Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A podcast with Eric Allen. Take it Away.
Speaker 1: It's Thanksgiving week, bart Scott in the House. Speaking of
Speaker 1: Bart Scott in the House, what are your plans for Thursday?
Speaker 1: But I tell you what, Well, you know, I'll be
Speaker 1: on the air working, so it's almost like I'm still
Speaker 1: a player. But the great thing is I don't have
Speaker 1: to get hit. I'm not sad. Rather I win or
Speaker 1: lose because I don't. I don't have a permanent record,
Speaker 1: and I'll be done at four o'clock, so I'll go
Speaker 1: in at UM twelve. And I think this year we're
Speaker 1: gonna try something different. Um the wife and the family,
Speaker 1: just something intimate. We're gonna stay in the city. Uh,
Speaker 1: she's gonna cook Thanksgiving dinner at home. We're gonna bring
Speaker 1: it to the hotel with us, and we're gonna roll
Speaker 1: around in the city, probably go look at the tree
Speaker 1: lit up. What the tree doesn't get lit up to
Speaker 1: the Wednesday, We're gonna probably go ice skated or something
Speaker 1: like that. So I'm gonna do something kind of fun,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to switch it up a little bit
Speaker 1: and let the kids look at the lights and you know,
Speaker 1: hang out now, you were saying, and before that, the
Speaker 1: way your hotel is situated is that you might be
Speaker 1: able to see the parade, the Macy's Day parade go
Speaker 1: right by Thursday morning. Right, Well, I thought I could
Speaker 1: because I thought I thought the parade went through Fifth Avenue,
Speaker 1: So I was gonna get a room at the Peninsula.
Speaker 1: You know, I got a connection there. But I think
Speaker 1: it goes down the Broadway, but I'm still on fifty four,
Speaker 1: so if we want, we can kind of just step
Speaker 1: out and see him go by on fifty I believe
Speaker 1: we coach throt or something like that, so we can
Speaker 1: check it out that way. But you know, it's only
Speaker 1: an easy walk. It just depends on if the wife
Speaker 1: wants to be dealing with all the craziness, because I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's gonna be barricaded and you don't have to
Speaker 1: get funneled and stuff like that. The funnest time we
Speaker 1: ever had is, or the most access we had, is
Speaker 1: we had like a roped off part at Trump Trump
Speaker 1: Hotel right there in the circle right where it stops,
Speaker 1: you know, So that was cool, But you know, you're
Speaker 1: out there a long time holding kids, on on your
Speaker 1: head and it's one of those things that sound good
Speaker 1: but unless you got like the bleacher seats or something
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, Like Saturday, it felt like the world
Speaker 1: was coming to an one. I was down in Maryland,
Speaker 1: was seventy degrees and a couple of hours later and
Speaker 1: the winds started whipping. The sky got dark and ominous.
Speaker 1: It's like the end of the days. Man. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, what's going on? So you can't eat Thursday though,
Speaker 1: because those guys, I've seen the spreads that you guys
Speaker 1: have you treated pretty well at the NFL today. How
Speaker 1: are you going to refrain from taking all that in? Well? You, well,
Speaker 1: you know what. We have the early game, so we're good.
Speaker 1: So our game, our game started at twelve o'clock. We
Speaker 1: got the first game. It's always you always hope when
Speaker 1: you have to work on thanksgive, you always hope you
Speaker 1: got the first game. Because you got the middle game.
Speaker 1: Then that's that's even worse because your game starts at
Speaker 1: the four you have, which is good game this year.
Speaker 1: That's one of those crossover game. Yeah, and it's a
Speaker 1: great game for me because I grew up in that tradition,
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up, you know in Detroit. You know,
Speaker 1: it was always something that we could be proud of
Speaker 1: it because no matter how bad we we were, the
Speaker 1: people we were the two teams. It was usually it
Speaker 1: was only two teams. You know, back in the day.
Speaker 1: They just added the third team since the whole NFL
Speaker 1: network became more popular. But it used to be Detroit
Speaker 1: at twelve, Dallas at four, and it's still that way.
Speaker 1: Did you ever go to any those games? So you
Speaker 1: just watching on TV and watching on TV family members
Speaker 1: that went to that game. But we have a parade
Speaker 1: in Detroit as well. But for us, it was the
Speaker 1: Turkey Bowl. We go out and play football before the
Speaker 1: actual game actually come on. So you guys were playing
Speaker 1: the morning because we were talking about your turkey Ball
Speaker 1: last week. Is that you guys would get out there
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood before, like you said, the twelve thirty games,
Speaker 1: so you're probably playing what ninth thirties, Yeah, the little
Speaker 1: turkey game. Go out there, has some fun, get all
Speaker 1: louther dup get hungry. You know, you know the food
Speaker 1: isn't ready at twelve o'clock my first game, but you know,
Speaker 1: you start smelling the smelling the food. You eat a
Speaker 1: good breakfast. You know. Sometimes you wake up everybody make
Speaker 1: the biscuits and the pancakes and and the bacon and
Speaker 1: the sausage and the ham and the hash browns and
Speaker 1: the grids, and you go to town that way after
Speaker 1: the turkey d you know, after the turkey bowl, you know.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's just a fun experience with the
Speaker 1: great thing about thanks Giving and why I like things
Speaker 1: giving a lot more than I like Christmas, it's because
Speaker 1: it's not about receiving something. It's about fellowship. It's about
Speaker 1: spending time with each other. It's about you know, stopping
Speaker 1: and reflecting about how blessed we are, how fortunate we
Speaker 1: are to be. Whatever situation you are, it's always somebody
Speaker 1: that's willing to trade with you, that thinks that they
Speaker 1: have it worse, that would love to trade with you
Speaker 1: in any time. So it puts, you know, Thanksgiving put
Speaker 1: you in the right perspective. I think Christmas is too commercialize.
Speaker 1: It's more about you know, what we get and measuring
Speaker 1: ourselves by the gifts that we give to others. Speaking
Speaker 1: of that, do you do anything on Black Friday? Hell no, no,
Speaker 1: because I can't stand I'm not about that like, I'd
Speaker 1: rather wait three months and get on discount, and I'm
Speaker 1: not about to sit up there and be fighting over
Speaker 1: a toy. So the Scott family will will not be
Speaker 1: out Friday. Shot about that when you guys be back,
Speaker 1: because you're talking about some family coming to town, right,
Speaker 1: are you gonna have like a post Thanksgiving celebrations that
Speaker 1: you guys will be in the city on Thursday. Well,
Speaker 1: we've always used to to that situation, but usually you know,
Speaker 1: I have family come down and visit, you know, so
Speaker 1: they haven't and once I come home from work, I
Speaker 1: kind of joined with it. But this time me and
Speaker 1: a wife wanted to try something different, something in me
Speaker 1: with the kids. See how we can just be together,
Speaker 1: have things, giving dinner and actually been the city and
Speaker 1: mess round to kind of played to the fact that
Speaker 1: I am in the city and then they don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about, you know, taking an hour and a
Speaker 1: half of me to get back. I'm already there, you know,
Speaker 1: soon Stu is over with. I come straight from the studio,
Speaker 1: which is probably two minutes from from where the hotel is,
Speaker 1: and we can just kind of have some fun. Who
Speaker 1: were your favorite line players growing up for Loman's Brown. Yeah, Lomas,
Speaker 1: Luther Ellis, I'm going all the way back, um, Herman Moore,
Speaker 1: Brett Perriman, Johnny Morton when they were fun, when everything
Speaker 1: was wide open. I can't stand Scott mentioned yeah but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah but he oh man, he was. He
Speaker 1: was like the Rob Johnson side. And he had one
Speaker 1: great year with Miami, you know, uh, cashed in and
Speaker 1: came to Detroit. The whole left. Yeah. Herman Moore was
Speaker 1: a beast. Brent Perriman was like a you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny because Perriman is playing for Ravens now his his son,
Speaker 1: and Johnny Morton. It was exciting because you had Luther Ellis,
Speaker 1: you got Chris Spielman, you got Robert Foscha. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: had the Blade brother, you had one of the Blades,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I don't know who which one
Speaker 1: it is. So it was Benny. I think it was
Speaker 1: Benny Blake, you know. So it was a time where
Speaker 1: the Lions were actually pretty good. What about Barry? How
Speaker 1: old were you when Barry was in his prime? I
Speaker 1: mean I remember in high school playing at the Silver Dome,
Speaker 1: and I remember Barry was like getting busy three too,
Speaker 1: because they were coming out the field from practice as
Speaker 1: we were going for our game. He's like, get busy
Speaker 1: three too. It's like, yeah, yeah, Berry said something to me.
Speaker 1: So like you gotta think with you know. That was
Speaker 1: probably like two years before he retired. I think Barry
Speaker 1: got in and maybe ninety or nineties. Yeah, Barry maybe
Speaker 1: got in the league at like need ninety one something
Speaker 1: like that. So, yeah, I watched all the Barrio's career
Speaker 1: because at that point I was watching football all the time.
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you? And he just randomly
Speaker 1: pick you out and say, yeah, I was walking by. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you can always tell who the sweet player.
Speaker 1: But high school I had my girl, I was looking sweet,
Speaker 1: you know, and I had three to you know, thirty
Speaker 1: twos usually, and in high school you can tell the
Speaker 1: numbers of the players because you know, the players get
Speaker 1: to pick the number they want. So you see guys
Speaker 1: with ten, eleven, thirty two, because you know everybody you
Speaker 1: don't have to wear a number four position, so guys
Speaker 1: want the sweet numbers, you know what I mean? Sometimes
Speaker 1: seven three. You know you ain't gonna seen No. Forty five,
Speaker 1: seventy five. You're not respecting that in high school? Who though,
Speaker 1: who was winning? Thirty two? Thirty two is my number
Speaker 1: for everything, man, So it was Magic Johnson's number. It
Speaker 1: was like thirty two was like all the sweet players
Speaker 1: back in the day was wearing thirty two two. I
Speaker 1: think so, yeah, Magic war thirt two. You know he's
Speaker 1: from Michigan. You no doubt you ever wonder what it'd
Speaker 1: be like, uh, tackling a guy like Berry from your
Speaker 1: perspective as a linebacker, it was one of It was
Speaker 1: the most disappointing thing in my career because he quit
Speaker 1: so early. I just wanted a chance to take a
Speaker 1: shot at him, did you you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: And I think he retired. I think Bard retired and
Speaker 1: like two thousand, two thousand or two thousand one. I
Speaker 1: got the league in two thousand two. What did it
Speaker 1: mean to you? Could you imagine that he's said something
Speaker 1: to me in high school and I would have had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to tackle him? What do you say that
Speaker 1: anything to him? I have to tackle him, you know,
Speaker 1: or miss him. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I would have. I mean I would have been
Speaker 1: one of those guys like Barry. Can I please had
Speaker 1: his jersey please, because differently did that start the jersey stuff? Oh?
Speaker 1: Like now, because I talked about that the NFL too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it just started happening, maybe a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago because of these guys like that. You
Speaker 1: don't seem like a guy that would you would be
Speaker 1: good with that. I could see you doing that with
Speaker 1: Berry Sanders. Maybe no locker room or something. Only only
Speaker 1: only jersey I ever, I ever took on the field
Speaker 1: was one of my former teammates, like Jared Johnson, like
Speaker 1: making me a jersey man. That's because we were we
Speaker 1: were friends, we played against each other and we both
Speaker 1: went separate directions, just going up to random guys like hey,
Speaker 1: j j let me get to let me get your jersey.
Speaker 1: That's that's I don't know. You see it happen all
Speaker 1: the time around here, like dude, you just lost and
Speaker 1: now you just high five. And I couldn't this man,
Speaker 1: I took it so serious. I couldn't. I couldn't after wards,
Speaker 1: I can't sit down and we can't pray together, like no, no,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be No, I'll say my Lord's prayer when
Speaker 1: we get in and we say the Lord's prayers the team.
Speaker 1: I'm not holding your hand and talking to you. Coom
Speaker 1: bay y'all, No, bro, I just try to kill you
Speaker 1: Detroit six and four. Do you obviously obviously you're a
Speaker 1: commentator now and you're an analyst now, but the part
Speaker 1: Scott who grew up there, do you kind of root
Speaker 1: for them on the side, hoping that they do well
Speaker 1: people in the community, You No, don't, don't get it.
Speaker 1: I'm confused. I'm a Lions fan, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: always will be a Lions fan. Um, I'm happy, you know.
Speaker 1: And Matthew Stafford is really his team now because now
Speaker 1: I call it addition box attraction because he doesn't have
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson to lean on. He's playing a position where
Speaker 1: he's going through his progressions. He's throwing the ball to
Speaker 1: who's supposed to get the ball. He's not just forcing
Speaker 1: the ball to Calvin Johnson so he can have his
Speaker 1: ten to twelve you know. Um, you know attempts or
Speaker 1: or or targets. So you think that just forced the
Speaker 1: growth because spottom line is when you have somebody like that,
Speaker 1: it's not a crutch, but it's just up. I can
Speaker 1: throw it up and I know it's Carmelo ball. Let's
Speaker 1: let's get the ball to Carmelo and let's everybody watch
Speaker 1: him instead everybody feeling like, let me run my route
Speaker 1: because if I'm open, you know he's gonna throw the
Speaker 1: ball to me. There is a big game for them
Speaker 1: at six and four. That and so the six and
Speaker 1: four and remember Matthew Stafford. They've been behind in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I believe every game this year that they've won,
Speaker 1: and Matthew Staffords come up big and you know, this
Speaker 1: is pretty much a match because they took Minnesota to overtime,
Speaker 1: uh last time, and Matthew Stafford made that crazy throw
Speaker 1: to get it to a field goal range for like
Speaker 1: twenty seconds ago, a couple of weeks ago, my point.
Speaker 1: So this time, you know, the Minnesota virus have been sputtering,
Speaker 1: you know, they have been sputtering downhill and they finally
Speaker 1: got to win against Arizonia today. And now this is
Speaker 1: for the division. Whoever wins this one is in the
Speaker 1: first place in the division. And who thought that we
Speaker 1: would ever be having this discussion because right now Green
Speaker 1: Bay looks vulnerable. They just got demolished two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. I mean, they I mean, every time Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers came back, Kirk Cousins came back with an equally
Speaker 1: big play, just throwing the ball down the football field.
Speaker 1: I didn't like him, but I think he's playing a
Speaker 1: lot better. He was struggling early on this season. You know,
Speaker 1: you know I didn't agree. I didn't think that. You know,
Speaker 1: he was asking for top five money and he got
Speaker 1: franchise and he bet on himself. And you know, right
Speaker 1: now he's winning because now I love this Crowder kid.
Speaker 1: He played with so much energy and passion. He's always
Speaker 1: getting open vertically. And I watched them take at least
Speaker 1: four vertical shots they threw. They had to have Crowder
Speaker 1: played it through. Yeah, they had to have at lease
Speaker 1: at least five plays over forty yards. And I don't
Speaker 1: I can't remember one of them going to de Sean
Speaker 1: jackson't even Sean Jackson play yesterday. But you know they
Speaker 1: went to Crowder, they went to Garth song Um. The
Speaker 1: running back was growing crazy. So now green Bay is vulnerable.
Speaker 1: So this game is even bigger because it seems like
Speaker 1: it's a two team racing this division. Now I think
Speaker 1: green Bay has done. They're old, they're slow, they're not deep,
Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be some major decisions made
Speaker 1: in the offset. What's coming up on today Thursday morning?
Speaker 1: Do you know yet? Because there's always something emotional that
Speaker 1: it's a tug because with the season we're talking about
Speaker 1: family and also people on need and things like that. Well,
Speaker 1: well just just think, just think about who's um, think
Speaker 1: about who's who's playing. So the Vikings are playing, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure be something you know, very heartfelt about Danny Green. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, so I want to give away everything, but
Speaker 1: you know it would be something we're reflecting. He gives
Speaker 1: a little juice here on the podcast. I'm saying what
Speaker 1: nobody else know that? What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Um?
Speaker 1: It usually be like the ham and the turkey, but
Speaker 1: you know, the star has always been a stuffing. And
Speaker 1: you know, I told you my wife does a great
Speaker 1: job with the sage sausage stuffing off the chain. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what next time she makes it, I'll bring
Speaker 1: you something, Okay, sage sausage stuffing. You know a favorite
Speaker 1: dessert on Thanksgiving? I know you're watching Bart. Bart's looking
Speaker 1: pretty swall on TV because he likes to come in
Speaker 1: and get the morning work. No, no, no, no, you
Speaker 1: inspire me man, because you are ripped up. We call
Speaker 1: it rippling. Still a sexy billion wired your wiry, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's harder for me to
Speaker 1: look like you because I'm so much bigger. So I
Speaker 1: gotta try and shrink down and try and look like you,
Speaker 1: but a bigger version. Okay, all right, So you're gonna
Speaker 1: eat dessert? How many half to? Yeah? Yeah? Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: don't give it. I mean, you just you just got
Speaker 1: you just gotta you just gotta run it off. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna have? Um? My mom always makes banana
Speaker 1: put it, and you know it's crazy. My my co
Speaker 1: hosts on on my on my radio show, I always
Speaker 1: say Danny, Amanda Laura. I always want to say Amadola.
Speaker 1: He came and he actually shot a show by my mother.
Speaker 1: She stepped him. How she makes it banana putting makes
Speaker 1: the the meringue out of egg whites, and she beats
Speaker 1: it by hand and then whips it, put the sugar
Speaker 1: in there and it makes them ringue. And then she
Speaker 1: makes the put in out of the flower vanilla abstract
Speaker 1: and all this stuff makes the banana putting that color.
Speaker 1: She it makes it all by hand, and she made
Speaker 1: the mom's bananas putty. Okay, So I love pumpkin pie,
Speaker 1: and I wish more people and my family would make
Speaker 1: sweep potato pope. It's it's kind of the same thing,
Speaker 1: you know. It's weird. It's kind of the same thing,
Speaker 1: and it's funny. It depends on what part of the
Speaker 1: country you're from. It depends on like, because black people
Speaker 1: don't make pumpkin pie. They always make sweetpotato pie, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But you know, people in the South,
Speaker 1: I want to say, make more sweet potato pie too,
Speaker 1: and up north it's more pumpkin pie, and more Midwest
Speaker 1: and maybe more pumpkin pie. I tell you what, what
Speaker 1: nobody makes, so I don't think they make I don't
Speaker 1: hear a lot of people making apple pies anymore. You know,
Speaker 1: apple pies seems more like a spring that's not not
Speaker 1: so much. I would agree with that. I feel like
Speaker 1: apple pie has kind of it's kind of fell off.
Speaker 1: It used to be American, you know, it's the most
Speaker 1: American thing that you got. American is apple pie? No,
Speaker 1: you know, peace Kylbers coming there a little bit. What's
Speaker 1: the blueberry Kilbers kind of snuck in there, and then
Speaker 1: everybody loves the cakes and makes cakes. You know, my
Speaker 1: godmother makes a hell of a seven up upside down
Speaker 1: pound cake. Yeah, pound cake. It feels like temper. I'm
Speaker 1: not even playing. I don't know, you know how like
Speaker 1: most of the ways more than fat Man like her
Speaker 1: cakes per square uh inch man, it's like heavy. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like gravel or something that's but it's like
Speaker 1: seven up. They sprinkle seven up and they make the
Speaker 1: inside of the batter. And they asked this like lively
Speaker 1: lemon zessity taste to it. Chat's Patriots, What does that
Speaker 1: mean to you as a player of that rivalry? Because
Speaker 1: before that we always talked about it right here in
Speaker 1: the studio during your first years, is it jet it
Speaker 1: was you came from that monster rivalry, your South Baltimore Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Let's say what The Patriots um rivalry is a little
Speaker 1: different than the than the Stiller's Ravens, because that one
Speaker 1: was always so violent, so physical. This one was more
Speaker 1: about playing chess. It was about what was gonna be
Speaker 1: the game plan and adjusting to it and out executing
Speaker 1: the Patriots and also making the plays and they presents themselves.
Speaker 1: See the Ravens still is just about two cars on
Speaker 1: the track, and there's no Dodge and no fair Didge.
Speaker 1: It's like the tougher, the tougher guy wins. You know,
Speaker 1: the tougher guy usually wins if you can get you know,
Speaker 1: hits on Brady early. But if you're not making the
Speaker 1: plays and making adjustments to their formations or whatever their
Speaker 1: game plan of the week, it's it's tough sledding. So
Speaker 1: it was more of a mental um sparring and physical
Speaker 1: sparring here than it was just a physical and and
Speaker 1: and so Steelers Ravens was a battle made for phone booth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a phone booth fight. That's basically what it was.
Speaker 1: It was like, okay, nobody's stowing jabs. If you're not
Speaker 1: throwing the power punch and you can't you remember Harlem Knights. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you ain't breaking up Zo, you got you break
Speaker 1: up Bazooka. And the smallest thing you bring is a
Speaker 1: twelve game. That's a that's to to a Ravens game.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you when you talk about if
Speaker 1: you want to use that same analogy, you want to
Speaker 1: bring a sniper, you gotta you gotta bring some of
Speaker 1: precision if you want to outthink. Uh, you know Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: he's one of the best to ever do it. You know,
Speaker 1: you hate to get him credit, but you have to
Speaker 1: get credit where credit is due. I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of times when you were the player here that
Speaker 1: the Jets would were ground and pound outfit. Right. You
Speaker 1: think about Thomas Jones, you think of Sean Green, you
Speaker 1: think all those guys. You tried to run the football
Speaker 1: and then defensively they'd approach you. Guys like you said
Speaker 1: with that chess match, and because they did not want
Speaker 1: to and they don't signing respect, is that they didn't
Speaker 1: want to make it a physical context. They want to
Speaker 1: spread your out and then try and get you out
Speaker 1: in space and get somebody to mess up communication. So
Speaker 1: they knew man for man, they really couldn't deal with us,
Speaker 1: and especially you know the few games. I think the
Speaker 1: one or two that we had Chris Jenkins like that
Speaker 1: was game over. You know, if we could have kept
Speaker 1: Chris Jenkins healthy, Yeah, I think that you don't play
Speaker 1: with him much. Do you ever wonder what the defense
Speaker 1: would have been like with the like that? I think
Speaker 1: I would have won two Super Bowls with Chris Jenkins
Speaker 1: because they would he would have ate up a whole
Speaker 1: another person and we would have been able to do
Speaker 1: things that you know that you know, you talk about
Speaker 1: us not really having pass rushers when when he was here,
Speaker 1: but if he was on the field, you gotta put
Speaker 1: two on him. So now you get a lot, a
Speaker 1: lot more one on ones on the outside, and then
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do when we're blitzing on the inside,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna clear everything out for everybody he was.
Speaker 1: He's one of the most dominant forces I've ever been around.
Speaker 1: So when you look back at your career, that's something
Speaker 1: that's opportunity missed. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Could you imagine him,
Speaker 1: you know, can you imagine having him when we went
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh and pushing the pocket on bend. So now
Speaker 1: band can't step up and step out all he has
Speaker 1: he can move out a retreat. He couldn't step up
Speaker 1: with Chris is pushing the pocket and you know, wearing
Speaker 1: pounce y'all that that run game that they tried to have,
Speaker 1: it would have been over with you because now because
Speaker 1: now Pouha is coming in as a rotational guys like
Speaker 1: him and the Vito your your guys coming in fresh
Speaker 1: in the rotation, like I mean, that was one of
Speaker 1: the biggest regrets, you know, not playing with such a
Speaker 1: dominant and he were so strong up the middle because
Speaker 1: behind them, of course, or you and David, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been ever I mean, we always had great run defense,
Speaker 1: but you wouldn't have been ever wrong. And then and
Speaker 1: then Pace, I know he set that in. Yeah he
Speaker 1: was do you Guys in the business always considered him
Speaker 1: the best edge run center in the national football him
Speaker 1: and Jared Johnson the most physical edge setters. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And you then that would have
Speaker 1: just allowed you know, Trevor, how do you block Trevor?
Speaker 1: It would have been over even at his age. How
Speaker 1: would he went back? How would you? How would you block? Yo?
Speaker 1: Sean Ellis, you can't. You can't. You you couldn't because
Speaker 1: now you've got so much problems with him. You talk
Speaker 1: about the best time I guaranteed the combination of Chris Jenkins,
Speaker 1: you know, and I got much respect for Mohammed and
Speaker 1: I got much respect for show that riding. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a different, different type of beast. You know, if
Speaker 1: you had Chris Jenkins and Sean Ellis together. I mean
Speaker 1: that's you know, all you have to do is probably
Speaker 1: looked to the year before I got here and see
Speaker 1: how dominant that was because he was healthy that year.
Speaker 1: And you know, now, Sean Ellis was an angry person.
Speaker 1: He was an angry and no district Like I said,
Speaker 1: no dispect to Mohammed or Sheldon, but they're not angry
Speaker 1: like like Sean Ellis was an angry black man. May
Speaker 1: maybe one of the most angry black man I've ever
Speaker 1: been around. So he played angry, he walked around angry.
Speaker 1: He he was so talented, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You talk about the Jets all time, Lady Patta get
Speaker 1: I mean, now you put him next to its right
Speaker 1: up there obviously Guest and all those other guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. But no, I think he broke those records.
Speaker 1: I thought he was. I think he was. He wasn't
Speaker 1: all time. He was like seventy sacks or something like that, right,
Speaker 1: eight sacks, Yeah, yeah, but he as far as the
Speaker 1: all time, he wasn't like want to top the list,
Speaker 1: but he had a great career at the at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, Like you're saying, because Sean is
Speaker 1: not a guy who said his locker and talked to reporters,
Speaker 1: is that you know he's when when you're talking about
Speaker 1: Jets careers, he's one of the in the history of
Speaker 1: the franchise him. You can say Sean Abraham, but I
Speaker 1: don't know Sean Abraham and John They they don't had
Speaker 1: a long gevity that he had here. He played here
Speaker 1: with thirteen years something like that. And Abe, you're right, Abe,
Speaker 1: obviously they traded to Atlanta, I believe, and they got
Speaker 1: mangled back. Okay, so real quickly, this game itself a
Speaker 1: lot he has been made as far as this we
Speaker 1: tape before Todd Bowls made his starting quarterback decisions. So
Speaker 1: by now you're listening to podcasts at home, I know
Speaker 1: that Todd Bowls has either announced Ryan Fitzpatrick is the
Speaker 1: starter or Price Patty. We're taping right now. He has
Speaker 1: not announced that just yet. If Ryan Fitzpatrick has named
Speaker 1: the starter, than what I mean he's named the starter.
Speaker 1: You know they're they're they're making sure that you know,
Speaker 1: they're not making any decisions until about the future, until
Speaker 1: the president is over. You know, they want to make
Speaker 1: sure that Okay, let's make sure we're not we're mathematically
Speaker 1: still in it, you know, before we make a decision.
Speaker 1: You know, because fitz Patrick, I think, still gives them
Speaker 1: more options. You know, Bryce Petty is the future. You know,
Speaker 1: he could be the future. That's it could be a future.
Speaker 1: You know, there's been a lot of runners going on
Speaker 1: about Tony Romo and all that type of stuff. You know,
Speaker 1: you have to you know, that's that's all season stuff
Speaker 1: right now. You know, you got to make sure that
Speaker 1: you take care of business and you're not done until
Speaker 1: you're done. If Petty starts, and this is something I
Speaker 1: laughed about. A lot of people said, you can't start
Speaker 1: them against the Patriots, and I was always of the
Speaker 1: belief that, hey, listen, he's not playing against Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: If he does get to start type Bowls, is gonna
Speaker 1: make whatever decision he thinks it's best for his team.
Speaker 1: He's out there in the practice field, he knows exactly
Speaker 1: what is gonna put his team in best position to win.
Speaker 1: But if they start Brace Potty against New England, he's
Speaker 1: not playing against Tom Brady, well, you know what it
Speaker 1: is is it's the respect for Bill Belichick and his
Speaker 1: record against rookie quarterbacks. I think the only rookie quarterback
Speaker 1: they ever beating was maybe Ben Roethlisberger and Mark Sanchez,
Speaker 1: you know, so he it's a it's his record out
Speaker 1: there about how he does against rookie um quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: it's not good. So if you hear people saying that
Speaker 1: it's only because of the respect of the stat which
Speaker 1: people take say all the time, it's the status has
Speaker 1: been going around, you know, in the media for I
Speaker 1: believe the last five or six years, right, and listen,
Speaker 1: whoever plays quarterback against young want to be honest with it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be underdog any what what a good thing
Speaker 1: is you don't have to worry about pass rush because
Speaker 1: without Jamie Collins, without Chaneler Jones and uh jabral Share,
Speaker 1: seems like he's um in the dog college. That he
Speaker 1: didn't even travel to San Francisco. That's twenty five sacks
Speaker 1: from last year. And you've been outspoken about that that
Speaker 1: the Patriots have made a number of moves that that
Speaker 1: have impacted their defense. So we'll have to see what happens.
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family will be watching
Speaker 1: out there, say all good