Speaker 1: All right, it's always a camp treat. When Brian Baldinger
Speaker 1: comes here to one jet's drive. I got some news
Speaker 1: to report right off the bat here.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, he's a great football player.
Speaker 2: He's a great player, you know, and I'm you know,
Speaker 2: just marveling out there today. Uh. He's not just great,
Speaker 2: but he's entertaining, like because you know, you're in this
Speaker 2: business and you see all kinds of levels of play
Speaker 2: at all positions. But like the way that he still
Speaker 2: throws the football, the timing, the spin, the release, like
Speaker 2: it's all there like you can't help it. And you
Speaker 2: know that connection that he has and is growing with
Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson is I mean, it's it's special. It's special.
Speaker 2: You could tell you watch it today, Like just the
Speaker 2: adjustment to these throws. It was fun to watch.
Speaker 1: You had an opportunity to visit with him after practices,
Speaker 1: you and Judy Batista from NFL Network. Of course we
Speaker 1: love Judy, yep. What were your impressions of where Aaron's
Speaker 1: at right now?
Speaker 2: I think he's first of all, he's so thoughtful. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 2: people can have whatever opinion they want about anybody, but
Speaker 2: when you sit down and talk football with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2: There's no cliche answers. There's no just you know, let's
Speaker 2: get through this. Like he literally thinks about every question
Speaker 2: and then his answers are so thoughtful, you know, and
Speaker 2: there's one thing after another where you know, just in
Speaker 2: a second year here of what they need to do
Speaker 2: as a team and what can happen here and how
Speaker 2: players why they can come together, and how they can
Speaker 2: come together, and the new additions in the offensive line.
Speaker 2: He knows every aspect of this.
Speaker 1: The greatest players who've ever played this game enjoy the
Speaker 1: grind the most, don't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. In fact, Aaron was talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: coming into this league and two thousand and five whatever,
Speaker 2: and what practices were like back then. Yeah, the two days,
Speaker 2: the contact, you know, you don't get that now, and
Speaker 2: so guys like Aaron who's had to adjust, okay, is
Speaker 2: every rep's important. You know, you don't get that chance
Speaker 2: where you have an off day, you know, but you know,
Speaker 2: we'll be back at the grind tomorrow. You don't. You
Speaker 2: don't get that. There'll be in full pads on Monday.
Speaker 2: And he's thankful that he gets a day off tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But you know, for the most part, like he wanted
Speaker 2: every rep out there to really he says he still
Speaker 2: needs to refine his gain. Practice is important, the reps
Speaker 2: are important, and he's still working on little things, subtle
Speaker 2: things that maybe somebody else doesn't notice. But even like today,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously we asked him about you know, the
Speaker 2: Achilles and coming back, and you know, at the start
Speaker 2: of camp he said he was five percent away. And
Speaker 2: then he said, there was a play today that happened
Speaker 2: where there was quick pressure up the middle and it
Speaker 2: forced him out of the pocket and he was flushed
Speaker 2: to his right right and he had to get on
Speaker 2: the horse. He had to like explode and move to
Speaker 2: make a throw over the middle. And he said that
Speaker 2: felt Goodah, felt good today, you know, like that movement
Speaker 2: that I need to have when things do break down.
Speaker 2: I got to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: How impressive is the arm? Still at forty this is
Speaker 1: his twentieth NFL year. He doesn't seem like he's lost
Speaker 1: anything off the fastball.
Speaker 2: No, And you can't say that, you know, we we
Speaker 2: saw you know, Brett Favre lose his We saw Peyton
Speaker 2: Manning lose his not everybody. We saw Drew Brees lose
Speaker 2: his You can't say this stage, after four practice that
Speaker 2: anything is different from the way Aaron throws a ball.
Speaker 2: It's still magical that the placement to touch. You saw
Speaker 2: the play, you know, down the goal line the two
Speaker 2: minute drill, so you know he got the call for interference.
Speaker 2: So he got a second shot at the one yard
Speaker 2: line and he stuck that ball to Alan Lazard off
Speaker 2: a little play action. But the only way you make
Speaker 2: that throw is you got to stick it like you
Speaker 2: can't take it. Like it's got to hit Blazard right
Speaker 2: in the chest and it did over everywhere. You know,
Speaker 2: it's got to be it's got to be really fast,
Speaker 2: and you know, just so there's different types of throws,
Speaker 2: but that throw, you just see it, and you know
Speaker 2: the only way they score is if that ball just
Speaker 2: gets there that fast.
Speaker 1: Every time I see pressure, I'm like, defense is gonna
Speaker 1: be in trouble on this one because he sees it's
Speaker 1: coming and he knows exactly where the weakness is in
Speaker 1: your coverage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now he sees, he sees all eleven, he sees
Speaker 2: the sideline, he sees the substitutions. He you know, he
Speaker 2: knows like, look the game. He knows the game. He
Speaker 2: knows the game inside out. He knows how to get
Speaker 2: the You know, I guess here's an old saying. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love this saying, but it applies to Aaron. You
Speaker 2: know the problem with experiences is that by the time
Speaker 2: you get enough of it, you're too old to enjoy it.
Speaker 2: And I feel like with Aaron, all that experience, he
Speaker 2: can still enjoy it. He can still use it to
Speaker 2: his advantage whenever he can see the opportunity for an advantage.
Speaker 1: So what I see is the opportunity for the Jets
Speaker 1: to have complementary pieces. For a while now, we've been
Speaker 1: watching this team have very solid defense paired with special teams,
Speaker 1: while offensively scuffled due to injuries. We go to it
Speaker 1: last year and the number of quarterbacks you played in
Speaker 1: the different line combinations. But now you watch them and
Speaker 1: I know they're in shorts, but you wonder, what is
Speaker 1: the potential of this offense? And when is the last
Speaker 1: time we've said that about the Jets.
Speaker 2: Well, a couple of things. One and the tern pointed
Speaker 2: us out, like, Okay, you bring in Tyron, you bring
Speaker 2: in Mortgage, you bring in John Simpson, but a lot
Speaker 2: of guys got a lot of reps last year. Carter
Speaker 2: Warren played, you know, Wes Weitzer played, you know, you
Speaker 2: know the Max Mitchell played. I mean, you got a
Speaker 2: lot of guys that got a lot of experience last year,
Speaker 2: and so now you know if something would and you
Speaker 2: draft Olu, right, so now something happens, you feel like
Speaker 2: you've got depth to hold up. And guys that are
Speaker 2: in the system, been in the system, know the offense.
Speaker 2: So that's that's a positive. But the thing that really
Speaker 2: jumped out was he said, you know, Baldi, sometimes when
Speaker 2: you're in shorts, the run game sort of suffers. It's
Speaker 2: kind of hard to see holes. Defense has the advantage.
Speaker 2: He said, Breece Hole has been saying like, this looks different.
Speaker 2: I can see movement, I see holes, I know where
Speaker 2: they're at, you know. And so Breece, I feel like
Speaker 2: is going to benefit when you talk about this offense,
Speaker 2: I feel like this season, I know it's his third year,
Speaker 2: but I think this can be one of those years
Speaker 2: that you just you know, you put it up there
Speaker 2: at or near the top of the record books.
Speaker 1: Wow. And he had more than fifteen hundred yards from Scribbler.
Speaker 2: He was second to Christian McCaffrey and total yards last year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: behind a broken line and quarterbacks that through a grand
Speaker 2: total eleven touchdowns like this, this could be really special.
Speaker 1: The roster was pretty good last year, but that's what
Speaker 1: Aaron has emphasized, that we're better up front, and that's
Speaker 1: just changed his entire dynamic.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, if you want to look at
Speaker 2: the best teams in this league, the teams that are
Speaker 2: are in playing in the divisional round, playing in the
Speaker 2: you know, semi finals, like you just look at their
Speaker 2: offensive lines and look at how they play. And you
Speaker 2: look at Detroit's offensive line right now, you look at
Speaker 2: Kansas City's offensive line, you know, San Francisco when Trent's
Speaker 2: in there like there. You can talk about the quarterbacks
Speaker 2: all you want in all those places they had great seasons,
Speaker 2: but it starts upfront. And it always does. When when
Speaker 2: Kansas City got whipped by Tampa and the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: they went out and drafted Creede Humphrey and Trey Smith
Speaker 2: and these guys have played nearly every snap since and
Speaker 2: they fixed their line in one off season, and Mahomes
Speaker 2: has benefited from it.
Speaker 1: What's gonna change when these guys get pads on. I mean,
Speaker 1: we might be running this podcast, you might be listening
Speaker 1: to it, washing it while the pads are on. But
Speaker 1: we just got through the acclamation period. Now what changes, well.
Speaker 2: What changes is the intensity. No, Like, look, when you're
Speaker 2: in shorts and shoulder pads, if you're walking through, there's
Speaker 2: a tant to see to just mentally lighten up a
Speaker 2: little bit. When the pads go on and the pop
Speaker 2: and you can hear the popping that the intensity goes up,
Speaker 2: the competition goes up. The one on ones now, the
Speaker 2: one on ones offensive and defensive line. You know, is
Speaker 2: Jermaine Johnson winning, Is Tyron Smith winning? Like you're trying
Speaker 2: to win the rep. Now. It's not life or death,
Speaker 2: but it changes your the contact of the game. You
Speaker 2: hear the contact. You know, Quincy and CJ get to
Speaker 2: unload got you know, throws over the middle all of
Speaker 2: a sudden aren't gonna be so easy. So like you
Speaker 2: want to you want to practice safely, but at the
Speaker 2: same time, mentally, you step on the field and you're
Speaker 2: in full pads, you're like, okay, like I gotta bring
Speaker 2: my a game right here. I gotta be on today.
Speaker 1: We saw today Jermaine Johnson and John Simpsons exchanging pleasantries
Speaker 1: after a play. Think little cooler heads prevailed. I want
Speaker 1: to ask about Javon Kinlaw. I was amazed the other
Speaker 1: day after practice when these guys were walking off the field.
Speaker 1: How big of a do dude? This is former first
Speaker 1: round pick. That means he has loads of potential. Robert
Speaker 1: Salad knows it better than anybody. He coached him up
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. You think, if your kin Law, you're
Speaker 1: looking at this is this is my second chance, a
Speaker 1: chance at a career breakthrough.
Speaker 2: It's a fresh start.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, his first two years in this league,
Speaker 2: he was injured a lot, didn't you know, miss a
Speaker 2: lot of games, missed a lot of time, had you know,
Speaker 2: a variety of injuries. He looks healthy, he is, he's
Speaker 2: a specimen. I feel like this is a chance he had. Look,
Speaker 2: they have a great defensive front in San Francisco. They
Speaker 2: put a lot of resources into it. But this is
Speaker 2: a chance for him to get more snaps, more meaningful snaps.
Speaker 2: And look, if he's going in there for Quinn Williams
Speaker 2: and quinnin needs a blow, you don't want to be
Speaker 2: that guy where the big plays happen, Like there's peer
Speaker 2: pressure that if you're in that second wave of you know,
Speaker 2: second wave of guys up there, and they might be
Speaker 2: mass substitutions, resting your starters what you have to do
Speaker 2: to get through a seventeen game season. So time a
Speaker 2: chance for Javon to like more than just be a
Speaker 2: power pusher, and he's got to become a better passer
Speaker 2: rusher and he's got that chance.
Speaker 1: Jermine Johnson talked about it the other day, said Tyrone
Speaker 1: Smith is the best pass protector in football. With that
Speaker 1: being said, how much does that help a guy like
Speaker 1: him and whomever is out there on the edge going
Speaker 1: against that guy.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean the first thing is, you know, Tyrone
Speaker 2: is a pro and you just watch him after practice
Speaker 2: work on his craft, like the game is highly highly important.
Speaker 2: Jermaine's gonna go against one of the best, Uh, you know,
Speaker 2: not to not to say that Pina or Lane or
Speaker 2: Trent isn't the best. He's going up against the best.
Speaker 2: That practice is hard every day and you know, and
Speaker 2: so you go against the best, you got to bring
Speaker 2: your best. And just talking to Jermaine during practice today, EA,
Speaker 2: I feel like his approach is the best approach he's
Speaker 2: going to have. I think he's studied the game. I
Speaker 2: think you'll see him in a lot more two point stands,
Speaker 2: like the way Von Miller rushes when you're kind of
Speaker 2: rolling off your foot. If you're waiting on the ball
Speaker 2: to move to win the rep, you might be too
Speaker 2: late because these tackles are leaving early. So you better
Speaker 2: be watching the foot. You better be watching the knee
Speaker 2: of the offensive tackle, like that's gonna be your indicator. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think because he's getting bigger and stronger, I think
Speaker 2: some of these guys getting off like you might see
Speaker 2: more speed to power from him. But I think you're
Speaker 2: going to see the very best of Jermaine And it
Speaker 2: will actually shock me if he doesn't play at a
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl level, because the talent is there and the
Speaker 2: system is there to be a Pro Bowl player.
Speaker 1: John Franklin Moiers, he's in done for He was a
Speaker 1: valuable piece of the defensive line. He's a guy who
Speaker 1: couldnage and then dip inside. You think Jermaine possibly could
Speaker 1: do that. He talked about the other day that hey,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to do anything these guys want me to.
Speaker 1: Another guy who caught my eye today just looking at him.
Speaker 1: Michael clembs Clements has definitely lost some weight. Yeah, his
Speaker 1: body looks a little bit transformed.
Speaker 2: Well, he had to be. He had to be quicker
Speaker 2: off the edge. He's a guy that could play inside
Speaker 2: and outside. He's mostly been on the edge. But this
Speaker 2: is his third year signed for Michael to like prove
Speaker 2: that he belongs in his business. You know, we all
Speaker 2: raved about him when he first came and his work
Speaker 2: ethic and how hard he played the series approach to
Speaker 2: the game. But you know it's it's about production now
Speaker 2: and there's gonna be an opportunity for the second wave
Speaker 2: of guys to come in and get reps, meaningful reps.
Speaker 2: But I can see Jermaine. Look, you're looking for matchups
Speaker 2: in this thing. Yeah, and so Quinn is going to
Speaker 2: draw double teams. You leave quinnin one on one in
Speaker 2: this business, you put him on a center one on one.
Speaker 2: It's not a center. He's not going to be. I
Speaker 2: don't care where and who it's against. So you better
Speaker 2: give Quinn that type of attention. And so the guy
Speaker 2: opposite him, whether he's out at end or on the
Speaker 2: other at defensive tackle, that guy's going to get a
Speaker 2: chance to get a one on one and a lot
Speaker 2: of pass protection schemes, and so you know you want
Speaker 2: to be able to win those.
Speaker 1: I think Hassan Raddick can fit in any defense. He's
Speaker 1: so talented. Specifically, what do you think about the fit here?
Speaker 2: I think it's an awesome fit. I mean if you
Speaker 2: look at Hassan and Jermaine and you know whether it's
Speaker 2: Lecky or whether it's kin Law and quinnin, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's four dudes up front. Like Hassan. Look, he
Speaker 2: broke his thumber wrist earlier season. Last year he was
Speaker 2: playing with the cast on. I mean he had nineteen
Speaker 2: and a half sacks a year before. Like he was
Speaker 2: like he was a quarterback killer, you know. And he's
Speaker 2: got such quickness and change the direction. He could rush
Speaker 2: from anywhere. He's excellent coming off stunts. That's why getting
Speaker 2: him in here is really important because those stunts aren't
Speaker 2: you like you just don't show up and run. These
Speaker 2: stunts are based off timing, like the drive. There's different
Speaker 2: things to look for. You've got to build timing with
Speaker 2: the guys next to you.
Speaker 1: So that goes under the radar. As far as storyline,
Speaker 1: way under the radar, Yeah, because there are changes up
Speaker 1: front and you do have talented pieces, but oftentimes you're
Speaker 1: working together.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes you don't even call a stunt. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: fall into a stunt. You know, if Asan takes an
Speaker 2: inside rush and he's getting penetration, but there's nobody out
Speaker 2: there setting the edge, your defense tackle might just see
Speaker 2: that and play off them. So he might just go, Okay,
Speaker 2: we gotta have somebody if Josh Allen gets out like
Speaker 2: it's containing him and so they might not be you know,
Speaker 2: an exit call and then tackle game like that might
Speaker 2: be something that that tackle's got to just realize and
Speaker 2: fall into. And so there's a lot of you know,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of communication that has to take place.
Speaker 2: It starts in meeting rooms, going through tapes. It's out
Speaker 2: there on the practice fields and walkthroughs. It's certainly in
Speaker 2: the scrim in the games. These these things are really
Speaker 2: really valuable.
Speaker 1: If you had any question marks about the Jets right now,
Speaker 1: what would it be.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's every every team, but you know,
Speaker 2: there's there's an injury history here with certain players, and
Speaker 2: so the injury thing outside of that, I feel like
Speaker 2: the team is very complete. You know, we need Hassani
Speaker 2: in here. We need Michael Williams to keep getting closer
Speaker 2: and closer and closer to getting out here. Yep, you know,
Speaker 2: and you can't push that, like I saw him running today,
Speaker 2: like he still needs some time, but you know, you
Speaker 2: want to try to get as many healthy bodies as
Speaker 2: much practice time and prep time going into week one?
Speaker 1: Right now, what were your thoughts on to his new
Speaker 1: contracts and you just talked to Aaron Rodgers about Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: Jordan Jordan Love celebrating a new deal.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing, and you know it's it's great,
Speaker 2: I mean because honestly, the fraternity of players are always
Speaker 2: pulling for other players, because honestly, Aaron Rodgers set the
Speaker 2: bar at one point in his career, you know. And
Speaker 2: now you know Joe Burrow, you know Lamar Jalen Hurts
Speaker 2: like now Tua, you know Joe. You know, so all
Speaker 2: these guys are just feeding off the other guys, you know.
Speaker 2: But the fact is, if you don't have that guy,
Speaker 2: you can't compete. And so you look at Jordan Love,
Speaker 2: God bless him, like nobody knew that he could do
Speaker 2: what he did until he did it, and now you
Speaker 2: feel like Green Bay's in good shape. And the fact is,
Speaker 2: and now Tua got his. So we got some young guys.
Speaker 2: I mean, these guys aren't twenty five years old and
Speaker 2: they're getting their second contracts and their teams are being
Speaker 2: led by them. But from a league standpoint, we can't
Speaker 2: have enough great young quarterbacks. It's a quarterback driven league.
Speaker 2: The ratings are driven by it, the games are driven
Speaker 2: by it, every aspect. Fantasy football fans, you get great
Speaker 2: quarterback play, you're going to get a great game.
Speaker 1: Do you like what you see in the AFC at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position? We can go up and down the list.
Speaker 1: He talked about Josh Allen before Aaron Rodgers inside his division.
Speaker 1: I think I think most people would make the argument
Speaker 1: that too is not elite, but he certainly had success.
Speaker 1: Then you go to a f C North, you got
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow coming back. You got Sean Watson, he's got
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder in Baltimore, you got a
Speaker 1: two time NFL MVP and Lamar Jackson. We can continue
Speaker 1: last year.
Speaker 2: I mean, oh, look, it starts with Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, but you know Lamar I was gonna
Speaker 1: get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know it starts with Mahomes. But look,
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert probably gonna get the best out of Justin
Speaker 2: Herbert with with you know, Jim Harball out there, Lamar
Speaker 2: is set. Like the Baltimore Ravens last year led the
Speaker 2: league in play action passing, Okay, I mean it's the
Speaker 2: threat of their run game gets their deep passing game going.
Speaker 2: They've got some very good skilled people. Now Derek Henry's there,
Speaker 2: I'll see Joe Burrow tomorrow, you know. And look, Jamar
Speaker 2: Chase came out and said last year when Joe was injured,
Speaker 2: he said, quote, I'm open. I'm always bleeping open. Like
Speaker 2: the quarterback receiver combinations are dangerous, and you go up
Speaker 2: and down the roster of these teams right now in
Speaker 2: the AFC, Josh Allen will like, we know his talent,
Speaker 2: We'll see what the receivers emerge to. It probably has
Speaker 2: as much speed on his side of the ball as
Speaker 2: any team that's ever played the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah saying something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know Devanna Chain and Mostard and Tyreek and Wata.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's scary how much speed they have.
Speaker 2: And so look it's it's uh, only seven can make
Speaker 2: it from the AFC. It's gonna be highly highly competitive.
Speaker 1: Where are your camp tours taking you of this?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna yeah.
Speaker 1: So you said you're going to Cincinnati and wall where else.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be in Cincinnati. I'm gonna be in Tampa, Jacksonville, Atlanta.
Speaker 2: I'll be at the Hall of Fame game. I'll be
Speaker 2: with the Giants. I'll be with h Buffalo. I'll be
Speaker 2: in Cleveland for Houston Cleveland scrimmage. I'll be in Philly, uh,
Speaker 2: and then I'm going out west. I'll be here for
Speaker 2: your scrimmage with Washington on August eighth. I'll be out
Speaker 2: West doing stuff at our NFL network in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: So I hope to see the Chargers and the Rams.
Speaker 2: The Raiders are out there, so I hope to see them.
Speaker 2: When I'm out there, I should see over half the league.
Speaker 1: You love football? How much do you enjoy this time
Speaker 1: of the year, particularly?
Speaker 2: You know, I love this time of the league the year.
Speaker 2: I mean, I get a chance to go talk to
Speaker 2: Jermaine Johnson. Today, I get a chance to spend time
Speaker 2: with Tyrone Smith. We sat down with Aaron Rodgers. It's
Speaker 2: great to build one on one relationships, especially with the
Speaker 2: young guys like I talked to Garrett Wilson today and
Speaker 2: you know, Sean Jefferson's you know, is back here. He's
Speaker 2: a great receiver coach. So I feel like this time
Speaker 2: of the year to go see some of the veteran players,
Speaker 2: but meet the young guys like I met Olu today
Speaker 2: for the first time, you know, so you know, you know,
Speaker 2: I've done the breakdowns on him and he knows who
Speaker 2: I am. But it's good to, you know, face to
Speaker 2: face to see him out there work with Morgan and
Speaker 2: Tyrone after practice, Like some of the stuff is just
Speaker 2: cool to me. And so I really treasure the time
Speaker 2: I get to spend with some of the coaches. I
Speaker 2: talked to you, f Olbrick for a long time today.
Speaker 2: I saw coach Sala like to spend time with the coaches,
Speaker 2: the players, the new, the new guys like you can't.
Speaker 2: There's just enough time to do that.
Speaker 1: You know, Brick's gotta be chomping at the bit watching Rogers.
Speaker 1: It's gonna make his defense even better facing a guy
Speaker 1: like that. But also he's got to be thinking in
Speaker 1: his head. Hey man, if we get to the regular
Speaker 1: season and this guy's wheeling a deal on it, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be operating.
Speaker 2: Like I told Jeff, I said, I can only imagine
Speaker 2: what you think about what your defense can do if
Speaker 2: you got to lead, you know, and Ana Rodgers said,
Speaker 2: if you get you get a team down two touchdowns
Speaker 2: in this league right now, you are gonna make them
Speaker 2: one dimensional. And you this team has a chance to
Speaker 2: step on some throats and put some people away. They
Speaker 2: haven't had that luxury. And even Jeff, you know, said, look,
Speaker 2: I got this stuff. It's in the bag, like I
Speaker 2: can't really get to it. You know, we're just not
Speaker 2: we don't have that luxury. But they they've got things
Speaker 2: that they can dial up. You know, if they have
Speaker 2: that lead and they have the threat of scoring you know,
Speaker 2: twenty four or thirty points in a game in that range,
Speaker 2: and they have that chance this year, and this defense
Speaker 2: has a chance to really put up some numbers, put
Speaker 2: some teams away, take the ball away when they can
Speaker 2: make some teams, you know, one dimensional.
Speaker 1: I want to close here. I know you're going to
Speaker 1: the city. This is always fun. What's your sense as
Speaker 1: far as the environment here? Maybe the atmosphere at one
Speaker 1: Jets Drive that might be different than twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: because Robert Salis mentioned it that it feels quieter. There's
Speaker 1: a sense of calmness. From my money, Baldy, I say
Speaker 1: that the newness is gone, but these guys could benefit
Speaker 1: from the experience everything that he went through it last year.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean last year was all about a lot
Speaker 2: of hype. Obviously, Hard Knox is here and they do
Speaker 2: a great job, you know, and the show was good,
Speaker 2: but that is you know, you're playing they're not to
Speaker 2: players are playing to any of that. They're not, but
Speaker 2: it's good to have that sort of calmness. They're not there.
Speaker 2: You don't have to worry about any of that. You
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about guys micd up. You can
Speaker 2: literally go and you have the second year in these systems,
Speaker 2: so I don't care any offensive player that was here
Speaker 2: last year. They're not learning a brand new system. They
Speaker 2: have a familiarity with what's coming. And then you have
Speaker 2: the bulk of this team is very experienced players on
Speaker 2: both sides of the ball. You know, it's a very
Speaker 2: workmanlike approach. But at the same time, because you never
Speaker 2: got to really see it last year, there's still that
Speaker 2: excitement that this guy is special. Number eight makes a difference.
Speaker 2: What we can be this year can be something that
Speaker 2: a lot of Jet fans have not witnessed, you know,
Speaker 2: in their lifetime.
Speaker 1: Well, that you're special too. If anybody sees in the
Speaker 1: city tonight or on your camp tours, like walking through
Speaker 1: the airport or anything like that, can they take a selfie?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Come on, can we break it down?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, I think I did some where was
Speaker 2: I I met some uh, I met some Jet fans
Speaker 2: in the Naples airport. Yeah, I saw some Eagle fans.
Speaker 2: We took some selfies. Yeah, the NFL fans. I was
Speaker 2: over there last week vacationing. Any NFL fan they they got,
Speaker 2: they got my attention.
Speaker 1: Green looks good on it.
Speaker 2: It feels good to wear the green. I I want
Speaker 2: to sit in this chair with you. All I can
Speaker 2: think about e A is sitting in this chair with you,
Speaker 2: doing a podcast like this for a meaningful game in January,
Speaker 2: Like I'm looking ahead.
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Yeah,