Speaker 1: Welcome to Jets Audibles. Eric Allen here joined by Chad
Speaker 1: Pennington as always, Well Chad, we started this podcast a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and the Jets are undefeated. Uh,
Speaker 1: so you're bringing good luck to the Green and White,
Speaker 1: your former team. How do you feel about that? Anything
Speaker 1: I can do to help, Eric, that's always a deal.
Speaker 1: The more more you can do, more valuable you are.
Speaker 1: Before we start talking about the Jets in their latest
Speaker 1: victory when over the Colts, Uh, give us an update
Speaker 1: on how your coaching career is going, because I know
Speaker 1: you had a big game last week against the heavily
Speaker 1: favorite football team. How did you guys play in your
Speaker 1: underdog role? Well, we actually did well. We Uh we
Speaker 1: won the game twenty to sixteen, and uh, kids played
Speaker 1: really really well against the real physical team. Unfortunately, we
Speaker 1: suffered a heartbreaking six to zero loss last night. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's we're railing this morning, but we're gonna observe
Speaker 1: of the twenty four hour rold and get back to
Speaker 1: work this afternoon. All right, So give us an update
Speaker 1: on that. This is your middle school team you're coaching,
Speaker 1: right and your and your son calls on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a middle school B team. Uh, we're not
Speaker 1: experienced enough to be able to play a top eight
Speaker 1: team schedule in the city of Lexington, but it's a
Speaker 1: B team and we play wrecked teams. And the whole
Speaker 1: goal is to give these kids attending this private school
Speaker 1: a chance to experience football and if they want to
Speaker 1: try to play high school football, they feel confident and
Speaker 1: prepared that they can do so. So it's it's been
Speaker 1: a good experience and I've enjoyed it. Well, how were
Speaker 1: you able to pull off that upset because a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought last week going into their into that matchup,
Speaker 1: you guys might be in for a tough night, but
Speaker 1: you did pull off the s win. Well. Kids worked
Speaker 1: really really hard on the game plan throughout the week
Speaker 1: and uh, they decided that they were going to be
Speaker 1: physical and they were going to match physicality physicality, and
Speaker 1: they executed extremely, extremely well, and they're over they're able
Speaker 1: to overcome and Birsty twice where we were down twice
Speaker 1: in the game and came back to win in the end,
Speaker 1: and then we had a big fourth pound stop was
Speaker 1: five seconds left on on our own fifteen yard line
Speaker 1: to seal the deal. So It was really exciting. The
Speaker 1: kids are really excited about it. How does Chad Pennyton,
Speaker 1: the coach, celebrate a victory because I asked Todd Bowls
Speaker 1: about this last week. He said, with chips, ahoy and
Speaker 1: one percent milk before he goes to bed. That's how
Speaker 1: he celebrates. How about you, Jed, Well, it depends. It depends. Actually,
Speaker 1: it depends on what um food truck is out at
Speaker 1: the game. Our parents order a different food truck every week, uh,
Speaker 1: for people to be able to get snacks and confessions.
Speaker 1: And so last night I had to lament in my
Speaker 1: loss with sweet lilies with two big chili hot dogs
Speaker 1: and vanilla yogurt. Oh my god, that's uh not actually
Speaker 1: the postgame uh snack of champions. No, I didn't reward
Speaker 1: myself because we lost. I went with the fattening route.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's talk about the Jets. What do
Speaker 1: you think about them? The way they played Monday night
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. A lot of folks before the game thought
Speaker 1: this might be a tough matchup, and we talked about
Speaker 1: it last week, and you thought they had a good
Speaker 1: chance going into it. I certainly did. And I think
Speaker 1: the word for Monday Nights victory was efficiency. I saw
Speaker 1: that both defensively and offensively. Uh the Jets were efficient. Uh.
Speaker 1: Nothing spectacular, nothing flashy, not a sexy victory, but a
Speaker 1: just a good, hard nosed, solid team win. I thought
Speaker 1: there was a lot of complimentary football played in that game,
Speaker 1: and uh so it was a very efficient victory for
Speaker 1: the Jet. Uh. So We're gonna take a Twitter question
Speaker 1: here Early because I like this one because a lot
Speaker 1: of people are interacting over all the various social platforms
Speaker 1: during the game, as do you know, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people were asking me this during the game, Chad,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to get this out of the way.
Speaker 1: Early Loving writes in US do you think the Jets
Speaker 1: got too conservative with the play calling last game in
Speaker 1: the second half. His concern is that should have scored
Speaker 1: some more points off of those turnovers. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: think it was conservative in nature as much as the
Speaker 1: lack of execution off of those turnovers. I certainly agreed,
Speaker 1: you have five turnovers, Uh, you need to be able
Speaker 1: to score more than twenty points. But I think also
Speaker 1: the coaching staff recognized in the second half, especially that
Speaker 1: the coach the cults were really and because they are
Speaker 1: their struggles. They wanted to make sure as a team
Speaker 1: that Jets didn't breathe lie into the Colts situation with
Speaker 1: turnovers or bad plays, negative plays and things like that.
Speaker 1: So they were playing it close to the vest and
Speaker 1: they want to make sure that they did not give
Speaker 1: the Colts any momentum that if there were any breaks
Speaker 1: being created, Colts would have to create those brakes. And
Speaker 1: they were unable to the one break that they did
Speaker 1: create with the scoring drive to make it tend to seven.
Speaker 1: That's where the complementary football came in. You saw the
Speaker 1: Jets open it back up, move the ball right down
Speaker 1: the field and score to make it a ten point
Speaker 1: game midway through the fourth quarter, which was really really big.
Speaker 1: That that sealed the deal right there. It really took
Speaker 1: took the momentum away from the Colds. What does that say,
Speaker 1: that drive, because that's what it was all about. Right there,
Speaker 1: as you just said it's time to seven, the crowd
Speaker 1: got back in the game. I'm sitting there in the
Speaker 1: press box way up towards Heaven in Indianapolis, were way
Speaker 1: up there, but the place was rocking man in the past.
Speaker 1: This might be a by of but a moment Chad
Speaker 1: where the game could have slipped away, but the Jets
Speaker 1: did have the answer. And what does that say about
Speaker 1: their confidence in Chan and Ryan Fitzpatrick Mi Chan Gailey
Speaker 1: came out firing football on that drive, on the drive
Speaker 1: that sealed the game. Well, I think the word that
Speaker 1: should be used in a situation as maturity. I think
Speaker 1: you have a mature offense and it first starts with
Speaker 1: your veteran quarterback. And like we said two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I believe that the acquisition of Ryan Fitzpatrick has given
Speaker 1: stability to the Jets team. Uh And so that's what
Speaker 1: he was able to produce on Monday Night as well,
Speaker 1: stability During a rocky situation where it's tendo seven, the
Speaker 1: Colts gain a little momentum, the crowd gets involved. Chan
Speaker 1: puts the game in Ryan's hands, He dishes the ball
Speaker 1: to his receivers, he goes to his playmakers. The running
Speaker 1: game then starts to time to life. Have a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays and running game to keep the drive going.
Speaker 1: And it was just a very mature drive and a
Speaker 1: very mature offense out there that did not succumb to
Speaker 1: the momentum pressure of the Coats. Eric ducker. He's got
Speaker 1: a spring knees day to day wolf to see if
Speaker 1: he plays on Sunday. Before I take the next Twitter question,
Speaker 1: what what I want to ask here is what do
Speaker 1: you think about him being used in the slot? Because
Speaker 1: we talked about this even before coming on air. Is that? Wow?
Speaker 1: Him matched up against the linebackers just a huge mismatch
Speaker 1: and the Jets went to it early and often the
Speaker 1: other night. Uh, what do you think about him in
Speaker 1: the slot? And also how are teams gonna adjust to
Speaker 1: that down the line over the next fourteen games. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome to see him in the slot,
Speaker 1: first of all, and I think it really shows his
Speaker 1: versatility and one he's able to do. Last year he
Speaker 1: was called upon to make plays on the outside. This
Speaker 1: year he's been called upon to make plays up on
Speaker 1: the inside. He's been able to do both and it
Speaker 1: really shows his versatility. He was outstanding in the first
Speaker 1: half with his route running. His route running was very crisp,
Speaker 1: his timing was Fitzpatrick was on the money, and he
Speaker 1: was finding the spots and really making some big plays,
Speaker 1: keeping drives alive. And because he was doing that, that
Speaker 1: then opened up the outside for Brandon Marshall in the
Speaker 1: second half. So those two players, Decker and Marshall, they
Speaker 1: go hand in hand with each other, I think since
Speaker 1: Patrick feels very comfortable with both of them and they're
Speaker 1: just mature, solid professional football players that know how to
Speaker 1: play the game. Power team is going to address though.
Speaker 1: You think because the Colts were doubling Brandon predominantly throughout
Speaker 1: the evening, whereas Decker was getting free and he was
Speaker 1: matched up sometimes with linebackers, and and that just is
Speaker 1: a big time advantage to the Jets. How do you
Speaker 1: think teams are gonna change up their strategy one to
Speaker 1: fund in this offense? They will start to opponents will
Speaker 1: start to look at tendencies of the Jett and see
Speaker 1: when Decker is used and how he has used and
Speaker 1: then also look at Marshall, and they'll have to change
Speaker 1: up their coverages. Sometimes they may choose to double Decker
Speaker 1: in certain situations. Sometimes they may choose to double Brandon Marshall.
Speaker 1: Other times they may may leave him one on one
Speaker 1: and try to get more pressure on the quarterback. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's the first thing you try to do is
Speaker 1: try to find ways to take advantage of protection. Schemes
Speaker 1: so that quarterback doesn't have time to make the correct row. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's always harassed or moving him off his spot, putting
Speaker 1: him on the run. That's what the Jets did to
Speaker 1: the Colts and it worked out great. So there will
Speaker 1: be different philosophies with that, and the Jets will have
Speaker 1: to react accordingly each week. All right, So if Decker
Speaker 1: can't go on Sunday, and Jake Crespy writes then asked
Speaker 1: this question, how do you think that impacts the offense?
Speaker 1: It certainly impacts that, There's no doubt about it. First
Speaker 1: of all, it puts a little bit more responsibility on
Speaker 1: the two young receivers to make sure that they are
Speaker 1: crisp and they're oute running and that they're doing things
Speaker 1: that uh, that Decker was doing in the slot. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have they're gonna be caught upon, uh to be
Speaker 1: able to do some of those things. And then also
Speaker 1: the running backs will then have to get more involved
Speaker 1: in the passing game as well, and it may may
Speaker 1: call upon the running game to do some things uh um,
Speaker 1: you know, to really create some big plays in the
Speaker 1: running games. So it certainly affects Jets. It doesn't shut
Speaker 1: them down, But it changes the mindset because you're taking
Speaker 1: out a very good professional football player out of the mix.
Speaker 1: And uh, and then it also will allow teams not
Speaker 1: to worry about an Eric Decker in the slot and
Speaker 1: they can put more emphasis on Brandon Marshall. So uh,
Speaker 1: two young receivers have really got to step up and
Speaker 1: make some plays for the Jeffery. Yeah, because all teams,
Speaker 1: you know this, face adversity with injuries. Everybody in the
Speaker 1: National Football League dealing with injuries. But for the Jets,
Speaker 1: it could be interesting this weekend because if Decker is down,
Speaker 1: Coach Todd Bowls set on ESPN Radio this week that
Speaker 1: Chris Woozoo has a leg injury and he could be
Speaker 1: out for as many as two games. So that means,
Speaker 1: like you're talking about the young receivers, Quincy Noonwa, he
Speaker 1: could step into a more prominent role. And the other
Speaker 1: guy that Jets fans continue to ask about is Jeremy Curly. Well,
Speaker 1: he hasn't got a lot of run here early in
Speaker 1: the season, but he might have to step up for
Speaker 1: this team. And thirdly is Devin Smith. The rookie has
Speaker 1: been practicing full for this squad, but he messed so
Speaker 1: many rops during training camp. The Jets did not rush
Speaker 1: him back into the lineup last week. He might be
Speaker 1: up this week and stepped into some kind of role,
Speaker 1: the Jets have said. Jane Gaily said last week, Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna put him in too many positions right now.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep him at one spot. And I would imagine, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's probably means he'll be playing outside. Don't you think that, Jack?
Speaker 1: Considering he missed the better part of training camp X
Speaker 1: except for a few days, he's just spun back of practice,
Speaker 1: uh for a week and a half, two weeks. Do
Speaker 1: you think that means that he'll be playing more outside?
Speaker 1: No question. And that's what he was used to doing
Speaker 1: at Ohio State as well. He was a deep threat.
Speaker 1: He was a big ball skills guy on the outside.
Speaker 1: And so when you have a young receiver with his ability,
Speaker 1: what you do you simplifying thought process. You put him
Speaker 1: on the outside and give him a few routes to
Speaker 1: really concentrate on and get good at, and then you
Speaker 1: try to take advantage of that let him use his
Speaker 1: rollability to help your team make a play. The Jets
Speaker 1: are in a good situation though. Having Jeremy Curley there,
Speaker 1: he can step in. He's an inside route runner. He's
Speaker 1: been successful in the past. It's a great situation to
Speaker 1: be in if you're the Jets. And then the noon
Speaker 1: wall did a great job. He had a great deep
Speaker 1: crossing route that he made a catch on for Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: in the game on Monday. He'll be asked to do
Speaker 1: a little bit more so. Uh, this is why we
Speaker 1: call the game of football a team game, and when
Speaker 1: your team faces adversity due to injury, other players have
Speaker 1: to step up. Any concerned they're about the run game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Obviously the Colts gave the Jets some difficulties with the
Speaker 1: way they were moving and stunning up front, but I
Speaker 1: thought they stayed with it and they sprang a couple
Speaker 1: of runs there in the second half with Ivory and
Speaker 1: blah blah. Yeah, it was a workman type a performance
Speaker 1: for the offensive line. It wasn't flashy. There weren't a
Speaker 1: lot of big plays, but there weren't a lot of
Speaker 1: negative plays either. That's what I was looking at when
Speaker 1: I was watching the game the second time. There weren't
Speaker 1: very many big negative plays that they may have you know,
Speaker 1: a handful of plays that maybe went for a yard
Speaker 1: or no game or minus two, but there weren't just
Speaker 1: big negative plays that to give the coach defense momentum. Uh.
Speaker 1: Coach Bagano's defense and coach Mahowski, they do a really
Speaker 1: good job of stopping the run. It's very hard to
Speaker 1: run against their defense. But the Jets kept that if
Speaker 1: they kept it in the game plan. They did in
Speaker 1: the board the running game, and you saw the running
Speaker 1: game make some big plays for the Jets in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter on those two scoring drives. And that's what
Speaker 1: you're looking at in the first three quarters. If you
Speaker 1: can grind on the defense, wear them down, and then
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter you break through with a couple
Speaker 1: of big runs to keep scoring drives alive. That's a
Speaker 1: recipe for success. And you look at the stats, they
Speaker 1: weren't great, but they did eclips the one hundred yard
Speaker 1: mark and they were efficient. Uncle Joel wants to know, chat,
Speaker 1: do you think the Jets can make real noise with
Speaker 1: just a ball control offense that he says as an
Speaker 1: average in a passing week. Well, I don't look at
Speaker 1: the Jets as a ball control offense. I look at
Speaker 1: their first two performances as an offense. That first of all,
Speaker 1: they're feeling their way out. They have a new coordinator,
Speaker 1: new quarterback, new positions in key areas, new players, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: they're feeling their way through it. That while they're feeling
Speaker 1: their way through it, they're finding ways to be productive.
Speaker 1: They're finding ways to score in the red zone, finding
Speaker 1: ways to complement their defense and and get some points
Speaker 1: off of these turnovers. So I see the Jets getting
Speaker 1: better and improving throughout the season as long as the
Speaker 1: injury bug doesn't hit them. And so that's that's going
Speaker 1: to be the key. And and the other key is
Speaker 1: when the defense isn't able to have the opponent turn
Speaker 1: the ball over four or five times, can the offense
Speaker 1: step up and score thirty points? I certainly think they're
Speaker 1: capable of doing that. When you have a help a
Speaker 1: Deck or Brandon Marshall, Chris Ivory below Paul, those type
Speaker 1: of guys, they're capable of doing that. Yeah. And let's
Speaker 1: be clear here too. The Jets are averaging twenty five
Speaker 1: and a half points a game. They scored thirty one
Speaker 1: in the opener in twenty in Week two, and both
Speaker 1: of those victories victories were by double digits, and that's
Speaker 1: tough to do in the National Football League. When you
Speaker 1: look at the other side of the ball, do you
Speaker 1: think the Jets confused luck or was it more of
Speaker 1: sheer pressure got to him? As far as the Jets
Speaker 1: blitz packages were really good and they brought the numbers
Speaker 1: and he just didn't have too much time to throw
Speaker 1: in most instance instances when you look at his interceptions,
Speaker 1: I don't think I saw the interceptions as being bad decisions.
Speaker 1: I saw the interceptions as being due to the pressure,
Speaker 1: having to throw a ball a little bit early, getting
Speaker 1: your arm hit on the outlout, not being able to
Speaker 1: step into a throw. Uh. Those those are the types
Speaker 1: of things that happened. And that's why, even though you
Speaker 1: don't see sacks, when you see that type of pressure
Speaker 1: that has affected the quarterback in that way, that is
Speaker 1: just as effective, if not more effective, than the actual sack.
Speaker 1: And that's what the Jets have really done. They've been
Speaker 1: able to create one on one matchups where their pass
Speaker 1: rushers and their defensive players can win those matchups, and
Speaker 1: then in some instances they've been able to create schemes
Speaker 1: where they've just been free defenders coming free to to
Speaker 1: get pressure on the quarterback as well. So I didn't
Speaker 1: see confusion by luck. I just saw a quarterback that
Speaker 1: was harassed, that was hurried with his throws and sometimes
Speaker 1: got his arm hit as well. How creative were Todd
Speaker 1: Bulls and Casey Rodgers and how much do you enjoy
Speaker 1: watching their play calling when you broke down the film? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, what you see just from bird's eye
Speaker 1: view is you see stability on the sideline. You don't
Speaker 1: see a staff that gets too high, staff it gets
Speaker 1: too low. You see you see a calm uh stable
Speaker 1: sideline and staff. And then then you also see a
Speaker 1: head coach and a defensive coordinator working well together and
Speaker 1: not worrying about who's going to get the credit and
Speaker 1: who designed what scheme, but working well together and complimentary,
Speaker 1: complimenting each other, making adjustice that they need to make
Speaker 1: to get the job done defensively. Ten takeaways. That's something
Speaker 1: else will that get into the mind of an opposing
Speaker 1: offense like Philadelphia is coming here and they're struggling you
Speaker 1: and Sam Bradford and company. The does that pop out
Speaker 1: at you during the week that can net get opposing
Speaker 1: tight because now the Jets defense is starting to create
Speaker 1: this culture of taking the ball away. Because last year
Speaker 1: Jet thirteen takeaways, they got ten in two weeks. Well,
Speaker 1: what's going to happen is the opponent is going to
Speaker 1: game plan and talk about in their team meetings. We
Speaker 1: can not afford to turn the ball over. We must
Speaker 1: force the Jets to beat us straight up without turning
Speaker 1: the ball over. It's similar to when I was with
Speaker 1: the Jets and we would play the Dolphins, and we
Speaker 1: knew that the Dolphins had a really, really good defense.
Speaker 1: We knew going into the game we cannot turn the
Speaker 1: ball over, we cannot let the pass rushers get to us,
Speaker 1: and we had to force their offense to try to
Speaker 1: beat us. And so that's going to have to be
Speaker 1: the mindset of the opponent to see if the Jets
Speaker 1: can win a game like that, whether there aren't a
Speaker 1: lot of turnovers in short fields. Harold brights in and asked,
Speaker 1: how can the Jets defense slow down a quarterback like
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford in Philadelphia's hurry Up. It's a good question
Speaker 1: whether and what are the inherent challenges of facing an
Speaker 1: offense like Phillies that's pretty unique in the National Football
Speaker 1: league when you face hurry up offense and facing offense
Speaker 1: like the Philadelphia Eagles, Uh, there's there's three keys in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Number one is defensive communication. Getting lined up
Speaker 1: the hurry up offensive design where the defense can't communicate,
Speaker 1: and then you find a defender out of place, you
Speaker 1: get out leverage. You're not in the spots that you
Speaker 1: normally are because you have been able to huddle and
Speaker 1: get your calls in on time. So number one's communication.
Speaker 1: I think Number two is physicality. You have to match
Speaker 1: their tempo by being physical and being able to punch
Speaker 1: them in the mouth and get get after them just
Speaker 1: as much as they want to get after you with
Speaker 1: their tempo, you need to get after them with your physicality.
Speaker 1: And then and then three, I think the biggest key
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia's offense and stopping them is the first down production.
Speaker 1: If they get that first down play positive yards eight
Speaker 1: nine seniards and they get that drive started, very difficult
Speaker 1: to stop that momentum. Remember watching the Seattle Seahawks against
Speaker 1: the Eagles last year, they it very well on first down,
Speaker 1: making sure that the Eagles were not successful on first down,
Speaker 1: which slowed the tempo of the offense. Down. You're surprised
Speaker 1: by their early season struggles. I know a lot can
Speaker 1: change in the National Football League, but you look at
Speaker 1: the Marco Murray's numbers is I don't even know if
Speaker 1: he's average in the yard per carry. They haven't been
Speaker 1: able to get anything going on the ground at all.
Speaker 1: And Bradford's struggle at times. He's got four interceptions here
Speaker 1: early in the season. Well, what you've seen, you've seen
Speaker 1: a team that is definitely trying to learn each other.
Speaker 1: You have some moving parts. You've got a new quarterback,
Speaker 1: you've got a new running back. You lost the uh
Speaker 1: a great professional football player and Lizonel McCoy um, so
Speaker 1: you you've got a lot of moving parts. Here was
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out in preseason. The ball is
Speaker 1: completely different than the regular season football. So they they
Speaker 1: typically figure it out and they typically get going. But
Speaker 1: right now they're struggling with it and they certainly have issue.
Speaker 1: And when you're facing the struggling team uh as as
Speaker 1: the Jets are, you've got to make sure that you
Speaker 1: don't breathe life into them by making your own mistakes,
Speaker 1: that you stay efficient UH and you stay close to
Speaker 1: the best of what you're trying to get accomplished and
Speaker 1: don't give them any life to get the moment I'm
Speaker 1: going in their faith. Like you mentioned before, how much
Speaker 1: you appre appreciating, uh, this team's patience so far this
Speaker 1: season when you're talking about the Jets, because you know
Speaker 1: that Cleveland game, there were some spots early where you know,
Speaker 1: they give up a nine minute drive, they give up
Speaker 1: a long touchdown, but there was never any panic. Then
Speaker 1: you know, you fast forward to Indianapolis and the Jets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got the early takeaway and they scored nice uh
Speaker 1: design call by chan Gailey getting uh Decker free for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. But that first half seven nothing and then
Speaker 1: you get a field goal, you miss a field goal
Speaker 1: at at halftime, and and then you give up the
Speaker 1: nine minute drive to start the second half. Just seems
Speaker 1: like the Jets, even though uh they didn't put the
Speaker 1: Colts away right away, they just remain patient and nobody
Speaker 1: ever panicked and said here we go on the same thing.
Speaker 1: You go back to the Browns game too. I think
Speaker 1: is that the Jets at spots early where it didn't
Speaker 1: look great, but they just stayed with it. And I
Speaker 1: think that's a sign of a mature coaching staff and
Speaker 1: a mature football team. You know, understanding that it is
Speaker 1: four quarters, understanding that you've got to play on an
Speaker 1: even kill. There's going to be adversity that you face.
Speaker 1: It's not when and why, how and where the adversity happens,
Speaker 1: but how you respond to the adversity. And they've been
Speaker 1: able to to respond to the adversity relatively well and
Speaker 1: making sure that they just stay the core state to
Speaker 1: the game plan. And I think that's evident in their
Speaker 1: in their veteran quarterback and Fitzpatrick. It's evident with their
Speaker 1: defense and staying the course and as a team they're
Speaker 1: not pushing the penning and that's important. As you moved
Speaker 1: later into the season, what do you think about Rivas's
Speaker 1: performance Monday night? That's the first for him three takeaways
Speaker 1: in one game. Certainly it was in the right spot
Speaker 1: at the right time on the first fumble, second fumble
Speaker 1: recovery was all him as Frank Gore was trying to
Speaker 1: get his hands on the ball and fumbling it around,
Speaker 1: Revus knocks it out and recovers it and then on
Speaker 1: the intersection that was that was just good ball skills
Speaker 1: by him to be able to react to the under
Speaker 1: thrown ball, which was caused by the pressure of the
Speaker 1: of the defensive line in the past rush with the
Speaker 1: Blitz scheme. But uh, Revus has always had really good
Speaker 1: ball skills. He's always played under control. He can play fast,
Speaker 1: but being under control, uh, you know, speed but no
Speaker 1: control was just chaos. The speed with control, you know,
Speaker 1: really produces a good, solid football player. And that's that's
Speaker 1: how the real plays. He plays with speed, he plays
Speaker 1: with his hands and physical and he's he's right there
Speaker 1: in the right spot at the right time. How much
Speaker 1: you think Buster screen and Marcus Gilchris helping the secondary
Speaker 1: right now? Buster of course playing that nickel position. He
Speaker 1: was all over the field as well. And then Gilchrist
Speaker 1: comes up with the late interception, and I know, Calvin
Speaker 1: Pryor is really developing here in the second season. I
Speaker 1: got a credit a lot of that to Gilchrist because
Speaker 1: Calvin's told me I was playing with him. He's a
Speaker 1: great communicator, really smart ball player, and this is his
Speaker 1: first season with the Jets, and all the guys say, hey,
Speaker 1: he's kind of running the show back there with his communication. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's nice to see, you know. Other um defensive back
Speaker 1: step up other than Dreille Reeves and and you look
Speaker 1: at buster screen, you look at Gilchrist. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: they're playing solid football, they really are. They're they're making plays, um,
Speaker 1: they're they're you know, right there at the point of
Speaker 1: reception each time, and if it is called, they're there
Speaker 1: to make the tackle. They're there for the past break up.
Speaker 1: The defensive back line is doing a really good job
Speaker 1: of communicating the coverages and getting everybody lined up, and
Speaker 1: so it's nice to see. And any time you can
Speaker 1: have it's one thing to have a dB that can cover,
Speaker 1: it's another thing to have a dB that can cover
Speaker 1: and also have good ball skills. That's that's the difference
Speaker 1: in a pass breakup, in an interception, and any time
Speaker 1: as a quarterback you're gonna have pass breakups. When you
Speaker 1: got to worry about dbs that can catch and make
Speaker 1: plays on the ball and turn those pass breakups and interceptions,
Speaker 1: it changes the ball game. And right now you're seeing
Speaker 1: a get secondary that has good ball skills and that
Speaker 1: are turning these potential pass breakups into interceptions and the turnovers,
Speaker 1: which are definitely game changers. What do you make of
Speaker 1: this division after two weeks we saw New England going
Speaker 1: to Buffalo and take care of business. I know the
Speaker 1: Bills were very excited for that game, and maybe too
Speaker 1: much so, a lot of people would say. And then Miami,
Speaker 1: after an opening season win in Washington, they went down
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville and they were surprised by the Jaguars. Not
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, hey, uh, just break it down what
Speaker 1: you've seen early from this division. Well, I think that, uh,
Speaker 1: it's still for grabs and it's open. But I certainly
Speaker 1: think New England has made a statement. I think they
Speaker 1: have shown that that just because we've dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of it first in the offseason and and things
Speaker 1: like that, we're still here and we're still on top
Speaker 1: of the division. I thought that was a big statement
Speaker 1: win for them in Buffalo. That's a very hard place
Speaker 1: to play. New England normally struggles in Buffalo. They've lost
Speaker 1: a few games over the years in Buffalo, um and
Speaker 1: and for them to be able to put up forty
Speaker 1: points on Rex Ryan's defense and and to be able
Speaker 1: to come out with a win in Buffalo, that was
Speaker 1: a big statement game for them. I think the other
Speaker 1: three teams in the Dolphins, Bills, and Jets. They've really
Speaker 1: got to step up their play and try to challenge
Speaker 1: the Patriots for this division. But right now New England
Speaker 1: has made the first statement of the year. Doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that it can't change, but they've certainly made the first statement.
Speaker 1: You know, I was disappointed in Miami losing in Jacksonville. Think,
Speaker 1: if you're going to be a playoff contender and and
Speaker 1: you want to really compete this division, you have to
Speaker 1: win games against teams like the Jaguars, and the Jets
Speaker 1: have been efficient. Haven't been flashy, but they've been efficient.
Speaker 1: They're right where they need to be. And Uh, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, this division is still up for grass,
Speaker 1: but there is still an order there where the Patriots
Speaker 1: are on top. Right now, one of those teams is
Speaker 1: going to be facing in an early season depposite because
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Dolphins are playing in South Florida
Speaker 1: on Sunday. What do you want pay happening with that matchup?
Speaker 1: I think that's a statement game for both teams. Um,
Speaker 1: that is a hat chet that can go either way.
Speaker 1: For the Dolphins, they've got to make sure that directs
Speaker 1: Ryan defensive schemes. UH, don't force them into turnovers in
Speaker 1: bad plays and uh, you know, for Buffalo, if they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go on the road, and this is
Speaker 1: you know a good test for Tyrod Taylor to be
Speaker 1: able to leave his team down the South Florida and
Speaker 1: see if they can sneak away with a road victory.
Speaker 1: So both teams, big challenge for both teams, big statement
Speaker 1: game for both teams. Alright, we're gonna have time to
Speaker 1: analyze and preview the Jets and the Pads in in
Speaker 1: a few weeks. But just a general question for you
Speaker 1: when you're playing that team, how do you go about
Speaker 1: defunding Tom Brady Gronkowski, Settleman and company. Because it seems like,
Speaker 1: you know, they'll take some shots down the field, but
Speaker 1: a lot of their stuff is based on picks and
Speaker 1: robs and it's a short passing game and nobody has
Speaker 1: found an answer for it. The Patriots are different in
Speaker 1: that their deep threat is actually they're tied there. They're
Speaker 1: big play threat is their tight ending. Gronkowski. Um, Their
Speaker 1: receivers are for the intermediate and short passing game, yards
Speaker 1: after catch, keeping drives alive. They're very crafty. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: good route runners and uh, it's very difficult to defend because, um,
Speaker 1: if you try to put a safety your linebacker on
Speaker 1: Gronkowski that's probably not a great matchup. And put a
Speaker 1: corner on him, he can out physicals the corners and
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how the Jets uh try to
Speaker 1: defend Gronkowski. And the biggest way you defend the Patriots
Speaker 1: is good solid offensive football on your side, being able
Speaker 1: to keep them off the field, being able to sustain drives,
Speaker 1: not turn the ball over like Buffalo did, and and
Speaker 1: give them lights. And so it's going to be a game.
Speaker 1: Typically it's a game where you're probably gonna have to
Speaker 1: plan on a seven to twenty four type games. But
Speaker 1: if you can control the football and stay ahead of
Speaker 1: the score and not have to play from behind, uh,
Speaker 1: you'll have a very good chance to win. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fascinating to watch the Jets uh to fund against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, because I would imagine buster screen would be
Speaker 1: put on Edelman and I like you mentioned Gronkowski, he's
Speaker 1: the guy, he's the big guy. Who do you go
Speaker 1: who do you go with there? And do you try
Speaker 1: mixing it up at times? Last year Revas said, did
Speaker 1: he covered Gronkowski in practice? And he said he's a
Speaker 1: all of a cover. He's so tough to cover. And
Speaker 1: I thought about that before because Revas is a bigger
Speaker 1: type corner and physical and it may be a matchup
Speaker 1: that they let's just have to take a look at.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. I think you definitely have
Speaker 1: to go in and say, Gronkowski will not beat us.
Speaker 1: Forced Edelman, force Ammondla, force these other players to beat us,
Speaker 1: and let's see if they can't. You can't allow Gronkowski
Speaker 1: to beat you. That's typically lay Belichick parcels these great
Speaker 1: coaches that they're gonna go in and take away your
Speaker 1: best player and see if you can see if you
Speaker 1: can beat him with the other players, and if you can,
Speaker 1: then you were better that day. But you definitely don't
Speaker 1: want your superstar to beat you because then you have
Speaker 1: a game playing correctly. Jan What do you want to
Speaker 1: see from this Jets offense this week? As we look
Speaker 1: ahead to Sunday, we talked about what the defense has
Speaker 1: to do against Chip Kelly's offense that's been scuffling. But
Speaker 1: conversely from Ryan Fitzpatrick and company, Uh, Chris Ivory came
Speaker 1: out of that ballgame store. He had a growing issue
Speaker 1: hadding into the matchup with the Colts. Hopefully he's able
Speaker 1: to get uh you know, good rehab this week with
Speaker 1: John Mallody and the crew and is a hundred percent
Speaker 1: by game time. Uh. We saw what Brandon Marshall can
Speaker 1: do go over a hundred yards a difference maker once
Speaker 1: again on Monday night. But the Jets might be uh
Speaker 1: dealing with the loss of Eric Ducker on a short
Speaker 1: term basis, What do you want to see from the
Speaker 1: offense this week against Philly at home? Well, it will
Speaker 1: be easy to say. You want to see more production,
Speaker 1: you want to see more explosive plays, you want to
Speaker 1: see this and that. But first you have to see
Speaker 1: what the injury report is and see who's available on
Speaker 1: Sunday because a lot of times that affects your game plan. Remember,
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets are into winning football games, not
Speaker 1: fantasy football, but actual real football games, and so you
Speaker 1: have to see who's going to be available, and then
Speaker 1: what you can do as a play caller to take
Speaker 1: advantage of the strength of the players that are available.
Speaker 1: And so it may be a grinded out, dirty win again,
Speaker 1: but I've never seen any win. It doesn't feel good
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, every win feels good, especially in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So I think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to see throughout the week how the injury report comes out,
Speaker 1: and then we also have to see, you know, how
Speaker 1: the Jets respond defensively to fill these up tempo. You'd
Speaker 1: like to see the Jets offense be able to sustain
Speaker 1: long drives even if they don't get points, their seven
Speaker 1: and eight, nine, ten play drives even without points, because
Speaker 1: that allows your defense to stay rested. That allows your
Speaker 1: defense to continue to communicate on what they're seeing. With
Speaker 1: Pilly's no huddle offense. Uh, the short drive kill you
Speaker 1: against the team like Philadelphia because then they get with
Speaker 1: there are no huddle tempo and they're going down the
Speaker 1: field again and your defense back on the field. So
Speaker 1: you want to see sustained drives. You want to see
Speaker 1: turnover for the football, and just good, efficient, consistent football
Speaker 1: from the offense. Fitzpatrick passer early the season, four touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: He got the two picks. You and I were talking
Speaker 1: about it before. You didn't have a problem with the
Speaker 1: pick in Indy, uh, because he took a shot up
Speaker 1: the sideline to Brandon Marshall. Vante Davis made a uh
Speaker 1: great deflection and safety comes over. Makes a hell of
Speaker 1: a play there in the end zone. Now, another thing
Speaker 1: that stands out to me when you're talking about Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: he's been sicked once. Now you gotta credit the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but you gotta credit himn um for that too, don't you?
Speaker 1: Absolutely Past protection? It the team game. It starts up
Speaker 1: front making sure that they're picking up the blitz schemes.
Speaker 1: But then then secondly it goes back to the quarterback
Speaker 1: understanding how to get the ball out of his hands
Speaker 1: effectively and quickly. And when there's nothing there, where's my checkdowns?
Speaker 1: Where my hot routes? How can I help the offensive line?
Speaker 1: You can't block every scheme that's thrown at you, but
Speaker 1: you can attack every scheme by getting the ball out
Speaker 1: of your hand, knowing where all your options are in
Speaker 1: case pass protection does break down. And so it's been
Speaker 1: a nice team effort offensively between the quarterback and an
Speaker 1: offensive line, and then you throw in your out runners.
Speaker 1: Been a really good team effort against pressure. And no
Speaker 1: surprise here, Todd Bowl said, Ryan Fitzpatrick is our starter
Speaker 1: Genal Smith once he returns to team activities, right now,
Speaker 1: he's just doing individual in seven and seven work and practice.
Speaker 1: Once he returns to team activities, Fitzpatrick is still gonna
Speaker 1: receive of all the first teams with the offense. No
Speaker 1: surprise to you, right, not at all, And I think
Speaker 1: that's the right way to go. Um fitz Patrick has
Speaker 1: brought in stability for the team that especially against the
Speaker 1: situation that could have gotten very ugly and very difficult
Speaker 1: for the organization. And uh, you know, I don't see
Speaker 1: any reason why it changed now or maybe even throughout
Speaker 1: the whole season. As long as the team is well
Speaker 1: on functioning well. You look way past um a quarterbacks
Speaker 1: performance sometimes in situations, and you look at the stability
Speaker 1: that he's bringing to the team and how the team
Speaker 1: is responding to him, not just looking at his own
Speaker 1: individual performance. All right, are the Jets moving to three
Speaker 1: and all this weekend? They certainly have have a really
Speaker 1: good shot. And I think against the ruling team playing
Speaker 1: at home, you want to start fast. When you played
Speaker 1: against the team that are struggling, you want to start fast.
Speaker 1: You want to create that indecision, You want to create
Speaker 1: those negative doubts and faults in the opponent's head that
Speaker 1: here we go again. Here's another team, here's another game
Speaker 1: where we're messing it up. If you can start fast
Speaker 1: and not breathe life into them and make them earn
Speaker 1: every yard, every down, every point, certainly makes it more
Speaker 1: difficult on the opponent. So that's that would be the
Speaker 1: goal for the Jets, in my opinion, is to start fast,
Speaker 1: is to make sure they're old up on their defensive
Speaker 1: communication offensively, making sure that they're sustaining drives even if
Speaker 1: they're not getting points, and really play team football. All right,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it as always. In next week, we'll check
Speaker 1: in with you before you're two pro team square off
Speaker 1: in London, England. How about that. That's gonna be exciting,
Speaker 1: And uh, you know that's interesting. I never had a
Speaker 1: chance to play in London. I remember when we traveled
Speaker 1: with the Jets to go to Tokyo to play in
Speaker 1: the in the preseason game, and it was certainly a
Speaker 1: different experience. All the American plane ride that yeah, have
Speaker 1: the plane ride that long. So it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see how both teams react to it. But uh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Jeff's Dolphin's overseas. I'll be a first alright,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it next week. Thanks all right, thank
Speaker 1: you Eric, good stuff, bro.