WEBVTT - The Laces In Podcast: Episode 1 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.479 What's up, Jets Nation. This is laces In. I'm your host, 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:14.360 Ethan Greenberg, joined alongside senior team reporter Eric Allen and 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.159 team reporter Alex Jaimo. Now wait, hold up. I know 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.120 what you're thinking. Why in the world are you listening 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.560 to laces and Well, let me tell you. You get 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.640 the best Jets Access. And I'm talking Jets access like 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:33.080 you've never even heard before. Analysis, commentary, stories, trivia will 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:35.440 be inside the locker room, will be behind the scenes, 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.960 will be everywhere, the whole enchilada. But that's not it. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.640 Hold on. We're talking pop culture, We're talking fantasy football, 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.960 We're talking everything. 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Me tell you this 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.000 guy is excited and we are ready to roll. And 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.120 fans at home cannot see this, but we do have 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.280 a camera in here. Maybe somebody should take a shot 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.119 of this. Again. We're inside the Floor and Park Studios 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:49.200 Ethan Greenberg alongside Eric Allen and Alex Sjaimo. Guys, football 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.160 is right around the corner. How are we feeling? It's here, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.680 It's finally here. We survived training camp. We're here, We're here. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.400 How are we feeling? And we feel great? I mean 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.640 that was not for are we gonna talk and we're 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.240 talking third person, you know, so I feel great. I 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.799 can't speak for everybody else, but in training camp. Wow, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.760 other people might think that's more of a grind. That's 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.160 that's that's something that uh, you know, that's part of 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.240 the deal. Four branches and games. You did, yeah, your 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:26.519 first training campus. I enjoyed it. Alex onto the regular season. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:31.120 Now again, just like an introduction to any audience, we 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.080 need a little little ice breaker. So I was thinking 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.640 we start with two truths and a lie to get 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.120 the audience accustomed to Austin to get us accustomed to 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.120 the audience. So, Alex, we're gonna start with you. There 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.480 us two truths about yourself and a lot. I feel 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.760 like we should do this without looking at my face. Okay, 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.799 I'm gonna I'm gonna read this and see my reactions. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.120 So I wanted to become Wait, does Eric know did 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.320 how to play this game? No? I would. I would 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.800 imagine you're gonna say three statements and I have to 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.600 guess what we have to get you. Which one is 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.840 the fall? Yeah, that's really not that difficult, Alex. All Right, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.640 So I wanted to become a sports reporter since I 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.200 was like thirteen years old because I couldn't play sports 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.280 with the boys anymore. When I was younger, I was 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:18.520 a really talented violin player, and I was voted most 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.680 likely to succeed in high school. Okay, one is she 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.919 only did too? She did three great sports reporter, violin 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:29.919 and most likely to succeed in high school. My question 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.880 for you is, okay, most likely to succeed in high school? 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:40.160 Why everything else is good? That's a lot? First, is 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.520 you said play with the boys anymore? At thirteen years old? 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:50.520 Did you used to play with boys? Like boy? What sports? Baseball, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.080 ice hockey? We got an athlete in studio here. Everything 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.520 bought football, everything, but they didn't play you in Pop Warner, Alex, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.600 listen emotion here Jet Life. Alex is hosting that this 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:08.600 year eleven thirty CBS eleven thirty five CBS Saturday nights. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.320 That's how you get ready for your Jets Sunday games. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.720 And Alex is part of a feature and that not 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:19.720 only is she hosting the show, but she's also taking 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:25.320 an active participatory route the George Plimpton School of journalism, 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:30.920 getting in there in the weight room and doing some exercises. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.360 And let me tell you something, I got more complaints 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.839 out of her last week between Thursday night and Friday 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:42.400 morning then I I would like to admit right now. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.200 And then she came in on Monday after a couple 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.400 of days off and said how sore she was. So 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.520 now she's telling us how athletics she is. I said, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.120 back in the day, yeah, I don't have to all 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.440 do is you keep me here? I'm gonna say I'm 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.359 gonna say the lies the sports reporter one because I 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:02.800 think it was at a different age most likely to 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.360 succeed that it's all right, my boss knows me a little. 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:14.880 Do you think I love this game? I love it. 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:19.520 You're seven lives. You give us two truths and okay. 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:25.360 In high school I was voted person with the hottest temper, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:34.080 and in college I played goalie for the University of 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.280 Maryland club hockey team. They played play those on skates 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:46.279 and I recorded twenty shutouts as a freshman. Finally, that 0:05:46.400 --> 0:06:01.719 was that's that's all encompassing. Thirdly, I I'm glad he 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:07.359 thought about these before the shop I attended. I a 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.240 an altercation with Warrant sapp my first year in the 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:14.680 National Football League of two thousand physical no more of 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.520 an altercation where I was basically told that I'm a nobody. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.680 I had better get out of his way. And I'll 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:25.840 never remember that. But that's definitely see. I'm going to 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.200 say that that's false because I think it was Keyshawn Johnson. Oh, 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.760 that's interesting, hottest temper in high school. I think he 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:39.120 just copied me because that's mine. Well, what's false? You 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.599 have to spill the beans now, both guests. The false 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.400 bit is me playing ice hockey of Maryland and haven't 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:55.080 twenty shut up numbers. Ridiculous. That number is ridiculous, twenty shutouts. Patrick, Wait, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.080 so it was Warrant Sapp. It wasn't Keyshan, Yeah, Warren Sapp. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.800 I had to go in the locker room one of 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.360 my duties in the public relations department, as I had 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.240 to help out the community relations staff, and I was 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:11.320 charged to ask him to sign a ball. And Sap 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.040 was walking off the field and I just looked up 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.480 at him, put the ball on his face, and he 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.120 gave me the heisman and I'll never forget it. And 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.280 then I, like early on in my career, I was 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.480 a little bit scared of Sap, but over the years 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.200 I got used to him. You know, I was only 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.880 there for a year in Tampa, but obviously our past 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.920 across a few other times of professional settings. But for 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:40.720 a young guy in this industry, Warrant Sapp scary dude. Yes, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.800 now it's my turn. So we we had Alex Jaimos. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.800 She uh, well, what, Eric, what was the lie? We 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.560 know you, we know you want to say it again 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:57.920 where I was most likely to succeed, Alex. You gotta 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.960 fire right back at him. What what is Eric's law? 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.040 How does it old. No, wait, how does temper was 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.640 the truth? Yeah? Goaltender with twenty shutouts? Alright. I didn't 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.440 even go to Maryland my freshman year. I went to 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.160 Candidians College in Buffalo. Follow the facts, people, let's go okay, 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.880 and I will say Sam just was an intimidated figure. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.720 And then for me, all I was doing was giving 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.720 a ball out there, and you just gave me the heisman. Okay, 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:23.960 all right? So my my two truths in a lie. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.920 One is I wrote a camel and a donkey at 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.200 the same time or what different times, But in my 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.040 life I have In my life, I have wrote a 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.280 camel and a donkey. I had a pet goldfish. I 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.040 had a pet goldfish named Vinnie after Vinny Testaverdie. And 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:46.440 I'm happy that Mets signed Tim Tebow. Wow, the li No, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.880 it's not the lies. You're happy that Mets signed Tim Tebow. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.679 This is easy here. You guys got to come up 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.640 with better ones. I don't know. I feel like you 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.679 would like I'm anna old. I'm an old. Come on now, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.840 you jumping on board with the a Oh, you gotta 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.400 go something place, I would say the goldfish, he was right, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.640 He's not even prepared and showing out rock. This is easy. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.920 Come on, now, was a gentleman when he was here. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.280 He was a professional. I'm not I'm not bashing him, 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.600 but that was the I'm not I'm feeling indifferent about it. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.199 You know, he's in the he's a minor league Mets player. 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.440 It's just saying how I feel about no doubt about 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.920 another guy in the organization. So you just kinda just 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.480 you gotta listen. That's part of the reporting business. So 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.599 I'm teaching you something here. So when I said I 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.480 went to school at the University of Maryland, when he 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.600 shut outs my freshman year, I didn't go to Maryland 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.679 my freshman year. I didn't even want to shutouts as 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:44.600 a ridiculous number. Okay, so I win. Where's the about? 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.040 All right? Oh my god? Again, this is laces in 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:55.360 Ethan Greenberg here alongside Alex Discount. Well we're not the 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.280 Green Bay Packers and a Rodgers, but that but I 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.199 can't do Yeah. The dis kind double check is the belt, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.360 but it stems from the w w E because the 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:10.040 championship belt. Yeah, alright, just making sure I actually have 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.280 a belt at home, I'll bring it in, all right. Nonetheless, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.599 please please please subscribe. I'm gonna you're gonna hear it 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.880 again to the Jets podcast Network on iTunes. This is 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.600 laces In. It's simple, it's one button. Take out your phone, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.920 go to iTunes, type in Jets podcast networker laces In. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:32.319 Press subscribe, one button. Seventeen episodes. You will not regret it. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.600 We're talking everything Jets, pop culture, fantasy football. But again, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.960 at at the heart of this podcast, we are discussing 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.520 New York Jets. So this Sunday, the season opener, Week 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.240 one of the regular season, the fifteen year anniversary of 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:55.160 nine eleven MetLife Stadium, Jets hosting the Cincinnati Bengals, the 0:10:55.559 --> 0:11:00.760 a f C North Division winners from So because this 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.640 is the first game of the year, we're gonna play 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.480 a little game. It's called who has the first And 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:11.280 I'm gonna say different statistics or different statisticals categories, and 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.280 you have to answer with who you think the first 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.040 person is to record that statistic. So let's start out 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.560 with you. He picked up on that who who has 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.760 the first sack of the New York Jets defense? In well, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.319 Sheldon Richardson has one game suspension, so it won't be 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.520 Sheldon this week. Um, the Jets are dynamic on third 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.720 down with their sub packages and Casey Rogers and Todd 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:39.520 Bowls showing different looks. But I'm going number ninety. Mohammed 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.880 Wokerson could come right out of a base formation guy 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.319 at twelve sacks last year. He was dominant in his 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.800 only preseason performance against the New York Giants. He is 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.439 the hometown kid from Lynden, New Jersey, and on the 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.079 fifteen fifteenth year anniversary of nine eleven, it's gonna be 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.040 nice to see a hometown kid come out there of 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.960 flying and uh Mo, Wokerson will take down the red rifle. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:10.439 That will be the first sex. Yeah, and he's coming 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.319 off how many sacks from last year. So I'm gonna go. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.240 Leo will and I knew you were going to say, 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.680 because Leo me and even have both written articles about 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.000 how much he wants more sacks this year. In fact, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:25.520 they were I mean at first, at first, I didn't 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.520 even know he had written it until I was told. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.840 But um, uh, I'm gonna go with him. But uh yeah, 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.520 I'm not gonna take the easy way out like I 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.959 did there Alex stole my thunder. I was gonna go 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.120 Leo too. You know, in two games against the Jaguars 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.400 and Redskins preseason's Week one and two, he had two sacks. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.240 You know, he's he's really looking forward to showing what 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.280 he can do last season at thirty two quarterback hurries 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.760 lead the team. He's looking to turn those into sacks. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.440 I think he's going to get the job done first. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.199 I think Moe could have a reason to do with it, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.760 you know, because maybe they want to maybe Moe gets 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.080 a couple teams, little double team. But well, I guess 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.320 we'll we'll see, but I'm gonna go with Leo as well. 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.120 Feel me interesting to see if the Jets line Leonard 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.760 Williams up at nose deckoed all this week and that's 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.000 something we saw a little bit during the preseason, Ethan, 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.720 But listen to Jets have a loaded defensive line again. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.679 They're missing Sheldon Richardson this week. But on the other 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.680 side of the ball, the Bangles are missing a couple 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:26.520 of their key players and Tyler Eifertler had a great year, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:31.120 like he had thirteen touchdowns. He was fantasy and don't 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.959 be surprised if it's one of those edge guys. And 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.840 when I talk about edge guys. I'm saying Lorenzo Malden 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:42.360 or we don't know as of today what the status 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.680 of George Jenkins is gonna be. So Mike Atpono could 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:50.320 get this start there another hometown, and Todd Bowle said 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.760 that he expects a leap out of Lorenzo Malden this year. 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.200 So in some packages, you don't know, now, wild Caward, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.719 if you said I want safe wild Car would be 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:03.559 going to defensive back because it could be like a 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:05.560 Calvin Briar. It could be like a buster your screen 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.480 a prior on a blitz that we saw against the Giants. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.600 Overload right, but here comes twenty five to the left. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.800 What else he got? Ethan we're gonna go to the 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:15.679 offensive side of the ball. Now we're gonna start with 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.320 Alex and I know I have a feeling. I know 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.080 what you're gonna say. First touchdown for the New York 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.760 Jets goes to who. I knew you were gonna say 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.680 that that is a biased statement. I mean only because 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.960 he's like in the red zone. They throw the ball 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.360 to him a lot. He loves he loves his touchdowns. 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.800 He said it. So I don't know he loves and 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.040 the and this has nothing to do with his looks, No, 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:43.680 and nothing to do with that. I'm about to interview 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.880 him in a couple of hours. So were you more 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.560 nervous for that for for this? No? More nervous for 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.240 more nervous? Well, this one's off camera. That's fair, all 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:59.440 right there? Alrighty? Who you got first? Touched out? Brandon 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:03.560 Marshall fourteen touchdowns catches last year. He led the Jets 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.840 and and the Jets are fantastic in the red zone 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.880 because it's very difficult to double team everybody. Alex just 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:20.120 mentioned Eric Decker, who those guys combined to lead the 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.360 National Football League in terms of receptions and total touchdowns 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.040 last year. Wide receiver tandems. So I think it's safe 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.200 going either direction. But again, Jane Gailey has got a 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.760 lot of options. I'm at fourty, only played in one 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.280 preseason game. He's one of the most accomplished receivers in 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.880 terms of a running back out of the backfield receiving 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.240 weapon in the history of the National Football League. And 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.360 then Blow Paul as well, don't forget about him. So 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.520 those are probably the top four candidates. There are some 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:54.120 wild cards side. You've gone. You've gone two superstars. It's hard, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.200 you know, it's hard to go away from the superstar. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.880 You've gone Mo and Marshall. But again, there two of 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.240 the premier players on this team. I would say, so 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.880 I'm going Matt Fote, new guy. When he came in 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.080 against the Giants first preseason action, immediately got the ball 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.640 both through the air and threw and on the ground. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.480 So I'm going Matt Forte. And this is this is 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.120 an interesting question. Now, is Matt fotas first touchdown a 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.360 reception or is it a rush reception? What do you 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.480 what do you think it will be a rush? I'm 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.240 going I'm going rush as well. I think that I 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.800 think it's gonna be a three yard rush for a touchdown. Well, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.040 that's crazy. I don't even know how you narrowed down 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:38.440 to that. That's what I am going with. Three. The 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.080 big misnomer about Matt Forte is that he is only 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.200 a receiver. He's only a running back who gets out 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.600 and catches short passes. That's not true at all. Guys 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.000 rushed for a thousand yards five times in his career 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.440 and three of the past four seasons. Kyrie Robinson, a 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.760 fortunately tough break for him. No pun intended hosting a 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.040 ton of you feel you feel bad for the young 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:04.920 guy who came here in the off season and he 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.159 breaks his leg against the Philadelphia Eagles. A lot of 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.720 people thought that he might be the Jets short yardage 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:16.640 red zone back. Now obviously that role is definitely gonna 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.399 be Forte and or blow Paul and Forte. One of 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.720 the reasons he said he's so excited about playing this 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:28.000 offense is because he wants to run up inside the tackles. 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.920 I'm going, uh, you know, Matt Forte, We'll get in 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.359 the end zone on the ground his first touchdown. So 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.160 give me Mo, give me Marshall, give me four ten 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.600 the ground and the bount stays home. That's Eric Allen, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.000 that is Alex Jaimo. I'm Ethan Greenberg. This is laces 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.040 In again. We cover the New York Jets from a 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.639 bit of a different angle. As the name suggests, is 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.120 not what it is, not your typical podcast here, We're 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:57.480 a little different. We talked everything from Jets football, fantasy football, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.879 pop culture to a little Tim t bout action. We 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.560 got everything. So to wrap things up here with the 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.640 New York Jets opening week, one game against the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.840 I want to know a player or a theme that 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:17.040 you guys are, you know, keeping tabs on for this weekend. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.280 So for me, it's I want to see how fast 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.639 this offense starts. It's a year two under chan Gailey 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:30.440 franchise mark in what yard total yards totally yards overall 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.520 the the offense has another year to grow third in 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.639 the red zone, just like an encyclopedia over here. So 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.800 for me, it's I want to see how well this 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.920 offense gels early on because in the NFL and the 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:49.200 beginning of the season. Yeah, and you can see in 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.760 the beginning of the NFL that it's a new year, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.639 so the preseason, the jump to the regular season is 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.679 like ten times out of the water. So I'm very 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:05.320 cure sious to know and see how this offense produces 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.200 against a tough Cincinnati Bengal. Oh yeah, that's a key 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.240 point here. This week. The Jets are starting three new 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.240 players al along that offensive line. Compared to opening day 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:21.399 last season, at that point, Willie Cologne was playing right guard, 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.879 Breno Jacomini was right tackle. In the British Shaw, Ferguson 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:29.720 was left tackle. Now You're gonna have either Brent quality 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:36.400 or quality or Benijelanna at right tackle. Brian Winners, who 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.399 Todd Bowle said was one of the most improved players 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.479 on the roster during training camp. He starts at right 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.080 guard and then one of the most athletic tackles in 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.600 football when he's healthy, is starting at left tackle. He 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.800 takes over for the British Shaw in Ryan Claydy, and 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.800 that is a huge matchup. Ethan, You're right, because Cincinnati 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.399 likes to get there with four and play verse in 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:02.480 the back. Brandon Marshall, we were all in the locker 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.760 room this week. Brandon Marshall said, they like the zone 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.280 up a lot in the back. They like to just 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:10.840 get there for a lot of times. They can get 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:16.000 there without blitzing. That helps them cover. But yeah, Tom 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:19.679 Bowls stressed that throughout the season. Throughout the offseason, excuse 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:24.200 me wants start faster. I'm curious about special teams play 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.080 brand Boyere. They produced a lot in the preseason. Excuse 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.520 me brand Boyer's first year. UM, it should be interesting 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.720 that jay Lee Marshall, the rookie, could possibly be the 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.680 first Jet to touch the football in the season. On 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.560 that point. You know, what is he thinking when that 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:42.680 ball is in the air. He's never played before, so 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:50.280 you better secure it better security. Yeah, that's a great point. 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:55.560 I'm looking forward to seeing Fontz has been an absolute 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.240 beast out there. He hasn't even that's Ethan's favorite players. 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:03.919 He's got a four five shirt over by. He's an 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.879 even better like guy in the locker room. He's he's 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.200 a great areas. Like he just showed me his dance 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:13.760 moves yesterday. Really he did his Victor Cruz salsa was amazing, 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.560 and he's like, really good. He's part of Hispanic. I 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:18.760 think he said, are you saying he's really good at 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.639 special team? He's good at life? You know, he's just 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.119 good at life. But yeah, so that's what I'm interested 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:28.359 in checking out. All right, So special teams for Alex 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:32.040 starting fast for myself and e A. Again. This is 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:38.240 laces in Jets podcast Network. Please subscribe. Lasers In is 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.440 encompassed in the Jets podcast Network. It's one button. It's 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.200 a subscribe button. Seventeen episodes taking you through the entire 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:49.480 Jet season. It all starts week one MetLife Stadium this 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:53.399 Sunday again, the fifteen year anniversary of nine eleven New 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.919 York Jets playing host to the Cincinnati Benga. The chills 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.800 just thinking about it. I think that I think that 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.200 it's gonna be electric, The stadium will be electric, the 0:22:03.280 --> 0:22:06.000 national anthem is going to be electric, and then absolutely silent, 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.720 like everyone's gonna be showing so much respect. I don't 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.560 I don't know if you read uh Kim Jones article 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.360 on NFL dot com recap talking about when she experienced, 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:17.560 you know, her experience of nine eleven. She was a 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.800 Giants beat reporter and her last line, which I thought 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.720 was a great A great line is typically or not 0:22:24.880 --> 0:22:28.440 typically fifteen years ago we use sports as a mechanism 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:33.919 to forget, but fifteen years later, we used sports as 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:37.200 a mechanism to remember. Yeah. I thought that was a 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:40.760 really nice, nice way of putting it. Gives a great 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:43.240 professional really respect the work. We'll have to take a 0:22:43.280 --> 0:22:46.760 read of that. The guys here, Uh, we're really proud 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:51.920 of video that we produced here internal. Yeah, I watched 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:56.919 the video. I teared up. Seth Bradley and Jason Levine, Uh, 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:02.320 producers here, um got that thing together and uh we 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:06.720 interviewed a number of people over months, and I collected 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.679 hours and hours the sound from folks in the organization 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:14.160 and players from that two thousand one team and how 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:19.200 the events unfolded and what happened with the Jets that 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.159 team and Herm Edwards and uh. I think it was 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.440 a really powerful piece and I would encourage everybody to 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:27.640 take a look at that, all Jets fans. I think 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:30.840 you can also see that on Jet Life Saturday night. Okay, 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:34.480 more expanded version on jet Life, so make sure you 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:39.320 check that out. That's right. So yeah, Another thing is 0:23:39.359 --> 0:23:41.639 Woody Johnson, who was out here at the complex. He 0:23:42.040 --> 0:23:45.560 UH with reporters briefly this week. He said that he's 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.640 really looking forward to the pregame ceremony. So please, if 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.800 you're going to the game on Sunday, get there early 0:23:53.000 --> 0:23:55.960 because there are gonna be uh some tributes. We want 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:59.320 to honor some of the first first responders and also 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.880 remember everybody who lost their lives on that tragic day. 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:05.840 And then we're gonna celebrate one of our nation's great 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:09.840 pastimes and that's a football game on Sunday. But this 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:13.399 is this is not a moment to be fashionably late. No, 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:18.800 everybody's got to get there early early. Is in pregame 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.200 is gonna be fantastic, So everybody's got to be there, 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:25.080 and and also you know, if you've got young kids 0:24:25.600 --> 0:24:30.240 and who weren't even around and uh two thousand one, 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:33.480 I think this is gonna be pretty powerful. And then 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:38.080