WEBVTT - EA Podcast Episode 2: Featuring Chad Pennington 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.000 Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.160 the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away? 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.000 All right, thanks fits well. For the first time in 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.640 two thousand and sixteen, our quarterback returns here to the 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:19.400 Jets Podcast network, and that, of course is Chad Pennington. Chad, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.759 so excited to have you back for another year. Listen. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.080 Unfortunately we're gonna have to start on a little bit 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.040 of a sour note. There is no joy in Jetsville 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.000 right now. Is the Green and White fall to fall? 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.120 Uh in their season opener three to twenty two to 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.839 the Cincinnati Bengals. Chad, what were your takeaways of that 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:47.080 ball game as you process the film? Well, Eric, first 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.640 of all, and great to be back for another uh 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.680 season of Jeff foot ball. And uh, you know, watching 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.279 the game, Uh, you feel good about some things, and 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.639 then you don't feel good about some things. And that's 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:00.440 kind of how the game went and why it was 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.200 three to twenty two at the end and not in 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.600 the Jets favor. So when you look at the film, 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.080 I think you say, while there's there's some really good 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.440 things on film that the Jets can build upon, there's 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.720 there's some great things that happened with the defensive line, 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.199 the pressure on the quarterback, great things in the running game. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.160 A few pass players were made uh a noon while 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.760 being able to be incorporated into the passing game was 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.560 huge for the Jet. So you see some sparks, you 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.800 see some potential there, but then you also see where 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.039 a team um allowed the opponent uh to beat them 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.600 and not based upon what the opponent did, but more 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.319 based upon what you didn't do UH as far as 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.880 your team. And so that's that's disappointing. I'm sure the 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.480 coaches and the players are all disappointed in that because 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.160 this is certainly a game that that the Jets needed 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.440 to win. They should have won, and they did. You 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.120 mentioned the defensive line. Let's start on that side of 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:59.480 the ball. Seven sacks in all for the Jets. That 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:04.560 tie their most ever in the season opener. They had nineteen. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.480 In nineteen sixty six, they had seven sacks as well, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.200 so we're gonna have to go back a few decades 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.480 to reach that total. But six of those sacks came 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.720 from the defensive line. Steve McClendon in his first appearance 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.160 with the Jets, he had two sacks. Leonard Williams Chad 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.200 who I thought had a fabulous summer. Two and a 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.640 half sacks and he had five quarterback hits. Moul Wokerson, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.919 he's fully back from the broken leg heat a second 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.799 and a half and oh yeah, the Jets are now 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.799 getting Sheldon Richardson back this week off of his one 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:43.120 game suspension. How good can this defensive line be? Well, 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.120 this defensive line can be the best in football. There's 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.040 no doubt about that. They have the potential. Um they 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.839 have the athleticism, they have the versatility, and I think 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.160 what's really interesting in what should be exciting for Jets 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.760 and um as their secondary is coming along. I have 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.720 that defensively, from a coordinator spot and just from a 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.640 play following spot, you can really rely upon your defensive 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.000 line to create the quarterback pressure and not necessarily have 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.040 to rely upon your blitz package to do that, which 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.040 then frees up another defender to help in the secondary 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.440 with double team coverages, more too, safety looks and things 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.079 like that. So with the play of the defensive line, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:27.080 which was extremely positive on Sunday, think against the Jet defense, 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.919 more options and more versatility to see what they want 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.679 to do from a coverage standpoint. Obviously, Chad. The defensive 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.640 backs weren't happy in the locker room after that game. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.520 Everybody on that team wanted to get the victory so bad. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.960 But that was a secondary who's played together before. And 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.120 Todd Bowls spoke about his postgame news conference saying, there 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:54.000 were too many bus in the defensive backfield. What was 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:57.640 your reaction watching some of those big plays that Cincinnati 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.440 was able to get. We know the pressure was there 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.760 throughout the game, but the Bengals still were able to 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.120 hit on a few big plays and that ultimately was 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:12.040 the difference in this ballgame. Well, any time as a defense, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.280 you go into your game plan and you say who 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.200 is their best player, and whoever you determine their best 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.200 player is, you builded the game plan to say he 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.240 cannot beat us. And that's how you build the game plan. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:25.839 And when you look at the stash sheet and you 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.080 watch the game, Unfortunately for the Jets, their best player 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.840 in the Bengals with a J Green, helped beat them. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.560 And so that's what's most frustrating as a defense, that's 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.280 what they're most frustrated about. It. They knew who their 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.240 best player was, they had a plan for him, and 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:45.520 in a j Green still helped the Bengals beat the Jets, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.080 and so, um, that's what you have to take away 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.599 from this game is the game plan was to stop 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.200 a J. Green and a J. Green was not stopped. 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.280 And so whether it be a bust in coverage, a 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.880 lack in tackling, whatever it may be the case, the 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.360 best player can't have twelve catches for a hundred eighty 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.200 yards and and and have such an impact on the 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.440 game as a J. Green did. So that's what's most frustrating. Um. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.039 I know that they'll get a fixed with Reeves being 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.960 such pro and and having the leadership skills that he does, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.040 and then the secondary playing together, they'll get to fix. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.880 And they need to get a fixed because there's some 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.000 other parts of the defense they're playing extremely well, and 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.640 when they get the secondary part of the fix, they're 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.800 going to be very hard to try to execute against Chad. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:32.640 You just match a Rivus and Hugo wrote into me 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.520 on Twitter and he said, what is Puttington's take on 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:43.000 where Revus is at at this point in his career? Well, 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.760 I think we've been spoiled, um, as Jeff fans and 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.200 fans of Drelle revs are watching him as a younger player, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.080 seeing how dominant he was, and he was so dominant 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.600 as a younger player, we when we see just a 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.000 little bit of lack in production or we see even 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.640 pass being call on Durrell Revers, we have a shock 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.520 factor from it from a fan perspective. And so I 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.279 still think Reevers is one of the top quarters in 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.039 the league. Does he do some of the same things 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.960 or have some of the same capabilities that he had 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.360 four or five years ago. Probably not, But he's still effective. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.760 He's still very good. He still allows the Jet defense 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.120 to be more versatile because of his cover skills. He 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.159 just has to adapt and and how he plays, and 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.480 so and so does the Jets defense as the player 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.240 gets older. Yeah, well, now let's go to the other 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.039 side of the ball. So I really liked what I 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.400 saw to Matt Forte. We didn't see him too much 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.560 in the preseason. Saw him get his feet wide against 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.680 the New York Giants. He was bothered by a nagging 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.800 hamstring hamstring injury at the beginning of the summer, But 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.000 while Chad he really impressed me. As a person who's 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.960 been uh covering the Jets for the past sixteen seasons. 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:00.440 I haven't had the opportunity to watch too much Forte 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:06.320 other than highlights, but his receiving ability as advertised, he's 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:12.040 very smooth, what vision he has and also I love 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.800 his little cutbacks. What did you think about him and 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.080 his first performance for the Jets and how can he 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:22.120 help this team over forward? Now? I was excited to 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.800 see his performance. I was excited to see the performance 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.240 of the run game in general. The run game provided 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.720 such a huge spark and and when the Jets did 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.600 a spark u after the decense gave up a big 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.160 play or a touchdown, the run game provided that. And 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.680 that's really nice to see. Uh. For Forte, you can 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.080 see that he does a great job and not dancing 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.480 in the whole thing. In the whole he finds that 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.600 one cut and he goes. He does have vision, he 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.760 does provide versatility out of the backfield, so you know 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.040 that he's just not a first or second I'm back. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.080 He's he's all down by downs and then when you 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:01.520 have him will help as well. I mean, you have 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.080 a nice one too. Punks there maybe not as physical 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.360 as they were last year with Chris Ivory, but at 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.840 the same time, Steel very effective, and the reason they 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.760 can be effective is because of jam Daily's use of 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.480 formations and spread formations and personnels with form wide receivers, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.800 three ride receivers of tied end that allows those two 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.280 running backs to operate in space to be successful. You 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.800 mentioned the offensive line, and I know a lot of 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.560 Jets fans aren't focused on that right now, but what 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.160 I'm excited about with this team is the play in 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:37.400 the trenches. You mentioned the defensive line and you said, hey, 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.160 I think this could be the top defensive line in 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.960 the entire National Football League. Now you go to the 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.960 other side of the ball, and rightfully so, a couple 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.920 of question marks there as we answered the season because 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.280 we just didn't know because we hadn't seen this unit together. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.840 Ryan Klaytie replaces the britishaw ferguson your old left tackle, buddy, 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.200 and then obviously Brian Winners got some starting experience last year, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.280 but it was Willie Cologne who started at right guard 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.800 two thousand fifteen opening day and then at right tackle. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.320 With Brenod jock Amini on the pup list, the Jets 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:17.520 alternated right tackles in the season opener. By night Gelana started, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.000 but brun quality got in there as well. Protection was 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.880 good against a solid front that includes Geno Atkins and 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.640 Carlos Dunlap. And you mentioned that they moved the ball 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.760 on the ground, and I don't think a lot of 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:35.360 people took as much note of that chad as maybe 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.960 they should have. Well, and the good thing about the 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.160 Jets offensive line is that no one's talking about them, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.920 which means their performance was solid because normally when when 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.920 people talk about an offensive line, it's because their performance 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.120 was not followed and they've given up sacks, so they 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.400 didn't produce in the run games, and so no one 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.600 has said anything because there's nothing really to say, uh 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.800 from a mistake standpoint. I'm sure there's technical things they 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.120 need to clean up a few uh uh m e 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.560 s mental heirs every once in a while, but for 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.840 the most part, they were solid and it was very impressive, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.760 like you said, to have two right tackles on the 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.280 in the opener and the half such solid performance that 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.840 is extremely that's unheard of. You don't You don't hear that, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.160 nor do you see that. And for the Jet to 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.199 be able to basically play six lineen uh in a 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.520 season opener and have The production that they had is 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.079 impressive and it's a tribute to the offensive line codes 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.959 in the offense and Jane Gailey and those guys because 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.040 they did have a solid they had a solid winning performance. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.559 Wasn't their best performance, no, but they had a winning performance. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.360 All Right, We're gonna keep it real here on the 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.599 e A Podcast bottom line because we've talked about a 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.400 number of positives, but we also talked about a couple 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.559 of them. Excuse the Jets head in the season opener, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.199 and I'm gonna take a fan question off on Twitter 0:10:55.320 --> 0:11:00.480 right now. Chet Jet Life five sixteen asks what are 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.600 the Jets going to do to improve the red zone plays? 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.640 And then he asked specifically, why why wasn't there a 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.959 quarterback sneak on the one inch line? Here's my thing 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.800 and I'm gonna let you get to the red zone 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:20.040 here Jet my take on the Monday morning quarterbacking. Throughout 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.160 the years, I've never heard people talk about what did 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:28.720 the defensive coordinator call in that situation? But when things 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:36.280 go wrong on offense, it's always the play calling. Well, yes, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.120 and that's because most people when they want watch the game, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.480 they will only watch the ball. They don't watch anything 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.000 around the ball, so that it's never about the defensive 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.520 play calling. But there's no question from from the Jets 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.439 offensive siety, it was about the red zone. And I 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.560 only not only say it was a red zone, it 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.880 was the deep red zone. Uh. It's one thing to 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.480 get inside the twenty and then you kick a field 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.800 goal from the eight team, But when you get inside 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.800 the twelve three three times and you don't come away 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.719 with three of those touchdowns, that's huge. That there's the 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.400 game offensively, and so whether it's running or passing, the 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.840 execution was just not there. Sometimes the ball was forced 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.960 into places it probably shouldn't be forced, and so not 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:21.480 the execution just wasn't enough. Even in the last the 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.280 last chance that they had in the red zone, receiver 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.800 gets knocked off the covers the ball has already thrown. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.960 The red zone is a difficult place to execute because 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.680 the space is really tight. You have to anticipate holes 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.400 in places, and sometimes you don't take into account whether 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.400 an extra defenders in that area or if the receiver 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.160 gets knocked off, that messes up the whole timing. And 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.800 so it's it's it's very there's a lot of intricacies 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.559 within the red zone. But certainly the offense, the Jets 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.000 offense knows that you can't come away with that type 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.360 of performance in the red zone expect to win. What 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.880 was your take on the trifactor Fitzpatrick, Eric Ducker, Brandon 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:05.160 Marshall Because I think sometimes we're spoiled so much that 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.800 we think that every game these guys are gonna combine 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.560 for twelve catches and a hundred and eighty five yards 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:17.080 and three touchdowns. Against Cincinnati they combined for five catches 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:21.960 and a touchdown. Decker got in beautiful back shoulder strike 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:27.080 from Fitzpatrick. But was that more so Cincinnati doing a 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.679 good job on their end focusing on your top targets 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.440 or was it more of a case of the Jets 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:39.040 having some options emerging. We've talked about four to and 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.800 I know you really liked what you saw at the 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:45.560 Quincy Innumera. Well, there's two reasons. Number one, the only 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.400 way that you get more opportunities and the only way 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.160 that receivers can have more opportunities is to convert on 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.320 third down. So when you're four twelve on third down, 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:58.559 you don't have those opportunities, You're you're limiting your opportunities, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.120 and so that's why production of Decker and Brandon Marshall, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.400 that's one of the reasons why it wasn't there, or 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:09.280 at least it wasn't what we normally expect. Secondly, um 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.080 the production was a little bit down because of the 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.800 play of Quincy and Noon one, which is really a positive. 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.200 The the way that Jan Gailey and the Jets offense 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.200 got him involved, the plays that he made is awesome 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.520 to see because they need that, they need that for 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.440 future games later in the season, and it also opens 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.720 up areas for Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker to work 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.960 as well. So those are the two reasons. But if 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.000 you really want to get these guys involved, you have 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.440 to be better on third dawn, so that now you 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.040 create another set of down. Even if you only even 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.080 if you get from four to twelve to six or twelve, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:51.880 which's fantastic, that's six extra opportunities those guys have to 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.080 make plays at the minimum. Plus if you convert some 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.920 of those opportunities, not even on third down, the first 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.200 second down, with those two sexture plays that you have, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.800 now you have even more opportunities. So third down, to me, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.280 it's it's where it's out when you're trying to make 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.120 sure that Brandon Morsel and Theeric Decker get the production 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.440 that you need them to get. Let's get the quarterbacks 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:18.480 take on Ryan Fitzpatrick nineteen of thirty five, nine sack 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:22.640 just the one time fits Uh in a good rhythm 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.720 with his offensive line. As we talked about two touchdowns, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.680 the first one beautiful drive, I mean tremendous drive. That 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.680 opening drive. I really liked the way uh Jan Gailey 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.680 Uh called that one and the Jets executed out of 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.560 the gate to take the seven nothing lead. And then 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.880 the back shoulder passed two Decker for a second touchdown, 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.400 and then he interception late as the Jets we're trying 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.200 to get that game winning drives set up an attempt 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.440 for a Nick Folk field goal. What do you think 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:54.360 of Fits overall? Well, I thought that it was for 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.520 him and what he's capable of. It was average. It 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.400 certainly wasn't a losing performance, but it wasn't a game 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:05.480 winning performance either. Um. Even if the Jets win the game, 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.320 I think he would tell you I can play much better, 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:13.600 UM and be more effective from a completion percentage standpoint, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 said nineteen and thirty five, you'd like to see that 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.480 around twenty two and thirty five. You need to see 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.960 three or four more completions to sustain drives, to have 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.480 a chance for bigger plays, just to create some more 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.440 production in the passing game. UM. On a positive note, Uh, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.320 he did a great job of getting rid of the 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.800 ball quickly, UM, not taking the sacks, not leaving the 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.480 jets in long yard and situations. So he managed the 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.840 game well. And then the last thing I would say 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.920 is in the red zone, UM, all it needs to 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.640 do is just be careful of being so honed in 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.680 on trying to get random marshal the ball. Um. Sometimes 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.560 they're gonna take that option away, and they're gonna be 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:58.360 other receivers that need to step up and make plays, 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.000 whether it be Decker or noon Law or they have 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.760 too great running backs out of the backfield that can 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.160 really do some good things. So I'm sure they'll talk 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:09.679 about that. That's something that I see moving forward. All right, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.320 We're gonna move forward. What's your take on Todd Bowls 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.600 coming out early on Monday saying to the media, I 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:21.000 am not going to talk about the Cincinnati Bengals, and 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.160 he was asked a number of times about week one, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.760 he said, we have moved on to Buffalo. What do 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.480 you think about that philosophy? As the Jets only have 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:36.160 basically two days to prepare before they head out to Buffalo. Yeah, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.439 he has no choice. I don't think coach Bowles is 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.480 trying to be mean or trying to be uh an 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.760 adversary to the media, which when it comes to talking 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.960 about the meals. But he has no choice. Literally, the 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.840 Jets have no choice. They had to flush this game 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.919 and get right onto Buffalo because within a matter of 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.200 days they can really get this bad taste out of 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.919 their mouth. And within ten days they played two games 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:02.880 and they could be sitting there at one on one. 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.119 So this is huge. Um, you know, I thought the 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.480 opener was really really big. Now with the lost this 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.200 second game, I mean, this is it. This is where 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.959 it's at, especially for earlier, early part of the season. 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.600 They have to be able to come out and grab 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.119 this win, and they're going to be very capable of 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.880 doing this. Uh. Playing in Buffalo early is a good thing, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.000 and they certainly have the recipe as well as the 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.639 players and the team to to get to one and 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.480 one and and beat what's going to be an emotional 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.160 time for the Buffalo Billings UH their home opener on 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.919 Thursday night. It's gonna be a big time challenge, but 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.920 the one that it's one that the Jets can take on. Well, 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.840 what is the winning recipe this week? The Jets. The 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.000 Bills were thorn in the Jets side last year. One 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:54.320 a pair of decisions, two seventeen identical scores. Jets finished 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.000 ton of six overall last year, just three and three 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.160 inside the division. And like I mentioned, h buff We'll 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.280 got him a couple of times last year. UH. To me, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:07.199 there's two keys in this game, turnovers and red zone UM. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.440 Against Rex Ryan, typically it's gonna be all about turnovers 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.120 and what his defense can try to force. UM. And 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.480 if you look at the last two games last year, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.000 that's what it was about. It was either about turnover 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.080 here and there, and sometimes if you look at the 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.200 last game, it was a turnover in the red zone, 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.800 which is a double whamming. So that's what it's gonna 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:30.520 be about. UM, Jets not having turnovers and when they 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.000 get in the red zone, yes they need points, but 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:36.159 they need more touchdowns and field goals. UM. This is 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.159 also a game that you realize that it's not going 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.320 to be a game where the Buffalo Bills are going 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.840 to score thirty points. And so that really plays into 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.320 your decision making as a quarterback. UM that really um 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:55.160 magnifies turnovers, It really magnifies getting points in the red zone. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.840 Can't have black field goals, can't have missed extra point. 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.760 You just can't do that. It's this is a game 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.120 that you expect. It's going to come down to try 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:08.480 to win seventeen three to twenty maybe even the seventeen 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.920 fourteen games that I think the Jeffs are talented enough 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.320 to put up. So do you think you just mentioned? 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.600 And that was very interesting And I love getting your 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.359 thought process here because you were out there in the 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.440 field when you look across the way and you're Ryan 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.720 Fitzpatrick and you're in the film room this week, and 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.840 you look at the Bill's defense and say, Okay, they 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.680 were solid against me last year. They played very well 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.920 in the season opener against Baltimore. They lost to the Ravens, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.240 but they had four sacks and only gave out thirteen points. 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:43.480 They gave their team an opportunity to win. And we 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:47.680 know rox Ryan as a termendous defensive play caller. When 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.679 you're saying that the Bills are probably not a team 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.679 who is gonna be able to score thirty points on 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:01.359 most occasions, especially against your defense, Uh so does fits 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.520 have to have a different approach when he plays the 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.440 Bills that there's this game is going to be about 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:14.600 situational awareness as a quarterback and realizing that, um, you 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.280 you must force the Bills offense to beat you. So 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.760 as an offense yourself. Um, there may be a time 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.560 where it's it's second and ten and you really like 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.520 this throw on the end route, but because the windows 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.960 a little bit too close, the risk is much greater 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.719 than the reward, and so you don't take that opportunity 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.040 because you know that the Bills can't score as much 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:41.040 as they would like unless they have big play capability. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.399 And with the you know, unavailability or availability or depending 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.880 on what happens with Samuel Walking, that really affects things. 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.600 And so, um, you've got to go in with that 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:55.439 mentality a keep playing close to the vest, keep do 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.000 not give the Bills a chance to cathwize on our 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.080 mistakes or our turn and overs where we give them 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.800 short field deal. Position is going to be huge. Rex. 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.880 Ryan loves to playfield position game and let the defense 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.640 dictate that, and so you have to understand what type 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:12.439 of game it's going to be. It's very similar to 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:14.560 when I was with the Jets. When we play the 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.840 Miami Dolphins, we knew that it was a really good defense. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.880 Their defense ran the team. As long as we hung 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:22.680