WEBVTT - Analyst Leger Douzable Evaluates the Green & White's Free Agency Acquisitions 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.320 Welcome into the Official Jets Podcast. 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.720 I Eat, Breathe, and Sleep the New York Jets. 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.800 My team that is a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:08.600 That's hard to do. 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:11.200 It's a game of inches, so finding that one little 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:12.320 inch to be successful. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:13.160 It all managed. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.639 The Official Jets Podcast is presented by Kendra Scott, the 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.080 jewelry company that's shining bright and doing good shop game 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.120 Day ready, jewelry styles and so much more at kendrascott 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:23.959 dot com. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.520 Welcome into the Official Jets Podcast. Eric Allen here inside 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.920 the studio, joined by Lejane Dudesable Dudes. Were about a 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.360 week into free agency. The Jets have been very active 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:41.680 on multiple fronts. Your overall thoughts thirty thousand foot field. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.559 Yeah, I think there's a thing when you look at 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.760 a lot of the players that the Jets picked up 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.960 in free agency, the main theme being all of these 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.000 guys a running thirty years old, and then when you 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.440 look at a couple of these guys, they're coming on 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.840 I don't want to say down years, but not as 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.640 productive as the twenty three years. So when you look 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:04.800 at Aaron Glenn and his past and developing players, they 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.240 looked at guys that have high upside, that are still 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.920 very young, that probably still have their best football in 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.440 front of him. So I think the Jets were very 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.520 strategic going into this free agency, making sure they targeted 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.560 certain players that were not over thirty years old, even 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.840 a guy like Derek Nadi. And I know we're going 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.680 to go into each players specifically, but this guy has 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.559 been a starter for majority of his career, didn't start 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.639 last year, but still can play at a high level 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.319 and it's still not thirty years old. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:32.959 So I think I. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.080 Don't want to use the word reclamation projects, but essentially 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.280 that's what ag and Darren Mooji did right. They went 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.559 and got some of these younger players that are coming 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.120 off years that weren't weren't their greatest years in the NFL, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.640 but still a lot of upside to him. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.800 Do you think that speaks to the confidence that Aaron 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.760 not only has in himself but his staff that we're 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.760 going to be able to take some of these guys 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.920 who might have struggled most recently and we're going to 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:03.680 develop them in house. And then the other side of 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.520 the coin of that is, hey, if these guys don't 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.119 come along, a lot of these deals do is our team. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.360 Frontly without a doubt, and I think they structured those 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:14.960 deals where they can get out of a lot of 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:17.040 these deals. A lot of them are one year deals, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.880 but a couple of the deals they can get out 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:19.959 in one or two years. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.040 So I think it was smart by this staff. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.320 And also, like you said, to speak to the confidence 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.800 of Aaron Glenn and his developmental skills. The thing is 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.520 when you're watching players and then you see it done 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.320 correctly on tape one time, that means they can do 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:33.760 it again. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.800 And I think that's what Aaron Glenn is thinking. 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.680 That there's so much that goes into a player his 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.200 psyche going into a contract year, and a lot of 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.720 times players are so worried about playing their best football 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.680 that they play a little tight and that could have 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.480 been an issue. I mean, Andre Cisco, I know we're 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.080 talking about him later, but that whole secondary struggle in 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.000 Jacksonville that could be not just on him, it could 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.440 be schematic wise what they were asking him to do. 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.119 So AG looks at the twenty three tape and says, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.679 this guy was unbelieved. Let's get him on our team. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.480 He's also a local kid, I believe from Long Island. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.959 So it's gonna mean something for him to come back 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.120 to the Jets, and I believe I can get him 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.800 back to that player that he was in twenty twenty three. 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.360 All Right, who are the Jets getting in Justin fields 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.720 Sky went four and two as a starter last year 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.960 in Pittsburgh. A lot of the media reports are the 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.120 Steelers wanted him back instead. He said, you know what, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.079 I'm going to the Jets again. He's coming off the 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.639 season where he started those first six games Russell was injured. 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:35.200 He ten touchdowns, ten total touchdowns, five on the ground, 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.320 five passing touchdowns. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.080 He turned it over just twice and. 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.800 That was the biggest thing, him protecting the football because 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.120 that was the issue when he was a younger quarterback. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.040 And the crazy thing is, I say a younger quarterback, 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:50.040 This guy literally just turned twenty five years old and 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.600 he's been in the league it seems like forever already. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.200 So this is a young guy with a lot of upside. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.720 You talked about him taking the Steelers to a four 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.000 and two record in the beginning of last year. We 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.040 know how dynamic he is with his legs in the 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.600 open field, and what people don't talk about enough is 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.200 how physical he is. When he becomes a runner, he's 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.360 extremely hard to bring down. So you always hear the 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.360 terminology plus one in a run game. That's what Justin 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.279 Fields gives you. But don't get a toiche. And this 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.479 guy can throw the pill. Let's not forget. DJ Moore's 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.440 best career year was with Justin Fields, not all the 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.040 other quarterbacks he played with. It was with Justin Fields, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.160 so he can definitely throw the ball down the field. 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:31.440 I think also with Derrick Mujie and also ag they 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.919 looked at this and said, he's got some synergy and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.479 some continuity with our number one receiver, right because he 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.880 played with Garrett Wilson in college. He played with Germany 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.240 Record in college. And oh, by the way, we signed 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.120 his center and Josh Myers to bring him along as well. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.080 So he's gonna have some familiar faces on this team 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.680 where he feels comfortable, knows he's going to be the 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.640 starter from day one, and we're praying and hoping that 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.360 we can continue to develop this guy and maybe there's 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.840 a potential for him to be the long term franchise 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.120 quarterback for the New York Jets. And I think that's 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.000 what Justin Fields was looking at and why he decided 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.800 to sign with the New York just because he knows 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.680 there's an opportunity if he shows right that he could 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.920 potentially be the quarterback of the future. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.039 Six three eight to one hundred and twenty seven pounds, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.479 he just turned twenty six years old, and he's coming 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.600 off a year in Pittsburgh where he set career highs 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.640 in terms of completion percentage and passer rating. What do 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.920 you think about his fit in the system now? Tanner 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.479 Engstrom has not called to play. We know that he's 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.680 a passing game coordinator with the Lions, but just looking 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:40.000 at the personnel, and I really liked the explosive element 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:45.560 potentially offensively when you got Fields taking snaps under center, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:47.720 you got Breise Hall behind you, and then you got 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:51.560 Karrent Wilson is your number one receiver. Those guys all 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.640 can take a ball and go fifty plus to dolls. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:57.120 Yeah, without a doubt. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.880 And it'll be interesting to see Tanner Einstring put it 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:00.960 handprint on this. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.960 Offense and what will that exactly exactly look like. 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.480 We don't know because to your point, Yay, he hasn't 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:11.400 called games right from the offensive quarters. Or offensive coordinator standpoint. Now, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.720 I did love the signing of Scott Turner to help 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:15.760 him out. He's a guy who's called a lot of 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.440 players as his time as an offensive coordinator and been 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.480 a coach on the offensive side. So I think those 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.360 two will come together to have an offense Taylor to 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.000 Justin Field's skill set. Could we see more rpo right 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.800 with Justin Fields because that's an element of his game 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.400 that separates him from a lot of other quarterbacks. And 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.760 also when you talk about the subsequent pieces on the 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.320 outside of Garrett Wilson, but then also in the backfield 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.280 of Bresaw, you have to talk about this young offensive line. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.040 Let's not forget tennor ingstring. Where'd he come from the 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.000 Detroit Lions. What do they want to do there? Run 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.280 the football? You don't think he's gonna want to run 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.240 the football with this young offensive line the Jets have, 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:55.400 right when. 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.279 You look at the youth of this. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.800 Offensive line from the Jets, besides it's John Simpson and 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.559 everybody else is essentially the starters on rookie deals. Now 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.160 there is a needed right tackle and that could potentially 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.720 happen in the draft or there's still some free agents 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.040 out there as well. But when you talk about a young, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.880 hungry offensive line, right gelling together, they are going to 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.960 want to run the ball where Breese Hall to take 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.400 some pressure off Justin Fields. And let's not forget we 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.800 talked about it earlier. EA, Justin Fields is going to 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.480 be part of the run game, right, He's gonna be 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.040 plus one in the run game as well. So I'm 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:32.040 excited to see what tenner Ingstring does with this offense 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.440 when he puts his handprint on it. What will be 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.600 the philosophy for this offensive and what will its identity be. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:39.920 I can't wait to see that. 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:40.400 Man. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.560 This whole podcast could be on Justin Fields. But let's 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.160 stay here for a second. You played defensive line in 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.000 the National Football League for more than ten years. What 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.360 kind of pressure does a guy like Fields point on 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:58.560 the defense that front seven? Because you mentioned RPOs, the 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.200 zone reads, the runs and then also just making a 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.760 second play with his feet. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.520 When things break down and there's nobody open, and you 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.200 could have the perfect defensive call. EA, with a guy 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.080 like Justin feels it doesn't matter because he can break 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:19.080 down the perfect play with his mobility. And I talked 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.800 about his strength like it's hard to bring him down 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.040 because you talked about a sixty three two hundred and 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.960 twenty seven pounds, Like that's a big running back in 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.280 the league, right, So, like that's tough to bring down 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.720 in the open field. And then when you have him 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.840 in the open space and he's able to break contain 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.360 when a defensive line doesn't have pass rush lane responsibility, 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.720 Now you're talking about him one on one with his 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.359 dynamic ability, with his mobility and speed on a linebacker, 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.520 he's gonna win that ten out of ten times because 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:50.640 that's how dynamic he is with it legs. 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.880 So it puts so much stress on a. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.760 Defensive line because you want to be aggressive when you 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.480 rush the passer, but you gotta be smart too, because 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.959 if you're too aggressive and you end up having a 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.079 big open a gap because both the tackles decided to 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:05.959 run on the rush on the outside of the guard 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.440 and now there's a gaping hole. Not only is it 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.640 a passing lane for him, but he could keep the 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.160 ball and run in that a gap and pick up 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.760 first downs. We saw that multiple times last year with 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.640 the Pittsburgh Shielders, more specifically on third down. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.040 You got to think about this right. 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.640 This is a defensive minded coaching Aaron Glynn, and he 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.320 knows what the skill set that Justin Fields has. He 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.840 could just keep the offense on the field by scampering 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.480 and picking up some first downs with his legs. He 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.800 wants to be able to control the ball and play 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.200 good defense. And with a mobile quarterback like Justin Fields, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.200 that's why it's so tough for defenses to scheme against. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.920 This is a hell of an opportunity for Fields. Where 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.640 does he have to get better? When you watch the 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.480 film and say, okay, listen, he's shown glimpses. He's the 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.400 former number eleven overall picking the draft back in twenty 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.800 twenty one. He had a strength there a couple of 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.080 years ago with the Chicago Bears, where he became the 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.319 second player in NFL history to have one at least 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:07.200 one rush touchdout and one pass touchdown in five consecutive games. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.800 The only other players done that is Kyler Murray in 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.920 twenty twenty. Where does he have to get Butterfields? 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:13.920 Yeah? 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:15.600 So you go back to last year when they're four 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.760 and two and Mike Tomlin makes a tough decision to 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.000 go with Russell Wilson. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.520 It was because the lack of the deep passing game. 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.080 Now we talked about EA, He's gotten better every single 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.280 year when it comes to completion percentage, but the accuracy 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.079 down the field when you want to try to get 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.920 some of those explosive plays to keep that safety out 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.359 out of the box so you can run the ball effectively, 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.560 that's where he has to take his game to the 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.480 next level. I saw him grow in progressions right going 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.520 through his progressions last year. He got extremely better than that, 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.080 better than he was his first couple of years in 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.280 the league because it used to be the first red 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.480 wasn't there was a tuck and run. But you saw 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.880 him last year get to his first, second and third 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.440 read and get the ball out of his hands. Now 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.520 he has to put it all together and be able 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.679 to throw the ball down the field and complete some 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:03.080 of those big passes down the field. Again, tanner Anstrom 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.160 comes from the Troy Lions. They're gonna want to run 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.880 the football, but the way to get that extra safety 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.120 out of the box, you gott to threaten the ball 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.880 down the field and the team has. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.720 The respect that you can make that throw down the field. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.720 So that's where Justin Phields has to continue to grow 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:19.640 as a player from the quarterback position. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.440 It's the accuracy on the downfield throwing. 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.720 I'm watching the emphasis in this attack on the play 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.719 action game is gonna help fields. 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.000 It's gonna be monumental. Right, we talked about this young 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.400 offensive line. John Simpson is a guy that will rip 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.559 your face mask off as well. Now again, well is 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.079 to be determined who potentially is the right tackle. I 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.720 know me and u EA have been through some scenarios. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.000 Could Josh Meyers slide into center, Could Joe Tipman move 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.840 to guard? Could Avt go back to right tackle. I 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:52.760 think all that is up to be determined, just depending 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.840 on what to just do for the rest of free agency, 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.320 because I know it seems like it's been a month, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.440 but to your point, yea, it hasn't even been a 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.680 week of free agency yet, Like there's still a lot 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.360 of good players out there to play. And I know 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.240 people getting enamored with the opening day when the new 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.800 league year starts or the tampering period starts, because everybody's. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.720 Like, why isn't this team doing this? Why aren't they 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:14.199 doing that? 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.920 We're not even a weekend to free agency. There's a 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.480 couple of waves and tiers of free agency. There's that 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.720 initial wave, then there's the second wave, then there's a 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.000 quick small wave right before the draft, and then after 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.760 the draft there's another wave for free agency where teams 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.960 didn't get to pick certain players that they wanted to 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.719 fill out the roster. That's that last wave before it's 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.079 training camp. So we're still a long way away from 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.440 determining what this team will look like, uh, because of 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.679 the personnel, and the Jets still have a lot of 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.000 pieces to add as well. 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.400 So you talked about the play action pass game. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.199 It's going to be monumental, right, but you have to 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.560 be able to establish a run to have an effective 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.760 play action pass game, and I know that's something that 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.720 Tanner andstring is going to want to establish with the 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:58.480 New York Jets. 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:01.840 All right, let's jump around off Tyler Johnson, the receiver 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.599 who most recently played with the Rams. He signs a 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.760 free agency as does Stone Smart coming over from the Chargers. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.880 So both those guys making the trip from the West 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.319 coast to the northeast. 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:20.160 Can you tell me about their potential fits? 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.160 Yeah, Stone Smart, I love that pick. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.839 I don't know if anybody follows me on Twitter, I 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.400 went to Twitter right away, it was like, that's an 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.439 amazing pick. A little bit surprised the Chargers didn't tender 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.920 him because he was a restricted free agent, a massive 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.680 human being, right, and he's able to go get the 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.400 ball in the red zone. He really came on strong 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.120 at the end of the year when they had some 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.599 injuries to the tight end position. So again, was a 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.040 little bit surprised they didn't tender him. But I love 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.800 this pickup because I believe he can be a weapon 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.520 down the scene for justin fields and also be a 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.720 weapon in the red zone going up in high pointing 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.280 and going to get the football. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.559 He's an athletic tight end. 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.560 Really loved that signing because it wasn't like it was 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.720 a as far as findingly, it wasn't a massive signing 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.120 for the Jets. But again, when you look at roster 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.640 construction and roster makeup, you need guys like Stone Smart 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.360 to have a good football team. And then Tyler Johnson 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.240 is a guy that's kind of been steady at he 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.840 was with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the Rams, and 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.000 it's just weird when you look at his game, he 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:18.959 ate there's always. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:19.520 Like one or two games. 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.480 He just explodes on the scene and he had that 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.360 last year with the Los Angeles Rams as well, So 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.720 he'll be a guy that's probably mixing it up for 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.120 that number three, four and five spot at the receiver position. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.040 He will also give you some help on special teams 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:32.440 as well. 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.440 He was a standout receiver at Minnesota. You mentioned that 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.080 Tampa Bay drafted him. He got some time last year 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.160 with the Rams after the previous season. I think most 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.040 of the year he spent on their practice squad. But 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.840 you mentioned Swart and his ability to get down the field. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.239 You're seeing an emphasis of speed here. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.480 Of what Aaron Gladd and Darren Muji wants to do 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.479 here to put pressure. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.040 On the defenses. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.400 And I'm not saying any of these guys are in 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:05.280 the category of Jameson Williams or Gibbs. But when you 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.560 think of Wilson and we talked about this before, and 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.760 you think about Greece Hall, those are guys who can 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.920 put a lot of stress on the defense and then 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.120 smart when you use them in packages. You have to 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.320 account for his vertical ability. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:21.800 Yeah, without a doubt. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.280 And again I think his athletic ability and ability to get. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:25.720 Down the seam. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.160 I think the Chargers realized, like, this guy can play 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.000 some ball, Like, let's start getting into him. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:31.640 I'm not mistaken. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.280 I think it was Will Disley that kind of got 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.240 banged up for them towards the end of the year, 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.560 and that's when Stone Smart really stepped up for them. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.160 So again, a very young player was supposed to be 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.640 a restricted free agent. They didn't tender him, so he 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.320 became a free agent. A little bit surprised the Chargers 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.160 didn't try to bring him back, and they may have, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.800 but maybe he decided he just wanted a fresh start 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.480 somewhere else. So I like that pick up a lot again. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.200 He came another young player that came on strong late 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.760 last year. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.520 The Official Jets Podcast is presented by Kendra Scott Company 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.520 that's shining bright and doing good shop game day ready, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.680 jewelry styles and so much more at kendriscott dot com. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.600 What do you make about the moves up front? 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:10.800 The Jets like their young centaer Joe Tipman A g 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.760 called him out Indianapolis, but you're bringing a guy Myers, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.040 Josh Myers, who not only snapped the ball to justin 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.000 fields of Ohio State, he's got a lot of starting 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.960 experience the previous four seasons at the pivot for the 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.720 Green Bay Packers, and. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:25.840 How about a corps four. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.160 He's a guy who played one week with the Patriots 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.040 last year. We don't know the full story, but previously 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.920 he was a starter for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.960 got to think that he's looking at this as an 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.360 opportunity to either compete at the right tackle position or 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:43.200 at the very least. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.200 Dudes, maybe he's a swing tack layer. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:46.760 Yeah. 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:51.040 Yeah, I go back to what their Mouji and also 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.480 ag have kind of targeted when it comes to this 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:54.440 free agent class. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.880 Right Oka four, We'll start with him. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.960 You talked about it was a constant starter for the 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.840 Pittsburgh Steelers and honestly thought he had a chance to be, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.880 you know, the starter of day one in New England. Now, 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.879 again we don't know the story and why it didn't 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.440 work out there, but it goes back to the theme 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.080 of kind of like reclamation project, like a guy that 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.760 had a decent or pretty good twenty three season, but 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.080 not a good twenty four season. 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:15.800 And you talked about it. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.119 Josh Myers was essentially a four year starter for the 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.960 Green Bay Packers, but he's coming off a down year. 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.280 Wasn't one of his best years in protection as well. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.040 And I talked about the psyche of going into free agency. 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.760 Sometimes players just play a little tight. You don't know 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.800 what they're doing schematically or what they're asking him to do. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.800 Was he maybe banged up last year as well and 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.639 wanted to fight through some things because he was going 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:36.520 to be a free agent. 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:37.760 You just never know that. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.960 But for what the Jets signed him for, I think 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.879 that's a home run pick one because again you talked 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.040 about it, the continuity and synergy has with Justin Fields 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.680 having a stat for him at Ohio State, and when 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.760 you go back to his twenty three and twenty two tape, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.720 it was really good, like he was being considered as 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.520