Speaker 1: Eric, we have a very special guest, a young man
Speaker 1: who's uh had some changes. He's a dad now, he's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, veteran on the team. He hasn't missed a
Speaker 1: game since I was born. This is uh to do
Speaker 1: our next guest Freeport native, long time Jets left tackle
Speaker 1: to break a shaw. Ferguson joins us now at Colange
Speaker 1: was your lovely wife is here put the family? And
Speaker 1: who is this adorable? How old is she now? Uh?
Speaker 1: Six months? What's it like being dead? It's uh, it's
Speaker 1: great new phase. Um. I think we're all going through
Speaker 1: some changes. How stand sleeping at night? Um? You know? Um,
Speaker 1: I make it work. I make it work. So now
Speaker 1: how is he with diapers and feeding? He's good? Everything
Speaker 1: is good? Okay, So you get a pastor you're doing
Speaker 1: greatness up other that's that's that's impressive. Thank you about you?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Okay? So is it how has this changed
Speaker 1: your life? It is it different to your approach football?
Speaker 1: Differently to your approach life? Differently? How do you how
Speaker 1: do you approach thinks? Now? I just you know, I
Speaker 1: think it makes uh for great conversation in the locker room.
Speaker 1: You know, I can talk to my fellow teammates like, uh,
Speaker 1: damon and be like, man, I'm struggling, Man, what did
Speaker 1: you do? You know, get good advice and uh, and
Speaker 1: I got a lot of great peers. Uh, David Harris,
Speaker 1: he's good for advice. So I feel like I get
Speaker 1: closer to my teammates. What's the best piece of advice?
Speaker 1: The hit man David Harris is giving this? I think,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of times it's it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so many different opportunities, whether you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of times he left pictures of like his daughter is
Speaker 1: sleeping on his chest, and I think they relish the
Speaker 1: small moments, you know, so when you're out there you're battling, uh,
Speaker 1: you could always take a look and say, you know,
Speaker 1: these are some of the precious moments that you have.
Speaker 1: And I think it it just, you know, makes whatever
Speaker 1: you're going through a lot easier, a lot better. Talk
Speaker 1: flash quickly, you know, they grow up and fast. Six
Speaker 1: months going quickly, right, I don't I wouldn't use the
Speaker 1: word quickly, but it's gone. It's gone. It's like a marathon.
Speaker 1: So you're so you're pacing yourself. You're going through it,
Speaker 1: taking this slow Yeah, Okay, that's good. I'll go with that.
Speaker 1: So final answer, complete that answer. So yesterday, you guys
Speaker 1: get off to a slow start in the first half,
Speaker 1: but you make adjustments and you come back in the
Speaker 1: second half. What was that halftime like in the locker
Speaker 1: room and what were some of the things that you
Speaker 1: guys knew that you needed to improve on. Well, you
Speaker 1: know that was you know, we faced adversity during the
Speaker 1: halftime or during that first half, and you know the
Speaker 1: challenge was how are we going to respond in the
Speaker 1: second half? UM, I think we had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: go out there and and win the game, but you know,
Speaker 1: time ran out and we didn't do enough to to
Speaker 1: put the game uh in a in that situation, I
Speaker 1: think we we waited a little too long, uh in
Speaker 1: the first half before making um some real points and
Speaker 1: so that hurt us. We had some penalties and UM
Speaker 1: some turnovers and all that kind of hinders what you're
Speaker 1: trying to get accomplished, and that is ultimately win the game.
Speaker 1: How it difficult is that for you guys up front
Speaker 1: when you're playing behind from such a deficit, where at
Speaker 1: the end of the game you see the numbers and
Speaker 1: it's staggering Ryan Fitzpatrick passive counts. You know, I think, um,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes you put yourself in a situation. You know,
Speaker 1: if you don't score points early, where uh now you
Speaker 1: have to score you know, and and you know that's
Speaker 1: a different type of game when you have to go
Speaker 1: and put out and start pass protecting on every play.
Speaker 1: But um, I think we had an opportunity to change that. Um,
Speaker 1: And unfortunately we didn't. We didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: do that. So, UM, you know, it was one of
Speaker 1: those situations you put yourself in a bad situation. So
Speaker 1: it was nothing that you know, we caused it ourselves.
Speaker 1: How how does the mindset change when you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this is the situation we're in. We gotta put the
Speaker 1: ball up in there and it's alignment. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: be firing off too much. We gotta protect Ryan right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing that we UH coach teaches
Speaker 1: us as a situational awareness, and that's something that I
Speaker 1: think we you know, we recognize the situation we're in
Speaker 1: and we adapt to that. Um. You know, the defense knows,
Speaker 1: not our defense, but the opposing defense knows that as well.
Speaker 1: They know, hey, they can only do but so much
Speaker 1: uh times against them and they need points. So um, Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: even though we recognize the situation we're in, we weren't
Speaker 1: able to maximize it to the point of success, you know,
Speaker 1: and so we still lost uh that game. But you know,
Speaker 1: after looking at the tape, you know, you always take
Speaker 1: the good and the bad, and you know, now we
Speaker 1: have an opportunity this week to go out, uh travel
Speaker 1: the waters and uh, you know, beat up on Miami.
Speaker 1: The Gregor Star Ferguson's our guest. This is inside the
Speaker 1: Jets Larry Harnisty and Eric Allen at Colancho's Italian Village.
Speaker 1: You were able yesterday to we talked about depth earlier.
Speaker 1: Willie Cologne goes out with the new situation. But you
Speaker 1: bring in Brian went. There's a guy who's performed before.
Speaker 1: What's that confidence level like in him? How quickly does
Speaker 1: he have to get right into into the row and
Speaker 1: I think you know the confidence is high. I mean,
Speaker 1: not only did didn't he have an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: last year as I started before you know, he was injured. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the way we practice, we constantly have rotations,
Speaker 1: so uh, he had an opportunity to get reps. He
Speaker 1: knows what it is to you know, be ready, and
Speaker 1: I think he responded as best as he could in
Speaker 1: a situation like that. How much have you enjoyed playing
Speaker 1: next to the the big carp James Carpenter, who's appeared, who
Speaker 1: appeared in the past two Super Bowls with the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: signed here in the off season, and I think he's
Speaker 1: done it to run this job up front. He's definitely
Speaker 1: a rare talent and uh, you know, I appreciate that
Speaker 1: tune to play again, you know with him. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's very explosive, talented and I think he only
Speaker 1: makes our line better now. He's a man of mystery.
Speaker 1: I talked to Nick man Good. I asked him, what
Speaker 1: is the conversation Like he says he doesn't talk, he
Speaker 1: has to spoken to the media. What's that relationship Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a guy that he just seems like
Speaker 1: he's a physical guy that's going there, not somebody out
Speaker 1: and let's move on to the next flight. I think,
Speaker 1: I mean that's basically it. Um. You know, the conversations
Speaker 1: that we have or you know, we don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of words. It changes. You know, hey, it's going
Speaker 1: on good okay practice all right, So you know a
Speaker 1: lot of times, you know what we're working on that
Speaker 1: we have word counts and uh hopefully we can every
Speaker 1: day just make progress and you use more words. You
Speaker 1: guys are never gonna use injuries is an excuse. But
Speaker 1: how much does that impact you? When Chris Ivey's out
Speaker 1: of the lineup, Eric Decker unfortunately couldn't go as well,
Speaker 1: even a guy like Chris and Woizu he's gonna be
Speaker 1: out for a couple of weeks. And then uh, Willie
Speaker 1: Colon went down yesterday as as well. I think you know,
Speaker 1: you you recognize what those guys contributed and and how
Speaker 1: much of impact they had on the game when they're
Speaker 1: out there. Um, you know, unfortunately, you know, injuries is
Speaker 1: something that uh every team faces in the league. So
Speaker 1: again we can't use that, like you mentioned as an excuse,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, we we have some really talented
Speaker 1: players and sometimes you can feel when they're not on
Speaker 1: the field. Brand one of those talented players, Brandon Marshall,
Speaker 1: how much have you enjoyed having him as a teammates
Speaker 1: so far? You know, he's a very hard worker. I
Speaker 1: mean even during the offseason, he would come and train
Speaker 1: with the offensive linemen and me and and and and
Speaker 1: and challenge us in what we did. So Uh, that guy,
Speaker 1: I mean, he works very hard, and he's extremely talented,
Speaker 1: and you know, I definitely think he's a great addition
Speaker 1: to our team. All Right, you're preparing to go to London. Now,
Speaker 1: you as you mentioned, you have Miami first divisional opponent.
Speaker 1: What's the when when they started talking to you about
Speaker 1: going to London. You've got to sleep people coming in.
Speaker 1: They're trying to change the program, they're trying to do
Speaker 1: all this for athletes, to our creatures of habits. How
Speaker 1: tough is this gonna be? Ah, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know because I've never done it before. But what I
Speaker 1: will say is, um, I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: new experience for both. Um. I think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to adjust I mean our trip as far as travel time,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is I think they said
Speaker 1: we changed five time zones, and that's something that I
Speaker 1: don't know how many guys have played with that before. So, UM,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. I know we're gonna do our best
Speaker 1: to adapt. Uh, you know, we want to win more
Speaker 1: than anything at this point, just to uh, you know
Speaker 1: again show what we can do um and that that
Speaker 1: will be definitely a motivating factor for us. You're not
Speaker 1: gonna have any time for sight seeing. But have you
Speaker 1: ever been over to Europe before? I have when we
Speaker 1: were going on our honeymoon. We've made a pit stop
Speaker 1: in uh London and it was good, even though I
Speaker 1: was tired to uh see some of the things I
Speaker 1: think we we uh, I don't know. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what we saw. You don't remember. I confuse London
Speaker 1: and some of the other places I've traveled, so I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: really saw that. She's like, that's that's not in London.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, you know what, it was nice
Speaker 1: when I saw it. So no advice for Judge fans,
Speaker 1: because you know, there's gonna be a big green and
Speaker 1: white contingent overseas, over across the pond, you know what.
Speaker 1: I'll have a little tourists hand out at when I
Speaker 1: go to concierge or like, you know, can I can
Speaker 1: I see the sights and I'll be looking at the
Speaker 1: map like everybody else taking pictures. I'm like, hey, stand here,
Speaker 1: Selfie doesn't help that it's a familiar opponent that you're
Speaker 1: going over the face. It helps, but I think it
Speaker 1: makes it that much more important that we have, you know, success,
Speaker 1: because you know, we want to beat these guys. Miami
Speaker 1: and in New York we've always had an interesting relationship
Speaker 1: very you know, I won't, I won't. It's not friendly.
Speaker 1: You know it's not friendly. You know, your vacation. But
Speaker 1: that's all you do in Miami. That's it. So UM,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a competitive game. It's gonna be fun,
Speaker 1: uh for the fans to watch, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll we'll have a different outcome good this week
Speaker 1: to break a show. What stands out to me about
Speaker 1: your career is you find one of the top left
Speaker 1: tackles in the National Football League since you were drafted
Speaker 1: out of Virginia. But your durability is unbelievable. You've only
Speaker 1: missed a couple of plays in your entire career. Um,
Speaker 1: with that being said, how do you think you have
Speaker 1: been able to stay on the field in a league
Speaker 1: that is a hundred percent injury league. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't mean I don't take any credit. I definitely you
Speaker 1: see it as a blessing. You know, I definitely recognize
Speaker 1: how precious opportunity is to go out there and and
Speaker 1: be able to perform. Um. It's nothing that I think about.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think when people bring it up, it's like,
Speaker 1: oh wow, But you know, I just kind of go
Speaker 1: and and and focus on the task at hand. Um,
Speaker 1: And that's how I try to approach it, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'm just happy again that I've been giving
Speaker 1: a chance to play for this organization and continue to
Speaker 1: play for this organization. So I just try to make
Speaker 1: the most of it. Um. Whenever I'm I'm giving that
Speaker 1: opportunity to to Breakorshaw Ferguson, one of the top left
Speaker 1: tackles in the National Football League. Thanks for a couple
Speaker 1: of mens. Thanks for bringing your family by. I know
Speaker 1: you're gonna miss that little girl when you're going to London. Well,
Speaker 1: she she'll be there with me. Yeah passport. You know
Speaker 1: you should see the mugshot's She wasn't happy when she
Speaker 1: took that photo a first inside the Jets reading. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope she does well on the plane. I won't
Speaker 1: be there, but her mom will, so everybody needs to
Speaker 1: support her, keep her. You know, she'll be out. She'll
Speaker 1: be good. Thanks again for coming by to Breakorshaw Ferguson