Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away?
Speaker 1: All right, thanks fits well. For the first time in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen, our quarterback returns here to the
Speaker 1: Jets Podcast network, and that, of course is Chad Pennington. Chad,
Speaker 1: so excited to have you back for another year. Listen.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we're gonna have to start on a little bit
Speaker 1: of a sour note. There is no joy in Jetsville
Speaker 1: right now. Is the Green and White fall to fall?
Speaker 1: Uh in their season opener three to twenty two to
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Chad, what were your takeaways of that
Speaker 1: ball game as you process the film? Well, Eric, first
Speaker 1: of all, and great to be back for another uh
Speaker 1: season of Jeff foot ball. And uh, you know, watching
Speaker 1: the game, Uh, you feel good about some things, and
Speaker 1: then you don't feel good about some things. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of how the game went and why it was
Speaker 1: three to twenty two at the end and not in
Speaker 1: the Jets favor. So when you look at the film,
Speaker 1: I think you say, while there's there's some really good
Speaker 1: things on film that the Jets can build upon, there's
Speaker 1: there's some great things that happened with the defensive line,
Speaker 1: the pressure on the quarterback, great things in the running game.
Speaker 1: A few pass players were made uh a noon while
Speaker 1: being able to be incorporated into the passing game was
Speaker 1: huge for the Jet. So you see some sparks, you
Speaker 1: see some potential there, but then you also see where
Speaker 1: a team um allowed the opponent uh to beat them
Speaker 1: and not based upon what the opponent did, but more
Speaker 1: based upon what you didn't do UH as far as
Speaker 1: your team. And so that's that's disappointing. I'm sure the
Speaker 1: coaches and the players are all disappointed in that because
Speaker 1: this is certainly a game that that the Jets needed
Speaker 1: to win. They should have won, and they did. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the defensive line. Let's start on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Seven sacks in all for the Jets. That
Speaker 1: tie their most ever in the season opener. They had nineteen.
Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty six, they had seven sacks as well,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to go back a few decades
Speaker 1: to reach that total. But six of those sacks came
Speaker 1: from the defensive line. Steve McClendon in his first appearance
Speaker 1: with the Jets, he had two sacks. Leonard Williams Chad
Speaker 1: who I thought had a fabulous summer. Two and a
Speaker 1: half sacks and he had five quarterback hits. Moul Wokerson,
Speaker 1: he's fully back from the broken leg heat a second
Speaker 1: and a half and oh yeah, the Jets are now
Speaker 1: getting Sheldon Richardson back this week off of his one
Speaker 1: game suspension. How good can this defensive line be? Well,
Speaker 1: this defensive line can be the best in football. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt about that. They have the potential. Um they
Speaker 1: have the athleticism, they have the versatility, and I think
Speaker 1: what's really interesting in what should be exciting for Jets
Speaker 1: and um as their secondary is coming along. I have
Speaker 1: that defensively, from a coordinator spot and just from a
Speaker 1: play following spot, you can really rely upon your defensive
Speaker 1: line to create the quarterback pressure and not necessarily have
Speaker 1: to rely upon your blitz package to do that, which
Speaker 1: then frees up another defender to help in the secondary
Speaker 1: with double team coverages, more too, safety looks and things
Speaker 1: like that. So with the play of the defensive line,
Speaker 1: which was extremely positive on Sunday, think against the Jet defense,
Speaker 1: more options and more versatility to see what they want
Speaker 1: to do from a coverage standpoint. Obviously, Chad. The defensive
Speaker 1: backs weren't happy in the locker room after that game.
Speaker 1: Everybody on that team wanted to get the victory so bad.
Speaker 1: But that was a secondary who's played together before. And
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls spoke about his postgame news conference saying, there
Speaker 1: were too many bus in the defensive backfield. What was
Speaker 1: your reaction watching some of those big plays that Cincinnati
Speaker 1: was able to get. We know the pressure was there
Speaker 1: throughout the game, but the Bengals still were able to
Speaker 1: hit on a few big plays and that ultimately was
Speaker 1: the difference in this ballgame. Well, any time as a defense,
Speaker 1: you go into your game plan and you say who
Speaker 1: is their best player, and whoever you determine their best
Speaker 1: player is, you builded the game plan to say he
Speaker 1: cannot beat us. And that's how you build the game plan.
Speaker 1: And when you look at the stash sheet and you
Speaker 1: watch the game, Unfortunately for the Jets, their best player
Speaker 1: in the Bengals with a J Green, helped beat them.
Speaker 1: And so that's what's most frustrating as a defense, that's
Speaker 1: what they're most frustrated about. It. They knew who their
Speaker 1: best player was, they had a plan for him, and
Speaker 1: in a j Green still helped the Bengals beat the Jets,
Speaker 1: and so, um, that's what you have to take away
Speaker 1: from this game is the game plan was to stop
Speaker 1: a J. Green and a J. Green was not stopped.
Speaker 1: And so whether it be a bust in coverage, a
Speaker 1: lack in tackling, whatever it may be the case, the
Speaker 1: best player can't have twelve catches for a hundred eighty
Speaker 1: yards and and and have such an impact on the
Speaker 1: game as a J. Green did. So that's what's most frustrating. Um.
Speaker 1: I know that they'll get a fixed with Reeves being
Speaker 1: such pro and and having the leadership skills that he does,
Speaker 1: and then the secondary playing together, they'll get to fix.
Speaker 1: And they need to get a fixed because there's some
Speaker 1: other parts of the defense they're playing extremely well, and
Speaker 1: when they get the secondary part of the fix, they're
Speaker 1: going to be very hard to try to execute against Chad.
Speaker 1: You just match a Rivus and Hugo wrote into me
Speaker 1: on Twitter and he said, what is Puttington's take on
Speaker 1: where Revus is at at this point in his career? Well,
Speaker 1: I think we've been spoiled, um, as Jeff fans and
Speaker 1: fans of Drelle revs are watching him as a younger player,
Speaker 1: seeing how dominant he was, and he was so dominant
Speaker 1: as a younger player, we when we see just a
Speaker 1: little bit of lack in production or we see even
Speaker 1: pass being call on Durrell Revers, we have a shock
Speaker 1: factor from it from a fan perspective. And so I
Speaker 1: still think Reevers is one of the top quarters in
Speaker 1: the league. Does he do some of the same things
Speaker 1: or have some of the same capabilities that he had
Speaker 1: four or five years ago. Probably not, But he's still effective.
Speaker 1: He's still very good. He still allows the Jet defense
Speaker 1: to be more versatile because of his cover skills. He
Speaker 1: just has to adapt and and how he plays, and
Speaker 1: so and so does the Jets defense as the player
Speaker 1: gets older. Yeah, well, now let's go to the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So I really liked what I
Speaker 1: saw to Matt Forte. We didn't see him too much
Speaker 1: in the preseason. Saw him get his feet wide against
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. He was bothered by a nagging
Speaker 1: hamstring hamstring injury at the beginning of the summer, But
Speaker 1: while Chad he really impressed me. As a person who's
Speaker 1: been uh covering the Jets for the past sixteen seasons.
Speaker 1: I haven't had the opportunity to watch too much Forte
Speaker 1: other than highlights, but his receiving ability as advertised, he's
Speaker 1: very smooth, what vision he has and also I love
Speaker 1: his little cutbacks. What did you think about him and
Speaker 1: his first performance for the Jets and how can he
Speaker 1: help this team over forward? Now? I was excited to
Speaker 1: see his performance. I was excited to see the performance
Speaker 1: of the run game in general. The run game provided
Speaker 1: such a huge spark and and when the Jets did
Speaker 1: a spark u after the decense gave up a big
Speaker 1: play or a touchdown, the run game provided that. And
Speaker 1: that's really nice to see. Uh. For Forte, you can
Speaker 1: see that he does a great job and not dancing
Speaker 1: in the whole thing. In the whole he finds that
Speaker 1: one cut and he goes. He does have vision, he
Speaker 1: does provide versatility out of the backfield, so you know
Speaker 1: that he's just not a first or second I'm back.
Speaker 1: He's he's all down by downs and then when you
Speaker 1: have him will help as well. I mean, you have
Speaker 1: a nice one too. Punks there maybe not as physical
Speaker 1: as they were last year with Chris Ivory, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, Steel very effective, and the reason they
Speaker 1: can be effective is because of jam Daily's use of
Speaker 1: formations and spread formations and personnels with form wide receivers,
Speaker 1: three ride receivers of tied end that allows those two
Speaker 1: running backs to operate in space to be successful. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the offensive line, and I know a lot of
Speaker 1: Jets fans aren't focused on that right now, but what
Speaker 1: I'm excited about with this team is the play in
Speaker 1: the trenches. You mentioned the defensive line and you said, hey,
Speaker 1: I think this could be the top defensive line in
Speaker 1: the entire National Football League. Now you go to the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball, and rightfully so, a couple
Speaker 1: of question marks there as we answered the season because
Speaker 1: we just didn't know because we hadn't seen this unit together.
Speaker 1: Ryan Klaytie replaces the britishaw ferguson your old left tackle, buddy,
Speaker 1: and then obviously Brian Winners got some starting experience last year,
Speaker 1: but it was Willie Cologne who started at right guard
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen opening day and then at right tackle.
Speaker 1: With Brenod jock Amini on the pup list, the Jets
Speaker 1: alternated right tackles in the season opener. By night Gelana started,
Speaker 1: but brun quality got in there as well. Protection was
Speaker 1: good against a solid front that includes Geno Atkins and
Speaker 1: Carlos Dunlap. And you mentioned that they moved the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground, and I don't think a lot of
Speaker 1: people took as much note of that chad as maybe
Speaker 1: they should have. Well, and the good thing about the
Speaker 1: Jets offensive line is that no one's talking about them,
Speaker 1: which means their performance was solid because normally when when
Speaker 1: people talk about an offensive line, it's because their performance
Speaker 1: was not followed and they've given up sacks, so they
Speaker 1: didn't produce in the run games, and so no one
Speaker 1: has said anything because there's nothing really to say, uh
Speaker 1: from a mistake standpoint. I'm sure there's technical things they
Speaker 1: need to clean up a few uh uh m e
Speaker 1: s mental heirs every once in a while, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, they were solid and it was very impressive,
Speaker 1: like you said, to have two right tackles on the
Speaker 1: in the opener and the half such solid performance that
Speaker 1: is extremely that's unheard of. You don't You don't hear that,
Speaker 1: nor do you see that. And for the Jet to
Speaker 1: be able to basically play six lineen uh in a
Speaker 1: season opener and have The production that they had is
Speaker 1: impressive and it's a tribute to the offensive line codes
Speaker 1: in the offense and Jane Gailey and those guys because
Speaker 1: they did have a solid they had a solid winning performance.
Speaker 1: Wasn't their best performance, no, but they had a winning performance.
Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna keep it real here on the
Speaker 1: e A Podcast bottom line because we've talked about a
Speaker 1: number of positives, but we also talked about a couple
Speaker 1: of them. Excuse the Jets head in the season opener,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take a fan question off on Twitter
Speaker 1: right now. Chet Jet Life five sixteen asks what are
Speaker 1: the Jets going to do to improve the red zone plays?
Speaker 1: And then he asked specifically, why why wasn't there a
Speaker 1: quarterback sneak on the one inch line? Here's my thing
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let you get to the red zone
Speaker 1: here Jet my take on the Monday morning quarterbacking. Throughout
Speaker 1: the years, I've never heard people talk about what did
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator call in that situation? But when things
Speaker 1: go wrong on offense, it's always the play calling. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: and that's because most people when they want watch the game,
Speaker 1: they will only watch the ball. They don't watch anything
Speaker 1: around the ball, so that it's never about the defensive
Speaker 1: play calling. But there's no question from from the Jets
Speaker 1: offensive siety, it was about the red zone. And I
Speaker 1: only not only say it was a red zone, it
Speaker 1: was the deep red zone. Uh. It's one thing to
Speaker 1: get inside the twenty and then you kick a field
Speaker 1: goal from the eight team, But when you get inside
Speaker 1: the twelve three three times and you don't come away
Speaker 1: with three of those touchdowns, that's huge. That there's the
Speaker 1: game offensively, and so whether it's running or passing, the
Speaker 1: execution was just not there. Sometimes the ball was forced
Speaker 1: into places it probably shouldn't be forced, and so not
Speaker 1: the execution just wasn't enough. Even in the last the
Speaker 1: last chance that they had in the red zone, receiver
Speaker 1: gets knocked off the covers the ball has already thrown.
Speaker 1: The red zone is a difficult place to execute because
Speaker 1: the space is really tight. You have to anticipate holes
Speaker 1: in places, and sometimes you don't take into account whether
Speaker 1: an extra defenders in that area or if the receiver
Speaker 1: gets knocked off, that messes up the whole timing. And
Speaker 1: so it's it's it's very there's a lot of intricacies
Speaker 1: within the red zone. But certainly the offense, the Jets
Speaker 1: offense knows that you can't come away with that type
Speaker 1: of performance in the red zone expect to win. What
Speaker 1: was your take on the trifactor Fitzpatrick, Eric Ducker, Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall Because I think sometimes we're spoiled so much that
Speaker 1: we think that every game these guys are gonna combine
Speaker 1: for twelve catches and a hundred and eighty five yards
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. Against Cincinnati they combined for five catches
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Decker got in beautiful back shoulder strike
Speaker 1: from Fitzpatrick. But was that more so Cincinnati doing a
Speaker 1: good job on their end focusing on your top targets
Speaker 1: or was it more of a case of the Jets
Speaker 1: having some options emerging. We've talked about four to and
Speaker 1: I know you really liked what you saw at the
Speaker 1: Quincy Innumera. Well, there's two reasons. Number one, the only
Speaker 1: way that you get more opportunities and the only way
Speaker 1: that receivers can have more opportunities is to convert on
Speaker 1: third down. So when you're four twelve on third down,
Speaker 1: you don't have those opportunities, You're you're limiting your opportunities,
Speaker 1: and so that's why production of Decker and Brandon Marshall,
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons why it wasn't there, or
Speaker 1: at least it wasn't what we normally expect. Secondly, um
Speaker 1: the production was a little bit down because of the
Speaker 1: play of Quincy and Noon one, which is really a positive.
Speaker 1: The the way that Jan Gailey and the Jets offense
Speaker 1: got him involved, the plays that he made is awesome
Speaker 1: to see because they need that, they need that for
Speaker 1: future games later in the season, and it also opens
Speaker 1: up areas for Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker to work
Speaker 1: as well. So those are the two reasons. But if
Speaker 1: you really want to get these guys involved, you have
Speaker 1: to be better on third dawn, so that now you
Speaker 1: create another set of down. Even if you only even
Speaker 1: if you get from four to twelve to six or twelve,
Speaker 1: which's fantastic, that's six extra opportunities those guys have to
Speaker 1: make plays at the minimum. Plus if you convert some
Speaker 1: of those opportunities, not even on third down, the first
Speaker 1: second down, with those two sexture plays that you have,
Speaker 1: now you have even more opportunities. So third down, to me,
Speaker 1: it's it's where it's out when you're trying to make
Speaker 1: sure that Brandon Morsel and Theeric Decker get the production
Speaker 1: that you need them to get. Let's get the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: take on Ryan Fitzpatrick nineteen of thirty five, nine sack
Speaker 1: just the one time fits Uh in a good rhythm
Speaker 1: with his offensive line. As we talked about two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: the first one beautiful drive, I mean tremendous drive. That
Speaker 1: opening drive. I really liked the way uh Jan Gailey
Speaker 1: Uh called that one and the Jets executed out of
Speaker 1: the gate to take the seven nothing lead. And then
Speaker 1: the back shoulder passed two Decker for a second touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then he interception late as the Jets we're trying
Speaker 1: to get that game winning drives set up an attempt
Speaker 1: for a Nick Folk field goal. What do you think
Speaker 1: of Fits overall? Well, I thought that it was for
Speaker 1: him and what he's capable of. It was average. It
Speaker 1: certainly wasn't a losing performance, but it wasn't a game
Speaker 1: winning performance either. Um. Even if the Jets win the game,
Speaker 1: I think he would tell you I can play much better,
Speaker 1: UM and be more effective from a completion percentage standpoint,
Speaker 1: said nineteen and thirty five, you'd like to see that
Speaker 1: around twenty two and thirty five. You need to see
Speaker 1: three or four more completions to sustain drives, to have
Speaker 1: a chance for bigger plays, just to create some more
Speaker 1: production in the passing game. UM. On a positive note, Uh,
Speaker 1: he did a great job of getting rid of the
Speaker 1: ball quickly, UM, not taking the sacks, not leaving the
Speaker 1: jets in long yard and situations. So he managed the
Speaker 1: game well. And then the last thing I would say
Speaker 1: is in the red zone, UM, all it needs to
Speaker 1: do is just be careful of being so honed in
Speaker 1: on trying to get random marshal the ball. Um. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they're gonna take that option away, and they're gonna be
Speaker 1: other receivers that need to step up and make plays,
Speaker 1: whether it be Decker or noon Law or they have
Speaker 1: too great running backs out of the backfield that can
Speaker 1: really do some good things. So I'm sure they'll talk
Speaker 1: about that. That's something that I see moving forward. All right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna move forward. What's your take on Todd Bowls
Speaker 1: coming out early on Monday saying to the media, I
Speaker 1: am not going to talk about the Cincinnati Bengals, and
Speaker 1: he was asked a number of times about week one,
Speaker 1: he said, we have moved on to Buffalo. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that philosophy? As the Jets only have
Speaker 1: basically two days to prepare before they head out to Buffalo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he has no choice. I don't think coach Bowles is
Speaker 1: trying to be mean or trying to be uh an
Speaker 1: adversary to the media, which when it comes to talking
Speaker 1: about the meals. But he has no choice. Literally, the
Speaker 1: Jets have no choice. They had to flush this game
Speaker 1: and get right onto Buffalo because within a matter of
Speaker 1: days they can really get this bad taste out of
Speaker 1: their mouth. And within ten days they played two games
Speaker 1: and they could be sitting there at one on one.
Speaker 1: So this is huge. Um, you know, I thought the
Speaker 1: opener was really really big. Now with the lost this
Speaker 1: second game, I mean, this is it. This is where
Speaker 1: it's at, especially for earlier, early part of the season.
Speaker 1: They have to be able to come out and grab
Speaker 1: this win, and they're going to be very capable of
Speaker 1: doing this. Uh. Playing in Buffalo early is a good thing,
Speaker 1: and they certainly have the recipe as well as the
Speaker 1: players and the team to to get to one and
Speaker 1: one and and beat what's going to be an emotional
Speaker 1: time for the Buffalo Billings UH their home opener on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. It's gonna be a big time challenge, but
Speaker 1: the one that it's one that the Jets can take on. Well,
Speaker 1: what is the winning recipe this week? The Jets. The
Speaker 1: Bills were thorn in the Jets side last year. One
Speaker 1: a pair of decisions, two seventeen identical scores. Jets finished
Speaker 1: ton of six overall last year, just three and three
Speaker 1: inside the division. And like I mentioned, h buff We'll
Speaker 1: got him a couple of times last year. UH. To me,
Speaker 1: there's two keys in this game, turnovers and red zone UM.
Speaker 1: Against Rex Ryan, typically it's gonna be all about turnovers
Speaker 1: and what his defense can try to force. UM. And
Speaker 1: if you look at the last two games last year,
Speaker 1: that's what it was about. It was either about turnover
Speaker 1: here and there, and sometimes if you look at the
Speaker 1: last game, it was a turnover in the red zone,
Speaker 1: which is a double whamming. So that's what it's gonna
Speaker 1: be about. UM, Jets not having turnovers and when they
Speaker 1: get in the red zone, yes they need points, but
Speaker 1: they need more touchdowns and field goals. UM. This is
Speaker 1: also a game that you realize that it's not going
Speaker 1: to be a game where the Buffalo Bills are going
Speaker 1: to score thirty points. And so that really plays into
Speaker 1: your decision making as a quarterback. UM that really um
Speaker 1: magnifies turnovers, It really magnifies getting points in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Can't have black field goals, can't have missed extra point.
Speaker 1: You just can't do that. It's this is a game
Speaker 1: that you expect. It's going to come down to try
Speaker 1: to win seventeen three to twenty maybe even the seventeen
Speaker 1: fourteen games that I think the Jeffs are talented enough
Speaker 1: to put up. So do you think you just mentioned?
Speaker 1: And that was very interesting And I love getting your
Speaker 1: thought process here because you were out there in the
Speaker 1: field when you look across the way and you're Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and you're in the film room this week, and
Speaker 1: you look at the Bill's defense and say, Okay, they
Speaker 1: were solid against me last year. They played very well
Speaker 1: in the season opener against Baltimore. They lost to the Ravens,
Speaker 1: but they had four sacks and only gave out thirteen points.
Speaker 1: They gave their team an opportunity to win. And we
Speaker 1: know rox Ryan as a termendous defensive play caller. When
Speaker 1: you're saying that the Bills are probably not a team
Speaker 1: who is gonna be able to score thirty points on
Speaker 1: most occasions, especially against your defense, Uh so does fits
Speaker 1: have to have a different approach when he plays the
Speaker 1: Bills that there's this game is going to be about
Speaker 1: situational awareness as a quarterback and realizing that, um, you
Speaker 1: you must force the Bills offense to beat you. So
Speaker 1: as an offense yourself. Um, there may be a time
Speaker 1: where it's it's second and ten and you really like
Speaker 1: this throw on the end route, but because the windows
Speaker 1: a little bit too close, the risk is much greater
Speaker 1: than the reward, and so you don't take that opportunity
Speaker 1: because you know that the Bills can't score as much
Speaker 1: as they would like unless they have big play capability.
Speaker 1: And with the you know, unavailability or availability or depending
Speaker 1: on what happens with Samuel Walking, that really affects things.
Speaker 1: And so, um, you've got to go in with that
Speaker 1: mentality a keep playing close to the vest, keep do
Speaker 1: not give the Bills a chance to cathwize on our
Speaker 1: mistakes or our turn and overs where we give them
Speaker 1: short field deal. Position is going to be huge. Rex.
Speaker 1: Ryan loves to playfield position game and let the defense
Speaker 1: dictate that, and so you have to understand what type
Speaker 1: of game it's going to be. It's very similar to
Speaker 1: when I was with the Jets. When we play the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, we knew that it was a really good defense.
Speaker 1: Their defense ran the team. As long as we hung
Speaker 1: in there for four quarters, we would find a way
Speaker 1: to punch it out in the end, and we did
Speaker 1: seven out of eight times. What do you expect on
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball. Totally different offense like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, uh, Cincinnati, we know what they can do.
Speaker 1: Big playoffense. The Bills, I wouldn't consider a big playoffense,
Speaker 1: but they can get you if Tyrod gets out of
Speaker 1: the pocket because he loves the long ball. The Ravens
Speaker 1: made him sit in the pocket last week. You mentioned
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. We don't know where he is percentage wise.
Speaker 1: He plans on playing this week, obviously surgially surgically repaired
Speaker 1: foot in the offseason. They do have some players tight on.
Speaker 1: Charles Clay is one of the better receiving options at
Speaker 1: the position of football on my mind, and Shandy McCoy
Speaker 1: is a tremendous back who can make something out of nothing.
Speaker 1: They are banged up up front door defensively, what's the
Speaker 1: game playing against this team? Defensively? It's gonna be like
Speaker 1: you said, Keith Tyrod Taylor in the pocket. Make him
Speaker 1: a pocket passer. He doesn't have the hight. He's not
Speaker 1: known as a pocket passer. He was fifteen and twenty
Speaker 1: two for like a hundred eleven yards against the Raven
Speaker 1: So even though he had a high completion percentence, the
Speaker 1: ball wasn't mean moved down the field and he didn't.
Speaker 1: He wasn't able to extend plays, which that's normally where
Speaker 1: he finds his opportunities to create big plays when he
Speaker 1: extends plays to be able to get outside the pocket.
Speaker 1: So keep him in the pocket, make him a pocket passer,
Speaker 1: and then the Jets must eliminate the big play. They
Speaker 1: do those two things. This to me is a twenty
Speaker 1: four or third teen Jet win. Uh. I like that.
Speaker 1: I like the sound of that. How are the Bills
Speaker 1: going to counter? What do you think's got have gone through?
Speaker 1: Greg Romance mind as he prepares to face Todd Balls
Speaker 1: and Casey Rodgers net defensive line. The way they got
Speaker 1: after Andy Dalton. Uh, a solid linebacker group and a
Speaker 1: secondary who is gonna be held bunt on coming back
Speaker 1: and playing a lot better than they did on Week one.
Speaker 1: How how do you think the Bills are gonna attempt
Speaker 1: to attack this team? Well, they're gonna make sure that
Speaker 1: they're going to eliminate negative plays on first and second down.
Speaker 1: They can't allow the Jets defense to establish the tempo
Speaker 1: on first and second down and impose their will upon
Speaker 1: them to wear on third down. They're sitting there a
Speaker 1: third and eight, third and ten, third and twelve. That
Speaker 1: doesn't that's not going to be good for the Bill.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna try to be creative on first and
Speaker 1: second down with not your normal run packages, but using
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna try to use wide receiver screens,
Speaker 1: running back screen, really get creative on the perimeter to
Speaker 1: create first and second down yards. Uh, use a shade McCoy,
Speaker 1: use some of their weapons out on the perimeter. That
Speaker 1: that's necessarily not conventional, but for them it will have
Speaker 1: to be conventional against the Jest defense, something they'll have
Speaker 1: to really focus in on. So I think they'll have
Speaker 1: a huge package when it comes to screen and short throws,
Speaker 1: empty package, different things like that, and not just lining
Speaker 1: up and thinking that we can move the ball in
Speaker 1: conventional sets. Chad, you played a number of times. It
Speaker 1: used to be called Ralph Wilson Stadium. Now I think
Speaker 1: they're calling a new era field in western New York.
Speaker 1: You know, you know the fans are gonna be crazy
Speaker 1: either right on top of you as far as the
Speaker 1: stadium is concerned on that sideline. Um, do you believe
Speaker 1: in the philosophy as a guy who was out there
Speaker 1: playing that you have to survive an initial surge from
Speaker 1: the other team based on the motion of just playing
Speaker 1: at home. Well, part of the survival though, is to
Speaker 1: be you know, extremely focused and prepared and when you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to make it play in a big
Speaker 1: play at that you've got to make it. Can't be drops,
Speaker 1: whether it be interceptions or receptions on the offensive side,
Speaker 1: can't be anything like that. And so that's how you
Speaker 1: not only whether that storm of emotion, but you also
Speaker 1: just flat take it away to be very solid. And
Speaker 1: what you're doing now at the same time, part of
Speaker 1: whether in that storm is not looking to try to
Speaker 1: make you play, not pressing too hard to try to
Speaker 1: make you play, allowing the game to come to you
Speaker 1: do what you're supposed to do with this sigment and
Speaker 1: the alignment that you have within the system. And then
Speaker 1: once that big play opportunity is there to be had,
Speaker 1: you have to capitalize. Now, I'm gonna ask you to
Speaker 1: put your analysts tap back. You consider that's a key
Speaker 1: early game, don't you, because you not being in the
Speaker 1: locker room anymore, and know the schedule ahead, and and
Speaker 1: it is tough on paper when you look at that
Speaker 1: Kansas City Seattle at home at Pittsburgh and then road
Speaker 1: trips the Pitts again Arizona. Uh, and this is a
Speaker 1: divisional game, and you would have a lot different feel
Speaker 1: inside the building and outside as a fan base. Right
Speaker 1: if you get this one and you're one on one
Speaker 1: after two and everything's fine, no questions, because if you
Speaker 1: look at the four the games are being played, you say, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, one on one after the first two games
Speaker 1: with a playoff team and the opener, and and then
Speaker 1: you have the Buffalo Bills who played extremely well at
Speaker 1: home and are improved one on one. It's not great,
Speaker 1: but it's not terrible. Um So, now in the position
Speaker 1: that they're in by losing the opener, although there's some
Speaker 1: great things ahead and great things that have happened in
Speaker 1: the opener, you say this to me, and they've got
Speaker 1: to win this game, uh, to really feel good about
Speaker 1: their progress as a team and to build some momentum
Speaker 1: moving into this next four game stretch. This is one
Speaker 1: that they definitely need to have and and then and
Speaker 1: mind you that it's also a division game, so winning
Speaker 1: those division games are extremely important, no doubt about that. Well,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. Our season has kicked off. Chad Pennington
Speaker 1: back in the analysts chair, and uh, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking to you after that Bill's game, Chad, enjoy the
Speaker 1: rest of the week. Okay, Eric, thank you,