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Speaker 1: In a couple of moments, we're gonna join. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be joined by Jets team MVP from twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: Jamie Surewood. He signed with the Green and White even

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Speaker 1: before free agency kicked off. But Green's your overall thoughts

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Speaker 1: here is the Jets have gotten this thing underway their

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Speaker 1: off season under Darren Mougi and Eron Glenn.

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Speaker 6: I think that they've done a great job so far.

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Speaker 7: I think that Sherwood is a kind of a microcosm

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Speaker 7: of what the Jets want to be. Like Aaron Glenn

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Speaker 7: just I don't know him all too well, but speaking

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Speaker 7: to him in Indianapoli when he was on our live show,

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Speaker 7: he got the sense that he wanted players, hey that

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Speaker 7: want to be here, be that play hard. And I

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Speaker 7: always with Sherwood revert back to the Dolphins game in

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Speaker 7: Miami when he had eighteen tackles. The Jets season had

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Speaker 7: already gone down a path that nobody thought that it

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Speaker 7: was going to go down, and he had his best

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Speaker 7: game of his career. And it just shows like it

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Speaker 7: doesn't matter the day, the time, the record, the place.

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Speaker 6: Jamie sherw was always going to put in the work and.

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Speaker 4: He was rewarded for man.

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Speaker 2: He was ready for his opportunity.

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Speaker 1: He was a fifth round pick out of Auburn back

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and he was a reserve here

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Speaker 1: this first three seasons dealt with the achilles and then

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four when CJ. Mosley, the heartbeat of

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Speaker 1: that defense, the middle linebacker. He went down with the

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Speaker 1: toe injury in Week two and then later sustained, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: the neck injury prior to that game Week seven against

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. He was ready for his moment.

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Speaker 1: And the bottom line here is if Sherwood hit the market,

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Speaker 1: he would have had multiple suitors. Yeah, but Moogi got

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Speaker 1: this done before anybody could take their shot.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's a testament to the job that

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Speaker 7: Darren Moosey did and who and his staff, and.

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Speaker 6: I think what goes overlooked with Jamian Sherwood.

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Speaker 7: Obviously he had a great season last year, not only

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Speaker 7: for the Jets, obviously in the NFL as well considering

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Speaker 7: his tackle numbers. But before that, he was like a

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Speaker 7: special team's ace for the Jets. It's not like he

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Speaker 7: was just a backup who didn't take a lot of reps.

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Speaker 7: He in twenty twenty three took four hundred and twenty

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Speaker 7: snaps on special teams. He's the only player on the

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Speaker 7: team to go over four hundred, and he was essentially

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Speaker 7: one of the core pieces on what was Brent Boyer's

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Speaker 7: unit at the time. And then he gets his opportunity

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Speaker 7: on defense and he doesn't miss a beat and he

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Speaker 7: just steps right in. He gets better every week. And

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Speaker 7: you know, if you're a Jets fan, I think you

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Speaker 7: got to feel good about this. Then there's no way

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Speaker 7: that you can't feel good about it.

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Speaker 1: He's a great culture fit, and he's young, and he

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Speaker 1: loves ball and he was ready for his opportunity, And

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a huge siding because he is

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Speaker 1: the quarterback in the defense, and then the pairing with

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Speaker 1: him and Quincy Williams, that's a really dynamic middle playing

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Speaker 1: behind Quincy's brother, of course, Quinn Williams.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's and it keeps a lot of the defense intact.

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Speaker 7: And for what it's worth, I think the Jets defense

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Speaker 7: has a lot of very talented players and the nucleus

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Speaker 7: of the team with quinnin and Quincy, Jamian Sauce, Michael

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Speaker 7: Carter the second there's a lot of talented pieces Jermaine

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Speaker 7: and Will McDonald that forgot about them. To me, there's

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Speaker 7: no reason why if you're Steve Wilkes, you don't think

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Speaker 7: you can be at least above average, right, Like, the

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Speaker 7: Jets have really good personnel, and I'm interested to see

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Speaker 7: how Steve.

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Speaker 6: Wilkes wants to run his defense through these pieces.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're certainly not on because we're here for he

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Speaker 2: So it's Wednesday, we're taping.

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Speaker 1: Jets are gonna have to do something at defensive tackle.

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Speaker 1: It's been so interesting the movement here throughout the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. Javine kin Law he scored a lucrative deal

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Speaker 1: with the Washington Commanders. And you know what automatically thought

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Speaker 1: when I saw that deal was compensatory picks for the Jets.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, not only does kin Law go,

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Speaker 2: He joins the Dallas Cowboys. Who's their new defensive line coach?

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Speaker 2: It's Aaron White Potton of course.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so smarts on that stuff.

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Speaker 2: There you go and then you go back.

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Speaker 1: You know, so, I don't know if you want to

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Speaker 2: What you do have in place here.

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Speaker 1: Is Sauce Gardner, one of the top young talents at

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Speaker 1: the position at the cornerback position in football. Michael Carter

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Speaker 1: the second who's chomping at the bit to have a

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Speaker 2: But Brandon Stevens could be your new CB two. Because

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Speaker 2: DJ Reed signs with Aaron Glenn's former team in free agency,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Eckles agrees to terms with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He

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Speaker 1: a safety position. We anticipated a lot of movement because

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Speaker 1: the Jets had four safeties heading into free agency.

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Speaker 2: Ashton Davis. Of course, he signs with Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: But the Jets get a free safety in Andre Cisco,

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Speaker 1: a kid who grew up in Queens. Well, he was

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Speaker 2: And he's a rangy athlete.

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Speaker 1: He's just twenty four years old, So Steven's twenty seven

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Speaker 2: Next steps in terms of takeaways.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that the Andre Cisco move along with

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Speaker 7: Stevens won They're both versatile pieces and that's obviously a

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Speaker 7: big piece of this equation for the Jets. Again, my

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Speaker 7: biggest question is really on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 7: With Wilts, I think less so because we have an

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Speaker 7: when you factor him the Justin Fields move and what

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Speaker 7: the Jets have on offense, my biggest question is how

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Speaker 7: similar or dissimilar is it actually gonna look from Detroit's offense,

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Speaker 7: based on personnel, based on what Tanner Engstrand wants to do.

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Speaker 6: We just don't know.

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Speaker 7: Like I think it's easy to say, Okay, well, Tanner

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Speaker 7: Engstram comes from the Ben Johnson scheme in Detroit. I'm

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Speaker 7: just not quite sure how much of a carbon copy

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Speaker 1: I love the Fields edition. I mean, he's twenty six

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Speaker 1: years old, he's a former number eleven overall selection in

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Speaker 1: then he goes to Pittsburgh last year he was four

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Speaker 1: and two as a starter. I think the Jets offense

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Speaker 1: is gonna be predicated on running the football, and again

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Speaker 1: they got away from that last year, did not have

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Speaker 1: But there are pieces here, especially in that backfield with

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Speaker 1: fair question. What is Engstrand, how is he gonna dial

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Speaker 1: do think what you can take away from Detroit is

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Speaker 1: the quarterback is going to be more under center. The

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Speaker 1: Jets are going to try to add some more pieces

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Speaker 1: the playmakers of the ball with some play action. And

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Speaker 1: I really could see the Jets putting in a lot

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Speaker 1: of pressure on defenses with those RPOs and the zone

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Speaker 1: reads if it is indeed Field, So, I mean Tyrod

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Speaker 1: Taller can do that as well. Other guy's got DULs Rutt,

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Speaker 1: but Fields as a guy's averaged more than fifty yards

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Speaker 1: per game on the grounds throughout his career. He had

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Speaker 1: more than a thousand yards a couple of years back

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Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears. And we've seen his development and

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's a finished product. So it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be interesting pairing him up with Inkstrand and Charles London,

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Speaker 1: new quarterback coach.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think also what the Jets have in Taylor and Fields,

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Speaker 7: I think at this point in their career, Fields is

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Speaker 7: probably a stronger runner, just given his age and given

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Speaker 7: that he has the second most rushing yards by quarterback

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Speaker 7: in a single season.

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Speaker 2: In NFL history.

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Speaker 7: Yep, Tyron I don't know if it's fair to say

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Speaker 7: he's probably a little bit more of a polished passer,

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Speaker 7: just as a passer. And he's seen more defenses and

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Speaker 7: he's probably than what Justin Fields has seen.

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Speaker 6: But to me, their skill sets are similar. So what

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Speaker 6: the Jets seem like they're implementing is no matter who

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Speaker 6: starts under center, they're gonna run a similar offense. It's

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Speaker 6: not a case where.

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Speaker 7: This is one offense for this guy and this is

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Speaker 2: Fields is a big dude too.

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Speaker 1: He's sixty three and twenty seven pounds, and Glenn was

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, was calling signals against him of course

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Speaker 1: when Age was in Detroit and Fields was that quarterback

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Speaker 1: pressure does he put on us as a defense, Because

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to defend all eleven players. He becomes

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Speaker 1: a numbers game with Fields back there. So you know,

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Speaker 1: good for him to get this opportunity, and good for

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Speaker 1: the Jets because this is the guy they wanted. And

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Speaker 1: there was a lot of people out there, frankly who

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Speaker 1: said Pittsburgh wanted Fields back.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and he was four and two last year as

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Speaker 7: And yeah, I think what happened in Pittsburgh is just

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Speaker 7: very interesting because we'll never really know, you know, did

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Speaker 7: Justin Fields get benched? Was it just it was always

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Speaker 7: Russell Wilson's job and when he got healthy he came back. Like,

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Speaker 7: we'll never really know the answer, but the facts of

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Speaker 7: the facts, Justin Field's foreign to as a starter. He

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Speaker 7: had a career high completion percentage, a career high passer rating,

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Speaker 7: and he's dynamic with the football when he runs.

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Speaker 2: And he's also gonna be thrown at Garrett Wilson.

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Speaker 1: And I know Pittsburgh had some interesting pieces, a friar

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Speaker 1: moveth at the tight end position, George Pickens, guy can

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Speaker 2: But Field's played.

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Speaker 1: With Garrett Wilson before in Ohio State, so those guys

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Speaker 1: ultimately is gonna be predicated on running the football. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, this does not necessarily mean there's a

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Speaker 1: period that in a sentence at the quarterback position, the

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Speaker 1: We yeah, so we don't know what these guys are

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I think that the Jets will certainly try

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Speaker 7: Right Well, I just think that there's moves to be made,

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Jets are done in safety, but

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Speaker 2: And then speaking of receiver, wide receiver too. I mean,

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Speaker 7: We don't know yet another valid question, and the Jets

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Speaker 7: You know, I think you mentioned linebacker, and a lot

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Speaker 1: It's a great point because Davis Ashton Davis was a

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Speaker 2: So listen, bottom.

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Speaker 6: Line, Dervin Charles is coming off of major injury.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jets aren't Thoon, but again, nobody's celebrating around here.

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Speaker 1: But I thought it was huge to get Fields because

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Speaker 8: What was it like when you're putting pen to paper?

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Speaker 9: It still doesn't feel real, but obviously it's an accomplishment.

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Speaker 9: Like I've said before, you know, my high school coach

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Speaker 9: you know, it's just crazy. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 9: you know, things like this, it's something you dream.

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Speaker 9: You know, getting the opportunity to take care of your family,

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Speaker 8: All right, people aren't seeing this who are watching right now?

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Speaker 8: But your mom is here? Why did you bring her

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Speaker 9: Because she's been there since day one, the first second

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Speaker 3: She's been there.

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Speaker 9: So I wouldn't be right not to share this moment

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Speaker 9: she's got the same message, you know, keep going no

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Speaker 9: just tells me like, you know what to do, you

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Speaker 1: What was that conversation like when you told her that, hey,

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Speaker 3: Screaming, Yeah, excitement and yeah that is it.

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Speaker 8: Okay, So season nine and January sixth, like we were

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Speaker 8: just talking about what was your mindset heading into this offseason,

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Speaker 1: You had an expiring contract and you were coming off

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Speaker 9: Year, praying that I got to stay here. Obviously, you know,

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Speaker 9: But again, like the relationships I built with everybody in

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Speaker 3: Me to go somewhere else. You know.

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Speaker 9: This is where I've made a home and this is

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Speaker 1: What were those hours like when he saw Bolton re

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Speaker 9: I wish this happened in January seventh. But you know,

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Speaker 9: I can't watch what other people do, obviously, you see it.

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Speaker 9: Everybody is different, you know, they had a different career

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Speaker 3: You know. All I can do is.

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Speaker 9: Go out there, play to my best ability, make everybody

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Speaker 3: Speaking a boy my mom, you know, we talked about it.

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Speaker 9: You know, we actually had a number in our head,

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Speaker 3: I did and it happened.

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Speaker 1: Have you seen money change people before? And also how

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Speaker 9: I mean, I wouldn't say like I've seen it change people.

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Speaker 9: I wouldn't say it had changed me, you know, but

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Speaker 3: I will say it's going to change my family's lives

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Speaker 9: That was the main thing about getting something like this,

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Speaker 1: So what were your interactions like with Aaron Glenn, Steve Wilkes.

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Speaker 3: Was a place.

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Speaker 1: You're a great athlete, but you love the cerebral aspects

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Speaker 8: Can you speak to how much you love.

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Speaker 9: Well again, making the transition from safety to linebacker. You know,

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Speaker 9: once the offense breaks the huddle, if you can already

442
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,679
Speaker 9: at least eliminate the things that they're not gonna do,

443
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 9: that's just gonna put you one step forward. So I

444
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 9: spend a lot of time just studying just so I

445
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 9: can get that one step ahead, get that one inch

446
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,720
Speaker 9: on the offense. Because the game is, the game of

447
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 9: football is all about inches. So again, me just understanding

448
00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 9: where they're not gonna run the ball, where they're not

449
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 9: gonna throw the ball, It's gonna put me in a

450
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 9: better position. It's gonna put my teammates in a better position.

451
00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,880
Speaker 9: From a communications standpoint, y'all can just play.

452
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 3: As fast as possible.

453
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 4: Mike linebacker, you consider that the quarterback of the defense.

454
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, without the mic linebacker, I mean, it could

455
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 9: really be any position. But in our defense, the mic

456
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 9: does make the communication. So without him, the other ten

457
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 9: players won't be able to get the call. He is

458
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 9: the one with the green dot. So the defensive coordinators

459
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 9: is telling me at the end of the day, or

460
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,399
Speaker 9: telling who's ever wearing that?

461
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:28,240
Speaker 3: So he is a quarterback.

462
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Speaker 1: Were you naturally a vocal guy or did that come

463
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 1: with time in terms of, hey, listen, everybody's looking at

464
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: me and I'm going to take command here.

465
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Speaker 3: No, I wasn't in college. I doesn't speak at all.

466
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Speaker 9: And then some of my coaches, you know, they got

467
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 9: it out me, yelling at me to just be louder.

468
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,000
Speaker 9: And then like I sat there and just said, you know,

469
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 9: like if I just speak a little louder, they stop

470
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 9: yelling at me. So ultimately that led and translated to

471
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,640
Speaker 9: the NFL. And then again as I gained more confidence

472
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 9: and got more comfortable around my teammates to helped me

473
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 9: become a better leader and a more vocal leader and

474
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 9: stuff like that. So again, just going out there on Sundays.

475
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 9: It just became like us just hanging out in the

476
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 9: locker room, us just being out of practice in the

477
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 9: meeting room, just me being able to say whatever I

478
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,920
Speaker 9: want to say respectfully to my teammates and ultimately helping

479
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 9: us try to get the job done.

480
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Speaker 4: What is CJ mostly meant to?

481
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:24,880
Speaker 3: For everything?

482
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,639
Speaker 9: I'll say, you know, God makes no mistakes in anything

483
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 9: that he does, and the people that he.

484
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 3: Makes you cross paths with, he does it for a reason. CJ.

485
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 9: You know, from the moment I got in here, you know,

486
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 9: I was nervous to just speak to CJ just because

487
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 9: of CJ. Like I used to play the video game

488
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,040
Speaker 9: and he was on there. He also went to the

489
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 9: rival school of my college, so it was like, I

490
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 9: don't know if we're gonna be friends. I don't know

491
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 9: how serious the rival is to him. But you know,

492
00:23:56,080 --> 00:24:00,480
Speaker 9: he's just been great every day he's here. He just

493
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 9: answers every question that we have for him, no matter

494
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 9: who asked, no matter when. You know, I could text

495
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 9: him right now, he'll answer a question that I have.

496
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 3: And he's just been amazing.

497
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 9: Like you know, he put his arm around me, and

498
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 9: you know, basically you just said, we're going to do

499
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 9: it together, and you know, I always appreciate him, and

500
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 9: without him and other guys in that room, you know,

501
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 9: this moment, this opportunity, wouldn't be possible.

502
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: You don't have the team success that you guys wanted

503
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: last year on the field, of course, finishing five to twelve,

504
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 1: But can you speak to the individual steps that you

505
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: took along the way in twenty twenty four that led

506
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Speaker 1: you to being Team MVP voted by the guys in

507
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Speaker 1: the room.

508
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Speaker 9: I'll just say basically again, just still on CJ. You know,

509
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 9: obviously when he went down, I was devastating to our room,

510
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 9: to our defense, to our team because you know, he's

511
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 9: our captain, he's our leader. So for me to have

512
00:24:55,280 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 9: to basically fill in that spot take tremendous pride with

513
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,200
Speaker 9: it because.

514
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 3: Not only did I have to.

515
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 9: Play to his standard, to his level of expertise, I

516
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 9: had to be the one to get our defense set.

517
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 9: We didn't come up the way we wanted to this season,

518
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,880
Speaker 9: like you said, but again, just taking on that leadership

519
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 9: role was the main thing.

520
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 3: Regardless of the.

521
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,959
Speaker 9: Accolades, the stats, you know that all came with just

522
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,359
Speaker 9: me being a player of the game and studying stuff.

523
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 9: But I say, like, really everything came because of how

524
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 9: comfortable I am around my teammates, the respect that they

525
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 9: had for me to come in and feel in for him.

526
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 9: So without them, none of that would be possible, because

527
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 9: I could have just gone out there and if I

528
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 9: didn't feel the love from them, I wouldn't have been

529
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 9: able to play the way I would have liked. To

530
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 9: the fact that they embraced me stepping in and you know,

531
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,719
Speaker 9: they believed in me, that was everything for me, and

532
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,200
Speaker 9: everything else just happened.

533
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Speaker 1: Were there games that you would say that you were

534
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,000
Speaker 1: in a zone, Maybe it's a Miami where you have

535
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: eighteen tackles. I think there were six or seven games

536
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: where you attend plus tackles where you're just like, whatever

537
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: play is out there on the field, I'm gonna be there.

538
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure somebody's going down.

539
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,439
Speaker 9: Well, you know, every game, you know, I had to

540
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 9: have that mindset because you know, I'm playing next to

541
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,639
Speaker 9: Quincy Williams. You know, he's the fastest dude on the field,

542
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 9: so it's like, if I don't get there, he's gonna

543
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 9: get there. And again, that's the type of respect you

544
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 9: want to have for a player you're playing next to,

545
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 9: because when the game's not funny anymore, you're not gonna

546
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,959
Speaker 9: you're not gonna love it. So the fact that like

547
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 9: he's my brother and I can go out there and

548
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 9: compete with him, and like, you know, it's like nah,

549
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 9: because I want to be better than you, because we're

550
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 9: trying to make each other better. Uh, that's what basically

551
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 9: would put me in the zone. Like I'm playing next to.

552
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 3: An All pro player. I got to play up to

553
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 3: his standard.

554
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 9: I got to play to the standard that he created.

555
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, how much do you enjoy it? The cat

556
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: and mouse game that happens out there on the field.

557
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 1: Brian Baldinger just did a breakdown to you, And there's

558
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: plays where you're faking coming under pressure and then you're

559
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: turned around reeling back in coverage because you see that

560
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:20,120
Speaker 1: oftentimes where you're saying you're showing something but you're going

561
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: somewhere else.

562
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 9: Well, you got some amazing quarterbacks on the other side

563
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 9: of the ball, guys in our division and across the league.

564
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 9: So having a guy like Air in the past couple

565
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 9: of years playing across from him, he taught me so much.

566
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 3: Taught me where to look.

567
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 9: Where to be at, how quarterback's eyes can control us,

568
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 9: and basically how a quarterback knows what we're taught to

569
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 9: do and they're going against our rules. So being able

570
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 9: to disguise and be able to drop back and come

571
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 9: forward and side to side, you know, all that stuff

572
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 9: matters because again, those guys get paid to Those guys

573
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 9: are just as smart as me, if not smart, So

574
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,240
Speaker 9: trying to figure out ways to outsmart them to put

575
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 9: myself in a position to make a play. Again, like

576
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 9: I said earlier, it's a game of inches, so finding

577
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 9: that one little inch to be successful, It all matters.

578
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: Do you have expectations for yourself coming out of Auburn

579
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: twenty one?

580
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 9: I mean, obviously to just keep getting better. You know,

581
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 9: when I heard I was going to be transitioned to linebacker,

582
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 9: at first, you know, I was a little bummed because

583
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 9: you know, I had worked my whole life, my whole

584
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 9: high school career, trying to be a safety in college

585
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 9: playing safety. But my only goal was, you know, just

586
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 9: go like this is something I worked for. So regardless

587
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 9: of what happened, I wasn't gonna let it beat beat

588
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 9: me down. You know, I was just gonna get up

589
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,239
Speaker 9: every time and do what I had to do. At

590
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 9: the end of the day, did I know what I

591
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 9: was getting myself into?

592
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: Not at all.

593
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 9: But again, I had made it to the NFL for

594
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 9: a reason, you know. I know God didn't bring me

595
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 9: this fars just to bring me that far, and I

596
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 9: knew there was there was more on the table for myself.

597
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: How are you absorbing the rest of what the Jets

598
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: are doing in free agency right now? You've got a

599
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: couple of new teammates and the defensive side of the

600
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: ball and Brandon Stevens and Andre Cisco of course.

601
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 9: So thinking about Andre Cisco is we graduated high school

602
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 9: at the same time. So like I've seen that, I've

603
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 9: seen his name everywhere. You know, he's a phenomenal player,

604
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 9: just watching him throughout college as Sarah ques Uh, He's

605
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 9: a ball hall, you know, he makes plays all across

606
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 9: the field. So I'm excited to play with a guy

607
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 9: like that. Brandon Stevens, I'm excited for him and his family.

608
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 9: You know, he's helped change his family, his lives for

609
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 9: the rest of the rest of the time. And again

610
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 9: just going forward to everybody else after just meeting with everybody,

611
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 9: Darren ag You know they love ball, so I know they're.

612
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 3: Gonna find guys that love ball.

613
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 9: And I'm just excited to play with everybody, build more relationships,

614
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 9: make friendships and doing stuff in the city, just everything.

615
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: So let me ask you how much pressure does a

616
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: quarterback like Justin Fields put on a defense a lot?

617
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 9: You know, he can run, he can throw the same thing.

618
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 9: He graduated twenty eighteen, just like us. You know, I

619
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 9: watched him when he was at Georgia and then he

620
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 9: went to Ohio State, and then I've watched him throughout

621
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 9: his career in the league. You know, he's gonna make

622
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 9: us better at practice. You know we need something like that.

623
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 9: And he's gonna make defenses worry because it's like, you

624
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 9: don't know if he's gonna run it, you don't know

625
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 9: if he's gonna throw it.

626
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 3: You don't know what you're gonna get at him.

627
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 9: So I'm excited to play with him, you know, happy

628
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 9: for him and his family as well.

629
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 1: How difficult is that to defend those rbo it's his

630
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: own reads, and on top of it, this is a

631
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: big dude who's got an explosive arm.

632
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 9: It's hard because the moment you turn your back and

633
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 9: you're in coverage and stuff, and you're thirty yards downfield

634
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 9: and it's like third and long. You're hoping to get

635
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,719
Speaker 9: off the field, and the guy like that just runs

636
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 9: and it's first down again, and now you're on the field.

637
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 9: So it can be demoralizing to a defense. And that's

638
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 9: what he's gonna do for us. He's gonna help break

639
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 9: defenses down, and our defense is gonna get on the field,

640
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 9: do what we gotta do, and we'll get some wins.

641
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 4: You've played here for seasons.

642
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 1: How hungry are you to turn this thing around and

643
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: be a part of it now? Because you know you're

644
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: not going anywhere else. Your interest could be one Jets

645
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: drive for a while.

646
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,280
Speaker 3: Oh forever, I hope. But that was the main thing

647
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 3: about me coming back here.

648
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 9: You know, I wanted to since I started here and

649
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 9: it hasn't gone the way that I've wanted that everyone

650
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 9: else is wanted. I want to help be a part

651
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 9: of the reason it does turn around again. Like the

652
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 9: guys we're getting now, the guys that we have on

653
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 9: the team, I want us all to be smiling, hosting

654
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 9: a trophy, having celebrations and parades in the city, you know,

655
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 9: I feel like every man and every woman in this

656
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 9: building deserves that because you know, it hasn't been the

657
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 9: best of the last few years. And again it would

658
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 9: have hurt me to go somewhere else and to see

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Speaker 9: the success that the Jets are gonna have in twenty five.

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Speaker 3: So I wanted nothing but to be a part of that.

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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot more forty fours

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Speaker 1: at Les Stadium the next season.

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Speaker 4: What's your message to the fame since we move ahead.

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Speaker 9: No matter what jersey you have on, you know, just

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Speaker 9: continue to show up and show out again. Like I

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Speaker 9: said before, it's not gonna the sun isn't gonna shine

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Speaker 9: every day, but it also isn't gonna rain every day.

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Speaker 9: As long as you just stick with us and they

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Speaker 9: support us, you know, ultimately that's all you need. Good foundation,

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Speaker 9: good fans, and just like a good like just someone

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Speaker 9: like a shoulder the li on. Basically, like I said,

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Speaker 9: like when it's raining, still stick beside us.

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Speaker 3: And when it's shine and stick beside us. And ultimately,

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Speaker 3: you know, come January next year, we're all gonna be happy.

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Speaker 1: Well, the sun doesn't shine every day, but the sun

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Speaker 1: certainly is shining today Jamie Sure with Congressman.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Mhm m hm hm