WEBVTT - Inside the Jets with Bart Scott and EA (11/27) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.800 The game on the world. You played to win the 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:19.440 game at Toucksdown, can't You're listening to the official Jets podcast, 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:25.600 Jets three sixty production. Welcome to Inside the Jets. Here 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:33.960 at Vandambilt Sports Clapp Claps, Hamilton Park, Eric Allens alongside 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:39.279 Bart Scott and rookie Jets running back Eli McGuire has 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:43.199 also joined us. You're right off the bat man though 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.680 he was a rookie a re discover. I have a 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.000 big announcement to make for those watching on New York 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:56.240 dot com and on Facebook right now. Um, we have 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.640 been moved to the kids table after Thanksgiving, the kids 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.840 picnic table. They need to give us the stywer foam 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.120 cups and or sippy cup or juice box. Man, what 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.560 happened to our table? Left our set? Eli feel horrible 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.840 about this because typically Inside the Jets starts off with 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.640 us at a big table and you're looking down right now. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:22.560 We have been brought down to earth, so my apologies. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:24.800 They might as well gave us folding chairs and I'm 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.639 just surprised the gables the real chair with the cushion 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.479 on it. But it's all good. We're gonna do. We're 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.119 gonna do what we could do. So Eli, uh, sixth 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.760 round pick out of Louisiana Lafayette. You're eleven games into 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.640 your first NFL season. How do you feel physically? Because 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.960 a lot of guys at this time that hurt talk 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.200 about hitting that rookie wall. Well, really, I'm I'm like 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.320 fifteen games then, including a preseason. Yeah that's right, but 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.200 know those are unofficial. We don't come right. But I 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.880 get a lot of playing time in pretty much. Um. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:03.320 But at this this the season, physically, I'm feeling great 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:05.960 because you know, I don't get that many reps. Um. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.519 I just be ready with my my number is called, 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.440 and uh, when my number is called, I just do 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.320 whatever I do. I can do the healthy team. So 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.280 I'm feeling pretty good at this point right now. So 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.680 not just talking about your body, of course, you know, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.680 because you say your body is fresh, it feels good. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.680 But how's the game slowing down? And how are you 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.960 seeing the field? You know, what's the difference between week 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.480 one or a week two and now how are you 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.880 seeing the feel different? It's the game slowing down for 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.360 you most definitely, it's slowing up a lot. Um. When 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.160 I first started, everything was just moving fast paced. I 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.560 didn't know what was going on. But now on that 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.960 I'm eleven weeks in, I'm watching more film, and uh, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.440 I know what's going on. Uh it's slowed up a lot. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.120 Our player guest segment here on Inside the Jets is 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.760 presented by M ANDT Bank, the official community bank of 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.399 your New York Jets. How about working in the backfield 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.520 with consummate professionals like Blah Paul and Matt Forte. How 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.480 much have you enjoyed that? Man, it's been eight man, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.919 I couldn't pick two better guys. Have been a room 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.760 with two veteran guys has been in the leading alone 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.359 time and I just learned a lot. I've just been 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.400 been a sponsor to those guys and just soaking up 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.960 every knowledge that I can. And those guys are great teachers, 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.639 and it's my job to listen to those guys, and 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.440 it's been great. Listen to him. When you say listen 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.320 to that, I mean get the doughnuts and bring the 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.760 pop Eyes chicken for him as well. Now they haven't 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.120 anything crazy like that yet. You don't have to get chicken, 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.520 so part what you used to have to do as 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.640 a rookie. They call it the bart special. Man. They 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.680 had my stuff ready. Yeah, I've seen rookies missed the 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.520 plane because they relate with the chicken. They're still in line. 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.320 That's why you gotta place your order before practice and 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.680 have it ready at the time. And also I had 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.320 to get steak and eggs. Man, I cannot believe wait 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.080 till I talked to Matt Ford Tambo. Man, things are 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:51.840 gonna change for the end of the season. Man, you're 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.080 gonna get You're gonna get brought in the right way. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.680 So how did they welcome you into that running back real? Uh? 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.080 Just with open arms. Uh let me come in and 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.960 just try to learn everything that I can. Just listen 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.440 and uh, just's be a great listener. See, I don't 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:09.960 think you undertood the court. You're not talking about the 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.640 nice stuff. He said, what that they told you? Like, 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:14.400 you know, do you have to carry the pad? Do 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.159 you have to carry the pass? Anything? We want to 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.240 know about the rockie experience? Are you telling me the 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:22.039 rookie experience is now like being in the penthouse. Those 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.320 guys haven't really told me to do anything crazy. I 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.760 didn't carry the pass one time in camp one time, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.719 one time, one time, not bad. Uh. Inside the Jets 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.320 presented by e Why Building a Better Working World? How 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.000 were you able Eli McGuire and your first professional season 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.800 to have your offensive coordinator John Morton be so confident 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:44.440 in you know, because a lot of guys who come 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.800 into the National Football League who are six round picks, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.280 who are behind the Matt Forte and balal Paul, they 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.800 wouldn't get the amount of work that you're getting. But 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.560 John Morton said, Hey, this guy is like a veteran 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:59.080 the way he approaches this game. It's just being versatile 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.760 when you can run, can't catch out the backfield. Uh, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.520 it's just great. It's hard to find those guys these days. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.560 So when you have three running backs, they could do 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.880 different things. Uh, you gotta use them in some kind 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.240 of way. You gotta use them. Now, what how would 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.919 you describe your style to somebody who's never seen you 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.239 run the football before? Are you a one cut guy 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.960 or are you a scat back? You? Are you shady 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:26.520 or your trail datas? I'm shady? You shady? Okay? Okay? Yeah? 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:30.320 And the cutback it's how you got the long touchdown 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.560 and run against the Jacksonville j wors. All right, your 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.640 first touchdown in the NFL. Can you describe that play 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.720 for us? Well, yeah, it was. It was an outside 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.720 zone to the left, and uh, on the outside zone, 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.440 you gotta get everybody to flow right. So that's what happened. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.560 Everybody flowed to one side to cut off the field 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.120 while I was going, while I was supposed to go, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.600 and they had a big, big lane like right in 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.040 the middle. So the offensive lot did a great job 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.640 to get on the blocks. I did a great job 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.120 of pressing a hole, setting it up and found the 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.919 crease backside and made and got missed and took it 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.440 to took it. So I gotta follow up here because 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.679 in the locker room after that game, when the Jets 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.520 beat the jack Wars, I asked, you, lie, so, what's 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.960 that feeling like when you hit the second level and 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.200 you know you're about to take it to the house? 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:19.960 And he said, oh, you can cancel Christmas. Is that 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.440 a line that if you used before? And and the 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.159 meeting behind that, Now, that was my first time. But 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.200 the reason I said that because when you ain't open 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.839 field like that, and you've got nothing but green grass, 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.240 and you running an open field and you've got people 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.560 chasing you. Your goal is not to get caught, and 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.480 that's just my goal, not to get caught. And I 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.560 approached as as the dog is behind me. Yeah, when 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.880 you when the dog is behind you, you don't know 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.880 nothing about that. You gotta explain. You gotta set it 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.920 up like in the hood, right you got a lot 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.039 of straight dogs, a lot of bucks. And at any 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.320 time you can turn the corner where you're walking back 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.159 from the store, you're going from playing basketball in the street, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.560 dogs just come up again. So apparently I've never been 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.240 in the hood. This is what we're saying right now. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.480 And I just want to say too, I just adopted 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.720 a dog from kill Shelter Donn in Kentucky, So all right, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.920 he used to be a strike. You're a great guy, man, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.080 Thank you, Thank you very much. That that that that 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.800 straight dogs don't trace you. Okay, So Eli, right now, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.440 the Jets four and seven after a loving games. Um, lately, 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.920 you've been having trouble difficulty closing games in the fourth quarter. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.320 We think about Miami, we think about Atlanta and most 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.200 recently Carolina. What do you think is happening right now 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.600 to this team in the fourth quarter? Why you're not 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.880 able to make those plays at a critical time that 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.040 would give you a victory. Well, in this past game, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.760 just had we played well for three quarters, but in 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.760 the fourth quarter we heard ourselves with penalties and they 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.920 made more plays than we did. A special team play. 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:57.000 They made the punt return, oh, obviously a special teams 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.840 as he was in his league, and they made more 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.840 plays than we did, and we heard ours. So pen 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.600 is putting ourselves in the home. What's the locker room 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.320 like when you get there on a Monday. Because Jermaine 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.880 Curse fetching receiver who we've had here on this show, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.760 who I want to tell you career high and catches 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.760 yesterday Barton and went over a hundred yards receiving, like 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.920 I said, like we've said all year, Eli, No, I 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.320 haven't told him yet. Tell him, Eli, good things happen 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.280 to people come here on inside the Jets. So fantasy 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.440 advice for those at home, Eli McGuire, pick him up 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.040 on drag creen. That's money. You might have to pick 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.040 him up this week as the Jets face the Kansas 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:40.280 City Chiefs at Life Stadium. But Jermaine Curse said, hey, listen, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.600 our confidence is not shaken right now. You still have 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.080 a lot of confidence in the room, even though you've 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:51.839 lost five out of six accurate. Oh, it's just it's 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.520 not confidence is not where we wanted to be because 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.040 we had intentions on winning this game and that was 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.760 our goal coming out of how time we was up 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:07.920 to I think, and that's right, Well the score you're up. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.160 Don't worry about your and uh, we just knew that 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.240 we would come out with a different game planer just 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.000 running the ball, trying to trying to punch the ball 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.760 down they throat and uh. But we heard ourselves with 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.480 repent of this. And it's hard to get yourself out 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.200 a whole when you when you've got a lot of 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.880 positive plays and then you get set back with negative 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.800 So it's hard and it's hard. Let me said to say, 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:32.200 so what did you do? Let's do let's let's regress 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.280 with something a little less heavy. You don't want to 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.480 talk about the feeling and how mad he is all 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.760 that stuff. Hey, listen, how did you enjoy your first 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.520 bye week? And being able to kind of enjoy the 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.319 fruits of your labor or the bye week was great? Man? 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:49.960 You know, I haven't I haven't been home in like 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.800 four months, so it was. It was good to get 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.960 back to family and uh, see my mom them, just 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.200 to spend time with them for a few days before 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.240 I get back to the job. So it was great, man, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.160 it was. It was fun to say, my family, if 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.400 they've been able to come up here and watch you. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.000 They haven't, but they came to the first game. They 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.839 came to Buffalo, so it was great for them to 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.000 come to the first game. Any plans coming up here, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.360 maybe perhaps in December where your family would have an 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.480 opportunity to see you, well, it would be in New 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.320 Orleans because while I'm from my left fortified minutes away 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.120 from New Orleans, so they'll be They'll be pretty deep 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.000 in New Orleans. And how special is that gonna be 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.760 for you in a few weeks when you go back 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.960 and play the Saints, it'll be special. But planning the 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.400 dome is nothing new for me. When I was in college, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.080 we went to the New Orleans Bowl four years in 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.720 a row, but I only been there three times. So 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.920 it was it's great. I can't wait. Let me give 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.600 you some advice because you know what some people may 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.599 not know is I do a financial liturgy program with 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:45.480 Morgan Stanley. We talked about your finances. You know what 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.679 I mean. You're going back your six round draft pick. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.160 You're going back to New Orleans. You're gonna get take 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:55.160 a request from your your elementary gym coach principal. You 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.360 gotta find your back cop. You're always good cop. You 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.840 gotta find your bad cop because will be looking up 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.000 in your What people don't realize out there is we 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:08.280 pay for tickets. We get too free tickets. Everything else 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.240 is directly taken out of your check. So if you 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.360 don't want to like check because almost Christmas time, let 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.000 your mom be bad hoop and only get your mama tickets. 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.679 Just my advice. I haven't I haven't did anythink they 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.760 got their own They got their own stuff. So you 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.800 got a good family, everything, good fan growing up. No, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.960 I wasn't nobody growing Okay, let's talk about your Twitter handle? 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:38.680 Uh at Mr Adversity, Why did you pick that? Well? 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.800 The reason behind that is I lost my dad at twelve, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.600 and when my dad passed, I just wanted to quit everything. 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.880 I just want to stop going to school, stop playing sports. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.120 But the people I had around me, they picked me up. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.680 So I had to face that adversity and just get 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.839 back on my feet and doing what I love to do. 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:56.599 What do you think your dad was think of you 0:11:56.720 --> 0:12:00.640 now being a National Football League after Uh, you know 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.520 how much work you've put in along the way, and 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.280 then you were drafted of course in April. Not only 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:09.400 are you on this team, but you're a contributor on 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.559 this offense. Man, I believe help you to have this 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.920 man on his earth because, Uh, when I was young 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.400 playing sports, he he didn't miss no games. If he 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:19.800 had to leave work earlier, he was there. So I 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.679 think he'll be pretty pretty happy. I knew he happened 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.920 now spiritually, so I'm just trying to continue to make 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.240 him proud. You know what my father told me one thing, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.760 um when I when I made it, he said, son, 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.440 you don't owe me anything but bragging rights. And um, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.400 I'm sure your father would say the same. And I'm 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.960 sure he's up in heaven bragging with his chest out 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:39.640 like a peacock. You know that's the only thing we 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.880 all our parents and them. You've done a tremendous job 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.240 and that you know, people don't understand how hard it 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.360 is to be a six round draft pick, to come 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:47.719 in this league and try and make a name for 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.400 themself because your opportunities are limited. So it speaks to 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.880 your maturity the fact that the limited the limited opportunities 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.280 you got, you obviously took full advantage of him that 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.400 they trust you to give you opportunity of the game. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.920 So your congratulations to you, man. I'm sure your pop 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.360 is really really proud of you. Appreciate Eli. What do 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.839 you like about this offense? Uh, as far as the 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:16.280 West Coast and from a running backs perspective, because obviously 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.920 to play for John Morton, you gotta be able to 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.319 run the football, no doubt, but you gotta be a 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.000 dept at catching out of the backfield and you gotta 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.480 be one on the block as well. Right, what's my 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.160 first time in the West Coast offense? Uh, my four 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:31.959 years in college, I was I was used to a 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:35.160 new hotel and getting the signals from the sideline. Uh, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.439 just huddling stuff is new to me. But being in 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:43.200 the West Coast offense, Uh, it's I think it's great, man, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.480 because you give the running back a lot of opportunities 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:47.599 to get messed up with a linebacker and trying to 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:49.600 win any one on ones. So I think that's what's 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.440 the greatest thing about his offense. That's the one thing 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.840 I noticed about this guy, Eli McGuire and training camp 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.640 was not only can you run the football, but he's 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.559 got good hands, solid hands. That's the first thing that 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.400 popped out at me during training camp about you, Eli, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.600 that you have a game that is complete and you're 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.760 only gonna get better in the National Football League. What 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.280 about the verbiage of the offense, because we had Chad 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.760 Hanson on a couple of weeks ago, the rookie receiver 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.720 from Cal and he said, hey, it's like a paragraph 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.560 each play from your perspective, what what was it like 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.560 learning the terminology? And I agree with Chad, it is 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.040 it is like a paragraph. It's it's so complex. The 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.320 fans so they can get up. I'd like to hear one. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.000 I can't even do it because when I was learning 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.600 the offense, and I was I was looking at the 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.440 playbook and I was reading one of the plays and 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.840 I've seen alert another player did kill another player, Like, 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.240 oh man, I don't know how I'm gonna do this. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.160 So it's like it's like three players in the huddle 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.000 at one time. So you got to know everything. You 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:57.000 just listen to your part, right right about the other whatever, right, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:01.280 the double pumps it overwhelming the first the first night 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.240 you get the camp maybe or you're at rookie UH 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.600 camp rocky minicamp, and you look at this thing and 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.040 you're like, whoa, it was man, Because I was I 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.680 was so afraid of just um I was. I was 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.760 so afraid of messing up or making a mistake. And 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.000 that's that's the quickest way to get out this league. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:19.840 So I had to get in my playbook and just 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:21.760 learn everything that I can and put it in the 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.960 best way that I that I know how, and just 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:27.320 apply and just executed on the field. When you start 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.800 getting the game plan for the Chiefs, it's Monday right now. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.680 You guys come into the complex, you look at your mistakes, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.440 you put uh Sunday's game away. But when do you 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:41.160 start looking ahead individually at the chiefski fix. Oh, we 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.400 I'll start. I'll probably start tomorrow. Yeah, on Tuesday, you know, 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.040 the all day. Um, I go in in the morning 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.920 and get a little treatment, take care of my body, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.200 and go home, just watch some film, and then on 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.840 on Wednesday, just get the game plan and just go 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.840 from there. What does the running back and have to 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.040 pay attention to a special relie because I'm thinking about 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.320 guys like him. A linebacker, you gotta be looking at 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:06.760 how a linebacker and the safeties are coming down on 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.040 those run plays and also what they're doing in coverage. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.960 Right as a running back, when I watched film, uh, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.200 if it's a run play, I look at the technique 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.040 of the defensive linement, uh, just to know where the 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.560 ball might hit. And then in the past game, I 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.560 look at the linebackers they depp the safety's the corners, 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.800 and when the bit, when the linebacker bits, I look 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:28.560 at what they like to do their bull guy or 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.360 there for this guy. What's what's your personal goals for 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.880 the rest of the season to finish strong? What what 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.600 goals have you set for yourself before the season and 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.760 what goals have you set now? I haven't said any 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.000 goals really, but for the rest of the season, I 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.640 just want to be better than I was five minutes ago. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.440 And I just wanted to be, uh, the best guy 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.880 and the best man that I can be in life. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.800 Guys got a great attitude. That's Jets rookie running back 0:16:55.880 --> 0:17:00.080 Eli McGuire. Thank you so much for joining us. We 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.399 will come right back here on Inside the Jets. Welcome 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.479 back to Inside the Jets Sarah Gallen and Bart Scott 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:12.400 here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's Park. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:18.639 Um FanDuel Fantasy and Analysis brought to you by FanDuel 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.920 have all the fantasy that football has to offer. So 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.240 the fantasy advice for the folks at home this week 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:31.320 is get Ela McGuire, Eli McGuire. He's probably h out 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.119 there in free agency. Maybe you need a backup running 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.200 back on your fantasy team. Eli McGuire might punch it 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.320 in to the end zone this week against the Kansas 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.960 City Chiefs. Well, let's talk about Jets Carolina Panthers. Jets 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.439 do a lot of good things. Why weren't they able 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.159 to come home with the victory? I think it's a 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.880 lack of discipline and um, you know, you think about 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.600 some of the untimely penalties and not really understanding how 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.520 to to finish. You know. One example of that is 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.879 I know that the special team coached not call a 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.879 kick down the middle. That is a cardinal sin. You 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.560 never kick a punt down the middle because what happens 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.200 is if they have a left return on or middle 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.720 return on or right return on. You give them an 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.520 opportunity to run that play, you kick it to a 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.560 side and try and pin them to a side. Got 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:18.960 you gotta take away some of the fields, right exactly. 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.000 It's just like anything like when you're defending a somebody 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.440 on a pass route or running back out of the backfield, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.119 you always have to declare a side to give them 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.960 one way to exit. They kick the ball right down 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.560 the middle of the field and they paid the price 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.800 because what happens is everything times out Because as a 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:38.040 punt team, when you end coverage, what happens is you're 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:40.560 you're taught to spread out and fan out to your landmarks. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.119 But then when you fan out to your landmarks, of 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.320 course people are getting out at different times. So what 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.080 happens is now you have people that are running down 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.639 the field on different levels. So what happens is if 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.720 somebody hits it straight up the middle, you can't recover 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.320 from that because nobody to overlap because everybody's at different 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.640 levels and getting out at different times. And that's why 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.480 when he hit it up the middle of nobody had 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.679 seemed like he was untouched. Where if you're on a side, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.560 then you have guys from two that has angles because 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.760 they can see where the return is going, they can retreat. Cardinals. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:16.080 Very uncharacteristic of the Jets this year because they've been 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.760 covering kicks and punts very well. Locklan Edwards has had 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.200 a great season to date, not only in terms of 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:28.600 yards per punt, but net yards. And you being a 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:32.600 former special teams performer yourself earlier in your career, that's 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.000 how you made your market. The National Football League know 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:39.280 that knows that net is the most important number when 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.720 you're talking about punting. Unfortunately, Lockland Iwards put that one 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.440 out in the middle. Kitlin Clay takes it to the house, 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:50.960 but before that, Josh McCown gets pressured. There's a breakdown 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:55.440 in protection. He's trying to dirt the ball. Unfortunately not 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.560 able to get the ball out and with a forward 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.480 throw instead it's a fumble. Luke kick Lee takes it 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:04.399 the other way, and all of a sudden you have 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.520 a fifteen point run from the Panthers, and and and 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.359 that's what's so demoralizing. What happens is you're playing, you know, 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.320 so great, and then two plays or fifteen seconds and 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.240 you're down, you know, fifteen points, you know it scored 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.960 on the board, and you've been battling to get that, 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.800 you know, get that, get that lead, and you lose 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.480 it that fast. And what happens is, you know, the 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.960