Now it's three more days of practice.
Speaker 1: So I think that FITS should have some more comfortability
Speaker 1: with these guys, and they should be learning the exact route,
Speaker 1: placements where the guy is gonna be thrown the ball,
Speaker 1: and things like that. So what's happening on the field
Speaker 1: this week? Is very important, but the Jets have to
Speaker 1: finish against the Steelers. Got to give their defense some help.
Speaker 1: And the bottom line is I expect the defensive play
Speaker 1: better against the deep ball. I love it if they
Speaker 1: could come up with a takeaway or two because you
Speaker 1: gotta play complimentary football to one on the road. This
Speaker 1: is laces In, Ethan Greenberg, Alex Shimo, and Eric Allen
Speaker 1: here discussing New York Jets football right now. Jets traveling, well,
Speaker 1: they're not right out traveling, but this week they will
Speaker 1: be traveling to Hinesfield Sunday one pm. Again, the Jets
Speaker 1: looking to go two and three on the season, and
Speaker 1: real quick before we table the Steelers talk is Steve McClendon,
Speaker 1: who the former Pittsburgh Steeler played there six years, first
Speaker 1: year with the New York Jets. His emotions yesterday and
Speaker 1: his in his locker room pressor where you could tell
Speaker 1: that he was excited that it was going to be
Speaker 1: an interesting feeling. So I'm gonna ask you guys, put
Speaker 1: yourselves in his shoes, being going back to Pittsburgh, the
Speaker 1: team that gave you a chance to live your dream
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now you're playing them. What's going through
Speaker 1: your mind, Alex take that she spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time with Steve McClendon lately. She was cooking with them
Speaker 1: last But he's actually such an awesome dude. Um. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that he's got to be going in with
Speaker 1: his head lit on fire. He just wants to tear
Speaker 1: it up. I mean, he's still obviously has love for
Speaker 1: you know, his former teammates and coaches and everything. But
Speaker 1: I mean, if it was me, I would want to
Speaker 1: just light light it up and go off. And I
Speaker 1: think he's going to be playing with his head on fire.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you worry about guys with their emotions because they
Speaker 1: can get way too high. I think mclennen is a
Speaker 1: very mature guy. And even though he is going to
Speaker 1: be very emotional, everything he talks about Pittsburgh, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a bad breakup or anything like that. He's very complimentary
Speaker 1: with the organization. He has friends over there and teammates
Speaker 1: and things like that. With that being said, he's very
Speaker 1: happy to be here. He fits in tremendously with a
Speaker 1: defensive line where their favorite more of it's in a
Speaker 1: tax system instead of two gap, and maybe in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: a little bit he's one gap and he's getting up
Speaker 1: the field a little bit. And the Jets defensive line again,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on them every week. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that right now. The best four players that Todd
Speaker 1: Bowls are trying is trying to get on the field
Speaker 1: is a front seven, you know. So you're always gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of times you gonna see mcclennan out
Speaker 1: there with Leo Mohamma Wokekers and Sheldon Richardson. So those
Speaker 1: guys have to be dom and mcleanna is going to
Speaker 1: be ready, ready to go. And I don't worry about
Speaker 1: his motion. Yeah, he said yesterday in the locker room
Speaker 1: that he'll talk to his friends after the game. But
Speaker 1: until that point, it's all. It's all game. It's game time.
Speaker 1: It's game time, and it's game time right now because
Speaker 1: we're going to the suicide picks real quick, Alex, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this before e A even says a thing.
Speaker 1: So there's no h I'm gonna go. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Monday night game. I'm gonna take Carolina at home.
Speaker 1: Who are they playing, Tampa Bay? Okay? Well that was quick, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: not now. So then your part is Arizona at San Francisco,
Speaker 1: Washington at Baltimore, New England at Cleveland, Philadelphia at Detroit,
Speaker 1: Chicago at Indie, Tennessee at Miami, Houston, Minnesota, UM Jets
Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh, Atlanta Falcons at Denver, since He at Dallas,
Speaker 1: Buffalo at UM the Rams, give me Arizona, Give me Arizona.
Speaker 1: That's a Thursday night game. That's tonight. I'll get it
Speaker 1: out of the way. Tonight they'll beat San Francisco. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: remember who picked? I like Thursday night games. You like that? No,
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you. I don't know if you know
Speaker 1: the Carson Palmer is not playing tonight. I like Arizona.
Speaker 1: Fratisco aren't playing. I'm gonna all right, what about? And
Speaker 1: then the final is San Diego at Oakland, Giants at Packers.
Speaker 1: How do you guys not pick the Paths over the Browns,
Speaker 1: the return of Tom Brady. Well maybe down the line
Speaker 1: I used the Patriots. Yeah, I want to say, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you tonight thirty, when I'm sleeping, Arizona will have
Speaker 1: beaten San Crisco. Okay, all right? That and and that
Speaker 1: is that is a fact is what you're saying. It's
Speaker 1: not even a question, it's a fact that Arizona. That
Speaker 1: is my prediction. And as you've noticed so far, I'm
Speaker 1: the only person who is not getting any game wrong
Speaker 1: here during your suicide pool. Okay, okay, you the expert,
Speaker 1: Well you've got mine wrong though. I'm I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I don't even know what the
Speaker 1: protocol here, but I would pick the Patriots. I will
Speaker 1: be picking the Patriots in my suicide pool outside of
Speaker 1: the podcast, So I will be picking the Patriots again
Speaker 1: because I don't see a way they lose the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Brown that I'm definitely by the way, while we're doing
Speaker 1: a suicide pool, I gotta tell you, I might not
Speaker 1: even use the Patriots all year because for me, this
Speaker 1: is this is personal personal for you, with personal for
Speaker 1: Steve mcclennan. Going back to Pittsburgh, we're all one here
Speaker 1: at who does Syracuse play this week? You guys don't
Speaker 1: even know there. I think they're I don't know, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I'm so checked out at this point.
Speaker 1: Is fifty to thirty three at Matt Life. You're getting
Speaker 1: some offensive production. Yeah, I like Dino Babors a lot too.
Speaker 1: I just happened to sometime. Don't check out, I'm not
Speaker 1: I'm not checking out out. I'm just saying that this
Speaker 1: season is not going to be at the floor here.
Speaker 1: Wake Forest, Wake Forest at wake Forest, Yes, a winnable game,
Speaker 1: um yes, and no wake Forest play tough defense well,
Speaker 1: and it really depends on the wake Forest offense if
Speaker 1: we're gonna be honest here, because that is directly correlated
Speaker 1: to the Syracuse defense, which is the major, major whole
Speaker 1: for the Syracuse Orange. But but I am, I am,
Speaker 1: you know, I am excited about it. I'm excited about
Speaker 1: the team's future. Just I'd like to fast forward. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to basketball. You know, we'll have this discussion
Speaker 1: in basketball season, because in Syracuse there are two seasons
Speaker 1: winter winter and winter and basketball season. That is the
Speaker 1: saying so, and that's all we have for laces in
Speaker 1: today again, Ethan Greenberg joined alongside Alex Steimo and Eric Allen.
Speaker 1: The Jets traveled to hines Field for a Sunday one
Speaker 1: pm matchup, A very freaking matchup at that talent on
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