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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Free Agency is upon us. Back

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Speaker 1: in the studio too, oh yeah, back in the saddle

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Speaker 1: in the bed MGM studio. Baby yeah. Producer Matt Sickoff,

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Speaker 1: dropping that M gonna drop the bet MGM out here.

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Speaker 1: So this is the deal. The Jets have reportedly agreed

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Speaker 1: to terms with Corey Davis, the former Tennessee Titans wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: We have Toron Davenport on this episode. He covers the

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Speaker 1: Titans for ESPN NFL Nation. It's a great interview. You

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Speaker 1: get all you need to know about Corey Davis and

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Speaker 1: how good is Toron Davenport because he really breaks down

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Speaker 1: ball and he loves it. Yeah. Yeah, he smiled the

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Speaker 1: whole the whole interview. He smiled. You know that he

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Speaker 1: loves talking talking about some ball, talking about Titans and

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis to this episode in particular. Yeah, And we

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Speaker 1: talked in our Free Agency previews for weeks about the

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Speaker 1: number of guys potentially who was going to hit the market.

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Speaker 1: And at the top of the list, I know fans

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Speaker 1: have talked about Allen Robinson, and Chris Godwin, and it

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Speaker 1: was a deep wide receiver group and Corey Davis, I thought,

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Speaker 1: for a little bit went under the radar, and then

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Speaker 1: when the Jets scooped him up and you did your

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Speaker 1: background on him and you saw what kind of year

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Speaker 1: he had, and then you go back and look at

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Speaker 1: film and say, well, yeah, there's no wonder why the

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Speaker 1: Jets were interested in them. And something that you pointed

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Speaker 1: out is the la Fleur connection here. Mike Lafleur um

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Speaker 1: the Jets offensive coordinator. Matt Lafleur, now the Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers head coach, was in Tennessee in two thousand eight

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Speaker 1: teen when Corey Davis had a second best see season

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Speaker 1: prior to two thousand twenty, and in two thousand eighteen

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Speaker 1: on a sour note for the Jets. But I'm sure

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Speaker 1: this is how a lot of Jets fans remember Corey Davis.

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Speaker 1: The Jets in Week thirteen were winning for three and

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Speaker 1: three quarters quarters, maybe even more than that, and they

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Speaker 1: lost twenty two to twenty six when Corey Davis caught

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Speaker 1: a touchdown pass from Marcus mariottas second you said they

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Speaker 1: lost twenty two to twenty six. You inversed it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they lost twenty. On my screen, the Jets are on

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Speaker 1: the left that Titans are on the right, so I

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Speaker 1: read it left to right, So I think I think

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Speaker 1: for the Jets, uh, for Jets fans is forgettable season

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Speaker 1: and it was. To be honest with you, I don't

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Speaker 1: even look at their final record, and that was one

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Speaker 1: of those games where they controlled most of it. Like

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Speaker 1: you just pointed out where we were there, We were there,

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Speaker 1: it was it was I remember, couldn't close the deal, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I remember, I think it was. Leonard Williams after the

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Speaker 1: game was like, this is a weird feeling. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to feel because it felt like we were

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Speaker 1: winning the entire game, and obviously we lost, so got

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Speaker 1: mixed emotional. Corey Davis is going to help this team

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Speaker 1: win games in two thousand, twenty one and beyond, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm very interested to see, uh what the

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Speaker 1: Jets now do, not only free agency, but of course

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Speaker 1: the draft, because you've been working for months on this

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Speaker 1: with Dame Bruegler, the Athletics. Dane Bruegler, this wide receiver

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Speaker 1: class could even be better than last year, and they

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Speaker 1: were talking about it as an historical class last year.

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Speaker 1: So here we go this April again, and the Jets

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Speaker 1: got themselves better at the position on the outside. Denzel

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Speaker 1: Mimsel's a fine last year, and now you're gonna pair

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Speaker 1: them up with Corey Davis. And I like the physical

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Speaker 1: uh element that they can bring to the table. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say what I want to say about the Jets

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Speaker 1: receiver's room until after we hear from Tehran. But one

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Speaker 1: note that I saw, I think Cynthia Freelance that on

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Speaker 1: and she said that only three receivers had more yards

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Speaker 1: off of play action plays than Corey Davis, and it

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Speaker 1: was Stefon Diggs, Calvin Ridley, and DeAndre Hopkins. So good company,

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Speaker 1: good company. And but the reason why I wanted to

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Speaker 1: bring it up is because the Titans use a lot

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Speaker 1: would assume that there'd be a heavy incorporation of play

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Speaker 1: Shanahan offense, and that is we're gonna pound you with

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Speaker 1: the zone running game outside zone. Uh, sometimes they're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear from toront Davenport on Corey Davis. That's talk some shots.

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Speaker 1: Is great to see you, Toront. I hope you and

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Speaker 1: your family are doing well. N I found free agency

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Speaker 1: is finally upon us. What were your initial thoughts when

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Speaker 1: you heard former Titans receiver Corey Davis had agreed to

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Speaker 1: terms with the New York Jets. Yeah, the first thing

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Speaker 1: I thought of was just the way he worked through

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Speaker 1: him because he felt sixteen yards short of his first

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Speaker 1: I did jests are getting an awesome player, you know.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Jets fans don't know a ton about

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis the player, outside of the fact that he

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Speaker 1: was the number five overall pick in two thousand and seventeen.

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Speaker 1: So how would you categorize his playing style? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think his playing style is just, in one word, complete.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy that runs excellent routes. He knows how

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Speaker 1: to accelerate and decelerate really well. His releases are solid.

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Speaker 1: If you go man coverage against him one on one,

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Speaker 1: he's going to eat you a lot. And I think

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Speaker 1: you know a good example of that is the Bengals

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Speaker 1: game from this past year. He had William Jackson the

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Speaker 1: third on him man on man, and he won frequently.

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Speaker 1: You look at the game against Stefani Gilmour if he

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Speaker 1: you know, when you ask about his game, I think

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Speaker 1: never gonna complain about not getting enough targets he even

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Speaker 1: though he wants them. And then the other thing that

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Speaker 1: is severely underrated is his ability to block in the

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Speaker 1: running game. And you look at the Derrick Henry highlights,

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis and we joked about that. But that's just

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Speaker 1: an example of how much he is in the mix

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Speaker 1: while how much do you love his physicality, because he

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Speaker 1: just touched upon that a little bit because when he

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Speaker 1: he was fast, but they didn't get an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: actually get his time speed. So it seems like he's

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Speaker 1: got a nice combination of big dude who gets after it,

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Speaker 1: but he can run as well. Yeah, I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: Arrel Olmens, you know. But uh, the physicalities there, He's

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Speaker 1: the guy that you can have slits, He's gonna break tackles,

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Speaker 1: you can have him run the digs. He's never afraid

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Speaker 1: you go to him consistently, the results are gonna follow.

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Speaker 1: And I go back to that Gilmore game from two

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Speaker 1: he's a solid player, Toron. I think some fans out there,

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Speaker 1: their natural reaction is your report is so blowing, why

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Speaker 1: So can you talk about that a little bit? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. I think the one thing with Corey Davis

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Speaker 1: and I touched on it, you know, with him falling

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Speaker 1: a consistency. Sometimes when he's not getting the targets, he

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Speaker 1: won't complain, but you'll see him not be involved with

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Speaker 1: do you think it's going to mean to Corey actually

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Speaker 1: playing for the New York Jets because his brother Titus

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Speaker 1: where his brother played for a short time. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: because and talking to him, you know, his brother Titus was,

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Speaker 1: makes being where he is much more meaningful just because

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Speaker 1: of that that connection, that correlation to his brother. When

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Speaker 1: you look at Corey davis stats since entering the league

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and seventeen, majority speaking, they seem to

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Speaker 1: be trending upwards. Do you think that the Jets are

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Speaker 1: buying per se at a good time and you think

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Speaker 1: trending towards a thousand yards season. So I think you're

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Speaker 1: you're getting a guy who definitely there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: untapped potential. And I think when you have a player

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Speaker 1: him targets. And when you give him targets he has produced.

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Speaker 1: Go back and look at the numbers. You know he

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Speaker 1: And in fact, it's interesting when you hear somebody talk

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Speaker 1: Corey Davis, Dengel Mims, Jamison Crowder, that's a pretty good

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