Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jet podcast. The
Speaker 1: Jets Right Now and going through their off season program.
Speaker 1: There are no T A, S, E A and I.
Speaker 1: Basically what we're gonna do is kind of give a
Speaker 1: snapshot of what's been going on before Mini campits and
Speaker 1: then there's kind of a hiatus, a one month break
Speaker 1: for players and coaches to do what they want and
Speaker 1: rest up, recover, recharge, and also continue to work out
Speaker 1: before training camp. Is today the day when it is
Speaker 1: officially a hundred days from the beginning of the two
Speaker 1: thousand one NFL season, it is it is the first game,
Speaker 1: which is what Bucks Cowboys Thursday Night special right Tampa, Right,
Speaker 1: so you know the Buccaneers are coming here this year
Speaker 1: to face the Jets, and they have never beaten the
Speaker 1: Jets on the road. I did not know that. I
Speaker 1: also know that the Jets have never beaten the Eagles,
Speaker 1: but to have an opportunity to do so this season.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, oh T S is like,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting time because it's the first grasp of
Speaker 1: football for the fans, especially the new players on each team,
Speaker 1: and like for the Jazz of course that starts with
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson just because of the nature of the position
Speaker 1: he plays. You think about the free agent editions, but
Speaker 1: it's twofold one, it's a voluntary workout, and two players
Speaker 1: are not in PAD, So there's only so much that
Speaker 1: you can really put into these workouts. Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: great thing if you're Robert Sale and you're Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: is that you've had more than eight players participating here
Speaker 1: early in o T as of ten sessions, and all
Speaker 1: three or four now are open to the media. There
Speaker 1: is UH to this week actually that are going to
Speaker 1: be open to the media. So you want to see
Speaker 1: players uh contributing or participating. While this is not mandatory,
Speaker 1: mandatory minicamp is gonna come at the end of his day,
Speaker 1: at the end of the spring here, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we're closing in a summer. But if you're the Jets,
Speaker 1: you're encouraged by guys coming out. We'll taking advantage of
Speaker 1: their opportunities beyond the field, because let's face it, you
Speaker 1: got a new head coach, you got new systems on
Speaker 1: both sides of the football. You have a really big
Speaker 1: time infusion of talent on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of new here, so as much
Speaker 1: field time as you can take advantage of here in
Speaker 1: the spring, your figures to help you come September, October
Speaker 1: and beyond, and the attendance in the voluntary workouts, I
Speaker 1: think it's been outstanding. I mean, I know Robert Salis
Speaker 1: said that the Jets had over eighty players here in
Speaker 1: Flora Park. I mean, there's only ninety on the roster
Speaker 1: right now, and I feel like that is not the
Speaker 1: norm in the NFL right now. I mean, granted, I
Speaker 1: don't know the numbers for all thirty one other teams,
Speaker 1: but it seems like the Jets are on the higher
Speaker 1: end of attendance than most. I think there are a
Speaker 1: lot of teams who probably have numbers in a similar range.
Speaker 1: But I think what you're hearing from players when they
Speaker 1: do get the opportunity to speak of Robert sala Is,
Speaker 1: they love the guy, they love the culture that he's instilling,
Speaker 1: and they want to be part of it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think that you can also feel it on the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, there is definitely an energy, and you know,
Speaker 1: some might say that's just because it's spraying and guys
Speaker 1: miss playing ball, but I really feel like in the
Speaker 1: few amount of times that we've been out at practice
Speaker 1: so far that the pace has been there, the energy
Speaker 1: has been up, and I think that a lot of
Speaker 1: guys are really eager to get after it. And you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to focus on Zach Wilson for a minute.
Speaker 1: And he's a good example of a guy that one
Speaker 1: learning a lot right now because he's learning a new offense,
Speaker 1: even though it does have its similarities to what he
Speaker 1: ran at b y U. And for all intents and purposes,
Speaker 1: we'll recording this at the beginning of June. I would
Speaker 1: say that he's looked good and doesn't look like he's
Speaker 1: lost in the playbook. No, And the Jets continue to
Speaker 1: say they've been almost wild by his mental horse power.
Speaker 1: Michael Fleur was referring to it the other day, is
Speaker 1: that you can't keep him away. He wants more. And
Speaker 1: to his credit, Wilson was twenty one years old. Talks
Speaker 1: about this being a process and that he has to
Speaker 1: get protections right and alignments and executions and then you
Speaker 1: have to read the defense. But as far as what
Speaker 1: we've seen on the field in this very small sample size,
Speaker 1: he's a tremendous athlete. He's very accurate with the football
Speaker 1: and the ball is not hit the ground a lot.
Speaker 1: Now these guys are not out there with pads on.
Speaker 1: Nobody's hitting him. Um but so far and there's not
Speaker 1: like a true rush either. I think that's important, right right,
Speaker 1: But with that being said, it's not like he's holding
Speaker 1: onto the football. It's not like he's completing the past
Speaker 1: five seconds after he takes that snap. He's letting the
Speaker 1: ball come out. It's coming out quickly. We talked about
Speaker 1: his arm angles for months. He can do that from
Speaker 1: different arm angles, but you know, he can sit up
Speaker 1: there in the pocket and just let it loose. And
Speaker 1: we've seen a number of times, i think early here
Speaker 1: throughout O T A S and we've only been out
Speaker 1: there a couple of times, is that he's been very
Speaker 1: good working the middle of the field, the seams. And
Speaker 1: then we've heard about the back shoulder prowis throughout his
Speaker 1: days at b y U. Well, we were out there
Speaker 1: on the field today and it seems like every day
Speaker 1: at practice he'll throw a back shoulder and you're like, well, there, yeah,
Speaker 1: there it is. You know in a sequence though, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say he took five reps just spit ball in
Speaker 1: here and one of the reps was the back shoulder fade.
Speaker 1: Then a couple of plays later you talked about work
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. He threw a rope
Speaker 1: to Bracks and Barrios who was cutting over the middle
Speaker 1: of the field and it hid him right between the
Speaker 1: numbers and stride and You're like, oh, well, there's the power.
Speaker 1: There was the touch. We still haven't seen him like
Speaker 1: on cork one down the field really far, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure that will, you know, come with time. The other
Speaker 1: thing that I was impressed with, and you know, we
Speaker 1: kind of said something to each other on the field,
Speaker 1: was he got somebody on a on a cadence call
Speaker 1: where he got a defender to jump. And to me,
Speaker 1: you know, when Robert Sala talked about coaching how there's
Speaker 1: one on one, two oh one, three oh one, it
Speaker 1: seems like Zack Wilson when he got the defender to jump,
Speaker 1: that was more of a two oh one, three oh
Speaker 1: one move as opposed to a one on one move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta give him credit. You gotta give Michael Fleur credit.
Speaker 1: Greg Knapp is constantly in his ear. He just has
Speaker 1: a way about him that you like Zach Wilson. He's
Speaker 1: got this confidence. But people talking about him being cocky.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's cocky. He's got a belief
Speaker 1: in his ability, but man, he's got an insatiable appetite
Speaker 1: for football. Yeah, they they say that he can't get enough.
Speaker 1: And he's taken advantage of all these voluntary sessions right now,
Speaker 1: and yeah, so far, early results have been good. We
Speaker 1: got a long way to go before you get to September.
Speaker 1: A lot of moving parts on both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: You mentioned more than eighty players being here. Well, I've
Speaker 1: got a couple of key offensive performers we didn't see
Speaker 1: on the field the other day. And you know, he'll
Speaker 1: have to establish that chemistry and rhythm with those guys.
Speaker 1: But he likes the offense too. And you talk to
Speaker 1: people and he said that on draft night that this
Speaker 1: is the place I wanted to be, And he talks
Speaker 1: about it being complimentary, that you can run multiple things
Speaker 1: from one look. So we'll come out in this look
Speaker 1: and we're gonna attack you this way on this down
Speaker 1: that we're gonna come at you with the same look
Speaker 1: and we're gonna attack you a different way the next play,
Speaker 1: and he loves it. I also think that it's a
Speaker 1: defensively speaking, unrelated to Zach Wilson, it's hard to really
Speaker 1: get a feel because so much of the defense is
Speaker 1: predicated on cal Tech and you can't really contact anybody
Speaker 1: right now. So it's a it's a good way to
Speaker 1: get a look at certain players, but most at least
Speaker 1: for me, the way I look at it. At it
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to see how certain offensive players
Speaker 1: look than defensive players because it's not like the defensive
Speaker 1: line is going after the offensive line. The linebackers can't
Speaker 1: tackle the running back, so now you're really relying on
Speaker 1: seven on seven work. And at this point, you know,
Speaker 1: I would imagine that the defense overall would have the
Speaker 1: the upper hand, just like every spring and summer, But
Speaker 1: it definitely feels like in seven on seven the offense
Speaker 1: gets the best out of the defense most of the time.
Speaker 1: And I with that being said, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: Keelan Cole look also look pretty good today. Fast quick
Speaker 1: uh he releases um on a dime out of his
Speaker 1: brakes right, very productive receiver in Jacksonville. He's the guys
Speaker 1: flashed early because um, you know, we haven't seen a
Speaker 1: couple of guys out there. But again that speaks to
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson as well, because he's finding Keenland cole but
Speaker 1: eight in a limited time that weep on out there,
Speaker 1: but work in the middle of the field catching it
Speaker 1: and he's quick, but he's got the straight ahead speed too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's been it's been fun to watch practice because
Speaker 1: this is the one time or not the one time,
Speaker 1: but this is the beginning of the time of the
Speaker 1: year where you can start to go out to practice
Speaker 1: a couple of times and then many Camp you get
Speaker 1: a little three day stretch before training camp. Then we're
Speaker 1: out there like every day, and you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: because I feel like fans are starving to know what's
Speaker 1: happening at practice. But it's also difficult to analyze what's
Speaker 1: going on just because it's not full speed with pads
Speaker 1: on and you don't want to blow things out of proportion,
Speaker 1: right Like for example, Michael Carter had a good run
Speaker 1: today and it's a no contact run where the off
Speaker 1: fensive line started cheering because Carter hit the hole and
Speaker 1: there was a hole and he he he had a
Speaker 1: nice run. But it's also tough because it wasn't there
Speaker 1: was no contact, so it's hard to really get a
Speaker 1: full gauge. So if you're a fan and you're listening like, well,
Speaker 1: how's player X performing? If we say like this guy
Speaker 1: is performing well or not well or whatever, you always
Speaker 1: got to take it with a grain of salt. There
Speaker 1: was a player a couple of years ago had a
Speaker 1: great spring that ended up being cut that after training
Speaker 1: camp because when the pads come on, it's a totally
Speaker 1: totally different story. Well, and didn't Sala say this the
Speaker 1: other day that this is the opportunity for players to
Speaker 1: see how their physical skill set fits inside the systems.
Speaker 1: The jets are running and the real football doesn't happen
Speaker 1: until you actually do put those pads on it, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't come until late July. Right now, for these guys,
Speaker 1: it's absorbing the system and then also seen how they
Speaker 1: can carve out a role in the respective systems. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great point because is to use solids
Speaker 1: line training camp is when it becomes real. Like up
Speaker 1: until that point, it's it's not that it's fake, it's
Speaker 1: just it's more about applying what you learn in the
Speaker 1: virtual classroom onto the field day by day, piece by
Speaker 1: piece before trying to put it all together and really
Speaker 1: start to lay the foundation in training camp or build
Speaker 1: on the foundation that's being laid now in training camp.
Speaker 1: And I think some of the key questions right now,
Speaker 1: if you're sitting here in the middle of O t
Speaker 1: A S would be what are the Jets doing on
Speaker 1: the quarterback front? Are they gonna sit tight here with
Speaker 1: the young guys, you know, Zack Wilson, We'll have to
Speaker 1: see they're taking a day by day Will you be
Speaker 1: the opening day starter in Carolina? Even if he is
Speaker 1: the opening day starter. Will there be a veteran on
Speaker 1: the horizon right now? I think the Jets are taking
Speaker 1: the proper approach because you get a guy like James
Speaker 1: Morrigan who was rafted in a fourth round a year ago.
Speaker 1: He's getting valuable reps. If you had a veteran here
Speaker 1: right now, I don't know how those reps would be
Speaker 1: distributed distributed in the spring. Yeah, I think well to
Speaker 1: that point, Solid kind of talked about that exact scenario
Speaker 1: with the cornerbacks because he was asked, how how do
Speaker 1: you view or how do you like the corners room?
Speaker 1: And he was saying, well, they're young, they got length,
Speaker 1: they got size, they're eager to learn. And so he's
Speaker 1: saying all these things, and and he was asked point blank,
Speaker 1: you know, would you consider or Actually, before he was
Speaker 1: even asked this, Sala said, the easy answer would be
Speaker 1: to bring in a veteran, but a veteran would eat
Speaker 1: up a lot of the reps. And they're trying to
Speaker 1: evaluate these young guys to see where they stand. And
Speaker 1: right now, the Jets cornerback room, I would say is
Speaker 1: the most NFL unproven among the team. If not, if
Speaker 1: it is not the number one position on the team
Speaker 1: that doesn't have the most you know, I would say
Speaker 1: the biggest resume as a group in the NFL. On
Speaker 1: the Jets, then I would say they're in the top
Speaker 1: two or three at the very latest. And that's a
Speaker 1: fair point. And again you're taking an advantage of these
Speaker 1: o t a s out here. You're Blessed Aus and
Speaker 1: your Bryce Hall, you're Javlin Gidrey, you are the three
Speaker 1: rookie corners who were taking on Day three of the draft. Again,
Speaker 1: this is the time, especially for those young guys, those rookies,
Speaker 1: is that not only are they trying to carve a
Speaker 1: role on the defensive side of the football. But what
Speaker 1: can they do for brand Boyer and company? How are
Speaker 1: they absorbing his system? How can they contribute on special teams?
Speaker 1: Because I think sometimes we think about these guys in
Speaker 1: a vacuum that, oh, what is this guy gonna do
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position? Well, what is he gonna do
Speaker 1: on special teams? Justin hard He's a guy carved his
Speaker 1: role in the National Football League because he's a special
Speaker 1: teams ace. Yes, he lines up with the cornerback, but
Speaker 1: we don't know if he's gonna be playing any cornerback
Speaker 1: at all this year. Um, you know, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to get ahead of myself, but Hardy is a perfect
Speaker 1: example of a guy who is an NFL mainstay now
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play a big time role on this
Speaker 1: team because of what he does on teams. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna I'm about to say a name
Speaker 1: and people and people would be like, well, how could
Speaker 1: you compare Justin Hardy to this guy. I'm just using
Speaker 1: the example of a player that carved his special team's
Speaker 1: role to a point where he doesn't even play on
Speaker 1: either offense or defense and it's in the division. It's
Speaker 1: Matthew Slater, who was probably what the best special teams
Speaker 1: player of the last decade, and he's technically a receiver,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't ever line up out wide. And it's
Speaker 1: not like the Patriots this past year were so deep
Speaker 1: at receiver that they didn't need him. So I'm saying, like, similarly,
Speaker 1: Justin Hardy is listed on the roster as a cornerback,
Speaker 1: but he is so good at special teams that that's
Speaker 1: his full time position. Yeah, uh, you know, so a cornerback.
Speaker 1: And we started this conversation and we're jumping around a
Speaker 1: little bit, but rightfully, so away is that? Okay? So
Speaker 1: right now you have three quarterbacks on our roster who
Speaker 1: have never taken a snap in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: you know, as Zack Wilson getting out there getting a
Speaker 1: big time chunk of reps. Then at the cornerback position,
Speaker 1: there are some unproven commodities. But guys, the Jets like
Speaker 1: their talent and physical skill sets, so how can they
Speaker 1: absorb the system? Um, how can they possibly create a
Speaker 1: role for themselves down the line? And then at the
Speaker 1: linebacker position, totally different situation where you do have a
Speaker 1: pair of young guys on the outside. But c J.
Speaker 1: Mosley was the talk of O T A. S in
Speaker 1: Week one, just because he talked to the media for
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time. Really happy and
Speaker 1: it was clear listening to Mosley that the fire still burns.
Speaker 1: And I love the reference that he used, uh the
Speaker 1: Curry borrow that you know, I don't have anything to prove,
Speaker 1: but I believe I have a lot to accomplish. Don't
Speaker 1: you think that he seemed a lot happier. I know
Speaker 1: c J. Mosley has probably spoken to the media like
Speaker 1: five to ten times since he signed two years ago,
Speaker 1: but c J. Mosley speaking to the media just seemed
Speaker 1: like he was He was very happy. He was in
Speaker 1: a comfortable place, There's no doubt about it. So you
Speaker 1: just got a sense that this guy is so happy
Speaker 1: to be back on a football field. And Sala has
Speaker 1: been effusive in his praise for him, saying that c. J.
Speaker 1: Moseley can plain any system because I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people say it, said, hey, what can he fit
Speaker 1: in a four three? Well, Sala said he can fit
Speaker 1: in anything, and you can see him being a powerful mover,
Speaker 1: and I think he's such an instinctive football player, and
Speaker 1: him and Jared Davis are two guys not that we're
Speaker 1: just gonna watch during the spring, but I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: my eye on that linebacker position throughout training camp, right,
Speaker 1: I agree, because that position, especially those two guys that
Speaker 1: you said, really when you look at the whole position
Speaker 1: as well, you could it's really like a two side
Speaker 1: at a coin because on one end, C. J. Mosley
Speaker 1: essentially hasn't played football in two seasons, but at his
Speaker 1: best he is a very good player and one of
Speaker 1: the best inside linebackers in the league. Jared Davis has
Speaker 1: the physical traits to fit this system that Robert Sala
Speaker 1: and Jeff Albrick are implementing. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: a lot of people think he didn't quite live up
Speaker 1: to the hype in Detroit, and some people attribute that
Speaker 1: to being in a three four defense. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: we'll see because it will be in the four three.
Speaker 1: So those two guys in particular, along with Blake Cashman
Speaker 1: who struggled to stay healthy throughout one season in his
Speaker 1: two year career, and two rookies and Jamiean Sherwood and
Speaker 1: Hobson Nosrel Dean, I mean that that position group has
Speaker 1: I would say one of the bigger question marks around it,
Speaker 1: but in the same breath, it could also be one
Speaker 1: of the highest upside positions depending on how let's say
Speaker 1: Mosley and Davis play. If you have C. J. Mosley
Speaker 1: healthy for sixteen games, that that's really like what Jared
Speaker 1: Davis brings to the table. From an athletic athleticism perspective.
Speaker 1: Remember his second year in the National Football League, he
Speaker 1: was a stat stuffer and he's a guy could come
Speaker 1: up and play the run. He has an athleticism to
Speaker 1: drop into coverage. He's been effective blitzer at various points
Speaker 1: throughout his career and sometimes it changes scenery leads to
Speaker 1: different results for players, and Davis is a guy who
Speaker 1: I think can benefit not only just from playing under
Speaker 1: Salo and all breaking next to a C. J. Mosley,
Speaker 1: but also from the chaos that Salo wants to create upfront,
Speaker 1: because the Jets defensive line is one of the better,
Speaker 1: if not the best, positional group on this team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely agree with that, and I think it'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens because we've gotten a glimpse
Speaker 1: of c. J. Mosley and it was what you know
Speaker 1: to almost two quarters. But it was a really good
Speaker 1: glimpse of what he could bring to the team because
Speaker 1: that was, in his words, one of, if not the
Speaker 1: best football game he's played in the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was everywhere, and you talk about his pass coverage.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people when he signed
Speaker 1: here was saying, well, you know, pass coverage is one
Speaker 1: of the question marks of his games. And he was
Speaker 1: running stride for stride with John Smokey Brown when he
Speaker 1: got hurt. And John Brown is a speedster in the
Speaker 1: eyes of many. Well, another thing is that he knows
Speaker 1: how offenses are trying to attack. Yeah, that's the thing
Speaker 1: about mostly such a hetty ball player, so he oftentimes
Speaker 1: is going to read your route before you start making
Speaker 1: your own moves. He can pick up things tendencies just
Speaker 1: from film work. And uh he's also very long, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna help him in coverage as well. So the
Speaker 1: shakedown defensively, Yeah, those are gonna be two groups that
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep a close eye on. I think throughout
Speaker 1: camp will be cornerbacks and then linebackers. Offensively, it's been
Speaker 1: interesting to watch the running backs um here early on
Speaker 1: because Tevin Coleman this is just spring and he's a veteran,
Speaker 1: but he's got some pop to his game. And another
Speaker 1: guy who's got some legit explosive ability is the running
Speaker 1: back from North Carolina, Michael Carter. Yeah, he does well.
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Michael Carter, it might have been
Speaker 1: a no contact run, but he really hit that whole hard.
Speaker 1: And Michael Flore speaking of the media the other day,
Speaker 1: was saying that I was saying that basically one of
Speaker 1: the key elements and running backs that he looks for
Speaker 1: is playing your foot in the ground and go north
Speaker 1: and south, not a whole lot of dancing. And I
Speaker 1: feel like we knew that when Michael la Flour first
Speaker 1: signed on to be the offensive coordinator. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, Michael la Flore also said, while that's a
Speaker 1: key element and maybe like the common denominator of everybody,
Speaker 1: all the running backs come in different shapes and sizes,
Speaker 1: and I think the Jets have a little bit of
Speaker 1: everything in the running backs room right now. In terms
Speaker 1: of Tevin Coleman, like you said, it is the spring
Speaker 1: and he knows this system better than anyone else in
Speaker 1: that room. But he's really light on his feet and
Speaker 1: it seems like he gets around very quickly and he
Speaker 1: almost just kind of glides on the field, whereas someone
Speaker 1: like Michael p Ryan feels like he's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of more of like a heavy footed run, like
Speaker 1: both good running backs and Michael p Ryan can plant
Speaker 1: his foot and go, but it just feels a little
Speaker 1: bit different, feels a little more physical of a runner
Speaker 1: than Coleman. Yeah, and these are good problems to have
Speaker 1: because I know oftentimes we think in terms of running
Speaker 1: backs and said, wow, you got so many. Well, this
Speaker 1: system has favored using multiple backs. So if they have
Speaker 1: multiple good options out of the backfield, that's going to
Speaker 1: help along the way. And where could the Jets potentially
Speaker 1: be most improved in two thousands twenty one? Could it
Speaker 1: be the offensive line? Because I'm jumping around, we talked
Speaker 1: about the running backs a little bit. We started talking
Speaker 1: about Wilson. This is like almost like a therapy session podcast.
Speaker 1: Left tackle. If you put Elijah Vera Tucker Tucker at
Speaker 1: left guard, Connor McGovern, I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good fit for the system. We talked about that multiple times.
Speaker 1: You've got George pant over there at right tackle. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna be in the lead at right guard, Alex Lewis,
Speaker 1: Greg Van Roton here, Dan Feeney, you have. That's the
Speaker 1: point that I wanted to address, is that you have
Speaker 1: six or seven guys now who have NFL starting experience,
Speaker 1: and you moved up to get Elijah Vera Tucker in
Speaker 1: the first round. So back to back offensive alignment in
Speaker 1: the first round. So I want to see what strides
Speaker 1: the Jets offensive line can take this. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great point, and I think that
Speaker 1: we should wrap up the podcast by talking about a
Speaker 1: little bit about special teams right way. I feel like
Speaker 1: we've jumped around here and there, and on special teams.
Speaker 1: One punt return, it's been Bracks and Barrios the past
Speaker 1: two years for the Jets. He's taken punto is healing
Speaker 1: Cole who had a punt return touchdown for the Jags
Speaker 1: last season, Elijah Moore returning some punts. But really, the
Speaker 1: the eyes for me are on kicker because that's where
Speaker 1: you have a plethora of players that Jets have to
Speaker 1: Sam Ficken, Chris Nagar and they're going head to head
Speaker 1: right now, and I know that it's O T A S.
Speaker 1: And the pads aren't on yet, but they're their competition
Speaker 1: has started. And today when we were on the field
Speaker 1: was the first time that I've seen where players would
Speaker 1: go real close to the snap, like players on the
Speaker 1: sideline would walk up towards Thomas Hennessey Brand or really
Speaker 1: Brandon Man and whoever was kicking, and started to create
Speaker 1: a little noise to try to simulate what would be
Speaker 1: a gamelike situation. To see. The bottom line, football is
Speaker 1: all about competition, and I think, uh, that's the culture
Speaker 1: that Sala has brought here, is that these guys are
Speaker 1: going to be invested in the players from the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and in terms in turn, Sale and company are
Speaker 1: going to expect investments from the players. And that's when
Speaker 1: something special can happen. But there's been a good vibe
Speaker 1: and practice. I think the temple has been good. You know,
Speaker 1: those are the things you'll look for. I know it
Speaker 1: sounds minor, but this is a new staff, So how
Speaker 1: is everybody's Sometimes people come in and guys can be
Speaker 1: swimming early and it feels like the classroom on the field.
Speaker 1: No actually for these guys so far in her Salo
Speaker 1: and company, and this is one thing that he's talked
Speaker 1: about from day one is he wants the guys to
Speaker 1: play fast. He wants to take a lot off of
Speaker 1: their plates. So that's the thing the vibe that I
Speaker 1: think we're getting from practices. The pace has been good also,
Speaker 1: the competition has been good, and it's just to start
Speaker 1: voluntary workouts. What you wanted to see, what you were
Speaker 1: hopeful about, where it was participation, and you're getting very
Speaker 1: good participation right now. And you're laying your systems out
Speaker 1: and your installations, and then you're gonna do it again
Speaker 1: training camp and before you know it, this the first
Speaker 1: of three preseason games will be played. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is happening quick. The offseason is done in two weeks
Speaker 1: and then the next time you're back here at once
Speaker 1: Jets Drive, it's on it's training camp. And with that
Speaker 1: being said, before the players and coaches leave for you know,
Speaker 1: about six weeks when we do our final podcast after
Speaker 1: mini camp, before we take a little hiatus on the
Speaker 1: official pod, and we have actually a fun project coming
Speaker 1: to the podcast world on the official pod, and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll share details when appropriate. But with that being said,
Speaker 1: you know what we'll do before many camp ends or
Speaker 1: officially ends are right after it ends, will hop on
Speaker 1: the mics and we'll kind of break it down I think,
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's position by position or you know,
Speaker 1: certain superlatives and stuff like that, and then we'll kind
Speaker 1: of give a wrap up of mini camp before we
Speaker 1: come back with a training camp preview and really dive
Speaker 1: into it before and before we know it. To your point,
Speaker 1: fans are gonna be back at MetLife and it's you know,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Yeah, it's been a long time since we've
Speaker 1: heard a cheer, even out here in training camp. Listen,
Speaker 1: and let's be honest, just have a lot of question marks.
Speaker 1: But the tell is better on this football team. You
Speaker 1: can see it. It's clear. You saw it on paper,
Speaker 1: now you see it on the field. Now it's all
Speaker 1: going to translate. We'll have to see. But you're right,
Speaker 1: you know, for everything people are on third, you know,
Speaker 1: for Jets fans, it's gonna be great seeing them back
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium. I can't wait for the home opener
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. We've gotta ways to go before that happens. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the preseason game against Philadelphia, book and the summer slate,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think there's gonna be some good
Speaker 1: things in store for fans over the course of training
Speaker 1: KMP that weren't there last year. Absolutely, and that is
Speaker 1: a perfect way to end this episode of the Official
Speaker 1: Jets Podcast.