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Speaker 1: Welcome to us Thanksgiving installment the Jets Audibles, Eric Allen,

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Speaker 1: joined by my partner Chad Punnyton, who actually is in

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Speaker 1: an interesting location today. You're a trooper, Chad. Uh. The

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Speaker 1: guys are telling me you are doing this podcast from

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Speaker 1: an automobile a car. Well, Eric, I'm always believe you

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Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to win, right, So I believe

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Speaker 1: that when I played, and I still believe it now.

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Speaker 1: So the kids are home from Thanksgiving break a little

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Speaker 1: bit crazy in the house. I stepped into my car

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Speaker 1: because I knew we wouldn't have any distractions, all right,

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Speaker 1: So what's the Punnington family doing for Thanksgiving? Well, we

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Speaker 1: are actually trying to enjoy a couple of days and

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Speaker 1: not having any sports activities, no school activities, and just

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Speaker 1: trying to recuperate from the fall of football in the

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Speaker 1: beginning of basketball. And then we will head to West

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Speaker 1: the boys go out and play and have a Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: a game on the gridiron? You know what, that's not

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Speaker 1: a bad idea at all. I may even incorporate that

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Speaker 1: into our family schedule. That's that's a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 1: Thundering Herd plays Western Kentucky on Friday for the East

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Speaker 1: Division of the Conference USA Championship. So we will certainly

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Speaker 1: be watching a lot of football, and I'm sure they

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Speaker 1: would also be up for a football game. There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it. They love it. Did you guys ever

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Speaker 1: do that going growing up? Play a little football on Thanksgiving? Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, I was noting. I was known in my

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Speaker 1: family for playing football games by myself. We would actually

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Speaker 1: go up and visit my grandparents in Lofallit, Tennessee, and

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Speaker 1: I would go out in my sweat pants and have

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Speaker 1: a football game by myself. Now imagine that like you

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Speaker 1: tackle yourself, you make great catches, you uh if you

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Speaker 1: pick up fumble as you make interceptions, and the most

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Speaker 1: important thing, you always win. So it was it was

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Speaker 1: a win win situation from well, yeah, so I guess

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Speaker 1: you were the star of the game. Listen, Uh, did

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Speaker 1: you do play by play while you're out there playing

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Speaker 1: uh football against yourself? No doubt about it. You've got

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Speaker 1: to give a little commentating and play by play, you know,

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Speaker 1: with penning to making a great catch or painting and

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Speaker 1: jumping over the pile, touchdown, all those things that really

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Speaker 1: bring back great Chilithood's memory. Alright, Chad, what's your message

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Speaker 1: for Jets Nation? The Green and White suffer another a

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Speaker 1: tough DEFEATO one possession game there at that, but unfortunately

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Speaker 1: they couldn't climb back into a tie with the Texans,

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Speaker 1: and now they're five and five. Well, if you, I

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Speaker 1: think there's two perspectives here for Jet fans, and most importantly,

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Speaker 1: there's two perspectives here for the team. Um. First of all,

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Speaker 1: the inner perspect to is, hey, the team is struggling

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Speaker 1: to just get back into the wind Colin. And so

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Speaker 1: the narrow perspective is to think the world's coming to

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Speaker 1: an end. They're five and five, they've lost four out

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Speaker 1: of five, they're certainly on a downward trend. And as

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Speaker 1: of that. I think you've got to broaden your perspective

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Speaker 1: look at where you are, and say, if we said

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Speaker 1: we would be at five and five at the beginning

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Speaker 1: to take the positive approach. You can't pessimism leap to

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Speaker 1: Can go Okay, yeah, we've screwed this thing up completely

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Speaker 1: starting out four and one, we're five and five, but

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Speaker 1: we are in the playoffs hunt, and so what can

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Speaker 1: Isn't there a difference? And I keep on coming back

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Speaker 1: to this because I was with Herds for five years,

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Speaker 1: But isn't there a difference between perception and reality? Remember,

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people do. Remember forget the

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Speaker 1: fact that the Jets finished four and twelve last season,

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Speaker 1: and there were some talk in New York this week

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Speaker 1: Todd Bowls has been the same way each and every week,

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Speaker 1: no question. I completely agree with that. And that's the

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Speaker 1: big picture of perspective you're talk talking about is saying

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Speaker 1: have given a false perception out there that this team

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Speaker 1: was ready. Now, as as teammates and as individuals, you

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Speaker 1: always believe you've got a chance to play for a championship,

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Speaker 1: There's no question about that. And they certainly as an

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Speaker 1: leave you to believe that they could do that. And

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Speaker 1: that's still possible. Uh that that is certainly not out

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Speaker 1: But right now, the feeling obviously around the town and

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Speaker 1: as Jet fans, you don't feel good about where you

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Speaker 1: that that feeling out there is understandable. But as a team,

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Speaker 1: you can't worry about that. You've got to focus on it.

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Speaker 1: We are what we are. We're five and five. There's

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Speaker 1: a reason we're five and five. Now, if we understand

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Speaker 1: what those reasons are, and we understand that those things

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Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick told me last night on Inside the Jots,

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Speaker 1: you have to ignore the noise. How difficult is that

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Speaker 1: for you, the player in a place like New York,

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Speaker 1: to say, Hey, whatever is going on in the outside,

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Speaker 1: And that's why some players can survive and some players

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Speaker 1: can't um But there there is. It's important to understand

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Speaker 1: why ignore the noise means. In my opinion, ignore the

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Speaker 1: noise means you you ignore the things that really aren't

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Speaker 1: replevant to your situation. But you cannot nor the things

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Speaker 1: ignore the mistakes being made. You cannot ignore the same

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Speaker 1: mistake being repeated. You cannot ignore the lack of production,

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Speaker 1: and you have to look at those things, truly strip

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Speaker 1: So ignore the noise as far as the negativity out there, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: what are the real reasons we are struggling as a

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Speaker 1: of the year. Well, offensively, I think the lack of

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Speaker 1: can't survive in this league by having fourteen play fIF

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Speaker 1: may be, to alleviate some of the stress that's put

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Speaker 1: those fourteen or fifteen a series. Well, if Fitzpatrick admittedly

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Speaker 1: the Jets fatchan signal caller? Well, I think number one,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's don't underestimate that guy just came off the

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Speaker 1: It's something that can't be taken lightly. So, um, is

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Speaker 1: difference in his play? Yes, and understandably. So that's where

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Speaker 1: most important. Compared to getting an extra yard on a

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Speaker 1: a tough year for Devin because first day a training camp,

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Speaker 1: basically he goes out with not only a broken ribs,

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Speaker 1: guy obviously he was fighting at right now, you continue

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Speaker 1: You you do little things to create small victories. I

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Speaker 1: excellent point. Uh, strictly business decision, as Todd Bowles said,

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Speaker 1: and not deal with anything that was happening off the field,

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Speaker 1: it became a numbers game. And as Bol said this week, Chaid, listen,

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Speaker 1: we have a slew of players who play on the inside.

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Speaker 1: And Quintin was a good guy, while liked in the

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Speaker 1: locker room, did a lot of fine things in the

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Speaker 1: community throughout his tenure here. So everybody here wishes Quintin

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Speaker 1: a lot of luck. Uh So, final word from you,

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Speaker 1: what's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Oh? Man, let's see. I

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Speaker 1: gravy fand so anytime we have a chance to have

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Speaker 1: gravy on something, I'm all about it. So probably everything

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Speaker 1: on my plate will have baby on it. The turkey,

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Speaker 1: the dressing, the mashed potatoes. It'll probably even get mixed

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Speaker 1: in with the corn and the greenbies. Whatever is on there,

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Speaker 1: there will be gravy on my plate. I promise you that.

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Speaker 1: All right? For me, it's just fast forward to dessert

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Speaker 1: because I'm a pumpkin pie guy. Can don't wait for

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Speaker 1: a little bit that here on Thursday? Uh buddy, Uh,

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Speaker 1: many blessings to you and your family and joy Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: and then we'll talk to you next week. You two

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Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving. Dollar Jet fans,