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Speaker 1: A ton of things to get to today.
Speaker 3: Jets Rookie Mini Camp underway at One Jets Drive, the
Speaker 3: NFL schedule release is coming Wednesday. And also I want
Speaker 3: to dive into the Jets twenty twenty five roster now
Speaker 3: that we've gotten through the first few waves of free
Speaker 3: agency and the NFL Draft and kind of compare it
Speaker 3: to the twenty twenty four roster. And then finally, I
Speaker 3: think we might have a couple bonus items. I want
Speaker 3: to talk about the Knicks, maybe just Jet just a
Speaker 3: little bit, and maybe we have a new pope who's
Speaker 3: also American. Yeah, but day one of Rookie Minnie Camp Greens,
Speaker 3: let's start here. It is a torrential downpour all morning
Speaker 3: throughout the area. So Aaron Glenn's out there on the
Speaker 3: field for the first time inside. So what's happening to
Speaker 3: give people kind of a visual when we go out
Speaker 3: to practice for the first time is that the punters
Speaker 3: are going through their paces and there is a tryout
Speaker 3: from Australia, a trial player named.
Speaker 1: Andrew Stokes six foot six.
Speaker 3: Twenty nine pounds, thirty one years old, colegianly.
Speaker 1: Played at South Florida.
Speaker 3: It's narrow inside the fieldhouse, so sometimes if the ball
Speaker 3: gets away to the right, it's going to be finding
Speaker 3: person or two over there.
Speaker 1: You had an opportunity to catch the ball today.
Speaker 4: I did, and you know what I My lack of
Speaker 4: commitment to getting under the.
Speaker 5: Ball is is what broke me.
Speaker 4: I dropped the ball literally, if you're listening to this,
Speaker 4: I physically dropped the ball, But to be fair, I
Speaker 4: tried to catch it with my fingertips, like by by
Speaker 4: my knees.
Speaker 5: Where we're on.
Speaker 3: The second floor, Yeah, the balcony upstairs, that's where the
Speaker 3: media is watching practice. Are you nervous when you see
Speaker 3: the ball coming your way?
Speaker 4: So a couple of kicks before that, there was one
Speaker 4: that was high and it had a little bit of
Speaker 4: a draw to it, and I was like, Oh, this
Speaker 4: has a chance to like it's just gonna come at us.
Speaker 5: It didn't.
Speaker 4: It was a very nice punt that just kind of
Speaker 4: like like a golf shot, just kind of drew its
Speaker 4: way back to the center. Then the second one, I
Speaker 4: was like, this one, this one's coming at us. And
Speaker 4: as a former outfielder in high school, I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is like a fly ball.
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is a pop up to
Speaker 4: the shortstop. So that's what kind of caught me in between.
Speaker 4: And was I nervous a little bit? I mean yeah,
Speaker 4: And I heard someone in from the PR department say, oh,
Speaker 4: somebody's got to catch that, and then that's when I
Speaker 4: went in.
Speaker 3: I think that's somebody was actually Jetsplice Press and communications, yeah,
Speaker 3: with Jared Winley, and Jared said that, and then he
Speaker 3: had an opportunity to catch the ball a couple of
Speaker 3: reps later, and Jared made the catch.
Speaker 4: He's a season veteran that was put of it that way,
Speaker 4: and not to mention it was he had more time
Speaker 4: to commit to the bit. Now I've really messed up
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm gonna lose a little sleepover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've seen you catch the ball practice before, but
Speaker 3: a first practice of twenty twenty five. In terms of
Speaker 3: the rookie class out there, what did you see in
Speaker 3: the thirty to forty five minutes that you were out there?
Speaker 4: Honestly, at first, when we got out there as a
Speaker 4: walk through period, I don't I didn't know that, Like
Speaker 4: at the speed at which everyone was moving felt like
Speaker 4: it was a little more than a walk through.
Speaker 5: It felt like a practice.
Speaker 4: So to me, that that's what kind of stuck out immediately.
Speaker 4: And other than that, I mean, I don't feel like
Speaker 4: there's a ton week in take out of the thirty
Speaker 4: to forty five minutes. But like, you know, I think
Speaker 4: that Keiko Malingoa, he looks like a big linebacker. He
Speaker 4: looks like an old school linebacker to me. And you know,
Speaker 4: other things I saw like Arion Smith showed off the
Speaker 4: burners a little bit, and not that he's running by
Speaker 4: people and he's scoring a seventy yard touchdown, but you
Speaker 4: can see the way guys move.
Speaker 5: And I was also impressed with Mason Taylor.
Speaker 4: You know, I thought Mason Taylor showed that he has
Speaker 4: a little bit of wiggle, and you know, maybe more
Speaker 4: than what he was able to showcase at LSU because
Speaker 4: he was played with Brian Thomas my Leak neighbors, and
Speaker 4: obviously this past year he did a really nice job
Speaker 4: for the Tires.
Speaker 3: It's interesting how each coach approaches this. This is our
Speaker 3: first time with Aaron Glenn. When the media portion of
Speaker 3: practice opened, like you just mentioned, it was team drills.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're out there eleven on eleven.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The first guy I was watching him was number seventy.
Speaker 3: That's our mind mind Moon, the number seven or overall
Speaker 3: selection of twenty twenty five NFL Draft six.
Speaker 1: Four, three hundred and thirty two pounds.
Speaker 3: What I will say again, we're not gonna make outlandish
Speaker 3: statements off of watching one rookie mini camp practice with Yes, again,
Speaker 3: a lot of these guys who are watching out here
Speaker 3: are not gonna be on NFL rosters. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 3: You have a seven person draft class. The Jets signed
Speaker 3: fourteen undrafted free agents. The rest of these guys are
Speaker 3: tryout players. In terms of Membo for six four three
Speaker 3: thirty two, he moves quite well. Oh yeah, and he
Speaker 3: carries that weight well, compact and just a fluid mover.
Speaker 1: And from what I could see, uh, nice start.
Speaker 3: I mean again, you're not you don't have this great evaluation,
Speaker 3: but just you're watching the way guys move and membo
Speaker 3: he looks the part at six four three thirty two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, I think that when the ball was
Speaker 4: snapped you could see the movement skills. I mean that
Speaker 4: that's you know, that was pretty apparent to me. The
Speaker 4: other thing I thought was interesting, and you know, it's
Speaker 4: the first time that I've seen this in my Jets
Speaker 4: time here is the quarterbacks had GoPros like attached to
Speaker 4: their helmets. I don't know if you saw that then,
Speaker 4: Like in the past, we've seen Mike McDaniel with the
Speaker 4: Dolphins do that to kind of show, I guess review
Speaker 4: back on the film, like what were you looking at?
Speaker 5: What were your progressions?
Speaker 4: And both Adrian Martinez and Brady Cook, who's one of
Speaker 4: the undrafted free agents, each had the GoPro attach to
Speaker 4: their helmet, So you know, I thought that was kind
Speaker 4: of cool too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: So they'll be able to go back and look to
Speaker 3: see what the quarterback was viewing when they review practice.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, they're being thrown a lot of information
Speaker 3: because rookies come in here Thursday night, they're out here
Speaker 3: on the field on Friday, they'll have meetings and then
Speaker 3: back at it again on Saturday. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn on Saturday morning, and then again they'll be
Speaker 3: out here on Sunday and the rookie mini camp is over.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Mason Taylor before.
Speaker 3: There was one specific play where he got his hands
Speaker 3: on the ball a few times today. In the past game,
Speaker 3: there was one specific play where.
Speaker 1: Cook had him on a seam down the field. He
Speaker 1: missed him just by a little bit. If he hits
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably a long touchdown.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: It's always fun because I feel like we're in the
Speaker 4: I don't want to say in the business of overreacting,
Speaker 4: but like people want football all year round.
Speaker 1: He's wearing number forty six.
Speaker 5: I was gonna bring that up too.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised you brought that up because, yeah, I know
Speaker 4: you're not the big number guy now, or your thoughts
Speaker 4: on the number interesting. Yeah, I mean I think it'll change,
Speaker 4: I'll put it that way, especially by the time the
Speaker 4: regular season comes around, like maybe'll wear it during training camp,
Speaker 4: but I don't think Mason Taylor week one, whenever the Jet,
Speaker 4: whomever the Jets play, whenever they play, is trotting out
Speaker 4: number forty six.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, yeah, no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: And I think the guy who was most busy out
Speaker 3: there to Donovan Edwards. Now he's one of the fourteen
Speaker 3: undrafted free agents. He played at Michigan for him to
Speaker 3: make this roster green, so probably have to be the
Speaker 3: fourth running back. But listen, just from what you want,
Speaker 3: just getting experience out there if you're a rookie.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a busy dude today that we.
Speaker 5: Saw, and he was wearing the Michigan Mazing blue gleats.
Speaker 1: Well, we saw all the dudes wearing their college cleats.
Speaker 1: A Z.
Speaker 3: Thomas said to Florida State seminole cleats. There were a
Speaker 3: couple other guys who you know, it was interesting Malchi Moore,
Speaker 3: who the Jets drafted on Day three out of Alabama.
Speaker 1: He had like a bright yellow You.
Speaker 5: Know what's interesting about that.
Speaker 4: It's funny you mentioned that because this time last year
Speaker 4: I remember saying the same exact thing about an Alabama
Speaker 4: safety Jalen Keep who was mister Irrelevant. He had Neon
Speaker 4: Green cleats, much like Malachai More today. So maybe it's
Speaker 4: like an Alabama secondary staple, which I would have never guessed.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's talk about the music as far as
Speaker 3: what was happening out there. When team drills started, all
Speaker 3: you heard were the players and the coaches and you
Speaker 3: got all these positional coaches trying to get their instructions
Speaker 3: out to the respective groups, so it was quite.
Speaker 1: Loud in there.
Speaker 3: Then after team periods concluded, then the Jets went into
Speaker 3: a stretch portion.
Speaker 1: At that point, Ag Aaron.
Speaker 3: Glenn, jets first year head coach, instructed the guys to
Speaker 3: put the music on and we saw some of the
Speaker 3: music continue into the individual individual portion of practice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I guess that's standard.
Speaker 4: I'm interested to see what type of music AG wants,
Speaker 4: you know, is it going to be a mix of things?
Speaker 4: Are you gonna let different position groups decide depending on
Speaker 4: the way practice goes like throughout training camp and whatnot?
Speaker 4: And you know, I think that, you know, it was
Speaker 4: definitely quiet in the beginning though, you know, during the
Speaker 4: team period, walk through period, it was it was I
Speaker 4: don't want to say, you could hear a pin drop,
Speaker 4: but you you could hear the coaches very clearly call
Speaker 4: out their instructions. Then to your point, once the music
Speaker 4: cranked up during individual drills, and you know then when
Speaker 4: we left, they probably had more team periods, seven on
Speaker 4: seven whatever. I bet you the music is gonna pretty
Speaker 4: much continue throughout throughout practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Another thing I would say, again, we're just watching guys
Speaker 3: move out there is arian Smith moves differently in terms
Speaker 3: of that one catch over the middle. I believe that
Speaker 3: it was Brady Cook who threw it to him, and
Speaker 3: I know he's got to work on his hands. Everybody
Speaker 3: has talked about the fourth round pick and the struggles
Speaker 3: he had dropping the ball last year at Georgia.
Speaker 1: What I was encouraged about in that particular play.
Speaker 3: It's a crosser and that ball from Cook came out
Speaker 3: pretty hot and he got it with his hands and
Speaker 3: then he.
Speaker 1: Got up field in no time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I really I think we saw the
Speaker 4: speed really when he turned up field. You know, no
Speaker 4: one's looking to tackle him, but you could still see
Speaker 4: just the way that he moves in the four three
Speaker 4: six forty speed. The track speed like that stuff is real.
Speaker 4: And that rep also stood out to me because when
Speaker 4: you watch him at the top, he made like a
Speaker 4: receiver move to get over the middle. But was that
Speaker 4: ball a little behind him or was it a little
Speaker 4: in front of him?
Speaker 3: I thought it might have been a little actually, like it.
Speaker 1: Was coming at him, it might have been a little
Speaker 1: bit behind.
Speaker 5: Him, right like.
Speaker 4: Regardless though, I thought you could see the hands. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that's that's what you want to see.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen again, this is just a small snapshot
Speaker 3: that we saw of rookie Mini Camp and some of
Speaker 3: the guys out there. But hey, Membo wearing number seventy,
Speaker 3: he just looked good at right there.
Speaker 4: He did he did. I mean, it makes sense the
Speaker 4: natural position started. Twenty nine games are for Missouri, and
Speaker 4: he didn't let up a sack. And I mean, it's
Speaker 4: gotta be kind of cool though, for Brady Cook and
Speaker 4: armand Membu to be going through this together, right, because
Speaker 4: like those are college teammates, and you know, I think
Speaker 4: that Brady Cook he doesn't have necessary the esteemed collegiate career,
Speaker 4: but it sure seems like based on what you read
Speaker 4: out of Columbia Missouri, everybody loves Brady Cook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'll tell you what Adrian Martinez flash today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looked really calm bat.
Speaker 4: Did you see the someone posted on their Instagram story.
Speaker 4: I think it was Quincy Williams, whose younger brother Giovanni
Speaker 4: is part of the rookie munic camp trial.
Speaker 1: Williams was watching today, So yeah, that's cool. Saw him
Speaker 1: underneath that.
Speaker 5: But did you see that.
Speaker 4: There was I guess during OTA or what the offseason
Speaker 4: program for the veterans, they have the GPS speeds like
Speaker 4: on a on a TV. I saw that and Quincy
Speaker 4: Williams I think was third. I don't remember who was second.
Speaker 1: I saw Michael Carter, the second was up there.
Speaker 5: He was among the skill players. Okay, yes, but among
Speaker 5: the non.
Speaker 4: Skill players, the top speed was Adrian Martinez.
Speaker 1: Interesting, so is.
Speaker 4: Adrian Martinez somebody I don't remember, and or maybe Quincy
Speaker 4: was second or third.
Speaker 5: I didn't remember the third player.
Speaker 4: All that to say, I agree with you that Adrian
Speaker 4: Martinez looked call him back there, but knowing that he
Speaker 4: has the speed element too, like this is a guy
Speaker 4: that you know, you develop traits and you hope that
Speaker 4: things work out. And now that there's the third quarterback
Speaker 4: spot is pretty open. I mean that makes sense that
Speaker 4: between him and Brady Cook, you.
Speaker 1: Know so much to get to.
Speaker 3: So you listen, check everything out on New York Jets
Speaker 3: dot Com, all our social platforms in terms of rookie
Speaker 3: mini camp coverage, because after this done, these guys who
Speaker 3: are going to be back will be part of the
Speaker 3: team in OTAs. I mean, the off season is flying by,
Speaker 3: so many things to get to. I do want to
Speaker 3: say that we're taping here Friday morning. The Jets have
Speaker 3: signed five of their seven draft picks, including Mambou, So
Speaker 3: that was nice to get.
Speaker 1: All of that out of the way.
Speaker 3: The two remaining unsigned guys as at time of taping,
Speaker 3: Mason Taylor, second round pick Arian Smith taking in the
Speaker 3: fourth round dundrafted free agent class. We talked about Donovan
Speaker 3: Edwards a little bit. We talked about Brady Cook. Of course,
Speaker 3: anybody catching your eye, not talking about practice, but so
Speaker 3: maybe their background and their potential fit here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I think I think by name Jordan Clark,
Speaker 4: because you know, obviously he played at ASUU, we played
Speaker 4: it in Notre Dame. Is Dad Ryan Clark like that
Speaker 4: NFL blood lines, He stands out. I mean, if you
Speaker 4: want to go the International Pathway player route, this is
Speaker 4: gonna be tough. Leander Wigan is that Wygan?
Speaker 5: Is that how we're going? I'm going why Wagan?
Speaker 1: I saw him walk out today wear number sixty four.
Speaker 5: So he's German.
Speaker 4: He played one season at UCF And you know, look,
Speaker 4: the IPP program is the epitome of the example is
Speaker 4: Jordan Mylatta. Jordan Mylotta is you know the anomaly though
Speaker 4: for the International Pathway program. But you know with the
Speaker 4: guy that has sized like, let me look up what
Speaker 4: his he's six six three eighteen, so he's a big guy.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm interested to see what he what he
Speaker 4: looks like. We talked about Brady Cook and Donovan Edwards.
Speaker 4: You know another guy that that I think is kind
Speaker 4: of interesting is Demir Miller, the Rutgers receiver. Like he's
Speaker 4: a he's a Monmouth guy ghost Rutgers leads that team
Speaker 4: in receiving. Like I'm not saying that he's gonna come
Speaker 4: in and be all that in a bag of chips,
Speaker 4: but in terms of competing for camp body and competing
Speaker 4: for a roster spot like the Jets receiver rooms the
Speaker 4: way that's constructed to me, like, yes, the Jets have
Speaker 4: a lot of players, but there's also some question marks
Speaker 4: how that back end of the room is gonna play out.
Speaker 4: So maybe a guy like dmir Miller could make his
Speaker 4: way onto the roster. Now, the something that Aaron Smith
Speaker 4: has on his tool belt is the special team's background. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so guy like Demir Miller needs to have that as
Speaker 4: well in order to be considered to as a potential
Speaker 4: guy to make this roster come the end of training
Speaker 4: camp in August.
Speaker 3: All right, So, speaking special teams, how about a fellow
Speaker 3: Florida Gator, JaMarcus Weston. Played in fifty two games for Florida,
Speaker 3: just sixteen defensive stops, but where he really made his
Speaker 3: mark was on special teams at the gunner position. So
Speaker 3: I'm interested to see him vying for a roster spot,
Speaker 3: potentially working under Chris Banjo.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have.
Speaker 3: To keep a close eye on him. You mentioned Jordan
Speaker 3: Clark before. Another guy in that secondary range. How about
Speaker 3: Fresnel State's Dean Clark.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you talk about special teams value as well. Dean Clark,
Speaker 4: yep took six hundred and eighty snaps on special teams
Speaker 4: in college.
Speaker 3: And he played all over the secondary I mean, you're
Speaker 3: talking about a kid who's six foot, two hundred and
Speaker 3: eight pounds. Started at Fresnel State. Excuse me, Kent State,
Speaker 3: transferred to Fresno State. And you mentioned the special teams
Speaker 3: experience and three hundred and three tackles his.
Speaker 1: Collegian career, eighteen pds and five interceptions in fifty eight games.
Speaker 1: He's a guy I'm gonna keep my eye.
Speaker 3: Out on four You mentioned the receiver position prior, and
Speaker 3: we're talking about special teams as well when we're addressing
Speaker 3: these fourteen on draft of free agents, how about Jamal
Speaker 3: Pritchett out of South Alabama. I know he's not the
Speaker 3: biggest guy in the world five nine, one seventy five
Speaker 3: greens uh, but last season he led the Sumbout in
Speaker 3: terms of receiving yards eleven twenty six, school record ninety
Speaker 3: one receptions and he's got four to two speed and
Speaker 3: he can do a little something on special teams as well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 5: If we're talking about special team.
Speaker 4: One of the names that also stands out because by
Speaker 4: trade he's a special team it's Kayden Davis, the ole miskicker,
Speaker 4: and look, he counted for two hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 4: points miss. But when you take a look at this
Speaker 4: roster in terms of kicker, in terms of who is
Speaker 4: physically on the team, I mean, I believe it's it's
Speaker 4: Greg Zerline. And then after that, I think the Jets,
Speaker 4: Oh Andres Carlson. Jets signed him to a reserve future contract.
Speaker 4: So right now with Zerline, Carlson, now enter Caden Davis.
Speaker 4: I don't know how many of those guys are gonna
Speaker 4: be on the training camp roster. But with that being said,
Speaker 4: you know what, we haven't seen or heard it from
Speaker 4: Greg Zerline, like a very bizarre year last year for Zerline,
Speaker 4: coming off of a season in which he was one
Speaker 4: of the best kickers in a single year in team history.
Speaker 4: So to me, you know, I'm interested to see how
Speaker 4: he responds. And also between Carlson and Davis like that,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be a pretty stiff competition there.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a quick break and come right back
Speaker 3: and talk about the Jets twenty twenty five roster versus
Speaker 3: the Jets twenty twenty four roster. All right, green, So
Speaker 3: we talked about Ricky Minnie camp, the small sample size
Speaker 3: that we watched ot there on Friday, and then non
Speaker 3: draft of free agents and a couple of tryouts, namely
Speaker 3: Giovanni Williams.
Speaker 1: You got three Williams here at one Jets Drive.
Speaker 3: Right now, let's get into the roster as a whole,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five versus twenty twenty four. Maybe twenty five
Speaker 3: at this point were may compared to twenty.
Speaker 1: Four at the start of last season. Okay, how about that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go with the quarterback position.
Speaker 4: Okay, obviously the big difference there between last year and
Speaker 4: this year Aaron Rodgers justin Fields, right, But you know
Speaker 4: the way that this quarterbacks room behind the starter is
Speaker 4: pretty similar. I mean, I don't remember when Adrian Martinez
Speaker 4: joined the team. I mean it was training camp at
Speaker 4: some point, but you we're talking about week one of
Speaker 4: last year for twenty twenty four. That's so Adrian Martinez
Speaker 4: was a practice squad player. So the quarterbacks room looks
Speaker 4: pretty similar. But I think if your Jets fan, you
Speaker 4: feel pretty good about your top two guys regardless, because
Speaker 4: you know, Justin Fields there's meat on the bone there,
Speaker 4: you know. I think Aaron Glenn was the one that
Speaker 4: said it, like he expects Justin Fields to take a
Speaker 4: step forward play quarterback. A little more than he has
Speaker 4: in the pass and the Jets by all intensive purposes,
Speaker 4: it seems like they're gonna let him have that opportunity
Speaker 4: to be a quarterback. And you know, look justin Fields,
Speaker 4: I think provides a dynamic to this offense, to this
Speaker 4: team that frankly like I don't think the Jets have
Speaker 4: had in a while with the dynamic legs.
Speaker 3: Listen, I view Fields at twenty six is an in
Speaker 3: sending player.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: I thought in those six games against pitts uh with
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh last year where he started the season for the Steelers,
Speaker 3: he showed progress. He's got a high ceiling, and he's
Speaker 3: an elite runner two thousand and eighty nine yards on
Speaker 3: the ground since twenty twenty two. The only quarterback who's
Speaker 3: rushed for more yards on the ground lamar j. The
Speaker 3: other thing that Jets are gonna emphasize here offensively is
Speaker 3: their play action game, and Fields is the guy can
Speaker 3: get the ball anywhere he wants on the field.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 3: Also, I like the pairing with him and Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson is a star in the National Football League,
Speaker 3: but Fields is a big time dual threat and Tanner
Speaker 3: Engstrand and company is gonna are gonna get to work
Speaker 3: with the guy who I still think is untapped potential.
Speaker 5: I think it just changes. It changes the game, no
Speaker 5: pun intended.
Speaker 4: When you have a guy that can kill defenses with
Speaker 4: his feet, because you know, no matter let's say justin
Speaker 4: Fields play action, pass drops back, he's in theory well
Speaker 4: protected with this four to five offensive line. He scans
Speaker 4: the field and if there's really nothing available or you know,
Speaker 4: the defense ends of blitz. He as a rusher, he
Speaker 4: has the ability to not only escape and throw the
Speaker 4: ball away, he is the ability to.
Speaker 5: Escape and then make the defense pay.
Speaker 4: So to me, you're talking about a guy that, like
Speaker 4: didn't justin Fields doesn't he have the second most rushing
Speaker 4: yards in a single season by a quarterback. Ever, I
Speaker 4: believe that's so we're talking about a different kind of
Speaker 4: dynamic and not just one where you're talking about the
Speaker 4: mobility of someone who's forty years old versus twenty six
Speaker 4: years old. You're talking about someone who really has elite
Speaker 4: movement skills at the position. So to me, you know
Speaker 4: that is the biggest difference in terms of the personnel
Speaker 4: at quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's going to get an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: the guy.
Speaker 3: This is his third team in five years now, starting
Speaker 3: his career with the Chicago Bears, obviously with Pittsburgh last season.
Speaker 3: Now he's coming to the Jets as they get their
Speaker 3: start under head coach Aaron Glenn GM Darren Mougie. Bottom
Speaker 3: line is that's youth at the position. We'll have to
Speaker 3: see what happens with Aaron Rodgers right now, he remains
Speaker 3: a free agent, like where you're at at the backup
Speaker 3: position with Tyrod Tayler.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned before.
Speaker 3: Listen, we're gonna send our well wishes to Jordan Travis
Speaker 3: to feel bad for him that he was taking the
Speaker 3: fifth round. The previous spring he had that devastating ankle
Speaker 3: leg injury playing quarterback for Florida State, where you twenty
Speaker 3: touchdown passes, two interceptions, finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy,
Speaker 3: revitalized a program when eleven and oh and then unfortunately
Speaker 3: he's got to retire from football. So our thoughts go
Speaker 3: out to Jordan Travis. And you mentioned before to Adrian
Speaker 3: Martinez Brady Cook right now for that three slot.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and you know, I think that's I think in
Speaker 4: a perfect world, like if you were to construct what
Speaker 4: your quarterbacks room were to look like, it probably constructed
Speaker 4: pretty similarly, where you have very viable options as your starter,
Speaker 4: your backup, and your three is someone that you'd like
Speaker 4: to develop a little bit and hope to hope that
Speaker 4: you can coach them and teach them into either a
Speaker 4: two spot or even potentially a starting role.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think we quickly go through running backs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not much of a change here in terms of personnel
Speaker 1: up top with Breesaw, isa Davis, back Braylan Allen as well.
Speaker 1: Where the big changes.
Speaker 3: I think Breesaw is going to be his second year
Speaker 3: removed from that injury. Also, the Jets are going to
Speaker 3: have more emphasis on the run. Last year, the Green
Speaker 3: and White were dead last in terms of rush attempts.
Speaker 3: That is not going to happen this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And to me, one of the things that I have
Speaker 4: circled about this position group that's very similar is, first
Speaker 4: of all, Braylon Allen Isaiah Davis have a year under
Speaker 4: their belt. They know what to expect going into the
Speaker 4: NFL in their second season. And for me, you know,
Speaker 4: I kind of circle Braylen Allen because he started the
Speaker 4: season so hot.
Speaker 5: It felt like for his role.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying he hit a rookie wall, but
Speaker 4: when you look at the stats compared to Isaiah Davis,
Speaker 4: who had almost an opposite year of Braylon Allen who
Speaker 4: didn't get a lot of reps early and then came
Speaker 4: on strong late in the season. To me, with a
Speaker 4: guy like Braylon Allen, you know he's in the gym
Speaker 4: all off season long. To me, I want to see
Speaker 4: how he returns knowing what he needs to do for
Speaker 4: his body.
Speaker 5: Now in the NFL.
Speaker 4: He turned twenty one, by the way, after the season ended,
Speaker 4: which is crazy to think about it.
Speaker 3: I love the youth on this roster. I'm glad you
Speaker 3: mentioned Alan. We started the podcast talking about Mason Taylor,
Speaker 3: who was the youngest player in the entire draft class.
Speaker 3: Now you have a starting quarterback, a guy he's going
Speaker 3: to have his opportunity here as twenty six years old.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the receiver position. Garrett's the stud. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's the star, the big change, and he did not
Speaker 3: have him opening day last year. But we should say
Speaker 3: that the Jets picked up Devonte Adams before the mid
Speaker 3: season mark Davonte Adams signs a free agency with the
Speaker 3: LA Rams.
Speaker 1: What do you make of the group beyond Garrett.
Speaker 4: I think that between Josh Reynolds, Alan Lazard, even.
Speaker 1: Guys like Tyler Johnson.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we're talking about big bodied receivers for the
Speaker 4: most part, the Xavier Gibson, Malachi Corley not so much.
Speaker 4: To me, I think that there's room for real competition,
Speaker 4: you know, I do I think that a guy like
Speaker 4: Josh Reynolds and Alan Lazard, could they be on the roster? Absolutely?
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised. Established receivers in the league, both
Speaker 4: very good blockers. Aaron Glenn made sure to make that
Speaker 4: a point when he spoke to the media. To me,
Speaker 4: the X factors Malachi Corley because always between year and
Speaker 4: one and year two, like what kind of development happens
Speaker 4: away from one jets drive both as a player as
Speaker 4: a person that then we see on the field, and
Speaker 4: Malachi Corley, like we're third round pick, unique trait in
Speaker 4: terms of the strength and to me, we're talking about
Speaker 4: what the Lions did with Obviously Johnson is and Tanner
Speaker 4: engstrand different people, but Ngran comes from that tree.
Speaker 5: Maybe there's a little bit more of a of a role.
Speaker 4: That for Corley in this offense, whatever Engstrand wants to run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well we're gonna We're gonna have to see what
Speaker 3: happens with these undrafted free agents who we talked about
Speaker 3: before as well. Listen, Garrett is a star. The Jets
Speaker 3: emphasis is gonna be running the football. I think you
Speaker 3: could see a lot of short passing. But that's where
Speaker 3: the Arian Smith pick up comes to light for me.
Speaker 3: Why did he get Smith in the fourth round Because
Speaker 3: he needed another guy to help you clear up space
Speaker 3: for your other weapons on the field, and you have
Speaker 3: to count for Smith when he's on the field, You're
Speaker 3: gonna have to. I'm not saying he's gonna be playing
Speaker 3: this amount of plays per game or this amount of packages,
Speaker 3: but when he's in the game, the defense is gonna
Speaker 3: have to change the way they play. That's why he
Speaker 3: is here again. We'll have to see how he develops
Speaker 3: and progresses in terms of Hey, catching the football, no
Speaker 3: doubt about that. That's what all receivers have to do.
Speaker 3: He also going to provide special teams values. So but
Speaker 3: I'm just always excited about what's next for Karrott Wilson
Speaker 3: He's one of five receivers in a history in the
Speaker 3: National Football League. Started his career with eighty receptions in
Speaker 3: each campaign and a thousand yards receiving, and he's had
Speaker 3: some quarterback instability even though Rogers played all seventeen last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for me, I'm just looking at the
Speaker 4: receivers on the roster.
Speaker 5: There's at the back end of it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna come down to not only in my opinion,
Speaker 4: what do you do on special teams, but it's like
Speaker 4: the blend of the reverse also what do you do
Speaker 4: on offense? Because Aaron Smith sure seems like a guy
Speaker 4: that can do both. In his recent past, IRV Charles,
Speaker 4: who's coming off a major injury, has been predominantly, if only,
Speaker 4: a special teamer. So with the addition of Smith and
Speaker 4: Chris Boyd on the defensive side, the ball like, how's
Speaker 4: this Jets roster going to be constructed? So yeah, and
Speaker 4: you mentioned the guys that the Jets brought in terms
Speaker 4: of UDFA, So it's not only what can you do
Speaker 4: for special teams, but it's also the opposite of that
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, in the back end of the roster.
Speaker 1: Let's go tight on here.
Speaker 3: Tyler Conklin is here a few years now, he's with
Speaker 3: the LA Chargers. The big change as far as incoming
Speaker 3: is that Rouck's still here, Jeremy Rutgers still here with Mallett. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he played collegiately as well with these guys with
Speaker 3: the Justin Fields. Stone Smart comes over from the Chargers.
Speaker 3: He's a guy, interesting, developing player who can stretch the field,
Speaker 3: good athleticism, who play well down the stretch in LA.
Speaker 3: And then Mason Taylor walks in here. Here's the guy
Speaker 3: that I thought Moos navigated throughout that second round quite
Speaker 3: well and was able to land the tight end, most
Speaker 3: productive tight end in the history of LSU. And again
Speaker 3: I'm talking about youth here. So when you look at
Speaker 3: Detroit's offense and Tanner, Angstrand's going to be calling the
Speaker 3: plays for the Jets. He was the passing game coordinator
Speaker 3: last two years for the Lions under Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1: They used the tight ends quite a bit.
Speaker 4: They did, and I think body type wise, like Stone
Speaker 4: Smart is more slender of a tight end, like he's
Speaker 4: listed at six four two twenty six. I don't know
Speaker 4: if that's what he is now, but Jeremy Rucker seems
Speaker 4: to be the front runner as we sit here today
Speaker 4: in terms of the best blocking tight end on this roster,
Speaker 4: And you know, I'm interested to see how the Jets
Speaker 4: utilize the tight end compared to Detroit.
Speaker 5: I think they'll be used for sure, you know.
Speaker 4: But the other thing to think about here is I
Speaker 4: don't know if he should be mentioned here or as
Speaker 4: a fullback. But Andrew Beck, who the Jets picked up,
Speaker 4: He's listed as a full back. So if you're like, well,
Speaker 4: where's the blocking coming from outside of the offensive line,
Speaker 4: Beck is a somewhat established fullback in this league who's
Speaker 4: I would imagine lined up at tight end at times too,
Speaker 4: So he's someone that I think could be involved as well.
Speaker 3: The position group I'm most excited about is the Jets
Speaker 3: offensive line.
Speaker 1: You take Erman Membu in the first round.
Speaker 3: He will compete for the right tackle position with Chukes
Speaker 3: or Corra four at left tackle. The previous regime landed
Speaker 3: Olu Fashnu, who played well in his first year. You
Speaker 3: have John Simpson, who was a free agency free agency
Speaker 3: signing a year ago played really well for you at
Speaker 3: the center position. Not only do you have Joe Tipman
Speaker 3: but you picked up Josh Myers in free agency. The
Speaker 3: Jets have said they're going to keep Avt at guard,
Speaker 3: so he's got that right guard spot lockdown.
Speaker 1: The Jets have up front talent, and they also have
Speaker 1: good depth.
Speaker 3: This is a line that potentially could really do something,
Speaker 3: not just show glimp or flashes, but they could be
Speaker 3: a group that lives together and develops together for a while.
Speaker 4: And they're I think the oldest player on the line
Speaker 4: is John Simpson, who's twenty eight. Like this is a
Speaker 4: young offensive line. And I know that we're comparing this
Speaker 4: to the Week one last year. The biggest difference is
Speaker 4: really the tackle spots. Tyron Smith, Morgan moses your Week
Speaker 4: one starters now Olu Fashionu and either Membu a corps
Speaker 4: of four or maybe he's one of the other guys
Speaker 4: like Carter Warren or Max Mitchell if they're in the.
Speaker 5: Of the hunt as well.
Speaker 4: So to me, it's also the biggest difference is how
Speaker 4: we view the players like John Simpson this time last year, like, oh,
Speaker 4: he had a good career year for Baltimore, what's he
Speaker 4: gonna be with the Jets? He had I would imagine
Speaker 4: what he would consider a career year with the Jets
Speaker 4: last year. So now we're thinking, Okay, this is a
Speaker 4: guy who's found his place in the NFL. You have
Speaker 4: to like what you have in the interior. You like
Speaker 4: what you saw out of Olu in brief four games.
Speaker 4: Left tackle and now right tackle is the biggest question
Speaker 4: mark per se in terms of how's that going to
Speaker 4: shake out?
Speaker 5: But I think you have to like the way the
Speaker 5: line is shaping up. How could you not.
Speaker 3: The Jets want to build this thing from the inside out.
Speaker 3: That's what Aaron Glenn said immediately after the draft, and
Speaker 3: he comes from a place that one of the first
Speaker 3: things they did when they focused on their roster was
Speaker 3: fortifying the front. You're seeing that from the Jets right
Speaker 3: now with Aaron Glenn and Darren Moschi flipp at the
Speaker 3: defensive side of the ball, Quinn Williams cornerstone piece at
Speaker 3: the defensive tackle position. We have a lot of changes
Speaker 3: next to him on the interior. Jermaine Johnson coming back
Speaker 3: off the achilles he started the year last year. In
Speaker 3: Week one, he was out there in San Francisco, unfortunately
Speaker 3: went down against the Tennessee Titans. Will McDonald coming off
Speaker 3: a very impressive second season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that to your point, the biggest difference
Speaker 4: this time or week one of twenty twenty four to
Speaker 4: present is the bodies next to Quinn Williams. I mean
Speaker 4: that's really the biggest difference. And not to say they're
Speaker 4: better or worse, they're just different.
Speaker 5: They're new pieces.
Speaker 3: You've got some run stuffers. I think they get guys
Speaker 3: what there the scouting report will say is Derek Noddy
Speaker 3: run stuffer, Jay Tafally run stuffer, Barnanc Cowart, another guy
Speaker 3: who's got some experience. So they picked up a lot
Speaker 3: of experience in free agency. I know a lot of
Speaker 3: people said, hey, you did not draft the defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: They did get some bigger bodies next to Quinny.
Speaker 5: They did.
Speaker 4: And one of the one guy that's another big body
Speaker 4: who in the Jets acquired late last year for Darien Mathis.
Speaker 4: I don't think a lot of Jets fans either realize
Speaker 4: that he's on the team or that he's spoken about
Speaker 4: a lot. He's six four to three twelve, he's a
Speaker 4: very big player. And also you know one of the
Speaker 4: one of the players that also returned in the interior
Speaker 4: is Leonard Taylor, who, yeah, who flashed at times, no.
Speaker 1: Doubt about it. He's the guy. I think he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of upside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're moving quick because I want to get
Speaker 3: to the schedule as well. Linebackers. I mean, he kept
Speaker 3: Surewood here. That was a huge deal for Mouji in
Speaker 3: his first free agency. The guy didn't hit the market.
Speaker 3: He's the quarterback your defense. Quincy Williams back. You love
Speaker 3: the top two there. Zaire Barnes returns the big name
Speaker 3: that has changed here who we didn't see a lot
Speaker 3: of last year due to injuries at CJ.
Speaker 1: Moseley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, I think it's just like you know,
Speaker 4: you talk about Jordan Travis being like unfortunate, like same
Speaker 4: thing with CJ.
Speaker 5: Moseley.
Speaker 4: I mean, it just didn't seem like he recovered from
Speaker 4: the neck injury quite the way he.
Speaker 5: Wanted to or the way the team wanted him to.
Speaker 4: And obviously it's a nice story that you have Jamie
Speaker 4: Sherwood feel his spot play so well. Deserve a second
Speaker 4: contract after what Sherwood went through since he was drafted,
Speaker 4: But it's unfortunate. And another player who's listed as a linebacker,
Speaker 4: Jamine Davis, Yeah, former first round pick and I'm not
Speaker 4: quite sure if he's because he has experience lining up
Speaker 4: as a defensive end.
Speaker 5: So I'm I'm curious to see what a yeah like.
Speaker 4: I want to see what ag and Steve Wilkes have
Speaker 4: in store for a guy who's got an intriguing athletic
Speaker 4: profile and is a really really good athlete.
Speaker 3: A good point about Davis and May and Noa. We
Speaker 3: probably shouldn't add him into the equation as well, because
Speaker 3: he's a guy who could be the backup at the
Speaker 3: Mike linebacker position, because the last two seasons with the
Speaker 3: Hurricanes he was wearing nick green dot. And he also
Speaker 3: is another guy who figures to push for playing time
Speaker 3: on special teams.
Speaker 4: Right, and he has extensive special I think I read
Speaker 4: that he was on all punk coverages last year and
Speaker 4: kick coverage and with Malnoa the other thing. I know
Speaker 4: you said that he wore the green dot the past
Speaker 4: two years for Miami.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: He also he's only been at Miami two years. So
Speaker 4: he goes to Miami and they say we're going to
Speaker 4: give you the green dot. To me, that's a test
Speaker 4: him into what type of person and player he is.
Speaker 3: I'm fascinated about the cornerback position. You have Aaron Glenn,
Speaker 3: Steve Wilkes, Chris Harris, dre Bli, all these guys coaching
Speaker 3: up the dudes in the secondary. So your number one
Speaker 3: guy saw Us Gardner. The big change is across from him.
Speaker 3: DJ Reid's now going to line up for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3: The Jets sign and free agency Brandon Stevens, who figures
Speaker 3: to be the pencil him and across the way. A
Speaker 3: big pickup though, is a guy who dealt with a
Speaker 3: ton of injuries last year. That's Michael Carter's second. I
Speaker 3: think when people think about the secondary, they might overlook
Speaker 3: the fact that this dude is a really good player,
Speaker 3: and when he was going two years ago, we were
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 1: Him as one of the elite nickels in football.
Speaker 3: And then the Jets also picked up a z Thomas
Speaker 3: who's wearing number twenty three out there at rookie mini camp.
Speaker 3: He's got the link that they love and also the physicality.
Speaker 3: Aaron Glenn's said for four or five eight, that's fine,
Speaker 3: that's his time.
Speaker 1: Speed. He plays different.
Speaker 4: I think the biggest difference also it corner and receiver
Speaker 4: feels similar to me in terms of the body type
Speaker 4: just feels a little different, like it seems like much
Speaker 4: like a receiver. The Jets want big bodies at cornerback.
Speaker 4: You're talking about Sauce. We all know about his height
Speaker 4: and weight. In terms of length as well. Brandon Stevens similar.
Speaker 4: He's six to one two fifteen. Az Thomas is a
Speaker 4: big player. Isaiah Oliver the Jets re signed, who's kind
Speaker 4: of that hybrid corner safety. He's got some size too,
Speaker 4: He's six h two oh two. One guy that we
Speaker 4: haven't discussed a lot who I think fits the Aaron
Speaker 4: Glenn profile in terms of mental makeup is Contest Stiggers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and this is a guy I'm sure that AG.
Speaker 1: And JBC had a good training camp last year.
Speaker 4: He did, and for for a guy like Stiggers, I
Speaker 4: know so much is made of the year one to
Speaker 4: year two jump. I mean, this is a guy who's
Speaker 4: new to football, all things considered, and you know, I
Speaker 4: think that his growth on special teams last year is
Speaker 4: like a little microcosm of the type of work that
Speaker 4: he puts into his craft. So I'm excited to see
Speaker 4: how Wilkes and AG want to incorporate a guy like him.
Speaker 5: Who has a nose for the football into this.
Speaker 1: Defense safety spot. Andre Cisco comes over from the Jetsonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: You like where he went to school. He's a ballhawk
Speaker 3: at Syracuse a couple of years. What he's shown throughout
Speaker 3: his career he can take the football away. I know
Speaker 3: the Jacksonville secondary struggled as a whole last year. I
Speaker 3: don't want to get too much into that. Tony Adams
Speaker 3: returns and then the Jets again they draft Melchi Moore,
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna be interesting to see can More make
Speaker 3: a push to be in that line up from the get.
Speaker 4: I'm interested as well because it sure feels like it's
Speaker 4: Cisco penciled in next to question Mark at this point.
Speaker 5: And to me, that is a one of.
Speaker 4: The more open competitions, Like like, I don't even know
Speaker 4: who to say right now. It's a mix between you
Speaker 4: imagine Tony Adams, Malachai Moore, Ashton Davis isn't on this
Speaker 4: team anymore, Nope. So to me, that that is a
Speaker 4: very open competition and I think one that'll be fascinating
Speaker 4: to see how it plays out in camp.
Speaker 3: Specialists Zerline Moristud remain on the roster.
Speaker 1: Thomas Tennessee as well.
Speaker 3: We talked about Xavier Gibson and he's gonna have to
Speaker 3: make a push not only on offense but on special teams.
Speaker 3: But you also signed Austin McNamara in the offseason, so
Speaker 3: he was a guy who was at rookie mini camp
Speaker 3: as well. And then we're gonna have to see you
Speaker 3: mentioned Davis before the kicker. We're gonna have to see
Speaker 3: what this looks like moving forward. Overall, I love the
Speaker 3: youth on this roster. You only got like five or
Speaker 3: six guys over thirty years old, and three of them
Speaker 3: are specialists in Hennessee zerline and more stud yeah.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: And one of them is a backer up quarterback who
Speaker 3: looks like he's twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: Tiro Teller.
Speaker 5: He's incredible.
Speaker 1: And another one of was Josh Reynolds, is just turned thirty.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: Okay, I didn't know that, but I think for me
Speaker 4: one the youth is great. The other thing I think
Speaker 4: when you look at this roster, a lot of people say, well,
Speaker 4: you know, who is the opposite safety of Cisco?
Speaker 5: Who is that?
Speaker 4: You know, what's this player going to look like? I
Speaker 4: think a lot can be I think that question could
Speaker 4: be asked for a lot of teams. Point being that
Speaker 4: I think the Jets. I think the top end talent
Speaker 4: is very impressive on this team, and I think that
Speaker 4: Darren Muzi went to work defensive tackle is a great
Speaker 4: example at the next tier of players. Maybe the Jets
Speaker 4: don't have another top tier player next to Quinn Williams,
Speaker 4: but the Jets have a lot of bodies next to
Speaker 4: Quinn Williams who are more than capable of playing in
Speaker 4: the National Football League. The other thing is that what
Speaker 4: we don't know is what the offense will look like
Speaker 4: from a schematic standpoint, what the defense will look like.
Speaker 4: We know kind of what Steve Wilks has done in
Speaker 4: the past. He likes to bring the heat, they like
Speaker 4: to play man coverage. That's fine. Whatever wrinkles and how
Speaker 4: Aaron Glenn and Wilkes and Entry and want to cater
Speaker 4: their respective schemes to this roster. It's what we don't know,
Speaker 4: and so to me, you know, that's a big part
Speaker 4: of the puzzle that we won't know and we can't
Speaker 4: account for until they start playing games. I don't even
Speaker 4: think training camp counts because there's only so much that
Speaker 4: you see when you're watching practice, so we'll see what
Speaker 4: happens on Sunday.
Speaker 3: All Right, We're gonna take a break and then we're
Speaker 3: gonna wrap this thing up with a preview of the
Speaker 3: NFL schedule release on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Greens. Nine home games for the Jets next year,
Speaker 1: eight road games.
Speaker 3: Right, one of those home games are gonna be will
Speaker 3: be it Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium. So the Jets are going
Speaker 3: back to North London for his second consecutive year, and
Speaker 3: I believe it's gonna be the third time in five seasons.
Speaker 3: This time they will be the home squad. As far
Speaker 3: as this schedule overall, I'm gonna put you on spot.
Speaker 3: How many primetime games would the Jets get?
Speaker 5: You said home schedule or just overall schedule?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Primetime?
Speaker 4: Okay, well, Thursday night football. I think every team has
Speaker 4: to be on. So there's one I'm gonna say. I'm
Speaker 4: putting the over under at two and a half and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: So, you're saying two and a half night games, two
Speaker 1: and a.
Speaker 4: Half night games that you haven't when the schedule comes out.
Speaker 4: I'm this is not including flex games, obviously, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: say two.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say too. And it's not like a disrespect thing.
Speaker 4: I just think that in the NFL you need to
Speaker 4: prove you need to prove it a little bit before
Speaker 4: the NFL grants you primetime games.
Speaker 5: And I think the Jets are in a prove it
Speaker 5: mode right now.
Speaker 1: I'm taking over.
Speaker 3: I will give the Jets three night games and then
Speaker 3: they'll have that standalone game in London, right at Tottenham.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's excluded, right, fright.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I say four standalone games, three night games
Speaker 3: and one standalone.
Speaker 1: Over there in London. Who do you want the home
Speaker 1: opener to be?
Speaker 4: You know, I'm kind of okay, Well, at the options,
Speaker 4: let's give them or the Hills, the Patriots, the Dolphins,
Speaker 4: of course, the Browns, the Steelers, the Falcons, the Panthers,
Speaker 4: the Broncos, and the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: And the Jets are playing the AFC North in NFC
Speaker 3: South this year.
Speaker 4: I don't know if this is like too spicy, but
Speaker 4: can it Jets Pats one o'clock. You know, like, let's
Speaker 4: fire up. Oh really, Jets Pats one o'clock. Two teams
Speaker 4: that have gone makeovers in the offseason in terms of
Speaker 4: coaching staff, in terms of regime. You know, obviously the
Speaker 4: Patriots are going to start a different quarterback than last
Speaker 4: year than they started with last year. Drake may gonna
Speaker 4: get the nod instead of Jacoby Prissett in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: And look, I'm not saying in my mind, I just
Speaker 4: think that that's like that's a rivalry and that that
Speaker 4: needs to be spiced up.
Speaker 5: And I think that that'ud be a fun one for
Speaker 5: Week one.
Speaker 3: Where do you think they're gonna put Jets Cowboys? Which
Speaker 3: is a home game for the Jets.
Speaker 5: This year, Like in terms of what do you think,
Speaker 5: do you.
Speaker 1: Think it's gonna be a night game? So the last
Speaker 1: Cowboys coming off for the seven to ten seasons at.
Speaker 4: Home was twenty nineteen. That was a four to twenty
Speaker 4: five game. I could see a four to twenty five
Speaker 4: game or like four oh five something like that. I
Speaker 4: feel like Dallas is always in the four o'clocks away games.
Speaker 3: We know the divisional contests but Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Tampa, Jacksonville, what.
Speaker 1: Stands out to you there?
Speaker 3: I might want to go to that Jacksonville game because
Speaker 3: I'd like to see Travis Hunter. Yeah, I cover it
Speaker 3: point Garrett Wilson, and then also.
Speaker 5: He saw us cover him.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I mean that'd be very cool, right, this
Speaker 3: whole Travis Hunter experiment.
Speaker 4: To me, it is And you know, I think that
Speaker 4: the Jaguars, of all the teams the Jets play, are
Speaker 4: kind of the biggest wild card because they have a
Speaker 4: somewhat established quarterback and now with an offensive coach and
Speaker 4: Liam Cohne, Like, to me, that is a wild card
Speaker 4: because we don't know what he's gonna want to do
Speaker 4: in Jacksonville. You put Hunter, you put Brian Thomas etns
Speaker 4: a serviceable it's a good player. Like I don't think
Speaker 4: he's the explosive player we saw at Clemson, but he
Speaker 4: has his moments.
Speaker 5: So to me, Jacksonville is a little bit of a
Speaker 5: wild card.
Speaker 4: And I wonder if people think that Jacksonville is in
Speaker 4: position to take a step that they thought that they
Speaker 4: would last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, those road games, those are some tough road battles.
Speaker 3: You going to Cincinnati, a team that did not make
Speaker 3: the playoffs last year but made a strong push down
Speaker 3: a stretch and Burrow and that receiving group off the charts.
Speaker 4: I will say, though, like the warm weather aspect is
Speaker 4: somewhat nice. Miami, New Orleans and Tampa and Jacksonville.
Speaker 3: I agree, Baltimore, they're always there. They went twelve and
Speaker 3: five last season. Great home field, Derrick Henry against the
Speaker 3: Jets defense. You got Lamar Jackson, a couple dual threats
Speaker 3: playing quarterback justin fields for the Jets. I like that
Speaker 3: matchup New Orleans in a period of transition. I wonder
Speaker 3: who's going to actually be playing for playing quarterback for
Speaker 3: the Saints when the Jets go down and battle them
Speaker 3: in Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Okay, so final thoughts before we get out of here. Nicks,
Speaker 1: they got more of your interest right now than any
Speaker 1: other team, not the Jets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think that's fair. Are they closing this
Speaker 3: thing out? Are they beating the Celtics.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't want to put that out there because I
Speaker 4: feel like one that's bad juice.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying sweep, I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 4: Well, my thing is look like it was. The last
Speaker 4: two games incredible. Yeah, were they down by twenty points
Speaker 4: in each of them? Kind of It's a little worrisome
Speaker 4: when you think about it that way. It's all depends
Speaker 4: on the framing.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I know there are conspiracy theorists. You mentioned them earlier.
Speaker 4: The Pope went to Villanova. The Nicks have a lot
Speaker 4: of Villanova players on their team. There could be something there.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's gonna happen. I'm just feeding into
Speaker 4: the conspiracy theories because I like conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3: So this is what I have to say. I'm conflicted
Speaker 3: on all this stuff. Ok, you gotta be pumped about
Speaker 3: the Knicks.
Speaker 1: I don't even care.
Speaker 3: First off, if anybody you grew up in Manhattan, so
Speaker 3: you've been rooting for the next for how long thirty years?
Speaker 5: Well, since I've started liking this.
Speaker 3: Is amazing thin because the run last year was incredible.
Speaker 3: I didn't think they'd be able to duplicate it with
Speaker 3: this group, but they might be exceeding it. And anytime
Speaker 3: there's game pressure on the Celtics down the stretch, you
Speaker 3: have a feeling that Bronson is gonna be able to
Speaker 3: get it done with Brunson. I will say this that
Speaker 3: I am conflicted because I was not good enough to
Speaker 3: get accepted into Villanova. I remember meeting with somebody on
Speaker 3: campus and they basically saying that you're not probably gonna
Speaker 3: make the cut. Wow, And this school is not for everybody.
Speaker 3: So this leads everything full circle. Because you got Brunson
Speaker 3: who went to Villanova. You got the pope who went
Speaker 3: to Villanova. You know that as well. So I have
Speaker 3: great New York pride, I have great American pride. The
Speaker 3: Villanova thing it's kind of thorning aside for me.
Speaker 1: You know, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So I feel like, you know, I feel like maybe
Speaker 4: we could try to put it to the side for
Speaker 4: a little bit in terms of the Pope Jalen Brons
Speaker 4: and I could understand. Also in terms of the Knicks.
Speaker 4: What I think is so cool is.
Speaker 1: Justin Fieldsman going to a couple of games.
Speaker 4: I've seen him, Yeah, I saw him fire one of
Speaker 4: the football off into the stands.
Speaker 5: I think the Knicks.
Speaker 4: When the Knicks are really good, the city is like
Speaker 4: ravenous because there's two football teams, there's two baseball teams,
Speaker 4: there's historically one basketball team. I know Brooklyn is technically
Speaker 4: one of the five boroughs.
Speaker 5: It is one of the five.
Speaker 4: Boroughs, but well, they're the New I was gonna say
Speaker 4: technically they play in New York, but I think a
Speaker 4: lot of fans are New Jersey fans because they were
Speaker 4: the New Jersey Nets. So and then there's Rangers, Rangers Islanders.
Speaker 4: So to me, the Knicks are kind of like at
Speaker 4: the epicenter of New York sports because they are the
Speaker 4: only historically basketball team. So when the Knicks are really
Speaker 4: good and they make a run like this, I mean
Speaker 4: you see the videos that come out there.
Speaker 3: The Rabbit, Yeah, that's good stuff. Hopefully it's around the
Speaker 3: corner for the Jets. But rookie mini camp underway here
Speaker 3: at one Jets Drive.
Speaker 1: Thanks Screens,