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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. The opponent previous series rolling on

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Speaker 1: here Ethan Greenberg Eric Allen talking about the Jets and Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Is this the weirdest scheduling quirk you've seen in your

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Speaker 1: time in the NFL? As the Jets and Dolphins played

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Speaker 1: twice in three weeks with a by sandwich in between. Questionably,

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Speaker 1: the answer is yes. When I saw the schedule, it's uh.

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Speaker 1: I looked at the first half of the season, saw

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Speaker 1: Dolphins on it and done that Week nine match up

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Speaker 1: at home against the New England Patriots, and then finally

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Speaker 1: you have your first Miami game in week ten. So

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Speaker 1: automatically thought, hey, maybe the Jets are actually gonna close

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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins again this year. But no, they're coming

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Speaker 1: right back after a bye after facing them at Matt

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Speaker 1: Life in week ten. They'll face each other again in

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Speaker 1: week twelve. Easier for the coaches to prepare because all

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Speaker 1: that film work, uh don prior to Week ten will

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Speaker 1: already be in the books per se, and then they'll

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Speaker 1: have to see how those teams match up against each

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Speaker 1: other um in at Mattlife. But yeah, this is interesting

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Speaker 1: and it could play to the advantage of one of

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Speaker 1: these squads, because hey, say, if the Jets win at home,

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Speaker 1: hold serve and maybe they win convincingly. Who knows, uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe they go into that situation feeling awfully confident facing

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. But what I think, Greens is that

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Speaker 1: is a critical part of the Jets two thousand twenties schedule.

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Speaker 1: Week nine, Monday Night against the Patriots, Week ten against

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, Week twelve against the Dolphins, because that is

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Speaker 1: half of your division games in a matter of three

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Speaker 1: games in four weeks. And not only that, but two

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Speaker 1: weeks prior to the Jets and Patriots on Monday Night

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Speaker 1: Football is Week seven. That's the second Jets Bills matchup

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Speaker 1: of the season. So it goes Bills, Chiefs, Patriots, Dolphins, Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a meaty part of the schedule there

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Speaker 1: for the Jets, and I agree it's gonna be very

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Speaker 1: important that the Jets find success in that span. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of curious here overall, take on the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins before we hear from Dolphins analyst John Conjemmy, because

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Dolphins are a team that has

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Speaker 1: so much turnover from the end of last season to

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Speaker 1: present as we're recording this in June. And this is

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Speaker 1: also a team that has the same head coach and

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Speaker 1: general manager. But this is a team that, maybe more

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Speaker 1: so than anyone, would have benefited from a Spring O

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Speaker 1: not the case. I just wonder, even though I think

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Speaker 1: they're an improved team, I wonder how quickly they'll be

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Speaker 1: able to show that on the field because of the

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Speaker 1: time away from the facility. I like to hid coach

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Speaker 1: a lot like Brian Flores. He came over, of course

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Speaker 1: from the New England Patriots, and last year a lot

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Speaker 1: of people thought the Dolphins were tanking for TUA. Ironically,

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Speaker 1: they finished five and eleven overall, most notably that Week

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Speaker 1: seventeen victory over the New England Patriots in Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: is Ryan Fitzpatrick works some bits magic there at Jolette Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Patriots going on to play on Wild

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Speaker 1: Card weekend and the Chiefs getting the bye, and I

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Speaker 1: think that really helpful Kansas City to the Super Bowl title.

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Speaker 1: So if ititz Patrick had a hand in that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: last year, everybody left Miami out for dead, but they

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Speaker 1: finished five and eleven overall. Uh. Their first victory ironically

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Speaker 1: last season, of course, came against the New York jetson

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Speaker 1: But to your point, Ethan, I do believe this Dolphins

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Speaker 1: team improved their talent immensely in the offseason. But how

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Speaker 1: is that going to look and translate early in the

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Speaker 1: season because they're gonna be working in so many new

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Speaker 1: the key storylines for training camp in South Florida is

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Speaker 1: where is too at physically? And if he is at

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Speaker 1: dent when training camp commences, can he push Ryan Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: in two up for the second half of the season.

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Speaker 1: And that means those matchups with the Jets. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's hear from John King Jemmy who's a Dolphins analyst,

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Speaker 1: and learn what he thinks about the Jets Dolphins match up.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Dolphins, despite being five and eleven,

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Speaker 1: future for this group. So entering two thousand and twenty,

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Speaker 1: what's your overall take on the Dolphins? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: you have to start with the depth of the roster

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Speaker 1: number one. I think the Dolphins put themselves in a

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Speaker 1: position of strength after free agency and then the two

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Speaker 1: thousand and twenty NFL Draft. I think this roster right now,

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Speaker 1: as it's composed on paper, is much stronger, much more

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Speaker 1: well rounded it at each position than it was going

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Speaker 1: think this is a competitive group that he's assembled from

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Speaker 1: each position on offense, defense, and special teams. It should

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Speaker 1: be a much improved team in two thousand. Hopefully it

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Speaker 1: has some of the grit that the two thousand and

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Speaker 1: nineteen team had, because when you really take a look

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Speaker 1: at that roster, it didn't have any business winning five, six,

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Speaker 1: seven games. But that's where the Dolphins would have and

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Speaker 1: should have been, had they come through against Washington and

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Speaker 1: overtime and a couple of other games. The New York

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Speaker 1: of one of those games that could have went either

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Speaker 1: way can you make the argument, John, that the Dolphins

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Speaker 1: improved the roster more than anybody in the National Football

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Speaker 1: League this offseason. And with that being said, will this

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Speaker 1: team had as many as ten, the twelve, the thirteen

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Speaker 1: new starters in two thousand twenty. There's a chance there's

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Speaker 1: a chance there could be that many news starters. I mean,

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Speaker 1: just take a look if you go back, and I

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Speaker 1: know you guys don't follow this as closely as the

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Speaker 1: Jets that quite naturally, But the first game of the

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Speaker 1: regular season against the Ravens, the Dolphins had three offensive linemen.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know their names going into pregame warm up.

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Speaker 1: I was like, who's that guy? And they actually played

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Speaker 1: and started in the game, and it showed in the score. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, not only in that game, but the New

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Speaker 1: out in back to back weeks at home. So when

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Speaker 1: he's good enough, he will, if he challenges Fitzpatrick and

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Speaker 1: he's able to start, there's one of those guys that

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Speaker 1: quite possibly could start. Now, personally, I think Fitzpatrick is

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Speaker 1: If not, he'll sit and watch until his time is ready.

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Speaker 1: But at running back, at linebacker, at safety, at cornerback,

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Speaker 1: at defensive end especially, you could have upwards of ten

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Speaker 1: So you're right, ten to twelve is probably a good

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Speaker 1: number quarterback excluded, John, What do you feel like is

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Speaker 1: the most improved position on this Dolphins team after free agency?

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Speaker 1: In the draft? You know, I'd have to say, if

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Speaker 1: the new defensive coordinator, is gonna want to keep opposing

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Speaker 1: Bills that come in. Now, their numbers aren't going to,

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Speaker 1: the paper. But where the Dolphins were at those positions,

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Speaker 1: it screams improvement for this team in South Florida, and

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Speaker 1: and it needs to because they were lasting, creating pressure,

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Speaker 1: have to improve on the defensive front seven, and I

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna help. And I think that linebacker group Bruge

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Speaker 1: I think that front seven and probably could be the

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Speaker 1: offensive line because you drafted three guys that have a

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Speaker 1: the Giants, improved with the Redskins, and you're hoping that

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Speaker 1: Dolphins for years in New England, Bill Belichick built from

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Speaker 1: front seven, but on paper, this quarterback unit is getting

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Speaker 1: Nick Needen was a much improved guy as the season

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Speaker 1: you had him with Bobby McCain, who was a true

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Speaker 1: flexibility that the Miami Dolphins have been stressing last year

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Speaker 1: out of need because you're looking for bodies to play

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Speaker 1: And I think that holds true from the linebacker defensive

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Speaker 1: It holds true from safety to corner to nickel corner

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Speaker 1: a tweener at at safety corner, but he's he's at

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Speaker 1: the place, and I think it adds to your defensive

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Speaker 1: Jets and Dolphins first met last season in South Florida,

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Speaker 1: Preston Williams had a great game. So I'm just curious

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