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Speaker 1: New York Jets. Yeah, you heard that right, because Jordan
Speaker 1: Jenkins got in here. He was so anxious to get
Speaker 1: on the show. He's bent and lead off. Jordan's guys
Speaker 1: are undefeated in the season. That half a little two
Speaker 1: game winning streak must feel nice. Uh, it definitely does.
Speaker 1: And uh we just can't forget about all the work
Speaker 1: we put in and get those wins. And it's sort
Speaker 1: of like you got to keep the same twenty four
Speaker 1: hour roll after a game. It's like after a lodge
Speaker 1: you got twenty four hours to get rid of it,
Speaker 1: and after win you want to get it out your
Speaker 1: head so you can get focused on the next week.
Speaker 1: So you know after obviously after a win, it's a
Speaker 1: lot easier to get through the lumps and and get
Speaker 1: through the film sessions. How was the film session, you know,
Speaker 1: going through what you did at Washington? Oh, I mean
Speaker 1: it was went pretty good, except you know, defensively, we
Speaker 1: should have been more consistent, should have put him away
Speaker 1: without allowing those uh last few points. But I mean
Speaker 1: we saw what we did good, and we just have
Speaker 1: to look at the We looked at the details about
Speaker 1: some of the things that we um that were one
Speaker 1: person might not have been doing the job, but everyone
Speaker 1: knows made up for it, and just look at the
Speaker 1: smaller details of what we have to do to uh
Speaker 1: get better for the rest of the season. How frustrating
Speaker 1: was it? You know, as outside linebacker, you're taking on
Speaker 1: double teams, You're you're taking on the offensive lineman, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the game, being physical and you see a little dude,
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams come through and get three sacks. How tough
Speaker 1: was that? Got him going out? It's even worse for
Speaker 1: me because there's a play I thunning inside the one,
Speaker 1: beat the tackle, beat the guard, and I go to
Speaker 1: reach out. Will it happened? I thought I just missed.
Speaker 1: I looked back on the film, A p it pushed
Speaker 1: me in the side, and as I'm going to tag
Speaker 1: Haskets when he's when he's on the ground, I just
Speaker 1: see three three come out of nowhere, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: I can't believe. Literally, I lost out on a sack
Speaker 1: by four inches. I was off in the press box
Speaker 1: and I was wondering if they were gonna give both
Speaker 1: of you guys a half there but no credit. Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams has six sacks five sacks over the course of
Speaker 1: the last two games. Already, those six sacks the most
Speaker 1: by any Jets defensive back in franchise history, and the
Speaker 1: three sacks in a single game the most by any
Speaker 1: Jets defensive back in franchise history. Yeah, that's so, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Uh And honestly, if he keeps playing like that in
Speaker 1: the next two weeks, he should most definitely get AFC
Speaker 1: Defenso Player of the Month because I mean, he's playing
Speaker 1: lights out football right now. How do you feel about that, Eric,
Speaker 1: you played the safety position. I love seeing I love
Speaker 1: seeing the safety you know come up in blitz is
Speaker 1: you know being run supportant, being involved in the defense.
Speaker 1: But you know, it really speaks to what Greg Williams
Speaker 1: is doing. And yesterday, I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: just me, but it seemed like you guys were doing
Speaker 1: a lot more disguising. You know, you blitz a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, from from a blitz front, but you also
Speaker 1: dropped back into coverage quite a bit. It was at
Speaker 1: the cage yesterday. Were you trying to confuse the young quarterback. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We showed him at a lot of different looks were
Speaker 1: it would be the same personnel, same groupings, but have
Speaker 1: a different guy drop out. There's times we're me and
Speaker 1: throw a Basha. We're lined up in the A gaps
Speaker 1: so and uh acting like we're gonna run a twist
Speaker 1: game because we ran out the previous week and we
Speaker 1: both end up dropping like three or four times, and
Speaker 1: they just did. They didn't know where the pressure was
Speaker 1: coming from. Because of all the different looks we've showed
Speaker 1: throughout this season. Yeah, I mean, because a few times
Speaker 1: it was a bunch of guys lined up you know, you're,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, you and Bashta would drop out and
Speaker 1: you would end up rushing for and have seven back
Speaker 1: in coverage that was that was pretty interesting to watch
Speaker 1: from AFAR. Yeah, I mean it's it definitely was a
Speaker 1: well well thought out game plan that it was executed.
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Speaker 1: Eric ill On alongside Eric Coleman and Jordan Jenkins. Like
Speaker 1: Eric just mentioned some of those blitz they weren't blitzes
Speaker 1: you're rushing for, but the disguises were so well executed.
Speaker 1: Are you gonna get Greg Williams here this week and say, hey,
Speaker 1: that was nice? He gave Jamal Adams a chance to
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, He gave Brian Pool a chance
Speaker 1: to get after the quarterback. Gotta gotta uh eat now
Speaker 1: to look. You know, in the back of my mind,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get those uh those next five sacks
Speaker 1: that finally break um the double digit barrier. But I mean,
Speaker 1: as long as we keep stacking Douvius, I'm happy with it. Well,
Speaker 1: you keep dropping back and coverage, you want to start
Speaker 1: getting some I T that's right. Uh, you guys are
Speaker 1: climbing up the statistical charts right now. Number thirteen overall
Speaker 1: on defense, but number one in the National Football League
Speaker 1: against the run in terms of yards per game seventy
Speaker 1: nine point one and then tops and yards per carry.
Speaker 1: How much pride you take in that because you are
Speaker 1: an outside linebacker who sometimes has his hand in the
Speaker 1: dirt and you are turning everything back inside. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's something we definitely take a lot of pride in
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, it comes down
Speaker 1: to who's gonna be the bigger man, who's got the uh,
Speaker 1: who's got more willpower in it? Because it's it's literally
Speaker 1: just man on man, like you gonna stop me or
Speaker 1: might go to run through you. And that's sort of
Speaker 1: the mentality we take when we um we're thinking about
Speaker 1: stopping the run. Sixteen sacks the past three weeks, it's
Speaker 1: not just Jamal, it is is every buddy who's contributing
Speaker 1: that number equals the most in the three game span
Speaker 1: for the New York Jets since nine when they were
Speaker 1: calling those guys up front the New York Sack Exchange. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's something that I've always been telling people, like, like,
Speaker 1: we don't we don't stress about not getting home. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we wish we could. You know, there's times
Speaker 1: where they're getting teams against us getting the ball out
Speaker 1: a lot quicker than the NFL averages. And uh we
Speaker 1: knew that, uh sacks coming budget, So we just couldn't
Speaker 1: let that get in our heads and just make the
Speaker 1: play when you're turning to get and going to this week,
Speaker 1: you help se Kwan Barkley the one yard rushing. This
Speaker 1: week you have Adrian Peterson, one one of the greats
Speaker 1: to play the game. Uh what was that? What were
Speaker 1: the challenges that Adrian Peterson had for you guys that
Speaker 1: you were looking at film and saying, we have to
Speaker 1: do this against He flashed some explosion out there. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: what a p He's just uh his first ballot Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame here. I mean, he's still got all the
Speaker 1: He's got just about everything but the top end speed
Speaker 1: that he had back in the day. And I mean
Speaker 1: he's just running angry, like he's running out there with passion,
Speaker 1: and he's running out there trying to prove, uh that
Speaker 1: he still conte the rock and then he definitely can
Speaker 1: and y'all can he He knows where the hole is
Speaker 1: gonna be in h off of the game, but like
Speaker 1: he he'll set up a run for himself, like he's
Speaker 1: fully committed that he's not gonna missed or take a
Speaker 1: see a lane there that he thinks he is open,
Speaker 1: that's not actually gonna be there, But by the time
Speaker 1: he gets there, it's not. He's gonna take the correct
Speaker 1: lane and hit it. Ard what happens to you out
Speaker 1: in the football field. For those who have not seen
Speaker 1: the miking of Jordan Jenkins against the New York Giants,
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Speaker 1: human being became become transition into a beast, a full
Speaker 1: out savage out there. Yeah. Me off the field and
Speaker 1: me on the field is honestly two different people. Like
Speaker 1: I'm really relaxed off the field. Takes a lot to
Speaker 1: get me mad, But on the field, I got a
Speaker 1: quick switch and I'm just trying to destroy and run
Speaker 1: through whoever's lined up against me. It's something else. It
Speaker 1: is a pleasure to watch because is there something that
Speaker 1: happens for you after the national anthem or is it
Speaker 1: even before that where you say, okay, warrior mode. I
Speaker 1: mean it's it's son as soon as we get outside
Speaker 1: the tunnel as soon as uh they start the Nazal anthem.
Speaker 1: I mean it just it gets the energy going. I
Speaker 1: mean it gets the blood curling and uh you get
Speaker 1: the little chill bumps going. And I mean it's just
Speaker 1: locked in. They locked the gates. It's just ready to
Speaker 1: roll after that. Now, Jordan, what has it been like
Speaker 1: playing for Greg Williams? You know, obviously changing coordinators from
Speaker 1: last year. What does Greg Williams bring the practice? What
Speaker 1: does he bring the game? What kind of mentality does
Speaker 1: he instill as a decordinator? Uh? Greg is just uh
Speaker 1: he's allowed energetic, Like he's just always in your face
Speaker 1: about things and he's not gonna let you skate by like.
Speaker 1: Greg Williams doesn't settle for mediocripy like if if you're
Speaker 1: doing something wrong or he's not gonna be like, all right,
Speaker 1: you'll do it right in the game. Now, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get onto you in front of everybody. I let you
Speaker 1: know that this is what you need to do and
Speaker 1: that's what you don't do. Um. He's a high energy.
Speaker 1: He's high energy guy and has very select few words
Speaker 1: uh that are very colorful for everyone to hear. What
Speaker 1: does it say about the character in the locker room
Speaker 1: the way that you guys have responded to the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Left for dead. They're one and seven,
Speaker 1: lose to a winless team in Miami, come back grab
Speaker 1: a victory at home over the Giants seesaw game. But
Speaker 1: against Washington, I thought you really showed your maturation as
Speaker 1: a group because it was a convincing win. Warrior to War, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that that was one game where we
Speaker 1: actually finally put together uh special teams wise offensively and defensively,
Speaker 1: and I mean you just go like we just didn't
Speaker 1: really when we get putting special situations, I think Sam
Speaker 1: through the pick or uh I forgot somebody might have
Speaker 1: fund when we go out there and Sam had to
Speaker 1: pick and it just back to back and then Vincent
Speaker 1: Smith and still we kick off. You guys are I
Speaker 1: believe it was the twenty six and seventeen yard line
Speaker 1: and Jordan, you held them to three points. I those
Speaker 1: two possessions, Yeah, I mean one on we get to
Speaker 1: stop fourth and they wouldn't go for it. On fourth
Speaker 1: down we get the bad at pass, and I mean
Speaker 1: it just goes to show the resiliency of the defense
Speaker 1: and offense. Like we when somebody scores and not just
Speaker 1: like all right, offense goes down their drives and field
Speaker 1: scores and it's just sort of the mentality gotta have,
Speaker 1: Like so what now, what go out there, do a
Speaker 1: job and make place. What about bless Austin, the rookie
Speaker 1: from Rutgers. He comes in makes his first professional start
Speaker 1: against the Washington Redskins. The week Priory came in to
Speaker 1: the game and he flashed against the New York Giants.
Speaker 1: It does not look like the lights are too bright
Speaker 1: for him. No, I mean, Blesses Uh, he's a good kid.
Speaker 1: I mean, you all, he puts the work and he's
Speaker 1: been working every day. I mean I see him in
Speaker 1: the training room since camp, like he's been putting in
Speaker 1: the work, just waiting for his turn, waiting for his turn.
Speaker 1: And I mean he goes hard in practice. Gotten to
Speaker 1: a little scuffle with Brian Winners and practice. There you go.
Speaker 1: That's a huge, huge size difference. But I mean, Blesses Uh,
Speaker 1: he's a good kid that's ready to uh leave his
Speaker 1: mark in the league. Now, Jordan's you know, going into
Speaker 1: this offseason, I know there were some things that you
Speaker 1: wanted to work on as a player and and they're
Speaker 1: they're showing out in the field. I mean, you're doing
Speaker 1: great job in your pass rush, You've always been very
Speaker 1: good against the run. What are some of the things
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't worked on, some of the things that
Speaker 1: you focused on in the off season. I really they
Speaker 1: just wanted to work on one, getting the body right. Uh.
Speaker 1: Got lost about maybe five percent body fat uh this offseason,
Speaker 1: And I really just sorted up. Wanted to work on
Speaker 1: my hand usage and really just reacting better versus sets
Speaker 1: and just finishing to the quarter once I got a
Speaker 1: guy beat, just working another move and finishing like stacking
Speaker 1: moves on top of each other and speeding up. When
Speaker 1: you got a guy beat, you are in a selfish player.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of guys from that edge position,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go up field, they're gonna try to go
Speaker 1: wide and no matter what, they might even try to
Speaker 1: circle back at the quarterback. But you are you maintain
Speaker 1: that discipline rush lane where you're taking that angle to
Speaker 1: make sure that quarterback does not have an escape route. Right.
Speaker 1: That's something we've really been harping on these last three
Speaker 1: or four weeks. UM. Early on, we had some really
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks, really shifty guys, and uh we came together
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, let's if we want
Speaker 1: to get sack we all need to play off of
Speaker 1: each other. And in order to do that, we have
Speaker 1: to maintain our rush lanes and uh that that's that's
Speaker 1: when the sacks are coming. Uh we really have to
Speaker 1: do that when we uh end up playing against um
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson watching his highlights today, I think it was
Speaker 1: just on the TV a little bit ago, Like that man,
Speaker 1: he's just he's playing like he's he's he's honestly the
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the league right now, Like, uh, you
Speaker 1: can't with going against the guy like that at caliberre
Speaker 1: you can't get out of your rush lanes or he'll
Speaker 1: scar you up like he has all season long. How
Speaker 1: quickly do you turn your attention to the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: This is a team that has playoff aspirations. Now. A
Speaker 1: lot of people before the season guys thought, oh Oakland.
Speaker 1: You know they traded Khalil Mackaway, they traded Cooper Away.
Speaker 1: What's going on there? The whole Antonio Brown saga. But
Speaker 1: John Gruen has got those fellows playing well six and
Speaker 1: four right now? Yeah, I mean they're playing um lights
Speaker 1: out football. I know. Uh. I got a old teammate
Speaker 1: of mind, um, Jonathan Abrams back there at safety that
Speaker 1: was hurt and he's he uh embodies what that defense
Speaker 1: is about. Like they're all high, um high, strong discipline
Speaker 1: guys that are eager to show that they can play.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I saw Max Crossby walk away with
Speaker 1: four sacks on the train ride back as soon as
Speaker 1: we got on the train and had the game on
Speaker 1: and we were watching that, and um, I mean it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good game. Like those guys are, um
Speaker 1: really a really tight Ennit unit. Derek Carr is leading
Speaker 1: the way like he's uh he goes to bat for
Speaker 1: his boys, and U I mean, they's just a really
Speaker 1: tight Ennit bunch that are trying to make make a
Speaker 1: run for this thing. And listen to the Jets defense
Speaker 1: Number one in rushing rushing defense. When you go out
Speaker 1: and play an opponent, how important is it for you
Speaker 1: to stop the run initially? You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of talk about how this is the passing league now,
Speaker 1: but you still have to stop the run if you
Speaker 1: want to have success. Correct, Yeah, no, it's a hundred
Speaker 1: percent right, And in order for you to for a
Speaker 1: defense linement and in order for an outer linebacker defensive
Speaker 1: then the three technique d tackle. I mean it's like
Speaker 1: if in order for you to have the fun you
Speaker 1: want to have to get to the quarterback on third
Speaker 1: down and in fast situations, you gotta stop the running.
Speaker 1: If teams don't need to pass the ball, what the
Speaker 1: hell They're gonna pass the ball and keep running down
Speaker 1: your throat and uh and just keep running until you
Speaker 1: like it. How about the Raiders do you see them
Speaker 1: as an old school opponent short passing game? Derek car
Speaker 1: is completing like sevent of his passes, having a great season.
Speaker 1: But the rookie Josh Jacobs out of Alabama averaging about
Speaker 1: four and a half four point eight yards to carry,
Speaker 1: close to five yards to carry. He's got seven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and it seems like they play a lot of big packages.
Speaker 1: They'll come in there with twelve personnel, thirteen personnel and
Speaker 1: try to run a touch your throat. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's old school. I mean, honestly, when you look at him,
Speaker 1: it's like, as youc offense, I mean, they've got uh,
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and out out physically. You try and
Speaker 1: be more aggressive. And I mean that Josh Jacobs is
Speaker 1: what and as he running back is I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a hard hitting guy. I gotta show that as a
Speaker 1: he love but I mean he's a guy that you
Speaker 1: gotta hit, you gotta wrap up against because I mean
Speaker 1: he's he's playing pretty well this year. I mean he's
Speaker 1: just doing this. And listen, going into this last stretch
Speaker 1: actually in the second half of the season, what what
Speaker 1: what are your goals? What are the what are the
Speaker 1: team's goes? Obviously you want to win every game as
Speaker 1: they come, but but what makes this a success for
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. I mean success for us is
Speaker 1: just uh we we want to go all that. We
Speaker 1: want to get to the playoffs, and we want to
Speaker 1: keep fighting. We don't want to know when our last
Speaker 1: game is. We want to just like after weeks extay,
Speaker 1: we don't want it. It's sort of the thing like
Speaker 1: you don't want to know when your last game is
Speaker 1: in the season. You want to just keep going and
Speaker 1: keep battling and let let the gim fallward they may
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. I mean that's how
Speaker 1: the approach we've had these last couple of weeks is
Speaker 1: uh focused on the point we got this week and
Speaker 1: then you know, at the end of the year, count
Speaker 1: of all them wins and lodges and then see what
Speaker 1: can happen. What do you think about this line the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders from left to right, Colton Miller, Richie in canto,
Speaker 1: former Buffalo Thll Yeah, Rodney Hudson still one of the
Speaker 1: better centers in football. I would say Gabe Jackson and
Speaker 1: Trent Brown at right tackle. I mean, I know they
Speaker 1: got a hell of a guy at uh left tackle.
Speaker 1: I was actually talking to Alex Lewis uh today about
Speaker 1: their offensive lineman. He was like, yeah, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: that left tackle, he's uh, he's he's playing probably a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl season this year. He's actually playing something the
Speaker 1: best football has ever had sincely been in the league.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know what you're gonna get with Richie
Speaker 1: And I mean the tight end Darren Waller is also
Speaker 1: having a hell of a season as well. So I
Speaker 1: mean they've got a lot of talent in that offensive
Speaker 1: line and uh in the tight introduce it's Richie, a
Speaker 1: guy that you will exchange pleasantries with on Sunday a
Speaker 1: few times. You know, I might see him every now
Speaker 1: and then stuff the packages and uh, I'm just not
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna get the flag. I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: and keep balling and uh, let my play do the talking.
Speaker 1: What do you think about your quarterback? Is Sam Donald
Speaker 1: against the Washington Redskins a career high four touchdown passes
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. You're seen as sending ballplayer
Speaker 1: right now? Man, Sam, Uh, He's he's pretty hot right now.
Speaker 1: I mean he's making all the right checks. I mean
Speaker 1: he didn't let after you threw the pig, got the
Speaker 1: offense together. It was like, hey, look, we need to
Speaker 1: get this thing right. Like, um, I can't remember what
Speaker 1: he said. I remember looking over. He got everybody together
Speaker 1: and we just he got control of the huddle and
Speaker 1: it was one of the first few times like saw
Speaker 1: him like look I looked at him and he's just like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, like keeps taking control of this thing and
Speaker 1: he's um being a true quarterback and I mean he
Speaker 1: just was on it. Like it was a great thing
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, how much stress does a guy like that?
Speaker 1: You talked about Lamar Jackson, not comparing Stamdon Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: of course, but what he can do outside the pocket,
Speaker 1: because there are a couple of times against Washington where
Speaker 1: the pockets started to break a little bit and he
Speaker 1: just shuffled a couple of and you saw defenders drawn
Speaker 1: up or they froze, and you saw a couple of
Speaker 1: your tight end is take off. Ryan Griffin hit a
Speaker 1: huge day receiving. Yeah. I mean, Sam's just he's realizing
Speaker 1: what he could do on his legs. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look back to the Giants game, even like he
Speaker 1: made a lot of plays while people were taking him
Speaker 1: to the ground on like, he's not making some of
Speaker 1: the mistakes he made before, like throwing an errand pass
Speaker 1: here and there, when guys around him like he's gotten
Speaker 1: he's gotten used to it. It's like okay, I know
Speaker 1: I'm about to go down read one's not there, look
Speaker 1: at two, all right, throw it there, boom. And I
Speaker 1: mean he's just he's just getting more comfortable in that
Speaker 1: backfield and getting downside the pocket making place. You mentioned
Speaker 1: double digit sacks before. You missed a couple of games
Speaker 1: earlier this season. You're back to full health. What would
Speaker 1: that mean? Do you? You're always about team and talking
Speaker 1: about what you guys can do collectively, but just that
Speaker 1: figure yourself, what what what would that mean? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's definitely something I've always wanted to uh achieve, and
Speaker 1: this is uh. I'm set up pretty nicely right now.
Speaker 1: I mean missed three games, but I mean six games left.
Speaker 1: I've got five sacks now, Jamal stole one, so it
Speaker 1: should be six. But you don't let that one arrive.
Speaker 1: But I mean he's six games left. Sack a game,
Speaker 1: leave me out pretty good, pretty great number. Well, Jordan,
Speaker 1: You've got things going on, and that whole entire Jets
Speaker 1: defense is playing at an awfully high level right now.
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Speaker 1: Since uh, that was a little sprint right for Sam
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Speaker 1: talked to Jordan Jenkins about it. Eric in the first segment,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald is maturing before our our eyes. He's developing,
Speaker 1: not just in terms of his play on the field,
Speaker 1: but he's taking command in terms of being a leader. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean you hear about him going into two coach
Speaker 1: Case's office and taking command of the offense, talking about
Speaker 1: what he kind of plays, he wants to run, what
Speaker 1: what do we need to be doing, what are my
Speaker 1: strengths And you're seeing it, You're seeing the results of
Speaker 1: it out in the field. You're seeing a confident player
Speaker 1: who's taking leadership, more of a leadership role on the team.
Speaker 1: He's dominating on the field and he really does seem
Speaker 1: more comfortable throwing the football. Jordan Jenkins said after the interception,
Speaker 1: that was the one play you're gonna look at in
Speaker 1: film review. If you're Jets offensive coach, if you're Sam
Speaker 1: Donald said, I want that one back because they're trying
Speaker 1: to set up a screen for time. Montgomery kept on
Speaker 1: retreating pressure in his face, throws high, interception goes the
Speaker 1: other way. But the defense did a nice job there,
Speaker 1: sudden change of picking the offense up. And that's something
Speaker 1: we didn't see from this team early this season. They're
Speaker 1: playing better complimentary football. Yeah, that was awesome to see,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously it was very disappointing, you know, for
Speaker 1: that interception, you know, the one that Sam probably should
Speaker 1: have thrown in the dirt and live to see another down.
Speaker 1: But the defense had took that challenge upon their shoulders
Speaker 1: and said, listen, let's get a stop. Let's keep these
Speaker 1: guys off the board. They went out there, they stopped
Speaker 1: the Red Skins, and they did it twice. You know,
Speaker 1: you talked about on the kick return. There was a
Speaker 1: fumble sudden change as well, and you really take pride
Speaker 1: as a defense. You get together and say, listen, we
Speaker 1: gotta get out of this however way we can do
Speaker 1: not allow them to score a touchdown. And what that
Speaker 1: does for your defense, for your team, it takes all
Speaker 1: the energy away from the opposing team. They have this
Speaker 1: big play, a momentum swing, and they end up with nothing.
Speaker 1: They end up maybe with field goal. It kind of
Speaker 1: breaks their heart. What did you think about Donald's extension
Speaker 1: of plays. We saw it in the first touchdown pass
Speaker 1: to Daniel Brown buys a little bit more time shuffling
Speaker 1: left defenders. Take a look at him landing Collins. Let's
Speaker 1: Daniel Brown, who was running a short out. He turns
Speaker 1: up the field. It was not not and out and up,
Speaker 1: but there are scramble drill rules and the Jets receivers
Speaker 1: are in sync with their quarterback right now. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: great to see him him, you know, create plays with
Speaker 1: his legs. You know everyone obviously when you talk about
Speaker 1: an athletic quarterback, a mobile quarterback, everyone looks to Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: But there's more than one way you can be a
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback. You can extend plays by staying within the pocket.
Speaker 1: You can extend it by staying behind the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: keeping your eyes down the field and being in sync
Speaker 1: with your receivers, as you see with Sam Donald and
Speaker 1: his crew. I mean, it's great, it's great to see
Speaker 1: him throwing the ball in the run. I mean, how
Speaker 1: happy does he look when he's running to the right
Speaker 1: or running to the left. He sees someone, he gets
Speaker 1: his shoulders across and delivers an absolute dime. It's amazing
Speaker 1: to see. How about the drive at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half. Now, there's so many things to get
Speaker 1: to that are going right now for the Jets, And
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people will say, what a
Speaker 1: hold on of second there, three and seven. Yeah they are,
Speaker 1: and they did beat a bad football team who is
Speaker 1: scuffling right now. The Washington Redskins are one of the
Speaker 1: worst teams in the league. But they went in there
Speaker 1: in convincing fashion and took care of business. But I
Speaker 1: thought that drive at the end of the half was
Speaker 1: awfully impressive. Three plays right down the field, he throws
Speaker 1: a strike to Levan Bell. The next completion, the second
Speaker 1: completion on that was again buying time going to the
Speaker 1: left Ryan Griffins all alone touched past to him. And
Speaker 1: then the third place the third completion on that drive
Speaker 1: is Sam thrown a strike just so decisive in the pocket,
Speaker 1: sees Griffin knows he's going there, Boom, touchdown. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was great. It was an amazing drive and it's great
Speaker 1: to see the confidence, you know, going into ending half finishing.
Speaker 1: That's what you want to see from this team is
Speaker 1: in finishing, finishing out quarters, finishing out drives, finishing out halves,
Speaker 1: and and those things add up and that they add
Speaker 1: to your confidence. And you know, the play on Griffin
Speaker 1: it was funny because you know, I'm a safety and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Landing Collins and he's playing the curl
Speaker 1: flat and there's a wide receiver that was in the
Speaker 1: flat right in front of him. You see Griffin behind him.
Speaker 1: He takes the cheese, comes up front, wide open Griffin.
Speaker 1: It was a touchdown. So it was it was great
Speaker 1: eyes by Sam Donald, recognizing the coverage, understanding where the
Speaker 1: defender was and where he's supposed to be, and finding
Speaker 1: the open man. What about the design movement calls for
Speaker 1: Madam Gaze that might have meant part of that conversation
Speaker 1: when those guys got in the meeting where Sam might
Speaker 1: have said, Hey, get me on the move, get me
Speaker 1: some boots, let's do some play action and move me around.
Speaker 1: And we saw that in the first drive, the strike
Speaker 1: to Jamison Crowder. Then later in the game we saw
Speaker 1: him hit Griffin, who had a lot of real estate
Speaker 1: after that play action, and you see the offensive line
Speaker 1: blocking one way and that's taking everybody that way, and
Speaker 1: then Sam's coming around. Yeah, you know. But it's important
Speaker 1: to establish that run game. That's why it's important the
Speaker 1: teams have to honor that. But I love the movement
Speaker 1: that that the offense had yesterday. Uh you know, whether
Speaker 1: it be the Robby Anderson touchdown in the red zone
Speaker 1: where jameis and Crowder motions across. He runs to the
Speaker 1: flat right at Josh Norman. Yeah, and you see Josh
Speaker 1: Norman Paul is like, wait, am I don't cover too,
Speaker 1: and then you see him make the decision, No, I'm
Speaker 1: covering this guy, and it's too late. Sam's on the movie.
Speaker 1: He's in the corner, throws the ball right to the
Speaker 1: sideline where only Robby Anderson could catch it, and it's
Speaker 1: a touchdown. But changing the change up a pace, moving
Speaker 1: moving around, moving guys around on offense really does can
Speaker 1: cause the defense to talk. And when they have to talk,
Speaker 1: the more they have to talk, the more opportunity there
Speaker 1: is for error. And that's what you saw yesterday. Four
Speaker 1: hundred total yards for the new York Jets against the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins in that d C dismantline, and they score
Speaker 1: a touchdown in their opening possession for a fourth consecutive game.
Speaker 1: That has only happened one other time in franchise history.
Speaker 1: Eric did just mention the approved run game, and I
Speaker 1: want to talk about that and the offensive line who
Speaker 1: continues to work multiple combinations. But they played awfully while
Speaker 1: money by their best game overall, and how they can
Speaker 1: build on that. On the other side, you are listening
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Speaker 1: the metals, intercepted by Nevill two it at the fifteen
Speaker 1: yard line. He's up to his right and returns it
Speaker 1: back down to about the five. Toryan Haskins threw it
Speaker 1: right to Neville Hewitt and the Jets get an interception
Speaker 1: and they're having some fun celebrating that interception back then.
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Speaker 1: official New York Jets Eric before the break, we're talking
Speaker 1: about the run game. It's stuck to it. The numbers
Speaker 1: were there, not in terms of that gaudy average per carry,
Speaker 1: but thirty three attempts in all four season high hundred
Speaker 1: fifteen rush yards. What did you see from the guys
Speaker 1: up front? And also the way Adam Gaze used his
Speaker 1: stable of backs. It wasn't just lady On Bell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was great. You know, the offensive line
Speaker 1: probably had one of the best performances of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, they were getting to the second level. They
Speaker 1: were double team and the three technique and get into
Speaker 1: those linebackers and give it in opening holes for I mean,
Speaker 1: you think about Bala Pa, He's just consistent. You know,
Speaker 1: as soon as he gets the all, he's trying to score.
Speaker 1: It seems like every time he gets the ball, he's
Speaker 1: trying to make someone miss and get to that end zone.
Speaker 1: And I mean, there's nothing else I can say about him.
Speaker 1: You know, he just has a great effort. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's a great player, and he continued to do
Speaker 1: it year in and year out. So it was great
Speaker 1: to see the mix up. You know, Levian bail a
Speaker 1: little time, Montgomerys and Balal pal Um in there. It
Speaker 1: was nice to see the stable, you know, get an
Speaker 1: opportunity to run the football. Blal Paul doesn't waste any
Speaker 1: time hitting a hole, does he. Oh no, he's hitting
Speaker 1: it right now. And he's trying to hit his head
Speaker 1: on the field goal post every time, no matter where
Speaker 1: he is. Yeah, and you almost did on that seventeen
Speaker 1: yard or he had so many moves he took himself
Speaker 1: to the ground there right. Um, what does that provide
Speaker 1: the defense in terms of different looks. You got a
Speaker 1: patient guy like Levian who is so big we can
Speaker 1: carry you, who can make you miss, and then you
Speaker 1: see twenty nine come at you. He's not as big
Speaker 1: and maybe he can hide behind lineman a little bit
Speaker 1: and for you know it, he's through that hole. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's very difficult for a defense. You know,
Speaker 1: you get used to it's like a picture. It's like
Speaker 1: a picture, just throwing fastballs, fastballs, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he hits you with a changeup and it
Speaker 1: catches you off guard. And that's what it's like when
Speaker 1: you change up the running backs. You know, as a safety,
Speaker 1: you get used to filling a hold a certain way.
Speaker 1: You kind of get a feel for how the running
Speaker 1: back is seeing the field. And then you change it
Speaker 1: up and there's someone else in there. Now it changes everything.
Speaker 1: You know. The bla how is a guy who you know,
Speaker 1: first of all, leaby on, he's patient. You know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna set up his blocks, he's gonna cut back, he
Speaker 1: has great vision. And then you get bela where if
Speaker 1: there's a crease, he's gonna hit it, and you better
Speaker 1: be there because if you're not, he's gonna still be running. Now,
Speaker 1: Cuba a DOGA had a couple of times where he
Speaker 1: had some difficulty with Ryan Carrigan, and that's gonna happen
Speaker 1: from time to time. Ryan Carrigan is a pro in
Speaker 1: the National Football League's there's some pass rushing success over
Speaker 1: the years, but by and large a lot of people
Speaker 1: were wondering how was this line going to respond? Because
Speaker 1: again and other different combinations sh Tom Compton taking over
Speaker 1: for Brian Winters at right guard and Jonathan Harrison. He's
Speaker 1: been centered for a few games now. Ryan Khalil or
Speaker 1: Khalil though ultimately placed on injured reserve. You get Calvin
Speaker 1: Beecham back in the lineup the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I think the line all in all, that might have
Speaker 1: been their bust performance two thousand nineteen. I agree. I agree.
Speaker 1: And having beach him back is a big help. You know,
Speaker 1: you you have a security blanket over there on the
Speaker 1: left side, and Sam understands that when he drops back,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really have to worry about what's going on
Speaker 1: behind him, uh, you know, and having the rest of
Speaker 1: the players Jonathan Harrison, I thought he did a great job.
Speaker 1: He's a very athletic center. He can get out of
Speaker 1: the movie. He's he's physical at the point of attack.
Speaker 1: And I like the way that the offensive line is progressing. Listen,
Speaker 1: they're a young group. You know, no one's gonna mistake
Speaker 1: them as as the Cowboys offensive line or or you know,
Speaker 1: the Coats offensive line. But they're working towards it and
Speaker 1: they're they're putting out better performances and they're only gonna
Speaker 1: get better. What do you make of Ryan Griffin? He
Speaker 1: goes over a hundred yards receiving for the first time
Speaker 1: in his career when the Jets picked him up a
Speaker 1: lot of people thinking, oh, that's a nice depth signing.
Speaker 1: But they've had to depend on this guy in a
Speaker 1: big way this season because basically a lost year for
Speaker 1: Chris Herndon, who went on injury reserve only played one game.
Speaker 1: But Griffin is kind of a jack of all trades.
Speaker 1: He can do everything in a few Yeah, he can't.
Speaker 1: And you love to see guys like that have success.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had him on the show and just
Speaker 1: as cool as they come, you know, a hard worker, humble,
Speaker 1: uh you know, does it all. Does whatever the coaches
Speaker 1: ask of him. You know, if they want him to block,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out there blocking. They want him on
Speaker 1: the move, he's gonna be on the move. You're asked
Speaker 1: him to catch some balls, he's gonna do the most
Speaker 1: with it. And to see him get rewarded, to see
Speaker 1: him create those big plays, I love it and I
Speaker 1: wish him more success. Well let's go to the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Let's go to your side, Eric Coleman,
Speaker 1: the defense is side. Just how good has Greg Williams
Speaker 1: been this year? You think about the injuries. I know
Speaker 1: the Jets have endured them on both sides of the football,
Speaker 1: but at the inside linebacker position, c J. Moles Y.
Speaker 1: We talk about his absence every week and what they've
Speaker 1: done there stopping the run. And now at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: This is jumping out to me because Brian Pool has
Speaker 1: been one of the most underrated people on this roster.
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic all year at that nickel position. But
Speaker 1: Arthur Mullott is playing outside the numbers and a rookie
Speaker 1: Bless Austin, and those guys do acquitting themselves just fine. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean that just shows I love how Greg Williams
Speaker 1: coaches his team. It doesn't matter you know, what your
Speaker 1: role is, what your salary is, you gotta go out
Speaker 1: there and play your best. You gotta go out there
Speaker 1: and play hard every play and don't make mistakes, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get rewarded. You're gonna get opportunities. And these
Speaker 1: young guys have earned it. They've been doing it in
Speaker 1: the offseason, they've been doing it throughout the season in practice,
Speaker 1: and they're getting their time to shine and is showing
Speaker 1: and and you know, I don't think people give Greg
Speaker 1: Williams enough credit for what he's doing as far as
Speaker 1: a play caller. I mean, you're missing the strength of
Speaker 1: your defense. You're missing a lot of line packers. So
Speaker 1: what do you do. You put Jamal Adams here, You
Speaker 1: put them there, You mix some coverages up, you mix
Speaker 1: some blitz looks up, and you still make plays. So
Speaker 1: you know, Greg Williams has done some amazing things as
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator with his schemes and the way he's
Speaker 1: called this this defense. And I mean, I can't say
Speaker 1: enough for what they're doing. How difficult is it for
Speaker 1: a young quarterback to identify those pressure packages? We were
Speaker 1: talking to Jordan Jenkins about that before because he got
Speaker 1: all these guys crowding the line. Brian Pool's coming, georgane Jay,
Speaker 1: not George Jenkins, Jamal Adams, excuse me, is coming. But
Speaker 1: the linebackers are showing pressure. At least That's what I'm
Speaker 1: thinking when I'm watching and they all bell at the
Speaker 1: final seconds and Dwayne Hassen has got to be thinking,
Speaker 1: what the hell is this? Yeah, you know, it muddies
Speaker 1: everything up for the for the quarterback. You know, when
Speaker 1: a quarterback comes in the last scrimmage, you know you
Speaker 1: see him, you know, look going through the cane, is
Speaker 1: making calls, making fake you know, checks and he's trying
Speaker 1: to get the defense to show their hand so you
Speaker 1: can get an understanding of what covers they're in. You know,
Speaker 1: where's the pressure come from, where is the weakness of
Speaker 1: this defense. But what the Jets are doing, they're bringing
Speaker 1: everybody to the line of scrimmage. They're moving guys around.
Speaker 1: And so when when he's doing that fake that fake hyke,
Speaker 1: no one's moving and then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: ball snaps and he has to figure it out while
Speaker 1: he's dropping back. And that's a lot to ask for
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback to see two defensive lineman dropping back
Speaker 1: and he's like, wait, wait, is this a blitzer? Is
Speaker 1: it coverage? And then he makes a lot of mistakes
Speaker 1: that caused him to hold the ball for an extra second,
Speaker 1: and that's when you see the sack star coming. If
Speaker 1: you're running back in the National Football League right now
Speaker 1: and you're blocking a Signmon's Jamal Adams man, you you
Speaker 1: better stay on him. Because there were a couple of
Speaker 1: instances now we were where we've seen the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks where guys are getting in front of him.
Speaker 1: But either Jamal's motors just tremendous and off the charts,
Speaker 1: and he's just he keeps signing going and he never
Speaker 1: stops on a play and he's gonna get there. Or
Speaker 1: he's just running through people. Yeah, I mean you saw
Speaker 1: him last week run through say quoah, you this this
Speaker 1: past yesterday. He's running around defenders. And you know it's
Speaker 1: interesting because when safety is blitz, they're usually like the
Speaker 1: free hitter, where nobody sees him coming. But Jamal is. Listen,
Speaker 1: everyone knows he's coming and he's still getting pressure and
Speaker 1: he is. It just speaks to his motor. You know,
Speaker 1: he has a great motor. You talk about defensive ends
Speaker 1: that just keep going in and don't give up on
Speaker 1: a play. Jamal does that in his pass rush and
Speaker 1: his reward. He's being rewarded at the end of those plays. Okay,
Speaker 1: these guys in the locker room cannot afford to look ahead.
Speaker 1: They're not good enough to do that. It is the week,
Speaker 1: the week league, the National Football League, no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: But if I'm a fan, I want this team to
Speaker 1: get the six and seven before they go to Baltimore,
Speaker 1: because if I'm a fan, I can look at that
Speaker 1: schedule and say we got the Raiders at home. Good team,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But we should be in this
Speaker 1: game and there's no reason why we can't win. Then
Speaker 1: you go to Cincinnati, a winless ball club that's really scuffling,
Speaker 1: similar to a team you just saw in Washington, and
Speaker 1: then you come home and they face the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and you all the Dolphins a little something. Absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's a big opportunity for the Jets right now
Speaker 1: if they continue to play at this pace. You know,
Speaker 1: they're not beating themselves. They're not making a lot of mistakes,
Speaker 1: and anytime they do that, they they're not getting a
Speaker 1: lot of penalties. They're not no mental mistakes. Sam Donald's
Speaker 1: taking care of the football. They're making plays, they're being
Speaker 1: aggressive in their play calls. Listen, they can beat anyone,
Speaker 1: you know, And I'm not saying, listen, they're gonna win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I'm not trying to do that. Listen.
Speaker 1: They're playing some good football right now, and if they
Speaker 1: continue at that trend at that clip, then they're gonna
Speaker 1: end up six and seven at Baltimore and it's gonna
Speaker 1: make for a great game. So before we preview the
Speaker 1: Raiders in depth in our final segment, I will say
Speaker 1: a couple of things they won't be able to do
Speaker 1: against Oakland and come away with the victory. Is Sam
Speaker 1: can't have that interception like you did in the first half.
Speaker 1: Vincent Smith can't come back. Can assume we kick off
Speaker 1: and turn the football over. You have back to back
Speaker 1: turnovers like that as sequence like that, that spells trouble.
Speaker 1: But this team is playing well. They overcame the adversity
Speaker 1: against the Washington Redskins. But coming up here on Inside
Speaker 1: the Jets, we will preview preview this weekend's matchup between
Speaker 1: the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders. You are
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Speaker 1: The Jets are in a little bit, a little bit
Speaker 1: of a run here two games. Can they make it
Speaker 1: three against the Oakland Raiders. What do you think about
Speaker 1: this matchup? I'm excited to see what Jon Gruden has
Speaker 1: in store here because the Raiders are back six and
Speaker 1: four and and this is a step up in weight
Speaker 1: class for the Jets, don't you think absolutely? I mean
Speaker 1: the the Raiders, as you mentioned, six and four, uh,
Speaker 1: their physical ball club. You know, they're playing inspired football
Speaker 1: right now. John Gruden has been playing lights out. You know,
Speaker 1: they're they're overachieving. Some would say from from what would
Speaker 1: uh from the adversity that they faced throughout the off season,
Speaker 1: throughout the training camp, all the diversions they had going
Speaker 1: on in their locker room, they stayed together and they're
Speaker 1: playing a great brand of football right now, you know,
Speaker 1: led by Derek Carr, and you know he's doing an
Speaker 1: excellent job. He's completely of his passes. How would you
Speaker 1: describe the system that John Gruden is running there in Oakland?
Speaker 1: And they'll they'll run the football, they'll go heavy packages
Speaker 1: a lot of times. But people will say that that's
Speaker 1: just it's a system predominantly that's gonna rely on a
Speaker 1: short passing game. Correct. Yeah, you know, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a West Coast offense. But the run first, smash mouth football,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take you know they want their receivers to
Speaker 1: catch the ball to run. You don't want to give
Speaker 1: him opportunities to make big plays. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: they will use the play action to take shots down
Speaker 1: the field. So, uh, you know, John Gruden does a
Speaker 1: great job of scouting defenses. Now he's a he's an
Speaker 1: offensive mastermind, so he understands, you know, who's your biggest
Speaker 1: threat on defense. So you know Jamal Adams. You know
Speaker 1: that they're gonna have something for Jamal. You know they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to probably run away from him, do something
Speaker 1: to scheme Jamal because he's the guy who's been making
Speaker 1: on the plays. So uh, you know, running the football
Speaker 1: is their bread and butter though. So I love this
Speaker 1: matchup between Greg Williams and John Gruden. What did the
Speaker 1: Jets do to take away Derek Carr's favorite target? Darren
Speaker 1: Waller A kid who can I shouldn't call him a
Speaker 1: kid because of the NFL veteran, but six six came
Speaker 1: out of West Uh, he came out of Georgia Tech
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver and now he is the guy
Speaker 1: to tight end position and he's a he can be
Speaker 1: a mismatch nightmare for a posing defenses. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's tough, you know, as you mentioned as the receiver background,
Speaker 1: so he knows how to run routes. He's an excellent
Speaker 1: route runner. I think, you know with with the receiving
Speaker 1: tight ends that I played against that we're successful. We
Speaker 1: always use a guy like Jordan Jenkins, you know, to
Speaker 1: to chip him to delay his his release, to throw
Speaker 1: off the timing of the quarterback. And then you'd have
Speaker 1: another guy, you know, more athletic guy. Probably not myself,
Speaker 1: you know, I was a shorter safety, so he's gonna
Speaker 1: use his body to get away from me. A longer
Speaker 1: guy who can who can cover well, whether it be
Speaker 1: a corner, whether it be a big safety that's waiting
Speaker 1: for him after he gets jammed in the line of scrimp,
Speaker 1: if they move him off the line, if Waller's outside
Speaker 1: in the numbers, do you put a cornerback on him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with that. You can put a cornerback
Speaker 1: on him. You know, he he's going to be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, physically, he's gonna try to use his body,
Speaker 1: use his leverage and box you out. So you know,
Speaker 1: the cornerback that's what they do, you know, they do.
Speaker 1: They play in space they cover and I think that
Speaker 1: would be a good matchup. Now the problem is is
Speaker 1: once you get to the red zone, you know, who
Speaker 1: do you how do you match up? Because those jump balls, uh,
Speaker 1: those opportunities there, but you know it can definitely be handled.
Speaker 1: They do have some other weapons there. Tyrell Williams another
Speaker 1: athletic receiver for the Oakland Raiders. And then of course
Speaker 1: Hunter Runfro, a guy was very productive at Clemson and
Speaker 1: he just catches the football. Yeah, I mean very unassuming.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a you know, a very good route runner,
Speaker 1: sure hands, you know, does the excellent job of of running,
Speaker 1: you know, of winning against that third cornerback in the slot.
Speaker 1: So you know, he can be a problem. He moves
Speaker 1: to change for him. He's their version of Jamison Crowder.
Speaker 1: Right now, Now, do you buy into the difficulty for
Speaker 1: a West Coast team coming east? The Raiders just finished
Speaker 1: a three game homestand three and oh but they're not
Speaker 1: playing in the coliseum. They're coming to the East coast
Speaker 1: one in three on the road this year. Yeah, it's difficult,
Speaker 1: you know, coming from the West Coast going to the
Speaker 1: East Coast. I mean you lose three hours your timing
Speaker 1: is off is cold over here, you know, the weather
Speaker 1: is different, so uh, it is quite the adjustment obviously.
Speaker 1: You know, a West Coast team can have success out east,
Speaker 1: but it's more difficult than the other way around, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember for for us, going to the West Coast
Speaker 1: was like, first of all, it's like a vacation because
Speaker 1: the weather is always nice. But you get that extra time,
Speaker 1: you know, you get that extra sleep, um, and you
Speaker 1: lose all that when you come from the West Coast.
Speaker 1: So the Jets definitely have an advantage. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I think they have to jump out of the raiders
Speaker 1: early and try to score as many points as early
Speaker 1: as possible. What's that next step for the offense you
Speaker 1: just mentioned, jump on him early. Damn any problems out
Speaker 1: of the gate lately? Four games, like we talked about
Speaker 1: four touchdowns on the opening possession and you're you're talking
Speaker 1: about one other time in franchise history that this team
Speaker 1: has done it. So that tells me Adam Gaze and
Speaker 1: say and Donald dur in sync and the offense is
Speaker 1: prepared as soon as they get out on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you you gotta give a lot of credit
Speaker 1: to to coach Gays, the scouting department's offensive coordinator for
Speaker 1: understanding how these defenses are trying to attack teams and
Speaker 1: and finding the weakness and exposing that through that first drive.
Speaker 1: You know, typically you script that first twenty players of
Speaker 1: the of the game and then you adjust off of that.
Speaker 1: The Jets have done a great job with that script.
Speaker 1: Uh during the first fifteen and the last game they
Speaker 1: continued with that with that pressure, applying that pressure on defenses.
Speaker 1: You know, but I think this week when you talk
Speaker 1: about the Oakland Raiders, they're gonna have to stop Max
Speaker 1: Crosby four sacks against the Cincinnati Bengals. Yeah, he was,
Speaker 1: he was going off. You know, he's been struggling getting
Speaker 1: too the quarterback. Uh. You know, but he's a very
Speaker 1: athletic defensive end. And there's some ball players over there.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously they lost Khalil Mack in the trade
Speaker 1: and they'll be looking for a pass rusher and you
Speaker 1: know they're they're they're fine in a way to get
Speaker 1: it done. Yeah. What do you think is next for
Speaker 1: Sam Donald here? Trying to make it back to back
Speaker 1: to back strong performances here in year two as he
Speaker 1: really looks to be taken that next step. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think for Sam to take that next step, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be about consistency, you know, doing it week in
Speaker 1: and week out, eliminating those mistakes, you know, the screen pass,
Speaker 1: the pass against the Giants are are you know the
Speaker 1: week before when he's rolling out of the pocket, you
Speaker 1: know some of those passes. It's okay to throw the
Speaker 1: ball out of bounds, it's okay to throw it in
Speaker 1: the dirt sometimes, and I think Sam understands that, But
Speaker 1: when he gets in the heat of the moment, he's
Speaker 1: so competitive and he wants to make it happen so
Speaker 1: bad that it kind of overrules his better judgment. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see if the Jets can make it at three
Speaker 1: in a row. And if folks, if you are in
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