WEBVTT - LISTEN | Jets 2020 Schedule Breakdown 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:06.040 Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast, powered 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:08.559 by Amazon Web Services. Okay, so here's the deal. The 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.920 NFL schedule just released a couple of moments ago, and 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:14.640 you're gonna hear from Adam Gates later in this podcast 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.600 on his thoughts on the schedule. But e A, basically, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.560 I just wanted to go through the schedule and kind 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.919 of give our thoughts about it, and and I'll read 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.240 the preseason games later. But Week one kind of feels 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.479 like deja vu of last year, except that it's away 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.479 at Buffalo. It is and this is a familiar opponent 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:38.600 for the Jets in Week one Greens three of the 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:43.120 past four years, the Jets have opened up against the 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.760 Buffalo Bills. Last year, as you mentioned in Week one, 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.080 Green and One actually had a sixteen nothing lead in 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:54.400 the third quarter that unfortunately C. J. Moseley went down 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.760 with the groin alement and he was never the same 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.240 in this first year in the Jets. The uniform m 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.399 after that, and he was having a dominant performance in 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.600 that game. Um, but Josh Allen and the Bills were 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:13.200 able to come back and win seventeen and sixteen, and 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:17.000 the Jets, uh really struggled in the first half last year, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.880 if we remember, the Jets were one in seven at 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.840 the midway point. But to give Adam Gates and those 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.320 players a lot of credit for the way they rebounded, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.560 going six and two down the stretch. But I kind 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.720 of love this matchup out of the gate because I 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.480 wrote about this New York just dot Com the Bills 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.400 for the last couple of years, where it's kind of 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.560 like the little engine neck could. But now with Tom 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.319 Brady out of the division, a lot of people are 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.960 saying the Buffalo Bills are the favorite in the a 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.480 f C East. So what better way for the Jets 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.640 to start going to Orchard Park, going to Western New 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.760 York and taken on the Bills and let's see how 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.200 flow handles that pressure because they have not based that 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.280 before in a long time. Greens, Yeah, I agree with you. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.920 I love this matchup not only because of what it represents, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.480 but I think it's gonna be a very good game 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.880 between these two teams. And last year, of course, when 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.400 the Bills came to MetLife, it was Levy on Bell's 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.000 debut and Green and White, and this will be stefon 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.320 digs debut up in Orchard Park, So I love everything 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.240 about this. The Jets ended their two thousand nineteen season 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.760 at New Airfield. They're opening at New air Field. I'm 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.880 a big fan. And then in week two the Jets 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.000 have their home opener and they welcome their first NFC opponent, 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:42.919 the team that actually represented the NFC in the Super Bowl. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.919 Very challenging task here in the San Francisco forty. Yeah, 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.320 I hope nobody's bothered by uh my daughter Gracey. She 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.400 wants to be on the podcast, so she's screaming in 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.000 the background, but yeah, it's so. She is excited about 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.240 the two thousand twenty schedule as well. But Adam sing 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.840 Company open with two playoff teams from a year ago, 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.919 and the San Francisco forty Niners held a ten point 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.280 lead over the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:18.600 just a fraction away from basically being world champions. So, uh, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.200 you know, this is a tough start on paper, because 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.679 you can make the argument the Bills had the most 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:28.080 talented roster in then FC East and the forty Niners 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:33.160 are just loaded loaded across the board, but don't have 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.800 to come to the East coast, uh and play the 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.360 Green and White. And what made this even more interesting 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.800 this week was the Jets signed the NFL's third all 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.640 time leading rusher, Frank Gore, who played ten years his 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.240 first ten years in the National Football League at San 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.280 Francisco and he's the forty Niners all time leading rusher. Yeah, 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.440 I think this is a tough test for the Jets end. Yes, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.760 the Niner do have to come across the country, and 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.280 this is the Niners team that's loaded up front, both 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.480 on offense and defense. They traded for Trent Williams on 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.080 draft weekend, and I think, really this is gonna be 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.160 a battle in the trenches because the Niners like to 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.279 run the ball, the Jets like to stop the run, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.400 and this is gonna be one of those head on collisions, 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.479 at least for on paper, it seems that way. And 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.120 you mentioned Frank Gore. Well, the Jets play his first 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.560 team in the San Francisco forty Niners in Week two. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.440 Then they go to Indianapolis, which is the second team 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.599 that Frank Gore played on in his career in Week three. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.120 And that's a new look team with Philip Rivers at 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.279 the helm. Yeah it is, and you know, it's so 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:47.279 fascinating the way everything's connected, because remember Philip Rivers reached 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.640 an agreement with the Colts in just a few hours 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:55.320 later or the next day, they released Pierre Desire, and 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.679 now the former Colts cornerback is going to be taking 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.760 aim at Bill up Rivers and company in Indianapolis. And 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.719 remember the Jets have actually three defensive backs with Colts 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.239 ties in Nate Harriston and then Joe Douglas of course, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.280 traded for Quincy Wilson on Draft weekend, exchanging a sixth 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.679 round pick, sending a sixth round pick to the Colts, 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.120 and bringing back the former UH second round draft choice 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.960 of Indianapolis Colt. You mentioned it to me too, is 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:28.120 that we'll be talking about the Sam Donald trade that 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.839 the Jets were able to move up from six to 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.240 three overall and get Sat Donald a couple of years ago. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.680 And of course Quentin Quentin Nelson went to the Indianapolis 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:38.720 Colts and he's one of the finest offensive lineman in 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.080 the National Football League. So this will be a fun 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.480 one as well. You know, there's just dawned on me. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.560 The week three will probably be the first time that 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.280 Sam Donald has ever thrown at Lucas Oil stadium. A 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:50.800 lot of quarterbacks throw at the combine. Sam Donald was 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.479 not one of those players. And in Week four now 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.600 the Jets prime Time lights Thursday Night Football, so they 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.800 go from at Indianapolis. Week three, then they have a 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.000 short week. They play at home. They take on the 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.320 Denver Broncos who have a revamped wide receiver corps with 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.960 Jerry Judy and kJ Hamler in the draft. Of course, 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.560 they have Courtland's Sunton and then this will be the 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.360 jets first look at second year quarterback Drew Lock. Short week, 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:19.600 I like the short week for the Jets again Denver, 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.000 that's gonna be challenging and we'll have to see what 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:25.840 their schedule actually looks like. Who they match up prior 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:30.000 to coming to MetLife on October one. Yeah, they were 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.120 vamped their wide receiver corps, but they're gonna have to 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.720 protect their guys up front, and this is an interesting 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.960 matchup for one. Connor McGovern as Joe Douglas emphasized the 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.040 offensive line in the offseason and McGovern started thirty one 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:47.359 games the last two years in Denver. Now he is 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.320 a member of the Jets, so maybe he can give 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.760 some intel to Greg Williams. You know Greg Williams is 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.920 gonna be uh sending some numbers at the aforementioned Drew lock. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.520 And then the Jets after this matchup, they had that 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.039 mini I because of the short week in the beginning 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.360 becomes a longer week on the back end, and that 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.880 means they have an extra couple of days to prepare 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.040 for the Arizona Cardinals in Week five, who have an 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.840 electric quarterback in Kyler Murray. But then they got perhaps 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.880 the game's best receiver this offseason in DeAndre Hopkins. Do 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.440 you make the argument he's the best wide receiver in football. Well, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.880 the Jets can make the argument that they have the 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.920 best safety in all football in Jamal Adams, and I 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.440 know he'll be looking to get after not only Murray, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.160 but the man they call Nuke, right, DeAndre Hopkins. You know, 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.600 entering the two thousand twenty offseason, when you look at 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.560 the Jets opponents and you look at the home in 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.040 a waste late, you're thinking, oh my god, this away 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:45.120 schedule is brutal. Just in terms of travel, Well, the 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:49.280 Jets first real travel that's west of Indianapolis and the 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:53.160 regular season comes in Week six after Denver Arizona. Then 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.720 you're looking at week six of the Jets go all 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.560 the way out to California to take on the new 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.960 look Chargers. They got the new uniforms, I got a 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.360 new quarterback, and that's really the first time that the 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.560 Jets will have a long trip out west. Yeah, and 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.480 we were talking about Jamal Adams just before. But if 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.239 you're a fan of safety, play watch Derwin James watching 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.280 while Adams as the Jets match up with the Bulls. 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.560 I think, and you look at this matchup and where 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:22.240 falls week six? Is too Rod Teller the starting quarterback 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.040 and the Chargers at that point or is it justin 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.280 Herbert who they took number six? Overall, that's gonna be 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.800 interesting to watch route the year. I think so as well. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.920 And then the Jets fly back to the East Coast. 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 They have a home game in Week seven against the 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.160 Buffalo Bills. So the Bills matchups are Week one and 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.360 seven and then they're done. I just love the quarterback matchup. 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.920 These guys are very close friends. They work with Jordan 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.480 Palmer in the off season. So you're done with the 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.880 Bills before the end of October, before you actually face 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.040 any other division opponents. Yeah, I'm Glad you mentioned that. 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.480 I was about to say that the jets first two 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.280 a f C East opponents are both the Buffalo Bills 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.439 before they even play the offense, or the Patriots. And really, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.720 I think maybe the toughest test for the Jets on 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.479 paper comes in Week eight. You go to the defending 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:13.200 Super Bowl champions home at Arrowhead Stadium. What what do 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.360 you say about the Chiefs twelve and four last year, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.679 fantastic offense. You can make the argument that maybe they 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:25.040 could be butter this year because Patrick Mahomes was limited. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.000 I guess you would say to fourteen games last year, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:30.440 you know, and that's a tough place to play. But 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.400 I will say Greens last year, the Chiefs seven and 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.760 one away, just five and three at home in the 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.920 regular season. Before we hear from head coach Adam Gaze 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.040 and he gives his thoughts on the schedule, I just 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.280 kind of wanted to get your thoughts on the way 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.720 that this schedule breaks out weeks one through eight. For me, 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.319 I think I'm a fan because there's no back to 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.800 back away game or the Jets in the first eight weeks, 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.120 and the travel isn't that bad. Really, the toughest slate 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.600 in here is at l A Chargers home against Buffalo, 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.720 then at Kansas City, and I think that's really the 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.600 most difficult slate so far, in which we've talked about 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.760 four home, four road, so you've got an element of 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:20.080 I guess equality there the first four games, Uh, jump 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:22.920 up the page at me because Indianapolis you can make 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:27.200 the argument that they have the top roster and an 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.400 FC South right now, and we talked about the Bills 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.959 and they're very good team. And then San Francisco, one 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.040 of the most balanced teams in football. Team is going 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.600 to test your physicality for sixty minutes. So that first 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.560 quarter of games gonna test the Jets right out of 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.000 the gate. But I do think listen, if you're a 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.960 Jets fan, yeah, you like this these first eight and 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.360 then we'll talk about the season second half. In our 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.480 second half, Well, let's hear from head coach Adam Gaze 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.679 on his thoughts on this Jet schedule. What are your 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.960 show impressions of the two thousand twenty schedule. It's it's 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.640 always hard to really focus too far down the road, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.040 and you know, you just know you have so much 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.520 time between now and uh this season, you don't want 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.240 to get too far ahead of yourself. You know, it's 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.439 always good to kind of know who you're who you're 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.960 starting off with. You you've got a lot of things 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.720 to set up, you know, travel wise, with with people, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.080 people within the building, so you know, that's always good 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.160 to kind of handle to, you know, take care of 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.040 how you're gonna travel, if you're gonna do two D 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.640 eight trips going out west, things like that, you know. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.960 But for the most part, we got so far to 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.240 go before you even worry about you know, these games. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.679 How much do you think you'll be challenged out of 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.320 the gate when you look at that matchup with the Bills, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.520 then you come home for the home opener against the 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.200 San Francisco forty nine years then you travel to Indianapolis. Yeah, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.920 I mean when it's you know, I don't remember, you know, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:59.520 remember looking at the NFL schedule and and marking games 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.440 off before they're played. So, you know, I feel like 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.240 that that Buffalo matchup seems to be, you know, kind 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.200 of the norm for us with playing them in the 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.120 first game. Obviously, when you've got two guys that were 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.240 in the same draft class, you know that are that 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.480 are close and and that you know, competitive against each other. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.800 You know, that's a that's always a good Week one 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.719 matchup for both our organizations. Do you like having the 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.560 two prime time games at home? A Thursday night matchup 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.360 with the Denver Broncles, then you have the New England 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.800 Patriots coming to that Life Stadium. Yeah, you know, actually 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.680 I'm a little fired up that we're you know, to 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.920 experience a home Thursday game. I feel like it's been 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.440 a long time since. It seems like I've been on 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.240 the road quite a bit the last five or six 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.640 years on Thursday Night, so you know, it'd be nice 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.640 to be at home there, uh, playing dever, you know, 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.800 I mean, I think the last time I actually played 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.400 at home Thursday game was at Denver, so that that 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.840 was you know, there'll be a there'll be a fun matchup, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.680 and you know, playing and playing a Monday night game, 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.600 you know, obviously, anytime that you can play Monday night 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.840 football and against New England, you know, is obviously a 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.320 big deal. You're by is late this year in week 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.280 eleven and it's sandwich in between matchups with the Miami 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.360 Dolphins in weeks ten and twelve. What did you think 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:18.360 about that scheduling? Oddity. Well, I know anybody that's you know, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.560 breaking down film for us is probably loving life, not 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.040 a whole bunch of a bunch of additions going on there. Um, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.040 you know, it's you know, having a later buy is 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.080 always is always a good thing. It's it's like trying 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.040 to find that sweet spot. You just never know when 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.920 when you really need that buy. You know, I think 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.839 everybody when they look at their schedule and they look 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.600 at the buy, when you first get it, initially you go, okay, good, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:43.760 I'm glad we gotta buy here just late. You know, 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.439 last year, if we would have had to buy that late, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.080 that means we would have played one more game with 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.880 our starting quarterback. So last year it wasn't You look 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:53.760 at it initially and you didn't think it was ideal, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.520 And then all of a sudden, when when Sam wasn't 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.640 playing and he wouldn't have played that week, you know 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.160 it was it was it was actually worked out okay 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.880 for us. All right, So late in December you have 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.680 back to back matchups at Seattle and then the l 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.760 A Rams weeks fourteen and weeks fifteen. Well, you as 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.440 an organization consider staying out there on the West Coast 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:21.160 and training for a week potentially. Yeah, that's that's been 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.320 something that we I mean, we started discussing, you know, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.960 after last season was over, you know, just something if 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.440 if we had the opportunity or we had back back 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.080 West Coast games, Uh, staying out there, you know, avoiding 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.280 some of that travel. I mean, obviously with the way 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.360 things are going right now, it's you know, you just 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.200 we don't know. I mean, we don't know what you know, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.160 how this will go as far as you know, how 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.720 does it affect or travel, How does it affect hotels, stay, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.200 how does it affect like what stay we're in. We 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.880 don't know all those those little details right now. Also 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.280 we can do is kind of started putting feelers out 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.200 there and seeing what we're told. What do you think 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:01.400 about the preparation for or the FC West in the 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.840 NFC West this season? Yeah, I mean it's uh, you know, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.960 it's interesting. It's interesting because it's you know, every every 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:13.480 four years, you know, or every every three years, it 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.680 seems like, you know, when you get one of those 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.000 those divisions, you know, and you're traveling out west, and 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.280 to get them both in the same year, that's you know, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.400 I don't know how many times I've actually really kind 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.920 of been a part of that um. But I think 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.600 it's it's it's it's fun in the aspect of the 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.320 The NFC West for sure, is a hot division right now. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.200 They've they've they're putting out, you know, four teams that 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.800 are really tough. And then you know the f C West, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.160 that's a that's a division that I'm you know, quite 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.120 familiar with. You know, there's been some obviously some change 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.480 in the garden and some of the staffs and players 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.440 from out there, but you know, a lot of those 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:49.760 guys are still the same from from one my time 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.320 in Denver. Now is head coach Adam Gates on the 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.760 Official Jets podcast powered by Amazon Web Services. Let's continue 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.760 on here Week nine, The Jets back under the lights 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.560 primetime Monday night football again feels like deja vu. The 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.880 New England Patriots at MetLife Stadium under the Monday night 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.680 football lights and obviously the big storyline here will two things? 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:17.120 Whose quarterback for the Patriots and will the ghosts still 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.840 exist for Sam Donald dejavvou No more Greens that Tom 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.560 Brady is a Tampa Bay buccaneer. We had Calf to 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.120 wrap our minds around that, is it Jared Stidham who 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.320 is leading the Patriots here in Week nine at MetLife Stadium. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.040 You mentioned last year's Monday Night game when the Jets 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.440 hosted the Patriots of the thirty three nothing shutout loss, 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.400 and you know famously the mic had the same Donald 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.280 talking about him using a football expression saying he's a 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.040 seeing ghost. Well, I don't anticipate that to happen once again. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.720 This is his second year in the system with Adam Caze. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.680 I anticipate a totally different game this year. I agree 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.520 with that, and next up after New England. This is 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.280 the kind of an odd moment in the schedule. I 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.240 would say the Jets are at Miami in Week ten, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.280 then they have a buy in Week eleven before hosting 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.800 the Dolphins in Week twelve. So the Jets two opponents 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.160 in three weeks and in two games or the Dolphins. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:23.480 That's the first time that's happened since nineteen nine when 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.119 the modern buys were inserted into the schedule. Thanks to 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:32.160 our historian consultant contributor Randy Lang for that guy's got 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.320 the bus stats in the business. It's never happened before. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.480 So like you said you got the Dolphins to get 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.640 that week of preparation, and then it's got to help 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.440 you because you're in the season second half. You're gonna 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.760 head into the bye week knowing, hey, we just prepared 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.639 for this matchup, and now we're gonna come out of 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.959 the by, maybe get the guys out of there for 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.720 a little bit, get some rest, and it's a late 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.720 by two and you're coming back and you're facing a 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.240 team that you're very familiar with. So I was just 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.320 thinking about this. Last year, the Jets had a Week 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.680 four by. This year they have a Week eleven by, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.480 but that Thursday night game is Week four, so you 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.080 kind of get a mini by between week four and five, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.320 and then you have your buy in week eleven. I'm 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.840 a fan of the way that shakes out there because 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.720 it almost feels like it's a good amount of games 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.840 in between each of those. And then after the two 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.560 Miami games Week thirteen, the Jets host the now Las 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.840 Vegas Raiders for the first time at MetLife Stadium before 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.240 and this is really the tough part of the schedule here. 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:37.760 Back to back NFC West games weeks fourteen and fifteen, 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:42.440 where you go at Seattle and at the l A. Rams. Yeah, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.560 on paper, definitely a tough matchups. But last year the 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.520 Jets really ran rough shot over the Oakland Raiders at 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.359 MetLife Stadium. Now there's a Las Vegas Raiders. They added 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.080 a piece to the puzzle on Henry Rugs. And then 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.520 you mentioned that road trip where you're going to Seattle 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.320 and then the l A Rams Seattle. It all starts 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.639 with Russell Wilson. Right, very good defense, well coached, but 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.800 if you can contain Russell Wilson, you're gonna give yourself 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.359 an opportunity to win. Even though that's one of the 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.400 toughest places to play in all football, the Rams feel 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.520 like a team in transition to me right now. Yeah, 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.360 I think this is the toughest part of the schedule 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.000 with the back to back West Coast games and then 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:28.520 the Jets wrapped things up one home game in Week 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.439 sixteen against the Cleveland Brown But this will really be 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.720 the first time where it's Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.639 from the get. And then in week seventeen the Jets 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.240 wrap up at New England. Yeah, a couple of things 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.680 going back to Week fifteen against the Rams and weeks 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:50.679 sixteen against the Browns, and the NFL is leaving that Saturday, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.920 December nineteenth, or versus the Rams open and then also 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.240 the seven against the brown So we'll have to see 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.120 how things chake out throughout the year. But yeah, Sam 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:06.159 Donald will obviously be forever linked with Baker Mayfield. That 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:10.680 is a team that is starting over a little bit 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:15.000 because they have a new coaching staff this year in Cleveland, 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.960 and then you're gonna end that year two thousand twenty. 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:21.160 It will be two thousand twenty one by the time 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:25.240 you get to Gilt Stadium January three, and it's gonna 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.840 have a different feel. Listen to. Patriots are still gonna 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:32.080 be a very competitive team, and they are the team 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.280 to be in the division until somebody that thrones them. 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.399 But where will this Patriots team be standing when you 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.640 go to New England to end the year. It's gonna 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.040 have a completely different feel without Brady. Yeah, I totally 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.480 agree with that. It's gonna be very interesting to see 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.840 what the Patriots look like without Tom Brady. And I 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:55.760 just wanted to wrap things up here by asking you, 0:20:55.920 --> 0:20:58.560 what are a couple of things that stand out to 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.120 you for me? At think the thing that stands out 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.119 is even though the Jets at the end of the 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.480 year will have accumulated a lot of miles from a 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.760 travel standpoint, I think that the way the schedule is 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.080 laid out is actually probably as good as it could be. Yeah, 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:19.679 you mentioned that the road schedule. December is going to 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.800 be a road slate for the Jets marked by their 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:25.800 road matchups since Seattle on Week fourteen, in l A 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.359 week fifteen, and then you're ending with New England. But 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.359 that's just such a short trip to Gillette Stadium. The 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.520 other thing is the prime time matchups right now you 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:37.000 have to obviously that could change down the line, but 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:41.040 they're both home games. You get Denver home on a 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:44.000 short week, You get the Patriots on a Monday night 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.480