Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away.
Speaker 1: Thanks Fits. Now, let's bring in our weekly contributor here
Speaker 1: on the e A Podcast, that of course is Chad Pennington.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break this baby into segments today, Chad, as
Speaker 1: November begins for the New York Jets, obviously against the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. A listless first half the Jets were trying
Speaker 1: that came out and dominated in the second half. But
Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about that ball game
Speaker 1: because right now, what I want to focus on is
Speaker 1: Chad's favorite halftime speech during your playing career, because I
Speaker 1: wanted to be a fly on the wall in Cleveland
Speaker 1: at First Energy Stadium on Sunday to hear what Todd
Speaker 1: Bowles and the players were saying. But you go back
Speaker 1: to your playing career right now, and let's find out
Speaker 1: Chad Pennington's favorite halftime speech, either as a pro or
Speaker 1: even going back to college in high school days. Oh man, um, well,
Speaker 1: d A, I think that one that comes to mind.
Speaker 1: As a pro. We were playing in San Francisco. We're
Speaker 1: five and oh and two thousand and four or four
Speaker 1: and home maybe, and um we went into halftime down
Speaker 1: fourteen a zero. So I remember that that halftime speech
Speaker 1: was all about, you know, our offense not performing um
Speaker 1: well at all, and you know, just talking about having
Speaker 1: to step up and quit making excuses and stepping up
Speaker 1: and making plays and quit leaving our defense hung out
Speaker 1: the dry and be real and honest with each other
Speaker 1: and you know, do what we need to do. Um.
Speaker 1: So you know, I do remember that one now that
Speaker 1: you asked me off the cuff here, I do remember
Speaker 1: that speech. But you know, I looked back at that
Speaker 1: Cleveland game and I mean, you just this team just
Speaker 1: teases you with what it's capable of being able to do.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I still think it's a
Speaker 1: blue collar team. It's a team that has to play
Speaker 1: hard nosed, it has to take advantage of its opponent's
Speaker 1: mistakes that can't make very many mistakes to overcome those.
Speaker 1: And if they play boot blue collar and take care
Speaker 1: of those little things, they certainly have a chance to
Speaker 1: do well on the second half of the seear Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Jets uh of a two game winning streak as
Speaker 1: they had the Miami and face the Dolphins. Will preview
Speaker 1: that game in a couple of moments, um, But what
Speaker 1: is it like in a pro locker room at halftime?
Speaker 1: Because people watch movies, you know, and we're all a
Speaker 1: customed to seeing people come in with their the fire
Speaker 1: and brimstone, the stuff that makes you get chill bumps
Speaker 1: watching at home or in the movie theaters. But what
Speaker 1: is a pro locker room like at halftime when you
Speaker 1: guys actually go back in there? Is there a speech
Speaker 1: from the head coach? Do you all break into positional
Speaker 1: group and talk to your positional coach? Does the coordinators
Speaker 1: do both? Court all three coordinators take their groups to
Speaker 1: the side. Because we don't know, Chad, you've lived it well,
Speaker 1: it's very business like. Typically, it's very business like where
Speaker 1: a lot of those things you mentioned happened. So you
Speaker 1: have you know, the offense getting together talking with their
Speaker 1: position coaches and then meeting together as a team talking
Speaker 1: with the coordinator discussing halftime adjustments defensively doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Also have the head coach putting in a couple of
Speaker 1: words just from an overall perspective, um, once he talks
Speaker 1: with his staff. And then sometimes depending on the situation,
Speaker 1: you may have a player too that has to get
Speaker 1: emotional and talk to the team. Typically that's about effort
Speaker 1: and attitude and making plays that may necessarily not be
Speaker 1: about game plan stuff. So but for the most part,
Speaker 1: it's a business like environment as far as um you know,
Speaker 1: not a lot of craziness going on, just really trying
Speaker 1: to focus in on what do we need to do
Speaker 1: to either continue what we're doing or to change what
Speaker 1: we're doing in the first half from an attitude and
Speaker 1: a scheme standpoint, to do better in the second half.
Speaker 1: But is there a point where the head coach gets
Speaker 1: into the center of the room and everybody is glued
Speaker 1: on him or that doesn't really happen. Typically, No, that
Speaker 1: happens typically at the end, right before you go out
Speaker 1: as a team to go back out on the field
Speaker 1: and head coach and bring the team up, and they're
Speaker 1: glued on him and what he has to say in
Speaker 1: in in a minute or two just to bring everybody together.
Speaker 1: You've got your adjustments, you've got your game plan. Now
Speaker 1: bring everybody together here a couple of words from the
Speaker 1: head coach moving forward, and then walked out as a team.
Speaker 1: What about the Saturday night before the game when you
Speaker 1: guys are at a hotel, whether that's on the road
Speaker 1: or at home staying away from your family's Is that
Speaker 1: the one what that basically really sets the tone for
Speaker 1: what to come, for what is to come on Sunday?
Speaker 1: And is that the time where you see maybe some
Speaker 1: inspirational videos or some different speeches, different guys getting up
Speaker 1: and things like that, because I know over the years
Speaker 1: I've heard different things happen at that team meeting on
Speaker 1: Saturday night before you guys actually go to bed and
Speaker 1: UH and and have your final rest before Sunday. Each
Speaker 1: team varies, but typically you could possibly see from a
Speaker 1: coach who wants to bring in an inspirational motivational speaker,
Speaker 1: depending on the situation. UM, you also have UH an
Speaker 1: inspirational message from the coach maybe with the video played.
Speaker 1: You also talk about team goals for that game, so
Speaker 1: you understand as a team what you're trying to get
Speaker 1: accomplished and how each facet of the team, special teams, office,
Speaker 1: defense has to plug in to the victory. UM. And
Speaker 1: then also you have your offensive, defensive and special teams
Speaker 1: meetings where you're going over last minute reminders. You're maybe
Speaker 1: looking at a couple of different plays or players that
Speaker 1: you've got to make sure that you're aware of or
Speaker 1: take up from an offensive, defensive, special teams standpoint. So
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot of different moving parts, um, but
Speaker 1: everything is centered around those team goals offensive, defensive and
Speaker 1: special team goals that you know we're going to make
Speaker 1: you successful and ultimately lead you to victory. You played
Speaker 1: under a number of different guys with completely different personalities,
Speaker 1: you know, going back to the days of al grow
Speaker 1: and then you played under her mad Words, Eric Manginie,
Speaker 1: Tony Sperano and a couple others in there as well. UM.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about the not the differences in game
Speaker 1: day philosophies, but by the way they worked the room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think. Uh. You know, Eric really enjoyed bringing in
Speaker 1: He loved boxing and the perspective that boxing brings, and
Speaker 1: so he loved bringing in people around the boxing world,
Speaker 1: UH speakers and just talking about that competitive edge and
Speaker 1: things like that. Uh. Coach Edwards, we all know his
Speaker 1: UM strength is in motivation, and so he would do
Speaker 1: a great job with his motivational talks and and and
Speaker 1: talking to the team and preparing us to get ready
Speaker 1: to play and enjoy the challenge. UM. Coach Rono was
Speaker 1: very diplomatic, but he and he really liked using videos
Speaker 1: and different tools too and stories to talk to the
Speaker 1: team as far as preparing us. So you know, there's
Speaker 1: different tactics that coaches like to use. A lot of
Speaker 1: coaches have different tools in our toolback to try to
Speaker 1: get the team motivated. It it's a long, grinding season,
Speaker 1: and so head coaches have to be very creative and
Speaker 1: very judicious and picking and choosing their times to talk
Speaker 1: with the team to motivate the team, being creative in
Speaker 1: the tools that they used to motivate the team and
Speaker 1: keep the team focused. I mean, it's to be a coach,
Speaker 1: you probably need your degree in psychology because that's what
Speaker 1: you're dealing with, is that you know the psychology of players.
Speaker 1: Very simply put, how do you explain what happened on Sunday?
Speaker 1: As the Jets really had nothing in the first half,
Speaker 1: they made a couple of plays. Blapo explodes for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: Tohron Peak made a tremendous catch up the sideline. Uh
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall was trying to get that ball club going,
Speaker 1: but there is nothing there mostly for the first thirty
Speaker 1: minutes and the guys will tell you that, but then
Speaker 1: they rebound have a twenty four point decisive run takedown
Speaker 1: the Browns. But you just watching it on film and
Speaker 1: as a guy who battled in between the white lines,
Speaker 1: how do you explain it? Well, first of all, I
Speaker 1: think you have to make sure that you understand the
Speaker 1: difference between expectation and standard, and so I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: think that the Jets were playing at a low standard.
Speaker 1: I think the expectation of the Jets should roll in
Speaker 1: there and beat an HO and seven team from start
Speaker 1: to finish is probably a little bit unrealistic. Number One,
Speaker 1: Cleveland has been in a lot of different games, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know they have players too, and then they can
Speaker 1: compete at a high level. So that's number one. I
Speaker 1: think probably the most disappointing part of the first half
Speaker 1: would be the last six minutes of the first half.
Speaker 1: It's attend to seven game and then you know, by
Speaker 1: the end of the first half it's twenty seven. That's
Speaker 1: where it got away from the Jets. Other than that,
Speaker 1: it was just kind of feeling your way out. If
Speaker 1: there's anything that changed, it was the sense of urgency
Speaker 1: of the team that the team brought a sense of
Speaker 1: urgency to the second half because they were forced to.
Speaker 1: Whereas you would like to see your team bring that
Speaker 1: sense of urgency from the get and not have to
Speaker 1: develop a sense urgency because of the lack of production
Speaker 1: and the other team getting after. You'd like to bring
Speaker 1: that off the bus and established that yourself and not
Speaker 1: have the other team caused that sense urgency, because sometimes
Speaker 1: just because the team calls it sense urgency doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you respond well, and so especially on the road.
Speaker 1: But I will say when you look at the statistics,
Speaker 1: you see winning statistics, and you see winning the turnover
Speaker 1: battle zero to two. You see winning the time of
Speaker 1: possession thirty three to twenty six. You see the running
Speaker 1: game a hundred and seventy one yards, and so you
Speaker 1: see winning statistics in there. It's just that it didn't
Speaker 1: happen over four quarters. That actually happened more in the
Speaker 1: last two quarters. What change for Ryan Fitzpatrick? That was
Speaker 1: a near disastrous first half. He took a vicious shot
Speaker 1: extending for the first down there holm the goals flying.
Speaker 1: But god Fits is as tough as they come. Uh.
Speaker 1: He plays it like a linebacker sometimes and that's scary.
Speaker 1: But I could get nothing going in the passing game,
Speaker 1: the three completions in the first half, but then he
Speaker 1: came back, uh in the second half and really settled
Speaker 1: in and played a decent ball game. Yeah, execution was
Speaker 1: huge in the first half, or lack there of drop balls,
Speaker 1: miss throws, um, you know, things like that, just not
Speaker 1: very much continuity at all. And then in the second half,
Speaker 1: I think what you saw early in the second half
Speaker 1: was completions on first and second now, and that established
Speaker 1: some rhythm and established some timing, gave Fitzpatrick as well
Speaker 1: as the rest of the offense some energy and confidence,
Speaker 1: and they were able to build on that for three
Speaker 1: possessions in a row. And uh So, although we want
Speaker 1: to sit here nitpick the first half, we also should
Speaker 1: complement how the team played in the second half, um,
Speaker 1: and how they came out and just played a really,
Speaker 1: really high level and they executed. They took advantage of
Speaker 1: their situations and opportunities. If I had to nick pick
Speaker 1: the second half at all, it would be that when
Speaker 1: you have a team down and you get two turnovers
Speaker 1: like that, you've got to turn those into more points
Speaker 1: than just three, especially when you get a turnover inside
Speaker 1: their tent. That has to be a touchdown. That cannot
Speaker 1: be a field goal in my opinion, especially when you
Speaker 1: when you're playing better competition. That is putting the knife
Speaker 1: uh and the dagger so called, into the back of
Speaker 1: the opponent and really taking that game out of reach
Speaker 1: instead of being thirty one to twenty. But if Cleveland
Speaker 1: handles the clock a little bit better, they have even
Speaker 1: a better shot to try to tie that game up
Speaker 1: at the end. But they didn't handle the clock at
Speaker 1: a very well at all at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: Let's go mid season Awards right now in the A
Speaker 1: podcast with Chad Pennyton, Jets A three and five. They're
Speaker 1: not where they want to be, but we're gonna look
Speaker 1: at it their first eight games and say, chat, if
Speaker 1: you had to say who is the team m v
Speaker 1: P at the midway point, what would you say? Well,
Speaker 1: here's here's what I say. Offensively. Um, sometimes I think
Speaker 1: most valuable UH doesn't necessarily mean the most productive yet,
Speaker 1: because sometimes your most valuable player just with his presence
Speaker 1: on the field provides a lot of value even though
Speaker 1: the stats are there. So I'm gonna stay away from
Speaker 1: m v P and I will use the term most
Speaker 1: productive and I really liked the production with the moon Law.
Speaker 1: I think he has provided a spark when the offense
Speaker 1: has needed it. He has really stepped into that role.
Speaker 1: With with Eric Decker gone, I think the Jets should
Speaker 1: be excited about his production and what he's been able
Speaker 1: to do. He made some amazing plays on on the
Speaker 1: Sunday and touchdown run was awesome and so and he's
Speaker 1: done that throughout the year and so, uh, touch out
Speaker 1: a catching run, I should say. But um, I think
Speaker 1: I've been impressed with him, But I've also been impressed
Speaker 1: with blal Powell and Matt Forte and and and some
Speaker 1: of the other guys that have really pitched in. It
Speaker 1: is truly I think it has been a team effort.
Speaker 1: Uh from that standpoint, But I will have to give
Speaker 1: the nod to Quincy and Noon Wa in that regard. Well, Noon,
Speaker 1: what I'm paced actually for in a thousand yard receiving
Speaker 1: season right now? I know it's early and we're just
Speaker 1: the halfway point, but this is the e A podcast,
Speaker 1: so I'm making the rules here. And Brandon Marshall, of
Speaker 1: course I'm paced for another a thousand yards season. So
Speaker 1: without Eric Ducker in the lineup, with Jets still could
Speaker 1: have two a thousand yard receivers this year, which would
Speaker 1: really be something. The emergence of a Noon from a
Speaker 1: quarterbacks perspective, you spoke about him and you really like them.
Speaker 1: What stands out to you about his physicality, because the
Speaker 1: good thing about a Noon was I think he still
Speaker 1: has a ways to go because sometimes have a couple
Speaker 1: of drops here and there and things like that, and
Speaker 1: he's continuing to work on his hands and his concentration
Speaker 1: and that stuff will openly talk about. But from a
Speaker 1: physical skill set, what do you love about him as
Speaker 1: a former quarterback? Well, uh, you said it. His physicality,
Speaker 1: I think, and his versatility. Those will be the two
Speaker 1: words that I use. Number one, really his physicality in
Speaker 1: the run after the catch, in his ability to take
Speaker 1: a ten yard gain and turn it into twenty five
Speaker 1: or turning into a touchdown. Uh. And then his versatility
Speaker 1: being able to work outside, inside, use as a tied end,
Speaker 1: sometimes use as a slot receiver, all the different things
Speaker 1: he creates, some matchup issues and and some personnel issues,
Speaker 1: and so for him to be of the step to
Speaker 1: the forefront and have the production that he has had
Speaker 1: for me as a quarterback, I know I have Marshalls,
Speaker 1: I know I have pal out the backfield. I need
Speaker 1: that other guy with Decker gone, And to me, fitz
Speaker 1: Patrick can go. He's my guy. He's my guy that
Speaker 1: I can trust that if they take away Brandon Marshall,
Speaker 1: one is gonna make a play for me. And I
Speaker 1: think that is really huge from the quarterback. There are
Speaker 1: a number of players inside the Jets locker room who
Speaker 1: will tell you, hey, listen, I gotta play better. I
Speaker 1: know to help this team win. But in your mind,
Speaker 1: as we look at this team at the mid season point,
Speaker 1: who is one player who really needs to step up
Speaker 1: his game for the Green and White to get back
Speaker 1: into this and continue this little mini ron New started
Speaker 1: with a two game win streak. Well, uh, the first
Speaker 1: thought would be the quarterback. I think I think that
Speaker 1: fitz Patrick would tell you that he has to be
Speaker 1: more consistent. It It doesn't necessarily mean he has to
Speaker 1: have three hundred yard games games and three touchdowns every game.
Speaker 1: That that's not what we're talking about. We're just talking
Speaker 1: about really more or less avoiding disasters and disasters plays
Speaker 1: and keeping your team away from those types of negative
Speaker 1: things rather than creating more positive things. I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's where it has to start. That's where it was
Speaker 1: last year. That's where it has to be this year.
Speaker 1: It starts with the quarterback, and he's starting to play
Speaker 1: a little bit more consistent, um, But he has to
Speaker 1: be as consistent as consistent can be throughout the second
Speaker 1: half of the year for them to even have a
Speaker 1: shot and making the playoffs. I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: the team has to go seven and one. That's that's
Speaker 1: the bottom line. You have to set your mind on.
Speaker 1: You have to win every game just you know, to
Speaker 1: to have a chance to make it into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And and you may get lucky at nine and seven,
Speaker 1: but right now your mindset has to be you gotta
Speaker 1: run seven out of eight, you just do. You don't
Speaker 1: have any room for air here because of the way
Speaker 1: the first half win, which is possible. I've been on
Speaker 1: teams that have been able to do that one nine
Speaker 1: out of ten or seven out of nine or whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, and this team certainly has that opportunity, um,
Speaker 1: but they have to capitalize on that. That starts at
Speaker 1: a quarterback position. Secondly, I would say that although the
Speaker 1: offensive line has shown, uh some good play and I
Speaker 1: know they're dealing with a lot of different challenges, rotating guys,
Speaker 1: in dealing with injuries and things. That's where it starts. Uh.
Speaker 1: After the quarterback would be just offensive line gaining consistency,
Speaker 1: eliminating those penalties when you have big games, those types
Speaker 1: of things, and just providing a little bit more consistency upfront,
Speaker 1: especially in the passing game, which is difficult because the
Speaker 1: coach Gaily likes to use those spread UH formations and
Speaker 1: that provides more one on one opportunities for defensive alignment
Speaker 1: against offensive alignment. But if the offensive line can ain't
Speaker 1: a little bit more consistency in the quarterback plays solidly
Speaker 1: consistent winning football, Jets certainly have a chance to go
Speaker 1: seven and one in the back half of the season.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, who do the
Speaker 1: Jets need? Like you talked about the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, and you said it fits has to be
Speaker 1: more consistent. You get more consistent play of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: which uh, the one encouraging aspect of the line um
Speaker 1: and you said it is that the depth has been
Speaker 1: tested and guys have stepped up at times. Wesley Johnson
Speaker 1: played really well at the center position, I've been really
Speaker 1: encouraged by the guard play throughout a lot of season,
Speaker 1: especially Brian Winners, who I think is breaking out. But
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, I don't want
Speaker 1: to ignore the defense. So is there a positional group
Speaker 1: or player that you're gonna put the hat on and say, okay,
Speaker 1: we need you to make strides for the Jets in
Speaker 1: the second half. Yeah, absolutely, I think it's the secondary.
Speaker 1: I think the secondary has to to make sure that
Speaker 1: they eliminate the miscommunication, eliminate the busted coverages. If they
Speaker 1: do that, uh, then that really completes the defense. Uh,
Speaker 1: to make you know, as far as an opponent trying
Speaker 1: to attack him, because that's what opponents are gonna do.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say, look, we're not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: run the vault ball very much. We need to throw
Speaker 1: up forty five times a game. Well, as of the secondary,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be challenged, You're gonna be tested. I think
Speaker 1: teams are are no longer completely scared scared of the
Speaker 1: rail reevers. They want to go after him and they
Speaker 1: want him to prove that he can shut down one
Speaker 1: side and and so as a team, Uh, defensively, the
Speaker 1: coverage has to be more consistent. My one suggestion then
Speaker 1: covers me more consistent is and I know that coach
Speaker 1: bowls those Rodgers. They love the matchup coverages and the
Speaker 1: main coverages. I'm not so sure sometimes that the defense
Speaker 1: plays more spot zone coverages and kind of develops that
Speaker 1: bend but don't break mentality sometimes and to be able
Speaker 1: to eliminate some of these big plays, we turned some
Speaker 1: of these touchdowns just in the field goals. I think
Speaker 1: that would be important, which is a little bit of
Speaker 1: a shift, uh and in thought process and scheme, But
Speaker 1: at the same time that may have to be implemented
Speaker 1: just to kind of shut down some of those big
Speaker 1: play opportunities and to eliminate this point. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: have to say this too. I know Buster has had
Speaker 1: some ups and downs this season, but he is a
Speaker 1: very valuable part of the secondary and when he's out
Speaker 1: of the lineup, guys versatile. He's playing outside at corner
Speaker 1: and base, he moves inside in nicol when he's not
Speaker 1: in the lineup. That's a tough blow. And that's also
Speaker 1: a former Cleveland Brown. That dude wanted to be on
Speaker 1: the field, Chad, So not having him in the lineup
Speaker 1: after a bounce back game against the Baltimore Ravens. He
Speaker 1: said he had to come back after being called for
Speaker 1: a number of penalties against Arizona Cardinals, and he he
Speaker 1: really wanted to be in that ballgame. So I think
Speaker 1: it would be a shot and harm with the Jets
Speaker 1: get Buster back because he plays with the passion and
Speaker 1: he also gives his team some versatility as well. And
Speaker 1: I know the defensive backfield has said some issues this year,
Speaker 1: while documented issues and we all know that, but Buster
Speaker 1: Screen is one of their better players back there, and
Speaker 1: I think when he's not in the lineup, you can
Speaker 1: see it well. And and these issues we're talking about
Speaker 1: aren't issues that can't be fit. These are issues that
Speaker 1: on complete control of the defense and the defensive players,
Speaker 1: and they can fix these issues, which should make them
Speaker 1: really excited about the second half of the season. They
Speaker 1: continue to clean up the mistakes and clean up some
Speaker 1: of the miscommunication um and then you know, with the
Speaker 1: defensive line coming to the forefront providing a heavier pass
Speaker 1: rush with just four rushers, that really creates a lot
Speaker 1: of issues for offense. And just be as versatile as
Speaker 1: you can and just play winning complementary football. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's what it's about. Defense. Struggling offense has got
Speaker 1: to pick it up. Offense, struggling defense got to make
Speaker 1: the play. Special team has got to provide a spark
Speaker 1: when you get a team that understands that and provides
Speaker 1: that sense of urgency and all three phases depending on
Speaker 1: how the game goes, because the game is not going
Speaker 1: to go the way you wanted to all the time,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be challenges. They're going to be adversity
Speaker 1: in every game. It's how your team responds and how
Speaker 1: each side and each packet of the team helps provide
Speaker 1: that spark and that energy is really important and sometimes
Speaker 1: the ball starts finding you. What an encouraging sign it
Speaker 1: is for the defense is the last two weeks they
Speaker 1: have combined for four interceptions. Now entering week seven they
Speaker 1: had two interceptions. So now you're starting to see that
Speaker 1: a little bit. If that can continue, there's the complimentary
Speaker 1: football you're talking about. So let's move on to our
Speaker 1: next segment on the A podcast with you have Pennyton
Speaker 1: talking country. This is a new uh feature that we're
Speaker 1: gonna do each and every week. But yet uh okay,
Speaker 1: right now. One of the most popular country artists out
Speaker 1: there is Sam Hunt. Now, Chad, let's play a little trivia.
Speaker 1: Did you know Sam Hunt played quarterback at Middle Tennessee State?
Speaker 1: And you may be sure? Did I knew he was
Speaker 1: a football player? I didn't know that, Yes, I did? Okay,
Speaker 1: So what kind of football player was Sam High? Give
Speaker 1: us the scouting report? Report? And what I don't have.
Speaker 1: I don't have a very good scouting report, probably none
Speaker 1: of his ship because that's why I'm saying country. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's great stuff. Have you heard him talk about his
Speaker 1: football career at all? Not very much. But I'm not
Speaker 1: used a talent singer, um and so, and I'm a
Speaker 1: country music fan. So yeah, I did hear about his
Speaker 1: football expedition, so to speak. Uh, did Chad Pennington ever
Speaker 1: think about having a country singing career? Well, there's all
Speaker 1: signship thoughts. They go run through your head and in
Speaker 1: reality the stokes and you realize that there's no shot.
Speaker 1: So when you can't carry a tune in the bucket,
Speaker 1: and then you just have no shot at that all right?
Speaker 1: And then finally here leave the night on or break
Speaker 1: up in a small town your preference on a favorite
Speaker 1: Sam Hunt song. Yeah, you know, I would say break
Speaker 1: up in the small Town. But you know it's he's
Speaker 1: getting a little too pomplished for me when it when
Speaker 1: it comes to country music. He's got to tone it down,
Speaker 1: had a little bit of steel guitar and get a
Speaker 1: little bit more countryside. It would be what I would say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I love that. Okay, So we're gonna come back to
Speaker 1: the country. Maybe some old school hardcore country next week. Finally,
Speaker 1: our final segment, Keys to Victory, give me three keys
Speaker 1: for the New York Jets as they go down to
Speaker 1: play the Miami Dolphins as your two former teams battle
Speaker 1: and the Jets defense is going to get to know
Speaker 1: a man by the name of J. G. I. E.
Speaker 1: This weekend. Absolutely three keys. Number one is is so obvious.
Speaker 1: The run game for the defense. Uh, You've got a
Speaker 1: Dolphins team and a Dolphin runners has come off two
Speaker 1: back to back two hundred yard games, which is really
Speaker 1: really impressive. And you can see how that's made uh,
Speaker 1: their wins so much smoother and and provided more production
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position when you can rush for two
Speaker 1: hundred yards and makes a little bit easier. So the
Speaker 1: run game not allowing the Dolphins to establish UH, their mindset,
Speaker 1: their attitude, and their will on you. With the run game.
Speaker 1: That's number one. Number two eliminating the big play defensively UH,
Speaker 1: and number three offensively turnovers. UH stay away from turnovers.
Speaker 1: The Jets will win the game. They stay away from
Speaker 1: turnovers because then they will win the time of possession.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking for them to have more red known
Speaker 1: production moving forward into this second half. But run game,
Speaker 1: defensively being played defensively, and turnovers offensively, those three keys
Speaker 1: will be the key to victors of the Jets, and
Speaker 1: that would be something that would be a three game
Speaker 1: winning streak and then all of a sudden, the Jets
Speaker 1: would be four and five and all by the way
Speaker 1: the Jets last season, we're left for Dad at five
Speaker 1: and five, and they would have an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: to five and five with the win over the L A. Rams.
Speaker 1: But you can't take anything for granted. The National Football League.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Miami Dolphins are looking at the Jets
Speaker 1: as this is a game that they have to have
Speaker 1: and they should have as well. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: fascinating to see these two old a s c's rivals,
Speaker 1: Chad Pennyton's former teams go at it in South Florida. Chad,
Speaker 1: we look forward to speaking to the next week again.
Speaker 1: Thank you.