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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. Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen here in

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Speaker 1: the bed MGM studios. This week we got Branden Man

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Speaker 1: on the pod. Make sure to rate us, subscribe to

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Speaker 1: Apple Music, Google Play. Bart Scott comes back for our

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Speaker 1: Victor Knox Swiss Army Knife player of the Game segment.

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Speaker 1: Those names off rather quickly. Yeah, I tried to do

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Speaker 1: it like a commercial where it's like terms of conditions.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. I know what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about regarding commercials. Yeah, yeah, I have a I

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Speaker 1: have a newfound respect for people that lead in auction

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Speaker 1: what do they call auctioneers, auctioneers. I have a great

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Speaker 1: respect for Brandon Man because he's not just a punner,

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Speaker 1: he is a football player. Every time we see him

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Speaker 1: out there on Sunday afternoon, you never know who he's

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Speaker 1: gonna pop next. Brandon Man joins the pod later in

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Speaker 1: the show. He talked about what e A mentioned his

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Speaker 1: tackling in the NFL. I believe he now has two

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Speaker 1: tackles on the ear had one against the Miami Dolphins

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Speaker 1: talk some Texas football, both high school and college, and

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Speaker 1: he's got a baby face, so we had to make

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Speaker 1: sure to bring that up a yeah, but he plays

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Speaker 1: a grown man's game and he you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of kickers they are gonna shy away from contact, and

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Speaker 1: I totally get it, especially at this point in my life.

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Speaker 1: But Brandon Man, he's he's look, he is looking for it,

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Speaker 1: So you know that's the mentality of Hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's going back to his linebacker days and he's not

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Speaker 1: the most imposing dude, but he gets after it. When

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Speaker 1: a kid grew up in Texas, you know, that's part

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Speaker 1: of your blood, you know, the physicality of the game

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Speaker 1: and the mindset. So uh interesting, a really nice kid,

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Speaker 1: uh learning the ropes in the National Football League. Um.

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Speaker 1: So far. As far as the two thousand twenty Jets

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Speaker 1: draft class, you'd have to say saying complete at this

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Speaker 1: point because we're six games into these guys rears. But

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Speaker 1: I think Man has done a lot of good things

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Speaker 1: here early in his professional career. And Brandon Man talked

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Speaker 1: about the intricacies of punting. I thought that was pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: So let's hear from the Jets rookie Brandon Man. Brandon,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us here on the Official

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Speaker 1: Jets Podcast. Just first things first, what is life as

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Speaker 1: world where you're typically not interacting with your teammates as

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Speaker 1: much as you usually would. Yeah, I mean that's kind

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Speaker 1: of uh. I don't really know anything else right now,

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Speaker 1: a little bit more calm down with everything not going on, hopefully.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's definitely a little bit hectic, but I'm

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Speaker 1: loving it. Being a young man who grew up in Texas,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about the Northeast and the New

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Speaker 1: New York City at all? I love the area up here.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's awesome. It's definitely a bit of a

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Speaker 1: I haven't really left that a hundred mile radius in

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Speaker 1: to hear that. I'm loving it. Um. I did get

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Speaker 1: that day. Maybe another day I'll go try it. What

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Speaker 1: missing the text Max, the barbecue, all the food. Uh,

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Speaker 1: what can you say? How would you describe the college

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Speaker 1: start growing out out if I can. But yeah, usually

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Speaker 1: people think I'm two or three years younger than I

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Speaker 1: actually am, so twenty two, but some people think I

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Speaker 1: like nineteen still. Unfortunately, that's a good quality to have.

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Speaker 1: A lucky young believe, good luck with the facial Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully the young thing sticks with me later on in life.

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Speaker 1: So maybe that's my uh maybe that's the upside of this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're playing the long game here. You know. It might

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Speaker 1: bite you in high school and college, but then and

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Speaker 1: later in your later years of life, it might come

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Speaker 1: around to your advantage exactly, exactly, Bright and appreciate the

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Speaker 1: time man, absolutely, thank you all for robing me. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it as you just saw EA and I had

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Speaker 1: to play some Atlantic Health Jets Training Center roulette to

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Speaker 1: get that Brighton Man interview done because we were both

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Speaker 1: in the building, but not in the bed MGM studio. No,

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Speaker 1: inside the Jets was being taped at that time, so

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Speaker 1: I think Dan Graza and by Hecker bart Scott, we're

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Speaker 1: up here, and I was displaced actually inside the team

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Speaker 1: meeting room, which happens to be at the odd Tournament

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Speaker 1: one Jets drive socially distant from the rest of the

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Speaker 1: world because that's a big space, and nobody was there

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Speaker 1: other than me. Did you sit in one of the

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Speaker 1: comfy chairs? No, I said, in a chair one of

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Speaker 1: the instructor chairs down below, So no, it was not

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Speaker 1: one of the comfortable chairs. Well you mentioned inside the

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Speaker 1: Jets with bart Scott. Bart Scott also joined the pod,

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Speaker 1: like I said earlier, for our weekly segment of our

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Speaker 1: Victor Knox was Army Knife Player of the Game segment.

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Speaker 1: So let's hear from the mad backer. All right, now

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Speaker 1: it's time for our Victor Knox Swiss Army Knife Player

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Speaker 1: of the Game or matchup to watch with bart Scott.

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Speaker 1: Bart thanks a lot for joining us yet again. Jets

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Speaker 1: Bills in Week seven. Who's your match up to watch

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Speaker 1: or your player to watch? Greens He kicked us out

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Speaker 1: of the studio. Wrong here the studio and Bart has

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Speaker 1: taken over. Yeah, I'm clausophobic, man, I'm stuck in here, man,

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Speaker 1: I've been here for two shows. Man, I'm nervous. Man.

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Speaker 1: The walls are closing in on me. I need sunlight.

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Speaker 1: But I tell you what, man, my player to watch is,

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Speaker 1: you know, the same players to watching. In the first matchup,

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Speaker 1: it's always about Josh Allen. His ability to stand places

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Speaker 1: with his legs. He killed the Jets, not only just

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Speaker 1: dropping back and throwing the ball, not even the off

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Speaker 1: schedule plays where he had to improvise, but the planning

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Speaker 1: design runs that he had as well, you know, and

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Speaker 1: that that comes when we might When you talk about

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, his ability to stand plays and make big

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Speaker 1: plays on the field, you have to tie that directly

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Speaker 1: to the Stefan dis So those are the players to watch.

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Speaker 1: I think they're one and the same. You know, they're

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Speaker 1: taking over the league. They're one of the the most

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Speaker 1: productive duels in the game right now, and they're really

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Speaker 1: gonna have to address that because if you start giving

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Speaker 1: a big place, and that's gonna open up the red

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Speaker 1: game for Singletary and for for the young rookie with

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Speaker 1: Zac Malls, Moss, how do you know you're you're you're

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Speaker 1: you're rookie. Yeah, I don't really have to know your

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Speaker 1: name of your rookie. That's spoken like the true linebacker

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Speaker 1: he was and still is resent mentality. Never his left part, Scott,

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Speaker 1: I gotta go to the other side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: The Jets gotta jump start this offense. So the offensive

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Speaker 1: line dealing with some injuries right now, but hopefully they'll

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Speaker 1: be able to provide some protection for whomever is playing

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Jets this week. Likely you would anticipate

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Speaker 1: that Joe Flack will making his third consecutive start under center.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have had problems defensively here early in the

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Speaker 1: two thousand twenty season, whereas Buffalo in years past they

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Speaker 1: had written their success based on that defense. But they've

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Speaker 1: given up a lot of yards and a lot of points.

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Speaker 1: Let's see how the Jets can match up at the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, because you're gonna need a balance attack

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Speaker 1: because you gotta get in third and manageables. Last week

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Speaker 1: part the Jets just two of seventeen on third Now

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Speaker 1: I saw, trust me, I witnessed every single snap of that.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You tell you what Josh Norman

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Speaker 1: hasn't made a big impact is that other lockdown corner

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Speaker 1: opos there is White? Uh to mean sure, Davids White.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what when you think about you know

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Speaker 1: what you have to do is you know pretty much

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Speaker 1: you know you think about the Buffalo Bills, they're not

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Speaker 1: they haven't been a team that's been super aggressive blistening,

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Speaker 1: but they're going to bliss the Jets because the Jets

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Speaker 1: of struggle with interior blizzing and blissening from the outside.

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Speaker 1: So they've gotta be able to have their their their

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Speaker 1: hot routes together. They have to be able to have

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Speaker 1: their plan because they're gonna get it until they're able

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Speaker 1: to really, you know, stop it. You know, you think

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Speaker 1: about maybe maxing it up and getting to three man

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Speaker 1: That's something that you're gonna have to consider. Because the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, I know, in their in their past they've

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Speaker 1: been conservative, but against the Jets, they feel emboldened because

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Speaker 1: they feel like they like their matchups on the outside

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Speaker 1: and see if they can change, hopefully on Derek Malims

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Speaker 1: can get itself back together and Mackay Beck that could

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Speaker 1: get that shoulder that wing fixed. We've talked in the past.

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Speaker 1: You said, I Oliver explosive player for the Jets, I

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Speaker 1: mean for the Bills on the interior. But he's undersized,

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Speaker 1: and you talked about after week one maybe potentially you

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Speaker 1: can put a double on him and run the football.

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is a very good player from the outside,

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Speaker 1: but the Bills are not getting it from other places

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Speaker 1: right now. Well, you talk about a guy, when you

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Speaker 1: talk about explosive guy, he's a one gay penetrator. So

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Speaker 1: when you talk about one gay penetrators, think about the

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Speaker 1: old Tommy Harrison and how successful he was, you know

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Speaker 1: there in Chicago. That means he's going to shoot up

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Speaker 1: the field. He's gonna get into gaps. You know, when

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Speaker 1: you do that, you use his aggression agains him, you

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Speaker 1: trap block him. You know, you let him shoot the

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Speaker 1: gap and you block him with the backside guard and

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Speaker 1: you send the guard in which he's over and you

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Speaker 1: send him up to the linebacker. And that's how he

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Speaker 1: creates seals and holes, so you're running back to get

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Speaker 1: through and it can be set up so that way

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Speaker 1: that makes him have to play the game more cautiously

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Speaker 1: and make sure that he fires off he puts hands

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Speaker 1: on instead of just recklessly getting up in the gaps.

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Speaker 1: You know. But because he's so small, you want to

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Speaker 1: try and get that movement and try and you know,

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Speaker 1: trap block maybe the defensive end or traps hughes because

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Speaker 1: he's not a big guy. But you can get him

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Speaker 1: with counter action, with pulling backs and also from tight

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Speaker 1: ends that on the opposite side coming in as if

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Speaker 1: you know you're coming in to cut his legs out

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Speaker 1: and he has to protect himself and then when he

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Speaker 1: starts protecting it, so that's when you send that saying

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Speaker 1: tight end. You know, I would prefer Griffin. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get him to the second level because he fakes

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Speaker 1: to cut as he tries to avoid you, and then

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Speaker 1: he gets out into the alley and you can have

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Speaker 1: a big supposed to play. Everything has to mirror up

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Speaker 1: because this is a smart defense, smart defensive coaching staff.

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Speaker 1: They run that system to perfection, so you have to

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Speaker 1: use their eyes and their teaching against them. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Jets receiving core as my

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Speaker 1: matchup to watch and kind of like what Bart said though,

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Speaker 1: playing off of that, when you have Trey White on

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Speaker 1: the Bills feel like they can trust those guys and

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Speaker 1: they start sending more blitches, that leaves one on one

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Speaker 1: matchup for guys like Brashod Parren and James and Crowder.

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Speaker 1: Jameson Prowder has only had one game in which he's

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Speaker 1: not gone over one hundred yards. So if the Jets

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Speaker 1: get healthier on the outside with Breshad Pairman, we'll see

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Speaker 1: what the status is of Denzel Mims. Maybe those guys

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Speaker 1: can take advantage on the outside. But Bart, I want

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Speaker 1: to wrap things up with this, what did you mean

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Speaker 1: exactly for people that don't know when you say everything

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Speaker 1: needs to mirror up on the defense, what exactly did

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Speaker 1: you mean by that? I mean that every run that

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Speaker 1: you have in your playbook should have an equal, equally

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Speaker 1: similar pass off of it. That way, they can't they

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Speaker 1: can't hone in on you. They can't hone in on Okay,

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Speaker 1: when p Ryan is in, then it's a run. When

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Speaker 1: Gore's in it's a past. You have to make sure

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Speaker 1: it mirrors up. The personnel mirrors up. You have to

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Speaker 1: make sure that the same looks that you have, you know,

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Speaker 1: go on one way. You can flip it and if

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Speaker 1: you flip it to the other side, it looks totally

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Speaker 1: different to to to that side of the ball because

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Speaker 1: they haven't seen it from that perspective. So you want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that you mirror your looks up. That way,

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Speaker 1: you can have success in the play action game because

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Speaker 1: that run looks just like that pat when that that

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Speaker 1: that run looks just like that past, So then the

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Speaker 1: running backs happened me. The linebackers have to respect the

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Speaker 1: running backs and that's when you create that that separation

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Speaker 1: in the middle. You allow your receivers that have open

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Speaker 1: space to work because you think about the lack of

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Speaker 1: linebacker depth creates pockets in which you know receivers can

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Speaker 1: get the defenders on their on their back and be

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Speaker 1: able to shield them and be able to get some

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Speaker 1: of those ten to fifteen digs, slants and opportunities to

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Speaker 1: get that yak after they catch the ball. A line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and Bart is right and participate the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: SHU predominantly are known as the zone team to play

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Speaker 1: a lot of man and for each of the Jets

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Speaker 1: opponents until they start beating them down the field of

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Speaker 1: crowding that box. That was the Victor Knox Swiss Army

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Speaker 1: Knife player of the game, and that was another addition

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Speaker 1: of the Official Jet Podcast powered by AWS Thanks to

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Speaker 1: Brandon Man and thank you Bart Scott. I have no

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