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Speaker 1: special occasion when we can welcome Mark Sanchez back to
Speaker 1: the facility first time since you're playing day, first time back.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, I realized that on the ride over
Speaker 1: with Nick Mangold. I was like, I haven't been back
Speaker 1: here in a long time. So New York, you come back.
Speaker 1: You've been here for a few days, You've been participating
Speaker 1: and some sporting events and what have you been taken in?
Speaker 1: And because you just mentioned Mangold, correct, it was great
Speaker 1: to reconnect with a bunch of friends. Try and get
Speaker 1: out as much as I can. But you know, go
Speaker 1: see a Broadway show. I got to see the Rangers
Speaker 1: playoff game. I got to see the Yankees last night. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's been uh, it's been a blast. But seeing
Speaker 1: I mean some of the people that are still here
Speaker 1: from oh nine or fort seen however long it was,
Speaker 1: you know, the rich Biddell's, Megan gilmars As right down
Speaker 1: in the training room, Bobby in the training room, Bobby
Speaker 1: Mustrodi security Like that was really cool, you know, because
Speaker 1: those wonderful memories come flooding back. Um, the nostalgia this
Speaker 1: place for me, Um, it means the world to me.
Speaker 1: This is where you know, I was first on my
Speaker 1: own really because you know, I went to college almost
Speaker 1: down the street from my house, and coming to New
Speaker 1: York was me part of me growing up, part of
Speaker 1: me learning how to be a quarterback, part of me,
Speaker 1: UM embracing this franchise because it embraced me. So it's UM,
Speaker 1: it's all kind of coming full circle. And I really
Speaker 1: appreciate seeing everybody the draft back in oh nine Radio
Speaker 1: City Music. So I remember you actually coming up here
Speaker 1: to the second floor at one Jets Drive, and one
Speaker 1: of the first things I heard on your mouth was
Speaker 1: you were asking people their names and he said, I
Speaker 1: have to remember your name. I mean that that was
Speaker 1: something that was on your mind from the get I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that was from Coach Carroll, who
Speaker 1: learned a lot of that from Bill Walsh. And Um,
Speaker 1: he's got a book. The Score takes care of itself,
Speaker 1: but it talks about the chef in the building, the
Speaker 1: person signing or selling tickets, the sweet salesperson. Everybody has
Speaker 1: their specific role in an organization, and that's kind of
Speaker 1: the way I was brought up at USC so, um,
Speaker 1: I gotta thank coach Girl for that. And um my
Speaker 1: high school coach Bob Johnson always reminded me, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who it is that you interact with.
Speaker 1: You don't know what that person is, what you'll ever
Speaker 1: do for them, what they'll do for you, but you
Speaker 1: gotta respect him. You gotta treat them the right way.
Speaker 1: And I hope I did that, um, you know, as
Speaker 1: as best I could. I felt like I did. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, you never know when when somebody's gonna help
Speaker 1: you out, when somebody's gonna um do something for you,
Speaker 1: so you always want to be available to them. And
Speaker 1: that was a big deal, you know, the respect thing
Speaker 1: and shaking hands, and that was you know, since I
Speaker 1: was a little guy. And now I'm trying to teach
Speaker 1: my little man that who's five years old, Daniel. So um, so,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's coming full circle. And well we're
Speaker 1: going to get to the family here in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you mentioned Pete. It's interesting you go back to
Speaker 1: before you declared for the draft. Pete wasn't a favor
Speaker 1: that relationship at all. Well, so that's it's funny because that, um,
Speaker 1: that was like the headline that, oh, Carol and Sanchez,
Speaker 1: there's bad blood there, you know, and what people don't know.
Speaker 1: And I've said this, you know now that I've been
Speaker 1: retired and stuff. I think I said it when I
Speaker 1: was playing. But the night before that press conference, Pete
Speaker 1: Carroll was in my apartment un till two am, and
Speaker 1: we're eating cheeseburgers. We're eating in and out cheeseburger We'll
Speaker 1: shut up. Um, We're eating in and out cheeseburgers, talking
Speaker 1: and he's recruiting me to stay in a way, in
Speaker 1: Pete's way of you know, and giving me the whole layout,
Speaker 1: saying a lot of what he was going to say
Speaker 1: the next day. So it wasn't a shock when I
Speaker 1: heard what he was talking about. Because the numbers truly
Speaker 1: weren't great for younger quarterbacks to declare early and go
Speaker 1: to the NFL. The success rate was really really low.
Speaker 1: Now define success, well, that's relative, okay, fine, but to
Speaker 1: have what we had, I wouldn't change my decision for
Speaker 1: the world because of what I experienced here and those
Speaker 1: first two seasons were incredible. So it didn't bother me
Speaker 1: when Pete said it. But since nobody else had heard it,
Speaker 1: I had already heard it, and I knew he didn't
Speaker 1: agree with me, but he was cool with it. Like,
Speaker 1: but he said, you know, I'm gonna say that this
Speaker 1: isn't you know, I don't think this is the best move.
Speaker 1: And I said, Coach, I respect that you. You have
Speaker 1: a right to your opinion and that's your way of thinking.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this is the right time for
Speaker 1: me to make this move. Cool, all good. I give
Speaker 1: him a big hug. At the end of the night.
Speaker 1: Everything's fine. I go to the press conference. He says
Speaker 1: what he's gonna say, and then it just explodes. And
Speaker 1: Pete called me like an hour later, and he goes, holy.
Speaker 1: He's like, dude, I didn't of course, I want you
Speaker 1: to do well. Of course I'm going to be rooting
Speaker 1: for you, like I didn't mean for it to come
Speaker 1: off like I don't. I disagree, and I hope he fails.
Speaker 1: He's like, that's not that's not And I said, coach,
Speaker 1: you didn't thank you for making the phone call completely
Speaker 1: unnecessary because I know where you're coming from. It's all good.
Speaker 1: And he's still never a bump in the road, like
Speaker 1: zero say not yeah, and so it's um, you know,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of press and all that, but
Speaker 1: what was that private workout like with the Jets? Who
Speaker 1: was there from this organization because a lot of people
Speaker 1: had PEG The Jets maybe taken a Josh Freeman after
Speaker 1: Brett Farve of course signed with the Vikings. Um, let's
Speaker 1: see Kavanaugh was there? Who was here last year? Shoddy,
Speaker 1: Mike t Mike Tannerbom, Mr Johnson? What am I forgetting?
Speaker 1: I feel like there were one or two more people,
Speaker 1: obviously Rex, Um, and this was that might be it.
Speaker 1: But we went to dinner after and this was the
Speaker 1: kicker and Rex always loved this story. But and you're
Speaker 1: obviously remember Rex's personality. Um, but we're walking out of
Speaker 1: dinner with that whole group, and there's a motorcycle parked
Speaker 1: right in front of the restaurant with a helmet on it,
Speaker 1: hanging on it. And I didn't write a motorcycle, don't
Speaker 1: know how to write a motorcycle, Like nothing had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with me. But I walked over to it
Speaker 1: because I felt so comfortable with them. I was like,
Speaker 1: I really hope I go to this team. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen because they're picking so late. But
Speaker 1: never in a million years or was I going to
Speaker 1: know that they were going to trade up like that.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they knew it at the time.
Speaker 1: So I went to go. I said goodbye everybody, thank you,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, we'll talk soon. I hope it works out.
Speaker 1: And I grabbed the helmet off the motorcycle and pretended
Speaker 1: to get on the motorcycle. Rex goes, hell, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: our guy, you know, like joking around because he knew
Speaker 1: I was joking, and Mr the look on Mr Johnson's face,
Speaker 1: he was just like, oh God, please tell me this
Speaker 1: isn't real. I was like, I'm just kidding, Mr Johnson. Sorry,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember. I remember my headlined uh when
Speaker 1: they actually moved up with Mangini because obviously with the
Speaker 1: Browns to get the number five number overall and sending
Speaker 1: a couple of draft picks and three veteran players said
Speaker 1: from Hollywood to Broadway here coming from Mark Sanchez, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see a show, actually, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What do you see? American Buffalo? Laurence Fishburne? How many
Speaker 1: plays did you see while you were here as a player?
Speaker 1: A lot, a lot I couldn't count. I mean I
Speaker 1: saw in the Heights so many times, Wicked Fences. Um,
Speaker 1: she's um Memphis I presented for at the Tony's remember
Speaker 1: when Memphis won Best Musical. But I loved it. I
Speaker 1: just once I met some of the performers and learned
Speaker 1: about their schedule. I mean eight shows a week. These
Speaker 1: people are taking care of their bodies, learning their positions,
Speaker 1: They got their whole thing choreographed, and their voices got
Speaker 1: to be on point. Like I just respected them so much,
Speaker 1: and it was so similar to what we do here
Speaker 1: as players, you know, And um, I just immediately fell
Speaker 1: in love. My parents took me to like Lyon King
Speaker 1: when I was a little kid, Oliver Twist when I
Speaker 1: was a little kid, and I always had this you know,
Speaker 1: respect and affinity for the arts and and theater. So
Speaker 1: it's um, I mean, there's no better place in the world.
Speaker 1: You come play for the Jets and you get to
Speaker 1: go to these shows and people are inviting you to
Speaker 1: premieres and stuff like that was so cool. So I
Speaker 1: tried to take advantage of it when I could. And
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know if the guys will
Speaker 1: say it but their wives appreciated it because I'd always
Speaker 1: bring the guys and say, hey, yeah, bring your wife,
Speaker 1: bring your wife, And they couldn't drag those guys to
Speaker 1: plays or shows or anything. So you were making so
Speaker 1: we can get at least one boy's night an agenda.
Speaker 1: I had an agenda, but they didn't need to know
Speaker 1: all the details. Hey, is it crazy to think that
Speaker 1: you had four seasons here? Yeah, it's um, it seemed
Speaker 1: long and short at the same time. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was weird because once once I leave here, you know,
Speaker 1: I just started bounced around and that was a different
Speaker 1: experience of the NFL. And I kind of got a
Speaker 1: lot of things backwards early because we had so much success,
Speaker 1: and I'm coming straight out of college where you had success,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, the NFL stuffs not so bad, Like
Speaker 1: it's not so hard. Stay with one team, play here forever,
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs every year. You know, we'll win
Speaker 1: a couple of Super Bowls along the way. You know,
Speaker 1: that's how you think. Um, And then you get to
Speaker 1: the reality of being cut, being traded, like different things
Speaker 1: happening to you, and you learn a lot more about
Speaker 1: the business side of the NFL and listen, you have
Speaker 1: to go through everything you go through up until this
Speaker 1: point to get to this point. So I wouldn't change
Speaker 1: any of that stuff. I met a lot of great
Speaker 1: people along the way, but obviously the Jets. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like your first love. You know, you just have
Speaker 1: um a special place in your heart for for this place,
Speaker 1: the people here, the organization, the city. All of it
Speaker 1: was retirement easy for you. At thirty two, you're young, dude.
Speaker 1: At thirty two, you're still a young guy. At thirty five,
Speaker 1: it's it's weird and um and by the way, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to your career because you're doing a lot
Speaker 1: of great things, broadcasting concern You're hosting the exchange here
Speaker 1: with your buddy Thicky just you know, Karen his weight
Speaker 1: like I used to as a player. Unbelievable. That's a
Speaker 1: complete life. No. Um. I feel like I was just lucky, blessed, fortunate,
Speaker 1: all those things combined to have made the relationships I made,
Speaker 1: learned what I did along the way, and be able
Speaker 1: to hopefully present myself well and talk about the game.
Speaker 1: Learn enough about the game, all the different systems I've
Speaker 1: been in. So when I watched something and analyze it.
Speaker 1: I have a pretty good idea and then you know,
Speaker 1: my people skills kick in and I can relate that
Speaker 1: information to the lay person who doesn't who isn't like
Speaker 1: a hardcore football person who doesn't know what for two
Speaker 1: man is, but I can explain it quickly, and I
Speaker 1: felt like that's where I wanted to move on to.
Speaker 1: I had to learn a lot about being on camera,
Speaker 1: the red light on the camera, like all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff where in an I FB what what is?
Speaker 1: What is all that you know? And it took a
Speaker 1: little time, but I felt like I had some of
Speaker 1: the best experience leading into that USC huge market New
Speaker 1: York Jets, huge market. I couldn't get out of a
Speaker 1: big market. I mean, think about it other really than
Speaker 1: like Denver maybe for the quick offseason. I was there, Dallas, Chicago, DC,
Speaker 1: like Philly, like everything. Every market was massive. So you
Speaker 1: do more interviews, there's more pressed, there's more you know,
Speaker 1: polishing that you get along the way, and it helped.
Speaker 1: And I was just bless fortunate, lucky to have an opportunity,
Speaker 1: and ESPN gave me that opportunity. So I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: forever grateful, just like the Jets gave me my first
Speaker 1: shot in pro football. ESPN gave me my first shot
Speaker 1: um with television, and I really enjoyed it. Learned a ton.
Speaker 1: You're rocking all with Fox right now, and now I'm
Speaker 1: with Fox calling NFL games and I'm loving that. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I'm back in the NFL. I enjoyed the college
Speaker 1: stuff with ESPN, ABC. It was a great start, like
Speaker 1: the best way to cut your teeth, I feel like
Speaker 1: because it was a studio job. It was um uh
Speaker 1: tree top surface level stuff about college football. And if
Speaker 1: you know, if you've got to analyze college football when
Speaker 1: you haven't been in college football for ten years, that
Speaker 1: was a lot. I felt like I was drinking college
Speaker 1: football knowledge through a fire hose, like it was trying
Speaker 1: to get ready for that season, was you know, really stressful.
Speaker 1: But now that I'm back in the league, like affiliated
Speaker 1: with the NFL, It's like this is I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff I've seen forever I've I've been
Speaker 1: on so and so you know, uh team, I've I've
Speaker 1: heard him in team meetings. I can talk about that
Speaker 1: on air. And bottom line, you know this e a
Speaker 1: like story, sell the good story, sell and so that's
Speaker 1: what you get a chance to do, and telling funds,
Speaker 1: funny stories, being self deprecated and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I think it's all. It all makes hopefully some good TV.
Speaker 1: But you know, asked Nick Mangold, I got a better
Speaker 1: face for radio. Hey, you've always had some great stories.
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Speaker 1: under the lights, let's talk about in the dark yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah girl. In terms of you've got some exciting news
Speaker 1: right now. I don't have the ring to show anybody
Speaker 1: because that's not how it works, I guess. But no,
Speaker 1: pair and I got engaged a little over a week,
Speaker 1: could probably ten days now. Um, but um we've been
Speaker 1: we've been dating for a while and she's great. UM
Speaker 1: My family loves her. I obviously love her. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled about this. She's, um, no surprise, is an actress.
Speaker 1: She's a real cat. Um I guess not she but
Speaker 1: she you know what she has and it's um interesting
Speaker 1: because she has her friends in the industry and stuff,
Speaker 1: and there's a few, but she has this like friend
Speaker 1: group outside that she went to college with that are
Speaker 1: completely unaffiliated with Hollywood movies, TV, nothing, And I felt
Speaker 1: like that's just kept her so grounded and she's you know,
Speaker 1: she's a rock star, dude, She's gonna be awesome. Um,
Speaker 1: whatever her next opportunity is after in the dark. Obviously
Speaker 1: I'm a little biased, but I think she does a
Speaker 1: great job and she's so good with my boy with
Speaker 1: DJ UM, you know, that was huge and you know,
Speaker 1: one of the blessings that came out of cove. It
Speaker 1: is like we're kind of living together, you know, so
Speaker 1: you get a real good glimpse of like what would
Speaker 1: this really look like with of at the time, a
Speaker 1: three year old boy in the house, Like how is
Speaker 1: she maternally? You know, how is she with stuff around
Speaker 1: the house? And like can we work together? Can we
Speaker 1: co exist? Couldn't gone better? So it was, you know,
Speaker 1: after that, it was a no brainer. I I think
Speaker 1: I just held off for a couple of years just
Speaker 1: to be safe. But what's her last name? Again? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because people are going to be looking her up. Who
Speaker 1: aren't watching her? They should. She's good, It's really good.
Speaker 1: She was on Shameless, she's been in the dark, um,
Speaker 1: a bunch of different movies and stuff. But she's Um,
Speaker 1: she's just done. Man, she's great. You totally out did
Speaker 1: yourself as far as the plane is concerned. Can you
Speaker 1: just take us, take us behind the scenes what you
Speaker 1: actually did there? So we were we were in this
Speaker 1: Uh well, listen, you have to understand the backstory because
Speaker 1: I had I had hit the brake so hard on
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff because we had talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: getting married and you know, this this whole life together
Speaker 1: that we're gonna build and all that. And so leading
Speaker 1: up to this, I had all of her girlfriends in
Speaker 1: on it, her parents and on it. The creator and
Speaker 1: showrunner of her show in the Darkness, Calcrane Kingsbury, and
Speaker 1: so we had been like completely lying to her for
Speaker 1: like two months setting this whole thing up, the dinner,
Speaker 1: the surprise, the whole deal. And and so we get
Speaker 1: to the week we're supposed to go to down to Anguilla,
Speaker 1: Capture Luca, the Belmont Capture Lucas the resort, and the
Speaker 1: week we're going I went out of my way to
Speaker 1: tell her, hey, baby, we're going on this vacation. She
Speaker 1: had just got filmed, done filming. We hadn't seen each
Speaker 1: other in like four months, and she was up in Toronto.
Speaker 1: I was home in California, and so we just didn't
Speaker 1: have a ton of connection other than FaceTime and calls
Speaker 1: and all that because she's on set, she's working, and
Speaker 1: it's like a tight deal. I said, listen, we're going
Speaker 1: on this vacation. It's the first time we're gonna see
Speaker 1: each other. I don't want to talk any nonsense about
Speaker 1: this marriage stuff. So just table it and it was
Speaker 1: let's giveaway no, and she was just like, oh, like
Speaker 1: pretty bumped like it. I could tell it like her
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I'm holding the phone away from
Speaker 1: my face, like trying not to laugh because I know
Speaker 1: what's going on, you know, to the point where I'm
Speaker 1: telling her girlfriends like if you all blow this, no
Speaker 1: invite to the wedding. I'm not kidding. And they are
Speaker 1: like her friends friends, you know. So it went off
Speaker 1: without a hitch. I was shocked. But when we walked
Speaker 1: my whole ruse to get her there was to get
Speaker 1: her to the actual place where we were gonna where
Speaker 1: I was going to propose is um. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: the lady at the front desk said, there's a great
Speaker 1: place to take pictures out on this um out kind
Speaker 1: of in this like foyer area. Uh. And we had
Speaker 1: everything set up, the dinner, the whole deal, and so
Speaker 1: it's there's like rose petals everywhere and like this romantic scene.
Speaker 1: And so we go in and I tell her like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's some why why don't you do your hair a
Speaker 1: little bit so we can go take some pictures and
Speaker 1: like why don't you wear this? And she's kind of
Speaker 1: looked at me like why are you shaving. We're on vacation.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, let's just take some pictures,
Speaker 1: you know, like let's whatever. And we opened the door
Speaker 1: to this place and it's all decorated obviously for some
Speaker 1: sort of either like um, you know, renewal of vows,
Speaker 1: vows um or or like yeah, some kind of like anniversary, romantic,
Speaker 1: celebrated celebration, anniversary something. And so when I opened it,
Speaker 1: I see the lady Ariel from the hotel, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, are we interrupting someone's event?
Speaker 1: And she goes, well, they'll be here in a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes, but you guys can take some pictures if
Speaker 1: you want. It's like okay, and we're walking through this
Speaker 1: like beautifully romantic setting. It's just kind of like sinking
Speaker 1: lower and lower and lower, like damn, why would he
Speaker 1: bring me here if this isn't for me? And so
Speaker 1: we started taking pictures and she was taking selfies like that,
Speaker 1: and I, um, I'm kind of behind her, and so
Speaker 1: as she's holding the phone like that, I put the
Speaker 1: ring like on her shoulder, and so she goes to
Speaker 1: take the picture. And you know how girls are, they
Speaker 1: want to take like twenty pictures, so she's taking a
Speaker 1: bunch and then she finally realizes it and kind of
Speaker 1: goes like that, like there's a bug on her or something,
Speaker 1: you know. And then she's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You know? And I get down on the knee and
Speaker 1: do the whole thing, and the whole time she just says,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? What are you doing? It's like, well,
Speaker 1: if you let me talk, I'll tell you what I'm doing. Um,
Speaker 1: And and then the final kicker was just her parents
Speaker 1: being there, and she had no idea it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be like a couple's vacation. And I said, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a special moment for us, but for you especially,
Speaker 1: and I know you really want your parents here. So
Speaker 1: she goes, yeah, I know, and she kind of gave
Speaker 1: me a look and I was like, well, we can
Speaker 1: call him out if you want. She was just shocked,
Speaker 1: you know. And so her dad turned on the water works.
Speaker 1: Her glasses were all fogged up. Dude, he's and he's
Speaker 1: the best. They're both great. But yeah, I love pop
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Speaker 1: you saw here today? I know it's just so t
Speaker 1: as Robert Salis says. This is all about what you're
Speaker 1: doing from the neck up right now. Not a lot
Speaker 1: of violence on the football field, but just from a
Speaker 1: cultural perspective, what you've seen from Salah, Joe Douglas and
Speaker 1: your glimpse of the roster, well, I think, um, they've
Speaker 1: acquired the right picks, they've acquired the right talent, The
Speaker 1: right kind of people. It looks like and you can
Speaker 1: see it. It's um because let's face it, when when
Speaker 1: we went on our really good runs, this team was
Speaker 1: tight and it works right, it's um. It's a unique
Speaker 1: relationship because winning and you you win a lot of
Speaker 1: games and you get tight, or you start to get
Speaker 1: tight and you win a lot of games. They go
Speaker 1: hand in hand and they help each other, right, This
Speaker 1: like symbiotic relationship. So I feel like with what I saw,
Speaker 1: your qbs out for the day. But Flacco and Mike
Speaker 1: White pick up the slack and it looks great that
Speaker 1: the amount of talent that they've acquired and the guys
Speaker 1: who are getting healthy like Mosley Um, the stud up front,
Speaker 1: Quinny Williams, Like they got players, the guys that while
Speaker 1: you the guys that keep offensive and defensive coordinators up
Speaker 1: at night like damn, how are we gonna stop this guy?
Speaker 1: Or how are we gonna block this guy? Or what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do at corner? Because that kid number
Speaker 1: one Sauce. I mean, that guy's like freaking fly paper man.
Speaker 1: He sticks to everything, does a little bit like Crow
Speaker 1: body wise, but he's got some strength and he's like
Speaker 1: got some wiry strength the way Revs was like, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean, throwing one on ones against Revus was a
Speaker 1: waste of time for us on offense, you know, it
Speaker 1: was like you know, every once in a while Braylon
Speaker 1: and Santonio would would do all right and there I
Speaker 1: mean those guys would grind and battle every day and
Speaker 1: one on one. So um, that's you get like feelings
Speaker 1: of that, right, and you don't want to say anything
Speaker 1: too soon, but this is at least it's going in
Speaker 1: the right direction. The trajectory looks like, Okay, we're all
Speaker 1: rowing in the same direction. A couple of guys that
Speaker 1: they picked up, um, guys that I had been with
Speaker 1: in Denver McGovern and uh Will Parks, Yes, and Will Parks,
Speaker 1: I mean Will Parks is a tough dude man, Philly kid. Um.
Speaker 1: I loved him in Denver. He was a stud as
Speaker 1: a rookie. Make him plays and didn't say a whole
Speaker 1: lot but just head down and can ball. And I
Speaker 1: think that's what Joe Douglas is about, That's what coach
Speaker 1: sal is about. We want football guys. We want guys
Speaker 1: that can just straight up ball. They respect and care
Speaker 1: about their teammates. They just want to win and they
Speaker 1: want to practice. They'll do whatever it takes to win.
Speaker 1: And it looks like that's what they're building. And once again,
Speaker 1: as long as you connect withstand the external pressure and
Speaker 1: the you know, this urgency like we have to be
Speaker 1: good right now. And and if you can avoid judging
Speaker 1: this team not just game to game, season to season,
Speaker 1: but like drive to drive. You know, if they go
Speaker 1: three and out like it's okay, you know, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're gonna lose every game. And if they score
Speaker 1: an opening drive touchdown, that doesn't guarantee a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Just let the thing play out. And I think, um,
Speaker 1: they've done a great job of coach Alla and coach
Speaker 1: Douglas or Joe Douglas, of letting this thing marinate, let
Speaker 1: this thing develop. You're gonna talk to Zeke Wilson. What
Speaker 1: do you like about him? You know? I love I
Speaker 1: love his mentality. I love that that he has no
Speaker 1: problem cutting the thing loose, because I'd rather have a
Speaker 1: quarterback where you have to say whoa and pull on
Speaker 1: the reins a little bit, then like light a fire
Speaker 1: under him and say come on, man, like go sick them,
Speaker 1: you know. And so I'd rather have that and and
Speaker 1: teach him to play the game the right away and
Speaker 1: take care of the ball and say uncle when it's
Speaker 1: time to say uncle. But that's part of being a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And um, you know, people do the comparison
Speaker 1: thing a lot, and I'm like you guys, that we're
Speaker 1: comparing apples and oranges, not me and Zach, but the
Speaker 1: team and and the the status of the team and
Speaker 1: and team potential at the time we were drafted. These
Speaker 1: guys there's a young team. I got drafted to a
Speaker 1: veteran team. And there were times, I mean, my man,
Speaker 1: Mike West throws me under the pus the other day.
Speaker 1: But yeah, as a rookie quarterback, does the team have
Speaker 1: to help win games in spite of the quarterback at times?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, that's part of being a rookie quarterback. And
Speaker 1: that's okay. But as you learn, you start to become
Speaker 1: the reason why you win some of these games. Like
Speaker 1: we go in my second year Houston, Detroit and Cleveland
Speaker 1: last play of the game three games in a row.
Speaker 1: And not to say Mike West off special teams didn't
Speaker 1: help us, Like when we beat Indianapolis and Crow takes
Speaker 1: it back like sixty yards to give us to get
Speaker 1: us close to field goal range. It all works together,
Speaker 1: and so Zach was figuring it out last year and
Speaker 1: you could tell it's it's almost like playing pick up
Speaker 1: basketball a little bit, like you try and test out
Speaker 1: what you can and can't get away with. And now
Speaker 1: the second year, at least, he's got the same system, right,
Speaker 1: He's got the same language that he's speaking, he's got
Speaker 1: the same backups that are there that have been through
Speaker 1: the fire with him. He got a chance to step
Speaker 1: away and watch how Joe Flacco Mike White could conduct
Speaker 1: themselves in the huddle, and I think he learned a
Speaker 1: lot from that. So those are things I would ask him,
Speaker 1: But I think he's on the right track when it
Speaker 1: comes to like talent wise through the roof. Now it's
Speaker 1: what does coach solids say? Neck up, dude, Just learn
Speaker 1: how to play, learn when it's time to cut bait
Speaker 1: and move on with your life and don't force it
Speaker 1: on a third down kind of thing. Some of the
Speaker 1: some of the things that are easy to say and
Speaker 1: so easy to see from the outside, but as a
Speaker 1: quarterback and a little bit of a gunslinger mentality, like
Speaker 1: you want to make the play. You're so competitive that
Speaker 1: you can make every play work. And that's not the
Speaker 1: way this league works. And so he's starting to figure
Speaker 1: that out. And so, um, he's got the drive, he's
Speaker 1: got the work ethic. Um, you know, he's getting his
Speaker 1: guys together in the offseason, like all those kind of things.
Speaker 1: Everything is showing. I'm seeing everything I need to see
Speaker 1: for this to work out. If it works out, at
Speaker 1: least he put in the right work, Like, at least
Speaker 1: he did all the prerequisition. At least plaid the groundwork
Speaker 1: from a guy who played the position. Though, what do
Speaker 1: you like most about that physical skill set? So here's
Speaker 1: the thing. Plays are never over with him, right, even
Speaker 1: when it's covered, it's not because he can move. He
Speaker 1: can move way better than I ever dreamed of moving.
Speaker 1: I wish I could roll out of bed on a
Speaker 1: Sunday and move like Zach Wilson in a game, right,
Speaker 1: because this kid can rush for like sixty rs if
Speaker 1: you want to, Now, when is it time? When that play?
Speaker 1: As that play extends and it gets longer and longer,
Speaker 1: you've gotta get smarter. Your your i Q just has
Speaker 1: to continue to grow as that four second play turns
Speaker 1: into six, seven, eight, nine seconds? Well, what are you
Speaker 1: doing with the football? What's the situation? How much time
Speaker 1: has left? How many time outs do we Where are
Speaker 1: we on the field, what's the real situation? How are
Speaker 1: we playing? What are the rules right now? Is it
Speaker 1: fourth down? And no matter what, we gotta get this
Speaker 1: ball thrown. Okay, that's one thing. Or is it first down?
Speaker 1: You're in your own territory and you're down to nothing,
Speaker 1: Well that's another thing. Probably don't need to force it
Speaker 1: and go down seventeen nothing by throwing a pick, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And so he's going to start
Speaker 1: to register those things and and put him in a rolodex.
Speaker 1: And that's what makes him so scary because as soon
Speaker 1: as he figures it out there, I mean, then it's
Speaker 1: just pick and choose your spots, dude. And now he's
Speaker 1: like this prize fighter and whatever he wants, he knows
Speaker 1: how to protect himself and just just deliver and knock
Speaker 1: out blow. What do you think about? Did you have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk to him a little bit? He
Speaker 1: can actually these guys Michael Carter is in the room
Speaker 1: right now. Um, you know I would argue that he
Speaker 1: is the perfect guy for a young team. I really
Speaker 1: think so, and for a market like this, I think
Speaker 1: he just keeps everything steady, right. He's like this a
Speaker 1: guy who preaches like this one voice mentality and just
Speaker 1: trust what we have going on. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of noise all of the place. Let's not add
Speaker 1: to the noise, and let's just row the boat in
Speaker 1: the same direction. And I think, you know, it looks
Speaker 1: like the guys are really responding to that UM. But
Speaker 1: he's a study. He's been a study everywhere he's went.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guys in sam frand we're still talking
Speaker 1: about him. Last year. Jamiko Ryan's is their new head coach.
Speaker 1: Him and I played together in UM in Philly and
Speaker 1: he had nothing but just glowing remarks about the guy.
Speaker 1: And he thinks he's gonna be great. What was your
Speaker 1: most memorable UM stretch here? Nine or ten? UM? I
Speaker 1: feel like nine was such a blur because as a rookie,
Speaker 1: you're in that rookie bubble and you don't realize. I
Speaker 1: feel like, I remember we went home, we lost to
Speaker 1: Atlanta at home, and yes, and coming home, yeah, like
Speaker 1: you start to make plans to go home, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where am I going to live? I don't have a
Speaker 1: house at home, Like, I haven't even thought about any
Speaker 1: of these things. So I'm starting to make a list
Speaker 1: of all the crap I gotta get done. I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna get a knee surgery, like all this stuff that's
Speaker 1: going on. Oh, I swear to god. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, and not checked out. But you start to
Speaker 1: plan your life and figure out, Okay, we've gotta get
Speaker 1: it going again next year. Let's get started the right way.
Speaker 1: And the next thing we come into facilitia, Rex is like, man,
Speaker 1: we're back in it. And I was like, looking at
Speaker 1: you know, Kevin O'Connell and Kevin clemments like what does
Speaker 1: that mean? He's like, I think we're going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, so now what you know?
Speaker 1: And I was so green. Um, you know, I remember
Speaker 1: I said this. I don't know if I've ever admitted this,
Speaker 1: but I said I didn't know the divisions. I knew
Speaker 1: our division obviously because of the teams we're gonna play,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know like how it's broken down. So
Speaker 1: I said, that'd be so crazy to play the Chargers
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, just like I grew up watched
Speaker 1: the Super grew up watching the Chargers and LT and
Speaker 1: all that. Ladania Thompson and Brunelle like Kevin O'Connor were like,
Speaker 1: you idiot, come on, dude, we can't play the Chargers.
Speaker 1: And I was like, why not? Are they not gonna
Speaker 1: make it? Or you dumbass, we're in the a f C.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, right, right, okay, so explain
Speaker 1: that again. So yeah, it was. It was a learning
Speaker 1: experience to say the least. But that that run, plus
Speaker 1: the next year, having my second year, I had my
Speaker 1: second year in the NFL. Coming into the year, I
Speaker 1: had never won a fourth quarter comeback, lost two in college,
Speaker 1: lost two or three my rookie year, and that was
Speaker 1: the first year. And then we went on that stretch,
Speaker 1: that crazy stretch of the last second place and fourth
Speaker 1: quarter comebacks, and we racked up like four or five
Speaker 1: that year. And once we did it, it was just
Speaker 1: like a confidence thing, like riding a bike, like you
Speaker 1: knew how to handle the situation, Like oh, it wasn't
Speaker 1: that hard, Like you can check the ball down, It's okay,
Speaker 1: you know, you can throw the ball away. It's okay,
Speaker 1: just don't take the sack because now you're running out
Speaker 1: of time and we don't have time outs left. So
Speaker 1: it was just learning how to manage those situations because
Speaker 1: I hadn't been in a lot of those. Right at
Speaker 1: SC we're up a lot, you know, we didn't have
Speaker 1: to fight back in a lot of games, and so
Speaker 1: I had to learn that on the fly here. UM.
Speaker 1: So I think that stretch was awesome. UM playing at
Speaker 1: home at San Diego, UM, for me was incredible. Other
Speaker 1: than buying all those damn tickets, I don't think I
Speaker 1: got paid from the team that week because I just
Speaker 1: went straight to buying tickets for my family. UM. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean so many good memories. Um ten Indianapolis pet Man,
Speaker 1: It's house, Tom Brady almost complete the magical run and pitch.
Speaker 1: How how often you think about that? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: the high end the low for sure, because we had
Speaker 1: such a slow start to that game. That first quarter
Speaker 1: seemed to go forever and we just didn't touch the ball,
Speaker 1: and then um the sack fumble before halftime. I think
Speaker 1: if everybody could go back, we might we might as
Speaker 1: well just ran it, because I don't know what we
Speaker 1: were trying to get out of that drive. I think
Speaker 1: we just felt a little desperate and like we had
Speaker 1: to do something, you know, try and score a little bit,
Speaker 1: kick a field goal something. But that gave him so
Speaker 1: much momentum before the half. Um. But I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: we came back like game bust gangbusters in that second half,
Speaker 1: and um, it felt like you run out of time,
Speaker 1: you know, when you leave everything on the field and
Speaker 1: you're like so close. It didn't feel like you lose.
Speaker 1: You feel like you run out of time, and um,
Speaker 1: I gotta let you go on. But was that your
Speaker 1: bust professional game in New England? Gilet the three touchdown
Speaker 1: passes once again, slow first quarter other than Dave Harris's interception,
Speaker 1: but then Mie, then we kind of blew the doors off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had the misfield goal, that's right, Oh my gosh. Um,
Speaker 1: So it was like back and forth and both of
Speaker 1: us were like kind of waiting for the other team
Speaker 1: to screw up, and we both had a couple mishaps,
Speaker 1: whether it was the field goal or Brady's interception on
Speaker 1: the screen. I think, I mean, the guy didn't throw
Speaker 1: picks and he threw on on a screen of all
Speaker 1: plays and we were just like, whoa, what just happened?
Speaker 1: Now we got a shot, and then I think I
Speaker 1: took a sack on first down, like knocked us even
Speaker 1: far back, and so we couldn't get out of our
Speaker 1: own way. And then finally in that second quarter, it
Speaker 1: just started to click. It felt like things started to
Speaker 1: go and slow motion. Jericho had that big catch over
Speaker 1: the middle and like a quick dump down and then
Speaker 1: he just takes off down the sidelines. Braylon had a
Speaker 1: broken play Santonio's catch in the corner of the end zone. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Braylon had another one against like an all
Speaker 1: out blitz on a quick slant, perfect hall by Shoddy,
Speaker 1: great job up front picking up the free rusher. Like
Speaker 1: everything started to just fall into place, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they became a little unsettled. We were finally in the
Speaker 1: driver's seat. We one hitting points, we won field position,
Speaker 1: we won the turnover battle. Like everything that Rex said
Speaker 1: that week started to happen and we saw it, we
Speaker 1: felt it, and there was just this energy on the
Speaker 1: sidelines like, oh my god, this is the same team
Speaker 1: that blew us out on Monday night earlier, and we
Speaker 1: got him. We got him dead to rights, we scored
Speaker 1: one more time and Sean Green runs for the for
Speaker 1: the game. Yeah, so that was four and nobody's ever
Speaker 1: going to take that away from you. No, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a good run. I feel like we, um,
Speaker 1: we really elevated our our level of play. There was
Speaker 1: like this heightened sense of awareness in the playoffs and um,
Speaker 1: this team really really came together. It was fun. Well
Speaker 1: let's let's close here. Uh, since this is your first
Speaker 1: time back in the facility, what has been a Jet
Speaker 1: meant to you? And also your connection with New Yorkers
Speaker 1: and Jets fans. I don't know what other kind of
Speaker 1: experience I could have ever dreamt of at twenty two
Speaker 1: years old. Um, to come in and learn about relationships,
Speaker 1: the business side of football, learn a new playbook, meet
Speaker 1: the people I met, get exposed to the NFL. The
Speaker 1: way I did it was I mean, it was just
Speaker 1: other than winning a Super Bowl, I feel like we
Speaker 1: did it all man. Just getting getting to that game
Speaker 1: would have been it. You know, that was like the
Speaker 1: one thing that one ease of unfinished business. But other
Speaker 1: than that, it was I was well received by the fans,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I just I just enjoyed every
Speaker 1: second of it. Man, the players, the coaches that all
Speaker 1: came through here, it was. It was an absolute blast.
Speaker 1: I can't say I didn't have the best time in
Speaker 1: my life. Well, don't be a stranger. This is your
Speaker 1: first time back, the first time back. I've been treated
Speaker 1: so well. I gotta come back. And we'll be watching
Speaker 1: you on the exchange with Nick Mangold. And how about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. You can't escape them, man, because you were
Speaker 1: on Fox. Brady's gonna follow you on Fox. Listen, everybody's
Speaker 1: got a hero, you know. That's just no. I'm excited
Speaker 1: to work with him. That'll be that'll be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: If you ever retires, though, Man, he's like Benjamin Button.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I don't know. Yeah, it's coming soon.
Speaker 1: But we always have you here in the man. Thanks brother,
Speaker 1: great you guys. Thank you.