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Speaker 1: Welcome to Jets Audibles, Eric Allen, joined by my partner

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Speaker 1: as always, Chad Pennington. Okay, Chad, we're gonna start off

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Speaker 1: with the trivia question. Can you tell me the last

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Speaker 1: quarterback before Ryan Fitzpatrick on Sunday? Last Jets quarterback who

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Speaker 1: throw four touchdowns in a game with zero interceptions? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: I hope i'd be part of that answer. Um, I

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Speaker 1: do remember having that type of game. I think it

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Speaker 1: was against Detroit, wasn't it in two thousand, two thousand two?

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Speaker 1: Beingo Chad Pennington, how about that. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 1: thrown myself into the mix. Two. So, what did you

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Speaker 1: think about Fitzpatrick's performance against the Miami Dolphins that the

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Speaker 1: Jets got that much needed victory. Well, it was a

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Speaker 1: I think it was a quintessential Ryan Dispatrick performance. And

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Speaker 1: what we see from Ryan is he is an all

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Speaker 1: in quarterback. He plays the game to do whatever it

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Speaker 1: takes to get the next first down, the next yard,

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Speaker 1: the next completion, and so you saw that from his

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Speaker 1: play on Sunday where he ran for first downs, he

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Speaker 1: saw the magnificent play that he made, even though they

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Speaker 1: saw the touchdown play Brandon Marshall for the first touchdown

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Speaker 1: if you went, if you go back and look at

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Speaker 1: that play, that was a heck of a quarterback play

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Speaker 1: on his part where he was getting pressure, he threw

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Speaker 1: it to where it Brandon, you know, essentially had to

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Speaker 1: That was a great quarterback play. So I think that, uh,

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Speaker 1: from Ryan's standpoint, you know, that was a performance that

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Speaker 1: from a fan and then watching quarterbacks that I was,

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Speaker 1: I was glad to see and it was fun to watch. Chad.

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Speaker 1: Did you like his patients? He said going into this

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Speaker 1: game that, hey, listen, I haven't played really well lately,

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Speaker 1: And then after this ball game he said, I didn't

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Speaker 1: try to force things. I didn't put it pressure on

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Speaker 1: And I think that's this kind of the overall mindset

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Speaker 1: players such as Fitzpatrick or Brandon Marshall, Ary Becker trying

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Speaker 1: to make too much out of something and putting too

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Speaker 1: much pressure on themselves to make big plays to create

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Speaker 1: them naturally. And when that plays there to be made,

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Speaker 1: they make it. And so I think that's the difference

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Speaker 1: When plays were there to be made, they made them,

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Speaker 1: but they didn't go looking for them. They just took

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Speaker 1: they made it. If it was a small play to

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Speaker 1: play required at that particular moment, they made those plays.

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Speaker 1: Was there anything scheme wise that Jan Gailey was doing

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Speaker 1: different than what we've seen of late, Well, I just

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Speaker 1: saw from a scheme standpoint, first of all, was that

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Speaker 1: and it came back into the forefront from the very

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Speaker 1: first play. It set the tone, it created, the energy,

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Speaker 1: it created the spark and so um, it doesn't didn't

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Speaker 1: guys like Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker. Yeah, what do

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Speaker 1: you think that will do for Devin Smith's confidence? And

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Speaker 1: Both of his catches were in critical moments of drives

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Speaker 1: to him in critical situations. You had a long artist

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a really big play in the game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: me in those situations, that has to be a confidence

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Speaker 1: builder for him. What do you think about Brandon Marshall.

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Speaker 1: We've come to expect great things from him, and just

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, it seemed like Brandon was

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Speaker 1: step and now Chad, he's only sixty nine yards uh

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Speaker 1: shy of a thousand for the eight time in nine seasons. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's tremendous. And Uh, what I saw Sunday was the

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Speaker 1: same type of mindset that Fitzpatrick explained that he had.

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Speaker 1: I saw a receiver that didn't try to force the issue,

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Speaker 1: didn't try to force anything, didn't try to get too

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Speaker 1: And when he does that, I mean he's an unstoppable

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Speaker 1: and that it was it's actually an attitude where you

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Speaker 1: got to think about quality, You've got to think about

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Speaker 1: the opportunities, and you have to relax in those situations

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Speaker 1: and just take advantage of the moment, not try to

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Speaker 1: create the moment yourself. You think a questionably, this guy

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Speaker 1: is a Hall of Famer, right, you're talking about now

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Speaker 1: eight out of nine years where he's going to have

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career is being able to do some

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Speaker 1: great things in the postseason. And I think that's some

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Speaker 1: of the pressure that he's put on himself is probably unwarranted,

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Speaker 1: what do you think's gone through both Fitzes and Brandon

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Speaker 1: Marshall's minds as they start December? Because you uh had

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Speaker 1: these guys have been in the league for more than

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Speaker 1: playoff appearance. Well, I know exactly how they feel, as

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Speaker 1: I mean, you were chomping at the bit to get there,

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Speaker 1: that's what I see from those two guys. They see

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Speaker 1: from a veteran perspective, just being in the league as

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Speaker 1: see this opportunity now, not a few years down the road.

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Speaker 1: How impressed have you been with this team in the

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Speaker 1: red zone throughout the year. We know they had some

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Speaker 1: Football League. And you got Marshall there with nine touchdowns

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Speaker 1: When the Jets are inside of twenty, Well, you have

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Speaker 1: last week the Jets were descending, but now they get

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Speaker 1: They've got to be feeling pretty good right now. Well,

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Speaker 1: it just shows you how important a win is in

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Speaker 1: this uh league. It's so uh devastating when you lose,

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Speaker 1: to enjoy the win because you've got to move on

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Speaker 1: make it into the playoffs. And this league, it's great

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Speaker 1: when it comes to fandom and creating parity and creating

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Speaker 1: these stories. Who would have thought after Week six with

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Speaker 1: card spot. You look at at Houston, Indianapolis, I mean, Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: about this situation. Seven teams chaid either have a six

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Speaker 1: seventh seed. That all doesn't matter, obviously, there's five games

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Speaker 1: Who will be the final four after this weekend. The

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Speaker 1: you think Alabama will be Florida, they would advance Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma is in. You think Michigan State beats Iowa. I

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Speaker 1: do think Michigan State beats Iowa. I don't think Iowa

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Speaker 1: way I will will beat Mischigan State is this, Mischigan

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Speaker 1: All right, So you got the three teams. So finally

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Speaker 1: is do you think North Carolina if they beat Clemson,

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Speaker 1: They their first losser, their whole loss was the first

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Speaker 1: Everybody has different expectations, and now you've seen the work

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Speaker 1: All right, buddy, we'll be watching Saturday and then of

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