Speaker 1: Here is carried by Hines, bouncing off bodies inside the
Speaker 1: twenty foot race. Hines, touchdown. Colts. Here's one of the
Speaker 1: end zone, wide open Elijah More and that is touchdown
Speaker 1: number one through the air for the rookie from all
Speaker 1: miss and what a nice answer by the Jets. Right
Speaker 1: back to offense, Go to Colts. Wow, Taylor's gone. Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor come on. Touchdown indeed, seventy eight yards and this
Speaker 1: is a nightmare for the Jets. That is accurate. Called
Speaker 1: the Indie five hundred. The Colts roll up five hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty two total yards on the Jets defense that
Speaker 1: looked both overmatched and unprepared the finals, but that is
Speaker 1: some garbage time scoring by the Jets. In reality, this
Speaker 1: is one of the biggest blowouts you'll see all year
Speaker 1: in the NFL and one of the great rushing performances
Speaker 1: you will see all year in the NFL. The Colts,
Speaker 1: who give the Cults this, they are resilient. They've had
Speaker 1: some really bad losses this year. They're coming off a
Speaker 1: brutal one, the loss of the Titans, where Wentz has
Speaker 1: has meltdown. They had that brutal Monday night loss to
Speaker 1: the Ravens last month. They bounced back from this game.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying bouncing back against the New York
Speaker 1: Jets is anything to uh, you know, pound your chest about,
Speaker 1: but there is something to be said about the way
Speaker 1: the Colts came out in this game on short rest
Speaker 1: and just took it to the Jets some of the
Speaker 1: most dominating offensive line play that I can ever remember.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a game that was six minutes
Speaker 1: to play in the third quarter. The Colts that are
Speaker 1: already amassed two d and sixty one rushing yards and
Speaker 1: twenty seven attempts and three touchdowns. Uh, they were averaging
Speaker 1: at that point nine point seven yards per carry. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, whoa, here's another crazy stat because
Speaker 1: this is one of those games where what's happening is
Speaker 1: so dominant that you want to just kind of get
Speaker 1: a historical idea of what was happening in this game.
Speaker 1: The Colts rushed for a hundred and thirty four yards
Speaker 1: in the first half, with a hundred and four of
Speaker 1: those yards gained before first contact. That is an average
Speaker 1: of six point yards per rush before content before contact,
Speaker 1: which means the domination up front was so out of
Speaker 1: control with Quentin Nelson and the rest of that offensive
Speaker 1: line on the Jets front four, which is supposed to
Speaker 1: be the strength of that defense. By the way that
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor and the hem Hines, we're getting deep into
Speaker 1: the secondary before they were even touched. That's what we're
Speaker 1: talking about here. And Carson Wentz, who came off, as
Speaker 1: we said, a miserable ending to the game against the
Speaker 1: Titans with the left handed shovel pick six that put
Speaker 1: him in the deep hole in overtime, they tie the
Speaker 1: game up, and then he throws the pick that sets
Speaker 1: up the loss that a lot of people say put
Speaker 1: the end to the a f C South Chase, or
Speaker 1: at least that that's what we thought until Derrick Henry's injury. Well,
Speaker 1: went stepped up and played a really good game today
Speaker 1: thirty two seventy two, three touchdowns, averaging over nine yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, and Wentz did his job. But again, if
Speaker 1: you want to see who is the real hero in
Speaker 1: this game, you can say Jonathan Taylor, who is an
Speaker 1: absolute superstar who is shredding teams on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: Nineteen car carries for a hundred and seventy two yard
Speaker 1: ards and two touchdowns in this game, including that seventy
Speaker 1: eight yard or uh that just was the exclamation point
Speaker 1: uh in the third quarter, uh Himes, as they said,
Speaker 1: who had the first touchdown? But I think the real
Speaker 1: star of this game was that Indie front five. The
Speaker 1: blocking was so dominant that it just took complete control
Speaker 1: of the game from the jump. And so give it
Speaker 1: up to the Colts. They're resilient. There's still a team
Speaker 1: that has work to do. They are four and five, um,
Speaker 1: but they are a team that has a chance here,
Speaker 1: not just in the division with Derrick Henry Hurt, and
Speaker 1: I understand that they're still uh they are still three
Speaker 1: games behind the Titans in the lost column, and the
Speaker 1: Titans have the tiebreaker. I get all of that, but
Speaker 1: but they have the Jaguars next week. So there you go,
Speaker 1: five and five. The schedule tightens up after that. But
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is, let's see where this division is
Speaker 1: after next week, because the Colts are a team that
Speaker 1: hangs around and asked for the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Ricky I called this one. I mean I said it,
Speaker 1: and I was not going to get sucked in. I
Speaker 1: knew what happened on Sunday at the Metal Lands with
Speaker 1: special for the Jets and their fans, a beleaguered fan
Speaker 1: base that has had nothing but misery for about a
Speaker 1: decade now. And what Mike White did in that game
Speaker 1: was so fun that it all felt like it's just
Speaker 1: a set up. The fact that four days later, okay,
Speaker 1: prime time game, Hey Jets fan, primetime game, get into it,
Speaker 1: get excited. Mike White? Is he the new insanity of
Speaker 1: the NFL? But it always felt like it was the
Speaker 1: lucy holding the football situation, uh and pulling it away
Speaker 1: on Charlie Brown, which is exactly what happened. I think, Uh, Ricky,
Speaker 1: what did I say? I said that I thought that
Speaker 1: Mike White would be injured in the first on the
Speaker 1: first drive or would throw for five picks. It was
Speaker 1: the second drive, so you were close. So it's gotta
Speaker 1: it's you know, that first touchdown that he threw on
Speaker 1: that blown coverage like looks beautiful. He was slinging it
Speaker 1: down the field. I do think the last I saw that, um,
Speaker 1: it was just a he couldn't grip the ball because
Speaker 1: of a bad bruise at or contusion and should be
Speaker 1: back for next week. Maybe you do sit Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: another week. I mean what Johnson threw whateen yards like
Speaker 1: this is discouraging almost if you're a Jets fan, right
Speaker 1: or how how are you feeling? It's obviously discouraging Ricky.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was one of the worst defensive performances. No,
Speaker 1: I guess QB H. Well, that's that's a separate situation.
Speaker 1: He's hurt right now, and Mike White, this was You
Speaker 1: saw the frustration he had on the sideline. You know what,
Speaker 1: if I'm going to continue talking about the Jets, I
Speaker 1: think I think I'm gonna need company. I think I
Speaker 1: need somebody to talk to. And I think I know
Speaker 1: it is and I'm so excited. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: wait until after this break. Ricky, his name is Keith.
Speaker 1: His dad Dad still doubt about it. He's a big
Speaker 1: Jets fan. What is he going to say game to say?
Speaker 1: What does he go to game? Yes, for the first time,
Speaker 1: my dad joins us live on the Around the NFL podcast. Dad,
Speaker 1: I wish it was under better circumstances. There was a
Speaker 1: scenario here where you're joining the show today to talk
Speaker 1: Mike White's second big time performance in a row, and
Speaker 1: you know we have a situation here in New York
Speaker 1: with a out of nowhere star developing a for the team,
Speaker 1: but instead, isn't it the most Jets thing ever dead
Speaker 1: that not only does he get injured almost immediately, he
Speaker 1: gets hurt on a touchdown pass and then you just
Speaker 1: never see him again. Why did this always happen to
Speaker 1: the Jets? Why did you do this to me? Dad?
Speaker 1: Why did you bring me into this world of paint? Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't intend to do it, then, you know, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. You know that was as disappointing to me
Speaker 1: as you. When I see the touchdown past being thrown,
Speaker 1: and you know, they it looks like they're back into
Speaker 1: the same plays as last week where he was looking
Speaker 1: so good white and then all of a sudden we
Speaker 1: see him with some sort of an injury to the
Speaker 1: hand or the forearm with the fingers. It was so
Speaker 1: ridiculous that nothing was even being stated except that he
Speaker 1: was doubtful, which, come on, I thought that was a winner.
Speaker 1: I agree. I thought that was weird because you had
Speaker 1: and Troy Aikman's dying, because Aikman's like not just Jets fans,
Speaker 1: but everyone that tuned into the game. That didn't have
Speaker 1: a you know, didn't have a real team to root for,
Speaker 1: a true rooting interest beyond maybe their fantasy teams. Like
Speaker 1: you wanted to see Mike White his encore performance and
Speaker 1: you're looking and they're cutting over to him, and he
Speaker 1: looks disappointed. But I'm thinking myself, he should either be
Speaker 1: in the game, he should be in the locker room,
Speaker 1: or he should have a medical team around him, and
Speaker 1: instead he was just kind of standing there, which I mean,
Speaker 1: it doesn't you know, we don't know what what the
Speaker 1: injury is at this time, but like that was frustrating
Speaker 1: too because it just felt so kind of strange. But
Speaker 1: the truth is that your hero, if you're hero Joe
Speaker 1: Namath the nineteen six nine version replaced Mike White today
Speaker 1: wouldn't have mattered because the defense doesn't show up on
Speaker 1: like a biblical level of failure. Like what was the
Speaker 1: watching what was like watching for you tonight? Well, when
Speaker 1: I saw that, for example, the first touchdown, the way
Speaker 1: they the offensive line of the Cults blew away the
Speaker 1: Jets and it was a thirty four yard run where
Speaker 1: the guy was not even touched. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: so ridiculous the way that that they were blown out
Speaker 1: the holes and the Jet defensive line uh and air
Speaker 1: total defense was just totally being uh thrown away. All Right.
Speaker 1: I just cannot believe that. I don't know whether they
Speaker 1: weren't ready to play again. And this is the problem
Speaker 1: that we've seen with the Jets, right what what did
Speaker 1: they not come out of the locker room ready to play?
Speaker 1: And this is the way it appears again to me,
Speaker 1: you know that, right? Yeah, the Robert Salo thing is
Speaker 1: troubling here because he I know, he's inheriting a terrible team. Uh,
Speaker 1: but it's not completely devoid of talent. In fact that
Speaker 1: you know, they have some players on the front four.
Speaker 1: You have C. J. Mosley who has been good this year,
Speaker 1: and yet there was no excuses like the Patriots game.
Speaker 1: You could say, well it's just Belichick owns them and
Speaker 1: Moseley was out and they were, you know, in New England,
Speaker 1: a place that's been a house of horrors. So you
Speaker 1: kind of just chalk it up to one of those
Speaker 1: days for the Jets. But that shouldn't have happened against
Speaker 1: the Colts today. It's that that that tells me, and
Speaker 1: this is a really bad stat that they are in
Speaker 1: four of the last five games. Um and I called
Speaker 1: this the D five hundred this game, but four of
Speaker 1: the four of the last five games their defenses averaging
Speaker 1: four yards allowed. Well, it's it's been arguably the worst
Speaker 1: defense in the league for over a month now. And
Speaker 1: when Robert Salo is a guy that got the job
Speaker 1: because of his defensive acumen, you start to get nervous. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean you don't even see hardly any reaction with
Speaker 1: him on the sideline, unlike last week when they had
Speaker 1: that one reaction. He had that one reaction when they
Speaker 1: had the goal line stand where you saw some sort
Speaker 1: of like excitement but there and now you see him
Speaker 1: just sitting there, standing there at the sideline, is looking
Speaker 1: it's almost like gritting his teeth. And you said, what
Speaker 1: did he say to those guys at halftime? Even right
Speaker 1: then comes out half the halftime and then they blow
Speaker 1: down the field. So you say, boy, that didn't work right.
Speaker 1: I think Aikman said at one point, when you know
Speaker 1: Salo was just a statue in the side mine, Oh,
Speaker 1: these Jets players, it is gonna be a long trip
Speaker 1: home and Monday is gonna be really unpleasant. Was like,
Speaker 1: I don't even know if he's uh coherent. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's conscious right now. I assume he's gonna
Speaker 1: be very mad at the players. And I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: bailing on Robert Sala the Robert Sale era. But I
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say that that we're disappointed
Speaker 1: where the defense is, uh eight games into the season,
Speaker 1: because that was the one thing you thought they would
Speaker 1: kind of hold together even after you lost Carl Lawson
Speaker 1: in August, that he would be able to build something
Speaker 1: that was at least average. And that's the way it
Speaker 1: was for three weeks. But now it's absolutely a disaster,
Speaker 1: and the offense is not good enough to make up
Speaker 1: for it, not even close, not even close. And you're right,
Speaker 1: even if White came back in the game, but probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have made any difference, even though Johnson played pretty good.
Speaker 1: Surprisingly he came pretty good, and and you know, I
Speaker 1: just it was just another total disappointment as a Jet
Speaker 1: fan to just see the team blown out again at half.
Speaker 1: By half time, the game's over. You know, they've lost
Speaker 1: seventh straight now in prime time. And if you told
Speaker 1: me that all of those games are decided by at
Speaker 1: least two touch ends, I believe you. I know, they
Speaker 1: actually had that close game against New England last year
Speaker 1: with the Flacco game, and they lost in the field
Speaker 1: goal of the gun. But I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of these games have not even been competitive, and it
Speaker 1: all builds into a general vibe that the Jets are
Speaker 1: in embarrassment, that they are a team that when you
Speaker 1: turn them on and they have a national game, they
Speaker 1: will be the butt of the joke. And they were
Speaker 1: again in this one, Papa, any other thoughts on the
Speaker 1: game before? Yeah, one other thought is, you know, why
Speaker 1: did they get Flacco? I mean, tell me that he
Speaker 1: can't figure it out. I mean, this guy, how many
Speaker 1: years has been in the league, all right, he has
Speaker 1: no idea of what's going on. So he's still on
Speaker 1: the sidelines sitting there. I mean, I mean, Johnson played well,
Speaker 1: but I mean it was garbage time mainly. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: you gotta figure I guess we're gonna find out how
Speaker 1: weird this is gonna get now because if Zach Wilson,
Speaker 1: who they think will return to practice next week, but
Speaker 1: if he doesn't return to practice, if he's not ready
Speaker 1: to come back, they have basically have a mini by
Speaker 1: because of the Thursday night game um before Buffalo. Uh,
Speaker 1: then you're gonna want to put in White. But if
Speaker 1: Mike White has a serious injury, then I guess you're
Speaker 1: gonna put in Flacco. But Josh Johnson did play well.
Speaker 1: But why did they even trade for Flacco if they're
Speaker 1: not gonna put him in the lineup. I guess when
Speaker 1: they traded for him, we hadn't seen Mike White yet,
Speaker 1: and we hadn't seen Josh Johnson. I just think Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco might be cursed this year where no matter where
Speaker 1: he goes, nobody wants to play him. But he's not
Speaker 1: even dressing, which is kind of weird. No, he that
Speaker 1: as even dressing. You know, he just keeps growing that beard.
Speaker 1: You know, that's all he keeps going. I mean, next
Speaker 1: time we see it, he'll probably have the beard down
Speaker 1: to his chest. You know, what do you think of
Speaker 1: my beard? Dead? Well? You know I like it? Then?
Speaker 1: You know, now you could be honest you you don't
Speaker 1: like it? Well? I always think you look sharp when
Speaker 1: a bit, when you're clean shaven, you know, but the
Speaker 1: beard is a good touch too. You know what his
Speaker 1: mom What his mom think when you guys watcher, I
Speaker 1: think because she likes you to clean shaven as well,
Speaker 1: you know, okay and black. What do you think I like?
Speaker 1: I like a little scruff Mr hands as. I think
Speaker 1: it adds to his you know, sex appeal on on television,
Speaker 1: all right. You know I think he looks yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what. I'm not knocking it, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I see different different sides, you know. I see
Speaker 1: when he's got the clean shaven look. I see when
Speaker 1: he's got the beard and look. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it looks it looks cool. Dan. I was like, thanks, Dad,
Speaker 1: but I don't really remember you've grown a beard. I
Speaker 1: know you've grown a mustle. I'm not like flack O.
Speaker 1: You know, I can't grow a bend like him. There's
Speaker 1: a hands this curse where we were unable to grow
Speaker 1: in the middle part of the mustache. So the only
Speaker 1: way to combat it is just to grow the hair
Speaker 1: a little longer to cover that up. That's right, It's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a tough situation. We don't it doesn't hands.
Speaker 1: This beard doesn't grow in big and bushy. It's just
Speaker 1: the way it is. Anyway that you keep it up,
Speaker 1: then that's okay, all right, And I and I wish again,
Speaker 1: and this happens too often for the past, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty plus years. I wish we were speaking under better circumstances,
Speaker 1: but this is what happened. But you you did get
Speaker 1: to watch Joe Nameth win Super Bowl three. That is
Speaker 1: a memory you have. I do not have it, but
Speaker 1: you do. Yeah, that's you know name. It was my
Speaker 1: was my hero. And you know what, if he was
Speaker 1: playing today, he would have been back in the game,
Speaker 1: not like White sitting on a sideline. I'm sorry, put
Speaker 1: something on his forearm or something. If he's really hurt,
Speaker 1: he's sitting there doing nothing. To me, he should have
Speaker 1: been out there if he unless there's some sort of
Speaker 1: something to it. But that's that's just a feeling. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Now that's a guy that's a dad. Take.
Speaker 1: I like that that you came out with it, because
Speaker 1: it did strike me as odd that he didn't get
Speaker 1: back in the game. But obviously he was frustrated. He
Speaker 1: could tell. He was running his fingers through his hair.
Speaker 1: He almost couldn't believe that this would happen to it was.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a freak injury on the follow through,
Speaker 1: But that's the Jets. That's how it is they suck
Speaker 1: us in, and then I know it was. It was
Speaker 1: terrible to see him go out, and we knew that,
Speaker 1: you know, it was only going to be bad things.
Speaker 1: So all right, thank you, Papa, have a good night.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. All right, take care, all right,
Speaker 1: there he goes my dad. Um. I like that he
Speaker 1: I like that he got after Mike White at the end.
Speaker 1: There I was hoping he was gonna because I wanted
Speaker 1: what he was texting me to come through too. That
Speaker 1: he was mad that he wasn't in. That was good. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: But that's just the frustration of Jets fans. We we
Speaker 1: want to have happiness, We want things to go the
Speaker 1: way they go for other teams. It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: But that's that's the way it is. So again, the
Speaker 1: Colts back to the team that matters here. The Colts
Speaker 1: are four and five with a chance they get to
Speaker 1: five hundred against the Jaguars, who are maybe worse than
Speaker 1: the Jets if you think about that. Uh, and that
Speaker 1: division is open in The Cults are in the a
Speaker 1: f C playoff race. Mark Sessler said, the Cults are boring.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Cults are boring. I think the
Speaker 1: culture an imperfect but interesting team in this a f
Speaker 1: C landscape, not a super Bowl team, but a team
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on, with Whence being a roller
Speaker 1: coaster but being much better than I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people expected, and with Jonathan Taylor than a Michael
Speaker 1: Pitton Pittman emerging as a star, along with that defense
Speaker 1: um Darius Leonard and Deforres Buckner leading in the way.
Speaker 1: There there's some players here. Okay, that's a lot of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did we you found your keys right your car? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did? Did found my keys? Did we talk about
Speaker 1: it on the Thursday preview show? I don't think we did?
Speaker 1: All right, So this doesn't really mean anything to the audience,
Speaker 1: but at one point, Erica I tweeted about it and
Speaker 1: it was quite quite a stressful day, but I found them,
Speaker 1: got the keys. Were good, good, good, good. Well, at
Speaker 1: least one good thing came out of this Thursday. All right.
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