Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast, powered
Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Okay, so here's the deal. The
Speaker 1: NFL schedule just released a couple of moments ago, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from Adam Gates later in this podcast
Speaker 1: on his thoughts on the schedule. But e A, basically,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to go through the schedule and kind
Speaker 1: of give our thoughts about it, and and I'll read
Speaker 1: the preseason games later. But Week one kind of feels
Speaker 1: like deja vu of last year, except that it's away
Speaker 1: at Buffalo. It is and this is a familiar opponent
Speaker 1: for the Jets in Week one Greens three of the
Speaker 1: past four years, the Jets have opened up against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Last year, as you mentioned in Week one,
Speaker 1: Green and One actually had a sixteen nothing lead in
Speaker 1: the third quarter that unfortunately C. J. Moseley went down
Speaker 1: with the groin alement and he was never the same
Speaker 1: in this first year in the Jets. The uniform m
Speaker 1: after that, and he was having a dominant performance in
Speaker 1: that game. Um, but Josh Allen and the Bills were
Speaker 1: able to come back and win seventeen and sixteen, and
Speaker 1: the Jets, uh really struggled in the first half last year,
Speaker 1: if we remember, the Jets were one in seven at
Speaker 1: the midway point. But to give Adam Gates and those
Speaker 1: players a lot of credit for the way they rebounded,
Speaker 1: going six and two down the stretch. But I kind
Speaker 1: of love this matchup out of the gate because I
Speaker 1: wrote about this New York just dot Com the Bills
Speaker 1: for the last couple of years, where it's kind of
Speaker 1: like the little engine neck could. But now with Tom
Speaker 1: Brady out of the division, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: saying the Buffalo Bills are the favorite in the a
Speaker 1: f C East. So what better way for the Jets
Speaker 1: to start going to Orchard Park, going to Western New
Speaker 1: York and taken on the Bills and let's see how
Speaker 1: flow handles that pressure because they have not based that
Speaker 1: before in a long time. Greens, Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I love this matchup not only because of what it represents,
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna be a very good game
Speaker 1: between these two teams. And last year, of course, when
Speaker 1: the Bills came to MetLife, it was Levy on Bell's
Speaker 1: debut and Green and White, and this will be stefon
Speaker 1: digs debut up in Orchard Park, So I love everything
Speaker 1: about this. The Jets ended their two thousand nineteen season
Speaker 1: at New Airfield. They're opening at New air Field. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan. And then in week two the Jets
Speaker 1: have their home opener and they welcome their first NFC opponent,
Speaker 1: the team that actually represented the NFC in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Very challenging task here in the San Francisco forty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope nobody's bothered by uh my daughter Gracey. She
Speaker 1: wants to be on the podcast, so she's screaming in
Speaker 1: the background, but yeah, it's so. She is excited about
Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty schedule as well. But Adam sing
Speaker 1: Company open with two playoff teams from a year ago,
Speaker 1: and the San Francisco forty Niners held a ten point
Speaker 1: lead over the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: just a fraction away from basically being world champions. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, this is a tough start on paper, because
Speaker 1: you can make the argument the Bills had the most
Speaker 1: talented roster in then FC East and the forty Niners
Speaker 1: are just loaded loaded across the board, but don't have
Speaker 1: to come to the East coast, uh and play the
Speaker 1: Green and White. And what made this even more interesting
Speaker 1: this week was the Jets signed the NFL's third all
Speaker 1: time leading rusher, Frank Gore, who played ten years his
Speaker 1: first ten years in the National Football League at San
Speaker 1: Francisco and he's the forty Niners all time leading rusher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is a tough test for the Jets end. Yes,
Speaker 1: the Niner do have to come across the country, and
Speaker 1: this is the Niners team that's loaded up front, both
Speaker 1: on offense and defense. They traded for Trent Williams on
Speaker 1: draft weekend, and I think, really this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a battle in the trenches because the Niners like to
Speaker 1: run the ball, the Jets like to stop the run,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna be one of those head on collisions,
Speaker 1: at least for on paper, it seems that way. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned Frank Gore. Well, the Jets play his first
Speaker 1: team in the San Francisco forty Niners in Week two.
Speaker 1: Then they go to Indianapolis, which is the second team
Speaker 1: that Frank Gore played on in his career in Week three.
Speaker 1: And that's a new look team with Philip Rivers at
Speaker 1: the helm. Yeah it is, and you know, it's so
Speaker 1: fascinating the way everything's connected, because remember Philip Rivers reached
Speaker 1: an agreement with the Colts in just a few hours
Speaker 1: later or the next day, they released Pierre Desire, and
Speaker 1: now the former Colts cornerback is going to be taking
Speaker 1: aim at Bill up Rivers and company in Indianapolis. And
Speaker 1: remember the Jets have actually three defensive backs with Colts
Speaker 1: ties in Nate Harriston and then Joe Douglas of course,
Speaker 1: traded for Quincy Wilson on Draft weekend, exchanging a sixth
Speaker 1: round pick, sending a sixth round pick to the Colts,
Speaker 1: and bringing back the former UH second round draft choice
Speaker 1: of Indianapolis Colt. You mentioned it to me too, is
Speaker 1: that we'll be talking about the Sam Donald trade that
Speaker 1: the Jets were able to move up from six to
Speaker 1: three overall and get Sat Donald a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: And of course Quentin Quentin Nelson went to the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts and he's one of the finest offensive lineman in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So this will be a fun
Speaker 1: one as well. You know, there's just dawned on me.
Speaker 1: The week three will probably be the first time that
Speaker 1: Sam Donald has ever thrown at Lucas Oil stadium. A
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks throw at the combine. Sam Donald was
Speaker 1: not one of those players. And in Week four now
Speaker 1: the Jets prime Time lights Thursday Night Football, so they
Speaker 1: go from at Indianapolis. Week three, then they have a
Speaker 1: short week. They play at home. They take on the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos who have a revamped wide receiver corps with
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and kJ Hamler in the draft. Of course,
Speaker 1: they have Courtland's Sunton and then this will be the
Speaker 1: jets first look at second year quarterback Drew Lock. Short week,
Speaker 1: I like the short week for the Jets again Denver,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be challenging and we'll have to see what
Speaker 1: their schedule actually looks like. Who they match up prior
Speaker 1: to coming to MetLife on October one. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: vamped their wide receiver corps, but they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: protect their guys up front, and this is an interesting
Speaker 1: matchup for one. Connor McGovern as Joe Douglas emphasized the
Speaker 1: offensive line in the offseason and McGovern started thirty one
Speaker 1: games the last two years in Denver. Now he is
Speaker 1: a member of the Jets, so maybe he can give
Speaker 1: some intel to Greg Williams. You know Greg Williams is
Speaker 1: gonna be uh sending some numbers at the aforementioned Drew lock.
Speaker 1: And then the Jets after this matchup, they had that
Speaker 1: mini I because of the short week in the beginning
Speaker 1: becomes a longer week on the back end, and that
Speaker 1: means they have an extra couple of days to prepare
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals in Week five, who have an
Speaker 1: electric quarterback in Kyler Murray. But then they got perhaps
Speaker 1: the game's best receiver this offseason in DeAndre Hopkins. Do
Speaker 1: you make the argument he's the best wide receiver in football. Well,
Speaker 1: the Jets can make the argument that they have the
Speaker 1: best safety in all football in Jamal Adams, and I
Speaker 1: know he'll be looking to get after not only Murray,
Speaker 1: but the man they call Nuke, right, DeAndre Hopkins. You know,
Speaker 1: entering the two thousand twenty offseason, when you look at
Speaker 1: the Jets opponents and you look at the home in
Speaker 1: a waste late, you're thinking, oh my god, this away
Speaker 1: schedule is brutal. Just in terms of travel, Well, the
Speaker 1: Jets first real travel that's west of Indianapolis and the
Speaker 1: regular season comes in Week six after Denver Arizona. Then
Speaker 1: you're looking at week six of the Jets go all
Speaker 1: the way out to California to take on the new
Speaker 1: look Chargers. They got the new uniforms, I got a
Speaker 1: new quarterback, and that's really the first time that the
Speaker 1: Jets will have a long trip out west. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we were talking about Jamal Adams just before. But if
Speaker 1: you're a fan of safety, play watch Derwin James watching
Speaker 1: while Adams as the Jets match up with the Bulls.
Speaker 1: I think, and you look at this matchup and where
Speaker 1: falls week six? Is too Rod Teller the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: and the Chargers at that point or is it justin
Speaker 1: Herbert who they took number six? Overall, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to watch route the year. I think so as well.
Speaker 1: And then the Jets fly back to the East Coast.
Speaker 1: They have a home game in Week seven against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. So the Bills matchups are Week one and
Speaker 1: seven and then they're done. I just love the quarterback matchup.
Speaker 1: These guys are very close friends. They work with Jordan
Speaker 1: Palmer in the off season. So you're done with the
Speaker 1: Bills before the end of October, before you actually face
Speaker 1: any other division opponents. Yeah, I'm Glad you mentioned that.
Speaker 1: I was about to say that the jets first two
Speaker 1: a f C East opponents are both the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: before they even play the offense, or the Patriots. And really,
Speaker 1: I think maybe the toughest test for the Jets on
Speaker 1: paper comes in Week eight. You go to the defending
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champions home at Arrowhead Stadium. What what do
Speaker 1: you say about the Chiefs twelve and four last year,
Speaker 1: fantastic offense. You can make the argument that maybe they
Speaker 1: could be butter this year because Patrick Mahomes was limited.
Speaker 1: I guess you would say to fourteen games last year,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's a tough place to play. But
Speaker 1: I will say Greens last year, the Chiefs seven and
Speaker 1: one away, just five and three at home in the
Speaker 1: regular season. Before we hear from head coach Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: and he gives his thoughts on the schedule, I just
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to get your thoughts on the way
Speaker 1: that this schedule breaks out weeks one through eight. For me,
Speaker 1: I think I'm a fan because there's no back to
Speaker 1: back away game or the Jets in the first eight weeks,
Speaker 1: and the travel isn't that bad. Really, the toughest slate
Speaker 1: in here is at l A Chargers home against Buffalo,
Speaker 1: then at Kansas City, and I think that's really the
Speaker 1: most difficult slate so far, in which we've talked about
Speaker 1: four home, four road, so you've got an element of
Speaker 1: I guess equality there the first four games, Uh, jump
Speaker 1: up the page at me because Indianapolis you can make
Speaker 1: the argument that they have the top roster and an
Speaker 1: FC South right now, and we talked about the Bills
Speaker 1: and they're very good team. And then San Francisco, one
Speaker 1: of the most balanced teams in football. Team is going
Speaker 1: to test your physicality for sixty minutes. So that first
Speaker 1: quarter of games gonna test the Jets right out of
Speaker 1: the gate. But I do think listen, if you're a
Speaker 1: Jets fan, yeah, you like this these first eight and
Speaker 1: then we'll talk about the season second half. In our
Speaker 1: second half, Well, let's hear from head coach Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: on his thoughts on this Jet schedule. What are your
Speaker 1: show impressions of the two thousand twenty schedule. It's it's
Speaker 1: always hard to really focus too far down the road,
Speaker 1: and you know, you just know you have so much
Speaker 1: time between now and uh this season, you don't want
Speaker 1: to get too far ahead of yourself. You know, it's
Speaker 1: always good to kind of know who you're who you're
Speaker 1: starting off with. You you've got a lot of things
Speaker 1: to set up, you know, travel wise, with with people,
Speaker 1: people within the building, so you know, that's always good
Speaker 1: to kind of handle to, you know, take care of
Speaker 1: how you're gonna travel, if you're gonna do two D
Speaker 1: eight trips going out west, things like that, you know.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, we got so far to
Speaker 1: go before you even worry about you know, these games.
Speaker 1: How much do you think you'll be challenged out of
Speaker 1: the gate when you look at that matchup with the Bills,
Speaker 1: then you come home for the home opener against the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine years then you travel to Indianapolis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean when it's you know, I don't remember, you know,
Speaker 1: remember looking at the NFL schedule and and marking games
Speaker 1: off before they're played. So, you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: that that Buffalo matchup seems to be, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of the norm for us with playing them in the
Speaker 1: first game. Obviously, when you've got two guys that were
Speaker 1: in the same draft class, you know that are that
Speaker 1: are close and and that you know, competitive against each other.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a that's always a good Week one
Speaker 1: matchup for both our organizations. Do you like having the
Speaker 1: two prime time games at home? A Thursday night matchup
Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncles, then you have the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots coming to that Life Stadium. Yeah, you know, actually
Speaker 1: I'm a little fired up that we're you know, to
Speaker 1: experience a home Thursday game. I feel like it's been
Speaker 1: a long time since. It seems like I've been on
Speaker 1: the road quite a bit the last five or six
Speaker 1: years on Thursday Night, so you know, it'd be nice
Speaker 1: to be at home there, uh, playing dever, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the last time I actually played
Speaker 1: at home Thursday game was at Denver, so that that
Speaker 1: was you know, there'll be a there'll be a fun matchup,
Speaker 1: and you know, playing and playing a Monday night game,
Speaker 1: you know, obviously, anytime that you can play Monday night
Speaker 1: football and against New England, you know, is obviously a
Speaker 1: big deal. You're by is late this year in week
Speaker 1: eleven and it's sandwich in between matchups with the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins in weeks ten and twelve. What did you think
Speaker 1: about that scheduling? Oddity. Well, I know anybody that's you know,
Speaker 1: breaking down film for us is probably loving life, not
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of a bunch of additions going on there. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's you know, having a later buy is
Speaker 1: always is always a good thing. It's it's like trying
Speaker 1: to find that sweet spot. You just never know when
Speaker 1: when you really need that buy. You know, I think
Speaker 1: everybody when they look at their schedule and they look
Speaker 1: at the buy, when you first get it, initially you go, okay, good,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we gotta buy here just late. You know,
Speaker 1: last year, if we would have had to buy that late,
Speaker 1: that means we would have played one more game with
Speaker 1: our starting quarterback. So last year it wasn't You look
Speaker 1: at it initially and you didn't think it was ideal,
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, when when Sam wasn't
Speaker 1: playing and he wouldn't have played that week, you know
Speaker 1: it was it was it was actually worked out okay
Speaker 1: for us. All right, So late in December you have
Speaker 1: back to back matchups at Seattle and then the l
Speaker 1: A Rams weeks fourteen and weeks fifteen. Well, you as
Speaker 1: an organization consider staying out there on the West Coast
Speaker 1: and training for a week potentially. Yeah, that's that's been
Speaker 1: something that we I mean, we started discussing, you know,
Speaker 1: after last season was over, you know, just something if
Speaker 1: if we had the opportunity or we had back back
Speaker 1: West Coast games, Uh, staying out there, you know, avoiding
Speaker 1: some of that travel. I mean, obviously with the way
Speaker 1: things are going right now, it's you know, you just
Speaker 1: we don't know. I mean, we don't know what you know,
Speaker 1: how this will go as far as you know, how
Speaker 1: does it affect or travel, How does it affect hotels, stay,
Speaker 1: how does it affect like what stay we're in. We
Speaker 1: don't know all those those little details right now. Also
Speaker 1: we can do is kind of started putting feelers out
Speaker 1: there and seeing what we're told. What do you think
Speaker 1: about the preparation for or the FC West in the
Speaker 1: NFC West this season? Yeah, I mean it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. It's interesting because it's you know, every every
Speaker 1: four years, you know, or every every three years, it
Speaker 1: seems like, you know, when you get one of those
Speaker 1: those divisions, you know, and you're traveling out west, and
Speaker 1: to get them both in the same year, that's you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times I've actually really kind
Speaker 1: of been a part of that um. But I think
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's fun in the aspect of the
Speaker 1: The NFC West for sure, is a hot division right now.
Speaker 1: They've they've they're putting out, you know, four teams that
Speaker 1: are really tough. And then you know the f C West,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a division that I'm you know, quite
Speaker 1: familiar with. You know, there's been some obviously some change
Speaker 1: in the garden and some of the staffs and players
Speaker 1: from out there, but you know, a lot of those
Speaker 1: guys are still the same from from one my time
Speaker 1: in Denver. Now is head coach Adam Gates on the
Speaker 1: Official Jets podcast powered by Amazon Web Services. Let's continue
Speaker 1: on here Week nine, The Jets back under the lights
Speaker 1: primetime Monday night football again feels like deja vu. The
Speaker 1: New England Patriots at MetLife Stadium under the Monday night
Speaker 1: football lights and obviously the big storyline here will two things?
Speaker 1: Whose quarterback for the Patriots and will the ghosts still
Speaker 1: exist for Sam Donald dejavvou No more Greens that Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is a Tampa Bay buccaneer. We had Calf to
Speaker 1: wrap our minds around that, is it Jared Stidham who
Speaker 1: is leading the Patriots here in Week nine at MetLife Stadium.
Speaker 1: You mentioned last year's Monday Night game when the Jets
Speaker 1: hosted the Patriots of the thirty three nothing shutout loss,
Speaker 1: and you know famously the mic had the same Donald
Speaker 1: talking about him using a football expression saying he's a
Speaker 1: seeing ghost. Well, I don't anticipate that to happen once again.
Speaker 1: This is his second year in the system with Adam Caze.
Speaker 1: I anticipate a totally different game this year. I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and next up after New England. This is
Speaker 1: the kind of an odd moment in the schedule. I
Speaker 1: would say the Jets are at Miami in Week ten,
Speaker 1: then they have a buy in Week eleven before hosting
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in Week twelve. So the Jets two opponents
Speaker 1: in three weeks and in two games or the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: That's the first time that's happened since nineteen nine when
Speaker 1: the modern buys were inserted into the schedule. Thanks to
Speaker 1: our historian consultant contributor Randy Lang for that guy's got
Speaker 1: the bus stats in the business. It's never happened before.
Speaker 1: So like you said you got the Dolphins to get
Speaker 1: that week of preparation, and then it's got to help
Speaker 1: you because you're in the season second half. You're gonna
Speaker 1: head into the bye week knowing, hey, we just prepared
Speaker 1: for this matchup, and now we're gonna come out of
Speaker 1: the by, maybe get the guys out of there for
Speaker 1: a little bit, get some rest, and it's a late
Speaker 1: by two and you're coming back and you're facing a
Speaker 1: team that you're very familiar with. So I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about this. Last year, the Jets had a Week
Speaker 1: four by. This year they have a Week eleven by,
Speaker 1: but that Thursday night game is Week four, so you
Speaker 1: kind of get a mini by between week four and five,
Speaker 1: and then you have your buy in week eleven. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of the way that shakes out there because
Speaker 1: it almost feels like it's a good amount of games
Speaker 1: in between each of those. And then after the two
Speaker 1: Miami games Week thirteen, the Jets host the now Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders for the first time at MetLife Stadium before
Speaker 1: and this is really the tough part of the schedule here.
Speaker 1: Back to back NFC West games weeks fourteen and fifteen,
Speaker 1: where you go at Seattle and at the l A. Rams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on paper, definitely a tough matchups. But last year the
Speaker 1: Jets really ran rough shot over the Oakland Raiders at
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium. Now there's a Las Vegas Raiders. They added
Speaker 1: a piece to the puzzle on Henry Rugs. And then
Speaker 1: you mentioned that road trip where you're going to Seattle
Speaker 1: and then the l A Rams Seattle. It all starts
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson. Right, very good defense, well coached, but
Speaker 1: if you can contain Russell Wilson, you're gonna give yourself
Speaker 1: an opportunity to win. Even though that's one of the
Speaker 1: toughest places to play in all football, the Rams feel
Speaker 1: like a team in transition to me right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is the toughest part of the schedule
Speaker 1: with the back to back West Coast games and then
Speaker 1: the Jets wrapped things up one home game in Week
Speaker 1: sixteen against the Cleveland Brown But this will really be
Speaker 1: the first time where it's Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: from the get. And then in week seventeen the Jets
Speaker 1: wrap up at New England. Yeah, a couple of things
Speaker 1: going back to Week fifteen against the Rams and weeks
Speaker 1: sixteen against the Browns, and the NFL is leaving that Saturday,
Speaker 1: December nineteenth, or versus the Rams open and then also
Speaker 1: the seven against the brown So we'll have to see
Speaker 1: how things chake out throughout the year. But yeah, Sam
Speaker 1: Donald will obviously be forever linked with Baker Mayfield. That
Speaker 1: is a team that is starting over a little bit
Speaker 1: because they have a new coaching staff this year in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna end that year two thousand twenty.
Speaker 1: It will be two thousand twenty one by the time
Speaker 1: you get to Gilt Stadium January three, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: have a different feel. Listen to. Patriots are still gonna
Speaker 1: be a very competitive team, and they are the team
Speaker 1: to be in the division until somebody that thrones them.
Speaker 1: But where will this Patriots team be standing when you
Speaker 1: go to New England to end the year. It's gonna
Speaker 1: have a completely different feel without Brady. Yeah, I totally
Speaker 1: agree with that. It's gonna be very interesting to see
Speaker 1: what the Patriots look like without Tom Brady. And I
Speaker 1: just wanted to wrap things up here by asking you,
Speaker 1: what are a couple of things that stand out to
Speaker 1: you for me? At think the thing that stands out
Speaker 1: is even though the Jets at the end of the
Speaker 1: year will have accumulated a lot of miles from a
Speaker 1: travel standpoint, I think that the way the schedule is
Speaker 1: laid out is actually probably as good as it could be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that the road schedule. December is going to
Speaker 1: be a road slate for the Jets marked by their
Speaker 1: road matchups since Seattle on Week fourteen, in l A
Speaker 1: week fifteen, and then you're ending with New England. But
Speaker 1: that's just such a short trip to Gillette Stadium. The
Speaker 1: other thing is the prime time matchups right now you
Speaker 1: have to obviously that could change down the line, but
Speaker 1: they're both home games. You get Denver home on a
Speaker 1: short week, You get the Patriots on a Monday night
Speaker 1: coming to your place, the Dolphins. The Dolphins scenario is wild.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like that, like we talked about,
Speaker 1: and then as the early opportunity against two playoff teams
Speaker 1: from two thousand nineteen in the Bills and the services
Speaker 1: of forty Niners. And then you follow that up going
Speaker 1: against I would say, what looks to be a likely
Speaker 1: playoff team in two thousand twenty in Indianapolis Colts. So
Speaker 1: you will be challenged immediately. If it make it out
Speaker 1: of those first three games, I think you set yourself
Speaker 1: up down the line so when you get to December,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in the playoff conversation. There's seven teams
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs this year out of the NFC Greens.
Speaker 1: Another thing that stands out to me. We know about
Speaker 1: the strengthens um the Jets schedule, but really, when you
Speaker 1: take a look at it, the Jets played back to
Speaker 1: back teams that made the playoffs last year twice, Weeks
Speaker 1: one and two with the Bills and the Niners, and
Speaker 1: then weeks seven and eight with the Bills and the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: And then you think about even in I mean, the
Speaker 1: Colts were a playoff team in twenty eighteen, and they're
Speaker 1: Week three in the schedule, so weeks one through three,
Speaker 1: and then you have weeks six through nine, which is
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Bills, the Chiefs, and the Patriots. I mean,
Speaker 1: right there alone, that's four teams that made the playoffs
Speaker 1: in the past two seasons. It's a tough schedule, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. But I think at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's spaced out nicely from a travel perspective,
Speaker 1: and you have to play who you have to play,
Speaker 1: And that sounds simple, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who is on the schedule and when
Speaker 1: they are. You just gotta go out and you got
Speaker 1: to execute. And I know that sounds silly. I think.
Speaker 1: I just think that it couldn't have been that much easier,
Speaker 1: at least from a travel perspective, when you look at
Speaker 1: the way that the Jet schedule shaped out here, which
Speaker 1: is a good thing for the Jets. My final point
Speaker 1: would be what you're just saying here. We've known it
Speaker 1: since the two thousand nineteen season wrapped up. The Jets
Speaker 1: are going to have seven games against teams who made
Speaker 1: the playoffs in two thousand nineteen, four coming in those
Speaker 1: home and home matchups with the Patriots and the Bills,
Speaker 1: and two thousand twenty schedule strength is five three. This
Speaker 1: is a tough schedule on paper, but you don't play
Speaker 1: the games in May. You play them in September, you're
Speaker 1: playing in October, you play them in November, and you
Speaker 1: play them in December, and hopefully you're playing in January. Okay,
Speaker 1: real quick here, let me just rip off the preseason games.
Speaker 1: Week one, the New York Giants, week two at Detroit,
Speaker 1: Week three home against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and then Week
Speaker 1: four of course at Philadelphia. And that was the Official
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