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Speaker 1: of your New York Jets. Without further ado, let's welcome in.

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Speaker 1: Jets quarterback Sam Donald, thanks for coming all. Sound what's

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Speaker 1: going on? Guys? Does it feel like it was yesterday

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Speaker 1: you walked in across the street one jet stride number

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Speaker 1: three overall selection in the two thousand and eighteen draft,

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Speaker 1: and already you're three two years it's flying by man. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's funny, you know, after the game, after the good

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Speaker 1: it is, how fast everything's flying by Uh. Talking with

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Speaker 1: talking about how many years they've all been in the

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Speaker 1: But uh, it's been a fun journey so far. You know,

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Speaker 1: hopefully UM, more wins to come, for sure, but um,

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Speaker 1: What was the difference? Obviously you have more time to

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Speaker 1: super easy in terms of finding a place to live, UM,

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Speaker 1: football in the NFL. UM and then coming into year two,

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Speaker 1: UM felt like it was just my whole off season

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Speaker 1: terms of getting ready for the season. Obviously, the beginning

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Speaker 1: it was it was a rough start to the season,

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Speaker 1: but I thought we finished strong. So many things to

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Speaker 1: You just mentioned the turnaround. Prior to yesterday's games, a

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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven teams since nineteen seventy eight, not including

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Speaker 1: the two strice shortened season had started one and seven.

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Speaker 1: Only six teams had rebounded to finish at least seven

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Speaker 1: and nine. Now you guys are one of them because

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Speaker 1: you win six out of eight down the stretch. What

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Speaker 1: was the key to the turnaround in the second half, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just resiliency you know throughout our whole team.

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Speaker 1: That was really the key, um, great guys on the

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Speaker 1: enough of those guys. Where were your most significant improvements.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at your rookie numbers right now, twenty eight

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Speaker 1: the big thing in this offense is just um finding

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Speaker 1: And he said, don't I think that matters wins the losses?

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Speaker 1: What are you taking an account here that you were

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Speaker 1: we would like to win more games in the future, obviously,

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Speaker 1: what what the team? What is it like to build chemistry.

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Speaker 1: You have natural leadership qualities, There's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 1: in a new system, with the new coach and a

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Speaker 1: new play caller. So, um, he really beat this year.

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Speaker 1: And and and he talked about his thumb. He took

429
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Speaker 1: a beating at times behind an offensive line that was

430
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Speaker 1: continually shuffled because of injuries. Uh, he worked with different

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Speaker 1: people on the outside. And I'll tell you what he

432
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Speaker 1: showed me a lot. And I think the futures, yeah,

433
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Speaker 1: I think it's bright as well. And you talk about

434
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Speaker 1: the start to that season, and you know, he comes,

435
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Speaker 1: he plays the first game against Buffalo and it isn't

436
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,159
Speaker 1: feeling well, goes out with mono, and who knows how

437
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:28,840
Speaker 1: long it took for him to get his footing back.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always know when you come off an

439
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 1: injury and you they say that you're healthy enough to play,

440
00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,160
Speaker 1: You're never a so uh, you know, I can only

441
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Speaker 1: imagine how long that took him to get back to

442
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 1: feeling like his old self. But he definitely got back

443
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 1: to it towards the end of that season, you know,

444
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,120
Speaker 1: end of the season six and two leading the Jets. Uh,

445
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,560
Speaker 1: the defense played well, he played well, The team really

446
00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,399
Speaker 1: started to click, and he become he became a better

447
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:54,679
Speaker 1: decision maker because he is so athletic that there are

448
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:58,359
Speaker 1: a few plays he can't make. With that being said,

449
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: sometimes he can it yourself in trouble if you're trying

450
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Speaker 1: to force the action, per se. And I thought he

451
00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 1: did a better job throughout the year of Okay, I'm

452
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Speaker 1: gonna live the fight another day. Yeah, I mean he

453
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: did make a lot better decisions, you know, instead of

454
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Speaker 1: you know, putting himself in harm's way trying to force

455
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Speaker 1: a pass. He started to learn at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year, let me just throw this away, let me

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Speaker 1: get to the next down. And that really helped the

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Speaker 1: team and uh, you know, continue to help the defense

459
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: as well. You know, when it's when it's a drive

460
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Speaker 1: that that's not there, you know, put it away. Let's

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Speaker 1: defense dominate, you know, That's how it works. Yeah, and

462
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Speaker 1: this is our last show of two thousand nineteen. So

463
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Speaker 1: I want to get to some calls and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: bring in Ira from Staten Island here just momentarily. It's

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Speaker 1: one nine three seven seven six, so get your jets

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Speaker 1: calls in inside. The jets will be here for about

467
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Speaker 1: another half an hour. But I re was on hold already,

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Speaker 1: so let's get him off. What's up? Ira? Hey, happy

469
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Speaker 1: to Erica and Erica happy immediately, you guys, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's amazing. Another season in the books. The

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00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: guy did a great job and I totally agree with

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Speaker 1: both me on Sam. I thought that he definitely showed

473
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Speaker 1: improvement in many ways in his game. Um, I'm not

474
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Speaker 1: sure if he was protecting himself or the coaches told

475
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Speaker 1: him not to run, but a couple of times he

476
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: did have some open spots. But you know, whatever the

477
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Speaker 1: reason is, but you're right, the futures looked right with him.

478
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Speaker 1: But you know you mentioned crowd earlier. I tell you

479
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Speaker 1: man to me, no disrespect to anybody's He was the

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Speaker 1: m v P on the offense. I mean, this guy

481
00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,879
Speaker 1: was he flew onto the radar. He you know, he

482
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: was like the catch machine where you end up with

483
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Speaker 1: a close eighty catches about eight dred yards. So yeah,

484
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Speaker 1: and you know they had, you know, whatever they're gonna

485
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Speaker 1: do with Anderson, maybe he had something else to the outside.

486
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Speaker 1: But the thing that I take out of this team,

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Speaker 1: and Eric, you know I told you, is, um, I'm

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Speaker 1: glad I turned out to guess way I thought they

489
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Speaker 1: had a chance to finish seven and nine. They did

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Speaker 1: the job, and you know, to go six and to

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Speaker 1: the second hand for the year, I think that's a

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Speaker 1: really good thing. You get to think back as a fan,

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Speaker 1: you could do it. Um, what might happen if he

494
00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: didn't get sick. What might have happened if this guy

495
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: did you get hurt? You know. But you know, going

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Speaker 1: into next year, you know, you have to feel good

497
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Speaker 1: and you have to have an optimistic view of where

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Speaker 1: this team is headed. And now Joe Douglas is on

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Speaker 1: the clock, and I think once he gets to work,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he got the draft, you got free agency,

501
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Speaker 1: he got some you know guys that are unsigned. He

502
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 1: who who's going to bring back? Um, I think this

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Speaker 1: team is gonna be a funkia to watch that year,

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Speaker 1: and it's a good future going forward. Well said Listen.

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Speaker 1: Joe Douglas is on the clock. But I want to

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Speaker 1: remind people that, yes, the Jets haven't made the postseason

507
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Speaker 1: in nine years, but Joe Douglas was hired in June,

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Speaker 1: so now he is gonna put his imprint on the

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Speaker 1: roster and he has plenty of decisions to make. I

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Speaker 1: looked at the Jets unrestricted free agent lists is a

511
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Speaker 1: long list. So not only do you have to take

512
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Speaker 1: a look at what's out there on the free agent market,

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Speaker 1: guys potentially springing free, but who fits here? Who do

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Speaker 1: you want part of the program as you continue to

515
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Speaker 1: build this thing? Yeah, I mean that's gonna be the

516
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Speaker 1: interesting part is you know who stays here? Who who

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Speaker 1: do they let go into free agency? And they have

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Speaker 1: some tough decisions to make. I mean you look at

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Speaker 1: guys like Jordan Jenkins, who had eight sacks this year

520
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 1: and and played well in spurts. Uh really it was

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Speaker 1: really really a steadfast player who developed here. He missed

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Speaker 1: three games. He missed three games. So you know, there

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Speaker 1: are a ton of players on this team that that

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Speaker 1: have question marks about and there's guys out in free agency.

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Speaker 1: There's a draft. There's so many things that Joe Douglas

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Speaker 1: has to handle in this offseason. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: big one. Yeah, it is. And he's going to address

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Speaker 1: the media at One Jet Drive tomorrow, so we'll get

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to hear from him. But when we get back,

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Speaker 1: I'll actually read you hit list of unrestricted free agents.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna take a look at what's in store for

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Speaker 1: the Jets. In after the least amount of miles traveled

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Speaker 1: in their franchise history, they're gonna have one of the most.

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Speaker 1: They have their frequent yeah most most mileage trips. Uh trucks,

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Speaker 1: I should say. In But we're gonna come right back

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Speaker 1: for another segment on Inside Jets. You're listening to YESPN

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Speaker 1: New York sucking down in Golden Side the one yard line.

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Speaker 1: Donald play action again puts it in the end zone.

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Speaker 1: Jamison Potter has got it. That's a Jet touchdown. Off

540
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Speaker 1: the play action fake Sam Donald called little flip over

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Speaker 1: the middle to Jamison Crowder. He makes the touchdown catch

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Speaker 1: and the Jets take the lead back and they have

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Speaker 1: scored the first touchdown of the game. About nineties seconds

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Speaker 1: gone by on the fourth quarter. Welcome back the Inside

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Speaker 1: the Jet. We're broadcasting Live and Vanderbilt Vanderbilt Sports and

546
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Speaker 1: Spirits inside to win him in Hambletonton Park, Cotel Erica

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00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: alongside Eric Coleman. Well, yeah, Jamison Crowder. What a year

548
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: for the Green and White signing free agency um and

549
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: he was as good as advertised. People talk about, Okay,

550
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: he's slot receiver, but he also can make plays down

551
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: the field, and we we saw that continually this season. Explosive,

552
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: can beat guys man to man, but also had that

553
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: natural feel against his zone of finding that right spot. Yeah,

554
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: it was great. You know in the offseason and training camp,

555
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Speaker 1: all you heard about was Jamison Crowder. You know how

556
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: he and Sam have this great chemistry and he's making

557
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: plays catches that you wouldn't believe. And and you watch

558
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Speaker 1: him in the preseason, you watch him throughout the regular season,

559
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,880
Speaker 1: and one of the most intelligent guys that I've seen

560
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Speaker 1: play the game. Because you have to be crafty, you

561
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,880
Speaker 1: have to understand leverage, you have to understand coverage when

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Speaker 1: you play that slot physician, and he's one of the

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Speaker 1: best I've seen at it and had to spectacle of

564
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: a year for it. You were listening inside the Jets,

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00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: you can call in eight, three, seven, seven six, Eric

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Speaker 1: Allen alongside Eric Coleman, one of the jets notable unrestricted

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Speaker 1: free agents, Robbie Anderson Robbie again for a second consecutive

568
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Speaker 1: year with Sam Donald. He started getting going in December.

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Speaker 1: It seems like every year once the weather gets cool,

570
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: Robbie gets really warm. Uh. He's a unique ball player

571
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of people he thought for

572
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: a while that he was just a vertical threat. He

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Speaker 1: became more of a complete receiver this year, There's no

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Speaker 1: doubt about that. We saw the Jets and Adam Gates

575
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 1: use him more on crossing patterns than we've ever seen before,

576
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: deep ends. He worked the middle of the field and

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00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: became a more complete player. Yeah. I mean, and you

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Speaker 1: have to give Robbie a ton of credit for polishing

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Speaker 1: his game, you know, not being a one dimensional player

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00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: who just comes in and runs deep routes. Robbie really

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00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: worked on it, worked on it. He worked on his hands.

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Speaker 1: He's making some spectacular catches, showed his toughness. He's not

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00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: the biggest guy, but showed a lot of toughness and

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00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: grit this year. And he's trying to make his case,

585
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: was making his case all year that he is the

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Speaker 1: number one receiver and he deserves to get paid that way.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting when you get into free agency

588
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: to see do the Jets value and his one? Uh?

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00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: Do other teams value him as a one? And where

590
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: does he fit along those lines. He's gonna get paid

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00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: by somebody, no doubt about that. Listen, undrafted free agent

592
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: to reach three thousand yards receiving in the first four

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Speaker 1: yards of four years of his career. Excuse me, Robbie Anderson. Unbelievable,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and that just just shows you that he's

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Speaker 1: working on his craft, he's trying to get better, and

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00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: he's a true pro. And you know, I give him

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00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: all the credit in the world. You love to see

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00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: guys like that who are underdogs, who come in undrafted

599
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: free agents come in and work their tails off because

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Speaker 1: you know it wasn't given to him, So you gotta

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00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: give Robbie a lot of credit. Yeah, that's gonna be

602
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: an interesting decision. You mentioned one of the guys I

603
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Speaker 1: wanted to highlight as well, outside linebacker Jordan Jenkins, the

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Speaker 1: Jets number two in the National Football League against the run,

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Speaker 1: number seven overall in terms of yards per game. Jordan

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00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: Jenkins missed three games, he still had eight sacks and

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Speaker 1: he plays that all important position of edge center. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of times Jordan Jenkins isn't making a tackle,

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Speaker 1: but he might be turning that running back inside. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jordan is playing a lot of selfless football, you know,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned set in the edge, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: dominating getting that penetration. And he may not be getting

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Speaker 1: the sacks, he may not be getting the tackles for losses,

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Speaker 1: but he is making a big impact. You know, you

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00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: don't become the first overall run defense in the NFL

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Speaker 1: by not having a bunch of selfless guys who are

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Speaker 1: willing to sacrifice. And his guys like Jordan Jenkins that

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00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: helped his defense elevate. Throughout all the injuries, all the

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Speaker 1: all the key players that were out during this season,

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Speaker 1: they still were amongst the best in the league. What

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Speaker 1: about Brian Pool, you know he became available, Atlanta moved on,

622
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: Jets picked him up, and Greg Williams needs a certain

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Speaker 1: player to play that all important nickel position and he

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00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: filled it quite well. Physical dude who matched up well

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00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: with guys on the inside. That's very difficult, but uh,

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00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: he really brought an element of physicality like I talked about,

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Speaker 1: because he'll come up and play the run and he

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00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: gets after those receivers work in the middle of the field. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I talked about Jamison Crowder and how intelligent

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Speaker 1: you have to be to play in that slot. Well,

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Speaker 1: to cover him, you have to be equally as intelligent.

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00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: You have to be able to cover. You have to

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00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: be able to play, come up and hit like a safety.

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00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: You have to be able to feel gaps like a linebacker.

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00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a really a special player who

636
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Speaker 1: can play that nickel position. And in Pool really did

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00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: a great job of stepping up this year, but when

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00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: he was healthy, made a huge impact on this defense. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: How about Nevil Hewitt. We talked about the injuries at

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Speaker 1: the inside linebacker position. There's another unrestricted free agent and

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Speaker 1: he's a guy who you thought might be a special

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Speaker 1: team's contributor and backup in Avery Williamson or C. J. Moseley,

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Speaker 1: But injuries across the board, Neville Hewitt uh pushed into

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Speaker 1: a very important role and I thought he took a jump. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean Nevill, I mean, you talk about the injuries

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Speaker 1: that happened in the team and his next man up.

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Speaker 1: But you seldom talk about the guys who weren't gonna

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Speaker 1: have the opportunity, who are going to be special teams

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Speaker 1: players and role players on the team, having to step

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Speaker 1: into that middle linebacker position, that inside linebacker called the defense,

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Speaker 1: make the checks, be a leader. Nevill did a great

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Speaker 1: job this year. He was consistent, he was physical, and

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Speaker 1: it made it to where you didn't really miss the

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Speaker 1: other players. You know, and there's no discredit to c. J.

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Speaker 1: Mosley or Avery Williamson, but Nevill Hewitt did a great

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Speaker 1: job of stepping up this year and being that impact

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Speaker 1: player in the middle. You know what, something bothered me.

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Speaker 1: People have been talking about the Jets using injuries as

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Speaker 1: an excuse. But if you you were around the locker

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Speaker 1: room at all this year and you talked to the guys,

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Speaker 1: all the he said was next man up. It happens

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League. The facts are twenty guys

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Speaker 1: want on injury reserve. Funny thing is I'm in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: in the press box talking to a couple of reporters

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Speaker 1: yesterday and they're talking about the health of the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald started thirteen games this year for the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets. Josh Allen, Yes, the Bills are going playing

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Speaker 1: on wild Card weekend. He started sixteen games. C J. Mosley,

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Speaker 1: big time linebacker, culture changer. He was limited to a

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Speaker 1: couple of games. Tremaine Edmonds playing inside linebacker. He's a

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Speaker 1: no c J. Mosley yet, but he plays in a

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Speaker 1: very important position for the Buffalo Bills. He played sixteen games.

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Speaker 1: Take a trade Avias White out of that lineup. They're saying,

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Speaker 1: the point is, listen, you endured not only injuries, but

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Speaker 1: a key positions at certain times. Yeah, I mean the

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Speaker 1: guys down the middle of your your your team, you know,

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Speaker 1: whether it be the quarterback, center, in middle, linebacker safe

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Speaker 1: those are the talkers. They're the communicators and the leaders

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Speaker 1: of that offense or defense. And not having them uh

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Speaker 1: implemented on your team when you've been relying on them

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Speaker 1: in the off season, when you've gone through training camp

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Speaker 1: and really built your team around these players, to have

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Speaker 1: them taken out of the lineup is a huge hit.

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Speaker 1: And for the simple fact that the Jets were able

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Speaker 1: to recover from that and continue to have success is

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Speaker 1: a tremendous credit to the coaching staff. Greg Williams did

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Speaker 1: a great job. Gains did a great job, Royer did

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Speaker 1: a great job. In special teams. I mean, they were

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Speaker 1: dominant this year as well. So you gotta give a

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Speaker 1: ton of credit to these players as well as the coaches. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the key point here and all this too, is

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Speaker 1: this is year one of the system. A lot of

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Speaker 1: these teams that are playing in the playoffs right now,

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Speaker 1: or we see repeated times in the playoffs, they got

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Speaker 1: continuity up top. And that's that's what I keep telling

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Speaker 1: people about the organizations that are staples in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you look at some of the other franchises,

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Speaker 1: they've had their coach there for several years and they

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Speaker 1: stay with them, and they have to give the coach

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to to bring in those players that are

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Speaker 1: that fit their scheme, that fit their character, and continue

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Speaker 1: to build in mature players, free agents, undrafted free agents.

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Speaker 1: You know, you you have to develop talent and have

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Speaker 1: time to do that as a coach. All right, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna come right back. You're listening to Inside the Jets

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Speaker 1: and the ESPN New York Park props. Back to front

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Speaker 1: HI and it's intercepted the airmailed as intended receiver and

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Speaker 1: it's picked off by Molett and Molette returns it to

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo forty two. He lopped it over the head

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Speaker 1: of T. J. Yelden right into the arms of Arthur

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Speaker 1: Mollett and the Jets get a takeaway that was a gift.

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Speaker 1: This is our final segment of the year here on

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Speaker 1: inside the Jets and Jets this seven and nine a

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Speaker 1: thirteen to six victory over the Buffalo Bills. Uh, closing

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Speaker 1: the season out in style. Uh listen, sometimes it's ugly,

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Speaker 1: but you'll take the victory. And I was there. Conditions

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Speaker 1: weren't good. I don't care what anybody says downpour. Um. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Bills played their backups. They get paid to Um. Yeah, Uh,

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Speaker 1: you don't apologize for one of the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: I don't care when it comes no, absolutely not, you know,

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Speaker 1: and anytime you can get a win, I don't care

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Speaker 1: who it is. You know, these guys are all capable

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Speaker 1: of stepping in and making an impact and uh and

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Speaker 1: being key contributors to their team. And it was great

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Speaker 1: to see the Jets win one of those ugly games,

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Speaker 1: you know, one of one of those nasty games where

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Speaker 1: the defense had to step up and make plays, you know,

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Speaker 1: the offense had to be gritty and figure it out.

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Speaker 1: It shows a lot about their characters. They actually did

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Speaker 1: in the last two weeks. If you go back to

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh game when they took down the Steelers sixteen

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Speaker 1: to ten. You know, defense dominates Greg Williams and in

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Speaker 1: the offense does not have the killer mistake and they

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Speaker 1: make enough plays happen to gain that victory. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and that's why you always talk about, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: kicking at the end of a drive, whether it be

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Speaker 1: an extra point, whether it be a field goal or

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Speaker 1: a punt. Just making sure that you don't hurt your

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Speaker 1: team by turning over the football. Uh, taking care of

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Speaker 1: that ball is so much more important, uh you winning

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Speaker 1: that that time of possession, use me, not the time

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Speaker 1: in possession. Winning that turnover battle is a huge thing

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Speaker 1: for teams, and the Jets are one that they are

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Speaker 1: going to take advantage of it. On defense, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: force them on offense. If they can take care of

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Speaker 1: the ball, they're gonna be in good hand. I think

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Speaker 1: yesterday was a microcosm from what, uh, from what we've

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Speaker 1: seen from this defense here throughout the entire season. James Burgess,

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Speaker 1: inside linebacker, one of the team's leading tacklers. Another guy

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Speaker 1: who came out of nowhere. This here comes up with

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Speaker 1: this first career in reception, Arthur Mallett first career interception

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Speaker 1: as well. We just heard Terrell Basham coming up with

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Speaker 1: the phonal recovery on Jordan Jenkins, team leading eight sack

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Speaker 1: and all. By the way, I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: National Football League was thinking about that overturned call, because

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Speaker 1: Basham should have had a strip sack. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how the heck they took that one

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Speaker 1: off the board. Jets happ three takeaways and all but

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Speaker 1: contributors that you would have never picked before the season

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Speaker 1: had started, that you would have said, these guys were

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Speaker 1: coming up with the takeaways. Yeah, I mean, let's go

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Speaker 1: back to that James Burdens interception, because that was phenomenal

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Speaker 1: on several different levels. When I looked at the team,

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Speaker 1: when I looked at the tape. It showed at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the snap, they had six guys that were blitzing.

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Speaker 1: It looked like you have you have the cornerback blitzing

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Speaker 1: off the side. It looked like six guys were blitzing.

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Speaker 1: The two defensive tackles Quinnin Williams and Basham dropped back

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Speaker 1: into coverage. You end up only rushing four. Burgess buzzes

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Speaker 1: out to the flat. The quarterback throws it right to him.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a cornerback blitz uh that complicated and

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Speaker 1: that in depth. And they only brought four and then

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Speaker 1: brought and then showed, and one of the four was

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Speaker 1: the cornerback outside, not the nickel corps. Kennedy came and

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Speaker 1: Berkeley It's like, oh boy, I gotta get rid of

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Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, you see the cornerback blitzing off the side.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna go to your hot route. You're gonna go

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Speaker 1: quick pass to your ex receiver. James Burgess buzzed out

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Speaker 1: to the flat anticipating that, snapped his head around Condy interception,

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Speaker 1: and then later in that game, the Mulette interception came

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Speaker 1: again when Berkeley saying, I gotta get the football. T

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Speaker 1: J Yelton is not looking for it. Well, that's right there.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you get pressure. That's what happens

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Speaker 1: when you get hits on the quarterback. When you're getting

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Speaker 1: after them, they start to to to see things. They

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Speaker 1: start to force the issue and start to throw the

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Speaker 1: ball before receivers already. That's how you get turnovers with

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Speaker 1: with those mistakes. And that's why Greg Williams is such

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Speaker 1: a special coach and that's why these players have had success.

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Speaker 1: And that's why guys love playing for Greg Williams. Because

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Speaker 1: you just mentioned it looked like the Jets were sentenced

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Speaker 1: X and the Burgess interception, but they're only sending for

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Speaker 1: You never know where the pressure is coming from. We

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Speaker 1: talked about fire zones all the time, and when we

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Speaker 1: speak of Jamal Adams, and he was such an effective

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Speaker 1: blitzer for this team, got it out the last couple

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Speaker 1: of games. Because he's not a hundred percent whole, have

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Speaker 1: a chance to heal himself up in the off season.

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Speaker 1: But second consecutive team MVP for this guy. And I

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Speaker 1: talked to a couple of people yesterday. They believe he

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Speaker 1: should not only be yes a pro bowler, which he

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Speaker 1: is he should be an All Pro. And he absolutely

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Speaker 1: should be an All Pro, and I expect him to be.

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Speaker 1: You know, he had a dominant year this year. You know,

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Speaker 1: with the sacks, with the coverage, with with the open

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Speaker 1: field tackles. He made big time impact plays, whether it

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Speaker 1: be a turnover, forced fumbles. He was that guy who

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Speaker 1: was a special player. Everyone, every team that played him

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Speaker 1: understood where number thirty three was and he still was

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Speaker 1: able to make an impact. That says a lot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And how about again, I keep on going back to

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Speaker 1: the depth that we saw develop here, um even along

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Speaker 1: the defensive line. Kyle Phillips, an undrafted free agent out

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Speaker 1: at Tennessee. We saw Quinnon Williams, the number three overall

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Speaker 1: pick in the draft. He started flashing down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: Steve mcclennon old, reliable. Don't call him old because he's

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Speaker 1: probably thrown around a six pound squad across the street

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Speaker 1: right now. Off full Ofronzo Fatakasi, who joined us a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, was such a great story for

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Speaker 1: this team. We talked about Jordan Jenkins, UH, Brandon Copeland

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Speaker 1: got back into the mix UH this year as well.

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Speaker 1: UH coming back off of that the suspension, and then

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Speaker 1: we we mentioned the folks, all the guys they used

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Speaker 1: it inside linebacker most notably at the end of the

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Speaker 1: season and Burgess and Neville Hewitt and then what he

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Speaker 1: was doing at the quarterback position. Uh. Credit cost de

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mayad safety for becoming the first defensive back this season,

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Speaker 1: the only defensive back this season start sixteen games at all.

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Speaker 1: But you didn't know I was playing cornerback for this team.

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Speaker 1: And they just plugged in and we're able to go

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Speaker 1: out and get the job done. Absolutely, and you gotta

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Speaker 1: get credit to these guys for their their uh persistence.

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Speaker 1: You know, they continue to prepare. They never looked down

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Speaker 1: on each other. They could have they could have went

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Speaker 1: the tank at one in seven. You know, that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a tough hole to come out of, and it's

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Speaker 1: tough to stay positive and focus on your task. But

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Speaker 1: the coaches did a great job of preparing guys. The

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Speaker 1: players did a great job of stepping up and really

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Speaker 1: they did it. They kept a tight locker room and

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Speaker 1: that shows a lot moving forward. Here's the Jets truck

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Speaker 1: road games against everybody in the division. We know that

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Speaker 1: also Kansas City, the lah Chargers, Indianapolis, the l A

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Speaker 1: rams in Seattle. So you're going out to California twice

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Speaker 1: to play both l A teams. You're going out to

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Speaker 1: Seattle and you're gonna see Patrick Mahomes at his home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a lot of traveling next year. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: some of those are back to back when they can,

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Speaker 1: you know, have a trip where they stay over in California,

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Speaker 1: they don't have to make that back and forth trip

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Speaker 1: to the East coast. But I always had a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun go out west. You know, maybe it's because

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Speaker 1: I'm from out west, but whenever we went to traveled

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Speaker 1: out West, we had a lot of success, whether it

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Speaker 1: be Oakland, San Diego, it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: And I think the Jets will have some success out there.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough playing in Arrowhead. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the loudest stadiums I've ever played in. And uh, and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be routy with where the team is playing.

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Speaker 1: And Sam Donald year three, and you gotta be excited

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Speaker 1: after watching him what he was able to do here

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Speaker 1: in the later stages of his second professional campaign. But uh,

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Speaker 1: we're awfully thankful as we head into the new year.

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Speaker 1: Kyrie has been helping us back at the station throughout

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Speaker 1: the year, justin here, Um, Charles and Noah making sure

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Speaker 1: that people are seeing us in New York, Jets dot Com,

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Speaker 1: in the Jets app E. Coleman's family was in attendance tonight.

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Speaker 1: We've had so many people, so much support throughout the

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Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen season. It's been a pleasure. Happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: Pleasure was online. Happy New Year, brother. That's it for us,

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Speaker 1: another year inside that. That's Happy New Year.